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THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE

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' T ' H E CONCEPT of an American Merchant Marine as the -i- fourth arm of our national defense has been restated so often that it has assumed the aura of gospel.

Naval planners have accepted this gospel and have assumed for any combat situation a continuing flow of supplies carried mostly in commercial cargo ships.

This concept and this assumption will shortly dissolve under the hard realities being imposed upon us by the ever-increasing demands of our fighting forces in Vietnam. Sooner, more than later, the logistic support of this war in far-off Indo-China will tax American shipping companies beyond their substantive abilities. The decay of our merchant fleet will come home to roost.

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This decay has been presided over by a series of national administrations. Politically, it is more expedient to produce a few miles of superhighway in a crucial electoral area than it is to provide the same funds for a merchant ship which operates beyond the horizons of the local electorate. The fact that such a ship can transport the produce of the local area in international trade and thus benefit both the local and the national economy is less apparent than it is real and it is therefore easier to sweep under the political rug.

The creeping obsolescence of our merchant fleet has long been the serious concern of only a few who operate American flag ships and those in the defense arm who are responsible for providing ocean transportation for the military needs of our nation.

But suddenly attention was focused on this weakening link in our defense chain.

A group of London underwriters, that nearly anonymous but potent body which has prescribed marine insurance rates since before the days of the Armada, recommended an increase in the insurance premiums required for shipments in all vessels twenty or more years old.

The reasoning of the London group was logical—they had experienced greater losses with older ships—and therefore the premiums charged should reflect this greater risk. What London did not consider was the fact that the ruling worked the greatest hardship on ancient but soundly operable ships of the American Merchant Marine. The material pre-eminence of American ships sailing under rigid American safety standards was not recognized.

A team of American shipowners and officials descended on London to point out the inequity and the London group swifdy amended its decision, stating that it did not mean to include "first class liners" no matter what their cargo, provided a high degree of maintenance had been assigned to them.

Had these increased insurance rates been effected, the cost of shipping cargo in more than 370 American vessels would have risen on the average of three dollars a ton. No shipper, no matter how patriotically motivated, could be expected to assume this added expense. American shipowners faced the loss of 70 percent of their cargoes to foreign-flag countries. Overnight the American Merchant Marine would have ceased to be a significant factor in world trade.

Now, how or why could American shipping have allowed itself to degenerate to the status of a second or third rate fleet.''

How could the United States of America—the mightiest nation of the world—the nation universally acclaimed as the number one seapower—how could this nation have permitted its noncombatant vessels to fall into such a state of disrepair.?

The Congress of the United States recognized that the lower living standards of other nations enabled shipowners abroad to build vessels for less than half the cost of building in the United States, and operate them at only a fraction of our costs.

To provide the nation with a fleet capable of furthering the development and maintenance of an adequate and well-balanced American Merchant Marine, promoting the commerce of the United States and aiding in the national defense, the Congress enacted the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. This Act provided for both construction and operating differential subsidy payments to place the United States on a theoretical par with other countries on the high seas.

What the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 did not take into account, however, was the normally higher overhead costs of American shipping companies and, more important, that the ship building program was entirely dependent upon the annual appropriations the Congress chose to make for that purpose.

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The intent of that Congress was clear. Even in the trying depression days of 1936, our national objective was to build and to sail 50 new merchant ships each year. Today's transportation program calls for the building of 13 new ships in the coming fiscal year. Last year the total was somewhat better; it was 17.

There are members of the Congress who are staunch advocates of a modernized, improved American Merchant Marine, but they are few. There are segments of our national economy to whom an effective Merchant Marine is vital, but they are not vocal. There are agencies of the Federal government responsible under the law for the growth and prosperity of the Merchant Marine, but they apparently lack the conviction required to prosecute their jobs to the fullest.

In short, the American Merchant Marine, while it may have no real enemies, has very, very few friends.

Contrast this, if you will, with the situation in many of the other nations of the world—nations less wealthy than our own.

Here we find many cases of total government subsidy, instances wherein the merchant fleet is an extension of the government itself. We find the Italian Line adding two new luxury passenger liners to its fleet in one year, making itself the most modern operator among the passenger fleets of the world. We find Japan and West Germany, two former wartime enemies, building ships for their own and other national fleets at a record rate. We find the Soviet Union, an immense land mass, embarked upon a merchant ship building program which far exceeds our own; by the early 1970's the Soviet's fleet will outstrip the American fleet by more than two to one.

Clearly, the American disinclination to move ahead with a modern, mobile merchant fleet is not shared by the other nations of the world. We, and we alone, can claim undisputed possession of the prize for maritime inertia.

The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 of itself was a wellintentioned attempt to bring our commercial fleet into a strong competitive position vis a vis the fleets of other nations. It had, however, two fatal flaws. The first was that to qualify for the operating subsidies offered, a steamship company must agree to accept inflexible bureaucratic regulation of its activities. The second, and perhaps more restrictive, was that to qualify for operating subsidies, the ships must be built in American shipyards with the Federal government paying to the shipyards the difference between domestic and foreign construction costs. It is on this last point that the decline of the American Merchant Marine must be hung.

Under the terms of the 1936 Act, it is impossible for an American shipowner to build a ship in a foreign yard—at less than half the cost of buillding in an American yard—and still qualify for the operating differential subsidy which offsets the nearly 200 percent markup for wages paid to American seamen.

Yet, if he is to build in an American yard, he must await the approval and the financial assistance of the Maritime Administration before he can place an order for a ship. This approval and this assistance is by no means assured since the Maritime Administration continues to apply the yardstick of earlier years to their expenditures for the current years. The unit of measurement is not ships, it is dollars.

Every housewife knows that hamburger is more expensive now than it was last year or two years ago. Yet the Maritime Administration apparently is wedded to the idea that it should spend the same or less this year for replacement ships than it did last year. The situation is similar to a physician prescribing a wonder drug for a patient provided it costs no more than the aspirin he has been taking all along.

Adm. Will, a graduate of the Naval .\cademy with the class of 1923, is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Export Isbrandtsen Lines as well as Chairman of the Board and President of the First Atomic Ship Transport, Inc., operators of the nuclear ship SAVANNAH. He has been with American Export Lines since his retirement from the Navy in 1959, serving as the Corporation's President until a year ago. Adm. Will is a Director of the American Merchant Marine Institute, the Maritime Association of New York, the National Cargo Bureau, the New York Shipping Association, the West Side Association of Commerce and the George W. Rogers Construction Corporation. He is a member of the Board of Managers of the American Bureau of Shipping and a member of the Council of the New York State Maritime College.

Consequently, with no adequate replacement program, the American Merchant Marine is faced by a progressively more serious problem of bloc obsolescence, a problem which cannot be solved by half measures.

The first order of business then must be an aggressive building program if we are to reverse the ebbing tide of our maritime fortunes. This means that American shipowners must be allowed, as are shipowners the world over, to utilize their own funds to build in the best world market; if we persist in linking the support of shipping with that of shipbuilding, then the administration and the Congress must provide the shipbuilding industry with the construction subsidy funds required for such a massive building program.

Next we must determine, and quickly, the types of ships which will be of greatest immediate utility for our Merchant Marine. It would be of no significant help, for example, to undertake a crash program to produce large numbers of relatively slow cargoliners similar to our World War II Libertys and Victorys. Granted, such a fleet could be produced most quickly and at least cost, but its competitive value against modern foreign ships would be nil.

What we do need are modern, specialized ships of such inherent high performance that even a modest number will provide the adrenalin needed to revive our faltering patient.

Since the enactment of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, the character of ocean-borne commerce has changed radically. No longer is government support of only cargoliner service along specified trade routes sufficient to meet the requirements of world trade. In 1938, for example, the total movement of dry bulk cargo was only on the order of 16 million tons. Last year the figure was nearly 153 million tons. Today, more than 85% of our total foreign commerce moves as dry or liquid bulk, and this percentage is increasing far more rapidly than is the movement of general or liner type cargo.

In the face of this overwhelming change, the United States still has no effective bulk carrier fleet nor any real provisions for establishing one. American flag bulk carriers now handle only five percent of our total dry bulk trade. In a few short years this percentage will dwindle to an absurd one percent.

So a very real need is the construction of a fleet of modern bulk carriers, specialized ships that will enable the American Merchant Marine to enter competitively into what constitutes by far the lion's share of present day maritime business.

Hand in hand with this development of a bulk carrier fleet, we should start immediately with the construction of a number of highly automated high speed container ships to be operated in close conjunction with road, rail and inland waterway transportation of containers.

For high priority, high value cargo, containerization now offers what appears to be the best all-around solution to most of the major problems involved in the physical transportation of goods. By the use of containers, a shipper can load his products at his factory in Peoria and his customer can unload them at his distribution center in Paris. Goods packed in Chicago need not be handled again until they are unpacked in Cologne. Containers will in essence allow shipowners to load their ships before they arrive in port and unload them after they have departed.

The advantages to such a system are far reaching indeed.

Multiple handlings of shipments are eliminated, crating is drastically reduced, customs procedures are simplified, pilferage and shortages disappear, insurance rates are lower, and, perhaps most important, transit time from producer to consumer is significandy lessened.

Fully compatible, integrated container systems will link ships, rail, road and barge lines in a chain of transportation service which will move the world's goods safely, speedily and economically. We must assure that American flag ships form a part of this chain.

But specialized ships alone are not a full answer. Our new ships must take fullest advantage of technological advances.

They must make up for a paucity in numbers by a superiority of performance. This means, of course, automation. It also means, clearly and unequivocably, nuclear power.

Nuclear power represents the best avenue now open to the American Merchant Marine to achieve a clear resurgence in importance. Of all the maritime nations of the world, America alone holds a commanding lead in the application of atomic power to marine propulsion systems. If we capitalize on this lead now, we can save our Merchant Marine. If we fail to exploit our present advantage, we can blame only ourselves when our commercial fleet slips inexorably down the ladder to oblivion.

There are two immediate benefits to be gained from nuclear power: significandy increased speed for sustained operations and a vastly improved ratio between cargo space and space required for machinery and fuel storage. These advantages are best exploited over long distance routes, just as the large jet airliner is more advantageously employed between New York and San Francisco than between New York and Washington.

A fleet of 30-knot, nuclear-powered super-container ships would be as revolutionary an advance as today's 20-knot freighters are over Robert Fulton's CLERMONT, Nuclear energy is not merely a future possibility; it is a present-day reality. Its success has been proven by the nuclear submarines and surface ships of the United States Navy and by the N. S. SAVANNAH, the world's first—and for a limited time longer—the world's only nuclear powered commercial vessel.

Both as a demonstration ship and later as a working freighter, the SAVANNAH has already done about all we can expect one ship to do to prove out the nuclear concept. She has proved that there is no longer any question of the "feasibility" of nuclear power for merchant ships; we are dealing instead with a matter of demonstrated practicality.

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Despite this, she has been successful and the lessons she has taught, together with technological progress in reactor design, will enable the United States to put well-designed nuclear freighters on the high seas by the early 1970's.

Compared to the SAVANNAH, these new 30-knot ships will have 2'/2 times the shaft horsepower, over l'/2 times the endurance and a 5 0 % increase in speed. These ships will achieve these results at about one-tenth of both the weight and volume per shaft horsepower required for the nuclear plant aboard the SAVANNAH. For the first plant of such vastly improved capability, the cost would be approximately $4.5 million less than the SAVANNAH plant and each succeeding plant will cost on the order of nine million dollars less than the present SAVANNAH plant. Core life will be increased 6 5 % and megawatt output will jump nearly two and a half times.

T h e total cost to the U n i t e d States g o v e r n m e n t in construction subsidy for four nuclear p o w e r e d 30-knot freighters w o u l d be r o u g h l y equivalent t o one-half the amount of m o n e y that has already been spent in the S A V A N N A H project alone.

What will be the consequences if we fail to prosecute our present clear lead in the field of nuclear power.? T h e nuclear ship SAVANNAH will go down in maritime history as the symbol of an unmet challenge—the shame of an ungrasped opportunity.

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This possibility was voiced by the late Herbert C. Bonner, former chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives. Speaking at the keellaying of the N . S. SAVANNAH with uncanny prescience. Chairman Bonner said: "It is a paradoxical bit of history that the unprecedented trans-Atlantic voyage of the steamship SAVANNAH in 1819 should have turned out to be the forerunner of the era of American supremacy on the seas in the days of Clipper ships. And American naval architects thereafter concentrated their efforts to perfecting the safer and—at the time— more efficient Clippers. 'Steamships,' they said, 'can never compete with sail as long as the wind remains free.'

"At that fateful time, blind to the portents of the industrial revolution, decisions were made that, after brief years of glory, were to leave us a third-rate maritime power for a half century. Competing nations quickly saw the significance of the first SS SAVANNAH, while we turned our backs on the future."

It will be incomprehensible to future generations if our present leaders turn their backs on the future of nuclear merchant shipping.

It will be equally incomprehensible to contemporary naval officers if, through attrition and disregard, the American Merchant Marine is permitted to atrophy to the extent that it can no longer perform its vital duties in the train of our men-ofwar.

Two crew members: Aquanaut Wally Jenkins wearing an electrically heated wet suit and Sam the sea lion.

SEALAB II A CONQUEST OF THE OCEAN DEPTHS

by Capt. Lewis. B. Melson, USN

" O E A L A B Control, this is Carpenter," an odd-sounding • ^ Donald Duck kind of voice clattered from a speaker in the control room on BERKONE, "SEALAB II is open and safe for use, send down the next pair of aquanauts." Glancing at the television monitor, Capt. George Bond, (MC) USN, and I saw Cdr. Scott Carpenter, USN, standing by the intercom within a unique house filled with helium-oxygen, resting some 205 feet beneath us on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Pressing button number 6 on the intercom. Bond said, "Diving Platform, this is SEALAB Control, send the second pair on their way."

"SEALAB Control, this is Diving Platform, aye, aye," came the reply. Scott's voice, distorted by the helium atmosphere he was breathing, put into motion the United States Navy's most ambitious test of the endurance of men, living in the ocean under high pressure.

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Settling back in his chair, George Bond prepared to stand back to back watches for 45 days protecting the lives of the then divers who made up each of the three teams of aquanauts.

These men would live in their 57 by 12 foot home on the bottom for fifteen days. They would erase any previous concern that divers living below the depths not ordinarily visited by conventional diving methods would be ineffective from the combination of high pressure, cold waters and their artificial atmosphere.

George Bond, as Senior Medical Investigator, PROJECT SEALAB II, had watched his concept for proving men could live and work deep within the bosom of the oceans grow from a theory through laboratory tests into PROJECT SEALAB II, the large scale open-water endurance test now underway off La Jolla. Knowing the leader of the first team of aquanauts, Cdr. Scott Carpenter, naval officer, aviator, test pilot and astronaut, was the finest and most qualified person in the world to lead the group, George and I were confident SEALAB II was off to a good start.

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PROJECT SEALAB II was the second in a series of tests conducted by the Office of Naval Research to determine how well men could live, work and survive for long periods of time within the ocean without returning to the surface. Conceived by Mr. H. A. O'Neal, Office of Naval Research, the SEALAB series wove the research of Dr. Bond into the fabric of ocean technology. Rejecting the long-standing concepts that men could not remain beneath the surface more than a few hours or minutes with increasing depth, SEALAB I and II proved there is no limit on the diver's bottom time and that the decompression period for purging the diver's body of excess pressure remained constant regardless of time on the bottom. By allowing the diver to saturate to the pressure of the depth rather than protecting him from it, which is the customary procedure, one day, one week or one month stay made no difference. The diver could remain with his work as long as he desired, living and working from a home at the desired depth, free from the effects of wind and wave. Living at the 200-foot level, an aquanaut could devote at least four hours a day to his work. Divers working from the surface would have to make not less than 20 dives to equal this amount of bottom time. As a diver cannot make more than one dive a day to this depth, 20 divers would be needed. The efficiency of the aquanaut being greater as he does not suffer from compression sickness, he was at least equal to 40 divers. This was a fair quantum jump in technology.

SEALAB I, which Capt. Bond described in the May 1965 issue of Shipmate, was an abbreviated trial conducted on Plantagenet Seamount, some thirty miles south of Bermuda, in July 1964. Conducted to test the concept of "saturation" diving, LCdr. Robert Thompson, (MC) USN, led three men to a depth of 192 feet for eleven days. The project proved we could keep men alive and healthy, but was too short to allow us to verify how well they could work. As soon as SEALAB I was completed, we knew another test was required to answer the remaining questions and find out if divers were capable of doing their assigned work at deep depths.

During the fall and winter of 1964-1965, the plans for SEALAB II were drawn and honed to a fine edge. The doodles of Tom Odom, Jack Frost, and Bill Culpepper, U. S. Navy Mine Defense Laboratory, Panama City, Florida, gradually took on the shape of a stubby cylinder capped with a dome and flanked with racks for stowing gas bottles along its sides. Capt. Walter Mazzone, (MSC) USN, ran test after test in the pressure tanks at the Submarine Medical Center, New London, Connecticut, on "bounce" dives, another new idea for allowing the diver, after becoming saturated to the pressure of the sea, to descend to twice his equalized depth and return without decompression stops. Capt. Robert Workman, (MC) USN, Experimental Diving Unit, Washington, D. C , verified the helium and oxygen mixtures required to combat the insidious effects of narcosis and oxygen poisoning the divers would have faced if they had attempted to breathe compressed air at 200 feet. Mr. Denzil Pauli and Lt. Gean Clapper, USN, Ofiice of Naval Research, worked constandy on the design of Personnel Transfer Capsule (PTC) and a Deck Compression Chamber (DDC) which could be mated together, permitting the aquanauts to be brought to the surface under pressure and decompressed on the BERKONE, the surface support craft. Cdr. William Searle, Jr., USN, Supervisor of Salvage, USN, arranged the naval support needed for the project. Dozens of other scientists and engineers throughout laboratories and corporations around the United States were busy preparing their equipment for the field operations.

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Capt. Lewis B. Melson, USN, is a native of Oregon and a graduate of Oregon State University with Bachelor of Civil Engineering and Master of Mechanical Engineering degrees.

In 1941 he was commissioned as an ensign and commenced an unbroken active career in the Navy, serving in a wide variety of engineering duty assignments. Capt. Melson has written a number of published articles on topics as varied as visibility of ships, tools for underwater work, deep submergence and the military and civilian implications of man's underwater operations. In addition to his present duty as Assistant Chief, Office of Naval Research, Capt. Melson is also Director of Project Sealab.

for the surface support. Gradually the activities participating in SEALAB II grew to total more than fifty and included giants like NOTS Pasadena, San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard and down to the individual contributions of Dr. S. M. Horvath, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Dr. Carl Wilhelm Sem-Jacohsen, Gaustad, Sickhaus, Oslo, Norway.

Scott Carpenter joined the SEALAB team in 1964 and would have participated in SEALAB I except for a broken arm suffered the day before SEALAB I was lowered to the bottom.

This temporary setback did not deter him from planning for SEALAB II. Designated Training Supervisor for the aquanaut candidates and Team Leader, Scott, with Lt. James Bladh, USN, Diving Officer, Mine Defense Laboratory, laid out a strenuous program to qualify the applicants and to instruct them in the two forms of breathing equipment to be used. Standard SCUBA gear would not be useful at 200 feet as its gas supply would be exhausted in less than fifteen minutes. We specified use of the Navy's Mark VI semi-closed equipment and the Westinghouse-Emerson Arawak "Hookah" device. The Mark VI recirculated 80% of the exhaled gas through a carbondioxide absorbant, permitting the recirculated gas to be breathed again. It gave the diver one and one-half hours endurance. The Hookah pumped gas from the interior of SEALAB to the swimmer through a hose and then returned the exhaled gas for purificadon. The only limitations on its use were the amount of hose the swimmer wished to drag around and the length of time he wished to remain in the water.

Faced with the problem of deciding how much research should be done and how much could be done during SEALAB II, we agreed on assembling three teams of ten men each and grouping the work assignments into three classes, human performance, team tasks and individual projects. The first two were selected by the Steering Group and the last one left with the aquanaut. The human performance tests measured the ability of the divers in physical and mental tests taken ashore before entering SEALAB and then repeating them in the SEALAB or its surrounding waters. These included tests on arithmetic, grip strength, muscular energy, dexterity and hearing. Among the team tasks were marine biology surveys, oceanographic measurements, underwater construction, evaluating polyurethane foam-in-place plastics for ship salvage, fabricating damage control patches with recoilless impact guns, and testing torqueless power tools. The individual projects varied from raising barley in the helium atmosphere, through bottom sediment movement measurements to studies of the ecology of bottom marine life. In all, more than fifty different studies were conducted by the members of the three teams. The results of these studies have already shed new light in oceanic research and engineering.

The team composition was carefully planned to place scientists, engineers and professional naval career divers in each of 12

the teams. Beginning with our nucleus of Cdr. Carpenter, Chief Torpedoman Robert Sheats and Chief Gunners Mate Robert Barth from SEALAB I, candidates were accepted from the Experimental Diving Unit, Submarine Center, New London, Mine Defense Laboratory, Mobile Photo Unit Pacific Fleet, Naval Electronics Laboratory, Naval Station Key West, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Twenty-eight men were selected.

Eighteen from the Navy, five Civil Service, and five civilians from Scripps. They ranged in age from Tom Clarke, 24, of Scripps, to Chief Torpedoman Robert Sheats who was 50.

While Scott and Jim Bladh were training the aquanauts, LCdr. Malcolm McKinnon, USN, and Mr. Larry Jue, Chief Naval Architect, at the Hunters Point Division, San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, were building SEALAB II. Designed for ten men and their equipment, the aquanauts' home was built to protect them while they were on the bottom and to hold the helium-oxygen mixture which would support their lives.

Helium replaced the nitrogen we customarily breathe on the surface to avoid narcosis (rapture of the deep) which affects divers breathing high pressure air. The oxygen percentage was reduced to 4.25% from the usual 2 1 % to eliminate oxygen poisoning. Although this percentage seems small, it provided the aquanauts with the same amount of oxygen they had on the surface. On the bottom, SEALAB was always open to the sea and the pressure within the house had exacdy equal the pressure of the surrounding water. All equipment had to operate efficiendy in an atmosphere of 104 pounds per square inch or seven times greater than the pressure on earth. The helium carried heat away from a warm object five times faster than air, requiring the heating system to be set at 91F so the aquanauts would not feel cold. "The refrigerator was wrapped with six extra inches of insulation to keep it cooled to the proper temperatures. This effort was fruitless as the aquanauts snacked so often the door was open more than it was closed.

Hot fresh water showers were installed to allow the swimmers to warm up as quickly as possible when they came back from a swim. An electric stove permitted cooking, which had to be a watch assignment as no one volunteered as the cook on any of the teams. With water boiling at 319째F, coffee made with boiling water took almost one hour to be cool enough for drinking. The atmosphere was gently massaged through series of filters that cleaned it of dust, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, excess water vapor, sensed the percent of oxygen in the atmosphere and added whatever amount was needed to keep the 4.25% constant, reheated and circulated through the interior of the house. Crammed into SEALAB were the instruments and equipment for life support, communications, telemetering, scientific testing and recreation. The SEALAB was connected to stations ashore and on the surface by cables which provided power, water, communications, data links, television and gas supply and sampling lines. Television cameras were installed within the house so the surface support parties could keep the aquanauts under observation at all times. By observing the aquanauts, we were able to measure their behavior patterns and see exactly how well they could accomplish their assigned tasks. These television scenes became so popular at Scripps we were asked to put a receiver in the auditorium so the public could share with us the excitement of watching the teams at work.

While each team remained in SEALAB II for fifteen days, Scott Carpenter and Lt. Robert Sonnenburg, (MC) USN, tied for the record of living the longest length of time under the water. Scott remained for thirty days with teams One and Two. Bob came up with the first team and went back down again with the third. Before SEALAB I was run, little was known about the effects of living under high pressure for many days and George Bond was eager to learn everything that could be learned from the tests. In SEALAB I, most of the usual medical checks revealed the human body adjusted rapidly to the S H I P M A T E

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were originally restricted to rising not more than one atmosphere (33 feet) above the level of SEALAB nor descending more than one atmosphere below the house. This restriction was placed on them to be certain they would not suffer from the bends.

By the time the second team occupied the house, we granted them permission to begin bounce dives to depths below the one atmosphere level. After several cautious trials, Scott Carpenter and Robert Barth swam to the 300-foot level, or one and one-half times the depths of SEALAB II, and returned without making steps for decompression. During their descent down the abrupt wall of the canyon, they felt as if they were on the side of a mountain cliff, so they turned around and backed down.

The Personnel Transfer Capsule with the returning second team inside is shown just before mating with the deck decompression chamber aboard the staging vessel BERKONE.

higher pressure and apparently no serious after-effects should be noticed. For SEALAB II, a more comprehensive series of 125 physiological tests were conducted. The aquanauts were tested for stress factors, breath capacity, blood-gas composition, electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram recordings, as well as the more routine temperature, pulse and weight. Bob Sonnenburg collected the data and samples which were sent to the surface where the specimens and the data were analyzed.

To the relief of everyone, no significant temporary or permanent changes were observed. The divers did suffer from two common complaints that affect all divers: ear infections and skin rash. By strict antiseptic treatments, these annoyances were kept to a minimum.

In their home on the rim of Scripps Canyon, the divers kept busy with their planned assignments. Rising at 0600 and going through an 0800 briefing, they spent from two to five hours a day in the water. The standard foam rubber wet suit gave them little protection against the 50째F water, as the pressure at their depth squeezed the suits to a paper-thinness, robbing it of its insulating qualities. After thirty minutes, they began to shiver and more than one hour was almost unbearable.

Swimming in the dim light that shone feebly from 1000 to 1500 with a visibility never more than fifty feet, they set up equipment, made measurements, surveyed the bottom around their house, and handled the never-ending demand for sending samples to the surface and hauling down the food, mail and material to keep the program going.

The Scripps Canyon site had been selected for SEALAB II as it represented typical temperature water conditions which Navy divers could be expected to encounter in most operations, and allowed us to use the excellent facilities of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography as our base. The underwater canyon lay some 3,000 feet to sea from the end of the pier at Scripps, offering an excellent location for exploration.

SEALAB II was sunk to a ledge on the rim of the canyon wall onto a sandy-silt bottom. Nearby was a small depression with a thick silt cover which gave the marine biologists an excellent opportunity for collecting marine life. The aquanauts 14

Scott returned to the surface with the members of the second team, completing the longest stay underwater in a saturated condition of any man. Robert Sheats, the grizzled old soft spoken chief, with thirty years of diving experience behind him and a living legend among divers, took his third team down for the final fifteen days in SEALAB II. Bob had waited impatiently for the operations to begin and had delayed his retirement to join our team. A Master Diver with experiences worthy of a biography. Bob looked forward to SEALAB as a fitting climax for his naval career. His team assignments were the most varied of all. Rick Grigg and John Wells, biologists from Scripps, were to study the marine life living in the bottom sediments and collect plankton as its levels raised and fell over the edge of the canyon according to the amount of light in the water. Bill Bunton, NEL, was looking for Gorgonian corals, which tolerate the cold waters off La Jolla. The naval divers, Paul Wells, Bill Meeks, Shorty Lyons and Charles Coggeshall, were ready to tackle the raising of an aircraft fuselage from the bottom with newly developed foam-in-place polyurethanes, assemble damage control fittings including a proposed lifting pad that could be attached to a sunken submarine's hull with hollow studs. The studs could be used to supply air and utilities to the interior of the sub while the pad was being used to lift it from the water. Another welcome tool they wanted to try was the Battelite Institute torqueless power wrench. A diver using an ordinary tool has difficulty working with his almost neutral buoyancy. Any motion he makes pushes him in the opposite direction and underwater work requires as much attention wedging the diver into a position where he won't rotate as in twisting a wrench.

By the time Bob and his aquanauts were ready for their assignments, the United States Rubber Company electrically heated suits had been tested by the second team and were available for use. These suits were heated through electrical elements in the rubber and powered with silver-cadmium batteries strapped around the waist. The diver wearing these suits could stay in the water for three and a half hours without shivering; this was quite an advance over the 30-minute protection of the standard suit.

Over the intercom. Bob sounded like an old time boatswain's mate as he laid out the work assignments and got the divers in the water. Surface seas and swells delayed the sinking of the aircraft fuselage for three days, but Bob had his team so well trained they accomplished in four days what we had planned for ten. The aircraft body was filled with foam and floated to the surface; foam was shot into open-ended barrels to test the water absorbent qualities, the damage control plates and lifting pads were mated with the recoilless impact tools, nuts and bolts were assembled with the Battelle wrench. The activity on the bottom looked more like the last day of a shipyard overhaul than a scientific experiment. When these projects were completed, they turned to two other interesting challenges, maneuvering a newly developed air-lift mining tool for the Bureau of Mines over the bottom, and testing the best way to cook fish under high pressure at the request of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. This last test shook Bob Sheats. His S H I P M A T E

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Although we had planned ten members in each team, the second and third teams had an additional member. From the Navy Missile Range came Tuffy, a bottle-nosed porpoise, to work with Reeves and Conda on the second team. Tuffy had been in training at Point Mugu for three years to locate and retrieve objects in the ocean. Now he had his chance to show us what he could do in working with divers on the bottom.

Wearing a harness around his body, Tuffy could carry twenty pounds of supplies. Trained to respond to a high frequency buzzer, he would swim to the diver holding the buzzer. There his package would be unsnapped and after being rewarded with a fish, he was ready for another chore. He carried supplies and mail from the surface to SEALAB and lines from one diver to another. Tolerant of the fuss being made about him, he enjoyed the outing, although we could not get him to approach SEALAB too closely. Wary of sharks, Tuffy decided the blurred white object on the bottom was best avoided so Reeves and Conda had to stay several feet away before he would respond.

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the crew. It wasn't long before Sam was responding to the buzzer from the bottom and made several trips back and forth. More curious than Tuffy, Sam entered SEALAB twice, popping up into the entry trunk and staring with an inquisitive eye at the intruders into his domain. We had been concerned that Tuffy might try this trick and take a breath of the high pressure gas. If he would not instinctively exhale on his return to the surface, the gas expanding in his lungs as the pressure of the water lessened might damage the lung tissue.

This didn't bother Sam in the least. After he decided he had had enough fun playing with the aquanauts, he returned to his buoy and reigned as the Lord of La Jolla Cove. The ability of Tuffy and Sam to work with divers was an exciting event and opens the possibility that trained sea animals may prove to be assets to future underwater teams.

The devotees of Isaak Walton would have had a hard time explaining the sights seen around SEALAB. From the first day through the end of the project, despite the noise and commotion, thousands of fish of more than thirty-five varieties clustered around the house, peering in through the ports and thronging around the divers on their uips through the water.

Scott remarked one time that the most disconcerting problem he had in swimming was when he would spin over and over to untangle the air and lifelines. Every time he did this, the clouds of fish would cluster around him, stopping about four inches short of his face mask and peer intently into his eyes.

Croakers, sheephead, garibaldi, sardines, anchovies, wahoo and bonita were always in sight. Rick Grigg caught a glimpse of a 15

that might have been classed as irritation and that was debatable.

When Bill Tolbert was asked why the predicted antagonism didn't appear, he said, "Why should it.? We knew we were in a dangerous situation and our thoughts were always to help each other."

It was soon obvious that the aquanauts could work as well in the high pressure atmosphere as they could on the surface.

Barry Cannon, an electronics engineer, wired and rebuilt electronics equipment without difficulty. He was stopped once in an attempt to solder a connection. The helium conducted the heat away from his iron faster than he could heat the wires and the solder never melted. In the water, the aquanauts required more time to build and erect structures than they would on land, but their work was not hampered or haphazard.

In some tests they scored better than they did on the surface.

They scored higher on the strength test machine and in arithmetic they did much better than anticipated. Possibly, this is a clue that all mathematicians should be placed in SEALABlike houses and kept on the bottom of the ocean.

First Team Leader, Astronaut and Aquanaut, Cdr. Scott Carpenter checks out the life support system used by the aquanauts in the SEALAB II habitat.

cuttlefish at least thirty feet in length one morning. However, the biggest pest and the most hazardous problem encountered by the aquanauts were the sculpin. Bottom dwellers and weighing as big as thirty pounds, these fish covered the bottom around SEALAB and woe be to the unwary swimmer who touched one of them. Their dorsal fin was tipped with poisonous spines and gave a wallop equal to that of a hornet. Apparendy liking the light from SEALAB and the organic matter stirred up from the swimming, as many as five sculpin could be counted in every square yard within 100 feet of the house.

Before any of the aquanauts dared stand on the bottom, they had to nudge the sculpin out of the way with their flippers.

Three of the team members were stung. The worst sting occurred when Scott had gone to the Personnel Transfer Capsule for an inspection just before the other members of the first team were to enter it for their ride to the surface. A sculpin was resting on the lower flange and Scott inadvertently placed his hand on it. Bob Sonnenberg treated Scott with an anti-venom drug and cortisone, which relieved the swelling.

If this therapy hadn't been successful, Scott would have had to come to the surface and lost his chance to spend an unparalleled consecutive 30-day stay on the bottom. Billie Coffman, another member of the first team, and Rick Grigg of the third team suffered stings from the sculpin. Rick won a dubious prize by being stung four times during his tenure in SEALAB II. While the aquanauts were busy in SEALAB, the surface party was not idle. Linked to S E A L A B with communication and telemetering equipment, a team of human engineers under Dr. James Miller, ONR, and Dr. Roland Radlaff, Naval Medical Research Institute, were measuring and recording the performance of the divers. Pessimists had predicted, before the operation was run, that ten men could not live together for fifteen days without creating friction. Others doubted if the aquanauts could understand and accomplish difficult jobs. More doubts were cast on the value of living on the bottom when divers for 100 years had worked from the surface, so why change.

Miller's and Radlaff's teams carefully logged all the significant information and carefully recorded it on punch cards for future analysis. Besides watching for signs of irritation and animosity, they made counts on such things as the number of times the aquanauts laughed and the number of times they passed a predetermined location in SEALAB. After all the counting was completed, the laugh coefficient remained constant from the first day to the last for all teams. The activity constant showed the same thing. Only one minor incident occurred 16

All of us were quietly proud of our PTC-DDC chambers.

For the first time, a large group of saturated divers were able to be brought to the surface safely and rapidly. The decompression chamber on the BERKONE was large enough for them to lie comfortably in bunks during the thirty-three hour decompression. The only hitch occurred with the third team, when Bob Sheats felt a twinge in his right hip at the thirty-foot decompression level. The other members of the team were moved to the outer section of the double lock chamber. Bob was recompressed to the sixty-foot level and brought back to the surface at a slower rate. He had suffered bends in the same location several times during his long career and it was possible some scar tissue kept that area from equalizing at the same rate as the rest of his body. When he emerged from decompression, he was physically all right and has had no aftereffects.

When the third crew emerged from the DDC on 12 October 1965, SEALAB II was brought to the surface and towed to Long Beach Naval Shipyard, ending the operations. We now know that trained divers may safely live and work for long periods of time within the ocean. Even though the Scripps Canyon section of the sea bottom has been one of the best surveyed in the world, the findings of the aquanauts completely changed the beliefs of scientists concerning its topography, marine life and physical phenomena. There are one million square miles of ocean bottom surrounding the coastlines of the United States out to the edge of the Continental Shelf. We looked at a small segment of this bottom, a circle about 500 feet in diameter, during SEALAB II. The rest of the one million square miles is tempting and only vaguely explored. It is a challenge that cannot be ignored. SEALAB III is being planned.

This next operation will carry the Navy to the 450-foot level, and SEALAB V should place us at our goal of 600 feet. The ocean is still a cruel master and many unanticipated problems will arise before our series of operations are completed, but completed they will be, as we must give the Navy this capability.

After Scott Carpenter completed his 30 days in SEALAB II, he was asked to describe his experiences and compare inner space with outer space. Scott's answer summed up the feeling of all of us connected with SEALAB II when he replied, "The sea is a tough adversary—much more hostile an environment than space. I have never worked harder in my life than in SEALAB. Harder physical labor is required than in space.

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we don't know how to combat excessive pressures in water.

And we do know how to combat the lack of pressure in space.

Weightlessness in water is different from weightlessness in orbit. In the sea you have to fight the denser medium (800 times more dense 200 feet down than at the surface) to get around. Working in water is a very fatiguing thing. Energy is required to stay warm to move around in water. When we first went down, we would swim 25 or 30 minutes, then shiver so badly it was unbelievable. It hurt pretty bad lots of times. Water temperatures are cold—50 degrees doesn't mean much to people who are not divers. You have to swim in it to realize just how cold. It took two weeks for us to become acclimated to the cold water. We would wake up at night feeling cold, but perspiring, not knowing whether we were hot or cold.

"Man has an incredible faculty to adapt to hostile environments. I see no difference in the length of time man can stay at great depths beneath the sea, or in isolated areas such as DEW line sites. If a person can stay in isolation anywhere else, he can stand it at the bottom of the ocean. We did a lot of oceanographic and scientific work, learned a lot about marine biology, marine geology—and paved the way for future explorations of the sea. We learned a great deal more than we have ever known about human reaction to prolonged exposure to high pressure. You can't appreciate what we've gained, what we've learned, what we've accomplished until you've been there to see the problems involved. I'm convinced that with proper heated suits man will be able to spend eight hours a day working deep in the sea. The only limitations will be hunger and fatigue that will necessitate return to the habitat.

"It was thought by many before the program was launched that divers would not be able to get along together—that ten men in that small space would have a lot of personal problems.

This turned out not to be true at all. There wasn't a cross word during the 30 days I was down. For all of us, it was the best time we've ever had, made us feel we weren't working hard enough."

In recognition for the remarkable performance of the aquanauts. Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze awarded the Navy Unit Commendation to the SEALAB II Project. Individual awards for outstanding performance were given to all aquanauts. Commander M. Scott Carpenter, USN, and Chief Torpedoman Robert Sheats were awarded the Legion of Merit. Navy Commendation Medals were awarded to the following: Lt. Robert Eric Sonnenburg (MC) Robert A. Barth, QMC Howard Buckner, SWC Billie L. Coffman, TMl Charles Coggeshall, GMGC Kenneth J. Conda, T M l Wilbur H. Eaton, GMCl Glen LeRoy Iley, HMC Frederick J. Johler, ENCS John J. Lyons, ENl Laverne R. Meisky, SSC William D. Meeks, ENl John R. Reeves, PHI Jay D. Skilmore, PHC Cyril J. Tuckfield, ENC Paul A. Wells, MNC APRIL,

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OCEANOGRAPHY

IN NATO

by Cdr. M. R. Morgan, R.C.N.

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NVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, embracing the physical, chemical and biological conditions of the atmosphere and ocean, is vital intelligence to an operational commander. From the earliest days of man's endeavors to exploit the seas for economic or military purposes, the need to know more about the winds, currents, tides and sea conditions has been appreciated in order to use these to advantage and to avoid disaster where possible. Yet progress in the collection of data for research investigations, in the development of prediction techniques, and the establishment of information services was relatively slow until the advent of the 20th century. In fact, it is mainly in the field of meteorology that rapid progress has been made due to the demand of aviation for greater efficiency and speedier flight. In those portions of the environment in which the mariner operates, our knowledge of the physical and chemical characteristics of the ocean and the changes which take place therein has lagged for behind advances in our knowledge of the atmosphere.

In comparison with atmospheric research, research into the physical and chemical structure of the ocean has been relatively limited. Likewise, in comparison to weather advisory services, there has been little impetus given to oceanographic prediction services due, mainly, to their limited commercial application. This has been to the detriment of the anti-submarine force commander, for oceanographic advice is becoming increasingly important because of the continuing advances in

Cdr. Maurice Richard Morgan, Royal Canadian Navy, was born in England, commissioned in the Royal Navy and, until his retirement in 1958, served in many significant assignments, primarily in the field of meteorology. Emigrating to Canada, he continued his work in meteorology and in 1959 accepted a short service appointment in the Royal Canadian Navy as senior weather officer to Flag Officer, Atlantic Coast.

Cdr. Morgan's second retirement from the service in 1964 was no more permanent than his first and, once again called to active duty, he commenced in July, 1965, his present assignment as NATO Antisubmarine Warfare Environmental Predictions Systems Officer on the stafi of the Supreme Allied Commander Atiantic with headquarters in Norfolk, Va. 18

the operational capability of the submariner. Since World War II, the submarine has become a true submersible and nuclear power has made its range, and submersed duration, virtually unlimited and its armament formidable. To hunt, locate and destroy such a vessel necessitates a detailed knowledge of the ocean environment in order to use detection devices and sophisticated anti-submarine weaponry to maximum advantage. A maritime commander concerned with the whole spectrum of operations at sea must be provided with actual oceanographic data and predicted changes with time, if he is to fully comprehend his strategic position, carry out the most effective tactics and be efficient in his weapon usage.

To overcome deficiencies in this regard, the United States Navy mounted a major effort in 1958 when the Hydrographic Office was committed to an examination of the problem and enjoined to propose courses of action. A program of research and development in oceanographic services for anti-submarine warfare support was instituted and became known as the ASWEPS (Anti-submarine Warfare Environmental Prediction Services) organization. The preliminary findings of this organization and the progress made encouraged other nations to make similar efforts until eventually the whole NATO community had become involved.

Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic has been a prime mover, for obvious reasons, in fostering NATO ASWEPS development. This took the form, initially, of interest in national activities and in committing the SACLANT ASW Research Centre at La Spezia, in Italy, to carry out oceanographic investigations applicable to anti-submarine warfare. However, in December 1963 the Standing Group NATO officially designated SACLANT responsible for the coordination of ASWEPS in NATO and the establishing of a liaison with each of the NATO nations to carry specific organizational tasks.

In March 1964 a meeting of national representatives was held in Naples at which a Working Group was established comprising ASWEPS Liaison Officers from each of the NATO nations and Maritime Commands with terms of reference intended to assist SACLANT in his task. This Working Group met in La Spezia in February 1965 and set up Sub-area committees to develop oceanographic research programs and information services in all sectors of the NATO sea area. In addition SACLANT, through the ASW Research Centre, sponsored an exercise in the North Atiantic in September 1964 which developed into one of the most intensive investigations in oceanography ever carried out by an international force of ships and aircraft. Survey vessels from the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and Norway and the SACLANT ASW Research SHIPMATE

Centre's vessel the MARIA PAOLINI participated. In addition the U. S. and Canada each provided an aircraft fitted with radiation thermometers for measuring sea temperature from the air.

The Weather Ships and transient NATO warships and merchant vessels completed the network of observing units in the area. The exercise, which lasted approximately one month, was known as MILOC 64 and proved most successful. It has provided oceanographic information which not only will be of value to NATO for A / S defense, but will be available to the NATO nations for other research projects in universities and scientific institutes.

MILOC 64 was followed up by MILOC 65 in July the following year when fourteen ships and two aircraft participated.

With the experience of MILOC 64 as guidance, a more sophisticated program was carried out which resulted in the data collected being far more detailed and valuable than that of MILOC 64. Furtiier MILOCs are planned and the NATO nations are enthusiastically backing these investigations.

So far SACLANT has been concerned with the oceanographic aspects of ASWEPS, but can we afford to rest there and confine ourselves to such a limited view of oceanography and its value to a maritime commander.'' Military commanders of land forces have throughout history endeavored to use environmental conditions to the fullest, in particular the topographical features of the battleground. No longer are land battles fought with forces drawn up in geometrical arrangements, squares, echelons, etc., but are grouped and deployed to take advantage of topography, the nature of the terrain, ground cover, water barriers, climatic considerations, etc. In contrast, naval commanders have traditionally fought sea battles with geometrically disposed units because there appeared to be no topographic or physical features to the open sea worthy of consideration.

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by RAdm. Charles H. Lyman, USN (Ret.)

June 1926

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S E E the Regiment of Midshipmen drawn up on parade on Worden Field, in its setting of surrounding trees and with green grass sloping gently down toward the Severn. The march onto the field has been completed. The battalions, companies and platoons have been aligned in faultless ranks. The band has trooped the line and there is now a momentary but profound silence, broken only by the barely audible chuffing from the steam powerhouse in the distance. Then the Regiment presents arms, executed by a flashing of swords and four crisp commands, one for each battalion, and with a roll of the drums the band breaks into "The Star Spangled Banner."

It is a stirring sight. But as the music swells forth I see a great deal more than just 1600 young men, dedicated to the service of their country, standing motionless and silent in salute. I see, glistening in the background, all the traditions of the United States Navy.

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Flamborough Head, beating up toward a strange sail which turns out to be H M S SERAPIS. I see a column of wooden steam frigates and gunboats, lashed together two by two, inching their fighting way past Fort Morgan into Mobile Bay, with Farragut in the rigging of the HARTFORD. I see the Monitor T E C U M S E H hitting a mine and going down with devastating suddenness in that same Mobile Bay, taking with her her skipper who has stepped back to let the pilot get out of the conning tower first. ("After you, pilot.") I see 7 ghostly ships, led by the O L Y M P I A , steaming in the darkness past Corregidor into Manila Bay, where there will be momentous doings in the morning. I see the CRISTOBAL COLON, last of the Spanish fleet in the Caribbean, hauling down her flag and running herself aground west of Santiago de Cuba. And I see the thousands of Navy men who have died in peacetime accidents while engaged in operations aimed toward ensuring that their Navy may always be ready.

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The February issue of Shipmate carried the first of a series of recollections recorded by Adm. Lyman at the time of his retirement after more than forty-three years of life in the Navy.

As we pass in review the band swings into " N o More Rivers to Cross," celebrating the end of four wonderful, strenuously eventful years. Thursday comes graduation, and my class will scatter throughout the fleet. But one of the wonderful things about this great Navy of ours is that although you are always saying good-bye, you also are continually seeing old friends again. It is with mixed feelings that we march back to Bancroft Hall, but the balance is decidedly on the happy side.

"Four years together by the Bay, Where Severn joins the tide.

Then by the service called away.

We're scattered far and wide.

But still when two or three shall meet, And old tales be retold.

From low to highest in the fleet Will pledge the blue and gold."

(Navy Blue and Gold) March 1927 I see the maintop of the U S S

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at sea off Gonaives, Haiti.

W e are about to fire Long Range Battle Practice with the 16-inch guns. I am sitting at the gun director, looking through the high-power spotting glass.

On my head is the telephone headset connecting with the gunnery officer in the conning tower, with all four turret officers, with the plotting room officer in his instrument-crammed bailiwick down below the armored deck, and with the spotter in the foretop. (The latter will be spotting for this practice so I in the maintop am only along for the ride.)

Within easy sight on the director are the four ready lights, one for each turret, which will light up when the respective turret officer throws his ready switch after his guns are loaded and his instruments matched up with the controlling director in the foretop.

Standing by is a telephone talker, listening in on the radio circuit from the spotting airplane.

VIRGINIA,

The target is a wooden lattice-work mounted on a raft towed by a tug (with an adequate length of tow-line, he hopes). It is more than 20 miles away, though, and is a speck which is below

the horizon to those on deck. When it is still more than 15 miles away we will open fire; each projectile weighs 2100 lbs. and is propelled by 450 lbs. of powder. (This powder is not in a cartridge, but in five silk bags, and is ignited by a "primer" which looks like a blank rifle cartridge and fits into the breech of the gun.)

As we approach at 18 knots, the various preliminaries have been checked off. The spotting planes have been catapulted from the quarterdeck and are circling overhead. The turrets have trained out and the big 30 ft. rangefinders mounted therein are searching for that speck of a target and taking ranges on it; these are sent down to the plotting room for averaging and thus give a basis, when taken in conjunction with gyro bearings, for determining the target's course and speed. The electric firing circuits from controlling director to guns are tested by firing of primers through the empty barrels. Communications with the spotting planes are checked. I hear the plotting room officer telling the gunnery officer that he has a satisfactory range line and that the solution as to target course and speed looks good. Well before we reach the optimum firing range the order goes out, "All guns load."

At each of the eight guns in the four turrets, the electric rammer thrusts the big projectile across the spanning tray into the open breech of the gun and drives it home with a resounding thud which can be felt throughout the ship (this is important, to seat the copper rotating band of the projectile firmly into the grooves of the rifling). The rammer retracts and the five bags of powder are rolled out onto the spanning tray from the raised powder car, whereupon the rammer again moves forward to push them (gently this time) into the powder chamber behind the projectile. While this has been going on, a man down in the gun pit inserts a primer in the firing lock of the opened breech plug. The rammer retracts fully, the spanning tray is raised out of the way, the breech is closed, the powder SHIPMATE

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car goes down for another load, another projectile is rolled over in front of the rammer while a replacement comes up the shell-hoist, and the gun pointer down under the gun hastily elevates to the angle (around 25° now) corresponding to the range. (Cardinal rule in the turrets: If you don't want your blinking hands, feet or head to be fired out the muzzle with the blasted salvo, you'd bloody well better keep them out of the way of the blooming machinery.

Note: Less presentable words are sometimes substituted for those beginning with bl.). The turret officer has instruments which tell him when his pointers and trainer are "matched up," and when such is the case he throws his turret ready light to the "on" position and reports over the phone "Turret One (or Two, or Three, or F o u r ) ready." All this has taken about 20 seconds, and is so consistent that the four turret ready lights on my director come on almost simultaneously. Looking down from above, I can see the guns elevate to firAPRIL,

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ing position, so know just about when to expect each ready light to come on.

The signal to commence firing will be given by the Admiral, by flag hoist, and I can see the 3-flag signal go up at the forward yardarm: pennant 4, pennant 8, Roger. The " 4 8 " pennants are the W E S T

call, and the "Roger" means "Open fire with main battery." All is quiet as we wait for the Admiral to execute his signal.

Down from the yardarm with a run come the flags, and instantly the phone brings the gunnery officer's voice: "Commence firing." There is a warning buzzer from the controlling director followed immediately by a tremendous blast as the salvo is fired. The ship shudders as if picked up and shaken.

For an instant the eight 2100-lb. projectiles are visible, looking like ducks flying away into the sky, and then they are blocked from sight by the billowing of the yellowish-brown smoke cloud which followed them from the muzzles of the guns. A brief scattering of soot VIRGINIA'S

comes out of the stacks, shaken loose by the shock of the salvo.

The smoke is cleared by the wind and by its own chemical deterioration, and all is quiet up at my masthead except for the rushing of the wind. But at each gun in each turret there is intense activity. The gun comes down to the horizontal for loading. The breech plug is opened, and as this is done there is a roar of compressed air shooting through holes in the breech into the bore, to blow out through the muzzle any burning gases or remaining fragments of powder-bag. T h e gun captain peers into the bore and on seeing that all is clear he shouts, "Bore clear," whereupon the full loading cycle is again gone through (with a brief prayer as the 450 lbs. of powder, encased only in silk bags, goes into the breech; there have been all too many cases where burning gases or powder-bag fragments were overlooked). Within half a minute all guns are re-loaded and the four ready lights are again on.

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But the first salvo is still in the air, and what with uncertainties as to range and ballistics it would be uneconomical to fire this second one until we have a look at the first. So we wait in silence as the seconds tick by. Then the bell rings on the time-of-flight clock, warning that the first salvo is about to fall. Two seconds later, looking through my spotting glass at the target (whose waterline I cannot see because it is over the horizon even from my height) I see eight big red splashes rise up. (Red because the projectiles carry powerful dye in their noses to permit each ship to distinguish its splashes from those from other ships, and red is the color assigned to us.) The splashes are, to our satisfaction, in line with the target in azimuth (just a hair to the left, maybe), but are beyond it (just how much beyond it is extremely difficult to tell from these 15 miles away, but here is where the airplane spotter comes i n ) . The man who is listening in on the circuit from the plane calls out "D4," and almost immediately from the controlling spotter in the foretop comes "Down 400, right 0 1 . " Down in the plotting room, the elevation angle and azimuth are quickly corrected (3 seconds) and the plotting room officer reports "Plot ready." Instantly there is again the warning buzzer from the controlling director and then the terrific blast and shock of the salvo. The gunnery officer now decides, in his judgment, that we have a solid range and target solution, so he orders "Rapid Fire" and the next salvo is then fired as soon as the guns are reloaded.

The gun boss's calculated risk is upheld when, with the third salvo already on its way, the second lands directly astraddle the target. From there on out, each successive salvo is fired while its predecessor is still in the air.

As required by the rules, the ship maneuvers with at least a 30° change of course during the firing, but this causes no discombobulation to our range and target solution, and the salvos continue to land "on," bringing forth happily-received " K K s " from the spotting plane. W e cease firing after the seventh salvo; we would like to continue, but the main objective has been achieved and the orders say "Stop after seven."

Powder and projectiles cost money, and so does the re-lining of guns, and each shot is causing acute distress to the Navy's ulcerated budgeteer back in Washington.

June 3 0 , 1928 I see the interior of St. Paul's Church in San Diego, California. The noonday sun is streaming in through the stained glass windows and casting a gentle mellow light on the people 22

assembled there. A naval wedding is in progress, and a beautiful and sweetlooking girl is standing at the side of a tall, gawky-looking ensign, in front of the minister. There is, though, a vague aura of unreality about the whole scene; an undefined sense of the illusionary, although the ceremony seems somehow to be following along in the ordained pattern.

Suddenly something strikes me.

Great balls of fire! The ensign is myself!! (And here I hurriedly go back and strike out that word "gawky.") The proceedings clarify and arrange themselves into place.

The minister comes to the part about "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." I glance down at my uniform, with the single stripe on the sleeve, and rigorously contain my merriment; it is most unseemly for the bridegroom to burst into a guffaw in the middle of the service. I concentrate on the wonderful girl at my side, and on the tremendous good fortune with which I am blessed.

Could I but peer into the future I would be even more deeply grateful. " W e have not yet begun to fight." (apologies to John Paul Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and to my wife) Saturday, June 7, 1930 I see my room on the U S S W E S T I have been sound asleep and am awakened by the voice (and flashlight) of the messenger from the bridge, saying, "It is 11:40 p.m., sir; you have the midwatch. The temperature is 80°, wind and sea are gentle, and it is a fine night." I thank him and reluctantly heave myself off my bunk ("off" rather than "out of" because we are in the tropics and it is unconscionably hot below decks). I dress quickly, noting midway in the process a slight rustle of the door curtain as the messenger peeks around it to check that I have not turned over and gone back to sleep. I come out into the dimly-lighted passageway, deserted and silent but for the light whirr of the fans and blower motors, and make my way up three flights of ladders to the boat deck, along it past the lifeboat crew and the "watch on deck," and then up four more ladders to the bridge. En route I gradually converge with more silent and sleepy men who, like myself, are favored with the privilege (which we would gladly forego) of greeting the first four hours of the new day.

VIRGINIA.

I go first to the chart desk, push the captain's night order book into the small circle of shaded light, and read it. On the inside cover are the standing

orders for the officer of the deck, which I know by heart, and on the page for tonight are the details as to formation, course, speed, lights expected to be sighted, and various special instructions for the night. One of these latter I read with an enthusiasm which is extremely meagre: "At 0200 set clocks back one hour to zone -f 6 time"; this means that the watch will be five hours long instead of four. ( W e are westbound, but I selfishly wish we could cross those time zone boundaries on somebody else's watch.) I initial the night order book, look carefully at the chart, then go over to the officer of the deck, whom I am relieving, salute and say, "Ready to relieve you, sir." H e fills me in on the situation in full detail, checks with me on the distance to the next ship ahead in the formation, and points out Cape Mala Light just forward of the starboard beam. ( W e are bound from Balboa to San Pedro, and are rounding the southern extremity of the Republic of Panama.) Satisfied as to the ship's position and condition, I salute again and say " I relieve you, sir," and with those words the proverbial bricks of responsibility drop with a thud into my lap.

The helmsman, quartermaster, boatswain's mate, lookouts, messenger, and all the rest of the watch report "properly relieved" to the junior officer of the deck, and he reports to me when all is complete. Things settle down for the next five (ouch) hours.

Very gradually Cape Mala Light draws aft in bearing, and plotting of our "distance run," in comparison with the change in bearing, verifies that we are passing it abeam at a distance of 20 miles as planned. By one o'clock it has disappeared below the horizon, but the night is sparklingly clear, and by climbing a couple of levels up the mast I can still (for a time) see its single flash every 20 seconds coming to us (and to all others) across the water.

As the ship's bell strikes (softly) each half hour, the voices of the lookouts come to us, attesting both as to their alertness and to the continued functioning of the navigational lights: "Starboard running light, masthead light, bright lights sir"; "Port running light, main truck light, bright lights, sir." At regular intervals the shipfitter or carpenter's mate who is charged with periodic inspection of various voids and unoccupied compartments makes his report of watertight security. At random times the J O O D is sent on a round of the upper decks and the living spaces, and to check on the lifeboat crew, the lifebuoy watches and the watch on deck. On one of these trips, he SHIPMATE

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The ship ahead is earning our heartfelt thanks by maintaining a steady course and constant speed, making it easy for us to keep station. Our attention centers on two lights which she is showing: the main truck light at top of mainmast, and the stern light at main deck level at point of stern. W e know the vertical distance between these two lights and so are enabled, through the use of the stadimeter, to measure our distance from her within 5-yard accuracy. Our proper distance is 600 yards astern. If we gradually gain or lose, the thought process runs "One knot is 100 yards in 3 minutes; for this ship 8 rpni equals one knot; therefore 1 rpm gains or loses us 100 yards in 24 minutes, or

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The chart, and the captain's night order book tell us that El Fraile Light, flashing red every 4 seconds, should be sighted about 0145, bearing 334° true distant 18 miles, and it appears right on schedule.

As opportunity presents, the J O O D and I hold school by quizzing the various men of the watch as to details of their duties, with particular reference to emergency procedures.

At long last, the boastwain's mate of the watch comes to me and says, "0330 sir; permission to call the next watch ?"

Receiving an alacritous affirmative, he pipes for his compatriot down on the boat deck and intones "A-a-a-1-1-1 the thir-r-r-d section-n-n! Heave out the

third section!" Throughout the ship, men are going around rousing out the poor so-and-sos who have the morning watch, and I feel a sense of sympathy (within certain bounds, that is) for my relief who is now becoming aware of the light of the messenger's flashlight and is being told what nice weather we are enjoying. Is it possible that he would prefer to greet this tropic morning after it is somewhat more fully grown ?

At 0350 comes the boatswain's mate's follow-on: "On deck the thir-r-rd section-n-n. Relee-e-e-ve the watch. Lifeboat's crew of the watch to muster." I see a welcome figure pushing the night order book into the small circle of shaded light. Soon thereafter I hear his voice: "Ready to relieve you, sir."

I go down those seven ladders faster than I came up.

"Rolling home, rolling home.

Rolling home across the sea."

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lEVENTH ANNUAL FATHERS OF MIDSHIPMEN AND NAVAL ACADEMY ATHLETIC NIGHT A PHILADELPHIA ACHIEVEMENT

MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY loyal supporters of the Naval Academy defied foul weather to come from as far as Ohio, Pottsville, Pa., Washington and Annapolis to participate in the Phila. Chapter's most outstanding "shindig" to date, held again at Kenney's Suburban House, Cherry Hill, N. J., 24 February 1966.

This gala affair included alumni and their guests from far and wide, many dads of graduates, more than a hundred and fifty fathers of midshipmen, plus twenty-six definite candidates for the classes of 7 0 and 7 1 together with their dads.

Three former USNA Superintendents and a former Commandant of Midshipmen, all now retired with high naval rank, graced the head table which included many notables as evidenced by the picture on this page The one missing "spark" was RAdm. Draper L. Kauffman, USN, Superintendent USNA, who had to fJy to California to represent all of us at the funeral of our great naval leader, Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

One must attend one of these functions to imagine the genuine enthusiasm generated for the Naval Academy and its supporting activities.

After a hour and a half of fraternizing, followed by an invocation by Cdr. Joseph Gallagher, (CHC) Naval Base, all hands enjoyed "prime ribs—with all the trimmin's." Max H. Ostrander '42, Phila. president, then made a few remarks and introduced Ralph A. Sentman '25 who originated the idea of this affair some eight years ago and who has been chairman and toastmaster of all seven banquets. Ralph asked everyone to stand for a moment of silence in memory of Fleet Admiral Nimitz.

As usual he got the "show on the road" with dexterity. All Alumni and their guests arose and were recognized. Next the fathers of graduates took a bow. RAdm. Robert H. Speck, USN '27, COM 4, was introduced and welcomed everyone to the Fourth Naval District. The dads of '67, followed by the dads of '68, were called forward for a "sound-off." One of the highlights is always the introduction of dads of plebes—'69. Ordered

by Sentman, they reported front and center on the double—faced the audience—^braced up—• sucked up their guts—chins in—fingers straight— fins out—heels together, toes out—eyes front—and a big SIR after their name as they sounded off.

This action is always received with terrific sportsmanship.

Adm. James L. Holloway, Jr. '19, USN (Ret.), former Supe, was introduced and made a great contribution to the program. After a few pertinent remarks the dads of the graduating class—'66— were called forward for "Graduation." Adm. Holloway presented them the customary diploma awarded each year to the fathers who have attended four meetings with instructions as to their future conduct as dads of graduates. This cere24

AT THE HEAD TABLE. Front row: Adm. James L Holloway, Jr., RAdm. Robert H. Speck, VAdm. William R. Smedberg, III, Cdr. Ralph A. Sentman, Cdr. Max H. Ostrander, VAdm. Robert B. Pirie, and RAdm. William F. Fitzgerald. Second row: Cdr. R. T. E. Bowler, Mr. E. E. (Rip) Miller, RAdm. John F. Davidson, Cdr. Joseph Gallagher, Capt. Alan R. Cameron, Coach Bill Elias and Capt. D. F. Nielsen.

mony is always dignified and these diplomas seem to mean much to those who receive them. RAdm. W. F. Fitzgerald, Jr. '21, USN (Ret.), our most able Executive Director of the Alumni Association (National), presented to the group the objectives and functions of the Association—suggesting that a really worthwhile graduation present to a son would be a Life Membership in the Alumni Association. He was such a "whale of a salesman" that several checks for such memberships have been forthcoming.

Ralph Sentman next called his associate "BirdDogs" for scholar-athletes from Delaware Valley to the platform and introduced them along with Assistant Head Football Coach Jack Gregory who has been assigned to this area. The twenty-six screened scholar-athletes present represented working with more than four hundred candidates during the past year. All of these young men are definitely on their way to '70 or '71. Each of the Bird-Dogs introduced the boys they have worked with—had them come forward and stated their background. All of their dads were asked to stand and a rousing applause was given to the "future admirals" from Delaware Valley.

VAdm. Robert B. Pirie '26, USN (Ret.), former Commandant of Midshipmen, and now President of U. S. Naval Academy Foundation, Inc., set forth functions, objectives and assistance requested by the Foundation. At the conclusion of his remarks. Max Ostrander '42, Phila. president, presented Adm. Pirie with a substantial check as evidence of the chapter's endorsement and support of the Foundation.

RAdm. John F. Davidson 7 9 , USN (Ret.), former Superintendent, was introduced and made some very pertinent observations that were certainly well received.

Capt. Alan R. Cameron '44, USN, Director of Athletics, was introduced and made a splendid presentation of Naval Academy athletics—what

they mean in the overall development of the "total man." He predicted "Happy days are on the way!"

Amid much acclaim E. E. Rip Miller was called to the rostrum and Ralph Sentman announced that Rip had been honored by being elected to the National Football Hall of Fame and would be installed at the 6 Dec. banquet of that organization. He was given a resounding applause for receiving this well-earned honor.

Head Football Coach Bill Elias, who, in his address to the candidates, said, ". . . but I will gladly change places, if I could, with any of you young men who are about to enter upon the greatest opportunity in life—entrance to the Naval Academy."

Then came the feature of the program—VAdm. William R. Smedberg:, III, '26, USN (Ret.), former Supe, and now President, U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association (National). Adm. Smedberg, as evidenced, lives and breathes the Navy and the Naval Academy. Making an "off the cuff" presentation of many facets of the Navy, the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association—the audience captivation was tremendous.

Ralph Sentman, completing his chores which, incidentally, met the time schedule on the nose, turned the gavel back to Max Ostrander, president, who thanked Ralph for another job well done. Max then presented certificates of Life Membership in the Philadelphia chapter, with the citation "In grateful recognition of his many years of distinguished service to the United States Navy; the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association," to Adm. Holloway, VAdm. Pirie, VAdm. Smedberg, RAdm. Fitzgerald, RAdm. Davidson and Cdr. Bowler. A certificate was prepared for RAdm. Kauffman and Ralph Sentman was directed to deliver it to Adm. Kauffman when he visits Annapolis in March.

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Navy's winter "Beat Army" campaign was not the smashing success the Midshipmen had hoped.

It did, however, represent a considerable improvement on the past two indoor efforts.

The Cadets won five of the eight sports to command an edge for the third year in a row. Navy has chipped at the Army armor in 1963 and 1961 with 4-4 splits but was last able to dent it in 1959 with a 4-3 advantage.

At West Point, Army won pistol (2254-2162) and basketball (70-56). The Midshipmen took the squash (7-2) and wreslting (19-14) matches on the Plain. On home ground, Navy won in track (65 !4-42/4) for the first time in indoor history but lost gymnastics (172.95-169.80), rifle (14551444), and swimming (55-40).

The overall record for the 1965-66 winter campaign was 61 victories, 34 losses. The victory figure represented an improvement of eight over the 53 wins recorded by Navy teams a year ago.

Coach Ed Peery's wrestlers and the squash rackets showed the way with 10 triumphs apiece.

The wrestlers lost to Oklahoma in the season's opener but rolled to 10 straight after that. Harvard and Princeton were the only spoilers in the 12-match squash schedule.

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The records: Basketball won-7 lost-12, Fencing 5-3, Gymnasticss 4-4, Pistol 4-4, Rifle 6-3, Squash 10-2, Swimming 8-4, Track 7-1, and Wrestling 10-1.

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In championship competition. Navy's mat team wound up second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association tournament at Pitt. Navy had 63 points to 85 for champion Lehigh. While the team crown eluded the Midshipmen, practically nothing else did. Wayne Hicks won the 137pound title, the tourney's Outstanding Wrestler award, and the Fletcher Memorial Trophy as the matman who contributed the most to his team in E.I.W.A. competition. Pete Vanderlofske, who won third at 130 pounds, was presented the Sheridan Trophy for the most falls in the least aggregate time.

Coach John Higgins' swimmers, who "just missed" a great dual season, ranked third in the 29-team field that entered the Eastern Seaboard Intercollegiate Swimming Championships at the Naval Academy. Yale easily outdistanced the other entries with three individual and three relay titlists. Captain Tim Beard of Navy successfully defended his title in the 400-yard individual medley with an Eastern record time of 4 minutes.

23.9 seconds. It broke the mark he set last year at New Haven. Another midshipman, first classman Mike Chapman, won a gold medal in the three-meter diving competition. Chapman, who finished 12th on the one-meter board, compiled 391.9 points.

That elusive indoor Heptagonal Game championship continued to escape Navy's track team.

The Midshipmen appeared to have an excellent shot at the team tide in the 19 th annual indoor games at Cornell but wound up third in the 10-team carnival. Harvard edged Army by one point for the crown with Navy third. Three thinclads returned, however, with individual medals. First classman Stan Holmes got off his best ever throw in the 35-pound weight toss and won that event with an effort of 60 feet, 1 0 ^ inches.

Teammate and classmate Greg Williams of Collins, Miss., took the gruelling two-mile in 9 minutes, 14 secondsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some 10 seconds off his Naval Academy record of 9:04.4. In the broad jump, youngster Tom Palkie got the maximum out of his final leap and won at 23 feet, 9'/z inches.

At New Haven, Conn., the Navy epee team of Frank Hewitt, Howard Corr, and Ed Ohlert scored 21 points to win the Eastern fencing championship in that weapon. Corr posted a 9-1 record in pool two while Hewitt and Ohlert were 6-4 in 25

pools one and three respectively. Had Coach Andre Deladrier's swordsmen been able to get a good performance in foil. Navy might well have carried off the three-weapon trophy won by New York University. The Midshipmen were fourth in the final overall summary.

LAST LOOK AT WINTER Coach Ben Carnevale's final basketball season was only his second losing campaign in 20 years.

While the Midshipmen slumped to a 7-12 record, they did take the measure of three teams who reached N.C.A.A. or N.I.T. tournaments. Bill Radcliffe was Navy's top scorer with 316 points and 16.6 average. Top rebounder was Chris Reddington with 180 recoveries. The plebes wound up 10-5 and were paced by John 'Tolmie's 20.4 average.

Two touches were all that stood between a 7-1 and a 5-3 fencing season. Unfortunately, both touches went the other way and the Midshipmen wound up 5-3. The difference of two victories came about in identical 14-13 matches with Columbia and New York University. Second classman Frank Hewitt logged the top individual wonlost record with 16 wins in 22 bouts.

Improvement was the byword for the 1966 gymnastics team. From a 2-6 record in '65, the Midshipmen climbed to .500 with a 4-4 mark this past year. Navy only narrowly missed finishing in the black when Army held on for a three-point verdict in the season's finale. Gordon Pettus, Coach John Rammacher's strong all-around entry, was the season's most consistent performer.

AU-American Jim Gilbert did the best shooting for Coach Art Siever's pistol team with three finishes as the number one marksman. In rifle, the hottest weapon belonged to Dennis Kreps, who paced the sharpshooters on four occasions. The overall firing record was 10-7.

The squash rackets had a shining 10-2 season and turned the tables on arch-rival Army for the first time in five seasons. Bob Spooner, a first classman, won the Maryland State Championship, the fourth straight midshipman to do so. Steve Abbot and Dwight Caldwell posted the top records, 11 wins in 12 matches.

Tim Beard was the number one place-winner for the Navy sivimmers. The Ohio first classman had seven firsts in the 500-yard freestyle, five in the 200-yard individual medley, and one in the 200-yard backstroke. Newcomers Bob Nelson and Tom Donlon set Naval Academy records in the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard freestyle respectively.

Only Maryland could solve the supremacy of the Navy tracks team during the indoor season.

The Terrapins, I-C-4-A Champs, won over the Midshipmen 59-41 in an exciting dual meet. Buzz Lawlor (mile), John Wright (1000), Jay Prout (600), Bob Donohue (dash), Greg Williams (twomile), and the mile and two-mile relays set records during the campaign.

Heavyweight John Nichols (9-1), Bob Sanders (7-0-1), and Wayne Hicks (7-1-1) showed the top wrestling records for Coach Ed Peery's highflying matmen. Nichols' heroics deserve special mention. Four times during the season he took the mat needing a win to preserve the Navy victory skein and each time he produced. The season's biggest victories—identical 19-14 verdicts over Lehigh and Army—came on Nichols' falls in the final bout.

CHARGE INTO SPRING Baseball coach Joe Duff thinks a good bat attack could carry the '65 Navy team a long way.

The Midshipmen improved their record from 10-12 in 1964 to 11-8-2 a year ago. The improvement was not as startling as it might have been, however, had Navy been able to come up with the clutch base hit. In the eight losses and two ties.

Navy stranded 98 base runners. "Hitting is our big question mark again this spring," Duff says.

Coach Paul Quinn, whose eretvs have been lateseason bloomers the past three seasons, hopes past experimentation will pay off with a fast start for the Navy eight this spring. "We're further along at this point than we've been for several years," Quinn reports. "Our past troubles in April and early May have been largely due to necessary trials of oarsmen, techniques, and equipment. We hope to reap the fruits of that work this season."

The lightweight crew has a new coach, Mike Greata, and a lot of new faces. In all, six of 17 oarsmen who won either a varsity or JV letter in '65 have graduated. "The success of our fall and winter programs has us feeling pretty optimistic," Greata reports. "We have placed a strong emphasis on techniques to help the men adapt to some changes in our rowing style."

A first-place finish in the E.C.A.C. Fall Tournament buoys Bob Williams' hopes that this rebuilding year may be a big one. The veteran Navy golj coach lost four starters at graduation and fully expected to spend his spring looking for replacements. His plans got a real shot in the Army when the Midshipmen topped a 66-team field in the fall tourney at Bethpage, N. Y. A successful search for three defensemen, a goalie, and a dependable faceoff man would make Navy a formidable threat to continue its collegiate lacrosse juggernaut. Coach Bill Bilderback, who has guided the Midshipmen to National Championships in six of his seven seasons at the helm, is satisfied with his attack and midfield corps.

"Our problems are on defense," Bilderback relates.

"We must replace all three of our 1965 starters and find someone who can fill the big shoes of Dennis Wedeking, our regular goalie for three seasons. The next order of business is to find a faceoff man the caliber of Neil Henderson."

One of the most successful fall campaigns on record has Navy sailing hopes soaring for the spring season. "We were first in six of our seven regattas during the fall," Coach John W. Ward announces. "If we pick up where we left off, Navy will be tough to beat for the M.A.I.S.A. Spring Championship."

Coach Harvey Muller and his netters suffered through a 6-10 rebuilding season a year ago—the worst Navy tennis showing since 1958. Muller now expects the Midshipmen are ready to do a complete turnabout. "We lost only one regular singles player and none of our starters in doubles," Muller says. "With considerable help from a better-than-average plebe team, I think we have an excellent chance for Eastern ranking during the coming year."

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If the outdoor trac\ team picks up where the indoor group left off, Coach Jim Gehrdes looks forward to a pleasant spring. "This team is wellbalanced," Gehrdes allows. "Our strength is equally distributed between the track and field events. Virtually all of our men participated indoors and did a highly-creditable job. If we are not beset by injuries and the outdoor performances are commensurate with those indoors. Navy will make its presence known."

Dave Smalley, Navy Basketball Coach

SMALLEY IS NEW CAGE COACH Dave Smalley, assistant to Ben Carnevale for the past four seasons, has been appointed head basketball coach at the Naval Academy. In making the announcement. Captain Cameron, Director of Athletics, said: "We are extremely pleased that Dave has accepted the responsibility for our basketball program. He has been involved in coaching continuously since his graduation and we believe he displays those traits of leadership so necessary in his profession. We are confident that Dave will do an outstanding job for the Naval Academy."

Smalley succeeds Ben Carnevale, coach for 20 years, who earlier announced he would step down August 31st to become Director of Athletics at New York University.

Smalley, 31, joined the Navy staff in 1962 after five years in the Marine Corps. He graduated from the Academy in 1957.

A three-year letterman in basketball and baseball, Dave is one of the only two cagers in history to captain the Midshipmen in consecutive seasons.

He average 14 points for his career, twice won the McDonogh Basketball Cup, and took the NAAA sword in 1957. He also won the Eastern Baseball League batting title as a junior.

Dave is married to the former Gerry Barlow and the father of four small children.

SPRING STADIUM SCHEDULE Four Navy lacrosse games will be played in Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium this spring.

The NAAA announced that the Stadium dates are: April 2nd with Washington College (to be followed by intra-squad football scrimmage), April 9th with Princeton, April 16th with Mount Washington, and May 14th with Johns Hopkins. Admission for all games is $1.00. Interested members or non-members of the NAAA must apply before the priority date for year group seating. Those dates are: Washington College (March 19), Princeton (March 27), Mount Washington (March 29), and Johns Hopkins (April 19).

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The Mail Boat shipmate: Your interest in retired officers as evidenced by your article, "A Retired Officer Seeks a Job," in the Dec. 1965 issue is encouraging.

However, there are certain aspects of the article that do not apply in our "Operation Highline, San Diego." For your information. Operation Highline is a volunteer activity sponsored by the Navy League to assist retired officers to make a smooth transition to a civilian career.

The San Diego Highline is probably the most active in the country. Starting 3 Vi years ago as a one-man counselling by Mr. Otto Hirr, Asst. to the President, San Diego Gas & Electric Co. and a Navy League National Director, it now has about 20 permanent volunteers meeting twice monthly in the evenings with retiring and retired officers to assist them to find civilian employment.

We want anyone desiring it to have the advantage of some of the advice we pass out to our clientele so I am forwarding a copy of our pamphlet, "Operation Highline, San Diego," for you to publish if you desire.

We do not want to enter into a controversy but will merely let our record speak. To date we do not know of a case where we have struck out on helping retirees to find employment. Last year we assisted over 500 people.

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IVrORE PAY is coming this year . . . about a •'•'-^ 3 percent increase in basic pay, from about $9.68 monthly for an O-l to $33.66 for an 0-6 to 158.17 for an O-IO. Representative L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, supported by Representative William H. Bates (R.-Mass.), minority leader of the committee, inserted a section in H. R. 13456, the military procurement bill for fiscal 1967, providing for the same percentage increase in military basic pay that civilian government employees receive.

President Johnson has asked Congress to increase the pay of civilian employees an average of 2.9 percent, with the increases varying from 1 percent in the lower grades to 4.5 percent in the higher grades. However, the House Civil Service pay subcommittee is reported as preferring a flat 2.9 percent increase. The average increase in pay and fringe benefits suggested by the President was 3.2 percent.

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Bureau of the Budget, indicated before the House Civil Service Committee that the White House would go along with the military pay increase proposal. Senator Richard Russell (D.-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has said he would have no objection to the military pay increase.

The Rivers bill reads in part as follows: "Such increase in monthly basic pay rates for uniformed services personnel in each pay grade will be computed by applying a flat percentage increase equivalent to the total average percentage increase provided in the compensation schedule for Classification Act employees.

"The adjustment in monthly basic rates authorized by this subsection for uniformed services personnel in each pay grade, widhiout regard to years of service, will become effective on the first day of the month preceding the month in which the increase for Federal employees becomes effective.

However, the retroactive application of the increase in monthly basic rates authorized by this subsecuon will be limited to those uniformed services personnel on active duty on the date the increase for Federal employees becomes effective."

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NO NEW HOUSING? H. R. 13715, the military construction authorization bill for fiscal 1967, as submitted by the Defense Department through Representative Rivers, contains no funds for construction of family dwelling units. Apparendy no new dwelling units will be constructed in this country in fiscal 1967; those scheduled for fiscal 1966 were postponed. It is possible that the bill may be amended in the House Armed Services Committee.

The DOD construction program authorizes a total expendimre of $1,044,654,000, as compared to the $1,945,497,000 requested for fiscal 1966, which amount was reduced by more than $600,000,000.

DOD wants to proceed with construction of "only those projects which must be initiated in fiscal year 1967 to meet military operational schedules and to support new missions, of which are required for other compelling reasons such as the health and safety of personnel."

Funds are earmarked for some 100 Navy locationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;shipyards, fleet base faciliites, naval weapons facilities, field support stations. Marine Corps air stations, fleet readiness stations, supply facilities.

Marine Corps facilities, service school facilities, medical facilities, communication facilities, yards and docks facilities, including some 15 outside the United States. The projects include operational and maintenance facilities, utilities; research, development and test facilities; troop housing (in some 25 places); administrative and supply facilities; community facilities.

IMPROVED MEDICAL CARE A broad program of outpatient, and improved inpatient, medical care for dependents and another of civilian health benefits for retired personnel and their dependents have been placed before the Congress. A program of care for handicapped children is scheduled for introduction in legislative form.

Dependents' Medical Care. H. R. 13582 would amend the Dependents' Medical Care Act to provide that dependents of military service members would be authorized either in military or civilian hospitals the same high health and medical benefits authorized under the high option of the government-wide program covering the larger

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Retiree Medical Care. H. R. 13583 would establish a program of civilian health benefits for retirees, their dependents, and the spouses and children of deceased active duty and retired members. Medical benefits provided would be equal to the highest offered in the government civilian medical care insurance programs (these civilian insurance programs are among the best in the country). The retirees would pay about 25 percent of the costs, with the government paying the remaining 75 percent. Originally, it was thought that members who had served less than 30 years should pay 50 percent of costs, but this idea was dropped, as something too controversial.

This retiree program would remain in effect for all persons covered until they reach 65 years of age, when they would be transferred to the Social Security health care program for the aged. The bill also stipulates that, where there are large concentrations of retiree groups within an hour's travel time of a uniformed services hospital and there is a shortage of beds in civilian hospitals, a reasonable number of beds should be made available to retirees in existing or newly constructed hospitals.

Care Of Handicapped Children. This program would provide residential care, training, rehabilitation, and special education of mentally or physically handicapped children. The services required by such children are not generally available in uniformed services facilities. Furthermore, currently it is often impossible to obtain necessary civilian care for such children, because of state residence requirements. Public and private nonprofit facilities would be utilized. The cost would vary from $25 monthly for the lowest enlisted grade to $250 monthly for the highest commissioned grade.

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These programs are scheduled to become effective July 1, 1967. Of course. Congress might advance the effective date, and make other changes in the bills.

NEW INSURANCE OFFER The Defense Department intends to enlarge, with Congressional approval, the provisions of the servicemen's group-like insurance program to permit men who earn more than $10,000 in basic pay in 18 months to purchase additional government insurance valued up to $28,000. The present limit of valuation is $10,000. The additional insurance would cost 30 cents a month per $1,000.

The new proposal would add cadets and midshipmen of the Federal Government's military academies to the program. It would also permit teenage beneficiaries to receive the proceeds from insurance policies. In some states teenagers are barred from receiving such proceeds.

The present program limits insurance to $10,000 at $2 per month. The additional proposal would permit an officer or enlisted man to purchase insurance equal to his basic pay for 18 months.

High-ranking enlisted men in many cases earn more than $10,000 in 18 months. So do officers in 0-3 and 0-4 ranks. If a member earns, in basic pay, between $10,000 and $11,000, or between $11,00 and $12,000, or any total involving hundreds between multiples of $1,000, he can obtain insurance equal to the higher limit of $1,000 multiples. Thus, an 0-3 with 4 years' service, earning $10,173.60 in 18 months, could buy $11,000 in insurance.

ANNUITY TAX RELIEF A new law, Public Law 89-365, providing some tax relief for those subject to the Retired Servicemen's Family Protection Act, originally the Contingency Option Act, should make this survivor annuity program a little more palatable.

For more than 20 years, ever since the end of World War II, military organizations have sought to obtain an adequate program of survivor benefits. The Survivor Benefits Act itself benefits only the survivors of those who die while on acdve duty from a service-connected cause. Of course, there are widows' pensions, but few officers' widows are helped by them.

Then came the Contingency Option Act of 1954, which later became the more understandable Family Protection Act.

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The current amendment to this law provides that a retiree shall not have to pay tax on money withheld from his compensation to fund an annuity for his widow or children. Furthermore, he can collect from the government the amount of such taxes already withheld, deducting this amount from future tax liability. The law provides that widows collecting such an annuity no longer have to pay an estate tax on the total of the annuity, though her annual receipts are subject to income tax.

The number of eligible members participating in this program is less than 15 percent. Various objections have been registered against this program.

For instance, that it is too difficult to change the beneficiary . . . that it is possible that no one will collect from a member's payments . . . that a member has no vested interest in his payments. However, the payments are less than those of commercial insurance providing the same amounts of annuity.

NAVY SHIP PROGRAM Early in 1965 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara said that the naval attack carrier forces would be reduced to 13 ships and 13 air wings by the early 1970s. Recendy, in explaining the department's 1967-1971 program, Mr. McNamara said that the present plan is to have 15 carriers and 12 air wings.

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"Our attack carrier forces at end FY 1965 included one nuclear-powered carrier, the ENTERPRISE, seven FoRRESTAL-class, three MmwAY-class and five EssEX-class carriers for a total of 16," he said. "As I indicated last year, we plan to modernize two of the three MmwAY-class carriers, the MIDWAY and the FDR, during the FY 1966-69 period (the third MiDWAY-class carrier, the CORAL SEA, has already been modernized). The MIDWAY was to have begun modernization last November and the FDR was scheduled to begin modernization when the MIDWAY joined the Fleet.

"To avoid major fluctuations in personnel and equipment, we had planned to place the CORAL SEA in temporary reserve status when the new FoRRESTAL-class Carrier, the AMERICA, joined the Fleet last June, retaining an EssEX-class carrier in service until the MIDWAY phased out for modernization in November. However, because of the additional requirements for Vietnam, the CORAL SEA was retained in service, and the start of work on the MIDWAY was deferred to this February, giving us a temporary force of 16 active duty CVAs during the June-February period. Thereafter, a CVS temporarily diverted from ASW tasks will help support the Vietnam requirement. Thus, by the end of the current fiscal year the CVA force will be down to the planned 15 ships, plus one CVS functioning as a CVA. "In FY 1969, a new FORRESTAL-class carrier will join the Fleet and one EssEX-class carrier will be transferred to the ASW carrier force. By end FY 1970, all three MiDWAY-class carriers will be in the Fleet and the number of EssEX-class carriers will be reduced to three. Thus, the CVA force by that time will consist of the ENTERPRISE and eight FoRRESTAL-dass, three MiDWAY-class and three EssEx-class carriers.

"To provide the progressive modernization of the attack carrier force, we have included funds for the construction of a new nuclear-powered attack carrier in our FY 1967 request. When this ship is delivered to the Fleet, we will have ten large carriers and three of the MinwAv-class. Now that we plan to retain a force of 15 carriers, two more new carriers will have to be provided, and these have been tentatively scheduled for later years. These, also, would be nuclear-powered. As these ships are delivered to the Fleet, the ESSEXclass carriers will be retired from the CVA force which would then consist of four nuclear-powered, eight FoRRESTAL-class, and three MiDWAY-class carriers, for a total of 15."

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PUBLISH AND POST DEPARTMENT OF THE N A V Y REORGANIZATION

The following is a statement made by the Secretary of the Navy on 9 March.

The Secretary of Defense has approved my proposal of 4 March for a reorganization of the Department of the Navy. This reorganization will increase the breadth of authority and responsibility of the Chief of Naval Operations under the continuing direction of the Secretary of the Navy and will strengthen the management of the Navy's material support organization.

The purpose of the reorganization is to enable the Navy more effectively to carry out its functions of preparing naval forces for assignment to unified and specified commanders and developing and providing the manpower and material resources to support naval forces.

The principal elements of the plan are as follows: (A) A restructuring of the bilinear Navy organization into a unilinear framework by placing the Navy's material, medical and personnel supporting organizations under command of the Chief of Naval Operations.

(B) A reconstitution of the naval support establishment as the Naval Material Command.

(C) A restructuring of the components of the new Naval Material Command into six functional commands (vice four material bureaus) as follows:

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Air Systems Command Ship Systems Command Electronic Systems Command Ordnance Systems Command Supply Systems Command Facilities Engineering Command

The reorganization will not affect the internal organization of the Marine Corps nor disturb the traditional relationship between the Chief of Naval Material and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Under the reorganization, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations will not be affected directly. However, the CNO, in addition to having the operating forces of the Navy under him, will exercise command over the Chief of Naval Material, the Chief of Naval Personnel and the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

In addition to improving the overall coordination of the Navy's support activities in the areas of material, medicine and personnel, by assigning responsibility for these total functions to the Chief of Naval Operations, I expect that the new organization will accomplish the following purposes: 1. Affirm and strengthen the systems management approach to weapons development and acquisition.

2. Reinforce the management strength of the functional organizations under the Chief of Naval Material; achieve more balanced and efficient spans of control; and give more emphasis to ordnance and electronics.

3. Centralize and improve the coordination of RDT&E management.

4. Place more emphasis on the logistic support and maintenance of weapons systems.

5. Increase the efficiency and economy of the Navy's material organization by exploiting opportunities for consolidation of common services.

It is expected that the reorganization will be effected under the authority vested in the Secretary of Defense by law. The procedure will be identical to that used in the 1962 reorganization of the Department of the Army. The Navy has recommended to the Secretary of Defense that the Department of Defense sponsor legislation to provide for the commanders of the new functional commands of the Navy Material Command certain privileges of rank, pay and retirement which are now accorded to bureau chiefs by law.

This refinement of the Navy's organization is the result of a long period of study and is concurred in and supported by the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Subject to the concurrence of the Congress, this reorganization will be effective on 1 May 1966.

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THE C H A N G I N G ACADEMIC COMPLEXION

THE DEPARTMENT OF NAVAL SCIENCE at the United States Naval Academy is currently in the final phases of its curriculum reorganization.

While the department is still the center of learning in the naval profession area, it now has the complexion of academic sophistication in areas of current scientific and behavioral disciolines.

Few officers are aware of the scope of the academic courses offered, and consequently do not know that subspecialty billets are available or do not appreciate the background of newly commissioned officers arriving in the fleet.

The challenge of developing "the best naval officers in the world" is not new, but it is true that it is ever increasing.

Like other departments, the Naval Science Department's change resulted from a realization that the rush of technology would make the equipment available for study there obsolete by the time the midshipmen arrive aboard ship to operate it. Accordingly, courses of the Academy's various departments were altered toward achieving an understanding of the fundamental principles involved rather than a detailed knowledge of hardware.

As a result, the old "Seamo and Nav" department now has the following required or core courses.

Air-Ocean Environment—A study of the basic and applied concepts of Oceanography and Meteorology as they pertain to a naval environment.

Introduction to Psychology and Management—• Principles of Psychology, Human Behavior, and Management and their relevance to the practice of naval leadership.

Navigation—Introduction to techniques of piloting, celestial navigation, and electronic navigation.

Naval Operations Analysis I & II—Methods and application of operations analysis techniques to the solution of naval warfare problems.

Management and Military Law—Military Justice and International Law for the junior officer.

These courses are all supported by the postgraduate courses at the U. S. Naval Postgraduate School and other institutions.

Additionally, the Naval Science Department offers required training courses from the beginning of Plebe year through First Class year in the art of being seagoing officers. This includes marlinspike and deck seamanship, sailing and power boat handling, rules of the nautical road, piloting, celestial navigation and shipboard training on assigned Naval Academy small craft.

Sound challenging, it certainly appears to be just that. But even more important, the Naval Science Department under the direction of Captain J. M. Tully, Jr., USN, feels they have arrived at the optimum "mix" of the old and new in order to successfully meet the needs of tomorrow's Navy today.

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The United States Naval Academy has full time teaching positions from instructor to professor levels with advanced degrees in the following areas: Operations Research, Oceanography, Management, and Behavioral Sciences. Forward resume or SF 57 to Head of Naval Science Department, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. 21402

Write, giving professional background, to The Employment Officer, U. S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Washington, D. C. 20390.

ADMIRAL M C D O N A L D REELECTED PRESIDENT N A V Y MUTUAL A I D ASSOCIATION

The Board of Directors of the Navy Mutual Aid Association at their Annual Meeting on 24 February 1966 announced the reelection of Admiral David L. McDonald, USN, as President.

Other officers elected by the membership were Rear Admiral A. H. Van Keuren, USN, Ret., First Vice President; Vice Admiral V. R. Murphy, USN, Ret., Second Vice President; Lieutenant GenA P R I L,

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With processing completed, the changes found in the Annapolis area will be reflected in four charts: #385 scheduled for publication in February; #550 and #550-SC scheduled for January; and #566 to be released in July.

eral R. C. Mangrum, USMC, Third Vice President; Vice Admiral K. K. Cowart, USCG, Ret., Fourth Vice President; and, Commander F. H. O'Connell, MC, USN, Vice President-Medical Director.

The Coast and Geodetic Survey is an agency of the Environmental Science Services Administration within the U. S. Department of Commerce. The Director of this Service is VAdm. H. A. Karo, USC&GS.

Elected to the Board of Directors were: Rear Admiral L. A. Bachman, USN, Ret. Admiral Arleigh Burke, USN, Ret. Rear Admiral J. J. Fee, USN Major General P. J. Fontana, USMC Rear Admiral H. J. Goldberg, SC, USN Rear Admiral J. B. Heffernan, USN, Ret. Captain J. W. Higgins, Jr., USN Rear Admiral A. C. Husband, CEC, USN Captain S. H. Kinney, USN Rear Admiral W. I. Martin, USN Brigadier General Louis Metzger, USMC Captain G. D. O'Brien, USNR Rear Admiral W. H . Schleef, SC, USN Vice Admiral B. J. Semmes, Jr., USN Rear Admiral A. M. Shinn, USN

POSITIONS

Mr. Stuart A. White '46 of Ward, Haselton, McElhannon, Orme, Brooks & Fitzpatrick, Counsellors at Law, 165 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 10006, has requested of the Executive Director of the Alumni Association a list of Naval Academy graduates presently enrolled in law schools. Mr. White's purpose is to contact such individuals with reference to openings which occur from time to time in this firm which specializes in patent law.

Since no such list is maintained at Alumni House, it is suggested that qualified and interested persons write directly to Mr. White.

The Board of Directors reappointed Captain T. M. Davis, USN, Ret., as Secretary and Treasurer, and Lieutenant Commander M. E. Koepke, MSC, USN, Ret., as Assistant Secretary and Treasurer.

Vice Admiral V. R. Murphy, USN, Ret., was continued in office as Chairman of the Finance Committee; Vice Admiral K. K. Cowart, USCG, Ret., as Chairman of the Membership Committee; and, Rear Admiral L. A. Bachman, USN, Ret., as Chairman of the By-Laws Committee.

The Chase Manhattan Bank of New York was continued as investment counsel for the Association and the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York retains custody of the Association's securities. The actuarial firm of Bowles, Andrews & Towne of Richmond, Virginia, will continue to serve as the Association's actuarial advisor.

Captain Davis reported that membership increased to over 47,000 members in 1965 and the Association's assets totaled $84,813,541 on 31 December 1965. The Association earned 4.43% on its invested assets in 1965 after deducting all investment expenses.

LATE TO FORMATION

Some ex-midshipmen who in past years have been late to or have missed formation by reasons of going aground on Horn Point shoal may find the following of interest.

The U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently announced that a hydrographic survey of the Severn River and the Chesapeake Bay in the vicinity of Annapolis has revealed a number of changes in the area.

Although through the years numerous surveys have been made of critical spots in the area, this was the first complete survey in 30 years. The operation was conducted by the USC&GS Ship WHITING and a hydrographic field party which completed their phase of the work this past October. The survey revealed that although depths and bottom configuration have remained about the same as presently charted, a few significant manmade and natural changes were found. For example, in areas southeast of the Naval Academy depths of 40 and 56 feet at mean low water were found to exist where the previously charted depths had been three and eight.

Another letter to the Executive Director from Mr. Ralph W. Hooper '51, Vice President of Interstate Oil Transport Co., 214 Transportation Center, 6 Penn Center Plaza, Philadelphia, Pa. 19103, advises that a good position is open to a young college graduate (mid 20's) in this small shipping company which operates five small coastal tankers and various other vessels. The person sought should have a degree in mechanical engineering or a degree from either the USNA or USMA. Mr. Hooper would prefer to offer this position to a person wounded to such an extent in South Vietnam as to have been retired. Again it is suggested that anyone interested should write directly to Mr. Hooper.

N A V Y - M A R I N E RESIDENCE FOUNDATION

Washington and Annapolis members and others who may be in Washington are reminded that the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation will hold its annual spring benefit dinner-dance on 30 April at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Reception at 7:30 p.m.; dinner at 8:30 p.m. Black tie. Tickets $25 each. Call Washington 462-7900 for reservations.

Newly added to the list of items that may be pvirchased at Alumni House is an assortment of

FINE CLEAR CRYSTAL each piece bearing an etched replica of the Naval Academy Seal. Sets of six are obtainable in 12-ounce Hi Ball glasses, 8 and 14-ounce Old Fashion glasses. Whiskey Sours and Pilsners . . . all handsome gifts that will grace any table or party.

Presented also are: STERLING SILVER JIGGERS WITH THE USNA SEAL, REED & BARTON GOLD FILLED PEN AND PENCIL SETS BY CROSS, EACH WITH THE SEAL OVAL AND RECTANGULAR ASH TRAYS OF SMOKED SWEDISH GLASS with the NAVAL ACADEMY SEAL on each.

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ROUND TURN The following is an address delivered by RAdm. Edward Ellsberg 'i4, USNR (Ret.), at the launching of the destroyer escort guided missile ship, USS TALBOT, at the Bath Iron Wor\s, Bath, Me., on 6 January i966.

Ladies and Gentlemen: It is fifty-years since, as a boy from Colorado, I first entered the Navy. Age has its drawbacks, but one of the things that is its benefit is experience. In my days I have seen warships change almost from the day of sail to this day when the weapons of this vessel before us were undreamed of and unimaginable. What experience has shown me has been that times change, weapons change, ships change, but men (and, thank God, women) do not change.

One of the unfortunate things that comes about because we must deal in this world with men is that the same greed, the same envy, the same hatred that existed years ago still exists among a small group of would-be Caesars, and there is no way of stopping them and preserving the rights of free men except by force.

In my day, in World War I, I helped to take one of those dictators. Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite, and relieve him of his obsessions. Much later, in World War II, I had the privilege and the honor of taking two of his successors, the late unlamented Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and laying them away alongside Kaiser Wilhelm.

Unfortunately, since that time there have arisen several more of those scourges of the human race who think they have the right to tell the rest of us how we shall live and what we shall do.

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An appendix is provided so that information on adherents to major defense treaties, munitions and weapons production capabilities, military nuclear and space potential, and addresses of the world's defense headquarters is instandy available.

Adm. Calvert is an Ohioan and attended Oberlin College before entering the Naval Academy with the class of 1943. Graduating in 1942, he was executive officer of the submarine JACK before World War II came to an end. He is perhaps best known as commanding officer of the USS SKATE on both of that ship's history-making Arctic voyages. He is the author of Surface at the Pole: "The Extraordinary Voyage of the USS SKATE. In June, 1965, RAdm. Calvert became the second youngest officer in the history of the Navy to be selected for flag rank.

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Silent and sinister, masked by fathoms of ocean, the Japanese sub stalks her prey . . . a convoy of American ships. But several hundred yards away an American submarine also glides silently be>> << neath the surface, with the enemy in sonar contact. In fifteen minutes all that remains of this part of the Imperial Japanese Navy is an oil All positions require degree (EE, The book confirms the impression that Gen. slick and bits of flotsam. Sweating it out in the ME, Physics) or equivalent excramped spaces of the U. S. submarine, American Eisenhower worked within a framework of shalperience. If you are interested in low and naive assumptions and narrow and rigid sailors breathe a sigh of relief as the sound and improving your present position shock of their torpedoes give way to silence on the views. This appears most obviously in his discusplease mail your resume, being sions of the American political scene and of intersonar. specific as to education, salary national affairs, in which he reveals an imperfect history and geographic prefergrasp of political realities in the former and an This was the scene repeated so many times durences. Our client companies asing World War II as American submarine forces old-fashioned black-and-white, East-vs.West view .sume all costs relevant to emgained domination of the Pacific—even though of the latter. ployment. the U. S. and Japan began with almost identical In foreign policy Gen. Eisenhower's approach is numerical submarine strength at the time of O'NEILL revealed in his analysis of the alliance systems Pearl Harbor. Each side had specific strengths and developed during his administration. The quest for ASSOCIATES, INC weaknesses, both fought with the extraordinary Consulting Search Division security against the aggressions of Communism endurance, determination, and heroism peculiar through treaty—pactomania, some people have 7735 Old Georgetown Rd., Wash., D. C. to submariners.

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In a most interesting chapter, "Afterthoughts," he duty in the USS NAUTILUS and BARRACUDA. World War II found him a combat information officer on suggests as a useful reform that terms for memAdmiral Nimitz's staff. On the retired list in bers of the House of Representatives be extended THE NAVAL PROFESSION. By RAdm. James to four years and that Representatives be limited 1946 Capt. Holmes made his home in Honolulu F. Calvert '43, USN. McGraw-Hill Book Co., New where he is now Dean of Engineering at the to three terms. Senators are to be limited to two York. 196 pp., $5.50. terms of the current six-year variety. This ". . .

University of Hawaii. constant and enforced infusion of new blood would DOUBLEDAY In his new book, The Naval Profession, RAdm. largely eliminate the 'career' politician in Congress, Calvert gives a frank and realistic picture of life but can see littie damage that would result from in the Navy from the professional officer's point of such a change," he says, "except possibly to the view. Passing from the many avenues of approach ARMED FORCES OF THE WORLD. By Lau- personal ambitions of particular individuals" (p. to a commission in the Navy up to the wide 643). The wisdom of the statement—the difficulty rence L. Ewing and Robert C. Sellers. Robt. C. variety of different careers that the service offers, of passing the necessary amendments, even if, as he conveys to the reader his own feeling for the Sellers & Associates, 1875 Connecticut Ave., N.W., the General suggests they did not apply to present service, what it means to command a ship, the Washington, D. C. 20009. 203 pp., $14.95. members, aside—seems questionable. sensations one feels when taking part in a sea This book presents a clear and concise compenbatde and what it's like to assault an enemy-held Although the style lacks distinction and the dium of essential data on all branches of the beach and land troops. evaluation of men and events lacks analytic depth, armed forces of over 118 independent nations. It the book is important as a chronicle of the 1950's.

Adm. Calvert is a dedicated sailor and an provides a ready reference to vital data on each honest one. He is well aware that life in the nation's military establishment, including defense The maps and documents reproduced in the book are of considerable value and should be given Navy is not everyone's cup of tea. The enthusiastic budgets, manpower figures, a detailed breakdown particular attention. and alluring picture of the seagoing life that he of the number and type of vessels, aircraft and PHILIP W . WARKEN presents is therefore tempered with realistic infor- principal items of equipment; sources of military EH&G mation about the hazards and burdens of the pro- assistance, defense agreements, and much more.

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SEA BREEZiS

by Paul Schratz ' 3 9

ALUMNI

NEWS

OFFICERS President— V A D M . WILLIAM R . SMEDBERG, III, USN (Ret.) "26 (8367), Washington,

D.C. Vice President (Eastern Area)— MR. HANSON W . BALDWIN "24 (7405), New York, N.Y.

Vice President (Central Area)— MR. JOHN F . GORDON '22 (6330), Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Vice President (Western Area)— R A D M . MARSHALL W . W H I T E , USN '34 (11548), San Diego, Calif.

Past President— ADM. WALTER F . BOONE, USN (Ret.) '21 (5735), Washington, D.C. Executive Director— RADM. W . F . FITZGERALD, USN (Ret.) '21 (5912), Annapolis, Md.

TRUSTEES Superintendent's

Representative—

CAPT. E M I L SAROCH, JR., USN '45 (17376), USNA, Annapolis, Md.

At Large (To serve until Spring Meeting 1966) CAPT. W . S. BUSIK, USN '43 (13565)

M A J . G E N . J. N . HART, USMC

(Ret.)

'25 (7864) R A D M . E . B . FLUCKEY, USN "35

(11861)

V A D M . R . B . PIRIE, USN

R A D M . GORDON L . CASWELL, USN

(7380)

RADM. L . S . KINTBERGER, USN (Ret.)

'32 (10515) EDWARD

L . BEACH,

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COOPER,

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'27

CAPT. PAUL R . SCHRATZ, USN

'39

(Ret.)

'26 (8197), Annapolis MR. L . D . PARADIS '35 (12090), Boston CAPT. E . K . ZITZEWITZ,

USNR

"25

(7966), Chicago CAPT. NELSON W . PICKERING,

USNR

(Ret.) '08 (3169), Connecticut R A D M . CURTIS S . SMILEY, USN (Ret.)

'23 (6952), Coronado R A D M . OSCAR H . DODSON, USN (Ret.)

•27 (9147), Detroit

CDR. HARRY D . TRAIN, II, USN '49

(20423) From Local Chapters (To serve until Spring Meeting 1966)

CAPT. A. J. GREENACRE, USN

1966

(Ret.)

(13436)

(Ret.) '27 (8653)

APRIL,

CAPT. D . J. WALSH, USN

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R A D M . H . B . MILLER, USN (Ret.) '24

(Ret.) '27 (9125)

CAPT.

(Ret.)

(8189) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1967)

LCDR. E M M E T T R . QUADY, USNR '43

(15800), Los Angeles RADM.

BEN S. CUSTER, USN

(Ret.)

'26 (8549), New York RADM.

J.

A.

ROBBINS,

USN

(Ret.)

'30 (9912), Peninsula CAPT. JOSEPH C . SNYDER, USNR (Ret.)

'30 (9980), Philadelphia VADM.

FRANK

T . WATKINS,

H . B . JARRETT,

USN

Maturity, seniority and a few significant tutors in the art of handling men taught me what can be accomplished by treating people as people, without too much regard for the Code. The theory is that a taut, well-disciplined organization hardly needs a code. If discipline has to be installed by force, the Uniform Code is at hand, and Justice is blind anyway.

The command fails when a man has no outlet short of a U. S. Senator merely to gripe about food in the general mess. Another failure is the lack of proper counsel to save the situation when it got out of hand. That the accused would prefer a court to captain's mast, that the sentence of the court was extremely severe—both suggest discipline enforced rather than inspired.

The final appellate action didn't decide much of anything. For a hundred thousand of the taxpayers' dollars no precedent was established, no point of law resolved, no contribution made to the administration of justice. From the beginning the issue was leadership and not law, but nobody seems to have learned much either way.

They probably still burn the meat and overseason the vegetables at Fort Riley. No doubt Sergeants, like Chiefs and Execs, still keep "lists," and people still write to Congressmen. The 'era of Justice for the good of the service and the good of man, I'm not sure which comes first, seems to be forgotten. No longer is the case thrashed out on the spot as dictated unequally by the evidence, the law and one's own conscience.

The service sure ain't what it used to be; maybe it never was.

USN

(Ret.) '22 (6359), Seatdc VADM.

LEADERSHIP AND THE LAW SPECIALST The Army's in trouble for harassing a misguided lad for writing his Congressman. His gripe is "poorly prepared food" and "crowded living conditions" at Fort Riley, Kansas. He wasn't punished directiy but made the Sergeant's "list" and very shortly after was "written u p " for failure to obey an order. The CO gave the usual choice, mast or court martial. The boy, however, gave the CO a copy of a letter addressed to a local newspaper, stating that he was being harassed, and declared he would publicly expose the situation if punished.

A court found him innocent of disobedience of orders but guilty of extortion and passed a sentence of 18 months of hard labor, total forfeiture of pay and a bad conduct discharge. Now, two years from the original act, the Court of Appeals can't decide whether or not the accused had been harassed for letter writing, but to be fair, set aside the entire sentence and restored the culprit to duty.

In the blush of youthful innocence I once proclaimed that the prewar "Rocks and Shoals" was far superior to the Uniform Code. We demanded high standards of leadership in the service and discipline was based accordingly. T h e Uniform Code doesn't care whether leadership is good or bad and strongly suggests the latter. As one of the benefits bestowed on the military by a grateful nation after WWII, Congress seemed bound and determined to protect the rights of "our boys in the service" no matter what. This demanded hordes of law specialists and a shaggy shore based tail to wag the sea-going dog of discipline.

Now it may even take the Supreme Court to help the MAA enforce reveille if he isn't polite about it.

(Ret.)

•22 (6670), Washington, D.C.

(This issue of Shipmate marks twenty years of monthly contributions by Paul Schratz with but very few holidays.—Ed.) 35

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Issue June-July, 1966

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION SPONSORS PROGRAMS FOR RETIREES

Academic Year Institutes supported by the National Science Foundation offer specially designed programs for retired personnel desiring to prepare themselves to teach various subjects. Such programs are being conducted at the following universities: Duke University Offers preparation to teach mathematics in high school or mathematics through calculus in college.

Successful completion of the program leads to the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and completion of mathematics through calculus.

Financial aid: All instructional costs are paid and participants receive a stipend of $50 per month and a book allowance of $75, plus a stipend of $600 for internship teaching during the academic year.

Where to apply: Application forms and school bulletins may be obtained from: Chairman, Dept. of Mathematics, Duke Univ., Durham, N. C. Pennsylvania State University Offers training for potential teachers in the field of engineering technology. The program is confined to two areas: (1) electrical and electronics technology, and (2) drafting and design technology.

Qualifications: A desire to teach and an interest in physical devices; under age 50; an undergraduate degree in engineering, physical science, or mathematics, or equivalent experience in industry or military service. Selection will be based on information in application forms and supporting recommendations.

Financial aid: One calendar year of study with full tuition paid, a $2,400 per year stipend, and additional allowances for dependents, travel and books.

Where to apply: Application forms and school bulletins may be obtained from: Dr. Oris E. Lancaster, Director, Academic Year Institute, Pennsylvania State Univ., 101 Hammond Bldg., University Park, Pa. 16802.

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Where to apply: Application forms and school bulletins may be obtained from: Dr. James C. Schmulbach, Director, Academic Year Institute, Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of South Dakota, Vermillion, S. Dak. 57069.

Columbia University Offers Preparation For New Careers Columbia University is conducting a New Careers Fellowship Program which is designed to help persons who seek to enter a service occupation after military retirement. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, preparation is provided for fields such as teaching, social work, educational administration, hospital administration, library administration, public administration at federal, state and local levels. The program is open to both graduate and undergraduate candidates.

Qualifications: Applicants must have held responsible positions. While there are no definite age requirements, preference will be given to those between the ages of 35 and 50. Graduate candidates must satisfy the entrance requirements of the division of Columbia University in which they desire to enroll. Candidates who lack the bachelor's degree may pursue an undegraduate program at the School of General Studies.

Financial aid: Fellowships are awarded for one year of full-time study with the following expenses paid: Full tuition for 30 points of study (or the equivalent) at a division of Columbia University.

Performance during the first year of study will determine whether a candidate may apply for further study under fellowships or loan aid from other sources.

Where to apply: Indicate which career you desire to pursue when writing for further information, application forms and school bulletins to: Director, New Careers Program, School of General Studies, Columbia Univ., New York, N. Y. 10027.

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and interest in preparing to teach science and mathematics at the secondary school level.

u s e Offers Teacher Preparation The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, offers three "earn as you learn" programs enabling a graduate student to qualify for a teaching credential while earning a salary as a teacher assistant or intern in a cooperating school district.

The Teacher-Internship Program is designed to train for teaching mature people who are not now in the teaching field and have not been formally prepared for such work. The program couples one academic year of salaried internship teaching with two semesters of academic work to qualify candidates for the Standard Teaching Credential with specialization in either elementary or secondary teaching.

Financial aid: Full tuition paid, a basic stipend of $3,000 for the academic year, plus additional allowances for dependents, travel, books and most fees.

Under the Teacher-Assistantship Plan, the candidate participates as a part-time paid teacher assistant/student teacher while concurrendy taking required course work for a teaching credential.

University of South Dakota Offers training for pre-service or returnee teachers who have been away from teaching for 10-20 years to up-date their knowledge in science and mathematics in preparation for a teaching career.

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Credential requirements are usually met in one year plus one summer.

The Specialist-Teacher Program is a two-year plan which provides an opportunity to earn a Master's degree and prepare for teaching in secondary schools. Requirements for admission to this program include a Bachelor's degree with a background in a subject commonly taught in secondary schools.

Financial aid varies with the employing school district and ranges between $1,500 and $2,000 per year.

For further information write to: University of Southern California, School of Education, Director, Southern California Teacher Education Projects, University Park, Los Angeles, California 90007.

Ben Scott Custer, President of the Naval Academy Association of New York, shows copies of the magazines and quarterlies given by the Association to each of the Companies In the Brigade of Midshipmen.

A N ASSIST FROM THE N Y ASSOCIATION

The Academy Association in New York decided to assist in launching libraries for all of the Company Wardrooms in Bancroft Hall and ordered 36 subscriptions to Foreign Affairs, Harper's Magazine, Political Science and Proceedings, and The Reporter.

The New York crew expressed hope that their example would be "catching" and they wonder which organization will be next to provide each of the 36 Company Wardroom Libraries with needed reference books and pertinent publications.

S H I P M A T E

USNA A L U M N I RANK H I G H I N COUNTRY'S BUSINESS

WILHELMY, CHRISTOPHER BRUCE (LT USN ' 5 8 ) , heavy cruiser LOUISVILLE. In' 1936 he took command of Destroyer Squadron Four, Battle Force, 17 Feb. ' 6 6 , A A , Salisbury, M d .

and then Destroyer Squadron Twelve. He served as Advisory Chief of Staff to Minister of Marine, '66, USNH, Annapolis, M d .

Peru, then reported to the Office of Chief of Naval W I L S O N , RONALD LEE (CAPT USN RET ' 3 2 ) , 18 Operations. He was retired in June 1940, but was recalled to active duty upon the outbreak of J a n . ' 6 6 , P a s a d e n a , Calif.

World War II. WOOLLEY, G O R D O N BENTLEY (CDR USN RET He was awarded the Silver Star, the Cuban ' 1 8 ) , 8 J a n . ' 6 6 , USNH San D i e g o , Calif.

Pacification Badge, the Order of El Sol Del Peru, BENJAMIN BERNARD McCORMICK ' 9 2 the Merito Naval from Mexico, and a Letter of Cdr. Benjamin M. McCormick, USN (Ret.), Commendation in World War 1. died at his home in Troy, N . Y., on 16 Feb. Survivors include his widow Margaret of 2808 Services were held at St. Francis de Sales Church, Hillegrass Ave., Berkeley, Calif.; a son, Capt. with interment in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Bruce L. Canaga, Jr., (MC) USN; two daughters, Cdr. McCormick, who was born 17 Feb. 1871 Margaret Coll and Elizabeth Canaga, both of in Troy, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1892. For several years he has been on the Berkeley; a sister, and two grandsons.

Alumni Association's "Oldest Living Alumni" list.

W I L L I A M ROBERT MUNROE ' 0 8 He served in the Spanish American War and commanded the first ship to arrive at Mt. Pelle VAdm. William R. Munroe, USN (Ret.), died in 1902, and was cited by the French Government at his home in La Jolla, Calif., on 1 March. for heroic action. He was one of the first naval Services were held in St. James Church, with officers to serve in the submarine war service. interment in Fort Rosecrans Cemetery.

Adm. Munroe was born in Waco, Tex., and Cdr. McCormick served in World War I and had an advisory position with the Sperry Co., attended Baylor University before entering the makers of instruments for launching pilotiess air- Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1908. An honorary Doctor of Laws degree was craft. He formerly was in the office of Civilian later conferred upon him by that university. He Defense at Newport, R. I., where he lived for served two years at sea before being commissioned some time. He was a member of the Army-Navy BEARY, DONALD BRADFORD ( V A D M USN RET ensign; had submarine instruction in USS ALERT Club at Newport, and the University Club of New '10), 7 M a r . ' 6 6 , Balboa N a v a l H o s p i t a l , and commanded the submarine F-3. He fitted York City.

San D i e g o , Calif.

Survivors include a brother. Dr. Francis L. out USS R-17, then commanded the ship until BREWINGTON, CARL W R I G H T (CDR USN RET after the Armistice.

McCormick, and two sisters, the Misses Kathrine

The following is quoted from Notes, a publication for the faculty of the Naval Academy.

"A recent study of the backgrounds of approximately 1,000 top officers of this country's 600 largest non-financial institutions was made by Market Statistics, Inc., sponsored by the Scientific American magazine. The study showed that the percentage of these executives with degrees in science and engineering has increased from 7 percent in 1900 to 33 percent today. Collegiate institutions granting degrees to these executives were listed in the survey if at least 4 executives were alumni. Forty-five institutions qualified for listing, and among the top 20 (in number of alumni holding top executive positions) was the Naval Academy.

"In order, the top 20 institutions were: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, M.I.T., Illinois, Cornell, Stanford, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Dartmouth, California, U. S. Naval Academy, Michigan, Missouri, Lehigh, Northwestern, Columbia, Minnesota, N.Y.U., and Chicago."

WILKES, CHARLES (CDR USN RET ' 2 0 ) , 10 M a r .

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'17), 11 Dec. ' 6 5 , La Crescenta, Calif.

BRIGGS, HENRY MIXER (COMO USN RET ' 1 3 ) , 27 Feb. ' 6 6 , USNH Chelsea, Mass.

C. and Mary H. McCormick.

HERBERT M Y R O N TOLFREE ' 9 4

Cdr. Herbert M. Tolfree, (MC) USN (Ret.), died on 25 Dec. 1965 at Carmel, Calif. Interment was in the Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Bruno.

CANAGA, BRUCE LIVINGSTON (CAPT USN RET Cdr. Tolfree was born in Buffalo, N. Y., on 17 ' 0 5 ) , 2 2 Feb. ' 6 6 , M a r t i n e z , Calif.

October 1873. He has been on the "Oldest Living Alumni" list for the past several years. He atFRANCIS, HARRY GROVER ' 3 2 , 3 A p r . ' 6 5 , tended the Naval Academy with the class of 1894, Syracuse, N . Y. and received his medical degree from the Bellevue GOLLNER, W I L L I A M MARSH ' 2 5 , 1 M a r . ' 6 6 , Hospital Medical College, now New York UniverSalisbury, M d . sity, in 1897.

HACK, J O H N A D R I A N (CAPT USN RET ' 3 5 ) , 17 After serving 30 years in the Navy Medical Corps, he retired in 1930 with the rank of comFeb. ' 6 6 , U S N H , San D i e g o , Calif. mander. His wife, Pauline Jones Tolfree, died on KEPHART, RALPH CLAUDE (CAPT USN RET 17 March 1965 and is buried in the same cemetery. ' 2 2 ) , 2 1 Feb. ' 6 6 , N A S H o s p i t a l , JacksonShe was the sister of Capt. John Douglas Jones, v i l l e , Fla. USN (Ret.) '13, of 11 Magnolia Parkway, Chevy K O W A L Z Y K , ALEXANDER M A R T I N , JR. (RADM Chase, Md. A great-niece, Mrs. John O. Frazier of USN RET ' 2 7 ) , 2 0 Feb. ' 6 6 , San Francisco, 4701 Drummond Ave., Chevy Chase, also surBRYAN, LOUIS ALLEN (RADM USN ' 3 2 ) , 2 7 Feb. ' 6 6 , R o d m a n N a v a l S t a t i o n , C a n a l Zone.

Calif.

McCAWLEY, E D M U N D SMITH (CDR USN RET ' 1 3 ) , 10 M a r . ' 6 6 , I t h a n , P a .

MCCORMICK, BENJAMIN BERNARD (CDR USN RET ' 9 2 ) , 16 Feb. ' 6 6 , T r o y , N . Y .

BRUCE LIVINGSTON CANAGA ' 0 5

In late 1922 he became a member of the U. S. Naval Mission to Brazil, and later commanded USS PAUL H.'VMILTON, attended the Naval

War

College, and served in the war plans division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations with additional duty as aide to the President. He was Commander Destroyer Division 60, commanded USS MISSISSIPPI, and Battleship Division 3, Batde Force.

He then became Commandant of the Seventh Naval District and Commander Gulf Sea Frontier, Key West, and Commandant of the Third Naval District, New York. In November 1944 he took command of the Fourth Fleet, then was appointed Commander South Atiantic Force. His last command was the Caribbean Sea Frontier and Commandant of the Tenth Naval District, San Juan.

He retired in October 1947.

In addition to the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit with Gold Star, Adm. Munroe also held the Cuban Pacification Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Medal, the Order of the Southern Cross and the War Service Medal (Brazil), the National Order of Merit (Paraguay), and the Order of Phoenix (Greece).

Capt. Bruce L. Canaga, USN (Ret.), died at Martinez, Calif., on 22 Feb. Graveside services were held at Arlington National Cemetery on 1 M E N Z I E S , LAWRENCE ROBERT (LT USNR-R March. ' 5 9 ) , 6 M a r . ' 6 6 , A A K i r t l a n d AFB, n e a r On the day of his death Capt. Canaga received Albuquerque, N. M . a letter from Secretary of the Navy Nitze inviting MILLER, PHILIP PERRY ' 2 2 , 6 Feb. ' 6 6 , N e w him to serve as pallbearer at the funeral of Fleet Y o r k , N . Y. Admiral Nimitz, a close friend and classmate.

MUNROE, W I L L I A M ROBERT ( V A D M USN RET Capt. Canaga, who was born in Annapolis, ' 0 8 ) , 1 M a r . ' 6 6 , La J o l l a , Calif.

Md., was graduated from the Naval Academy in MURPHY, JOSEPH NATHANIEL (RADM USN 1905. He served in batdeships for two years, then RET ' 2 7 ) , 2 3 Feb. ' 6 6 , Penn V a l l e y , P a . was commissioned ensign. During the cruise of PERCIVAL, R A Y M O N D CYRIL (CDR USN RET the Batde Fleet in 1907-09, he was aide on the staff of Commander, 4th Division, Atlantic Fleet. ' 2 1 ) , 2 8 Feb. ' 6 6 , U S N H , San D i e g o , Calif.

In World War I he commanded Minesweeping ROBERTS, CYRUS S W A N , I V ( 1 / L T USAF ' 6 2 ) , Division One, and served on the staff of Com6 M a r . ' 6 6 , A A , Southeast Asia. mander Mine Force, U. S. Fleet, during the laying ROSENTHAL, J O H N FISHER ' 2 3 , 3 1 Dec. ' 6 5 , of the North Sea barrage and the minesweeping Mass. activities after the Armistice. He was U. S. R Y A N , DENNIS LEO (RADM USN RET ' 1 6 ) , 8 naval port officer and Force commander's represenFeb. ' 6 6 , G l e n d a l e , A r i z . tative at Hamburg, Germany, in 1919.

SOUCEK, VICTOR H. (CAPT USN RET ' 3 1 ) , 2 8 After completing the Naval War College course he served as a member of the U. S. Naval Mission Feb. ' 6 6 , U S N H , Chelsea, Mass.

TEDDER, FONDVILLE LEE (RADM USN RET ' 2 6 ) , to Brazil, then he was executive officer of the

He is survived by his widow, Katherine, of 5959 Bellevue Ave., La Jolla; a son, Capt. William R. Munroe, Jr., on duty in the Navy Department, and two grandchildren.

8 M a r . ' 6 6 , P a t . AFBH, Fla. TOLFREE, HERBERT M Y R O N (CDR MC USN RET ' 9 4 ) , 2 5 Dec. ' 6 5 , C a r m e l , Calif.

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Master's degree in electrical

OMAHA, commanded USS MEDUSA and later the

DONALD BRADFORD BEARY ' 1 0

VAdm. Donald B. Beary, USN (Ret.), died of a heart condition at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, on 7 March. Graveside services and interment were in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Adm. Beary was born in Helena, Mont., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910.

He served in World Wars 1 and II, and was the first Montanan to attain flag rank. In 1918 he commanded USS LAMSON, then served in the Bureau of Navigation. He commanded USS T A L BOTT, USS PARROTT and USS SUMNER, respec-

tively. After duty in the Fleet Training Division, Navy Department, he served in USS N E W MEXICO. From 1931-34 he was assistant chief of staff, Asiatic Fleet; had duty as executive officer of USS COLORADO, then took command of USS RICHMOND.

Following a tour of duty at dbe Naval Academy he commanded USS MOUNT VERNON. He received his

engineering

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Columbia University, and attended the Naval War Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;later becoming its president. He also served as Commander of the Western Sea Frontier and Commandant of the 12th Naval District. He retired in 1950.

Adm. Beary was awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star, the Mexican Service Medal, Yangtze Service Medal, and Nicaraguan Campaign Medal.

He is survived by his widow of 820 Margarita Ave., Coronado, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Alice DeGraff of Wilmington, Del., and Mrs. Mary Baumann of Burlingame, Calif., and a step-son.

Dr. Ausey Robnett of Spokane, Wash.; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Naval District. He was responsible for the administration of all Naval Reserve activities in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. During his tour of duty 22 reserve training centers were established in key cities of the five-state area.

Survivors include his widow Maude; a son, Mr. W. S. Gardner Davis, Jr.; a daughter, Mrs. James Terry of Cambridge, Mass.; two sisters.

Miss Mary Thornton Davis of Marblehead, Mass., and Mrs. Frances Cunningham of Hopkinton, N. H.; two brothers, Mr. John Davis of Hingham, Mass., and Mr. Thornton Davis of San Antonio, Tex., and six grandchildren. He was a direct descendant of Matthew Thornton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

HENRY MIXER BRIGGS ' 1 3

Como. Henry M. Briggs, USN (Ret.), died of cancer at the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., on 27 Feb. Services and interment were in West Tewksbury, Mass.

Como. Briggs, who was born in New Hampton, la., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1913. He served in USS VERMONT, had torpedo instruction in USS MONTANA, and commanded S-22. After duty in the Hydrographic Offices, Sault Ste Marie and Detroit, he served in USS MARBLEHEAD, and was an instructor at the Naval War College.

He was Commander, Destroyer Division 15 and served on the staff of Destroyer Division 5, then was assigned to the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department. Following duty on the Staff of Commander Caribbean Sea Frontier and on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief Atlantic Fleet, he was retired on 31 Dec. 1946. He was awarded the Mexican Service Medal, the Victory Medal with Destroyer Clasp for service in CUMMINGS, and the Europe-African-Middle Eastern Area Campaign Medal, among others.

Survivors include a daughter, Marion B. Briggs, of West Tewksbury.

EDMUND SMITH McCAWLEY

Cdr. Raymond C. Percival, USN (Ret.), died following a long illness at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif., on 28 Feb. Graveside services were held at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Cdr. Percival, who was born in Augusta, Me., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921.

He received five combat stars for World War II service, and the Navy Unit Commendation Medal.

He also received commendation for volunteer work at Olongapo in the Philippines during an epidemic of spinal meningitis. He retired in January 1947 and made his home in San Diego.

He is survived by his widow, Sarah, of 4207 50th St., San Diego, and a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Collins of that city.

JAMES HERSCHEL STROTHER '21

Brig. Gen. James H. Strotiier, USMC (Ret.), died suddenly of heart failure at Dadeville, Ala., on 27 Jan. Services were held at the First Methodist Church, with interment with military honors in the City Cemetery.

W I L L I A M SEWELL GARDNER DAVIS ' 2 1

Capt. W. S. Gardner Davis, USN (Ret.), died of cancer on 12 Feb. at Mercy Hospital, Vicksburg, Miss. Services were held at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, with his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River.

Capt. Davis was born in Worcester, Mass., and was graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1921. He served in USS UTAH, then in destroyers on both coasts and in the Far East.

During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor he was serving in USS MARYLAND, and later commanded the attack transport USS ATTALA in landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

From 1946 until his retirement in July 1951 he was Naval Reserve Coordinator for the First

RALPH CLAUDE KEPHART ' 2 2

Capt. Ralph C. Kephart, USN (Ret.), died at the Naval Air Station Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla., on 21 Feb. after an illness of about two years which became critical last summer. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Kephart was born in Pennsylvania, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922.

He served in destroyers and batdeships with increasing emphasis on engineering, after a postgraduate course, and became an EDO. He was repairing British ships in the New York Navy Yard when World War II began.

Until 1944 he served on the staff of Commander, Destroyers Atlantic, when he became engineer repair officer of the Puget Sound Navy Yard. His last duty was in command of the Ship Repair Facility at San Diego. Following retirement in 1947 he worked in connection with the Atomic Energy Commission at the Kellex Corp. in New York City. He received his Master's degree from Columbia University, and his doctorate at the University of Florida. He was recalled to active duty from June 1951 to March 1953, and returned to the University of Florida as a professor of engineering.

Survivors include his widow, Edna Lefroy Kephart, 1004 S. W. lltii St., Gainesville, Fla.; a son, Ralph C. Kephart, Jr., and a daughter, Mary Ann Elizabeth.

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Cdr. Edmund S. McCawley, USN (Ret.), died 10 March at his home, 759 Parkes Run Lane, Ithan, Pa. Services were held at the Church of the Redeemer, Bryn Mawr, with interment in the churchyard.

Cdr. McCawley, who was born in Philadelphia, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1913.

He participated in the landing of naval forces and the capture in 1914 of Vera Cruz, Mexico, and served in the First World War. He was retired in 1920.

In 1923 he organized the firm of E. S. McCawley & Co., booksellers, and served for five years as a member of the board of directors, American Booksellers Assn., then became its president for two years. He was recalled to active duty in December 1941, serving as operations officer on the staff of the Commandant, 4th Naval District. He again retired in April 1946.

He is survived by his widow, the former Margaret Yorke Bannard; two sons, William M. McCawley and Edmund S. McCawley, Jr.; two daughters, Mrs. Robert B. Minturn and Mrs. Andrew W. Porter, Jr., and 13 grandchildren.

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of the Sons of the American Revolution; a past president of the Dadeville Chamber of Commerce and of the Dadeville Industries, and a member of the Society of the War of 1812. He was the son of the late Judge and Mrs. J. W. Strother. He was a founder-member of the Army-Navy Country Club.

Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth; three daughters, Mrs. Franklin Ray of Dadeville; Mrs. Robert Fouche of the Ivory Coast, Abidjan, Africa, and Miss Mary Lee Strother of Auburn University; a brother, three sisters, and four grandchildren. A son, Capt. James W. Strother, USAF '48, was killed in a plane crash.

PHILIP PERRY MILLER ' 2 2

Mr. Philip P. Miller died of emphysema in St. Clare's Hospital, New York City, on 6 Feb. Services were held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Montclair, N. J. Mr. Miller was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922, and resigned immediately following graduation. He was born in Albia, Iowa. He spent most of his professional years in industrial relations with U. S. Rubber and Republic Aviation Corp., and retired for reasons of disability in 1960.

He is survived by his widow, Helen of 212 Woodsome Road, Babylon, Long Island; a son, Mr. Craig Holmes Miller, and three grandchildren.

W I L L I A M MARSH GOLLNER ' 2 5 James Herschel Strother '21

Gen. Strother, who was born in Dadeville, was graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1921 A. He served with the first squadron of American Air Forces in the South Pacific. As a captain he commanded a Marine detachment aboard USS TENNESSEE, and was awarded the Sons of the Revolution trophy for battle efficiency.

In June 1941 he was transferred to Pearl Harbor, where he had duty during and following the Japanese attack. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for service during World War II, the Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, and the Asiatic-Pacific Theater Medal. In 1946 he was executive officer of supply depots in San Francisco, and commanded the Philadelphia depot in 1951.

Following his rerirement in July 1952 he returned to Dadeville to make his home in the house where he was born.

Gen. Strother was very active in community life. He was a past state president of the Society

Mr. W. Marsh GoUner died of a heart attack at his home in Salisbury, Md., on 1 March. Services were held at the Hill Funeral Home, followed by interment in Parsons Cemetery, Salisbury.

Mr. GoUner, who has suffered from a heart condition for several years, was born in West Virginia. He attended the Naval Academy, then had a long career in the theatrical world which included staging shows and serving in managerial posts, first for Paramount-Publix in Toledo, Ohio, then later in his own chain of theatres on the Delmarva Peninsula.

A son, Lt. Joseph H. GoUner, USN '49, was lost at sea while engaged in a flying combat mission from USS ESSEX in Korea. After this Mr. Gollner sold his chain of theatres and in 1957 became managing director of the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce, a position he held until his first heart attack in 1961, when he retired. He had recendy returned to Salisbury from New York where he had completed a course in polygraph operations.

S H I P M A T E

He is survived by his widow of 314 New York Ave., Salisburj', and a grandson, John Marsh Gollner of Adanta, Ga. JOSEPH NATHANIEL M U R P H Y ' 2 7

RAdm. Joseph N . Murphy, USN (Ret.), died on 23 Feb. at his home in Penn Valley, Pa. '^m^^zmff'vr^^s^miim

Three years later he was assigned to the staff of Commander Naval Air Pacific, when he was awarded a Bronze Star Medal for his service.

In 1949 Capt. Soucek became director of the electronics division of the Naval Air Development Center at Johnsville, Pa., then served as director of tests at the Naval Air Missile Test Center, Point Mugu, Calif. His last duty was Commanding Officer, Office of Naval Research Branch Office, Boston. He also held the European-African Middle Eastern Medal and was awarded a Commendation with Ribbon by the Secretary of the Navy.

Since retiring in January 1960 he has been with Sanders Associates, Inc., of Nashua, N . H., where he was manager of the special products division.

Survivors include his widow, Grace Grady Soucek, formerly of Newport, R. I., now living at 12 Ravine Rd., Winchester; two sons, Richard M. Soucek, Hunter Air Force Base, Ga., and Cadet Paul D. Soucek, a plebe at the Military Academy; two daughters, Victoria, who is with the Peace Corps in Ulela, Africa, and Kristina, of the home address.

LOUIS ALLEN BRYAN ' 3 2

Joseph Nathaniel Murphy '27

RAdm. Louis A. Bryan, USN, Commander U. S. Naval Forces, Southern Command, died of a heart attack at Rodman Naval Station, Canal Zone, on 27 Feb. He was Commandant of the 15th Naval District and Commander of the Panama sector for both the Caribbean and Western Frontier.

Services were held at Fort Myer Chapel, with interment with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery on 7 March.

After attending the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis he received his Master's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1937. In 1940 he was in charge of design for Navy dive bombers, and for his services during the early war years he received his first Commendation Ribbon.

In December 1943, while executive officer of the carrier PRINCETON, he participated in the Marshall Islands operations, the second battle of the Philippine Sea, and various Pacific raids, and was awarded the Navy Cross and Purple Heart. During the Korean conflict, while serving with Commander, Fleet Air Japan, he received a second Commendation Ribbon.

He was the son of the late Capt. Joseph A. Murphy, (MC) USN, and the late Mrs. Murphy.

He is survived by his widow, Cecelia.

VICTOR H. SOUCEK ' 3 1

Capt. Victor H. Soucek, USN (Ret.), died on 28 Feb. in the Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., three months after surgery for a brain tumor. A requiem mass was held in Winchester, Mass., with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Soucek was born in Lamont, Okla., and attended the University of Oklahoma before entering the Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1931. He was assigned to the aircraft carrier SARATOGA, then took flight training at Pensacola and was designated a naval aviator in 1933.

In 1941 he had temporary duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations before reporting as a naval observer on the staff of the Naval Attache for Air at the U. S. Embassy, London.

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Capt. Ronald L. Wilson, USN (Ret.), of Altadena, Calif., died of a heart attack at Pasadena on 18 Jan. Capt. Wilson was born in Marion, III., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1932.

He attended the University of Southern Illinois before entering the Academy, and later attended the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis and received his Master's degree in radio engineering from Harvard University. He was serving on the Staff of Commander Destroyers, Battle Force, Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese attack. He remained there until November 1942 when he served on the Staff of the Representative of Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet in the South Pacific.

After commanding USS SEMMES he took over the command of the DREXLER, which was sunk in May 1945 by kamikazes. After hospitalization on Saipan he had duty in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, then served on the staff of Commander First Task Fleet, and the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. He also served in the Office of Naval Material. For services during the war he was awarded the Silver Star Medal.

Adm. Murphy, who was born in Washington, D. C , was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1927. He served in the batdeship CALIFORNIA and the destroyer SLOAT, then had flight trainat Pensacola. He was designated a naval aviator in 1929, followed by duty in USS SARATOGA in Fighting Squadron One.

Adm. Murphy had several tours of duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics. He was Commander Naval Air Development and Material Center at Johnsville. Pa., where he was awarded a Legion of Merit for performance of duty. Following his retirement in April 1962 he was appointed manager of business planning and market research for RCA.

School, after which he completed a course at the Naval War College. He was Commander Escort Destroyer Division 62; commanded the Adantic Fleet flagship NORTHAMPTON; served as head of the Navy Plans Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, then as director of the Ships Material Readiness Division in that office. He commanded Destroyer Flotilla T w o from April 1961 to March 1962 when he became Deputy Director (Logistics) J-4, Joint Staff Office, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

He is survived by his widow, Margaret; a son, Robert Louis Bryan who attends the University of Rhode Island; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy Weller of Virginia Beach, Va., and Mrs. Margaret Nicely of Alexandria, Va., and one granddaughter.

Survivors include his widow, Fritzi Louise, of 2910 Santa Rosa Ave., Altadena; three sons: Lt. James R. Wilson '60, John Allen and Jack Lowell Wilson, and a daughter, Mrs. James N. Jean.

J O H N A D R I A N HACK ' 3 5

Capt. John A. Hack, USN (Ret.), died in San Diego, Calif., on 17 Feb. Interment with full military honors took place at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Capt. Hack, who was born in Wheeling, W. Va., later moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended Case Technical Institute before entering the Naval Academy. He was graduated with the Louis Allen Bryan '32

class of 1935. He served in MARYLAND and LAW-

RENCE before completing the Submarine School at Adm. Bryan, who was born in Lexington, Ky., New London, Conn., then served in SHARK, PORattended the University of Kentucky and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1932. He was a member of the varsity football team at the Academy, and was Regimental Commander during first class year. He served in USS NEVADA and USS INDIANAPOLIS, then became assistant football coach at the Academy, followed by flight training at Pensacola; he received his wings in 1936. He attended the Postgraduate School at Annapolis, and was serving in the destroyer CUSHING at the outbreak of World War II. For his outstanding services during the war he was awarded the Silver Star Medal for conspicuous gallantry as executive officer in USS DUNCAN, in action against the Japanese off Savo Island; a Bronze Star, and a Gold Star in lieu of a similar medal when in command of USS BLUE in action off Honshu, Japan. He also won the Philippine Liberation Medal, and a Letter of Commendation from the Secretary of the Navy for services as commander of USS SHUBRICK during the amphibious assault on the Island of SicUy. After serving again at the Naval Academy he was commanding officer of the Naval Preparatory

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POISE and STURGEON. He was aide to Commander

Submarine Asiatic upon the outbreak of World War II, and later was training officer on the staff of Commander Submarine Pacific.

Following a three-year tour as assistant director of the Naval Reserve Program, 11th Naval District, Capt. Hack had postgraduate work in management engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; he also attended the Naval War College.

He served on the staff of Commander Cruiser Destroyers Pacific from 1953-56, then became director of the Navy Postgraduate Management School for two years.

He was executive officer in SIERRA then took command of EPPING FOREST, and later commanded

NAVARRO and was Commander, Amphibious Squadron 7. He served as chief of staff and aide, Commander Amphibious Training Command Pacific, and following duty in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy was retired on 1 Sept. 1964 for physical disability.

Capt. Hack was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the Commendation Medal with " V " and the Army Unit Citation. He also held the Philippine Defense Medal and Korean Service Medal.

Following retirement he was active in community affairs, serving as a director of the Coronado chapter of the Navy League and of the Coronado Residential Assn., vice chairman of the Coronado branch of the American Red Cross, and president of the San Diego chapter of the Service Corps of Retired Executives.

Survivors include his widow, the former Virginia Encell of Oakland, now living at 234 H Ave., Coronado; three daughters. Sister Michael of San Diego, and Virginia Ann and Katharine Elizabeth, of the home address.

Dope Word has been received that Mrs. Mary Brogden Pinney, widow of the late Capt. Frank L. Pinney, USN (Ret.), died on 24 Feb. She had made her home at 6345 Western Ave., N.W., Washington, D. C. Capt. Pinney '98, who died on 5 Dec. 1945, was a pioneer in submarines. He supervised construction in 1902 and 1904 of the first two submarines built under Navy contract, and upon their completion commanded both of them—the ADDER and the MOCCASIN.

Mrs. Pinney is survived by a son, RAdm. Frank L. Pinney, Jr., USN '34, and three grandchildren.

Services were held at St. John's Episcopal Church, Bethesda, Md., with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Mrs. Natalie Bulkley Wells Brinser, widow of RAdm. Harry Lerch Brinser '99, died on 6 March at Newport, R. 1. Services were held at Trinity Church, Newport, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Adm. Brinser was buried in Arlington on 13 Dec. 1945, following retirement from the Navy the preceding September after fifty years of naval Lt. Lawrence R. Menzies, USNR, was kUled service. His service in ships ranged from a squareon 6 March when the S-2-F airplane of which he rigger sailing vessel, the ALLIANCE, to the batdewas co-pilot crashed at Kirtland Air Force Base, ship MISSISSIPPI, which he commanded from Albuquerque, N. M., following refueling. He was 1930-32. attached to VS-721, a reserve ASW Squadron based at Glenview Naval Air Station, 111., and was en route to Los Alamitos Naval Air Station, Capt. Louis P . Davis, USN (Ret.) Calif., for two weeks active duty.

Dresden Apartment 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. LAWRENCE ROBERT MENZIES ' 5 9

"Ten pallbearers—representing the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Army and Air Force— lifted the silver steel casket from the hearse and placed it onto a caisson pulled by 15 Navy enlisted men.

"The 12th Naval District Band, slowly marching ahead of the caisson, played funeral renditions of 'Anchors Aweigh' and the 'Marines Hymn' as, 2000 feet overhead, a flight of 70 Navy jets roared across the skies. Behind the caisson a Navy chief petty officer led a riderless horse with a silver sword hanging from the saddle. Boots were reversed in the stirrups.

"Taps was still being sounded as the Stars and Stripes was carefully removed from the casket and folded into a triangle, then handed to Navy Secretary Paul H . Nitze who was holding the Admiral's personal five-star flag. Secretary Nitze then gave both flags to Mrs. Nimitz. He was also serving as President Johnson's personal representative at the funeral as the President was unable to attend.

"Members of the Nimitz family included the Admiral's widow, Catherine; a son, retired RAdm. Chester W. Nimitz, Jr.; three daughters. Sister Mary Aquinas (the former Mary Manson Nimitz), Miss Anne Elizabeth Nimitz, and Mrs. James T. Lay, the former Catherine Nimitz, and a grandson, Richard F. Lay. "Serving as Escort Commander was RAdm. John E. Clark, commandant of the 12th Naval District. Appointed as a special honor guard were Adm. David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Wallace M. Greene, Jr., Commandant of the Marine Corps; Lt.Gen. James L. Richardson, Commanding General of the Sixth Army, and Lt. Gen. W. K. Martin, representing Gen. J. P. McConnell, Air Force Chief of Staff.

"Honorary pallbearers included retired Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, RAdm. Eugene B. Fluckey, RAdm. John McNay Taylor, RAdm. C. C. Knapp, Col. Elliott Wilson, AUyn G. Smith, retired Capt. Robert L. Irvine, Walter A. Haas, Sr., retired VAdm. John Redman, retired Capt. Alvah B. Court, retired Capt. Henry A. Orr, retired Capt.

Earl R. Shipp, Stanley Powell, Sr., MGen. Carroll W. McCoplin, and Dr. John Upton."

His funeral was like his life, simple and dignified as became a great man.

The class of 1905 has suffered its greatest loss At Washington a memorial service was held in in die death of Chester NIMITZ, Fleet Admiral, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint who died on Sunday, 20 Feb., at his home on Paul, Mount Saint Albans, on Friday, 25 Feb. Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco Bay. He had Among those who attended were the members of been ill since 3 Jan. the Supreme Court led by the Chief Justice, Deputy An account of his funeral, published in The Secretary of Defense Vance, many senior officers San Francisco Chronicle, was sent to me by Doc from the Navy Department, classmates in WashCOURT with the following excerpts: ington and many retired officers.

"Hundreds of mourners stood with heads bowed A donation in his memory was made by classyesterday as Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz mates to the San Francisco Heart Assn. was buried on a gentle, grassy slope at Golden On 22 Feb. the class suffered another loss in the Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno. death of Bruce CANAGA at Martinez, Calif. Inger"Then, as Taps sounded from a single bugle, soU, Furlong, Gawne and Shoemaker attended the the military among them saluted for the last graveside services at Arlington National Cemetery time the man who molded the mightiest naval on 1 March. An account is in the Last Call. force in history and led it to victory against the Japanese in World War II. "The Admiral's widow, Catherine, who shared Sec'y, Capt. R. C. Parker, USN (Ret.) 53 years of his life, stood silently as the Protestant 5706 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md. 20014 graveside service was read over the flag-draped casket. She seemed to be on the verge of tears The following is reported by "Cap" BEMIS and when RAdm. James W. Kelly, Chief of the Navy Hazel as of recent weeks: Chaplains Corps . . . thanked God 'for Your After dodging snowfalls here in Wasehington, servant, Chester William Nimitz.' . . . they reached the Hillsboro Club at Pompano "Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York, a Beach, Fla., and connected with "Stella" STARR close friend, also said a brief prayer in which he at his home in Boca Raton. His wife, we may termed the Admiral 'a patriot' who served America remember, died on 9 Jan. after a long illness. both in times of war and peace.

Stella is in good health and shoots golf regularly at the Royal Palms Golf Club. WhUe there.

"The funeral procession arrived at the National Cap saw Norman Van de Veer '08, who is not Cemetery shortly before 3 p.m. from Treasure too well. On their way north they contacted, Island where the Admiral's body had lain in the among other old friends, the Jack Beardalls, Bill Navy Chapel for 90 minutes while family and Brereton '08, Lewis and Mrs. Brereton '11, and friends filed by the closed casket to pay their last the Tony Stones '27. respects.

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Lawrence Robert Menzies '59

Lt. Menzies was born in New York, and raised in the Chicago area. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1959. Following graduation he received flight training, then reported to VAW-11 at North Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, where he stayed until he resigned in September 1964. H e joined the International Business Machines Corp. in Chicago as a sales representative where he remained until his death.

He is survived by his widow, Mary Joyce, of 931 Hinman St., Evanston, and sons Michael 5, Mark 3, and Matthew 2.

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There are some 25 retired naval officers living in Winter Park and at that are outnumbered by the Army and Air Force. At the moment of going to press, many of us here in Washington wish we were among them!

A third generation of an '07 classmate is now a plebe at the Naval Academy—Midn. John Louis Klokow, eldest grandchild of the late Cdr. Louis J. Gulliver, USN (Ret.). He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Klokow of Menlo Park, Calif.

Mrs. Klokow is the former Gail Gulliver.

The former Grace Gulliver is the wife of RAdm. Wells Thompson '28, of Seattie, Wash.

Lt. Louis J. Gulliver, Jr. '36, was lost during World War II. Midn. Klokow is on the Superintendent's list and also the Dean's list.

Sec'y, Como. Harry A. Badt, USN (Ret.) Apt. 609, Blair House, 8201 16th St. Silver Spring, Md. 20910 The class of 1908 was saddened by the news of the death of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, class of 1905. As plebes at the Naval Academy, 1908 was one of the first classes to live in Bancroft Hall. The class of '05, the senior class, also occupied Bancroft Hall. Your secretary had the privilege and pleasure of being in the company commanded by Chester W. Nimitz, 1st classman. In 1940-41 he served as Director of Enlisted Personnel when Adm. Nimitz was Chief of Bureau of Personnel. The class extends deepest sympathy to Mrs. Nimitz and her family.

away on 26 Dec. 1965 in New York City, expressed her appreciation for a letter of sympathy from 1908.

Capt. John M. (Pat) Schelling, USN (Ret.) '07, writes under date of 8 Feb. from his home in Berkeley, Calif., giving me the address of Mrs. Ernest F. Buck, widow of our classmate. On the same day, a letter from Mrs. Buck gave me the same address in Nevada City, Calif. Schelling and I were shipmates from 1910-13, in USS CALIFORNIA of the Armored Cruiser Squadron and flagship of the Pacific Fleet. I well remember a cruise in the CALIFORNIA that started out in Nov. 1911 to the Hawaiian Islands, Guam, the Philippines, China, Japan, Panama and Nicarauga and back to California in Nov. 1912, with exactly four days in the States in one year. The "good old days" and fine duty for bachelors! Those days of coal burners and coaling ship in the tropics are gone. Pat has two sons and a daughter; one son is a captain, USN, and a graduate of the class of 1938.

A nice letter from RAdm. Sydney M. KRAUS, USN (Ret.) '08, now living in Tucson, Ariz., with a "pat-on-the-back" for my work as class secretary.

Thanks, Mose. It helps to know that one's efforts are appreciated.

Archer ALLEN '08 sends an address for Mrs. John C. (Anne) HUliard, widow of Capt. HUliard, USN (Ret.) '08, saying she now lives in Brookline, Mass. A later letter from Anne gives her temporary address as Hotel Fort Sumter, Charleston, S. C. Anne sold her home in Carmel Valley, Calif., and has been doing a great deal of traveling. Thanks just the same. Archer.

Navy Club on 14 Feb. Both looked to be in very good health.

BIRTHDAYS IN APRIL Happy birthday to: Kinkaid, 78 on the 3rd; Earle, 82 on the 5th; Magruder, 80 on die 7th; Pickering, 79 on the 7th; Janeway, 81 on the 10th; Latham, 81 on the 22nd.

A letter from Genevieve Little, Assistant to H. Smith RICHARDSON, ex-'08, encloses clipping from Great Falls, Mont., Tribune dated 4 Sept.

1965, which shows: " H . Smith Richardson, prominent business executive from Greens Farms, Conn., being lifted by stretcher to an ambulance following a helicopter rescue from remote Klick's Dude Ranch in the Gibson Reservoir area. Richardson suffered a pelvic injury when his saddle horse fell on him near the ranch located at the head of the reservoir. A helicopter rescue squad from the 341st Combat Support Group at Malmstrom Air Force Base flew to the scene and airlifted the 80-year-oId honorary chairman of Vick's Chemical Co., who is also a member of the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America, to the Columbus Hospital."

As of 4 March 1966, Smith was on a 7-week Mediterranean cruise and hopes this will complete the healing job on his hip and that when he returns, he will not need to use the one crutch which he grudgingly took with him.

In the last chapter of his Montana misadventure, he states: "Left hospital November 6th on crutches —but doctor says eventually I will be as good as ever." The two lessons he has learned: that a special Providence must watch over octogenarians and —that the best medicines received in the hospital are messages of sympathy from friends.

1908 sends best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery to you.

Sec'y, RAdm. Harold C. Train, USN (Ret.) 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, Md. 21401 June 1965. Fleet Admiral and Mrs. Nimitz pay a visit to the one-room school on Yerba Buena Island.

It is with sadness that we have received word of the death of our fine classmate, William Robert MUNROE, VAdm. USN (Ret.), on 1 March at his home in La Jolla, Calif. Funeral services were held on 3 March in St. James Church with burial in Fort Rosecrans Cemetery. Our 1908 Lucky Bag has this to say about Bob: "Possesses all the traits of a true Southerner. His irresistible manner alone makes him a favorite with all."

Bob was a wonderful officer and his classmates and friends will miss him. He had varied and interesting duty after graduation and attained the rank of vice admiral in Nov. 1944. He is survived by his widow, Katherine, who resides at 5959 Bellevue Ave., La Jolla, and one son, Capt.

William R. Munroe, Jr., USN, now on duty in the Navy Department, and two grandchildren. The class extends deepest sympathy to Mrs. Munroe and her family.

A letter from BGen. Robert H. Strauss, USAF (Ret.), son of our classmate. Col. Harold A. STRAUSS, USAF (Ret.), has the sad news of the death of his mother, Isla Conner Strauss, in Los Angeles on 7 Feb. She was a sister of our beloved classmate, Edward H. (Dad) CONNOR, deceased.

The class extends heartfelt sympathy to Harold and his family.

A gracious letter from Elizabeth Patterson, widow of our David C. PATTERSON, who passed A P R I L ,

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On 3 March I received a letter from Eleanore White, widow of LCdr. Richard C. WHITE, USNR '08, who resigned in 1912 as an ensign.

Eleanore gives her address as 70 Cazenovia St., Buffalo, N. Y. Her son, Capt. Richard T. White, USAF, received a Ph.D. degree in physics at Ohio State Univ. in August 1965, and is now on duty in the Dept. of Physics at the Air Force Academy, Colorado. Her nephew, Capt. Edward C. White, USN, graduated in the class of 1945.

A notice from Maj. Walter SMITH, USA (Ret.) 08, states that he has decided to move to Rossmoor Leisure World, Walnut Creek, Calif., as of 1 April. Walter has been living in Prescott, Ariz. This development for those who have passed the age of 52 years is the subject of an interesting article in the January 1966 issue of Reader's Digest.

Good health, Walter, in your new home.

Irene Crosby, widow of Capt. Howard H. CROSBY, USN (Ret.) '08, who is visiting her son, Cdr. Howard S. Crosby, USN '48, in McLean, Va., gives her permanent address as Geneva, Switzerland.

Mrs. James C. Van de Carr sends her address as: 123 Oakleigh Lane, Maidand, Fla. I saw Jerry HUNSAKER and Worrall (Nick) CARTER, both '08, at the banquet given for the Knights of the Golden Circle at the Army and

Madelaine Scott LOTHROP: I deeply regret to report that Lincoln's widow, Madelaine, died on 20 March in a hospital in Milford, Mass., after an intermittent illness.

Madelaine graduated with one of the first classes of Simmons College in Boston. She and Lincoln were married in 1914 on a battleship.

Her body was cremated and in a simple dignified service in USS BRUMBY (DE-1044), her ashes were committed to the sea off Boston Lightship in essentially the same locale where Lincoln's ashes were committed to the sea 20 years ago. At the same time, Lincoln's 1909 class ring, which Madelaine had cut down and worn as a keepsake in recent years, was committed to the sea. Her son, Scott, wrote to me about his mother, and ended his letter by saying, "It seems a fitting end to two who were married on a battleship so many years ago, and to whom the Navy meant a great deal."

She is survived by two sons: Cummings Lincoln Lothrop, III, of North Windham, Maine, and Capt.

Scott Lothrop (USNA 1940), six grandchildren and four great-grandchUdren.

Her son Scott also mentioned that Madelaine's and Lincoln's grandson and his son, Peter Scott Lothrop, is graduating in June (class of 1966) from the Naval Academy, even as he is graduating from the National War College.

CLASS LUNCHEONS Two class luncheons were held in February, a regular luncheon on the 15th at which 12 were present: Braisted, Farrell, Glennon, Manahan, Piatt, Poco Smith, Train, Robertson, Spalding, Gillam, Merrill and Moore. RAdm. John Crumpacker, (SC) USN (Ret), the Administrative Director of the Foundation, was also present and explained the facts about the Navy-Marine Corps Residence Foundation (Vinson Hall). The other special 41

luncheon was to let Joel Bunkley, on a visit to Washington with Jeanne and son, Brit, see some of his classmates. Present were Braisted, Bunkley, Glennon, Hustvedt, Manahan and Train.

Husty HUSTVEDT: Eric Hustvedt, grandson of Husty and Irene, and son of Erling, is a freshman at Luther College in Iowa. It is interesting to note that both Rusty and his father attended the same college.

BIRTHDAYS IN APRIL Happy birthday to: Rice on the 5th, Van Hook on the 10th and Raguet on the 23rd.

HAROLD TRAIN

Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J . Moore, USN (Ret.), 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase 15, Md. Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorscy O. Thomas 725 West Boulevard, Kokomo, Ind. 46902 As this letter to Shipmate was being prepared, the sad word comes of the death of our boyhood friend and classmate, VAdm. Donald Bradford BEARY—Don to us—at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, of a heart attack on the evening of 7 March. Don had been in the hospital for a month, and recently had an operation on his heart from which he was thought to be recovering splendidly. The passing of a close friend of 60 years, a distinguished officer, a loyal classmate, leaves one a litde numb.

A card to CJM from Sid (Capt. Howard B.) BERRY in San Miguel AUende, Mexico, tells of the interesting winter that he and Hilda are having down Mexico way. They are renewing their fluency in Spanish.

By way of a friendly rivalry between your reporter and Frank LUCKEL, he wants it known that in addition to his naval and political careers he has been a business man—assistant to the president of a San Diego bank—no less. He has a grandson in the Air Force (2nd Lieut.)—recent graduate of the University of Oregon, and presently stationed in Florida. Frank meets the advancing years with much good grace and humor.

Sec'y, VAdm. R. M. Griffin, USN (Ret.) 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 8, D. C. George LOWRY has signed for another year with Sutro and Co. of San Francisco, so will be in that city quite a bit.

The class has donated $500 to the Naval Academy to furnish the 11th Company wardroom.

Almost the entire sum was raised as a result of a solicitation in a previous issue of Shipmate, and in Doc Byrnes' letters about the reunion. So it will be unnecessary to draw on the class fund.

The addresses shown in the Register of Alumni 1945-1966 for the widows of the following classmates are apparendy incorrect as mail sent to these addresses has been returned. Anyone knowing a correct address please notify me. Beach, Bouson, Carstarphen, Doyle, Fagan, Holt, Leidel, Sylvester.

(The editor regrets any inaccuracy in the Alumni Association publications. However, in most cases we must rely on our alumni for accurate and up-to-date information.)

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Sec'y, Como, R. S. Wentworth, USN (Ret.) 1922 Carrollton Rd., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Mammy and Margaret WEEMS have just returned from a month's trip to Florida. They drove down the east coast to Key West and then back up the west coast. They visited several classmates and friends en route and were gone about a month. Key West was cool. We have heard from various winter residents that Florida has had very unusual weather this year. The Weems were to leave on 11 March on a Mediterranean cruise.

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The ship will touch at Madeira, Gibraltar, Nice, Cannes and Naples. Thackeray will accompany them to the Riviera and proceed through Europe to Edinburgh to visit friends and relations. Her stay will be extended there to allow her to take some courses at the university.

Ray WAKEMAN and Edna are enjoying Long Beach. The weather has been cool. Ray says the freeway system of roads is not as bad as the papers would lead the tourists to believe. It goes around Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Ventura.

So a traveller can get around quickly if he takes the trouble to study the road maps. However, there are not as many visitors as of yore. There are several good restaurants still in Long Beach and vicinity.

We have received a thank-you letter from Elisabeth Ten Eyck for the flowers which the class recently sent for Tyke's services. We have not heard from Elisabeth about her future plans.

Admiral Crumpacker hopes that the Virginia legislature will pass a law to grant the home for widows of officers of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard freedom from real estate taxes. Such action has been taken for the Army home.

We have notified Admiral Fitzgerald that our class does not wish to sponsor a wardroom for the Twelfth Company of Midshipmen.

We have heard the sad news that Rita Robinson passed away 6 March at the Naval Hospital, San Diego. She had been ill for some time. She is survived by Steve and one son Stephan, Jr. Our deep sympathy goes out to both Steves.

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Fine contributions to our class fund have recently been received from Donahue and Junkin.

Thanks to both of them from our class.

NEWS OF CLASSMATES DALE—(28 Feb.) "Whole family, including grandchildren, knocked out with flu. Recovery slow."

DuBOSE—^"The Thebauds came thru here recently (5 March) and we were delighted to see them. I wish more '13ers would come by this way."

HATCH—"Everything shipshape here. George Lowry of 1911 tells me his class is having a 55th reunion. Here's to 1968."

HUDSON—"Enjoy reading news of classmates in Shipmate and in the occasional All Hands bulletin."

MASEK—"Saw Tom Shine recently in Coronado. He looks good. Have heard that Ken Wallace is laid up, but no recent reports."

MEEK—"Expect to send you a long delayed check for the class fund soon; I might say (with a smile) that it is almost posthumous."

McCAWLEY—"I expect to celebrate my 76th on 22 March. Have had nice visits with Woodruff and Elizabeth Meek who are now neighbors of ours. I remember that McCawley came right after Meek in our old section at USNA of Lee, Leighton, Lingo, Marcus, Mathews, Meek, McCawley, McFeaters, McGuire, etc. (Ouch! only three are left.) I also remember that McFeaters and I roomed together as ensigns in the old N E W JERSEY, and later he commanded USS MCCAWLEY,

Exec. V. P., Paul D. Sleeper, Apt. 710 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008

Classmates at our February DC luncheon were Abbott, Davis, Hoffman, "Buck" Jones, "Doug" Jones, "Jake" Lee, Thebaud and Sleeper; also Davidson and Foote of A'13. We were all delighted to have Joe Hoffman and "Buck" Jones with us from Phila. They came to DC especially to attend the 50 year member Army and Navy Club "Golden Knight" dinner on the night of 14 Feb., and therefore were able to join us at our luncheon the same day. As always we were glad to see our friends from A'13.

Those attending recent A'13 luncheon were classmates Crane, Crittenberger, Davidson, Foote and Johnson; also Maxwell A'12, Sleeper N'13, Col. R. E. Dupuy, USA, Ret., and his son another Col. Dupuy, West Point '38. The latter also has a son who was West Point '62 and now a captain on active duty. (I had the privilege of standing for the KTs all around after the roll of dice favored me twice in succession.)

Earl Quinlan sent me a snapshot showing 1913 classmates on the cruise of 1912 in USS RHODE ISLAND. Possibly others of our class have pictures Shipmate can use.

named after my grandfather who was Commandant of the Marine Corps. She was the second McCawley ship; the first was a WWI four-piper that I always wanted to command..

"My sister, Babs Thebaud, was her sponsor and 1 asked for the command but never got out of battleships." (Editor's note: Since this column was written, word has been received of the death of Cdr. McCawley on 10 March. See Last Call.)

Buck JONES—"The luncheon and the Golden Knight dinner were grand and it was a real pleasure to see so many classmates and other Navy friends. Hope you and Frances enjoyed your belated wedding anniversary." (The day of the luncheon and dinner (14 Feb.) was Frances and my 38th wedding anniversary but she insisted that I attend the BIG dinner for 50-year members of the Club as she knew I would really enjoy it— what a gal!!! We just celebrated the day before and the day after.) PDS. PARMELEE, Mrs. H. P. (Pat)—"I enjoyed the All Hands bulletin, thanks for sending it to me.

I am spending the winter months with my daughter and her husband who is a retired Army officer and living in the Rio Grande Valley. It is a nice change from Salt Lake City. My best wishes to all of 1913."

First Class Cruise. Some members of '13 aboard USS RHODE ISLAND. Bottom: Quinlan, Webb, Ransom, Searles and Lee. Top: W i l d , Ruble, Powell, Robinson, Withers, Roth and Plllsbury.

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THEBAUD—"Left DC 2 March on our auto trip south and west and hope to see as many classmates as possible. Back to DC in AprU." VanVALZAH, Mrs. H. C. (Olive)—"1 was so glad to receive the All Hands bulletin and thanks for seeing that I got a copy. The day (14 Feb.) of the DC '13 luncheon and the annual dinner for the Golden Knights at the Army and Navy Club in DC was a big day for us too—the day we changed to decimal currency. We are now using dollars too. My best to all of 1913."

Cards were also received from Clarkson, Dillingham, Grayson, Henderson, Junkin, Miller, Robinson, Thurston, and Todd.

The best to all '13ers everywhere.

PAUL

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, USN (Ret.) 208 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. 21401 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D. Swain, USN (Ret.), 10231 Vivera Dr., La Mesa, Calif.

Except for some very bad news there is not very much information that I can add in this issue of Shipmate as all of you, perhaps, received our Class Bulletin which was dated 26 Feb. However, if I should get any news from the postal card which was inclosed in the bulletin I wUl mention it towards the end of our column.

I am sorry to mention that on 7 March 1 received a letter from Tubby SHEARS giving me the very sad news that Lorene died on 28 Feb. after a long illness. They would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary next October. Incidentally, I had made reservations for them at Carvel Hall for our fiftieth reunion but at the last moment Tubby sent word that Lorene was not feeling well and for that reason they could not come.

She was buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery on 4 March, following beautiful services.

I have written and extended to him the deepest sympathy of the class for his great loss.

Another death notice 1 received on 7 March was a telephone message from Johnny HALE telling me that Josephine Ferrell, widow of our classmate Robert W. Ferrell, died this morning at the Bethesda Naval Hospital after a lingering illness.

She was the daughter of Edmund C. Tarbell, a Boston portrait painter who became principal of the Corcoran School of Art in 1918.

A great many of you wiU remember her as she attended both our fortieth and forty-fifth reunions, and would have been present for our fiftieth had it not been for her illness.

Josephine was also present at the dedication of the Rooks Memorial Fountain. In addition to the above she would frequently attend the annual Homecoming Weekend events given by the USNA Alumni Association, especially the niassive K.T. party given in Dahlgren Hall which is followed by dinner in the Midshipmen's Mess Hall where each class is assigned a separate table (or tables).

Graveside services took place in the Arlington National Cemetery on 10 March; Hazel and I planned to be there.

A few days ago I received a letter from Don ROYCE telling me that the reason he did not attend die Golden Circle party at the Army and Navy Club in Washington on 14 Feb. is that Harvey MITTENDORF had invited him to attend a meeting of the Retired Men's Club in Summit, N. J. Don made a speech during the meeting when there were 206 members of the club present.

A week before this, "Gracie" WILLS made a speech there, which was also enjoyed by all present.

Speaking of the Golden Circle, I would like to mention that Ed ELLSBERG's name should have been added to the seven others who were listed in the Bulletin. It just happens that I failed to see his name, which was in another group; those who had just completed their 50 years of membership in the club.

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1966

Just before the annual meeting of the club on the date mentioned above I had the pleasure of seeing and talking to Bob GARY in the club.

He had just arrived from his home in Toledo, but due to a business appointment that evening he was unable to attend the meeting.

I have already received postal cards (mentioned earlier) from the following, and will now give you some excerpts of what they had to say.

Peter STERLING seems to be enjoying very much the country life he is living in Buckingham Valley, Pa. And especially watching the springtime antics of the lively squirrels, and listening to the hoots of the owls.

Pinky POWERS was recently in San Antonio and called on Frankie O'BRIEN whom he said looked as though he were only 55 years old. He also mentioned that Frankie has the same head of hair which he had when we were midshipmen except for a very few streaks of gray.

Pinky is planning a bus tour for about 20-30 Pasadenans to New Orleans, Piney Woods, Miss., Nashville, Old Point, Williamsburg, Shenandoah, Washington and Annapolis. Hazel and I expect to see him here about the middle of May. However, he will not be on the bus except part of the time as he will travel by plane from Los Angeles to New Orleans, and from Washington back to Los Angeles.

reunion, and especially enjoyed San Francisco where their daughter was taking a course at San Francisco College for Women. She was billeted at the Convent of the St. Vincent de Paul Parish, which is hard by the Presidio, and Nat says they got to be almost star boarders at the Convent! He said they did not see "Yaney" KNEIP when he passed through Pordand. He lives at Leisure World, in Seal Beach, Calif. By the way, Nat says "These deals are not bad at all. That corporation also operates two others, at Laguna Beach, and one at Walnut Creek near Alameda."

Lewis NASH, who now lives in Raleigh, N. C , informs me that there are very few retired officers of the Navy who live in that general area and those who are there seem to be rather scattered.

There is a service club but the members are mostly Army.

It was very good news to learn from him that they may soon visit Annapolis. I have written him that when this event occurs we are hoping they wUl stay with us while here.

In the postal card, Lewis reminded me (which I have known for almost 56 years!) that we are both native-born Virginians. Although he is now a Tar Heel and I am a Marylander, we are looking forward to their staying with us, and when they do I will mix up some Old Dominion mint juleps so that we can drink:

Grace and Mick CARNEY flew to San Diego, Calif., about the middle of February, and whUe on business managed to get in some shooting and fishing in Baja Calif. Mick racked up a good blue marlin.

After 12 March Barbara (Mrs. P. R.) Glutting may be reached at 36 Summit Ave., North Cohasset, Mass. 02025.

Earny reports reservations are coming in for the reunion, and we urge you to make them as soon as possible.

We regret to report the passing of Julie Halm Krez, widow of Lt. Conrad A. Krez, USN, at her home in Washington, D. C.

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. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. M. W. Hutchinson, J r .

6 Acton Place, Annapolis, Md. 21401

We were glad to hear from Fifteener John Tracy DAVIS. He has moved from Indianapolis to Florida, where he and Esther are now living at 2501 South Ocean Blvd., Boca Raton, Fla. 33432.

Rip STRUBLE is back from his trip to the west coast and Hawaii. He was among five Fifteeners who attended the funeral service for Fleet Admiral Nimitz at the chapel on Treasure Island, and the interment in the National Cemetery in San Francisco. The others were Bates, Christie, Overesch, and Smith.

John CAMPMAN writes from Coronado that Grot and Francis WOOD flew in from Hawaii and were entertained at a buffet supper by the Campmans. He wrote, "Both looked fit and even younger than when we last saw them here three years ago. Grot is a great guy and a great genrieman, and Frances is the same lovely girl. Frances WOOD writes, 'Rip, we had a fabulous time in Coronado. What a grand class we have! Can a wife say that?' (Of course—why not? says Heather!) We called on Anne and Steve ROCKWELL in Florida and saw Cornelia and Glenn EASTON. They cooked home dinner for us and showed us movies of their European trip."

Nat PIGMAN in Porriand, Ore., just missed seeing Rip when he was in Seattle. Nat reports that they did a lot of travelling after our 50th

We received a Jan. '66 copy of FUms in Review, with a very fine and comprehensive write-up of our advenmrous "Coop," otherwise known as Brig.

Gen. Merian C. COOPER, USAF (Ret.). Fifteeners—get yourself a copy and read it!

Sarge and Mary HENNING are still away on a cruise—in the Pacific this time. Their son expects them back at their Edgewater, Md., home about the first of April.

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Sec.-Trcas., Capt. E. S. Earnhardt, USN (Ret.), 3900 Calverton Dr., College Heights Estates, Hyattsville, Md. Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. Leon F. Brown 20 Southgate Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21401 West Coast Sec'y, Cdr. E. F. Cochrane, USN (Ret.), 4315 Avalon Blvd.

San Diego 3, Calif.

WEST COAST ACTIVITIES We are very sorry to learn of the recent prolonged bout Pat PATTERSON has had widi the medicos which terminated in major surgery on 5 Jan. Pat is now at home—670 Clinton Ave., Haddonfield, N. J. 08033. He faces a tough siege but with his capable wife Mary Green at the helm, we feel he will come along nicely. Those in SD are sure pulling for you, Pat! Emily and Red KEADY are Rome-bound to spend Easter with Red's son Dick, now in his fifth year of study in Rome to become a Benedictine monk. They will meet Consuelo and Tony Ziroli who just recendy was given clearance after major surgery at the NH Bethesda. . . .

Gladys and Irish MOORE are back in La Jolla for a couple of months. . . . Margaret and Andy McFALL are expected to make La Jolla in the near future. Again, the fun begins!

Vada and Charlie GILLIAM wandered down from Altadena to have Sunday brunch with us and to celebrate Charlie's birthday on 6 Feb. . . .

Elsie Conyne recently remrned from a long visit with her son Albert and his family at Ft. Davis, C. Z. The troop commander at Davis, Albert is a lieutenant colonel, married and has a son, Jimmy, named after his late grandfather, Cdr. Jimmy Conyne '17. Albert enlisted in the early phases of WWII. When conditions permitted he kept after the studies and graduated from Omaha College with a science degree. He was commissioned from the ranks. We congratulate the colonel, Elsie, and his fine family.

It was early dawn. Shreds of dancing light were beginning to dart over the eastern horizon.

Another Valentine Day was about to come aboard.

It was warm, specks of cirius hung high above a quiet San Diego. Winds were light and variable.

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By mid-forenoon, our charming widows. Dot Brewer and Kay Gill, were scurrying about the historic Henderson Room at the Marine Recruit Depot where in a short time the 4 th consecutive SD '16-'17er Valentine luncheon would be underway. And by any standards, the artistic accomplishments of those talented gals would bring forth the admiration and appreciation of the 60 guests who would join in those festive doings.

As our guests approached the entrance, they would pass under a canopy of Valentine figures, and colored streamers supported by a bevy of flowers and greens. Early predictions had called for 66 in all, but the flu bug and other avoidables had taken a regretful toll. Anne Dudley, Martha Joy, Kay Fahrion, Ruby McGinnis, Trudy Emerson, Marguerite Root, Emily and Red Keady, Tex Gilliam could not be with us. Our honor guests, those marvelous widows for whom, along with our wives, this Valentine party is held, were: Tiz Bartholdi, Dot Brewer, Elsie Conyne, Kay Gill, LUly Thornhill, and Eleanor Young. We were particularly fortunate to have several notables grace our party, Counselo and Tony Ziroli from Rome; Evelyn and Max Cole, East Kingston, N. H.; Gladys and Irish Moore, from Boulder, Colo.; Martha and Rosy Feineman, Muriel and Gus Hoover, Cess and Don Curtis '18, our appreciated companions in most of our affairs; Camille and Ben Wyatt. And with equal pleasure and thankfulness, several of our regulars and their wives who have been under intensive care of the medicos a good part of the past year, Elistine and PhU Warren, Kathleen and Possum Webb, Faye and Fred Haeberle.

There were copious supplies of tempting liquids followed by morsels of food which defied the most determined calorie counter. With that phase passed, B. Cochrane, flanked by his gracious wife, Polly, took over as MC. Tony Ziroli was the first to be called up and that brought down a tremendous ovation for Counselo and him. It had been many a moon since good fortune had brought these two grand folks to us. Tony, as expected, gave an excellent, colorful account of what had transpired.

Max Cole followed. Long since getting out of the USN and taking over with T and T in Philadelphia and even now retired from that outfit, he gave a brief and informative sketch of what had gone on with Evelyn and himself. Rosy Feineman, with 3 more rivers to cross until he becomes a full-fledged barrister, acclaimed his readiness to enter into matters legal on behalf of his friends and at a greatly reduced fee. He particularly requested that any contemplated divorce actions be withheld pending successful negotiations with the aforesaid rivers and those state officials who give out the necessary passports to indulge in such procedures. Irish Moore and Gus Hoover came forth with their comments, all good and newsworthy.

Leon Fiske said that Marge and he had a grand time since coming over from Hawaii but that with the ending of the school year they expected to go back. Just too cold here in Coronado! Phil Warren rose and in a serious vein thanked all hands for the kindnesses extended Elistine and himself. They both looked grand! Tiz Bartholdi, speaking for our widows, expressed their appreciation for the grand party, particularly thanking Polly and Bunny for their part in the affair. Bunny replied again, thanking Amos Root for his grand job of accounting, and those who had done so much in making this party possible, also the club manager and his staff for their great cooperation.

Others who attended the party and not already mentioned were Ike Bennett and his charming daughter Marigold; Allene and George Chapline, Eleanor and Merrill Comstock, Chuck Emerson, Spike Fahrion, Angle and Count Grassie, Muriel and Lil Herndon, Alice and Sleuth Holmes, Isabelle and Ing Kiland, Dolly and Joe Loventhal, Soc McGinnis, Sport and Parson Richards, Judy and Shorty Sauer, GUda and Jack Terhune. This, by far, was judged to be the finest yet and the 44

Lord willing, another V party will be scheduled for 14 Feb. 1967. Hasta luego, amigos.

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Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Carl Wright BREWINGTON passed away on 11 Dec. 1965, and his wife, Mary Ester, died on 6 Jan. '66. Their home was at La Crescenta, Calif.

Carl had a stroke in August but had been ill for some years. Mary Ester died of cancer. Two daughters surviveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Virginia and Dorothy. The class bids Carl an affectionate farewell.

The Washington 16-17 Feb. luncheon was small but elegant. Billy Fechteler, Bill Hawthorne, Pete Merwin, Len Austin, Walt Calhoun, Hot Hanafee, Jack Jenkins and Pete Small competing. A good many of the area are away in far off places.

Red WORDEN is in Bethesda and diagnosis of his trouble has been difficult. Several dangerous ones, however, have been eliminated and we are hoping for the best. As of 9 March word has been received that Elna is very encouraged over his improvement.

Chuck and Birdie KELLY were at Bethesda for a day getting checkups.

The word about Tilly Brewington's passing was sent in from Mexico by Adelaide Fullinwider, where she has seen the Pi Parks.

Walt reports that he has received "nice notes" from Ward DAVIS and John RICHMOND, but that they gave no dope.

No further reports on why Field HARRIS is or was in Bethesda.

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Sec'y, RAdm. E. E. Duvall, USN (Ret.) Apt. 755-B, The Westchester Washington, D. C. 20016 Our class responded in fine style to the idea of sponsoring a wardroom for the 18th Co. of the Brigade of Midshipmen and donations received will cover the initial gift of $500 and the $100 maintenance for each of the next five years. All credit is due our treasurer, E. C. Rogers, who spearheaded this effort to its successful conclusion.

In the course of Bert's correspondence, a nice letter was received from Roy T. GALLEMORE who retired last year after duty as District Administrator of the Mariana Islands. Roy and his wife, Virginia, left Saipan 18 Aug. for Japan, then visited Korea, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Port Swettenham and Penang (two ports along the Straits), Mauritius, Laurenco Marques (Mocambique); Kruger Park Game Reserve, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town in South Africa; then to Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires and across the Andes by train to Valparaiso, and by Grace Line to Baltimore, arriving there just before Christmas. The Gallemores visited their children and their families in McLean, Va., Groton, Conn., and Bay City, Mich.; their home address is 590 East Stanford St., Bartow, Fla. 33830.

In a letter from Col. Graham W. LESTER, who wrote from 2530 Francisco St., San Francisco 94123, we learned that he is now married to the former Mrs. Janice Wilkin, widow of RAdm. Warren D. WILKIN '24. Bodi Graham and Janice had lost their respective spouses in 1958. Lester states that he now "lives in the shadow of the Palace of Fine Arts (of 1915 Exposition fame)'^ and that his rose garden is not far from the plaza where he paraded as a midshipman. That recalls a question DENEBRINK '17 raised in 1964 when he took me on a sightseeing tour which passed the site of the old San Francisco Exposition of 1915: "Do you remember there was a concession of the fair grounds which gave any midshipman all the waffles he could eat for 25 cents?" 1 had forgotten that bargain feamre but do remember that we were off (and running) from the ship,

anchored nearby, as early as possible and that we headed directly for that particular waffle shop.

Considering the voracious appetite normal to the average midshipman and with that appetite whetted by those cool mornings in San Francisco, one can only wonder if that waffleman made expenses.

On a more somber note we learned with regret from recent correspondence that Carl A. MOSES and Maj. Conrad S. GROVE, USMC (Ret.), both died in 1964; also, Mrs. Gordon B. (Allah) Wooley, writing from 4126 Lymer Drive, San Diego, reported that Comdr. WOOLEY had passed away at the Naval Hospital on 8 Jan. In a note along with his contribution to the wardroom fund, Capt. Ellis H. Geiselman wrote that he had lost his wife recently. We were very sorry to hear the above sad news.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Scott G. Lamb, USN (Ret.) 241 Steeplechase Rd., Devon, Pa. 19333

Those attending the March luncheon at the Army-Navy Club were Schildhauer, Slocum, DuVal, Thurber, Dyer and Fink.

Clayton DEMAREST writes George DYER diat he is improving steadily and that he is now trying to start walking again. It's been a long pull, Demmy, and all of our best to you.

The sympathy of the class goes out to George DYER whose mother, whom we all know and love, suffered a heart attack on 1 March, and whose condition is now critical. Mrs. Dyer had celebrated her 90th birthday on 28 Feb. She has always been a star attraction at the many "Simmerdown" parties attended by the class.

The LAMBs look forward to a visit in late March-early April from their west coast daughter, Preshy, and her three small children. Her husband, John Tillson, has command of USS POMFRET, now on duty in WestPac. Don't forget to fill out and return the postal card enclosed with the Bulletin, regarding your possible intentions of attending our 50th anniversary celebration.

Val SCHAEFFER was unable to attend the March luncheon due to a stay in Bethesda Hospital for a second eye operation, from which he is recovering nicely. Ray THURBER was a patient at the same time for removal of a cataract and he is likewise doing well.

Tar TARBUTTON reports visiting Clayton DEMAREST on 20 Feb. in Baltimore. He says Demmy is making good progress toward recovery, is cheerful and working hard on recovery requirements. Demmy would enjoy seeing and hearing from classmates.

Dulany DIERDORFF is coming along slowly but on schedule from her recent serious operation.

Luke GRANT finds that time passes faster after retirement, rather than slower as he had anticipated.

Adaline DYER has just returned from a flying visit to California where she looked after the grandchildren and ran the household for her daughter, Virginia Ann, while she made a flying trip to Japan to spend some time with her husband who is on Vietnam duty, flying off the TicoNDEROGA. With C. Ray "off the line" they spent some time at Hong Kong and Cubi Point.

George DYER recently presented to our classsponsored company, the 19 th, a copy of Ernie Herrmann's Exterior Ballistics, 1935, supplied by Jean Herrmann, as well as a number of other volumes, wanted by the company, and supplied by classmates.

A lovely card from Bill and Mary-Frances FERGUSON from Cannes on their tour advises that they have visited Greece and Italy and at the time of writing were on the French Riviera.

Thence on to Mallorca via Barcelona by train and boat and not looking farward to the train SHIPMATE

trip because of luggage changes in Marseilles and at the Spanish border. They report delightful housing in Cannes in a super-pension whose hostess, Contessa Medena, knows a great many Navy people. They do not expect to be home in time for our May reunion, being at that time in Northern France or in Holland.

Carl FINK recently received a check for dues from Joe BUCHALTER, paying him up to '82 Yi, the record for the class, exceeding Jimmy SYKES by '/3 of a year. It is hoped that many more checks will be coming in now that the Bulletin and revised dues list are in your hands.

Speaking of the Bulletin, we hope that its new format is liked. There were unavoidable delays in printing, which it is hoped can be obviated another year. Thanks of the class are due to J. L. N .

Smythe and the Bendey Paper Co., paper merchants, who provided the cover, printing stock and envelopes without charge.

Tex SETTLE advises that the '19 wives invasion of Bethesda Hospital has accomplished its purpose and that our forces have been withdrawn. Betsy Rochester is once again at home with her fastmending hip, getting Harry back in order; Etheljane Schetky completed her check-up and she and Laurence have returned to their home in Rhode Island; Elisabeth Metzel has returned to Distaff House, trying to obey her doctor's orders to slow down and to be less strenuous.

Sunshine and Madeleine MURRAY were east recendy, visiting Bill and Helen CALLAGHAN. Tex invited my attention to an article I had missed in the January Institute Proceedings, entitled "The Fifth Man," by Oalby Rucker '24, secretarytreasurer of the Retired Officers Tax Credit Committee. The article is an excellent one and well worth reading.

Tex continues to give unstintingly of himself in pay matters for the benefit of all. He is not only an ex-officio member of the committee just referred to but also is on the executive committee of the Uniformed Services' Retirees' Group, headed

by Maj.Gen. Richards, USA (Ret.), a group seeking redress of our lost retired pay in the Court of Claims, and also working for other remedial military legislation.

Yen CONEY checks in with a nice, long letter from the PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in which he and

Mila are making a world cruise, written en route Manila to Singapore. To quote him, he says, "I'm not at all sure that I'd ever care to have duty out here again. On the contrary, this cruise has given me a renewed appreciation of how good we had it in the old days on the China station, cruises which can never be repeated." (The reference is to a two-year tour on the China station which Yen and I enjoyed 1922-1924, going out via Suez.) He goes on to say that the changes in Japan, Hong Kong and Manila are indescribable.

He gives the Army and Navy Club in Manila a superb rating as he does the Manila Hotel. (Your secretary and his lady concur in this appraisal, based on our Far Eastern trip of three years ago.)

He reports fine accommodations and facilities in the ROOSEVELT, congenial other passengers "as old as God, with a preponderance of elderly widows."

(I'm afraid. Yen, the good old days are gone forever, never to return.)

One of our most travelled classmates, Joe BUCHALTER, writes with the heading on his letter, "at sea, Yokohama to Hamburg, and now en route Penang to Aden," under date of 31 Jan. His itinerary from Yokohama comprises 13 ports, most of them not new to him, and including Bangkok, which he liked. Port Swettenham, which he disliked intensely, Aden, which he detests with its flies, beggars, pickpockets, thieves and "every popular affliction." Thence on to Port Said, Beyreuth, Lattakia, Genoa, Le Havre and then on to Hamburg, his port of disembarkation. He will pick up his litde VW in Bremen, then drive south through Germany into Switzeriand, then Austria and on to Yugoslavia where he spent some time APRIL,

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two years ago, and he plans to spend five weeks this trip. To quote him on Yugoslavia, "This is the only country to my knowledge (in my experience) where the poor peasant (be he farmer, fisherman or office worker) knew that it was the U. S. that kept them from starvation at times. And I have had them come forward—in the distant mountain villages—and in broken German or Italian shake me by the hand and thank me for such help." He closes with best wishes to all members of the class and his customary "God bless."

Sec'y, Capt. Roswell B. Daggett, USN (Ret.), P . O. Box 201 Annapolis, Md. 21404 The monthly luncheon at the Army and Navy Club on 25 Feb. was attended by 16 classmates as follows: Browder, Bryan, Christmas, Fred Cunningham, Daggett, Savvy Harrison, Hitchcock, Lyon, Mansfield, Paul MUler, Nibecker, Osborn, Pearson, Clyde Smith, Thompson and Wachder.

Driving conditions apparently kept the attendance below normal.

At this luncheon Jack LYON appointed a nominating committee for class officers for the ensuing year to take office at the May luncheon. The committee consists of Chairman Walter CHRISTMAS with Paul MILLER and Fred CUNNINGHAM as members.

Many undoubtedly will recall our classmate, Neil MUSSER. Those of us who PG'ed with him at M.I.T. got to know him quite well. He resigned in 1927 and gradually disappeared from his Navy acquaintances. In the early 50's rumor had it that he had died. Then there appeared in the obituary column of an M.I.T. publication that he had died in 1947 but gave no additional information.

As is often true if you wait long enough, the story finally comes to light. Phil LEMLER lives in San Rafael, Calif., and he sent me a clipping from the San Rafael lndependent-]ournal dated 15 Feb. This showed a picture of a local student, William Neil Musser, who attends Harvey Mudd College in Claremont. Phil said the boy was the son of our classmate and one look at the picture revealed the lad to be a "spittin' image" of his dad.

The article described young Musser as an imaginative engineer and shows him displaying an electric unit and shower head he helped design for use in Brazil to replace an inefficient Brazdianmade unit. The article also gave the name and address of the boy's mother, who had remarried.

I asked Phil to pursue the matter further in an attempt to fill-in on the career of our classmate.

Phil telephoned the lad's mother, Neil's second wife, and the latter invited Phil and Isabel over for cocktails and was quite anxious that Neil's classmates pick up the thread lost in 1927. She is the mother of three children of Neil's. The oldest, a girl, was born in Philadelphia in 1932, is married and lives in Sausalito, Calif. The second child, also a girl, was born in Long Beach in 1936, is married, and lives in Pasadena. The third is the boy, William, born in Long Beach in 1944 and is the husband of his San Rafael High School sweetheart. I recall that Neil also had a daughter by his first marriage who was born in 1920 or 1921 when we were postgraduates.

Neil died on 27 Sept. 1947 unexpectedly and tragically in Los Angeles General Hosphal. He fell out of a tree at his home in Pasadena and broke some bones. Complications set in, resulting in his demise. At the time of his death he was in the employ of Cal. Tech. Jet Propulsion Laboratory which he had joined in 1946.

Phil also said that he and Isabel see Wally DOWD's widow. Aloha, quite frequently. He reports that she is very well and sends her very best to Wally's classmates. Aloha's present plan is to dispose of her idyllic hillside home in Sonoma and pay an extended visit to her eldest

son, a captain in the Supply Corps, who is on duty in Hawaii. Eventually she intends to return to the Bay area where she was born and where her roots are.

Last August I noted in the Washington Post that the President had selected a new district attorney for Southern Illinois, Richard E. Eagleton of Peoria. This rang a bell that possibly this was the son of our classmate Bill EAGLETON whom I recalled also hailed from Peoria. So I wrote Bill for confirmation and any other dope. It seems August was a bad month to tackle Bill for information as at that time of year he is up to his eyes in working his farms. But at last he has replied just prior to starting his late-winter trip to Mexico at which time he also forwarded his biography.

Bill resigned in 1924 to become a lawyer, returned during the war as a Reserve, was integrated into the Regular Navy in 1948 as a law specialist and retired in 1959. Incidentally he and Eugene ALDRICH were the only classmates in this category of broken service. Bill and Louise live in Peoria, travel occasionally, and look after their farming interests. Their oldest son, Lee, is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He was in the ROTC at M.I.T. when we entered the war, was commissioned and served with the 7th Army in Europe. He returned to M.I.T. for his Master's and received his Doctor's at Yale.

Bill Jr. was a radar technician in the Navy during the war, graduated from Yale in 1948, and with the advice and encouragement of our late classmate, Selden CHAPIN, was commissioned as a foreign service officer in the State Dept. in 1949. He has had duty primarily in Arabic language countries in the Near East and Africa and is the author of a book. The Kurdish Republic of 1946. He is now in the American Embassy in London as a First Secretary.

Dick, the youngest son, was in the NROTC at Yale, served three years in destroyers and graduated from the University of Illinois School of Law in 1958 and practiced law in Peoria to his appointment as U. S. attorney. He is a lieutenant commander, USNR. 1 think all of you will agree that Bill and Louise can be jusdy proud of the accomplishments of their three sons. Also, they are undoubtedly proud of their 10 grandchildren. Bill and Louise attended our 45th and declare they wUl be back for the 50th. That's the spirit!

Ho SEXTON furnished this photograph of the Regiment taken in Dec. 1916. Many of us plebes are recognizable in the large print and I hope you can identify yourselves in this reproduction. It is easy to pick out the stripers in '17 on the front row—Fred Haeberle, Rim Rawlings, Eddie Brady and Andy McKee among others.

Roy GRAHAM sent in his biography accompanied by note stating that he and Jeanne are well and enjoy life in Short Hills, N. J., which is within easy reach of N. Y. City. They find it good to have the furniture parked after 27 moves. He stUl plays conventional tennis and bridge and shovels the walks as a necessity. Son, Monty, is located with Burlington Industries in Reidsville, N. C , with a wonderful wife, 3 boys and one daughter. Hoppy and Jean HOPWOOD are neighbors in Short Hills as are also Schuyler and Jane Pyne and Al and Carmen Mumma '26.

Last month I reported that Hal FITZ was quite ill in Bethesda Naval Hospital. Since then I understand he has undergone abdominal surgery and at this writing is still hospitalized. Kraut DETTMAN is wintering in Florida and it is reported that recently he suffered two separate attacks of hemorrhages of the nose requiring hospitalization each time. Del FAHRNEY reports that his wife, Sondra, is now at home and making a fine recovery from her recent operation to remove an aneurism from the aorta which involved substituting a Y-shaped section of dacron to connect 45

the aorta with the leg arteries. Del is lavish in his praise for the staff of surgeons at the Naval Hospital (I believe Philadelphia) for their skUl in performing this highly complex operation. He says it was a revelation to see the care, patience, devotion, concern and dedication of each one on the team.

Ken and Arlene REED spent Christmas in Detroit with daughter Martha and her children and on their return stopped in Pittsburgh to see his brother Tom. The latter part of Feb. they flew out to Honolulu for a brief visit with son Bob (Cdr. USN '51) and his family. Bob is repair officer for ComSubPac. Jim and Consuelo CROWE have extended their stay in Fla. Sabby and Janet SABALOT left the latter part of Feb. for a leisurely trip to Fort Lauderdale, where they embarked on a two-week cruise in the Caribbean.

Roy COWDREY reports that at last he has started his biography. I wish 128 of the rest of you would start yours. Tommy COX, after six months, has also sent in his. He says it is brief to which I can heartily agree. But better brief than none at all. Tommy says due to the absence of any other 1920's in Rochester he sometimes gets telephonitis, particularly after an extra highball, and calls Slim Wooldridge, Felix Johnson, Harvey Wilson, Sabby Sabalot, Paul Schubert and exchanges insults with Mead Pearson. Tommy still works full time, 8 to 5, in his brother's wholesale paper distributing company but has to retire this Sept. when he reaches such an advanced age that he won't write it. Cheer-up, Tommy, 1 will reach that Biblical age 5 months before you.

Joe TALBERT sent me some dope from the Coronado area. He and Anne recently flew to Hawaii and spent three weeks with their daughter and son and their families. Their daughter is the wife of Cdr. Bulmer '49, who is CO of the THOMAS JEFFERSON based at New London. I hope this will cause grandpa and grandma to come east occasionally and we will get to see them.

Joe, Jr. '56, a lieutenant commander, is exec of the diesel submarine STARLET, and has Joe III who is only 16 months old. The Bulmers have two children. Joe says Dick and Peggy CRUZEN were down recently from San Clemente and that Dick is doing fine.

Joe reports further that Dutch and Helen CHRISTOPH spent the holidays in Florida with their son Kari Jr. (Cdr. USN '48) and his family.

Joe says WHEYLAND and BEIGHTLER are now living in the area but he has not seen the latter.

Rocky TOWNSEND, Roy SACKETT and Joe and their wives belong to a Sunday night group that enjoys rare roast beef at North Island each week. Joe sees Tommy BINFORD each month at the MOWW luncheon at the Kidd Mess. He and Anne see Helen Arthur frequently. At the Coronado Chapter Alumni meetings, which chapter is the 5th largest in the U. S., Joe frequendy sees Binford, Weller, Fick, Hatch, Andy Anderson, Isgrig and sometimes Elmer Stoker. In this column last November the death of George KRAKER's wife Ella was noted and mention was made of George's incapacity. Joe reports that George has now moved to the San Rosario Rest Home, Cambridge, Pa., which is near his daughter.

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Sec'y, RAdm. Floyd F. Ferris, USN (Ret.) 4201 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Apt. 414W Washington, D. C. 20016

Classmates of '21 will recall those early days in the summer of 1917 when, according to the Lucl{y Bag, they tried to make such nicknames as "Marmaduke," "Reginald" or "Algernon" fit their comradely feeling for Raymond C. PERCIVAL. In the end, "Percy" won out.

Percy Percival died at the Naval Hospital, San Diego, on 28 Feb. after being ill for a number of years. He was awarded five combat starts for World War II service, a commendation for his 46

command of the submarine tender USS HOLLAND, and a commendation for volunteer work at Olongapo in the Philippines during an epidemic of spinal meningitis. He retired on 1 Jan. 1947 and settled down at 4207 50th St., San Diego.

The thinning ranks of the class extend their deepest sympathy to his widow, Sarah, and their daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Collins, of San Diego.

It is with sadness that we report the death of another classmate, W. S. G. "Dave" or "Alphabet" DAVIS, on 12 Feb. at Mercy Hospital, Vicksburg, Miss.

Dave's son and daughter were visiting him when he collapsed and was taken to the hospital.

He had known for over a year that his lung cancer was incurable but he stayed cheerful and active until the night before he died.

In accordance with his request, his body was cremated and his ashes scattered over the Mississippi River, where they were carried down to the sea he loved.

Survivors include his widow, Maude; a son, Gardner Davis of Huntsville, Ala.; a daughter, Mrs. James Terry of Cambridge, Mass.; two sisters, two brothers, and six grandchildren.

In May, instead of the usual monthly stag luncheon, the Washington area '21ers will have a get-together with wives at the Army and Navy (Town) Club. CocktaUs and a buffet will be available on Saturday evening 21 May, from 6 to 8 P.M. in the Washington Room on the second floor. Any classmates who might be in the vicinity are urged to remember the date.

In attendance at the 23 Feb. lunch at the Army and Navy Club were Swigart, Giles, Fitzgerald, Barbaro, Colclough, McDowell, Brumbaugh, Thorp, Fletcher, Moore, Luther Brown, McCoUum, Gallery, Bunting, Waters, Condon, Abercrombie, Sherwood Smith, Purves, Houser, Lamdin and Elmers.

On 9 Feb. Syd BUNTING, chairman of the 45th class reunion, got out to all classmates a flyer covering the reunion. In this connection it should be emphasized that all classmates' widows are cordially invited, and there will be no charge to them for any of the class functions.

Seen gathered at the annual meeting of the Army and Navy Club in Washington were Pinkie Thorp, Harold Hauser, John Waters, Paul Phiel, Heber Brumbaugh, Allen Cook and Homer Elmers.

We were sorry to learn of the death in Seattle of Dutch Greber's mother. She was 86 years old and spent most of her life in New York City before going to Seatde to live with Dutch.

We think this deserves special mention: during the Christmas holidays, Dave Johnson, in Honolulu, made 350 fruit cakes, sold them for a dollar each and donated the money to St. Anthony's dining room in San Francisco, Turk Wirth's favorite charity. Dave just recently entered the hospital in Honolulu for an exploratory operation —we have not learned of the results.

Cat BROWN, in Bethesda Naval Hospital at the result of a stroke, is progressing towards recovery.

Tommy WATTLES has again been released from Bethesda Naval Hospital and is now in a convalescent home in Alexandria, Va. BAY AREA NOTES At the last class luncheon in San Francisco tentative plans were made to have a class reunion here to celebrate the 45th anniversary of our graduation. In 1961 a similar reunion was held and was widely attended by classmates from Southern California and the Northwest as well as Bay area classmates. A committee, headed by Johnny MADDEN, was appointed and was made up of the various area representatives. The committee met at a luncheon at Treasure Island on 24 Feb., at which time the date of 4 June was decided on. The reunion wUl be held at the Casa de la Vista on Treasure Island from 1800 to

2300 on that date. Tentative plans include cocktails, dinner and dancing. The committee is composed of Abie Carlisle, Joe Connolly, R. K. Davis, John Madden, George Miller, Charlie Roland and Piggie Schwien. A cordial invitation is extended to all classmates.

From Beany JARRETT in Malaga, Spain, comes this word: "Grace Simpson, Roger's widow who returned here in January, wants the class to know that she was married to Frank Smith, who retired from the National City Bank of New York as their South American representative, in the Episcopal Cathedral in Gibraltar on 12 Feb. "Frank has been a widower for three or four years, and has wintered here for as many years as the Simpsons lived here. He is a fine man.

They will tour the States in May-June, then return to his Cape Cod home in July."

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Sec'y, Gerald A. Stacey, Golden Propeller Farm, R2 Box 146, Mercersburg, Pa. 17236

An SOS from Kener BOND, who wants to contact Walter ROWE. I am in receipt of nothing that indicates that Fish is not still in London.

Anyone, including the object of the search, please advise. Kener phoned George Sturgeon's home on the occasion of a recent visit to Buffalo. George was out of town and is still engaged actively as an engineer.

The old dp combination: from Wood to Whitaker to Stacey. Charlie notifies us that he and Mila have moved into an apartment at 65 Hawthorne Place, Apt. F-1, Montclair, N. J. And Victor G. ELLIS (LCdr. USCGR-Ret.) has moved from Ridgecrest and is preceding the swallows. New address: 30823 Calle Chueca, San Juan Capistrano, Calif. 92675.

Once again the grim reaper has taken a mighty cut with his scythe. Supplementary information concerning the funerals of Tom Beattie, Shorty Kephart and Phil Miller was forwarded by thoughtful classmates.

Bob HoUis writes that the honorary pallbearers for the Kephart funeral were: Danis, HoUis, Jarrett, Pullen, Rockey and Uehlinger. Active pallbearers were: McCracken, Toney, Espe, Bardett, Bibby and Bauernschmidt. Says that Shorty—getting his Master's in 1958—^must be the oldest in the class to attain such a degree.

Marion Murphy advises that Huffman, Libby, Quarton and himself were four of the pallbearers at the Beattie funeral.

Reporting on Phil Miller's funeral, Frank Whitaker tells us that the family was especially appreciative of the beautiful spray of flowers sent in the name of the class. The class was represented at church and interment services by Charlie Hooper and Frank and May Whitaker.

On a happier note your reporter has seen several members of our select number on a couple of Pacific Coast trips. While in Seattle, Frank Watkins blew a whisde: Lo and behold! Bert Cassels, Carlisle Thompson, and Horace Butterfield responded, and as a result I enjoyed a great evening at Pier 91 with the four of them. I'll bet some classmates' ears were burning!

In San Francisco I saw Schlitz Saeltzer and talked with Frank Akers, and Clyde King, and hope to see them later. Also Bobbie Meyers, if I get to the Monterey area.

I will likely be in Southern California, too.

There aren't as many '22ers living in the LA area anymore, but I'm sure Fred Pierce knows where to locate those remaining. It's doubtful that I can get down San Diego way. Surely would like to, but that's not the way Uncle sees it.

All kinds of class activity is brewing. Too bad enough members didn't vote on the By-Laws proposal. It sort of negated many months of hard SHIPMATE

and thought-provoking labor on the part of the committee members. And things are stirring concerning Reunion 45. Also, in regard to the wardroom for the 22nd Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen.

Mostest of the bestest, ABE

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Sec'y and Recorder, Capt. Charles Beaumont, USN, Ret. 37 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

The Washington chapter had a fine meeting at the Army and Navy Club on 9 March, attended by a record number, 36. Due possibly to an increasing number reaching job retirement ages, or the fine spirit of unity which prevails, the gatherings are becoming better attended. To bolster the local treasury, we raffled off some cougar milk, and Fred WITHINGTON led the beast away.

The classmates and ladies will have a combined luncheon meeting in May. June will see us at the new National Geographic building for a tour and lunch, with Mel GROSVENOR instrumental on this one.

On 30 April Bob DEHLENDORF leaves GM following a month's leave. His new abode will be 2720 Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, Calif. 92037.

He sends his best to all hands.

We sorrowfully announce the loss of John F. ROSENTHAL on 31 Dec. 1965. "Rosie," a nongraduate, attended our 40th reunion, was devoted to the class, and, as his daughter expressed it, ". . . the short time he spent at the Academy was one of the happiest eras in his life. . . ."

We all express our sympathy to Mrs. Rosenthal and the family.

Work on the 23rd Co. wardroom proceeds apace. Mel GROSVENOR will add some National Geographic books and a globe to the wardroom.

When a visiting schedule exists, I will include it in Shipmate notes.

Additional corrections to the class roster follow: LEWIS, Raymond D., LCdr. V, 2001 N. Adams St., Arlington, Va.; MACKERRACHER, R. A., Capt., USN (Ret.), V, 2300 Avent Ferry Road, Raleigh, N. C ; NIEMYER, Herbert A., Lt. USNR (Ret.), Wabasso Mobile Home, FK Box 788, Wabasso, Fla. 32970; OLIVARES, Jose E., Col. USAR (Ret.), V, 7822 Yorkshire Ave., Stanton, Calif.; PIERSON, James H., 17 Bank Row, Greenfield, Mass. 01301; REINKEN, Louie A., Capt., V, Irvington, Va.; RINGLE, Mrs. Kennedi D., DWV, Fiddlers Green, Avery Island, La.; ROSENTHAL, Mrs. Sarah, DWN, Mayflower Gift Shop, 216 Commercial, Provincetown, Mass., and RUBLE, R. W„ VAdm., V, 130 Forest Lane, Menlo Park, Calif.

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papers; Touve said he was writing about the battle of Savo Island. My comment was that one had to be there to understand what happened.

He told me his father had been in one of the ships, a water tender second in the ASTORIA. I was then her chief engineer! . . . Endeavoring to hide my excitement, I asked him to repeat his name which, as usual, I had missed in the introduction. The name struck a familiar note: 'Wasn't your dad an oil king?' I asked, and Bruce said he was. . . . I could hardly wait to get home to examine my stored records of that night. These included my own two reports and pencilled reports of all the engineering survivors that were with me. . . . And now the events of that night once more came sharply into focus, and Touve's father was in the center of them. I remembered that he was the only surviving member of the oil king's gang, as his station was with the after repair party near turret III handling room. The after part of the ship had been spared by Japanese gunfire, and many survivors gathered there as the midship section and well deck were a roaring blaze.

"At first all we could do was tend the wounded, insure the after magazines would not go up, and make provisions for eventually abandoning ship, for which the empty 8" powder tanks would make good life preservers. A merciful downpour of rain then came and abated the fires in the well deck. We engineers formed a bucket brigade to check the fires and eventually work our way back to the below-deck spaces. While I was supervising firefighting, Touve and two other men made a daring and hazardous rescue of several severely wounded shipmates who had been trapped behind the fire. . . . For his bravery and his devotion to duty that night I later recommended Norman R. Touve, WT2c, for an award. The ship sank about noon that day, and after being fished out of the water and dried off, I was sent almost immediately to other duty. I thereby lost contact with my surviving shipmates. Touve, through his son, is the only one of the ASTORIA engineers with whom I have been fortunate enough to make contact in the intervening years.

"Norman R. Touve, CWT, retired in 1956, now lives in his home town of Superior, Wise, with his wife and two daughters stUl at home.

Bruce goes to aviation training after graduation.

"My tale has a pleasant postscript: sitting with us at this mess hall table was Rollo Wilson, who at Savo Island commanded the destroyer BUCHANAN which picked up Touve, myself and others who were still on board when ASTORIA began finally to roll over. The first thing I did on getting aboard his ship was to remind Rollo that by Navy regulations shipwrecked sailors were entitled to a shot of medicinal whiskey. I got mine first, then saw to it there was enough for the other survivors on board."

Those of us who attended the 10 Feb. presentation of our class crest plaque to the 24th Co.

in Bancroft Hall were so pleased with the speech of our president, Ed CLEXTON, that we want to quote here some of his remarks: "Who were die class of 1924? They were a group of young men from all over the USA, much like you, who came to the Naval Academy to make the Navy their life's vocation . . . the attrition was high eariy in our careers, because uniformly good education had not been achieved in all sections of the country. . . . We graduated 525 on 4 June 1924, and the next day 25 joined the Army, 25 the Marine Corps, and most of the remainder received commissions in the Navy. . . . At the end of 2 years most of our classmates were in submarines, destroyers and aviation, and many spent most of their lives in those lines of the service.

"In WWII we had many heroes in all of the services—21 were killed in action. Eighty-five of our classmates came back into the Navy through the Reserve, and our regulars measured up to what their country needed. Our wives should also be listed among the heroes! . . . When our last classmate on active duty, VAdm. Robert Goldthwaite, retired in October last, the record shows our class had furnished 1 Admiral, 7 VAdm., 15 VAdm. retired, 1 LtGen. USMC, 6 MajGen., 7 Colonels, 14 Colonels USA, 35 RAdm., 81 RAdm. retired, 135 Captains, plus 85 USNR Captains and Commanders. Totaling the above and our officers killed in action makes 422. The class of 1924 truly loved the service! Those who chose business as their vocations excelled in many fields. There were 41 executives, including 27 corporate presidents, 44 educators, 20 engineers. . . . The majority of our class on service retirement in 1954 started their second careers, and are now ready for a second retirement. . . . This class of 1924 sponsors you, the 24th Company of the USNA Brigade. We want to give you the confidence that if you will devote your full effort and your mind and heart to the service of your country, it will pay you back a hundred times over!"

And, did you know—the midshipman lieutenant pictured on page 14 of the February Shipmate on the occasion of his receiving the National Football Foundation's scholar-athlete award is our own 24di Co. CO Alan M. ROODHOUSE! Picmres from the 10 Feb. presentation to the 24th Co. appeared in the March issue of Shipmate, and we were pleased to see a good picture of it in the February Log, now a monthly publication, with a complete story of the presentation. Closing paragraph: "The members of the 24th Co. are delighted with this sponsorship. It is a fine gesture on the part of the class of '24, especially since they gave their time to make the presentation in person." And Lt. E. L. Hansen, Jr., 24th Co. officer, writes "Your Lucky Bag (contributed by Ed Cunningham) has been a very enjoyable addition to the wardroom reading material." Those of us who attended the ceremony would like to

Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Paul Siegrist, USNR (Ret.), 22 Macopin Ave. Upper Montclair, N. J.

24TH COMPANY CONTACT! All hands will be interested in the account of an unusual 24th Co. contact made by John D. HAYES, which we summarize from a letter from John: "The masthead light for me at the 24th Co. sponsorship and the enjoyable dinner in the mess hall following was my meeting with Midn.

Bruce N. Touve IC, of that company. Bruce's father and I were shipmates in the heavy cruiser ASTORIA when we had parts in the batdes of Coral Sea and Midway; as well as on that fateful morning of 9 Aug. 1942 when that good ship was lost in the batde of Savo Island. . . . I met Midn.

Touve quite by chance, through Midn. Matzko, my escort to the mess hall, where we sat at table with Charles Hoffman (whose escort was Touve) and Rollo Wilson and his escort.

"In making conversation, I inquired of the midshipmen the subjects of their 1st class research APRIL,

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again thank Lt. Hansen for his splendid arrangements on 10 Feb. in our behalf.

One of the largest and most enjoyable of the San Diego-Coronado-La Jolla quarterly dinners was held 24 Feb. at the Marine Corps Officers' Club (Garden Room), hosted by Esther and Arthur (Abie) DICKIE. Prior to die dinner the 37 present stood and observed a moment of prayerful silence in memory of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and of Minor Heine.

Out-of-towners present included Josephine (Mrs. H. T.) Read from San Clemente, Bernice and Ches Evans from Corona Del Mar, Gertrude and Louie Allen from Claremont, and Wayne Garnet from Long Beach. Also Chief Topper and Erma, of Seatde, who came over from Palm Springs where they customarily spend two months a year "thawing out and having fun." We are told that Chief is still V-P of the Peoples National Bank of Washington, and (of other Seattleites) that Bull Towner is doing a fine job as the special assistant to the president of Seattle University, while Gus Strohecker is now "making his third million" as head of an electrical business. The regular members of the group attending this dinner were led by Bill Bailey and his bride Gloria, and included Sam Bailey, Alice and Jack Bellerby, Easley and Cowboy Cameron, Margie and Jim Dancy, Helen and Harold Edgar, Jan and Gus Fish, Ooftie Gregor, Bess and Willie Hurst, Fern and Eric Lankenau, Lloyd and Don McLean, Evelyn and Dutch Shultz, Evelyn and Hal Tiemroth, Merritt Upham (Bobbie Carr), Ethel and Count Wolowsky.

As usual, some account of absentees at a San Diego group dinner is made, and on 24 Feb. we learn the Hickeys could not make it because of Bill's teaching pressures. Swede Ekstrom was at Key West, attending an ASW meeting. Abie also gives us some items from the San Francisco area, saying that the Homer Wheelers of Leisure World, Walnut Creek had intended coming to this party, but were stopped by Leila getting the flu! Alice and Joe Farrell had attended the November party, but this time wrote that 600 miles was too far to come! The Austen Magleys in late February are spending some time at Pacific Palisades; the George Montgomerys are touring the Caribbean areas, and the Harry Richters are touring Japan and the Far East.

New president of the Washington luncheon group is George ROBILLARD. Congratulations to him, and to Newt (I can remember when we called him Joe) LEWIS, who is the new secretarytreasurer, and who recently retired from the PO Department. One thing about George attending the monthly meetings—-his new office is right next door to the A-N Club, where our meetings are usually held on the 4th Wednesday (and don't forget it). The nominating committee which made these choice selections: Swart, Burroughs and Fitz Johnson, who were joined at the February lunch by Reed Adams, Cunningham, Duvall, Granberry, Hartwig, Kalisch, Keyer (whose guest was son Scott, now attending radio and TV broadcasting school in Washington), Lewis, Neale, Petersen, Purple, Ramsey and Robillard. Bob Keyer is pinch-hitting for Newt Lewis in reporting from Washington this month and next.

Also from Washington: The Ev Burroughs, in late February, were planning a trip to Puerto Rico; Eleanor and Bob Swart were in Florida, while the Wally Petersens are planning to move, destination not announced. Cleo and Bert Kalisch spent a few days at Atlantic City where Bert was busy as one of the judges for the National Headliners Club awards. Also, we note that a 1965 film documentary on which Bert worked as script writer-consultant, a Masonic film called "In the Hearts of Men," made the Freedom Award winners' circle.

Hans BALDWIN, who in the past has furnished this column (and incidentally, the N. Y. Times) with interesting news items, finds that he does not contact so many classmates in his Army and Navy travels, on account of retirements. But in February 48

he visited with the Page Smiths, who are building a home in the Norfolk area. We understand Page is second-careering in an advisory capacity at this time. It seems also that there are fewer classmates left in the New York area to attend meetings of the N. A. Association; two shipmates from the old KANSAS middy cruise of 1921 were on hand for the February meeting, Sayres and Siegrist, and were rewarded by a fine speech delivered by the Commandant of Midshipmen, Captain Kinney.

The secretary will endeavor to report more on correspondence concerning the class, and at this time quotes from a note received from Mrs. Roselyn Seay: "The flowers, a mass of white crysanthemums and red gladioli, were gorgeous. . . . Erskine was buried with full military honors in the National Cemetery, Marietta, Ga. The Naval Air Station, Marietta, was in charge.

Everyone has been so kind. My thanks to Erskine's beloved classmates."

And from Mrs. (Hal) Anne Jones: "I think you might like to know that Hal just slipped away—so quickly, with no pain—as he was talking with a garage mechanic about his little English Ford, while I waited outside to bring him home. . . . We were so happy this fall when we had a month's holiday visiting our daughter and her family in The Hague. It is delightful and fun to have been a part of their bilingual daily life; this was a second visit, and now the most precious. We also went to Caernarvon, North Wales, to visit Hal's cousins, who had last seen him as a midshipman. Getting to know that lovely country of hospitable people caused Hal to talk about going back there to retire (provided we could have a centrally-heated house!). Our son and his family live in Connecticut, near enough for visits often. . . . I am grateful to the class for wishing to do something in Hal's memory. A gift to the USNA Foundation would be most thoughtful."

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Sec'y, RAdm. F. K. Loomis, USN (Ret.) 3055 Foxhall Road, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016

Norm SEARS reports that his daughter Nannie was married in September to Mr. John Montgomery who recently got out of the Army as a first lieutenant, and is now in training with Pan American Airlines.

Belton CLELAND reports the following statistical changes: "The telephone company has changed my area code from 305, as published in our 40th, to 904; on 26 Dec. our younger daughter, Mary, was married to Mr. Raymond Pankiewicz of Chicago; on 31 Jan. Thelma and 1 were divorced."

Frank MUNROE reports from Seabeck, Wash., that Bruce and Betty KELLEY had a nice visit in Honolulu from before Christmas until the end of February. He also says: "My heart bleeds for all you poor people in the east—drought—heavy snows—bitter cold weather. Being a volunteer observer for the Weather Bureau, my records indicate that the lowest temperature has been 30, on six mornings. We did have 16 inches of snow right here which petered out to 2 inches five miles away. Now (22 Feb.) spring is busting out all over."

Most of our meager news seems to be travel notes. Freddie WARDER reports from Ocala, Fla., that they saw George and Estelle WRIGHT, and Sam and Grace SIMPSON, who were visiting the BLAKESLEEs . . . Puss and Marion GOODNEY made a cruise with Butch and Betty PARKER in their boat . . . Monty EGGERS passed through Washington en route to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. . . .

Washingtonians fleeing the February weather were Judge and Agnes ELLER to the West Indies, and Al and Margery PEFLEY to Florida.

Jesse SOWELL says he is about to take a position that will keep him out of the country for some years. He didn't say where it was, but his

letter was on stationery of the Hong Kong Hilton Hotel which he said he had snitched on a recent trip.

We are sad to report that Bill KIRTEN is back in Bethesda Hospital with a recurrence on his malignancy. This time it was in his larynx, which was removed on 4 March. He came through the operation in good shape and everything is as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

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Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) 3410 14th St., North Arlington 1, Va. Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, III USN (Ret.), 8405 Burdette Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

It is with regret that announcement is made of die death of Fondeville Lee TEDDER on 8 March at Patrick AFB Hospital, Fla. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery on the tenth.

The class extends deepest sympathy to Olivia, now living at Route 1, Box 6645 Merritt Island, Fla., and their daughter, Melva.

Charles H. LYMAN writes such an interesting letter to the corresponding secretary (CS), dated 18 Feb. from the Dutch ship MATARAM, in the course of their round-the-world trip, that 1 will pass it on for the enjoyment of many classmates and contemporaries, as follows: "The Lymans, retired but full of bounce, are in the middle of their round-the-world freighter trip. This is just a scrawl to let the CS know of our gallivanrings.

We are aboard a Dutch freighter of the Nederland Floyd Line and at the moment are loading various exotic woods in the jungle, 10 miles up the Rajang River in Western Borneo (in the province of Sarawak, which used to be a British colony but is now part of Malaysia). The place is called Tanjong Mani, but it is just a wide spot in the river, and the nearest place which would show on any self-respecting map is the town of Sibu, a little farther upstream. 1 probably can't mail this until our next port, Penang (from whence it was actually postmarked—CS).

"The ship is delightful; fully air conditioned and entirely comfortable, with faultless food and service, large cabins and spacious public rooms, and wide, covered deck space. There are accommodations for 35 passengers but there are only 19 of us at the moment (we pick up 10 more at Singapore). Of those now aboard, 6 are American, 8 British (including a resident of South Africa and 2 in Malaysia), 2 Canadians, 2 German and 1 Spanish; a most congenial lot, and all speak English. Ports on our itinerary, aside from this one, are: past: San Francisco, Honolulu, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Manila (and Baguio), Miri (another port in Sarawak, Borneo); and future: Penang, then back tracking to Port Swettenham (seaport for Kuala Lumpur), and Singapore, Columbo, Djibouti (French Somaliland), Aquba (Jordan), Suez, Genoa, Marseilles, Barcelona, Bilbao, Rotterdam, London, Bremerhaven.

"Promptly on being ushered to the retirement gate on 20 Nov., Marge and 1 barrelled off westward across the countryside and spent a month visiting old haunts in California. We sold our ancient Pontiac vehicle in San Francisco (after 9Vi years and 108,993 miles) and felt just as badly about it as if I'd been turning good, old faithful Bowser over to the dog pound. (CS comment: The Pontiac people just might give Charlie a new car for those kind words and record of performance.) As to '26ers, we had a nice visit with George and Doris GRISSMAN in Sherman Oaks, and then in San Francisco Jack and Amelia TAYLOR had a wonderful luncheon at which were the Ted SINGLETONs, Charlie CROMBIEs, J. B. TAYLORS, Hugh WEBSTERs, H. D. JOHNSTONS and two other couples whose names escape me for this moment; getting old!!

"We were lucky in being able to hook a ride with MSTS from SF to Manila, where we were picking up this ship, and sailed 30 Dec. in USNS GEN. SULTAN. On the early morning of Jan. 15 SHIPMATE

(before daylight) there suddenly was a grinding, crashing wallop, and we had piled up on a coral reef in die East China Sea, 10 miles off Okinawa.

It collapsed the whole bow below the waterline (the reef was awash) and ripped out the bottom for about '/s the length of the ship. The water was immediately covered with fuel oil from the ruptured tanks, but there was no fire, praise be.

The passengers were taken off by rescue ships that evening and taken into Naha, where the U. S. Army picked us up and billeted us most comfortably. We continued on to Manila a few days later in another ship. The SULTAN was gotten off about 24 hours later and I presume is still in drydock in Japan for repairs.

"Forty-three and one-half years on the active list and never touched bottom, and now that I'm a lazy pampered passenger we go barging right up onto a fully charted (and even lighted) reef on the very first voyage. Seriously, we all feel sorry as the devil for the skipper (civilian) whom we all liked and considered very capable; will be interested to hear what the inquiry brings out, as I can't see what possibly could have happened. (CS comment: many of us can; I for one, having seen a U. S. destroyer pile high and dry on the reef surrounding the entrance to the channel into Noumea, in broad daylight, full sunshine, flat calm sea, with the reef visible for miles, just barely under the surface of the ocean—one of the officers on the bridge had stepped into the charthouse to check the chart, the other was watching the transport which they were escorting, and the steersman was carrying out his last order for "right 15 degrees rudder" with his eyes glued to the spinning compass card. This was not my ship, incidentally, which was the other escorting DD.) "Let me recommend this ship (and line) in case you ever decide to make a freighter trip; it is delightful in every respect, and is remarkably inexpensive. (For this trip, Manila to London via multitudinous ports and on board for over 60 days, it is less than S12 per person per day, in excellent accommodations with private head and shower and fine food and service.)

"We intend to spend two or three weeks in England and maybe more on the Ckintinent, and get back to the Eastern Seaboard in time for the 40th reunion." Thereafter, says Charlie, he will be looking for a job.

Henry A. BOORSE is one of the several classmates who have responded to my appeal, as National President of the Alumni Association, to join the Association. It is my earnest hope that you will feel that your $10 investment is worthwhile enough to cause you to want to continue your membership on a yearly basis. Hank Boorse has been an extremely busy person for some months—even busier than his usually busy schedule provided for—because upon his return from India from the mission which we reported last month, he had to meet a deadline which had been given a short fuse for the publication of a two-volume, 1800-page work, on the landmark papers of atomic physics when he and a colleague are about to publish. Henry still has a faint hope that he might be able to get to the reunion, but feels that because it comes during his busiest time of year, his presence is doubtful.

Harper D. "Sparky" SCRYMGEOUR has written a long letter from 3050 South Cobb Drive, Bldg. 13-A, Smyrna, Ga., enclosing a picture of his charming wife Phyllis, to whom he was married on 12 Sept. 1965, in Laguna Beach, Calif.

He explains the mystery of his present address by telling what, to me, was a new approach to getting or changing jobs. As the result of an offer by a "job shop," Sparky is now a senior design engineer in the C5A Design Requirements Analysis Group (DRAG), responsible for the technical accuracy of the C5A propulsion system procurement-specifications requirements. He is busier, and sounds happier, than he has been for a long time, working from 48 to 63 hours per week. He wrote of having hosted a small party in JacksonAPRIL,

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ville around Christmas time at which the McCAFFREEs, McCLUREs and "Dusty" RHODEs '25, talked about old times. Sparky and Phyllis will be at the reunion. He has expressed the hope that there might be a class luncheon in Washington around the 26th of May. (There won't be, because it is too close to the reunion, a few days before. Most of us won't have recovered either physically or financially in those few days—CS.) Herman O. "Hop" PARISH at long last has broken his absence from this column with the good news that he and Allen will be present at the reunion. He observes, as several other classmates in the same post-Navy teaching careers have done, that it is difficult in the teaching game to get away during an academic year, but says so many volunteers have offered to take his classes and the pressures from his wife, children and others have gotten so heavy, that he finally gave in and has gone "whole hog" by sending his check to Jack GREENSLADE for everything. He enjoyed BiU C O O P E R ' S letter (his old roommate) so much, which was published a few months ago, that it spurred him into this report of his present-day activities. As many know. Hop graduated from the special retired officers' program at Purdue University in 1957 and accepted a job at VMI teaching math, where he has been ever since.

He and Allen have enjoyed living in the Lexington, Va., area so much that they are now building a home of their own, for the first time in their lives, into which they hope to move in June or July. He reports that it will have enough bedrooms so that they can put up the six grandchildren in case they arrive at the same time, and will, of course, be able to welcome with plenty of room, any of '26 who might pass that way. It is with understandable pride that Hop reports that his youngest child, Charles, who graduated from the Academy in 1964, standing 26 in that very large class, has recendy won his wings and is now undergoing final training at Oceana and Key West, preparatory to flying F-4s (Phantom jets) from the carrier AMERICA. Although somewhat isolated from the Navy, in Lexington, visits to Jax to see his brother Rags from time to time have kept them from feeling too separated from the Navy.

John F. "Jack" GREENSLADE, patient, hardworking, conscientious and long-suffering class treasurer, has reported to the class officers a satisfactory state of the class fund as of 31 Dec. 1965.

Briefly it shows disbursements during the year of 11056.58 for the donation to the Naval Academy Foundation and the tribute to Jim RUSSELL, upon his rerirement, and receipts in the amount of $1190.77—mainly in contributions from classmates to replace the $1000 donated to the Foundation— for a net worth at year's end of $2170.77; or a growth during the year of $134.19.

Since that report's deadline date of 31 Dec. 1966, there have been additional contributions from classmates, bringing the total of the fund replacement to $1345, as of 28 Feb. 1966.

Many of us are pleased that the class fund, which was for so many years completely stagnant and useless, has finally made a concrete contribution—two, actually—to something worthwhile.

Amazingly enough it has prospered in the process, being now healthier than before and illustrating the truth of the Biblical story of the talents: that buried talents benefit no one; those put to good use multiply.

At the business meeting which will be held in Bancroft Hall at 1300, Saturday, 21 May, during the 40th reunion, class members present will be asked to vote on a project which the class officers and a majority of the Washington group feel is very worthwhile, and which has been recommended by the Naval Academy superintendent.

Briefly, Rear Admiral Kauffman has suggested to the Alumni Association, as also reported several months ago in Shipmate, though not in this column as a class matter, that classes which have

graduated may wish to sponsor a wardroom which each company now has in Bancroft Hall. In general the company wardroom is sparsely furnished. The Superintendent's idea is that the sponsoring class, on a controlled basis, could provide furnishings, decorations, library books—particularly interesting, professional ones—so that these wardrooms could become more useful to the midshipmen and a source of pride to both the company and the sponsoring group (class).

The Superintendent has set upper and lower limits on the amount of monetary support that a class might provide, in order to avoid the undesirable simation of having "rich" and "poor" companies. He feels that an initial donation, to get the wardroom started, should not exceed $500 and that yearly support thereafter might be between $100 and $200. This is the project diat will be put before the class at the reunion. We have placed a "hold" on sponsorship of the 26th company wardroom, until our decision is reached on 21 May. Those of you who will be present will have an opportunity to discuss and/or approve the proposition on 21 May. Those who are not planning on being present and who have positive ideas, pro or con, might express them to the corresponding secretary before mid-May, who can then pass them on to those present at the business meeting.

Sec'y, Cdr. Howard C. Adams, USNR Pacific Far East Line, Inc.. 918 16th St. N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. Howard W. Gordon, Jr., USN (Ret.), 3127 18th St., North Arlington, Va. 22201

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Jack SIPE received the Superior Civilian Service Award, the highest such award given, upon retirement from the Bureau of Ships. He will retain his current address in Annapolis.

Gordon ASHLEY, also from the Bureau of Ships, is moving to Florida after retiring.

Twenty-two faithful classmates gathered for the monthly luncheon in Washington. Present: "Barnstorming" Bobbie Barnes, Neblett, Fairlamb, Adams, Quackenbush, Shands, Malley, Caswell, Gordon, Myers, Phillips, Foley, VanSwearengin, Josh Cooper, Henry, Klakering, Bennett, Miles, Lang, Roberts, Virden and Paul Ramsey.

Sally Robinson, wife of Cdr. Edwin B. Robinson, died in a San Diego hospital or 16 Feb. No other details available.

The Fort Myer Officers' Club, Arlington, Va., was the scene of the Washington wives group luncheon on 2 March. At the beautifully decorated table with yellow mums, compliments of Louise Donaho, was Marge Caswell, newly elected chairman of the group. Hostesses were Dot Gordon, Lois Martin, and Bert Quackenbush.

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

In a previous article of Shipmate, your secretary reported that the 40th reunion would be scheduled for the fall Homecoming week in 1968. Subsequendy it was learned that Homecoming might be quite late in October. This has prompted your reunion committee, consisting of Jim Boyd and Tom Roberts, to circularize the class with a questionnaire seeking to determine the preferred time for the reunion, either in May before June Week or in October at Homecoming week. Please expedite your replies to the questionnaire to Jim Boyd at 1902 Thomas Dr., Annapolis, Md.—whether or not you receive the questionnaire.

Luke WHITE, with the Immigration Service, writes from Richmond that he seldom sees classmates and has news of them only infrequendy in his hometown. One big day did approach die day Dave McDonald was scheduled to make a speech. Luke prompth- was ordered that day to be in Washington.

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As your secretary, 1 regret those issues of Shipmate which come out with a blank for '28er news. Only through your help by giving me specifics or sending them direct to the editor of Shipmate can this be avoided. Please consider this an all-hands task and get cracking!

The son of a '28er, Gunnery Sgt. Clovis C. "Buck" Coffman, Jr., took an 80-mile hike from Richmond to Newport News, Va., because he wanted "to demonstrate and support America's policies in Vietnam and the Marines fighting there, and to encourage support for the Marine Corps Reserve Civic Action Fund for Vietnam."

Proceeds of the fund go to CARE, to aid South Vietnamese civilians.

The long walk was made in February, and took almost 30 hours. He wore Marine fatigues and carried two canteens of water, side arms, a rifle, magazines, and candy bars. He has been a Marine for 16 years including reserve and active duty. His father was a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps.

In a fine letter from Philip Daly GALLERY he says: "1 had a heart attack in December, spent a month under excellent treatment at Bethesda and am now good as new—but a bit slower. Incidentally, I am one of those gents that bragged for years 'Only ten sick days on my record' . . . 'nothing ever happens to me—always some other guy.' Anyhow, I'm back to battery and on the job in consulting business with A. B. Metsger '30, in the Washington area.

"My son Philip, Jr., is a youngster (class of '68) and 'starring' at the Academy in his major, nuclear physics. There's no point in my trying to tell '28ers he got his talent from his dad—too many of them remember the 'trees' posted back in the old days. Anyhow, we are mighty proud.

"My daughter, Molly, is engaged to be married to a Pennsylvania lad this summer. My wife, Louise, gets around a lot in this WashingtonAlexandria area, particularly in her role of real estate agent. She is trying to support me in the style I'd like and doing mighty well!

"Dave McDonald stopped in to see me at the hospital, as did Jimmy. I see Stuffy Wood occasionally and also Tom Jones around town.

See Swede Norgaard occasionally at the club—and Harry Sears and Pete Anderson."

The Gallerys make their home at 4701 Kenmore Ave., Alexandria, Va. The '28 Nutmeg Reunion of 1966 will be a triple feature, opening at 1300 on Saturday, 18 June at Al GADEN's house in Greenwich, Conn., for drinks, lunch and repartee. The second event will take place about 1600 when we shove off for Simsbury for rendezvous at George KING'S house for further libation, hash and rehash.

On Sunday—sleep, church or golf will be on the schedule or not, as you please. Swimming in the brook in the town forest will also be available.

Firm reservations have already been made by Burzynski, Gaden, Momm, Scott, Martin and King.

You all come. Send confirmation to George King at 46 Hildurcrest Dr., Simsbury, Conn., real soon.

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Sec'y, Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, USN (Ret.) 1109 Grove St., N.E. Albuquerque, N. M. 87110 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, USN (Ret.) Atmospheric Sciences Program National Science Foundation Washington 25, D. C.

The San Francisco Bay area contingent mustered 24 classmates of '31 at a delicious luncheon at the Moffett Field Officers' Club on 15 Feb. Those attending were: Dick Andrews, Ed Bingham, Bob Beebe, Bill Buchholz, Jack Dorsett, Levi Farrington, Johnny Gannon, Bill Giles, Gundy Gundlfinger, Mann Hamm, Bob King, Sam Lief, Pop Lyon, Ed Moring, Phil Mothersill, Bill Norvell, Dick Peterson, Tom Phifer, Ran Pierce, Frank Putnam, Paul Schoeni, Ronnie Smith, Fu Weir, and WUly Williamson.

Bob (Magellan) BEEBE (in between world cruises) is back at his home port of Pacific Grove getting his bark all refurbished and outfitted for a cruise in the fall down the coast thru the Canal and across to the Mediterranean. Willy WILLIAMSON is now superintendent of the California State Maritime Academy at Vallejo. Ed MORING just happened to be on the Peninsula down from Bangor, Wash., conferring with his fellow Lockheed colleague, Paul Schoeni. Jack DORSETT is a senior operations analyst at Stanford Research Institute helping to solve some of the Army's air defense problems on the CDC 3800 computer.

R. H. "Benny" BASS (RAdm. Ret.) received his Master of Business Administration degree at the mid-year commencement exercises at UCLA in late January. He has been attending classes one afternoon and evening a week since 1960. He is an alumnus of the UCLA executive program which he completed in 1961. He then attended the graduate engineering school, and was awarded a Master of engineering degree in June 1963.

Sec'y, Capt. L. E. Richardson, USN (Ret.), 3605 Tupelo Place, Alexandria, Va. WEST COAST Sec'y, RAdm. Robert N. S. Clark, USN (Ret.), 2510 Via Campesina Palos Verdcs Estates, Calif.

Our secretary, Les RICHARDSON, recently suffered a broken wrist and was unable to attend the class luncheon held 23 Feb. at the downtown Army and Navy Club in Washington, D. C. Present at the luncheon were: Frankel, Laning, Marcy, Mattie, McLaughlin, Miller, Osborn, Ray, Rembert, Tolley, Triebel and Waterhouse. McLaughlin served as acting secretary and it was announced that monthly luncheon meetings would be held on the fourth Wednesday of the month.

It is apparently no longer necessary to notify the secretary in advance as to prospective attendance.

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Laning recently returned from a trip to California and Missouri where he saw Woody Teague in Los Angeles, Gus Gray in Rancho Santa Fe, and Pat Humphrey in Kansas City.

Tolley is working on a forthcoming article for the Naval Institute and has resumed his formidable hirsute growth which no doubt adds validity to his researches in the National Archives.

Sam Griffith's name and works as a noted Chinese historian were prominently mentioned by one of the syndicated columnists in connection with the current Vietnam discussion.

Delos HOGLE has received orders as Commandant Fifth Naval District.

The following classmates were noted at the recent annual meeting of the Naval Institute: John Davidson, Jack Dalton, Kemp Tolley and Phil Osborn. Dave McDonald '28, president of the Institute and CNO, gave a very effective talk on the importance of retired officers contributing either in articles or discussions to the Proceedings so that the value of their knowledge and experience can be passed on to inspire and instruct the oncoming generation of naval officers. Without this effort, valuable records and contributions may be forever lost to posterity.

Benny Boss '31

Benny is serving as staff assistant to the general manager of Pacific Division of the Bendix Corp. in North Hollywood, where he has been

ever since he retired in 1959. He and his wife, Margie, live at 853 East Mountain St., Glendale, with their daughter, Elena.

Herewith the first issue of your 35th reunion report. Financial returns are coming along in great shape to keep up the class fund. A new savings account has been opened at the Main Navy Branch of the American Security and Trust Co. and we're on the way.

Thosee heard from and planning to make THE PARTY on 21 Oct.: Jerry SOUTH—"See you certainly at the 35th. Note we only had 12 inches of snow and as you may guess, all of Tidewater was paralyzed." Joe THORNTON—"Looking forward to seeing all the classmates. Letter from Jack WOLFF says they are touring the Bahamas 1 March. Hoping to drop down to New York soon for a short visit with Edna and Doug Moulton." Mike WOOD—"Still teaching school so anything during the week (getting to Washington for class luncheon) is out." Bob BENCE— "Frances and I are going to Florida (from Ladue, Mo.) in June to try to find some retirement property. Looking forward to retiring from Southwestern Bell in 1969." Joe LAMB—"Having practically no contact at all with any of the class, looking forward to the reunion. If any of our fellows play golf I would like to get in on a foursome or worse Friday." Rusty WILLIAMS—"Gad—are we getting old. Anne still has some swelling in that bad ankle (broken in a fall last fall) but has now graduated to high heels again." Charlie BROOKS—"Lib and 1 expect to attend." John MALONEY—from Edna as the family secretary— "Good luck on your project. Looking forward to the reunion."

Kirk (CE) KIRKPATRICK—"Thanks for die letter bringing us up to date on the class. Appreciate the work to keep the class spirit alive. Asking Bob Theobald to make reservation for Margaret and me today." Dean BLACK—"All for keeping the fund on a sound basis. See our in-laws Danny Morrises and BUI Hollisters (who live near us) at frequent intervals. Bill and I are on a drive to lower our golf handicaps." Oscar HAGBERG—"As of now we plan to attend."

Skillet GILLETTE—"Counting on my fingers revealed a lapse of 10 years since any sort of homecoming. Too long—we will be there come October." Bob HEILIG—"From LaJoUa, suddenly realized that all you sons of the sea were really suffering back there—I hope that all your collective anguish will be assuaged. If you'll remember to walk instead of run you'll make it back in '81. Gimpie and I expect to see you this fall.

Regards to all." Ben FIELD—"Looking forward to seeing you all." Jack McCAIN—from Roberta— "We hope to get to the reunion. But you know how it is. We'll do our best." Ralph CULINAN— "My eagerness to see you all again is directly proportioned to the great distances and long years which have separated us." John KIRKPATRICK —"We hope to see you in Annapolis next October." Red CHILD—"My two daughters are in college. One is a junior at Morris Harvey College in West Virginia, the other a law major, freshman at Trinity University, San Antonio. When our meeting was in Albuquerque this past summer we saw Oscar and Betty Hagberg and Jim O'Toole.

Everyone looked fine and we certainly enjoyed our visit." Doug MOULTON—"Your letter made me feel a bit of pulse in the old class as it starts to become more alive as the 35 th reunion approaches. Seems that when I go to the alumni luncheons here in New York I am almost invariably the only '31 representative present. Guess I have to do a little resuscitating here." (Six cheers, Doug, and let's get with it in New York City.) Clif IVERSON—"Glad to receive the report on '31 funds and the information on the 35th reunion, which I now hope to attend. Trust letter brings forth an excellent response and good contributions." (Ed note—so far, so good.)

Peri LOCKWOOD—"If anyone's voting on anything, just put me on record as taking a dim S H I P M A T E

view of plushing up wardrooms for the spoiled and pampered pets of Uncle Sam. While not exacdy indigent, I prefer the phrase which we were brought up to look forward to upon retirement— 'able to live in genteel poverty.' Hope to be back in October." Marc STEELE—"At least these contributions are one way; some of us can say 'thanks' to you in D. C. who do so much to keep us '31ers together." Gene TATOM—"I'm all for the idea of a '31 wardroom in Bancroft Hall.

Best to all and God willing, will see you in October." Mike PESCATELLO—"My best to all the fellows. Hope to be at the reunion." Carl LUCAS—"Since we are to be in Cleveland 24 Oct., that gives us a chance to be in Annapolis 21-22 Oct. Look forward to seeing you then." Les WOOD—from Muriel as family corresponding secretary—"Not much news down here (Norfolk).

We're planning to see everybody in October."

Dick ANTRIM—"Thanks for your efforts in behalf of '31 and hope to see you in the fall. Tell everyone howdy."

Those heard from and planning not, or not yet planning to make the party: Dick ANDREWS —from Squaw Valley—"Had Dick Peterson up to our snow cabin several weeks ago and had a ball. He didn't ski as he feels his legs and arms are too priceless as bread winners at this stage of the game and intimated that those retired fuds like myself could much better afford fractures and concussions. Johnny Gannon's lunch last month uncovered several classmates who had been lost the past two years for various reasons. One was Bob King who has remarried and seemingly very happy (let's have the dope. Bob!)." Wes BYNG —note new address Route 2, Box 259-C, Hollywood, Md. 20636: "I think it unwise to commit the class to any perpetuating fund. This could be very embarrassing in the long run. A lump sum contribution seems the proper way. Frankly, I don't like the idea of company wardrooms. Reception rooms for battalions would be more like it. Never was enough room for midshipmen to entertain their parents and friends. Thus instead of cubby holes there would be several large rooms befitting the purpose."

Justin WICKENS—new address—500 Osceola Ave., Apt. 510, Winter Park, Fla. 32789. "We left Indianapolis last summer for sunny Florida.

I teach math at Orlando Junior College. We like everything about our new location, a beautiful lakeside apartment and all kinds of recreation and other advantages close by. We plan a long and leisurely trip to California this summer to see our oldest son and family at P. G. School in Monterey. First real vacation since retirement."

Algie BECKMAN—"You should have asked for 31 dollars or perhaps 3 5 " (some others had the same idea and sent $31 or $35). Jim ALLEN— from new address 19 Manor Dr., Warrington, Fla. 32507—"After five moderately happy years in the old home town in Connecticut, we decided on the big jump and moved back to the Cradle of Naval Aviation, etc. Feeling that Fifi and I would be happier here, see more old friends, possibly have more activity, opportunities—and mainly to avoid New England winters! We came down in early December, got a beautiful house in Bayou in Warrington. Had a fine steak dinner with Eddie Guilbert a while ago. Active in the Navy League, Regional Director of the League Sea Cadet Corps.

We love it here. I heartily endorse the organizational efforts represented in letter. Best regards for all that impressive Washington group."

Hi MASSEY—new address, ComFltAir Quonset, NAS Quonset Point, R. L 02819. Kirk (CC) KIRKPATRICK—"I'm still ticking along at about half-speed heart beat with a pulse averaging about 35-36. But we seem to be doing everything almost as much and as well as before and no need apparent as yet for a pace-maker. Lalla joins in love and warmest best to you and the entire '31 class. Say hello for us." Norm HALL— "Good collecting." Johnny GANNON—"My best to everyone." Max FIRTH—"A worthy cause.

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Best regards." Mac McKEE—"Glad to help keep the '31 legend alive. Keep up the good work."

Mattie HALL—"We don't have any regular luncheons out here (San Diego). Art Cumberledge and I were talking about this at a recent Navy League dinner and he thought he might try to get something started. (How about it. Art.') He and Ed Foster are about the only ones I see.

My regards to all." Ed HOOPER—"Enjoying it out here in Pearl. Best regards." Bill LEFAVOR— "No other classmates living in Idaho. Am thoroughly in accord with the project to have a 31st Co. WR. Now in my 5th year of teaching. Climbed the academic totem pole slighdy and hold the exalted rank of assistant professor of engineering here at I.S.U. Have found it to be a very satisfactory second career (how I love those long summer vacations!) Our daughter is in Turkey with her husband and two children. He teaches there at Robert College after having taught three years in Greece. Our son Dave is now a JG naval aviator in a Phantom Jet flying off ENTERPRISE in Viemamese waters, so we cannot be completely objective about that mess. Regards to all and keep up the good work."

Charlie HOWE—from his new estate in the hUls of Oregon, 155 Savage Creek Road, Grants Pass, Ore. 97526. "I doubt that I will be able to make the 35th reunion because, like an old congressman from Virginia who is always painting his barn, I may be putting a roof on my log cabin about October. Right now all I have is a good well, a septic tank installed, hilltop graded and a foundation. Best regards to one and all." Jack DEMPSEY—"Look forward to seeing you all in June." Joe FRANCISCO, Commodore PN (Ret.)— note new address, 2304 Pasong Tamo, Makati, Rizal, Philippines: "Best wishes to all our classmates." Marshall COX—"Glad to help out the '31 cause." Noah ADAIR—"Enjoying my work in Mutual Fund sales now, like one or two other classmates here and there (Mill Valley, Calif.).

Betty and I don't see many classmates and wives very often, with the exception of the Max Firths who live nearby in San Rafael and the Pete Gaviglios, my old roommate in Burlingame, and an occasional lunch at Moffett. Sorry I can't make the reunion at Annapolis."

Don WILBER—"Our daughter Joan is a student this year in Geneva, taking her Junior year from Mount Holyoke there. Know she'd like to see anyone passing through. Fran and I plan a short European vacation this summer. We haven't been any place in so long we thought we deserved it even if we couldn't afford it. And we can't. In November 1 went to the West Coast Navy League Convention in Las Vegas but saw no '31ers though many other old friends of other classes. We would be glad to see anyone who ever wanders this far (Washington State University, Pullman, Wash.)."

Arnold HOLTZ—"Thank you for the news letter."

Lee ELLIS—"Just back from a month in Florida (Annapolis). And boy, oh boy, are we indigent!"

Henry MOELLER—"Don't see how I'll ever be at the 35th reunion unless some accident of schedule puts me in the vicinity then, but please say hello to everyone for me—both the indigent and the non-indigent." George PECKHAM—Em BROWN—"I don't know when we will make the next reunion but maybe one of these years. Greetings to the Washington contingent." Stan SLATER —"After three years of financing the Mass. General Hospital and a host of medical specialists, Jessie is much improved but we cannot plan on participating in the coming festivities. I keep in touch via shipmates but apparendy none of us '31ers are very prolific writers. Remember me to the Washington crew."

Bill BRAUN reports that he and his wife, Ruth, and young son Peter have returned from attending the wedding of Miss Shirley K. Williamson and William B. Braun II, at Christ Episcopal Church, Coronado, Calif., on 12 March. She is the daughter of Cdr. B. P. WUliamson, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Williamson of San Luis Obispo.

Attending the wedding and reception at North Island were many classmates who reside in the San Diego area. Among them were Red Ramage, Brute Roeder, Ed Forster, Art Cumberledge, Sim Smith—and their ladies. Also William and Eleanor Williamson came from Vallejo where Willie is Superintendent of the California Maritime Academy. Eleanor is Bill's aunt and is like a second mother to young Bill.

The newlyweds have returned from a honeymoon during young Bill's 10-day leave, and are at 3801 Marquette Place, Apt. 4V, on Point Loma.

He is DASH officer in USS SHELTON. Ruth Braun returned to their home at 321 Kenmcky Ave., Alexandria, Va., following a week's visit with her sister in Vallejo.

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Sec'y, RAdm. Robert B. Fulton, II, USN Bureau of Ships, Code 600 Navy Dept., Washington, D. C.

HERE AND THERE WITH '32 A near record crowd of 31 of the class turned out for the March class meeting in the Commissioned Officers' Mess of the Washington Navy Yard. All agreed that the steak lunch represented one of the best buys in local eateries. In addition to die local faithful, listed later, Ski SOSNOSKI, was an unexpected and welcome visitor from the west coast, and Beetle ROACH appeared as the newest member of the Washington contingent.

He is now with the Oceanographic Office in the Navy Yard. This also was the last meeting, for a while, for Swede EASTWOLD, who leaves BuWeps shortly to take over the Navy's Middle East Force. Best of luck in the new job, Swede, and we look forward to your remrn to the D. C. area.

Willie WILLIAMSON brought word that Freddy WOLSIEFFER is seriously ill and housebound after suffering several heart attacks. Here is Freddy's home address in case any of you can drop him a line: 75 Knightsbridge Road, Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y. We all hope you get well soon. Woof-woof!

Here are the lunch attendees: Seely, Young (back from a Florida vacation and tanned), Wellings, Van Evera, Eastwold, Foley, Oden'hal, Stuart, Ward, Dimitrijevic, Lockwood, Pierce, Taylor, Lamade, Sosnoski, Blaisdell, Dreany, Holt, Lyons, CoUett, Moncure, Slayden, Mustin, Fawkes, Hull, Roach, Innis, Williamson, Kintberger and Klinksiek—the biggest turnout in many months.

All of us were saddened by the news which had just reached us of Lou BRYAN's sudden death.

You will recall that he has been Commander, U. S. Naval Forces, Southern Command and Commandant of the Fifteenth Naval District with headquarters in Panama. He was stricken by a heart attack while standing on a boat dock there and just after he had waved a welcome to Betty, his wife, his daughter Nancy and her husband, who were returning from a fishing trip. Although emergency aid reached him from nearby Rodman Hospital within five minutes, Lou never recovered and died about two hours later.

Funeral services and interment with full mUitary honors were held at Arlington on the afternoon of 7 March.

The high regard in which Lou was held was shown by the many friends from far and near who jammed the chapel on 7 March for the funeral. Tom Hamilton from the west coast. Rip Miller from die Naval Academy, Howard Caldwell from Florida, Whitey Taylor from Norfolk, representatives of all Latin American navies and senior officers of our sister services joined Lou's family. Admiral Rivero, and other Navy friends in a service conducted by RAdm. J. 'VV. Kelly, Chief of Chaplains. In speaking of Lou, he stressed his qualities as a sincere friend and as a singular leader. He recalled Lou's devotion to his class, to the Academy, and to the Navy, and how 51

his whole life had been molded by that devotion.

He noted that significant role which Lou and his classmates were called upon to play during the critical periods in world affairs which were spanned by his career. Honorary pallbearers Corky Ward, Magruder Turtle, Lou Kirn, Bill Groverman, Torgy Torgerson, Sam Moncure, Andy Nisewaner and Dimi Dimitrijevic formed the escort to the grave site where final military honors marked the passing from our ranks of an outstanding classmate and naval officer. Betty, Lou's wife, will be in her McLean home after 20 March. All of us join in expressing our sympathy to her, to Lou's mother and to the children.

Tommy HOPKINS writes that he is still with Hercules working on the propulsion system for Sprint Antimissile System, and they would love to see anyone who happens through Cumberland, Md. Floyd SCHULTZ says that he is still enjoying duty at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Nancy is well and enjoying being a grandmother to three grandsons.

Rollins MA'ifER gives his address as Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, N. Y., where he is an electronics engineer.

Van VANEVERA writes to say that Bob (R. C.) MOORE, who left during youngster year, has been practicing law in Phoenix, Ariz.

George LUKER—"1 am just about the lone Mohican in the Far East (he is Chief of MAAG, Japan). Very few '32ers get out this way. This summer will give me about three and a half years in this part of the world and I am getting lonesome, if you know what I mean."

Chuck KEYES advises that Harry FRANCIS died in Syracuse last 3 April. He was forced out of the Academy by eyes in the middle of second class year, but was a sturdy and loyal member of the class.

Country QUARLES—"Here in West Hartford, we are somewhat off the beaten path of naval and ex-naval officer travel. However, we do get together once in a while. Recently we had a very enjoyable encounter with Moe ARCHER. Moe and Margaret came to Hartford to speak to Hartford Civitan on the subject of amateur sports. While in Hartford, Moe appeared in a television and radio interview on WTIC. He was a great success in all three talking performances. Apparently the years have not tended to make him the least bit reluctant to talk.

"As for myself, am still employed in an engineering capacity by the Travelers and enjoying it all to the fullest. Our daughter Frances is a freshman at Skidmore. Lanier is still in high school. Dorothy is a math teacher at Ethel Walker in Simsbury, Conn., to which she drives each day.

Neither of us has time to ever think of boredom and second retirement seems a long time away."

Classmates in the New York area had lunch at the New York Athletic Club on Tuesday, 8 Feb. Those present were Moe Archer, Paul Grouleff, Brooks Harral, Tom Hurley, Bud Leeds, Rex Little and Bill Short. This was three more than we had at our luncheon last summer—an increase of 7 5 % . We missed doubling our attendance due to a last minute cancellation from Gus Halsey. We hope to see Gus, Joe Bush, Ray Pitts and Freddie Wolsiefer at the next one.

It was a special occasion for Paul GROULEFF, Tom HURLEY and Bill SHORT who, in February 1928, took the entrance examinations for the Naval Academy together in New York City.

Barbara Leeds, daughter of Billie and Bud, was married to Fred Cahill last October in Stamford, Conn. The newlyweds are both working and living in New York. Silvia and Rex LITTLE were on hand for the festivities. Mike Leeds, class of '59, Aide and Flag Lieutenant to VAdm. Lowrance, ComSubLant, announced the arrival of the third son Matthew Kevin on 18 Dec. 1965.

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Still en route to San Diego, by the long route.

Ruby and Jerry MILLER paused for a gay visit widi Barbara and Dick HARWOOD in their New Orleans home, including an evening "on the town." Both were caught up in preparations for the Mardi Gras, and some of you may have caught Dick on television on the 19th when he reigned as "King Iris" on the float of that Krewe, caught as it paraded downtown. Their son, Sandy, is an experienced television producer and now is working as a television news photographer in New Orleans for WVVE, Channel 12. Sorry to miss a contact with Sam LABOUISSE, who has moved to Pass Christian and does a lot of sailing these days in ocean-going craft.

Joe TSCHIRGI, whose frame withstood tackling and trampling on the gridiron for many years, has come off second best against a mechanized monster, a golf cart. This happened on a course near their Tucson, Ariz., home. Following up a sudden skid on wet turf that threw Joe off, the cart went into a tight spin and ran over his ankle, fracturing two bones. After this mishap on 27 Dec, Joe spent 50 days under the tender care of Jeanne before he could even put on a walking cast. At this writing he is still "not out of the woods," for it will take months to determine whether further bone repair is required. Rueful but philosophical, Joe looks forward to going with Jeanne for a visit with daughter Sheila, now teaching school in Chula Vista, Calif.

"Helping Hands Department"—While en route for an evening visit with the Tschirgis, Ruby and Jerry Miller had their car "wiped out" by a broadside hit at high speed. Joe and Jeanne made every facility of their home available as a squaringaway headquarters, and hospitably provided communication and transportation to fill the gap.

Thanks to seat belts, the Millers are continuing their trip without serious injury, although Ruby will carry two tender ribs for some weeks as a reminder.

During a brief stopover in Houston, your touring scribe talked over the phone with Ajax TUCKER, who keeps the buoyancy of old and maintains contact with things nautical. He was publicizing a coming appearance of Muddy WATERS in south Texas, to address the American Society of Oceanographers and the A&M School of Oceanography, with a big luncheon planned for one day and a formal dinner the next. He gave a glowing account of Lynn ELLIOT'S continuing success in Houston business ventures, filling in for Lynn, who couldn't be reached by phone.

Atop a sun-kissed hill, less than two mUes from the California seacoast, Al and Esther COPE have established themselves in an idyllic situation. Al no longer manages Rancho Santa Fe, but occupies himself with a variety of financial interests and is active in service clubs, in addition to tending a sizable grove of macadamia trees and a miscellany of citrus and avocado trees. "To find out who the true friends are," Al says, he has developed a carefully shaped beard which makes him look like a Spanish grandee of the old school. Interested personnel are urged to get around for a look at it without delay, for he threatens to shave clean.

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Chmn., Mr. Turner A. Duncan AVCO Corp., 1701 K St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. 21402

The latest member of the class to be promoted to 3-star rank is Fred ASHWORTH, who will relieve VAdm. WUliam E. Ellis as Commander, 6th Fleet and Striking Force South. The class now has one 4-star admiral and six 3-star admirals serving on active duty.

Carl JONES wrote to tell us that he and Ck)rinne hosted a class party at their Terminal Island quarters on 28 Jan., and the attendees were: Hayden and Virginia Leon, Elliott and Eloise Stanley, Gus and Dottie Kiergan, Hank and Millie Sturr, Walt and Loma Newton, Bob and Jane Garrels, Hank and Ernie Rumble, and Dave and Pat Lambert.

Tad DUNCAN recently visited California on a business trip and had a most enjoyable visit with Carl and Corinne.

During a WestPac trip, Carl stayed overnight with Dick and Elsa BIRD, who are fine and thoroughly enjoying their Island sojourn.

At the monthly luncheon of the Washington group of the class on 8 March, Turner DUNCAN was given a resounding vote of confidence and re-elected chairman of the Washington group.

Others elected to the class committee were Charlie Travis, Ray Thompson, Rufe Taylor and Smoke Strean. Smoke was installed as a supernumerary in view of Rufe Taylor's expected deparmre from the area. It was voted to combine all the class funds into one fund under the cognizance of the class committee. This was to provide for the reception into the treasury of $900 mrned over by Charlie Travis, representing profits on the 30-Year Book. Travis was given another resounding vote of confidence on the success of the book. Incidentally, copies are still available from the class secretary if anyone desires one. Present at the meeting were: Lacey, Slayton, Stocker, Selby, Macintosh, Croghan, Lane, Caldwell, O'Brien, Kefauver, Taylor, Thompson, Duncan, George Miller, Travis, Blouin, William, Derickson, Mayberry, and King.

An article appeared in the Annapolis paper recendy, bringing us up to date on Morgan SLAYTON. He is now the Director of the Adantic Division of the University of Maryland's overseas program. The article also stated that Morgan was recently initiated as a member of the Beta Epsilon Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa.

Midn. Phil Schwab, class of 1969, son of Herb and Grazie, was included on the Superintendent's list for the last semester.

Keith HUDSON visited the Naval Academy on 28 Feb.-l March with a group of Florida educators participating in the Blue and Gold program.

Keith reports that he now has his Doctorate in counseling and guidance, and is thoroughly enjoying his second career in the field of education. He also reports that he and Billie would be delighted to hear from classmates visiting in the Fort Lauderdale area.

'32ers present at ceremony honoring Jerry Miller on his retirement from Naval Material Command after 36 years of government service, Fulton, Shinn, Miller, Fawkes and Eastwold.

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?of ?;• ^''••- Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Roger S. AHLBRANDT, vice president and assistant to the president of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp., was elected to the company's board of directors. Roger joined Allegheny Ludlum as a student trainee following graduation in 1934. After serving as an observer in the corporation's operating departments, he was assigned to the sales department and for two years, starting in 1936, worked in the Cleveland sales district. He was appointed sales manager of the Pittsburgh District in 1938. After a sojourn with the Navy during World War 11 he returned to Allegheny Ludlum and held various executive positions in the sales department. He was named treasurer in 1951 and vice president in 1965.

Roger has been active in civic and educational activities, having served with the Community Chest, the Chamber of Commerce, and as trustee of Ellis School and the University of Pittsburgh.

He is a member of the American Iron and Steel Institute. His clubs include the Duquesne Club, the Fox Chapel Country Club, the Rolling Rock Club, and the Laurel Valley Country Club.

Jane WUson (John Murray WILSON'S widow) reports the loss by fire of memorabilia and is anxious to replace John's Lucky Bag and also her copy of By the Mark 20. Since several copies of the latter are still available a copy has already been forwarded to Jane. But are there any available Lucky Bags? Should anyone have an extra copy please so advise.

Excerpts from a newsy letter from the Dave EDWARDS, P. O. Box 177, Bolinas, Calif. 94924: "We started 1965 in Honolulu, where we were staying with Bolinas friends, after a ten-day visit to Kauai; we returned to Bolinas a few days later.

Our feet got itchy in February again, and we took a delightful trip by MSTS transport to the Far East. Sailed again to Honolulu, Guam, and Yokohama, flew to Hong Kong (for a ten-day visit at the Repulse Bay Hotel), flew to Taiwan for a brief visit, and then on to Kaoshima, in the southern part of Japan where we commenced a leisurely two weeks' tour northward through Kyushu and Honshu. Finally returned from Yokohama by transport, to find our new living room in Bolinas almost finished. We spent April and May in Bolinas, Teets decorating the new living room wing, and Dave working mostly on the garden and new parking place . . . and the littie Japanese garden alongside the house.

"There was still plenty left to do when we again left by helicopter, rail, steamer, and car for Ahmic Lake, where we arrived just before the end of June. July and August at the lake were delightful, although not as warm and sunny as they often are. Early in September Dave went to Bethesda to have an eardrum patched, and Teets drove to Georgia for a visit to Adanta and Sharpsburg. We met again about ten days later at Philadelphia and flew to Europe in mid-September.

Picked up a new car for Dave in Stuttgart, drove to the Netherlands for the ferry to Harwich, and down to South Devon for a week with the Babers at Litdeham, near Exmouth. Then on through South and West Wales. Back to London for a week, and then to Ireland for a tour of the south and west coasts, which we enjoyed thoroughly.

"After ten days in Howth, near Dublin, helping the Prips to get the 72-foot ex-Scottish drifter GOLDEN WEST ready for sea, we sailed in late November across the Irish Sea, around the S.W. corner of England (where we had visited Land's End a month or so ago) and up to Falmouth, where we remained for ten days for some engineering and joiner work, to complete the boat.

The Prips decided to fly to Gibraltar, and we sailed down—not too bad a trip considering the time of year. Had a 3-day stay at Gib and then APRIL,

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sailed up the Spanish coast to Alicante and across to Palma de Mallorca, where we left the boat.

"A weekend in Mallorca, a week in Madrid, and back to Maguire and Philadelphia airport, where Teets emplaned for Adanta, and Dave for Boston to pick up the car. Christmas shopping and a very happy Christmas at Rolling Meadows Farm. We took off from Sharpsburg the morning after Christmas day and drove west via the southern route—encountering the only bad driving weather on the entire trip west on the El Tejon and Tehachipi passes between San Bernardino and Bakersfield. Now we are well 'dug in' again at ATALAYA, and plan to stay put, at least until we head for Canada about mid-June. We are looking forward to visits from friends, from time to time, between now and June."

Sec'y, Capt. E. D. Vestel, Jr., (SC) USN Staff, Com MSTS, Washington, D. C. 20390 Bill HYLAND has had a busy spring. On 19 Feb. he gave away his niece Nancy at her wedding in the Anacostia Naval Station Chapel to Mr. Thomas St. John Arnold, Jr. Nancy's dad, VAdm. Johnny Hyland '34, commands the 7th Fleet. Her bridegroom's father is an Army colonel attached to the JCS. On 4 March Bill was in Corpus Christi pinning wings on his son William W. Hyland, Jr. '64, who'd just completed flight training. Later that day Bill had an opportunity to pin a triangular patch on the stern of grandson William W. Hyland, III, who should be about the class of '85. In addition to the above patriarchal duties.

Bill has ably arranged all Washington area class luncheons at the Navy Yard.

Wyman and Margaret PACKARD returned to Washington in early March after an enjoyable trip to California. In addition to visiting their daughter and her famUy in Monterey, they were able to see a good many classmates and wives. In Coronado they found Sammy SAMPSON taking time out from his real estate job and grooming the lawn of his own estate. He was happy to stop work as he and Helen brought the Packards up to date on recent happenings. Dave NASH was boning up on the duties of his bank job but was glad to cast aside the books as he and Honore caught up on news with the Packards.

Touring the Babcock Electronics Corp. with a relative, Wyman encountered Fred DARWIN who was in charge of one of the sections of the plant.

Fred, who lives in Costa Mesa, has specialized in communications, electronics, missiles and related fields since he resigned at graduation. Some other classmates and wives the Packards encountered were Bill and Ginny GERMERSHAUSEN, Bill and Nancy SULLIVAN, Eleanor FARRELL (Dixie had the flu), Frank and Mary Lou WHEELER, Tom and Fran HENRY and Frank and Sally HESS. Jack COSGROVE reports a new Phoenix address. It is 3202 E. Clarendon. The zip code is 85016. Jack purchased this house which is zoned so he can have his CPA office and his residence under the same roof.

Jack relates that during a Christmas season visit with his brother. Marine Lt. Col. W. P. Cosgrove '45, in Annapolis he was amazed by Academy changes. According to Jack, who had a dinner in the mess hall, the Middies were served non-alcoholic champagne with a delicious steak.

While passing through Washington, Jack was able to squeeze in an all-too-brief visit with his former roommate Jack FEE and wife Margie.

Fresh out of Long Beach, in late February, Dusty DORNIN blew into Washington like one of those Santa Anas. Instead of sand, snow accompanied Dusty who appeared hale, hearty, chipper and prosperous as he ably represented Analysts, Inc., a Torrance, Calif., firm with an Oakland branch.

The Albuquerque attorney, professional engineer and land surveyor described in our class notes in die February Shipmate is BUI BOWERS, not Powers. To Bill go our apologies for the typographical error and the weak excuse that the gremlins must have played tricks on our typesetters and proofreaders.

Em STANLEY became a grandfather again when his daughter Rovvena, who is the wife of Lt. Joseph D. Jaap, (SC) USN '60, serving in CASIMIR PULASKI, gave birth to her second daughter in February at Charleston. The father of three daughters, Em now has three granddaughters.

Freddy Ramirez de ARELLANO is employed in Alexandria, Va., by Value Engineerinag Corp.

Freddy has been assigned by that firm to work on BuWeps Tartar Missile Project. Freddy and Mysie kept their home in Mexico and Mysie is there with youngest son Tim, a high school senior.

Second son Tom, who hates skiing, goes to Stowe Prep School in Vermont where skiing is a required subject. Number one son Pete attends New Mexico State University where he is majoring in nuclear engineering.

Dorothye Christi, Gerry's daughter, was voted the Most Watchable Coed by the San Diego Chapter of the Girl Watchers' Society. Dorothye is a junior economics major at San Diego State College.

On 16 Feb. Joe LYLE spoke to the Washington chapter of the Alumni Assn. at the Army and Navy Club. When graduates were asked to stand up and introduce themselves, sixteen '35 classmates stood as a group. This was by far the best representation of any class. Comprising the '35 contingent were: Badger, Baskett, Detweiler, Fee, Ross Freeman, Stan Fuller, Gimber, Goldberg, Harlfinger, Hutchinson, Lyle, Al Moody, Jeff Parker, Sherwood, Tarantino and Veth.

Sec'y, Capt. F. G. Law, USN 1142 N. Illinois St., Arlington, Va. 22205 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN 4101 Downing St. Annandale, Va. 22003 After much difficulty and hard research, Frank LAW recently published a class directory. The response from classmates upon receipt was most rewarding. However, already it is rapidly approaching obsolescence as classmates retire and move on to new careers or just plain restful living. Like this column, the directory is another service provided by your secretaries to help keep the '36 spirit alive. Without your cooperation this task becomes impossible. How about it, fellows.?

Please drop us a line or telephone: Frank—OX 6-1312; Bill—OX 7-8909. The former only takes 4^; a postal or change of address card. Let us know when you are retiring, where you are going, your new address if known, and what your future plans are. Our interest in each other is just as important after retiring as it has been all during the past 30 years. Let's all strive to keep it that way!

The dinner-dance at the A&N Country Club on 19 Feb. was a big success. As you can appreciate, the main topics of discussion were retirement, who has retired, and where do you find these big money jobs? Present were: E. J. Hoffmans, Tylers, Combses, Ellises, Chenaults, Baumeisters, Laws, Rices, Gordy Fowlers, Alfords, Hangers, Dick Bradleys, Dick Teels, Sanfords, and Ed King. "Booge" unfortunately was laid up in the hospital with a badly infected foot. However, she survived the surgery and is back to battery again.

Sherm WRIGHT retired on 1 April. He will shordy thereafter take up his new duties as executive director, Navy Relief Chapter, Jacksonville, Fla. His new address: 2415 Holly Point Rd., East Orange Park, Fla. Paul STIMSON also retired 1 April and will become general manager, BuHington County Bridge Commission, residing in Morristown, N. J. Our best wishes to both Sherm and Paul as they start new careers.

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Lillian Dabney has gone into the real estate business in Annapolis. Those of you who might be returning to Crabtown will find her at the Leonora Gordon Realty Ck). if you are looking for a new home or place to live.

The C&O Canal Barge trip is still on for Saturday, 7 May. Note the date now and let Frank know you are comingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;do this promptly please, since a guarantee must be posted, and we must cancel early if there are not enough takers to make it worth while at a moderate fee per couple.

This will be the last time we will get to go afloat together againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so be there!

At this writing a luncheon is planned for the third Wednesday in March. Will have to defer reports until next issue. If you haven't answered Frank's flyer by this issue, pick up the phone and say you'll be present.

I forgot to mention that when Sherm Wright moved into his new house he found out that his next door neighbor was none other than our own Dan MARTIN who is presently an executive with an oil company in Jax, Fla. 4 June win mark more than just the '36th 30th anniversary. A big final dinner-dance is planned at the Army and Navy Country Club Williamsburg Room. Mark your calendar now, line up baby sitters, save your dough, etc., but don't miss it! Will have all the dope out on this whingding very soon. Let's make this one the DD to wind up all DDs!

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Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.), 5439 41st St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20015

Frank WORTH called me from the National Airport in Washington while he was en route to New York. He said he had recently seen Felix de GOLIAN in Adanta, Ga., and that all was well there. Frank says that Lew DAVIS' widow has been widowed a second time and is living in Raleigh, N. C. Frank had been spending most of the winter in Charlotte, S. C , though he can be reached through his family's address at 500 Whitaker Mill Road, Raleigh, N. C. Wayne BROWN sends a newspaper clipping from Denver, Colo. It consisted of two pictures full spread across the page and about 16 column inches of text. I quote the first few paragraphs: "Nine officers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) told a Denver audience Monday night (7 Feb. 1966) what might happen in event of a Russian attack. The occasion was a public briefing at the University of Denver Student Union Building. The briefing was moderated by Rear Adm. David B. BELL, U. S. Navy Deputy Chief of Staff to NATO's Supreme Allied Command Adantic (SacLant). Eight other officers from seven other countries also contributed to the briefing."

The interesting sideline to this visit is that Dave's brother-in-law Joe DODSON lives in Denver; Dave's wife and Joe's wife are sisters.

Fifteen classmates were present on the second Thursday of February, at the monthly luncheon.

Ed Finney with the Boy Scouts, John DeVane with Boeing, Curt Kelly, Red Woodard, Jack Wadleigh, Wyman Howard with Nucleonic Industries, John Johnston with National Geographic, Larry Brantley with Gianini Controls, Jimmy Gustin with State Department, Bob Farrington, Spike Barkley with Aquanautics, Ace Barton, Ard Grantham, Joe Gerath with Westinghouse, and Ray Vroome with Union Carbide.

Ray VROOME is starting his tenth year with Union Carbide. He has twin sons who are high school seniors. One of his twin daughters, Joan, an ardent skier, was married on 17 Feb. to a Dartmouth, skier David Beattie, and they spent their honeymoon skiing in the Austrian alps. Ray and his family live at 8 Barnfield Ck)urt, Upper Saddle River, N. J. 54

Walt BARRY has written a nice long letter which I shall quote: "About two months ago I attended a conference on the west coast where I had an opportunity to meet Bob Erly, ComPhibGru 3, and Frank Shamer, Chief of Staff to Com-

inCPac. "After a wonderful dinner at the Shamers, Bob brought up the subject of keeping you supplied with material for Shipmate. Since the bulk of those still in the service will soon be retired and scattered far and wide, we had a bull session on how best to keep you informed. To get things rolling. Bob volunteered to get a letter off to you occasionally from San Diego, Frank from Long Beach, and I from Norfolk. The idea was to send you one letter a quarter from each of these areas. In this way you would have something almost every Shipmate and give a reasonably broad coverage of the class in the years to come.

"I approached Rex Wheeler not too long ago about the prospects of setting up a class of '37 monthly luncheon or dinner in Norfolk and he heartily concurred. Rex offered to take over the initial meeting and to prepare a muster of those in the area.

"There are about 20 classmates in the area, but Guy Anderson, Joe Dalton, Ed Hessel, Rex Wheeler, Don White, and myself were all that could get together for our first meeting on 8 Feb. In spite of the sparse attendance, we enjoyed the opportunity to meet once more and talk over the good old days.

"All of us were deeply grieved to hear of the sudden death of our good classmate Roger B. WoodhuU. He was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk with his wife, Jean, who died about two years ago. Anderson, Burch, Hessel and Wheeler attended the services.

"Dick Colbert will be checking in to SacLant Staff soon and Paul Hartmann will relieve Don White as ComCarDiv 20 in late March. Don, Ruth and the family will be off to Kodiak, Alaska, where he takes over about six jobs. Don has made a remarkable recovery from a sudden Ulness that hit him recently and was still attached to the hospital when he attended the luncheon.

"Paul and Peg Hartmann will be returning from Japan where he has been ComFAirWesPac. This is their second tour in the Orient, Paul having been operations officer on the Seventh Fleet staff a few years ago.

"Bill and Ruth Mack will also be coming back to Norfolk after an absence of about four years. He will relieve 'Scrappy' Crawford as ComPhibGru Two in April.

"If possible, I would like to include a brief note on one of the class with each letter to supplement our very fine '20 Yr. Fix.' I might as well start off with myself, which may sound a little selfish. However, as you well know, this is considerably easier than trying to get anyone else, particularly in good old '37.

"I relieved Dick Barry '39 as Commander, U. S. Naval Inshore Undersea Warfare Group Two (formerly Harbor Defense Unit Two) in June. Our oldest son, Tom, graduated from the Naval Academy in June and is at sea in the GOODRICH. He

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second battalion commander for the winter set last year and redeemed the good name to some extent. Our number two son, Rob, is a private in the Army and currently attending school at Ft. Belvoir; number three, Bill, is a senior in high school, a member of the Naval Reserve, and preparing for the Naval Academy, which he hopes to enter in June. The youngest, Kevin, is finishing up grammar school and hasn't indicated any ambitions yet odier than to sleep in later on Saturday.

"Mary and I are doing fine. She is the golfer in the family, shooting in the mid-eighties fairly consistently while I'm at least 10 strokes higher.

I received my Master's degree in personnel administration from George Washington University in 1964. I am currendy teaching in the personnel

field for G.W.U. one night a week in the Norfolk Division of their graduate extension program. It is very enjoyable and keeps me pretty well occupied. We have no plans for retirement yet.

Everything will depend on the availability of a job that will keep me busy and happy for another 10 to 15 years."

Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN 3900 Watson PL, Apt. 7B Washington, D. C. 20016

Victor Dybal '38, Seventh Fleet Chief of StafF, receives Legion of Merit from VAdm. J. J. Hyland '35, Com7thFlt.

WASHINGTON GROUP It was another big snow and also the day for the annual husbands and wives luncheon. Despite the weather, 84 of the 88 who signed up were on hand for a most enjoyable luncheon at the Fort Myer Club. Rab IRVINE was in charge and put on a show that well rewarded the most hazardous efforts to attend. Present from the local area were the Alfords, Alexanders, Jean Bagby alone since OUie was on a trip to South America, Gid Boyds, Calhouns, Ckiwards, Daceys, DuBois, Eliots, Elas, Foleys, Glennons, Graves, Hestons, Hunnicutts Hurons, Inghams, Irvines, Red Johnsons, Leydons, Lubys, Charlie MacDonalds, Manns, Harry Masons, Mansfields, McDowells, McManuses, Melvins, Charlie Morrison alone with Bobbie snowbound, Muggs, Norrises, Olsens, Owens, Raymers, Rindskopfs, Charlie Robertsons, Hugh Robinsons, Smales, Sonnensheins, Sweenys, Jane Small alone since Walt was on a trip out west, and yours truly.

Norm and Allison FRYER were real sports and made it all the way from Baltimore. D. W. B. KELLY was in town for two weeks' Naval Reserve training duty and Margaret joined him for the second week so both attended the luncheon.

It had been many years since most of us had seen Don and it was sure good to see him again. He is a captain in the Naval Reserve and has his own business, the Don Kelly Co. in West Hartford, Conn. As such he is a manufacturing representative for foundry and molded plastic products for all the New England states. They live at 28 Whiting Lane, West Hartford, Conn., and the welcome mat is out to all '38ers. Daughter Kathleen is 23 and married and living in Evanston, 111., and teaches school in WUlmette.

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Bob HURON looked particularly happy and chipper and on investigation we learned that since his retirement on 1 Feb. he and Betty had remained in Washington and were simply taking life easy for a spell. They don't plan to make a career of this and will soon head for the Boston area and settle down to work. Good luck and Godspeed in your second career and we will miss you both in Washington.

The next men's luncheon will be with the West Point class of '38 and again we will find ourselves outranked. But the gap is closing and we are always proud to see the stars on our deserving classmates even though they be few in number.

Kay Alford and Dolly Robertson will be co-hostesses for the next wives' luncheon, with Eleanor Fitz-Patrick assisting.

NORFOLK GROUP Howard DE LAUREAL, our faidiful Norfolk reporter, writes to say that Norfolk "was rather dull during the month of January, with the snows as the only exciting thing worth mentioning. It managed to fall heavily at the time of our January luncheon, which we cancelled because of transportation problems.

"The group got together in strength for our February luncheon this past Thursday at the NOB Club to make up for the aborted January luncheon. John Haines, Pret Haines, George Reinhart, Strong Boozer, Dave Harris, Bob Sinnott, Vince Schumacher, Monroe Kelly, Red Mason, Miles Refo and I mustered together. It may not surprise you to know that this was an exceptionally gay affair, which our luncheons usually are. The main theme of the thread of conversation seemed to concentrate on "where do we go from here.'"

As a matter of interest, we covered rather thoroughly a favorite subject which was the source of a great deal of humor during the times that Irv SUPERFINE was a regular, never-faltering attendee at our gatherings; namely, golf clubs made to order. Some day Irv should write a book citing his experiences, which undoubtedly would be a best seller.

"We all enjoyed seeing Oliver BAGBY and his lovely Jean this past Saturday. Please let the Washington group know that we, their nearest neighbors, look forward to their sojourns to the south with the opportunity of seeing them.

"Heaven only knows what changes in our composition here in Norfolk is in the mill. However, as we get word, I'll do my best to report the contemplated moves. Spring is fast overtaking the relatively mild winter we are enjoying and that is the time when we will hear of changes to our Norfolk group roster. So far we know that Dave HARRIS is retiring on 1 May and plans to take up residence in Menlo Park, Calif., where he will join the brokerage firm of J. Barth and Co., commencing 1 June."

Thanks for the dope, Howard, and good luck and Godspeed, Dave, in your second career.

News has just arrived from San Diego that Mary Jane and George MUSE are happy to announce the engagement of daughter Mary Anne to a young man from Oklahoma City who graduated from Pomona College last year. The wedding will take place in June. Congramlations to the Muses and die best of luck to the young couple.

Sec'y, RAdm. C. E. Bell, USN 6359 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va. 22044 This month I have the added chore of writing this from Colorado Springs where I am on two weeks' temporary duty taking a look at the Continental Air Defense Command. Did you see the article with the excellent color photographs on the Cheyenne Mountain air defense complex in Time magazine? Face to face it is even more impressive. It really hits you in the face that science and technology are moving ahead at a APRIL,

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speed that is increasingly more difficult to grasp much less conceive.

And what a beautiful spot this is, sitting at the foot of Pike's Peak. Too often in the Navy we only see the coastal areas of our country, and believe me, a trip like this convinces me there are many beautiful sections of the U. S. A. Last weekend I was in Tucson (5 March) and enjoyed a delightful dinner party at the Skyline Country Club with a spectacular view of Tucson where I was fortunate enough to meet Ronnie STULTZ. That's enough travelogue for this month. I wouldn't even burden you with it if I had enough news on hand.

Word reaches me from Pearl Harbor that Ellis FISHER has had a spell of illness, but is now recuperating. Tm sure he'd like to hear from his many friends in '39. He's living in Makalapa Heights, Navy Housing, but I don't know the street number.

Haven't had any pictures to put in recently. If anybody has some, please mail them in.

Adey "Pete" PETERSON has been selected for rear admiral in the Naval Reserve. This is a great achievement, Pete, certainly the toughest possible way to make it, and we all are extremely proud of you. Kay had a surprise birthday one recent Saturday night for Pete and by coincidence she picked the night of Washington's worst blizzard in 30 years. We understand a lot of people were undaunted and were present for the celebration.

Ralph and Nancy BENITEZ always seem to find more hours in the day than any two people I know. With all of Ralph's travelling and extracurricular family activities, he still has found time to work on a Master's degree and achieved it a couple of weeks ago as Master of Laws in international law.

Adele and Pete SHUMWAY wrote recendy of the engagement of their son, Lt. (J. G.) Geoffrey Shumway, USN, to Miss Kathryn Ann Rich of Skaneateles, N. Y. Geoff is completing jet flight training at Lemoore, Calif., and his bride-to-be is teaching school in Ithaca, N . Y. The wedding is planned for this spring. Pete and Adele are living at 617 Treaty Road, Norristown, Pa., outside Philadelphia. They report little opportunity to see any '39ers in recent months except Jack and June FIDEL. ^ Also had a fine letter from Ed HARRISON at Georgia Tech. Among his comments, Ed says 'T had the good fortune to serve as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Military Academy for three years in '61, '62 and '63. Last year I joined the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy and am thoroughly enjoying the association."

Was talking to Jim and Sue WALLACE recently and Jim was giving me the dope on his recent trip.

Harry HELFRICH called the other day to correct my misunderstanding about the number of '39ers in the Annapolis area. The full list includes on active duty: Jim McConnaughhay and Fred Hooper; retired: Al Robertshaw, Jim Glendinning, Nat James, Vad UtgofI, Clem Latimer, and Harry.

Sec'y, Capt. Arthur G. Esch, USN OpNav (Op-602), 4E510 Pentagon, Washington, D. C. 20350 WASHINGTON REPORT By the time this hits the street, we expect Mike MICHAELIS to be wearing his new wide stripe.

Every one of us is proud of Rose and Mike. Mike, Jr., is too, but as a fine plebe he may be paying a smidgen of comeuppance for the fame. Harv SEIM is pulling a whale of an oar in OSD International Security Affairs. A few weeks ago he and Betty were in St. Louis visiting "star" daughter Sandy at Webster College. There they also enjoyed 56

some warm hospitality from the Rue O'NEILLs at 9 Oak Bend Dr., Ladue, Mo. Rue is almost a veteran at McDonnell Aircraft. Couple of months ago Rue scheduled a Washington business trip for the second Thursday of the month to catch a class luncheon, not knowing that we regularly assemble now on the second Tuesday of each month (less July and August). Note this, you businessmen; and if you are only on monkey business, all the better.

Milce Michaells '40

Julian BURKE is nearby in a manly chair directing Navy Plans within Op-60; moreover, he does so with energy and ability aplenty. Betty is the pretty one in Alexandria, keeping abreast of Tina, senior at HoUins, Jud, a freshman at Marietta College, Sally in high school at home, and Charlie who is a stellar candidate for USNA '82. Yes, '82.

Anyone for thinking along youthful lines, too?

Wives in Washington have had their own snow problems. The January luncheon was torpedoed entirely. The February luncheon at Evans Farm Inn was handled by Nancy Blough and Thelma Scott, despite more snow. The March outing under Jean Kalen and Mary Carpenter was held 24 March. A secret agent reveals that our brides enjoy more sea stories than whatever. So, girls, rally around and spend your money wisely before lover boy loses it at golf. Charge!

March boys luncheon in Washington was large and pleasant. Big turnout. Prexy Mike HANLEY appointed Ted HECKLER a one-man expedition to research for the class the possibility of participating in the program of supporting Brigade Company wardrooms. Ted will bring the whole matter before the next meeting for resolution; a faithful emissary is he here again. RAdm. B. H. Shupper, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel, spoke on promotion matters. Exceedingly candid and vivid, he illuminated an otherwise dark area with ability and good touch. This does not mean, obviously, that the prospect for our many star-eyeds is altogether sanguine, far from it. Yet we were apprised of the total dimension. We learned that the measures being taken are very much in the impartial interests of succeeding year groups and in that of the Navy. Hard to attack an on-going program soundly founded.

HERE AND THERE Carl SANDER just wrote from out on the line where he and his squadron were the first to help PacFlt destroyers. Reported seeing Scottie GOODFELLOW, Nick NICHOLSON, and Johnny LACOUTURE all on station and excelling. Carl needed a magnifying glass, he said, to identify most of the mates in the reunion picture. Roy and Anne JOSLIN have just returned to Washington after his busy tour in cruiser command. We look forward to a reunion with them. Roy is to take a demanding slot in OpNav Strike Warfare. And then there was the very pretty '40 bride who drove into the garage and admonished, "Fix my horn, these brakes don't work." No, dear, never again.

The grapevine hath Bill MEYER returning from Memphis duty to Op-91 and the study business. In April Johnny Lacouture is due back from the firing line to relieve Irv PETERS in Aviation Plans (Op-50B); Pete is to move within the building to the Secretary's Office of Program Appraisal.

Between Gene HEMLEY in NORTHAMPTON (a sentimental gem, to this lad) and Bob WHITE in WRIGHT, the class has the Norfolk command ships pretty well commanded. Yes sir. John GREENBACKER is due home with his Charleston DesRon shortly after a Med deployment. Carolyn has been holding the fort in their Norfolk home with the children: Susan has finished school and is teaching, young John is a junior at North Carolina, Florence is a freshman at Stephens, and Chris is in high school.

WHERE AWAY.?

As reported last month. Bill LANIER has another important step-up with McGraw-Hill in Chicago. He wrote with his new home address: 10 East Schiller St., Chicago, 111. 60610.

Al BERGNER, our Washington spring-partymaster, has been out of town on business more than at the desk. Consequently, plans for May are not yet final; rest assured, says Al, we will have a darn good fling. We are sorry we cannot now give the out-of-towners precise details. For those who can possibly make it, keep in touch, please.

AH SO? Best dope has it that I I I classmates are still on active duty in all services. A dwindling number, and fast at that. It is interesting to remember that the next generation is not neglectful. Eight class sons graduated in the class of '65, nine are in '66, five in '67, three in '68, and five plebes in '69.

Are we wary of statistics misused? I hope so.

For you recall the renowned statistician, name isn't very important but his tombstone number is A-97867564. You see, the poor fellow drowned wading a stream the average depth of which was 2/2 feet.

About now our nation's capital is agog with pontification galore over Vietnam. Very little of this do I understand. Where in the world are those old ideas that the President of the United States makes foreign policy and that as the Commanderin-Chief he executes much of it under granted authority. To be sure he relies heavily on the finest private advice from many sources. Good.

But it is time for old-style propriety and loyalty to support publicly, not embarrass, the President.

Shall we help each in his own orbit on this? The need is certainly quite real. . . . See you.

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Sec'y, Capt. V. A. Moitoret, USN 6000 Merchant Rd., S.E. Camp Springs, Md. 20031

My calls for assistance have borne fruit; we have a few potential "stringers" developing '41 news in far-away places, so this month we can present a report on a regional basis.

WEST COAST Nostalgia swelled up for certain when the letterhead bringing news from our fine San Diego area correspondent. Curly PLEMONS, showed that he is with the Lee Mather Co., realtor, the outfit that rented Rowena and me our first Coronado home 20 years ago. It appears that the biggest and best '41 reunion to celebrate the 25th anniversary close to the official 7 Feb. date was the San Diego affair. Here's how Curly reports it: "The class got together for a real whingding for our 25th Anniversary on Saturday, 5 Feb. It was held in the Ballast Tank at the Submarine Base, San Diego. Thanks to Jack Bennett, who is now ComSubRon Three, we had the whole club to ourselves.

"Considering that a lot of the class were gone to Vietnam, we had a big turnout. Pete and Marie Batchelder came from Long Beach, Al and Jane Curran from Alhambra, Dave Kline from Sherman Oaks, and Bob and Carol Thomas from Orange.

It was great for them to drive so far. From the local area we had Jack and Jerry Bennett, Jim and SHIPMATE

sent Rollo a YES or NO vote on your interest in purchasing for | 2 5 a bronze version of the '41 crest for wall mounting, then you'd better send ir along to your class secretary instead. If and when we get the required minimum 30 we'll let you know about sending the money.

Peg Botten, Brooks and Tish Ensey, Bob and Eve Leasure, Ken and Fran Steen, Curly and Billie Plemons, Malcolm and Elaine Wolfe, Willie and June DeVenter, Bob and Betty Celusdca, Dana Maddox (Bill was gone with his PhibRon Five), and Doris Perez. Cliff and June Lenz had planned to attend, but Cliff came down with the flu; he did call to say he wished he were with us.

"Sorry to report that everyone expected someone else to bring a camera so the proceedings were not photographed for Shipmate.

"After cocktails and heavy hors d'oeuvres, we adjourned to the piano where Celustka played and his wife led the singing. I can't say it was tuneful, but it was loud and lasted well into the night.

Needless to say, many '4Iers made it a gay time, and we are looking forward to an even bigger and better one next year."

MID-PACIFIC On the same night the San Diego celebrants were making merry, a few thousand miles further west the gang in Hawaii commemorated the signal occasion of a quarter of a century since graduation. The southernmost state had its party at the home of Charlie and Betty NELSON, to begin with, for cocktails, then sojourned to that old standby, the Pearl City Tavern, for dinner. All smiles for the occasion in the accompanying picture are the Nelsons plus Ace and Pau Clark, McGuffin and Rueth Reeves, Jim and Peggy Johnson, and Hank and Jean Eastcrling.

'41 25th reunion in Pearl.

Charlie reported the proceedings, with the status info that Ace Clark commands the local Fleet Training Group in Pearl, Gerry Reeves bosses a submarine squadron, Tony Lilly is on the CinCPacFlt staff (Tony and Ginegr couldn't make the party), and Charlie himself is on the CinCPac staff. Both Jim Johnson and Hank Easterling are "raking in the shekels as civilians."

WASHINGTON AREA One of the local TV programs we try to catch at the Moitoret household on Saturdays at dinner time is a three-way high school quiz show called "It's Academic." In February we got a bonus: the captain of the team from St. Stephens High School was a bright and handsome young man identified as Chad Ray. Sure and I knew that name—Chadwick Ray, son of my plebe year roommate, Alan RAY, still doing time in Washington at BuWeps.

A phone call at the end of the program to congratulate Alan on having a TV star son brought the news that, while Chad's team admittedly didn't win, all three team members were juniors this year, so they hope to be back next year loaded for bear. Chad is to go off this summer to Spain (where Al was stationed in Cartagena for a tour a while back) to take a summer course at the University of Salamanca, famed as the place where I2th century explorers studied, then do some touring around the Iberian peninsula to keep his Spanish from getting rusty.

Over in the E Ring of the Pentagon Francesco COSTAGLIOLA has been playing an unpublicized part in connection with what you've read in the papers about the Navy's search for the missing Air Force bomb off the coast of Spain. Frank's the Navy captain type in the office of the AsstSecDef (atomic energy).

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RAdm. Pierre N. Charbonnet ' 4 1 , Commandant, Eighth Naval District, receives Certificate of Merit from Mrs. Joseph B. Wrenn, National Commander of the Navy Mothers Club of America, at a convention dinner. To the right is Mrs. Stephen C. Newell, Louisiana State Commander of the NMCA.

A giant-sized postcard written in Dulles Airport comes from Jack GILPIN with the news that he was in town for our class lunch in February (when your secretary was tied up with a ships characteristics board meeting). John wanted to report that the outfit he had been with as head of administrative matters, Eitel McCullough, Inc., merged into Varian Associates of Palo Alto, and the new firm sent him to D. C. to find out what Uncle Sam is doing. We may catch Jack personally on his next trip, for he says he'll be a visitor to the capital periodically now.

Jim THOMSON furnished the news on who showed up for that February monthly luncheon in Washington, confirming that it was Gilpin's round-up of his career which provided the entire program. On hand besides Jim and Jack were: Andrews, Bartlett, Byrnside, Crenshaw, Gray, Heavey, Houghton, Jamison, Lynch, Merdinger, Nolte, Owen, Rogers Rubel, Sisk, Stewart, Styer, Wyse, and Young.

Mac NICHOLSON has missed the monthly luncheons lately, and we found out why when we got more personally connected with this business of getting the designs for new survey ships approved. Mac has several thousands of details to oversee in connection with the design of any new ship in his post as head of the design section in BuShips. And they won't let him use rubber for his blueprints or invent any anti-gravity devices to overcome the topside weight problems everyone seems to keep presenting him.

CLASS CREST PLAQUE Rollo RIEVE says it all in his own words: "I guess the old saying 'stay loose' is appropriate these days. Have just received orders which will take me out as the commanding officer of the Naval Supply Depot, Subic Bay, with a deoarmre date from the Philadelphia area no later than 14 April, so just about the time the article on the class crest hits Shipmate I will not be here to receive the 'flood' of requests. . . . From snow shoveling to python killing—I do not know which is the most dangerous."

Rollo added that his secretary could be relied upon to keep tab of any cards or letters sent to Phillv on the class crest. But if you haven't yet CHANGE I N ADDRESS

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ENGAGED An engagement of interest to '41—as well as to four other Naval Academy classes—has been announced by Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton Porter of Woodbrook, Baltimore, Md., whose daughter, Dorothy Caruso, will be married to Midn. Joseph K. Taussig, III, the son of Betty and Jo TAUSSIG of Annapolis.

Miss Porter was graduated from Roland Park Country School and is attending Converse College in South Carolina. She is the granddaughter of the late Mrs. Enrico Caruso and Capt. Ernest Ingram, and of Mrs. William Hamilton Porter, and the late Cdr. Porter, USN '14. Her father is a member of the class of '46.

Midn. Taussig attended Severn School and was graduated from Suffield Academy. He is now a member of the first class at the Naval Academy, and will be commissioned in the Marine Corps following graduation in June. He is the grandson of Mrs. Joseph K. Taussig of Washington, D. C , and the late VAdm. Taussig '99, and of Adm. Robert B. Carney '16, and Mrs. Carney of Washington, D. C. The wedding will take place in June.

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

As a footnote to the 25th ring dance I want to acknowledge Dwight and Alice RAYMOND'S efforts in organizing and overseeing the festivities.

Must give credit also to Bob LIM, who I should like to say came from Manila especially for the gathering; however, he would be the first to admit that it was entirely a matter of coincidence. Acmally, Bob was en route to Harvard to attend the advanced course in business administration. And, in view of an earlier oversight in a listing of attendees, but with no thought of slighting others who made up the group of the 12th, must acknowledge that Alice Marie (Re) Montgomery Childers and Bob were there. This is a particular pleasure, inasmuch as Re's uncle is a rather senior official in the company with which I am affiliated.

Two spring functions in the Washington area have been scheduled: first, our annual sweetheart luncheon on Wednesday, 4 May, and second, our annual picnic at Annapolis on 22 May. Bob MOTTERN has agreed to give a run-down of the reorganization of the Navy Bureaus for the luncheon, and for the umpteenth time. Bill and Ann RICHARDSON will be doing most of the leg-work on the picnic.

The upswing in class luncheons has been encouraging and suggests that spring really is coming this year. The March luncheon had an interesting aftermath, in that Scroggie WILEY showed up at the house for dinner, having been involved in a CNO briefing during the noon hour.

Am tempted to designate him the "roving class ambassador" as he probably touches base with more classmates across the world than anyone else.

In recent months he has roamed across most of the Far East, hit the Middle East, ranged up and down the west coast and expected to return to Palo Alto and the family overnight before reversing his field to attend a conference in France and then Germany. This has given Scroggie a chance to talk with Johnny ROWAN in Paris, Bob LIM and Jim SMALL (among others, as below) in Manila, George and Virginia MAHLER in Bremenon, Willy and Honey NYBURG in Long Beach (this with Tennessee Ernie Ford and wife, who are neighbors of the Wileys), and Doug 57

WINNER and BUI BARNETT at a football game.

With all of this, Scroggie has managed to serve out his time as a captain in the Naval Reserve (now retiring) and keep in casual touch with his family and their periodic round-ups of two straying horses—among other miscellaneous pets and hobbies. Unbeknownst to Scroggie and indicative of the widespread interests of Stanford Research, had learned recently that Tony EDWARDS is now part of that organization following his retirement last fall.

Jim ASHLEY, having gotten himself immersed in one of the many study groups rampant in Washington, has been doing a mite of travelling.

On a recent swing to the northeast ran into Gris MOELLER and Bob EASTMAN in Boston. Gris is trying to get his football-playing son into an Ivy League school, while Bob is lining up a new career for this summer which will keep him close to his "down east" habitat. Jim SEAMANS turned up as a VP at Raytheon, Boston, with Jeff HESTER hard at work and in excellent health in the same company.

About 13 Feb., Hjalmar WALINE, who is with GE in the Daytona Beach area, suffered a bit of discomfort and wisely turned in at the nearest hospital where it developed that he had suffered an aneurism of the brain. Surgery was performed on 23 Feb. and the slow process of recovery has begun. A number of classmates in the Washington area responded with blood donations on his behalf and we all wish him well.

Sue Tabor has made remarkable progress in her struggle to get back on her feet after a crippling automobile accident last fall. She moved back into her house in late January, but now hopes to dispose of it and get a small apartment where the demands will be greatly lessened.

Jim SMALL provides the bulk of the out-oftown news this time, and he certainly enjoys a vantage point from his office in the Ship Repair Facility at Subic Bay. Mark WOOD had driven CANBERRA by the base, Willie NHfEURG had his change of command there and then flew off to pick up KEARSARGE for another ride back to Subic.

Paul DURAND is a compadre and a daily visitor. Bob REILLY had MAURY in port and Bill PELLET came by in ESTES. Doug PLATE drove R. K. TURNER into Subic and left her ( ? ) ; J. B. DAVIS and A. B. GRIMES reported in with their commands; Jim ASHLEY included Subic on one of his inspection trips; Hal SHEAR is in and out with SACRAMENTO; Ike KIDD went thru with

CNO; Bob POAGE with ComServPac; and, of course, Scroggie WILEY. Jim reports the work extremely interesting, and the Filipino members of his staff doing a fine job. Currently, his outfit employs 3,300 Filipinos, 60 U. S. civilian supervisors, 27 naval officers, and increasing numbers of enlisted personnel. Their informal motto, "You break it—we fix it!" qualifies them to work on everything from ENTERPRISE to motor boats.

Homecoming plans continue to jell. Charlie BISHOP has his staff running down additional accommodations, so you are encouraged to make your desires known. The format of the weekend leans heavily on the Alumni Association plans.

That is, we expect to take advantage of the annual Friday night program at the Academy with dinner in the mess hall. If, for one reason or another, you or your friends are not recipients of the Alumni mailing for this event, you should let us know. Samrday, after the game, we shall be at the main Officers' Club for cocktails, dinner and hi-jinks. A flyer will be going out later this spring with firm information, but the wheels are turning and this is shaping up as a first-class gala.

Response to the initial mailing exceeded original estimates, which was what the committee had hoped, but had hardly dare expect. Hard cash will be required with the next mailing, incidentally, so you still have some lead time for planning purposes.

Ross KNIGHT, who is with the Airport Operators Council here in Washington, supplied me with clippings from a recent copy of a trade magazine featuring a picture of Roy FALCONER, ERA Helicopters, Inc. of Ventura, Calif., following his election as the incoming first vice president of the Helicopter Association of America. In the same edition. Bob LIM was featured also. The writeup on Bob provides a currency which is of interest to all and is quoted herewith: "As executive VP and a board member of Philippine Air Lines, Lim is recognized as the Philippines' outstanding authority on the air transportation industry. He joined the airline in 1947 and, in rising through the operations and sales ranks of the organization, he has gained the respect of most of the world's aviation leaders.

"In the last 20 years Lim has served on, headed or attended what appears to be every aviation committee, association and conference that has been held, beginning with the Airline Pilots Assn. of the Philippines and going on through the lATA conferences. Before joining PAL, the youth-

ful-looking Lim served as a B-29 bomber pilot in the U. S. Air Force, and saw action in the Pacific theatre. Lim completed his military education at the U. S. Naval Academy, after starting at the Philippine Military Academy in 1937. Prior to this, he had attended the University of the Philippines, where he studied engineering. Lim is an active polo player, yachtsman and golfer. In addition, he still devotes his time to the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, an organization in which he has been a guiding force, and the Management Assn. of the Philippines. In addition he is a board member of the Pacific Area Travel Assn. and the Davao Insular Hotel. Lim, his wife and children—all nine of them—live in Pasay City."

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Sec'y. Capt. William T. Peach, III (SC), USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St. Kailua, Hawaii 96734 Wash. Area Sec'y, Cdr. Frederic T. Hansen, USN (Ret.), 6424 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va. 22044

NEWS FROM WAY OUT Moose GROSSETTA submitted the following information and pictures: "The San Diego contingent had a cocktail-dinner party on Saturday, 19 Feb. The get-together was instigated by Jim Campbell, who corralled Dick Law and me to assist him.

Dick was in charge of the invitations and due to his great efforts we had quite a group in attendance. Unfortunately the flu bug held down several couples who would have added a great deal to the party.

"The party was held at the little submarine facility Officers' Club at Ballast Point and was a huge success. We had a small dance combo, dinner, cocktails. It was the wee hours of the morning when the stragglers finally were thrown out of the club. You can see from the enclosed pictures all the handsome men and the pretty young girls. Among those we had hoped to have there but couldn't make it for various reasons were Red Ringenburg, who was passing through but couldn't stay, also Merrill Sappington and Homer Haisten. Sam and Barbara Robinson, Bud and Maush Zumwalt were floored by the flu which is rampant in Southern California. Also expected but unable to attend at the last minute were Hugh and Ann Scott, Bob and Ann Rossell, Phil McMannis, Phil Hambsch, and Joe Devlin.

Down from Long Beach were Joe and Ellen Gould, Chuck and Faith Stastny, Sam and Iris Watson, Dick and Dortch Brega.

'43 San Diego Party. Front row: Iris Watson and Moose Grossetta. 2nd row: Marion Baker, Faith Stastny, Jean May, Dortch Brega, Vera Clark (Howie) Gordon, Morgaret Grosetta, Bill Godfrey, Jane McCauley, Marge Connolly, Carol Aubrey. Back row: Jess Naylor, Al May, George Whisler, Betty Whisler, Joe Gould, Ellen Gould, Dick Law, Dave Wynkoop, Mickey Bennett, Jim Campbell, Frank Meyer, Mill McCauley, Bart Connolly, John Nichols and Sunshine Aubrey.

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"The life of the party was Bart Connolly, recendy decorated and feted by SecNav for his outstanding work with ORISKANY on their recent deployment to Vietnam.

"I would say the highlight of the evening was two songs: one composed by Joe Gould and sung to the tune of 'Navy Blue and Gold,' the other a rebuttal composed on the spur of the moment by the girls.

"To be sung to the tune of 'Navy Blue and Gold': Three years together by the Bay Where Severn joins the tide Then by the Service called away, We scattered far and wide.

But now, tonight, we're gathered here With glasses raised in glee To give a loud resounding cheer For the Class of Forty-Three.

The twenty years and more have passed Since Crabtown on the Bay, And although one or two of us Have started turning gray.

It's such occasions as tonight That make it plain to see Whether in the Fleet or on the street The best are Forty-Three.

"Sung to the mne of 'Mariana' We were young and we were shapely When we met in '43.

But now the years have caught up And we're all a sight to see Our husbands did this to us When ashore, then went to sea We're just the poor old victims of the Class of '43.

We suffer, we suffer, we suffer We wives of '43.

We suffer, we suffer, we suffer We wives of '43.

We've fought to keep our figures Neat as any hour-glass It takes a real good medic's Shorts of harmones veal first class We bore your kids between Your trips From sea to shining sea But now you have to realize It's shots not sex for me Manana, Manana, Manana You boys from'43 Mariana, Mariana, Manana But first you'll check with we.

"Attendees were: Scot Slocum, Mickey and Allie Bennett, John and Linda Nichols, Jim and Joan Campbell, Dave Wynkoop, George and Betty Whisler, Moose and Margaret Grossetta, Bill and Marion Baker, Dick and Julie Law, Bill and Jane McCauley, Frank Meyers, Jess Naylor, Al and Jean May, Chuck and Faith Stastny, Sam and Iris Watson, Dick and Doris Brega, Bart and Mar Connolly, Joe and Ellen Gould, Sunshine and Carol Aubrey, Clarke and Vera Gordon, and Bill and Marge Godfrey.

"All in all, this was a highly successful venture.

Everybody was most congenial and we had a very friendly warm party. Unfortunately no tellmg when the next one will come to pass as we haven't been too active out here. However, the success of diis venture may prove to be die stimulation to have a gathering every six months or so. We all CHANGE

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extend our warmest regards and best wishes to '43ers everywhere and in particular to those in Washington."

Bob STEWART came through nicely with the following news from the "Pineapple Fleet": "I have not had much news until about midFebruary when lots of classmates seem to have deserted colder climes for the sunny shores of Hawaii either as transients or for TAD. "Since my last report, we've seen the arrival of Fran and Bob Mink for duty on CinCPac Staff. Bart Connolly passed through on way back to San Diego in his carrier, the ORISKANY. Must have done a tremendous job as I saw in Navy Times they were commended by SecNav. Larry Caney went west with his ships as ComDesRon Five, having finally earned a chance to work instead of staffing it with ComCruDesPac. "In late January and early February things were spiced up hereabouts by presence of Lefty Lavrakas, Chief of Staff to ComASWGru Three. The group spent a couple of weeks in Hawaiian waters playing fun and games with submarines. Lefty had several of us aboard the carrier for dinner in the Admiral's Mess, including Eleanor Buckwalter (Earle is still in WestPac), Fran Mink (Bob was on a trip), and the Smarts.

"Phil McManus (Com Landing Ship Flotilla One) spent a couple of days here in early January looking over PhibPac business. Also had lunch with George Ringenberg of the ASW Project Office in Washington who was here troubleshooting some difficulties.

"Jim Traylor, commanding USS ALAMO, was here for a few days on his way to WestPac. Had a very pleasant evening with him and his brother Bob Traylor (a LCol. on Staff of PacAF) and wife, including cocktails at our place and candlelight dinner at the Hickam AFB O Club.

"RAdm. Bud Zumwalt stopped off overnight en route to mainland from a hasty tour of WestPac. He called from Makalapa BOQ (about ten doors up the street from Stuart quarters) to say hello, so we picked him up and forced a couple of drinks on him. Had a good long gabfest and resolved most of the world's problems.

"Latest visitors were Merrill Sappington and Homer Haisten who were half of the excellent OpTEVFor briefing team which enlightened us all on what's new (or about to be) in fleet equipments. Homer graced our quarters for a pot-luck supper but Merrill begged off as he was being picked up for dinner with Bill Peach and family.

This was first I'd known that Bill was retired and living here. He's finishing up some college credits at University of Hawaii for his teaching certificate after which I gather he'll go to work here in the Islands.

"In my last recap of who's on duty out this way, I overlooked Herb Zastrow on FMFPac's Staff. He's been here about six months or so, having moved into quarters vacated by Max Harnish. Only two blocks from our quarters but have yet to see him.

"Final item is that last week was the occasion of the local annual number one fun social event of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mardi Gras show. For those who've read James Michener's book, Hawaii, suffice to say that your correspondent went cosmmed as 'Malama.' Never again, I bruise easily!"

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS I caught Max HARNISH during the noon hour at the Pentagon and got the scoop on his two recent trips to Hawaii. He reported seeing lots of people, including Ed and Ethyl Cummings, Gordie Facer, Cliff Brown, Eleanor Buckwalter and Bart Connolly. I'll admit my notes are incomplete on this one.

Ran into Archie JULIAN who is now living at 6921 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, who is working in RUDC BuWeps and seems to like it.

Archie had been living in Nashville, Tenn. On the trip to Washington he stopped by to see Dietz Rudisill who is in the ventilating business in Lenoir, N. C. Rudi has a girl, 16, and a boy, 9.

Perry HALL has moved to Washington from Chicago and now works for Vitro in Silver Spring.

Last word has it that Mary and the 10 youngsters will probably not arrive until after the end of the school year.

Talked to Lanell and Det DETWEILER very briefly. Det retired the first of March and is staying in the Washington area. Later attempts to augment this info have been unavailing so the assumption has to be that the Detweilers are vacationing somewhere. And it has to be southâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after the snowy February in Washington.

The last week in February, Red SELMER, with Peg accompanying, made a business trip to Mayport, Fla. On a side trip to Pensacola they visited John and Nancy Haynie. Red reports that a luncheon get-together with the '43 Pensacola group was a huge success. In addition to the above,

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attendees were Bob and Claudia Adams, Paul and Ann Pagett and Maggie Snyder—Gordie was at sea with LEXINGTON. Incidentally, John Selmer '67 is on the Superintendent's list and is lettering in swimming. The Selmers, either by hosting groups of John's classmates for weekends, or attending athletic events at the Academy, are enjoying John's career as a midshipman.

I have received a nice note from John Roy BASS's sister as follows: "Class of '44, Dear friends: On behalf of John's mother, sons, brothers and myself I would like to thank you for your kind expressions of sympathy. The flowers were lovely and did much to help us feel we were not alone in the sorrow of our loss. I am so glad that I was aware your group was represented at the services. The Navy and Naval Academy meant a great deal to Johnny as evidenced by his life membership in the Alumni Association. Your presence with us for our last farewell meant more than words can express. Had he known, I'm sure this would have been most important to John, as it was to us. Sincerely (signed), Jane Bass Culpepper."

As this is my last attempt, I want to thank all who have had to bear with wrong last names, missed issues, and a few harangues. My particular thanks to Bee Deprez for the west coast news, Randy King for his constant help and to Kay Cassani for her heartwarming messages. I hope to see everyone at the Water Tower and good luck, Red. JACK HARKINS

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CO of U. S. Naval Headquarters Support Activity, Saigon, Archie Kuntze '43, receives Vietnamese Medal of Honor, 1st class, from MGen. Le Nguyen Khang, CO of the Capital Military Region and Military Governor of Saigon. Capt. Kuntze was cited for his accomplishments in the area over the past two years.

I had the pleasant surprise of running into Joe FLESSNER in the halls of BuWeps. Joe is with BuWeps Fleet Readiness Rep Central, Wright-Patterson. He is chairman, or whatever one is, of the local AAU swimming league, so he is more involved than his swimming youngsters.

There has to be lots of information of interest to all of us that is going unreported. DON'T DELAY—GET WITH IT!

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Class Sec'y, Mr. D. V. Ness 6520 Walters Woods Dr., Falls Church, Va. Corr. Secretary, Capt. C. L. Tucker, USN 22477 N. Upton St., Arlington, Va.

Dear classmates: This is my last column, as the new officers for the next year were elected at the March luncheon. The results were as follows: President, Jack Creamer; vice president, Jack Cryan, and corresponding secretary. Red Tucker.

Red Tucker's campaign speech for his worthy opponents fortunately fell on deaf ears. Ad HERRON is the party chairman for the annual May party. This is usually a cocktad and dinner affair that has been quite well attended in the past and we hope for a good turnout this year.

More details later. The Washington class list has been delayed but Randy King expects it to be published late in March and it will be distributed.

Please contact a class officer if you are retired and in the Washington area as we know more people are retired in this area than we have names for the list.

Charlie MILLER has retired and now is with Westinghouse at Friendship Airport. He has run into Jim Victor and Jim Reyback at the Westinghouse plant.

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Sec'y. Cdr. Walter Dedrick, USN 6122 Washington Blvd., Arlington, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. John B. Haines, USN (Ret.), 6011 Kibbling Ave. Springfield, Va. 22150

How many of you fellows suffer from the unfortunate malady of artillery ears? No worry, ladies, it is not external. Just the rapid decrease of aural acuity at the higher frequencies. That means being hard of hearing for squeaks and bells. It stems from exposure to gunfire or aircraft engine noises for some years. At least that is the excuse the doctor gives. It is convenient for not hearing rattles and squeaks in the car, but a definite disadvantage when missing the songs of the birds, and these are the certain signs of spring. I'm not a confirmed birdwatcher, but the sight of Virginia's bird, the cardinal, at the feeder does gain attention. I wonder what birds attract attention in Vietnam?

Bill DOEHLER's First Battalion of the 9th Marine Regiment obviously has little time for such observations. Bill has created a "Spoon Platoon" of cooks and bakers and other assorted specialists, a special reserve group which takes its turn on patrol. "People can eat C-rations while the cook is on patrol . . . every Marine is a rifleman, and I need riflemen!"

NAMES IN THE NEWS Al SHEPHERD drew the unfortunate duty of investigating officer for the tragic crash of two astronauts.

Gordon GRIFFIN was installed as Illustrious Potentate of Suez Temple at the Shrine Mosque in San Angelo, Tex., in January. Gordon is District Attorney for the 35th Judicial District of Texas.

Since graduating from the University of Texas law school he has been active in the Shrine and as an advisor to the DeMolay.

Robert G. WILSON has been elected vice president and general manager of the engineering and

Gordon Griffin, Jr. '45

Robert Wilson '45

construction division of Koppers Co., Pittsburgh.

He and his wife, Cleone, and four children live at Pleasant Hills, Pa. Bill RHINESMITH has been appointed marketing vice president of Simmonds Precision Products, Inc., of Tarrytown, N . Y. Bill was with Honeywell '56-'60 in both Los Angeles and Boston offices, and then with the Autonetics Division of North American Aviation in Los Angeles. Looks like another cross country move. Bill.

RETIRED Henry PEYTON, who retired on 1 Jan., has accepted a position with Electric Boat as program manager for nuclear submarine overhauls. Evelyn expects to join him in New London this summer.

John HILL made his move on 1 Feb. NEW DUTY Larry SMITH leaves Norfolk for his deep draft, VERMILLION. Herb OGIER from CarDiv 9 to NROTC Rice University. Herb, does this help get the kids in college? George STEELE departs the blue DANIEL BOONE for the emotional halls of

OpNav. Joe DOAK from SacLant to SHENANDOAH, and it looks as tho' '45 will have the majority of the destroyer tenders. Oscar DALE forsakes the scarred streets of Saigon for the ivyed aisles of Industrial College. Gerry PATTON from Newport to the Defense Personnel Supply Center, Philadelphia. Gerry, what is the stock number of heavyweight boxing recruits this year? Fred BERRY lists Staff, SubRon 7, as new. Joe BONDS gives ODNA, SHAPE, but that was before LBJ said NO to CDG. And Don JAMES writes from Upland, Calif. No message, just location.

CONGRATULATIONS Larry WILDER: For finding and taking the time to serve as scoutmaster for that troop in Falls Church. Good men as scoutmasters make for good troops made up of good scouts. . . . Bill SHUMAN: For work as co-author of an article in Polymer Engineering and Science, "Evaluation of Methods for the Determination of Resin Advancement in Asbestos-Phenolic PrePregs" (that means preimpregnated materials). Also liked your enthusiastic comment on the 25th reunion.

FODDER FROM T H E FIELDS Hank SEARLES from Malibu, Calif., wrote for his copy of The Book. Didn't know it was going to be so good. He is now researching for his next book, but no theme mentioned. . . . Bill HOOVER from Corpus Christi, "Concur on the 'class room' concept. Am probably the lone '45er down here, so will act as the class agent." . . .

Hugh CULBREATH, Tampa: "Appreciate the work of writing the class letters; they are enjoyable to us who are no longer connected with the service. . . . Betty and I are somewhat shocked to realize while we are not quite that old, our daughter will be a freshman at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., and our son is pushing high school. Not many Navy people here in the past, but with Strike Command headquarters here, and I understand that now the Navy recognizes there is such a Command, maybe some of the class will be stationed here. We will look forward to seeing them. I get to Washington occasionally, and hope to see some of you at the luncheons."

By that time, Hugh, we may be having them at another location. The liver and onions at the March luncheon disenchanted some of our gourmets.

Jack MANHERZ from at sea (staff 2nd Fleet): "Howie McPIKE and I are trying to look alive on this staff. Both just bought Parker 45 pens; at Breezy Point we always silently salute the building number—SP-45. And on many bottles we take special note of the label—4/5 quart."

Bob CRAWLEY, Lamesa, Tex.: "Bob was in bed sick one night and decided to test the longdistance lines, anywhere in U. S. for $ 1 . Called S H I P M A T E

ager of the Manned Flight Booster Program. He was named manager, advanced programs, in November 1962. Ed and Rosemary and their nine children live at 2407 Pennington Drive, Wilmington, Del. 19803.

Marshall STEVES, president of Steves Sash and Door Co. in San Antonio, Tex., has been named president of HemisFair 1968, the first major international exposition ever scheduled for the southwest. Dedicated to the cultural and industrial progress of North and South America, HemisFair will also celebrate the 250di birthday of San Antonio. It will be held from 15 April to 15 Oct. 1968. Marshall, Patsy and their three boys live at 202 Geneseo Road, San Antonio, Tex. In May of last year, Bill SIMPSON was relieved as CO of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron 5 at Quonset Point and reported to USS LEXINGTON, Pensacola, as navigator. Bill, June and Karen are living in Qtrs. 31-4, NAS Pensacola.

My old Academy "wife," Pablo STUEVE, has moved to Peoria, 111., where he has a new job The idea of living in Bancroft Hall, naturally, as project engineer for LeTourneau-Westinghouse. has never been done, but why not—with proper Pablo, Margaret and their six children (two are thought, planning, and attention to detail. The in college) live at 2938 W. Parkwood Drive, Commandant of the Academy may be a Look Peoria. Hard to believe that it has been 20 years Aliver by '69. That 20-Year After Book gets me since Pablo and I have seen each other! Dick excited each time I read it. STAY ALIVE WITH SULLIVAN received a Master's degree in business '45." Having been in on the planning for the 20-year ceremonial ball, I know the time this administration from Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., last May. Dick is chief, laser products reliatakes. It is a mighty project, requiring mighty bility and test at the Orlando Div. of Martin plans and much effort for what would be unforgettable results. The new class officers will be Co. Dick, Elinor and three children live at 1125 Glen Arden Way, Altemonte Springs, Fla. considering it. How about you!!!

Hdle HUME in Maryland, Jack WILHELM in D. C , George BROWN in El Cajon, Calif., Sam GORSLINE in D. C , and Red STAUBITZ in Ohio. Subject? 25-year reunion."

Here are some of Bob's enthusiastic comments: "How about a class reunion at the Academy during the summer of '69. June Week in July, with the men folks staying in one wing, the women folks in another, and actually picking them up for dates, etc. If we start soon enough, we could have 8 0 % of our class there with their unmarried offsprings. Would take lots of coordination, but '45 could do it, and became the envy of all the classes. Might even invite all the classes, '42 through '47, so we would have all of them there that we went to school with. We civilians with imagination can help the Service brothers.

Our class was the 100th to graduate. The silver anniversary of the 100th graduating class. Possibly TV coverage for the big buildup, and national publicity. No cost to the Academy; all of us would pay our own way."

Congratulations to all the June graduates, but more specially, congratulations to all the parents of June graduates!!

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Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR, USS TULARE (AKA-112) FPO San Francisco 96601

USS TULARE steamed into Pearl Harbor this morning (19 Feb.) and as I write this the port to my room very neatly frames the ARIZONA Memorial. Also, as I write this, all the ships at sea are receiving word of the death of Fleet Admiral Nimitz. Made me feel rather close to history to look out over Pearl Harbor from the bridge of the TULARE and realize that from here Admiral Nimitz engineered one of the greatest naval victories of all time.

Early in the afternoon Al and Frances ANDERSON came on board with their two boys and we had a nice chat as I showed them the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of an AKA. Al is a chaplain in the Army stationed at Tripler Army Medical Center. Shordy after that I received a phone call from Hank PHELPS. We enjoyed hashing over the Reserve Program over drinks and steaks at a place in downtown Honolulu and later on took in the floor show at Ft. DeRussy. All the while EUie was home taking care of a house full of sick children!

Ed SHEEHY, formerly manager of advanced programs, Hercules Powder Co.'s chemical propulsion division, has been transferred to the explosives division and placed on special assignment. Ed took ordnance engineering PG training at the P. G. School and M. I. T. where he studied nuclear pyhsics and chemistry and earned his Master's degree in chemistry from Lehigh University in 1954.

While on active duty, Ed was head of the guided missile propulsion R&D branch in BuOrd and was one of the United States members of the NATO group of experts on propellants and explosives. After he resigned from the Navy on 1 June 1960, Ed joined Hercules as Rocket Research Department superintendent at Allegany Ballistics Lab. and in January 1962 was appointed assistant manager of the Research Division there.

Three months later he was transferred to Hercules home office in Wilmington, Del., as project manA P R I L /

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Bill Toutant '46, Eileen and children.

Eileen Toutant wrote a short note last Oct. to say, "Bill and I wish we could have been at the anniversary dinner—it sounded great. . . .

1 suppose you've received a few more notices about other parents of 8 or more, who also deserve a cartoon award. Here's proof of our qualifications (see picture). If you think 1 mention this just because we're proud of the 8 wonderful kids God sent us—you're right!" The Toutants live at 3513 Graham Rd., Louisville, Ky., where Bill is naval architect and ass't chief engineer at the Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co. Dorothy and I had an hour-long visit with Jack TAYLOR just before I deployed while he was out on business from Washington. He has submitted his request to retire and hopes it will become effective 1 Sept. He says that Doe is working long and hard in commercial real estate and hopes that shell be able to make enough money to support him in his old age!

Bob TISDALE was relieved as CO USS MULLINNIX last Sept. and is now on duty in the Surface Missile Systems Project Office in the Munitions Bldg., Washington, D. C. Their address is 2603 Stirrup Lane, Alexandria, Va. Nancy says: "We are within five minutes of Mount Vernon in an area called Stratford Landing, and are able to walk the fields once trod by George."

Hank WADDELL retired from the Navy on 1 July last year and is now working for North American Aviation in Cocoa Beach (the Cape, that is) as a quality engineer in the Apollo Program.

Jerry and Hank give their address as 4000 Ocean

Beach Blvd., Cocoa Beach, Fla. Had a talk on the phone with Jim VAUGHAN in San Diego on a two weeks' Reserve "acdutra" in USS SOUTHERLAND. TULARE was at sea during those two weeks

also and Jim and I just couldn't get together on our operating schedules. He is still a meteorologist for the Army and a LCDR in the Naval Reserve.

Jim and Robin live at 43 Friehage Dr., N.E., Sierra Vista, Ariz. Whizzer and Toby WHITE'S oldest son, John, entered the Academy last summer with the class of '69. He was home at Chrismias— 1025 E. Comstock Ave., Glendora, Calif., to see his new sister, Lucy, then 3 months old, for the first time. Whizzer still works for Aerojet-General.

Had a nice evening visit with Chuck and Libby WILLIAMS at their home at 2811 Mainway Dr., Los Alamitos, Calif., while TULARE was in Long Beach loading for deployment. Chuck is navigator in USS KEARSARGE. Don ISELIN, in a letter received before I deployed, says: "We did discuss the Company sponsorship proposal for the USNA midshipmen and found a lukewarm reception. However, our conclusion was that the idea is worth exploring further, and we would be pleased to have you carry it to the class through Shipmate." The idea, as ouriined by the Superintendent, USNA, is that each class is asked to sponsor a company in the Brigade organization.

While the early emphasis is on contributions to get a company wardroom properly furnished, the more important aspect of this project is the establishment of liaison and a bond of comradeship between the midshipmen of today and those of earlier days. Representatives of classes which have already sponsored companies have found their contact with the midshipmen to be a rich and rewarding experience—and the midshipmen in turn gready appreciate the interest and helping hand of the alumni. In those cases where there is no company numbered to correspond to a class (the anchor company in a brigade parade is the 36th) an available company, subject to class approval, will be assigned to a class which indicates a desire to undertake a sponsorship. A single class will be designated as the sole sponsor of a single company where possible, but in some cases combinations will be necessary. Some of the younger classes with insufficient funds for full sponsorship may be designated for maintenance and liaison as co-sponsor with an older class which has provided the initial contribution.

If you have ideas on this subject and would like to express them, drop me a line and I will forward your letter on to Don, who adds: "It seems that I am remaining in the Washington area almost as long as j'ou are on the west coast. I have just been transferred from the Navy Yard to the Bureau of Yards and Docks, where I am Comptroller and Director of Programs. An interesting job to say the least."

Jack Langille '46 takes command of DesDiv 213

Jack LANGILLE appears to be the second classmate to relieve in a major command so far. Since Jack and I were classmates even as far back as Columbia Military Academy, it was a real thrill to be there to witness the event. Ed FIELD has a DesDiv on the east coast but, unfortunately, I wasn't able to make that one. Oh well, on to Vietnam!

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Sec'y, Cdr. Jack M. Stevens, USN COMCVSG-50, NAS Key West, Fla. 33040 Wash. Corr., Cdr. C. E. Donaldson, III,USN 1824 Baldwin Dr., McLean, Va. 22101

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS We had our regular monthly luncheon at the Officers' Club, Washington Navy Yard, on 2 March. Evidently the word is getting around that the first Wednesday is the day, since we had a number of visitors. Attending were: Bert Merrill, Art Holfield, Floyd Bowdey, Frank Hunter, Dick HoUyer, Walt Johnson (our realtor . . . ) , Blaine Davidson, Bob Turnage, Walt Day, Bob Groover, Matty Matthews, Bob van Osdol, Larry Marousek, Jack Fisher, Sam Linder, Ed Appert, Bob Smith, Archie Updike, John Urban, Ralph Moon, Tom Brenner, Doug YuengUng, Ed Hill, Jim Hill, Robbie Brady, Jeep Donaldson, and Don Riley; and from Annapolis, Bruce Maxon, George Brungot and John Prehn. Quite a nice crowd, indeed.

Our Annapolis visitors announced their intent to try to organize another of those wonderful midApril "drag" afternoons at USNA after the fashion of the outstandingly successful party of the same nature last April. Our visitors included Ed HILL from Turkey, Sam LINDER, en route ENTERPRISE where he will be exec, and Ralph MOON from New Canaan, Conn. We were especially happy to see Bob van OSDOL back in shape after a long convalescence following his heart attack.

Carmen and Bruce MAXON spent 10 days in San Juan recendy with her folks. Bruce reports that they had a blast and that it is good for the soul. They saw local resident Bob O'SHEA while they were there.

Hope Bowdey is in the hospital for a slipped disc operation and we wish her a very speedy recovery.

Matty MATTHEWS has just had his tour extended by virtue of assignment as executive assistant and senior aide to VAdm. Semmes at BuPers.

Congratulations, Matty.

Local members of the 18th Co. gathered together recendy at the home of Don and Helen RILEY in McLean, Va., for dinner and sea stories. The Rev. Bill SCURLOCK and Mary Jane came in from Reston, Va., where Bill has a parish. There was occasion to bid farewell to Sam LINDER, on his way to ENTERPRISE. Bob BRADY and Larry MAROUSEK briefed the group on plans for the big 20th reunion. Their wives, Pat and Jeanne, lent moral support and kept their stories clean and straight. Jack and Mickey SULLIVAN were on hand from Philadelphia where Jack has his own firm as a manufacturer's representative. Mers and Barbara BOOTH came over from Bethesda. Mers is with AEC in Germantown.

Jack and Kit FISHER told of their forthcoming move from Falls Church to the Philippines. Jack is presently on duty in BuDocks. Bob and "DJ" THOMPSON were on hand to tell about their recent tour in Scotland where Bob was supply officer of HANLEY. Bob is now on duty in Special Projects Office. Web GOKEY (5th Batt.—that's bad??) dropped in from next door to request that they "hold down the noise," but he was promptly sworn as a member-pro-tem of Co. 18 and was not heard from again. Finally, Stan and Marie GARY reported in from Severna Park, Md. Evidently an outstanding party. They certainly had a quorum!

20TH REUNION NEWS Biggest news is that the first remrns from Flyer No. 1 show that we have positive indications from more than 300 people (150 classmates plus 150 spouses). Since our planning figure was 300, we're extremely pleased.

Our whole approach to this 20th reunion ball is that it is to be a once-in-a-lifetime affair, not just another dinner-dance. The excellent response makes it look like our approach is getting across.

We have positive indications from two of our classmates in South America (Rafael CEVALLOS 62

and Nat HELLER), and many from the west coast. Mail in your data sheet now! Let us hear from you.

We'll see you at the Sheraton-Park and on board the SS BAY BELLE! The 20th is not far away.

Regards from Washington,

depart, wanting to know if CORRY made it safely out of the harbor. He did!

It is almost reunion time and it truly sounds like a dream weekend that the D. C. group has planned. If the good Lord is willing and the creeks don't rise we'll see you in Washington in early June.

JACK

JEEP

From Newport, R. I., Al and Margaretta PICKERT announced the birth on 8 Dec. of their fifth child and fourth son, Alan Matthew. Par for the course—^Al was away in San Juan as CO of GAINARD, one of the Destroyer Officers' School ships on a cruise at the time. He regrets that the time of the big reunion will find them again at sea in the midst of another cruise. Career officer students spend approximately 4 0 % of their sixmonth course on the school ships prior to reporting to Atlantic and Pacific destroyers as department heads. Al notes that aside from the few gray hairs associated with enduring 30 different students make pier landings in one day with his ship, the task is a most satisfying one because of the real need for the practical experience they provide. Our Congrats on the new arrival, Al and Margaretta.

A newsy note from Prexy Ernie FRITZ written on his normal, expensive, personal stationery. Ernie was in Oceana for a CVS Natops conference and had a chance to meet several classmates. He saw Duncan and Louise PACKER at a SubLant party being held at Oceana. Frank ADAMS was passing through TAD to Dam Neck for courses prior to relieving as CO USS BEN FRANKLIN. His family will remain in Honolulu for the time being. Also had a brief chat at lunch with Swoose SNEAD who is at Oceana commanding VA-46. Joe ELMER had departed the day Ernie arrived, headed for a deployment in SARATOGA as CO, VF-103. Attending the conference with Ernie was A. D. CAINE as air boss of the BON HOMME RICHARD.

James Winston '47

The enclosed picture of Jim WINSTON recognizes a tremendous honor that has just been bestowed on him. In his capacity as president. The Paramount Line, Inc., he was elected president of the Greeting Card Assn. at a recent meeting of its board of directors in Washington, D. C. Jim is also a member of the board of directors of the association which represents more than 60 major greeting card publishers in the United States and this year is celebrating its 25th year. Jim is a native of Steubenville, Ohio, and has been president of Paramount since 1964. Jim and Gloria and their three children live at 515 Wayland Ave., Providence, R. I. He certainly has been an active '47 booster at every opportunity and may I join the rest of the class in expressing our congratulations for the latest achievement.

Fred BOUWMAN tells me that he was able to visit with Bill AIKLEN here in Key West recendy. Bill has the CORRY and was here for just a few days operating out of Key West. His parents were here for a visit and listened attentively as Bill was complaining to Fred about the hazards of maneuvering a DD in and out of Key West. At least the parents were impressed because Fred received a long distance call from Bill's father at 0630, 30 minutes after Bill was scheduled to

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Sec'y, LCdr. Robert W. Hanby, USN 1864 Branchwood St., Norfolk, Va. 20113 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. S. K. Moore, USN 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va. 22302

Dick HOFFMAN, though honorably retired from collecting the dope and writing this column, still continues to be just about my only source of information. Here is an excerpt from a letter of Dick's dated 27 Feb.: "Sorry to have missed the party last night and in so doing to fail to bring you the so-called class files. I will get them to you."

The party referred to was the class dinner-dance at the Army and Navy Country Club, which was arranged with real finesse by Paul MARTENSON. Dick was otherwise occupied and could not be there, but came through with some interesting information: "After digging out from the snow down here (Pax River), (Ed: You know, the blizzard of '66), I spent two weeks at Springboard. The first night at the club 1 ran into Dick Adams (CO VF-14) on board FDR, and Paul Corrigan, ship's company. Later ran into Dale Marsh, CO of VP-5, a Jax P-2 squadron. Although I didn't see them, Bill Fisher is still senior naval officer in the Virgin Islands and George Marshall is admin officer of NavSta Roosy Roads."

The party at Army-Navy was great fun, with a sit-down dinner, dancing, and lots of chatter.

Among those who arrived and brought their own bottles, variously camouflaged in accordance with an old Virginia custom, were: Don and Deborah Harvey, Bill and Iris Arnold, Bill and Kitty Bacon, Ben and Alice Goodman, Ed and Mary Cummings, Oz and Quinnith Ozborn, Bill and Edwina Lee, Brad and Mary Daley, George and Fran Goodwin, Paul and Carol Martenson, George and Alva Leighton, Cab and Libby Davis, Sumner and Jane Moore, Dick and Liz Scott, Walter and Norma Kraus, Paul and Evelyn Riley, Ed and Pauline Sutter, Bill and Virginia Bartow, Ben and Bobbie Bendel, T. F. and Lurene Dedman, Jack and Barbara Robbins, Bill and Anita Dittmar, Dwight and Lynn Wadsworth, John and Margaret Bruner, Jim and Norma Greer, Bob and Rosalie Doxey, Jim and Rose Ahem, Gordon and Barbara Phelps, Jack and Joan Ryder, Bob and Millie Tobin, Perry and Grace Nelson, Sonia and Jim McHugh. Bob Smith was there with a date, and the following were there with their wives: Jack Parks, Bill Clark, Jack Bell, and Bill Newell.

If this sounds dubious, it surely is not intended.

The fact is that as neophyte corresponding secretary, I failed to come away from the party with their wives' first names, and my local class roster must have gone to the cleaners. I will do better next time.

Jack PARKS, as has been his custom, took many pictures, but though your secretary elicited a promise from Jack that he would send along prints for the column, there just has not been enough time for the transaction. Maybe next month's issue. Incidentally, I am happy to report that Bob Tobin's recovery from last summer's accident has been remarkable. He and Millie cut a mean rug at the party.

Among the items sent along by Dick Hoffman was a letter from Stan GARNER which I found most interesting, and will reproduce here, since this column is the only place where classmates can air their opinions classwide. Stan has never been one to hide his light under any sort of bushel, rock, or other encumbrance. Besides, most of the letter is Stan's Reporting-In contribution—with picture, and these are rare indeed. Thanks, Stan.

S H I P M A T E

"I don't write this kind of letter very often, and I haven't been especially active in alumni affairs, but I would like to offer one point of view which isn't often heard in the columns of Shipmate.

"I am personally at a loss to understand how the classes of 1948A and 1948B have come to be combined. The experiences of the two classes have been quite different, starting with our undergraduate days and proceeding right through our naval experiences, and I have always thought, with a detached kind of indifference, that 1948A rather had the best of it, substantially better promotion opportunities, etc. At any rate, there has never been a good reason for combining the classes that I have known of, except a certain amount of sentiment on the one hand and a quite obvious guilt feeling on the part of some of the 48A people on the other.

trade as a commander, USNR, and I am at present CO of Reserve Submarine Division 1-41.

In my spare time I have a sufficiency of collateral duties, such as being a member of the Rhode Island Governor's Advisory Council on the cultural arts.

Bill, his wife Margaret and their three children reside at 6537 Washburn Court, McLean, Va.

WASHINGTON AREA At the March class luncheon in the Washington area (first Wednesday at O'Donnell's) the attendance was a record high. The overflow crowd is believed to be one of the largest gathering of classmates outside of the homecoming events. Thirtyfive were present, including the following: Rusty Merrill (OpNav), Demy Demyttenaere (BuShips), Mickey McDonald (OpNav), Roger Peard (MC, BuWeps), Bob Brown (BuSandA), Bill Lynch, (BuShips), Spike Gardand (OpNav), Gene Reiher Stanton Gardner '48 (DCA), Bill Dotson (SPO), Jack Beniot (DC atty), Harry Train (SecNav Ofc), John Barrow (IBM), Ace Boughton (Missiles & Rockets Mag), Chuck Howe (BuDocks), Bill Read (OSD Staff), Bill Bodager (NWC), Chuck Martin (BuShips), "Still, to have two classes or one seems to be Al Jenks (BuShips), Walt Schriefer (NavCossa matter of of little importance except for the way Act), Lou Dillman (BuPers), Luke Capone in which it was done. It would have been easy (DCA), Ned Majesky (BuPers), Bob Clark (Buenough to take a vote, but although I have always Weps), Bill Bryan (NavCossAct), John Dobson taken Shipmate I do not recall that this was "I don't see many of my old Navy buddies, al(CivDef Ofc), John Metcalf (InSurv), Ed O'Condone. There was a very brief proposal, to which though occasionally I run into a comfortable old nell (Sperry), Jim Webber (BuShips), Frank I for one objected. Then through the operation of pal such as John Vinsel or Dave Hartshorn because machinery totally unrelated to the democratic pro- of the proximity of the War College. All who Benson (Op Nav), George Morgan (BuShips), Ted Hammer (BuShips), Jim Hurst (USAF H q ) , cess the two Shipmate columns were combined are in the vicinity of my home at 10 Meadowcrest and the two classes were one. In what smoke-filled Drive, Riverside, Rhode Island, are cordially in- Jim Carpenter (ASWS Proj), Bob Needham (USMC H q ) and Dick Wolford (SPO). We had room did all this occur? vited to stop by. An alarming number of my several new attendees (or at least new for this friends seem to be on station on FBM subma"However, the classes were so badly mangled by tour in D. C.) who briefly brought the group rines, however. the blunder through which they were separated up-to-date on their activities in recent years.

"I realize that nothing I say about the two Among these "new" attendees were Jim Webber, that it probably doesn't matter too much whether they are recombined or not. But what, may I ask, classes is going to change anything—the shotgun Bill Bryan, Bod Needham, Jim Carpenter and wedding of the two halves of the class or the Frank Benson. is the logic in having the twentieth anniversary in 1967? Having given way in such a mysterious embarrassingly absurd anniversary—but at least I We had one out of town rep, Ed O'Connell, who have aired my feelings on the subjects." way to the desires of the senior citizens to have is with Sperry Co. in Syosset, N . Y. Ed, Nancy and only one class, is it necessary for '48B to give way Incidentally, Paul QUINN has high hopes for their children Richard 16, Kathleen 14, Neal 12, again on the anniversary date? There will be a his Navy crew this year, and anyone who is in Mary Lou 11, Patricia 9, and Brian 5, live at gap between classes anyway, and it doesn't seem the Annapolis area this spring when the races 148 Rollstone Ave., West Sayville, Long to me to matter on which side of '48 this gap are on is cordially invited to come out, spectate, Island, N . Y. occurs. I think that it is presumptuous and arro- and cheer Paul's boys on. gant of '48A to even consider forcing this early Demy Demyttenaere reported that Bill and I close this month's column with an appeal anniversary (as they seem to have the power to Joan SAMPLE visited Washington, D. C , in to you for some dope.

Any and all information do) on us. I'm sure that my absence won't affect February while Bill was attending a one-week will be gratefully accepted. the anniversary one way or another, but while PERT course. Bill is ResIndMan at Pordand, Ore. I would most certainly attend in 1968 I will most certainly not in 1967.

CORRESPONDENCE We received the following note from Al "Having totally alienated all good '48ers by Sec'y, Cdr. Wm. C. Dotson, USN LINDY with some Philadelphia news, a short the above, I will brief you on my not particularly P. O. Box 2651, Washington, D. C. 20013 while back: exciting movements since graduation.

FORTY-NINER OF THE MONTH "Dear Bill: Joy and I have received so many "I spent my first four commissioned years in plugs in Shipmate that I feel compelled to give destroyers. The first was the USS HANSON. She you some news from the class of 1949 home operated quite a bit with the Sixth Fleet in the Med, and during her first deployment she was building front. station ship for Dr. Ralph Bunce when he "At the annual Home Builders' Convention in arranged the U. N . peace between Israel and the Chicago in December, I ran across Gene Leslie.

Arab nations. She also put in some time in the He is now a builder of fame and forwne in New Seventh Fleet during the Korean action, both with Mexico, and his activities extend from Roswell to William Kremidas '49 TF-77 and with die jeep carrier group. I was for Los Alamos. He and his lovely wife Shirley and a while the CAP air controller for the latter. After four children are now living in Los Alamos. the HANSON, I attended electronics material school "For myself, I was elected president of the and was assigned to USS MELVIN. My next four Home Builders' Assn. of Philadelphia and Suburbyears were spent, respectively, at sub school, USS an Counties this year. We have completed buildHARDHEAD, and the staff of ComSubRon Ten. ing apartment operations in Reading and Allentown, and are now immersed in urban renewal ac"Following a two-year tour in the NROTC unit tivities in the city of Philadelphia. Joy and I plan at Brown University in Providence I succumbed Following graduation from the Naval Academy to take a trip to Turkey and Israel this month. to the enticements of scholarship and resigned Bill reported to USS MIDWAY, where he served Will see you at Homecoming, next year." my regular commission to enter the field of English until January 1951. At that time he was ordered and American literature. At the end of five years Also, Ace BOUGHTON writes about a trip he to USS BLOCK ISLAND for duty until 1952. That of graduate study I took the Ph.D. at Brown, and and Mickey made to the west coast recently: summer he went to Monterey for a three-year tour am now a full-time member of the Department "Dear Bill: As you know, Mickey and I just at the Navy Postgraduate School. of English there, administering the freshman returned from three weeks on the west coast. I Bill reported next to Newport, R. I., for duty English program. My rank is assistant professor, was working the weekdays and then enjoying since—alas—one must start at the bottom in the in the destroyer BEATTY. Following two years in '49er hospitality on the weekends.

BEATTY, he changed his designator to that of scholarly world even after a career of valiandy "We spent one weekend with George and Judy driving men-of-war. My first book is due off the engineering duty officer. He then served a tour on ComServLant Staff, followed by assignment as Schuchart and their five lovely children in Seattle. press in August, tentative title The Captain's Best As usual, the Schucharts were great hosts—Mickey Mate; the Whaling Journal of Mary Chipman officer-in-charge of METU-4. and I had a wonderful time. The enclosed photoLawrence. I have another underway on the AmerFrom 1959 to 1962 Bill was at the Philadelphia ican novelist Harold Frederic.

Naval Shipyard. He next was ordered to the graph was taken in San Francisco where we met "I am married to the former Katherine Ham- Naval Academy where he taught electrical engi- George and Judy again and Skip and Betty Sweitzer. The girls spent four days antiquing, neering for two years. In 1964 he reported to brecht (well known in certain Navy circles) and have two fine boys, Stanton, Jr., age 10, and Washington, D. C , where he is currendy work- shopping, and recalling the days when George, Skip and I went through flight training together ing for the Director, Surface Missiles Systems.

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'49ers—San Diego

"Dear Classmates and Friends: The boys and I are grateful for all of the wonderful years that God granted us the privilege and joy of loving and living with Norm and knowing his wonderful and tender ways. He made our lives so happy, so rich and so complete. We feel he truly lives in our hearts and lives each day.

"Each of you and the Navy has held such an important place in our lives and I want to thank you on behalf of Norm, the boys and myself for your part in having contributed so much joy during our many associations these past years.

I shall cherish the memories of the wonderful times Norm, the boys and I have shared with you.

"We shall always remember with deep gratitude your prayers, the loving thoughts, deeds and concern, your helpful hands and advice, the beautiful flowers, the comforting letters, cards and calls, the stadium chair you've dedicated in memory of Norm and all of your many other kindnesses.

"You have given so much of yourselves—in so many wonderful ways! For each of you and for everything you've done, we truly and gratefully say thank you. Lovingly, Glady and Boys."

The monthly lunch at Hogate's was attended by Palmerton, Zeph Schultz, Farrell, Still, Dunaway, Dick Duggan, Van Kleeck, Diehl, Maynard, Hammett, Moxley and Dusty Dunham. Since we failed to make muster, we've depended for accuracy on our reporter's memory. So if we overlooked your name, we'll make it up next time. Lee PALMERTON is back to the cockpit and out to Vietnam in F-lOO's. Lee has been a guiding light on our Washington executive committee so we'll miss him in the months ahead.

Our reporter tells us that Dick DUGGAN is ordered to Joint Service Staff College, Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England. Good show.

and then spent two years together in Brunswick, Maine. Needless to say, San Francisco isn't the same nor are the three couples.

"George is VP of his company—Wright Construction Co. of Seattle; Skip is on the management team at Raytheon working on a couple of projects he is not at liberty to discuss. (The enSec'y, Cdr. D. W. Knutson, USN closed photo shows Betty Sweitzer, George Schu10203 Montgomery Ave. chart, Judy Schuchart, Skip Sweitzer, and Mickey Kensington, Md. 20795 Boughton.)

Hello to one and all—many things have and "We went to San Diego also on the trip. The Buders had a surprise '49er party for us—it was a are happening since last we had a chance to read this column. ball. The enclosed photograph shows Mickey and The annual business meeting and class party myself—Roger and Mickey Boh, Bill and Ann Jones, and Dee Butler. In front is Warren Parr, of the BIG CLASS wdl be at Boiling AFB on Eileen Butler and Bev Morhardt. (Robert Mor- 7 May. The agenda includes business from six to hardt is at sea as CO of a F8 squadron in Vietnam. seven, with cocktails then until eight, and informal dinner and dancing from eight on. It Saw his picture in the Sunday San Diego Union at should be a ball!

Gook Survival School.)

The class ballots are on the way, and you should "Eileen and Dee were our hosts again and have received your ballot by now. Please vote naturally we had a fine weekend renewing old acquaintances. San Diego has changed muchly, and send in to me your choices on the ballot. If you have not received a ballot by the time you but not the warm and wonderful people there. read this column, drop me a request and one "Mickey made a trip to NAS Lemoore to see will be in the return mail to permit you to exerKatie and Jim Donovan. Jim just took over as CO VA-196 and will be coming east for some cise your vote. This is important to our class new birds this summer. He just returned from growth in the crucial years ahead.

The executive committee is looking forward to Vietnam in the BONNY DICK. Mickey saw many an extremely interesting business meeting with other people at Lemoore; we should set up a the election also of six officers for annual offices: Lemoore correspondent to keep '49 on top of Executive vice-president, treasurer, secretary, and what's happening there. three members of the executive committee. You "We also saw Max Bailey and Uncle Warren at all come to the annual meeting. It will be interhis apartment for dinner in L. A. Both were in esting; something like a nominating convention. excellent voice. Mr. Parr served excellent marPlease come. tinis, good food, and a late hour for all assembled.

Mrs. Dick Richardson and her children reThe whole trip was wonderful for both of us. '49 quested that we pass on her words of gratitude: made it that way."

"Will you please express to Dick's friends and classmates our sincere appreciation for the flowers they sent. They will be in our thoughts and prayers always."

Sec'y, Cdr. J. J. Pausner, Jr., USN The February formal dinner of the class in the 2544 Marymount Ave., Vienna, Va. 22180 Washington area was held at the National MedWe hear by the grapevine that the ten year ical Center and a large group was in attendance. book may make the deadline to be a sixteen year George Yeager put together a fine party. Herb book. Any subscriber who has not sent in his Zoehrer arranged for the speaker, the Hon. John current address, please do.

Read, Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense for The following letter was received from Norm Family Housing. He gave a warmly received adTHOM's widow with the request that it be pub- dress on the DOD studies, plans and programs on Defense family housing. The discussion period was lished:

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also interesting and provocative. We are indebted to the Hon. Mr. Read for his candid talk and lively discussion period answers.

The address listings are still in revision due to the constant flow of our class in and out of this metropolis, but at last count 125 of us on active duty or civilian status reside here.

The graduated classes of the Naval Academy have been invited by the Superintendent to sponsor one company at USNA in order to assist the company in building up a representative spirit of the Long Blue Chain by informal cooperative ties between the graduated groups and the new links being forged at USNA. Your executive committee is studying the proposal, and will shortly have a recommended position for your approval.

P.S. The annual meeting will also discuss plan and party for the Homecoming of '51 in '66, our FIFTEENTH YEAR IN T H E LONG BLUE CHAIN. P.P.S. Take care, and write in, send pictures, send news, and most of all, SUPPORT T H E CLASS.

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Sec'y, LCdr. Richard W. Case, USN Science Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

From Lakewood, Calif., Bill CAMPBELL writes: "If Jim Lovell can take time from his very busy schedule, the least we on the second team can do is follow his example.

"I'm still working on Apollo at North American —nearly 5 years now and that's more than a new record for me to stay in one place.

"I've been attending the Los Angeles chapter meetings on the third Wednesday of each month and really have been enjoying them except for the dearth of '52 out here. Art Knowles, who lives in the San Fernando Valley and works at Lytton, has been to two meetings. This last meeting, two additional classmates came, Dick Berg and Sam Wiegand. It was a drag affair so I got to meet their wives. Unfortunately, I was elected treasurer of the L. A. chapter and that means litde chance to visit with classmates and friends as well as cold or no dinner, so I got litde news.

"Walt Gragg, now known as Steve London, is in Hollywood, but I haven't seen him yet."

Zug ZASTROW, who is on FAW 8 staff, home based at Moffett Field, Sunnyvale, Calif., but currently deployed to Sangley Point, did quite a job of classmate hopping en route and writes as follows: "Frank HAUFF spent a week with us last summer while he was on the west coast; Frank works for McDonnell Aircraft Corp. right in his home town of St. Louis. He bragged about what the Cardinals were going to do—but I haven't heard from him since the season ended.

"In December I saw Bill Banks who is with ComWesSeaFron Staff at Treasure Island. I also saw Jim Brickel at Moffett Field in December; I believe he is with NASA to be transferred to Paris soon. Also in December I saw C. C. Smith in Hawaii. He was on his way west flying photo-recon for one of the carriers.

"During the Christmas holidays our family took a trip down to San Diego—just to go to Disneyland, the San Diego zoo and to see all our friends in the San Diego area. We spent the first night on the trip with Dick and Marilyn Berg in Rolling Hills (suburb of L. A.). Dick is working for Booz-AUen, an engineering research and analysis firm. Dick mentioned that the Sam Wiegands live very close to them in Rolling Hills. In San Diego we spent a few days and New Year's eve with Paul and Jane Tetreault.

"Dick Kersteen, my old roommate, lives about a mile from our home in San Jose and is with Westinghouse in Sunnyvale.

"Just after receiving my January Shipmate in which I read about Earl Chinn's travels out in SHIPMATE

the Pacific, I headed out myself. When I got to Barber's Point in Hawaii I met and talked with C. W. (Curly) Quinn. I also spoke with Dick Pohli on the phone and he filled me in on the classmates in the Hawaiian area. " T h e next night I spent in Guam and visited with John MacPherson. He was busy as his wife had just come home from the hospital with their 5th child. I talked with Earl Chinn on the phone as well as Bill Wyatt. I just didn't have enough time to see everyone. Earl said he was coming out this way soon, so I hope to see him in Subic.

"Dick Hedges is right here in the same BOQ— Dick just checked into Patrol Squadron 28 a few months ago.

"So in the last two months I've seen quite a few classmates and it is always an enjoyable experience. I hope that any classmates that are out this way will stop at Sangley or let me know they are in the area and we can get together."

I can't let as distinguished a classmate as Zug get out without a couple of stories about him.

One would have to be from the '50 Army game.

Navy's ball on its own 40, and Zug calling three quarterback sneaks in a row. The first good for 12 yards, the second for 8 and the third good for only about 6. After that Army's defense was so shaken that anything worked! Another story was told me by a dentist who was practicing for his state board exams by installing gold fillings, a procedure in which the gold is inserted and then pounded into place by a small pneumatic hammer, a tedious and uncomfortable process. It seems Zug was the only patient who had ever gone to sleep on him. Some of the professors I work with also testify to Zug's ability to make zzzzzzz's.

If I'm going to tell stories about everyone who writes in, it's no wonder I don't get much mail.

Next I'm going to institute a policy of telling stories at the expense of those of you who don't write.

Roy APPELL, practicing medicine in Deerfield Beach, Fla., dropped a note to say that Bill and Joyce STEELE and their two daughters, who now live in Orlando, had recently spent the weekend with them in the sunny south and to send best wishes to those of us who live in the frozen north.

In Orlando, Bill had crossed paths with classmate Bob GAY and Kit Carson '51, but Roy didn't include any other dope on them.

Tom LYONS, at Armed Forces Staff College, gives the present on board count as: Dean Aldern, John Beecher, "Doc" Collins, Tom himself, Paul Mulloy, Paul Peters, Tom Schurr, Jim Snyder, Joe Wilkinson, Bob Wilson, and Jerry Zacharias, all USN, plus Bill Maxson and Dick Saxer, majors in the USAF. A group picture is hopefully promised.

Come June I expect to leave these hallowed halls and head west looking for classmates myself en route to USS CAVALIER. Anyone in the market for a lovely home with a view of South River and the Chesapeake, all only about 45 minutes from Washington, please let me know. The price is only an arm and a leg and a pint of blood monthly thereafter.

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What has happened to all the mail? Hasn't anybody any class news of interest? I'm sure you didn't all stop running into long-lost classmates and having babies and all that kind of stuff! Well, even if '54 doesn't have a reputation as writers, we should be getting a reputation as businessmen and bigmouths.

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As far as the businessmen part is concerned, I've received 3 news releases in the last month concerning Gus ASHTON, George HIRSCH, and Skip TERRY: "Framingham, Mass., February 23, 1966—A. T. Ashton, Computer Control Company, Inc., Marketing Manager Computer Systems, has been appointed Regional Marketing Manager, Southern Region, with headquarters in Houston, Tex., according to an announcement today by Theodore W. Helweg, 3C Vice President-Marketing.

b) Initial contribution only, or c) Maintenance and liaison only.

The cost ranges are $200 to $500 initial contribution and/or $100 to $200 yearly support. A quote from Adm. Fitzgerald's letter to class secretaries, "We've heard all our life of the splendid Long Gray Line—let us now forge a link in the Long Blue Chain." Let me know your feelings on this matter, but don't ask me about class funds and how they are or can be used. I know nothing of these matters. If enough people want to support such a program, I'll undertake to set it up; but don't expect to give verbal support alone.

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"In addition to producing computers, core memory units, memory exercisers and other test instruments used in research and development, 3C is the world's largest supplier of digital logic modules today," according to Helweg. He also said, "Ashton is one of the company's foremost computer systems experts. His extensive computer market management experience will strengthen the company's expanding organization. He will direct the operation of 3C regional sales managers in eleven Southern states.

"Before joining 30 in 1964, Ashton held marketing and sales positions with IBM, Boston, Mass., Electronic Associates, Long Branch, N. J., and Information Products Corp."

Industrial Nucleonics Corp., Columbus, Ohio, manufacturers of AccuRay Process Control Systems, announces the appointment of George S. Hirsch as sales engineer assigned to the Eastern Sales Area, headquartered in Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Hirsch, who is a graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, BSME, and the University of New York State in Buffalo, MBA, joined Industrial Nucleonics Corp., in September, 1965.

"Bedford, Mass.—Edgar Terry has joined The MITRE Corporation's technical staff here, according to an announcement by R. R. Everett, Vice President-Technical Operations.

"A native of New York City, Dr. Terry received his Bachelor of Science degree from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1954, his Master of Arts degree from Maryland University in 1955 and his Doctorate from American University in 1958.

"Dr. Terry served on the scientific staff at the Office of Naval Research, Washington, D. C , from 1960-1961, on the scientific staff of the Operations Evaluation Group, Washington, D. C , from 1961-1963, and served as Director, Operations Research, Technical Operations, Inc., Burlington, Mass., from 1963-1966.

"Dr. Terry is a member of the Operations Research Society, American Statistical Association, American Ordnance Association, U. S. Naval Institute, Phi Beta Kappa, American Men of Science and is listed in Who's Who." The November issue of Shipmate contained an article by the Superintendent that concerns sponsorship by classes of individual companies of the Brigade of Midshipman. There have been no comments from our class on this matter. The Alumni Association would like to know if we care to sponsor a company by— a) Initial contribution and annual maintenance.

Sec'y, LCdr. W. G. A. Sympson, USN Dept. of Mathematics, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

BREMERTON, WASH. Representing the class of '55 at a recent alumni gathering at the Bremerton Officers' Club were Dottie and Don STUART and Mary and John M C D O N N E L L . The Stuarts have been here a year and a half and Don is ships superintendent for three ships under construction—the hydrofoil, highpoint, and two AD's. They live at 1749 N. Wycoff, Bremerton, and have a year-old son, Cameron.

The McDonnells arrived in October and John is exec of the BLUEBACK, now in sub safe overhaul and due to return to Pearl Harbor in the fall.

They are living at 2336 8th St., Bremerton, and have four children—Jeanne, Dan, Sheila and David.

NOTES OF INTEREST Charlie ZADD is back to sea-going submarines after a fine tour in New London. He and family have moved to Key West, Fla. John TYLER has orders to Vietnam. Dave MacKENZIE was selected for AEDO in Meteorology.

Don and Rita WALTERS have added one more to their collection of little ones with a new baby boy. Congratulations! This runs the total to five.

Lawrence L. HEISEL, class of '55, B.S., has joined Mutual of New York as assistant manager of its Jacksonville, Fla., life and health insurance agency. He will direct manpower development operations in the agency territory.

In 1964 he began his insurance career as a field underwriter in Jacksonville. He is a member of the National Association of Life Underwriters and local fraternal and civic organizations.

He and his wife, Sarah, have a three-year-old son. They live in Jacksonville.

Sec'y, LCdr. Donald L. Brown, USN P. O. Box 1926 Annapolis, Maryland 21402 Carl and Lee WOOTEN have made their home in Emerson, N. J., with their two children, Dianna Lee 8, and Eric Carl 7. Carl resigned from the Navy in June 1964 and joined the firm of Isotopes Inc. His last two assignments were aboard USS PLUNGER and

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Received a nice letter from Pete BENNETT who is now on the staff of the Naval War College at Newport, R. I. Before then he spent 28 months aboard USS WASHBURN in the Vietnam area. For a change in scenery, Joan and Pete took off for a 20-day "see America" tour prior to settling down in their new home in Portsmouth.

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Some of the distinguished visitors to the Newport area during the past few months have included John SLOUGH and Jerry GREEN. Pete passed along the following news which he has been able to assemble. Cliff PETERSON is flying C-130s for the Air Force from Ubon, Thailand, and is expecting to report to the Air Force Command and Staff College, Maxwell Field, Ala., next summer. Charlie MITRI was scheduled to report to Hqs. USAF last month after graduating from Oklahoma State. We will search the Pentagon for him. Bud ALEXANDER is on the SubLant staff and Con STEVENSON is aboard a nuclear sub down Norfolk way. Doc BLANCHARD, operating out of Pearl Harbor as usual, is the father of a new baby girl. Send us the details. Doc. Peter and Joan would welcome a call from any classmates passing through their area. For proof call 847-7724, Portsmouth, R. I. Carl SCHLEICHER recendy left die Navy for civilian life and was last seen heading for Europe where he plans to add the finishing touches in obtaining his Ph.D. Carl expects to remrn stateside in a few months to establish an importexport firm.

Paul "Red" FOURNIER was recendy observed on the Washington scene. He was in town for several days of briefing prior to reporting to a new assignment in France.

HOMECOMING Remember that this fall will be our tenth reunion homecoming and we all want it to be a big success. True, it is several months away, but it is not too early to start planning to attend.

As accommodations are always limited, it is necessary that we know your intentions as soon as possible. While you are thinking about it, write a note or postcard to the P. O. box stating that you plan to attend and the t>'pe of accommodations desired.

WASHINGTON When arriving in or passing through the Washington, D. C , area make contact with your secretary at OX 6-0275 or executive committee president Don KENNEDY on 524-8900.

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EAST COAST Sec'y, LCdr. Richard L. Madouse, USN 31 S. Park Drive, Arlington, Va. WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. Thomas E. Dyer, USN Box 2700, USNPGS, Monterey Calif.

The sixth meeting of the Washington chapter of the Association of the Class of 1957 was held at Alumni House on the evening of 4 March.

These members were present: Ron Marryott, Dale Hollabaugh, Howie Stoodley, Herb Bauer, Bob Warters, Fritz Warren, Charlie Hall, Maury Browne, Don Brown, Red Clevenger, Larry Goldstein, Dick Madouse, Bob Layer, Tad Walker, Ken Malley, Mike Kelly, Jack Cochrane.

The annual election of chapter officers was conducted with the following results: chairman. Bob WARTERS; vice-chairman, Red CLEVENGER; secretary, Dick MADOUSE; treasurer, Larry GOLDSTEIN, and executive committee, Chet BURCHETT, Bill TIRSCHFIELD, Ken MALLEY. The chapter voted in favor of producing a tenyear class book. We hope such an effort will prove worthwhile and bring us up to date on the whereabouts of all classmates. Leo HYATT has done a marvelous job of determining current addresses of classmates and presently accounts for 96.5% of the class of 1957. Ken MALLEY is serving as chairman of the tenth year book committee. To keep up to date there is nothing more effective than a change of address card. If permanent change of station is the order of the day, drop Ken MALLEY, 3119 Ferndale St., Kensington, Md., or your Washington, D. C , area secretary a card.

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Fades, Terry Emery, Bill Mamey, Jim Norton and Burke Ward. Word is going out to the company commanders of these men in hopes that this situation can be rectified. If anyone knows of any efforts that have already been undertaken in this area or if anyone desires to take the lead in raising funds for a chair, please notify the east coast secretary.

Looking ahead to homecoming we voted to again have the class gathering at the Bay Ridge Beach Club. Larry GOLDSTEIN is serving as homecoming chairman.

All hands in the Washington, D. C , area should keep tuned for news of a '57 spring party; Chet BURCHETT is chairman of the affair. We now have 68 class members in the WashingtonAnnapolis region and are looking forward to a big, successful party.

FROM THE MAIL BAG Fred HOWE reports he has shifted campsites from sunny Calif, and First Fleet Staff to 3905 Rumford Lane, Virginia Beach, Va., with orders to BIDDLE. He reports that Bruce and Paulene BENNINGTON hosted a real swinging party for the Norfolk '57 gang which was attended by Fred and Dianne Howe, Bob and Ann Atwell, Don and Robin Mitchell, Clay and Fran Parnell, Bill and Kendra Palmer, Ray and Barbara Stoetzer, Tom and Judy Cook, Hal and Ginger Reichart, and Barbara and Jake Woolman. Of particular note was Fran Parnell's outstanding performance in the pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey game.

Larry HANSEN dropped us a line to report that since leaving the USAF in '60 he has been living in London working as a journalist and running a small magazine. Larry has plans at the present time to make a career as town planner and is taking related courses at London University.

Best of luck in your new career and your studies, Larry.

Frank BAULCH let us know that he has recently received orders as aide to Gen. Butcher, Senior Officer, United Nations Command, MAC Korea, and will be reporting for duty there shordy.

Frank is presendy on duty in the San Diego area.

It sounds like a very challenging and exciting set of orders. We all wish you the best of luck, Frank.

I want to thank all of you for keeping us informed via the postal route. Your concern for forwarding info to us helps to make the column interesting and informative. I hope that you will continue to give Dick MADOUSE, our new corresponding sec'y, the fine support you have given me in the past. Dick's address for forwarding him bits is Lt. Richard L. Madouse, 31 South Park Dr., Arlington, Va. Keep the news

Walt MITCHELL has changed his designator to that of an AEDO. Hi LYON is at Cal (Berkeley) preparing to take orals for his Ph.D. in high temperamre chemistry.

Denny TAFT is at the Royal Aeronautical College in Cranfield, England, working on a Master's degree in aeronautical engineering.

Ernie LUDERS is at Stanford in the aero electronics program.

Phil TAYLOR is a meteorologist at the Naval Air Station in Kodiak, Alaska.

Frank SMITH is working in Operations at the Naval Air Facility, Andrews AFB. Sec'y, Lt. Lloyd H. Adams, USN Exec. Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402 I would like to call everyone's attention to the Last Call for Larry MENZIES. Larry was killed 6 March in an airplane crash near Albuquerque, N. M., while participating in two weeks training with the reserve VS Squadron to which he was attached. Larry resigned his commission in 1964 and went to work for IBM near his home town, Chicago.

Those of us who knew Larry personally will never forget his smiling face, nor the cheerfulness which he carried with him everywhere. Larry was well known by classmates and friends for his good, clean, wholesome, and righteous character, he was always available to friends in need. He was a credit to the Academy, our country, and his family. We are all proud to have been able to call him "friend." His classmates, friends, and family have all suffered a great loss.

Condolences and flowers have been sent to Mary Joyce and the boys from the class of '59. Services and interment were at Evanston, 111., on 11 March.

Tom EMSLEY and John MEEHAN represented the class at the funeral.

HERE AND THERE George BRAINERD, formerly the class correspondence secretary on the west coast, sends the class a report from USS GEORGE WASHINGTON. He writes: "The GEORGE WASHINGTON branch of the Asso-

Harlow MANAHAN is at Princeton University with Marty McCULLOUGH.

ciation of the class of 1959 held its daily breakfast reunion aboard ship. Attending were Pete Bozzo, Carl Keske, Bill Drake, Dick Winter, and myself.

The size of our group, however, will be reduced this week due to dividing the crew upon completion of shipyard overhaul at the Electric Boat Co. Bill and Pete are in the Gold Crew."

Over Christmas I heard from Jim BROWN (1st Co.). He completed the Russian language course at Monterey in May 1964, which was followed by about 2 years in Turkey. Before Monterey Jim had served with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune. He now has orders to duty in Bremerhaven, Germany. Jim and Caroline have a son, Kready, who will soon be two years old and a new brother or sister on the way.

Several months ago in this column under the "Company in the Spodight" I put out some incorrect dope about Marty HANSEN. I stated that he was a submariner. A recent note from Marty indicates that although he did make the nuclear power route, he did not go into submarines. He qualified in the BAINBRIDGE prototype. Marty is now at Destroyer School, Newport, R. I., instructing "fossil fuel" destroyer propulsion plants and damage control. Back in 1962 he was a student in the second group to go through Destroyer School; now he's helping push class no. 15. Ginny, Marty, and the two boys live at 2345 West Main in Portsmouth and extend an open invitation to any '59ers passing through the Aquedneck Island area.

Brad STUMKE is smdying for his Master's aero engineering at the University of Michigan.

Just north of Newport we hear from six '59ers attending M.I.T. They are all completing their

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EAST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Edwin B. Smedberg, USN Flag Lieutenant/Aide, U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Md. 21401 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. George C. Skezas, USN Box 703, USNPG School Monterey, Calif.

The Annapolis contingent held its first luncheon meeting of 1966 at the Naval Academy Officer/ Faculty Club on 8 March. The following were in attendance: Carson, Doss, Forsman, Fisler, Higgins, Holland, Kuhneman, McKenzie, McNulla, Salmon, Smedberg, Smith and Wilcox. With pencil and notepad at the ready at all times, I was able to gather the following information: Jim CASWELL is at Amphibious School at Quanrico.

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Jack ADAMS is working in the Personnel Survey Division at BuPers.

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studies and expect to receive Master's degrees in naval architecture or mechanical engineering this June. Additionally, they will get naval engineers degrees. The six are Hank Morgan, Cliff Estes, Eugene Fitzpatrick, Karl Keay, Dick Radecki, and Walt Szczypinski.

Upon graduation they will all be going out to start earning their pay again! All, with the exception of Hank, are going to shipyards or research activities. Hank is going into the Nuclear Power program and expects to be sent to Mare Island for training. Cliff goes to Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Karl to Pearl Harbor, Gene to Camden, N. J., Walt to Boston Naval Shipyard, and Dick Radecki to UERD, Norfolk, Va. Karl Keay also reported diat Al OVRUM, Cliff ROSE, and Pete TARPGAARD are up there.

Hayden LEON writes from Pascagoula, Miss., where he is presently putting a new SSN in commission: "Just a quick note to let you know what's happening in the sunny south. I left Ron Curtis and the HADDO last month to come to Mississippi as part of the commissioning crew of USS HADDOCK. Betty Ann and I were sorry to leave Charleston, but the move has precipitated the class' smallest reunion. Dave Sears '59 joined us Friday as chief engineer. He, his wife and litde one come to us all the way from BARB in Pearl. I just received a letter from Frank Orr who's flying with Operation Deepfreeze. He ran into Scott Shenton in Burton Island. Scott is the Ops officer in an ice breaker. My address is 5 Sandlewood Place, Gautier, Miss. If any classmate needs a hotel on his way by, please give us a ring."

The following letter was received from Bill ODOM in Wheaton, 111. Bill, as many of you remember, was in the 3rd Co. but did not graduate. He was discharged early first class year for being married. He writes: "After many months delay I am enclosing the information questionnaire and some dues. Since leaving the Academy in October '58 I have been with General Electric Credit Corp.; the last five years have been in the industrial finance division. It's about like the Navy—several years in the Carolinas, one year in New York City, and now, two years (so far) in Chicago. Jo Ellen and I have seen a few '59ers recendy. Bob and Jeanne Booth and boys dropped in last summer on their way to California. Bob had just received his Master's at R.P.I, for CEC. Last fall I had dinner with Vince and Mutchi Obstnik while on a business trip to Washington.

Vince is with IBM as I'm sure you know. I roomed with Bill Brown plebe year and always felt he was one of my best friends. Was saddened to learn of his unfortunate death."

It is good to hear from Bill again. We hope you will keep in touch!

STORK NEWS A big addition to the family of John and Cherie ESTES arrived 10 Feb. out Colorado Springs way.

Cherie gave birth to twin girls—Stephanie Alane and Kimberly Dawn. Understand mother and babies are doing well but poor John still hasn't recovered! Congratulations!

ANNAPOLIS Several '59ers not stationed here have been seen wandering around. Gary SUSAG was present 21 Feb. as a part of a ComCruDesLant briefing team making a sea power presentation to the third class midshipmen.

Dave GREENE and Gordy JAMES made a trip up from Patuxent River to attend a lecture by Adm. Arleigh Burke in Mahan Hall the evening of 8 March.

Jim REGAN and Mike BROWN represented, respectively, the aviation and surface branches of the Bureau of Naval Personnel the evening the class of 1966 made their service selections. For the record the surface types had the better recruiting luck 321 first classmen picked surface ships whlie only 275 went into flight programs.

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COMPANY IN THE SPOTLIGHT I must apologize for missing this section of the column last month. This month, however, we do have another company we would like to feature with a brief rundown on those who graduated in 1959. The "Company in the Spodight" this month is the 21st Co. Thirty members of the class of '59 graduated from this company, 29 were commissioned.

Today those 30 break down something like this—7 civilians, 7 submariners, 5 surface line officers, 3 Navy air, 3 Air Force, 4 Supply Corps, and 1 CEC. Looking at the most rapidly expanding group— the civilians—we find Denny BREZINA and Kent BROMWELL, both out of the surface Navy, married and living in the Baltimore-Washington area.

Jim CULLITON has turned in his wings and returned to private enterprise in Pittsburgh, Pa. Harry BOLTZ, the only member from this company to enter the Marine Corps, has traded his greens for a civilian suit and a job in New Jersey.

Three others, Paul ANDERSON, Bob OAKES, and Bob WRIGHT, are also civilians but no one around Annapolis seems to know where they are any more; Bob OAKES was last known to be in Richmond, Va., and Bob WRIGHT is believed to stdl be in Long Beach, Calif.

Submariners from this group include Jack BRONS, Gary SMITH, and Bob WALLS in submarines on the west coast. Bob is aboard USS MEDREGAL out of Pearl Harbor. Both Jack Brons in USS STURGEON and Gary Smith in USS PERMIT

are homeported in San Diego. On the east coast Gary GEIST is aboard USS LEWIS AND CLARK, Jimmy WILSON in USS ANDREW JACKSON, and

Guy REYNOLDS in USS Jack. Bill HOULEY is also in a Nucy-Poo out of Charleston, S. C , but we are not sure which one.

As for the aviators, only three are left, Jerry AKENS is stationed at Pensacola putting his life in jeopardy with a student several times a day.

Gordy LITTLEFIELD is instructing at Glynco, Ga., and John SCHULTZ is finishing graduate work at Monterey this spring.

Surviving in the surface Navy are Paul GUAY, a company officer at USNA; John GUNTHER, at the Naval Facility Yokosuka; Dave KELLY, PG School, Monterey. John LIBERT is working for MSTS and John NASH is weapons officer in USS BARNEY out of Norfolk.

The Supply Corps still claims four members of the company: Jake BOLTZ and Leo PECK in Hawaii; Don COOPER in California, and Bob STEIDLE in Naples, Italy.

All 21st Co. '59ers who chose the Air Force blue are still guarding the skies. Louis COHEN is at Olmstead AFB, Middlletown, Pa., Charlie FRAIME is still in Texas at Randolph Field, while his old roommate Glen MORRISON is near Phoenix, Ariz., stationed at Williams AFB. Rounding out the 21st Co. is Roger MARTIN, who is now in the CEC. He is presently taking graduate work at the University of Texas.

It is recognized that some of this info is outdated and in most cases very skimpy. It is requested that any additional information pertinent to the 21st Co. types be forwarded to Paul GUAY. Information from the distaff side is particularly desired on such events as marriages, engagements, births, etc. Paul's wife, Sandy, is compiling distaff news. The Guays' address is 12808 Chesney Lane, Bowie, Md. 20715.

Pres., Lt. H. A. Lawinski, VF-162 NAS, Miramar, Calif.

Sec'y, Lt. Chico Chavez, USN OICC RVN, c/o APO San Francisco, Calif. 96309 HERE AND THERE Micky REEVES finally got around to dropping us a line—after almost six long years. Micky gave us a short rundown of what he's done since

graduation. First came 6 months at the Supply Corps school at Athens, then he spent 2 years on board USS CAMBRIA, followed by another 2 years as the supply officer of the CEC school and as auxiliary stores division officer of the Air Station, Glynco, Ga. In February of last year he reported to USS CHARLES ADAMS as the supply officer, and is

presently riding the high seas on a Med deployment. Also on board the CHARLES ADAMS is Jack SHAW, the weapons officer. Micky and his wife Lynn have 2 girls, Linda Marie and Robin, and a big black cat called Capt Nemo. They are presendy living in Charleston and their address is 1224 Belvedere Dr.—to which Micky and Lynn extend a warm welcome to one and all.

One other guy from whom we've never heard before sent us a short note. George DENN tells us he's

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Charleston, presently deployed in the Med. He says that for a destroyer, we have good representation on board in the persons of Al FULKERSON, who's die supply officer, and Chris POINDEXTER, the fire control officer who is soon to go aboard the JOHN KING as weapons officer. In the family department George tells us he has 1 boy, Al has a boy and a girl and Chris 2 boys. Finally George promised not to wait another six years for his next note.

We also got a note from Ben COTE, who was with us until Feb. '59. After he left the Academy, Ben continued his studies at the University of N. H., from where he earned his B.A. in psychology in June '61. He taught for a year at Biddleford, Me. (his home town), married his home town sweetheart, then moved on to New Hampshire. He is presently teaching French and English at Austin-Cate Academy in Strafford. Ben and wife Jenny have 2 boys, Chris and Eric, and are presently living at ACA Center, Strafford, N . H .

03815. Although Ben has seen only two classmates lately (Chris Poindexter and John Combemale), he says that the welcome mat is out to any classmate in the area and that he would appreciate a line from some of his old buddies.

FROM SAIGON This time it was Sid JONES, who made a trip out of Saigon which took him to Japan and Taiwan, by way of Hong Kong, of course. He says he kept busy for three whole weeks, and he wrote a rather lengthy report to cover up, but I didn't really believe him. One other change at the OICC—a real minor one compared to what's going on out here—is that Jay METZLER, after 5 Vz months as a paper-pusher, was finally sent out to the field as the resident officer in charge of construction (ROICC) for the Qui Nhon area, where he'll be supervising our contractor's construction work. He was real pleased about the assignment and says it's great, even if it means sleeping in a porch.

It was a pleasant surprise to see oT cherubic face Bob BAKER appear on the scene. He's out here with VP-1, flying P2V's. I see him regularly at the Brink BOQ and he usually tells me what all he does on his missions—I think some kind of reconnaissance work, to seek out VC activity along the coast of Vietnam. And Bob's looking real well.

A bit of class business. The Superintendent, USNA, initiated a program last November whereby USNA classes are offered the opportunity to sponsor one of the 36 companies of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Sponsorship will entail donating initially a maximum of $500 (with yearly support in the $100 to $200 range), which will be used to provide part of the furnishings for the company wardroom. The basic purpose of the program is to provide midshipmen of that company an oudet through which they can communicate with experienced professional naval officers of the sponsoring class, in order to gain a better understanding of the Navy and Navy way of life.

By sponsoring a company, members of the class can reestablish ties with the old school, in a more meaningful way. As Admiral Fitzgerald, the Exec67

utive Director of the Alumni Association, puts it, company sponsorship may be a means of establishing "a long blue line." There are still several companies without a sponsor and they can be either singly or jointly sponsored. I propose that, if enough of our classmates are interested, we join our plebes in sponsoring a company—the 3rd Co., for instance, which contains the last digits of our class numbers. Please send in your comments right away.

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Pres., Lt. James R. Traa, USN USS HADDO (SSN-604) FPO New York Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 5736 Salerno Rd., W. Jacksonville, Fla. 32210

On 17 Feb. George and Linda THEROUX welcomed their second child, Michele Ann. Michele joins a sister, Lisa, age 3 Vi years. The Therouxs live in Chula Vista, Calif., at 423 F Oaklawn Ave. From Dave BENSON in HANCOCK came a long, newsy letter this month. Dave is presently on his third WesPac cruise, flying F8 Crusaders in VF-24.

In July he will head for Monterey and P. G. School for a course in management-data processing. Other new orders Dave has heard about include Jess STEWART, Harry BARRETT, Frank MORROW, and Bill NEWMAN to Pax River. Bill is going to Empire Test in England after a short stay at Pax River.

At Cubi Point, Philippines, Dave ran into Dave (Bill) HICKS (VF-191) and Joe BALDWIN and T. P. MANNING, both from VA-196. The BONNIE DICK, from where these classmates were flying, arrived home in January. In a local pub Dave saw Mike WELCH, Jack ALLEN and Jack MATECHAK (VA-94).

As for our blackshoe brethren, to quote our correspondent, he has seen a few. Dan HOUTEN was at Cubi Point passing through on his way to Danang to take over a squadron of the new "Swift boats." Ted FENNO is now in D. C. He was on his way there on orders from a DesRon staff when spotted in Yoko. Also in Cubi, Dave saw Hank SCHMIDT, who is XO of a minesweeper.

From the Jacksonville area we garnered a bit of news this month. Dave and Sharon PATZ have left for Lemoore. He was with VA-106 at Cecil Field and will head for WesPac shortly, we understand. June will also find me on a WesPac cruise.

On 20 April I report to VA-72 at Cecil Field from VA-81. There will be no address change, as Sandy will remain in Jax. Heading for the Med this month with SARATOGA are Buzz NEEDHAM, Ernie FRANKENBERG, and Larry DESHA. Larry was married on 19 Dec. to Miss Francis Covington of Rockingham, N. C. Our very best wishes for a wonderful future to you both. Know that this cruise will be a very special one for the Deshas and the Frankenbergs, as both wives are going to follow the ship. Gerry CHASKO with Jeannie and their two girls are now in the area.

He is with VA-46.

Let me take this opportunity to issue once again the Craigs' open invitation to all '61ers in the area. Whether you are in Jax permanently or just passing through, give us a call and/or drop by.

The door is always open, and there's a cold beer waiting for you.

Here, once more, is the list of information needed on those data cards: 1. Last name, first name, and middle initial (please print).

2. Wife's name or name of next of kin.

3. Children's names and birth dates.

4. Present address.

5. Duty stations, schools attended since graduation with inclusive date.

6. Duties.

7. Special qualifications, service decorations, and dates.

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8. Remarks section: include career plans and any other data which you feel is pertinent for a complete biography.

Each card should be approximately 3" x 5", and should be sent in ASAP. Response of the 788 who graduated with our class has been a littie better than 5'/2%, and only one non-grad has responded out of 360 in the almost 12 months that this data card campaign has been going on.

This is quite a bit less than what had been expected, so get on the ball. Send in your cards and spread the word so that others will, too. The following list is the first of three that will appear in this column. The names included are the stragglers, and if you are among the 117 whose names will not appear among them, a hearty thanks to you.

Abbitt, Abrell, Ackerman, Adler, Albert, Alger, Allegretti, Allen, B. E. Jr., Allen, John B. Jr., Allen, W. C. Jr., Anderson, Larry F., Anderson, L. D., Anderson, Thomas, Andress, Andrew, Ardell, Ardleigh, Arneth, Arnold, Backus, Bailey, A. E. Jr., Bailey, Thomas F., Baldwin, Bardeschewski, Barfield, Barineau, Barnes, Barnett, Barr, Barrett, Barron, Bartholomew, Beem, Bellino, Bence, Benedict, Benevides, Benjamin, Bennett, Andrew J., Bennett, Jerry L., Berkley, Bicknell, Bishop, Black, James D., Black, John W., Blackinton, Blann, Bodiford, Booth, Borst, Boudov, Bourn, Bowen, Bower, Bowser, Boyd, Boyer, Bradley, M. L., Braendle, Brannan, Bratschi, Bratten, Breece, Brodeur, Bronk, Brooks, Brousseau, Brummerstead, BuUene, Burgard, Burgess, Burke, David V. Jr., Burke, Thomas J., Burn, Burroughs, Butler, Arthur H., Buder, Hugh W., Burier, J. A. Ill, Butrovitch, Butsko, Cahill, Callender, Campbell, A. F., Campbell, D. B., Campbell, W. R. Jr., Cann, Cariberg, Carlson, E. T., Carlson, G. L., Cams, Case, Cavanaugh, Caviness, Cawein, Champlain, Chapel, Chapman, Chase, Chasko, Chastain, Cheaure, Chinn, Chipchak, Chiras, Churchill, Clark, Cleveland, Coates, Cochill, Cockerham, Cole, Conboy, Connell, J. G. Jr., Connell, J. J., Copes, Corboy, Cox, Crabbe, Craig, Edward C , Crawford, Curran.

And Dalkin, Danna, Dattilo, Davis, C. E., Davis, J. M., Davis, R. T. II, Dean, A. L. Jr., Dean, Dale D., Dean, David T., Decker, Edward T., Decker, J. P. W., Degrave, Dell, Delozier, Demas, Denis, Denney, Departee, Derby, Derose, Desha Desrosiers, Dewhirst, Diamond, Dibrell, Dick, Diekmann, Dietz, Dishon, Dittrich, Dixner, Drake, DriscoU, Driver, Drummond, Drustrup, Dubois, Dugan, John A., Dugan, T. P. Jr., Duich, Duke, Duncan, Dunkle, Dunn, G. L., Dunn, J. A., Dunn, W. M. Jr., Dunsmoor, Dvornick, Eaton, Eckert, Ecklein, Eddins, Edson, Eldredge, Elliott, Emmerich Erchul, Erickson, Ernst, Esau, Evans, Everage Falconer, Farber, Farley, Farnan, Farrell, Fenick, Fenno, Ferrier, Ferriso, Filley, Fitts, Fitzpatrick, Flagg, Fleming, Flesher, Fluegel, Flynn, Foley, Foord, Forsythe, Frankenberg, Freeland, Frelich, Freney, Furman, Furtaw, Galbraith, Gallamore, Gambacorta, Gardner, C. E., Gardner, J. R., Garritson, Gesswein, Giambattista, Gibbs, Gibby, Gile, Giuffreda, Glavis, Gloudemans, Glover, Goins, Gonyea, Goodall, Gothic, Grace, Graustein, Green, Greene, Greenwood, Greer, Gregg, B. M., Gregg, D. C , Gregor, Griffith, Guenter, Guierriero, Gurnee, Gustafson, Guthrie, J. T., Guthrie W. N, Jr.. Hahn, Halloran, Hamilton, Hancock, Hansen, Hanson, Harden, Hardison, Harris, Hartman, Harvey, Hawkins, Hay, Hellauer, Helton, Henault, Henderson, Herlihy, Herzberg, Herzog, Hicks, Hight, Hill, R. S. Jr., Hill, V. L. Jr.

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Sec'y, Lt. H. S. Pinskey, (SC) USN USNAV Box 26, Clarksville Base Fort Campbell, Ky. 42222

This past month was truly the dark ages as far as correspondence was concerned. I only received four letters. I think it's time to honor those New Year's resolutions and drop me a line. This column needs your support.

NAVY LINE John KELLY writes that he is now serving as operations officer aboard USS JOSEPH P. KENNEDY JR. homeported in Newport. John says, "the ship went out of its way to make me feel at home— green shamrocks on the ASROC launcher and my initials (JPK) on all the linen." He is now in the Med for another tour wilth the Sixth Fleet.

From the South China Sea and the BIG E comes word from Phil OLSON who is in the RM division. Phil has been aboard since Nov. '6}> and is expecting orders to attend PG School at Monterey this summer. While aboard the BIG E he took part in the famous world cruise and is now over in the Far East supporting our forces in Vietnam. Also aboard ENTERPRISE are Roger KISIEL attached to VA-36, Jim WALKER with V A W - l l / M , and George INSKEEP widi VAW13. Phil expects to get married this summer to Miss Marsha Lippert of Nudey, N. J. ARMY Joe LANE writes that he is now in Vietnam stationed at Qui Nhon after having received sudden orders to proceed from Germany. He setded his family in Annapolis where he had Christmas dinner in the mess hall and reports that USNA has changed considerably since our departure.

Joe is presendy the maintenance officer of the 84th Engineer Battalion (construction) at Qui Nhon. Other classmates stationed there are Ed Clarke, Roger Ramsey and Phil Harrington.

Here is some information concerning other classmates serving in the Army. Bob McDONALD has transferred to the Corps of Engineers and is at Fort Belvoir, Va. Al GEZELMAN and Vic DEWEY are also there attending the officers' advanced course. Tom ROBERTS is attending the same course for artillery officers at Fort Sill, Okla.

AIR FORCE Bill CHAVANNE informs me that he is stationed at McClellan AFB, Calif., where he is ground electronics officer with the 1155th Technical Operations Squadron. He and his wife Elaine just returned from Maxwell AFB where he was TDY for 14 weeks Attending squadron officers school. While there he did a power study entitled "Cost Reduction" and it was permanently filed in the Air University Library. While at Maxwell they saw Al and Susie FULTON and Jim and Janice ROBERTS. Bill has been approved for AFIT in Sept. 1967; however, he doesn't know which college he will attend.

I have written to our treasurer and I'm hoping to have a report from him to include in next month's column.

The following suggestions have been received for our proposed memorial fund to which all classmates would contribute; chairs should be purchased in the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, a scholarship fund be established, a monument or appropriate piece of architecture be constructed on the grounds of the Academy, and donations be made yearly to various charities. I think these are all worthwhile suggestions and a decision should be reached shortly by our president and other officers as to the type of memorial to be established.

However, if anyone else has an idea, please send it to me now for consideration as a suggestion. I will also announce where and to whom contributions should be sent.

Don't be selfish—share the news with everyone!!

Shipmate needs you!

EAST COAST Sec'y, 1st Lt. John L. Newton, USMC Depot Athletic OfiBcer, Depot Special Services, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S. C. 29905 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) W. B. Orgera, USN VAW-11 ECHO, FPO San Francisco 96601 From the Norfolk area came word from Paul REVERE who was serving on ComServLant staff.

Paul and Pat become the proud parents of a SHIPMATE

daughter, Elizabeth Michele, on 9 Nov. '65. Last June Paul fleeted up to the supply officer billet in USS KRISHNA. Shordy after reporting on board, she deployed to Vietnam to repair the Coast Guard cutters serving there. On a stop in Subic Bay, Paul saw Mike RUBEL who was the supply officer in the CIMARRON. Since his return to Norfolk, Paul had seen Rick WEIDMAN who was the weapons officer in WEEKS and Tony ISGER who was flying out of NAS. Doug DAVIDSON wrote from Danang where he was serving as aide to General Walt. Doug was originally with the Third Bn., Fourth Marines, and served with them at Phu Bai from April until June '65. On trips to Chu Lai Doug saw Joe GARDNER who was wearing two purple hearts plus a few other assorted campaign ribbons; Joe CLANCY, who had returned to FMF Pac at Hawaii, and Dave SHORE who was flving with MAG-36. Although Walt BREEDE was' supposed to be in the area, Doug never saw him. Doug saw Murphy McCLOY and Walt PIERCE in Danang; Murph was on his second extension and Walt was a company commander with the Ninth Sea Bee Bn. Also in Danang were Mike SMITH with the Naval Support Activity and Satch BAUMGART with the Naval Advisory Group. Denny TOMLIN had been in Phu Bai but was due for transfer.

Doug said that the three married members of the "bachelors four" who had lived at Purity Hall—Rocky PRATT, Austin CHAPMAN and Bruce LENZ—should forward the five dollars to his home. Box 6, Kershaw, S. C. Doug said that he hoped to stop by Hawaii on his return to the States around April.

Dick PRAEGER has departed Parris Island for duty in the RANGER.

How about some of you who aren't so busy dropping a line with some info?

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Sec'y, Lt. (jg) James L. Roberts, USN BOQ 217, NAS Kingsyille, Texas

When RAMSEY is commissioned at Puget Sound, she will be well manned by '64. Bill FUGARD, who wdl be ASW officer and Wayne HUMPHREYS, who will go aboard as MPA, are presendy training a balance crew and helping with the drafting of various tactical bills. Prior to RAMSEY, Bill spent a year aboard ADVANCE as supply officer and later as operations officer for a fantastic WestPac cruise which took them to Australia for the Coral Sea celebration. Recendy Bill happened to meet Bdl HARTWELL, Joe CALLAHAN, and Bob JOHNSON (Navy) and jointiy they agreed it was due cause to celebrate. Bob is headed for WestPac in HOOPER. Paul FENTON was in Puget Sound waiting to go to shore duty at an east coast shipyard and Ray WITTER was there one day just waiting. Ron GREGG, who is in MCMORRIS, has been accepted to CEC and will be headed for MIT or Princeton soon. As a parting remark, Bill informed us he is still going it alone—and who would not, after attending the Coral Sea celebration in Australia!

The billet of the year recendy went to Frank DAVIS. He, along with his wife Maryland and daughter Michelle, will leave for France to act as aide and flag lieutenant to Commander Sixth Fleet at Villefanche. Frank and Bob WIER have been aboard WILLIS A. LEE as first lieutenant and DCA respectively. Bob and his wife Candy are still residing in Newport. Bringing us up on a few of our classmates from old 20, Lew BALDWIN is flying F-8s in California along with Dick LEE: Gramps BENNER is living in the BOQ in New London while finishing sub training; Jeff HALLAHAN is aboard HISSEM on WestPac deployment; Peyton DOBBINS has forsaken props and is in advanced jet training in Kingsville, Tex., and the company officer. Major Love, is general's aide at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington. A APRIL,

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well done to Frank for deserving a billet such as this.

Bart and Bitsy CORGNATI proudly announce the arrival of another Corgnati, Christine Marie, on 20 Jan. Bart is now in ASW school in Norfolk.

John KLEIN has finally decided to toss in the towel on 2 July. After he and Penny Richter are married in New York, he will leave for Pax River to transition to P-3s.

Miss Kathryn Ann Rich and Jeff SHUMWAY were recently engaged to be married this spring.

Jeff is presendy flying A-4s at Lemoore.

Bob NEWKIRK put in a good word for old seven. He recendy finished sub school and will be joining the PLUNGER at Mare Island. After some time on the west coast while his ship is in the yard, Bob will head for Pearl Harbor and, he hopes, a bachelor's paradise.

Bruce RUNBERG writes diat John SWEET finished the Admiral's Program and is now in Groton. Ed CHLADEK will be going to nuclear power from cruisers. Bill LATTA, who is in minesweepers, has our nod for a chance at the first command. Jerry SIEBE, a draftee for helos, found he likes them a lot and has been in HC-1 since Nov. Ed MELLA is back in the Philippines and is now 1st Lt. and gunnery officer in a PCE. He was recendy visited by Russ HILL and they made a grand tour of Manila.

Candy LOSURE, Ed's official secretary, becomes our reporter in the Hartford area. Ed was the first one in his class at Windsor Locks to become qualified. He has orders to Pearl Harbor to join PLUNGER, a fast attack sub. Larry and Sue SILVER will be leaving for Charleston where he will be aboard HENRY CLAY. Dick HALBERT, along with his wife Elaine, will be leaving for sub school.

Mike OLIVER spent a weekend with the Losures.

He just got back from Idaho Falls and is now in sub school. Pete MALOY is in Vietnam. Don SEYK was back on the east coast after a long WestPac cruise in destroyers. He is expecting orders to east coast duty.

From the scene of action in Vietnam, Andy ANDREWS writes that his sector is relatively quiet. He is XO (and presendy acting CO) of a Marine Corps LAAM (missiles) Battery. As usual, Andy is gung-ho Marine Corps and enjoying his overseas tour.

Bill BLAHA has been in Phu Bai, Vietnam, since December. Before then Bill, along with Barry BECK and Chuck KRULAK, were afloat with BLT 2/1 participating in Dagger Thrust Operation. Bill is with Combined Action Company out in the villages, Barry is civil affairs officer and Chuck is adjutant. While he was afloat, Bill made a liberty call in Subic Bay where he saw BiU ULRICH, Jerry NEGIN, who is a destroyer gunnery officer, Bert MACKAMAN and Arch WOODARD who are in weapons division aboard the same destroyer. Bill is looking forward to some east coast duty when he returns from Vietnam.

Ken FUSCH writes from Portsmouth where MuLLiNix is in the yard. He says Betty and Debbie are doing fine.

Larry LOVIG informs us from New London that after the rigors of nuclear power, sub school is giving them something of a breather. With Geff WEED acting as liaison to the Vermont slopes, Mike MITCHELL ambassador to Connecticut College and Tom SWARTZ and Win PETERSON acting as social directors, our sub school friends have no trouble in finding a way to spend their free hours. After Larry, Austin KOENEN, Paul FENTON and Jim TISARANNI cheered on our team against Army, they were joined by Mel LYMAN, Al GABORIS and Charlie CULBERTSON in marrying Jim and Cynthia Tisaranni. Matrimony struck the fifth company again as Dave LESTER, Austin KOENEN, John MARSHALL and Larry helped Ray MICHELINI tie the knot in Massachusetts in January.

George and Gloria LEONARD wrote from Barber's Point, Hawaii, where he is assistant

maintenance control officer and 2nd TACCO in the VP-6 co's crew. He expects to move to first TACCO in May. He will be joined in VP-6 by Jack MUMAW and Dick ARNSWALD very soon.

Darrel SUMMERS and Skitter GIRARD are in VP-4 and expect Glen RICHY and Brian CASSIDY to report to their squadron soon. Dick BOWERS is in VP-28 deployed to Sangley Pt. Don BYRNE will be in VP-22. George and Gloria received a call from Jan Willson who was on her way back from visiting Gordy in the Philippines.

He was sent there from Vietnam for scuba school.

Gordy is fully recovered from injuries received when he stepped on a land mine. He now has joined Jim THOMPSON, Ed BUSH, Pat MALONE, Ray SNYDER, and Chuck KRULAK as a recipient of a Purple Heart.

A letter from Tom SWARTZ in sub school at New London reads as follows: "At first sight the BOQ looks like a big reunion party of 1964, as does the MOQ. Class 132, which is the class that Joe Ince and Walt Kesler are in, has been here about four months and has two to go. They had their wetting-down party before Christmas, which was before class 133 arrived. We plan to have a rip-snorter sometime in February.

"In the basketball league here, class 132 fielded two teams. The 'Class 132 Team' took the League with the Class 132 All Stars close behind. Just as at Bainbridge and Mare Island, class 133 formed two teams—the Root Mean Squares and the Hawgz. These teams were formed too late to count, but they did lose about a ton of excess weight in the six games that they played. Al Gaboric coached the Class 132 Team which consisted of Cris Kraft, Rich Umfrid, and Bob Newman. Chuck Welty, Jack Dempsey, Bill Gregg, Ernie Blake, and Joe Ince formed the Class 132 All Stars and were coached by Bill Sheehan. The coach of the Hawgz is Dave Lipscomb who, along with many of his teammates, spends many of his weekends coaching himself down the slopes. Some of his slope-n-team mates are Mike Hewitt, Jerry Ellis, B. J. Haynes, Austin Koenen, Big Squigglec Holmes, Dave Lester, John Marshall, Bob Milhiser, and Bruce Richey, as well as John Alich and Keith Werner who bring their wives Sue and Kathy along as cheerleaders. Denny Farrar is head scorekeeper when not living the life of the happy MOQ resident with his wife Carrol. Tom Swartz coaches the RMS. Some of his stalwart lads are Jim Ayers and Lou Taynton, who shocked the world of havenots by joindy purchasing a real sailboat; Tom Baer, who, along with his wife Margaret, is taking care of a new baby Baer; Brian Baumruk, who has been the party instigator for almost every weekend; Phil Boyer, with his checrleading wife Jane; John Gorman, with his new also checrleading wife Connie; Win Peterson, and Dave Tuma." This is all from TJ for this month.

Joe INCE writes that he finished sub school the end of March and then proceeded to Norfolk and CARP for 12-18 months for qualification.

Some time ago I saw Ted PALATUCCI, Denny PINOTTI, Dick MERRIT, and Dave KANNING in the Corpus Christi O Club. They gave me the shock of the month—Rich RUBLE has finally decided to give up the ghost! He and Miss Sydney Johnston will be married on 23 April in Pensacola.

With that bit of news and a thank you to all those who sent letters this month, that is all for this month.

Sec'y, Ens. Edward A. Orr, Jr., USN 700 Paulding Ave., Apt. 2 Warrington, Fla. Thanks to John BISHOP for sending a list of the duty assignments for the 32 members of our class who graduated from Basic School at Quantico on 18 Feb. As might be expected, a large part of the class is being sent to Vietnam. Of this group, Tom Craig, Bob Friedrick, Jeff Gaugish, Al 69

Hoof, Gary MacLeod, Lynn Kimball, Danny Mitchell and Ron Wecht are headed for infantry duty; Jack Hudock, Joe Klocek, Chuck Saldarini and Joe Hanson chose artillery; Pat Graham, Steve Szabo and Dave Gillespie went supply; Earl Ferguson and Roy Kline—communications; Les Herman—tanks; and John Bishop—combat engineer.

These classmates, along with those from the earlier Basic School class, will give '65 an excellent representation in Vietnam before long.

Mike COYLE wrote to inform everyone of his marriage to the former Renee Etchemendy of Arlington, Va., on 27 Nov. Mike finished up at Bainbridge in December and is presendy in West Milton, N. Y., along with John Foy, Bill House, Anson Burlingame, Fred Broberg, Denny Moritz, Bruce Mouw, Steve Mladineo and Bill Purdy.

They expect to be there until the end of June and will then report to Sub School in New London.

Arnie SODERMAN sent some news of class 65-3-3 which graduated from Nuclear Power School, Bainbridge, on 11 March. Included in this group were Bill Bower, Chip Jackson, Tom Di Francisco, Jack Moynehan, Rick Adams, Bob Sermier, Duke Snyder, Chuck Hesse, Craig Etka, Jack Johnston, Bob Whitehead, Dave Anderson, Mark Davis, Paul Reason, Jim O'Hanlon, and John McKlveen, among others. Arnie went to Arco, Idaho, for Prototype and said he would appreciate it if anyone could send him the addresses of the females in the area.

Tim PYECHA was married on 29 Jan. to the former Carol Ann Karben of Monaca, Pa. Tim was also in the class of 65-3-3 at Bainbridge and his ushers included classmates Bill Bower, Bob Fornal, Chuck Riedel, Laughton Smith, and Bob Whitehead. The weekend of Tim's wedding, which took place in Aliquippa, Pa., the east coast was hit with over a foot of snow which caused quite a bit of difficulty for the ushers trying to get back to Bainbridge by Monday morning. Fortunately, classes were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday and everyone made it back in time.

Tim has been corresponding with his old roommate Larry REECE. Larry is now assistant ASW officer aboard USS MOHAN, presently in WestPac. Thanks to Steve McDONALD for a list of the duty assignments for the Supply Corps School graduating class of 27 Jan. Unfortunately, as I mentioned last month, a complete change of orders list cannot be included in the column. Steve is presently on the staff of ComCruDesLant in Mayport where he has seen several of our classmates.

Among them were Rich Brush (USS FARRAGUT), Paul Girard (USS LUCE), Bill Robertson (USS BAILEY), Ted Nanz (USS PRATT) and Tom Barry (USS

GOODRICH).

Congratulations to Fred and Sue MARLIN on the birth of Fred Jr. From all reports Little Fred is a cinch for Navy football captain in 1988.

Congratulations are also in order for Chris PILGER who was recently named Student of the Week for VT-1 at Saufley Field.

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ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS AUHkPOllS Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin '24, military editor of the New York Times, and vice-president of the Eastern Area of the USNA Alumni Association, told members of the chapter at their March meeting that "the war in South Vietnam can be won, but that the victory must be paid for in blood, sweat, tears and time." The subject of his talk was: "Is the United States a Paper Tiger.?"

Preceding the meeting at the USNA Officers' and Faculty Club, a buffet supper honored the guest speaker. Some 200 persons attended the meeting, with Capt. Daniel M. Karcher '43, chapter president, presiding. Members of the Annapolis chapter of MOWW were special guests.

Mr. Baldwin, who was in South Vietnam in November and December, told the group that "we are fighting for the United States, not some abstract concept of Asiatic democracy." He declared the U. S. cannot pull out of the war because its prestige has been committed, and pointed out that three Presidents—Dwight B. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson—have pledged to defeat Communist "wars of national liberation." "We've stopped losing," he said, "but we haven't started winning." The Pulitzer Prize journalist award winner discussed the various steps necessary in order to win the war. At the conclusion of his talk he fielded questions from the audience.

BklTMORE The Greater Baltimore chapter held its regular monthly meeting at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel, Towson, with a social hour and dinner preceding the business meeting.

The nominating committee, with John Davis chairman, announced the following slate of officers: for president, Murray Blank '58; vice president, John Davis '24, and secretary, Charles Brooks '58, all incumbents. Election will take place at the 19 April meeting, with officers to serve from June 1966 through May 1967.

BOSTON William Webster '21, chairman and chief executive officer of the New England Electric System, spoke on the power supply in New England at the 8 March luncheon-meeting held at the Officers' Club, Charlestown Navy Yard. W. J. Toner, Jr. '43 presided.

Mr. Webster, a 1921 graduate of the Naval Academy, received his Master's degree from M.I.T. Concurrently he is president of Yankee Atomic

'65 class party. Kneeling: Jim a n d Diann M i n d e r l e i n , Jeanne a n d Skip M o y e r . Standing: W a y n e Hanson, M i k e a n d Nancy Scott, Bill a n d Jayne Lawless, Skip a n d M e r r y O r r , Bette Jeane a n d Bob Bushong. Pat Varriano was the photographer.

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and vice president of Connecticut Yankee Atomic, and is a director of the board of Federal Reserve Bank, among other positions. He has held numerous governmental posts primarily related to defense, atomic energy, science, research and power.

Thirty-eight members and eight guests attended the meeting: C. A. Marinke, Asa Phillips, Jr., M. B. Duffill, R. S. Eastman, Stanley PuUin, Kennedi G. Crompton, Jr., George E. Peterson, Robert Bicknell, F. G. Coburn, R. W. Schwenz, E. E. Conrad, F. P. Mitchell, J. J. Melone, W. D. Coleman, W. H. Buracker, A. K. Tyree, Cyrus Brewer, T. D. Price, A. C. Edwards, T. F. Donohue, Claude Bassett, T. Sudadi, Walter Toner, T. T .

Craven, Jr., William Webster, R. E. Moran, R. Foreman, R. E. Stark, Ed Arentzen, J. F. Crehan, W. E. Haycock, J. A. Click, F. D. Wolcott, Jr., J. D. Schantz, C. B. Headland, R. M. Bates, R. O. Weaver and R. Mdlard.

BREMERTON GET-TOGETHER The initial get-together of Naval Academy alumni in the Bremerton, Wash., area was held at the Officers' Club, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, on 18 Feb. The no-host cocktail party was expected to be the first meeting of a new chapter.

Warren A. Chase '53 and John McDonnell '55 launched this first social event and served as hosts.

Those attending, with their ladies, were Floyd B. Schultz '32, George H. Mahler '42, Gordon B. Williams '38, John R. Newland '41, W. S. Humphrey '43, James H. Elsom '39, Homer Adrianse '45, Charies E. Slonim '47, John L. Chelgren '48, Donald B. Stuart '55, Steven William McGanka '59, Dan C. Richardson '59, Thomas F. Murphy '62, and James M. Cline '26.

CHARLESTON The principal speaker at the February meeting of the Charleston chapter was H. H. Nathan, chief of design at the Charleston Naval Shipyard. His subject was "The Use of Plastics in Ship Repair."

Capt. W. C. P. Bellinger presided at the meeting held at the Naval Base Officers' Club.

CHICAGO Officers for 1966 were elected at the 4 Feb. meeting held at the Naval Armory wardroom, with Tom McCook '46 elected president; Bob McCarthy '45, vice-president; Doug Nankervis '46, secretary, and Mike Berngard '49, treasurer.

Those present at the meeting were: Oreal Crepeau '44, Mike Berngard '49, Frank Sheahen '45, Jim Gillman '56, Chuck Prieb '53, Frank Thienpont '47, Grant Millard '53, Walt Rose '45, Bill Brandfon '49, Doug Nankervis '46, Bob McCarthy '45, Charies M. David '25, Tom McCook '46, Jack Bailey '44, Jim Clement '48, and John Vance '59.

It was announced that RAdm. John Kelsey '23 had left the area and is now living at 36 Pleasant St., Canton, Mass.; Bill Brandfon '49 is now living on the south side with his wife and three girls—he is with Sargent and Lundy, consulting engineers. John J. Beck '45 is now in the area and living at 915 E. Sayles Dr., Palestine, 111. Sam Avey '2IB lives in Mt. Morris, about 100 miles west of Chicago, and reports that other alumni in the boondocks are Hugh Allen '06, Herb Weyrauch '41, Gerald Weyrauch '48A, and' Mike Miller '56. Stan Hogshead '43 has moved from Chicago and now lives in Los Angeles, where he is a vice president of the United California Bank.

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COLUMBUS Twenty members attended the 21 Feb. meeting held at the DCSC Officers' Open Mess, when Bob Macklin '41 presided and introduced the main topic, "Goals of Our Chapter."

Attending were: Budd '44, Clark '41, Egnor '36, Gardes '42, Hadden '47, Haines '45, Howe '63, Lewis '45, McDaniel '24, Nichols '28, O'Brien '43, Stewart '60, Rapp '51, Rhees '44, Rubel *44, Steffenhagen '55, Turner '27, West "38, and Willingham '58.

Among the 14 points discussed was the Blue and Gold Program and what the chapter's role might be in regard to it, and future plans for the Army-Navy football game activity. It was planned to have short but meaningful lunch meetings, to adjourn at 1415 sharp. Consideration was given to the suggestion of sponsoring, or help sponsor, a USNA or Navy exhibit or booth at the annual Ohio State Fair.

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A social luncheon-meeting was held on 22 March at the Fort Hayes O Club.

Jun and Carolyn Arnold, John Camp and Joy Justessen, Jim and Barbara Toal, Jim and Ginny Wheeler, and Kav and Josephine Downey.

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Capt. Barney Thielges and his staff of chapter officers were re-elected at the first meeting of the '66 season held at the Alonzo Cudworth Post in Milwaukee.

Bill McCabe was chairman of the program which followed the dinner hour, when Hugh Brady, program director of the Apollo Guidance and Navigation Program from AC Electronics Div. of General Motors Corp., discussed many phases of the Apollo Program. The sound films "Four Days of Gemini Four" and the new "Proud Conquest Gemini VII and VI" were shown.

Those attending were Capt. and Mrs. B. A. Thielges, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brady, Bill and Lee McCabe, Brad and Mary Hoffman, Bob and Corinne Best, Capt. and Mrs. W. O. McDowell, Capt. R. E. Best, Bob and Barbara Schulz, Jim and Pat Winters, Col. and Mrs. J. L. Goodinow, Cdr. and Mrs. R. S. Eaton, Dick and Mary Ellen Sheridan, Ted and Susie Cheney, Seymour and Barbara Grumpier, William and Frances Dobbs,

Dr. Dean A. Worcester, Asst. Prof of Economics at the University of Washington, spoke on economic conflicts since World War II at the 2 March meeting held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open), NSD. Those attending the dinner meeting were: John B. Anderson, Jr., Robert A. Banks, Eric Barr, E. A. Black, John L. Brown, Jim Burrow, E. E. Carlsten, Bert Cassels, Jack Colley, John Crumpacker, Leo Culjat, H . A. Downs, Kenneth Easter, C. D. Emory, W. E. Ferrall, Earl Finney, George Foott, Robert F. Fox, Jr., C. F. Greber, Robert C. Hayes, F. L. Hetter, Randall Jacob, R. E. Jones, Jr., D. F. Krick, Tom Langen, H . L. Lasell, David R. Lee, J. N . Longfield, H . M. McLellan, John R. Middleton, W. E. Moring, E. Poole, Robert W. Roe, Frank D. Schwartz, James S. Shilson, E. B. Stanley, Jr., F. A. Strohecker, J. Darrel Taylor, C. H. Thompson, Wells Thompson, Joe Tobin, G. C. Towner, N . F. Varney, Homer N . Wallin, Frank Watkins, and Frank Welch.

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Your Alumni Association exists for tlie purpose of serving and supporting the United States, tlie Naval Service and the United States Naval Academy.

In the broadest of terms the Association seeks to accomplish its mission by furthering the highest standards of the Naval Academy, by assisting in what ways it can the continuation of a professional officer corps second to none, and by sponsoring such activities and programs as will perpetuate the history and traditions of the Naval Academy and promote the esprit de corps of its alumni.

The foregoing elements of the Association's mission are tangible and their effective accomplishment is not realized without the spending of money. Administrative expenses, the maintenance of records, the printing and distribution of the Association's publications, and other logistic costs, are met for the most part by the judicious use of membership dues. In an indirect way disbursements such as these contribute to the achievement of the Association's aims. However, membership dues alone are incapable of providing any significant furtherance of plans, programs and projects which the Association hopes to undertake for the benefit of the Naval Academy in an ever increasing degree.

The Naval Academy's primary financial support is provided by the Congress in the form of appropriations. Ostensibly these moneys are sufficient to meet the actual cost of operation and such expansion as may be found necessary. However, it is well known by all who have worked on the preparation of an annual budget for any command, installation or bureau that many an item sincerely believed to be essential has been curtailed or eliminated as the program advanced up the ladder and competition for the available dollars increased. The Naval Academy's proposed budgets have felt the knife along with all the others and the Academy has done without items which we as alumni could not help but agree are essential.

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