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February, 1966

Vol. 29

No. 2

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Defense

SEABEES IN VIETNAM, 1965

by LCdr. E. R. Oscarson, CEC, USN

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STRONG BACK AND A WEAK MIND

by Capt. D. E. Cummings, USN (Ret.)

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EXIT WITH A FULL HEART

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

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ATHLETICS

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CAPITOL HILL

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LUCKY BAG OF BOOKS

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PUBLISH AND POST

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ALL HANDS

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CHAPTER NEWS

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H E P A R T played by the Pacific Naval Construction Forces (Seabees) in the build-up of United States Forces in the Republic of Vietnam during the past year is significant, and the entire Navy family can take justifiable pride in their readiness and accomplishments. Here is the story of the Seabees in Vietnam, 1965.

In early April the Pacific Mobile Construction Battalions were deployed in what had evolved as their normal peacetime pattern. MCB T E N had just relieved MCE F I V E on Okinawa as the Alert Battalion. Being the Alert Battalion meant that T E N had a somewhat lightened workload, but that they were more heavily engaged in contingency planning and military readiness training than either of the other deployed battalions. Their officers maintained close liaison with elements of the Third Marine Expeditionary Force and their fingers were on the already quickening pulse of the Vietnam conflict.

Also on Okinawa was MCB E L E V E N , heavily engaged in construction of Camp Hansen, a permanent U. S. Marine Corps site. MCB E L E V E N was in the billet of the "working" or "construction" battalion, meaning that they did only a minim u m of contingency planning and military training and, in the overall scheme of things, were the least available for redeployment of the three deployed battalions. MCB T H R E E was located on G u a m as the Pacific Fleet "Back-up" Battalion. In this role, T H R E E had a full work schedule, but was allowed training time for a full scale mount-out exercise and other military readiness drills. As implied by the title of "Backup"

Battalion, MCB T H R E E was the second most available battalion.

By mid-April, approval for the Chu Lai operation was given as a vital part of the burgeoning Marine Corps build-up in South Vietnam. T h e order to mount-out went forward to MCB T E N and their men and equipment were combat loaded in amphibious assault vessels for the forthcoming operation.

On 7 May, in the best traditions of the great World W a r II amphibious assaults. Marines and Seabees stormed ashore at a point about 15 miles north of Quang Ngai and the heretofore closely guarded name of Chu Lai became common knowledge.

(See Shipmate, Nov. '65.) Within the defensive perimeter, quickly established by the 4th and 7th Marines, MCB T E N began the fantastic construction feat of placing an 8,000 foot, aluminum plank, jet-capable runway where before there had been wasteland. Under the handicaps of a relentless sun and bottomless sand, the untried men of T E N placed enough runway within 23 days to enable the first aircraft to land on 30 May. On 3 July the runway was fully operational and today supports several Marine squadrons of vitally needed close air support aircraft. T h e ever present helicopters also have a home at Chu Lai. The importance of Chu Lai was dramatically illustrated in August when the Navy-Marine team trapped a Viet Cong Regiment on the Van T h u o n g peninsula in Operation Starlight and scored the U. S.'s first major victory over the elusive communist guerrillas. Air support and Marines from C h u Lai S H I P M A T E

formed the " h a m m e r " as the 7th Fleet landed Fleet Marines to provide the blocking force or "anvil" to complete the encirclement of the enemy regiment and effect their eventual defeat.

W i t h the completion of the temporary air facility at C h u Lai, the Seabees' job here has only just begun. Continuing yet is the construction of semi-permanent camp facilities, P O L and other logistic support facilities, improved water-front facilities, roads and other communication lines and never ending maintenance on the aluminum runway. As long as there is a Chu Lai, there will be Seabees there improving it.

Concurrent with the embarkation of M C B T E N from Okinawa, Seabee planning was going forward in other areas.

It was decided that M C B T H R E E would be embarked from G u a m and that it would be joined in Vietnam by a third Battalion, M C B N I N E , which was just finishing its homeport training at Port Hueneme, California. T h e location of MCBs T H R E E and N I N E would be at D a N a n g , the h u b of U . S. Marine Corps activity in Vietnam. In order to coordinate the multi-battalion effort, authority was sought and granted to form the 30th Naval Construction Regiment which would be headquartered at D a N a n g and exercise operational control over all in-country MCBs. T h e very basic roots of the 3 0 T H N C R were formed from MCBs T H R E E and N I N E when they each sent two officers and three enlisted men to D a N a n g around the 25th of April, to form an M C B joint planning group. Under the leadership of MCB T H R E E ' s Lt. M O N T O Y A and M C B N I N E ' s Lt. S C H U L T Z , the joint planning group began design, planning a n d estimating of a number of vitally needed projects in the D a N a n g area.

In early May, authorization was granted to send forward 75-man air detachments from T H R E E and N I N E . T h e M C B T H R E E airlift took place over a period of nine days, 6 May to 15 May, and utilized twenty-nine C-124 and C-130 type aircraft provided by the Air Forces' Western Tactical Air Squadrons. A final total of 690,000 pounds of supplies and equipment and 99 m e n were airlifted to D a N a n g from G u a m in this period. T h e 75-man air detachment from M C B N I N E arrived in D a N a n g on 20 May. W i t h the arrival of the two air detachments, the advance planning group's work was turned over to the first permanent arrivals of the 3 0 T H N C R and the approximately 180 Seabees moved to the base of Hill 327 to begin construction of a two-battalion camp. O n 20 May, the U.S.S. POINT DEFIANCE

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Guam on 23 May to arrive at D a N a n g on 30 May with the rest of T H R E E ' S main body.

In early June the Seabee workload at D a N a n g was taking form. It n o w became obvious that there were a large number of projects needed at East D a N a n g , the peninsula of land separated from D a N a n g proper and the Air Base by the Tourane ( D a N a n g ) river. Accordingly, the M C B N I N E advance party was relocated at East D a N a n g , where it started work at a n e w camp site. Plans for the Hill 327 Seabee camp site were then reduced in scope to one battalion size.

With the arrival of M C B T H R E E at D a N a n g , work demands were immediately placed upon the battalion. O n 30 May, twelve pieces of heavy equipment with 35 operators and mechanics were sea-lifted to C h u Lai as an augmentation to MCB T E N . By 5 June, work was begun on an unbelievable road u p and across a nearby mountain. T h e route was approximately 7 miles in length a n d was to be cut through extremely heavy jungle growth, up and down 45° slopes in some places.

T h e crew on this project was supported largely by helicopter.

Members reached their objective in 23 days and then began extensive clearing operations. Since this project was located on the East D a N a n g side, it was taken over by M C B N I N E shortly after the arrival of the main body.

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These members of M o b i l e Construction Battalion Ten a r e laying aluminum matting for the airfield a t Chu Lai. Completed in 23 days under combat conditions, the airstrip became o p e r a t i o n a l through the use of arresting g e a r a n d J A T O assist take-off when it w a s no longer than 3 , 5 0 0 feet.

Other projects undertaken by M C B T H R E E in June were small in scope and the major part of the battalion's effort in this month went into the establishment of the camp site. By 26 June, the main body of MCB N I N E arrived at D a N a n g and moved to its camp site.

T h e month of July is recorded as perhaps the most frustrating of the first few months in Vietnam for Seabees. W i t h camps completed and projects firming u p , lack of materials kept them from being employed to their best advantage.

T h e modern M C B is comprised of seven basic construction rates plus the required supporting fleet rates such as commissarymen, storekeepers, gunners mates, yeomen and hospital corpsmen. T h e construction rates are builders, steelworkers, utilitiesmen, construction electricians, equipment operators, construction mechanics and engineering aides. These are all the necessary skills needed to effect any major construction project. Given enough time and equipment, Seabees can, for example, build a major highway, complex bridges, large waterfront facilities and, in fact, any of the familiar structural forms in our everyday lives. Deny Seabees construction materials and you limit them just as surely as lack of fuel grounds a squadron of jets.

There was no shortage of earth-moving jobs, however, and it is in this area that MCBs T H R E E and N I N E were most heavily employed in July. M C B N I N E stepped u p work on the mountain clearing job and began making improvements to the road leading to the base of Monkey Mountain. M C B

LCdr. Oscarson recently returned from Vietnam where he had served as executive officer oÂŁ Mobile Construction Battalion Three. A New Englander, he is an alumnus of Northeastern University, Boston, Mass. Appointed to the Naval Academy in 1950, Oscarson graduated with the class of 1954 and subsequendy served at sea. Later assigned to duty as a graduate student in engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., he was, upon completion of his studies, designated as an officer in the Navy's Civil Engineer Corps.

THREE continued work on an LST earthfiU project, widened a major road leading off Route One and commenced widening of the road up Hills 327 and 268. Both battalions opened up rock quarries and started producing vitally needed crushed rock. MCB THREE's construction equipment workload grew to the point where 90 equipment operators and mechanics were hurried to DaNang from MCB FIVE at Port Hueneme. The addition of these personnel from FIVE enabled around-theclock operations to go forward on Hill 327 and at the quarry site. July also saw the decision made to augment the Pacific Seabees with MCB EIGHT from the Adantic Fleet. EIGHT was tentatively programmed for location at DaNang East.

A large crone is eased into an LCU within the well deck of on LSD for transportation ashore and use in road building in the DaNang area.

A front-end loader is operated by a member of Mobile Construction Battalion Three in the construction of a mountain road near the airfield at DoNong.

Seabees of Mobile Construction Battalion Three erect on elephant at their camp in DaNang.

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In August the flow of construction material began to build up in the DaNang area. Both THREE and NINE began placement of numbers of Quonsets and Butler Buildings. With the arrival of lumber, strong-backed tents for Marine units started springing up. Fuel oil tanks and pipe lines began to take form. NINE started work on a 500-bed hospital at DaNang East. With the filling of the logistics pipe line, Seabees became capable of fulfilling any mission within the wide range of their potential.

MCB E I G H T ' S advance party arrived and repeated the now familiar process of constructing their own camp. The pattern of future deployments became set with three Battalions at DaNang and one at Chu Lai. Although the Vietnam battalions operate out of semi-permanent camps, they retain the capability of rapid in-country redeployment to any location where their talents may be needed.

MCB EIGHT now has a detachment at Hue Phu Bai, 40 miles north of DaNang. Future months will see Seabees at work wherever the Marines expand their areas of operations.

In September, MCB THREE, relieved by MCB FIVE, became the first battalion to return from Vietnam. It was also in September that MCB EIGHT arrived at DaNang to complete the present build-up of construction battalion strength.

Several weeks later, MCB FOUR joined her sister East Coast Battalion in changing home port to Port Hueneme, thus increasing the Pacific Naval Construction Forces to seven battalions while three remain in the East.

This rapid redeployment of Seabee units offers additional proof of their truly mobile characteristics and justifies Seabee planning through the years.

Construction is not the only contribution made by Seabees.

Although they are not employed in forward areas as combat troops, Seabees are a vital part of the inner defense system in the combat zones. MCB THREE manned a segment of the defenses around the THIRD Marine Regiment Command Post, flanked to the left and right by Marines. MCB NINE has a complete 360째 defensive system around its camp, completely manned by its own troops. So does MCB EIGHT. MCB TEN at Chu Lai patrols its own camp perimeter. In October a Viet Cong night mortar and suicide squad attack against MCB NINE and Marines of the 16TH Marine Air Group left more than eighty wounded Seabees, and their 500bed hospital project was partly in ruins. Any major assault against U. S. positions in DaNang or Chu Lai will find Marines and Seabees fighting shoulder-to-shoulder, because defensive fighting is a part of the Seabee mission. Equipped with automatic weapons and rocket launchers as well as the standard M-14 rifle, each battalion is extensively drilled in their use before deployment. The Viet Cong will not easily take any Seabee position.

The Vietnam War has seen the reunion of Marines and Seabees in action, a combination famous from the days of World War II. The historic bonds between these two fine organizations, never totally severed, are stronger than ever.

Together they form the land-going element of the overall Navy effort which in the end will not be denied final victory in Vietnam.

S H I P M A T E

STRONG BACK and a WEAK MIND

by Capt. D. E. Cummings, USN (Ret.)

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E C E N T L Y a young N e g r o from the uplands of N o r t h Carolina enlisted in the Navy. Before being inducted he was given a battery of tests, including G.C.T. and the mechanical aptitude.

As a result of these tests he was told what fields of activity he was qualified for. H e was given his choice of these fields, subject to there being room in that field. H e chose hospital work, and is currendy taking electro-cardiograms at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.

His experience was a far cry from that of former years. It was the product of many changes. These included Americanization, the introduction of testing, with which I had much to do, and adaptation to the postwar technological explosion.

In the first decade of this century, when I first joined the Fleet, Americanization was about complete. There were holdovers, I remember some of them, not recognized as such at the time.

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T h e m a n who had to make his mark to draw his pay.

Item. T h e regularly enlisted Chinaman in an Atlantic battleship whose invariable reply when at the mast for not manning his battle station, was "Ching makee laundlee."

Item. General Muster, in which all hands were assembled on the quarter deck, where the paymaster called the roll and each man called uncovered, passed the captain and oflScers, was identified, and went forward.

Americanization began in the seventies. T h e crews of the Mediterranean Squadron contained men of thirty different nadonalities, giving point to a notice that appeared at the starboard gangway of the ships of the Squadron: "Ici on parle Anglais."

The captain of one of the square riggers of the Squadron did something about this. Back in the United States in 1875 Stephen B. Luce sponsored an apprentice system in which American boys from good homes were enlisted for their minority. They were scrupulously trained mentally, morally, and physically. Graduates were eligible for commissions. At least one, C. E. Breeland, rose to the top naval rank.

About 1912 evidences appeared that the Navy was becoming aware of the need for better methods of administering enlisted personnel. I was introduced to the idea when the executive officer, Commander J. R. P. Pringle, directed me to prepare lists of what men of each rating should know. Lacking guidFEBRUARY,

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ance, I started by going down into a coal-burning fireroom, where I asked the "Water T e n d e r " what were the qualifications for a fireman. His answer was prompt and unequivocal: "A strong back and a weak mind." In due time I turned in my lists, such as they were.

In the early 20's Congress, foreseeing no more wars, curtailed naval appropriations. There was a critical shortage of men in the Fleet, especially radiomen.

Drafts of recruits for the Fleet were sent to the battleship ARKANSAS, overhauling at a Navy yard. T h e ARKANSAS was directed to select men with aptitude for radio, and give them code training while awaiting distribution. Being navigator, I was given the job.

N o one knew how to determine aptitude in advance. F r o m their records I made as good guesses as possible, then invented some tests which were given to the selectees, for the purpose of testing the tests. As each group finished its code training, performance was compared with the test results. One test proved to have some value in separating out those lacking aptitude, and was used thereafter.

I sent a copy of the test to the Bureau, where enlightenment was being sought. They seized upon it, mimeographed what they thought was pertinent, missed the point and my test died a'borning.

My curiosity having been aroused, I kept some track of the Bureau's work in enlisted training during a three-year duty assignment in Washington. On another occasion while on leave from the U.S.S. TRENTON, I spent some time in the Bureau of Navigation, copying data on 1,000 men who had recendy finished four-year enlistments. This material included scores on the tests given them at the training station—general classification test, mechanical aptitude test, etc. These scores had been methodically recorded, but never used, since no one knew where their value might lie.

By placing my data on file cards and arranging them in order of G.C.T.'s it became clear that the various ratings fell into layers so that it was possible to foretell where a m a n with a given test would end up. Water found its level. Notably, the whole top layer fell into three ratings: radiomen, yeomen, and hospital corpsmen. T h e bottom layer was composed mostly of ship's cooks.

In the TRENTON I had a chance to use this new knowledge.

Our navigator had had a bad time building u p his group of

pamphlet available to division officers and examining boards.

T h u s examinees could, for the first time, be equitably compared.

Capt. Cummings, class of 1907, graduated in September 1906 and went to sea in the Great White Fleet. A distinguished 40-year career in the Navy came to a close with his retirement in 1946. Capt. Cummings is the author of a book. Admiral Richard Wainu>right and the U. S. Fleet, and a number of published professional articles. This is his fourth to appear in Shipmate.

quartermasters. H e wanted men with experience and was not impressed by the story of Napoleon, whose generals protested the appointment of a junior as marshall over the heads of many with greater experience. Napoleon replied that he knew an army mule who had served in more campaigns than any general, but he would not make him a marshall.

From a draft of recruits I selected one who seemed to be quartermaster material. I told him that, if left to chance, he would probably end up in an office, and I asked if he wanted this. H e said he had enlisted to get out of an ofSce. T h e n I sold him on a Q M job and assigned him to the navigator's division. Four years later I got a letter from this lad, signed as Q M 3c, thanking me for putting him there.

I N T H E L A T E 20's the Navy was suffering from a post-war famine of appropriations and men. After boot camp, most training had to be afloat and fleet personnel were much concerned about placing every man where he could serve to the best advantage. It was the business of the training division of the Bureau of Navigation to provide assistance in this area.

W h e n I came to head the enlisted section of that division in late 1927 the first thing to be done was concerned with training courses. A number of these had been published, only one of which was of acceptable quality. T w o were ready for the printer, but bottlenecked in the section. After sizing up their authors, I uncorked the bottle and prepared for the next round.

I found an excellent staff, including Lieutenant Commanders A. S. Wotherspoon and J. M. Steele and a civilian educator.

Acting as a team, we accomplished much. T h e first item was to review both the content and the format of the training courses. For the content we went to the rating specifications listed in the Bureau Manual. Here we found, for example, that a seaman should know everything about seamanship, infantry, artillery, steering the ship, equipping and manning boats, not to mention many other subjects. A coxswain should know the same things better, the second and first class boatswain's mates better yet, and the chief should know them best of all. Obviously, no seaman could be expected to know all this, and such a list was of little help to an examiner. Dividing the material into what seemed a workable distribution, we revised the Manual accordingly.

For the format, we arranged each course in assignments.

T o assist the sailor in assimilating the material, we inserted ever so often a few short-answer type questions on key points.

At the end of each assignment we put in the correct answers to those questions so that the sailor could check how well he was doing. Also at the end of the assignment we inserted a list of short-answer questions of a different type covering the same key points. Only the division ofBcer had the answers to this list.

At the end of the whole course a third set of questions covering the same key items was provided in a separate classified

T h e critical shortage of men made it essential that everyone be used to the best advantage. Unfortunately, many men sent to service schools failed after they got there. Study showed that these failures were the same ones who made low scores on the tests given to all recruits at the training stations. These failures had a doubly harmful effect. They started the men concerned off with failure, which was bad for morale, and they lowered the standard of instruction at the schools. W h e n these results and the means to overcome them were presented to commanding officers of training stations, the beneficial effects were soon evident. Fewer men went to schools, but many more graduated.

A similar situation obtained with enlisted aspirants to the Naval Academy. T h e section annually prepared an examination which was used service-wide to select those to be sent to the two prep schools operated by the Navy. Many had been sent to the schools but few had passed the Academy entrance examinations. T h e quota of 100 enlisted appointments had never been filled.

This again was a waste of manpower. A study of the previous year's examination showed that nearly everyone who had taken it was sent to a school and that those who had made low scores failed the Naval Academy entrance examination.

T h e low initial standard compelled a low standard of instruction. T h e following year an examination of similar difficulty was prepared, but only those making a good score were sent to the schools.

W h e n the Academy entrance examinations were given, 125 passed and were duly admitted. This caused quite a stir. Some officers wanted to know if I was trying to fill up the Academy with enlisted men, to which I replied that that was a matter of policy with which I had nothing to do. I had been given a job, and had tried to do my best at it. Later I made a little study to see whether there was any detectable difference between officers from the ranks and others. I found none over the short haul. I recall, however, that a later Chief of Naval Operations was an ex-apprentice.

For the following year, I combined the two schools into one, and then approached the detail officer. Commander J. O. Richardson, with the proposition that I would call for three less officers if, in return, he would let me have a voice in their selection. This was such a novel idea that he agreed. T h e one school was established at the Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, where the civilian educator and I visited to counsel and consult. T h e highly successful results were later described amusingly by a graduate in his book. All the Ships at Sea. At the Training Station, on that visit we found Lieutenant A. E. Becker displaying great interest in the study of the relation between tests and subsequent performance. H e wrote a fine study on this subject which Dr. Mallory of the Department of Education at the University of California pronounced to be of "Phi Bet' " quality.

I T W A S F O U N D that there was a relationship between scores on a G.C.T. and delinquency. Men at the bottom of the list had more than their share of desertions, courts, and misfits.

T h e correlation was not high, but significant enough to interest a new head of the recruiting service. Captain F . H . Poteet, and his assistant. Lieutenant Commander J. S. McCain, who were wrestling with the results of a disastrous recruiting policy. They adopted a shortened G.C.T. for use in avoiding the enlistment of unpromising recruits.

Some schools and some ratings needed more than one test to determine aptitude of candidates. A radioman, for example, was a "triple threat" man. H e must be able to operate and S H I P M A T E

receive code, to route and handle traffic, and to do the complicated wiring in accordance with diagrams containing many confusing twists and turns.

Before being rated chief, candidates were required to take a course at the Washington Navy Yard. W e arranged that at the beginning of the course they should be given a battery of tests which was sent to us for marking. At the end of the course their performance score was reported to us. Comparing tests with performance, we found that three tests gave a very accurate and advance measure of their final school rating.

In the case of one class, a man whose tests showed him to be most promising, failed dismally. After absorbing this shock a few days, we called up the school to ask about him. T h e answer was quick and disgusted; the m a n had fallen for some girl, and studied her instead of his work.

For traffic, the G.C.T. served. For wiring, a standard test in the form of a maze sufficed. And for the code an adequate test was found. It was considered that recruits desiring to go to radio school should make at least fair scores on all of these, and good scores on some, the idea being that they should not be started on a career in which they could not hope to go all the way.

There were many ramifications in the work of the section.

For instance I made a trip to Scranton to consult with officials of the International Correspondence School. After m a k i n g it clear why we could not use their courses, since they did not fit into our rating programs, I obtained consent to the use of their excellent illustrations.

From the author of the Gregg shorthand system I obtained not only permission to incorporate lessons in the yeoman courses but some special word signs for commonly used naval terms.

I did not personally do the actual writing of the courses.

Other officers in the section did this with the civilian educator collaborating on the short-answer questions tests.

The work of setting standards and of determining the value of the various tests fell to me. However, I was not without help on this. There was D r . L. J. O'Rourke, psychologist with the Civil Service Commission, who provided helpful counsel and who became also a w a r m personal friend.

Further help came from a most unexpected source. A midshipman on his first class cruise contracted polio, and he lost the use of one foot. Waiting at the naval hospital in Washington, he became much depressed, having had no other ambition than to be a naval officer. I found him glad to work out correlations to occupy his time and he was very apt. After a time I told him of a test offered by a University of California professor, designed to guide men of college age in selecting a career. At his request I gave him this test and sent it to the professor for scoring. W h e n it came back with three careers indicated, the young man told m e that he had already chosen those careers while taking the test. His depression was lifted. Soon he was on his way and launched on a suitable career.

The work of the section attracted much attention. I was called upon to talk about it at the P. G. School then in Annapolis. Articles were published in the Naval Institute Proceedings and the Journal of Personnel Research.

The work done by the section in the 20's and 30's was tailored to fit the conditions prevailing at the time. This was a period when there were to be no more wars, and the Navy was given scant funds and few men. A large proportion of the training of enlisted men had to be done by officers afloat in addition to their many other duties.

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T O D A Y T H E S I T U A T I O N DIFFERS SHARPLY. There is money enough, and it is needed. Because nearly all duties are highly specialized and subject to rapid technological change, most training must take place at schools.

T h e training courses that occupied so much attention are now secondary. On the other hand, aptitude tests, on which I put much effort, are an essential part of today's program. An example is shown by the experience of the young m a n from North Carolina. About half of the recruit graduates go to schools, the rest go to the fleet. T h e schools, designed to give the men the technical skills needed for the lowest petty officer rates, require five to 52 weeks to complete. Later on these men may go to more advanced rating schools, and, sometimes, to schools to develop special skills. There are also Fleet schools largely for group training.

Instead of training courses administered by division officers as before the war, the Navy now operates a correspondence school offering rating courses. Nearly three quarters of a million courses were issued to enrollees in fiscal year 1963.

These courses come in the form of well bound and illustrated manuals, which form the basic texts. Assignments based on these texts are issued, together with short-answer quizzes. T h e student, when he has completed an assignment, turns it in for scoring. Any wrong answer brings a careful explanation to ensure that the m a n fully understands the subject matter. In large ships division officers are provided with keys to the quizzes, just as was done in the 20's. In smaller ships courses are administered and quizzes corrected entirely by mail.

T h e textbook for basic military requirements is reminiscent of the old Bluejac\ets Manual. A glance through it shows such things as officers corps insignia, enlisted rating badges, how to handle and shoot a rifle, hand salutes, types of naval ships and planes, gas masks and other such equipment, and finally, a discussion of naval morale and history, pointing up the contribution which every man should make. Except for many technical developments, the sailor of 1929 would feel quite at home in this book.

T h e requirements for coal-burning firemen might have served very well for many men of the Navy of 1873. For 1966, however, while the strong back would not disqualify, the weak mind would have to be nostalgically discarded. T h e fruits of the 1929 transition in enlisted training remain, but another major transition has occurred to meet the technological explosion of more recent times.

A typical rating course is that for Machinist's Mate. T h e book deals with various machinery installations and also covers organizations for damage control, watch standing, reports, engineering, materials and procurement, etc., such as might be found in the familiar naval engineering textbook re-written in the nuclear age.

T h e Navy found testing useful in the economical placement of men in the pre-war shortage. T h e post-war Navy has found testing an aid in recruiting men capable of operating and maintaining complex implements of naval warfare. T h e supply of such men is not unlimited. Soon the Navy may find itself compelled to include in specifications for naval materiel limits of complexity within which design must be kept in order that enough qualified men may be found to use it.

T o this end programs for forecasting the future quality of recruits available will be needed, and the machinery for providing such forecasts is already in the making. T h e Navy has found the solutions to its personnel problems before. It will find them again.

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A M A Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, having been in the service for something over 43 intensely interesting, demanding, sometimes dangerous, often frustrating, but always heart-warming years. Now, the official age of senility and decrepitude comes galloping u p through the torn-off pages of the calendar, and all my efforts to get the Bureau of Naval Personnel to ignore my birthday have come to naught. ("The Enactments of the Congress," and all that sort of legal folderol.)

So before the end of the year I must train my guns and missile launchers fore and aft, haul down my flag, and retire, to make way for the coming generation. (Aside to such budding aspirants: Come out onto the tennis court, baseball diamond, swimming pool or Parris Island obstacle course with me and I'll show you which end goes up.)

As the anchor is being made ready for letting go, this dissertation is written in order to put down on paper, for better enjoyment as memories fade with the passing years, some of the occasions which have made this such a wonderful life. Any reader should be warned at the outset that there is nothing of surpassing interest or distinction in the scenes about to be set forth, or in the career depicted by them; practically any of my contemporaries in this great Navy of ours could write a similar chronicle. This tale has no plot, no continuity, no pattern, and no "message" except an abiding love of the service (and pride therein) and a deep sense of affection and gratitude to my fellow wearers of the Navy blue. It is frankly sentimental, and anyone who objects thereto is at perfect liberty to throw this into the wastebasket forthwith, snort in derision, and go climb a tree.

Some of these recollections are associated with World W a r II and will not, we trust, be subject to repetition. Such as feeling gosh-awful lonesome in one's destroyer in the pre-dawn darkness out in the heart of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands, and then in the first grey light to see Marc Mitscher's Fast Carrier Task Force come sweeping up over the whole eastern horizon, filling the sky with planes, with guns bristling from all ships, and with battle flags at the mastheads. Others are timeless and will cause a swelling of Navy hearts in the future 10

just as in the past; even such small things as being in a far corner of the ocean on an errand of one's country, to sit on deck under the guns in the cool of the evening and listen to a rich voice singing the songs of home. Or, best of all in a similar location, to look aloft and see the homeward-bound pennant streaming out from one's own mainmast-head, as the screws beat time for the song which is in every heart on board, and the bow swings happily around to the course for the long voyage home.

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at any one time. (Somewhat like brandy.)

Antidote: T h r o w

this in trash. D r i n k glass of

warm milk and endeavor to curb temper.

December 16, 1907 I see (rather dimly, for I am but four years of age) the broad waters of H a m p t o n Roads (Norfolk, Virginia). My mother and I are standing on the shoreline at Old Point Comfort, looking out over the anchorage where most of the U. S. Fleet is assembled. There has been much to-ing and fro-ing.

President Theodore Roosevelt has come in, in the MAYFLOWER, and anchored in a reserved spot amid the assembled ships. The Commander in Chief of the fleet. Admiral "Fighting Bob" Evans of Spanish W a r fame, has called on the President, and so have all of his Admirals and Captains, and the piping of dignitaries aboard the MAYFLOWER has wafted to us across the water. N o w they have returned to their respective ships (more piping); the boats have been hoisted in, and the fleet is getting u p anchor and standing out to sea. T h e cruise will be of 14 months duration, taking them around the world via South America, N e w Zealand and Australia, all the lands of the Orient, the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean.

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by RAdm. Charles H. Lyman, USN (Ret.) It is quite a sight; 16 battleships with their white hulls and buff-colored upperworks, stacks pouring forth coal smoke as the black gangs labor in the stokeholds and engine rooms while the deck forces secure the anchors for sea, batten down for the voyage ahead and then m a n the rails to render honors to the President, as they pass the MAYFLOWER. Port of Sp>ain (for Christmas), Rio, and the Strait of Magellan lie as the first stops ahead.

But my mother and I have no eyes for Teddy Roosevelt, or Bob Evans, or any of the ships save one. W e are looking only at the third battleship in line, the USS VERMONT, and in particular at the tall figure standing in front of the Marine Guard on her quarterdeck. H e is my dad. Captain Charles H . Lyman, U. S. Marine Corps, and he is sailing off in the service of his country, as he has done before and as his father, the late Lieutenant Charles H . Lyman, U. S. Navy (Annapolis '70), did so often before him. This is as ordained; it is one of the painful but honorable obligations of a chosen profession. Probably fortunately, the extent of the cruise is utterly incomprehensible to my 4-year-old mind both as to time and as to geography. A year and two months later, on February 22, 1909, he will come steaming back u p over that same horizon over which he is now disappearing, and the world will resume its brightness.

But we cannot know this, and we can see only that he is leaving us on a voyage which seems to stretch to eternity. W e watch until long after the VERMONT is indistinguishable in the distance.

It is not a joyous evening in Mrs. Lyman's small cabin on the Norfolk to Washington steamer that night. Young gentlemen (age four) are sometimes at a loss as to how to carry out their duties as interim Man of the Household when Mother is sobbing her heart out and D a d is away on an expedition which, both in time and in distance, is far beyond one's small ken.

assignments. I see Camp Columbia, outside of Havana, in 1907 with the Army of Cuban Pacification. ( N o w there was a tide for you!) I see Panama in 1910, including a trip with General Goethals in his inspection car (an automobile on railroad wheels) through the bed of the canal then being dug.

I see the Marine Barracks at Sitka, Alaska, in 1912, covered by a mantle of snow in its beautiful setting on the shore of the bay under towering mountains. I see the City of Santiago de los Caballeros, in 1921, in the fertile valley of the Cibao in the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola. I see Cap Haitien, Haiti, also in 1921, and the nearby palace and citadel of the Former Emperor Christophe, built into a whole mountain peak and constituting the engineering wonder of its day.

Of course I have no way of knowing, at this time, that my beloved dad and his good upstanding Marines are damned imperialists and tools of the capitalist conspiracy. In my untutored schoolboy mind, all I can see is that wherever they go (and they go only where the President of the U. S. sends them) peace and good order quickly prevail. (Said commodities having been in woefully short supply in the recent past.) There are no shenanigans with the police. Taxes go for the purposes for which they are collected. T h e public health takes a turn which causes insurance company stocks to rise. Fiscal affairs, the courts, and administration in general are turned back to local authorities as soon as they are in a position to handle them. Whereupon the Marines pack up with loud cheers and get the hell out, happily singing (along with the crews of the Navy ships which have supported them and are now taking them h o m e ) : " H o m e , boys, home; it's home we long to be.

H o m e , boys, home; in God's countree.

T h e ash, and the oak, and the weeping willow tree; O h we're strong for the Navy but it's home we long to be."

The Growing Up Years

June 17, 1922

I see many places throughout this hemisphere where my father has taken my mother and me in the course of his duty

I see Memorial Hall, in the U. S. Naval Academy. Around the walls are plaques in tribute to Navy men who have died

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in battle, or have been lost at sea, or have perished in the flaming holocausts which too often still accompany turret gunnery practices, or w h o have in hundreds of other ways given their lives for their country in peace as well as in war. Also around the walls are portraits of naval heroes, and flags which have been captured in combat or which have flown from our own ships in famous engagements.

I a m one of a group of neatly but heterogeneously dressed young men, lined u p in the center of the room in front of the Commandant of Midshipmen. W e have just this morning passed the physical examination which is the last step on the long hard path toward qualification for entry. Now, with our right hands raised, we repeat the solemn words.—"That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies—That I will bear true faith and allegiance— T h a t I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter—."

Looking down on us from its case in front of and above us is the banner which Oliver Hazard Perry flew from the LAWRENCE and then the NIAGARA at the Battle of Lake Erie,

bearing the words of James Lawrence as he lay dying in the cockpit of the CHESAPE.^KE: D O N ' T G I V E U P T H E S H I P .

Later, in my room in Bancroft Hall, I see a letter. I have just written it. It is a very ordinary letter; in fact it is a change of address for a magazine subscription. But there is one thing about this letter which sets it strikingly apart from all the mass of h u m d r u m paper products which the Postmaster General totes about in his collective mailbag; it is those few words which stand out in gloriously sparkling letters as a subscript to my boyishly-legible signature: M I D S H I P M A N U. S. N A V Y .

T h e pride of a Field Marshal on receiving his baton. Of a Chief of Naval Operations on being sworn into that high office.

Even of that quadrennial ceremony on the east front of the Capitol. Pouf, gentlemen, pouf; you don't know what pride is.

"O Columbia the gem of the ocean.

T h e home of the brave and the free"

July 8, 1923 I see church services aboard the USS ARKANSAS. It is rather cold, with intermittent fog. T h e portable altar, and the rows of mess benches, have been rigged on the main deck in the lee of the superstructure, and we draw our peacoats around us.

W e are on a 3-month midshipman cruise, and at the moment are en route from Copenhagen around the north of Scotland to Greenock. W e have just felt our way through Scapa Flow in the scattered fog and are now out in the comparative clear of Pentland Firth between the north tip of Scotland and the Orkneys. Astern of us in DAKOTA and DELAWARE.

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As 4 bells strike (10 a.m.) we hear the pipe of the Boatswain's Mate, followed by his strident "Knock off all card games and keep silence about the decks during divine services. T h e smoking lamp is out." It is before the days of public address systems aboard ship, and his call is picked u p and repeated by the other Boatswain's Mates throughout the ship.

T h e portable organ is atrocious, and the organist on a par, but the scriptures exhort us only to "make a joyous noise unto the Lord," and don't say anything about how technically excellent it must be, so we give forth lustily, endeavoring both to drown out the discordance of the organ and to take our minds off how cold it is. T h e Chaplain labors manfully (and eloquently too) but has his difficulties as we pass through areas of fog and the ship's whistle gives forth with ear-shattering warning blasts at one-minute intervals. Fortunately, though, we are in a clear spot at the time he comes to the old Navy prayer: 12

"Oh eternal Lord God, who alone spreadest out the heavens and rulest the raging of the seas, be pleased we beseech Thee to receive into T h y almighty and most gracious protection the persons of Thy servants the officers and m e n of our Navy, and all the ships in which we serve. Preserve us from the dangers of the sea and from the action of any enemy, that we may be a safeguard unto the United States of America, and a security for all who pass on the seas on their lawful occasions—To the end that the inhabitants of our beloved land may in peace and quietness serve Thee our God.—" T h e cries of the seagulls, as they hover hopefully alongside the galley and the slopchute, form a background for the Chaplain's voice. My mess bench gets harder by the minute, and I have a feeling that I a m well embossed with the grain of the wood. I view the seagulls with hostility, as part of the deck over which they are hovering belongs to m y Division; we diligently scrub and holystone it from 5:30 to 6:30 each morning, and what is taking place bids fair to be a desecration.

Fine on the port bow, Dunnet Head begins to show up through openings in the fog patches. Next, Cape Wrath, then around outside the Hebrides, and down to the bonnie banks of the Clyde. " O h you've heard of the Navy, T h e men who sail the seas" (Navy song, "Service Boast")

August 1924 I see the forward fireroom of the USS WYOMING. T h e effect is as of a large tunnel, running across the ship. Under foot are the steel floor plates, below which water sloshes in the bilge.

At each end are the doors into the coal bunkers which fill the spaces between the fireroom and the sides of the ship. Both long sides of this "tunnel" (that is, the forward and after sides) are formed by the almost solid line of boiler fronts.

At waist height along these fronts is a row of doors about eighteen inches square, through which coal is thrown onto the firebed and through which the fires are tended. Down at floor level is another row of doors, opening underneath the grate-bars into the ash pit, the bottom of which is level with the floor plates; through these doors the ashes are raked out, and the controllable air openings in these doors permit regulation of the draft.

Higher up, the boiler fronts slope in toward each other, and the tunnel effect is completed by a steel grating just above our heads, connecting the boiler fronts and running the full width of the fireroom. By climbing up onto it, one may read the gauge glasses and other instruments, operate various controls and have access when necessary to the upper drums of the boilers. In fact, the ingress to, and egress from, the fireroom is across this grating, alongside the top of one of the boilers and through a tortuous passage and air lock (a fact that calls for gloves to be worn coming and going, since all handholds arc h o t ) .

On the floor plate level, right at the centerline of the ship and hence separating the starboard boilers from the port, are the auxiliary feedwater pumps, feedwater heaters, and other auxiliary machinery.

In the operation of the fireroom, there are three levels in the professional pecking order. Lowest are the coal passers; their job is to see to it that there is always a handy (and ample) pile of coal ready on the floor plates in front of each of the furnace doors. They do this by dragging a coal bucket (about the size of a large G I trash can but much heavier) into the bunker, filling it, manhandling it out to where needed, dumping it on the floor plates, and repeating ad infinitum. Also, as the ashes are hauled out of the ashpits onto the floor plates, it is the coal passers' job to wet them down, load them into buckets and SHIPMATE

dispose of them; this used to mean hoisting them all the way up above decks and d u m p i n g them over the side, but more recently there has been devised a hydraulic ash ejector which shoots them overboard in a stream of water through a pipe right from the fireroom. This coal-passing job falls to the lot of Midshipmen on their first cruise.

Next up the scale are the firemen, who are pardy Midshipmen on their second cruise and partly the ship's regular firemen. (For these cruises about half of the crew is sent ashore to schools or on leave, and their places taken by Midshipmen.)

These are the artists of the shovel, slice bar and fire rake; they heave on the coal, spread the fire evenly with the fire rakes, break up clinkers with their slice bars, shake down the consumed coals into the ashpits, and regulate the furnace draft.

The aristocrats of these infernal regions are the Water Tenders (Third-cruise Midshipmen or ship's Petty Officers), who are in charge of the watch and whose word is law. As to the name: As steam is generated in the boiler and goes on out to the engines, feed water must continually be fed at high pressure into the boiler to keep u p the water level, and this is both tricky and important; if too much is fed in, water rather than steam will go out through the pipe at the top of the boiler and could wreck a turbine. If, on the other hand, the water is allowed to get too low, boiler tubes will burn out like a ketde gone dry. T h e Water Tenders must be unceasingly alert, intimately familiar with alternate sources of water supply, readiness of reserve pumps, operation of auxiliary machinery, and fully knowledgeable on how to cope with all possible casualties. Lives depend on their capability in emergencies; fireroom casualties follow only drowning and turret explosions as a cause of accidental death in the Navy. (Automobiles have not yet come into full flower.)

On second reading, the foregoing sounds entirely too static and quiet and neat and tidy, so let us dispel such error right away. There is the continual clanging of firebox and ashpit doors; the scraping of steel shovels picking u p coal from the piles on the metal floor plates and throwing it into the furnaces; the banging of slice bars and the scratching of fire rakes; the clatter of coal buckets being dragged out of the bunkers and along the floor plates; the measured thud of the reciprocating feedwater pumps; the whirr of the blower motors which provide the forced draft; the sizzling and spitting as salt water is sprayed on the hot ashes which have been hauled out onto the floor plates from the ashpits; the "flush toilet" sound effects of the ash ejector system; the grunting of the coal-passers and the exhortations of the firemen calling for "two more buckets over here by # 3 . " And, oh yes, the crackle and roar of the fires themselves.

The temperature is well over 100째 and everyone is soaked in sweat. T h e coal is too darned powdery, and gives off dust whenever heaved around, which is always. ( T h e men in the bunkers wear cloths over their noses to try to keep the mess out of their lungs.) T h e ashes, too, contribute a hot gray haze as they are hauled out of the ashpits. As a result, all hands are thick in wet grayish-black grime. One would have to do considerable hosing and scrubbing to find the impeccable young gentlemen who looked so crisp and starched in the June Week parades.

Down here, one is completely independent of the time of day, but actually we keep the same watches as on deck, four hours on and eight or twelve off (with school during the latter), and eventually comes the welcome sight of the next watch (looking unconscionably fresh and almost clean) climbing down the ladder from up above. W e wend our wearily grateful way u p to the firemen's washroom and draw our carefully-rationed ^ bucket of fresh water, heating it to desired temperature with steam. (Hold bucket so as to immerse lower end of steam pipe in water. Open valve, hoping that no vacuum has somehow built u p in the damned line.) There is unlimited F E B R U A R Y ,

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hot and cold salt water. T h e washing cycle must be circumspectly arranged; first the face and head are washed while the water is still clear, then the other components of our corporeal entity in descending order of importance, and eventually the now-quite-dirty liquid is poured in a manner best calculated to wash off the remaining soap. Despite our best efforts, the black gang (or at least the first-cruise secUon of it) is generally recognizable by ground-in coal-dust residue in eye sockets and ears. Incidentally, the division of time on these Midshipmen's cruises is usually one month in the black gang and two months in the deck force.

Finally, emerging from the washroom, we find ourselves back in the topside world where clocks and schedules and the ship's roudne and outside-geography have meaning. It is 12:20 a.m. and the gun-deck and berth-deck are quiet, with rows of swinging hammocks. I put my head out the port, to enjoy lungful after lungful of fresh cool air. T h e sea is calm, and we are slipping eastward close along the southern coast of Spain, headed for Gibraltar in the morning.

As I seek my hammock I seem to recollect something in a letter which the Academy sends out to our parents: "Especially on the 3-month summer cruises, the Midshipmen are afforded a unique opportunity to acquire at first hand the elements of marine engineering."

T h e Navy is unexcelled in the conservatism of its claims.

"Our Navigator's full of tar.

H e shoots the trucklight for a star.

And wonders where in the Hell we are.

In the Armored Cruiser Squadron.

Our Engineer's our standing jo\e.

At eleven \nots along we po^e, And fill the ocean full of smo}{e, In the Armored Cruiser Squadron." ( T h e Armored Cruiser Squadron) Admiral Lyman's recollections will be continued in succeeding issues of Shipmate.

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ATHLETICS

by Budd Thalman Fourth USNA graduate joins football's Hall of Fame. RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton '27, USN (Ret.), became the fourth former Navy player to join the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame at the organization's annual banquet in the Waldorf Astoria on Dec. 7. Adm. Hamilton, who is currently Commissioner of the Athletic Association of Western Universities, was one of six former grid heroes honored at the banquet. Col. Edgar Garbisch (at rostrum) made the presentation.

visitors' Mark Cohn, who won five of seven individual events. Navy equalled the entire victory output for 1964-65 by taking West Chester in the fourth meet of the season.

Fencing—Frank Hewitt provided one of the most dramatic moments of the young fencing season at Cornell University on January 15th. The Medford, N. J., second classman won his epee bout 5-2 to give the Midshipmen a come-frombehind 14-13 victory. Navy had trailed by 10-2 early in the match but battled into a 13-13 tie on Dick Meade's clutch win in sabre. Hewitt's final point was the difference. The Midshipmen also defeated Penn 16-11 in their lidlifter at Philadelphia. The top records in each weapon belonged to: Charles Votava, foil, 4-2; Ed Ohlert, epee, 3-2, and Vincent Corry, sabre, 4-2.

Pistol—^After an opening disappointment at the Bureau of Weapons, Coach Art Sievers' marksmen easily outshot Massachusetts and Merchant Marine in a pair of road matches before exams. The Midshipmen will be idle until February 5th, when they entertain Rutgers and Coast Guard in a triangular. All-American Jim Gilbert, a second classman from Orange, N. J., showed the most impressive credentials after three matches. Gilbert had one first and a pair of seconds. The only other three-time finisher in the scoring summary was another second classman—^Doug Matthews of San Francisco, Calif.

Rifle—^Dennis Kreps' sharp-shooting paced the rifle team to a 3-1 record in the first 4 encounters of the campaign. The Dubuque, Iowa, second classman was Navy's top marksman in three of the matches and third in a fourth. Ward Marsden, a youngster from Arlington, Va., also notched four finishes among the top five. The team was serving under an interim coach as Kendall Barber, developer of Navy marksmen for nine years as head coach and many more as a member of the Ordnance and Gunnery Department, was hospitalized after a heart attack. At press time, Mr. Barber was still confined to bed but it was hoped he will be leaving the hospital soon.

Photo by Bill Mark

Squash—Since returning from its New England swing which we reported on in the last issue of Shipmate, the squash rackets have had but one match, defeating Fordham 9-0. Four men—Bob Earl, Steve Abbot, Dwight Caldwell, and Dave Scott—were deadlocked for first in won-lost percentage with identical records of 7-1, the same mark enjoyed by the team.

Stvimming—^Three strokes, the margin of Maryland's victory in the 400-yard freestyle relay, separated Coach John Higgins' swimming team from an undefeated season to this point. The Terps trailed Navy 41-47 going into the final event on the program but won the relay and dropped Navy's log to 4-1 for the campaign. The Midshipmen had previously defeated Dartmouth, Harvard, North Carolina, and Columbia. First classman Tim Beard, the team captain, was Navy's most effective swimmer in the first five meets with a total of eight first places. Youngster Tom Donlon lowered the Academy record for the 200-yard freestyle on three separate occasions and boasted of five firsts.

Tim Ferguson in the 50-yard freestyle and John Kane in the 200-yard backstroke were other standout performers.

Photo by Bill Mark

Scholar-Athlete. Midn. Alan M. Roodhouse, Class of 1966, was honored by the National Foundation and Hall of Fame at its annual banquet in the main ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria on Dec. 7. Rood house was one of eight gridders from across the nation to receive the foundation's Scholar-Athlete award. The award includes a $500 grant for graduate study. Roodhouse was on the Superintendent's list for five of his first six semesters at the Academy, was Navy's second leading rusher during the season just concluded. Dinner chairman Vince Draddy (seated) and Foundation secretary Robert Hall (at rostrum) are pictured with Roodhouse.

A S WE PREPARE this report, examinations are •^*- the opposition uppermost in the minds of most Navy athletes. Before devoting fulltime to the books, however, the Midshipmen will get in one more big weekend of competition.

Through January 15th, the overall won-lost record was a very respectable 32 victories against 14 defeats. Indications are that the winning percentage will improve after the mid-terms. The basketball team parlayed improved shooting and better allaround play into a pair of victories that pulled the record to within one win of .500 at 5-6. After dropping their first two outings of the campaign, the gymnasts showed a strong comeback with decisive wins over Temple and West Chester.

The best current won-lost mark belongs to the squash rackets with a 7-1 log. Close behind, however, are the wrestlers with a 5-1 record and the swimmers at 4-1. The other standings look like this: Basketball 5-6, Fencing 2-0, Pistol 2-1, Rifle 3-1, Gymnastics 2-2, and Track 2-1.

Basketball—Hot shooting Bill Radcliffe sparked the Midshipmen to two straight wins with 64 points in outings with George Washington and Temple. The Prospect Park, Pa., senior's point rampage actually began two games earlier, against Georgetown, with a 25-point outburst and continued vs. Syracuse with 20 points. Radcliffe's 109 14

markers in four games ballooned his scoring average from 5.5 points to 13.4, second only to Chris Reddington's 17.9 mark.

As was the case early in the year, Reddington continued to be the team's most consistent performer. His 197 points led all scorers and he also was tops in rebounds (113) and scoring percentage from the field (44.9%). Youngster Jim Snook ranked third among the point-producers with a 12.7 average and second in rebounding with 71 recoveries.

After dropping road decisions to Fordham and Penn to open the season, the Midshipmen defeated Oregon State in triple overtime before opening at home with a loss to Princeton. Prior to the holiday break. Navy sank Gettysburg 83-55 in the Field House. Participating in the Charlotte Invitational Tournament, Navy opened by defeating nationallyranked Davidson (13-2 at press time) but lost the championship to Princeton. Losses to Georgetown and Syracuse preceded the current string of victories over GW and Temple, which entered the game with a 13-1 record.

Gymnastics—Coach John Rammacher's gymnasts regrouped quickly after suffering back-to-back beatings by Springfield and Syracuse to open the season. The Midshipmen rebounded to defeat a talented Temple team despite the heroics of the

Track—Like the swimmers, Maryland destroyed the hopes of Navy's indoor track team for an undefeated season with a 59-41 setback in the third dual meet of the winter campaign. The Terps piled up firsts in seven of the 12 individual events and 1-2 finishes in the high jump, hurdles, and dash. BeS H I P M A T E

fore losing to the Terrapins, Navy had previously decisioned St. John's and William & Mary. Some of Coach Jim Gehrdes' better performances came from Joe Wiggins in the hurdles, Tom Palkie in the broad jump, Jim Kiffer in the 600, John Quinlan in the shotput, Bob Donohue in the sprint, Greg Williams in the 2-mile, and the mile and two-mile relay teams.

Wrestling—The grapplers bagged an unusual three-sided triumph in a quadrangular meet at Blacksburg, Va., to elevate their seasonal record to five wins and one loss—a 21-12 setback to perennial powerhouse Oklahoma. Besides Virginia Tech, Auburn, and Old Dominion—the victims at Blacksburg, the Midshipmen also owned decisions over Cornell and Syracuse. Captain Wayne Hicks, the 137-pound runner-up in both the Easterns and Nationals a year ago, led his teammates with a spotless 4-0 record. First classman Bob Sanders was close by with a 4-0-1 mark and heavyweight John Nichols was 4-1 with all four wins via falls.

Of the newcomers, youngsters Gary Burger (5-1) and Pete Vanderlofske (3-1) appeared to be the most promising.

GREGORY ADDED TO GRID STAFF; NEAL DEPARTS FOR PITT ASSISTANTSHIP

John C. (Jack) Gregory, one of the outstanding small college coaches in the nation, has been added to the Navy football coaching staff. Gregory replaces Doug Scovil, who left to accept the head coaching position at University of the Pacific, his Alma Mater.

Jack Gregory

Photo by Whelan Gregory, a 1952 graduate of East Stroudsburg State College, has been the head football coach there since 1959. In seven seasons, he led the Warriors to a won-lost record of 40-10-2.

Under Gregory's leadership, East Stroudsburg's 1965 eleven won the Eastern Pennsylvania State College Conference title for the third time in the last four years and the Pennsylvania State College Championship for the second year in succession.

The 1965 Warriors, only undefeated-untied college team in the state of Pennsylvania, ranked fourth in small college rushing offense.

Throughout his seven years as a head coach, Gregory's teams have been ranked among the top 10 teams in the N.A.I.A. rushing defense statistics.

His '61 and '62 teams were second in the N.C.A.A.'s total defensive statistics fro small colleges.

Gregory, who is married and the father of two sons, was 1965 small college coach of the year in the five-state Second District o fthe N.C.A.A. The 38-year-old Navy assistant got his start in the profession at Dupont High School in Wilmington, Del. Also on the coaching front, Pittsburgh announced the appointment of Bill Neal, who came to Navy a year ago with Bill Elias, as one of Dave Hart's new assistants. Hart had earlier chosen Jim Royer, a Naval Academy graduate in the Class of '57, as a member of his new staff. Royer helped coach the offensive line at Navy last fall.

Neal, who assisted Carl Schuette with the Navy defense, was a former player at George Washington University. His replacement on Coach Elias' staff is expected to be announced shortly.

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by Fred Lardner ' C ' O R MILITARY personnel the big question in -*- 1966, the last year of this 89th Congress, is what can be done to continue or to maintain improvements in service living in the face of heavy increases in the cost of the Vietnam war and the Administration's determination not to curtail its Great Society programs.

There will be no military pay increase this year, although civilian employees of the Federal Government may get a small increase, recently estimated at 3 percent. This being an election year, the demands of the government employee unions, supported by the AFL-CIO, are almost certain to get attention. The military are not considered to have any adverse political influence; the vote of military personnel is increasing, but the Democrats believe they get the majority of their votes.

Morale construction projects for fiscal 1966, including housing, bachelor quarters, medical facilities, troop housing, mess halls, schools, chapels, gymnasiums, commissaries, and theaters, were abandoned, at least temporarily. The House Armed Services Committee is determined to make some of these projects effective for fiscal 1967, beginning June 1, 1966.

Representatives L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , chairman of the committee, has appointed four subcommittees to investigate the following: (1) Why vital construction projects, which the Defense Department said were urgent, were deferred, "ostensibly because of the war in South Vietnam"; (2) the base closures announced last November which, under the law, should have been referred to the Congressional Committees on the Armed Services; (3) the proposed phaseout of the B-52 and the B-58 bombers, to determine our future capability in manned bombers; (4) military research and development projects.

In order to delve into these subjects immediately.

Rep. Rivers postponed the usual lengthy "military posture" hearings.

"Congress has a constitutional responsibility in the area of national defense and it must either meet tliis responsibility, watch it erode, or unconstitutionally delegate its responsibility to the Department of Defense," Mr. Rivers said. "The committee is not going to go through another exercise in futility of enacting authorization bills after long and serious consideration, whether they be hardware or military construction, only to have projects deleted or deferred without even advising the representatives of the American people."

Representative William H. Bates (R.-Mass.), ranking Republican on the committee, said that the most important business facing the country is the situation in Vietna.Ti and the adequate funding of military needs. But, he added, he will "oppose any effort which suggests that the military services bear the brunt of economies while social-polidcal programs continue well-padded business-as-usual operations. The country's first obligation is to support fully those who have been or might be committed to combat."

Any

Saving

In

Space?

Billions of dollars have been earmarked for the lunar and Apollo space programs. The House Government Operations Committee wants to study these programs to see if they could be stretched out over a longer period of years. For instance, the committee has intimated that the lunar program might be delayed ten years. But the National Aeronautics and Space Administration counters with the claim that a stretchout would add billions to the cost.

Commander M. Scott Carpenter, USN, one of the seven original Project Mercury astronauts, who is now an aquanaut, told the National Press Club recently that this country and the world could get "much more immediate gains from underwater research than from some space agency project such as the assault on the moon, for example." The space project, he said, is a "glamorous effort which ranks currently between God and motherhood."

Television tries to glamorize the space projects, but with about the dullest programs broadcast.

True magazine (January, 1966) carries an article by Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.), who says that, according to many scientists and engineers, the propulsion used by UFO's (Unidentified Flying Objects) is ". . . antigravity: artificial gravity fields and controls of gravity power. . . .

Control of gravity is something that men have been dreaming about for centuries. Now it appears that we are on the threshold of achieving it. Its value, for the country that first attains it, is incalculable. Our government, hoping for a technical breakthrough, has set up 40 different research projects on various aspects of gravity control. The Air Force is running 33 of these projects and the others are divided among five other agencies."

There are also private industry projects on gravity control, for a total of 65 or 70 projects, some so secret they can't be mentioned.

These experiments seem to promise something better in space travel than exists now on this earth.

The Q u e s t i o n O f Finances

Here are some figures on business conditions.

Federal expenditures and Federal revenues as gleaned from official statements and news reports.

The cost of the Vietnam war is expected to increase from $4.7 billion in fiscal 1966 (ending June 30, 1966) to $10.5 billion in fiscal 1967.

Great Society spending is expected to increase $3.25 billion in fiscal 1967.

These figures do not represent increases in overall spending, because savings are planned in some spending.

Defense Department spending is expected to increase from $54.2 billion in fiscal 1966 to $58.3 billion in fiscal 1967, an increase of $4.1 billion.

This increase in departmental spending is less than the increase in the cost of the Vietnam war, $5.8 billion, because of savings expected in other departmental costs.

Total expenditures of the government will increase, according to ofScials, from $106.4 billion to $112.8 billion in fiscal 1967, but revenues are expected to total $111 billion, so that deficit of only $1.8 billion is expected.

The increase in Federal revenues is expected from the following: $6.7 billion in taxes based on growth of the economy. The Gross National Product, which averaged $675.5 billion in fiscal 1965 (and $694.5 billion at the end of fiscal 1965), will be about $725 billion in fiscal 1966. $3.2 billion from speeding up tax returns. $0.4 billion from increasing withholding taxes in some of the higher personal income tax brackets.

Predicting expenditures at the end of a year, or in the fall of that year, through the next fiscal year, is often a gamble. Predicting revenues is a gamble, too. For instance, the estimate of Federal revenues for fiscal 1966, as estimated January 1, 1965, was $99.7 billion, while now these revenues are estimated at $106.4 billion.

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officer promotion zones which would make eligible for advancement some officers not now within existing zones. The plan is also designed to eliminate the present practice of retiring or separating from the service officers who twice fail of selection for advancement by promotion boards.

These proposed zones might cover several year groups, and officers so covered might remain in the zones for several years. But if not selected for promotion within this period, they might be retired or separated.

This is only one of some 85 recommendations approved by the Manpower Policy Board of the Secretary of the Navy, of 100 proposals made by the Task Force. Some, as pay and medical care, would require legislation. Others would require only administrative action. In the matter of seashore rotation, the Task Force would lessen the long periods at sea or in remote areas without dependents. It would continue the new practice of spot promotions for unrestricted junior line officers at sea.

Representative L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has asked the Defense Department to simplify and shorten the Bolte bill, and submit it to Congress for action this year. At present this bill is as large as a good-sized book, and parts of it are so complicated that only a fraction of the members of Congress would understand it. The general purpose of the bill is to make changes in present promotion, retirement, officer grade distribution, and other career management practices, and make these changes uniform, as much as possible, throughout the services.

H e a l t h Care

families, with the sponsor paying 10 percent of the cost, but not more than $25 a month.

The proposed medical care program for retirees is based on the assumption that members who remain in the service for 30 years are entitled to more than those who resign after 20 or more years. Members who retire voluntarily with less than 30 years' service would pay $50 for each stay in a civilian hospital, while members with 30 5'ears of active duty would pay only $25 for each stay.

For outpatient care by civilian doctors, retirees with less than 30 years of active duty would pay 40 percent of the medical charges. The retirees with 30 years of service would pay only 20 percent of the charges.

The plan also calls for inclusion of beds for retirees in new hospital construction. Effective date of the plan would be July 1, 1967.

Dental Care. After turning down a broad dental care program for active duty dependents, the Defense Department now wants such a more limited program enacted into law, effective July 1, 1967. This program, proposed by a Navy study group, plans for removal of statutory restrictions on dental care for dependents, thus giving the Secretary of Defense authority to institute a plan of dental care for dependents on a space available basis.

Currendy the services are limited to (a) emergency dental care to relieve suffering, but not including permanent restorative work or dental prosthesis; (b) dental care necessary because of medical or surgical treatment; (c) dental care outside the United States or in remote U. S. areas where adequate civilian treatment is unavailable.

Medical Care. The Defense Department has proposed a medical care program for retirees and their dependents and some additions to the existing Dependents' Medical Care program for active duty dependents. Under the new proposal, active duty families treated by civilian doctors in outpatient care would pay 20 percent of the doctor's bill, but no more than $25 for each procedure. The department would provide care, education and training for handicapped children of active duty

The dental care program turned down would have been a broad, $100 million program authorizing dependents to receive various types of treatment from civilian dentists, with the government paying part of the bill. This proposal was first suggested in 1962, and has been turned down every year since then.

The July 1, 1967, date is proposed so that the costs of these programs will not have to be borne in fiscal 1967.

ered understanding of fact, a fierce dedication, an unshakable loyalty to the Navy and the Nation, and a determination to do what he could from where he stood to straighten things (and people) out—even at the risk of his own professional neck.

"Eight bells is the end of the watch. After you are relieved, you still have to write up your log before you go below and that's what I'm doing here." So writes Admiral Gallery in the preface of his latest book. EIGHT BELLS purports to be Dan Gallery's autobiography and so it is, but in no ordinary and prosaic way. Here is an author with a talent for spinning yarns and at the same time one who has the ability to present a fact so acutely that there is no doubt whatsoever as to what he knows to be God's truth in the matter.

Straight from the horse's mouth we have a story of controversies, one after another, large and small, important and non-important, covering a span of years from pre-midshipman days to post retirement and the current state of the nation.

spots, sometimes seasoned with a sailor's sentiment, always revealing a depth of philosophical thinking.

While the parties to controversy are occasionally DVG vs. DVG, the all-out set-tos are generally Gallery vs. the system. This is not to indicate that he stood alone in the better known of his contentions; just that he was more articulate than many and certainly with little or no fear and inhibition as to whose fur he might rub the wrong way. As an illustration, a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Rear Admiral Gallery, referring to an article authored by Gallery, read in part, "The proposed article I consider to be not only inflammatory and inaccurate, but contemptuous of and disrespectful to both the Secretary of Defense and to me. Its publication would constitute conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline of the Navy." Subsequent to the article's appearance in Collier's magazine a personal letter from Fleet Admiral King to the author included the following: "I must say that the article was well written and I hope most people will read and reread it because you tell the truth, at least as I see it.

The time has come for our people to understand that a proper officer does not like to be made a mere yes-man. Otherwise, as you have said, the police state is close at hand."

The aura of controversy permeates the book, although EIGHT BELLS is not without its gentler

Let it never be thought that Gallery vs. the system was inspired by other than a well consid-

Senator John J. Williams (R.-Del.), a financial authority and financial detective, told the Senate that the Administration's spending program will result in 1967 in either a tax increase or "wild inflation."

He said the proposed budget only postpones "the day when the American people will have to be told the truth, after the 1966 elections."

Ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Williams said the fiscal 1967 deficit may be closer to $9.2 billion than to $1.8 billion. He added that during the past five years the government has suffered a deficit of $31.5 billion, or more than $6 billion a year.

Representative Gerald Ford (R.-Mich.), House minority leader, urged the Administration to reduce Great Society expenditures enough to avoid new taxes. The first thing to do, he said, is to defray the cost of the war without stimulating inflation. He added that new social programs enacted should be done well, without adding new programs.

On social or civil rights Reo. Ford said that constitutional rights should be made fully effective everywhere, that "there cannot be two kinds of justice, one for whites, another for Negroes."

Inflation is a threat. Prices rose more in 1965 than during any of the past six years. Interest rates are increasing. While some contend that high interest rates are anti-inflationary, because they tend to curtail borrowing, others claim that higher interest rates merely mean that money costs more, and therefore plants, machinery, goods, and services cost more. While the Administration can prevent or limit price increases on some basic manufacturing industries, such as steel, aluminum, and copper, by threatening to sell stockpiled materials at lower prices, it can not control, without law, the prices of all manufacture, processing, construction, wholesaling, retailing, rents, etc.

Career

Management

The Alford Task Force of the Navy has recommended some changes in officer promotion systems for all the armed forces. It advises a revision in

Lucky Bag of BOOKS Being an intermittent and subjective listing of books published in recent months of special interest to nautical readers.

EIGHT BELLS, AND ALL'S WELL. By RAdm. Daniel V. Gallery '21, USN (Ret.). W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York. 308 pp., $4.95.

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History will record Dan Gallery as being the first U. S. naval officer since the War of 1812 to capture on the high seas and bring home an enemy man-o'-war, the German submarine U-505.

In EIGHT BELLS the author laments that if you ask any captain or admiral on active duty now if he knows Dan Gallery the chances are he will say, "Sure. He's the guy who started that steel band in San Juan." Your reviewer says that if one reads the book he will recall or learn of many other important doings in which the author had a hand . . . and the reader will have had a pleasant few hours in doing it. Furthermore, from an early remark in the book, "I had no warning as we tramped into Bancroft Hall that day that this job with the Navy would turn out to be only a temporary one. . . . It fizzled out on me forty-three years and two months later when I had to retire on September 30, 1960, for 'physical disability'," to the "Epilogue to My Relief" one will get the idea that Admiral Gallery is not going below just because his watch has been written up.

DICK DERICKSON S H I P M A T E

SLIPSTREAM. By Eugene E. Wilson. Second edition. Science Press. Distributed by Defense Books, P. O. Box 147, Annapolis, Md. Proceeds go to the Eugene E. Wilson Fund for the Naval Academy Library. $4.95.

Witii the entrance of Christianity and the rise of western civilization, sea power in its broadest concept became the handmaiden of commerce and human advancement. Then came air power, and air power coupled with sea power has decided the fate of nations in modern times. Air power has become to the United States what sea power was to Britain a century ago. And yet strangely, there is a void in public knowledge of the history of the rise of American air power.

An authoritative work that helps fill this void has been written by Eugene E. Wilson whose career in both private business and as a naval officer fits him uniquely for such a task. He was most intimately associated with aeronautical developments during the great period in aviation history between 1924 and 1949. His book Slipstream is the story of the five M's—Men, Money, Machines, Materials and Management that went into the building of American air power. Described in fascinating detail are the struggles to build power plants and air frames to meet the soaring demands of commerce and the military.

Through the pages of Mr. Wilson's book stride great figures that helped to make America supreme in the air—figures who upheld the tradition of getting there "firstest with the mostest" in the mighty age of air power. Here you meet General Mitchell, Admiral Moffett, Charles Lindbergh, Igor Sikorsky, Eddie Rickenbacker, Juan Trippe, James Forrestal, and many others.

Slipstream is a worthy addition to any library.

But if you think it is merely a recital of the growth of raw power and technological development, you are wrong. It is a sensitive tale of the hopes and aspirations of men—Christian men who abhorred the thought of their exploits and achievements in the world of aircraft being turned into weapons of indiscriminate destruction. There is a vast difference between air force and air power and it is that difference upon which civilization today must stand.

ROBERT HOFER

Each year the publication of Brassey's Annual is a stimulus to review some of the outstanding new books off the presses in the field of national security. Those I have chosen are not necessarily a complete guide nor highly selective, but they're varied, interesting, and broad in scope—perhaps too broad as you shall see.

Brassey's, now in the seventy-sixth year, achieves new heights with each issue as the span of military interests stretches to broader and broader horizons.

The year 1965 marked the prelude to the decisive phase of the war in Vietnam and a far-reaching new look at joint U. S. and U. K. commitments in Kipling's romantic area "east of Suez." In Europe, NATO strategy may have ended an era of union to begin another of federation or failure as new weapons, new interests and political change

U.S.N.A.

demand increasing attention. We look ahead to the man in space ushering in a new era in human experience yet our major military energies are swallowed in jungle campaigns and dirty littie wars tj'pical of a bygone era.

For a quick look worldwide and an authoritative statement on British defense policy, Brassey's stands alone. In the various articles of particular interest to U. S. readers is a clear and outspoken review of U. S. unification by Colonel Bob Heinl, USMC, Retired. From deep personal involvement, Heinl is an expert in the field and speaks with authority on the long campaign to save the Corps from extinction. It is his look at the future the reviewer would question. However plausible the reasoning, the practicality of "walking back the cat" either to return to a two-service organization or to undo the closely woven layers of civilian authority blanketing the Defense Department is wishful thinking. However much one may yearn for bygone days of authoritarian military control of theater operations, it is difficult to visualize Cuba, Vietnam or other crises under an extensive degree of unitary control by a service department. The impossibility of treating sea and land strategy as separate entities overlapping at the fringes, the British learned at Gallipoli. No future commander in chief can be expected to even consider such autonomy. The military with the required degree of high professionalism will probably survive any organization thrust upon it. The same professionalism is needed to establish the military view in high policy councils and to capitalize on the set pieces of maritime war which Khrushchev, Castro and Ho Chi Min have handed the Navy and Marine Corps on a salt water platter.

For a general look at nuclear warfare, we suggest the so-called "primer for the student of strategy"

by Colonel Robert Ginsburgh in U. S. Military Strategy of the Sixties. Colonel Ginsburgh, a brilliant Air Force officer now serving with the Policy Planning Staff in State Department, implies that counter-force, long an Air Force and Administration favorite even though opposed by the Navy, is dormant if not dead. Ginsburgh also makes a strong plea for the military, if they desire to dominate military planning and at least hold their own with civilian strategists, to master the new arts of systems analysis and cost effectiveness.

Of specific interest to the salt water fraternity is a modernized reissue of Bernard Brodie's Guide to Naval Strategy. Long used as a text for Naval War College extension courses, the Brodie book needs littie comment. It is hoped that the new addition, in paperback, will bring it to a broad selection of new readers.

Another text in paperback of broad general interest is the Davis Bobrow Components of Defense Policy. Bobrow as editor culled the current flood of war and peace literature for a highly authoritative review of Strategy, Defense PolicyMaking, Strategic Alternatives, and Quality Control. The text is superbly done and should have high priority as a desirable addition to the library.

Western European affairs, the gradual demise of the MLF, the new, new look at French nuclear

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policy following de Gaulle's ego-bruising reelection, the reexamination of British commitments in NATO and closely related SE Asian obligations, together with the ever present German problem, bring NATO to a new prominence. A superb review is found in The Western Alliance edited

by Edgar S. Furniss, Jr., of the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University. Despite creaks and cracks in the Alliance, virtually all contributors agree that the power position of Western Europe vis-a-vis the East is far better than previously judged. Yet Furniss' summary looks far below the surface in a pithy and pungent analysis of current trends, which should be of great value to the policymaker.

For parochial areas of considerable general interest we suggest The Attack Submarine by Robert E. Kuenne of Princeton and The Crisis Game

by Brigadier General Sid Giffin, USAF, Retired.

Professor Kuenne is an economist who became interested in submarines while a consultant at the Naval War College. This, then, is a labor of love to show how economic reasoning can help solve problems in other fields. Kuenne sees the submarine strictly as a commerce raider, which rather limits the applicability of his logic to the modern submarine in ASW. Reading of the submarine exploits of World War II, however—German, American and Japanese—brings nostalgic and renewed admiration for the magnificentiy superior manner in which Vice Admiral Charlie Lockwood ran Submarines Pacific during the war.

The Giffin text has just been released and is the best in print concerning the new indoor sport of diplomatic-political war games, or Crisis games.

The uninitiate in the new techniques of simulation will be pleasanriy surprised and the old hands pleasantiy entertained in this easy reading and highly significant sales pitch.

For a broadening perspective and interesting reading of military history, we suggest the Kenneth Davis Experience of War: The United States World War II. Davis has a reporter's sure touch in crystallizing events and peoples at critical periods of the war. Here is history in the grand manner, eloquent, interesting and valuable for further research, and all contained in a single volume. We'd recommend it as a bedside reader but you'll lose some sleep.

The year 1965 was one of great achievement and great sacrifice. In future years, however, it may be remembered more for the vehemence and misplaced zeal of the protestors against public policy, both foreign and domestic. For our last text, therefore, we suggest a book not for reading and certainly not for purchase. Solely as a mark of the times and to show the depths to which sincere but misguided people can fall—people who should know better—we mention Is Your Draft Card Burning?, co-authored by a retired admiral and a conscientious objector. For obvious reasons, neither uses his name. One uses a Navy serial number, the other a "pen" name, specifically a prison serial number. A clear case in which neither the sword nor the pen is mighty.

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PUBLISH AND POS PRINCETON SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE TO SONS OF USNA GRADUATES Cdr. Middleton Train, USNR (Ret.), Princeton '34, has arranged with the Trustees of Princeton University for the establishment of the Rear Admiral and Mrs. Charles Russell Train Scholarship to assist worthy young men to enjoy the benefits of a Princeton education. Cdr. Train is the son of RAdm. Charles Russell Train, USN (Ret.), USNA 1900, and a grandson of die late RAdm. Charles Jackson Train, USN, USNA 1865.

The late RAdm. Charles J. Train was Commander-in-Chief of the Asiatic Fleet and died in Chefoo, China, on 4 August 1906 aboard his flagship, USS OHIO. He is buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

RAdm. Charles Russell Train enjoyed an out-

standing active duty career which included command of a cruiser division, duty at the American Embassy, Rome, and Naval Aide to President Hoover. He was awarded the Navy Cross for distinguished service during World War I. At the present time Admiral Train resides in Washington, D. C. The Deed of Gift for the Rear Admiral and Mrs. Charles Russell Train Scholarship stipulates that the Trustees of Princeton University are authorized to comingle the Train gift with the general investment funds of the University.

The income from this fund shall be used to provide scholarship stipends for students in Princeton University in amounts as individual needs may determine. The scholarships shall be awarded by the Trustees of Princeton University or their representatives in accordance with the University's regulations for scholarship awards. In making the

awards, due consideration shall be given not only to the individual's need of assistance, but also to his scholastic ability, intellectual promise, qualities of character and leadership as evidenced by his record in secondary school or in the University.

Preference shall be given to sons of graduates of the U. S. Naval Academy who are qualified for financial assistance. However, if there are no sons of graduates of the U. S. Naval Academy qualified for an award, the funds may be used for other qualified undergraduates who reside in the metropolitan area of Washington, D. C. No special application for this particular scholarship will be required. Any candidate who is interested should follow the normal application procedures as outlined in the leaflet describing the University's Financial Aid Program. Copy of this leaflet may be obtained by writing to Bureau of Student Aid, Box 591, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J. 08540.

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Within the past few years there have been radical changes in the Academy's curriculum. To the alumnus who recalls falling-in on the terrace to be marched by a section leader to a class which.

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sometime during the week, each and every other member of his battalion would also attend, the thought of the present-day midshipman setting off alone or in informal groups of two, three or four to attend classes in a variety of subjects might come as a surprise. The sudden realization that even plebes do this could be a shock. But the manner of getting to class is not the real revolution at the Naval Academy. The curriculum is no longer a single channel marked by the buoys of math, skinny, bull, dago, steam, etc. Today a midshipman may omit a required core course if, pursuant to recognized previous work, he can satisfactorily validate that course. Today, curriculum scheduling involves major fields of interest, minors and electives.

The Office of the Academic Dean has prepared a report on the Academy's response to the requirements of our modern Navy and this article is to be found in the 1966 edition of the REGISTER OF ALUMNI. And with the tremendous expansion in curriculum and the increased size of the Brigade of Midshipmen there has been a requirement for expansion and modernization of the physical plant. In the new REGISTER the Superintendent discusses the master plan for buildings and grounds. Illustrated with a map of "the Yard" as it will appear when the plan is completed, his article tells of the long range building program which is already underway with the completion of new facilities in Bancroft Hall and the groundbreaking for Michelson Hall, the Academy's nesw science building.

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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.) 7 1 (5735), Washington, D.C. Executive Director— RADM. W . F . FITZGERALD, USN (Ret.) 7 1 (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.)

7 5 (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

(Ret.) 7 7 (9125) '32 (10515)

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

74

EDWARD

CAPT. D . J. WALSH, USN (Ret.)

77

(9015) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1968) L . BEACH,

USN

"39

(13221) RADM.

76

(7380)

R A D M . L . S . KINTBERGER, USN (Ret.)

CAPT.

(Ret.)

(8189) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1967)

CAPT. PAUL R . SCHRATZ, USN "39

(13436)

CLIFFORD

S.

COOPER,

USN

(Ret.) 7 7 (8653)

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

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

CAPT. A. J. GREENACRE, USN

(Ret.)

7 6 (8197), Annapolis MR. L . D . PARADIS '35 (12090), Boston CAPT. E . K . ZITZEWITZ,

USNR

75

USNR

(Ret.) '08 (3169), Connecticut R A D M . CURTIS S . SMILEY, USN ( R e t )

7 3 (6952), Coronado R A D M . OSCAR H . DODSON, USN (Ret.)

7 7 (9147), Detroit FEBRUARY,

1966

(15800), Los Angeles RADM.

BEN S. CUSTER, USN

(Ret.)

7 6 (8549), New York RADM.

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

LCDR. EMMETT R . QUADY, USNR '43

J.

A.

ROBBINS,

USN

(Ret.)

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

THE DIFFICULT LITTLE WARS During the Cuba crisis in 1962, the rumor was rife that CNO was "portugalled" for trying to uphold the historic concept of his operational control of the Fleet in the deep blue seas of the Caribbean. Many thoughtful students of Defense organization had been quite perturbed a few years earlier when the Eisenhower Reorganization of 1958 not only removed the CNO and other service chiefs from direct operational control of military forces in a combat zone but placed the forces not under the Joint Chiefs but under the Civilian Defense secretary. Despite the innovation, little fuss was made at the time over the remarkable precedent. Nor do we intend to stir even lukewarm ashes today. If only by way of contrast we would like to refresh the memory on an incident in the dusty recesses of the Navy's relatively uncomplicated past.

The era was one of turbulence world-wide and the volatility of the Caribbean was no exception.

Our incident unfolded in the Dominican Republic in November 1916. President Wilson had just concurred, reluctandy, in military occupation of the Dominican Republic "as the least of the evils in sight in this perplexing situation" of deteriorating political control. A force of Navy and Marines under RAdm. Harry C. Knapp landed promptly in Santo Domingo with the consent of the local government. The Dominican president, however, refused to ratify a customs treaty, and State withheld recognition of his regime. Admiral Knapp, accordingly, suspended the Dominican congress. This, however, left no civil authority to carry out the operations of government, and seven Navy and Marine Corps officers were appointed to fill the vacated cabinet posts. The new military government handled both Dominican civil problems and foreign relations with the rest of the world. In due time, State Department even accredited an American minister to the U. S. military government. So thoroughly was the situation in hand, in fact, that the U. S. military cabinet officers, through the Dominican President, recommended to the U. S. State Department that conversations between State and the Dominican leaders "were inadvisable for a minimum period of twenty years."

Domestically, an extensive economic and social program was soon in full swing. In the next three years, 400 miles of new roads were completed and a score of bridges, piers, wharves and port facilities were built. Internal revenue increased six-fold and the cost of collecting it dropped one-third. The local constabulary was reorganized and local defense arrangements were effectively pursued. Perhaps oddest of all the aspects of this strange incident in history was a minor border war with Haiti during the occupation which occurred when Haiti was also under a U. S. military occupation force headed by RAdm. Bill Caperton, USN. We would like to draw a deep and profound conclusion from the above but can only suggest, "Times have changed, haven't they.'"

•30 (9980), Philadelphia VADM.

FRANK

T . WATKINS,

USN

(Ret.) 7 2 (6359), Seattle VADM.

H . B . JARRETT,

USN

(Ret.)

7 2 (6670), Washington, D.C. 19

Whafs

The Dope

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Issue

Copy Due at Alumni

April, 1966

House

March 10

ALL HANDS ADD TO SLATE OF NOMINEES

THE OLDEST L I V I N G A L U M N I

The Nominating Committee's slate of nominees for the Association's spring election and a call for nominations by petition were published in the January issue of Shipmate.

A petition signed by 78 members of the Association has nominated RAdm. Ben Scott Custer '26, USN (Ret.), as a candidate for Trustee-at-large in the 1966 election. RAdm. Custer, current Trustee from the New York Chapter, is eligible in all respects and his name will be included on the ballot in accordance with Art. VI, 1, of the By-laws of the Association.

The staff at Alumni House can not be sure that the below list of the oldest living alumni of the Naval Academy is accurate. It will be appreciated if anyone having knowledge of a change to this list would communicate with the Executive Director.

FLAG OFFICERS

Mr. Thomas P. Gaffney, Sr., of 40 Debbie Ave., Manchester, N. H., writes: "For almost twenty years I have been compiling biographical data and photographs of U. S. Navy flag officers. At present almost one thousand flag officers are represented in this naval history.

"I would welcome and sincerely appreciate hearing from any of the alumni who have attained flag rank (active or retired) who would like to be included in this naval history project. My goal is to have a complete collection of photographs and biographies of U. S. Navy Flag Officers.

"This project has been commended by the Chief of Naval Operations and by almost one thousand flag officers.

"This writer is a World War II U. S. Navy disabled veteran and a naval history buff for over thirty years.

"Your cooperation will be most appreciated.

Thank you."

A D D I T I O N TO MODEL COLLECTION

The Naval Academy has received a significant addition to its world famous collection of ship models.

The addition, donated by Dr. John J. Clark, Dean of the College of Business Administration at St. John's University in Brooklyn, New York, consists of fifty small scale models of modern ships of the major naval powers.

Included in the collection are models of submarines, destroyers, cruisers, battieships, aircraft carriers and various amphibious and auxiliary types.

Dr. Clark's gift is the fruit of a hobby to which he has been devoted for the past 25 years.

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Name Adm. Richard Harrison Jackson, USN (Ret.) Mr. John Lutman Soule non-grad Mr. William Turner Saunders non-grad LCdr. Richard Spencer Douglas, USN (Ret.) Cdr. Benjamin Bernard McCormick, USN (Ret.) Cdr. Herbert M. Tolfree, (MC) USN (Ret.) non-grad Mr. Michael James McCormack Capt. Lawrence Stowell Adams, (CC) USN (Ret.) Capt. John Valentine Klemann, USN (Ret.) Capt. Edward Trimble Hoopes, (SC) USN (Ret.) non-grad Capt. Wilbcrt Smith, USN (Ret.) Capt. Zeno Everett Briggs, USN (Ret.) Capt. William Siebel Miller, USN (Ret.) VAdm. Clark Howell Woodward, USN (Ret.) Adm. Thomas Charles Hart, USN (Ret.) RAdm. Henry Williams, USN (Ret.) LCdr. John Earl Lewis, USN (Ret.) Adm. Claude Charles Bloch, USN (Ret.) VAdm. William Theodore Tarrant, USN (Ret.)

Class Date of Birth '87

10 May 1866

'90

5 May 1869

'90 '93 '92 '94 '95 '94 '95

Capt. Clarence Lamont Arnold, USN (Ret.) RAdm. Hugo Wilson Osterhaus, USN (Ret.) VAdm. Charles Seymour Freeman, USN (Ret.) Como. Julius Frederick Hellweg, USN (Ret.) Mr. Arthur Barnes Keating RAdm. Charles Russell Train, USN (Ret.)

'00 25 Aug. 1878 '00

12 Nov. 1878

'00

19 Nov. 1878

'00 16 Mar. 1879 '00 14 June 1879 '00 19 Sept. 1879

Members of various classes of whom the Association has incomplete records, including birth dates, are: Peter Conover Haines, Jr., '93, born in Maryland; Marvin Carver, '93, born in Wise, resigned 14 Aug. 1871 '95; Joseph Albert Perry '93, born in III.; George Benjamin Rice '96, born Ky., resigned '02; Capt.

17 Feb. 1873 Edward Trimble Hoopes, non-grad '97; RAdm. William Trevor Leutze, non-grad '97; Francis 17 Oct. 1873 Louis Field, non-grad '98, born in Evansville, Ind., in 1879; Herbert Heard Evans '99, resigned 20 Oct. 1873 in 1904, born in Miss.; William Stanhope Case '00, resigned as ensign in '04, born in Ind.; Hunt22 Feb. 1875 ington Johnston, non-grad '00, born in Penn., resigned '02.

16 Oct. 1875 April 1870

GEOFFREY HOLMES OSBORN ' 6 2

'91

15 Dec. 1875

'00

8 Oct. 1876

•98

3 Nov. 1876

The following is quoted from a recent issue of the Florida Times-Union oi Jacksonville: (Editor's Note: Geoffrey Holmes Osborn, a young Navy pilot from Winter Park, Fla., died 27 Sept. when his F8 Crusader jet crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin off the Vietnam coast while on a sortie off

'99

the carrier BONHOMME RICHARD. The

8 Dec. 1876 following letter was written by his widowed mother, Mrs. Clarence Osborn, to Rep. A. S. Herlong, Jr., D.-Fla.) '99 4 March 1877 "Winter Park, Dec. 20 '97 12 June 1877 '98

12 Aug. 1877

'99

8 July 1878

'99

13 July 1878

'98

28 July 1878

"Dear Congressman Herlong: "This will be a sad letter but one which is filled with gratitude to you for having helped Jeff attain his dream by appointing him to the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

"You may think it odd for me to be grateful now that Jeff has died, but you will never know the happiness that was Jeff's from the day he became a plebe to the day he died. His fellow officers attest to that.

S H I P M A T E

"My child's happiness was paramount to Clarence and me. I am sure that if Clarence had lived he would tell you too, that he would be eternally grateful to you for having given Jeff his chance.

"This tragedy which is beyond comprehension in its depth has brought endless sorrow to many and nothing can change this. No words can erase the suffering even slightly.

"It avails little to say that this young officer of superior endowments was the gallant, heroic son of a noble, loving father. That he knew the principles he lived for and fought for are much more than most can say; that he died for those principles marks him as a martyr for the causes of decency and humanity. Yet, there is no consolation for me in these thoughts, for I have lost a beautiful, strong son of infinite worth, and earth offers no substitute for him.

"I was so relieved when I learned that Jeff's next cruise would be to the Mediterranean, and filled with apprehension and foreboding when he told me he had requested permission to return to Vietnam—asking me to please understand.

"He explained that America had to take a strong stand in Vietnam; otherwise, the Viet Cong would take over, and this he was trained for—to help make freedom strong. He told me he loved flying, the he was aboard the 'best damn ship in the Navy—the "Bonnie Dick," and we have the finest officers and men—I love them all . . .'

"This beautiful American; this beautiful fighter pilot, who had over 200 missions to his credit; this beautiful young officer who had received his fifth Silver Star the day before he died; this uncommon man—this individual who had such personal distinction has left to be with his dad in a better place.

"I am thankful that Jeff came into our lives because our lives have been made richer having known him, and I am proud of the principles and convictions that were so strong in Jeff. He was a man who could stand up and be counted.

Yes, he was a man.

"My heart is filled with grief only because I will never feel his arms around me again—never hear him laugh, but I thank you for helping my son to realize his dream. He crammed so much into his young life. How many of us are there who can say: 'I have reached the complete happiness'— Jeff did. For this I thank you."

HYLANT, EMORY PAUL (RADM USN RET ' 2 2 ) , 2 1 Dec. ' 6 5 , McDill A i r Force H o s p i t a l , T a m p a , Fla. MACLAUGHLIN, DONALD CLAY, JR. USN ' 6 3 ) , 1 J a n . ' 6 6 , V i e t n a m .

(LTJG

MARTIN, WILLIAM

USNR

JOSEPH

(LCDR MC

RET ' 2 2 ) , 10 Dec. ' 6 5 , Rochester, M i n n .

MCLAREN, ISRAEL EARLE ' 0 9 , 8 Dec. A l t a d e n a , Calif.

MCNEELY, ROBERT WHITEHEAD (CAPT

'65, USN

RET ' 9 4 ) , 6 J a n . ' 6 6 , C o l u m b i a , S. C. MERRING,

HARRY

LLOYD

(RADM

USN

RET

' 1 1 ) , 25 Dec. ' 6 5 , H o r n e l l , N . Y. PIERSON, FRANK CHAPLINE, JR. ' 2 1 , 3 0 Oct. ' 6 5 , Palm Springs, Calif.

PRICE,

EUGENE

HAYDEN

(COL

USMC

RET

' 2 2 ) , 11 Dec. ' 6 5 , La J o l l a , Calif.

PRUDHOMME, J O H N DOUGLAS (LT USN ' 6 1 ) , 2 2 Dec. ' 6 5 , Southeast RAWSTHORNE,

EDGAR

Asia.

ARTHUR

(CDR

' 4 9 ) , 2 9 Dec. ' 6 5 , A A , Southeast

USN

Asia.

SAMPSON, RALPH EARLE (LCDR USN RET ' 0 9 ) , 19 Dec. ' 6 5 , V a .

SEAY, ERSKINE AUSTIN (RADM USN RET ' 2 4 ) , 8 Dec. ' 6 5 , O r m o n d Beach, Flo. SHERMAN, PHILIP KINGSLAND, JR. (CAPT USN RET ' 3 3 ) , 1 J a n . ' 6 6 , Richmond, V a .

SIMMERS, CLAYTON MILLER (CAPT USN RET ' 0 2 ) , 2 4 Dec. ' 6 5 , V e t e r a n s A d m i n i s t r a t i o n Hospital, Martinsburg, W . V a .

STOVALL, W I L L I A M SHIRLEY, JR. (RADM

USN

RET ' 2 9 ) , 2 9 Dec. ' 6 5 , San Diego, Calif.

VOLK, LOUIS FRANK (CAPT USN RET ' 3 1 ) , 2 6 Dec. ' 6 5 , U S N H , Bethesda, M d .

WAGNER, FRANK DECHANT ( V A D M USN RET ' 1 5 ) , 6 J a n . ' 6 6 , Foley, A l a .

ROBERT WHITEHEAD MCNEELY ' 9 4

Capt. Robert W. McNeely, USN (Ret.), died on 6 Jan. at his home at Windmill Orchard near Columbia, S. C. Services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Hagt Call

RET ' 9 9 ) , 1 Feb. ' 6 6 , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C.

' 2 2 ) , 8 Dec. ' 6 5 , Los A n g e l e s , Calif.

FLY, JAMES

LAWRENCE,

JR.

'21), 6 Jan. '66, Daytona

(ENS

USN

Beach,

RET

Flo.

HOLMES, RALSTON SMITH (RADM USN RET ' 0 3 ) , 4 J a n . ' 6 6 , Huntington M e m o r i a l Hosp i t a l , P a s a d e n a , Calif.

H U N T O O N , JAY GLENN (CAPT USNR RET ' 1 8 ) , 21 Dee. ' 6 5 , W i n t e r P o r k , Fla. FEBRUARY, 1 9 6 6

'99

Adm. Courtney was awarded the Navy Cross for distinguished service during WWI when he was commanding officer of USS ROWAN. He also was awarded a special letter of commendation by the War Department. He served as Commander Squadron Eight, Destroyers, Adantic Fleet, in 1921, and commanded USS CINCINNATI, and later USS TENNESSEE.

After completion of the Naval War College course in 1932 he was Commandant, Sixteenth Naval District, and commanded the Navy Yard, Cavite, P. I. In June 1935 he was Commander Cruisers, Batde Force, with additional duty Commander Cruiser Division Two, then became director of Naval Communications, Navy Dept. After duty as Commander Squadron 2 0 ( T ) , he was president of the Naval Examining Board. His other decorations include the Sampson Medal, the Spanish Campaign Medal, the Philippine Campaign Medal and the China Relief Expedition Medal.

MILLER SIMMERS

nephews: Md.; the E. CourtCourtney,

'02

Capt. Clayton M. Simmers, USN (Ret.), died after a long illness at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Martinsburg, W. Va., on 24 Dec. Services were held at the Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery with military honors.

RET ' 0 9 ) , 19 Dee. ' 6 5 , U S N H , N e w p o r t , R. I.

EDWARDS, ARTHUR THOMAS MCBRIDE (CDR USN RET ' 4 3 ) , 17 Dec. ' 6 5 , U S N H , Son Diego, Calif.

FITZHUGH, GEORGE DULANY (CDR USNR RET

COURTNEY

VAdm. Charles E. Courtney, USN (Ret.), died on 1 Feb. at the MarSalle Convalescent Home, Washington, D. C. Services were held at the Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Adm. Courtney was born m Mobile Co., Ala., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1899. He retired in 1941 after 46 years of naval service. During the Spanish American War he served in USS N E W YORK and participated in the Battle of Santiago. In 1899 he served in USS NEWARK during the Philippine Insurrection, and was with the relief expedition under VAdm. Seymour during the Boxer Rebellion in China.

CLAYTON

CHURCH, W I L L I A M CAMPBELL GIBSON (RADM CEC USN RET ' 3 4 ) , 15 Dec. ' 6 5 , Rockville, Md. COURTNEY, CHARLES EDWARD ( V A D M USN

7 Dec. ' 6 5 , Polos V e r d e s Estates, Calif.

CHARLES EDWARD

He is survived by these nieces and Mrs. M. C. O'Hearn of Chevy Chase, Rev. James W. Courtney, S.J.; Charles ney, Mrs. Ed. Petite and Miss Elizabeth all of Mobile.

ARWINE, J O H N S., I l l , ' 3 0 , 6 N o v . ' 6 5 , N e w Y o r k , N . Y. BADGER, HARRY PEASLEE (CAPT USN RET ' 3 0 ) , 13 Dec. ' 6 5 , M a l o n e , N . Y. BROWN, STUART SOUTHERLAND (CAPT USN

CULVER, BURTNETT KENT (CAPT USN RET "21),

as commandant of the naval base at Key West prior to his retirement in 1929.

Capt. McNeely purchased Windmill Orchard m 1928 and became a leader in the development of new types of peaches and a pioneer in methods of packing fruit, for home and European markets.

He was an active member of the Navy League, and was a free-lance writer.

Surviving are two nieces-in-law. Miss Ellen I. Burier of Windmill Orchard, and Mrs. Charles E. R. Adams of Highland, Md.; a niece, Miss Louise Neave, and a nephew, Edward Neave, both of Salisbury, N. C. His wife, the former Miss Marie Calhoun Buder, died several years ago. She was the daughter of Gen. M. C. Butler, a Confederate general and U. S. Senator from South Carolina.

Robert Whitehead McNeely '94

Capt. McNeely, who was born near Salisbury, N. C , was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1894. While at the Academy he made two cruises in the old sailing frigate USS CONSTELLATION. During the Spanish American War he served in USS YANKTON off Cienfuegos, Tunis, and Santiago, Cuba, and commanded a naval vessel during the cruise of the Great White Fleet around the world during the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt.

During World War I he commanded the batdeship OHIO in the Atlantic Fleet. After the war he was commander of USS DELAWARE and served

Capt. Simmers was born in Phoenixville, Pa., and attended Lehigh University before entering the Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1902. He later received a Master's degree in naval architecture and marine engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He held naval construction corps assignments at Navy Yards in Bremerton, New York and Boston, and was supervisor of shipbuilding at the New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N. J., and at the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.

He also served in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, now the Bureau of Ships, and was chief safety officer of the Navy prior to retirement in January 1946. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, and was a member of the Military Order of the Caribou.

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Survivors include his widow Mary of 820 S. Washington St., Alexandria, Va.; a son, Capt.

Clayton R. Simmers, USN (Ret.), '32, of Jacksonville, Fa.; a daughter, Mrs. Harry W. Englund of Newtown Square, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Andrew J. Malin of Wilmington, Del.; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

RALSTON SMITH HOLMES '03 RAdm. Ralston S. Holmes, USN (Ret.), died on 4 Jan. at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, Calif. Memorial services were held at All Saints Church, Pasadena, with later services held in St. Andrew's Chapel of the Naval Academy, with interment in the Naval Academy Cemetery on 7 Jan. Adm. Holmes, who was born in Yonkers, N. Y., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1903.

He commanded the presidential yacht MAYFLOWER from 1920-22 and was appointed naval aide to the President in 1921. From 1922-24 he was a member of the U. S. Naval Mission to Brazil, and later commanded Destroyer Squadron Eleven of the Batde Fleet. He attended the Naval War College, then served as naval attache at the American Embassy in Rome.

After commanding USS CINCINNATI he served as Chief of Staff, Commander, Cruisers, Scouting Force; from 1932-35 he was Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy.

In April 1937 he was appointed Director of Naval Intelligence, then commanded Destroyer Flotilla One, Battle Force. In Dec. 1941 he became Commandant of the 11th Naval District; although placed on the retired list for physical disability in 1943, he remained on active duty for two years as liaison officer between the Navy Department and the National Defense Research Committee at California Institute of Technology.

He is survived by his widow, Rachel, of the Huntington Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena; a daughter, Mrs. Irving L. Camp of Santa Barbara, and three grandchildren.

STUART SOUTHERLAND BROWN '09 Capt. Stuart S. Brown, USN (Ret.), died of heart failure at the Naval Hospital, Newport, on 19 Dec. Services were held at the Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

Capt. Brown, who was born in Nevada, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1909. He served in the Navy Yard Division of the Navy Department from 1926-28, and in the Bureau of Navigation from 1930-32. He also served on the Asiatic Station, as Commander Destroyer Division 39, commanding officer of submarine tender FULTON, and executive ofBcer cruiser CINCINNATI. He retired in June 1937 but was recalled to active duty in 1939 when he became operations officer 15 th Naval District, Canal Zone. He spent the last years of the war in command of the Fuel and Net Depot, Melville, R. I., with additional duties as commander of the Fleet Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, and was retired in 1945.

He is survived by his widow, Mary Ann, of 123 Pelham St., Newport, R. I. ISRAEL EARLE MCLAREN '09 I. Earle McLaren, who rose to the rank of colonel in the U. S. Army during World War I, died on 8 Dec. at Altadena, Calif., following a heart attack. Services were held at Mountain View Chapel, with interment in Mountain View Cemetery.

Mr. McLaren attended the Naval Academy with the class of 1909 but resigned before graduation because of an eye condition. He had military service prior to and during World War I. He served as a first lieutenant in the infantry in 1911, and as a major during the Mexican Campaign. In 1918 he commanded the 344th Infantry. As a colonel he served in the Meuse-Argonne action 22

brigaded with the French First Field Army, 19th Division, and commanded the 326th Regiment Field Artillery. He resigned in 1919. His decorations included the French Croix de Guerre and the Officer-Legion of Honor (French).

Mr. McLaren spent 33 years in the publishing business, with eight years at Funk and Wagnalls Co. and 25 years with G. & C. Merriam Co. He is survived by his widow, Frances, of 1760 Alta Wood Drive, Altadena; a son, Capt. E. Kenneth McLaren, USN (Ret.); two daughters, Mrs. Burton A. Richardson and Mrs. Richard A. Bernhard, and six grandchildren, including Lt. James M. McLaren '61.

RALPH EARLE SAMPSON '09 LCdr. Ralph E. Sampson, USN (Ret.), died of a heart condition in the Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital on 19 Dec. Services were held at the Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

Ralph Earle Sampson '09 LCdr. Sampson, who was born in Maryland, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1909.

In

1917

he served in USS

NORTH CAROLINA

and

later commanded the destroyers TAYLOR, WARRINGTON and CROWNINSHIELD. He served in the converted yacht YACONIA, and while on the Asiatic Station he was in the cruiser HURON, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, the gunboat PALOS, then had duty as executive officer of the cruiser WILMINGTON. After a short tour at the Naval Recruiting Station at Providence, R. I., he served as executive officer of two hospital ships, MERCY and RELIEF. He had duty in the Naval Communication Office from April 1927 to June 1930, and retired that June as a lieutenant commander.

LCdr. Sampson was the son of Adm. William T. Sampson '61, a former Superintendent of the Naval Academy, of Spanish-American War fame.

He is survived by his widow, Marjorie, of 4622 North 32nd St., Arlington, Va.; two sons, William T. Sampson, II, of Falls Church, Va., and Roger W. Sampson of Palos Verdes, Calif.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

HARRY LLOYD MERRING '11 RAdm. Harry L. Merring, USN (Ret.), died in Hornell, N. Y., on 25 Dec, following a six-month illness. Services were held at Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Adm. Merring, who was born in Rathbone, N. Y., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1911. While a midshipman he won letters in football and crew and served as a midshipman at sea before being commissioned ensign in 1912.

He served in USS MONTANA during the occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico, in 1914, then had postgraduate work at the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis, and at Harvard University.

His first command was USS HAZELWOOD in 1919.

Adm. Merring retired in July 1939, after completing 30 years' service, but was recalled to active

duty three months later when he became port director of the Naval Transportation Service in Seatde, Wash. In 1944 he was chief of the Industrial Readjustment Branch of the Office of Naval Procurement and Personnel, when he readjusted naval procurement contracts from a wartime to peacetime basis so effectively that he was awarded the Legion of Merit. He was placed on the inactive list in August 1946.

He was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit, the Mexican Service Medal, and a Commendation Ribbon from the Army.

Survivors include a son, Harry L. Merring, Jr., of Phoenix, Ariz.; a brother, Robert H. Merring of Canisteo, and a sister, Mrs. W. E. Church of Addison, N. Y., and three grandchildren.

FRANK DECHANT WAGNER '15 VAdm. Frank D. Wagner, USN (Ret.), of Warrington, Fla., was killed in a traffic accident at Foley, Ala., on 6 Jan. Services were held at Trinity Church, Warrington, with burial at sea.

Adm. Wagner, who was born in Pottstown, Pa., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1915.

During World War I he served in the DES MOINES, with armed guard in SS MANCHURIA and in the destroyer LEA. He completed flight training at Pensacola in January 1922.

He was executive officer of USS LEXINGTON, and in June 1940 took command of USS LANGLEY, with additional duty as commander of Patrol Wing Ten. Following Pearl Harbor he was Commander, Aircraft, Asiatic Fleet. He later became director of the aviation division of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and served as Chief of Naval Air Training at Pensacola from January 1946 to June 1948.

Adm. Wagner was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished service for his command of Patrol Wing Ten in reconnaissance and bombing operations throughout the Netherlands East Indies campaign. He was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second DSM for exceptionally meritorious service as Commander Aircraft, Seventh Fleet. He also held the Legion of Merit, Presidential Unit Citation, Order of Orange Nassau (Dutch) and the Mexican Service Medal.

He is survived by his widow, Catherine, who was injured in the collision but was recovering satisfactorily, and two daughters.

JAY GLENN HUNTOON '18 Capt. Jay Glenn Huntoon, USNR (Ret.), died suddenly at his home at Winter Park, Fla., on 21 Dec. Graveside services were held at Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Huntoon was born in Rock Island, III., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1918. He was separated from the service in November 1921, but was recalled to active duty during World War II, serving until 1946. He was retired with the rank of captain in 1956, when he became an engineer in Iowa and Illinois.

He is survived by his widow, Cecile, of 640 Worthington Drive, Winter Park; a daughter and grandson.

BURTNETT KENT CULVER '21 Capt. Burtnett K. Culver, USN (Ret.), died on 7 Dec. at Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., after a long illness of emphysema and asthma. Interment with military honors was in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale.

Capt. Culver, a native of Iowa, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921. After battieship and destroyer assignments he attended the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis, and Columbia University where he received his Master's degree.

He served in the carrier LEXINGTON, then commanded the destroyers CHILDS and BARRY. After a naval inspector of material assignment at Minneapolis, he became executive officer of the heavy cruiser BOISE when that vessel was operating in SHIPMATE

the Mediterranean during the invasion of Sicily and Italy. He commanded the LAMAR during the 1944-45 operations of Guam, Leyte, Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. His last command was USS OREGON CITY. He later was professor of naval science at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles. Following retirement he was in the administration department of USC for ten years.

His only survivor is a cousin who lives in his home town of Knoxville, Iowa.

JAMES LAWRENCE FLY '21 Mr. James L. Fly, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, died of cancer on 6 Jan. For many years he practiced law in New York City, then moved to Daytona Beach in 1954.

Mr. Fly, who was born in Seagonville, Tex., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921, and was retired three years later. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1926. In 1935 he was appointed solicitor general for the Tennessee Valley Authority and fought a long battle with a Federal judge to keep TVA going.

He was a member of the F.C.C. in 1939 when President Roosevelt named him chairman of the seven-man agency. Upon his resignation in 1944 he headed the Muzak Corp. for a year, then returned to private practice.

GEORGE DULANY FITZHUGH '22 Cdr. George D. Fitzhugh, USNR (Ret.), died suddenly after a heart attack while playing a game of chess at the Bel Air Bay Club, Calif., on 8 Dec. He made his home at 320 Canyon View Drive, Los Angeles.

Cdr. Fitzhugh, a native Californian, resigned upon graduation and spent most of his time in the Los Angeles area. He was associated with the Farmers Automobile Inter-Insurance Exchange from 1933 until 1958, with the exception of three and one-half years of naval service during World War II, when he was in the Naval Aviation Training Program. He served in Pre-Flight Schools at St. Mary's, del Monte and Iowa City as executive then commanding officer.

He is survived by his widow, Louise, of Los Angeles; a daughter and granddaughter.

WILLIAM JOSEPH MARTIN, JR. '22 Dr. William J. Martin, Jr., of Russellville, Ky., died on 10 Dec. at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minn. Memorial services were held in Louisville at St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church, with interment in Davidson, N. C , on 16 Dec. Dr. Martin attended the Naval Academy from 1918-21, and received a Bachelor's degree in 1923 from Davidson College, N. C , where his father and grandfather had served as president. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1927.

Until two years ago Dr. Martin was Professor of Proctology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was a member of the American Medical Assn. and Phi Chi Medical fraternity and was a fellow of the American Proctologic Society.

He is survived by his widow; a son, Robert H. Martin; a daughter, Mrs. Louise Lightfoot of Columbia, Tenn.; a stepson, Robert L. Kirkpatrick, and three grandsons.

EUGENE HAYDEN PRICE '22 Col. E. Hayden Price, USMC (Ret.), died at his home in La Jolla, Calif., on 11 Dec. after an illness of several years. Graveside services were held at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Col. Price, who was born in Baltimore, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922. Prior to World War II he served in three major Marine campaigns: Haiti, China and Nicaragua. He was commanding officer of the 5th Battalion, 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, during the invasion of Guadalcanal, and from Oct. 1942-Nov. 1943 was on the staff of the 1st Marine Corps (amphibious) at Noumea, New Caledonia. After the war he trained troops of the 8th Army in Japan. He FEBRUARY,

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was deputy chief of staff at Camp Pendleton, Calif., with his last assignment in Headquarters, USMC, Washington. He was awarded two stars for the Guadalcanal operations, and a Presidential Unit Citation.

He is survived by his widow, Margaret, of 1851 Spindrift Drive, La Jolla; a son and a daughter.

ERSKINE AUSTIN SEAY '24 RAdm. Erskine A. Seay, USN (Ret.), died at his home in Ormand Beach, Fla., on 8 Dec, following a lengthy illness resulting from two strokes.

Services were held at St. George's Episcopal Church at Griffin, Ga., where he had earlier resided, with interment in Marietta National Cemetery.

Admiral Seay, who was born in Birmingham, Ala., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1924. He was a veteran of World Wars I and II, with service in battleships, destroyers and submarines. He was twice awarded the Legion of Merit, and was also presented with the British DSC and the Philippine's Liberation Medal. He retired in 1948 and for many years was affiliated with the Georgia State Department of Veterans Services.

He is survived by his widow, Roselyn, of 123 Wildwood Ave., Ormand Beach; a son, Erskine A., Jr., and a sister, Mrs. Hugo Black.

JOHN S. ARWINE, III, '29 Mr. John S. Arwine died of a heart condition in New York City on 6 Nov. His ashes were scattered at sea.

Mr. Arwine resigned from the Naval Academy in 1926, after which he studied at Columbia University and pursued a literary career. In addition to establishing his own firm for the writing of technical documentation, he wrote profusely in fiction magazines. In 1963 he co-edited the 1929 Muster Notes.

Surviving are his widow, Beatrice Lega Arwine, formerly of Florence, Italy, and his mother, Mrs. William S. Bullock, who was the widow of Cdr. John S. Arwine '03, both of New York City.

HARRY PEASLEE BADGER '30 Capt. Harry P. Badger, USN (Ret.), died of heart trouble on 13 Dec. at Malone, N. Y. Services were held in Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Badger, who was born in Malone, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. During the Japanese attack he was serving with Utility Squadron One aboard USS RIGEL which was anchored at Pearl Harbor.

He served as commanding officer Naval Photo Center, Anacostia; Commander Observation Wing, Pacific; staff. Commander Batde Cruisers Pacific, and for seven months was on the Berlin Airlift when he commanded one of the two Navy Squadrons engaged in the lift. His decorations included the Legion of Merit, and Air Medal with AF Oak Leaf Cluster. He retired in July 1960.

He is survived by his widow, Evelyn Shea Badger, of Webster Road, Malone, and two daughters.

LOUIS FRANK VOLK '31 Capt. Louis F. Volk, USN (Ret.), died of lung cancer at Bethesda Naval Hospital on 26 Dec. Services were held at Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Volk, who was born in Batesville, Ind., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1931.

During World War II he commanded a destroyer in the Pacific and was awarded a Bronze Star for his ship's part in task force strikes against the Japanese. He served in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations in 1945-46, and was Commander Amphibious Group One, and Hawaiian Sea Frontier.

After his retirement in 1960 he received a Master's degree in mathematics from Purdue

University and taught for two years at Miami University in Ohio before joining the faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. He is survived by his widow, Anne, of Blacksburg; a son, John Pierce Volk, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Godfrey.

PHILIP KINGSLAND SHERMAN, JR. '33 Capt. Philip E. Sherman, USN (Ret.), died on 1 Jan. at Richmond, Va. Services were held at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, with interment in Hollywood Cemetery.

Capt. Sherman attended Norwich University, the Naval War College and George Washington University. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933.

During World War II he commanded the STACK, and during the Korean conflict commanded the EPPERSON. He served on the staff of Commander MSTS and was commodore of the Long Beach Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet, before his retirement in June 1961. He had been awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and other citations.

Capt. Sherman was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the Navy League, the Retired Officers Association of Richmond and the MOWW. He is survived by his widow, Helen, of 6503 W. Franklin St., Richmond; a son, Lt.(jg) Philip K. Sherman, Jr., USN, of San Diego, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Frank H. Lansinger, Jr., of Richmond; a brother, Allen V. Sherman of Norfolk, and a granddaughter.

WILLIAM CAMPBELL GIBSON CHURCH '34 RAdm. William C. G. Church, (CEC) USN (Ret.), died suddenly on 15 Dec. at Rockville, Md. Services were held in St. Andrew's Chapel of the Naval Academy, with interment in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Adm. Church was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., the son of the late RAdm. A. T. Church, USN, and grandson of the late RAdm. William C. Gibson, USN. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934, and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1939.

He was assistant public works officer, Naval Air Station Pearl Harbor, at the time of the Japanese attack, and he remained in Hawaii until May 1942 when he became officer in charge of construction at the Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Barstow, Calif. He commanded the 31st Naval Construction Battalion at Iwo Jima and later in the occupation of Japan. He returned to Pearl Harbor in February 1946 on the staff of Commander Service Force, Pacific, and Commander Air Force, Pacific.

After heading the CEC Plans Section in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, he later served as CO of the Naval Construction Battalion Center at Port Hueneme, then became officer in charge of construction at Madrid, Spain. He was District Public Works Officer, Sixth Naval District, Charleston, S. C , then served as Commander Naval Construction Battalions, Adantic, headquartered at Davisville, R. I. His last tour of duty was director of tire Atlantic Division of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, Norfolk. He was retired in 1964 and became a consulting engineer in Washington, D. C. Surviving are his widow, Anna Francis, of 6610 Radnor Road, Bethesda, Md.; two sons, Lt. William C. Church, Jr., USMC, serving in Vietnam; Capt. Charles W. F. Church, USN, stationed in Tokyo; a brother, Capt. Albert T. Church, USN '38, and a cousin, U. S. Senator Frank Church of Idaho.

EDGAR ARTHUR RAWSTHORNE '49 Cdr. Edgar A. Rawsthorne, USN, died on 29 Dec. in South Vietnam as the result of an aircraft crash while on a night reconnaissance mission from USS ENTERPRISE. Memorial services were held at the Naval Air Station Chapel, Miramar, Calif., on 6 Jan. Cdr. Rawsthorne, who was born in Globe, Ariz., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1949.

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His naval service began in January 1943 with enlistment in the Marine Corps; he served with the 11th Marines in New Guinea and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, from Oct. 1943-May '44.

After designation as a naval aviator in 1951, he served in VG 92 for two years, with deployment to the Western Pacific during the Korean War. He was aide and flag lieutenant on the staff of Commander Carrier Division 1, after which he was a jet instructor in the Advanced Training Command at Corpus Christi.

Following a two-year tour of duty with Carrier Air Wing 6 as LSO and operations officer, he served as a pilot in VG-102 from May 1961-Jan. 1963, then with VX-4 at Pt. Mugu. In 1964 he returned to his first squadron, VF-92, as executive officer and deployed aboard RANGER during strikes on North Vietnam. In July 1965 he became commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 92 aboard

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Drive, Virginia Beach, Va. Also his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Libero Manfredi of 74 85 th St., Brooklyn, N . Y. W I L L I A M REYNOLDS RING ' 5 8

Lt. William R. Ring, USN, died of leukemia on 1 Dec. at the Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. Private graveside services were held at the Mt. Hope Cemetery in San Diego.

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Word has been received from Seattle, Wash., that Mrs. Edward Hale Campbell, widow of RAdm. Campbell '93, died at her home at the Horizon House on Thursday, 6 Jan. Private memorial services were held for her, with cremation directed by Johnson & Sons.

Lillian Strong Campbell was born in San Francisco and went to Seattle in 1939 with her husband after he retired following 43 years in the Navy.

He formerly was judge advocate general of the Navy and was Commandant of the 13th Naval District, from 1931-34. He died in 1946.

She was a member of the Seattle Art Museum, the National Society of Colonial Dames, the Seattle Garden Club and the Ships Sponsor Society. Survivors include a son, Edward S. Campbell of Seattle, and three granddaughters. Mr. Campbell is president of the Northwestern Glass Co. His home is at 1623 Broadmoor Dr., East Seatde.

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Guy Wilkinson Stuart Castle, Jr., the son of the late Cdr. Guy W. S. Casrie, USN '01, died on 5 Dec. at his home at Oxon Hill, Md. After serving briefly as a reporter on the Washington Times Herald, he left to serve in Generalissimo Franco's army, when he was wounded and sent to a military hospital. He was later decorated by the Spanish government.

Edgar Arthur Rawsthorne '49 He then enlisted in the Marines and served during World War II when he was again wounded He was awarded many decorations, including the in the Battle of Guadalcanal. He later worked as Air Medal with three gold stars; the Commendaa free-lance writer and lectured on Washington tion Medal Pendant; with combat distinguishing and Maryland history. He was a member of several device; the Navy unit citation with star (11th organizations, including the Columbia Historical Marines); the Atlantic-Pacific Area Campaign Society, the Lords of the Maryland Manor, the Medal with two bronze stars; Korean Service Medal J O H N DOUGLAS PRUDHOMME ' 6 1 Mayflower Society and the Pilgrims of St. Mary's.

Lt. John D. Prudhomme, USN, died on 22 Dec. with two bronze stars. Also the United Nations He is survived by his two sons, Guy III and Service Medal, the Fleet Gold Pistol Medal and in the Southeast Asia area while on a combat mission. He was a naval aviator serving in VA-76 on Kevin; three daughters, Dulany, Priscilla and the Silver Pistol Medal.

Harriet; his mother; a brother, John B., all of Survivors include his widow, Alta Louise, and board ENTERPRISE. Oxon Hill. His wife died four years ago.

Lt. Prudhomme, who was born in Manila, four children, at Quarters 1419 Naval Air Station Miramar; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Arthur Philippine Islands, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1961. He was an all-America lacrosse Rawsthorne of El Segundo, Calif. player, co-captain of the soccer team, and was class Sec'y, RAdm. A. H. Van Keuren, USN J O H N PHILIP MANFRED! ' 5 2 secretary.

(Ret.). 8013 Aberdeen Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014 LCdr. John P. Manfredi, USN, was killed in an He is survived by his widow, Patricia, and a aircraft accident on 26 Nov. while piloting a son, David S., and daughter, Robin M., of 3712 "And then there were nine." The class is sadPhantom F4B assigned to the USS FORRESTAL in Beacon Lane, Virginia Beach, Va., and his father, dened by the death of Ralston (Sherlock) the Mediterranean. Memorial services were held on Shelton E. Prudhomme, of Tipp City, Ohio.

HOLMES in Pasadena on 4 Jan. A loyal classmate, board the carrier. an engaging personality, a shipmate ashore and LCdr. Manfredi was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. DONALD CLAY MACLAUGHLIN ' 6 3 Lt.(jg) Donald C. MacLaughlin, USN, was afloat of many of us, we shall cherish his memory.

He received a fleet appointment to the Naval STARK and VAN KEUREN represented the Academy, from where he was graduated in 1952. killed in action on 2 Jan. when his jet bomber crashed on a mountainside in Vietnam. He was class at the ceremonies in Annapolis, where we After flight training at Pensacola he was designated a naval aviator in June 1954. His tours of duty serving in VA-44 during RAG and was flying the saw Rachel, Sally and Sally's children, one of included Fighter Squadron Thirty-One, from Sept. A-4 Skyhawk with VA-76 in the carrier ENTER- whom, Andrew, is a neighbor of mine at Landon 1954 to April 1959; the Advanced Training Com- PRISE when shot down. Memorial services were School where he teaches. held in the Naval Academy Chapel on 11 Jan. mand at Chase Field and Corpus Christi, Tex., from May 1959 to July 1962, and the Naval War Lt. MacLaughlin was graduated from the Naval College at Newport, R. I., from July 1962 to Academy in 1963, when he stood in the top 10 per cent of his class. He was awarded the Naval AcadJune '63.

Sec'y, Capt. R. C. Parker. USN (Ret.) After completing Replacement Pilot Training emy Athletic Association Sword for excellence in 5706 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md. 20014 athletics. He was an all-America midfielder in at Key West, Fla., he reported to Fighter Squadron From Jacksonville, Fla., comes this news: Seventy-Four in March 1964 as operations officer. lacrosse and was captain of the soccer team his Miss Mary Allan Farquhar, daughter of RAdm. He is survived by his widow, Terry, and their first class year.

He is survived by his widow, Gayle, and their and Mrs. Allan Farquhar, became the bride of Lt. children Sharon Ann, 12, Sherri Ann, 11, and Terri Lee, 9, who were in Naples, Italy, en route 21-month-old daughter of 6139 Verdes Rd., Jack- Robert Wallace Graham, USN, the son of RAdm. to meet him at Malta at the time of his death; sonville, Fla.; his parents. Dr. and Mrs. D. C. and Mrs. Robert Graham, on 29 Dec. at the MayMacLaughlin, of Catonsville, Md. port Chapel, Mayport Naval Station, Fla. they are now living at 909 General Beauregard TULARE, and was on the staff of Commander Destroyer Flotilla Five.

He was the grandson of Como. James A. Ring, USN, of Washington, D. C , and Pay Director Ziba Wells Reynolds, USN, of Tunkhannock, Pa. His father was the late VAdm. Stanhope C. Ring, USN (Ret.), class of 1923, and his uncle was the late RAdm. Morton L. Ring, (SC) USN, class of 1915.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Stanhope C. Ring of 801 Tolita Ave., Coronado; a sister, Mrs. Robert Taylor Scott Keith, Jr., and a brother, LCdr. Stewart A. Ring, USN, all of Coronado.

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The bride was graduated from Stuart Hall and the University of North Carolina, and the bridegroom was graduated from Loyola High School and Holy Cross College. He is attached to USS TURNER.

After a reception at the Officers' Club, Mayport, the couple left on a trip to Nassau, after which they returned to Jacksonville. They will later live in Washington, D. C. Some months back we had an interesting letter from RAdm. Claude Bassett, USNR (Ret.), now living at 10 Hamilton Rd., Waltham, Mass. Some time ago he drove entirely across the United States via Canada to visit his old home in Moscow Ida., and then went south to Mexico City, Yucatan, Tehuantepec, Acapulco, etc. He tried to see classmates but without much luck. His main contact now is with John Barleon, at meetings of USNA alumni in the Boston area.

Claude's wife died eight years ago, but he still keeps his home, where he is in close touch with his daughters.

Sec'y. Como. Harry A. Badt. USN (Ret.) Apt. 609, Blair House. 8201 16th St. Silver Spring. Md. 20910 Lucile J. Belt, wife of our classmate, Haller BELT, passed away on 20 Dec, in the Nursing Home of The Hermitage, Alexandria, Va., after a long illness. Graveside services with burial in Arlington were held on 23 Dec. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Lucile Drennan of Sausalito, Calif., and Jane Moncure, wife of Capt. Samuel P. Moncure, USN (Ret.), '32; also three grandchildren, Carol Moncure, Marion Moncure and Samuel P. Moncure, Jr. The class of 1908 extends heartfelt sympathy to Haller and the family.

A nice letter from Betty Norton, widow of E. Randall NORTON '08, who lives at 543 Elm St., South Dartmouth, Mass., in the same house they bought in 1943 soon after Randall retired.

John (Jack) and Alice EARLE are enjoying the winter and sunshine in Sarasota, Fla. Jack has donated to the Midshipmen's Library an old volume depicting the U. S. Navy from 1776 to 1899. It is profusely illustrated with colored pictures of the uniforms of the period it covers, and will be of interest to the midshipmen of today.

Kirkwood (Pat) DONAVIN, our wandering classmate, has finally been located. In a letter dated 15 Dec. he informs me that, after motoring from the west coast to Washington via Georgia this past summer, then to Newport and to Guadalajara, Mexico, he has returned to the USA and is now setded in Sun Valley Lodge, Sun City, Ariz. As usual, Pat had his auto accidents. First, he sideswiped a bull en route from Mexico to Arizona, then ran into a truck and was laid up for two weeks in Nogales, Ariz. He promises to take it easy and relax in Sun City for a while.

A letter from Augustine S. JANEWAY, Brig.

Gen. USA (Ret.), a non-graduate of 1908, now Uving in Villanova, Pa., who writes: "While I was at the Naval Academy only a year and a half, I believe it had a great effect for good on my life and I still have a very high regard for the numerous men I knew at the Academy." Gus Janeway is one of the many fine men lost to 1908 during the four years at Annapolis and one who made an excellent record as an Army officer.

I heard recendy from Ruth Littell Owen, widow of our William C. OWEN. She resides in Staunton, Va., and says that Staunton is taking on a "salty" air since several retired Navy and Marine officers have settled in her land-locked city. I had the pleasure of living with "Plug" Owen and Bobby Baush of 1908 and Frank Manock '09, in a nice bachelor home on Franklin Street in Annapolis while taking the PG course 1914-15.

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An old friend of Academy days and one whom I have not seen since graduation, Abner M. STECKEL, Cdr. USN (Ret.), '08, now lives in Miami, Fla. Steckel retired in 1936 on account of defective hearing and has been most successful in business at Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach, Fla. The amount in the Class of 1908 Library Fund is $4,725 as of 10 Jan. 1966. No furtiier contributions are desired. Many thanks for the generous response from the class.

BIRTHDAYS IN FEBRUARY: Happy birthday to: Ducey, 79 on the 6th; Beardall, 79 on the 7th; Pierce, 79 on the 7th; Douglas, 81 on the 8th DuBose, 82 on the 11th; Muir, 78 on the 12 th.

Sec'y, RAdm. Harold C. Train, USN (Ret.) 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, Md. 21401 Stuart Southerland BROWN: I deeply regret to announce that Stuart died in the Naval Hospital, Newport, R. I., on 19 Dec, of heart failure.

Services were held in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Classmates Frank Braisted, Jimmie Glennon, Harold Train, and Carl Moore '10 were honorary pallbearers.

Stuart was a native of Seattle, Wash. He retired from active service on 30 June 1937, but was recalled to active duty in 1939 when he became operations officer of the 15th Naval District, Canal Zone. He spent the first two years of World War II organizing patrols, security and armed guards. He was placed on the retired list in 1945.

He is survived by his widow, the former Mary Ann Bull, whom he married in 1920. At the time of his death, they were living at 123 Pelham St., Newport.

Israel Earle MCLAREN: It is with deep sadness that I report that Earle died on 8 Dec. at Altadena, Calif., of a heart attack. Burial was in the Mountain View Cemetery.

Earle was originally from Siloam, Ark. He resigned before graduation due to a physical condition—eyes, but had military service prior to and during World War I in the Army. He resigned from the Army in 1919.

Earle had a successful career in business, being 33 years in the publishing business: eight years with Funk and Wagnalls (io., 25 years with G. & C. Merriam Co. (dictionaries).

He is survived by his widow, the former Frances Dunham Austin of Dixon, 111., whom he married in 1918; three children, Josephine Marie Richardson, whose husband, 1/Lt. Burton A. Richardson, was killed in action at Belfor Gap in 1944; Capt. Earle Kenneth McLaren, USN (Ret.), '34, who is now on the faculty of the school of forestry at Oregon State University, and Nancy Austin Bernhard, whose husband, Richard Allan Bernhard, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of California at Davis, and six grandchildren, one being Lt. James M. McLaren, USN '61, who is serving in USS ENGLAND with the 7th Fleet.

Earle and Frances had lived for some time at 1760 Alta Wood Dr., Altadena.

Ralph Earle S.AMPSON: I deeply regret to report that Sammy died on 19 Dec. in the Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital of a heart condition. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors. Classmates Frank Braisted, Jimmie Glennon, Tracy McCauley, Bob Piatt, Harold Train, and Carl Moore '10 were honorary pallbearers.

Sammy was a native of Washington, D. C , and was the son of Adm. William Thomas Sampson, USN, of Spanish-American War fame.

He is survived by his widow, the former Marjorie Lanphier Adams; two sons, William Thomas Sampson II, of Falls Church, Va., and Roger W.

Sampson of Palos Verdes, Calif.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Sammy and Marjorie had lived for many jears at 4622 North 32nd St., Arlington, Va. Ralph SPALDING: In a Christmas card from Ralph he said that during last October and part of November he was in California specifically to visit Marguerite's and his relatives whom he hadn't seen for years. That among them were two of Marguerite's nieces who are Marine Corps widows and have lived in Coronado for years.

That one of the several very enjoyable social affairs was a cocktail party given by Charlie and Gretchen Morrison and attended by practically all of 1909 in that area. There were the Barrys, the Ashleys, the Waddells, Henry Settle and Marguerite DeMott, in addition to Beary (1910) and wife. The others could not attend due to illness.

Fay STUART: In a Christmas card from Fay she said her granddaughter, Carol Lightbown, was married on 21 Aug. to Ens. Danny Palm, USN. The wedding took place at the Naval Chapel on Nebraska Ave., Washington, D. C. Danny's father is a commander and a naval aviator. The couple will live in Honolulu where Danny's ship is to be based.

Cliff VAN HOOK: Van writes that his son, LCdr. Gordon Van Hook '51, is in Saigon. His daughter Helen, wife of Capt. Hugh Wyman Howard, USN (Ret.) '37, and family live in Columbus, Ohio; his daughter, Margaret (Mrs. Eliot Hubbard III) and husband are in Europe, and grandson Hugh Wyman Howard, Jr. (USNA 1965) is in the destroyer SMALL off Vietnam. He and his wife are both well.

Bob PLATT: Bob and Skeets gave a luncheon on 6 Jan. at the Columbia Country Club, Chevy Chase, Md., for as many '09ers as they could get together. Present: the Braisteds, the GleHnons, the Hustvedts, the Robertsons, the Poco Smiths, Fay Stuart and the Trains.

CLASS LUNCHEON: There were 11 present at the luncheon on 21 Dec: Braisted, Hustvfedt, Manahan, McCauley, Piatt, Robertson, Train, Gillam, Merrill, Moore and Langworthy.

BIRTHDAYS IN FEBRUARY Happy birthday to: Espy Stanton on the 4th; Poco Smith on the 8th; McCabe on the,. 10th; Braisted on the 12th; Oldcndorf on the 16th. , HAROLD TRAIN

Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J. Moore, USN (Ret.). 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase 15. Md. Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas 725 West Blvd., Kokomo. Ind. 46902 ' .

Thanks to the gracious custom of exteiidjng holiday greetings to good friends, for the following news items about 1910ers, some associates, and a few old friends of other classes!

Theo (Mrs. "Capt." Lorain) ANDERSON keeps well and active. Her sister and companion is hiving a bit of a rough time. They visit the historic old home place on Masonboro Sound frequently.

Ducky (John J.) BLANDIN and Jeannette send greetings to all classmates. Ducky is disappointed that they missed the 55th.

Capt. Walter E. (Squarehead) BROWN reports one more marriage among his grandchildren, but no new members of the 4th generation. He and his sister are off for a winter cruise to New Zealand and Australia—back the middle of March.

He expects to repeat the good times of last June at the 60th in 1970.

Dorothy (Mrs. Walter V.) COMBS, motiier of RAdm. Walter V., Jr. (1936), and grandmother of Ensign "Mike" (1964), reports a 4th generation arrival in the person of little Miss Anne Garrison Combs. Dorothy is in Montana looking out for 5 children, 5 dogs and 2 cats and a 500acre ranch while her young son.Peter and his wife make a winter trip to Hawaii.

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Carolyn (Mrs. Lyal A.) DAVIDSON attended the commissioning ceremony of the USS DAVIDSON (DE-1045) at the Charleston Naval Shipyard on 7 D e c ; Cdr. H. L. Stanfield, USN, commanding.

She sends a very handsome brochure of 40 pages, from the back cover of which comes the insignia herewith reproduced. The three stars are for the vice admiral for whom it is named—our Davy.

The insignia of the USS DAVIDSON is symbolic of her fine naval heritage, honored name, and important mission as well as the high standards and goals of her officers and men.

The eagle perched in a dynamic position, and the main charge of the escutcheon, an anchor, symbolize the spirit and heritage of the ship.

Three stars represent the high devotion to duty and contribution to the naval service of Vice Admiral Lyal A. Davidson for whom the ship is named. Symbolic of the strength of sea power in the nuclear age, and the expected contribution of the ship to that strength, are the superimposed charges consisting of a naval sword crossed with a bolt of lightning.

Indicative of the manner in which the ship, together with her officers and crew, will accomplish her mission, is the motto: VIGILANT, VALIANT, VICTORIOUS. And cordial greetings come from Cdr. George C. FULLER and May of Dallas. George graduated in '11, but was in '10 for a while. It is always a treat to get a message from Adm. Harry HILL and Margaret.

Capt. J. Ogden (Pete) HOFFMAN and Phoebe give this address: Canterbury Woods, 651 Sinex Ave., A-118, Pacific Grove, Calif. 93950.

She wrote: "Ogden was doing well, but another fall set him back. He is getting over that now."

Cdr. Fred KURFESS '11, and Ardis: Fred's chief interests currendy are the 55th of 1911 this 3'ear, and his Hoosier farm which he manages at long range from Santa Barbara, Calif.

Another seagoing card from Cdr. A. Y. (Al) Lanphier. This time the ancient bosun is riding an Army mule.

Cordial greetings to all from RAdm. R. C. LEE (Bob) and Elsie with some pleasant reminiscing of last summer. Bob seems in better shape than he was then.

Capt. Frank (Skate) LUCKEL and his Gladys are very loyal 'lOers. He is busying himself in compiling scrapbooks of his military and political careers. It now reaches 6 volumes of 20 pounds each.

Capt. Robert T. (Skip) MERRILL and Margot seem well and in very jovial mood.

RAdm. Charles J. (Charlie) MOORE and Anna Louise report a new granddaughter as of 29 Dec. Name: Ellen Maddigan Moore. Parents: Son Jay, and "Sandy" Moore. Jay is still seeking his doctorate in oceanography. Home: Kingston, R. I. 26

Cdr. J. P. (Swifty) NORFLEET sends regards, best wishes, and regrets at missing the party last June. He says they are just hibernating at Cape May Point, N. J. A nice chatty note from Mary and VAdm. Chas.

A. (Baldy) POWNALL. They have the long-time 1910 Bridge Eightsome for New Year's Eve. That consists of the Don BEARYs, the Hap HEINs, and Fanny (Mrs. Ted) SHERMAN. Baldy has been having a bout with the hospital, but Mary says he is doing all right now. Middle ear complications!

Como. F. G. (Red) REINICKE and Nan check in with a cheery greeting to all.

And more news from Fanny SHERMAN: she seems to have been her usual very busy Lady Bountiful!

A card from MGen. John A. (Tod) Sloan is always cheerful. He hopes your scribe will live to a hundred. In 25 years this monthly letter to Shipmate is going to be hard to write; and much harder to read.

And—a card from Gertie Lang Smith—the very nicest thing that ever came out of Ireland.

She says her "Beau" has been pretty sick this year, but is making a splendid recovery.

Cdr. John H. (Jack) SMITH and Virginia were off to spend Christmas with their grandchildren in Norfolk—a reversal of the usual custom!

A card from Evelyn (Mrs. Francis P.) TRAYNOR at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.—a member of a C. & O. Family Party.

George WEYLER (VAdm. G. L.) seems very hale and hearty. George leads the class of 1910 past the 80th milestone in May—the first one of us to make it. A few years ago he seemed a very unlikely candidate.

Your reporter (Dorsey Thomas) celebrated Thanksgiving with a gathering of both his junior tribes—the first 100% meeting under the parental roof in many years. But, sad to relate, the surgeons and a flock of pretty nurses had him in charge up to Christmas. But all is well, today—hitting on all 8.

A lovely card in this morning's mail from RAdm. H. A. (Pat) FLANIGAN and Margie— with some kind words and news that they will be in New York in the Spring.

Sec'y. VAdm. R. M. Griffin, USN (Ret.) 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washineton 8, D.C. A Christmas card from Ralph Risley's widow (Mabs) indicates that she is now Lady Melvill Ward and living at the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London W l , England. No further news except that they later may move to their house in New Canaan, Conn.

At Shorty MERRING's funeral in Arlington the class was represented by Butler, Byrnes, Chandler, Hinckley, Perley, and Zimermann.

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

Since the class has shown no interest in furnishing a wardroom for the 12th company of midshipmen, no further steps will be taken in the project.

In December Andy and Miriam ANDERSON visited relatives in New Jersey and their daughter in Virginia, near Mt. Vernon.

Cuyler TEN EYCK has been in the hospital in New Haven. He has had a second attack.

Lawrence BISCHOFF is trying to finish his household chores so he can go to Florida for the winter. Heard Mary spent the Christmas holidays in Memphis with their oldest daughter.

Mammy WEEMS has gone to Florida to join Ed Link and his yacht. They may be diving for Spanish sunken gold or anchors this time. Mammy is taking a new type sextant with him for a tryout.

Rita Robinson is home now after a long stay in the Coronado hospital. She is improving slowly.

Buck BUCKMASTER, home in Coronado, is improving. He even walks downtown frequently.

Josie and he plan to sell their summer home in northern Maine.

Red PACE spent Christmas with his son. Bill Andrews, who is digging for historic artifacts near Progresso, Mex.

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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.), 1023 Vivera Dr. La Mesa, Calif.

In connection with the sad dope I mentioned in the December issue of Shipmate regarding the removal of our class memorial fountain from its present location on the Chapel Walk, I am pleased to inform you all that the Naval Academy Memorials Committee met on 4 Jan. and approved of our desire to have its new location close to where it was before. The committee recommended that it be placed just across the road from where it was originally, and in line with the Chapel Walk.

Of course, the final decision regarding its location now rests with the "higher ups" who are handling the construction of the massive new Science Building, and its environs. I am hoping that within the near future I may get definite word as to whether or not the recommendation of the USNA Memorials Committee is approved.

If it should be approved I will let you know in a later issue of Shipmate. Incidentally, our own committee is planning to surround part of the fountain with either a semi-circular bench or a series of several benches.

Since our December column I now have further news to give you relating to the dedication of the plaque in memory of Scrappy KESSING. Although I did not know it at the time I wrote the column, I have since found out that a great friend and admirer of Scrappy on the west coast started the Scrappy Kessing Memorial Fund in that area. After the donations to this fund had been completed they were sent to the Naval Academy Foundation in memory of Scrappy, part of which was to be for the plaque, and the remainder for the perpetual scholarship in Scrappy's name. One of these scholarships is given each year to some outstanding student in a preparatory school who is preparing for entrance to the Naval Academy.

I forgot to mention in the December issue that the plaque used at the time of the dedication was a temporary one made of brass; the permanent plaque will be bronze and much larger. As of this date, 10 Jan., it has not been completed, but as soon as it is finished and received by the Foundation, it will be mounted where the present one is placed. A photograph of it will be taken at that time and sent to Jane Kessing. Not only will the photograph be sent to her, but also the brass plaque which was used at the time of the dedication. In addition to these the Foundation will send her all the letters and telegrams which were received just prior to the dedication by a great many of those who, for various reasons, were unable to be present; these will be encased under glass.

I was greatly surprised about the middle of December to receive a letter from Al BERRY which was postmarked Malaga, Spain. At that time I thought he was in California and that he would soon be in Mexico! You may remember that in our column (June-July issue) I mentioned that he and Estelle were leaving Spain and after motoring through Europe for a few months they SHIPMATE

would then sail for Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. However, after travelling through Europe for about four months they finally reached Rotterdam. By the time they reached there the cold and damp weather in Europe during the summer stirred up his arthritis to such an extent that they had to motor back to Torremolines (Malaga) to get a touch of the sun, and a period of drydocking and overhaul. His plans now are to go to Portugal around February and sail in April for Los Angeles via the Panama Canal. Mexico is their final destination after a few months' visit in California, where he will be at his sister's address which is 1313 3rd St., Coronado.

by Pedro DEL VALLE from the class. Mrs. Wagner was injured, but is doing well in the Naval Hospital, Pensacola.

Our travelling Fifteeners include Lola and Mel POWERS, who left Winter Park, Fla., on Thanksgiving. They flew to Los Angeles and sailed on the P and O steamer ORONSAY, visiting Seattle, Hawaii, Suva and Auckland on the way to Sydney, Australia. They spent Christmas with their son and his family in Wattle Park, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia, and were to be there 'til the end of January. Your corr. sec'y received a report from them from Honolulu, saying they had seen the STEDMANs and SMITHs in Seattle, who were wonderful to them, and that Ralph CHRISTIE met them in Honolulu, drove them around and had them to his club for lunch. They added "Have had a marvelous time in all the ports— Suva next!"

On the day after Christmas, Hazel and I had the great pleasure of having Johnny HALE pay us a call which we enjoyed very much. I am glad to say that both he and Lucy have removered from their recent illnesses.

Jim and Helen RAY expect to visit the east coast within the near fumre and I am glad to say that Annapolis is included on their trip. Hazel and I are looking forward with much pleasure towards seeing them again.

On New Year's Day Hazel and I attended the annual eggnog party at the Army and Navy Club in Washington. This is the only time during the year that the ladies are permitted to enter the men's section of the club. Bill and Martha LARSON were there for the event; also Mary Lee CALLAHAN and two of her daughters. Before the party ended we all lifted our eggnog glasses and drank: A TOAST T O T H E 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

"Horse" PENNOYER came up with a wonderful sheaf of news about Fifteeners in Coronado, as follows: A New Year's Present—Vince GODFREY has good reason to celebrate. He is recovering quickly from the cataract operation on his second eye. The trouble developed soon after our 50th reunion, following Emilie Eleanor's tour of Europe with their granddaughter.

World Traveller—Lillian McCORMICK, following her trip east for the reunion, recently returned to Coronado from a leisurely deluxe cruise throughout the South Seas, which included Japan, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia. She is in fine fetde and radiates enthusiasm and energy.

Sportsman—^With the quail season in full swing, "Skeeter" MITCHELL averages two days a week south of the border. H e never fails to come back with the legal limit, i.e., 15 birds.

Gendeman of Leisure—^Ageless Harry CAMPMAN is still going strong. His wife Ann drives around Coronado in a Cadillac, their daughter commands a brilliant sports car. But Harry is perfectly happy driving an ancient, weather-beaten panel station wagon and always seems to be in low gear.

The La Jolla Jet Set—Kay HICKS continues to beam good health and good will. She just returned from a visit in Pasadena with her son Bin. He is the son of the 1915 West Pointer who lost his life in WWI. Kay reports that Betty KINNE is in good health and spirits and is living in the guest house on the fabulous estate of her daughter and son-in-law.

Visiting Firemen—-Leonard KIRBY and Merian COOPER with his family were recently down in Coronado to attend the change of command ceremonies for ComNavAirPac in USS RANGER. "Nellie," an old friend of the retiring Commander VAdm. P. D. Stroop, flew down from Pebble Beach. "Coop" drove down from Santa Monica.

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

Ban Diego 3, Calif.

Brig. Gen. Merian Coldwell Cooper, USAF(R), and his daughter, Theresa, taken at her wedding to Cdr. Bobby Henderson, USN, in Santa Monica, July 1965.

His newly acquired son-in-law, Cdr. Bob Henderson, was on the leading plane of the formation of jets that flew over during the ceremonies. Our gettogether was a terrific, happy, unforgettable celebration. It was climaxed by a rather wild roundtable luncheon at the Hotel del Coronado. Decorum was only maintained through the efforts of Coop's better half Dorothy and his daughter Theresa. Nellie and Coops had not seen each other since 1914, and the latter was somewhat concerned as to whether he would recognize Nellie. I assured him to look for Winston Churchill in his prime, and that is exactly how recognition was immediately established. It gave all hands a good laugh, as the similarity is truly amazing.

I enclose for possible use a photo of Coop and his daughter Theresa, taken during the latter's recent wedding to Bobby Henderson. The photo will interest his classmates, as a reminder of the same dexterity he demonstrated as the champion maestro in swinging Indian clubs at gym meets, while a midshipman.

Tip for Rate BATES—Among our most appreciated Christmas cards was one from Cdr. and Mrs. George S. Grove, USN. Until recendy he commanded USS BLANDY, and is now based in Newport as operations officer. Staff ComDesCruLant. Should Rafe contact him, I'd greatly appreciate his extending our best wishes and highest regards. He was in the class of 1947 and is definitely a chip off the old block, son of our classmate George Wilson GROVE, with much to be proud of. Among the finest shipmates I have ever had were his dad, and Stuart Benson CLARK in USS CONNECTICUT.

Thank you, Horse, ever so much—now, won't some other Fifteener go and do likewise.'

Speaking of classmates' sons, Lt. Truxtun Umsted, USN, son of our "Scotty" UMSTED, was picmred with his wife in the Annapolis Evening Capital recently as the winner of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron's frost-bite dinghy regatta.

He also belongs to the Severn Sailing Assn., where he's a formidable opponent in the International 14 class.

We regret to announce the death of Frank D. Wagner, VAdm. (Ret.), who was killed in an automobile accident on 6 Jan. Services were held at Trinity Church, Warrington, Fla., and he was buried at sea. Blue and gold flowers were sent

The latest news on our Tony ZIROLI is that he had an operation in Bethesda Hospital, not an ordinary one, but the same operation our President, L.B.J., had.

He came out of it fine, and Consuelo and Tony have adjourned to Woodside, Calif., for a visit with the Keadys.

WEST COAST Those MSG's: from Harry BAUGH, De Bary, Fla., explain why he had not arrived in our area as promised—his gall bladder got out of whack and the medicos at the NH Jacksonville removed same. Home now recovering and the promised visit will have to wait 'til spring. Glad to know that the situation is under control and will be mighty glad to have you aboard any time you can make it. . . . From Andy McFALL, Ponte Vedra, Fla. . . . Andy and Dorothy expect to be in our area come March. Their son Dodge '50 is a commander and attached to the ENTERPRISE now in the Far East. . . . Erma and Jim STEELE were in our area visiting his sister who lives in Carlsbad, Calif. Mighty glad to see them but sorry their schedule prevented our staging a party for them. Jim was able to drop in on our Dec. SD '16-'17er luncheon.

The SD '16-'17er Christmas luncheon was celebrated at the Marine Recruit Depot's Officers' Club on the 16th with 18 showing. The colorful club was filled to the rafters with celebrating folks.

The prelims were exciting with Parson Richards, Ing Kiland and Ike Bennett paying the freight along with Jim Steele who dropped by and ordered another round of grog. Our guest of honor was Ing Kiland, Jr., '59. He had just returned from a patrol in the JAMES MADISON, and gave us an

interesting talk about the patrol and the training that is given while off patrol and awaiting the next one. Ing has been detached and is now at the PG School in Monterey, Calif. The gang also celebrated the birthdays of Chuck Emerson, Count Grassie, Sleuth Holmes and Phil Warren. Quite a day! In securing, the SD '16-'17ers again wish all hands a Happy New Year. Hasta luego, amigos.

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

At the '16-'17 Dec. luncheon in Washington, the following were present: Fechteler, Earnhardt, Merwin, Austin, Brady, Calhoun, Dean, Forshew and Small. There were a few others, but Walt's list has been misplaced.

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In December, Walt's son,-Gapt. David H. Calhoun, USMC, was married "to Miss Alice Hatton Hetzel of Washington. They will live in Arlington (the residential part).

Birdie Kelly is back to battery. She had a tough time.

There is no news from or about the class— which is probably a good omen.

It would help us plan our 50th on the weekend of 21 Oct. 1967 if we began to get requests for reservations. Registration on Friday the 20th, alumni dinner that night and luncheon and dinner Saturday. A despedida at 248 on Sunday after chapel. Of course the after-chapel party will be as guests of Bernardine and Jack, the inmates of 248. When we get some idea as to the number attending, reservations will be made for the class to attend chapel in a group.

Two new motels are planned, so Carvel Hall's accommodations will not be missed. Carvel has been demolished; the bare ground leaves a pang.

With love and good cheer.

JACK

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Sec'y, RAdm. E. E. Duvall, USN (Ret.) Apt. 755-B, The Westchester Washington, D. C. 20016

Vince and Elizabeth MURPHY have returned from their cruise in the Mediterranean and visits in Europe, and report it was an interesting and enjoyable experience. They sailed in the NIEUW AMSTERDAM, stopping at Rotterdam, Amsterdam, the Hague, Lisbon, Palermo and Piraeus from which points they made side trips. At Izmir they visited the temples at Ephesus, then on to Naples, Rome, Taugiere, then to Southampton where the cruise ended. The last part of the tour included London, Brussels, Frankfort, Munich, Vienna, Innsbruck, Luceren and Paris; all of this journey was,by train during the day except the overnight trip from London to Brussels. Vince and Elizabeth have had a letter from the BLEDSOES telling of their, oyvn travel prospects and plans to make family visits in Indiana. Mac has a grandson and name^^ke playing football for the University of Washipgtpn. "How the boys grow up," says Vince.

•' Peggy Macklin, whose address is c/o 10th Gene r a r Hospital, APO 757 New York, was here to visit yoflng Stewart who is a midshipman; she is justly proud to have him follow in his father's footsteps. Peggy has returned to Frankfort.

We heard from Eleanor and Mike HUTSON of Healdsburg, Calif., who report that their yoUngest son, Tom, father of three, has a ranch in the vicinity. Their daughter Eleanor Lloyd lives'in Redwood City and is the mother of three children; her daughter Lynne lives in Palo Alto and has recently produced Mike's first greatgranddaughter. The Hufsons' oldest son, Lt. Col. Albert L. Hutson, and wife now in Fort Gulick, Panama Canal Zone, has orders to the Second Armored Division, Fort Hood, Tex. Victor and Gwenn BARRINGER- are on an indefinite visit on the west coast where their address is Rancho Bernardo, 16775 Acebo Dr., San Diego, Calif. 92128.

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

Bayard Henry COLYEAR died unexpectedly at his home in Healdsburg, Calif., on 13 Dec. The cause apparently was from a. heart attack, although he had no previous history and had been in the best of health. Services and interment were in Golden Gate National Cemetery. In attendance from the class were Jack Redman, Campbell Carmine, Charlie Rend and Paul Talbot.

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Bayard served in the WILKES, based at Queenstown during World War I, and had submarine training in New London in 1921. In 1942 he joined the ill-fated LAFAYETTE (ex-NoRMANDiE) as Prospective Executive Officer, and commanded the MONTICELI.O in June 1942, serving in her until August 1945 when he became CO of the new cruiser ATLANTA, remaining there until the cessation of hostilities. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his MONTICELLO service and the Bronze Star with Combat "V" for his service in the ATLANTA. He commanded the first submarine to navigate the Inland Passage to Alaska.

He is survived by his wife, Marjorie, one son, three grandsons and two granddaughters.

Laurence SCHETKY has been in Washington recently with Etheljane who has undergone a checkup at the Betiiesda Hospital.

Miles DUVAL's address before the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Richmond, Va., on 19 Jan. 1964, entitled "Matthew Fontaine Maury: Benefactor of Mankind," was reprinted in The Explorers Journal for December, the official publication of the Explorers Club of New York.

Your secretary has recently seen this publication and recommends the article as "must" reading.

This article was also published in the Congressional Record of March 16, 1964, pages 5129-5134.

It is a beautiful essay and Miles is to be congratulated.

A lovely thank-you note for flowers and class attendance at the services from Marjorie notes that their copy of our Lucky Bag was ruined by water on their return from Manila. If any of the class has an extra copy and would send it to Marjorie at 655 West Grant St., Healdsburg, it would be received with sincere appreciation.

Attendance at the 4 Jan. luncheon at the ArmyNavy Club was good, DuVal, Dyer, Fink, Schetky, Schildhauer, Slocum and Thurber being present.

Harry and Kathryn GOODWIN sailed on 22 Dec. for a South American cruise.

Your secretary is glad to report that his last hunting trip in December was a success. He bagged a doe, not one that would take a prize for size, but still something for the pot.

As noted in the last Shipmate, attendance at the December Army-Navy Club luncheon was unusually good, there being present Dyer, Callaghan, Thurber, Slocum, Fink, Schildhauer, DuVal and Settle. An executive committee meeting took action on the proposal to sponsor numbered companies at the Academy, a full report being included in our Class Bulletin, to be published shordy.

Dan and Helen McGURL spent the Christmas holidays in New England with their son and daughter-in-law and their children.

Dulany DIERDORFF spent the Christmas holidays with her daughter Nelda and family in New Orleans and has since rented her Annapolis home to a member of the Maryland legislature for a period of 70 days commencing 19 Jan. Walter and Eleanor ANSEL had their usual Alexander party on 24 Dec, Walter being in good voice, as usual.

Yen and Mila CONEY entertained on 23 Dec, serving delicious Russian food.

Leon and Louise WISENBAKER report a visit with their son and family in Coronado where their son Eugene, a commander, is production manager at NAS, North Island. The weather there has been horrible and they opine they should have stayed in good old Georgia. Nothing new, Leon—we had a similar experience in Coronado last year when we visited our children. Incidentally, my son-in-law recently made commander, is CO of the POMFRET, and is now en route WestPac Elizabeth METZEL has had a stay at Bethesda for rest and examination, following some recent heart palpitations but no heart attack.

Charlie OLSEN was a recent visitor at George DYER's Washington office where many yarns were swapped. He plans to stay on his teaching job at the University of Chicago, rounding out 20 years of teaching there in 1966.

Betsy ROCHESTER is expected to return home on 4 Jan. from Bethesda, after an eleven-week stay. While there she had a setback from a slipped pin in her broken hip but her recovery now pleases the doctors.

Ground was broken last month for the Academy's new $13.6 million science building, named for Albert A. MICHELSON '73, who first discovered the speed of light and reported it in 1879.

The building will be constructed on the former site of the tennis courts about 500 feet inside Gate # 3 , on the spot where Michelson first measured the speed of light. Michelson's three daughters, including Beatrice, wife of our own Festus FOSTER, were present at the ceremonies.

News on Clayton DEMAREST seems to be good. He checked out of the hospital 3 Jan. and will be taking things easy for a while.

Ray THURBER expects a hospital visit in late January for some work on his eyes.

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Sec'y, Capt. Roswell B. Daggett, USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 201, Annapolis, Md. 21404

We had excellent attendance at the monthly luncheon at the Army-Navy Club on 31 Dec. consisting of 24 classmates and one guest as follows: Browder, Bryan, Christmas, Crowe, Fred Cunningham, Daggett, Dettmann, Hague, Savy Harrison, Holsinger, Korns, Lyon, Mansfield, W. A. P. Martin, Mead, Nibecker, Osborn, Page, Patterson, Pearson, Sexton, Clyde Smith, Robbins, and Thompson. Our guest was RAdm. J. W. Crumpacker, (SC) USN (ReL), who talked to us and answered questions about the Navy Marine Corps Residence Foundation.

It was nice having Ho SEXTON and Tommy ROBBINS with us again. Ho has left his home in Vermont and has come "south" to spend Jan. and Feb. in Washington. He plans to spend March in New Jersey and return home in April. This column in the Oct. issue carried the glad tidings that Tommy hoped to spend a couple of months in Washington this winter but he is disappointing us. He and Barbara are flying to Paris where they will pick up a Volkswagen in mid-Feb. and tour France and Italy. They will have an apartment in Positano, Italy, for two months where a full time maid for $1.60 per day will go with the apartment. Some people get all the breaks!

Last month I discussed the possibility of having a 50-year Lucky Bag for our class and asked for comments. Well, belay everything! The matter was setded at our 31 Dec. luncheon. Jack LYON put the question to the 24 classmates present since the Washington Group acts as the legislative body for our class. The vote was unanimous against such a project.

Jack also mentioned to the group that it is time to start thinking about plans for our 50th reunion, particularly the time of the year to hold it and the necessity for making reservations, with deposit, at least a year in advance. Remember, there is no longer any Carvel Hall. Annapolis has the Maryland Inn, which is very nice but has only 55 rooms and no large assembly room. There are several motels on the outskirts of town and there has been plenty of talk about building additional accommodations. Various proposals have led to much controversy and it is difficult to foresee when there will be a meeting of minds even though there is general agreement that Annapolis needs a sizeable hotel with adequate meeting room space. We should decide at an early date whether we want the reunion in May or at the time of Homecoming in the fall. If in May, it should be on dates sufficiently in advance of June Week and if at Homecoming it is more SHIPMATE

reports the party was a huge success. Johnny and Marion GREER departed Annapolis on 27 Dec. for Key Largo, Fla., where they expect to remain until early April. Swede MOMSEN writes from St. Petersburg, Fla., that he and Anne are quite well and that his son, C. B. Jr. '42, has retired as a captain and is working for G. M. Research in Santa Barbara, Calif. Marion CRIST reports that he and Ethel found their recent trip to the Holy Land most pleasant and worthwhile. Krout DETTMANN has returned to his winter quarters in Florida after having been north for the ArmyNavy game and Christmas holidays. Lunsford MASON has changed his address to 127 Valley View Ave., San Rafael, Calif. 94901.

At long last word has come in from Jimmy Several in Annapolis were fortunate in having a visit with Shad and Brownie MILLER when NOLAN. It seems that back in the mid-thirties Jimmy was skipper of a vessel on a survey duty they stopped off on 15 Dec. They had visited in the Aleutians and he found a herd of sea their son Raleigh '54, who is a submariner at New London, and were en route to Patuxent, otters. Recently one of the popular magazines carried a picture of several of these scarce animals Md., to visit son Bill '56, who is a test pilot. Both are Lt. (Mrs. Shad raises Hereford catde on his and this prompted Bill SWANSTON to send it farm at Rock Island, Tenn. He purchased the on to Jimmy. This elicited a reply from 1044 farm after retirement and it is not far from the 9th Ave., North, St. Petersburg, Fla., with his old Miller family farm. His house is basically log old sense of humor when he says "thanks for the construction with electric heat and all conven- clipping of the sea otters. Come to think of it, the old one does look like me." It seems Jimmy iences. He has trained bird dogs and a pond stocked with large-mouth bass. Needless to say, left his Chicago job as administrative officer. Cook County Jail, when the Democrats came in and he does considerable hunting and fishing. went to Florida with an oil company but made no My intelligence service furnished me with a money. He left Florida and drifted down to Mexphotograph of Dick MORSE "just up from the raico and joined up with a mining company. Everyvine with a basket of ripe blackberries." The body went broke and he got sick so he moved on photo is in color and unfortunately the experts to Houston, Tex., and worked for an engineering do not think it will reproduce satisfactorily. It company for the next seven years. About 18 is obvious, however, that Knott's Berry Farm is in months ago he became ill so he moved around for some serious competition. to Va., Md., and Canada and then down to Florida for this winter. If he feels better in the spring Last month I mentioned that Dopey and he intends to return to Texas and go to work.

Marie DUPRE were east to see her father who was a patient at Bethesda. I was sorry to note Between 1931 and 1934 Paul SCHUBERT lived in the Washington Post of 30 Dec. that he died in a littie country village in Czechoslovakia named after suffering a series of strokes. He was RAdm. Jean H. Hawley, retired assistant director of the Krtiny where he wrote two books. He was attracted by the warm-hearted people and the low U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Our deep cost of living, his rent being only $75 a year. In sympathy is extended to the family.

1947 he wrote a Reader's Digest Christmas issue The New York Herald Tribune of 30 Dec. car"Unforgettable" about this village which in 1964 ried the announcement of the marriage of our was used as basis for a TV show in middle late classmate Herb FINNEY's daughter Diane Europe. The show was seen in Krtiny, which is to Mr. Renato Pachetti-Ciampi of Rome, Italy. now behind the Iron Curtain, and this led to a She attended Rollins College and Syracuse Uniwarm and affectionate correspondence with the versity in its foreign program in Florence, Italy. family with which he rented quarters 30 years The groom is a graduate of the University of ago. They want Paul and Frances to revisit Krtiny Florence and is news editor of the RAI Radioso they are sailing in the SS BERLIN on 18 Feb., televisione Italiana in Rome. The ceremony was will spend most of their time in middle Europe performed in Holy Family Chapel of St. Patrick's and return home in June.

Cathedral by the Auxiliary Bishop of New York.

W. A. P. THOMPSON and his fairly recent I was distressed to hear form Jim DONNELLY bride, the former Margaret Steinmetz Bennett, that he has been very ill with a bed case of virus took a safari to Europe during the early fall. They pneumonia. He was hospitalized for over three took in the Scandinavian countries, Germany, weeks, returning home early in Dec. The disease Switzerland, Austria and France. In Cologne Wap left him almost completely exhausted and he ex- saw the father-in-law of his son, Wap, Jr., RAdm. pects it will take until the end of Jan. before he Topp, who is Deputy CNO of the German Navy. will feel strong enough to return to work. Tom BRITTAIN writes that Helen has had sort of a hard year with a couple of surgical bouts at the Naval Hospital, Jacksonville, but that she seems to be on the up and up now. He says Tom Jr. '47 shifted his base to Charleston about a year ago.

than ever important that reservations be made well in advance. In May we would have the place more to ourselves except for the possibility of other class reunions. At Homecoming much of our entertainment would be planned for us and we would meet friends in other classes. Unfortunately many in our class do not belong to the Alumni Association and hence do not receive Shipmate. But the consensus of those who do should be a good cross-section of the desire of the class as a whole. This is by no means a commitment, but those who hope they will be able to attend the 50th reunion are requested to drop me a note expressing preference for either May or Homecoming. Please do so without delay.

They visited points of interest in the Alps and in Vienna took in the opera. From Paris Wap returned via Pan Am to Washington and Marge continued to London and Scotland. Wap says he can recommend all of this trip except Paris where he consider the prices the highest in Europe and most of it not worth the price of admission.

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These '21ers attended the December luncheon at the Army and Navy Club in Washington: Abercrombie, Barbaro, Brumbaugh, Allen Cook, Eimers, Ferris, Fullinwider, Don Giles and Don Giles, Jr., Houser, Tom Kelly, Loker, McDowell, Country Moore, Sherwood Smith, Thorp and Waters. It is interesting to note that at this luncheon Syd Bunting, Allen Blow Cook and Fully Fullinwider sat alongside one another and it was these same three who roomed together during their entire plebe year in Bancroft Hall.

Not having seen Oliver BILLINGSLEY at recent class luncheons, I phoned his Alexandria house and learned that he and Mynila are living in San Bernadino where they expect to be until Feb. '67. Oliver is playing a bit of bridge now and then.

Tom WATTLES, I regret to report, has been sojourning again in Bethesda Naval Hospital following a slight coronary. By the time this appears in print Thomas expects to be back in the Woodbine Convalescent Center in Alexandria Bob BROWN advises that he and Isabel plan to live in southern Spain at least 'til May. With Rota within striking distance they are thoroughly enjoying Andalusia.

Remember that 1966 is '21'$ forty-fifth reunion year. The dates are 20-23 Oct. Syd BUNTING, our reunion chairman, reports that reservations in Annapolis are even more difficult to obtain due to the fact that Carvel Hall has been torn down and no replacement has yet relieved the tight hotel situation. Fifty rooms and baths have been reserved at the Howard Johnson Motel, about three miles outside of Annapolis, for the class. Anyone desiring a reservation should write to the motel, Box 151, Annapolis, Md., as soon as possible, asking for one of the '21 rooms for the desired dates. There is now a modern dual-lane highway connecting Annapolis and Washington (driving time under 45 minutes) and it is therefore possible to stay in Washington and still attend the Annapolis functions. Some of the class may prefer to do this as the first event on our calendar is a KT party and dinner at the Army and Navy (town) Club in Washington Thursday evening, 20 Oct. Syd will be sending out a letter to the class in the near future, giving more detailed information about the reunion. We hope that everyone will come and make this reunion a big success.

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got home from a patrol on Christmas Eve. It is understood that Herb CHADWICK was in drydock for a month recendy at Bethesda but he did not let any classmates know. Del FAHRNEY sent a note that he would be unable to be with us at the 31 Dec luncheon as his wife was in the hospital for a serious operation early the next week. Barney TALBOTT says that he missed the last Homecoming dinner as he was in the hospital for an operation on the veins of his left leg. He reports seeing very little Navy in N. Y. City.

George CUNNINGHAM came up from Ala. for the Army-Navy game as he does every year and he and Peg gave their customary party at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia. From all F E B R U A R Y ,

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Distressing news has been received here in Washington to the effect that Cat BROWN has suffered a stroke. He was stricken while he and Eleanor were in Tuscaloosa, Ala., which is Cat's home town. The Navy intends to transfer him to the Naval Hospital in Bethesda as soon as he can be moved.

It would indeed be difficult to measure adequately the value of the services to those who are ailing, sick and convalescing in the USN Medical Center at Bethesda which have been and are being rendered by Polly Boone, Alice DuBois and Mary C. Leggett. All three are Gray Ladies and work in the library group there distributing books to patients.

Howdy and Mary HUBBELL advise that they spent several delightful weeks in Portugal this fall.

Howdy forwards the following account of Duncan and Dotty CURRY's current trip. Writes Duncan: "After three years of living in Nevada we decided that the time had come to make a change; and that before the rocking chair really got both of us we would make an extended trip to places neither of us had seen before, or that one or the other had missed.

"Flying to Amsterdam, we were delighted with Holland and also Paris. Venice was next and we think we enjoyed it more than any part of the trip except possibly the Holy Land. The canals at night with a litde candle in the bow lighting the way; the sound of music; the shouted word 'Huoa' from the gondolier instead of a horn when rounding a corner; the Palace of the Doges; St. Mark's; and feeding the pigeons. Next, Florence with its Piazza de Michelangelo, Ponte Vecchio, and the golden door. In Rome we had a grand time with Tony and enjoyed the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's, the fountains and the food.

"From Rome we flew to Beirut, Lebanon, for our first taste of the Near East. Wonderful tours to ancient ruins at Byblos, Baalbeck and Tripoli, saw the famous Cedars and enjoyed strange new foods including a wonderful salad of young wheat shoots. We continued by plane to Jerusalem, Jordan. Our hotel, the Jerusalem Intercontinental, was on the Mount of Olives overlooking the walled city. With mixed emotions we were at last in the Holy Land, walking in the places where our Lord, Whose birthday we now celebrate, once walked—visiting the cave in Bethlehem where He was born, the tomb where He was laid, and Bethany, the Pretorious, Golgotha, Jericho and the River Jordan. Impossible to describe all our thoughts and emotions during our visit to the Holy Land.

"From there to Cairo by plane for a very interesting visit including the museum housing the treasures of Tutankhamen, tours to Memphis, Sakkara, and the pyramids and Sphinx at Giza.

From there by train to Port Said to board our ship, the MERSEY LLOYD, an air-conditioned Dutch

freighter. Our first stop was Djibuti, French Somaliland: tropical, very colorful, with handsome natives of the Masai type. Then to Singapore where we had our first real look at the Far East. It was a combination of crazy taxi drivers, trishaws, delicious spicy Chinese odors and food, modern British stores alongside of native stands, and small streets alive with people in all kinds of native costumes—Chinese, Malayan, Javanese, Indian, Sikh, etc.

"At Manila, besides the usual touring and shopping, we enjoyed swimming at the Army and Navy Club and eating the delicious mangoes, pineapples, and other fresh fruits.

"Our first stop in Taiwan was Kaohsiung, where friends picked us up and took us to their home in Tainan. We had a lovely visit including shopping, a delicious Chinese dinner, a delightful drive through a valley fertile with rice paddies, sugar cane, tea plantations, tangerine orchards, etc.

Back to the ship and on up the coast to Keelung.

From there we drove 20 miles inland to Taipei, the capital, for sightseeing and shopping and a 30

visit to the famous and beautiful Grand Hotel built under the direction of Madam Chang Kai Chek.

It had beautiful parquet floors, ankle-deep Chinese carpets, salon after salon of exquisite furnishings and all of Taipei and the Keelung River at its feet (also the best Chinese food we have ever eaten). Now we are in Tokyo for a few weeks.

We love the shops, the food, the Ginza and are looking forward to tours to Nikko, Hakone, Kyoto, etc. Although all of our stewards were Chinese we never got the hang of the language but in Japan we have learned Arigato, A so, So desuka, Moshi Moshi, etc., so perhaps we will do a little better. From Japan we will return to Hong Kong early in December on another Dutch airconditioned freighter the STRAAT RIO. (Forgot to mention that we stopped there between Singapore and Manila and loved it.) We expect to be in Port Swettenham or Penang for Christmas. From there we go to Mozambique, visit Kruger National Park for a week for a good look at the animals and rejoin the ship at Capetown—to continue on to Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil and finally back to New York early in March.

"If Dotty did not learn Chinese she has filed away some delicious and different recipes for future use, including tempting Mongolian, Japanese, Dutch, French, Italian, Lebanese and other dishes to serve you with after we get our feet back on good old U.S.A. soil, decide where to live, and get our roots down like sensible people.

"So this is our saga. We are both well, and we are enjoying doing nothing except when and what we want to. Our best to all hands."

WEST COAST Word have been received that Harriett Bixby, widow of our classmate, Capt. Harry L. Bixby, USN (Ret.), died in San Diego on 19 Dec. Interment took place in Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery. A son, Cdr. Harry L. Bixby, Jr., USN '52, and two daughters, Helen Bixby and Mrs. Julie Duffett, survive.

Bob and Betty LEWIS hosted a very lovely and delicious cocktail party at the Casa de la Vista on Treasure Island on December 11th. The following twenty-oners were present: the John Ames, Abie Carlisles, George Cohans, Nick (Coulters, R. K. Davises, Jimmie Harrises, Lew Johns, Johnny McQueens, John Madden, G. C. Millers, Jim Reisingers, Piggie Schwiens, Frank Talbot, Anna Thayer, Tommy Thomases, George Van Deurs.

Piggie SCHWIEN writes: "After retirement in June 1950 Batie and I bought a home in Greenbrae, Marin County, just thirteen minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge. For seven months I labored with pick and shovel and with the aid of a good nurseryman I finally got the place landscaped and planted. In early February 1951 Jimmie Harris, our classmate from Georgia who resigned early in the game, prevailed upon me to help him with his newly organized industrial heating business—Heat & Control, Inc. Jimmie maintained that he was the 'heat' and that I was the 'control.' About a year later the other three members of the corporation joined us and we went into production building industrial, gas, oil and electric furnaces. In July of 1955 I decided that I wasn't getting any younger so I left the firm and started seeing America first. In August of 1959 we decided to branch out and went to Europe for a year's sojourn. When we returned in July of 1960 a neighbor of mine caught me with my guard down and for two years we manufactured the Jandy Automatic Swimming Pool Cleaner and other pool products. Having acquired enough quarters to qualify me for social security I retired for the third time on 31 Dec. 1962. Two months later I lost my Batie with the flu just prior to our 39th anniversary. Later Batie's sister Bess and I were married and I am now busily engaged in gardening, cooking, and house maintenance to the extent that I scarcely have time to adequately help the San Francisco Giants and the '49ers.

When the baseball and football seasons come to a close, the last bowl game has been played and the rains drive me indoors, I pick up my longneglected fiddle and enjoy Bach until March when Golden Gate Fields starts again."

After a long illness, Burt K. CULVER passed away in a hospital near his home at Palos Verdes Estates, Calif., on 7 Dec. He was buried with military honors in Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Bill Cone, Larry Grannis, Raleigh Hales, Gordy Parks and William Robertson; the latter was a colleague of Burt's at USC. After an outstanding WWII naval career and upon retirement, Burt spent ten years in the administration department of Southern Cal.

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

This has been a holiday season replete with sad news. From Southern California we received word of the loss of George FITZHUGH, Deac EVANS and Hayden PRICE. The last two suffered for several years from emphysema. Both funerals were well attended by classmates. Huffman, Murphy, Ragonnet, Rockey and Milo Williams were present at both. Additionally McVey and Whaley joined the above as pallbearers at the Price services, while Ben Goodman, Huber and Libby were present for the Evans funeral. By his own request there were no services for George Fitzhugh.

We have also learned of the death of Peg HYLANT, but at the last minute we had no details other than the fact he died suddenly at McDill Air Force Hospital, Tampa, Fla. Hope to have a proper obituary in the next issue of Shipmate.

Helen PEDERSEN advised that Pete is seriously ill. They have been sunning at Tidelands Motor Inn, Indialantic, Fla. At one time Pete was not expected to live through the night. Apparently he survived that crisis and we hope he'll recover in good shape. A note from his friends will surely help him in this grim battle.

Streuby L. Drumm '22, recently president of the West Penn Power Co., is the new business executive in residence at Tulane University. In 1961 he was cited as western Pennsylvania's outstanding industrialist of the year by the Society of Industrial Realtors and the same year was awarded the honor medal by the Freedoms Foundation for an address on free enterprise. A veteran of both World Wars, he is a retired captain in the Naval Reserve.

Happier news is contained in a note from Bill WARE, who writes of his engagement to Cynthia Sanborn Smith of Sewanee, Tenn., and New Orleans, La. A June wedding is planned, to be followed by a drive to the west coast. "The couple will reside in Woodstock, Va. Also in a happier vein is that note from Savvy Huffman: "Bert McVey, whose claims to fame include that he's the sole surviving eligible for the class silver and who occupies the family home in San Diego with his sister Margaret, hosted a very attractive party titled ' '22 Gathering' at the exclusive Cuyumaca Club on 8 Dec. Organized in 1887, the Cuyumaca is the oldest club of its kind S H I P M A T E

in California and is on the 24th floor (of 25) of the new U. S. National Bank Building.

"All classmates in the area were invited. The following were able and privileged to attend: the Tom Beatties, E. E. Coil, Virginia Clapp, die Roy Darrons, Savvy Huffmans, Dave Hardins, Ben Goodwins, Ruthven Libbys, Sally Murphy, the Dale Quartons, Lucien Ragonnet, die Fish Whaleys, Jeannette Wishard, the Marion Murphys, Vernon Hubers, Walter Rockeys, and Milo Williams (moved to Southern California from Tennessee in the last year). Absentees included: the Charlie Dodges, Hal Davises, Marion Hadley, the Bob Hunters, Austin Keeths, Alice Lewis, Ed Raines, Meridee Wallace, and the Duke Prices. Ironically, Duke didn't make McVey's kt party because he was ill. He called in his own regrets but nobody realized how ill he was until we learned of his death three days later."

Savvy adds: "I've been designated the Coronado Chapter, USNA Alumni Association's representative on a civic/community committee to arrange a suitable celebration to observe the 100th birthday of Adm. Richard Jackson, Class of 1887, next May 10."

New address: Capt. Milo R. Williams, USN (Ret.), 3729 Jewell St., Pacific Beach, Calif.

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On the brighter side Art AGETON, now in Rome, has sent in a recent bit of his writing on a Christmas card: REDEDICATION Eternal City's seven hills Look down where Caesars held their sway.

The Colosseum, Appian Way, In Forum, Brutus, had his say Of Empire in the Roman Day, Its beauties and its many ills.

Against the sky, St. Peter's domes.

The Christian martyrs' catacombs; As we look up the Spanish stairs, Above those hills, a sense, a feeling.

That saints on those old stones are kneeling To offer up lugubrious prayers For peace on earth, good will to men.

So let us make this prayer again: For peace within our time, oh Lord, According to Thy Holy Word, On earth, which is so sorely tried.

Good will to all the men who died For peace on earth, good will to men.

For this, we make our prayers again.

Sec'y and Recorder.

Capt. Charles Beaumont. USN (Ret.) 37 Maryland Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Our class is saddened by the loss of Helen Douw Richards, wife of RAdm. Alfred H. RICHARDS, USN (Ret.), and Nancy Ailing Wilson, wife of Capt. Balch B. WILSON, USN (Ret.). The class is profoundly affected and extends its deepest sympathy.

Mrs. Richards died in Oakland, Calif., on 18 Dec. Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Helen R. Hawthorne of Barrington, III., and Mrs. Harriet R. Witt of San Francisco, and a sister, Julia D. Holt of Chapel Hill, N. C. She was a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and for several years was associated with the Braille Division of the American Red Cross in Berkeley.

Private family services were held on 20 Dec, and friends were invited to attend memorial services in the Heian Gardens, Sunset View Cemetery, Berkeley, on 9 Jan. Services for Mrs. Wilson of 15 Franklin St., Annapolis, who died suddenly on 29 Dec. in Clearwater, Fla., were held in St. Andrew's Chapel of the Naval Academy on 3 Jan., with interment in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

She is survived by her husband and a son, LCdr. Gordon B. Wilson, USN; a daughter, Mrs. Dale Sappenfield of Los Alamos, N. M.; a sister, Mrs. Carlton Farrell of Clearwater; a brother, Robert B. Ailing, and four grandchildren.

The McCUTCHENs write in their always interesting letter a desire to see classmates and have them drop in at their pavilion in the garden of Villanova house No. 5 viale Romania, Roma, Italy. Since they have no phone, they suggest a telegram. Jean and I have stayed there; it is completely delightful.

Louie BRENDEL has shifted his home from Connecticut, and moved back to California, 34 years after leaving it for Connecticut. His new address is 16740 Obispo Lane, Rancho Bernardo, San Diego.

Mrs. Eleanor Ring, widow of VAdm. A. Stanhope RING, has been chosen to christen the amphibious transport ship, CORONADO. The 567-foot ship is being built in Seattie and will be launched 21 May. FEBRUARY,

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A. A. A. T. B. WHITE reports that he is still in harness and working full time, enjoying life. Be assured, T. B., when dope is available the '23 wardroom visiting schedule will be published. "See you sure in '68," says WHITE. The final luncheon of the Washington Chapter, 1965, was held on 8 Dec. at the Town Club, with 26 classmates present.

Late contributors to the class fund are Gyro SPERRY, Mel GROSVENOR, Willie HOFFHEINS, and Henry G. MORAN. The next issue will contain corrections to the new roster.

"Make it Great for '68."

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

We are very sorry to have to drop another name from our active roster, with the death of Doc SEAY, reported in the Last Call section of this issue. Doc was one of our few classmates whose active military service went back to WWI. A southern gentieman with more military training than most of us had prior to Annapolis, he was made a battalion commander in our regimental organization first class year. He was mostly occupied with the Log, in extracurricular activities, and also served well on the hop committee.

In connection with our sponsorship of the 24th Company in the Brigade of Midshipmen, in addition to contributing cash for adding to the furnishings of the 24th Company wardroom, we are presenting them with a 1924 class crest. It is one of the large bronze crests made up into a plaque mounted on a solid mahogany shield.

"You should see the mustache Hunter ROBINSON has attached to his 125-lb. total weight," was the comment of Bob Keyer as he wrote of attending the 22 Dec. class luncheon in Washington. Well, we hereby order the "Desert Healer" to produce, send in the photograph of the mustache and the 125 lbs., both of which are of interest.

Seems to us we hear more about overweight than lack of weight; and your contest editor wonders if we have here the basis of a new contest! Why

not? To all those who will mail in a picture of themselves taken in the past 10 years, in which they weighed 125 or less (oh, let's make it 135!) we will make a presentation of an unframed picture of the class of 1924 with their wives at the 40th (1964) reunion at Annapolis.

Yes, we do have a few unsold pictures of our 1964 reunion group. Roy HARTWIG sent them in to the secretary, along with the records, and really they have not sold well. Now, after we take care of the 135-pounders who write in, we may have a few of those pictures left. We think all classmates should have one, and those who did not get them at reunion time can apply to the secretary (address at head of the column). Send no money for the print, but you might include a few stamps to cover packing and mailing costs.

Going back to the Washington December luncheon, Jenks LONGFELLOW reports an attendance of 19, which is right good, considering it was so near the holiday: Bullis, Burroughs, Cunningham, Granbery, Hoffman, Johnson, Kalisch, Keyer, Kraft, Longfellow, Petersen, Robillard, Robinson, Sinclair, Swart, Tichenor, Van Steenbergh, Wilson and Wright. Of these it appears Bob and Herman travelled the most miles to attend.

The Christmas holiday seems to have had an adverse effect on 1924 attendance at the December luncheon of the N. A. Assn. of New York, where '24 had just one more than it takes for a hand of bridge. Fritz FURTH happened to be in town for a change, and he mentioned that he and Page intend to give up their New York apartment soon and utilize their Connecticut home the year around. Walt Graesser has been ailing somewhat, but he looks o.k. and can eat a good lunch; Clint Sayres came down all the way from Ridgefield for this meeting, and received apologies from Paul Siegrist and Jim Whalen for the poor turnout. The Sayres intend to devote a good deal of time to travel as they have in the past.

Reading over Bob Keyer's shoulder in the letter he had from Hap Goodall, we learn that in December the Goodalls had a 3-day visit at Houston from Louie ALLEN, wife Gertrude and her mother. You may remember that Hap and Louie were roommates, along with Hugh Lamberth and C. C. MacDonald. Well, we understand the Aliens were going back to California, where 2 of their married sons reside. Item: all of the Aliens' 3 sons have served in the Navy! Also, Hap mentions "Tom Huckins and family spent part of a day in Houston; he has a brother who lives here. According to Mike Kearns, Huck did not have time to visit on this occasion. I believe he has a sea-going yacht in Florida, and a home in Arizona or New Mexico." And, speaking of Mike (and Sara!) Kearns, did you know that Mike was in three N. A. classes in this order: 1923, 1925 and 1924.? Well, he bilged 1923, and they put him in 1925 for the cruise of that class, and then decided 1924 was the right place—and "they" were so right.

We are indebted to Bob SWART for continuing to get out floral tributes for our departed classmates, and he has also been called upon, with the help of others in the Washington group, to attend those coming to Washington for funeral services, or for interment of deceased in Arlington National Cemetery. Says Bob: "Somehow we have to get word to the class that in the event that remains are shipped into Arlington for burial it is essential to request car service for the family; honorary pallbearers and so forth, or at least let the local president know what the family desires are." We understand Bert Kalisch's term as Washington group president is maturing, but news of his successor is lacking at this writing.

Rep (L. I.) REPLOGLE in December completed an assignment in Washington as a public member of the 19th Foreign Selection Board. We hope to get a story on this experience of his, and meanwhile quote from a letter on his present 31

staws: "No, I am not retired from Replogle Globes, Inc., although it was sold to the Meredith Publishing Co. in 1959, and I have continued on as president. When I leave here I will probably go into some non-business activity."

We are very interested to learn that the son of the late Al Calvert, Mr. Allen F. Calvert, has subscribed to Shipmate in order to keep up with news of his father's classmates. That means we have a new reader of this column; and don't you think it would be a wonderful thing if several of you sent in anecdotes or recollections of Al for the benefit of his son, and all the rest of us!

Stock COLT continues active in his Navy Talent Scout work in the Pensacola area, and the program was helped by the Christmas leave appearances of midshipmen throughout the country.

Says Stock: "I noted with much interest that Midn. Edward H. Verdery, 2d class, brought the Annapolis Story to students in three junior high schools, one senior high school, and the boys enrolled in the Sea Cadet Program sponsored by the Pensacola Council of the Navy League."

Also from Florida (Warrington) we learn that the youngest daughter of Dot and Dale Harris, Lynne Brooke Townsend, is the houseguest of her parents for several weeks while her naval aviator husband, William J. Townsend '60, is serving in a Pacific carrier.

"Oh me, each year my forgettin' gets better," moans Weary WILKINS after overlooking an enclosure for an earlier letter in which he sent information on the passing of Doc Seay, and other news items. In November the Wilkins' daughter, Mimi Brown, presented them with their 13th grandchild. Mimi's husband is Lt. Randall R. Brown, USN '60, the son of Adm. and Mrs. C. R. (Cat) Brown (1921), and is now serving as weapons officer in the new Polaris sub KAMEHAMEHA, which was commissioned in December.

December 14 found Ellen and Weary flying out to Vallejo to see the new granddaughter and her parents, and also visit Ellen's mother and sisters in Davis and Oakland. Weary also mentioned a November visit at their Daytona Beach home from Squirrel Herrington, who told about his monastery living experiences and "also entertained us with his repertoire of slight-of-hand tricks."

Dave WIGHT starts the new year right with a little report from the Bay area: "We have one of the Leisure World communities in the East Bay section, at Walnut Creek. It occupies a beautiful valley which was the original home of Cap Dollar. 1924 is well represented there by Leila and Homer Wheeler and Irene and Monty Berthold.

Ashby Evans and Kura left in October for an extended tour of New Zealand. Kura, as lots of us know, is a New Zealand girl, and their meeting occurred on the 1925 cruise. They are enjoying pleasant summer weather and write enthusiastically of the wonderful New Zealand hospitality."

And from Woof HATCHER comes this plug for Monterey: "This is a wonderful area for retirees: wonderful climate, warm in winter, cool in summer, no smog (yet), full medical, PX, commissary facilities, no traffic (much), no crowds (much), etc. Pass the word to try it some time."

Woof reports meeting Jim Ricketts at a math convention, and says Sy Cutler has returned from his travels, while Jim Dancy has moved southward.

He also enclosed pictures of two of Hal ARMOR's carvings, one of which we reproduce herein.

From Bill COCHRAN: "I continue with my classes at the college 'til the end of January. Then I plan a couple of recruiting trips for the Arizona school, ending at Gainesville (U. of Florida); we'll continue on our own to Key Biscayne for a couple of weeks. Returning, we'll stop overnight with Weary and Ellen Wilkins at Daytona Beach. . . . We'll be back here the end of March and I'll have our second Public Forum, focusing on Asia this year, in April and May." The Vossellers carried out their planned business-vacation trip to the States between Thanks32

giving and Christmas, with stops in Washington, Florida, Georgia, California and New York, sailing from the latter port 23 Dec. Their California stops included a visit with Abe's son John (1953), LCdr. USN, at his first command.

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Wood carving by Howell Armor '24

We have managed to pick up a few news items from the Christmas cards. Katherine Mercer says, "Preston is improving, and the doctors feel it was just a matter of time." The Hursts always give a full report in their greeting, and say, "There were no far-away-places-with-strange-soundingnames on our calendar this year . . . four days at Palm Springs . . . this fall we painted the interior of the house—I'd rather make a transcontinental move than go thru living in the house again when the kitchen is painted." The Ashenhurst card went out the day Ash returned from hospitalization, so their greeting was an expression of thanksgiving, and "we stand about where we did at this time last year." Easley and Cowboy Cameron report "a nice trip through the Mother Lode Country of '49 fame. . . . Sam Bailey has come back to California for the winter. . . . Paul Graf is doing very well after his illness" Nellie May and John D. Hayes: "Sorry we were out of town for Homecoming, went to Texas." Jess and Tom Griffith: "How is jolly old retirement? I am sweating out my last year!" May and Ev Burroughs are planning a trip to Barbados and Granada this winter, and may stop in Florida en route. The Krafts: "Dottie has an arthritic knee, otherwise we're fine . . . had a visit from Marcia and John in October . . . planning to spend our Xmas this year as usual with Barbara and Ted. . . . Fred and Nancy presented us with a new grandson." Evelyn and Royal Stevens: "We keep in touch with things thru Shipmate; that's the best we can do." The Townsends: "Artie's second heart attack put a curb on our traveling . . . our permanent Florida address is 117 Shangri La, Largo, Fla. 33540, not far from Laynes and Ruhsenbergers." The Tom Moores say "Come to Lynchburg" (2224 Indian Hill Rd., Lynchburg 24503). New addresses: L. W. Day, 1169 AlA, Hillsboro Beach, Fla. 33062; A. J. Walsh, 101 N. Broadway, White Plains, N. Y. 10603.

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

We were shocked and distressed to hear from Fred SIMA of the sudden passing of his lovely wife Mildred. She passed away on 30 Oct., and was buried on 3 Nov. in Inglewood Cemetery, Calif. Although she had a coronary in 1962, she had an excellent recovery and had been able to resume their favorite sports of bowling and golf.

In 1963 Fred and Mildred had bought a mobile home near Palm Springs, where they spent their weekends and school holidays. Their plans had called for Fred to quit his job as a teacher in the Los Angeles school system at the end of January and move there permanently. The week before her death they spent in the desert playing golf and entertaining friends. Early the next Saturday morning she passed away.

Fred intends to carry out their plans, and after spending February with his son Fred Jr. and his family in Hawaii will move into his desert home: 125 Blue Skies Village, Cathedral City, Calif.

Both Vic LONG and Butch PARKER received letters from Jane Hord thanking the class for the floral tributes to Pete and expressing her gratimde to the classmates who served as honorary pallbearers. Vic also reports that Helen and Tiny SCHULTZ recovered sufficiently from their recent round-the-world cruise to travel southward from their Pebble Beach home to visit their son William, Jr., and his family in Lompoc, Calif., and then on to Coronado for a couple of days.

A Christmas note from Douglas (alias Sam) SIMPSON describes a year packed with interesting travels, but with enough time out for gardening that Grace could pick up three prizes for her irises in the local garden show, and Sam a first on an Ismene lilly, and a second on an African violet.

Butch and Betty PARKER drove down to Florida in mid-January to pick up their boat, which Butch had taken down earlier. While they are cruising in southern waters, Ann and Tommy TONSETH will be house-sitting in their Annapolis home. And this lovely home will probably be the scene of a class picnic in June. At the December luncheon, which was graced by our charming ladies, Butch made the sugestion that each family bring their own food and drink. Needless to say, his suggestion was quickly adopted.

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Sec'y. Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) J410 15th St., North, Arlington 1, Va. Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedbere. Ill, USN (Ret.), 8405 Bnrdette Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

Jack FRADD and Frosty have left New Jersey, for good they say, and are now pretty well established in a new home at 3164 Overbrook Drive, St. Lucie Country Club, Port St. Lucie, Fla. 33450.

They moved down there in May, 1965, and at year's end were one of 47 families in a new area described by Jack as "in the wilds: alligators, armadillos and no R.F.D." Further, he says, "What a new and wonderful life! And busy!—in a leisurely sort of way. Bit by bit we are getting setded but there is no rush. After all, why concentrate on mundane projects when one can golf and fish in one's back yard, garden, or just sit and look at the beautiful clouds." Jack is taking the Power Squadron course so that he can qualify for membership and a new boat is his next project.

The SMEDBERGs managed to stay away from Florida and their beloved "Secure," two miles south of the village of Crystal River, for almost 10 months, but drove down from Washington shordy S H I P M A T E

after Christmas and will be golfing, fishing, swimming and gardening in Florida's sunny (we hope) clime until 24 Jan., when they will be sufficiently rested, refreshed, refurbished, renovated, regenerated, rehabilitated, rejuvenated, repaired, relieved, relaxed, reposed, reprieved, renewed, restored, recharged and re-invigorated to face the remainder of Washington's winter.

Bob and Bobbie PIRIE are finally resettled, after their brief experience in settling a house in Florida.

The peregrinating Piries are taking no chances on only one location but have sought and moved into a house at 4402 Ocean Front, Virginia Beach, where they can be found most weekends, and have just completed moving into an apartment in the new Horizon House, at 1300 Army-Navy Drive, Arlington, where Bob can usually be found at night during his working week with Aero-Jet General in Washington.

Etheridge "Jim" GRANT is now spending most of his time outdoors, working in his orange orchard in Ojai, Calif. He has about 500 trees on their five-acre place, which keeps him "fit, healthy, busy and out of trouble." He and Marcia get away for about six weeks each spring and fall to their house in the San Francisco Bay area at Belvedere, right on the water, across the Golden Gate Bridge, and looking right across to San Francisco. Jim says that he started his orange growing venmre without any knowledge about it but that it has turned out to be a happy arrangement, with the help of the county farm advisor and an old orange-growing neighbor. He occasionally goes to Santa Barbara, about an hour away from Ojai, but—like most of the rest of his aging classmates—enjoys not having to participate continuously in the strenuous social life of the big city.

The deadline for this February Shipmate arrived while the corresponding secretary was in Crystal River, Fla., where class news is practically nonexistent. Hence, the shorter than usual 1926 column.

This would appear to be the opportunity to offer some suggestions and give information concerning our class widows and our 40th reunion.

As has been the class custom at past reunions, our widows are our guests when they attend. However, it is most difficult for a widow to come to the reunion alone; she should be sponsored and invited by one of us who is planning on being at the Academy for the 20-22 May period. Jack GREENSLADE, in his customary, conscientious, thorough way, has compiled two lists of classmates' widows: one, those with whom we have been able to maintain contact and who are still unmarried; the other, those who have remarried or from whom we have been unable to elicit a reply. At least one of those who has remarried is so imbued with the spirit of '26 that she is gradually bringing her husband into an honorary associate membership status by their attendance at our class functions; something appreciated and welcomed by the rest of us. Addresses for the following widows, with whom our class organization has been able to maintain contact, may be obtained by writing to either RAdm. John F. GREENSLADE, USN (Ret.), 5020 Millwood Lane, N.W., Washington, D. C , or to VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, III, USN (Ret.), 8405 Burdette Road, Bethesda, Md. 20034: Kay Abele, Kirby Baker, Ann Ballman, Kitty Boaz, Cecil Burnside, Josephine Carpenter, Doris Clement, Dixie Corbin, Ann Grosser, Mary Virginia Curran, Adelia Dickey, Sparky Ebert, Edith Farrow, Hilda Gilmore, Blanche Gladding, Thorah Greene, Mary Grover, Dorothy Gunther, Dorothy Holt, Libby Hutchins Parmalee, Catherine Hutchinson, Ruth Jackson, Irene LaForce, Sara LeHardy,* Grace Lentz, Jeanne Long, Ethel Martin, Laura McClelland, Helene McDill, Mattie McMillan, Katherine Moore,* Sue Meyers, Anabele O'Daniel, Ella Prime,* Mildred Redfield France,* Margaret Rippey,* Anna Sarsfield, Eve Shane,* Marjorie Shane, Katherine Smith,* Alice Stanford, Lucretia F E B R U A R Y ,

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Taylor, Kathryn Thomas, Esther Tobelman, Irene Weaver,* and "Lefty" Willingham. (Those followed by an "*" live within 200 miles of Annapolis.)

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

H. D. "Sparky" SCRYMGEOUR has remarried and writes from Smyrna, Ga., that he and Phyllis will be at the reunion in May.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Howard C. Adams, USNR Pacific Far East Line, Inc., 918 16th St., N.W., Washington 6, D. C. Corr.: RAdm. Howard W. Gordon, Jr., USN (Ret.). 3127 N. 18th St., Arlington, Virginia 22201

Jack DALTON, secretary of the San Diego group, reports: "A party honoring Walter and Claire PRICE was given in the Henderson Room at the Officers' Club, MCRD, San Diego, on 3 Dec, by the following members of the class of '27: Arthur and Muriel Anders, Cecil and Jane Caufield, C. C. and Bobby Coffin, Jack and Olive Dalton, M. L. and Sally Dawson, Tom and Peg Dykers, George and Tekla Heath, Harry and Madeline Hummer, Walton and Mrs. Hinds, Don Johnson, Ken and Leila Keepers, George and Natalie Knuepfer, Tommie and Kalene Massie, F. W. and Barbara McCann, W. T. and Ann McGarry, Doc and Harriet McKechnie, J. D. and Mims McKinney, R. J. and Mary Moore, Toby and Ben Alice Munn, Henry and Gladys Paige, Charlie and Sally Parker, Joel and Adeline Parks, H. W. and Mrs. Taylor, George and Jane Willcox, Claude and Thelma Weigle and Heine and Georgia Zemmer. Mrs. I. I. Yates, Claire's mother, and widows Loveland and Judson were guests. The Prices have a home in Coronado and after Walter's retirement their address is 1121 "G" Avenue."

Art BORN, a visiting fireman from Collins Radio Corp., in Dallas, Tex., joined the Washington luncheon on 16 Dec. Others were Saunders, Miles, McCoy, Caswell, Klakering, Virden, Myers, Fairlamb, Phillips, Lange, Gordon, Shands, and Gambi.

Snowy HANSEN checks in from Philadelphia: "1965 has been a rewarding year for the Hansens!

Elizabeth and I went to Denmark in August in search of my Danish relatives. We were able to locate three first cousins—one living in the Hansen family homeplace which is over 250 years old and deeded to my great grandfather by the Reventlow family. We were unable to locate any of my mother's family but plan to go back again in July of this year.

"My son Joe is now a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps after graduating from the Academy in June 1965. On 18 Dec. he was married to Vicki Mauldin, the daughter of Cdr. and Mrs. Victor S. Mauldin, in Norfolk, Va. I was the best man for Joe. Vicki's father is a graduate of the class of 1941.

"Dale, her husband and two young boys spent Christmas with us in Philadelphia. I am still enjoying my volunteer work with the Philadelphia Association for Youth and the Boy Scouts."

RAdm. Howard A. Yeager, Commandant of the Ninth Naval District, has been named one of the top ten dignitaries in the State of Illinois by the Illinois Club for Catholic Women.

A native of Salina, Kan., he was among those honored at a charity benefit on 29 Oct. at the South Shore Country Club for his "brilliant and outstanding achievement and patriotic service in the U. S. Navy."

A veteran of more than 42 years of naval service, he commands the nation's largest Naval District which encompasses 13 midwest states.

For the past 12 years the club has sponsored the listing of the top ten dignitaries in conjunction with its charity benefit aimed at giving aid to needy victims of tuberculosis.

'28 roommates and their wives. Ralph and Virginia James, and Kay and A. M. "Mac" Leary. The picture was taken at the learys' home at Shreveport. La., where Mac is a prominent member of the community and an investment broker.

Announcement has just been received of the marriage of Cynthia Harts Banister, widow of A. B. Banister, and Mr. Leonard J. Raymond, in York Harbor, Me., on 27 Nov. The friends of Cynthia, a dedicated supporter of '28ers, wish them the greatest happiness for the future.

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Sec'y, Capt. L. E. Richardson, USN (Ret.) 3605 Tupelo Place, Alexandria, Va.

I want to share the following letter from Jerry O'DONNELL, Superintendent of the PG School at Monterey, with all members of the class: "We had an excellent get-together at Monterey over the Army-Navy game weekend. Attendees were Kathryn Walker (Phil's widow), Dick Ballinger, the Cy Johnsons, Ashfords, Bairds, Duborgs, T. W. Davisons, Franks, Jim Foleys, Hezleps, Kuhns, Lynches, McCauleys, Rodimons, St. Angelos, Stones, Strongs, Welshs, Al Whites.

"Because of an intersessional situation in one of our courses it was possible to put up all hands at the School which made things rather convenient.

Everyone arrived Friday afternoon; we had cocktails and dinner at the Open Mess here at the Postgraduate School. On Saturday we had a picture taken about ten o'clock in front of our quarters in which I notice that the Otto Kuhns are missing.

However, they showed up shortly after and were there for the kick-off of the game. After the game we had lunch at the quarters. About half of the group stayed over Saturday night and we had a very good informal session in the Open Mess at which some of our leading dancers showed their skill. I think all hands had a very good time and it is good to report that all looked happy and fit which the accompanying photograph attests to.

"In the course of preparation for the get-together I learned that Mike Coffin was having some fairly serious sessions with the medicos. I stopped in to see Helen and him at their home in Coronado early in November and Mike's giving them a good fight.

"I also had a note from Eleanor Wilson which indicated that T. P. had been having a go with the medicos also but is now on the mend.

"The Pete Folgers had accepted for the class gettogether but were flooded out from their home in 33

Riverside during the recent extremely heavy rains in southern California.

"The Joe Berkleys had to withdraw at the last minute because both of them were down with a virus.

"Al and Lisa Loomis were also held up at the last minute.

"Savvy and Mary Baird stayed with us Sunday night so that Savvy could inspect our new AeroPropulsion Laboratory on Monday morning. I am happy to report that Savvy gave our new research activity his warm blessing.

"Also, out of this I think that I am able to send back some corrections for your directory.

"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year."

From Cal LANING: "Art STILES is getting around. Says he saw Chet Ely in January in Chicago. Also Meeker last summer (where?)!! He also saw Will Brewster, who has had a heart pacer installed which has done him a lot of good.

"Bob Heinlein has at last given up his bomb shelter in Colorado Springs. In 1946, after a survey of the whole country, he picked the Springs as the least likely place to become an A-borab target. Shordy thereafter, the North American Air Defense Command came to the same conclusion. It was really Ginny's poor health that has caused them to seek a more favorable clime."

Natalie Savage Carlson, wife of Adm. Daniel Carlson, USN (Ret.), has achieved considerable fame as an author of children's books, her most recent book having been The Empty Schoolhouse (Harper & Row, 1965), which was chosen by the Neiv York Times as one of the 14 best children's books of 1965.

She is now the United States candidate for the 1966 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, an international honor for authors of children's books which is given every two years to a living author for his or her complete works.

Mrs. Carlson is also author of the following prize-winning children's books: The Talking Cat, Carnival in Paris, Jean Claude's Island, the Orpheline series. The Family Under The Bridge, Hortense, the Cow for a Queen, Wings Against the Wind, and Alphonse, That Bearded One. Many of her stories have been set against foreign backgrounds.

Dan is, naturally, as are we all, very proud of his wife's achievements and wishes to share her good news with our friends and classmates. He also writes that "Natalie and I see very little of '29ers since we are alone in Newport. Those of our classmates still on active duty are no longer

in the area. Paul and Cornelia Foley visit with us when in Newport, their last call being in September which we enjoyed very much.

"We shall miss our grandchildren this Christmas since Stephanie is in California and her husband, Maj. R. D. Sullivan, USA, is on Johnston Island.

He returns to Washington, D. C , for duty in February so we shall have them close by once again soon. Julie has her Master's in education with serious considerations towards a Doctorate in the same field.

"Construction has started on a bridge from Jamestown to Newport to be completed in 1968.

The ferry still runs so come up and pay us a call—don't wait for the bridge. Goat Island (Old Torpedo Station) is now owned by the City of Newport and a causeway now connects it to the city. Before too long it will become a yachting center with marinas, hotels, etc.

"That's the news from Newport and Natalie joins me in wishing a Merry Christmas to you and to all."

Sec'y, BGen. Ronald D. Salmon, USMC (Ret.), 640 Oakland Ter., Alexandria, Va. Corr Sec'y, RAdm. Parke H. Brady, USN (Ret.), 1801 Fozhall Rd., Wash. 7, D. C. The Kosco family

The following letter was received from the Kosco family: "What greater joy could be ours than to be together during the Christmas season! Thanksgiving, too, had a special meaning, our first as a fullfamily gathering in nine years. Our gratitude and thanks to God for health and prosperity, and especially that our Bill is home from Vietnam. Proud we are of Captain Bill who wears the Air Medal, Combat Infantryman's Badge, and the Bronze Star.

He is now at the University of Illinois to commence work on his Master's degree in civil engineering.

"Kathy and Jim Farrell continue to be happy and are succeeding in their respective jobs. Jim is now chief industrial engineer for the Eastern Division of Sealtest.

"Ann's interests are ice skating—she won a bronze medal last season. Children's Theatre and clarinet. We are all weathering the embryo state of the clarinet with a good sense of humor.

"Bernie still keeps busy with welfare, church and school projects. A bit of swimming, ice skating and bowling add spice to life.

"George has attained national recognition. A glacier in the Antarctic has been named the Kosco

Glacier by the U. S. Board of Geographic Names of the National Science Foundation. This came as a surprise and delight as he has always worried about running out of ice.

"Our summer was a busy and an enjoyable one.

George, Bernie and Ann made an 8500-mile circle tour of the United States. Ann was an eager voyager. She kept our log and helped map our daily route. Her dream of seeing Mt. Rushmore in South Dakota materialized. We then took her to Yellowstone Park, the Grand Tetons, the Golden Gate, Disneyland, Yosemite Park, the Grand Canyon and the Air Force Academy.

She also saw the night life of Reno (from the outside looking in) and swam in the Great Salt Lake. We were gone a month and experienced good fortune throughout. Our stops to see relatives and friends were the highlights of the trip, and we are grateful for their hospitality and warm reception.

"With Bill home, our thoughts turn to other friends and relatives fighting for freedom in Vietnam. We pray for their success and safe return.

"A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year."

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WASHINGTON CONTINGENT At a luncheon meeting of the Washington contingent on 16 Dec. a new class committee for the Washington area was elected. Denny Knolls b chairman, and Pete Brady and Rollo Adams are committeemen.

The committee was immediately given the responsibility of establishing and maintaining liaison with the 30th Company, USNA. The class group voted to sponsor this company and to endeavor to raise the sum of $500 to outfit the company wardroom. In so doing, the class becomes the first class to sponsor a Naval Academy Company and has been cited by the Superintendent for its initiative and interest in the Academy.

The following classmates were present at the meeting: Adams, Brady, Brook, Caillouet, Craighill, Grantham, Hall, Horn, Jackson, Knoll, Lucker, McCullough, Maynard, Miller, Nelson, Salmon, Simons, Smith, Snead, Weller, Williams, Yokes, Wadsworth and Wagner.

Your class secretary regrets very much this most interesting item from one of our old buddies has not been published.

"Dear Pete: The new World Who's Who in Commerce and Industry for 1966-67 lists at least two of the class of '30. Maybe there are others but it would be a task to determine who, unless classmates would like to share the honor with the class by writing in.

"Upon reading Veldon O. Long's biographical sketch I can readily see why he was included in the book. It flattered me to know that I was included but it is difficult to conceive why, unless it is because we introduced old fashioned chocolate, lemon and coconut meringue pies to the frozen field, and that we have continued for years making better than homemade frozen pies. Sincerely, W. A. ILLING." The following fabulous contribution was received from Louise Lynch. Your corresponding secretary has truly been put to shame.

O. D. T. Lynch and Louise would like to report that their son Oliver DeMouy Thomas Lynch, Jr., was married on 29 Dec. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Coronado, to Miss Marilyn Lloyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lloyd of Coronado.

A reception followed in the Neptune Room of the Officers' Club, North Island. The bride attended school in Germany, Coronado, and Mesa College under the dental assistant program with

an associate of arts degree. Young Lynch received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees (physics) at San Diego State College, and is employed by the Atomic Energy Commission in Las Vegas, Nev., where they will make their home. Jim Larson, son of Swede and Dagmar, was one of the ushers.

Bunny and Jay Bowen went back to see John and to attend the reunion, which they told us about at a party on 17 Dec. Frank and Julie Luongo just returned from an extended trip to Europe. They bought a foreign car and did the country right.

The class had a get-together at the 32nd St. Officers' Club in San Diego, and a good crowd attended, among them Soupy and Dotty Campbell.

Dotty looked like a living doll, weighing in at a very littie over 100 pounds. Soupy, evidendy not to be outdone by his wife, had lost quite a bit, too.

Evelyn and Harvey Burden are back from welcoming little Harvey's new baby. Evelyn is about the most beautiful grandmother we've ever known.

Estelle and Berney Feutsch recendy celebrated their 25 th wedding anniversary with a beautiful party. Estelle's dress was the envy of all the gals, all sequins.

Roy and Ellie Newton were looking fit from a trip to Honolulu, where they visited Buzzy and his wife and children.

That ever-youthful couple, Roscoe and Billie Newman, have spent quite a while in Honolulu and San Francisco, but Coronado still claims them.

Willie and Betsy Willbourne entertained a large group of us in their home for the Army-Navy game. Fred and Else Bradman came down as their guests.

Helen and Bill Lowrey have bought a lodge and quite a lot of acreage at Campo, where they plan to hunt, etc., etc.

Kay Hindrelet, Bert's widow, has bought a home in Mission Hills and is anticipating fixing it up, with offers of help from all sides. A sad note, Kay's mother, Mrs. Folsum, died in October, as did DeMouy's mother and General Bradman, Fred's father.

Herschel and Anita House gave a wonderful party at the Cuyumaca Club for Admiral Sharp.

Anita is as glamorous as ever.

The Coronado class wives get together once a month for sherry and a no-host luncheon. We are

often joined by Bea Allen, from Rancho Santa Fe, Trudie Price and Simone Daley from La Jolla, and Evelyn Burden, Dorothy Wolverton and Kay Hindrelet from San Diego, who are regulars.

Mary and Moon Chappie have a beautiful new home on the Bay with a panoramic view of the whole harbor. Their son Jack is a rookie for the '49ers, of which they are justifiably proud.

Madelaine McLeod has had a long siege in the Naval Hospital, but is home now. We are all hoping she will return soon to the class of '30's social life.

Mary Alice Hahn enjoyed a trip to Spain and Morocco, and is now back with us again, and Stewie Moreno has just come back from a trip to Honolulu.

Had a call from the airport from Nova Dornin who was on her way to welcome a new grandchild. She promises they will return and make their home in the San Diego area.

Had a note from George T. McCready telling us about their trip to Japan. They planned to join the 35th class reunion, and then on to England, but unfortunately Vera broke her arm on the return trip and had to fly home. Mac was left aboard ship with the luggage and loot. They met again three weeks later at Oak Knoll. So they cancelled the trip east. Maybe next spring.

Dave Stretch was named chairman of the executive committee of Texas Industries, Inc., and has joined the company at its Arlington, Tex., headquarters on a full-time basis. He was one of the founders of the company in 1950, and has been a director since that date except for a brief period.

Since 1956 Dave has been with Atlas Corp., New York, serving variously as executive vice president, president and president-chief executive officer. He also is a director of Northeast Airlines, Inc. Earlier he was a member of the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bardett in New York, and an associate in Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall & Hunt in Boston. He was graduated from the Harvard Law School and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1934 and the New York bar in 1935. Your correspondent refrains from mentioning any other bars!

At a family dinner on 26 Dec, Mrs. Farley Fane Ullrich Coates of Alexandria, Va., announced the engagement of her daughter, Patricia Fane, to Thomas Lea Poe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Allen Poe, Sr., of Arlington, Va. She is also the daughter of RAdm. Leonidas Dixon Coates, USN (Ret.), who is with Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Studio City, Calif.

Miss Coates was graduated from Mount Vernon Seminary in Washington, D. C , and attended the University of South Carolina and the University of California at San Jose. She is the granddaughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. Russell William Ullrich of Mount Clemens, Mich.

Mr. Poe attended the Capital Page School, and was graduated from Bullis Preparatory School and attended the University of Virginia where he was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He is associated with the Virginia Land Company.

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Class of 1930 Memorial Window in St. Andrew's Chapel.

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Pres.. Adm. Alfred G. Ward, USN U. S. Rep. to Standing Group, NATO Rm. 2E330, The Pentagon Washington, D. C. 20310

HERE AND THERE WITH '32 Dick ADAMS, a most active rear admiral in the Naval Reserve as special deputy to ComTwelve, notes a recent appearance of Bob WEEKS in California's Bay area. Bob, Director of Naval Communications, was there to present the Walter S. Gifford trophy to the winning Naval Reserve Security Group, scoring highest in competition with 100 other divisions across the nation. This year's winner was USNR Security Group 12-4 35

of San Mateo. Preceding ceremonies at the College of San Mateo, Dick and Bob exchanged notes during the cocktail and dinner party held at Moffett Field Officers' Club.

Chmn, Mr. Turner A. Duncan AVCO Corp., 1701 K St.. N.W. Washington 6, D. C. Corr. Sec'y. Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. 21402 As noted in the obituary column, Phil SHERMAN died of melanoma on New Year's day.

Charlie Travis and Jimmy Dietz represented the class at the funeral which was held in St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Richmond on the 3rd of January. Burial was in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. All classmates will join in extending deepest sympathy to Phil's widow, Helen.

A note from Jimmy Dietz advises that he is now a member of the Norfolk contingent of the class, having relieved Tom Long as Commanding Officer of the Naval Supply Clenter there.

The secretary has learned from the Chairman of the Alumni Association Nominating Committee that Bob Barnum has been nominated for the position of Eastern Area vice president. There is no question that Bob would be great in the assignment and would reflect vast credit on the class, if elected. All that remains to be done is for the class to get behind this nomination, talk it up, and be certain to send in their votes.

At the next meeting of the Washington Group of the class it is planned to discuss Draper Kauffman's suggestion, as Superintendent of the Naval Academy, that each alumni class sponsor a wardroom for the corresponding numbered company of the Brigade. This subject was outlined on page 36 of the November issue of Shipmate, and noted that it would call for an initial investment of between two hundred and five hundred dollars with yearly support in the one hundred dollar to two hundred dollar range. Most classmates who have been contacted locally have indicated an interest in the project and a belief that it would not be beyond our financial means. There will be more on this subject in future issues of Shipmate.

The secretary would like to acknowledge with sincere appreciation Christmas cards or notes received from Everett and Elfrieda Seagroves, Graysie Schwab, Ed and Maudie Fredericks, and Ben Dodson.

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Island, also visited Nassau for 3 days. We were on our way home two weeks before hurricane Betsy. Our plans for next year are beginning to jell. Van's nephew graduates from the Naval Academy. We plan to fly back for June Week and then spend 3 weeks traveling from Williamsburg to Maine. We hope to study first hand as much of our early American history as we can." From "Maryview," Hanover, Pa., where the welcome mat is always out: "Wedding bells were ringing for the KLUNK family during the past year. On 7 Aug. at the Holy Trinity CDhapel, West Point, Miss Clare Dvoranchik of Kearny, N. J., became the bride of our Dan—so we gain a real charming girl into the clan. Dan was promoted to first lieutenant and the happy couple now reside at Fort Campbell, Ky. Son Dave was welcomed home after his three-year tour in Europe. He is now Captain Klunk and stationed at Fort Ritchie, Md.—a 30minute drive from 'Maryview.' Peggy and Dick are still teaching school and enjoying it." The Charlie STEPHAN family: "Charlie is working hard but loves the academic life. He travels a lot and sees many old friends. Just elected president of Kiwanis Club. Eleanor has joined all the local activities and plays lots of bridge. They both like Florida. Hope you all will vacation here. All the Browns (Yvonne) are well and happy. They visited us last summer, we will go north for Christmas with them. Joan and Ned Cathcart are enjoying life in Spartanburg, S. C , in a new home. Spent Thanksgiving with them. Skipper (Charles, Jr.) and Lynn were married right after Skip's graduation from the Naval Academy in June; Lynn was a lovely bride. Skip is now on board USS HALSEY in San Diego. Bob is working hard at St. Andrew's School, in the school singing group and studying guitar. Future plans unknown."

Sec'y, Capt. E. D. Vestel, Jr., (SC) USN, Staff, Com MSTS Washington, D.C. 20390 In Coronado, Charley and Mary Jo HARRIS had some of the gang over to watch the ArmyNavy game on TV. Shown in the accompanying photo are Vivian Ramey, Bea Sharrocks, Katie Baum, Mary Jo Harris and Betty Baker. In case you don't recognize the males, they are (middle row) Ralph Baum, George Towne Baker, and Joe Bettens; (top row) Spurge Sharrocks, Dick Burns and Charley Harris. Bruce and Irene Ross arrived after our photographer, reporter and correspondent, Anne Bettens, had run out of film.

Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

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Bill and Bea THOMPSON live on St. Simons Island, largest of the semi-tropical Sea Islands extending along the Georgia coast from the Florida border to St. Catherine's Sound. The Thompson home is named West Point (that's right!) and it's built on a 164-year-old wooded plantation, Black Banks.

Bob KELLY'S job title is Manager, Market Analysis, Sales and Requirements, Martin Co. His office is at Friendship International Airport between Baltimore and Washington. He commutes there from his Severna Park home.

Charlie LYNDON tells us that as Commander of the Reserve Training Command he has a real traveling job with 452 facilities in 49 of the 50 states to be visited. Charlie and Winnie would like to hear from any friends who plan on passing through Omaha.

Red McQUILKIN has left New York and is once again on the west coast. On 7 Jan. Red became commander of the San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard—a combination of Hunter's Point and Mare Island. Red's quarters are at Mare Island but he has an office at both locations. Consequently, a lot of commuting between Vallejo and South San Francisco is required.

Another EDO rear admiral on a commuter kick is Pete PETROVIC. Pete relieved Red as commander of the New York Naval Shipyard but kept his old job in BuShips. As a result Pete is helping Eastern Air Lines achieve record earnings by frequent shuttles between New York and Washington. Trudie is keeping the home fires burning in the Petrovic Fairfax County, Va., home.

Lib WARD says Bub was able to get home for a visit from Saigon on 20 Nov. After Pentagon conferences he had 10 days leave. This enabled him to be in Valparaiso, Ind., for # 3 son Bill's wedding. Bill is a fireman aboard USS SEA ROBIN, based at New London. He was married to Miss Mary Catherine Lasko. Like his Dad, Bill is a proud wearer of submarine dolphins. After the wedding. Lib flew to San Diego with Bub. They were there five days before he had to return to Vietnam. The Wards saw Johnny HACK, Skip SELLERS and several other classmates in Coronado. Cy and Sally AUSTIN met them at the Los Angeles Airport. Lib is back in Annapolis waiting for Bub.

Classmates will regret to find the passing of Bill CHURCH recorded in the Last Call of this issue. The class, of course, sent a floral tribute and classmates in the Washington group were in attendance at the Annapolis services for Bill.

Your reporter must resort to excerpts from Christmas messages to provide a column for this issue. The Van BUSKIRKS from the land of cactus and sunshine: "Barbara is in her senior year in high school, and very active in senior scouting. The first 4 weeks of her summer vacation were spent in camp at Colorado Springs. The University of Northern Arizona will probably be her college choice next year. Scouting, church.

Bank Wives Club, etc., have kept Louise on the go, but her greatest accomplishment has been getting Van and Barbara off on time for their daily doings. For Van, the year started out with a bang as he was made a trust officer (assistant V. P.) at the Valley National Bank. Last winter the weekends frequendy found Van and Barbara on the ski slopes in northern Arizona. He is having a ball, but we hope he doesn't graduate from the 'Bunnyslope.' In August we spent 3 wonderful weeks at West End, on Grand Bahama

tion a few. The Clarks have two children, Janie and Bill. Both are married. Janie lives in New York and has two children of her own. Young Bill is a senior at the U. of Kentucky and the father of a baby boy. Bill's office is in the General Motors BIdg. in Detroit. He would enjoy talking with any Navy friends who might be in or near Detroit.

The Navy Mutual Aid Society has never been in better hands. Twenty per cent of the directors are from the class of '35. Jack FEE, Hersch GOLDBERG and Ace HUSBAND occupy three of the 15 board seats.

Emmett RIERA has forsaken those bears in Kodiak for more sunny climes. He has been ordered as Commander, Fleet Air Mediterranean.

Jason MAURER has left the Persian Gulf, where he commanded the Navy Mid-East Force, and relieved Gene FLUCKEY as ComSubPac. Gene returns to Washington as Director of Naval Intelligence.

'35 in Coronado

Bill CLARK, whose long, high spiral punts were something to behold when we were all a litde younger, heads Chevrolet's Metropolitan City Dealer Development Program in the western half of the U. S. Bill resigned about three weeks after graduation and, except for 46 months of active duty during World War II, has been with Chevrolet ever since. He has worked in many places including Minneapolis, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Harrisburg, Pensacola and Detroit—to men-

Bill POWERS is an Albuquerque attorney, as well as a New Mexico registered professional engineer and land surveyor. After resigning from the USNA in February '34, Bill entered the U. of Illinois. He was graduated from there in '36 with a BS in civil engineering. In December '41 he came on active duty in the CEC. He served in various public works billets for the next 20 years, including several tours with the SeaBees.

Upon his retirement in '62, Bill enrolled in the U. of New Mexico law school. He was graduated with an LL.B. in '65. Despite his years away from the books, he managed to stand 5th in SHIPMATE

Eight '35 Supply Corps officers are shown at Em Stanley's retirement ceremony on 30 Dec. in Washington.

Seated are Hersch Goldberg, Em, Joe Lyie and Steve Sherwood. Standing are Virge Vestel, Bill Hyland, Lou Detweiler and Johnny Cline.

the graduating class. He made the honor roll 3 of the 6 semesters and the dean's list the final semester. He was one of four selected to the board of editors of the Latv School Journal during his final year. Three of his papers were published. He passed the state bar examination in August and opened his law office on 1 Sept. Bill says he and his wife Lorraine have really taken to life in New Mexico.

George CAIRNES is teaching math at Eau Gallie, Fla., High School. George and Carolyn's home is at Satellite Beach on a stretch of water connecting with one of the finest and safest landlocked harbors on the Atlantic Coast. They are both enjoying the sunshine, sailing, flowers and benefits afforded by nearby Patrick Air Force Base.

Art and Ruth TARANTINO became members of the grandparents club on 17 Dec. when 8 lb.

2 oz. David Arthur Tarantino, Jr., greeted this world at the Naval Hospital, Guantanamo Bay. Parents are Ens. David A. Tarantino, attached to NAS Guantanamo, and his wife, the former Eileen Moran.

Ten days later Wyman and Margaret PACKARD celebrated the arrival of their 3rd grandchild.

Their daughter Sara gave birth to a son at the Ft. Ord Army Hospital. Sara's husband, Lt. David L. Mares, USN '60, is taking engineering PG at Monterey. Wyman is doing a little research on Navy historical subjects with the idea of writing in the future. He has also been hired on a consultant basis by Airtronics, Inc., in Bethesda, Md. By the time this appears in print the Packards hope to be taking a vacation trip through California.

They plan to see numerous classmates already there.

In San Diego Pat STIESBERG and Tajie BAUM are convalescing from operations performed at the Balboa Naval Hospital the day before Christmas.

Tajie was hurt in a freak sledding accident. Joe, Anne and Warren BETTENS spent 10 days skiing at Big Bear Mountain during the Christmas holidays. Bruce ROSS is embarking upon an insurance career in the San Diego area. George Towne BAKER's business address is Richardson Yacht Anchorage, Balboa Island, Calif.

Sam and Jean LOOMIS are comfortably situated in Aurora, 111. Sam is with a wholesale firm dealing in mill supplies, refrigeration and heating equipment, plumbing materials, etc. Jean is enjoying their home and is anxiously awaiting the arrival of spring so she can get out the garden tools and plant flowers. Their daughter Nancy Ann is a 19-year-old sophomore at Aurora College.

Son Jim, also 19, is an airman 2/c stationed at Offutt Air Force Base.

From Mill Valley, Calif., Doug RHYMES reports that he and Betsy are postponing a decision on where they will live until his 2nd career firms up a bit more. In early December National Executive Search was attempting to help him locate a suitable job. Doug added that Frank HESS works for the California State Highway Department in Oakland, that he sees Tom HENRY in San Francisco occasionally, but so far hasn't run across Stan RUEHLOW, reported to be in Oakland, too.

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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 If Ramar, our Siamese, will just get off the keyboard, we might get along with beating the deadline and sharing with you some of the news gleaned once more from the many Christmas cards received from far and wide. Shoo Boy! Git! From Peggy and Marvin CLAYTON, whose Cleveland, Ohio, address we recendy uncovered for Frank's new '36 directory, comes word that Marvin is with NASA as Head, Plans & Operations on the Centaur Program at the Lewis Research Center. They have two sons, the older, Lt. Courtland Clayton, is in Vietnam with the 79th Transportation Co.; the younger, still in high school.

Enclosed in the card was a 14 Nov. clipping from the Cleveland Plain Dealer headlined: YANK'S REQUEST STIRS YULE SPIRIT AT SEARS STORE. The Yank is Cordand. He wrote his dad a simple request asking for some old decorations to dress up the Qui Nhon camp. As a result, Marvin called Sears to see if they had some old cast off window trimmings and things that might be suitable for sending over to the GIs. Bingo! By the time the Sears employees were finished, the postage bill was $350. Not only did they send decorations, but also presents, tape recorded messages, candy, etc. The works! I'll bet there's one Supply Officer who's really popular today in Vietnam.

Mary Louise and Gould HUNTER wrote: "Wish you all could have been with the group at the Kaufmans' Army-Navy game day. Greetings and Happy New Year to all."

Speaking of A&N get-togethers, Ruth and Harry BRENT's note reported on the LA contingent and the party hosted by the Neymans and Smiths at the Smith's Woodland Hills home. Take a look at the accompanying photo for those present. Reports Harry: "We enjoyed a fine brunch and a well-played game, thanks to the initiative and hospitality of our hosts. The color TV was perfect

and no one fell (or was thrown) into the pool.

Feats of strength, elbow-bending games, were performed by all. Male '36ers excelled at this operation. Best wishes to all." Thanks for all the dope, Harry; it is especially good to receive a picture of such events enjoyed by '36ers in far-off places.

Val and Oley OELHEIM wrote while enjoying a Roman holiday: "Greetings from Rome and a wish for a blessed New Year from Bethlehem in Jordan. We are seeing the eastern end of the Mediterranean for the first time this year and we are much impressed. We shall be expecting any of the class who come this way to visit us in Beirut." Incidentally, the correct address is c/o American Embassy, APO 09694, N. Y., and not as previously reported in this column.

From 514A Avenida Sevilla, Laguna Hills, Calif.

92653, write Polly and Dale PINKERTON: "We welcome any classmates in our snug retirement!(?) to Laguna Hills Leisure World. We'll be at the 40th reunion!" It's been a long time no see Pinkertons. Let's hear from you more often and good luck.

A long newsy letter from Tessie and Gene RIEWE says they are hecticly getting settled in their new home, 36 Robin Hood Drive, La Vale, Md. 21504, one-half mile off US 40, the national road, just west of Cumberland: "Decided we wanted the place following a 2-day trip out here in late October when the foliage was at its peak—• breath-taking! The housewarming awaits you getting here. Come see us. We're just 40 miles from the Bedford exit of the Pa. Turnpike."

Dave SEAMAN confirmed his new address in Anchorage, Alaska, and advised he would be in the area soon attending a post engineer's management course at Ft. Belvoir. He hoped to see some of the old gang while in town.

A note from Fred HOLMSHAW says: "We figured that when four active duty '36ers get together these days, it's news. When they play in the same foursome on Christmas Eve, it's front page news!" The occasion: a visit by Mildred and Hoyt MANN, out in Hawaii to see their two fine grandsons. Continues Fred: "The golf was only fair, but the reunion was real fun for all of us."

Our thanks for the dope, Fred. Send us more.

Friends and classmates will be happy to learn that Mary Dora SEXTON was married to John English in November. After a brief honeymoon they returned to Washington and are residing in Bethesda. Sorry we were unable to get all the details on the wedding, but am sure all in '36 join us in wishing Mary Dora and John best wishes and many years of happiness together.

Al FLEMING will soon be returning to town to assume his new duties as Assistant Director, Strategic Plans Division, OpNav. Dave RICHARDSON has taken command of Carrier Division Seven. John BOLAND was in town briefly just before Xmas; had lunch with Frank Law who reports he looks fine and is still with Kueffle & Esser in Massachusetts.

Standing are Smitty and Harriet Smith. From the left, second row: Walker Bennett '45, Roy Neyman, Frances Hayler, Ray and Alice Thompson, Ruth Brent, Duke and Ellie Roberson. Front row: Harry Brent, Bob Newman, Frank Hayler, Bob and Georgia O'Denning.

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Bob WILLIAMS was down from the northland and joined us at the December luncheon. It was good to see Bob, and our apologies for failing to mention his being with us in last month's report.

Due to alterations at the A&N Club not being completed, the previously announced 5 Feb. dinner-dance is postponed until the 19 th. Hope we'll see you all there. Also we've lined up the C&O Barge for a trip on 7 May. Mark your calendars now. Flyers should be out shortly on both events.

Jean MOREAU recendy announced he is president of Manna Corporations which he organized last fall in Falls (jhurch. Manna deals in real estate, equities, and financial planning. Our best wishes to Jean in his new endeavor.

Ede is in Davenport, Iowa, visiting with her mother and sister. This batching is for the birds.

I'll take the office any day in lieu of all these house chores. Unlike Bill Lederer, I don't seem to be able to run this home like a battieship. How do you do it, gals? My hat is off to you all—so, a happy Valentine Day to each and everyone of you.

Sec'y. Capt. J. A. Bogley, USN 3900 Watson Place, Apt. 7B Washington, D. C. 20016 WASHINGTON GROUP NEWS We closed out our activities for 1965 with the best class party we have had in a long while. Chet OWEN was in charge and we dubbed him the "Host with the most." The gay party took place at the Army and Navy Town Club and our lovely young ladies never looked prettier. Towards the close of the evening Santa Claus appeared in the form of K. G. Robinson and the antics some of our members went through to win prizes brought tears from laughter. Chet had a bag full of tricks that rivaled an Elsa Maxwell shindig.

Homer CONRAD accompanied the show with appropriate background piano music.

On hand for the occasion were the Silks, Rindskopfs, Al Churches, Red Johnsons, Arthurs, Ferriters, Morgans, Homer Conrads, Hank Jacksons, Irvines, Bolams, Foleys, Bagbys, McManuses, Mansfields, DeCamps, Gid Boyds, Muggs, Owens, McDowells, Eliots, Manns, Hestons, Sweeneys, Ratliffs, Cowards, Glennons, K. G. Robinsons, DuBois, Norrises, Smalls, Berthrongs and yours truly. It was a party we will all long remember and to you, Chet, congratulations and many thanks for all your hard work.

Marie and Jack MANSFIELD are happy to announce that son John was married to Lee Burnside at the Fort Myer Chapel on 28 Dec. Congratulations and the best of happiness to the young couple. Wanda and Dan HENRY passed through town on a two-month vacation in the States and stayed widi Betty and Fred BARDSHAR. They ended up in Coronado for the holidays and had Christmas dinner with Mary Jane and George MUSE in their quarters on North Island. I understand the HENRYs bought a house in Point Loma while here, so I suppose they will be leaving Caracas before too long.

Herb MANDEL paid us a visit from New London where he is in the Research and Development of Electric Boat Co. Al CHURCH, Steve MANN, Bill GLENNON and I took him to lunch and learned that he had recendy been elected as a member of the New London City Council on the Republican ticket. As many of you know, Herbie was remarried in 1963 to the former Mrs. Ann Richmond. Ann has two boys now in college and Herb's boy Matt, now 20, is a junior at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Herb and Ann had recently returned from a trip to Spain and live at 70 Greenway Road, New London, Conn.

Ken BROWTST also works for Electric Boat as a naval architect and recently purchased a home on Mason's Island.

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NORFOLK NEWS Howard de LAUREAL, our faithful Norfolk correspondent, sends the following: "The lapse in correspondence on my part is not to be related to anything other than my own laziness and penchant toward forgetfulness. I can't seem to be able to cure it. As a matter of interest, George (and his gracious Jane) Reinhart have joined our Norfolk Group. George has reported to CinCLantFlt as Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans. We are happy and pleased to welcome them to the group.

"We had a good turnout for the December (Christmas) class luncheon, with the following attending: Strong Boozer, Dick Cooper, Ted Grell, Johnnie Haines, Pret Haines, Red Mason, Ben Pickett, Miles Refo and Vince Schumacher.

Through Johnnie Haines' initiative, George Reinhart got the word in time and joined us for his first opportunity to be with the Norfolk Group.

"As an item of current business, I reported to the classmates that it was timely to elect a Norfolk Group secretary for a 1966 term, and, as incumbent, I would be pleased to abide by their decision. I was told to 'shush' and continue with the business of looking after Norfolk Group affairs.

So be it!

"All hands here in Norfolk join me in extending a happy New Year to you, to the classmates and their families in the Washington area, as well as classmates all over the face of the earth."

Thanks, Hank, and it is a comfort to me to know you will still be sending along the Norfolk news.

GREETINGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD I look to the holidays for many reasons, but one that more than rewards me for my efforts in writing this column is the warm greetings and kind words from you readers. Aside from the local area classmates who showered me with kindness, I have only space to mention those we wish were back here with us.

From San Diego: Ann and Luke McDonald, who are in quarters at the Submarine Support Facility. Mary Jane and George Muse, who like being back in California, but miss their good friends in the east. Mil and Frank Zimanski.

They love Coronado. So many classmates in the area that they still feel active. Frank took a course at the San Diego Cathedral last summer and is now teaching religion one night a week for high school freshmen in their church who attend public school. The Zimanskis had a class party recendy for 12 couples and Mil says her new steward, Frank, is as good as any. They enjoy the commissary, PX, 15-cent movies, reasonable rent, so retirement is no strain at all.

From London: Jane and Bill Rogers are enjoying life in Orchard Cburt Quarters, the theatre, and the opportunity to travel. They visited Garmisch at "Thanksgiving with snow everywhere.

Daughter Ann is studying in Spain; Kitt is at Longwood. Both girls were in London for Christmas.

Margie and John St. John have moved from a London flat to a lovely big country home in Surrey—"Chimney Corner looks exacdy as an English manor house should." Daughter Lani and grandson Stephen (9 mos. on Dec. 25) have been with the St. Johns since the end of June. Son-inlaw Bill is in Vietnam. Son Curt arrived from University of Washington to spend Christmas.

From New England: Eileen and Tom Suddath have endured various workmen during the fall and are now ready for company. Jane and George Reinhart's card was written aboard the INDEPENDENCE en route to Norfolk duty. They were mighty sorry to be leaving the Sixth Fleet. Bobbe and Dick Bowers love Bainbridge. The social life is frantic but the quarters are lovely and there's a 9-hole golf course. Margaret and Charlie Pond are at Carlisle Barracks and have some terrific auction bargains and exciting plans to build on their prop-

erty in Virginia in the spring. Their son Cris is attending Naval Reserve Training one night a week in Harrisburg. In Newport, Mary and Mac McGivern are in quarters at Fort Adams. Their son is also in Naval Reserve Training. Gayle and Tom Foster are in Coronado, enjoying the nice climate.

Grace and Skip GIFFEN are enjoying duty in Guam but miss their bridge friends. Micki and Otis WESCHE are two years as civilians and still miss the Navy. Feel like they should be on the move, but number two and last offspring enters college next year, so have to toil to meet the tuition, room and board. Dort and Mac McCRORY are still way out in Korea. Marie and Bill SPEARS are on the other side of the world having a wonderful time in Denmark, Kay and Jim PAYNE now occupy the York House at the Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown, Va. Evelyn O'Brien remains in Newport while Les commands Destroyer Flotilla Ten in the Med. Mary and Hank LAUERMAN are setting high marks in the teaching world in Winston-Salem, N. C. Mary Anne and Bob SCHELLING check in from Seatde.

Going all the way south we find Ro and Don BROWN in Panama, with Don waiting anxiously to get rid of the class fund as soon as we can grind out the paper work to legally transfer it to the Washington Group. As far north as we can go we find Lo and Ralph WEYMOUTH in Keflavik, Iceland, finding it a fascinating experience. Ralph and Lo took two weeks' leave in May to visit friends in Brussels and Lo's sister Mayette in Cannes. Great stuff, leave. Ralph is off occasionally on business trips. On his initial visit to counterparts in Oslo and Bodo in Norway, Lo was along. It was a mad rush, maddeningly short, but Lo earned her salt as diplomat on travel as much as she does at home.

Coming back to warmer spots we find the Lowell JETTS enjoying Mill Valley, Calif., and Janet and Doug PUGH in Treasure Island quarters. Robbie and Jigger HARMON are lucky residents of Coronado where he is Commander Operational Test and Evaluation Force Pacific.

Len is still at Southwestern Junior College. Both he and Jerry attended summer school. Len has had elective smdent council office his whole attendance there. He finds he enjoys this very much. He had the leading role this fall in school play, "The Admirable Crichton," by J. M. Barrie, who also wrote "Peter Pan." They were bowled over at how well he did. He also writes and does layouts for the school paper which he enjoys. He is very busy. Jerry was graduated from Coronado High School this past June and is now attending Southwestern Junior College. During the summer, while attending Southwestern summer school, he tore down his car engine into a zillion pieces, and had all his friends working in the garage. Then they all got summer jobs at a local restaurant—the peace and quiet was shattering! Jerry also works on the school paper, which he just loves. Len says Jerry is the best page layout man on the paper.

Robbie is currently taking a Registered Nurse refresher course—8 weeks, 6 hours a day of school work, plus about two hours a night homework.

Mary and Claude FARMER are now established in a new house at 2420 Bayon Boulevard, Pensacola, Fla. Claude received his MS from Florida State in April and is now teaching geography at Pensacola Junior College. The day after graduation they put their belongings in storage and started on a month's trip across country. After leaving the car and camper with Mary's sister in Long Beach, they sailed in a Norwegian freighter for Australia. To go into the trip in detail would require a book; suffice to say, the trip was all they had hoped for and more. Sixty carefree days with accommodations, food, and shipmates all delightful. They made stops, long enough to allow time for extensive sightseeing and side trips, at Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Port Swettenham, and Penang. Wyndham, their first Australian port, gave them the chance to explore the outback with SHIPMATE

its fascinations. Then, King Bay and Geraldton before debarkation at Fremande, so as Mary's Australian sister-in-law said, "you really entered the back door," they did have the oppormnity to see parts of the country not seen by many of its own countrymen.

They took the memorable train trip across the Nullabor Plain to Adelaide; a two-day bus trip through the vineyard and agricultural country to Melbourne; from there to Cooma for the start of a three-day trip through the remarkable Snowy Mountain Project; next the beautiful city of Canberra from where a short flight took them to Sydney for four most pleasant days with Mary's brother and sister-in-law whom they hadn't seen in 20 years. Time was too brief for the vast country but they saw as much as they could absorb in the month they had there and the friendliness and many courtesies shown them by the Aussies made the stay a never-to-be-forgotten one. Next to New Zealand by air for a visit to a Maori village, three days in Honolulu, time in Long Beach to pick up the car and camper and then a far from leisurely trip back across country. On arrival they found their house just about ready to move into and have since been setding in gradually and relaxing in the thought that it should be their last move for a long time. The house is large and the welcome warm and they sincerely hope many of you will be coming their way.

It was a wonderful Christmas hearing from all of you. Many thanks and God bless you real good in the New Year.

Sec'y, RAdm. C. E. Bell, USN 6359 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va. 22044 The holidays are behind us again and despite a particularly wonderful Christmas and New Year's, we're not entirely sorry it's over. Starting a new year is refreshing.

We saw many '39ers at a pre-Christmas party that included the Pete Petersons, O'Mearas, R. R. Greens, Jay Daytons, Tom Murphys, Simpsons, Naces, Walleys, Gillettes, Bob Smiths, Beaches, Childers, Moe Moores, J. P. Colemans, Loustaunau, Shirleys, Michels, and Bonners.

The January luncheon at Fort Myer was a joint one with our West Point confreres and 32 of the 57 present were USNA. Didn't see any visitors this time but did see Win BERG for the first time in quite a while. Win, who retired last summer, is now with the State Dept. and in a job where he can make ample use of his fine background in science.

We heard that Monk HENDRIX is now teaching oceanography at the Naval Academy; he should be perfect. I remember well when Monk was just about the first naval officer to attend the

U.S.N.A.

PG in oceanography at Scripps Institute at La Jolla, Calif. If my information is correct, Monk is commuting 100 miles each way from his farm in West Virginia on the days he teaches. Hope you won't have to keep up that kind of regimen too long, Monk. I still remember vividly when Monk and I were freshmen sitting side by side in French class at Maryland University, neither one knowing that the other was trying to get in the Academy the following summer.

From Japan I received a Christmas card from Hank and Judy REAVES. I believe Judy is seeing every town, village, and hamlet in the islands and by every possible means of travel. Lap it up, Judy, it doesn't last very long. They should be back in '66.

Word reaches us from John CEASE's wife that John and the rest of the family have been exceedingly ill these past few months from a pretty rough virus.

Bill ALFORD came through with a note about the '38-'39 party last fall and the approaching spring party. He says, "The usual fine time was had by all, and attendees were: '38-—Mac and Mary McGivern, Les and Evelyn O'Brien, Ed and Margot Conrad; '39—Roy and Wini Breen, Bob and Sue Brent, Charlie and Ann Chandler, George and Barnie Hawes, Steve and Jeanne O'Rourke, Joan Cook (Lem's widow), Jeff Davis, Tim and Mary McCoy, and Jake and Libby Vandergrift.

"The spring party will be held about 7 May. I'll try to get a picture of the group at that one.

The parties are all community affairs; all the Alfords provide is the house! So far the distance record is held by Bill BONVILLIAN, who came 225 miles last spring, but several others have come almost as far."

Bob STUART also writes a fine letter from Bluefield, W. Va. (same address as PLUS 25 Year Book), where he is VP of a bakery chain: Virginia, West Virginia, Kenwcky and Ohio. Bob recalls first class year when he had orders to the YORKTOWN in Norfolk, Va., and I had orders to the RANGER in San Diego. I wanted Norfolk and he wanted San Diego, so we switched. You guessed it, the Navy swapped the two ships and we wound up back where we started. Thanks for the letter. Bob, don't be surprised when I turn up in Bluefield—with golf clubs. Write again soon.

While talking to Harry HELFRICH at the luncheon I was surprised to learn that at the moment no more than three or four classmates are living in the Annapolis area. This probably is an all-time low.

Jim DUNFORD not only sent along some news but also a fine picture Christmas card of everyone in the family. It still looks like nine children to me, Jim, but my math doesn't go any higher.

Jim's address is 141 Fox Chase Lane, Cherry Hill, N. J. Among other things Jim writes, "After four and a half years of a management job in industry.

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I finally broke away from it to do the thing that I had made up my mind was the best for me. That thing is teaching. After some looking around I finally accepted an appointment right near home —at the University of Pennsylvania. I am a professor of mechanical engineering in the Towne School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering. I started in with a class of sophomores in mechanics. Each year I am planning to develop a course in nuclear engineering at the graduate level. By that I mean I will be teaching one such course next year, a couple of them the following year, etc.

There is next to nothing in that field at the University of Pennsylvania right now.

"My reason for leaving industry wasn't complicated. I felt fairly successful and found a lot of challenge when it came to setting up an organization but when it came to handling and licking the same old problems on a continuing basis, I began to think of following my bent in the teaching direction."

I went over to David Taylor Model Basin for a tour of the installation and Deke Ela '38 and our own Don O'MEARA kept me fascinated for over two hours. I didn't realize we were doing so much in the wind tunnel and ship model fields.

Their enthusiasm is inspiring.

This month I received three letters for the column, a new high. Six a month would be only 72 per year or one out of seven classmates per year! My deadline is the tenth of every month excepting the combined summer months (JuneJuly and Aug.-Sept.). If I could hear from you three or four days before the deadline, it would be perfect.

That's all there is as of 1/8/66.

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Sec'y, Capt. Edward Muhlenfeld, USN OpNav (Op-91C). Room 4A686.

The Pentagon Washington 25, D. C. Corr. Sec'y, G. G. Williams, c/o J. C. Wheat & Co., 15 Selden Arcade, Norfolk, Va.

WASHINGTON REPORT The December luncheon was held at Fort Myer as usual, with quite a few new faces showing up, in addition to the hard-core regulars. Wahoo ERECKSON brought as his guest Mr. Gordon Frederick, regional Navy manager for Control Data Corp. Prize for the attendee farthest from home went to Phil GLENNON, who we caught on an official trip from Hawaii where he is a member of the Staff, CincPacFlt. Phil brought us up to date on the health and activities of the six or seven classmates on duty or retired in that area; it was good to have a first-hand report from the fiftieth state.

The question of the need for, and functions of, a permanent class organization and charter were also discussed. The consensus was that we should have some sort of a permanent set of officers in

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the Washington area with appropriate ground rules for their taking action on behalf of the whole class in Alumni or other Naval Academy matters.

This idea is still in the formative stage, and the comments and recommendations of the class are solicited. Please drop a line to Jake BOWELL or Ed MUHLENFELD (or their successors in office) with your ideas.

By the time you read this there will be a new name in our masthead. Election of officers for the Washington group is scheduled for the January luncheon, two days too late to meet the deadline for this issue. It has been fun doing this job, but moving time is just over the horizon. One last word of thanks to all who helped out during the past year and a half, also to all those who came from near and far to make the 25 th reunion a success.

As a fallout from the mailing list developed for Homecoming, we plan to compile and distribute a class directory based on the best addresses held at that time. If you have any last-minute changes, please get them in post haste.

NOTES FROM HERE AND THERE Bob NEWCOMB is promoting a west coast FOUR-OH Reunion while waiting for our next big Annapolis Homecoming. Any classmate interested in the possibilities for such a reunion is urged to get in touch with Bob at 502 N. Alta Ave., Whittier, Calif.

Ray HUNDEVADT reports his new permanent home address to be 542 Camino Real, Redlands, Calif. 92373. Ray retired last spring and is a program manager at Lockheed Propulsion Co. It is with deep regret that we report the death of Lou BURKE's beloved wife "Bunny," in Coronado last November. Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to Lou in his bereavement.

Edmund D. MASON has retired from the FBI, and is now located in Columbus, Ohio. His address there is 501 Old Farm Road, Greenbrier Farms, Columbus, Ohio 43213.

Last but not least, we congratulate our other classmate who made good in the Army, recentlyselected-for-Brig. Gen. Ed DONLEY, USA. Well done, Ed! FINAL FLASH FROM WASHINGTON At the January luncheon, the following were elected: President: Capt. M. J. Hanley, USN, Op 9IP Rm: 4A686, Pentagon.

Secretary: Capt. A. G. Esch, USN, Op 602 Rm: 4E510, Pentagon.

Reeleeve the watch!

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Sec'y, Capt. V. A. Moitoret, USN, 6000 Merchant Rd., S.E., Camp Springs, Md. 20031

The interval between Christmas and New Year's, when the pressure is somewhat reduced, proved to be an ideal time for the Washington Area group to widen the attendance at the monthly luncheon on the last Wednesday by including the wives. Jim THOMSON, at BuPers, continues to operate his very efficient Central Reservation Bureau as luncheon chairman. By the way, if you're in the Washington area, as nearly everyone is once in a while, you can check with Jim on the next luncheon and make a direct reservation. Reach him at OXford 4-1117 during working hours or at 356-3105 at his home; he has expert secretaries at both numbers if he's not there himself.

On hand for this holiday treat were Bill and Betsy Heavey, Lloyd and Anne Young, Joe and Betty Taussig, Frank and Agnes Costagliola, Frank and June Sanger, Ed and Abbie Svendsen, Charlie and Mary Love Strum, Hutch and Anne Cooper, Jay and Alice Houghton, Harry and Julie Simpson, Jim and Babette Thomson, Malcolm and Doris 40

Whitaker, Dick and Barbara Stewart, Chuck and Pat Overton, Vic and Rowena Moitoret, and two more classmates who couldn't get dates for some reason: Bill Owen (our Washington area president) and Buck Rogers.

Having the wives present was a fine idea. The gals seem to have more news than the husbands, and your secretary had his ears open and a pencil ready. Only the wives were eligible for the door prize drawing for this one, and Betsy Heavey held the lucky number.

Guest of the Heaveys was W. M. Huey '46. He had hoped to meet our own Enders P. HUEY, since their paths have yet to cross, but he was disappointed again. The '46 representative came for another purpose, though. Seems his class is actively at work raising funds for their 20th anniversary, and his wife has gone into production on some very attractive and good quality blue and gold pennants with class numerals. A sample was admired by all present, and we determined that you can get a '41 pennant to wave in the stands at the next football game you attend by sending your order and $1.25 (which includes postage) to Mrs. W. M. Huey, 2326 North Upton, Arlington, Va. This not only makes it a fine bargain, can boost Navy and class spirit, but serves a good cause as well. Good luck, '46!

Possibly the best news picked up at the December luncheon was somewhat old, but since it was new to your secretary, it probably is to many of you, too, so we'll pass it along. Classmate Wendell THOMPSON'S widow, Carole (Tommy was lost in a plane crash en route from Washington to Norfolk in January 1960 while stationed in London), was married last May. She married a Navy captain who was himself a widower, and they each contributed two children to the new partnership.

Carole is now Mrs. V. W. Collins; her husband is an aviator, and they live at 1108 Palmer Place, Alexandria, Va. Since Capt. Collins isn't a USNA grad, there has been talk of his now being eligible to be an honorary member of '41 by marriage.

Heard that Tom CAIN has a new job. He's now with Computer Control Cki., 8121 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, Md. Anne Cooper commented on the typographical error in the Washington area class roster, which shows her husband's nickname as "Huten" instead of "Hutch" (your secretary's secretary is slowly learning how to read Vic's writing). But Anne says that was not so bad—at one previous duty station Hutch found himself listed on the roster as Capt. Demon W. Cooper rather than Damon!

And while on the subject of nicknames, my apologies to our classmate H. H. ANDERSON. In last month's column I called him "Herbie"— he informs me that "Herbie" is his six-year-old son, and he still goes by "Andy" himself.

Besides the classmates' sons at USNA we hear about frequendy, it develops we have two at Bullis as well: Frank SANGER'S son Randy and Ken STEEN's son.

The SVENDSENs have a son, too, who must certainly be mentioned. Either they are overly modest or else they are scared, for the source of information on young Chuck didn't come from Ed or Abbie. June Sanger proves a good press agent, and she loaned your secretary a clipping with picture and write-up from the Washington Post in early December. The 3-column headline reads: "Any Way You Figure It, This Youth Knows His Quanmm Mechanics." And the lead paragraph is worth quoting verbatim, too: "Some high school students like to wear their hair long these days. Others, like Edward Charles Svendsen, just do long-hair work." The story covers the fact that Chuck is a senior at Washington and Lee High School in Arlington and is engaged in some research to relate relativity electromagnetic theory and quantum mechanics. He wrote up a paper and submitted it to the officials of the Washington Junior Science Council for the annual

symposium they hold, but his paper was too good.

In the words of the Rev. Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown U., who headed the selection committee: "I didn't think the (other) students, as bright as they are, would understand it." Instead the young Svendsen was invited to visit the Harry Diamond Laboratory to discuss his theories with scientists there. One of the lab's PhD's called Svendsen "a fantastic kid" and said that in many areas of physics he "has understanding superior to that of some PhD's." Obviously there is one Navy captain from '41 in BuShips who must have to do a lot of extra homework to stay in the league with his son. Congrats to Ed and Abbie for this production. (And June Sanger noted that the pro press writer, who hadn't mentioned that the boy had any parents, "must believe Chuck (a) sprung from an anonymous test tube or (b) was discovered in a patch of parsley.")

Our '41 class spirit was a heartening thing to behold when Dick FOSTER tangled with tragedy in that airline crash in December. TuUy SHELLEY was alerted by phone, since he lives in New Canaan as does Bob SEARLE, only about 30 miles from the Danbury, Conn., hospital where Dick was at first on the critical list. Another phone call reached Dick WRIGHT in his ComSubRonTwo off.ce at the Sub Base in Groton, Conn.

And telegrams went out to five other classmates in the general vicinity: Jim MARION in Scarsdale, N. Y.; Jonathan HINE in Old Lyme, Conn.; Art MYERS in Norwalk, Conn.; Dick SMITH in Hamden, Conn.; and Grant PALMER in Glastonbury, Conn. (Palmer could also notify George NOLTE and Deke CARR who also work at Pratt & Whitney in Hartford with him.) Shelley, Wright, and Palmer were particularly helpful in telephoning status reports back to Washington so your class secretary could centralize information.

Sheldon KINNEY and Wayne HOOF in Annapolis assisted in getting the brief news into the December issue of this magazine just before final proofs went to the printer.

As we reach the deadline for this issue (early January), we have good news: Dick is doing quite well. He's been moved down to the Naval Hospital at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va.—his duty station. And Sarajane writes: "Dick is in excellent spirits and his face is clearing nicely. Hands will, too, in time. He'll walk again with a different gait we are told, but he will walk. We thank God for all our blessings and do appreciate the messages of understanding and prayers of our friends. Thank you for rallying the class members in the area—they were so nice to call. There was little they could do but that, as Dick's care was excellent and I had my cousin with me."

This whole experience had one more happy ending: it made many of us realize once more that we've got something valuable going for us in being a member of the class of '41. Any time help may be needed for our own wives, we can know it will be forthcoming.

The threat of rain failed to dampen any spirits on the morning of 17 Dec. when a change of command ceremony was conducted in front of the U. S. Naval Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center in Suidand, Md. Our classmate George MATTON, being relieved, drew four (count 'em, four) flag officers to the affair: RAdm. Taylor, DNI; RAdm. Waters, Oceanographer of the Navy, from around the corner in Suitland; RAdm. Hill, Commandant of Naval District, Washington, and RAdm. Quackenbush, USN (Ret.). Of course Nev had a front row seat to hear all the fine things said about George. As previously noted, he and Nev will be at the Barber's Point NAS on Oahu by the time you read this, where George is ComFAirWingTwo. John FEICK, still in Pittsburgh, added a note to his Christmas card: "I'm still enjoying the 25th Reunion Book. See something that escaped me before every time I look through it."

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See>. Cdr. R. S. Day, USN (Ret.) t". O. Box 6042. Shirlington Station Arlington, Va. 22206

Although the results cannot be tabulated here on the 25th celebration of our ring dance on 12 Feb. (the date is not exact, for the benefit of calendar-watchers, but an available Saturday is an available Saturday), Dwight RAYMOND'S committee had things well in hand. Next is the annual May picnic at Annapolis AND THEN— the 25th reunion at Homecoming '66.

Christmas brought numerous letters and cards from classmates and friends and these provide the bulk of the news for this issue, although I should like to acknowledge all the good wishes on behalf of Clara Lee and myself first.

Bill RUSCH was in town just before Christmas for a conference—up from overseeing the U. S. Military Group in Santiago, Chile. He reports life in Chile most enjoyable, the people wonderful, and the country beautiful. His naval command keeps him hopping, but he managed a trip with Ruth to Punta Arenes on the Straits of Magellan, as well as a visit to Puento Williams on the Beagle Channel. A flight around the Horn and back entitles Ruth to "spit into the wind." Skip is a freshman at Boston College, and daughter Chris is a freshman at San Diego College for Girls in Santiago.

Their social life is rewarding, but there is a dearth of '42ers in the neighborhood.

been afforded a chance to see the crest and matching USNA plaque at our "ring" dance, but we shall have full details in the mail for you before too long with prices and specifications. They will be ordered directly from BB&B at cost. Interestingly enough, Mr. Meell, who worked with John Davis and Dave Peto on our class ring negotiations with BB&B, can celebrate his 51st year with that firm by handling the orders for the crest.

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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.

It is with real sorrow that I have to report the death of Nancy Calvert, wife of Jim CALVERT (RAdm. USN) at Bethesda Naval Hospital on 31 Dec, after a long illness. Services were held at the Ft. Myer Chapel with burial in Arlington National Cemetery. She is survived by her husband and three children—James F. Jr., a junior at Harvard; Charles S., who is at home, and a daughter, Margaret Ann, a freshman at Monticello College, 111.

All of us extend our deepest sympathy to the family. Flowers were sent in the name of the class and a large number of the local classmates attended the service. The Sappingtons and Bert Thompsons came up from Norfolk.

Gunnar Holmquist, the son of Pat and Carl

Christmas Graduation Party, '42ers in New London.

Bruce MEULENDYKE reported on the New London annual Christmas/graduation anniversary gathering at the home of Brick and Wilma BRAFFORD in East Lyme, Conn. Attending were Annabell and Dick Corkran, Tom and Caroline Turner, Cy and Marjorie Young, and Bruce. The Bob Harwoods and Rankins were in town, but unavailable. The Werners had been expected from Wilton, Conn., but college vacations interfered; and the Rices had a conflicting gathering in Newport.

Bruce, Brick, and Sloan, of course, are at E.B. Leo CULJAT advised from Seattle that John BACHHUBER had joined the gang—TAGLAND, BERQUIST, BURTON, ROBBS & CULJAT. Willy NYBURG in H.ILEAKALA (soon to change to KEARSARGE) sent along a lengthy message from the shores of Vietnam. In spite of a rush order to gift-wrap bombs and ammo for our ships out there, Willy had been in Subic for an anniversary dinner with Bill HOUSER and Paul and Lovie DURAND on 18 Dec, and was to spend New Year's Eve with the Durands and Smalls. Honey and troops were back at 1485 Walbrook Drive in San Jose, where Chris is in her third year of college and thinking of a job with the Peace Corps.

Lynn is in her second year at State and pointing towards a teacher's certificate. "Little" Rick—• 6'2" and 215 lbs.—has a Presidential candidacy for June '66. Lloyd is a high school freshman, Lee is a fourth-grader, and Meg is now a proud firstgrader.

By way of a wrap-up, would like to announce that we have contracted with Bailey, Banks and Biddle to mold a brass class crest so that we have them available in plenty of time for the 25th reunion. The Washington contingent will have F E B R U A R Y ,

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Holmquist (Commander Naval Missile Center, Pt. Mugu), has been awarded the American Red Cross certificate for his feat of saving the lives of two boys, age 5 and 6, from the currents of Mugu Lagoon. This certificate is only rarely awarded, so we can be assured that this was a real act of heroism.

Wonderful Joe Volonte continues to show a lively interest in class news and he sends along the following items: The BELTs are scheduled to leave Rio de Janeiro in June for Alameda where Dick will be CO, DELTA. Reggie and Dick look forward to returning to the "tough" life in the U. S. along with sons John and Dick; daughter Nancy is already at Colby Junior College.

We understand drat Earl BUCKWALTER has truly gone Hawaiian with his surfboard activity, but Eleanor reports that his deployment for WestPac in December saved him for active duty. Meanwhile, daughter Susan is on the way back to Arlington, Va., to attend Washington and Lee High School.

Barbara and Bud DAVIS, along with daughter Debbie, have returned from a Christmas vacation in Hawaii. They report having talked to the Buckwalters while making the rounds of the Islands. Still not sure how Bud survived missing all the New Year's Day football games!

I was delighted to receive an invitation to the Change of Command ceremony on board USS HANCOCK. Jim DONALDSON assumed command on 14 Dec. at Cubi Point, Philippines.

Joan and Bob ADRIAN were in the midst of big plans for the wedding on 26 Jan. of their

daughter Judy who married William Arthur Dekker at the Naval Academy Chapel on that date. Both are students at the University of Missouri, where the groom is in graduate school.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Robert N . Davis '46, former shipmate of Bob's and a long-time friend of the family.

On the subject of weddings, Jeanne Luberda, daughter of Lou and Jean, was married in a very nice ceremony to Ens. Doyle John Borchers, II, USN '65. The wedding was held at the Navy Chapel, Navy Security Station, on 21 D e c , with the reception at the Ft. Meyer " O " Club. Among the oldtimers attending were the Greenwoods, Bresses, Ross Wards, Hansens, and Harnishes.

The couple is living in Meridian, Miss., where the groom is in flight training.

The Washington group enjoyed an outstanding holiday party in December. Lanell DETWEILER, with the help of Det and daughter Patt, can take credit for another big success. The decorations at the " O " Club, Arlington Hall, were gala. I have since heard nothing but high praise for the event.

Jan and I did enjoy the open bar phase but then had to mush on to an Acacia party before dinner was served. Following closely on the successful Homecoming affair, this one also enjoyed a fine turnout—83 in all. The guest list included the following (couples unless noted otherwise): AUer, Beaver, Bress, Gates, Dankworth, Detweiler plus daughter Patt, Drachnick, Dudley, Durham, Earl (Dee Wagner), Emerson, Erkenbrack, Froscher, Greenwood, Harnish, Heselton, Hitchcock, Holmes, Lacy, McGann, Moulton, Barbara Naylor (Jesse was in town later in the holidays); Pendleton (both on their way to Switzerland in Feb. for International Aero meeting); Phelps, Scherer, Mildred Shepherd, the Bob Smiths, Spreen, Sterrett, Joe Sullivans, John Sullivans, Taylor, Tuttle, Van Dusen with guest Jane Hedge; Ross Wards, Dick Whites, H. G. Woodwards, Zimmerman, Reh, Riblett, Lindstrom, Hudson. And for cocktails only the Hansens and McTighes.

Would like to thank those people who have fed me the news items over the last year—-they are largely responsible for the interest that has been generated. Joe VOLONTE must take a bow and Bob STEWART has been a good one, too. There have been many more. Thanks.

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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 Hibbling Ave. Springfield, Va. 22150

Once again the Ides of March! Did you make the advance preparations so that die IR form would not become urgent as well as important?

The combination is what gets one. The New Year's holiday was an amazing treat to the Washington area. The temperature hit about 70 and broke records galore. And the local tire company which has pledged a husky refund on snow tires if there is less than 2 inches of snow is getting nervous. (Note that this is written in early January.) The winter dance in Arlington was its usual success; more information next month.

And the local Academy winter sports advocates enjoyed the multiple events on those full Saturdays.

FROM EAST AND WEST Bob STEELE from London. (Bob enclosed a copy of an address titled "Wake Up, America," which the class might want to take on for a project. The class officers are considering it.)

"After two warm years in Key West we are feeling the damp chill of London but loving it here. I see classmates when they come through here but I've missed a few too. Bob Froyd and Pete Snyder, who were Academy roommates, are here.

Bob is in the OpConOnter here, and Pete is Assistant Chief of Staff for ConSubEastLant at 41

Gosport—75 miles SW. Jack Manherz was here in August with the 2nd Fleet. Saw Jack McAdams and George Ellis in Paris, and Bob Hale in Naples." Bob, does Betty like that travelling, or doesn't she accompany you?

Dick KESSLER from Portsmouth, R. I. And rating a CONGRATULATIONS, too! "After 19 years of marriage Mary and I finally had our first daughter, born 12 Dec. at Newport. Both are doing fine. Of course we have previously had four sons, the eldest of whom is 17 and completing his 5 th year at St. George's School in Newport. The others are from 15 to 3 years old.

After retiring, I am now working as an engineer at the Naval Underwater Ordnance Station in Newport. It is nice to be still in this area as we have many friends here, and enjoy New England a great deal. We hope that any '45ers who pass through will call. Tom MADICJAN flew in from Denver recently where he is an instructor at United Airlines School."

Dick JORTBERG in Groton, Conn. Dick enclosed an inclusive Christmas letter which covered the year well, including an impulsive but enjoyable trip to Puerto Rico—children in Groton, in February '65. In November the HENRY L . STIM-

soN SSBN 655, of which Dick is PCO, was launched three days ahead of Michael Andrew.

(Those interested in arrangements for the San Juan cruise may address queries direcdy to Groton.) The JORTBERGs held the title for only 26 days before the KESSLERs gained it. Who's next?

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dick VAN ORDEN and Sam GORSLINE for being nominated as candidates for Academy Alumni Association Trustees. The ballots will be out with an imminent mailing from the Association which includes subscription to Shipmate.

Let us remember that these two gentlemen are not in competition with each other, but to represent active duty officers in the guidance of our magazine's policy. Dick as an ED, and Sam as aviator give a well rounded impetus. We should never hesitate to beat the bushes to encourage election of good men; when they happen to be classmates who have sparked the class organization at different times in office, and always by support, so much the better reason.

Foster LALOR, Navy Commendation Medal.

Working out of Pearl as the assistant to Director of Pacific Division, BuDocks, Foster was in charge of construction and design in the Western Pacific—mostly Vietnam. He planned most of the projects executed both by the Mobile Construction Battalions and by contractors under the direction of BuDocks. The fantastic build-up of facilities is evident of the tremendous efforts being concentrated in that small country. Foster is now coordinating many of the same projects from BuDocks as the Assistant Chief for Construction.

Walt GODSHALL. Navy Commendation Medal.

This was awarded in the field and no information is available in BuPers.

Tom SULICK. Navy Commendation Medal. For service in 1963-64 as CO of Patrol Squadron 46.

Shortly after relieving, Tom's squadron received the new P3A ASW aircraft. He led the training for a full deployment, which was completed with a minimum of logistic and operational problems.

Tate COCKRILL. For the penetrating article in the Jan. Naval Institute Proceedings. Not only is the understanding of war gaming techniques vital to our capability to be of maximum value to our service and country, but being able to explain these techniques can tell others of our understanding. Keep up the good work, Tate, and we hope others can find the time to put fordi some of the state-of-the-art fundamentals of their duties.

Ladies' Day. The material for the ladies' edition should be coming in, but the mailman is not complaining yet. If you have something you want 42

to get off your chest, or rather get into print, send it to me. 'Til spring.

Incidentally, orders were scarce. Henry PEYTON retired on 1 Jan., but his decision on location of employment was not immediately available. '66 is going to be a good year. Keep up the good work, Look Alivers!!

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Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR USS TULARE (AKA-112) FPO San Francisco 96601

The Christmas mail can nearly always be counted on to bring a flood of address changes and newsy items. This Christmas was no different.

Tom and Adrienne AUGER were among many who enclosed documentation of the events of the past year: "Shordy after the close of the school year, Adrienne and the four offspring sailed to Japan via Navy transport for six weeks of new and interesting experiences in the beautiful land of the Rising Sun. Tom flew over for ten days and a wonderful time was had by all." The Augers live at 1236 Kukila St., Honolulu, where Tom is Commander, Submarine Division 72.

Floyd and Jean AVEY have moved from Houston to 3788 Vancouver Dr., Dallas, Tex. Jean didn't say otherwise, so I suppose Floyd still works for North American Autonetics.

Some time ago Art BENNETT asked me to report that he has been getting many replies to his survey and is most happy with them. He says that there is no deadline for their return and that incomplete answering is O.K. Art is navigator in USS HORNET, FPO San Francisco 96601. Jack BAILEY has orders to the Joint Staff, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in D. C. He is now air officer in USS YORKTOWN. Rita and the children will remain in Coronado until the end of the school year and then join Jack in D. C. John BURHANS retired from the Navy on 1 Dec. '64 and now works for Ryan Aeronautical Co., as XV5A Project manager at Edwards AFB. He lives at 1718 Visalia Row, Coronado, flying home on weekends. Nancy CAMPBELL writes from 743 N. E. 152nd Ave., Pordand, Ore. 97230, where Bill is manager of the Troutdale, Ore., plant of Reynolds Metals Co.: "The plant is going fine. Operating at full capacity for the first time since '59. . . . We had a wonderful 2-week trip to Hawaii in March with two other couples, visiting three of the islands."

Chris and Pat CHRISTENSEN live at 6365 Lake Apopka Place, San Diego, where Chris is on the staff of Submarine Flotilla One. Understand Dave CLEMENT is back at Camp Lejeune, N . C , with the Second Marine Division, after a long tour in the thick of the fighting in Vietnam (saw his picture in Time magazine some time ago). Dave and Jean live at 123 Banks St., Jacksonville, N . C. One of the longest and most interesting letters I have received came from the CORDELLS. Curt retired on 1 July and they have setded in Orlando, Fla., at 231 East Jackson St., where Curt works for Comprehensive Designer. "When we landed at McGuire Air Force Base it was the first time that any of us had set foot in the United States in eight years!" After many operations, and being told on two occasions that he might not walk again, Curt is well on his way to recovery from a back injury received years ago on the west coast.

Chuck C O Y E R ' S latest project is a 580-home community, Apple Grove, rising in the Oxon Hill section of Prince Georges Co., Md. He hopes to have the project completed in 1967.

Tom and Jan CROOKS give their address as 3200 Sepulveda Blvd., K33, Los Angeles, Calif.

90034. Tom retired on 1 July 1965. Bob CUCCIAS is exec of USS ARNEB in Norfolk. Hull CULLMAN gives his latest address as Island Dr., North Manursing Island, Rye, N . Y.

After keeping it secret for over two years, Al DAVIS finally admitted diat he assumed a Russian name to write a book highly critical of some Pentagon and Navy thinking. The pen name he used was Aleksandr I. Zhdanov, who is <iecribed in the book, Shadow of Peril, as a Soviet submarine captain. Al, who retired 1 July, was on duty in OpNav when he wrote the book. At the time of his retirement on 1 July, when he received a Letter of Commendation from CinCPacFlt, Al was training officer on the staff of ComSubPac His retirement letter, a masterpiece, was reprinted and given wide distribution by the Navy League and the Naval Reserve Assn. in their fight to support the pay increases for the Services proposed by Rep. Rivers.

"Diz" DEHN gives his latest duty station as Naval Security Group Activity, Edzell, Scodand, FPO New York 09518. Pablo de la Llama writes: "I have just read with great interest the article entitied 'Our Alumni From Other Nations' by Capt. Frank V. Rigler, USN (Ret.), in the October 1965 issue of Shipmate. As a matter of information I now hold the position of sales manager. South America, in the Agricultural Chemical Group of International Minerals and Chemicals Corp." Alberto JIMENEZ is one of the alumni Pablo talks of meeting in his travels but I am sure his remarks will appear elsewhere in Shipmate.

Tony DEL VECCHIO is teaching in die Dept. of Psychology at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minn. "Jig-Jig" and Marian DOUGHERTY are living at 3401 Pickard Ave., N.E., Albuquerque, N . M., following his retirement on 1 July.

Denny and Gloria DOWNEY live at 7004 Girard St., McLean, Va., while Denny is the commander detailer in BuPers.

"Dug" DUGGER, intelligence specialist, is serving on the staff of Commander Naval Forces Philippines. Clif DUNCAN retired 1 July and probably stayed right in his same job with NASA and in the same house—1431 Saxony Lane, Nassau Bay, Houston, Tex. 77058. Ed ELLIS is commanding officer of USS AGERHOLM DD-826 in San Diego where he and Lu live at 6102 Erlanger St., 92122.

Wils ENGEL writes from 6807 Rosewood St., Annandale, Va. 22003: "I've been quite busy in my new job on die staff of Mr. Bannerman, Ass't SecNav (Installations and Logistics), but I'm getting the Fourth Company dope caught up pretty well, although there are still a few voids." Wils has always done an outstanding job of keeping me supplied with dope of Fourth Company classmates and it would be ideal along with our proposed new organization if we could have a representative for each company. Contact me right away if you are interested. I can supply you with enough information to get started.

"Bud" EDWARDS wrote recendy, asking for information about classmates, which I am always happy to supply. "I am serving on a committee which involves many from the Rapid Transit Industry. This industry is building a complete subway system in San Francisco, and there will be a new system in Washington, D. C , also. There is a great shortage of personnel in our industry.

Do you have access to a list of our classmates who are leaving the service? I would like to pass these names on to David Q. Gaul, who is the executive secretary of the Institute of Rapid Transit, so that some of our classmates may be able to find their way into the large Rapid Transit systems." I have sent Bud the best list available for which he very generously compensated the stamp fund. Anyone who may be interested (whether or not you are in '46) can write to Mr. Harold Edwards, Jr., The O. M. Edwards Company, Syracuse, N . Y. 13204.

I recently had a nice visit from George and Alice FERCH and children while they were in San Diego visiting relatives. George is now working for the Lockheed California C^o., Burbank, as S H I P AA A T E

a sales representative on the "P3A" Orion Project.

They still live at 19524 Valdez Drive, Tarzana, Calif. 91356. Jim FERGUSON is now a lieutenant colonel in the Army and lives at 3518 Glendale Lane, N.W., Huntsville, Ala. 35810. Ed and Peggy FIELD now live at 8826 Commodore Dr., Norfolk, where Ed is Commander, Destroyer Division 262. I believe Ed is the first classmate to take command of a DD Division. Liz FORREST sends their Christmas card from Holcomb Road, Box 154, Meadowbrook, Pa. 19046. She says Jim is in SARATOGA in Jacksonville and they decided against moving after hearing of the dreadful school situation. "He's been fortunate since they got back from the Med in getting hops home, though, and is expecting orders soon, since he made captain. Our oldest, Ann, is in school at Michigan State and three of the others are in school so that leaves only Tom, the terrible two, home! He's cute, but busy!"

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Jack FAGAN took command of USS LEWIS AND CLARK on 22 Dec. at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va. The ship is the Navy's 33rd Polaris submarine and is named for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, famous 19th century American Pacific Northwest explorers. Jack was the first commanding officer of USS SHARK, which was also built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. Jack was awarded the Legion of Merit following his command of the SHARK and went in June 1962 to Mare Island as commanding officer of the Naval Nuclear Power School. Jack, June and three boys live at 1210 Country Club Road, Newport News.

Bill FORSYTH is exec of USS UNION in San Diego. Bill FRANCY, recendy selected for captain, has been made Head of the Dept. of Marine Engineering at USNA. Anyone doubt that it has been 20 years? Jerry GIBSON, who retired from the Marine Corps on 1 Oct. '64, is an operations research analyst at the Navy Radiological Laboratory in San Francisco. Jerry and Lody have bought a house at 717 Wiget Lane, Walnut Creek, Calif., and spent the summer having a pool installed. Joanie GROJEAN writes: "Chuck is off on patrol again this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but will be home the middle of January. David is in college in Georgia and doing very well." Chuck commands USS THOMAS A. EDISON and sometimes lives at

Walehead Road, RED 1, Gales Ferry, Conn. This year's Hankins-mark card was a "special edition" with the title "Trav'Yule-Log" and, as usual, brought me up to date on the Hankins family.

Wally and Kathy and three girls live at 9 Honu St., Aiea, Hawaii 96701, where Wally is Commander Submarine Division 12. Swede HANSEN is back at 813 Cardinal Rd., Virginia Beach, after seven months in WestPac in INDEPENDENCE. The Christmas letter from the HEBERLINGs of 498 N. Latham St., Alexandria, Va. 22304, reveals that Phyl, equipped with her shiny degree from American University, is now speech and English teacher at Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield. "Don is close to the end of his tour with the Joint Staff, facing the double question mark next summer of orders to who-knows-where and Captain's Selection Board, in that order."

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Bill and Helen HENNINGSEN have moved to 9850 Vanalden Ave., Northridge, Calif., where, I understand, Bill works for Hughes. Another edition of the "Jacobs' Journal" from 5854 Woodvine Rd., Columbia, S. C. 29206, reveals that Hal is involved in a host of civic activities in addition to the practice of law but still manages to work in a fair share of golfing and hunting. Jackie just passed her Ph.D. preliminary exams and is feeling quite elated. They attended the reunion in June, staying with Jack and Doe TAYLOR and then came back for Homecoming in October and stayed with Bobbe and Tom FAULDERS. Quite a year, I'd say!

Harry MacDONALD graduated on 10 Dec. from the 48th session of the Advanced Management

Program held at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Coming from every continent, 160 business executives, government and military leaders participated in the 13week program preparing mature administrators to assume the responsibilities of top management in the business or public organizations that sponsored them. Harry works for Lever Brothers Co. and lives at 8022 Forest Ave., Munster, Ind. 46321.

Joan and Boyd MUNCIE send greetings from USNHA, Box 839, FPO San Francisco 96662 (that's Yokosuka) where Boyd is Strike Operations Officer on the Staff, Commander Seventh Fleet, and is at sea about three-fourths of the time.

"Joan just completed the grand tour of the Orient: Okinawa, Taipei, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Kuala Lampur, Singapore, Manila, Baguio, and Cubi Point. The flagship cancelled its scheduled visit to Kuala Lampur and Singapore, but Joan and Boyd were together for 5 days in Hong Kong, 3 days at Baguio, and 2 days at Cubi Point in Subic Bay, Philippine Islands." Corliss NUGENT expects to be relieved about 9 Feb. from duty on the Staff of ComCruDesFlot 3 and reports to Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, San Diego, as exec.

Once again, I must stop with many items of dope yet to type and hope I can catch up in the future issues. I will soon move files and typewriter aboard ship in preparation for deployment of TULARE on 11 Feb. All you people west of San Diego keep a sharp lookout for the big 112 as I hope to see as many of you on this tour as time and operations permit. I would like to send this column with my own personal salute to Wally SCHIRRA, whose performance certainly defies description. After watching that performance on TV I felt a great deal of satisfaction in being able to say, simply, "We're classmates."

"DAISY"

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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

The holiday season always brings wonderful cards and notes from classmates all over the world. As I did last year, let me share a few tidbits and addresses with you. Hal and Jan EDWARDS write from Akron: "End of September Hal started his teaching career and is most enthusiastic. He is teaching electronics in the Community and Technical College of the University of Akron. Social affairs are many and varied. There is also a faculty wives club with a busy schedule.

We are finding our new life terribly exciting."

Their letter discusses buying an old colonial house with lots of room, lots of charm, and lots of work. Thus far they have completely remodelled the kitchen themselves, had a second garage built and replaced the furnace at 456 Merriman Rd., Akron, Ohio.

Also a short note from Doug and Althea RUMBLE says that Doug will relinquish command of MCB-3 in February and head for duty in D. C. with the JCS. Althea plans to stay behind in Port Hueneme until Jed graduates from high school. Hope the graduation fits into plans for our second tenth, Althea. Mac and Edie BALFE have ended up at 127 Woodhaven Lane, Seabrook, Tex., where "Mac is working on the Apollo project (in guidance and control) and finds it most interesting. He is the only active duty Navy-type (non-astronaut) here so we have distinction, I guess, but do miss all the Navy doings." Buck and Elly WILLIAMS card in from 4103 Cat Hollow Dr., Austin, Tex., where by this time I am positive that Elly is wearing cowboy boots and has traded her Maine-Baltimore accent for a fullfledged drawl.

It is always a thrill to receive a holiday card from Ward and Lil CUMMINGS. This one is from 1027 Olive Dr., Coronado, Calif., where Ward is CO, COONTZ. The card itself is another 43

tribute to the unbelievable artistic and creative talents of the whole family. Also from California came a nice note from Mary Layser who says she and two of the children are well setded at 215 Croyden Lane in El Cajon. She writes: "We are among a great many civilian friends, yet close enough to San Diego and its many Navy installations that we have the pleasure of visits from our countless Navy friends."

Thanks from the Stevens' clan to all who took the time to send cards to us even though you didn't get mentioned in the column. My only other comment would be at the large number of friendly classmates who took goodnatured (?) jibes at the fact that we had a plebe-type sonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something about age and all that. The mail bag also brought a nice check from Josh MORRISS which I have forwarded to Bob Marmet. One of the more pleasant things delivered by the mailman recently was a delightful, newsy letter from Jack STEPHENS. I had written Jack commenting that everywhere I seemed to go, someone always asked about the other Jack S.

Naval Hospital Officers' Mess, Bethesda. Afterward, we danced in the club's enclosed terrace. The affair was "black tie" and I must say that our group makes a pretty impressive picture, what with the uniforms and the outstandingly lovely wives we picked! Attending this year's function were: Arch and Lynn Updike, Floyd and Hope Bowdey, Ed and Bettye Appert, Bob and Peg Hartman, Boyce and Helen Grier, Robbie and Pat Brady, Blaine and Anna Ruth Davidson, Jeep and Pat Donaldson, Bob and Rosemary Enright, Don and Birgit Toohill, Stu and D. Ann Evans, Jack and Dot Arguelles, Doug and Fran Yuengling, Larry and Jeanne Marousek, Dick and Beatrice Lilly, Bo and Betty Heininger, Jack and Carol Doheny, Tom and Mary Louise Bell, Les and Connie Pomeroy, Doug and Mary Sloan, and Charles and Holly Darby.

20TH REUNION NEWS Your steering committee continues to meet regularly to plan the biggest party we ever had. We feel we are over the first hurdle with the mailing of the first flyer which announced most of the Without any attempt to spell out just who is details of the party and forwarded a "ghost list" the "other" one, here is an interesting report from to each of you for whom we have an address. The Arkansas: "Shordy after graduation I received a ghost list comprises about 170 classmates for whom medical discharge due to poor eyesight. I came we have no valid address. It was extracted from to Little Rock and went to work in the investment the class master address file by Stu EVANS and banking business which my brother had started represents a lot of hard work. Significantly, nearly during the depression days. I am now president every time a classmate sees the list, he can spot of the investment company, Stephens, Inc., and one or two names and practically quote addresses my brother is now president of Arkansas-Louisiana from memory. But these addresses are of no Gas Co. Wythe Walker lives here in Litde Rock assistance until some member of your steering and is doing very well in the development of real committee has them in writing. A form for listing estate projects. I bought an insurance company, these addresses of the "ghosts" was mailed with Union Life, from him and am now chairman of the flyer, so when you get it, fill it out and mail this board. My later roommate, Vernon Weaver, is it. Even before the flyer or the ghost list were also here in Little Rock and is president of Union published, we received a very fine letter from Management Corp., which is a subsidiary of Bob ROCHE at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard.

Union Life. I would appreciate information con- Bob located 14 members of the class in the San cerning the 20th reunion activities in June, and Fran area, and sure enough, one of the addresses hope that I will be able to attend." Jack's address he furnished was one of our ghosts! Many thanks. is: Stephens Building, Little Rock, Ark. Bob, and we hope the 14 January gathering of the clan at Treasure Island was a successful affair.

I spent a couple of interesting days in Norfolk recendy attending a ComHUKForLant conference.

The next major business to be tackled by the All of the ASW forces in the Atlantic were steering committee is the establishment of a firm, represented and '47 was there with Joe ADEL"package" price per person for the big 20th MAN, Mace WELLS, Gene FLETCHER, Bob reunion ball and cruise next 3-5 June. When this STONE, Ralph TUCKER, Ken EKELUND, and yours truly. In case the word hasn't gone com- work is done, we will announce our firm price by a second flyer which will be accompanied by pletely around the world yet via helicopter-satellite, ticket applications. We need all the good addresses it is expected that the EKELUNDS are expecting we can get before that second flyer goes out about a little dividend come June. the first part of April! Mail 'em in!

That's all from Key West. Are your plans comRegards from Washington, plete for participating in the 20th.? See you there.

JEEP

JACK

WASHINGTON AREA KTEWS At the regular monthly luncheon on 5 Jan. we had about the biggest turnout in memory. Thirty classmates plus a guest speaker. With the holidays just behind us, this large number was especially surprising, but welcome! Robbie BRADY invited Mr. Tom Simmons, Far Eastern vice president of Ralph M. Parsons Co., to speak to us informally on the general subject of Vietnam as seen by a civilian contractor. The speech was most interesting and gave us a point of view that we don't often enjoy. Attending the luncheon were: Bob Turnage, Floyd Bowdey, Larry Marousek, Bob Thompson, Bo Heininger, Don Toohill, Stu Evans, Hal Vose, Bob Marmet, Ed Appert, Dick Hollyer, Arch Updike, John Urban, Bob Groover, Slip Haizlip, Jeep Donaldson, Robbie Brady, Jim Hill, Bill Johnson, Jack Fisher, Sam Linder, John Geary, John Thornton, Doug Yuengling, Clem Clement, Frank Hunter, Lou Rossi, Art Holfield, Bob Smith, and Dick Yeatman.

The Washington area Christmas dance was a very pleasant and happy affair with good attendance (about the same as last year) in spite of an unfortunate conflict with a submarine officers' dance on the same night. We had cocktails and dinner in sumptuous private surroundings at the 44

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Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. R. A. Hoffman, USN MOQ 920B, NATC, Patuxent River, Md. EAST COAST Sec'y, LCdr. Robert W. Hanby, USN 1864 Branchwood St., Norfolk, Va. 20113

Greetings from Argentia! In reading the local paper I can across quite an article on the INDEPENDENCE in Vietnam. Prominent in the article was our own Bob GORMLEY, then CO of the Black Aces, an F4 outfit. Bob made the papers again on 12 Dec. when his fuel tank ruptured during a cat shot. Although it appeared that his plane was on fire and he ordered his observer to eject. Bob made it safely to Oceana.

The class received a beautiful card from Bill EVANS of Sydney, Australia, with his best wishes to his "Mates."

Chuck ROCKCASTLE was relieved as CO, VS-27, on 19 Jan. He has orders as CO, VS-41, the S2 RAG in San Diego.

Dick ADAMS relieved Mike AMES as CO Fighter Squadron 14 on 20 Dec. VF-14 is the famous TOPHATTERS and has been previously commanded by such names as Mustin, Bogan and Radford! Going back a few years, just about the first movie I ever saw had Clark Gable and Wallace Berry as TOPHATTERS. Now AMES and ADAMS!

H. C. GAITSKILL recently completed a General Electric Advanced Marketing Management seminar.

Herb is manager of sales for GE's General Purpose Motor Dept. in Paterson, N. J. A welcome letter from H . P. JEFFERSON, Joint Task Force Two, Sandia Base, N . M., reports:

Harry Jefferson '48

"This past year I came ashore from three split sea duty tours: XO BAUSELL (DD-845), CO BAUER (DE-1025), and CO, ROBISON (DDG-12),

all west coast. I am now with Joint Task Force Two in Albuquerque, N. M., and as the only 'black shoe' here, I am referred to as Commodore of the Rio Grande Navy. My work is concerned with test planning, which I find interesting but a far cry from life aboard ship. Shore duty with no XO is a shock.

"This country grows on one quickly. We have quarters on Sandia Base, two blocks from the tennis courts, pool, and club. This is particularly nice for Greg, 15, and Karen, 12. Fishing, camping, and most all outdoor sports except sailing can be enjoyed here. Over the Christmas holidays we discovered skiing and I'm proud to report that all the Jeffersons can now snowplow down the slope.

"Route 66 passes within two blocks of the base, so we hope to see many classmates driving from coast to coast."

Due to the Christmas season the news is light this month. Why not add your class secretary to your Christmas card list? This would serve to update our address file and the news you would send would be a most welcome addition to the column.

Because of the projected employment of my squadron, this is probably my last column. I hope I have contributed to that class spirit which will provide us all with a lot of pleasure and satisfaction in the future. T o those of you who have contributed to the column, my sincere thanks. To those of you who have not, DO IT! Happy landings, DICK

REPORTING IN

Richard Adams '48

Cdr. Richard C. Adams was born of missionary parents in Monrovia, Liberia, and entered the Naval Academy in June 1944. During his midshipman days he crewed on board the naval yacht VAMARIE in the 1946 and 1948 Newport to Bermuda ocean races. He reported to Pensacola for flight training in the fall following graduation.

Commander Adams was designated a Naval Aviator in March 1950 and reported to VF-112 where he flew die F9F-2 Panther on board USS S H I P M A T E

PHILIPPINE SEA. During the Korean War he made two deployments with VF-112 and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Air Medals, and a Navy Commendation with a Combat V. In October 1952 he received orders to the 63rd Fighter Interceptor Squadron for exchange duty with the USAF at Wurtsmith AFB, Mich., flying the F-86A and F-86F. At the close of this tour in October 1953 he returned to the Naval Air Training Command to instruct in the F9F-2 at Kingsville, Tex. From 1954 to 1956 he attended the PG School at Monterey, where he received a B.S. degree in aeronautical engineering. This was followed by a year of graduate work at the Forrestal Research Center, Princeton University. There he majored in airplane performance, stability and control, receiving an M.S. degree in aeronautical engineering in June 1957.

In July he joined Air Development Squadron Three (VX-3) to do operational test and evaluation work, primarily in the F-6A (F-4D Skyray).

In August 1959 he became the Air Operations Officer on the staff of ComSecondFleet. In August 1961 he was selected to attend the Navy Test Pilot School at the NATC, Patuxent River. Here he earned the distinction of being the outstanding student in his class. Following completion of the school he joined the Flight Test Division at Patuxent River flying test flights in A-4E, A-5A, A-6A, F-8E, E-2A, and F-4B aircraft. In 1963 he was advanced to the position of Head, Flying Qualities and Performance Branch of the Flight Test Division. Upon completion of this tour of duty he went to VF-101 for weapons training and carrier qualification in the F-4B and reported to VF-14 in February 1965 to assume his duties as executive officer.

Cdr. Adams is married to the former Winna Sue Kimmick of Whittier, Calif. They have two children and presently reside at 1414 Alanton- Dr., Virginia Beach, Va.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Wm. C. Dotson, USN P.O. Box 2651 Washington, D.C. 20013 '49 Christmas Party

rcau of Naval Weapons as Assistant to the Assistant Chief for Plans and Programs.

Roy is married to the former Barbara Foster of Orlando, Fla. They have one daughter, Ruth Anne, who was born in Paris in October 1962.

They presendy reside at 3309 Cameron Mills Rd., Alexandria, Va. POLARIS CO Roy Goldman '49

Kenneth Porter '49

FORTY-NINER OF T H E MONTH Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1949, Roy served in USS COLUMBUS until June 1951. After completion of the basic officers' course at the Submarine School, New London, in December 1951, he reported aboard his first submarine, USS BuRRFisH, and from there to USS TROUT, where he served until July 1956. Following a year widi the Staff, ComSubLant, and a shore tour of nearly two years at the Submarine School at New London, Roy had a split sea tour consisting of a year as CO of USS MARLIN and a year as XO of USS DARTER. His next orders were to Paris for duty under instruction at the French Naval War College from September 1961 to December 1962.

After return to the U. S., Roy reported to USS TRUMPETFISH as Commanding Officer, and from there in May 1965 to his present duty in the BuF E B R U A R Y ,

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On 22 Dec. Cdr. Kennedi A. PORTER assumed command of the gold crew of USS LEWIS AND CLARK (SSBN-644) at commissioning ceremonies at Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Va. LEWIS AND CLARK is one of

the newest of our Polaris submarines and is to be equipped with the Navy's Polaris A-3 (2500-milerange ballistic missile). Ken, his wife Mary and their four children presendy reside at 74 Middlesex Rd., Newport News, Va. WASHINGTON AREA NEWS The Christmas gathering of the Washington area '49ers was held on 12 Dec. at the Bethesda Officers' Club. This turned out to be one of the most enjoyable class get-togethers recently. A number of relatively new arrivals in the area were welcomed to the clan. And in general the atmosphere, decorations, food and congenial crowd added up to a genuine highlight of the holiday season. "The large number attending included the

following: Don and Marilyn Weir, Tom and Joan Gill, Walt and Ruth Schriefer, Red and Mary Lou Kretschmer, Demy and Jean Demyttenaere, Dick and Helen Wolford, Bob and Alice Clark, Mickey and Libbie Gussow, Jay Ray and Jane Wallace, Ace and Mickey Boughton, Bill and Marty Read, George and Dolores Morgan, Al and Bobbie Jenks, Luke and Charlotte Capone, Paul and Shonner Roman, Bill and Kathy Dotson, Dick and Sallie Page, Catharine Train, Jack and Rose Marie Benoit, Carol Speckart, Harry and Alice Morgan, Spike and Jackie Gardand, Red and Genie Cobb, Chuck and Lynn Martin, Bob and Jeannette Brown, Russ and JoAnn Goodacre, Roger and Corky Peard, Bill and Marge Kremidas and Jim and Petie Hurst. While many helped to contribute to the party's success, special thanks are due to Spike and Jackie Gardand, both for good planning and for much time and attention given to decorations and the preparation of favors.

At the January class meeting and luncheon at O'Donnell's, a near record crowd turned out. In addition to hearing the recounting of activities of recent years by new attendees and the usual swapping of sea stories, a brief business session was held. Plans for the appointment of a Class Memorial Planning Committee were announced. Also Ace BOUGHTON was re-elected to fill a vacancy on the Class Executive Council. Those attending this first 1966 get-together included Jim Brown (BuPers), Buck Buckingham (BuShips), Ned Ma45

jesdiy (BuPers), Russ Goodacre (BuWeps), Bob Brown (BuSandA), Jack Landers (No. Am. Av.), Bob Clark (BuWeps), Dick Wolford (SPO-Polaris), Emile Achee (No. Am. Av.), Bart Bartiiolomew (Ati. Res. Corp.), Jack Benoit (Atty.), Ace Boughton (Missiles & Rockets Mag.), Bill Dotson (SPO), Bob Faricy (Theo. grad. student; priest), OUie Colvin (Cargocaire Eng. Corp.), Roy Goldman (BuWeps), Roger Peard (MC, BuWeps), Walt Schriefer (NCSSA), Lou Dillman (BuPers), Chuck Reid (BuWeps), Red Kretschmer (No. Am. Av.), Rusty Merrill (OpNav), George Morgan (BuShips), Harry Morgan (OpNav) and John Barrow (IBM).

than there are Democrats in Georgia. My contention is that you were making like an instigator in best Poe traditions—the pot needed stirring to see what would come to the literary surface! Looking over Warren Parr's publicity carefully, it really makes no claims of first. Hopefully this will produce more mail for you, but I think Cdr. Parr was the first 1310 desig. in '49.

"Now from the other (and a very far distance it is) end of the spectrum, I'm shooting for 'the oldest LTJG in '49' niche. Any comers? I know Jack BENOIT is older than I am (and most anyone else), but he anchors a like spot in the 'Ensign '49' department.

Herb BUTLER writes the following newsletter: "This is a brief, and tardy, report on the current '49er contingent in the Paris area. Since Jack DANIS last reported, the contingent has grown to a known count of six, five at EUCOM and John DRAIM at USRO/DEFREPNAMA. Jack Danis is the senior citizen as far as time in the area and is in the Military Assistance Division.

John Draim and I arrived Jan./Feb. 1965 from the Armed Forces Staff College.

"I am in the J-4, Logistics Division of EUCOM. Harry Shacklett, in Communications-Electronics Division, and Phil Thom, in J-3 Operations, arrived last summer. Finally, Russ Wilson, also J-3 Operations, arrived this fall, also from the AFSC, but via a year spent in Vietnam.

"The last class get-together was a Hallowe'en costume party at the Butlers'; the photo shows a partially unmasked crew picture (Jack and Jeanne Danis' masks are painted on). Harry and Evelyn Shacklett were unable to attend; the remainder are grouped in the picture as follows:

"This note is being written without the benefit of the last couple of Shipmates—the magazine mail hasn't caught up with my new address. The silence is deafening. Trust my observations are still timely.

Was delighted to learn of Bill HAMILTON'S and Larry DERBY'S whereabouts through the rhubarb.

Can't resist the opportunity of wishing the class a Happy New Year! Regards, Tom." The following news items were passed along via postcard from Voss VOSSELER: "Dear Bill, Just a few tidbits of news. Bob Brady is on ComCruDesLant Staff here in Newport. Classmate Shapiro drives around campus (NWC) with a New Hampshire auto license plate bearing his nickname 'Shap.' Luke Capone, DCA, Wash., recendy visited the War College on official business and stopped by the house for a visit. Roger Boh has assumed command of Fighter Squadron 154.

"I presume you saw Pete Williams on TV over the holidays as referee of one of the bowl games at Miami; I think it was North-South. Al Schaufelberger has recently departed Lemoore

'49ers In Paris

"Front—Charlotte Rohn (Pat Draim's sister), Pat Draim and Phil Thom; middle—Jerry Thom, Russ Wilson, Jeanne Danis, John Draim, Halma Wilson and Herb Butler; rear—Jack Danis (Marion Butler was the photographer).

"The only other classmate seen by the undersigned recendy was Ed Briggs at CinCUSNavEur, London, during a quick trip at the time of the party and then it was just to say hello. One other piece of news on '49 is the notification of the institution of the Rev. George W. Cummings as the rector of the parish of the Church of Our Savior, Diocese of Los Angeles, on 5 Dec. 1965.

George now has his own Episcopal church. This is all the '49 news that I have from Paris. Herb."

OTHER CORRESPONDENCE We received a welcome Christmas card addressed to The Class of '49 from Betty Sacarob and son Howard. Their present address is 708 Washington St., Key West, Fla. And under a letterhead of Executive Jet Aviation, Inc., comes the following letter from Tom THURBER: "I do believe die '49 column comments some months ago about Warren PARR's third stripe have flushed more 'Birds' from cover 46

(NAS) in a squadron aboard RANGER westbound.

Other '49ers at Lemoore: John Alvis, Sam Chessman, Jim Donovan, Otte Krueger, C. Ray Smith, Homer Smith, Bill Stoddard, Jack Wynn and Ken McArthur. Best regards, Voss."

The following letter to the class was received from Nancy Vogt: "I want to thank you for the lovely tribute written about my husband, Mike, which appeared in the November issue of Shipmate.

"The children and I were so proud of Mike and we couldn't possibly count the love and devotion we all had for him. There are truly no words which can express our gratitude at seeing all the familiar and good faces of our friends who attended the memorial services, and those who continue to call and stop by.

"I met Mike in March of 1945, prior to his appointment to the Academy, and I can honestiy say we had twenty years of love and happiness.

Mike was called upon to do a duty which he did fearlessly on his last mission, only to be shot down by the enemy.

"He loved the Navy, his country, his airplane and his family, so he gave his all.

"My heartfelt thanks to everyone for their sympathy, prayers and thoughts, which Michael, Patsy, Chris, Janie and I so desperately need to give us strength."

It is with deep regret that we report the death of Ed RAWSTHORNE on 29 Dec. He was killed in action in South Vietnam while leading a night mission in F4B's from the carrier ENTERPRISE. His naval service began in January 1943 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. His outstanding record is listed in the Last Call in this issue.

In July 1950 Ed was married to the former Alta Louise Holmes of Phoenix, Ariz. Alta and their children—Daniel, Philip, Charles and Anne —live at Quarters 1419 Naval Air Station, Miramar, Calif.

Memorial services were held on 6 Jan. at the NAS Chapel. The class of '49 extends their heartfelt sympathy to the family.

Sec'y, Cdr. J. J. Pansner, Jr., USN 2544 Marymount Ave. Vienna, Va. 22180 Liberty and no boats. And to make matters worse, it was Christmas Eve in the Bay of Naples.

Wayne SMITH, XO of VA-66, wrote that he had hoped to spend Christmas in Rome. We hope the rough water calmed, Wayne, and you made the trip.

Judy and Bob BARDES wrote from 2289 Mulberry Lane, Lafayette Hill, Pa., near Philly, they say. Christmas notes bring us up to date on a lot of friends and classmates which we like to pass along. Ginny and Phil JOHNSON wrote from 8111 Bayshore Dr., Apt. 3, MacDill AFB, Fla., where Phil is aide to Deputy CinCSTRIKE. He reports, "We're expecting orders—where?

When? This has been a busy, interesting tour but we're sure anxious to rejoin the Navy." We heard from John COUGHLIN's CO, Mary, who says she likes our part of California. John is OinC of VP-31 Det. A, the P-3A "RAG" at NAS Moffett Field. In February they are moving to Hawaii where John will be XO of VP-22.

Jackie and Ed MENDEL wrote from 1004 Ebany St., Vandenberg AFB, Calif., to tell the class: "We're back!

"Civilization again! Well, at least closer to it.

"Last Christmas saw us sinking slowly into the west on Kwajalein. Since then, we have been exposed to a variety of awesome and traumatic experiences—Pacific Ocean tidal waves (real, but no damage), sharks (you almost get used to them), water rationing (Navy showers, yet), no toothpaste at the store . . . the mind balks at the recollection of these dramatic experiences.

"We had visitors galore, and met lots of nice people, so the time passes quickly. We all flew to Honolulu in April, and spent the time on the beach, where else? Ed, of course, managed to get back to the mainland more frequently and always returned loaded (?) with all the litde goodies that we couldn't get out there.

"In July we discovered that we Vyfere to return in August, and so began preparing for the trip.

We had some difficulty persuading Chris, Merrie, and Mark to come with us, they had really found a home. There are no thru flights to Kwajalein, so back all the way to Honolulu even though we hoped to get a military space available flight to Japan. Jackie had the whole thing planned—shopping trips. Hong Kong, the whole thing. Ed was rescued when there just wasn't any space available to the Far East, so we took a tour of the islands.

On Hawaii, Ed and the children even walked down into recently active (March, 1965) Kilaeua volcano, while Jackie watched from the rim desperately clutching the railing and the insurance policies.

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"We finally arrived on the mainland in September and settled down in our new house—three blocks from our last one at Vandenberg AFB. Ed is working for the AF Western Test Range in what he calls Advanced Planning. Whatever it is, he travels a lot."

Connie and Chuck ROBERTSON reported their doings from 20081 Chateau Dr., Saratoga, Calif.

Chuck is with Lockheed Sunnyvale. As in most families, Connie does the writing: "How is that Washington weather? Any good old-fashioned snow? Would love to have some in this part of the country for that is all the 3 older boys really want! This past summer, in our camper, we took off and saw Yosemite, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, N . Mex. W e are going every August to Santa Fe to visit the Sr. R's at their beautiful 'Tiny' ranch—then into Arizona—Southern California—up north to home. T h e six men had a ball—^but, naturally, I was a 'little' tired— but we had fun."

Connie and Dave EMERSON are living at 1826 Chelwood Circle, Charleston, S. C. Peggy and John KOST are still at 625 Turner Rd., Middletown, R. I. John is a war-gaming prof at the Naval War College.

From 9 Dudley Ave. N., Middletown, R. I., the Roy HIGHBERGs report: "The year 1965 has been a very active one for us and 1966 looks equally as promising: it will find us on the move during the first five months.

Roy received orders which are effective six months earlier than we had expected, and they have us moving back to Quonset Point on the other side of Narragansett Bay. Detachment will be in January, but training at intermediate stations delays our arrival in Quonset Point until mid-May; the family hopes to spend 10 weeks together in Key West while Roy goes through Carrier Replacement Airgroup Training there in the SH-3A prior to reporting to Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Nine."

Vi and Don JARRELL have moved from sunny Napoli to sunny 806 Cortez Court, Livermore (not to be confused with Lemoore), Calif.

Norman French '50

Norman M. FRENCH, Jr., has been named foreman for armor products manufacturing by the Norton Co. of Worcester, Mass. Formerly refactories division industrial engineer. Norm joined Norton Co. in 1961.

The first 1966 Washington Class of 1950 luncheon mustered at Hogate's on 5 Jan.: Dunaway, Lizanby, Flint, Rees, Palmerton, Pausner, Barnette, Noonan, Eagye, Conley, Whitehead and Kiehl. We were honored by a most welcome guest, Jim Mellenkamp '48-B.

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Sec'y, LCdr. D. W. Knutson, USN 10203 Montgomery Ave. Kensington, Md. 20795

It was a distinct shock to me that January's column was not received in Annapolis in time to be put in Shipmate, but I apologize for its absence and submit the January and February columns together.

We had our stag night with the executive group (Hunt, Arch, Latimer, Tip, myself) and Grove and James also attending—good group—good management. We're in the business of keeping the class of 1951 dynamic, aggressive and forward moving!!

Resolutions for the New Year are in order: Anna and Ed GREENBERG wrote from 1 1. All former class secretaries will write a letter Smithfield Dr., Middletown, R. I., that, "As a every month to the current class secretary. student at the War College, no one could want it 2. All of the class of '51 will join the Alumni better. It's like frosting on the cake. Just heard Association. we're going to Mechanicsburg from here. Ed's 3. The Big Class will send in to me their to be data processing officer at SPCC. He couldn't addresses. be more delighted."

4. The next Homecoming at the Elks Club in We've also heard from Marjorie and Bob Annapolis will be the scene of the biggest group WHITELAW at 4958 February St., San Diego, party in the history of the USNA (for any class Calif., and from Emily and Sam DOAK at 1153 in any year).

Cakon St., Honolulu, Hawaii.

5. Jerry Conner, George Patch, Jim Hunt, Tip New arrivals in the Washington area include Mott-Smith, Sam the Latimer, Colonel Ashby at Jane and Bill SMOOT, 9 East Irving St., Chevy the Elks Club in 1967 at Homecoming and singChase, Md., and Joyce and Gene DUNAWAY, ing "I want to go back to Vietnam" (some day).

4313 Selkirk Dr., Fairfax, Va. Tom EAGYE 6. The ladies of the classmates of 1951 marching checking in at nearby NOL White Oak. on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to acclaim the 1966 Grover REES has been recently elected an pay raise of the class to new heights (Happy New assistant vice president of Hodgdon & Co., Inc., Income Tax Brackets).

Washington, D. C. 7. All Christians proclaiming Peace on Earth Barney RUBLE writes from Student Detach(and the Moon) to Men of Good Will. ment, U. S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, 8. The class of 1951 will be elected to the Pa. 17103: USNA Hall of Fame as the most spirited class in "Barbara and I are enjoying this ten-month tour existence. of duty with the Army here at Carlisle Barracks.

9. All of our children preparing for L'ecole We are doing our bit to try and see to it that the Navale and Gunston Hall on scholarships.

Army is set on the right course."

10. The U. S. Navy (and Marine Corps) will Robert F. FAHEY, C.L.U., 138 Treehaven Rd., serve always with distinction, alongside the Army Buffalo, N. Y., representing the National Life In- and Air Force. surance Co. of Vermont, has earned membership So long, one and all—we need your letters, your in the firm's tenth President's Club for his outstanding client service and sales among the com- pictures, your addresses, and most of all, your pany's Maine-to-Hawaii field force. Bob has thus enthusiasm for the good of the class, the Navy and Corps, and our country. won eligibility to attend the club's educational Had a call from Dick DALLA MURA who is conference at the Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, here for duty now with Joint Chiefs on J-3 staff— in March. He has belonged to the club previously his home now is 9142 Santayana Dr., Fairfax, Va. and is active in other insurance and community (591-3675). circles.

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Dr. John McGrew made the California news with his recommendations for recruiting teachers for administrative posts. Dangerous Dan is really moving forward in California.

The class of 1969 will be the first class to receive our gift and instructions for their class organization, so reports the chairman of that fine effort, Archie Thompson.

Mark Lemelmen of 7 Roger Dr., Port Washington, N . Y., reports his whereabouts as a marketing rep in that area, and says he lives within sight of Naval Training Devices Center there.

Thank you, Larry, for your fine letter—it helps to write columns and get them in on time when former class secretaries write in such fine interesting letters (Larry Treadwell, 444 D .4ve., Coronado, Calif.). He reports that the Pacific Cruiser Force is being run by 1951 in that the following classmates are in Operations Officer billets: Sam Jones in CANBERRA; Ray Madden in TOPEKA; and

Larry in PROVIDENCE. Submarine COs Meader, Hovater, Tillson and Brewer are based out of Coronado now. Hello, Glenn ol' buddy, swimming off piers anymore, at night, in full moon?

The Association of the Class of 1951, at its May 1965 meeting, appointed a nominating committee with C. T. Hutchins as chairman and W. F. Barbazette, R. W. Carius, Gerry B. Conner, and Wes Hammond as members. This committee has submitted its nominees for class president: J. W. Hamilton, S. O. Jones, Jr., and J. Metcalf, III. For two members at large it has nominated: R. E. Adler, G. B. Conner, R. A. Dalla Mura, W. T. Marin, L. P. Treadwell, Jr. The official blanks will be on the way soon and you'll have an opportunity to vote for your choices. Keep the class officers humping and we'll keep the spirit up!

The December 1965 issue of Shipmate has a number of unusually fine articles. One of great interest is Capt. McDonald's article, "A Retired Officer Seeks A Job." It's quite a thorough piece on jobs after 20 or 30 years' Navy duty. Page 59 reports on the Alumni Association. I suggest that you all review it. Your membership in the Association is the tie that binds us together, one to the other, as reported therein by Hanson Baldwin.

Please continue j-our fine responses on new addresses. The class election ballots will be on the way soon, and we want your vote.

Remember the class stag night on the second Wednesday at the Gun Factory! Come one, come all.

So long for another month. See you at sea one of these days.

FIREBALL

1966 REGISTER OF A L U M N I The new 1966 REGISTER is now available for distribution $4.00 plus postage ($1.25 west of Miss.; 75(^ east of Miss.)

Enclosed is $ Please send 1966 REGISTER to:

Ma/7 fo: ALUMNI HOUSE Annapolis, Md. 21402 47

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Sec'y, LCdr. Richard W. Case, USN Science Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

I am delighted to have received the following letter and pictures from Jim LOVELL. I'm sure all of you will enjoy them as much as I did: "Dear Dick: Honest, I have been meaning to write to you for some time. As a matter of fact, two days prior to lift off, I had a letter half composed but time was against me.

"I was all set to brief you on the current events we are doing at the Manned Spacecraft Center but I guess the newspapers beat me to it. It was an exciting moment when Tom Stafford and I had a small class reunion. We met just at sunrise about 160 miles over the South Pacific. Wally Schirra '46 and Tom piloted their craft so that we were facing each other—nose to nose—just 6 feet apart. 1 could see Tom clearly when he said, 'I want you to read something.' Tom then placed the 'Beat .^rmy' sign in the window, and as you can see from the enclosed picture, I could easily read it. Ours wasn't the biggest 'Beat Army' rally but it sure was the highest.

"Seriously, it took hundreds of dedicated citizens to make our flights successful—including many in the Navy. I was proud of the efficient and competent manner the Navy handled the recovery operations. Frank Borman (USMA '50), my companion on the flight, had nothing but praise for the Navy too. Coming from an old West Pointer who just recently was an unwilling member of a 'Beat Army' rally, that was a real testimonial!

"Last summer the '52ers in the area got together for a party at the Starks' summer home. Left to right in the enclosed picture are Tom and Nancy Thawley, Tom and Faye Stafford, Art and Joanne

Stark, Jim and Marge Brickel, Ed and Ada Givens, Jim and Marilyn Lovell, and Ed and Babs Smith. Stark and Thawley are now civilians while Brickel, Givens and Smith are in the Air Force assigned to NASA. Missing, of course, are Don and Harriet Eisele. Don is a member of the astronaut group now working busily on Apollo.

"The old adage we learned as middies that the surface of the earth is 7 2 % water certainly became apparent to me. After passing over three oceans 206 times, I am convinced there will always be a Navy."

Again, thanks Jim! A real spread on Jim, Tom, Don, and the other astronauts is being planned for a later issue of Shipmate, so watch for it.

BuPers promotion desk says that due to some potential retirees being held in, commander vacancies are opening very slowly and those of us selected last fall will probably all be given 1 July '66 date of rank. However, even this is not a promise.

While en route to Pensacola for some midwinter basking in the sun, Marge and I stopped off in Atianta to see Bill and Betty BRYSON. Bill looked even bigger than I remembered him and just as handsome (Betty says he's more so). We spent a truly wonderful evening recalling old times and comparing notes on the handling of students.

Kill is teaching in the Georgia Vocational School System and keeping his hand in football by refereeing in the Southeast Conference, so watch for him weekends on your TV. Bill and Betty have four lovely children, as good looking as their parents; I didn't get a run down on their football prowess. Their address is 688 Huntington PL, S.E., Marietta, Ga., and Bill is the only James Wm. Bryson in the Atlanta phone book, so don't hesitate to call in passing.

Some notes gleaned from Christmas cards: R. B. (Bob) SCHLOSSER, a non-grad member of '52 who graduated from Colorado School of Mines, is a mining engineer and "glad to be back in mining country." He gives his address as P. O. Box 628, Kellogg, Ida. Maj. Duwayne BJERKE, USMC, is working with a reserve training center in Santa Rosa, Calif. With him are wife, Del, and 3 (or 4) children.

Maj. Clarence N. (Jim) MUNSON, USAF, is working in the aerospace field and living at Redondo Beach, Calif.

LCdr. Walter Scott GREY is in an A4D Squadron and lives at 4745 Waverly Lane, Jacksonville.

LCdr. Doug PAYNE is with VS-32, Quonset Pt. and expects to come to Washington, D. C , this summer to attend Armed Forces Staff College.

Leroy APPELL is now an MD practicing anesthesiology in Deerfield Beach, Fla. He and his

wife Marian and sons Karl and Mark are really enjoying Florida.

Vince ARGIRO is traveling a great deal with the Submarine InSurv Board in Washington, D. C. Hugh BENTON is now stationed in the Washington area, working at BuPers. He and his wife Nancy and their little girl seemed to be enjoying shore duty for a change.

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is busy off Vietnam. June and their five children are living in the Yokosuka, Japan, area; APO 447, c/o FPO San Francisco.

Wendall HAZLETT, wife Lynn and children reside at 14350 Chesterfield Rd., Rockville, Md. Wendy is with IBM in the D. C. area.

Rollin HARPER, wife Doric and children reside at 4027 Westaway Dr., Lafayette Hill, Pa. Rollie was working with a pump concern at last notice.

Norman STEIN and Lanie are in San Diego, Calif. Red is CO of USS SEA Fox and reportedly in WestPac at present.

Gerry SYLVESTER is at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard but rumor has it that he and Letty will be moving east to BuShips come June. Until then they are at 705 Cedar Ave., Mare Island NSY, Vallejo, Calif.

Ed PASTORINO resides at 19 Arrondale Rd., Rockville Centre, Long Island, N. Y., with Joan and their four children. Ed is vice president of Reeves Instrument Co. in Long Island.

Grafton PLATT, wife Peggy and children are residing in Jacksonville, Fla., for the time being but will soon be moving to San Diego, Calif., where Whitey will become CO of a submarine.

Bob MICHAELS, Sue and children reside at 6105 Tonto Ct., Alexandria, Va. Bob is working at Bailey's Cross Roads, Va., at a branch office of BuShips Shore Electronics office.

Dick KERSTEEN is still with Westinghouse but has moved from the Philadelphia area to 19209 Brookview Dr., Saratoga, Calif.

Paul KILDUFF and wife Janet reside at 3212 Watergate Lane, Virginia Beach, Va.

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Corr. Sec'y., LCdr. Roy O. Girod, SC, USN 118 Archwood Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Bill LAWLER sent in the following: "Each year '53 classmates in the Norfolk area have gotten together at Christmas time for a dinner party.

I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but I can remember on my first tour of duty here in 1955 we had such a get-together, and I've been fortunate enough to have attended quite a few since then. The Norfolk group has not been the most active unit in the world, but we have usually had a fine turnout for the Christmas shindig. This year my wife, Carol, and I were asked to organize the party and I'm happy to report that many old acquaintances were renewed at Breezy Point Officers' Club on 17 Dec. Those attending were: Eddie and Frank Adorney, Betsy and Charlie Baldwin, Jane and Jack Davis, Audie and Mike Greeley, Joan and 'Moose' Gurnsey, Linda and Al Higgenbotham, Carol and Bill Lawler, Betty and Sandy Levy, Minnie and Tom Mayberry, Joan and Ed Moriarty, Donna and H. M. Richardson, Flavia and Frank Roach, Mary Alice and Paul Salgado, Jean and Pete Smith, Helen and Ned Snyder, Mary and Lou Sykes, Doris and Jim Throop, Dixie and Gus Viers and Sharon and Chuck Carter.

"We were all quite surprised but happy to see Larry Watson who dropped in on the party to say 'hi.' Larry was in Norfolk visiting friends and is presently with the Texaco Company. I have just finished one year on a two-year tour as Flag Sec on the staff of ComCarDiv 16. My present address is 2421 Everglades Rd., Norfolk—and will

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be happy to hear from any classmates who are passing through. After the party, Lou Sykes was nominated and elected by acclaim to serve as 'coordinator' of social activities for the coming year. Lou also gave the crowd his annual rendition of the all-time favorite, 'They're Laying Eggs Now!' " I sincerely regret to report that Jim ROMER has been reported killed in an aircraft accident on 15 Nov. while attached to the 605th Air Commando Squadron. Jim was pilot of a U-10 aircraft which crashed in Costa Rica while fl)ing a training mission. Jim's widow, Peggy, will temporarily be residing with her parents in Lake Cormorant, Miss.

Received the following from Leo CANNON: "1 am presendy assigned to the Canal Zone as resident manager of the IBM Corporation Office located in Corozal, C. Z. I am responsible for IBM's business dealings with U. S. Southern Command and the three Component Commands, the Panama Canal Company, Canal Zone government and any other federal agencies or activities located in the Canal Zone. I am an information systems engineer by profession and I enjoy a very diverse information processing environment in my present assignment. It is a challenging but very interesting occupation which involves a constant learning situation. I participate in Naval Reserve activities with a Unit at 15th Naval District Headquarters.

I am a bachelor now and any classmates passing through or stationed here are always welcome.

My address is: L. J. Cannon, Box 932, Albrook AFB, Canal Zone."

The regular Washington area luncheon for January was cancelled in favor of an evening cocktail party to include the distaff members. Because of leadtime considerations and organizational problems we rescheduled the party for 12 February, at the Bethesda O Club. Since this copy is due in early January, it cannot serve as an announcement or invitation, but I'll pass on all the details of what you missed in the next issue.

As I recall, there were a couple of civilian types at Alumni weekend who said they would forward all the dope from the Boston area. How about it, guys? I need help.

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Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Thomas J. Lawson 3140 Anchorage Dr., EFD 3, Annapolis, Md. 21403

For those sharp-eyed classmates who noticed my change of address, it's not that we have moved again. The post office dept. just citified us by letting us put our mailbox in front of the house and use our street address.

A couple of classmates found time over the holidays to drop a few lines this way to save the column for another month. First a letter from Don LYNNE, now LCdr. USNR-R, 4810 Crowson Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21212. Don proves that you don't have to remain on active duty to get a command: "Hello from Baltimore, where this old 18th Company hand is keeping active in the Naval Reserve. I assumed command of USS DARBY, Reserve crew, at ceremonies held at Fort McHenry in October. I'll operate the ship on weekends, utilizing reserve personnel, supported by a nuclear crew.

"My wife Susan and I and our three active children live happily in Baltimore. I'm a kind of 'back slider' for I enjoy working as a project manager for military design at the Army Corps of Engineers District Office.

"We recendy visited with 18th Company roomie LCdr. Frank Steele, USN, who was in Baltimore on an inspection tour of Reserve Centers as PIO for the Commandant, Naval Reserve Training Command, with headquarters in Omaha.

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"Class of '54 members should look us up when passing through. We'd love having them!"

The second letter was from George EBBITT, Maj., USMC, Qtrs. 1112A, MCAC, Yuma, Ariz.

85364: "Since my last letter for our class dope so many classmates have passed through the best Aerial Weapons Training Base that a report is required.

"First, run up the flag, the Marines of '54 have made major, all with a date of rank of 22 Sept. '65.

"While I was on leave in San Francisco, I ran into ex. 1st Lt. Jim FORTE, USMC, now Lt. James Forte (ChC), USN, stationed with MSTS PAC as a roving padre. Steve EISENHAUER, Maj., USMC, is a frequent visitor here at Yuma, flying F-4's for VMFA-122 at El Toro; Dick DENNIS, promoted here at Yuma while deployed with VMA-324, is flying A-4's out of Bufort, S. C. "This being the crossroads of the armed forces, T. P. WATSON, LCdr. type flying A-4s with VA-125; John WILDMAN, LCdr. type flying F-4s with VE-121; George KNUTKOUSKI L/Maj. USAF flying as a I. P. with the 1511 ATW MATS, and I all had a few drinks last week at our club here at Yuma. Tom and Jack are going through their respective RAG units prior to joining a squadron, and George has been checking out new C-141 pilots. The old Knut has over 8000 hours with MATS and he's one of their top guns. He leaves just before Ike shows up with VMFA-122; it would have really been a show having the guns of the '54s Navy football line giving a demo on the '53 Army-Navy game at the club.

"From the Navy Times I picked up a few hints on some of our Marines. Dick Dean is a company commander in the 9th Marines in Vietnam, Phil Friedrichs has just arrived over there. George Ertimeier is flying F-8s there; and last but not least, Ed Tipshus is returning from Vietnam to Quantico with a Bronze Star and Naval Commendation Medal after advising for a year.

motivation challenge. Another member of the class has taken a different approach. He and his wife are taking dancing lessons. If the lessons include any of the new "motions" (you can't really call them steps), the exercise should be great.

Dave REYNOLDS, back from the 7tii Fleet, was in Washington, D. C , with Jane and the family over the holidays. Now that the WesPac cruise is over, the family is moving to Los Alamitos, Calif.

Tom KIEFABER is attached to MSTS Thailand.

He, Joyce and their daughter Kim are enjoying the country. Perhaps he will write us about Christmas in Thailand.

Ed GRANT is attached to the MAAG in Japan.

Rosemary and young Ned, who is an exact copy of Ed, are absorbing the oriental atmosphere with enthusiasm.

The Blairs had better watch out. Steve and Diana RUTH also have six little ones. However, it is difficult to get ahead of the Blairs; the rumor is that Pete has orders to the Naval Academy with its romantic atmosphere.

We would like to express our sympathy to Gordon Wilson whose mother died suddenly in Florida. Gordon flew in for the funeral in Annapolis.

Ken Tracy with his wife and three children are now living in Pen.sacola. Ken is still maintaining his interest in sailing. Recendy he was in charge of a sailing regatta from Pensacola to St. Petersburg, Fla. Dick and Dunny PETERSON are back in their home in Glenwoods, Gales Ferry. They just completed a terrific 10 months in Hawaii with Dick as engineer aboard USS U. S. GRANT. Dick is

"You can expect a large turnout by the Marines at our '67 reunion when a good part of us will be back in the D. C. area."

Jaunce and Linda SWEET announce the arrival of Timothy Schuyler Sweet on 19 Dec. at Balboa House Hospital, San Diego, Calif.

Timothy joins three brothers: Jauncey IV, Christopher, and David. The Sweets live at 960 G Ave., Coronado, Calif. 92118.

That's the '54 dope for this month. Keep writing.

FRANCE As perhaps some of you have heard, the United States has rewarded Charles de Gaulle, in view of his unfaltering friendship, by sending Ed "the Swede" Hanson to France.

Ed and Dolores have written "Washington" several of their fantastic volumes. The first, "How to See the U. S. on the way out," is a resume of the Hansons' trip from Washington, D. C , to New Jersey, via Milwaukee, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Disneyland, Hollywood, the Air Force Academy, and Milwaukee, all in a Dodge camper. The second volume entitied "First Impressions" relates the experiences of a newly arrived family in France and the belated arrival of household goods and pilfered camper. One chapter of the second volume entitied "Paris, France, at a Glance" was quite revealing.

If you can find them, Swede has offered to split a botde of French wine.

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Sec'y, LCdr. W. G. A. Sympson, USN Dept. of Mathematics, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

The correspondence has not caught up with all the holiday social activity, nothing heard from a single '55 group. Perhaps as things settie down the secretaries of each group will bring us up-todate. Until then here are some individual notes of interest.

Mai MacKINNON is presendy at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard as project officer of Sea Lab II working with Scott Carpenter. Certainly an excellent job for a former varsity swimmer and star man from the class of '55. Mai was in Washington, D. C , 11-12 Jan. to take part in a symposium on "Man's Extension into the Sea." He gave a talk on the designing, constructing, and outfitting of Sea Lab II. In Newport our classmates at the War College have been keeping active. Beside working on their thesis and courses, some have made an extra effort to stay physically fit. One is going the conventional route, working pushups and the like.

However, he also has his young son doing the exercises with him; no doubt this presents a real

presendy CO of USS TINOSA.

Sec'y, Lt. D. L. Brown, USN P. O. Box 1926 Annapolis, Md. 21401

NEW LONDON Our New London group is continuing quite active. They now have two corresponding secretaries, Sheila Keegan and Judi Hayman. Judi reports that Gerry and Joe Taff hosted their 30 Oct. gathering. Among those attending were Ellie and Mike Ahrens, Sally and Roger Betts, Judi and Doug Hayman, Sam and Hank Jordan, Cleo and Dick Shafcr, and Nancy and Jim Van Metre.

Since all the '56ers were scheduled to be in port for Christmas, the December get-together should have been an equal success.

SOUTH CHINA SEA Fred Spellman writes that he is winding up a seven-month deployment in the South China Sea aboard USS MIDWAY. After flying 150 combat 49

missions into both North and South Vietnam, it sound like Fred will have a few more chest decorations.

While in port Subic Bay, Fred into several '56ers in, of all places, the " O " Club. Ted FISCHER

Joan and Ben SIMONTON (they were married "Walt Booriakin is asst. weapons officer, but on 27 Dec. 1964) are in Camden, N. J. Ben is won't be with us much longer. After three patrols, prospective chief engineer in TRUXTUN, due for he is on his way to Monterey for PG School. commissioning about August and thence to WesPac "Jay Hummer is the engineer and has several for duty. more patrols to make, no doubt. Jay and Julie (CO of JEROME COUNTY), Herb KUYKENDALL Hummer and their three children live in Charles(XO of MANSFIELD), Al ANDRADE (CUSK) and EAST COAST ton.

Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Edwin B. Smedberg, USN Ross HATCH (STRAUSS) were having a little cheer "I've been on board for two patrols and am the Flag Lieutenant/Aide, U. S. Naval Academy together. Bob ROGERS (REEVES) was in but Annapolis, Md. navigator. I expect to remain on board for at least couldn't be found. George WILKINS (CORAL SEA) WEST COAST another year and a half. I live over in Mt. Pleasant, Corr. Sec'y. Lt. George C. Skezas, USN showed up later and Ernie JAMES (NAS Atsugi) a suburb of Charleston. Both Jay and I extend an Box 703, USNPG School flew in tile following day. Harry BARHART Monterey, Calif. invitation to any classmates who come to the area (VA-125) was reportedly at Clark AFB on leave to give us a call. but couldn't be located. Skip FURLONG was in The following is from the Washington Post "A littie family news. I was married on 27 on the staff in CORAL SEA but apparently the of 29 Nov. 1965. "The son of a Navy vice adJune 1964 and my wife. Bunny and I, now have staff went home early so he couldn't be found miral was treated for minor injuries yesterday after a son, Robert, born 19 Aug. 1965." either. In November while hitch-hiking from Chu his jet trainer crashed and burned near here Lai to Cubi Point, Fred found Ralph SCHWARTZ (Norfolk). Lt. John S. McCain, III, 27, the son working in the Meteorology Office at Sangley of Vice Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., ejected from Point. Bill LOVEDAY was also at Sangley in his plane before it crashed on the beach of Cape Supply. Russ WEIDMAN was reportedly aboard Charles just across from here. McCain had been Sec'y, Lt. Lloyd H. Adams. USN ORISKANY. Thanks for the information, Fred; write flying a T-2 Buckeye from New York to a Naval Exec. Dept., USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402 Air Station at Meridian, Miss. He is attached to the again soon.

Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Meridian." I saw ELSEWHERE and talked with John at a luncheon preceding the HERE & THERE Army-Navy game in Philly. He and a student Von BAIR is now out of the service and doing Have received a few short notes on Christmas had flown to New York for the weekend and graduate work at Yale. He received an M.A. in cards or enclosed with the class questionnaires that John motored to Philly for the game. I am still international relations last June and is expecting to were sent out last summer which I will pass on to wondering what happened to the student! receive his Ph.D. in 1967. Best of luck. Von, in the class. your plans for teaching, and drop down for Charlie and Suzi PEASE write that they are John HOLLAND has come up with some interHomecoming next fall. esting statistics on the class which I will preface back in Monterey for Charlie's second year in the A Christmas letter was received from Jan and by giving a breakdown of the class on 4 June Ops Analysis curriculum after spending a summer experience tour in Hawaii with ComASWForPac Bette PROKOP. Jan is at the Oakland Supply 1958: Staff. While there tiiey ran into Mike COOPER Center as Chief of the FMSO, ADP (Analysis and Total Graduates—899 and Jim TIDD. They also sent a note received Programming Branch, Oakland). During his leiNavy 625 from Pete and Libbey STOUT which I will take sure hours Jan is teaching data processing at a the liberty of passing on to classmates: nearby junior college. There are three little Air Force 185 Prokops, Diana, Barry and Kathy, who are waiting "We've finally moved, after having lived for Marine 70 for dad to finish up that cabin in the Sierras. five years in one apartment. That must set some Loss on Graduation 19 sort of record among people affiliated with the The Bob J.^EGERS are calling Charleston, S. C , The retention percentage of the entire class as U. S. Navy. Even more remarkable is that we home these days. Diane writes that Bob is gold crew engineer in the LAFAYETTE. The John of 1 July 1965 was 73.3%. The resignation per- had lived in San Diego one year previous to taking SLOUGHS and Bud ALEXANDERS were seen centage of USN is 24.3%. There are presendy the apartment and plan to live here for at least two years more—eight years in one port. Anyway, 458 classmates USN or USNR. at the Carnegie Tech game in Atlanta. before I get sidetracked, here is the new address: USN resignation figures: EAST COAST 6303 Mt. Acre Way, San Diego, Calif. 92111.

Sec'y, Mr. David P . Smalley, USMCR Resigned 1st year after graduation 2 "Not much is going on for us right now, nor Dept. of Physical Education, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21401 Resigned 2nd year after graduation 3 has much gone on all year. We took a very short WEST COAST Las Vegas vacation in July and have made several Resigned 3rd, 4th or 5th year after Sec'y, Lt. Thomas E. Dyer, USN even shorter trips to the San Fernando Valley Box 2700, USNPGS, Monterey, Calif. graduation 100 to see my Aunt Ruth. Peter has had quite a bit of Resigned 6th year after graduation 47 leave this year, but for the most part we stayed MONTEREY Total USN Resignees 152 right here, took in local events, and enjoyed San The annual Christmas dinner-dance was held Diego's famous climate while shaping up our on 21 Dec. at NALF, Monterey. Seventeen couples Lou FISLER and Jim McNULLA have volun- patio and yard. The local events of the summer spent a most enjoyable evening, thanks to the teered to be co-chairmen of the 1966 Homecom- were pretty varied. In addition to the usual San capable arrangements made by John BARTOCCI. ing celebration at USNAV. Anyone with ideas or Diego offerings of the beach, the bullfights, the John, it seems, also managed a little duck hunting suggestions should contact Lou or Jim c/o USNA. outdoor musicales and summer stock, we also had over the Christmas break with Doc DUGAN. At The following letter was received from Bing a recorder, voice, and harpsichord concert of music last count, the cost of roast duck was about $20 BASSETT: "Not to be outdone by the boys in the from the Spanish Renaissance, and the Beatles. per pound, despite both of them bagging the HALE, I'm forwarding the enclosed picture and Peter and I partook of all that I have listed, and limit. some dope on the three '58 types in HENRY CLAY. of them all, we most enjoyed the Beatles."

At the 10 Jan. monthly luncheon, O. C. BAKER, Paul GRAFF, and George PHILLIPS Ray FORSBERG sent his season's greetings with were welcomed aboard as the new 1957 arrivals his questionnaire which indicates he is still a at the school. civilian in Southington, Conn.

December graduation saw Jim HOWER leaving In a questionnaire returned by Ray HOWELL, with his BS in aeronautical engineering and headhe indicated that he would receive a Master's deing for a ship's company billet in BON HOMME gree in business administration from Creighton RICHARD. Also departing the Monterey scene was University on 22 Jan. Congratulations, Ray, this Monty KNAPP headed, via Counter-Insurgency should be an asset both to you and Northern School, to Vietnam and a job on Admiral Ward's Natural Gas Co. staff.

Enclosed with his questionnaire. Bill WIRTH had quite a lengthy letter, parts of which I quote: From various Christmas greetings the following "I'm in New York City just completing a tenwas purloined: Naomi and Bob McMAHON month tour at St. Alban's Naval Hospital for a (now Capt., USAF) are in Tucson, Ariz., where slight case of T.B. I expect to soon be put on Bob is deputy commander of a missile team limited duty status for a year before returning to based there. Ann and Al WILLIAMS (now a full duty. What this limited duty entails is the civilian) are in Bethesda, Md., where Al, a present mystery—do you know anyone who needs recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Law a semi-automatic pencil sharpener? and Diplomacy, Tufts University, is an economist with the Bureau of the Budget, working in the "While here in New York City, life was far Office of Economic Assistance to the Far East. from dull or dreary. I have had lots of time off for good behavior—-enough, in fact, to have perBob PHILLIPS (still single) is at the Supply mitted me to throw away my old rusty bachelor's '58ers in USS HENRY CLAY Depot in Da Nang, South Vietnam.

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spurs. As of 11 Dec. I'm a married man. The bride is the former Miss Ute Pohlsen of New York City, previously from Bremen, West Germany. We are living in HoUis, N. Y., within NYC limits on Long Island and love company."

I'm sure most of the '59ers were not aware that Bill has been in the hospital. We all wish him the best in his bout with T.B. and the heartiest congratulations upon his marriage.

To the many '59ers who knew Doug VOLGENAU's father, I regret to report that he died of cancer 5 Dec. Flowers and condolences were sent

by Bill Garrett in the name of the class of '59.

Doug has asked me to pass the following on to his classmates: "My family and I deeply appreciate your thoughts at this time and want to thank those responsible." Doug's mother also sent a note to the class acknowledging with grateful appreciation the class' kind expression of sympathy.

A note about some of us here at USNA directed especially toward those of you who are looking for shore duty and away from duty that keeps you away from your families during very special times. The class of '59 had the "duty" as OOW in Bancroft Hall over the holidays. The schedule looked something like this: 22 D e c , Lt. Brad Smith; 23 D e c , Lt. Vic Kruzic; 24 Dec, Lt. Lloyd Adams; 25 D e c , Lt. Trux Umsted; 26 Dec, Lt. Paul Guay; 31 Dec, Lt. Dave Troyer.

CLASS BUSINESS It is expected that the annual news letter to the class of '59 will be in the mail sometime during the month of March or early April. Our efforts to get current addresses of all '59er non-graduates has proved to be a very slow process. We thought that many addresses of non-grads would come from grads who had maintained correspondence throughout the year. The pleas issued in last year's newsletter for addresses of non-grads and in this column have produced practically negligible results. It is obvious that a directory of '59 nongrads will not be ready this spring. Should anyone have any of these addresses or news to be included in the class newsletter, be sure to send it to your corresponding secretary within the week.

I would also like to bring your attention to the new year and class dues which are being received by the class treasurer, Jim Curtin. All dues and contributions to the class fund are tax deductible.

15th. Brad is a company officer at the Naval Academy, expecting to remain there until June 1967.

The Naval Academy also claims Vic Kruzic. Vic is kept busy throughout the year planning for summer cruises for all classes. George Simmons is the "friend and contact" the 15th has in the Bureau. Regretfully this "contact" is not in the officer assignment section but George says he has some influence up there! Mike Fitzgerald recently moved to Norfolk where he has a job of Ops Officer on a DDG. Ted Wee, Bill Assell, and Chuck Tomajczyk round out the list of those "black shoes" in the surface Navy.

George Carton has his own boat already. He is OinC of USS COD ( A G S S - 2 2 4 ) and ties up (of all places) in Cleveland, Ohio. Other submariners from the 15th are Marty Hansen and Jack Hoey, both of which are believed to still be in the Nuclear Power training cycle.

That accounts for all of those still in the service. As pointed out earlier, 12 are now civilians and I cannot, with much assurance of accuracy, state where these twelve are now residing, what they are doing, or whether they are married and have a family. With the exception of Bert Setrie and Bill Yoworsky, the addresses listed in the class directory are still good for this group. Bert Settle has moved back to Anaheim, California (5325 Pamela Kay Lane). Bill and Pat Yoworsky are not too far away from Bert calling Montclair, California, home.

Class records indicate some feedback from Bill Everett and Mike Steirgess. Bill is now attending law school in Lincoln, Nebraska, and expects to start practicing about June of next year. Mike left the Supply Corps in July 1963 to enter Medical School at Western Reserve University. Mike will graduate from Med School with the class of 1969 and, I understand, plans to remain in the Cleveland area to practice.

The rest of the 15th Company—Pat Barry, Ed Gibbons, Chuck Hughes, Harry Lewis, Bill Neville, Joe Rice, Hal Saxton, and Howard Wainwright—are all civilians. To the best of our knowledge the addresses listed in the class directory are still good. The class association has not received the information questionnaire back from them and no one seems to have heard from them.

This is the "Company in the SPOTLIGHT."

COMPANY IN THE SPOTLIGHT This month we are featuring the 15th as the Company in the SPOTLIGHT. The "Fighting Fifteenth" graduated thirty-six in the class of 1959. Of these exacdy one-third are now civilians, 10 have taken the Naval Aviation pipeline and 10 have elected to keep their 1100 designators. One is with the CEC, one with USMC, and one USAF. And one member from this company has been lost.

Bill Ballard died of cancer on 26 May 1963, one of the first members of our class to be lost and the only one from the 15 th to date. Cecil Powell was the only one from the 15th to enter the Air Force and was last heard of flying with the 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron in Japan. The Marine Corps can now claim but one from the company: Wayne Hyatt is presently in Vietnam, looking forward to getting back stateside. Bob Preston is another "one of a kind," being the only member from the 15th presently in the Civil Engineering Corps.

Patty Ford, Jack London, Pat Commons, Jim Holds, and Dan Holmes are all together in the Monterey area attending PG School there. They are also all aviators sporting wings of gold. Other aviators include Jack Austin, who is still with VS-32 on the east coast, and Joe Brantuas, with VF-151 on the west coast. The Naval Air Training Command has called Jack Lovell back to Corpus Christi as an instructor and Don Seykowski back to Pensacola as an aide of CNATRA. Brad Smith completed the list of "Brown Shoes" from the FEBRUARY,

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Pres., Lt. H. A. Lavrinski, VF 162 NAS, Miramar, Calif.

Sec'y, Lt. Chico Chavez, USN, OICC RVN c/o APO San Francisco, Calif. 96309 HERE AND THERE We received a very interesting letter from the former CO of VA-75, the first A6A "Intruder" squadron to deploy, serving aboard USS INDEPENDENCE. Cdr. Snead informs us that he had Don BOECKER, Joel FEBEL, Dave GILBREATH, and Dave HARDEN in the squadron and says his hat is off to the class of '60 for the privilege he had of working with such outstanding naval officers.

He goes on to say that these boys compiled quite a record for themselves as a result of their many strikes against North Vietnamese targets and have

many hair-raising sea stories to tell. The most interesting is the one where Don Boecker and his naval flight officer, Lt. Don Eaton, had to eject in enemy territory and spent an extremely anxious 20 hours in the bush, with the enemy probing with fixed bayonets only a few feet away.

The first helo sent in to rescue them was shot up as it was about to pick them up. And luckily they were able to send another helo after them.

The picture shown was taken on board the INDEPENDENCE upon their return from the jungle. Don has been selected for both PG school and test pilot school at Pax River. Both Dave Harden and Dave Gilbreath will be starring PG school in January and Joel Febel next summer.

Carole Renner wants all to know that she and Bob became the parents of a husky little future Navy fullback on 1 Aug. who was named Eric Robert. The Rennets are living in Sanford, Fla., where Bob is stationed flying the Navy's RA5C Vigilante, though he is presendy on board USS KITTY HAWK, somewhere in the South China Sea. FROM SAIGON I always look forward to Christmas every year, 'cause that's when greetings pour in from classmates I haven't heard from for years or at least since the year before. Two of the old faithfuls are Bob BOURKE and Rob KUNKLE. Bob is still an instructor at the ASW School at San Diego. Also at the school is Ed Killinger, who joined the staff recently. Bob says he and his wife Portia will have wonderful news for us in a few months; for the present, however, they are doing real well.

Kunk recounts a recent visit by the MacLEODS— Ken just returned from Vietnam and is assigned to the counter-insurgency school at San Diego.

He observes that Ken seems like such a different person—maybe just post Vietnam—and that Eileen is still so pretty but so thin—probably 'cause their two mischievous little brats run her ragged.

Kunk and Diann had Pete and Jackie Dolan, Dick and Carol Bannister, and Charlie and Sue McHale over for the Army-Navy game. They had a very pleasant get-together but he reserved only one comment for the game: "What a lousy game!" o r gung-ho Kunk found the reserve DE USS MARSH too reservish and decided submarines would be more interesting, so he's now active in a submarine reserve group; he made his first two-week cruise on board REDFISH out of San Diego last Nov. Got a Mele Kalikimaka card from Arky VAUGHN, who wrote for the first time in many years and started out by telling me about his romantic wedding. Seems that just before he left Boston in an icebreaker for Antarctica, he had second thoughts about Miss Helena Romero Surksky from Seville, Spain, whom he met at a Seabee ball at Rota, so he high-tailed it back to Seville to marry Helena and they spent their honeymoon in Paris. Since, they have become parents of a baby girl, named Helen Carmen, born in Aug. '65, and are finally settled at their new duty station in Hawaii. Arky says Hank CHILES is in Pearl as a member of the blue team of the TECUMSEH; Carl RIPA passed through Hawaii en route to Antarctica with half of MCB6—he'll be in charge of the entire construction effort for this summer's deep freeze deployment, and that Dick EKERS should be showing up in our territory any day now with MCB4.

Jim NEAL finally got his wife Roda to send a news-in-brief card. The Neals now number 4, including a boy 4 years old and a girl 2. And Roda says they've had a very exciting career: May to Dec. '62 in Bermuda, where Jim flew the P5M with V P - 4 5 ; then came transition to the P3A at Jax; deployment to Adak, and finally transfer to the Marine Corps on 31 Oct. '65. They are now at Cherry Point, where Jim is flying the A6A with VMA(AW)-242.

Escape from the jungle.

Finally, I got a card from Ed Whitchurst, his wife Ann, and Ed III, wishing us all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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Christmas in Saigon this year was relatively quiet for the military—it had to be because a 1900 curfew was imposed for a week until past Christmas—and there were no acts of terrorism by the VC. What I thought made it particularly significant was the overwhelming manifestation on the part of many Americans to show that the welfare of our boys out here was foremost in their thoughts; this they did by deluging us with gedunks and cards conveying their prayers and well wishes. It was a magnificent gesture.

There's a Christmas that I must tell about.

One of our officers from OICC went on an inspection tour to Phuc Quoc, the island off the tip of South Vietnam, and on Christmas day he joined the naval advisor and the Vietnamese crew of a junk boat on a trip to an isolated village on the mainland—he didn't find out until later that it was an outpost in the midst of VC dominated territory—for the purpose of passing out Christmas candy to the children of the village. When they got to their destination they terrorized a passing fisherman into towing them into the village by shooting at him. Once in the village, they passed out candy to the children, who took it but refused to eat it. The Vietnamese officer gathered them around, talked to them, and our officers observed that the children started crying and reluctantly eating the candy. Curious to know what the Vietnamese officer had said to them to have caused such a reaction, the naval advisor asked the Vietnamese officer what he had told the children, to which he answered: "I told them that if they didn't eat their candy, we'd kill them all." Thus is the nature of the war in Vietnam.

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Pres., Lt. James R. Traa, USN USS HADDO (SSN-604) FPO New Ynrii Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 5736 Salerno Rd., W. Jacksonville, Fla. 32210

It is with deep regret that I announce the death of a close friend and classmate. Jack PRUDHOMME. Jack had just arrived in Vietnam aboard the carrier USS ENTERPRISE and was lost on 22 Dec. during a bombing mission over North Vietnam.

Jack is survived by his widow, Patricia; a son David Shelton, and a daughter Robin Michele, of 3712 Beacon Lane, Virginia Beach, Va.; his father.

Col. Shelton Prudhomme, USAF (Ret.), of Tipp City, Ohio; his brother Shelton, and twin sister Gail.

We all remember Jack as the great competitor that he was, as co-captain of the soccer team, as an All-American lacrosse player, and as our class secretary. It is with but one consoling thought that we pay tribute to Jack, the shipmates who went before him and those who will follow . . . theirs is a just and proud cause and their lives will not be given in vain.

Much of our news came from classmates who are in various schools. Carole and Mike von R A D E S K Y are in Athens, Ga., where Mike is enjoying both home and studies. His designator has been switched from 1100 to 3100, and he is now a full-fledged "pork chop."

From Adel, Ga., came news of Jim CONNELL (2nd Company). He is presently at the University of Georgia Graduate School, where he has a National Defense Education Act Fellowship in comparative literature. Jim expects to receive his M.A. in Dec. of this year. In June of '65 he left active duty, but is a drill pay member of NRSD 6-61 (S), which meets at the Supply Corps School in Athens.

Al and Mary Ann SMITH are in Massachusetts while Al attends MIT in CEC for two years. Alan Joseph "plays going to school" just like his daddy.

Texas A & M University's Master's program claims Bill WHITAKER, who is studying in the Dept. of Oceanography.

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underwater physics section. George GLAVIS and Hank WILLOMEN are there also. The Metzlers have added to the population explosion again, Margot tells us. Their second, also a son, John Gait, arrived on 5 Aug. Bob, Barbara, and Karin SEYFARTH are in Monterey for PG School, too. They arrived from the Tidewater, Va., area in December.

Robert and Dottie SMITH and daughters, Tracy and Julia, are in Virginia Beach. He is in VF-103.

A letter from Denny DOHERTY brings us up to date on what the Army is doing. He and Jo Anne are at Fort Sill, Okla., where he is commanding his own battery. Al DOHERTY is also there. He works in the non-resident instruction department. Denny says that he and Al have never been more than 80 miles apart over the last 4% years.

Archie SPENCER and Roger BELLEUE were in the career artillery course that Denny just finished. Archie is now in Philadelphia in an air defense unit. He has two sons. Roger and his family are on their way to the 72nd Field Artillery Group near Wurzburg in Germany.

From Jim TRAA comes news that Arland KUESTER is now in the Charleston, S. C , area.

Jim has recently seen Herb MENCH, George DEWHIRST, Reid SMITH, Bob CHAMPION, John BARFIELD, and Marvin TOWER. That's all for this month. Keep the data cards and letters coming in.

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Sec'y, Lt. (jg) H. S. Pinskey, (SC) USN USNAV Box 26, Clarksville Base Fort Campbell, Ky. 42222

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the members of our class who were selected and promoted to the rank of lieutenant. It came a few months earlier than expected, but it was a welcome year-end gift. It's another step closer to flang rank. Congratulations again!!

NAVY AIR The majority of the news this month comes from our classmates in the naval air branch.

Dusty RHODES writes that he is attached to VP-45 flying P3A's homebased at NAS Jacksonville. He spent the last six months in Adak, Alaska, and returned in January. Life in Adak was less than exciting but he made trips to Hawaii, Japan, and back to CONUS a few times. Dusty has recendy seen some west coast aviators including Tony MANESS and Larry SENN, who are stationed with VP-9 at Moffett Field. Bob CLANCY, Charlie BOWERS and Frank MARSHALL are flying P3A's with VP-I9. At Whidbey Island Joe O'BRIEN and Ron HAUGEN are attached to VP-2 while John ELLIS is with VP-1. Dusty and his wife Nancy now have two daughters, Linda Paige and Cameron Lee, who are enjoying the Jacksonville area.

Arleen Beasley informs me that her husband Fenn is now in Vietnam flying with one of the squadrons. He left for the assignment in October; she and their daughter are staying in Georgia until he returns. She sent along a newspaper clipping which stated that Neil SAPP was injured in a hunting mishap near Virginia Beach. Neil is stationed with VC-4 at Oceana Naval Air Station. He was accidentally shot in the knee by another hunter and was taken to Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Here's hoping you recover quickly, Neil.

I received a very informative letter from Bob DEPUTY who is now aboard USS FORRESTAL in the Med. He was married in December '64 and then departed aboard USS SHANGRI-LA for a seven-month cruise. His wife Liz went overseas and during the course of the cruise they had time to visit parts of Turkey, Rhodes, Spain, Italy and France. Bob then began training for an

LSO billet in Sept. '65 and Liz started teaching school in Jacksonville. Navy life is exciting and full of surprises and they enjoy it tremendously.

Our class treasurer Roger KISIEL wrote last month telling me that he is now in Vietnam flying off the Big E, attached to VA-36. Also serving aboard ENTERPRISE are '62ers Jim "Snoopy" WALKER and Buzz HURST, both in VAW-11, and Dave Hoffman in VF-96. Phil OLSEN is aboard as ship's company in the nuclear engineering department.

Roger is married and the father of a baby girl.

His wife Lana and daughter are living in Jacksonville while he is overseas. He has written to the Annapolis Banking and Trust Co. requesting information on setting up a separate memorial fund in honor of our deceased classmates. We already have a few donations to such a fund and as soon as he receives a reply I will publish the information and particulars of the fund. I also expect to publish a bank statement of our class fund in the very near future.

SUPPLY CORPS Lex FLEMING reports that New York life has finally caught up with him and he was married on 15 Jan. to a United Air Lines Stewardess, the former Miss Nancy Morris from Jacksonville, Fla. Lex is also in receipt of orders to Pearl Harbor where he will be on the staff of ComServPac Good luck!!

AIR FORCE I received a New Year's card from J. D. RUNNELS who is stationed in Germany. He writes that he is at an isolated bastion on the outer fringes of our perimeter of defense. His address is CMR Box 3158, APO New York 09132, for those who want to cheer him up with your correspondence.

SUBMARINES Bob HARTMAN sends along word that he is stationed aboard USS SEA CAT in the billets of supply and communications officer after finishing a tour as weapons officer. He and his wife Peggie and children John and Allison are living in Cherry Hill, N. J. Don WATKINS writes that he has just returned from his fourth patrol aboard USS JAMES MONROE, blue crew. Don is in the nuclear engineering department and he and his wife Sharon are living in Charleston. Don has compiled a list of the classmates who are stationed aboard submarines in the Charleston area. They include Ed Rogas, Boli Lojko, Jim Homer, Bill Owens, Jon Warthin, Jim Droste, Paul Callahan, and Bob Majeski. The above are still bachelors. The married tvnes include Steve and Susan Denson, Bob and Jean McWhinney, Ralph and Dianne Chesson, Mike and Joanna Abercrombie, Jim and Janie Wilhoit, Corbin and Dorice McNeil, John and Julia Gluck, Tom and Joyce Springer, Dave and Joyce English, Dick and Georgia Simmons, Dave and Jill Mullins, Ed and Foley Nair, Joe and Barbara Epstein, Vic and Sandy Myer, Bob and Elizabeth Sontheimer, John and Allie Hinkle, and Larry and Judy Yandell. Quite an extensive list of our classmates. If anyone is passing through the area you can always find someone you know.

CIVILIANS Mrs. Emmy Marshall has quite an interest in our class since her son Al is our classmate and her daughter married another of our class. Herb SPRAGUE. She writes me that she has been to Hawaii and Europe in the past 18 months and she spent last month in the San Francisco area visiting Herb. Herb and his wife Mary Lee are at Mare Island Naval Shipyard where his submarine is undergoing overhaul. Al and his wife Phoebe are living in Charleston where he is attached to USS HENRY CLAY (blue team) and he's presendy over in Spain on patrol. Mrs. Marshall sends along her regards to the class.

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Another column comes to a close; there wasn't much news to report this month, but I'm sure it's due to the holiday season. Keep that New Year's resolution and please write.

EAST COAST Sec'y, 1st Lt. John L. Newton, USMC Depot Athletic Officer D e p o t Special Services

Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. 29905 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) W. B. Orgera, USN VAW-U Echo FPO San Francisco 96601

EAST COAST Dave RILEY was Paul (Tex) FORMAN's roommate for our last two years at USNA and he sent a letter expressing his regret at the loss of a close friend. An excerpt from the letter is as follows: " . . . I saw Paul as a man whose honor and whose loyalty toward both his country and fellowman were the foundation of his life. His most ardent desire was to be an aviator and he spent his four years as a midshipman preparing himself for such a career. He was president of the Portuguese Club and a member of the varsity fencing team.

As head of the canoneers our last year, he made sure the canon resounded with the victory report after each touchdown. I know I speak for the entire class in expressing deepest sympathy to his wife and surviving family. A fitting epitaph: 'Devotion to duty in the highest traditions of the Naval Service'."

Dave traded the choppy seas of destroyers for the greener pastures of aviation. When I heard from Dave, he was Saufley Field, as was Ken SANGER. From Saufley Ken was to head for Meridian and Dave to Whiting. Dave was married to the former Anna Maria Formigoni of Milano, Italy, shortly after graduation. They are the parents of a son, David Scott, 13 months.

From Arlington, Mass., came word of several '63 classmates attending MIT for a three-year program in Naval Construction. Dave GREENE and his new wife, Penny, are living in Arlington.

Frank EISSING, his wife Carroll and their 22month-old Elizabeth are also there. Frank received the Navy Commendation Medal at a ceremony at MIT in which the NROTC unit participated.

Dave GREEREISEN and his wife, Susan, are living in Winchester and Dick KINNEAR and his wife Lynn were in Woburn. Bill ELLISON was the only '63er in the area who had retained his bachelorhood. He managed to do this by supporting a fancy Mercedes instead of a wife!

Frank and Carol HOLMES also live in Arlington and on 9 Sept. they became the proud parents of a son, Todd Clayton.

Russ BERRY sent along word of classmates assigned to the Air Group, CVS6-52, in the WASP. When Russ wrote, the WASP was at sea waiting for the Gemini VI and VII pickups. In VS-31 was Pete Waters; in VS-28, Frank Radik, Larry Lynn and Chuck Musitarro; and in HS-11, Alex Daunis, Jake Dennis, Chuck Dibari, Joel Heine and Russ. Back at Quonset Pt. was Benn Ross in HS-5 and down on the ice in Antarctica in VX-6 was Ken BUELL. Ben is still a bachelor! Jim ANDERSON had been the XO of the Mar Det on board until Nov. when he got orders, believed to be to Camp Lejeune.

Don MATHIS wrote from Roosevelt Roads, P. R., where he was flying the SP2H in VP-18.

Don had returned from Gitnio Bay where he saw Pete BARTH who was serving as a demolition expert with the Marines and John RYAN in VC-10. Don would like to hear from anyone who might be in the area.

Dan HENNESSY is finally becoming a sea-going porkchop; when last heard from he was headed for the SHELTON, a Fram I Gearing class destroyer, operating out of San Diego. Dan spent a leave period over the holidays at home in Summit, N. J. He was to have five weeks of TAD with the FEBRUARY,

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staff of ComCruDesPac prior to reporting to his ship. Dan has made a big step toward the future— he gave a certain lass a diamond as a down payment in making that step.

Ed HUTCHESON recently reported aboard the BEATTY and assumed duties as weapons officer.

From destroyer school he reported to the AULT as the prospective chief engineer; however, the incumbent extended his obligated service causing Ed's subsequent transfer. Ed saw Gary HOSEY, who was in his last .semester at Stanford working on his Master's. Ed mentioned that Ron KLEMICK and some other classmates were recently graduated from DesScol. Ed had received a card from John P. BURNS in Vietnam who apparendy was in a patrol unit. Ed wrote that Norm and Judy SHAKLETON were in Norfolk, Norm being the prospective chief snipe in the WOOD. Ross ANDERSON had returned last November from WestPac with his squadron. He was no sooner in the States than he checked out a jet and hopped back to Florida for a weekend. All this made Ed feel a little ancient in his "Greyhound" but he stated that he wouldn't trade.

I am sure that most of you read of the death of our classmate Pat WILKES. I would appreciate some information concerning his passing and any comments deemed appropriate.

It is also with a great deal of regret that I must inform the class of the death of our classmate and a personal friend, Don MacLAUGHLIN. An account of his death is in the Last Call section. Don was to those who knew him well the epitome of the athlete, the true competitor, the sportsman. Comments from two classmates who knew him well: Paul SAACKE wrote, "I was with Don for four years in the same company and on the same team. I think we all knew his competitive spirit and will to win in everything he did, whether in the classroom or on the soccer or lacrosse fields.

He was one hell of a guy and everyone who knew him admired and respected him. I know if I could speak for the men in his company, his teammates and friends, I could say that he'll be sorely missed."

Jim PENROD wrote: "Mac was truly one of the great members of our class and my company.

He had the courage to stand out from the rest of us and the humility to be liked at the same time. . . . If all men were like Mac, the war in which he died would be obviated." Jim sent along a quote which perhaps best describes Mac's influence on the rest of us for time to come.

"The light of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with radiations of their personality."

—Kahlil Gibran With our loss of classmates, it seems fitting that the class of "63 should select a memorial to be located at the Academy, serving to remind all who see it, that we who live on have not and will not forget. Any of you who have ideas for a suitable tribute to our lost classmates and friends please write to me.

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Sec'y, Lt.(jg> James L. Roberts, USN VT-4, Forrest Sherman Field, NAS Pensacola, Fla. 39301

Tom SWARTZ finished at Idaho Falls in time to attend the Army-Navy game. In spite of the somewhat less than happy outcome of the game, he said that Navy is still winning the post-game ceremonies. Tom, Dick ROBBINS, Bob ORLOSKY and his wife, and Frank HALPIN and his fiancee upheld the reputation of the class of '64.

The cheering this month is for Bruce and Helen ABLE who became the parents of a baby boy at 2230 on 31 Dec.—just in time to become a dependent for 1965 tax listings.

Wayne ARNY was married in Chicago on 29 Dec. No more information at the moment but we are expecting to hear that he backed out at the last moment.

Steve ROESINGER stopped in El Centro this Christmas to attend the baptism of Marty and Evelyn COSTELLO's daughter Lorraine Ann and to become her godfather.

Bill HOLMES, recently released from Idaho Falls, appeared in New Jersey to spend New Year's with Paul and Lynn MALLIS. Chuck KRULAK was wounded in Vietnam but after a short time is back in action.

Chuck PARRISH stopped by Pensacola on his way home after receiving his wings. He will be flying F-4s out of Norfolk in February. John DALTON also passed through on his way from BLUEBACK in Bremerton, Wash., to NPS Bainbridge.

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Sec'y. Ens. Edward A. Orr, Jr., USN 700 Pauldinsr Ave., Apt. 2, Pensacola, Fla. During the first week in December, John MICKELSON, one of the most well-liked members of our class, was in a serious car accident here in Pensacola. For quite some time after the accident, Mik remained unconscious and his condition was very serious. However, his recovery since that time has been very satisfactory and encouraging. Following Christmas leave, many of us in the area visited him and noticed a steady improvement.

Keith HANSFORD, a frequent visitor, is keeping Mik in good spirits. I'm sure many would like to drop him a line and wish him a speedy recovery, but at the time of this writing it was not certain whether Mik would remain here or be sent to a hospital on the west coast. I will give you this information as soon as I can.

Roger HUML, a classmate until two months before graduation, dropped a line to say that he is now working for Bailey Meter Co. in contact engineering. Rog was married in Cleveland last June but neglected to give his wife's name. At the wedding Dick Sirota, Paul Mickelson, John Szubski, Dan Hill, and Jerry Plum were in the wedding party. Dick Sirota stopped in to see Rog in December on his way from New London to nuclear power school on the west coast.

Speaking of weddings, yours truly joined the ranks of the married on 26 Dec. '65. My wife is the former Merry Tillman, a home town girl from Wantagh, Long Island. The wedding took place at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Malverne, N. Y., and the reception was held at St. Alban's Officers' Club. Roger STAUBACH was my best man and Pat VARRIANO was an usher, along with Rollie Stichweh of Army and plebe footballer Tom McKeon. Merry and I spent our honeymoon in Bermuda where we were joined by Bill WEILER and his wife Ellen, also on their honeymoon.

Roger STAUBACH recently signed a contract with the Dallas Cowboys stating that if he ever does decide to try pro football, he will play with the Cowboys. The Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League had also drafted Rog. Pat DONNELLY returned home to Maumee, Ohio, from Vietnam for Christmas. In January he reported to California for approximately five more months of training before returning to Vietnam.

He will be there for a short time, then is scheduled for graduate studies at the University of Michigan next fall.

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The regular dinner meeting was held on 18 Jan. at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel, Towson, Md. A Brigade Commander and a Battalion Commander were on hand at the December recruiting meeting, with eight prospective candidates attending. Although football coach Bill Elias could not attend, Navy's lacrosse coaches, Willis Bilderback and his assistant Gene McKenzie, spoke on the nationally ranked lacrosse team, and new and colorful pictures of the Naval Academy were shown.

Paul Scarpa, asst. tennis coach at the Naval Academy and a native of Charleston, spoke on "The Life of a Naval Academy Midshipman" at the December meeting of the Charleston chapter.

The meeting was held at the Naval Base Officers' Club.

The New Orleans chapter joined with the Pointers at the New Orleans Press Club to view the telecast of the big game.

The group of 50 was enthusiastic and the Press Club did a bang-up job on the buffet and bar.

Blue and gold fans were: Henry Broadfoot '16, Capt. Joe Schwartz, a guest. Kit and Jewel Carson '23, Frenchy and Irene Lirette '37, Harry and Etna Cook '34, Jack and Irene McCoUum '40, Bud Ellison '42, Don and Jan Wallace '59, Dave Levy and guest '45, and Bill and Nancy Sherar '52.

Plans are now being made for the Tuesday, 17 May meeting which will be the last meeting of the fiscal year.

BOSTON RAdm. William N. Leonard, USN '38, Commander, Western Adantic Recovery Forces, spoke at the 11 Jan. luncheon meeting held at the Officers' Club, Fargo Building. W. J. Toner, Jr., '43, presided at the meeting.

Adm. Leonard, whose flag flies from the carrier WASP, talked on the recovery of Gemini's IV, VI and VII pickups. His aide, Lt. Quarterman, assisted in showing motion pictures in color of the VI and VII operation.

The admiral, when serving in YORKTOWN and ENTERPRISE, participated in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway and twice was awarded the Navy Cross. While serving with Fighter Squadron 11 in 1943 he participated in the battles of Guadalcanal, Rendova and Munda, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He later commanded USS SALAMONIE and USS RANGER.

Members and guests attending were: Thomas Suddath '38, F. G. Coburn '04, E. H. Eacker '22, E. A. Robie '43, E. A. McDonald '31, W. H. Buracker '20, M. B. DuffiU '27, W. D. Coleman '32, A. K. Tyree '36, Stanley PuUin '22, O. M. Read '11, Asa E. Phillips, Maxwell Cole '16, E. R. Hodgkins '32, G. G. Tallau '56, R. S. Eastman '42, C. A. Marinke '38, Ira G. Stubbart '38, R. W. Schwenz '53, E. E. Conrad '38, F. P. Mitchell '29, J. S. Baldridge '43, T. T. Craven, Jr. '25, L. E. Zeni, H. A. Ingram '22, T. F. Donahue '27, W. E. Haycock '22, A. L. Rasmussen '43, Scott R. Foster '54, John A. Click '26, and W. B. Coburn, J. M. Quarterman, G. F. Finnegan, H. Rounds and G. Petersen.

A letter was read by the chapter president from George L. Descheneaux, president of the West Point Society of New England, thanking the chapter for having members of the Society as guests at the November luncheon. Some 80 were on hand for the informal joint affair.

Representatives of classes from 1904 through 1960, and six guests, heard an interesting talk on the old and new Cuba by Capt. Francis X. Brady '43, professor of naval sciences at Harvard University.

Capt. Brady spoke on the outstanding quality of training provided to the fleet at Gitmo, both before Castro and presendy, and how the easy days of living in Cuba have changed to a tight security program with fences, barbed wire, mine fields and patrols ringing the base. He said the value of the base has not been lost, and possibly is of even more value in training ships and men for readiness in today's tense world.

Capt. Brady served aboard USS BLOCK ISLAND and MIDWAY, and after attending the Naval War College at Newport he had duty in Cuba, serving two years in and out of Guantanamo Bay. F E B R U A R Y ,

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Guests of the chapter for the meeting were young men of the Charleston area who have expressed an interest in attending the Academy.

Capt. W. C. P. Bellinger, chapter president, presided at the meeting.

COLUMBUS The monthly meeting of the Columbus chapter was held at Lockbourne AFB Officers' Club on 28 Dec. The midshipmen who were spending their leave in the local area, their drags and parents were the honor guests at the annual Christmas dinner party.

They were: Stanley E. Carlin, James A. Farkas, Michael E. Leppert, Frederick R. Lutz, Jack E. Martin, Corwin G. Mendenhall, Richard Sheeley, Mark Warner and Peter B. Zuidema.

Cadet George Gardes, Jr., son of G. A. Gardes '42, on leave from West Point, was again a welcome guest.

Members on hand for the meeting were: R. A. Brown '49, T. W. Budd '44, G. A. Gardes '42, D. B. Hauser '51, M. K. Howe '63, J. A. Jordan '27, R. D. Macklin '63, C. E. McCombs '30, R. T. McDaniel '24, C. E. O'Brien '43 and P. R. Schratz '39.

Although Corwin Mendenhall '39 could not be present because of his recent business relocation to Jackson, Mich., his wife Ann, who is also the mother of Midn. 1/C C. G. Mendenhall, Jr., was with us one more time before the Mendenhall family moves. It was an additional pleasure to welcome the admiral's mother, Mrs. C. G. Mendenhall, who was visiting from her Texas home.

It was as usual a distinct pleasure to gather together such a fine group of people who have in common a great love for the Naval Academy and the Navy and to get to know the parents and the drags.

Bob Brown '49 made the arrangements for the dinner, which was followed by dancing.

NEWPORT The regular November meeting of the chapter was held on 30 Nov. in the Fleet Room of the Officers' Club, Naval Base. Present were: J. Agnew '30, R. W. Bates '15, G. W. Bowdey '07, T. A. Brown '35, J. P. Carney '21, R. Dees '17, H. E. Eccles '22, W. M. Foster '30, H. B. Heneberger '25, R. W. Holt '61, R. King '08, D. W. OIney '30, R. I. Olson '33, G. Morgan '16, R. W. Rankin '08, F. L. Robbins '23, P. Staley '33, S. Umstead '15, J. B. Weiler '31, L. F. Welch '06, C. McR. Winslow '24, J. T. Lay '31, Captain M. M. Cloukey with guest. Colonel Mangini, Capt.

E. J. Tiernan.

The president announced that there would be no meeting in December, and that the next dinner meeting would be on Tuesday, 25 Jan. Following dinner, a most interesting talk was given by Mr. Fred Weisbrod, city manager of Newport, on the history and characteristics of the city managership form of government.

A brief business meeting was held at the conclusion of the talk.

OKLAHOMA CITY In December the chapter members entertained at dinner for midshipmen who live in Oklahoma City.

Among those who attended, who are not shown in the accompanying pictures, were: Lou Coley '24, secretary-treasurer of the chapter; Carl Wheelan '31, Bob Risser '34, Charlie Coley '34, Kenneth Musick '35, Dave Benham '41, immediate past president of the chapter; Jack London '45, and Chan Gufley '47.

A r m y - N a v y G a m e joint West Point and N a v a l A c a d e m y luncheon at John Kirkpatrick's f o r m . From the left, kneeling: D e a n Mickelson ' 4 6 , C h a r l i e Coley ' 3 4 , John Kirkpatrick ( w e a r i n g his W e s t Point plebe dress hat).

Standing: Bob Banks ' 3 9 , Marcus Lowe ' 3 9 , Bob Lee U S M A ' 4 4 , Dave Benham ' 4 1 , C a r l W h e e l a n ' 3 1 , W a l t Reinhard ' 3 0 , Bob Risser ' 3 4 and C h a n Guffey ' 4 7 .

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SEATTLE Luncheon given by Oklahoma Cify Chapter for midshipmen who live in the city. From the left: Midn. Thomas Boyle, John Kirkpatrick ' 3 1 , President of the Chapter, Walter Reinhard '30, Vice President, Midn. Lewis Madden and Marcus Lowe '39, Professor of Naval Science at the University of Oklahoma. Copyright 1965, Oklahoma Publishing Co.

O t h e r m i d s h i p m e n a t t e n d i n g were John Cline ' 6 7 , Gary B r o w n ' 6 9 , Peter Smith ' 6 9 , and John van Dyk '69. John Kirkpatrick '31 is the president of the chapter, which n u m b e r s 19 m e m b e r s .

O t h e r Naval Academy a l u m n i in the area are invited to attend the meetings.

PHILADELPHIA A comprehensive story of the U. S. A r m e d Forces' participation in V i e t n a m — w h y we are there, w h a t we are d o i n g , w h a t success we are h a v i n g , where it is leading and w h e n and h o w it m i g h t e n d — w i l l spotlight the chapter p r o g r a m s for the year.

Speakers will include those w h o have only recently returned from the action areas in the N a v y , M a r i n e Corps, Air Force and A r m y . T h e lead-off m e e t i n g had R A d m . Robert H . Speck, U S N , as speaker, w i t h his subject ' ' V i e t n a m — W h y the U . S. is there and the role of the U . S. N a v y . " T h i s was followed by a question and answer period and a m o v i e entitled " W h y V i e t n a m . ' "

A d m . Speck is C o m m a n d a n t of the F o u r t h N a v a l District. T h e m e e t i n g was held at the O Club of the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.

O n 24 Feb. the seventh a n n u a l fathers of m i d s h i p m e n and N a v a l Academy athletic n i g h t will be held at Kenney's S u b u r b a n H o u s e . Presiding at the occasion will be the chapter president Max H .

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PITTSBURGH T h e n o m i n a t i n g committee, headed by T e d Swain ' 4 3 , reported the following chapter officers to be installed at the 28 Jan. m e e t i n g held at the University C l u b in O a k l a n d : Zeke Zechella ' 4 3 , president; Jim Craig '57, vice president; Roy Ostrander '57, secretary, and Stan Budney '58, treasurer.

Council m e m b e r s are: Val Smith ' 5 2 , Paddy K a n e ' 2 3 , Ed Barrett ' 2 8 , and Bill Kabler '29.

Members are replacing the antiquated Naval Academy seal in the club's first floor bar. A committee headed by Ed H a h n f e l d t is in charge of arrangements.

Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, director of the Pacific Science Center, spoke on the present and future plans a n d p r o g r a m s of the Center at the 5 Jan. d i n n e r m e e t i n g held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess O p e n , N a v a l Supply Depot.

In December Capt. H e b e r J. Badger, U S N ( R e t . ) , spoke on the SST d e v e l o p m e n t p r o g r a m at the Boeing C o . S o m e of the technical aspects of Boeing's proposed SST were discussed a n d compared w i t h E n g l i s h - F r e n c h Concordia. H e stressed that w h e t h e r Boeing's proposal was accepted or not, the U . S. could not afford to d r a g its feet o n this p r o g r a m . T h e r e are serious economic, as well as prestige factors, he said, which m a k e it m a n d a t o r y for this country to p u r s u e d e v e l o p m e n t and production of the SST as rapidly as possible.

T h e president, Wells T h o m p s o n '28, a n n o u n c e d the results of the election held at t h e Board of Trustees meeting, with J. L. P . McCallum '35 elected president; E. P . Finney ' 3 2 , vice president, and J. W . Longfield '46, secretary-treasurer.

T h o s e a t t e n d i n g the m e e t i n g w e r e : E. H .

Altrice, guest, J. B. A n d e r s o n , Jr. '39, J. A. Bachhuber ' 4 2 , H . Badger ' 4 1 , R. Barnes ' 5 3 , K. R. Borgen '24, O . N . B r o w n e '30, J. B. B u r r o w ' 3 3 , O. E. Cartmel ' 2 3 , B. B. Cassels '22, T . J. Colley '32, L. M . Culjat '42, M. A. D o w n s ' 2 3 , E. W .

Elliott '26, C. D . E m o r y ' 2 1 , T . C. F a u n t z '27, E. P. Finney ' 3 2 , J. A. F l e n n i k e n ' 3 2 , R. R. Fox, Jr. '22, C. F . Greber ' 2 1 , F . L. H e t t e r ' 2 7 , R. E. Jones, Jr. '44, J. S. Keck '54, R. M. LaBarron '46, H . L. Lasell ' 3 9 , J. L. P. M c C a l l u m ' 3 5 , J. R. Middleton ' 3 5 , H . E . Regan ' 2 2 , C. B. Stevens '30, C. H . T h o m p s o n '22, W . T h o m p s o n '28, G. C. T o w n e r '24, P. V a n L e u n e n '34, N . F. Varney '38, F. T . W a t k i n s ' 2 2 , a n d J. M. Loreen, guest.

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