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FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ NATO AND HER SEA DEFENSES

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LEET ADMIRAL CHESTER W. NIMITZ, who commanded the Pacific force of two million men and 5,000 ships that drove the Japanese back to their homeland in World War II, died at his home on Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay on 20 Feb. He was the last of the five-star admirals.

The former Commander-inChief of the Pacific Fleet suffered a cerebral thrombosis in early January and was hospitalized at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, from where he was released on 1 Feb. He had a relapse and was in the care of Navy medical officers at his home at the time of death. He would have been 81 years old on 24 Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the day he was interred in Golden Gate National Cemetery.

Chester William Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Tex., in 1885. During his youthful years his grandfather, a retired sea captain, told many tales of the sea, but young Chester's dreams were not of being a sailor, but a soldier. While a senior in Tivy High School at Kerrville, Tex., where the family had moved, he tried for an appointment to West Point. When none was available he took a competitive examination for the Naval Academy and was accepted at the age of 15, before he was graduated from high school.

Forty-four years later, at the age of 60, he returned to the high school wearing his uniform and decorations and riding in a buckboard pulled by a team of roan horses. This was the occasion for his receiving the diploma he had missed in 1901 when he left to enter the Academy. He was probably the only person ever to graduate from high school in the uniform of a fleet admiral.

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mathematics, stroked the crew, and stood seventh in a class of 114. Recalling his first experience on the water, when he crossed the Chesapeake Bay to Kent Island, he later said: "I got frightfully seasick, and must confess to some chilling of enthusiasm for the sea."

In 1909 young Nimitz was ordered to submarine training with the First Submarine Flotilla. At 24 he was given command of the flotilla as well as USS PLUNGER. In February 1912 he took command of USS SKIPJACK, and the following month saved a seaman from drowning.

Awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal by the Treasury Department, he wore this medal throughout the remainder of his career, along with the four Distinguished Service Medal awards for wartime exploits.

In 1913 Lt. Nimitz wrote a friend: "On 9 April I had the -W good sense to marry Catherine Freeman of WoUaston, Mass."

She was the daughter of a shipping broker.

That summer he had detached duty studying diesel engines at Nuremberg, Germany, and Ghent, Belgium, then returned to the New York Navy Yard where he was instrumental in the development of the Navy's first diesel engines.

During World War I he became Aide, then Chief of Staff, Commander Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet, and was awarded a Commendation by the Secretary of the Navy for his services.

Between wars Adm. Nimitz had varied duties; he served on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations and on the Board of Submarine Design; he was executive officer of the battleship SOUTH CAROLINA, then commanded the cruiser CHICAGO, with additional duty as commander of Submarine Division 14 based at Pearl

Harbor. In August 1926 he set up and commanded one of the first campus Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps units—at the University of CaHfornia. Then followed several years of sea duty, including command of the cruiser AUGUSTA, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet.

While serving as assistant chief of the Bureau of Navigation he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. Adm. Nimitz broke his first seagoing flag as a cruiser division commander and shortly thereafter commanded Battleship Division One, Battle Force. In 1939 he was appointed to a four-year term as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation. Before the term was completed, however, the United States was at war.

When the news of the Pearl Harbor attack was announced, Adm. Nimitz was at his home in Washington listening to a symphony on the radio. Picking up his hat, he went immediately to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations for orders. A few days later he was on his way to Pearl Harbor.

The 65 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean were to become very familiar to Admiral Nimitz during the next several years while he labored to organize the work of rebuilding a fleet which had many of its ships at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. He was quick to see that a great weakness lay in the lack of forward repair station and maintenance squadrons. While waiting for the U. S. yards to turn out the ships he needed, he built up his combat teams commanded by Admirals William F. Halsey, Marc A. Mitscher, Richmond K. Turner, Raymond A. Spruance, John S. McCain and Thomas C. Kincaid. When these fleets and forces came into being, the Navy was ready to take the fight to the Japanese.

The first major Pacific naval battle after Pearl Harbor came on 8 May 1942 in the Coral Sea—which was the world's first naval battle fought entirely in the air, without the carriers even sighting each other or a shot being exchanged between surface vessels. For this successful action Admiral Nimitz was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the Navy Department.

President Roosevelt presented Admiral Nimitz with his second DSM, awarded in the name of Congress, for services as Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet during the critical war period following the Pearl Harbor attack.

On 7 October 1943 the grade of fleet admiral was established by Act of Congress for certain officers of the active list. On 19 December 1944, Chester W. Nimitz was promoted to that grade.

On the historic date of 1 September 1945 Fleet Admiral Nimitz was one of the signers for the United States when Japan formally signed the surrender terms aboard the battleship MISSOURI in Tokyo Bay. During ceremonies in Washington, D. C , on "Nimitz Day," 5 October, he was presented a Gold

Star in lieu of the third DSM by the President for exceptionally meritorious service during the final phase in the battle for victory in the Pacific.

On 24 November he hauled down his flag at Pearl Harbor, nearly four years after hoisting it aboard the submarine GRAYLING in a harbor littered with the wreckage of American warships.

On 15 December Fleet Admiral Nimitz relieved Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King as Chief of Naval Operations. It then became his job to demobilize all but a fraction of the most powerful Navy in history—one which he had helped build. For this service he was awarded a Gold Star in lieu of a fourth DSM. After the war Fleet Admiral Nimitz continued to be honored for his wartime service. He was decorated by 14 nations and received honorary degrees from 19 universities. In 1949 he was named by the United Nations secretariat to supervise a proposed plebiscite to determine whether Kashmir should become a part of India or should be linked to Pakistan. Due to international complications the commission did not function.

He became, however, a roving "good-will ambassador" of the United Nations.

Fleet Admiral Nimitz took an active interest in community affairs, and aided in restoring good-will with Japan by helping raise funds for the restoration of the battleship MIKASA, Admiral Togo's flagship at Taushima in 1905. For eight years he was Regent for the University of California.

He is survived by his widow and four children: RAdm. Chester W. Nimitz, Jr., USN (Ret.), of Norwalk. Conn.; Catherine Vance, the wife of Capt. James T. Lay, USN (Ret.), of Newport, R. I.; Miss Anne Elizabeth (Nancy) Nimitz of Topanga, Calif., and Sister Mary Manson Aquinas of the Dominican Convent, San Rafael, Calif.

TRIBUTES President Johnson paid tribute to the late Fleet Admiral Nimitz as a man of "quiet courage and resolute leadership." In a statement released by his press secretary, the President said: "Admiral Nimitz loved his country and the sea. His devotion to one inspired his mastery of the other, earning for his quiet courage and resolute leadership the undying gratitude of his countrymen and an enduring chapter in the annals of naval history."

In a statement by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, he said: "It is my sad duty to announce to the Armed Forces of the United States the death of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz on 20 February 1966.

"The world has lost a distinguished citizen whose energies and vision were devoted without stint to a long lifetime of service to free men everywhere.

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"In the death of Admiral Nimitz the nation has lost one of our greatest naval leaders. A superb sailor, university regent and dedicated citizen, he served his country and his state with full measure of devotion.

All in the Armed Forces salute his life of achievement with the words, 'Well Done'."

From Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze came this word: "The Chief of Naval Operations, the Commandant of the Marine Corps and I join with all Navy and Marine Corps uniformed and civilian personnel in mourning the death of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, in San Francisco, on Sunday, 20 February.

"During his lifetime, marked by many significant accomplishments in the naval service, he was an inspiration to all of us. He graduated with distinction in the Naval Academy Class of 1905 and served in various ships, and commanded two, before undergoing submarine training. After many more commands and duties, he laid one of the cornerstones in the foundation of

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the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program when he installed, and instructed in one of the first units at the University of California at Berkeley.

"He was designated Commander in Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet on 17 December 1941 and led U. S. Forces in the Pacific Ocean area to victory, culminating in the signing of the surrender documents in USS MISSOURI on 1 September 1945 in Tokyo Bay. He relieved Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King as Chief of Naval Operations in December 1945 and served in that capacity for two years. He was then assigned as special assistant to the Secretary of the Navy with offices in San Francisco.

There he continued to serve his country, in many ways, always with distinction. His passing is a great loss to the U. S. Navy and to the nation, but his deeds and character will be an inspiration and standard for us all in the years to come. Typical of Fleet Admiral Nimitz, he requested simple ceremonies incident to his burial at the Golden Gate National Cemetery, a final resting place close to the service personnel who died in the Pacific. Fleet Admiral Nimitz will be buried on Thursday, 24 February."

NATO AND HER SEA DEFENSES b y A d m i r a l Thomas H. M o o r e r , USN Supreme Allied C o m m a n d e r Atlantic

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ordinarily spo\en of as NATO, is composed of fifteen member nations with a common concern for their individual and collective security. Basically speaking, the purpose of the Organization is to provide for an integrated, mutual defense against aggression. Its members are Belgium, Canada, Denmark., France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its executive body is the North Atlantic Council with headquarters in Paris. Military control is exercised through a Military Committee and the Standing Group, the latter located in Washington, D. C. Subordinate to the Military Committee are the Allied Atlantic Command, the Allied Command Europe, the Channel Committee and its Allied Channel Command, and finally the Canada-U. S. Regional Planning Group.

The Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic and the Supreme Allied Commander Europe are, and have been since the establishment of these commands. United States Officers.

Admiral Moorer, a member of the Naval Academy class of i9jj, has had a distinguished career and in i957 became one of the first two of his class to be selected for flag rank. Passing from Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (War Gaming Matters) to command of Carrier Division Six in i959, he again returned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in i960 where for two years he served as Director of the Long Range Objectives Group. In October i962, with promotion to the rank 째f ^^" admiral, he relieved as commander of the U. S. Seventh Elect in the Far East. Twenty months later he broke his four-star flag as Commander-inChief, Pacific Fleet. On jO April i965 Admiral Moorer relieved Admiral Harold Page Smith, U. S. Navy, and became Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Atlantic Elect, Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic and the fifth Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

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HE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION has written some pages in world history—from April 1949 to March 1966. On 4 April, a few weeks hence, NATO will have proved a deterrent to aggression for 17 years. Subject to the continuing maintenance of the status quo, not one foot of NATO territory will have been lost to communism during that long period of competition. The cost to NATO for the Allied Command structure will have been relatively low. Peace will have been preserved. So far so good!

What of NATO's tomorrow? What will be imprinted on NATO's pages during the next ten years.? Will past policies and implementing strategies suffice.? Will NATO's so-called trip-wire strategy, backed by massive strategic nuclear capabilities, suffice.?

The entire question of NATO's future boils down to one central issue, a correct appraisal of the overall threat—one composed of the out and out military threat plus the myriad forms of political and psychological forces at play throughout the world and all the other threats basic to the continuation of free governments.

It would be less than prudent to assume that there is only one threat—that of overt and premeditated military attack on a large scale against the west—an attack of sufficient scope to set in motion NATO's nuclear response.

Those of us who plan NATO's future must, of course, take the possibility of direct attack into full account. To blunt an obvious threat we must continue to maintain a nuclear deterrent force capable of assured destruction of any potential aggressor.

This said, we must then ask ourselves: are the Atlantic powers actually safe and secure.? Is NATO fulfilling its role to safeguard the west from the communist threat.? Does reliance on nuclear response to direct attack take into account the threat of lesser forms of aggression, of peripheral probes just beyond NATO's geographic responsibilities, of the ever-present threat of internal subversion and sophisticated forms of potential conquest.? Finally, does our strategic thinking take into account the multiple forms of sea and space warfare which may emerge in the years ahead as a result of stalemated land situations and technological advance.?

NATO's future strategy should encompass all the foregoing possibilities and probabilities. The threat to NATO remains strong as long as any potential aggressor maintains an arsenal designed to participate in large scale nuclear or non-nuclear attack on land and sea. Military power constitutes the prime threat. The threat stems from the capability, and not the assumed intention; what could happen rather than what we thin\ will happen.

National attitudes can change more quickly than nations can build their defenses. The policies and attitudes of a communist power can prove as unpredictable and enigmatic as Gulf Stream weather. Leadership changes, for better or worse, come about overnight. New policies usually emerge from new leaders.

Defense building is a long and sustained process. It takes years to plan a weapons system from concept to hardware, and to train men of many nations to operate together in concert.

A new jet aircraft normally requires from six to eight years from concept to ready status. It takes two or three additional years to iron out the wrinkles and produce the superbly trained personnel team to man and maintain the plane. In one of the highest priority programs in the United States, the Polaris submarine, five years were required from the idea stage until the first submarines could go on patrol.

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NATO plans must take into account the certainty of change in political leadership and the possibility of unpredictable conflict which might result. A force structure should be maintained to minimize the risk of escalation, should localized conflict develop. We should not like to be forced, through failure to maintain balanced capability, to choose between a nuclear response and no response.

Much thinking in NATO's history has gone into considering the most likely areas of aggression. In large measure these points have been on land.

For example, the security of West Berlin, lying 100 miles within communist-controlled territory, has required much thought and planning. Coundess other land areas of possible military confrontation have had to be considered. Thus far, in all these potential trouble spots, NATO's military strategy has been effective. Peace has been preserved. Thanks to NATO's success, the European nations have had time to make economic recovery, and they are now enjoying a well deserved prosperity.

Let us suppose for the moment that our potential foes are convinced that aggression against land objectives will not pay.

The most obvious outlet to any such frustration lies in an effort to control the sea.

There is a distinct possibility that NATO could have a war at sea without land forces becoming significandy involved.

Such a war at sea might include or exclude nuclear weapons.

The 1962 Cuban crisis, for example, resulted in an unexpected showdown at sea.

There is mounting evidence that the Soviets recognize that the Adantic ocean truly represents NATO's heart; that the Atlantic basin represents the prime source of the world's agricultural and industrial production; that it represents the world's most highly developed sea and air transportation systems.

What are the manifestations of the Soviet Union's growing interest in maritime matters? First of all, the Soviets continue to build up their merchant marine which is obviously designed to narrow, and eventually to overcome the Atlantic nations' advantage in ocean shipping. Soviet naval surface forces, cruisers and destroyers, have been steadily improved. Their ships incorporate new design and new missile weaponry. Within recent years the most modern of missiles and electronic guidance systems have been added to their war-at-sea capability. But the prime evidence of Soviet maritime interest comes from the Soviet continued stress on submarine development. Many of their submarines are armed with nuclear missiles and many are nuclear propelled. Both in size and versatility Soviet submarines constitute the prime threat to NATO's control of the Adantic.

There are numerous contingencies which could develop at sea requiring the utmost in NATO's maritime and naval skills and fighting ability. Therefore, NATO must stand ready to blunt the numerous options of a potential aggressor at sea.

This is our task in Allied Command Atlantic. Our job is to realistically plan for possible options of war-at-sea, to develop force structures required to successfully execute such plans, and to train our forces sufficiently to remove any doubt as to their combat credibility.

NATO can maintain its edge in this protracted conflict only if our forces have the actual potential to justify respect in all the possible areas of conflict. This includes sea warfare as well as warfare in other mediums. This is our continuing challenge in Allied Command Atlantic.

The Atlantic Ocean has been called the lifeline of the western world. On any day in the North Atlantic there are more than 3,000 merchant ships carrying the raw and finished materials needed by the NATO nations to keep their economies

alive.

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N APRIL 10, 1952, three years after the signing of the North Adantic Treaty in Washington, D. C , NATO's Allied Command Atlantic (ACLANT) was established in Norfolk, Virginia.

The Supreme Allied Commander is by agreement a U. S. Navy admiral. He is nominated for the post by the President of the United States, and his appointment must be approved by the North Atlantic Council, NATO's highest governing body.

The Deputy Supreme Allied Commander is a British vice admiral.

There have been five Supreme Allied Commanders. The late Admiral Lynde D. McCormick commissioned ACLANT in April 1952, and was succeeded by Admiral Jerauld Wright in April 1954. Admiral Robert L. Dennison was appointed to the post in February 1960, and was relieved by Admiral Harold Page Smith in April 1963. Upon his retirement in May 1965, Admiral Smith was relieved by Admiral Thomas H. Moorer.

The Allied Command Atlantic is primarily a planning staff.

It is composed of more than 140 Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps officers from Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

There are over twelve million square miles of Atlantic Ocean for which the Supreme Allied Commander is responsible. This area extends from the North Pole to the Tropic of Cancer and from the coastal waters of North America to those of Europe and Africa.

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This lifeline is threatened as long as the Soviet bloc's arsenal of more than 450 submarines remains unneutralized. NATO's number one problem, therefore, is antisubmarine warfare (ASW). The present concept of ASW is the task group, a unit composed of an aircraft carrier, with its helicopters and fixedwing search and kill aircraft, surrounded by destroyers and submarines.

NATO went a step further in ASW in 1959 with the establishment of the SACLANT Antisubmarine Warfare Research Center at La Spezia, Italy. The center has an international staff of scientists and technicians divided into three operating divisions. The primary research medium is the Mediterranean Sea, with investigations being conducted from the Ship MARIA PAOLINA, a converted 2,100-ton merchant ship. With its present arrangement, the ASW Research Center is capable of taking on research projects of its own in addition to those directed

by SACLANT or requested by NATO nations.

ACLANT has no assigned forces in peacetime. Instead, the nations represented at the command have earmarked certain of their naval units for assignment to an allied fleet in the event of war. If ever assembled, this fleet would consist of more than 500 ships and 1,400 aircraft of all types.

To insure the readiness of such a force, SACLANT and his subordinate commanders conduct many exercises each year testing the abilities of nationally integrated forces in such areas as communications, logistics, and antisubmarine warfare.

The Allied Command Adandc would have five major jobs in the event of war: 1. Employ nuclear weapons in the destruction of the source of Soviet naval power.

2. Prevent the movement of Soviet naval units through the narrow passages of the North Atlantic through which all forces from Northern Russia and the Baltic must pass to reach the commerce lanes of the Atlantic Ocean.

3. Provide close-in protection of the trans-Atlantic shipping lanes.

4. Protect the coasts of North America and Europe against guided missile submarines.

5. Support the Allied Command Europe in the defense of Europe.

To meet these responsibilities, ACLANT is divided into two major geographical command areas, the Western Atlantic and the Eastern Atlantic. Within this framework there are three principal subordinate commanders directly responsible to SACLANT: the Commander in Chief Western Atlantic (CINCWESTLANT), in Norfolk, Virginia; the Commander in Chief Eastern Atlantic (CINCEASTLANT), in Nordiwood, England; and Commander Striking Fleet Atlantic (STRIKFLEET), a sea-going command home-based in Norfolk.

The jobs of CINCEASTLANT and CINCWESTLANT are tied into the five wartime tasks of the Allied Command Atlantic. The Striking Fleet, the nucleus of which is the U. S. Second Fleet, is functional rather than an area command. As such, it would assume the major responsibility for actually carrying out the five assigned wartime jobs.

The Striking Fleet, when assembled, is geared for any type warfare ranging from the so-called brushfire conflict to nuclear war. Its primary weapon is the aircraft carrier.

This fleet's protection against atomic attack is dispersion.

When dispersed against nuclear attack, the Striking Fleet would cover an area about the size of the state of Maine.

S H I P M A T E

REMARKS

by Vice Admiral Sir William Beloe, RN Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic VAdm. Sir William Beloe, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.C., Royal Navy, was born in 1909 in Winchester, England, the son of the late Rev. and Mrs. R. D. Beloe. At the age of 13 he joined the Royal Navy and with his attendance at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth set out on a long and distinguished career. Significant assignments and commands in all parts of the world led ultimately to Norfolk, Va., where on 4 February 1964 he became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Adantic. This past year Admiral Beloe was included on the Queen's Birthday Honors List and created Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

After two years as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Adantic I can look back on a period of my long service career which has been particularly rewarding. When I recall pre-World War II days and compare the prospects of international naval co-operation with those that exist in NATO today I realize the well-nigh unbelievable progress that has been made. For, at all levels, from the Council to Military Headquarters, politicians, diplomats, sailors, soldiers and airmen are working together in a common cause; and not only working together, but living side by side, exchanging views and learning about each other's problems.

Yet it is vitally important for us all to remember, as NATO approaches its coming-of-age, that it is a free and voluntary association of fifteen nations and that, though the smaller nations may not contribute as much quantitatively in manpower and material as the larger ones, nevertheless they do so pro rata according to their economic ability. We must remember that their voices and views are just as important in a free and voluntary association as are those of bigger and more powerful nations. If we fail to do so, we are doing NATO a great disservice, for a chain's strength is that of its links.

To my mind, in the approaching years this is one of the most important principles to be borne in mind for we can neither afford to lose, nor weaken, the bonds of friendship, co-operation and military efficiency that have been so carefully forged over the past seventeen years.

INTERVIEW WITH VICE ADMIRAL HOGLE, USN CHIEF OF STAFF, SACLANT V

ICE ADMIRAL REYNOLD D. HOGLE, U. S. Navy, Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, has traveled extensively as senior member of the international SACLANT NATO Briefing Team, speaking to all types of audiences. These are some of the questions frequently asked by audiences: Q. It has been said that NATO is obsolete, that NATO is doomed, that NATO is a paper tiger. What are your feelings, Admiral.?

A. A great deal has been written and spoken about NATO being doomed. This, in my opinion, is simply not so. However, the overwhelming proof rests in the fact that NATO has completely fulfilled its basic reason for beingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to stop the spread of communism in the North Atlantic Community. Since the birth of the Alliance in 1949, not one square foot of any NATO territory has fallen to Soviet control. As to its obsolescence, this is a question that must be resolved in a democratic manner by NATO's fifteen nations. If these nations agree that the Soviet master blueprint has not changed, and world domination is still its aim, then we have the same situation that existed in 1949. Then, we still have a situation where two unalterable, opposing political ideologies exist. This seems to me to be the case, and that NATO is needed just as much today as it was in 1949, and, in view of the current world situation, will be needed for sometime to come.

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Q. How confident are you, Admiral, in the ability of NATO naval forces to stop the Soviet's huge submarine threat should it be cast against NATO, and the ability of this force to keep the North Atlantic sea lanes open for the free world?

A. Our NATO navy, once it were amassed and set to do battle, would be one of the greatest armadas of naval might the world has ever known. Still, we lack the ideal force for ASW. We have great needs in surface escorts and maritime VAdm. Hogle is a member of the Naval Academy class of 1929. Following graduation and a tour of duty in battleships, he reported to Pensacola for flight training and m 1931 was designated a naval aviator.

Upon promotion to the rank of rear admiral in 1956 he was ordered to duty as Deputy Chief of Staff, Supreme Allied Commander Adantic. Following this assignment he had tours of duty as a carrier division commander, Deputy Commander-in-Chief to the Commander-inChief, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, and as Chief of Staff at die U. S. Naval War College. In April 1964 Admiral Hogle returned to SACLANT as Chief of Staff. His promotion to vice admiral accompanied this new dutv.

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patrol aircraft, together with the modern weapons they could carry. With the aging of World War II ships, which NATO still uses in great numbers, the problem is getting progressively worse from year to year. It's obvious that NATO's ability to control the seas—on the surface as well as above and below— rests in great part on increasing and modernizing our present maritime forces.

Q. During the past two years. Admiral, there seems to have been a great deal of dissension among member nations. Is there an air of discontent that might erupt and destroy NATO's unity any moment?

A. Neither I, nor the top NATO authorities claim to have a perfect organization. N.'\TO does have problems; has had them since it was founded and still has them today—finance, gold flow, control of nuclear weapons, to name a few. But NATO is not unique in having problems. Most every organization, every community, every NATO nation has continuing

Photo by Seattle

problems of some proportion. Remember, NATO is comprised of 15 sovereign and independent nations, each with its own goals and aspirations, and each confronted with communism in varying degrees. There are bound to be differences of opinions and different emphasis on the same subject. It is, however, to NATO's everlasting credit that NATO has been so successful that we can afford the luxury of these differences.

The international political climate also has a great deal to do with this. For instance, when the international climate is warm and friendly, differences tend to widen; when international tension mounts, differences fade and allies close ranks.

Q. What about NATO nations fighting wars outside NATO.?

A. Communist aggression has to be countered where it exists. The threat is worldwide. The important thing is to balance the risk by keeping forces actually within reach of potential trouble spots. NATO nations strive to do this.

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SACLANT's NATO Briefing Team.

French destroyer JAUREGUIBERRY is framed by the wings of ACLANT aircraft on USS ENTERPRISE flight deck.

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A LOOK AT

Percentage Depletion What is percentage depletion? I t is an income tax deduction explicitly provided for in the law. It recognizes that an oflman's barrel of oil is his capital and merchandise rolled into one. When he sells it, he sells away part of his capital. His ordinary income is taxable like anyone's. But if his capital also were taxed, he would soon be out of business.

Percentage depletion prevents his capital from being taxed.

The principle of percentage depletion was adopted by Congress in 1926, and it holds for almost all extractive industries. About 100 mining categories ranging from sand and gravel to uranium and sulphur operate with varying percentage depletion allowances. The petroleum industry qualifies as one of the 100 because it, like the rest, is essentially a mining activity. Its depletion rate was established at 27.5 percent.

When he files his income tax report, the oilman applies a deduction of 27.5 percent of the gross income from his producing property, but not more than 50 percent of the net income from that property. This is intended to give him a tax deduction for the capital value of his oil.

It is important to remember that percentage depletion does not apply to all of an oilman's income. Only to income from production. Income from sales or refining is not affected.

Why a 27.5 percent rate for oil and gas, and lower percentages for other minerals? After careful study, Congress devised a formula to permit the property owner to recover the capital value of his minerals in the ground. And as the cost of discovery and development of the mineral deposit increases, its value also increases. The higher costs resulting from the greater risks and difficulties in discovering a petroleum deposit, and the uncertainty of its quantity, are reflected in a higher percentage value.

PERCENTAGE DEPLETION APPLIES TO VIRTUALLY ALL EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

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How has the provision worlced? The percentage depletion provision has been largely responsible for this countiy's abundant supply of low-cost energy.

Currently, about 75 percent of this nation's energy comes from oil and natural gas, and our personal mobility and industrial strength are unmatched anywhere. Our mifitary power, heavily dependent on petroleum and its products, is recognized as the free world's most telling deterrent to global war.

All this has come about largely because of the success our nation's oilmen have had in their search for petroleum reserves. It has been a search full of risk, and one of the important aspects of the percentage depletion provision is the encouragement it gives oilmen to keep up their search despite the risks.

THE PETROLEUIUI INDUSTRY BEARS A FAIR TAX BURDEN

PETROLEUM'S PROFITS ARE NOT EXCESSIVE

The 10-year average rate of return for all manufacturing industries was 11.9 percent. In 1964, 20 major industries were more profitable than oil. Oil clearly does not make runaway profits.

Percentage depletion has done a PETROLEUM

EXCISE TAXES $6.5 BILLION ANNUALLY

18.5% OF GROSS REVENUE MANUFACTURING & MINING (OTHER THAN PETROLEUM]

DIRECT TAXES $2 BILLION ANNUALLY

5% OF GROSS REVENUE

5% OF GROSS REVENUE

What about the industry's taxes? Under the percentage depletion provision, does the oil industry pay its fair share of the nation's tax burden?

The answer is a definite "yes." The oil industry pays $2 billion in taxes annually. These are direct taxes, other than taxes on products. The industry pays in taxes, excluding excise and sales taxes, about 5 percent of its gross revenues. The percentage for all manufacturing and mining is the same. Oil bears its full share of the tax burden.

If excise and sales taxes are included in the oil industry's tax bill, the figure grows by another $6.5 bfllion, or 18.5 percent of gross revenue.

How about oil industry profits? The oil industry's profits are not excessive.

Its average rate of return on net assets from 1955 to 1964 was 11.7 percent.

good job. After 40 years, the 27.5 percent depletion provision is so much a part of the oil industry and bears so directly on oil's service to its customers (which includes virtually all other industries) that any significant change in its basic fabric would cause serious economic dislocations. First, there would be less exploration. Second, prices would go up. People would have to pay more (some estimates are as much as five cents a gallon) for gasoline.

The facts show the oil industry pays its fair share of taxes, that its profits are not excessive, that gasoline prices are fair and indeed have declined in relation to other commodities, and that the industry needs a strong incentive for exploration and development.

Percentage depletion has encouraged the search for oil, stimulated our economic growth, helped give us an abundant supply of low-cost energy, and strengthened the free world's security.

For a more complete account of percentage depletion, send for Texaco's newly revised booklet. Write: Public Relations Division, Texaco Inc., 135 E. 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10017.

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striking Fleet flagship USS NEWPORT NEWS with HMS HERMES beyond, photographed from the flight deck of USS ENTERPRISE during SACLANT exercise "Riptide I I I . "

STRIKING

FLEET

" T N WAR the proper main objective of the Navy is the A enemy's navy." This statement by the redoubtable naval strategist, Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, made about 100 years ago, still holds true today. Admiral Mahan believed that whoever controls the sea holds the key to victory in conflict, and lasting peace.

In the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a major contributing factor in the control of the North Atlantic in wartime is the powerful Striking Fleet Atlantic. This is a balanced force composed of combatant and service force ships of NATO nations bordering on the Adantic, of which the attack carrier task force is the fighting heart and core. It is, in fact, a mobile, elusive airfield complex, at sea, with its own offense, defense and support built in.

Vice Admiral Kleber S. Masterson, USN, Commander of the U. S. Second Fleet, dons his second "hat" to command NATO's Striking Fleet Atlantic. He is the 13th Commander of the Striking Fleet.

This potent force is capable of any type warfare, from the so-called "brush fire" conflict to nuclear war. In the event of war, the fleet could be well dispersed against atomic attack

by LCdr. Dale Patterson, USN, Staff, Striking Fleet

and would cover an ocean area roughly the size of the state of Indiana. Because it is always on the move, it would not be subject to pinpointing for guided missile attacks as would stationary targets ashore. The Striking Fleet is capable of projecting its punch right to the heart of enemy bases and airfields to ensure NATO's control of the Atlantic.

In November 1952 the following agreement by the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Striking Fleet Atlantic was activated to create an integrated NATO naval force under the previously established Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. This new NATO command was assigned the wartime mission of containing an aggressor against any one of the nations of the North Adantic Treaty Organization.

In the fall of 1952, the Striking Fleet Atlantic conducted its first exercise, entitled "Mainbrace." With this exercise began the development of procedures in the training and integration of various NATO national forces into a Striking Fleet.

NATO exercises are usually conducted bi-annually during the fall and range from full scale fleet operational exercises involving several NATO nations down to bi-national communications exercises.

Commander of the U. S. Second Fleet and NATO's Striking Fleet, Atlantic, VAdm. Kleber S. Masterson commands an armada that extends from the eastern coasts of North and South America to the western shores of Europe and Africa. A graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy in 1930, he assumed command of the Second Fleet from his classmate VAdm. Charles B. Martell on 17 April 1964.

A Soviet RIGA class destroyer escort joins the game and "takes station" on the port side of USS INDEPENDENCE during exercise "Team W o r k " in the fall of 1964.

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And consider this: the warranty still lasts for the full 5 years or 50,000 miles even if the car is sold or traded in.

That added value will do wonders for the resale price.

When you're looking over the new 1966's from Chrysler Corporation, remember that only they have this 5-year or 50,000-mile warranty to protect their original greatness.

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During the fleet's stay in the Norwegian Sea, Soviet ships and aircraft attempted surveillance of Team Work forces.

This provided considerable impetus to the conduct of the exercise. In fact, at the time of the intrusion Admiral Masterson commented, "I welcome this interest by the Soviets. It helps to keep our people on their toes."

After strikes in the Norwegian Sea, the fleet steamed to the Bay of Biscay and conducted air strikes in support of the Central European command.

On October 2, 1964, Team Work came to a successful conclusion as 22 ships of the Striking Fleet sailed for Northern European liberty ports. The fleet flagship, the heavy cruiser USS NEWPORT NEWS, called at Portsmouth, England, where an exercise critique was held, attended by 250 officers from participating NATO countries.

A vital feature of the Striking Fleet is its flexibility in operating either United Kingdom or United States aircraft from any of the attack carriers in the fleet.

This "cross deck" capability greatly increases the strike readiness of the force, and could prove to be a significant factor in obtaining a re-strike posture during hostilities.

This interchangeable strike capacity has been acquired through the close cooperation of participating NATO partners, and by standardization of equipment and operating procedures.

This is a typical example of the joint approach which has characterized efforts to obtain maximum effectiveness of the Striking Fleet.

Standardization has long been one of the most sought after goals of the Allied military forces. Excellent progress has been made in several fields.

For example, fuel and lubricants are standardized, as is the refueling equipment used by NATO ships and aircraft. Incidentally, these items can be procured at the nearest point where they are available, regardless of the nation in which the supply is located.

Guns, too, are now standardized for many types, utilizing the same ammunition. This is an important achievement in view of the fact that some nations measure their calibers in inches, others in centimeters.

In other important fields, such as electronics, NATO has established many standard radars and sonars. Certain types of aircraft and smaller naval ships, such as minesweepers, are constructed according to NATO standards and can be repaired in several of the NATO countries.

The offensive capability of the Striking Fleet Atlantic is most impressive. Its men are highly skilled; its weapons and equipment excellent, these factors plus the readiness of each allied nation to aid any other against aggression make the Striking Fleet Atlantic a preponderant force of NATO.

A Royal Navy aircraft is serviced on ENTERPRISE flight deck during NATO exercise "Riptide I I I . "

U. S. Crusader aircraft aboard British aircraft carrier HERMES in cross-deck operations during "Riptide I I I . "

British antisubmarine frigate HMS RHYL participating during autumn 1964.

in "Team

Work"

In all exercises strong emphasis is placed on working together, welding the varied elements into a harmonious and effective unit. Communications among the assembled forces are sometimes a bit rusty at first, but after a short period of working together this problem is resolved.

Team Work, the largest NATO naval exercise in the history of the Alliance, involving more than 30,000 men, 125 ships and 170 aircraft from nine NATO nations, was conducted in the fall of 1964. During Team Work, naval task forces moved across the Atlantic and north through the Iceland-Faroes gap into the Norwegian Sea. While in the Norwegian Sea, the striking force launched simulated air attacks against targets in Norway and other NATO simulated target complexes. The antisubmarine force and the service ships provided support to piermit the striking force to accomplish its mission.

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MATCH MAKER II b y Jack Kestner, M i l i t a r y Editor, Norfoilc Ledger

Star

Basically Match Ma\er II is a five-month NATO antisubmarine exercise tvhich tvill include gunnery, communications, fueling and other operations to test the sustained sharing of facilities and resources of participating nations.

The NATO participants are Canada, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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ITH T H E praises of Match Maker I still ringing in their ears, the four nations who took part are now launched on Match Maker II.

USS GARCIA

Last year's sustained five-month NATO exercise, the first of its kind in the history of the Alliance, was so successful that there had been little doubt that it would be rep>eated again this year—particularly after NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, expressed hope that there would be another.

Credit for the original Match Maker concept must go to the British. Adm. Sir Charles Madden, RN, who at the time was serving as NATO's Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic, felt that the Alliance had been operating too long without any ships actually assigned to it, as troops and equipment are assigned in Europe.

In the past, NATO fleet exercises had been limited to ships getting together for two or three weeks at most. Adm. Madden reasoned that it would be well to test what they could do if they remained away from their own sources of logistics and repair for an extended period—as they would most certainly have to do with the occurrence of an international emergency in the Adantic community.

The result, after a year and a half of planning, was Match Maker I. Its success, and the quick shape-up of Match Maker II, should provide better than even odds that there will be other Match Makers in years to come.

But it came as a surprise that the number of operating ships would be increased from four in Match Maker I to six in Match Maker II. Six is considered the maximum for this type of exercise, since more would restrict the harbors they could go into and berth as a unit.

One possible reason for the increase is the shift in emphasis from logistics and repairs to tactics.

"In addidon to furthering last year's efforts in this (logistics and repair) area, we are going to stress tactics," says Capt.

Parker B. Armstrong, USN, commodore of the current Match Maker squadron.

Since 22 January the commodore's ships have been engaged in intensive training in the Caribbean where the U. S. Navy's annual "Operation Springboard" winter exercises are underway.

"This training has been in the way of an initial workup for our own exercises which will get underway in force once we arrive in European waters," Capt. Armstrong said.

Already the squadron has begun a practice which proved both popular and profitable during last year's Match Maker— "cross-poUenization."

Cross-pollenization is the swapping of crew members among ships of different nationality in order to give them an idea of how their counterparts work, train and live. "It has already paid off in generating a better understanding throughout the M A R C H ,

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squadron," Armstrong says. "It heightens both interest a n d enthusiasm. O u r teamwork continues to improve; I expect to have a finely-honed, expert team upon completion of Springboard."

HMS AGINCOURT

As soon as the Match Maker squadron arrives in European waters it will become a part of a full scale N A T O exercise.

This will be followed by other exercises in northern European waters—plus "Squadron Only" operations a n d "in-port" time.

"Our overall objective during these five months will be to obtain a well-integrated squadron, operationally and functionally, so that we can join and participate smoothly in any major or minor fleet operation," the commodore says.

From the way last year's Match Maker went, he can entertain high hopes of doing just that.

On the tail of that operation, the squadron joined an antisubmarine warfare exercise in the western Atlantic and elicited from the task force commander, R A d m . Joseph Lynch, the comment: " T o see the way those ships fell in, it was just like they'd been operating with us all along."

This sentiment was echoed by the squadron commodore, Capt. D . V. M. Macleod of Britain's Royal Navy. "We've had more submarine training than any national squadron could possibly hope to get in the same period of time. I have a far more versatile force than a national commander would have, and in different circumstances I can station m y ships so I can get the best out of the different pieces of equipment. If we all had exactly the same gear, then I would be completely tied down as to m y formation and tactics."

Ships participating in this year's exercise are the Royal Navy's fleet radar picket destroyer AGINCOURT, the Royal Netherlands Navy's destroyer DRENTHE, the Royal Canadian Navy's helicopter destroyers SKEENA and ANNAPOLIS and the destroyer

escort RESTIGOUCHE, and the U . S. Navy's destroyer escort GARCIA.

HMCS RESTIGOUCHE

NATO-NORTH I

N W A R the great commander is he w h o can anticipate his enemy's next move by looking at the situation from his point of view. This is true for "hot w a r " and it is no less true in the "cold w a r . " N A T O , viewed from a m a p centered on Moscow, presents a relatively small but nonetheless powerful land mass stretching from the North Cape to the Bosphorus. Beyond lies the Atlantic which links the two components of N A T O — N o r t h America and Western Europe. Sever that link and both parts would become infinitely easier to isolate and then dominate.

T h e dependence of N A T O upon command of the Atlantic is well appreciated by Moscow—why else should the USSR have created the largest submarine fleet the world has ever seen ?

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Adm. Moorer is the scheduling officer, A d m . Sir John Frewen, R N , N A T O ' s Commander-in-Chief Eastern Atlantic, is the conducting officer, and Capt. Armstrong is the commander.

Match Maker II will conclude in June.

by Desmond Wettern Naval Correspondent The Sunday Telegraph, London

any kind of war situation. T h u s the greatest deterrent to unrestricted Soviet submarine activity, as well as to overt aggression in any other form, lies in their uncertainty of the circumstances in which the West might use its nuclear weapons. T h e Cuban IRBM build-up by Russia was, to some extent, a reconnaissance to see just h o w far the West could be pushed without retaliation. T h e prompt action of President Kennedy and the U . S. Government must have given Moscow a pretty clear indication that they could not hustle the West very far.

Additionally, despite sniping by neo-Communist elements among so-called "progressives" in Britain, the U . S. and other N A T O countries, the Alliance has stood firm in West Germany. But in any case aggressive moves against that country would simply have the effect of further solidifying the Western Alliance.

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Courtesy

of Arne H. Halvorsen,

Stavanger,

Norway

Norwegian motor-torpedo boats cruising along the west coast of Norway.

Speed is essential for the motor-gunboat too.

What Moscow now realizes is essential is a way of achieving the isolation of the U. S. from Western Europe, avoiding direct aggression if posible. In part, Vietnam and other areas of crisis outside NATO's geographical area are helpful since these allow Communist sympathizers to stir up resentment in Western Europe against "American aggression" simply because no European member of the Alliance is directly involved. Such agitation certainly demonstrates that many "progressives" are more guilty of "reactionary isolationism" than were ever their 19th century grandparents. "Why should we be involved in America's wars in countries far beyond Europe" more or less sums up the attitude of the usual gaggle of many of these (often paid) agitators ranging from university professors and some of their students to television program producers, artists, pop-singers, movie and theater stars and "frustrated" teenage layabouts; in short, many of the most important, trend-setting, "in" people in the Western world.

Yet not many miles from her northern frontier with Norway, the only European member nation of NATO to have a common frontier with the Soviet Union, are deep water ports or sites which could be developed as ports that remain ice-free all the year. In times past Soviet leaders have attempted to bribe or threaten Norway into giving them concessions in the northwest of their country which would allow Soviet ships to operate from such ports at all dmes. The Norwegians have consistently stood firm but at the same time have been careful to avoid provoking Moscow too far, by allowing troops from other NATO powers to be based on Norwegian soil in peacetime for example. NATO leaders have appreciated Norway's position and have never pressed for such bases nor have they tried hard to induce them to accept IRBMs or strategic bombers or anchorage facilities for FBM submarines.

But political methods involving prostitution of the democratic system is only one way by which Moscow hopes to divide the West. The second is more tangible in one respect in that it is possible without difficulty to see the means employed; but infinitely more difficult to calculate the effects except on a short-term piecemeal basis. This is the deployment of a vast merchant marine on a world-wide basis.

Today Russia has approximately the fifth largest active merchant service in the world. Within ten years she may be nudging Britain out of first place. Certainly this fleet is valuable in that it brings in foreign exchange but when all factors are taken into consideration, particularly Russia's self-sufficiency in most basic raw materials, there is no possible economic jusufication for a merchant service the size it is today, yet alone what it may be in the late 1970s.

Britain, largely unconsciously, has always regarded her navy and merchant marine as two indivisible components of seapower. There is no doubt that Moscow looks at seapower in a similar way. But not even a totalitarian state can afford to go on running a vast merchant marine for political and quasimilitary purposes at a considerable economic loss. Often it may be politically expedient to undercut Western shipowners, but continual operations at a loss could not be accepted.

One of the biggest disadvantages facing the Soviet merchant marine is that for much of the year it is severely hampered in competing in the lucrative West Europe and North Atlantic commercial routes by the lack of an ice-free port in northern Europe.

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But today there is a growing consciousness among senior Norwegian officers of the potential dangers of their country's positionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both from a political and a military aspect. On the military side the Oslo government's consistent refusal to allow NATO forces any permanent facilities in Norway is a source of concern to many thinking Norwegians. With a population of only three and a half million, they well appreciate that Norway on her own could never hope to stem a full-scale Soviet assault.

This concern is also all too familiar to NATO planners with Allied Forces, North, in the headquarters at Kolsas outside Oslo. In the far north, from Tromso, the principal city, to the Soviet fronder are only about two battalions plus supporting naval and air force units based at B0do some way south.

Norway's regular forces are tiny in numbers of personnel and reliance has to be placed on draftees who spend usually six months with the forces in the far north.

But Norway has extensive reserve forcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"extensive" is used deliberately since it is the Ministry of Defense policy to mobilize reserves as far as possible in their home towns or counties where their weapons are stocked and maintained. Within a few days of mobilization the Ministry claims up to 250,000 men could be under arms and annual training keeps them up-to-date in modern tactics and familiar with the latest weapons. Additionally, there are Home Guard units in nearly every town and village.

Any examination of a nation's military strength must be made in the light of the threat which such forces might be expected to face and with a view to a potential enemy's likely objectives.

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Courtesy of Arne H. Halvorsen,

Stavanger,

Norway

One of the Norwegian navy's largest ships, the frigate KNM SLEIPNER.

Norwegian military intelligence officers know that facing their two battalions in the far north the Russians have three wellequipped highly mobile army divisions between the frontier and Murmansk 150 miles to the east. These are certainly not garrison troops as Moscow claims and in any case the size of the Norwegian forces would never justify such a "garrison" across the frontier. Even more significant, the Russians also have two large units of Marines fully trained in amphibious warfare.

The Soviet Northern Fleet is now believed to be the largest of their four fleets and both it and the troops ashore are supported by a strong air force, both naval and military.

Clearly, the use by the Russians of these forces in a direct assault across the Norwegian frontier is unlikely today since it would be certain to bring massive NATO assistance, including nuclear weapons, for the Norwegians. But there is no reason why such forces could not be used to apply diplomatic bargaining pressure.

This does not by any means rule out the possibility that such forces will, in the foreseeable future, be confined to Soviet territory. Finland has a common frontier with both Norway and Russia. In places Norwegian territory is "squeezed" by Finland in the far north to a narrow coastal periphery of the northern European land mass.

In the center of northern Finland lies the town of Inari on the south side of a lake of the same name. Here, a highway from the Norwegian frontier meets another from the Soviet frontier. During 1964-65 this entire highway has been rebuilt, concrete bridges have replaced former wooden structures, pavements have been metaled and widened so that the whole highway can now take loads up to 70 tons.

The cost of such work in an often grim climate must be vast and it is therefore the more surprising that there is no possible economic reason for it since this part of Finland is largely devoid of natural resources and has a tiny population.

It is widely believed in Norway that the money for it and some technical assistance came from Russia.

It was therefore a natural corollary that the Norwegian army has now moved some armored units to the far north; for a highway designed to take 70-ton loads can only mean tanks on transporter trucks.

About 60 miles from the point where this highway crosses the Norwegian frontier lies the port and airfield at Banak, situated at the end of the ice-free Porsangen fjord.

At the seaward end of Porsangen lie numerous islands which, like most of the Norwegian coast, are constantly under surveillance by Soviet ELIN trawlers. As a partial answer to their activities and to keep a watch on Russian movements generally at sea the Royal Norwegian Air Force has recently acquired some former USAF Albatross amphibians.

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Should the Russians try to move an armored column swiftly across Finland and take a corridor through Norwegian territory to Banak, while simultaneously landing troops on the islands commanding Porsangen entrance, it could be argued that this would result in NATO retaliation. Yet many Norwegians whom the writer met during a visit to the area in 1965 are far from convinced about the certainty of N A T O support.

They maintain that, at the same time, Russia might indicate her willingness to drop her economic support of Castro or to relax tension in some other way highly acceptable to the West.

Since actual loss of Norwegian territory would be small; since the area concerned has little economic importance and the entire population of the Norwegian part of the North Cap region is only about 25,000 and since so many people in the U. S. and Britain are against any form of war; such a gamble by Moscow might just succeed.

If it did so, it would not only isolate the whole of northern Norway and its garrisons but it would also cripple the NATO radar chain which the Norwegian air force operates to keep a permanent watch on Soviet airspace from the White Sea to the Baltic (and which, incidentally, is the frequent object of camera-shooting Russian "tourists").

There can be no doubt that the Norwegians would resist strongly any violation of their territory and the most vital factor would be to prevent the Russians consolidating their position so that the West felt itself forced to negotiate rather than risk a war of escalation. (The erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961 is a pointer to the way in which prompt military action might have prevented one more infringement of mankind's basic liberties.)

But for the West to intervene militarily in such a situation could only be achieved by the swift deployment of forces which, particularly in winter, would be extremely difficult on the ground. To collect, transport, land and deploy ground forces would certainly take far longer than the situation would allow.

The only readily available answer would be the use of seapower, first with carrier-borne planes and then Marine units trained in winter warfare if available. This is where the SACLANT Strike Fleet would be invaluable and it would undoubtedly be assisted by Norway's own small but growing fleet which includes numerous PT boats and minesweepers.

These could play a vital role in inshore operations from preventing the intervention of similar Soviet forces to landing raiding and other units. There is no doubt that the need for such an operation by SACLANT has been well considered and planned for since in fall 1964 the Strike Fleet concentrated on attacking targets in northern Norway during EXERCISE TEAMWORK and in defending itself against attacks by PT boats and simulated tactical missile submarines. Similarly, in spring 1965 British and Dutch carrier planes were also operating in this area during EXERCISE PILOT LIGHT. At the time PILOT LIGHT was underway British Royal Marine Commandos were exercising with Norwegian army units in almost exactly the area in which the Russians might make an assault. The Marines, as during exercises with the Norwegian army in previous years, were on skis.

At long last, the rapid movement of troops in the far north is also being more fully tried out with exercises like NORTHERN EXPRESS during spring 1966.

All this shows that at least Western military planners, if not their political chiefs, are realizing that vital issues are at stake in the far north. Not only would the possession of an ice-free port with direct access to the waters of Western Europe and the Atlantic be of inestimable value to the Soviet merchant marine in the "cold" economic war but it also would mean that no longer would units of their Northern Fleet be confined to the White Sea in which, in a "hot" war, the West might be SHIPMATE

THE ALLIANCE A SERIES OF OBSERVATIONS DENMARK b y C d r . P. E. P e d e r s e n , R D a N

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To brush up your knowledge oÂŁ geography, European Denmark forms a bridge between the Scandinavian Peninsula and Continental Europe.

She is a small country (44,000 square kilometers without Greenland) with just over four and a half million inhabitants.

In the strategic pattern of Northern Europe, she does, however, have an importance which is far greater than her size indicates. This is due to the fact that she is the gatekeeper of the Baltic Sea. Another geographical important factor is her proximity to Soviet-controlled territory. The shortest distance between Danish and Soviet-controlled territory is only about 15 miles, from Falster to the East German coast.

The country consists of the Peninsula of Jutland, which is landfast with Germany, the Funen group of islands, and the Zealand group of islands.

The easternmost part of Denmark is the island of Bornholm, which is only 150 miles from the .Soviet homeland. The three straits, which cut up the country and connect the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat, are the Litde Belt, the Great Belt, and the Sound. The latter is partly Danish, partly Sweilish, and forms the boundary line between Danish and Swedish territory.

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able to contain them. T h e defense of Norway would also be seriously imperilled since the country from Banak to the south would be far easier for ground forces than would be the area from the frontier zone at Kirkenes, only S'/s miles within Norwegian territory. D u r i n g at least half the year the sole highway from Kirkenes to the west (and ultimately to the south) is impassably blocked by snow and in summer enemy movements could be seriously hampered by mines and air attacks. Without a port well inside Norway any Soviet aggressors would have, as does the garrison and civilian population in Kirkenes and in many other towns in the far north, to rely in winter on sea and airborne transportation and supplies. So long as Western seaborne air forces and naval units were in the area any such movement of army or marine units would be almost suicidal or on such a gigantic scale that the conflict would escalate rapidly into a "hot" war.

Distances in the area are vast by European standards. For example, the traveler from Oslo to Kirkenes goes further than if he went south from Oslo to Naples. T h e coastal shipping service from Bergen to Kirkenes takes more than a week allowing for a number of ports of call on the voyage north.

For an aggressor such distances pose considerable logistic problems especially since any landward advance would be open to assault on his lines of communication from the sea at many points.

But distance also has its disadvantages for the defenders.

There is the obvious logistic difficulty but also there is, in the "cold" war, the more insidious problem best summed up by the old saying "out of sight, out of mind." Few Norwegians, let alone Americans or Britons, have ever been to the far north.

The apathy which currently seems to fossilize so many Westerners into a belief that Communism has given up its fight to overthrow our democratic system at least in the West might well allow some sudden Soviet move in this area to be met, at best, by protests in the U. N . "Where on earth is Banak.? Why should we fight the Russians over a few Lapplanders.'' Why shouldn't the Russians have an ice-free port for merchant ships.?" such questions are not really so impossible to picture coming from those people who would seemingly quite willingly let 15 million or so Vietnamese become enslaved. But if for Banak was substituted Birmingham, Ala., or England and for Lapplanders Long Islanders or Londoners, then reactions would be totally different. For our security and economic survival in years to come this tiny Norwegian town and others like it, and the peoples there, should be equally important today in the minds of any in the West who value life in a democracy.

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The waters around the Danish coasts are mostly shallow, with many banks and many small islands.

In addition, the coast is deeply indented. This tends to make navigation difficult for the potential enemy, whereas the defender, relying on his local knowledge and on moderately-sized ships, gains certain advantages.

In these environments the main tasks of the Royal Danish Navy are: in peacetime, to keep the area under constant surveillance, and at outbreak of hostilities to protect the country against a seaborne invasion and to close the Danish Straits in order to prevent the enemy's Baltic Fleet from getting access to the Atlantic.

To carry out these tasks, the Royal Danish Navy—according to the Defense Act of 1960—• should consist of: eight frigate type ships, 18 fast patrol boats, 6 submarines, 8 minelayers, 12 minesweepers, 9 seaward defense crafts and various depot ships and auxiliaries.

At present a modernization program for the Navy is well underway, partly based on a costsharing agreement between the Danish and the U. S. Government and it is believed that when the goals of the Defense Act are reached the Royal Danish Navy will be able—if need be—to carry out an important role, not only for the defense of Denmark, but also in the interest of NATO. CURRENT TRENDS A N D DEVELOPMENTS I N THE FRENCH N A V Y

by Capt. P. Ballet, FN

Control of the sea stands as a requirement for any maritime power. Great Britain, a privileged island, has been able, until the eve of World War II, to concentrate on maintaining a powerful navy. France, under the permanent threat of land invasion, has been obliged to divide her military efforts between land and naval forces with a top priority for the former. However, each time France has had the time to build up a valuable navy she has endeavored to do so. Throughout the centuries, naval power has always been an invaluable asset to political commitments.

The political transformations which have occurred in all of the former French colonies since 1945, the tremendous progress accomplished by aviation, and finally the advent of the nuclear age have not fundamentally changed the basic historical as well as geographical requirement for France to maintain balanced armed forces. A modern navy still remains an important and essential component of these forces in order to fulfill the three basic goals set forth by the French government, that is "to deter, to intervene, and to defend."

Before World War II, and due to a set of eminent scientists, the French government had recognized the future of atomic energy. Research was interrupted by the war, but it is not surprising that all of the French governments thereafter have considered that France should become a nuclear power, one of the musts of her national defense.

Consequently, the French Navy, like the U. S. and the Royal Navy, could not but take part in the nuclear program. As a matter of fact the present naval program, which spans the years '65 to '70, includes the construction of a first set of three nuclear powered missile launching submarines. Of course, on a practically purely national basis this means a tremendous effort. But effort by itself is healthy and often rewarding. Not only has this effort already proved an immense and vigorous incentive for a good number of officers and engineers but it has already achieved satisfactory and timely results and the prototype is well on its way.

It is now generally accepted that the possession by a nation of some nuclear capability implies for any potential aggressor a risk of nuclear retaliation.

And undoubtedly, a nuclear war between only two nations implies a risk of worldwide escalation.

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Such risks do not compare with those entailed by an attack on a country that does not possess nuclear weapons of her own. This is a fact of life.

Of course nuclear weapons do not constitute the unique answer to modern military requirements.

They must be complemented by modern conventional forces. In spite of the increased capabilities of modern aviation to transport quickly, over long distances, important payloads, the navies that remain unhampered by such political limitations as overflight of non-committed, neutral or hostile territories and relatively free from such material or technical limitations as adequate airfields and refueling facilities ashore, provide an ideal tool in support of any political action on a worldwide basis.

As far as France is concerned, the change of status of many of her former colonies has not diminished this kind of requirement. On the contrary, and this is especially true where the navy is concerned, since only in very few cases does France maintain military bases on the territory of her former colonies. But many of these new countries would like to rely on France's support in case they were threatened.

Furthermore, as on numerous occasions in the course of the nineteenth century, combined forces of several navies can also provide the tailored support for a concerted political effort by several nations. This is feasible in most areas of the world. As a result, in peace as in war, a modern navy must be prepared to play a part by herself or in combination with other navies. This is at present considered to be one of the essential and hopefully the most likely mission of the French Navy and her general structure has been strongly influenced by this concept.

However the final capability of fitting into the combined defense effort of the Atlantic Alliance has been an equally important factor in the structure and also in the peace and wartime deployment of the French maritime forces. Should dissuasion fail and tension progressively escalate into general war the French Navy is now prepared to undertake her share of the allied control of the seas to the best of her abilities. The areas where she could easily be deployed from her home bases and likely initial defensive positioning are basically in the southwestern approaches of Europe including the Channel and the Mediterranean. The French Navy must be prepared to contribute to the defense against an enemy operating from the sea and finally, if required, to support the land batde, particularly in Central Europe. Generally all these tasks coincide in the areas mentioned.

Thanks to an important and generous initial allied assistance, France during the past decade has rebuilt her navy which had been shattered in World War II and whose remnants had been subsequendy worn out in the Indochina campaign.

Rebuilt also were her naval bases which had been systematically destroyed by the enemy in 1944.

Her present navy is indeed modest to compare with the United States Navy, but it is modern, well balanced, homogeneous and well trained. In number, it is second only to the Royal Navy in Western Europe.

In the immediate future a maximum effort is being made for the SSBNs, their missiles and their support. But in the same time a calculated effort is also being devoted to: (a) building prototypes such as a 3000-ton ASW "corvette," and (b) modernizing the existing units and providing them with up to date equipment, most of these equipments being the result of a national research effort.

Thus, in the last ten years, from a few obsolescent escorts and batrieships, from the ruins of her home bases and naval yards, when the present structure of the Adantic Alliance was established, the French Navy has grown to a substantial compact modern force supported by two main, well equipped, home bases.

It consists broadly of two carrier groups built around two brand new carriers, two helicopter

carriers, two cruisers, some sixty destroyer and destroyer escort type escorts. A good number of maritime patrol aircraft, versatile carrier based aircraft including attack, fighter and anti-submarine warfare squadrons, and a substantial amphibious and logistic support force complete the whole. Broadly two-thirds of the French Navy are normally deployed in the Adantic, a little less than one-third in the Mediterranean. Currendy a dozen ships of various types, mainly multipurpose escorts, travel around the world.

This recent growth as well as some self-evident and well known requirements for national political control of forces in periods of tension, well illustrated on the occasion of the Cuban crisis, has induced the French government to regroup the French naval forces initially scattered through at least four different major commands, under only two national commands, one in the Adantic and the other in the Mediterranean. Under two Commanders in Chief, the French naval forces are convinced that they can fit more effectively and more responsively and as a result more efficiently into the combined defense effort of the Western Alliance. And there is no month of the year when they do not practice combined exercises with some other allied navies.

Indeed by taking steps toward its modernization and at the same time still observing the traditions common to all great maritime nations, France is convinced that her navy has become a strong and useful asset to the Western Alliance, to which each succeeding French government has repeatedly pledged its commitment.

THE GERMAN N A V Y TODAY b y Capt. Boron E. v . Schlippenbach, GN

Together with Danish naval forces, the German Navy was assigned the mission by SACEUR of securing the Baltic approaches for the Alliance and protecting overseas lines of communication through the North Sea, under the joint command of CinCNorth.

Type selection, equipment, and armament for the German naval and naval air forces are determined by this NATO-assigned mission. Therefore, the emphasis in our fleet units must be on destroyers, escort ships, fast patrol boats, minesweepers, and the naval air forces, since no missions on the high seas have been assigned.

To be able not only to fight but to survive in a sea area which is located not far from the "Iron Curtain" requires adaptation to Soviet naval forces and hence major surface ships with guided missile armament and also small fighting units armed with a missile weapon system.

The Ministry of Defense therefore initiated a strong modernization program for the German fleet units. Last year contracts were awarded to American companies for the construction of three DDGs. This was an unusual procedure, considering that almost all the previous postwar ship construction was done in Germany. The primary considerations leading to this decision were that highly qualified personnel are not yet available in sufficient numbers in Germany, that naval authorities wishes to commission the DDGs as soon as possible in order to have replacements for old destroyers of the FLETCHER class, and that the development of a national destroyer type would have been contrary to the principle of standardization, not to speak of the additional cost which would have been incurred during a prolonged development stage.

Anti-aircraft corvettes are also part of the new ship construction program. They will be equipped with the same weapons system as the destroyers, but will be built in Germany. The fast patrol boat weapon system will also satisfy the requirement for a new weapons system. Missile armament is also planned for these boats, and joint development efforts by the German Navy and U. S. Navy are in progress.

S H I P M A T E

All combatant ships of the German Navy arc equipped with mine laying systems, since mine fields in the Baltic approaches are considered an effective means for containing break-through attenipts by Soviet forces and for severely restricting their freedom of movement.

In the long reaches of the Baltic, whose coasdine the Soviets have secured by an advanced modern radar and SAM system, the naval air arm has important reconnaissance and attack responsibilities. This combined mission resulted in our air arm's conversion to the F-104-G aircraft. As a new long range reconnaissance aircraft which has a capability of operating as far as the North Adantic, the "Breguet Atlantic" was commissioned in the German Navy, a joint development by the aircraft industries of several NATO nations.

The great danger of destruction by enemy aircraft and missile attack of our land bases and supply depots, which are located only a few minutes flying away from the "Iron Curtain," makes it necessary to provide a maximum of mobility for the German Navy. Therefore, special attention was devoted to the establishment of a support fleet of special purpose ships, tenders and depot ships.

The rapidly changing situations of modern warfare require clearly defined command responsibilities and simple command structure. In order to achieve this objective, the support forces of the coastal commanders, together with the fighting forces, were assigned to the fleet commander.

At the present time the German fleet consists of 183 fighting ships, 204 aircraft of the fleet air arm, and 70 auxiliary ships. The present manning level of the German Navy is 35,400 officers, petty officers and men.

However, first rate tools do not yet ensure a good job. Sophisticated weapons systems, created by human genius as the product of a long development cycle, demand a man who is capable of operating these systems and adapting their employment to the changing requirements of warfare.

Therefore, training as in other NATO nations was made an activity of primary importance. Our fleet units participate in an average of five to six NATO exercises every year, our minesweeper squadrons go to Ostende to make use of the facilities of the NATO Mine Warefare School, German destroyers exercise in the Bay of Biscay in company with French antisubmarine units. All the units of our fleet at least once every year call at one or more European or overseas ports and in this way help to strengthen the bonds of friendship with our allies and other friendly nations.

German officers, petty officers and men in December 1965 completed their job in the USS CLAUDE V. RICKETTS, the ship selected for

the

mixed manning demonstration of a multilateral nuclear force. Whether an MLF will ever be created is very much in question today. However, it is unquestioned that all the seafaring men aboard this ship, members of six nations, were caught in a spirit of cooperation and the readiness to do their best for the success of a common mission. This and numerous other examples of cooperation in integrated staff, in exercises, in research and development provide us with a hopeful oudook into the future and justified confidence in an Alliance which has the common objective to preserve peace and freedom.

THE ITALIAN N A V Y I N THE MEDITERRANEAN b y Cdr. Di Benedetto, I N

Among the political changes following WWII, there is one which is of a particular interest to the Italian Navy, that is the acquisition of independence of the African continent. The Mediterranean coasts of Africa, once under the control of Western powers, are today under the sovereignty of independent states.

These states, tormented by economic problems of uneasy solution, subject to foreign countries for a large portion of their industrial requirements, are M A R C H ,

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pretentious of military prestige and represent therefore elements of potential instability in the political situation of the Mediterranean. This situation is confirmed by the constant effort of the Soviet bloc to draw the African states into its sphere of influence. . \ t the moment the high ideals of independence of the new states oppose the Soviet blandishments, as these countries are not willing to barter their hardly conquered freedom for dubious economic and military advantages. The future, however, remains unknowable.

With the rising of the aforesaid situation, the interests of France and United Kingdom in the Mediterranean are decreasing, as they are inclined to concentrate in the Atlantic their naval power.

These changes, while conferring a greater importance to the naval position of Italy in the Mediterranean, increase the weight of the tasks which the Italian Navy is called upon to perform.

Within NATO, the Italian Navy finds herself required to fill the gaps created by the withdrawal of French and British ships. At the same time she is nationally committed to the protection of merchant shipping indispensable to the life and welfare of Italy should the situation arise wherein such protection might become necessary.

The commitments of the Italian Navy will not be listed herein. It will be said that the quality of means indispensable to the Italian Navy must be equal to the offensive threat of the potential enemy. In other words, the Italian Navy must be prepared to face an enemy which will develop its attacks in the most modern ways of warfare by using missiles, nuclear submarines and supersonic aircraft. Add to this the capability of carrying out amphibious operations, special operations in restricted waters and mine warfare. To conclude, Italy must have a fleet of high characteristics in mobility, operational readiness and endurance, perfectly balanced and fully consistent with the specific requirements of the country. The availability of such a fleet, consisting of 200,000 tons of naval vessels, fixed wings and helicopters plus 50,000 tons of support ships, will permit Italy to take the role of protecting the stability in the Mediterranean, a role assigned to her by geographical position and current history.

At the end of WW 11 the Italian Navy was left with only 100,000 tons of combatant vessels and 60,000 tons of auxiliary ships. Most of the ships were obsolete and of a class differing from requirement. Now, twenty-one years later, the situation is entirely changed because up-to-date guided missile and escort ships and ASW aircraft and helicopters are part of the Italian Fleet and additional required ships are under construction.

However, this is only the first step along the difficult road to attainment of a level of forces close to acmal requirements; further steps will follow. It is a big and demanding project, and one which must remain within the economic limits imposed at present on the country for the development of the navy.

SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION I N THE NETHERLANDS b y C d r . A n e S. d e V r i e s , R . N e t h . N .

The Dutch have always shown a healthy interest in the construction of submarines. In fact, we can trace this characteristic back to the year 1625, when Cornelius Drebbel constructed a submergible craft with an oar-propulsion system. In trying to sell this invention to the British he performed a successful trial on the Thames in London.

By the time Bushnell constructed the "Turde" (1775), the first submarine intended for warfare, the shape had changed considerably but not so the propulsion, albeit that more manpower was employed.

It was to be almost another hundred years before Hunley's submarine attacked the Hous.i-

TONicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;however, the crew perished at the moment of the explosion (1864).

In 1883 John Philip founded what is now known as the Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, and from that moment on genuine progress was made in submarine construction. His endeavors and early success greatly helped designers and constructors in other countries, and The Netherlands soon followed suit.

Even though our Netherlands naval authorities were not convinced at that time that the taxpayer's money should yet be mvested in these new craft, a private shipyard built our first submarine after Holland's design (1904). This submarine was bought later on by the navy, of course after successfully completing the trials.

Since that time and until the historic day in 1964 on which the submarine service of the Royal Netherlands Navy celebrated its 50th anniversary, a lot happened to the design and development of propulsion systems of submarines.

After the slow start in the early years of this century, our navy gradually built a sizeable submarine service and achieved some remarkable successes.

In 1934 H.Nedi.M.Submarine "K.18" completed a voyage from the Netherlands to Soerabaja (in the then Netherlands East Indies) via West Africa, South America, South Africa and Australia, logging a total of 23,000 nautical miles.

This comparatively small submarine also carried a passenger. Prof. Vening Meinesz, who later, apart from becoming a regular passenger on board our submarines, was to become an acknowledged authority on the composition of the earth's crust, having built up his theories by accurate gravity measurement. Twenty years later the first nuclear submarine was launched in the United States of America, and in 1960 USS TRITON made a similar voyage without once surfacing.

At the outbreak of World War II some of our latest submarines were fitted with what was later to be used to great advantage by the German U-boats, a snorkel, invented a few years earlier by Lieut. Wichers, R.Neth.N. The man who was to a large extent responsible for some successful submarine designs and whose brain frequently produced new ideas in ship construction was a civilian naval constructor, Mr. Gunning. During the war he lived in England and was closely connected with our naval headquarters in London. In 1944 he produced the drawings for the first "triple hull" submarine.

Originally, I believe, he intended his idea to be the answer to the problem of supplying virtually inaccessible bases with vital items, but soon after the war the principle was adopted for the construction of modern, conventionally-propelled submarines.

Basically the design is different from other known submarines in that there are three cylindrical pressure hulls, each with a small diameter instead of one such pressure hull with a large diameter. Two of the hulls are constructed parallel to each other on the lower level and the third is on top, thus a cross section shows a triangular shape. In two positions there are connecting tubes between the one upper and the two lower hulls.

The lower hulls each house a propulsion system, consisting of a diesel engine, main batteries and generators, while the upper hull contains the living quarters, torpedo tubes both forward and aft, and the control room with fire control equipment.

Some of the evident advantages of this novel design are the increased maximum diving depth (small diameter) and the profitable distribution of weight (heavy parts in lower hulls). The evident disadvantage is the rather cramped accommodations for the crew.

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submarine of this class to be most successful under conditions bordering on those that we expect to exist in case NATO was called upon in defense of the alliance in the Atlantic. In this fashion the Royal Netherlands Navy is giving valuable support to the submarine force of the Allied Command Atlantic and firmly believes in continuing to do so in the future to the maximum extent possible.

THE ROYAL N O R W E G I A N

NAVY

by Cdr. Rolf Lindeberg, RNoN

The Royal Norwegian Navy at present is in the midst of a new construction program that by the end of 1967 will provide the navy with 50 new combatant vessels. With the addition of vessels carried over from the existing fleet, the navy then will consist of: 5 destroyer escorts 2 coastal escorts 15 coastal submarines 26 motor torpedo boats 20 motor gun boats 4 combined minelayers/escorts 7 coastal minesweepers 2 ocean minesweepers Additionally, there will be a very limited number of auxiliaries.

The modernization program is made possible by a Cost-Sharing Construction Program whereby the United States government very generously will bear 50% of the construction cost, limited upwards to $58,601,400.

The January 1966 issue of United States Naval Institute Proceedings contained a very comprehensive article about the Norwegian Navy and the Cost-Sharing Construction Program which virtually leaves very litde to be added.

However, some justifications for adopting an almost entirely small-craft, coastal navy might be of interest.

The very limited resources in Norway, a population of no more than 3.7 million, spread over a country 125,000 square miles in size, most of which is mountainous and of little use, of necessity must result in small military forces. It is realized within NATO that Norway's best military contribution to the alliance is to provide base and early warning facilities and at the same time prevent an aggressor from obtaining the same.

In order to accomplish the latter task—to prevent an aggressor from obtaining bases in Norway —the main part of the Norwegian military force in being is deployed to North-Norway where a 120-mile border is shared with the USSR. A calculated risk is taken by leaving SouthNorway almost open militarily. In this connection, hov/ever, it should be remembered that the Danish and West German forces will at least delay a breakout from the Baltic and thus give time to mobilize the defenses in South-Norway.

A study of geography and other factors of importance to military strategy will reveal that an attack in strength against North-Norway has to include naval operations both in the initial phase as well as in the later resupply phase. Thus the Norwegian Navy's first task will be to fight off an invasion. This is the clue to the present modernization program; with a certain (and limited) amount of money to provide the most effective and locally suitable anti-invasion defense in North-Norway and also retain some capabilities to protect the important resupply lines from SouthNorway.

A glance at the map will show that numerous islands (really about 150,000, many of them nothing more than rocky reefs or skerries) provide a sheltered passageway for ships between the coast and these inlets. The Norwegian name for this passageway, which is found almost everywhere along the coast, is "skjargaard" or skerry-guard.

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An invading force has to enter this "skjargaard" to get to the mainland and key targets. By doing so it will expose itself to "hit and run" attacks by high-speed, highly maneuverable small torpedo and gunboats that from extensive training in this role have gained good local navigational knowledge.

The Norwegian Navy must be prepared for a situation in which the anti-invasion force could be fighting under conditions where the enemy has at least local air superiority. Coastal submarines, operating in the outer inlets to the "skjargaard," may survive by going deep. Small, high-speed craft like torpedo and gunboats have a fairly good survivability against air attacks due to smallness, speed and maneuverability and also by taking maximum advantage of geographic protection such as mountains rising steeply from the coastline. Additionally, these small craft are well practiced in camouflage technique, concealing themselves along steep rocks to avoid detection and air attack should the air situation become unfavorable.

Another important factor favoring a small-craft, coastal navy is the coast artillery, an integral part of the navy. The inlets to all major ports are defended by coast artillery guns well protected in solid rock. Controllable mine fields are in position and operational in peacetime and non-controllable mine fields are ready to be laid on short notice to further reinforce the static defenses. The cooperation between the static and mobile elements of the navy is constantly being practiced, and the coastal batteries can readily provide safe havens to surface forces should overwhelming enemy naval forces be encountered.

Because of the very local tasks of the Norwegian Navy, it is earmarked entirely to Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) through the Commander in Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe (CINCNORTH), SACEUR's subordinate commander with headquarters at Kolsaas, Oslo, Norway. The same applies to the Norwegian Air Force which operates the maritime patrol aircraft.

These aircraft, U. S.-built Albatross HU-16B, are being operated from a joint headquarters, thus assuring that the naval interest is being taken care of to the maximum extent possible.

Although no Norwegian forces are earmarked for Supreme Allied Commander Adantic (SACLANT), nevertheless, the results from reconnaissance flights into the .Arctic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea and the Adantic Ocean will immediately be made available to SACLANT or his subordinate commander for the Eastern Atlantic (CINCEASTLANT). Also the results from the coastal radar stations and the early warning system, where Norway covers almost one-third of NATO's eastern border, will be brought to SACLANT's attention.

Last but not least, the Norwegian merchant fleet has to be mentioned as a major maritime asset to NATO and SACLANT in particular.

From a war-loss reduced size of 2 million gross tons in 1945 it has now grown to a size of 15.8 million gross tons (as of 1/1-1965) and is still growing at a rate of about 1 million gross tons per year. Only about 10% of this fleet is needed to meet Norway's own transport requirements.

The remainder, more than 14 million gross tons of modern, efficient ships, is sailing the seven seas and will in time of war be made available to NATO. Thus early warning, base facilities and a great merchant fleet constitute Norway's major contribution to the Atlantic Alliance.

PORTUGAL

by Cdr. J. M. de Ferraz, P o r t N

In any alliance, the respect and consideration attributed to each member nation cannot be measured exclusively by the number of divisions, aircraft or nuclear submarines with which she

contributes to the collective defense systems. Even though the contribution of the Portuguese armed forces to NATO is .small, their role in the alliance materially assists in the deterrence of aggressors.

The Portuguese Navy is now in a phase of expansion and development, having under construction new destroyers and submarines and a large number of small craft especially conceived to operate in shallow waters. The Portuguese army has over 200,000 men, well trained and with great experience in insurgency.

Portugal is also a big producer of uranium, titanium, diamonds, petroleum and iron ore, as well as cork, resin, coffee, cotton, sugar and other agricultural products. The Portuguese contribution to NATO cannot be measured only by its economy, manpower, production or armed forces, but also by its position on the Iberian peninsula and the strategic location of its overseas provinces and its islands of the Atlantic.

Portugal is located in the western part of the Iberian peninsula, behind the barrier of the Pyrenees, 1,000 miles from the East German border and 2,000 miles from Moscow. It is relatively protected against land attack, making it important as a major support area to Western Europe.

Portugal and its overseas provinces, spread through different continents, with more than 4,500 nautical miles of seacoast, can be looked upon as a huge group of islands with a connecting link between them—the sea.

Portugal and its Atlantic islands—the Azores, the Madeiras and Cape Verde, provide a vital chain of bases to guard the lines of communications in the Atlantic.

All the sea roads from North and West Europe to the Mediterranean, Africa and Central and South America and from America to the Mediterranean are flanked by Portugal, the Azores, the Madeiras and Cape Verde. Moreover, from Portugal and the Madeiras a close watch can be kept over the Straits of Gibraltar and a high degree of control can be exercised over this vital area of the Adantic. The result of the complex of these strategically located Portuguese bases is a commanding position covering large parts of the Atlantic.

Portugal and its Atlantic islands are essential in the control of the Atlantic west and south of Gibraltar, essential to the support of forces operating in and through this and contiguous waters.

Without those bases, the number of ships, aircraft and men from NATO necessary to assure the protection of the area would increase considerably.

PILOT, C O X S W A I N OR DRIVER? (A humorous but factual British contribution)

by Cdr. W . R. H a r t , AFC, RN

It is, of course, a well known fact that the British invented the tank, Stevenson's "Rocket," London taxicabs, and wet weather. What could be more natural then that they should hit upon a combination of all these things in the Hovercraft? It is probably a sort of inevitable historical process of evolution, which will allow them to get to work across their flooded, rain-soaked countryside. In similar fashion, across the Atlantic, the motor car has reached its present high state of development in America in order to allow people to get to supermarkets, baseball games and drivein movies without actually using their legs.

It is held in some quarters, however, that the Hovercraft originated as a result of a frustration complex over the America's Cup, and was developed as a means of reducing the skin friction of .sailing craft over water without actually being accused of cheating. This may be rather more accurate since the first Hovercraft was certainly born in the old yachting town of Cowes in the Isle of Wight, traditional sailing centre of Royalty, S H I P M A T E

and significantly, a last surviving bastion of Victorian propriety.

Hovercraft SRN 1, the first of its kind, was an insignificant craft scarcely able to rise over a 1 ft. obstacle, when it was rescued dramatically and inadvertently b)- the Victorian propriety already noted above, which required her to wear an ankle length flexible skirt. . . . From then on the Hovercraft never looked back.

Four-foot walls were now easy to climb, and as SRN I's successors became larger and larger there seemed to be no end to the possibilities. Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, shallows, saltings, shingle and scrub; all these were now the stamping ground of the Hovercraft. It can be used for rescue purposes in marsh, ice and snow, for carnival floats, passenger carrying, shooting the rapids, road cleaning, crop spraying, pest clearance, and with engines in reverse possibly for cleaning the beaches at Margate or Coney Island after holidays.

There are probably even military applications.

For instance, it has been calculated that more officers can be run ashore more quickly to the casinos of Monte Carlo by Hovercraft from a ship arriving off the coast of Monaco than can be done using an equivalent number of ship's boats, landing craft, or helicopters. To this considerable advantage must be added an immunity from sea mines, small beach obstacles, land mines, booby traps and even customs officers, which is truly gratifying.

Also, it is quite possible that Hovercraft may be useful for hunting submarines. It now seems possible for the Pilot/Cox'n/Driver of a large Hovercraft to claim command pay while taking his place on the screen of an ocean-going convoy. Proceeding at high speed to a submarine datum at considerable range from the convoy, he can claim flying pay, and after remaining in contact almost indefinitely, he can then return to the convoy, sinking gratefully into a waterborne condition in order to obtain hard-lying money. While in contact with an enemy submarine there will of course be some possibility of a reduction-in-danger money due to the absence of any risk caused by torpedoes, but this will be a small penalty to pay.

Now let us consider the possibilities for NATO. I can envisage no nobler sight than a Hovercraft, bedecked with the flags of fifteen nations and resembling a mobile Flag Plaza, steaming slowly up the Potomac or Severn rivers carrying the SACLANT briefing team to a presentation at the Pentagon or the U. S. Naval Academy.

Finally and nationally, every Briton can now take pride in singing with the minimum of amendment that stirring song "Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the (little bit just above) the waves."

N.L.R.S TO SACLANT b y Cdr. J o h n M . V e r n o n , RN

Of NATO's 15 nations, 10 have frontiers which border on the Adantic Ocean or the North Sea. These arc Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, U. K. and U. S. A., and, at the inception of the Supreme Allied Command, Atlantic, in 1952, all of them accredited a National Liaison Representative to SACLANT. In 1956, Italy and West Germany, because of their maritime interest in the Adantic, asked if they could al.so be represented and the same year a change of government in Iceland resulted in her withdrawal from formal liaison. Thus, 11 nations today have accredited National Liaison Representatives with SACLANT. By virtue of the diversity of the appointments they hold in addition to their N. L. R. status, e.g., Head of Military Mission, Member of the NATO Military Committee in Permanent Session or Attache and sometimes all three, most of the principal N. L. R.s, of whom 9 are of Flag and 2 of Captain's rank, find it convenient to accredit 1 or more assistant N. I.. R.s.

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Basically, the N. L. R.s provide a channel of communication between SACLANT and their individual national authorities of whom two of the most vital are their Ministry of Defense and their Diplomatic Head in Washington. Thus they are most valuable to SACLANT in making him aware of their national viewpoints, particularly on controversial issues, and in co-ordinating the flow in both directions of information required for the proper prosecution of SACL.A.NT's widespread military tasks. In addition to this, they take care of all administrative matters which arise in connection with those of their nationals who are actually assigned for duty on SACLANT's Staff.

The N. L. R.s are for obvious reasons based in Washington, D. C , and either they or their assistants attend a regular meeting in SACLANT's Headquarters at Norfolk, Virginia (about 200 miles from Washington), at approximately monthly intervals. At these meetings they are briefed by members of the SACLANT Staff on the status of current projects, from operational, logistic, financial, communications and public information aspects and they in turn fill in the Supreme Allied Commander and his Staff on any important national military or political developments. These are pleasant and largely informal occasions, during which much useful information is exchanged and much good will and mutual understanding engendered. In addition to these regular meetings, the N. L. R.s are frequently invited to attend ceremonial occasions at SACLANT and also to observe important NATO military conferences when these are held in Norfolk.

The N. L. R.s are thus a vital factor in keeping the powerful machinery of NATO well oiled and on the right lines, and as individuals they become in a very short time a most welcome and permanent part of the SACLANT scene.

THE VOICE OF C O M M A N D b y C a p t . C. S. B a k e r , USN

One of the very first actions of the signatories of the Brussels Treatyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the predecessor of NATO â&#x20AC;&#x201D;was to bring the communications systems of the individual nations into a cohesive unity for the allied operation of their forces should such a need ever arise.

The nations had one fortuitous advantage. The financial vacuum which was the common lot of all the western powers after World War II had, to a high degree, prohibited any great physical change in the method of communication to and within maritime forces.

The NATO communicators were therefore able to concentrate on perfecting organization, coordination and procedures using equipment still available, compatible and above all well tried and proven.

The Atlantic Command, formed in 1952, had the added advantage of being a uniquely maritime command formed of nations already well versed in mutual coordination and well practiced in war.

Each nation was equipped with shore structures and equipment necessary for the control of its own ships and maritime aircraft. The task was therefore to provide the supranational communications facilities necessary to weld them into a functioning NATO structure.

Where such facilities did not exist, they were provided; where they were inadequate, they were improved. The bill for all this was shared by the nations for the common good under the NATO infrastructure program.

This program is a method of commonly funding the construction of shared facilities and has been used in the past to provide such works as allied headquarters and airfield communications, automatic relays at major headquarters, special ship and submarine broadcasts, and navigational systems.

In the future its use promises to provide works to simplify yet increase the speed of communica-

tions by providing satellite and high speed data circuits and by providing better electromagnetic navigation systems.

Two of the most prominent facilities provided the North Atlantic Alliance are a high powered, very low frequency broadcasting station in the north of England, and a group of LORAN "A" navigational chains that ring the North Atlantic Ocean.

The nations have trodden a similar path in the procedural as they have in the technical field. As a matter of evolution in World War II, Korea and NATO experience, they have found that by taking the best of each nation's ideas they have allied procedures which are practical and convenient for use within their own forces. By the introduction of supplements which give minor deviations from or additions to these basic procedures little difficulty is experienced when working together in allied exercises or emergencies. One advantage of the common procedures and rules is that to a large degree they have overcome language problems that have arisen.

As with any facet of a military operation, the greatest single factor is, and will always be, the man. It is here that the problems really face NATO communicators.

The real test for and value to communicators lies in the lengthy exercises where one can not only find the snags, but iron them out and benefit at the same time from the lessons learned.

This type of long duration exercises has not always been available to NATO. But with the initiation in 1965 of the "Match Maker" series of extended antisubmarine exercises, fleet-type communications procedures come under the test needed to prove their faults and merits. In such an exercise does the communicator not only learn to work efficiendy with his opposite number but he gets to know him, to understand him and to appreciate him and therein lies the very strength of the Alliance.

N A T O BUDGET A N D

FINANCE b y C a p t . C. B. S h a w , USN

Financing and budgeting an international organization can be a sticky problem, but the real story behind NATO's finances is its low cost to member nations. NATO operates on a budget of less than one-half of one per cent of the total defense budgets of the fifteen member nations.

For this comparatively nominal amount, the Atlantic Alliance has at its disposal the necessary land, .sea and air forces to defend that part of the Western Hemisphere from North America across the Atlantic and Europe to the eastern boundaries of the Alliance, and from the North Pole to the Tropic of Cancer.

When NATO was first established, the problems of financing the organization were numerous. A directing military organization was required, as were new airfields, radar and communications networks, fuel depots, war headquarters, and other facilities that would be in common use. Clearly, the cost of these would have to be shared by member nations.

But the problem was on what basis should this cost be shared.? On capacity to pay.' On benefits accrued by the country wherein the facility was constructed.' Or, should the nation whose forces would make the most use of these facilities be charged a greater proportion of the cost? Eventually, by a combination of these factors, two costsharing formulas were agreed on. Each nation now contributes on the basis of one of these formulas.

The first formula is for the expense of maintaining headquarters in NATO nations. The other is for the cost of NATO common infrastructure construction, i.e., those fixed installations which are necessary for the deployment and operation of the armed forces. .After completion of 25

an infrastructure facility, cost contributions are based on the former formula. After completion of an infrastructure facility, the cost contributions are based on the first formula.

The budgeting for NATO, in many respects, follows the pattern of national budgeting except that the calendar year is also the fiscal year. The major NATO Commanders (SACEUR, SACLANT and CHANNEL) submit their budget estimates annually to the NATO Council through the Military Budget Committee in Paris who subject the estimates to intense scrutiny in search of economies. After approval by the Council, the nations are requested to contribute their share of the money required in accordance with the first costsharing formula mentioned above.

At the current time, the percentage contribution by each nation is as follows: Belgium 2.86 Canada 5.80 Denmark 1.65 France 17.10 Germany 16.10 .39 Greece Iceland .05 Italy 5.96 Luxembourg .09 Netherlands 2.85 Norway 1.15 Portugal .65 Turkey 1.65 United Kingdom 19.50 United States 24.20 The assignments of forces from NATO countries does not necessarily increase a nation's cost, as the NATO countries maintain national defense forces. The NATO countries share in the cost of civilian personnel, building maintenance, consumable supplies, communications, transportation, and capital equipment. Each nation pays its own military personnel assigned to NA'TO. The call-up of funds is made three times a year. The NATO commands do not receive their monetary needs direcdy from each country in accordance with the formula. Instead, the money is received from one country, usually the host country. The nation contributing the needs for a command then receives credit in an offset account maintained in Paris for other amounts for which it may be liable. In the last call-up funds saved from a prior year are reduced from the amount needed and the members then settle any unpaid balance.

Finally, one may wonder at the complexities of budgeting and financing an international organization in terms of francs, guilders, drachmas, pounds, etc., and fluctuating exchange rates. Since fluctuations in the NATO countries' exchange rates tend to average out, the various NATO headquarters buy and sell exchange as necessary to complete their day-to-day transactions. For budgeting and final setdement with NATO headquarters, the "accounting unit" is used which establishes a definite ratio between the member countries' monetary units. When setdement is made for the final call-up, the individual country is requested to pay out a certain amount of accounting units in the monetary unit of the country to which payment is to be made.

INSTALLATION INSPECTIONS

by Cdr. V. C. Merry, RN SACLANT's most celebrated traveling team is its briefers, those who tell the NATO and SACLANT story to public audiences from Seatrie to Ottawa. Actually there is another travelling team which frequently requires the derring-do of a trapeze star, but whose exploits and adventures rarely appear in unclassified print. These are logisticians whose job is to check and double check NATO's war readiness in remote areas.

Contrary to the popular misconception, logisticians have anything but a dull life. Although it is 26

only one aspect of the several facets of NATO logistics, the travels and related experiences of SACLANT's Logistics Travel Team is taken up with checking on infrastructure, which is a French word diat refers to the static facilities on their railroad system, but which has now been adapted to use by NATO. In its NATO context it means shore-based facilities that are used by two or more member nations in the country of another.

An infrastructure project which might be an ammunition depot, a LORAN chain, a war headquarters, an oil fuel depot or an airfield is a tangible asset in the NATO inventory and is in support of an accepted NATO War Plan; it is not there to provide shore support just in case it might prove useful. The NATO nations have spent nearly 214 billion dollars to build countless facilities throughout the West; quite rightly most of these projects have been built in Europe on behalf of the Supreme Allied Command Europe whose forces are mainly army and air force.

However, SACLANT's share of this real estate amounts to 220 million dollars and there are now many such projects at readiness throughout the ACLANT nations.

It is the responsibility of the country in whose nations the installation is being built to supervise the construction, the contract for which is put out to international competitive bidding, and then to man and maintain that finished product. The peacetime and wartime users of the facility may be a combination of any or all of the ACLANT nations. The construction is paid for by all the NATO nations on an agreed pro-rata basis, but once it has been acceptetl for service the maintenance and operating costs are shared proportionally by the nations whose forces will actually use it.

Just like any national establishment, NATO insists that these projects should undergo an annual inspection to make certain they are being properly maintained and kept at an acceptable degree of readiness. This is how the logisticians in SACLANT get in to the commercial travelling business. Together with representatives of the Area Commander, generally in this case from CINCEASTLANT at Northwood, England, and those of the various user nations, a detailed inspection of each and every installation is made once a year. The officers and civilians on this circuit are indeed a very international, joint and combined group, all of whom are experts in one field or another, and who, after a few of these visits together, get to know each other pretty well.

Most of the SACLANT projects seem to have been built in places way off the beaten track and although the SACLANT logisticians fly with the jet set to the more glamorous places like London, Paris, Oslo and Lisbon, they just flash through the international airways terminals and then proceed to the very end of the line by every conceivable means of transport and reside in ever more varied accommodations. It is the responsibility of the host country to arrange the itinerary and although the hospitality is always excellent, location, climate and time of year dictate the mode of travel and type of accommodation.

Travelling has been carried out in every conceivable type of commercial and military aircraft from four engine jets to single engine light types fitted with wheels, floats and even skis. Ships have varied from destroyers, boom defense vessels, chartered fishing boats, aircraft lighters and even pulling boats.

One of the routine trips necessitates a delightful voyage through the fjords of Norway. Disembarking at 0400, however, can be rather tedious unless it happens to be in the season of the midnight sun.

On one occasion, just before arrival at a very remote and rocky island off Northern Norway, the logistics passengers in a single engine plane were issued a stiff shot of brandy apiece. Then the glasses were collected and after some very extreme banking and violent maneuvers had taken

place, the inspecting team suddenly found themselves landing on a desolate but tricky beach and with none of the usual ambulances or fire engines in attendance. The reason behind the provision of the brandy was quite apparent!

Land transport has embraced all the usual forms, even including an aerial tramway, but so far nobody has had to go by dog sled.

It is now known from experience that you can't inspect in Greenland or Norway in winter and that small boating is uncomfortable in the Azores until mid-summer. A very carefully guarded secret is the name of the "pub" in Scodand where you get an electric blanket! Needless to say, the experienced inspector always takes along his thermal underwear, whatever the time of year.

By rule all such travel is in civilian clothes on these visits and you can perhaps well imagine the reactions of the usually placid villagers when a bunch of very suspicious-looking foreign gentlemen descend upon them from out of the blue, to sleep and eat in their midst, disappearing behind some mysterious barbed wire fence during the day and emerging in the evening to sit around a table in the local hotel to finalize their report behind closed doors. Doubtless they regard them as Men from UNCLEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps even SMERSH! These visits are hard work as one is inevitably working against the clock and the vagaries of airline schedules, but they are of enormous benefit and financial saving to NATO. Far more is achieved by these field trips than can ever be attained from driving the desk back in Norfolk; the contacts, friendship and mutual understanding arising from these trips are inestimable. Assuredly NATO logistics is a fascinating assignment.

SOME LEGAL ASPECTS

by Copt. L. R. Hardy, USN For centuries foreign troops stationed on a nation's soil were there in the role of conquerors or protectors of the host nation's security. As such, the troops "wrote their own ticket," exempting themselves from the operation of host country law.

When NATO was established, it became apparent that these arrangements would not be suited to NATO troops serving in countries other than their own.

Thus, an intricate judicial system, a modus operandi, was established under which foreign troops would not unduly interfere with the peace and good order of the host country. This system was entitled the Agreement Between the Parties to the North Atlantic Treaty Regarding the Status of Their Eorces. It was signed in London on June 19, 1951, and subsequendy ratified by all member nations of NATO. Officers reporting to duty with the staff of the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic in Norfolk, Virginia, have somewhat the impression of joining a new service, and in effect they have done so.

By virtue of their assignment to SACLANT, and through the Status of Forces Agreement, they enjoy certain privileges and immunities that neither non-NATO American troops nor troops of other nations have while on U. S. soil.

In principle, the NATO Status of Forces Agreement is not unlike the Constitution of the United States. It establishes certain exemptions from, and certain requirements to, host country law for military personnel of one NATO nation serving in the territory of another member nation.

One primary fact in the Agreement stands out above others: the members of a foreign force, civilian employees accompanying the force and their dependents, must respect the law of the host nation and the parent state of said forces must take appropriate steps to ensure such respect.

All the areas of administration stated in the Agreement would be impossible to elaborate on in this limited space. A mention of a few will be illustrative of the scope of the Agreement.

SHIPMATE

When the aforementioned officers obtain their NATO-SACLANT identification cards, they find doors open to them that previously required keys swathed in red tape.

I. D. cards are SACLANT officers' passports to any of the NATO countries, and when they deplane in Rome, London, Paris, or Washington, the business of customs declaration and passports is bypassed.

SACLANT officers' families also share if they are ordered to foreign NATO tions . . . no passports, no customs, and effects and vehicles enter the country

this status duty stahousehold duty-free.

Members of visiting forces are exempt from taxation by the host nation on income paid by their parent nation; automobile drivers licenses issued by the parent nation are honored by the host nation; visiting forces are permitted to operate commissaries and exchanges for the use of their members and their dependents similar to such operation by the United States armed forces in their own country.

In the matter of claims for damage and injury to persons and property in the host country arising

from the acts or omissions of a visiting force or its members, administrative arrangements between the visiting force and host country wdl setde such claims. The Agreement declares no bar, however, to either side utilizing the civil courts of the host country in such matters.

In claims arising out of private, non-official acts or omissions of a member of a visiting force, the host nation expects the visiting force to pay the entire claim. Such payment normally comes from the irresponsible individual himself.

That individual, however, has the benefit of the services of highly trained experts, both on his behalf and the host nation's behalf, in the honest, fair and equitable adjudication of claims.

The matter of criminal jurisdiction of the host nation over members of a visiting force is quite simply stated in the Agreement, but is extremely complex in its operation. In general, it may be said that both host and parent nation of visiting troops have criminal jurisdiction over any crimes committed by members of the visiting force within the borders of the host nation. The visiting nation may completely deny their host an opportunity to try an individual for a criminal act when the

act was within the official duties of the alleged committer.

Where the criminal act is non-official in character, the jurisdiction of the host nation is primary, although it may waive jurisdiction in favor of the visiting nation.

SACLANT Headquarters is unique in that the "force" is international and there are no visiting troops as such. The NATO Status of Forces Agreement did not cover this situation. In August of 1952 the Protocol on the Status of International Military Headquarters Set Up Pursuant to the North Atlantic Treaty was effected.

This Protocol recognizes the judicial and legal status of a NATO International Military Headquarters and equates such headquarters and its commander to the parent nations for purposes of application of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement.

Thus, SACLANT is the visiting nation for all military personnel attached to his staff and, as part of his "force," such personnel enjoy the privileges and immunities provided for members of a visiting force in the NATO Status of Forces Agreement.

CAPITOL HILL b y Fred Lardner T ^ H E VARIOUS proposals for improving naval -*- career service, recommended by the Navy's Military Retention Task Force, point to a more satisfying future for members of all the Services.

Many of the changes recommended by the Task Force would apply to all military people.

If all or a substantial number of the proposals recommended by the Task Force could be made operative, there is little doubt that retention in all the Services would be a lesser problem.

Earlier this year it was thought that the fighting in Vietnam and the expenditures for Great Society programs would have a decidedly adverse effect on plans to improve the attractiveness of military service. The decision of the Defense Department to postpone construction of 8500 housing units, bachelor officers' quarters, hospitals and other medical facilities, barracks, workshops, roads, chapels, warehouses and other projects in 42 states and 16 overseas locations made it appear that military personnel would have to bear the brunt of the savings necessary to finance Vietnam and the Great Society. However, various members of Congress are trying to protect these personnel from cutthroat economy while political-social spending continues at a high rate.

During a January hearing on a supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal 1966, Secretary McNamara was asked why he did not return the $620 million for the postponed fiscal 1966 projects to the Treasury. Secretary McNamara replied that the military still needs these facilities, and the funds should remain available for their construction as soon as the "circumstances in our economy make that desirable."

ATTITUDE ON PAY An increase in military pay in 1966 had not been considered even remotely possible until Representative L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced a bill, H. R. 12672, providing for an increase in military pay "in an amount not less than that recommended by the President for civilian employees."

"If we are to have guns and butter for every American citizen," Mr. Rivers said, in sponsoring his bill, "I see no reason why our fighting men MARCH,

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in Vietnam must accept guns and yet have denied to them and their loved ones their share of the butter."

Representative William H. Bates (R.-Mass.), Republican leader on the committee, agreed with Mr. Rivers' thinking and introduced an identical bill, H. R. 12651.

Last year the military was given an average 10.4 percent increase in pay, and government civilian employees received an average 3.6 percent increase. The civilian pay increase was originally intended to be a lot more than this, and there were reports that the Administration implied a promise of an additional increase this year. But, Mr. Rivers said, the military increase was approved in order to help the military achieve more comparable compensation, but the civilian increase kept the civilian employees ahead of the military.

The Administration's budget for fiscal 1966 contains an amount of $350 million reportedly earmarked for a 1966 increase in civilian pay or for other uses. Now the government employee unions and the writers who cater to government employees are worried. The union leaders publicly support a 7 percent increase in civilian pay, but are said to be willing to accept 5 percent or slightly less. If the military are to obtain an increase equal to that of civilian employees, the average increase will not be much unless the budget allotments are exceeded.

Here is a quote from a government employee newspaper column: " 'Opposing a military pay raise now would be like condemning Mount Vernon and abolishing Mother's Day,' one Government official noted. He predicted it would be a 'lean year' for Federal employees if their pay bill is linked to a military boost and the Administration sticks to its wageprice guidelines.' " NAVY PROPOSALS Probably no more encouraging set of recommendations has ever been made by a military department than those made by the Navy's Military Retention Task Force, headed by Rear Admiral John M. Alford. Almost all these recommendations have been approved by the Navy Manpower Policy Board and Secretary of the Navy Paul H.

Nitze. Some are now being considered by the Defense Department.

Some of these proposals could be made effective administratively; a few already have. Others would require Congressional approval. Several refer to legislation now pending before the Congress, some to career incentive programs soon to be introduced in legislative form.

Not all of the proposals are mentioned here, and the official numbers of those presented are not given.

Sea Pay. The Task Force urges that sea or foreign duty pay start at $15 a month for members with less than two years' active duty, and then be increased by $15 for each two years of service up to 12 j'ears, for a maximum of $105 a month. This pay would apply to officers as well as enlisted men. The emphasis on sea pay is not primarily based on the need for greater retention, because if approved it would continue if retention problems were otherwise solved. But it would encourage retention. For instance, during a recent five-month period 393 of 766 enlisted men serving in submarines reenlisted, while only 383 of 4,456 skilled men serving in cruisers and destroyers reenlisted. A favorable percentage of junior officers in submarine and aviation service continue beyond periods of obligatory service, but junior officers in the surface Navy, who receive no extra pay, are lost in almost wholesale lots.

Officers' Command-at-Sea Pay. The formula for this has not yet been devised. However, it might be something like the responsibility pay authorized by Congress in 1958, but never made effective by the Defense Department because the services were not unanimously in favor of its use. This pay would have been as follows: 0 - 3 , $50 a month to some 5 percent of officers; 0-4, $50 to some 10 percent of officers; 0 - 5 , $100 to some 10 percent of officers; 0-6, $150 to some 10 percent of officers.

Home Ownership. This program is designed to help solve both the retention and the housing problems. It would appeal to young married officers and enlisted men completing their first or second tours of duty and desirous of making the Navy a career. The government would finance 27

the down payment, closing, and insurance costs of a home for such a young couple, provided the member signs a contract to remain in the service for some 15 years or more. The down payment might not be more than a variable reenlistment bonus in some cases. A number of problems arise.

How safe would the member feel in purchasing a home 15 years before leaving the service? How much, or what, use could he make of that home?

Would it ever become a white elephant for him?

The plan is scheduled for Defense Department study.

SECRETARY NITZE'S STATEMENT

In releasing the report of the Navy Manpower Policy Board, Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze said that the recommendations covered wide variety of topics of interest to personnel and related to improvement of living and career conditions.

"Recognizing the fact that the nature of their duties forces Navy men to experience long periods of separation from their familities," Secretary Nitze said, in part, "the Task Force developed a series of recommendations designed to increase the amount of time spent at home.

"Among these were procedures for providing increased opportunity for leave and liberty by reductions in the amount of time spent in watch duties aboard ships while in port. Another program recommends transfer of certain overhaul work currendy performed by ships' crews to shipyard personnel, thereby making available more time for training and liberty.

"Part of this plan entails arranging for both married and single members of crews of ships undergoing overhauls away from their homeports to visit their families at government expense at some time during an extended overhaul period.

"The establishment of Family Services Centers at Navy shore stations, a Dependents Information Section in the Office of the Chief of Information, and modifications to improve family medical care are among the recommendations designed to fulfill the Navy's responsibilities to the families of its men and officers."

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Cost-of-L!ving

Allowance.

"To

ease the financial impact of serving in high cost of living areas in the United States," the Secretary said, "and to make it possible for Navy and Marine Corps families to be housed better in commercial housing, the Task Force has recommended the adoption of a Cost of Living Allowance geared to the cost index of the specific area."

More Educational Opportunities.

"Enhancement in the education opportunities afforded during a Navy career was addressed in a series of Task Force recommendations. Expansion of support for off-duty education programs such as Tuition Aid for both officers and enlisted personnel and increased graduate training for officers are representative."

CAREER MANAGEMENT

Here are the primary recommendations in the field of career management for officers primarily: Establish a generalized billet designation to permit assignment of any unrestricted line officer regardless of warfare specialty qualification. Study unrestricted line billets to determine those billets which may be generalized.

Reorganize the unrestricted line officer designation by grouping all unrestricted line officers under one general designation; assign discrete sub designations to officers qualified in surface, aviation, and submarine warfare specialties as well as to officers who have no warfare qualification.

Establish a Career Planning Board in the Bureau of Naval Personnel to increase the bureau's capability to establish career patterns based upon identified long-range requirements, and to enable the bureau to exercise more positive influence over the career management of the officer corps 28

and to insure that the individual's career follows well delineated and accepted patterns.

Study in depth the problems in the unrestricted line associated with the conflicting requirements of the generalist versus the specialist.

For more effective management pending enactment of the proposed Bolte legislation, take advantage of the noncontinuation provisions of Tide 10, u s e 5734, by convening continuation boards for rear admirals at the 5- and 10-ycar service points, and discontinue about 50 percent and 10 percent at those points, respectively (for further study).

Conduct personnel research to establish a Five Point Management Project consisting of Billet Analysis, Billet Evaluation, Occupational Reengineering, Physical Demands Analysis, and Skill Deterioration Analysis. Define and estimate size of an Optimized Force Structure, which can be adopted as a goal, and a set of incentives compatible with it, which can form the basis of subsequent policy decisions and legislative proposals.

Initial objectives of this effort should be to define cost and effectiveness measures, and cost per unit of effectiveness criteria, for the following partial listing of inter-related factors, not now clearly defined, which will be determinants in the design and implementation of an Optimized Force Structure: 1—Individual and total rating pyramids; 2—Selectivity based on personal attributes; 3 — Productivity; 4—Utilization; 5—Continuance; 6— Severance; 7—Compensation; 8—Service contracts; 9—Training.

EDUCATION

Continue assignment of maximum number of qualified officers to the Undergraduate Education Program, using civilian colleges and universities to meet requirements in excess of those at Monterey.

Establish a degree completion plan to enable officers to complete their baccalaureate degree requirements of one year or less at a civilian college or university.

Increase retention of college graduates in the Navy Officer Corps by (1) Acceleration research into development of means to identify latent military aptitude or inherent career motivation in candidates for officer procurement programs; (2) stress stimulation of career motivation in the Midshipman Cruise Program; 3—Extend the loan cancellation features of the National Defense Education Act to include military service (forgiveness of loans not to exceed 50 percent).

Establish a Surface Combatant School Course to provide concentrated practical training in shipboard division management and deck and engineering watchstanding for all newly commissioned line officers prior to their reporting aboard ship for duty.

DUTY TOURS

Tour personnel in all duty classified as preferred sea duty in a manner similar to that in which personnel are toured in overseas and CONUS shore billets. When practicable, extend this program to include all types of sea duty.

Give Chief of Naval Operations sole responsibility for determining and designating various

type of duty for rotation purposes. Under his direction develop the criteria for and establish a list of all ships, units a.nd activities that are either sea or shore duty for rotation purposes.

Transfer the distribution control of Fleet Shore Duty from the Fleet Commanders-in-Chief to the Chief of Naval Personnel, subject to concurrence of the Fleet Commanders.

LIBERTY A N D LEAVE

Provide additional time for leave, liberty and .schools during overhaul periods by transfer of certain ships' force work to shipyard personnel.

Authorize company of ships which overhaul away from homeport individually to visit their homeport or family residence or domicile at government expense one or more times during the overhaul period, depending on its length.

Maximize in-port time during periods in home waters and reduce in-purt watch and duty requirements.

ALLOWANCES

Enable a member without dependents to occupy inadequate public quarters subject to a fair rental charge without losing his full Basic Allowance for Quarters.

Permit payment of a dislocation allowance to a member.

Restore authority to pay basic allowance for quarters to a member without dependents when he is in a travel or leave status between permanent duty stations.

Recommend enactment of H. R. 5609, which would provide payment of Family Separation Allowance to personnel occupying government quarters.

Press for legislation increasing the amount of the Dislocation Allowance.

Increase the household effects weight allowance by 250 pounds for E-4 through 0-2 for each dependent over two in number.

Propose legislation to permit movement of trailers to parallel shipments of household effects, where contact with the carrier, including payment, is made by government. Cost of moving trailer should be paid provided that cost does not exceed cost which would be incurred if member elected to move the maximum amount of household effects permitted for his grade or rank.

Provide Dislocation Allowance to personnel owning and living in trailers when said personnel are transferred.

MISCELLANEOUS

Establish a dependents' section in the Office of the Chief of Naval Information; make it responsible for furnishing information to wives and families.

Establish Family Service Centers at Navy shore stations, to assist new arrivals or persons with special problems.

Establish Law Centers in areas where there are large concentrations of Navy personnel, to provide assistance in various legal matters, including courts-martial.

ATHLETICS

by Budd T h a l m a n THERE'S A DETERMINATION IN CRABTOWN to make this the winter the worm turned.

After taking their licks from arch-rival Army for six straight years. Navy athletes are preparing to end an indoor victory drought that extends all the way back to the winter of 1963.

In the 1964 and 1965 indoor competition, only a tie in wrestling each year prevented the West Point Cadets from completely blanking their service rivals. Navy's last victories came in 1963 when the Midshipmen won in basketball, wrestling, rifle, and pistol to gain a 4-4 split in the 8-event program.

S H I P M A T E

The Midshipmen also split 4-4 in 1961 but they have not enjoyed an edge in the indoor series since 1959. In that year. Navy commanded a 4-3 advantage with wins in basketball, pistol, squash, and vvresding.

Our athletes have tuned up for the Cadets by scoring (through February 18) 50 victories in 76 contests. Of the nine active teams, only basketball (7-10) and gymnastics (3-3) were not on the winning side of the ledger.

Well on the winning side and on the way to the finest record in history were the Navy vvresders. Coach Ed Peery guided his matmen to eight wins in the first nine starts of the campaign, losing only to Oklahoma (12-21)—the nation's second ranked wrestling powerhouse.

Wrestling News rated the Midshipmen tops in the east and fourth in the nation.

The other records: Fencing 3-2, Pistol 4-2, Rifle 5-2, Squash 8-2, Swimming 7-3, and Track 5-1.

Basketball—One of the top basketball news items of the season came not on the court but off. Ben Carnevale, Navy cage coach for 20 years, announced that he will leave the Academy August 31st to become Athletic Director at New York University, his alma mater. Going into this season, Ben had directed Navy teams to 250 victories in 396 games and earned the Midshipmen bids to six post-season tournaments.

Ben Carnevale.

On the court, the Midshipmen were plagued by mistakes and victimized by some outstanding opposing athletes. Chris Reddington, team captain from Baldwin, N. Y., led the scorers after 17 games with 279 points for a 16.4 average. Just four points behind at 275 and 16.1 was Bill Raddi.ffe, another first classman from Prospect Park, Pa. Reddington was also the team's top rebounder with 163.

Among the youngsters, LIugh Kilmartin of West Concord, Mass., developed into the top newcomer. Jim Snook, a 6-foot-5 Pcnnsylvanian who led the 1964-65 plebes in scoring and was considered a good prospect for the future, resigned from the Academy at mid-term. Snook's resignation and an injury to Gene Parchinski before the season ever began undoubtedly hurt the Midshipmen's overall basketball effort.

After winning four straight over George Washington, Temple, Franklin & Marshall, and Hofstra, Coach Carnevale's five did a complete turnabout by losing four in a row to Virginia, Maryland, Penn State, and Rutgers. With only Boston College and Army remaining, the team cannot avoid a losing season—only the second for Navy basketball in the past 20 j'ears.

A successor to Ben as basketball coach is expected to be named sometime shordy after the end of the season.

Fencing—Second classman Frank Hewitt, who defeated Cornell 14-13 earlier in the season by winning the final touch, had precisely the reverse happen on a trip to Columbia. Hewitt lost the final touch to his Lion epee foe and the defending N.C.A.A. Champions defeated Navy 14-13. In between the Cornell and the Columbia matches.

Navy defeated Brooklyn College and lost to M A R C H ,

1 9 6 6

Pennsylvania. An opening season win over Princeton made the record 3-2 with three matches remaining. The leading foilsman for Coach Andre Deladner's swordsmen was first classman Charles Votava with an 8-6 won-lost mark. Jay Rorick was 7-4 in the same weapon. In epee, Hewitt showed the way with 9 wins in 14 bouts followed by Ed Ohlert, who was 7-4. Vincent Corry and Hal Walker paced the sabre team with nearly identical records of 7-6 and 7-5.

Gymnastics—Coach John Rammacher, in his first year at the helm, already was showing signs of rebuilding Navy's gymnastics program. While the Midshipmen dropped decisions to Springfield, Syracuse, and Penn State, they managed to balance things by defeating Temple, West Chester, and Pittsburgh. Some of the leading Navy performances were given by Bob Byerly, Steve Delesie, Dave Gentile, Walt Newton, Gregg Owens, Gordon Pettus, Gordon Sloat, and Armand Zeddies, the team captain from Porterville, Calif.

Pistol—Four different marksmen posted the top score in Navy's first five pistol matches. Only second classman Jim Gilbert, an Ail-American choice as a youngster last season, was able to finish first on more than one occasion. The other sharpshooters who were number one include Greg Davies, Tom Decker, and Doug Matthews. Gilbert and Matthews were both among the four scoring marksmen in every match. Captain Dick Vidosic and Decker each recorded four finishes in the scoring column. After dropping the opener to Bureau of Weapons, Navy won four straight before being out-gunned by Villanova.

Rifle—West Virginia and the Citadel, two of the leading rifle teams in the nation, were all that prevented Coach Kendall Barber's Midshipmen from a perfect record after seven outings.

The Mountaineers outshot Navy by 34 points and the Bulldogs by 19. On the other hand. Navy enjoyed victories over C.C.N.Y., St. John's, Merchant Marine, Johns Hopkins, and Coast Guard. Second classman Dennis Kreps qualified as top marksman for the Midshipmen with three first-place finishes and six appearances in the top five. Youngster Ward Masden, who showed the way vs. the Citadel, was in the scoring column seven times.

Squash—First classman Bob Spooner became the fourth straight midshipman to win the Maryland State Squash Championship with his recent victory in Baltimore. Spooner follows in the footsteps of previous State Champions Lee Pekary (1963), Corky Graham (1964), and John Bishop (1965). As far as won-lost records for the dual season are concerned, Spooner's 5-4 log takes a back seat to the identical 9-1 marks of Steve Abbot, Dwight Caldwell and Dave Scott.

Spooner, however, plays at a higher position than the other trio. Only losses for Coach Art Potter's rackets were to Harvard (0-9) and Princeton (4-5).

Swimtning—A disappointing loss to Princeton on the road virtually eliminated Navy from the race for the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championship. The Midshipmen lost to the Tigers 54-41 and fell to fourth in the League standings. Coach John Higgins could take solace, however, from the 7-3 dual record his mermen compiled through the first 10 meets. In total victories, captain Tim Beard, a first classman from Mansfield, Ohio, led the pack with 10 firsts—six in the 500-yard freestyle, an event in which he was undefeated, and four in the 200-yard individual medley. Newcomer Tom Donlon was not far behind with eight victories—5 in the 200-yard freestyle, 2 in the 100-free, and one in the 500free. Tim Ferguson with seven firsts and Bob Nelson, John Kane, and Bob Holihan with five also made important contributions.

Track—A narrow 59-41 loss to Maryland was the only blemish on an otherwise sporiess record for Coach Jim Gehrdes' thinclads. On the way to their 5-1 mark, the Midshipmen turned back St. John's, William & Mary, Penn State, Manhattan,

and Pittsburgh. The most amazing running of the season was done by Gehrdes' two-mile relay combinations, which lowered the varsity record in five of the six dual meets. The quartet of Hugh Couch, Ron Knode, Bill Wright, and John Wright finally carved the mark all the way to 7 minutes, 34.9 seconds. That clocking represented an improvement of 9.6 seconds over the old Field House mark and was 10.5 seconds lower than the previous varsity effort. In the mile relay, another record was set. Jay Prout, Gary Dimmig, Ed Cosgrove, and Jim Kiffer combined for a 3:16.2 time vs. Pittsburgh to shave 1.5 seconds off the 1964 record. Two-miler Greg Williams was the lone other record-setter. Williams pulled his own two-mile mark down to 9 minutes, 14.1 seconds.

These performers had the best seasonal efforts as Shipmate went to press: Stan Holmes, 35-pound weight, 58 feet, 7% inches; Harold Hickman, high jump, 6 feet, 3 inches; Buzz Lawlor, mile run, 4 minutes, 14.4 seconds; Joe Wiggins, high hurdles, 7.5 sec; John Wright, 1000, 2 min., 12.7 sec; Tom Palkie, broad jump, 23 ft., 6'A in.; Ed Cosgrove, 600, 1 min., 12.3 sec; John Quinlan, shotput, 52 ft., SVi in.; Bob Donohue, dash, 6.3 sec; Williams, 2-mile, 9 min., 14.1 sec, and Ron Holcombe, pole vault, 14 ft., 6 in.

Wrestling—^Ed Peery was riding the crest of the finest Navy wrestling season in several years. With matches against Penn State and Army remaining.

Navy had already equalled the seasonal high for total victories with eight. The 1947 and 1948 wresding teams were both 8-0. The sting of a loss to Oklahoma in the opener was all but lost in the string of eight straight victories that followed. The biggest conquest of all was a 19-14 decision over Lehigh before an overflow Field House crowd of 4,700. The Engineers at the time were rated the best in the East and among the tops in the nation. John Nichols' pin in the heavyweight bout won the Lehigh match much in the same manner as Nichols had previously won the Cornell test. John had a dual record of 7-1 with five of his victories coming via falls.

First classman Wayne Hicks, the team captain from Somerville, N. J., was one of three undefeated wrcsders on the squad. Hicks, the runnerup in the N.C.A.A. tournament at 137 pounds a year ago, was 6-0-1. Bob Sanders, Perry's classy 152-pound entrant, was 7-0-1 and newcomer John Kent was 4-0-1 at 160. The records of Perry's other regulars: 123—Gary Burger, 7-2; 130— Pete Vanderiofske, 4-2; 145—Dick Mies, 3-4; 167 —Dave Palmer, 4-3-1; 177—Ed Cosgrove, 3-4, and 191—Guido Carioni, 4-1.

ELIAS CALLS SPRING PRACTICE BEGINNING MARCH 1st

Coach Bill Elias has announced that Navy will start spring football practice on March 1st. Elias hopes to wind up drills by the first week in April in order that football players who participate in other spring sports may be released.

If the weather permits, Elias will greet 21 lettermen when grid drills open. The 14 " N " winners who will not return in 1966 include such names as tackle Bob Wittenberg, end Phil Norton, guards Ron Hartnett and Jack Connolly, quarterback Bruce Bickel, halfback Al Roodhouse, linebackers Chris Hoch and Gary Gray, defensive tackles Fred Moosally and Ron Buschbom, defensive end Ray Hill, and safety Duncan Ingraham.

Flanker Calvin Huey, although only a second classman in 1965, has completed his eligibility.

Halfback Terry Murray, who topped all Navy rushers with 391 yards as a sophomore last season, heads the running backs who return. Of the top four ground gainers last year, only Roodhouse graduates. In addition to Murray, Danny Wong, John Cartwright, and Tom Leiser all rushed for more than 100 yards in '65.

Quarterback Cartwright could be pushed for the number one signal-calling role by newcomer Clint Harden, who to.s,sed 13 touchdown passes for the 29

plebes. Two of Navy's best pass targets—Rob Taylor and Rob Hester—are included among the returnees.

The losses are heavy on defense with three of the front five scheduled to graduate along with both linebackers. Don Downing, a linebacker and middle guard and 1966 captain, looms large among the veteran defenders. Middle guard George Garrett, defensive ends Curt Schantz and Bill Dow, and defensive backs Bob Havasy, Rick Bayer, Roger Lammers, and Nardy DeGeorge are other experienced hands.

Friends of Donald have started a perpetual memorial in his name to be awarded to the outstanding Navy midfielder of the year. Any friend, classmate, or teammate of Don's who wishes to contribute to this fund will be welcome to do so. Please send contributions to the MacLaughlin Memorial Fund, c/o Willis P. Bilderback, Lacrosse Coach, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. The men of Attack Squadron 76 of USS ENTERPRISE, commanded by Cdr. A. D. McFall '42, have sponsored the presentation of memorial chairs in the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in honor of Don and Lt. John D. Prudhomme '61, both members of Squadron 76.

DON MacLAUGHLIN MEMORIAL On 2 Jan. Lt. (jg) Donald Clay MacLaughlin '63 was lost in combat over South Vietnam. Don was a first team ail-American lacrosse player, captain of the soccer team, and recipient of the NAAA sword for excellence in athletics.

The Mail Boat shipmate: The article "An Incident of W.W. I" by Weaver (January Shipmate) is of interest to me and is well written. I was Exec and Navigator of the DowNES, the destroyer that left Queenstown to locate and protect the MANLEY until tugs could arrive. Weaver spells it DOWNS, which is a forgivable error.

DOWNES, skippered by then Cdr. Allen Buchanan, was the only destroyer in Queenstown harbor when we received news of the MANLEY disaster and was there for a "boiler cleaning period."

British Admiral Sir Lewis Bayley, under whom we served, assigned each DD a five-day-per-month "boiler cleaning period," which he really meant to be used for rest and recreation, since we operated under two boilers and always had the other two cleaned before entering the boiler cleaning period.

On a black night, we located MANLEY by the stench of burned metal and paint. We guarded her until tugs arrived, then started for Queenstown. One pathetic part of the story Weaver did not mention was that every few hours we received a signal from MANLEY, "When do we reach Queenstown?" Due to the drag caused by the fact that the propellers and shafts of the crippled MANLEY drooped slowed our progress. "When do we arrive?" We were making five knots! The trip seemed even longer than five days. Halfway to Queenstown we learned that among those dead on board was my classmate, Dicky Elliot, exec of MANLEY. At the explosion, Dicky left the bridge and rushed aft. As he reached the foot of the bridge ladder he was hit by one of those heavy balls (every magnetic compass was equipped with two) from the after deckhouse compass. Very odd. We concluded that Dicky's number had been up. That iron ball must have had his number engraved on it.

W. W. SMITH '09

Shipmate: "An Incident of W.W. I" by Frank R. Weaver was read with great interest and sorrowful memories.

I was Gunnery Officer of the USS DOWNES (corrected spelling). We had just returned from escorting a large convoy and were then moored to the "Gin and Bitters Buoy" off the Royal Cork Yacht Club in Queenstown harbor. We were starboard outboard, one of four destroyers so moored. A long delayed boiler and engine overhaul was due us for the next six days. The Engineer 30

Don MacLaughlin '63.

Photo by Stu Whelan

Officer, "Jersey" Crowell, had already laid open boilers, engines, etc Later that afternoon we spied the "Steam Pinnace" of Admiral Sir Lewis ("Luigi") Bayley slowly waddling out toward us, flying proper insignia. This was ominous as he never came to the ships—they came to him. Sir Lewis was Commander of the Western Sea Approaches and in charge of all convoy arrangements, headquarters Queenstown.

The barge tied up to our starboard propeller guard. He did not come aboard. Small, stern and very impressive, wearing more stripes than I had ever seen. Sir "Luigi" poked his head and shoulders up out of the canopy.

"How long will it take you to get underway and head out?" He knew about our overhaul period. He was assured that we would do our level best and we might put ourselves together and get out before dark. Sunset was late—British Summer Time.

About dusk we rounded Daunt Lightship and headed west, full speed. A British destroyer, the MOUNSEY, about our type, was also sent. First observed some distance astern, she kept gaining— frequently out of water up to her bridge in the sea that ran. The MOUNSEY class was rigidly and solidly built, like the proverbial Brick House. Ours were more pliant. As she passed us abeam she blinkered, "Will meet you there, Yank." Well, she never got there.

I had the midwatch. By then the sea was calmer. Bow pointed 40° skyward she (MANLEY) cast her shadow in the clear moonlight, reflecting her "skipjack" type camouflage, a perfect target.

We patrolled figure eights around her. Tugs were to tow her back to Queenstown.

R. F. HANS '14

Shipmate: Many thanks for removing the mists surrounding my Shipmate subscription.

My office is at 4, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France, with North American Aviation S.A. It would be a pleasure to have any alumni drop in at any time when traveling for any reason to this region. There are quite a few anchor-clankers in these parts and I would do my best to put them in touch. Phone 265-1923.

GEORGE CORNELIUS '43

Shipmate: Permit me to invite your attention to the article

by Colby Rucker '24 in the January Naval Institute Proceedings, "The Fifth Man." It is a splendid treatment of a matter of prime importance

to the Navy and the other Uniformed Services including, of course, their retirees.

T. G. W. SETTLE '19

Shipmate: Colby Rucker's article in the January issue of Shipmate, "Admiral King Hoists Four Stars," prompts this postscript to the story.

On the day described, the department heads were tending the various gangways and I was at the forward starboard gangway, just outboard of the Admiral's cabin. Because I was required to remain on station, I missed the ceremonies aft on the fantail. Shordy after they were concluded, Admiral King, all alone, came forward to his cabin. For a moment I was alone with him and offered my congratulations. He seemed not to see me, but looked up at his new four-star flag and said, "That is what we needed. Now we can get started." Then he went into his cabin.

CHARLES MOSES '26

(Editor's note: The following is a signed copy of a letter received by the Alumni Association; the original was addressed to the Governor of New Jersey.)

Sir: An item in the Baltimore Sun of 15 January bearing an AP credit has not only aroused my ire, but has made me fearful for our country's safety.

The item in point states that a ruling of the New Jersey Supreme Court is that Black Muslim pupils cannot be forced to salute the United States flag.

It is my opinion that any individual living under the protection of the United States government, be he school child, college student or adult should be proud to salute the emblem of that government, regardless of his color, creed or native nationality. It is my further opinion that any person who refuses to perform this act of allegiance should forthwith be banished from our land.

This letter is not being written out of pique, whim or passing fancy, but from deep conviction arising from more than thirty years of proud service in the United States Marine Corps through two world wars and two small ones.

It is my not so humble opinion that action such as that performed by the New Jersey Supreme Court (above quoted) borders on, if not actually is, treason and should be treated as such.

Very truly yours, PAUL B . WATSON

Lt. Col. USMC (Ret.) (USNA 1920) S H I P M A T E

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SEA BRSEZiS

by Paul Schratz '39 LET FREEDOM R I N G

One doesn't often get the chance to relive his youth. I did and thoroughly enjoy rebirth as a "scholar in residence" on a large university campus. A Rip van Winkle transplanted into the academic world, a Ponce de Leon who discovers the fountain of youth, I have come alive in the yeasty atmosphere of academic ferment, far different from any I knew at the Naval Academy.

ALUMNI

The current college era is much more volatile than its predecessors but also much more substantial. It's too bad that freaks and weirdies dominate campus publicity. For instance, when Army Chief of Staff General Johnson spoke recendy to a capacity audience on our courageous servicemen in Vietnam, the news was not of the 4000 but of the eight pickets advocating "Drive US Aggressors Into the Sea," "Soviet H-Bombs for North Vietnam Defense." The anti-nuclear types didn't even "anti-picket" to protest use of nuclears against our own troops. Fanatics all, these social outcasts rebel emotionally to attract attention by spitting in the eye of authority. Society in time will take care of them.

NEWS

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

D.C. Vice President (Eastern

Area)—

MR. HANSON W . BALDWIN '24 (7405), New York, N.Y.

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

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

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

TRUSTEES Superintendent's

Representative—

CAPT. EMIL SAROCH, JR., USN '45 (17376), USNA, Annapolis, Md. At

Large

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

MAJ.GEN.

J. N . HART, USMC

(Ret.)

'25 (7864) RADM. E . B . FLUCKEY, USN "35

(11861)

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

RADM. GORDON L . CASWELL, USN

(7380)

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

•32 (10515) EDWARD

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

'27

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

USN

'39

(13221) RADM.

'26

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

(Ret.) '27 (9125)

CAPT.

(Ret.)

(8189) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1967)

CLIFFORD

CAPT. PAUL R . SCHRATZ, USN

'39

(13436) S.

COOPER,

USN

(Ret.) '27 (8653)

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

(20423) From Local Chapters

(To serve until Spring Meeting 1966) CAPT. A. J. GREENACRE, USN

(Ret.)

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

*25

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

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

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

'27 (9147), Detroit M A R C H ,

1 9 6 6

LCDR. EMMETT R . QUADY, USNR '43

(15800), LOS Angeles RADM.

BEN S. CUSTER, USN

(Ret.)

'26 (8549), New York RADM.

J.

A.

ROBBINS, USN

(Ret.)

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

A more legitimate class of rebel is the aggressive defender of freedom whose hypersensitive concern to protect his rights overlooks all sense of responsibility associated with those rights. He hasn't yet distinguished liberty from license. He opposes arrest for possession and use of narcotics as a violation of civil rights which "creates a sense of disrespect for the law" yet fastens no blame on the violator for self-harm nor for an offense against morals which also suggests a certain disrespect for law and society.

His probing mind sees much of law as a refuge for the weak. To him requiring a license to practice medicine is a protection of the incompetent, a feudal remnant of medieval guilds and an infringement on freedom of opportunity. After all, he says, it wasn't until about 1890 that a doctor's arts and wiles were able to give the patient a better chance of recovery than no treatment at all. This rebel separates his "rights" from his personal honor. He may cheat on exams or bridge scores but this is entirely irrelevant. An idealist defending a principle, the principle only is important.

Our youngsters, conformist and non-conformist alike, are terribly serious about the world. They have not yet learned that defense of freedom is first of all respect for freedom. This demands respect for the integrity of one's fellow citizen. His right to disagree must be honored even when he's wrong at the top of his voice. To question a man's judgment carries no right to question his honor.

Every generation rebels against the previous one. It is normal and healthy and I emphasize that the destructive rebel is very much in the minority. It is the non-conformist with ideals and goals who carries the faith and hope of mankind.

He is the true architect of the future whose spirit must survive when the hard knocks of experience tend to corrode those )outhful ideals.

'30 (9980), Philadelphia VADM.

FRANK

T . WATKINS, USN

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

H . B . JARRETT, USN

(Ret.)

'22 (6670), Washington, D . C 31

;LATE OF NOMINEE;

RAdm. Frank Akers, USN (Ret.)

FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WESTERN

RAdm. Robert H. Barnum, USNR

FOR VICE PRESIDENT,

Cdr. Ralph A. Sentman, USN (Ret.)

FOR VICE PRESIDENT, EASTERN

AREA

On graduation from the Naval Academy in 1925 Commander Ralph A. Sentman was the recipient of the "Class of '97 Sword and Cup" and the Superintendent's Letter of Commendation. He is a graduate of both Submarine and Torpedo Schools and is qualified for submarine command. Because of physical disability incurred in line of duty, he was placed on the retired list in 1934. Recalled to active duty in 1940, he was again retired in 1945, this time in the rank of commander and with a commendation from the Secretary of the Navy.

Commander Sentman's contributions to the Naval Academy and the Naval Academy Alumni Association have been many. Since 1950 he has been Philadelphia Chapter President three years.

Board Chairman five years and National Trustee or Alternate for six years. He has been a top "bird dog" for the Naval Academy ScholarAthlete Program, instrumental in the procurement of many a star, both athletic and classroom, for Navy. To date he is responsible for directing more than 150 young men to the Academy. Seven years ago he instimted the Annual Fathers of Midshipmen and Naval Academy Athletic Banquet.

As Toastmaster-Chairman of the event, he has seen it grow each year to its present 500-man attendance. This outstanding program is being adopted by other chapters throughout the country.

Commander Sentman has been associated with sales promotion and public relations in Washington and since 1950 he has been with the Herman Goldner Company, Inc. of Philadelphia. He is currently Vice President and Director of this organization. Commander and Mrs. Sentman make their home in the Philadelphia area.

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EASTERN

AREA

Rear Admiral Robert H. Barnum is a member of the class of 1933. Upon graduation he was ordered to the USS N E W YORK in which ship he served until his resignation in 1934. Joining the Tide Water Oil Co., his promotions led to the position of operating supervisor. In 1939 he left Tide Water and became affiliated with William Hunt & Co., a far east industrial engineering organization. In time he became vice president and general manager of the company and ultimately its president.

Recalled to active duty in World War II, Admiral Barnum served four years as assistant naval attache in the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile.

In 1949 he joined the U. S. Steel Export Co. as assistant to the president and in 1950 he was transferred to the U. S. Steel Corp. and a position on the staff of the president. For a number of J'ears Admiral Barnum has filled the office of Assistant to the President of that corporation.

Active in the Naval Reserve, he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the Ready Reserve in 1961. Admiral Barnum has served the Navy League of the United States in the following capacities: National Director and New York State President, New York City President and National Executive Committee member, National Vice President 1961-63 and National President in 1963-64.

In addition to his Navy League activities Admiral Barnum has served as a member of the Executive Committee, Board of Trustees and Treasurer of the National Security Industrial Association, member of the Board of Managers of the U. S. Naval Academy Foundation and Commander of the New York Chapter of the Military Order of World Wars. In recognition of his distinguished service, both naval and in civil life. Admiral Barnum has been the recipient of many honors and awards.

The Barnums make their home in Scarsdale, N. Y.

AREA

Rear Admiral Frank Akers is a member of the Naval Academy class of 1922. Upon graduation he was ordered to the four-stacker USS SUMNER. Two years later, with Ensign Akers as engineer officer, the SUMNER won the Red E in fleet competition for this coveted award.

In 1925, upon completion of flight training at Pensacola, he was designated as a naval aviator and ordered to Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet.

Various duties at sea involving flying were followed in 1931 by his assignment to the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, for instruction in electronics. Completing the course here, he was ordered to continue his studies at Harvard University where in 1933 he received his Master of Science degree in electronic communications. Then, after a year of duty in connection with instrument flying development at the Naval Air Station, Anacostia, he returned to sea and duty in the USS LANGLEY in charge of instrument landing development. While assigned to this duty he became the first naval aviator to make a blind landing in a shore-to-ship flight.

The start of World War II found Admiral Akers as navigator of the USS HORNET. His tour of duty aboard this ship included the famous Doolittle raid on Tokyo and participation in the Battle of Midway. Following a significant assignment as head of the Radio and Electrical Branch in the Bureau of Aeronautics he then became the USS SARATOGA'S last wartime commanding officer.

During this period of duty the SARATOGA reached a point where each plane landing onboard set a new world record because of the simple fact that no other carrier could offer a record to compare with the ship's record of nearly 100,000 landings.

Promoted to flag rank in 1950, Admiral Akers subsequently served as a commander of carrier divisions in both the Adantic and Pacific, as Assistant Chief of Naval Operations (Undersea Warfare), Chief of Naval Air Technical Training, Commander Fleet Air Eastern Adantic and Mediterranean, Commander Naval Activities, Mediterranean, Commander Fleet Air, Alameda, and Commander Naval Air Bases Twelfth Naval District. In January 1962 Admiral Akers became the Venerable Grey Eagle of Naval Aviation.

In April 1962 he retired from active duty in the Navy. In November of the same year he dedicated the Akers Elementary School in Leemore, California. Admiral Akers now makes his home in Oakland, California.

S H I P M A T E

FOR 1966 ELECTION

VAdm. Harold O. Larson, USN (Ret.)

FOR VICE PRESIDENT, WESTERN AREA

After graduation from the Naval Academy in 1925, Vice Admiral Harold O. Larson served at sea for six years in battleships, destroyers and gunboats in the Adantic, the Pacific and on the .\siatic Station. Ordered to the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, in 1931 he pursued instruction in mechanical engineering. Continuing his studies elsewhere and finally at the University of California, Berkeley, he received his degree of Master of Science in 1933. Starting then as the engineer officer of the four-stacker LITCHFIELD, Admiral Larson spent the majority of the next seventeen years at sea and in destroyers. In command of ships in the western Pacific during the early part of World War II, he soon became a division commander and rendered distinguished service in many actions against the enemy until he returned to the States in 1944 for duty on the staff of the Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet, and Chief of Naval Operations.

Duty as Commander Destroyer Squadron 3 in 1946 was followed by duty as chief of staff and aide to Commander Cruiser Division 3. Two years of duty as Commanding Officer, Service School Command, San Diego, 1948-50, were followed by command of the USS HELENA. During this period while under the command of Admiral Larson, the HELENA participated in hostile action in the Korean War and acquitted herself with great distinction.

While on duty as Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Naval Personnel for Education and Training, Admiral Larson was promoted to flag rank. Subsequent duties included command of Destroyer Flotilla 4, Director of the Office of Information and Education in the Department of Defen.se, Commander Amphibious Group 3, and finally Commander Military Sea Transportation Service, Pacific, from which billet he retired in November 1959.

Admiral Larson now makes his home in Coronado, Calif., where he has become involved in Red Cross work and other civic activities. He is a member of the Planning Commission, City of Coronado, and Vice Chairman of the San Diego Chapter of the American Red Cross. He serves as a director of the San Diego County Heart Association, and is a member of the San Diego Council of the Navy League and of the Military Order of Worid Wars. Last, but far from least. Admiral Larson is an active member and participant in the affairs of the Coronado Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

M A R C H

19 6 6

LGen. Alpha I. Bowser, USMC

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

Lieutenant General Alpha L. Bowser is currendy Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic.

Born in Pennsylvania and apointed to the Naval Academy from that state. General Bowser graduated with the class of 1932. Following his commissioning as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, he attended Basic School and later served at sea in the USS

TEXAS and

USS

NEVADA.

Sea

duty was followed by duty under instruction at an artillery school where, after graduating, he remained as an instructor.

During World War II his duties led him to the Pacific theater where he saw action in New Georgia and Bougainville before becoming the commanding officer of a howitzer battalion which subsequendy took part in the fighting on Guam and Iwo Jima.

Following the war. General Bowser served in a .scries of assignments in Washington, Quantico and Honolulu. When the Korean War broke out he was ordered there and as assistant chief of staff for operations and training in the First Marine Division again saw action.

Duty at home for General Bowser has included a number of major troop commands and an assignment to Marine Corps Headquarters, first as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-1, and later as Deputy Chief of Staff, Plans and Programs.

General Bowser is a graduate of the Naval War College, Newport, R. I., and he has had a tour of duty in the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers, Europe, located in Paris.

Prior to his relieving as Commanding General, FMF, Lant, in June 1956, General Bowser had for two years been in command of the Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, N. C. General and Mrs. Bowser are currendy making their home in Norfolk, Va.

Adm. Maurice E. Curts, USN (Ret.)

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

Admiral Maurice E. Curts, born in Flint, Mich., one-time undergraduate student at Valparaiso University, Ind., entered the Naval Academy with the class of 1920 and graduated in June 1919. A career officer until his retirement from active duty forty-one years later, he served in a wide variety of assignments. Midpoint in World War II found him on Fleet Admiral King's staff as Fleet Communications Officer and a member of the U. S. Joint and Allied Command Communications Board in Washington. In 1944 and '45 Admiral Curts commanded the USS COLUMBIA, which included the period of that ship's heroic action in the Philippines. Subsequent to the war and as a flag officer. Admiral Curts served as a cruiser division commander, as Commander Operational Development Force, Adantic Fleet, Commander CruiserDestroyer Force, Pacific Fleet and as Commanderin-Chief, United States Pacific Fleet. During this period his tours of duty ashore included several significant assignments in the Department of the Navy, Washington, D. C , and a final active duty billet as Commander, Western Sea Frontier, Commander U. S. Naval Defense Forces Eastern Pacific and Commander Pacific Reserve Fleet. It was from this last multi-hat job that he retired in 1960. From that time until a second retirement in July of 1965 Admiral Curts has served as Director of Telecommunications Policy in the Office of the Secretan' of Defense. Admiral Curts make his home in Arlington, Va. 33

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Capt. Samuel G. Gorsline, USN

RAdm. Ben Scott Custer, USN (Ret.)

Cdr. Carlisle A. H. Trost, USN

RAdm. John E. KIrkpatrick, USNR (Ret.)

Col. Joseph P. D'Arezzo, USAR

Capt. Merton D. Van Orden, USN

VAdm. Robert B. PIrie, USN (Ret.) 34

S H I P M A T E

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

Rear Admiral BEN SCOTT CUSTER is a member of the class of 1926. From graduation until he received his orders to Pensacola he followed the usual pattern of JO assignments. After qualification and the receipt of his wings, and up until the time of his retirement in 1957, Admiral Custer pursued the varied duties of a naval aviator.

He fought German U-boats in the North Atlantic and Japanese Kamikazes at Okinawa. He had tours of duty as a flying instructor at Pensacola and as a "Bull" instructor at the Academy.

After retirement Admiral Custer did graduate work at the Johns Hopkins and George Washington Universities. In 1949 he took his Ph.D. in history at Georgetown. From 1953 until 1956 he was a member of the faculty at Princeton University as professor of naval science and commanding officer of the NROTC unit. Since 1958 he has been at Columbia as an officer of the University.

He is presently Director of Special Projects and Executive Director of the Academy of Political Science.

Captain SAMUEL G. GORSLINE, JR., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944; he was promoted to the rank of captain in 1965. Following graduation and for three years he served in destroyers. Ordered then to flight training, he was designated a naval aviator in 1949. As a member of Attack Squadron 115, he participated as flight leader in the early stages of the Korean War, including the landing at Inchon and the Hungnam evacuation.

Other duties of Captain Gorsline have included that of Bureau of Aeronautics Representative on the A-4D project, command of Attack Squadron 23 and strike warfare officer on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U. S. Pacific Fleet. His present duty is Assistant for Congressional Matters on the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations.

Captain and Mrs. Gorsline and their three boys live in Alexandria, Va.

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

Rear Admiral JOHN E. KIRKPATRICK graduated from the Naval Academy in 1931 and remained on active duty until his resignation in 1935. Subsequently commissioned in the Naval Reserve, he was recalled to active duty in February

he became Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air in 1958. Since Admiral Pirie's retirement in 1962 he has been affiliated with the Aerojet-General Corporation where he is currently executive assistant to the president.

Admiral Pirie is a Life Member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. He is just completing a three-year term as Trustee at Large and has been nominated for re-election. Admiral Pirie is also president of the Naval Academy Foundation. He and Mrs. Pirie make their home in Arlington, Va.

FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE

Commander CARLISLE A. H . TROST, president of his class, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1953. His first assignment to duty, USS ROBERT A. OWENS, was followed

by

submarine

training and subsequent assignment to submarine duty. Service in a number of ships has included tours of duty as executive officer of the SCORPION (SSN 589) and the VON STEUBEN ( S S B N 632).

At the present time Commander Trost is Military Duties in this ship and in the USS ALASKA as Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. gunnery officer were followed by a tour of duty In the fall of 1959 Commander Trost was in the USS OKLAHOMA CITY as executive officer.

Admiral Custer served as a trustee of the selected as one of the first two naval officer particiIn October 1945, after a total of nearly nine years Alumni Association from 1939 to 1941. He has pants in the Olmsted Scholarship Program and of sea duty. Admiral Kirkpatrick was released from for three semesters was a student of international just completed a two-year term as president of active duty and return to his home in Oklahoma the Naval Academy Association of New York and relations and political science at the University City, Okla., where for six more years he com- of Freiburg in West Germany. For professional as that organization's representative on the Board of Trustees of the national Association. manded the Naval Reserve Unit. contribution to the development of nuclear subAdmiral Kirkpatrick, one of Oklahoma City's marine ASW tactics he was awarded the Secretary most prominent business men, owns the Kirk- of the Navy's Commendation for Achievement in 1963. In 1965 he was listed in the U. S. Junior patrick Oil Co., is President of the local ABC Chamber of Commerce's annual publication. Outtelevision station, Vice-Chairman of the Board of FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE the Liberty National Bank and Trust Co. and he standing Young Men of America.

Standing number one in the class of 1940, Col- is either a partner or a member of the board of Commander Trost currently makes his home in onel JOSEPH P. D'AREZZO was honorably dis- a dozen other corporate interests. Extremely Potomac, Md. charged upon graduation because of failure to pass active in civic affairs. Admiral Kirkpatrick has the eye examination required for a commission in either served as president or as a member of the the Navy. Shordy thereafter, upon volunteering for executive committees in a number of social, health FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE duty in the Army, he was commissioned as a and religious organizations. Among his philanthrosecond lieutenant in the artillery. He served in pies are the buildings housing the Oklahoma SciAfter graduation in June 1944 with the Naval a normal range of duties but with emphasis on ence and Arts Foundation, the Oklahoma Art Academy class of 1945, Captain MERTON D. technical staff assignments in the research and VAN ORDEN served on sea duty until ordered to Center and a theater building for Oklahoma City development of advanced weapons systems. In University, all gifts to the community. Admiral the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where, 1955 Colonel D'Arezzo resigned from the Regular Kirkpatrick's distinguished service has been wide- following the required graduate work, he received Army. From that time until the present he has ly recognized and he is the recipient of many the degree of Bachelor of Science in electrical enmaintained an active interest in the Army Re- awards and honors. gineering. Designated as an engineering duty serve. officer, he was assigned to the Boston Naval ShipAdmiral Kirkpatrick is a Life Member of the yard. This duty was followed by orders to the After joining American Machine and Foundry Naval Academy Alumni Association and President Navy Electronics Laboratory as Research and Company in 1955 as Deputy Group Executive of the Oklahoma City Chapter.

Development Program Officer for radio and radar. of its Defense Products Group, Colonel D'Arezzo Since that time Captain Van Orden has been moved successively to Assistant to the President and active in R&D work as a charter member of the Chairman and Director of Corporate Planning and Defense Communications Agency, R&D Directorate FOR TRUSTEE AT LARGE Marketing. He was elected Vice President in and as R&D officer for communications and comI960. The following year he became Group ExecVice Admiral ROBERT B. PIRIE graduated from mand and control on the staff of the Chief of utive of the company's Electrical Products Group the Naval Academy with the class of 1926. After Naval Materiel. He is now project manager of the with responsibility for managing the company's designation as a naval aviator in 1929 he served effort in this important segment of its business. in a number of aviation billets, including duty Bureau of Ships Satellite Communications Project with additional duty in the Office of the Chief of This is the position he currendy holds. in the USS LEXINGTON and USS LANGLEY. During Naval Operations as Program Director, Navy World War II he had duty on the staff of ComIn addition to the Bachelor of Science degree Satellite Communications Program. he holds from the Naval Academy, Colonel mander Naval Air in the Pacific, was executive Captain Van Orden received the degree of officer of the USS MISSION BAY in the Adantic and D'Arezzo has been awarded a Master's degree in later was chief of staff for Admiral G. F. Bogan Master of Business Administration from the engineering by the Johns Hopkins University. and with Admiral Marc Mitscher in Task Force George Washington University in 1963. He is Colonel and Mrs. D'Arezzo, together with their presendy a Ph.D. candidate and a member of the 58 in the Pacific. four children, make their home in Alexandria, Va. faculty at George Washington, carrying out both Admiral Pirie served as first head of the De- of these activities in the evening program for partment of Aviation at the Naval Academy and graduate studies. in July 1948 became Commandant of Midshipmen.

Captain Van Orden lives in Arlington, Va. In command of the CORAL SEA in 1952 he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral and then served as chief of staff for Admiral Jerauld Wright in Europe and as deputy and chief of staff for the U. S. Adantic Command and Atlantic Fleet. Following tours of duty as Commander Carrier Division 6 and Commander Second Fleet, MARCH,

1 9 6 6

1941 and ordered to the USS NORTH CAROLINA.

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Whafs The Dope SHIPMATE COPY DEADLINE

Issue

Copy Due at Alumni

May, 1966

April

House

10

ALL HANDS ASSOCIATION REPORT

The following Interim Operational Summary has been mailed to all members of the Naval Academy Alumni Association Board of Trustees by the Executive Director. It is published here as a matter of interest to all members.

Gradual increase in memberships continues.

As of 11 February 1966 we had 13,960 paid-up members, compared to 13,537 on the corresponding day last year. This year's budget is based on an estimated 13,750 membership which has already been exceeded by 210 members.

For the fiscal half-year ending 31 December 1965, the P and L operating statement, after depreciation, indicates a surplus of income over expenses of 110,500. This amount will increase prior to the end of the fiscal year on 30 June, and the amount of increase to a large degree will be determined by the amount of Shipmate advertising we receive between now and year's end, and also by the amount of contributions we receive when ballots are returned in April-May. The fund-raising campaign to date shows receipts of approximately |18,920 from 1144 contributors for an average donation of approximately $16.53. The average is good, but the relatively small number of contributors should be much higher. Last year at this time we had received approximately 119,275 from 1340 contributors for an average donation of approximately $14.40.

If the pattern of previous jears is followed, we can anticipate additional contributions of $4$5,000 before the fiscal year's end which would put us over the year's $20,000 total contributions which was conservatively predicted in the budget.

Our fund-raising projects are adversely affected by the flood of other fund-raising campaigns aided and abetted by class and chapter organizations or individual alumni—undoubtedly for worthy causes but in some cases not at all connected with the Naval Academy.

contain articles on the Merchant Marine and oceanography.

Ballots for the Spring election are being printed.

Due to the addition of descriptive data on each nominee which the Board voted to include, it is necessary to change the ballot format. Separate sheets will be used for the ballot and for the membership renewal form. There will be two candidates each for VP East and VP West. With the addition of petition nominee RAdm. Ben Scott Custer, there will be nine candidates for the four vacancies in Trustee-at-Large.

The 1966 Register is now being distributed. We had approximately 400 advance orders, due in a large degree to the early sell-out of the 1965 edition. This year's print order is 2,500 (all of which we expect to sell) versus a print order of 1,750 last year. Advertising is up 5V'2 pages over last year—a step in the right direction but still leaving much room for improvement. New editorial content has been added, and a new cover has been designed.

Admiral R. H. Jackson '87, our oldest living graduate, will be 100 years old on 10 May 1966.

We'll note this in Shipmate and report on the celebrations to be held in the San Diego-Coronado area.

Company sponsorship project (my notice of 25 Oct. 1965 and Superintendent's letter in November Shipmate) is progressing. About half the 36 companies of the Brigade of Midshipmen now have class sponsors. In a few days a follow-up notice will go out to those classes which have not yet responded.

Operation Information held during Christmas leave of the midshipmen was the usual great success. For the first time, a Spring Opinfo will be conducted this year during Spring Leave commencing 24 March. All hands are urged to assist the midshipmen wherever possible—a list of participating midshipmen and their home addresses will be mailed out within a week.

Two items of interest at the Academy have been resolved. First, the civilianization project which threatened drastic replacements of officers and enlisted men by civilians has been decided to the satisfaction of the Academy—only 6 officers and 2 enlisted men will be replaced. Second, the Naval Academy Dairy Farm will be closed out 1 July 1968.

The Rolex Watch Company gave—(no charge, no commitment)—three excellent watches to the Alumni Association for presentation in the name of the Association to the three Naval Academy astronauts (Schirra, Lovell, Stafford) who participated in the Gemini 6-7 Rendezvous. No firm arrangements for the presentation have yet been made. The fourth astronaut, Borman, a West Pointer, will be given a similar watch presented in the name of the W. P. Association of Graduates.

For the 6-month period ending 31 December 1965, Shipmate income is slighdy below, and expenses slightly above, the corresponding period last year. We hope for increased advertising in the months ahead, particularly in the May special issue (N.-\SA), and in the April issue which will

Dick Derickson and I attended the District II American Alumni Council Meeting at Atlantic City in January. Present were alumni directors, fund raisers and editors from virtually all universities and colleges in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia

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and eastern Canada. I have also attended several meetings of the Washington and Annapolis chapters, and have accepted invitations from Philadelphia (February), New York (March), and Detroit (mid-June).

Routine matters are rolling along. No major crisis although the recent blizzard forced a closedown for two days. In regard to our data processing study, we may receive .some unexpected help—Cdr. Paul Boyd, a member of our NAPRC, and Head of the Naval Academy desk in BuPers, is looking into the possibility of BuPers running active duty cards for us which would give us a good start on the tremendous key-punching job we face should we go into data-processing. Best estimate at the moment—it will be advantageous to go to data processing for the Register, records, selectivity, fund raising, etc., but for straight mailings, including Shipmate tapes, we should retain the addressograph system. I will submit a report on this at the June meeting of the Board.

W. F. FITZGERALD, JR.

Rear Admiral USN (Ret.) Executive Director DOD PROPOSES CIVILIAN HEALTH CARE FOR RETIREES A N D THEIR DEPENDENTS

The following is quoted in its entirety from the January-February 1966 issue of NavPers Newsletter: Included in the Department of Defense legislative program for 1966 is a proposal which would authorize civilian health care for retirees and their dependents. The proposal is currendy being coordinated within the Executive Branch, and it is hoped it will be ready for submission to Congress in January.

The proposal would establish a civilian health care program for retired members, their dependents, and for dependents of deceased active duty and retired members, which would be similar to the existing Dependent's Medical Care Program under which dependents of active duty personnel are authorized medical care from civilian sources at government expense. As with the active duty program, parents and parents-in-law would not be eligible dependents. The differences between the active duty program and the program as proposed for retired personnel are: * Civilian health care subsidized by the government would be authorized for retirees and their dependents only when adequate uniformed services were not available. * Retirees and their dependents would be required to pay a small deductible for inpatient and outpatient civilian care.

S H I P M A T E

* Eligibility of all persons covered by this program for civilian health care would end when they reached age 65 because at that time they would become eligible for health care under the Social Security program. However, those retired members and their spouses who could not ever qualify for health care under Social Security would remain eligible for civilian health care benefits under the military health care program. Entidement to "space available" medical care at uniformed services facilities continues even after age 65.

DAVID CALVIN

PATTERSON ' 0 8

EMORY

PAUL HYLANT ' 2 2

RAdm. E. Paul Hylant, USN (Ret.), died on 21 Dec. at McDill Air Force Hospital, Tampa, Fla. Services were held at Fort Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Patterson was born in Omaha, Neb., and Admiral Hylant, who was born in New York, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1908. served during World War II in Command and During World War I he was aide and flag lieuTask Unit Commander billets, and as Chief of tenant to RAdm. Austin M. Knight, CommanderStaff, Service Force Seventh Fleet with headquarin-Chief Asiatic Fleet. He resigned on 1 June 1923 ters at Brisbane, Australia. He was awarded the as a lieutenant commander, and was engaged in Legion of Merit and two Navy Unit Commendacorporation management, serving as director of the The proposal would also end the three-year tions. Following service in the Far East he commoratorium which prohibited the programming New York Dock Co., American Gas and Power manded the DULUTH. Co. and Forty Wall Street Corp. of beds for the retired population in military hosFollowing retirement in 1952 he lived in Spain pitals under construction. Retirees and their deHe returned to active duty during WWII, servuntil 1964, and was staying with his sister in pendents will continue to be eligible for medical ing as director of the Third Naval District, New Tampa, when he became ill. care at uniformed services facilities on a "space York City. He retired in 1946 with the rank of available" basis, and the goal is to insure that Survivors include a son, E. Paul Hylant, Jr., captain, USNR, and continued his work as direcmore space will be "available." of Madison, N. J.; three grandchildren and two tor of several corporations, including the Carlisle The DOD proposal specifies 1 July 1967 as the Corp., the Forty Wall Street Corp. and the sisters.

Broadway and 58th Street Corp. He was a implementing date for the new program. Retired N O R M A N A R N O PEDERSEN ' 2 2 former director of the Soldiers, Sailors and Airpersonnel will be kept informed by means of this men's Club of New York.

Newsletter of any changes to the proposal as it Mr. Norman A. Pedersen died on 21 Jan. of a progresses through legislative channels. liver ailment complicated by pneumonia, in a Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth Howe hospital at Melbourne, Fla. Following cremation, Letcher Patterson of 770 Park Ave., New York his ashes were committed to the Atlantic ocean.

City, and a sister, Mrs. Nelson Trimble Levings.

Mr. Pedersen, who was born in Chicago, 111., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922.

PIERRE LORRAINE SMITH ' 0 8 He resigned as an ensign in January 1924, and Mr. Pierre L. Smith died on 13 Jan. in the studied business administration at Purdue UniverADAMS, MALCOLM SIDNEY (CAPT USN RET Adrian Hospital, Punxsutawney, Pa. Services were sity. He became associated with C. B. Hunt & Son, ' 2 6 ) , 2 4 Dec. ' 6 5 , Athens, A l a . held in the Schenkemeyer Funeral Home, with Inc., of Salem, Ohio, then its president. Following BASS, J O H N ROY (LCDR USNR-R ' 4 4 ) , 14 J a n . interment in Circle Hill Cemetery. his retirement in 1959 he divided his time between ' 6 6 , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. Salem, Fla., and Cape Cod. Mr. Smith was an outstanding business and BEATTIE, THOMAS TYLER (CAPT USN RET ' 2 2 ) , civic leader in his community, where he was Survivors include his wife, Helen, of 832 Highco-publisher and editor-in-chief of the Punxsu- land Ave., Salem; two sons, Norman A. Pedersen, 7 Feb. ' 6 6 , C o r o n a d o , Calif. tawney Spirit. He was born in this city in 1886, Jr., and Douglas O. Pedersen; a daughter, Barbara, CARSON, EDWARD BRUCE (CAPT USNR ' 3 6 ) , attended the local schools, and was a member of now Mrs. Thomas Lang of Islamorada, Fla., a 17 Dec. ' 6 5 , Sugar G r o v e , I I I . the class of 1908 at the Naval Academy. sister, and eight grandchildren.

Capt. David C. Patterson, USNR (Ret.), died on 26 Dec. in St. Luke's Hospital, New York Cin-.

Funeral services were private.

am Call

COURTNEY,

CHARLES

EDWARD

( V A D M USN

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

WILLIAM

SEWELL

GARDNER

(CAPT

USN RET ' 2 1 ) , 12 Feb. ' 6 6 , Vicksburg, Miss.

EARLY, EDWARD DONALD ' 2 3 , 18 Dec. ' 6 5 , Venice, Fla. FLEISCHLI, CLARENCE ALOYSIUS, DR. ' 3 3 , 2 8 J a n . ' 6 6 , Springfield, I I I .

COVER, LEWIS L Y N N (MAJ USMC RET ' 1 7 ) , 2 4 Jan. ' 6 6 , Lansdowne, P a .

GRIFFITH, WALTER THOMAS (RADM USN RET ' 3 4 ) , 25 J a n . ' 6 6 , Pensacola, Fla. HEINE, M I N O R CHARLES (CAPT USN RET ' 2 4 ) , 31 J a n . ' 6 6 , Long Beach, Calif.

HOWELL, EDGAR BARZILLAI, JR. (CDR USNR RET ' 2 0 ) , 2 1 Dec. ' 6 5 , D e l r a y Beach, F l a .

JONES, HOWELL A R V O N (CDR USNR RET ' 2 4 ) , 2 Feb. ' 6 6 , Schenectady, N . Y .

N I M I T Z , CHESTER W I L L I A M (FADM USN ' 0 5 ) , 20 Feb. ' 6 5 , San Francisco, Calif.

NOBLE, JULIAN BENNETT (CDR USN RET ' 1 9 ) , 22 Dec. ' 6 5 , Los A n g e l e s , Calif.

PATTERSON, DAVID CALVIN (CAPT USNR-R ' 0 8 ) , 2 6 Dec. ' 6 5 , N e w Y o r k , N . Y .

PEDERSEN, NORAAAN A R N O ' 2 2 , 2 1 J a n . ' 6 6 , Indialantic, F l a .

PENZA, R A Y M O N D SALVATORE ' 3 9 , 3 0 Oct. ' 6 5 , Providence, R. I. RICHARDSON, RICHARD HAROLD (LCDR USN ' 5 1 ) , 2 0 J a n . ' 6 6 , A A , USS M I D W A Y .

ROSENBERRY, GEORGE EDWARD ' 2 0 , 2 1 Dec. '65, Woodbury, N. J. SCHOONOVER, CHARLES DAVID (LCDR USN ' 5 4 ) , 16 J a n . ' 6 6 , AA a t s e a .

SMITH, PIERRE LORRAINE ' 0 8 , 13 J a n . ' 6 6 , Punxsutawney, Pa. STROTHER, JAMES HERSCHEL (BGEN USMC RET '21), 27 Jan. ' 6 6 , Dadeville, A l a .

SWEET,

ROBERT

FRANCIS

'IS, 3

Jan. '66,

Desert H o t Springs, Calif.

TEN EYCK, ABRAHAM CUYLER (CAPT USNR-R ' 1 2 ) , 9 Feb. ' 6 6 , N e w H a v e n , Conn.

M A R C H , 1 9 6 6

Through the years he served in many community positions, including the board of directors of the Punxsutawney National Bank, and was a charter member of the original local National Guard organization, the Troop F cavalry unit.

EDWARD

DONALD

EARLY ' 2 3

Mr. E. Donald Early, formerly of Birmingham, Ala., died at his home at Venice, Fla., on 18 Dec. Services and interment were held at Elmwood.

Surviving are his widow, Winette, of The Mr. Early, a native of Chattanooga, Tenn., atSpirit Building; two daughters, Mrs. Charles tended Cornell University and the Naval Academy, Krouse of Cincinnati, and Miss Suzanne Smith of with the class of 1923. He received his Bachelor's Socorra, N . M.; a brother, Edward G. Smith of and Master's degrees in electrical engineering from Sykesville, Pa.; a sister, Mrs. Gene S. Carlton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Punxsutawney, and three grandchildren.

He was associated with several utility companies before joining Southern Services, Inc., in 1929 as an engineer. He was the inventor of the increTHOMAS TYLER BEATTIE ' 2 2 mental cost computer for delivered power and Capt. Thomas T. Beattie, USN (Ret.), died on was internationally known for his invention of 7 Feb. at Coronado, Calif. Services were in the the computer called "The Early Bird."

North Island Naval Air Station Chapel, with inHe was a fellow in the Institute of Electrical terment with full military honors in Fort Roseand Electronic Engineers, and had served as crans National Cemetery. chairman of Power Coordination Committees of Capt. Beattie, who was born in Louisville, Ky., Southeastern Electric Exchange and a member of was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922. Power Survey Committee of Edison Electric InstiHis first command was USS BITTERN, China Statute. tion, and later the PEARY. He was in WEST VIRSurviving are his widow; a son, John A. Early GINIA at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl of Pensacola, and a daughter, Mrs. P. D. CulberHarbor. His last sea command was the LOUISVILLE, son, Jr., of Dothan. named after his home town; he had taken part in her commissioning in 1930 and her de-comM I N O R CHARLES HEINE ' 2 4 missioning 16 years later.

Capt. Minor C. Heine, USN (Ret.), died on 31 He served as commander of the Naval Station, Jan. in the hospital ship HAVEN at the Naval Base, San Diego, and was Chief-of-Staff Hawaiian Sea Frontier preceding his retirement in 1952. He Long Beach, Calif. Services were held at Long Beach, with interment with military honors at also was a graduate of the Naval War College.

Golden Gate National Cemetery, San Francisco.

Since his retirement he had served as a trustee A native of Hamilton, Ohio, Capt. Heine was of the Coronado Public Library, and was a mem- graduated from the Naval Academy in 1924. He ber of the board of the San Diego County Seniors served in submarines from 1927-37, including Golf Assn. and at the time of his death was its S-13, then became communications officer in USS champion player. He was an honorary Kenmcky CALIFORNIA; chief engineer USS OKLAHOMA and colonel. fleet personnel officer Pacific Fleet. During World War II he commanded the GENERAL M . B . STEWSurvivors include his widow, Katharine, of 1025 F Ave., Coronado; a daughter Ann, the ART, which ferried more than 50,000 troops to the wife of Dr. Kirk; a son, LCdr. Thomas T. Chinese-Burma-India areas, and took part in the Philippines invasion, making the initial landing at Beattie, Jr., USN '51; a sister, two brothers, and Tacloban. three grandchildren.

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Following an assignment as intelligence officer of the Twelfth Naval District, he concluded his active career as commanding officer of the Naval Base, Long Beach. Upon retirement he was honored by the city administration and presented with a plaque and scroll expressing that city's appreciation. For some time he had taught thermodynamics at the University of Southern California, and at Long Beach State College.

He is survived by his widow, Margaret Lowe Heine of 295 Pomona Ave., Long Beach; a daughter, Mrs. Joseph H. Nash of Redwood City, Calif.; a sister, and five grandchildren.

HOWELL A R V O N JONES ' 2 4

Cdr. Howell A. Jones, USNR (Ret.), died on 2 Feb. of a heart attack while on a business trip in Schenectady, N. Y. Services were held in Troy, N. Y. Cdr. Jones, who was born in Chicago, was vice president and treasurer of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1924 and served two years before resigning, when he joined the Naval Reserve. During World War II he returned to active duty, serving in the Combined Naval Training Units and in the CVE pre-commissioning detail at Tacoma.

He returned to Rensselaer, becoming its treasurer in 1945 and later its vice president. He also was a vice president and director of Samaritan Hospital and a director of the Marine Midland Bank, both of Troy.

Survivors include his widow, Anne, of 20 Locust Ave.; a son, Howell A. Jones, Jr., of Fairfield, Conn.; a daughter, Mrs. Nicolaas Kist of The Hague, Netherlands, and six grandchildren.

W I L L I A M SHIRLEY STOVALL, JR., ' 2 9

RAdm. William S. Stovall, Jr., USN (Ret.), died in San Diego, Calif., on 29 Dec. Interment was in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

In February 1948 he was on the staff. Commander Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet, then had duty as Commander Submarine Squadron One, Pearl Harbor, and was chief of staff. Commander Service Force Pacific. He was awarded two Navy Crosses, two Commendation Ribbons, and the Presidential Unit Citation for services in GUDGEON. He retired in July 1959.

Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth, of 861 Bangor St., San Diego; a daughter, Mrs. Kent Thorup of Washington, D. C , two sisters and five grandchildren.

WALTER THOMAS GRIFFITH ' 3 4

RAdm. Walter T. Griffith, USN (Ret.), died suddenly on 25 Jan. while visiting in Pensacola, Fla. Services were held at the Naval Aviation Memorial Chapel, Naval Air Station, Pensacola, with his ashes committed to the sea from USS LEXINGTON on 7

R A Y M O N D SALVATORE PENZA

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Asst. Prof. Raymond S. Penza died of cancer in Providence, R. I., on 30 Oct. Prof. Penza was born in Providence, and attended the Naval Academy with the class of 1939, leaving in 1937. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University. During World War II he served in the Navy, resigning in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant.

He had taught mathematics at Barrington High School, and then taught math at Providence College.

He is survived by his widow, Tina, of 521 River Ave., Providence; and three sons, Raymond W., Peter M., and Alexander F. Penza.

LCdr. John R. Bass, USNR-R, of Ariington, Va., was killed in an automobile accident in Washington, D. C , on 14 Jan. Graveside services and interment were at Arlington National Cemetery.

LCdr. Bass was born in Leesburg, Ga., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1944.

During World War II he served in USS CARMICK and the IOWA, and in the Bureau of Ordnance.

After resigning in 1956 he became a Civil Service employee in the Bureau of Ordnance. He received his Master's degree in engineering administration from George Washington University, and attended the University of California at Los Angeles.

Admiral Stovall, who was born in Lucedale, Miss., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1929.

He

served in

USS

CALIFORNIA, and

had

flight instruction at Pensacola. He was attached to WASMUTH for three years, then attended the Submarine School at New London.

In May 1942-March '43, he commanded USS GUDGEON, making eight patrols in the Southwest Pacific, and commanded DARTER on war patrols in that area. He served in the Office of the Commander in Chief, U. S. Fleet in Washington, and was Division Commander, Submarine Division 72.

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He is survived by his widow, Darlyene, of 6792 Maury Dr., San Diego; two sons, Peter and Craig, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Kathleen; his mother, Mrs. Myrtle E. Richardson of Mt. Rainier, Md., and three sisters.

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Adm. Griffith was born in Mansfield, La., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934.

While commanding the submarine USS BOWFIN he set a record for sinking the most Japanese tonnage on one patrol and was cited for extraordinary heroism. He was twice awarded the Navy Cross, also the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Presidential Unit Citation. He formerly headed the undersea warfare section in the Department of the Navy and was attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired in 1964.

Survivors include his widow of Mt. Pleasant, Tex., and two daughters, Virginia Lee and Elizabeth Kay of 14 Beach Tree Dr., Alexandria, Va.

J O H N ROY BASS ' 4 4

William Shirley Stovall '29

the Naval Air Station, Miramar. Services and interment were at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Cdr. Richardson, who was born in Washington, D. C , attended Bainbridge Naval Preparatory School before entering the Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1951. He served as an instructor at the all-weather night fighter school at Key West, Fla., and at the Naval Officers Training School at Newport; he later attended the Naval War College. He held the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for Vietnam, and the Naval Occupations Medal.

Subsequent duty assignments were at the Naval Ordnance Test Station, as guided missile engineer; the Bureau of Ships, Bureau of Weapons, and the Special Projects Office, which involved work on nuclear weapons. Sidewinder, Polaris and Poseidon missiles, and missile and weapon shipboard installations.

Survivors include two sons. Carvel Hall Bass and John Roy Bass, Jr. RICHARD HAROLD RICHARDSON ' 5 1

LCdr. Richard H. Richardson, USN, died on 20 Jan. when the jet plane he was piloting crashed into the deck of USS MIDWAY in training operations in the Pacific near San Diego, Calif. He was executive officer of Fighter Squadron 124 at

Dope Capt. Louis P. Davis, USN (Ret.) Dresden Apartment 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washingrton, D. C. The San Francisco Bay remnants of 1905 gathered in the Commissioned Officers' Open Mess, Treasure Island, at noon on Monday, 31 Jan., for luncheon. A toast was drunk to the classmates who couldn't be there, and to the '05ers who were celebrating the 61st anniversary of their graduation at the little school on the Severn.

Those present—named in alphabetical order, without regard for stature, girth, pulchritude or bibulous capacity—were COURT, IRVINE, ORR, SHIPP and WOODS. Unfortunately, Chester NIMITZ, who was host for last year's celebration, and Bruce CANAGA, who was present then, were both either in the Oakland Naval Hospital or just being released.

(Editor's note: Since this column was written, word has been received of the deaths of both Fleet Admiral Nimitz and Captain Canaga. The story of Admiral Nimitz is in this issue; the obituary of Captain Canaga will appear in the April issue.)

Sec'y, VAdm. Alexander Sharp, USN (Ret.), 6306 Bannockbnrn Dr. Bethesda, Md. 20034 You will remember that I sent each of the class of 1906 a letter which, in part, recommends your joining the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation—viz: "If you are a retired commissioned officer of 20 years' service and 62 years of age of the Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, or a widow of one, you can join the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation which will build a 300-room hall near McLean in Fairfax Co., Va., in two years. It could be a Godsend to widows, widowers, or husband and wife. Individual membership is $25; individual associate $10; club membership $100; individual life $500.

"For more information and literature address RAdm. John Crumpacker, (SC) USN (Ret.), Building 54, U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. 20390. Telephone 482-7900."

More recently, Adm. Crumpacker elaborated on the subject. He said he hopes that as many as practicable join now as annual membership is only $25. He thinks there are some misconceptions about the project. The place—13 acres—is near the Beltway, isn't way out, and is less than 20 minutes driving time to the Bethesda Naval Hospital or the center of the city. A new shopping center is within walking distance.

And why should so many contribute so much for only 300 widows to live at Vinson Hall? Well, S H I P M A T E

the answer is the Foundation will build as many residences in places of Navy concentration as it takes to meet the demand . . . so we should build next in San Diego, then Norfolk and Jacksonville or Pensacola.

The Chief of Naval Personnel recendy recommended the project as one that all officers can support as a form of insurance. I suggest that you ask Adm. Crumpacker for more details.

ALEX

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Sec'y, Capt. R. C. Parker, USN (Ret.) 5706 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda, Md. 20014

No great activity is reported from any outpost of die class of 1907. Cap BEMIS and his lady have taken off from here for Pompano Beach where they will be at the Hillsboro Club for a time. They hope also to contact Putty READ and Church HUMPHREY. We are very sorry to report diat Madeleine Starr, wife of our classmate F. Coleman STARR (Stella), died on 9 Jan. at their home at Boca Raton, Fla. Again your secretary sounds the note: "The more you have been out of touch with your class, the more reason for slipping us a brief now and then about yourself, your family, your health and vour activities."

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Sec'y, Come. Harry A. Badt, USN (Ret.) Apt. 609, Blair House, 8201 16th St. Silver Spring, Md. 20910

David Calvin PATTERSON, Capt., USNR '08, died on 26 Dec. in St. Luke's Hospital, New York City. Burial services were private. He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Howe Letcher Patterson of 770 Park Ave., New York City, and a sister, Mrs. Nelson Trimble Levings. His classmates extend heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Patterson and the family.

A card has been received from Mrs. James C. Van de Carr giving her address as 123 Oakleigh Lane, Maitland, Fla. Mrs. Ralph G. (Norma) Walling spent the holidays with her daughter, Mrs. Frederick A. Beardsley, Dr. Beardsley, and her four grandchildren, at Storrs, Conn.

Howard MECLEARY and John (Jack) EARLE are wintering in Sarasota, Fla. If they could only see the more than 20 inches of snow that fell in the Washington area during the period 26-29 Jan. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;and still the weather bureau says that we need more rain or snow to break the drought of the past year.

A nice letter from John LATHAM, who lives in New York City. John plans to donate his collection of rare books and documents to the library and the museum at the Naval Academy; no doubt they will be gratefully received.

I have received correct addresses as follows: Mrs. George E. Brandt, 229 West Boscawen St., Winchester, Va.; Mrs. Dennis E. Kemp, 325 Indiana, Corpus Christi, Tex.; Mrs. Ralph M. Jaeger, 13240 El Dorado Drive, Seal Beach, Calif.

Capt. J. W. JOCKUSCH, JR., USN, a former shipmate, sends holiday greetings and encloses an excellent color photo of Fleet Adm. NIMITZ, taken in June 1965, at the school on Yerba Buena Island, Calif. This secretary had the privilege during his plebe year at the Academy of being in Admiral Nimitz' company in Bancroft Hall.

BIRTHDAYS IN MARCH Happy birthday to Cochran, 80 on the 25th; Shafroth, 79 on the 31st.

MARCH,

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Sec'y, RAdm. Harold C. Train, USN (Ret.) 1 St. Mary's St., Annapolis. Md. 21401

Frances HUMBERT. I deeply regret to report that Fred's widow, Frances, died 27 Aug. 1965, in El Paso, Tex. She was buried in Fremont, Pa., where Fred, who passed away 2 Dec. 1959, was buried. She was the former Frances Bradley Sperry, and she and Fred were married in Tientsin, China, in 1922.

I received this information from her daughter, Martha (Mrs. Charles D. Riley), who lives in El Paso. She mentioned her brother. Dr. George F. Humbert, Jr., who at present is serving a twoyear tour in the Navy and is in the Philippines.

She didn't mention other survivors, but the Fiftieth Anniversary Book lists two other children: Barbara (wife of Dr. P. W. Handy), and Edwina (Mrs. Frank C. Luther), and 9 grandchildren. Mrs. Riley's address: 5509 Gary Owen Road, El Paso, Tex. CLASS LUNCHEON: The January class luncheon was held on the 18th. Present: Braisted, Farrell, Hustvedt, Manahan, Piatt, Robertson, Poco Smith, Train, Gillam, Merrill, Carl Moore. The attendance holds up well.

KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE: Those of the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C , who have been members for 50 years, and are excused from further dues. Those in the class who achieved this on 1 Jan. 1966 are: Ed Raguet and Ralph Spalding. This makes a total of 6 in our class.

JIM MALONEY: In a recent letter from Jim he writes that Wesley Manor, Jacksonville, Fla., where he lives, is a wonderful place. That Tracy McCauley, who is spending the winter in Lake Wales, Fla., dropped in to see him recently. That, while he cannot drive, he intends to fly up to see his two sons and families this summer. One lives in Chillicothe, Ohio, and the other in North Carolina.

BIRTHDAYS IN MARCH Happy birthday to Manahan on the 1st, Quale on the 1st, Bill Porter on the 15th, Elder on the 18th, Barry on the 19th, Manock on the 20th, Blandin on the 21st.

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 Boulevard, Kokomo, Ind. 46902 According to a recent story in the San Diego Union, the GRAYs have been busy with houseguests and school problems. Their son. Dr. Peter H. Gray, who has been an assistant professor at M.I.T., has joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena; son Russell and daughter Liebe are home from UC Santa Barbara and Scripps College, respectively. Russell is a major in performing music Elizabeth (Mrs. Gus) is president of the Coronado School Board. In two columns she gets the full treatment on the hazards of public service. Congratulations to her on standing her ground and firing the guy!

To get news for this monthly letter your reporter may have to sneak up on classmates with a birthday card. Each 'lOer and each associate ought to check in at least once a year, n'est ce pas.? Then next month we ought to hear from Edgerly, Byrne, Reinicke, Clay, Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;our April "babies."

Sec'y, VAdm. R. M. Griffin, USN (Ret.) 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington 8, D. C. In Orlando, Fla., C. Q. WRIGHT and Det celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in January.

Although C. Q. resigned in 1924, he still retains

his interest in the class and writes, "I envy your periodic 1911 get-togethers at the A. and N. Club. Wish I could fly up every time you meet."

Paul BATES has abandoned his efforts to produce a war history of the class due to the poor response he received from his request for anecdotes. Of the ten replies he received from his letter, only eight said they would send a story.

Paul decided that he had initiated the project 15 years too late.

Present indications (February) are that we will have a fine attendance at the 55th reunion.

Doc BYRNES for Washington, and Harry HILL for Annapolis, are letting no grass grow under their feet while perfecting the arrangements.

Don GODWIN'S widow, Hazel, now Mrs. Peter Home, has returned to Coronado after a visit with her son-in-law and daughter, RAdm. and Mrs. W. F. Bringle '37, at Pearl Harbor. Her granddaughter Lynn is a sophomore at Ratford College, Va., and grandson Donald Godwin is attending lolani School for boys. Hazel reports that she misses her associations with '11, and hopes that any friends visiting Coronado will look her up at 955 B Ave. The state of the class fund is as follows: Balance 1/1/65 1705.17 Withdrawal for current expenses 4/6/65 100.00 Interest for 1965

1605.17 70.40

Balance 1/1/66 1675.57 In addition our checking account on 1 Jan. '66 was $309.09, including $35 obligated for the 11th Co. Midshipmen's Wardroom.

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

Cuyler TEN EYCK passed away on 9 Feb., after a long illness, at New Haven, Conn. He was buried in the Rural Cemetery at Albany, N. Y., alongside his father and mother. He is survived by Elizabeth and two children.

During recent years he had lived at Branford, Conn. The class will miss him. He was a wonderful shipmate and a fine naval officer.

RAdm. John Crumpacker, administrative director of the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation, has written to our president recendy about this foundation. The Foundation plans to erect a residential hall of nearly 300 apartments in Fairfax County, Va., for widows of Naval, Marine Corps and Coast Guard officers. Additional residences will be built as the need arises and funds are available.

The present project foresees the need of funds for building and endowments. About 30 per cent of the ladies may need some help to reside there. The initial cost of the land and building will be about $4,500,000. The schedule of construction provides for acquisition of the tide to the land last July; break ground for the building in April and occupation between December 1967 and December 1968. The Foundation hopes that every graduate of our academies will suppon this work and help to provide a dig:nified, comfortable and congenial home for the residents. Address Admiral Crumpacker at Building 54, U. S. Naval Observatory, Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C 20390.

We have had but one reply to our notice about outfitting a wardroom for the Twelfth Company at the Academy. If no more replies are received, the project will be dropped as far as our class is concerned. Some classes have taken an active interest in the plan.

Red PACE has heard diat Schuyler MILLS had fallen and broken his hip. I know how Schuyler feels, yet every case is different. Edythe Fort broke her hip, however she made an excellent re39

covery. I get around with a brace and crutches which limits my radius of activity. I do not have any pain.

Heine KIEFFER and Daisy are settled in their new home on Meadowbrook Rd., North Wales, Pa. 19454. They are not only setded but snowed in (like the rest of us in the northeastern states); Annapolis had 25 inches of snow with high wind drifts and 10 to 30 degree weather. Daisy has limited Heine's shoveling activities. He now plans to outlive the frozen moisture.

Opal Gillespie fell and broke her arm about a month ago. Rita Robinson, who has been home from the Coronado hospital for some time, continues to improve.

Bob HAGGART writes that he saw Andy and Miriam ANDERSON who apparendy are in excellent health.

Mammy WEEMS did not stay in Florida long but moved over to the Bahamas—his home now.

We still love those letters!

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

Many good reports of our All Hands Bulletin of 19 Jan. have been received. This also included a report of the D. C. January luncheon. Our February luncheon occurred after this date.

CHANGES OF ADDRESS: FLOYD—Woodley Nursing Home, 3312 Woodley Rd., Montgomery, Ala., or c/o Dr. R. F. Dodds, Brandey, Ala. 36009.

KNIGHT—P. O. Box 1737, La Jolla, Calif.

92037.

Generous contributions to our class fund have been received from Donahue and Junkin. Thanks to them from 1913.

AUSTIN, Mrs. C. L. (Marjorie)—"Thanks for the news of so many of Chub's friends who were part of his life. Our family is in good health, and I keep busy with outside interests which 'keep the wheels rolling' in a contented sort of way.

My best to all."

CLARKSON—"Do appreciate you keeping us up to date on 1913's doings. Our best to all."

DONAHUE—"It's a real pleasure to get the news about everybody. My best to all hands."

DUDLEY—"Am now in Valles, Mex., among friends we have met here over the last 10 years.

Will return to Antrim in time to start my garden in April. My best to all."

EDDINS—^"Thanks for your newsy bulletin.

I enclose Soc Floyd's address last Dec." HELMICK—"Will miss Feb. DC luncheon as I will be taking my annual cruise as a deckhand on a motorboat in and out of Lauderdale, Fla." JUNKIN—"Sorry I can't get to our A & N Club DC 'Golden Knight' dinner. Regret very much to miss it this year. My best to all."

KNIGHT—"Best of luck to all. I enclose my new address."

McCAWLEY—"No luck this year in getting to our Golden Knight dinner in DC. Regards to all."

MILLER—"Just getting dug out of snow (5 Feb.) here at home. Should have stayed in Pensacola a while longer. My best to all hands."

NEWELL—"In my patio (6 Feb.) with heavy rain and no leaks. My only problem is converting food in my system without undue bulges. No tobacco, but use food derivatives, i.e., such as a martini or so before dinner to get best results.

However, excess does little good to my state of well being, or something."

ROBINSON—"Thoroughly enjoyed All Hands Bulletin. Had Xmas in Palm Springs and New Year's in Coronado. Enjoyed seeing Fay Venable 40

and her son and Tiny and Jasper Wild and Lucille Kirkpatrick. Time too short to see others of 1913."

RODES—"My son-in-law, Col. Baldwin, is now (1 Feb.) in DC where you have plenty of snow. It is quite a change for him as he is military attache in Laos. My best regards to all '13ers.

RUBLE—(1 Feb.) "Last week we had Liz and Robby Robinson as dinner guests at the St. Francis Yacht Club and enjoyed exchanging news of classmates and mutual friends. Our best to all."

SEIBERT—"Enjoyed the All Hands Bulletin.

Give my best to all classmates. Hope to go to Florida after we are snowbound no longer."

THEBAUD—"Babs and I made a 48 hr. liberty to New York and Philadelphia, and upon our return our apartment had been broken into. Only an attache case of loot was removed!! Maybe crime does pay!!"

TODD—"No news except SNOW which everyone around DC certainly knows plenty about."

Also received cards from Ard, Dillingham, DuBose, Evans, Grayson, Henderson, "Buck" Jones, Masek, Thurston and Tisdale.

Good health and good luck to you all.

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

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I am afraid that our class column in this issue of Shipmate will be rather short because I need more news from each of you to give me the "dope" for further information to give to the other members of the class.

It is my suggestion that all of you read page 36 of the November issue of Shipmate relating to the sponsorship for each class who are now at the Naval Academy. At the Academy there are now 36 companies and in Bancroft Hall there is a wardroom for each company; our company to take care of is, naturally, the 14th, and the major expense will be to keep it properly furnished: lounges, desks, chairs, etc. Unfortunately, I did not notice that the deadline for notifying the authorities was 1 Feb. of this year. However, I have just written a letter to the Superintendent requesting that the deadline be extended for our class until we can give him further information regarding what our class memorial committee decides to do. However, I am quite sure that we have enough in our memorial fund to take care of this for at least 15 years and, sad to say, most of us (except myself!) will be gone by that time.

An item of interest is that the Army and Navy Club in Washington is having a party there on Monday, 14 Feb. with a special table reserved for the Knights of the Golden Circle. This outfit consists of all of those who have been continuous members of the club for at least 50 years. As mentioned in our column about a year ago, the members of our class who are in the Golden Circle are as follows: Hayler, Larson, R. H. Maury, Ralston, Royce, Tawresey and Yeatman.

At the present time I do not know what members of the class will be present for the event except myself and I would like to assure you all that while I am there I will drink: A TOAST T O THE BEST OF THEM ALL, FOURTEEN! BOB

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Sec'y, Adm. Arthur D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. M. W. Hutchinson, Jr. 6 Acton Place, Annapolis, Md. 21401

Mel and Lola POWERS have left Watde Park, Australia, where they have been visiting their son and his family, and are now embarked on the

P & O CHUSAN, going through the Great Barrier Reef to Darwin, then to Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan. From Yokohama, they sail to Hawaii, Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles; flying back from there to their home in Orlando, Fla. A fine letter arrived from Grot WOOD, just too late for the last Shipmate. He wrote, "Last fall we spent two weeks at a friend's dude ranch in the Teton National Park at Jackson Hole, Wyo. We surprised ourselves that at our age we could still ride and enjoy it without dire after effects.

The Grand Tetons in their majestic beauty were the equal of any mountains we saw in Austria the preceding year. While in the beautiful little Chapel of the Transfiguration we met our old friend.

Bishop Kennedy of Honolulu. He told us that the new Chapel of St. Paul at Seabury School on Maui was to be consecrated by him on Dec. 5th and suggested that we be present. So—the day before Thanksgiving we flew out to Seattle to be with our youngest daughter and family. We had a short visit with Hoke Smith and Margaret, and were happy to greet once more Lew Stedman and his bride, Libby. Then on to Hawaii, where we had a brief glimpse of Ralph Christie in Honolulu.

I haven't played golf with him this time at Waialei, but hear he still plays a terrific competitive game.

"On 5 Dec, four generations of the Montague Cooke family, about forty in all, were present at St. Paul's Chapel consecration, as well as clergy from all over the Islands and one from the Philippines. 'Aunt Lila' Cooke, one of the last old timers of Hawaii, had given the chapel to Seabury Hall School for Girls. The main house and grounds were the former home of Katharine McGrew Cooper, the mother of my Frances, which the former had deeded to the Episcopal Church of Hawaii for this particular purpose, when she died in 1963. I think you, Heather and Hutch visited her home 'Maunalei' in the past.

(Our son. Ken, was also with us, a junior at Punahou School at that time.)

"Seabury Hall is now in its second year, with an enrollment of 90, 49 of whom are boarders from all the Islands and from several of the Trust Islands of the Pacific. There is an excellent young and enthusiastic staff, and the spirit prevailing among students, faculty and parents is gladsome to behold. Seabury Hall is named after the first Episcopal bishop in America.

"About the first of February, Frances and I hope to fly to Los Angeles, then motor to Coronado. There I hope for a game of 'cow pasture pool' with the champions of the class, Horse Pennoyer, and Skeeter Mitchell. We expect to see Harry Campman and his family, but we shall miss the Arch Howards. Then we fly to Orlando, Fla., where we hope to find Steve Rockwell and Anne recovered from a recent bout of ill health, and to sample once more the wonderful oranges and grapefruit of their grove. We plan on returning home to Bedford, N. Y., the end of Feb. just in time to make out our income tax returns. Aloha, Grot."

Ros Daggett, secretary of 1920, kindly sent me a letter from his classmate, Austin K. Doyle, in which he gives more details about the funeral of our Fifteener, Frank WAGNER. He wrote that at the service in Christ Church, Pensacola, on 10 Jan. the pallbearers were Nuck, Pennoyer, Gardner, Tate, Sinton, Doyle, Perkins, Compo, and Al Lee, a civilian friend of all of us. He writes: "I remember a story about Frank. In 1934 the Cafe Le Chapeau Rouge in San Francisco entertained some naval aviators from the old LEX and SARA. It was after prohibition and naturally a slight altercation ensued. The shore patrol intervened to avoid further bloodshed, and of course took the names of the participants.

"The next morning we watched the staff gig (Frank was fleet aviator) leave the PENN and go to the SARA, where it stayed for 20 minutes before proceeding to us. We gathered in the wardroom SHIPMATE

to hear our fate and Wagner appeared. He said, 'Ewen, Gresber, myself were there among others.

Gendemen, I assume you will want to hear what the admiral said this morning when the rear admiral in charge of the shore patrol reported you by name to the Commander-in-Chief.' Admiral Reeves (Joseph M.) said, 'It is a pity that there is not the same spirit of competition among our battleships. Frank was a naval aviator who was respected by all of us'." (Thank you, Artie Doyle.)

Rip STRUBLE, who is still away this first week in Feb., had a good 10 days in the northwest. He saw the Hoke SMITHs, fine as usual and expecting to go south in Feb. Hoke still runs a weekly interview on timely topics for a radio broadcast.

The Lew STEDMANs are well and quite busy. In Portland he talked to Julie Pigman, but Nat had gone off on a fishing trip. In Honolulu, at Makalapa, he saw SCOTTY's daughter, Jean Scott Clarey, and had a good talk. Her husband is Deputy CinCPacFlt. He saw the Ralph CHRISTIEs, who were looking very well. LaRene (Mrs. Christie), who at one time was as.sociated with the University of Denver, is now with the University of Hawaii in the department of education. Ralph appears in excellent shapeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;golfs practically every day and last year had two holes in one. Both were on club days and cost Ralph a pretty penny later in the clubhouse. Attention! Horse PENNOYER and Skeeter MITCHELL, when you head for Honolulu!

Glen EASTON writes that their six months in Europe were most exciting. "We were in Cadiz, Spain, when my wife went to the Naval Hospital at Rota. After she recovered we went to Gibraltar, then flew to London. There our son, Roger, met us and we paid them a good visit. Later, we flew to Rotterdam and took the five-day cruise up the Rhine, all the way to Basel, Switzerland. From there by train to Montreux on Lake Geneva, later flying back to London. We joined my son and his family on their holiday to Cornwall. I drove an MG 1100 and covered about 2800 miles before we returned to London. There my wife became ill again and was flown home in a hospital plane (AirVac) with me as her escort. She then went to Bethesda for seven weeks, where she recovered and feels better than she has for several years. We are now back home in Orlando, Fla."

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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 Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21401 West Coast Sec'y, Cdr. E. F. Cochrane, USN (Ret.), 4315 Avalon Blvd.

San Diego 3, Calif.

Mrs. C. T. Durgin may be reached at 3349 S. Stafford St., Arlington, Va., until about April. The BOURNEs departed about the middle of January for a six weeks' cruise to the west coast of South America.

The EARNHARDTS took off about 8 Feb. for three weeks in Florida, and then to California for a visit with the grandchildren.

Lois Klein wishes to convey to the class the family's sincere appreciation for the beautiful tribute to Dutch from his classmates for whom he held always the deepest affection, loyalty and respect.

We hear that Montgomery WOODS is deceased.

If anyone has information to confirm or deny this as a fact, it would be appreciated; also any information concerning his family and their whereabouts.

WEST COAST An MSG from Max COLE, apparendy snowed in up in Kingston, N. H., tells us that he and Evelyn are west coast bound and hope to join the brethren at the SD '16-'17ers Valentine party.

Have a special niche all earmarked and will be most happy to have you both aboard. . . . Anne M A R C H ,

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Dudley, Sidney's widow, is visiting her daughter Priscilla in Coronado and will be aboard for that V-party. Priscilla is married to Capt. J. J. Le Bourgeois '43, who is on duty in the area. . . .

Another of our widows, Barbara Glutting, is also in Coronado visiting her son Andy and his family. A copter pilot, Andy is training for duty in Vietnam. Unfortunately for us, Barbara expects to move on to Detroit to join up with her daughter Kate, and then move from Brookline to Cohasset, Mass., thus will miss our V-party.

Red KEADY reported in, telling us that he has undergone surgery and is back home in Woodside well along the road to recovery. Red also promises to get underway and, with Emily, come down to SD for a visit. Hope to have them with us at our V-party. . . . We are always especially happy to report when our ailing are getting back to battery and Elistine Warren is doing just that. . . . And speaking of news, both good and bad, we try to keep those interested informed. To that end, we particularly ask those on the coast, and elsewhere for that matter, to advise us so we can tell you. Thanks.

Those SD '16-'17ers rumbled off to a fast start when on 18 Jan. 24 of them sought haven in the Roadstead off the North Island O Club. It was a grand party with several outstanding features. First, at the prelims, our Coronado constituents. Count Grassie, Leon Fiske and Chippo Rogers, banded together to take the tariff at the prelims.

Of course, we had to work for it! Then just as mess call sounded. Sleuth Holmes, for reasons unknown to us, took over the last round, breaking the spell cast on those poor unfortunates who had won the previous tabs. Secondly, and this indeed was a real pleasure, Fred Haeberle was with us.

Fred, as you may remember, has been a full-time customer at the NH in SD. He looked better and obviously is better than we have seen him since he joined us here. He has fought a rough session these past years and it is great to see his wonderful recovery. Due to B. Ck>chrane's inability to talk.

Count Grassie took over as MC and did a fine job of it. George McMasters, the capable manager of the O Club, his fine chef and capable crew took great care of us as they always do. After the repast, the usual discussions, particularly Tommy Sprague '18, and Bert Rodgers reported on the happenings at the recent symposium held for flag officers by SecNav in Washington. Thus concluded the opening salvo for 1966 and the boys climbed aboard their gigs and headed for their home ports.

Just as we were about to secure for this issue, we learned of Kay Fahrion's great lossâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;her mother, Mrs. Thomas F. Dwyer, died in the NH Newport on 13 Jan. Mrs. Dwyer was the widow of the late Col. Thomas F. Dwyer, USA (Ret.), USMA '95, and was survived by Kay and her sister, Frances, the wife of Lt. G e n . ' w . P. Ennis, Jr., USA (Ret.), USMA '26. Kay and Spike took off via jet for the services at Trinit)' Church in Newport and Arlington National Cemetery. . . . Hasta luego, amigos.

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

It is with sadness that Lewis Lynn GOVER's death is reported. Stoney died of a heart attack at his residence in Lansdowne, Pa., on 24 Jan., and was buried in Arlington on the 27th.

Stoney, who was a retired major in the Marine Corps, had heart trouble for years and was in and out of USNH, Philadelphia. The final attack was sudden and fatal. He never knew about it.

Unfortunately, none of the class knew of the time and date of the funeral so we were not represented. We bid him a heartfelt farewell.

We've lost a good man.

At the '16-'17 luncheon in Washington the following were present: Len Austin, Walt Cal-

houn, Mick Carney, Frank Dean, Ernie Earnhardt, Joe Gregory, Billy Fechteler. Frank Hanafee, Bill Hawthorne, Ralph Hyde, Chuck Kelly, Pete Merwin, Chuck Noble, Pete Small and Doug Spencer. Everyone enjoj-ed it.

Eddie BRADY has left on a business trip to Rio . . . Peg riding herd. Eddie invited your scribe to come down as his assistant in 1946. It would have been a fine deal for the Argentines but illness prevented it. Just think how we could have advanced culture!

On 30 Jan. Pinky SENN had a long article in the Washington Star about how he delivered Roosevelt to Yalta in the QUINCY. A very interesting experience, as he describes it.

Several of the class have taken oft for Mexico.

There, at present, are the Connie Forshews, Pi Parks and Adelaide Fullinwider. Of cour.sc Jim Conover lives in Mexico City.

With love and good cheer.

JACK

Sec'y, RAdm. E. E. Dnvall, USN (Ret.) Apt. 755-B, The Westchester Washington, D. C. 20016 The response to the letters sent out by our treasurer, Bert ROGERS, on the wardroom project for the 18th Company of Midshipmen has been most gratifying indeed. Classmates, by their letters, have signified their approval by a wide majority, and by their donations which have assured that our goal would be reached when all have responded. Following these returns we have notified the Alumni Association accordingly. More news on this wardroom plan at a later date.

Incident to the above exchange of letters with classmates, Bert Rogers passed to us the following bits of news: Togo BIESEMEIER wrote that he went to Florida in 1950 intending to fish and golf but got busy, passed the bar exams there and became engaged in a private law practice for 10 years. After an extended tour (10 months) of the British Isles and Europe, he became employed in Miami as a practicing lawyer and as a Spanish interpreter; Earle MILLS reports that his Carolyn, whom he now calls the "indestructible one," had her third open-heart operation on 10 Nov., this time for the installation of an artificial mitral valve.

She was in the Presbyterian Medical Center from 31 Oct. to 8 Dec. when Earle brought her home, where she is doing as well as can be expected.

E. H. PRICE and Annice expect to sail from the Port of Newark in February for another visit to South America and an airflight home with a few stops in the Windward Islands. Johnny (E. R.) JOHNSON had a mild heart attack in February and after leaving the hospital suffered another, but reports that the doc says everything seems OK now and Johnny feels first rate again. Tommy TOMLINSON is having his "usual marvelous winter at Audiencia Bay" where he swims one-half hour before breakfast every morning. Bill (W. R.) NICHOLS is due to visit from Coronado with his 26-foot Airstream. Tommy said, "I'll take him to sea in our 12-foot boat and hope he gets a sail on.

I love to watch some of my old friends sweat fighting a 100-pound sailfish. It's good for your middle."

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

The big snow almost washed out our February luncheon, although Dyer, DuVal and Rochester did manage to struggle through. The conversation must have been most interesting as Miles told how he came to write Cadiz to Cathay and his other book. And the Mountain Wdl Move. He is presenting copies of these two books, as well as a copy of his Isthmian Canal Policy along with three copies of the Explorers' fournal containing articles 41

which he authored, to the 19th Company wardroom, which the class is sponsoring. George and Walter have already presented copies of their works to the wardroom and Nelle Stevens is presenting a copy of Steve's book.

Dulany DIERDORFF recently underwent a serious operation but apparently came out of it with flying colors.

A nice note from Yen CONEY from Los Angeles advises that he and Mila were just about to enplane for San Francisco on their round-theworld tour. You got away just in time. Yen, to miss all of the snows.

Val SCHAEFFER writes that he has been more or less out of commission with eye trouble but is coming along o.k.

I am sure that Clayton DEMAREST would be glad to have letters from classmates to cheer him on. He seems to be doing quite well but it always is cheering to hear from old friends.

We were delighted to see Bob and Adelaide WALDRON when they visited their children for the Christmas holidays in Devon.

The column this month suffers from a lack of news. Were it not for the devoted efforts of George DYER, there would be little to report.

I hope to have more news from classmates for future columns.

The annual Bulletin should be in your hands before this column appears in print. There have been a number of delays in its production, including hold-ups occasioned by our snows.

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

Apparendy due to the rugged weather, the attendance at the monthly luncheon at the ArmyNavy Club on 28 Jan. was about half normal.

Only 13 were present as follows: Browder, Christmas, Fred Cunningham, Daggett, Savvy Harrison, Hitchcock, Lyon, Mansfield, Nibecker, Osborn, Pearson, Clyde Smith and Thompson.

At this luncheon Clyde SMITH reported further on the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation.

He has spent considerable time investigating this operation and is convinced it is being efficiently run with a minimum of overhead and has the full support of the Navy Dept. Since it is generally agreed that this is a worthwhile and needed facility, and in view of Clyde's report, the group voted to comply with the Foundation's request for the class to send a letter to each classmate and widow soliciting funds.

Our classmate Edgar B. (Doc) HOWELL, Jr., Cdr., USNR (Ret.), died at Delray Beach, Fla., on 31 Dec. of a sudden heart attack although he had been hospitalized for two days. Doc resigned in 1921 and was in the air-conditioning and refrigeration business in West Hartford, Conn., until called to active duty in WWII. He spent four years in BuShips and after VJ-Day returned to his boyhood home in Florida. He leaves his widow, Mrs. Loretta Howell, of 19 E. 1st Ave., Delray Beach, and a son James.

Bernard Kelley sent me a newspaper clipping from Philadelphia which stated that our classmate George ROSENBERRY died in Underwood Hospital, Woodbury, N. J., on 21 Dec. This was rather startling to me as the Alumni Register carries George as having died in 1950 and our class records had him listed as "died between 1950 and 1957, date and place unknown." The clipping described George as a retired Dupont engineer and a resident of Monroeville, N. J. It mentioned that he was a 1920 graduate of USNA and a member of the American Society of Heating, Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers and the Mechanical Engineers Assoc. He leaves his wife Grace; a daughter and three sons. Burial was in Swedesboro, N. J. 42

In 1963 the National Naval Reserve Policy Board recommended die establishment of a trophy to be awarded annually at the District Commandant's conference to the Naval District which achieves the greatest improvement in national standings during the preceding competitive year and that the trophy be named in honor of VAdm. Feluc JOHNSON, USN (Ret.), in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the Naval Reserve Program. This recommendation was approved by SecNav. This year the award has been won by the 13th Naval District Reserves and, upon invitation, Felix made the award in Seattle on 9 Feb. This was a well deserved honor as Felix is considered to be the one individual most responsible for improvement of the Naval Reserve Program, through his untiring efforts and outstanding leadership of three Naval Reserve Evaluation Boards. Our class can well be proud to have one of its members so signally honored.

On 14 Jan. the SecNav held a symposium in Washington to which he invited all retired flag officers, including reserves, to spend the day being briefed on the problems of the Navy and Marine Corps with special attention to Vietnam. There were about 440 attendees and one purpose was to have them pass the word in the "boondocks." Our class was represented by Bassett, Browder, Buracker, Curts, Dettmann, Forrestel, Savvy Harrison, Hepburn, Hopwood, Isquith, Felix Johnson, Korns, Lyon and Melling.

Ed and Mary McMENEMY had a serious automobile accident but fortunately there were no fatalities. On New Year's Eve they were heading east just outside of their home town, Longview, Tex., making about 30 m.p.h. on wet pavement with no other car near on their side of the road.

On the other side traffic was heavy in the opposite direction with people heading west for the Cotton Bowl game in Dallas. Suddenly a car came up too fast behind traffic in the opposite lane, hit the brakes, and went into a 90-degree skid. This put it directly in front of Ed's car with no opportunity to take evasive action. He estimates the crash came with a combined speed effect of 60 to 70 m.p.h.

Ed came out of it conscious but with both wrists fractured, a cracked rib and some bloody cuts on the forehead. Mary was knocked out, had a broken upper right arm, a cracked kneecap and a slight fracture of the right cheek bone. Fortunately Ed and Mary had seat belts buckled or the results would probably have been much worse. Three passengers in the back seat were badly bruised but had no broken bones or cuts.

Ed and Mary were in the hospital five days and then went home to get along on Mary's good left arm with help, at first, from their daughter and son-in-law who came over from Austin. The bone doctor tells them that they will evenmally get back to normal with the exception that Ed will probably end up with a stiff right wrist. He hopes this will improve his golf swing. But it did not take him long to educate his left elbow to raise a highball glass to his lips. When he accomplished this fact he felt definitely encouraged. He wants his friends to know they are not out of the running yet.

Del FAHRNEY sent his regrets for not being able to make the 28 Jan. class luncheon. He said his wife, Sondra, had just returned to her room after five days in the recovery room following an operation to remove an aneurism from her aorta. A Y-section was installed to connect the aorta with the leg arteries. I was happy that he reported she is doing very well indeed and should make a fast and satisfactory recovery. At this writing Hal FITZ is quite ill in the Bethesda Naval Hospital but has expressed a desire to see his friends.

Slim COWDREY writes that he retired from the position of general manager, Dept. of Marine and Aviation, City of New York, on 27 Jan. He has no plans for the future as yet, but will continue to live in New York at his current address, going up to their home in Wilton, Conn., when-

ever he and Rosita get the urge to enjoy the country life.

Hoppy HOPWOOD reports that the last five years with Grace Line, Inc., have been happy ones indeed. As vice president for New York Operations he found there was never a dull moment with an intensive shipbuilding program underway as well as direct dealing with maritime labor unions among other duties. On reaching the "magic age," he remained in his vice president status until he took delivery of the last ship in the building program in April 1964, whence came his next retirement. However, he is remaining with Grace Line, Inc., as a consultant on an annua! basis. He reports that it is not all work in that he frequently takes on interesting assignments. He cites, for example, that Grace Line has two stockholders' cruises each year. In May there is a cruise of 26 days to Peru and return and in Dec. a 13day cruise to the Caribbean. Executives of the company accompany as host and hostess for the cruise and in 1965 he and Jean made each such cruise. In Nov. 1965 they had a new grandson, the son of their eldest boy, LCdr. H. G. Hopwood, Jr. (MC), USN, now assigned in the Dept. of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Their number two boy, Kendrick, is a systems analyst with Montgomery and Ward at headquarters in Chicago. Their daughter, Jean, is doing very well as a home economist with Public Service of N. J. Wally DILLMAN, who resigned in 1922, made his career in business in Calif. He retired a couple years ago and now does a lot of traveling. He recently returned from the Orient and is now off again to British Honduras with fishing friends.

They are driving from Phoenix through Mexico to Guatemala City and from there flying to Belize.

Wally expects to spend a week fishing for tarpon and bonefish in the Gulf and will then leave the party and return by air alone via Yucatan Peninsula where he expects he can spend a week or so profitably looking at old Maya ruins.

Jim and Consuelo CROWE recendy spent a month at Boca Raton, Fla., which they describe as a very fine town unspoiled as yet by commercialism. They dropped in on Krout and Kitty DETTMAN at their beautiful apartment, Coral Ridge Towers, Fort Lauderdale. Red and Marilyn HEPBURN flew to New Orleans where Red had some business to attend to and then took a cruise to Puerto Rico. Teddy and Dottie HAFF left Annapolis in mid-Feb. to see their daughter in Adanta.

From there they visited friends in Montgomery and then went to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras.

They expect to spend a month at Key Largo, Fla., in an apartment across the street from Johnny and Marion GREER. En route home they hope to see Tom and Helen BRITTAIN. Artie DOYLE writes that last fall Eari DELONG and his bride visited them in Pensacola. Earl is the godfather of Artie's daughter and had stopped at Patuxent en route south to see her and her family. Her husband is a lieutenant, USN, in the test pilot class at Patuxent.

Bernard KELLEY continues to be very active as Judge, Court of Common Pleas No. 6, in Philadelphia. He was appointed judge in March 1959 and was elected to a full 10-year term in Nov. of that year. He has five children. Son John has been a member of the Philadelphia bar since 1963 and is serving as Asst. U. S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Pa. Son Bernard Jr. is a lieutenant jg., USN, class of '63, and is completing his air training at Corpus Christi.

Bunny Smith, widow of our classmate Robert Holmes SMITH, has reason to be proud of their son Bob Jr., Cdr., USN '47. Last year he won a Naval Institute Award of Merit for his essay, "Vital Goalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Workable Navy." This carried an award of $100 and a bronze medal. This year he won first prize for his essay, "The Submarine's Long Shadow." This carries an award of $1500, a gold medal and a life subscription to the Naval SHIPMATE

Institute. The award was made in Feb. at the annual meeting of the Institute. In April Bob expects to take command of the destroyer leader WILKINSON.

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

It is with much regret that the death of Tommy RYAN'S wife, Jo, is hereby reported. She died on 3 Feb. in New Orleans, and graveside services were held prior to interment in Arlington National Cemetery on 8 Feb. The class sent flowers.

The following '21ers were seen at the SecNav symposium for retired flag and general officers which was held at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington on 14 Jan.: Joe Bolger, Floyd Ferris, Dolly Fitzgerald, Fully Fullinwider, Flam Hamilton, Prof Kelley, Tom Kelly, Dash Madeira (up from Virginia Beach), Country Moore, Phil Nichols (on from San Mateo), George Russell, Charlie Wellborn and Henry Williams (down from Philadelphia). There were 390 admirals and 50 Marine generals present who were given much information by the 26 speakers of the day on manpower problems, hardware, ASW programs, R & D , current operations and the Polaris system. The symposium was held with the purpose of keeping us better informed as to the what and how of the present-day Navy and Marine Corps in order that we might help to enhance the image of our Naval Establishment.

Perhaps because of the arrival of Washington's first honest-to-goodness snowstorm, the attendance at our January lunch was confined to the following: Bolger, Costello, Dudley, Eaton, Elmers, Ferris, Fullinwider, Gallery, Houser, McDowell, Moore, Pihl, Russell and Thorp. Legs Leggett dropped by for a cocktail but was unable to stay for chow. Jim Costello has recently returned from a stay in San Diego. Dan Gallery is back from Honolulu and seeing classmates in and around the La Jolla area. We were especially glad to welcome Monty Eaton who, although temporarily at Bethesda for some therapy, came to his first class get-together in 45 years. Monty, whose last naval assignment was Commander MSTS in Seattle, subsequently became an engineer with Chemstrand and has been teaching at the University of Southern Alabama in Mobile, to which job he plans to return soon.

Raleigh and Gwen HALES have again elected to make an outstanding cruise commencing late March and returning home in Pasadena early May. They are scheduled to sail in the Matson Lines cruise ship SS MONTEREY and will visit Papeete, Auckland, Sydney, Noumea, Suva, Pago Pago, Honolulu and return via San Francisco. Bon voyage.

Sims MacKINNON and his wife Hazel are in Seattle for the winter months, both looking well and fit. They will head back to Juneau in midFebruary. Legs LEGGETT and Mary C. were here again over the holidays, visiting their daughter and her husband. Homer Sewell. Dutch GREBER, Dal EMORY and Shorty POOLE entertained these visitors at luncheon at the Washington Athletic Club on 28 Dec. The FERRISes are making a 35-day South American cruise in Moore-McCormack's BRAZIL. Leaving New York early in February, they are scheduled to visit Trinidad, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro —at carnival time; Santos, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Barbados, St. Thomas and San Juan.

The San Diego group of '21ers advise that their January luncheon, held in Balboa Park, was well attended. Two of those attending—Leo STAFFORD and Rex TALLMAN—announced that they have recently retired from the Naval Experimental Laboratory and "We, the People," respectively.

Bris McHUGH has, he avers, removed himself from the stand-by substitute teacher's list and vows he will therefore attend all the lunches.

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1966

Hook BUTTERFIELD says that out of the S.D. area classmates only Syd DODDS still carries out his daily routine in connection with phasing out die Coronado ferry as the new bridge comes into being. After lunch Don SMITH conducted all hands through an eye-opening tour of his pet project—the Airspace Museum, situated in one of the exposition buildings in Balboa Park. Don asks that all former flying shipmates, friends and acquaintances send in something or anything they have which might be of general interest on exhibit in the museum and that would add to the folklore of naval aviation.

Sm and Mar>' PURVES are planning to fly to Phoenix, Ariz., this month. They'll vacation for at least two weeks and visit a niece of Stu's. The Camelback Inn will be their headquarters.

BAY AREA NOTES The following two items were received from Count Murrell: "Miss Theodora Nelson of Los Angeles and Lloyd LAFOT were married on 22 Dec. in Carmel, Calif., at the Church of the Wayfarer. The Lafots will live at 200 North Third St. in Boise, Ida. "I don't think you will want to print a log of our trip but here goes. Our daughter Linda, in her third year at Stanford, studied at the University of Berlin. There she met Tim Agerbak. Later they were married because he said it was cheaper than phoning repeatedly from London where he taught at Radley College! He graduated at Cambridge although he is a Dane. We flew to the Pyrenees for a week in October where they have a cottage. After another week in London, just missing Max and Gertrude Welborn, we travelled around Europe with another daughter while Linda and Tim went by boat to Sierra Leone, West Africa. Then we flew to Freetown, West Africa, where Tim had accepted a two-year teaching assignment at Fourah Bay University. We saw Senegal, Guinea and Monrovia. Returning, we lunched in Lisbon and had dinner coming into San Francisco. Impressions.' England seems to be in the middle of a depression and doesn't know it.

The workmen are unproductive and equipment is antiquated. But we loved England. We were prepared to dislike France and we were pleasantly surprised. They seemed prosperous. It was surprising, however, to find parts of France where they spoke no English. We were absorbed by Italy but we didn't like the Italians. Venice, without automobiles, is my dish. Africa, what we saw of it, seemed pitiably poor, hopeful in its newfound freedom and, like Don Quixote, it has mounted a horse and ridden off in all directions."

The Murrells now reside at 1026 Broncho Road, Pebble Beach, Calif.

The class luncheon at the Treasure Island Officers' Club was well attended and we particularly enjoyed seeing long-time "no-see" classmates from

out of town, to wit—Jeff Beard, Doc Harris and Cy Young. Doc and Cy have recendy joined us in the Bay area. The following localites were present: John Ames, Abie Carlisle, Joe CxjnnoUy, R. K. Davis, Don Erwin, Darrell Hoover, Lowden Jessup, Eddie Duncan, Bob Lewis, Norman McKee, Johnny McQueen, John Madden, Scup Miller, Slats Moore, Jim Reisinger, Piggie Schwien, Frank Talbot, Tommy Thomas, Turk Wirth and Charlie Woodson.

Prof KELLEY says that the best job he ever had was when he was CO of the BOSTON in the

Third Fleet during the final months of WWII. Throughout the Korean War he was Assistant Chief of BuOrd for Research and Development.

In the fall of '53 he was designated by CNO to be the Navy member of an ad hoc group to survey the military R & D programs of NATO allies and to make recommendations as to cooperation with them in the development of new weapon systems and other military equipment. The group's report was accepted in Washington and a tri-service team was set up in Paris to carry forward this cooperative endeavor under the name of "Mutual Weapons Development Program."

Prof was deputy director of the program and Navy representative on the Mutual Weapons Development Team which administered it. Total time in this endeavor was four and a half years during which the Kellcys availed themselves of the many opportunities afforded to travel throughout most of Western Europe, parts of North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean area. Following his return to the United States in the summer of '58, Prof became a staff member of the Applied Physics Laboratory located in Silver Spring, Md., where he remained in various capacities until June of '65. Since then he has busied himself in a number of independent studies of several problems connected with administration of research and development of naval weapons systems.

Homer EIMERS has recently heard from Charlie GLISSON who reports he has been teaching thermodynamics at Tennessee Technological University at Cookeville, Tenn. Charlie is looking forward to attending our 45th reunion in the fall.

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

A note from Frank AKERS informs us: "Bayliss and I have just returned from a week at the Del Coronado Hotel and I can report that Savvy Huffman and Marion Murphy are both very busy and very happy. We visited Tom Beattie in the Coronado Hospital where he was scheduled for surgery. Tom recently won the Senior Golf Competition and we are proud of his achievement.

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"I talked with Bert McVey and we were sorry that our trip did not dovetail with his party for the class at the Cuimaca Club. Everyone reports a great success and enjoyable occasion.

"We spent a marvelous visit with Admiral Jackson, Class of 1887. He asked us to return for his 100th birthday party on 10 May, when there will be a big wingding at the Coronado Hotel.

Savvy Huffman is active in arrangements. Bayliss and I might just do this."

Louise Dando Stoutenburgh Harrigan died on 13 Jan. in the Bethesda Memorial Hospital, Boynton Beach, Fla., after a prolonged illness. In fact she had suffered her first coronary thrombosis early in 1945, her first cerebral thrombosis in 1950 and two cardiac arrestsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one in 1964 and one the day before she died.

In addition to her husband, RAdm. D. Ward HARRIGAN, USN (Ret.), she leaves three childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Guy Holden Stoutenburgh, Jr., of Delray Beach, Mrs. William J. Holland of Adanta and Cdr. Joseph S. Stoutenburgh of Edina, Minn., whose substantial contribution to the completion of the Navy's NTDS program she found most rewarding; also nine grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren.

Louise has set an example of enduring courage and resolve which has inspired us all.

A recent ceremony at the Naval Air Reserve Training Unit, NAS Alameda, Calif., was a threegeneration affair. Capt. D. J. STUDABAKER, USN (Ret.), swore in his son, D. J. Jr., and his grandson, D. J. III. Dave's son is returning to active duty as a NARTU staticnkeeper.

-\ttending the 18 Jan. meeting of the Naval Academy Assn. of New York at the New York University Club were: Clint Blount, Frank Borden, Slim Garrison, Joe Krecek, Tom Maginnis, Art Schmidt and Frank Whitaker. The speaker was Hanson Baldwin '24, of the New York Times; he discussed the situation and prospects in Vietnam, based on his 5-week stay there in December 1965.

On 11 Jan. at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D. C , were: Beau Fink, Johnny Johnson, Oliver Walker, Tommy Dugan, Ken McManes, Doc Pratt, Pete Atkeson, Omer Kneeland, Bev Coleman, Harry Butler, Ed Gardner, Fred Lott, Don Johnston, Lowe Bibby, Al Malstrom, Howard Davison, Hal Baker, Reds Marston and Al Toney.

Mostest of the bestest, ABE

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

Regretfully we note the passing of E. D. EARLY, who left USNA after three years with us. After M.I.T. he went on to a brilliant career in the computer field. His widow's address is P. O. Box 301, Venice, Fla. After an exchange of letters between the Superintendent USNA and Freddy WITHINGTON, it appears that Fred will have to change the date of our 45th reunion to late May 1968, instead of the Homecoming date in 1968. Fred will supply more definite information later on.

A classmate, who wishes to remain incognito, at least for the present, has subscribed the necessary total initial payment to make the '23 wardroom a reality. The Academy has begun the conversion work.

The AGETONs will return to the Washington area in May. Fred WALTON's wife Dorothy appeared on the Washington TV Channel 4, with a fine lecture on semi-precious stones, on 18 Jan. Dot gathered these gem stones herself in the hinterlands of Brazil when she and Fred were in Sao Paulo.

Three days later Jo MORRISON appeared on the same program as "Boss of The Year," an honor 44

for which he was chosen by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Mel GROSVENOR lost his fadier, Dr. Grosvenor, recently, and the class offers its sympathy to the family. Dr. Grosvenor brought the National Geographic Society from an humble start to the internationally prominent spot it now occupies.

Many corrections to the class roster poured in when the new roster appeared. In the next several issues of Shipmate corrections will appear. Starting with this issue you are urged to correct your rosters, in order that they may be current. Request for a corrected roster cannot be honored, because of the work load.

Arnold, Benj. W., 3rd, RAdm. V, Churchill House, 155 Angell St., Providence 6, R. I. Barrett, John P. B., RAdm. V, 101 N. Alfred St., Alexandria, Va. 22314.

Boiling, George W., V, 230 Park Ave., New York City, N. Y. 10017.

Brendel, Louis H., V, 16740 Obispo Lane, Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, Calif.

Burt, Gilbert La Rue, LCdr. V. Carty, Clarence E., NV, 6487 41st Ave., N. St. Petersburg, Fla. Chandler, Alvin D., VAdm. V, 1128 Hill Rd., Cavalier Park, Virginia Beach, Va. Comly, Samuel Jr., Jr., Capt. V, Carriage House, Woodbury, N. J. 08096.

Cone, Daniel N., Jr., Capt. V, c/o J. S. Snow, P. O. Box 836, Carmel, Calif.

Connelley, Harold, H., Capt. V, 545 Silvergate Ave., San Diego 6, Calif. 92106.

Dombey, Ralph H., Cdr., USNR, (Ret.) V, 16914 Delaware Ave., Lakewood 7, Ohio.

Eariy, Mrs. E. D., NWV, P. O. Box 301, Venice, Fla. Fly, Mrs. Wm. A., DWV, 1026 Octavia St., New Orieans, La. 70115.

Hamilton, William H., RAdm. V, 1216 Tanager Trail, Virginia Beach, Va. Hasbrouck, T. N., Cdr. USNR (Ret.), NV, 119 Brettonwood Dr., San Antonio, Tex. Hicks, Robert I., V, 138 Beacon Lane, Jupiter, Fla. 33458.

Holt, Mrs. Walter C , DWV, Walters Rd., Chapel Hill, N. C. Keegan, Charies F., NV, 128 S. Main St., Yardley, Pa. 19068.

Keith, Harry H., RAdm. V, 2855 Southaven Rd., Annapolis, Md. Keppel, Mrs. R. D., NWV, 419 Oakhurst Dr., Beveriy Hills, Calif.

Kimes, Mrs. Ira L., DWV, 4503 Laburnum Ave., Richmond, Va. 23231.

Westcoasters, news items for Shipmate will be much appreciated.

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

TO THE 24TH COMPANY! Last month we mentioned here that our sponsorship of the 24th Company of the Brigade of Midshipmen was to include a gift to them, for their wardroom, of one of our 1924 class crests mounted on a mahogany base. When the Commandant heard of this, he invited us to make a presentation of the plaque to the 24th Company.

Ed Clexton, our president, agreed to come up from Florida, and the Commandant asked that other classmates in the area also attend the presentation in Bancroft Hall. It was held in Memorial Hall, and those of us who were there think it was one of the most interesting meetings we've attended in Annapolis. Every detail was perfecdy arranged by Lt. Hansen, 24th Company

officer, and we were first welcomed by the Commandant, who turned the meeting over to Lt. Hansen.

VAdm. E. W. Clexton '24 presents the '24 class crest plaque to Midn. Alan Roodhouse, Company Commander of the 24th Company.

The 24th Company was lined up at attention, and 15 classmates plus nine wives of 1924 were seated as a group "on the sidelines." Ed Clexton made the presentation of the plaque after first having all the '24 people introduced to the Navy group individually. Ed made a perfect presentation speech, and then presented to Midn. Lt. Alan Roodhouse, 24th Co. commander, the 1924 plaque plus a 1924 Lucky ^^i which was provided by Ed Cunningham for the 24th Co. wardroom. Eighteen midshipmen from the 24th Co. were assigned as escorts to the 1924 classmates and took us to the mess hall for the evening meal.

Lt. and Mrs. Hansen took our ladies to dinner in the Patuxent Room. The 1924 classmates were escorted to the 24th Co. wardroom, and en route we saw the improved Bancroft Hall and the modern rooms in which the midshipmen live. Our ladies inspected the model room near the reception room.

It was all a great experience for all of us, and it has really given us a "new attachment" to the place we all love so well. We are sure that all of 1924 is going to enjoy the sponsorship of the 24th Company, and we hope in this column from time to time to have news from that fine group.

Representing '24 at the presentation were Reed Adams, Kay and Ev Burroughs, Ed Clexton, Kay and Ed Cunningham, John Davis, Tommie Dyer, Ed Grant, Dot and Roy Hartwig, John D. Hayes, Grace and Charles Hoffman, Cleo and Bert Kalisch, Marie and Bob Keyer, George Patterson, Emily and Colby Rucker, Norma and Paul Siegrist, Jerry Van Steenberg, Martha and Rollo Wilson, Joe Worthington and Joe Wright.

Regretfully we record the loss of two more classmates; the biographies of Minor Heine and Hal Jones are under the Last Call section of this issue. A telephone call from Willie Hurst to Bob Swart enabled us to get a floral tribute out to Minor at Long Beach, but your reporters did not hear of the passing of Hal Jones until after the funeral, so we will be making a contribution to an organization to be designated by his widow, Anne, in Hal's memory.

Forrest Bunker, Frank Deam and Wayne Gamet attended the Heine funeral at Long Beach, and there may have been others from our class at the largely attended services. We have this interesting comment from "Fire Room" Bunker also: "They said in the HAVEN that Minor kept them entertained with stories and anecdotes right up to the last. I served with Minor on the staff of Com 12 and had lunch with him at T. I. daily. He told me a new story every day for two years, so I can well believe it." And we can all S H I P M A T E

believe it, as we recall Minor. In the last Cruise, under future plans. Minor wrote, "Doing my best to hang around and see Halley's Comet again."

1 his remark interests particularly your reporter, who recalls having his mother point out Halley's Comet to him in 1910 on its last visit to earthperception, and stressing to him that he would live to see Halley's Comet again when it is scheduled to return in 1985. How many of you classmates remember seeing Halley's on its last visit? And, more important is the question, "How many of us will see it in 1985.'"

Hal Jones we remember most from midshipman days by his voice, his work in class track and football, his 2 stripes and his stories of his hometown of Chicago. Because he left active duty in 1926, many of us did not see much of him in following years, except at class reunions. He and Anne were at our 40th, enjoyed themselves (Hal had a heart attack soon thereafter), and they took a lot of good pictures at that reunion.

The fourth Wednesday in January (26th) wasn't fit weather for man nor beast, but Jenks Longfellow reports that 10 hardy classmates made it through the snow: Austin, Collins, Cunningham, Dyer, Cranberry, Hoffman, Ramsey, Robinson, Wilson and Wright. This includes some from Annapolis and Baltimore, and Jenks is convinced they came to Washington the night before —not in all that storm! Jenks also reports that Boney CLOSE has returned from Spain to undergo surgery at Bethesda. We hope that is successfully weathered by this time. And Preston MERCER is reported out of the hospital in early February and convalescing at Sanabel, Fla. When he digging for traveling in sultant. He southeastern

is not tracing missing classmates (still Riggs), Bob KEYER does a lot of his capacity as a packing plant conspent the first week of January in Virginia, the second week in Canada.

From Colby RUCKER, Annapolis: "Carvel Hall is no more. It has been completely torn down and carted away. The State is now clearing up the mess, and maybe by spring the grass will grow again, pending decision about making the area a cultural center. The open space is delightful, however, even in its raw state. The fund for payment and restoration has been raised; $250,000 was asked and $276,000 was raised. . . . Ground has been broken for the new Science building, Michelson Hall. The river side of the grounds at the tennis courts is all boarded off and looks like hector with construction equipment. The local press has just awakened to the fact that the beautiful view of the Severn from the Chapel steps is now gone forever. . . . Work was to have started this year on getting the USNA a new power plant set-up, as our two present plants are not only badly placed, but are worn out. This

has just been set aside by reason of the Vietnam war, and so we'll have to wait another year or two or three to get this done. This also pushes the new auditorium and other related projects further into the future. . . . Sometimes I wonder if I will even live to see the 'new' Naval Academy."

The Lou ALLENs have moved on west to California, and we learn of their spending a weekend with the Clies EVANS. Both couples planned to attend the next quarterly class dinner in San Diego, which was held in late February. The Aliens were visiting their sons in Claremont, while the Evans live at 409 Serra Dr., Corona del Mar 91712.

Mrs. C. Walter Heinecke and RAdm. William B. BAILEY were married at a nuptial communion in Christ Episcopal Church, Coronado, on 15 Jan., in the presence of family members and intimate friends. Attendants at the ceremony were Lt. (jg) Walter R. Heinecke (son of the bride). Miss Harriet K. Neal and Capt. Frank T. Sloat, USN (Ret.). A champagne reception followed, at the home of the bride. After a wedding trip north, the couple will reside in .'\dmiral Bailey's house at 370 B Ave., Coronado.

Willie HURST came east in January to attend the Sec-Nav Symposium at the Shoreham in Washington, and incidentally to visit the children and grandchildren who live nearby. He reports the Symposium was well conducted, with no detail overlooked in its management and operation. Other classmates attending were Beakley, Burroughs, Cabanillas, Collins, Ekstrom, Furth, J. D. Haves, Hoffman, Ricketts, Petersen, Swart and Wilson.

And Bess Hurst's comment: "If you think you know what a symposium is, as I did—you are wrong! A friend of ours said it was nice of me to let Willie go to a symposium, and to look it up in the dictionary . . . just for fun, we did . . . to find the definition is 'an evening drinking party, usually followed by conversation and other amusements'."

Doc COOKE and Janice arc enjoying a casual cross-country trip, being at Jekyll Island, Ga., at this writing. Doc telephoned Stock Colt that they would be passing thru the Florida Panhandle later in February. Stock also reports his wife Donna has been somewhat under the weather, and in early February entered the local Baptist Hospital for a check-up. We hope everything checks out well, and before the arrival of the Cookes in Warrington.

Hans BALDWIN was at his best on 18 Jan. when he addressed the monthly luncheon of the N. A. Assn. of New York. He made a brilliant, systematic and detailed review of the situation in Vietnam. He also pariendy answered many questions, which made for an unusually long and

interesting meeting. It seems to this listener that Hans puts out about 50% more words of solid information than the average speaker. (L. 1.) Rep Replogle was in New York in time for this meeting, where he also met and was welcomed

by Graesser, Miller, Siegrist, Waller and Whalen.

USNA Special Order No. 1-66, dealing with prizes to be awarded in 1966, carries this item: "A wrist watch will be presented by the Class of 1924, USNA, to that midshipman of the graduating class who stands highest for the basic course in engineering."

"With new shoes, the old lady (Packard) does a smooth sixty." That's Don (Deacon) CAMERON'S latest comment on his old car as he writes in from the home base in Indiana. Don thinks he may go back to Milwaukee, or even to Germany for a lengthy visit; and when he mentions his need of "a good housekeeper" we can only refer him to an earlier item in this column which concerns Bill Bailey. Yes, Deacon, there are "housekeepers" around!

Our classmates in the San Francisco Bay area have an annual party in the spring (April, last year) at Terminal Island, and Dave Wight reports that plans for the 1966 party were being drawn up in February. And we are told that Monty BERTHOLD will handle it this year. This may interest classmates from Seattle to San Diego, who can get the details on this year's meeting from Monty (2848 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, Calif.).

Last month we put in a plug for Hunter ROBINSON'S mustache and tried to get his photo in order to get a contest started. But Hunter holds out, saying "the mustache hardly justifies it." On the other hand, he feels that a goatee competition might really be of interest, with two candidates being Tommie DYER and Tommie SOUTHERLAND. Now, which of these Tommies will be the first to send in a picture of himself.' Hunter also reports a few news items. He had a letter from Leif ERICSSON, now at Saybrook, Conn., who had a tongue operation which changed his speech somewhat, but he is "still intelligible." And "I .saw (Bill) McCALEB between Christmas and New Year's. Tried to get him to come down with me to a Friday Chowder Club meeting, but he didn't feel up to the trip." On the subject of our class crest. Hunter writes, "Pete McKee gave me the original plaster model, the big one, from which the crests were made. I had it until WWII —but with many other things it has disappeared."

Memo for Gordon Kissam: We were talking with George Meell, who knows something about crests, and he said, "I am sure your class crest, being such a large size and beautifully designed, will stand out over any of the others that may be presented. I was always very fond of this design."

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Well, the only news we get on the Dukes comes from the Stratford fournal, from which diary we quote: "Continued cleaning out storage hut. Ran out of fruit cakes. . . . Admiral Duke to Montross to place Foundation papers in safe deposit box. . . . Garden crew continued clearing ivy. . . . Admiral Duke held attic and loft inspection at Mansion. . . ."

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

Jack GRIFFITH has become active in civic affairs since his return to Annapolis. In addition to being president of the Mayor's Advisory Committee, he has been instrumental in the successful drive by Historic Annapolis, Inc., to raise funds for the purchase and restoration of Paca House.

(For those of you who haven't been around Crabtown recently, that's the old part of the now defunct Carvel Hall. The new part has been razed and the area in the rear landscaped.)

Andy HATCH writes in, "I'm still deep in the Maine woods and right now snowbound with 36 inches of this white stuff. . . . It will take several days before the game wardens will be able to tromp in on their snowmobiles. . . .

But we ol' guides and hermits are accustomed to the behavior of the elements. . . Any you Navy birds get up this way to ice fish or ski.? If any do, just drop a note and we all (cats and I) will hatch up something."

Our inquiry in the January Shipmate for Harriet Guthrie's address was eminently successful. Not only did we get four replies but most of them contributed additional information. Rags' sister, Mrs. H. C. Bernet, brought us up to date on the family. Harriet has been living in Wilson, N. C , for some years. Their oldest son Richard has two litde girls, their other son, Lt. John Guthrie, USN, had twin sons this fall. Harriet said she wouldn't take a million dollars for the wonderful experience of being with them their first month; their father was out of the country. . . . Les HOAG, in sending her address, reports that his son Lt. Bob Hoag is weapons officer of a destroyer escort under construction in Seattle. He married Caroline Henniger of The Hague, Holland, and they have two daughters. Les and Harriet recently had the pleasure of entertaining their daughter-in-law's parents, and showing them Arizona and the Grand Canyon. Quite a bit different from their native Holland. Tom THOMAS (also sending in the address) reports that about the only classmate he sees around Pasadena is Jack CHAMPLIN. They golf together at the Altadena golf course and are both shooting respectable golf, but are never satisfied with it.

We recently had a nice note from Stuart B L U E ' S widow, Alice, expressing her appreciation for the Qidver and stating that the reason for her delay in acknowledging it was that she had recently remarried and been on an extended European trip. She is now Mrs. William C. McHenry and is living in AUentown, Pa. The adjacent pictures (we hope) are some that Frank MUNROE took at the 40th reunion. They were taken during the great "drought" that preceded the class dinner.

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Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) 3410 14th St., North Arlington 1, Va. Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, III USN (Ret.), 8405 Bnrdettc Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

Donald G. "Bruno" ALBERTSON has been so long unreported in this column that the CS went after him for some news. His much appreciated response will be of interest to many more classmates than he realizes; particularly his statement that he is planning on being at the 40th reunion 20-22 May—no longer very far away.

Bruno and Elizabeth are still living at 74 Club Road, Riverside, Conn. Their daughter Elizabeth has graduated from Swarthmore and is studying for her Master's in social research in New York City. Their other daughter Donna is a freshman at Mt. Holyoke College. Bruno is active in many community activities, including being the treasurer of the Greenwich Garden Center, and as a member of the board of governors of the Riverside Assn. For recreation in the summers he sails in a Flying Dutchman, a 20-foot sloop.

RAdm. John McN. "Jack" TAYLOR reports from San Francisco on the '26 Bay Area luncheon, held on 25 Jan. at which about 2 5 % of the eligibles in the area showed up. They were: A. B. Cecil, Ted Frederick, Louie French, Fred Haerlin, Bill Hayes, Ray Kimbell, Tom Langley, Art Rule, both Jack Taylors (J. B. and J. McN.); Paul Watson and Tom Wolverton. Through San Francisco lately (relatively, that is) have been the Charlie LYMANs on the first lap of their world tour; Henry BOORSE between planes on his way to New York from India where he had been for over a month visiting various universities with the mission of arranging exchanges between Indian and American college professors, and the Jim GRANTS at their Marin County residence, before they returned to the ranch at Ojai.

The CS reports that the SMEDBERGs have returned to Washington (Bethesda, actually) from Florida, very conscious of a serious error in their timing: "Although the weather in Florida was beautiful during the first three weeks in January, it seems that it was also good in the Washington area, concurrently. We departed Crystal River on 25 Jan., a Tuesday, for the usual 900-mile, rwoday drive; had rain all that first day, a driving sleet and freezing rain the next morning through South Carolina, which had trees and power and telephone lines down in many areas and across the road—and incidentally no gasoline available for a long period during which the gauge was nearing and on empty—followed by a good snowstorm in North Carolina, which reached blizzard proportions as we crossed the North Carolina-Virginia state line, and caused us to hole up—literally—in a motel near Emporia, when we could no longer see the sides of the road and found a number of cars and trucks in trouble from skidding off the road.

"The next day we discovered that our area had received about 17 inches of snow, with Richmond a bit north of us having an official 15 inches, which helped to explain my difficulty in digging out the car and getting back on a pooriy plowed road by 10:15 Friday morning. The crowning incident to what was never a pleasant trip occurred when we got stuck in our own driveway

in Bethesda and had to dig for some time in order to get the car into the garage. Claudia hadn't wanted to drive to Florida, anyway, much preferring the train, but I had persuaded her that it was so easy these days. That was my first mistake; the second one being the time of our vacation. Next year we will start it the last week in January. The radio reported the storm, which we ushered into the Washington area, as one of the heaviest in some years. Two days later came the one which some broadcasters called one of the worst in the past 100 years in this area.

"Well, we had been getting pretty smug about our mild winters here, boasting about playing golf most weeks during the winters, and feeling sorry for those poor souls in California, with their floods, unusual rains, unusual cold weather, and other "usual, unusual" spells of weather.

I guess we have had it coming to us for some time.

But, despite the ending of our vacation (which we used to call leave), we had a wonderful time at our beloved retreat, "Secure." The highlights were visits from a son and daughter, both with their families: Lieut. Ted '58, his wife, three girls and two kittens, and Capt. Bob Adams '43, his wife Claudia, their three children and huge Labrador dog, "Commodore." I remember, rather hastily, a weekend when all of us, including six grandchildren, were performing kaleidoscopic series of operations such as golf (a sixsome), fishing, and swimming. We also had a very nice two-day visit from Jack and Frosty FRADD, who drove over from their new home at Port St. Lucie, on Florida's east coast. They did their best to sell us on the advantages of living there, their house being between two fairways of one of their two beautiful golf courses, one named the "Saints" and the other the "Sinners." Perhaps the highlight of our vacation, however, was the conversion of the one member of our family who has not been a keen fisherman. Ted Smedberg hooked, played for 26 minutes, and finally boated a 25-pound tarpon, the first one boated in the Crystal River in 1966.

His mother and I, who have been trying to get one for eight years, enjoyed the battle as much as he. After his first was in the boat, he declared that from then on he was going to spend every daylight hour on the river, fishing. Of course, as tarpon go, that was a baby, but it sure looked big to all of us when we got him in the boat."

E. M. "Rags" RAGSDALE writes from Karachi, Pakistan, on 31 Dec, along with his contribution to the class fund, that he was aware that Smeddy had advertised in Shipmate for news from him; hence his letter (which proves that it does pay to advertise: CS). Since most of us had thought of Rags as being firmly ensconced in New York, the following brief from him will be of interest to a great many: "I am employed by the C. W. Robinson & Co., Inc., of New York City, a management consulting firm, and am serving here in Karachi in the positions of operations officer and financial adviser in the Investment Advisory Centre of Pakistan. The Centre renders advice on investments to entrepreneurs, development banks, and agencies and branches of the government. My twoyear contract expired in January, 1966, but has been extended for another two years. I shall return to the U. S. for some home leave during March, SHIPMATE

1966, but unfortunately my leave period will not coincide with the class reunion dates. Maybe I can count on the next one which will be 50 years after.?

The class extends deepest sympathy to Bill and to their daughter Anne, and son Bill who is a civil engineer, now in Thailand.

"During my leave my wife and I expect to visit in Germany, Italy, and SicUy, and then in Greece on our return here. So far we have been diroughout both East and West Pakistan. The works of Kipling mean so very much more after having visited the locale of his stories.

"On the day that war broke out, we were up in Rawalpindi en route to Karachi, after two weeks in the famed hills of Murree at an elevation of about 6,000 feet. All commercial plane flights were cancelled, a train to Karachi had been attacked by Indian fighter planes, so we were hooked. Then one last flight was scheduled late at night. We arrived in Karachi at about 4:30 a.m., just as the AA fired upon intruding Indian bombers. It took me back to the days of World War II in Italy and Sicily, the difference being in that the Germans could at least come close to or hit a target, whereas the Indian bombers hit only a wide expanse of ocean some distance outside the harbor of Karachi. One of the great puzzles to me is why in the world the U. S. thinks it can rely on India to contain China. The Hindu is a very poor fighting man—all our Departments of State or Defense have to do is to read British history of India. The Muslims (Pakistanis) were the backbone of the army. In the days of British rule, right up to 1947, there were areas in Pakistan, and they still exist to this day, which were never put under British rule because of the fighting people there. It is my honest, personal opinion that the U. S. foreign policy is very much in error on this point. So much for that!

SHORT SPLICES Sarah LeHardy reports the arrival on 19 Dec. of her 7th grandchild, Timothy Schuyler Sweet, in Coronado, Calif., son of LCdr. and Mrs. Jauncey Sweet '54, their fourth son.

Grace Lentz Freeborn writes from Rockport, Tex., that she married Sidney M. Freeborn of Rockport last May. They love to fish and hunt, fishing in the summer at their home on the Bay front, and hunting at their ranch in Orange Grove. That hunting is good—^Texas style—is evidenced by her report of killing one buck with a 20/i-inch ander spread and 10 points.

"Please give my best regards to all '26ers whom you may see in the Washington area. If I do get there during leave, I should like to attend a class luncheon." (The March class luncheon will probably be on the 25th or 28th at the Washington Navy Yard. CS.) Jack and Rosemary GREENSLADE took a 30-day cruise in the Caribbean from mid-January to mid-February, thereby missing the two big snows of the winter. Before Jack departed Washington, however, he reported that the class fund now has $1190. The latest contributors were Ragsdale, Rule, Jack McN. Taylor, Tom Wolverton, Henry Lewis and Mike May. There were some in between, whose names I have not yet been able to get from Jack.

It is with great sadness that we have received word of the death of wonderful, long-time wives of our classmates. Bill PRYOR and Bill MILLER, both in the month of January 1966.

Mary Day Rouse Pryor died on 7 Jan. at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Mystic, Conn., after an illness of several months. She had been a leader in the community, as she had been wherever Bill was stationed in their 24 moves in 38 years of marriage. Many of us remember her as a Navy Relief volunteer worker in Washington, a Red Cross canteen volunteer during World War II, a Gray Lady in Yokosuka, Japan, and chairman of the Mystic Red Cross Motor Corps. To Bill Pryor and their sons, Lee, Knight and Edward, and to her brothers and sisters, the class of 1926 extends deepest sympathy. Mary Day was buried at Mystic.

Bernice Lee Miller died suddenly on 10 Jan. at Fort Myers, Fla. She was buried in the Ariington National Cemetery on the 14th. Bernice and Bill had been visiting their daughter Anne, and their grandchildren in Miami, going from there to Key West to sell their house (which they decided to delay because it was occupied by a Navy wife whose husband was deployed), and were in Ft. Myers, en route to St. Petersburg by car, when Bernice was taken ill in a motel. The doctor who was called put her in the hospital and she seemed to be recovering nicely and was happy about their trip, when she suddenly went.

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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. Sec'y, RAdm. Howard W. Gordon, Jr., USN (Ret.), 3127 18th St., North Arlington, Va. 22201

Tommy HAMILTON, in town for the NCAA meeting, presided over the executive committee meeting at the Army and Navy Club on 21 Jan. Leland LAMPMAN checks in from Sarasota, Fla., where he is vice president and secretary of the newly formed Electrikon Corp.

Joe JELLEY, a visitor from Colorado Springs, joined 21 others at the monthly luncheon of the Washington group. RAdm. John Crumpacker '30 gave us a fill-in on the problems and progress of the Navy-Marine Corps Residence Foundation.

John and Elizabeth FAIGLE are escaping the Washington cold and snow aboard SS BRAZIL to South America.

"Donk" DONAHO, on an official MSTS tour of facilities in the Far East, found hard-working classmates Jack MUNROE in the Philippines, Ole SHARP at Peari and Bill IRVIN in San Francisco.

Word has been received of the wedding of Miss Laura Koch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Koch of Long Beach, Calif., and Capt. Jaime Sabater, Jr., USMC, son of Mrs. Jaime Sabater, and the late Col. Sabater, USMC, on 18 Dec. at St. Joseph's Church in Long Beach.

Mrs. Sabater flew to California to attend her son's wedding. She now resides in Ithaca, N. Y., with her son-in-law and daughter, Maj. David B. Hayes, USMC, and Mrs. Hayes. Major Hayes is on duty with the NROTC Unit at (Cornell University. He is the son of RAdm. John D. Hayes '24.

The newlyweds are making their home in Havre de Grace, Md., while Capt. Sabater is stationed at the NAPS School, Bainbridge.

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

From P. D. GALLERY, who suffered a heart attack in December, comes this word: "I appreciated your coming to the hospital a lot, Jimmy, and the note you sent. I'm home after only four weeks—much shorter stay than usual, I'm told. In about three weeks I'll be going downtown again—on a reduced schedule for a while.

Eventually I'll be back 100%, playing golf and all that. The care at Bethesda is responsible for my quick comeback—money can't buy that kind of treatment.

"This note is pardy to say I won't be at the class lunch this week—just got the notice recently.

Tell everyone I'm 'healin' quick' and will be seeing them soon. We've a lot of guys in the class like me—brag about how few sick days on record—'things always happen to somebody else, not me.' Anyhow—when something like this does happen, one gets to stop and look around, relax, read and catch up on a lot of litde things he never would get around to otherwise. I've

straightened out desks, gotten some scrapbooks up to date, written a dozen overdue letters, and I am perforce behaving myself."

Also of interest for the '28er, the following additional tidbits: The Mclntyre Learys were hosts to the second of his former roommates, Petie and Hattie Anderson. The Andersons travelled to Houston to visit their daughter and family at Christmas and returned via Shreveport to see Kay and Mac. On Wednesday, 26 Jan., during the height of the blizzard, 13 intrepid '28ers joined for luncheon at the Army and Navy Club. Some of the pantywaists cancelled out, but present were Quinn, Kent, Norgaard and Archer from Annapolis; and Boss, James, Lull, Rittenhouse, Schoech, Sears, Stringer, Urquhart and Watts. The question of the time for the 40th reunion was reopened on the strength of news from J. Boyd that earliest date of homecoming in 1968 will probably be 19 Oct. It was agreed that a limited solicitation of members of the class would be made to get a proper reaction as to a mid-May date versus late October for the class reunion. The former has the advantage of a private affair. The latter has the advantage of meeting with friends other than classmates. If any readers of this notice have a strong opinion as to the choices available, please address the class secretary at the address noted above.

Your secretary visited New Year's Eve time in Norfolk and found Ned and Ruth HANNEGAN beautifully situated in Virginia Beach and enjoying life to the fullest. Taylor and Eleanor KEITH were near neighbors and they, too, are Virginia Beach enthusiasts.

At the Flag Officers' Symposium organized by the Secretary of the Navy and held on 14 Jan., 13 members of the class of '28 were in attend-

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Sec'y, Capt. L. E. Richardson, USN (Ret.), 3605 Tupelo Place, Alexandria, Va. WEST COAST Sec'y, RAdm. Robert N. S. Clark, USN (Ret.), 2510 Via Campesina Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.

At last we have a west coast corresponding secretary. Bob CLARK has consented to take the job for a year. The class exective committee in September concluded that, with the phasing out of the last few of us in uniform, we should have at least a correspondence representative there. Hopefully, Bob will be able to provide more current information of addresses, activities, seating at Navy games on the west coast with nearby freeloading facilities for classmates, etc., as well as to evoke a litde more information for Shipmate.

Please drop a line to Bob with some news or ideas.

From Colter DYER of New Canaan, Conn., comes this news: "Dear Les: It is very sad to have to report to the class and to alumni friends that on 29 Dec. Arthur S. Hill, Jr., lieutenant, U. S. Navy, was killed in action in Southeast Asia while on a night reconnaissance mission. He was serving in Fighter Squadron VF-92, an F-4 squadron in the USS ENTERPRISE. His commanding officer was killed on the same mission.

"As you know, he was the son of Arthur and Isabelle Hill, and our nephew and godson. He was married only last September to Martha Davis, daughter of Col. and Mrs. R. J. Davis of Coronado, Calif. Arthur was a dedicated naval officer and had volunteered for this, his second combat tour of duty.

"It is a tragic loss to us and of course an inestimable one to the Hills. The news came to them less than a week after a severe automobile accident near Albuquerque, N . M., in which their car was totally demolished while Arthur, Isabelle, and their daughter, Virginia, narrowly escaped serious injury or worse. They were en route to Kansas 47

City to visit their daughter, Sally Holcomb, for the Xmas holidays.

"In spite of their misfortunes, the Hills have been brave and steadfast, and their friends have rallied around. This letter is written in the hope that it will reach those who might not otherwise have known. Their address is P. O. Box 127, Rancho Sante Fe, Calif."

Mr. Clarence J. Moore '29 of Jenkintown, Pa., has been promoted to the new position of Vice President and Assistant General Manager of the Industrial Group of the Electric Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia. He has been with the Company for 32 years.

Sec'y, BGen. Ronald D. Salmon, USMC (Ret.), 640 Oakland Ter., Alexandria, Va. Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. Parke H. Brady, USN (Ret.), 1801 Foxhall Rd. Washington, D. C. 20007 From Afton, Va., elevation 3,000 feet, comes this word: "This is the first time since my incumbency as your corresponding secretary that I have a legitimate excuse for not having covered the pages of this fine magazine with interesting news and gossip about our class. My reason is simply that I was snowed in under 30" of snow for nine days, and in desperation I appealed to Joshua Snead to do something with Fish Salmon from the Washington end."

Obtaining bits of news from our scattered classmates is a catch-as-catch-can proposition. The class reunion brought a few of the hardy types together, with many promises of future efforts for passing around the word. We hope these promises are remembered in the months to come.

Ed Brumby informs us that the southwest area held a party at the 32nd St. Officers' Club in San Diego in October to celebrate the reunion in absentia. San Diego experienced record hot weather in October with temperatures over 100 degrees, which curtailed attendance. However, these staunch members gathered: Aliens, Brumbys, Burdens, Campbells, Fuetsches, Jennings, Lees, Lucas, Lynches, Mrs. Squeek Marix, McLeod, Morenos, Newtons, Petersons, Prices, Rutters, Seargeants, Wilburns and newly arrived residents, W. C. and Helen Thomas.

Richard Cotter Drum HUNT informs us that he is on a winter hunting trip in Florida. He stopped with Rudy and Peggy BAUR in Fort Pierce. Rudy has been very ill but is holding his own.

The Washington group gathered to pay last honors to Harry BADGER at Arlington. Harry had been plagued for sometime with a cancer condition which finally overcame him.

At the 35th reunion the class of '30 (Chappie, Brady, Snyder and Snead) elected to sponsor the 30th Company. If you read the November Shipmate you will note the program to draw the Alumni closer to the Academy. At present each company has a wardroom in Bancroft Hall. The sponsorship idea is to assist the 30th Company to furnish and decorate the "30" Wardroom. This is a time when the class of '30 can do something for the future Navy. Interested classmates should contact Moon Chappie, Pete Brady, Joe Snyder or Bill Snead.

The 30th Company commander is Midn. Dennis K. Leroy. During the Christmas season the Company invited the class of '30 to have dinner with 48

them in the USNA messhall. We were represented

by Bob Craighill at the dinner.

Our sponsorship program has been held up by Washington weather. Pete BRADY has been snowed in at their summer place near Rock Fish Gap in Virginia. If the dog teams make it, we hope to get the program underway again.

The company wardrooms are sparsely furnished rooms used for company meetings. Sponsorship can provide furnishings, decorations, professional books, etc. Look around within your keepsakes and find something of suitable wardroom style to make our 30th Company wardroom a pride to the class and to the company. Cash donations can be forwarded through Moon Chappie, Pete Brady or Joe Snyder. Joe's address is: Suite 1603, Pennsylvania Building, 1500 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102.

During the preparation stages for our 35th reunion Bob CRAIGHILL undertook the job of writing to our class widows. His research was most thorough and as a result we have a fairly good list of addresses which we have filed at the Alumni Association. Some items of interest came to our attention, such as: Molly Laing (Freddie) is at 260 Bower St., Providence, R. I., and is working in the admissions office at Pembroke College.

Betty Robinson is at 140 The Uplands, Berkeley, Calif., and hopes to be in Annapolis in June for the graduation of No. 2 son, Peter.

Billie Dodge (Harry) resides in Annapolis at 695 Americana Drive.

Iris Gushing (Dana) is at 9536 Wells Parkway, Norfolk, Va. Harriet (Morton) Bradford is house mother at the Kappa Delta sorority at Cornell University.

The address is 109 Triphammer Road, Ithaca, N. Y. Melba (Bisson) Olsen is at 1825 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menio Park, Calif.

Harriette Bauer (Joe) is still in Waco, Tex., at 2005 Austin Ave. Alice Butterfield (George) is in West Chester, Pa., at 25 Bernard St.

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Sec'y, Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, USN (Ret.) 1109 Grove St., N.E. Albuquerque, N. M. 87110 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, USN (Ret.) Atmospheric Sciences Program National Science Foundation Washington 25, D. C.

A letter has just gone out to the latest addresses we have for all hands regarding plans for the 35th reunion, 21-23 Oct. 1966. If you haven't received it, send your address to Sherry Betts pronto and get the word. Meantime, Bob THEOBALD, 778 Fairview Ave., Apt. 3D, Annapolis, Md., 21403, is handling reservations which are held for us at the Maryland Inn and the Annapolis Terrace Motel.

I had a note from Joe THORNTON, latest address 695 Johnson St., North Andover, Mass. 01845 —"I separated from the jungle of industry in December and am giving myself until April to make up my mind. I may just retire to a place we built on Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine."

It's on the map, too.

Ed M C D O N A L D reports that he is working as a technical writer at Raytheon in Boston, seemingly spending a lot more time on the job than classmate Ralph GILLETE, who teaches math at nearby Buckingham School. Ralph occupies the apartment direcdy below Ed at 6 Craigie Circle in Cambridge, just a stone's throw from Harvard Square. Ed has had a rash of articles and stories appearing lately in such publications as the Explorers fournal. Popular Mechanics, Shipmate, Naval Institute Proceedings, and a 30,000-word Arctic Institute Manual.

Ronnie SMITH writes that he finally decided to retire from teaching last summer, sold his

home in HoUister and is now settled at 4227 Veronica Ave., Castro Valley, Calif. 94546—only 7 miles from Oak Knoll, just in case, and not too far from Alameda and other military facilities where the "fringes" are more of a "benefit."

Tommy and Evie ROGERS decided that since all the offspring had finally flown the nest, they would do Christmas in a different manner—so they setded on a Caribbean cruise as something new and different! They wrote: "We also thought it a good idea to include Evie's mother (Mrs. John M . Nelson, who was widowed last summer for the second time), so we all took off by car on 23 Dec. for New York. Freeways and expressways are wonderful, but you might be surprised how many other people have also discovered this— traffic approaching New York was not only terrible, but almost impossible. However, we had left some 'plan ahead' time in the schedule which came in handy, and all embarked in SS ATLANTIC (American Export Lines) at pier •ji^84 and sailed about on time at 10 p.m.

"Weather was somewhat spotty, but after some threat and a little tossing around, things setded down and the Atlantic Ocean became very friendly. Our only port of call was St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, which was just about right—it is not only a free port, but also a U. S. possession, so the restrictions recendy placed on tourists abroad did not apply. In other words, we got our 15 bottles of hooch and the $200 shopping allowance. Fortunately, the time for shopping was rather restricted, so the old bank roll wasn't fatally wounded—only badly bent.

"St. Thomas is a beautiful litde jewel of an island, and had many attractions for the tourist.

There is a lot of old Spanish Main history there, beautiful beaches, and at night some limbo that we still don't believe, even tho' we saw it! (and only one rum punch, at that). The stores are good and carry almost anything you might wish; they are all grouped in one location, so walking around was easy and pleasant.

"The return was lazy and uneventful until we got off that litde monster called Hatteras, when things kicked up a bit. We must have all been good sailors, since it didn't bother us, but there were lots of empty tables for a few sittings. Arrived in New York at the crack of dawn (don't know why they do this—all of us wanted a better look at the Old Lady and the Battery) and nesded into the pier about 8 A.M. New Year's Eve. (Note for any other travelers—reserve ahead to put your car in the Oil Market Garage—they pick It up on the dock and deliver shipside on your return automatically and this is a real convenience.)

"We setded in our hotel—the Piccadilly is just off Times Square and has military rates—and went sightseeing. Toured the Rockefeller Center, including lunch while watching the ice-skaters, and after dinner took in 'Skyscraper' with Julie Harris, a very good, rather light semi-musical.

Then, against our better judgment, we involved ourselves with about a million people in Times Square who also had no better sense, and we all saw them drop the BALL and officially usher in 1966.

"So back home, back to work, broke, tired, chores to do, but starting to plan the next cruise."

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Sec'y, RAdm. Robert B. Fulton, II, USN Bureau of Ships, Code 600 Navy Dept., Washington, D. C.

HERE AND THERE WITH '32 As provided in our constitution, the class met in Washington on 10 Jan. to conduct any necessary business, to receive the annual financial statement and to receive the results of the recent elections. The financial report indicated total assets of $1374.21, of which $1026.21 is cash, the remainder bank shares.

S H I P M A T E

Swede EASTWOLD reported the results of die elections held in December, as follows: President— Sam Moncure; vice president and Council chairman—Dinii Dimitrijcvic; secretary—Bobby Fulton; treasurer—Bob Leonard. Members of the Council are Casey Holt, Lou Kirn, Andy Nisewaner and Al Wellings.

Replies to the questionnaire regarding future plans for the class were in complete agreement on one point, diat Jerry MILLER has done a tremendous job for all of us for many years. The new secretary certainly has his work cut out for him if he is to come close to filling Jerry's shoes.

Many of you urged that Jerry be specially thanked or recognized for his service. You will be glad to know that the Washington chapter did that at the last luncheon before his departure.

On other questions posed in the circular the replies demonstrated that our capacity for independent, nonconforming thinking has certainly not diminished through the years. The Council has screened all the returns in an effort to establish a consensus of opinion. Several possible programs as avenues to a class memorial were proposed in the questionnaire. Returns show that none of these proposals received the support of a majority. The Council, after studying these returns, came to the decision that in view of the limited financial resources avadable to us at the present time, and also because of the absence of any strong support for any particular program that no action involving expenditure of substantial funds should be undertaken now. The Council also concluded that those of you who feel that we should have a memorial of some kind and desire to contribute for this purpose, should send their contributions to Bob Leonard. He was directed to establish a special fund in which to carry any such contributions.

This decision of the Council was explained to the Washington chapter at its February meeting and accepted by them.

As to the 35th reunion, more than half the repliers indicated that they planned to attend.

Planning for this affair will proceed under the guidance of the committee chaired by Andy Nisewaner. Action is being started now to reserve a limited number of rooms at one of the motels.

On the question of updating "AND A QUARTER 32" a clear majority want to see it done.

Opinions on the scope, quality and cost of the new book varied widely. The decision was to keep it simple and inexpensive, confining it to the basics of family biography, plus data developed during the last 10 years.

On the local news circuit, Swede Eastwold will be leaving soon to become ComMidEastFor. Charlie PALMER stopped by recently from his new location in San Diego as Project Mohole representative.

I have recently received from Bill Brockett '34 a copy of our Lucky Bag, "mint condition." I am holding it for disposition as the Council may direct. If you know of anyone who is particularly desirous of obtaining a copy, drop me a line.

The Washington chapter is shifting the locale of luncheons to the Navy Yard Officers' Club.

Plans are starting for a party at the Army and Navy Country Club in Washington in April or May. Local classmates and those in neighboring areas will receive details later.

We are all saddened to hear of the death of Ruth Williamson on 7 Feb. She and Lindsay had been living at 4311 Leland St., Chevy Chase, Md., and were most active in Bethesda affairs and loyal and devoted to all the affairs of the class. Our deepest sympathy to Lindsay. Graveside services in Arlington were attended by a number of us.

En route from Washington, D. C , to San Diego, via Key West, Fla., Ruby and Jerry MILLER report that they have had two nice visits with classmates and news from others, as follows: Anne and Ed KONRAD are enjoying gracious living in their eye-popping home "ChaM A R C H ,

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teau Gai" on Sanibel Island, Fla. Son Mike and his wife (both Ph.D.s) are teaching in Boston; he at Harvard. Son Pat (Ed. Jr.) is starring in his first year at Boston U. Winnie and Scottie GIBSON live in their recently completed lakefront home, farther north and near mid-Florida and magnificent in its generous room sizes and disposition for easy living. Scotty continues his teaching as math professor at Polk Jr. College. Mary and John CHITTENDEN are still in Bradenton, Fla., where he, too, is a full professor, happy in his work at Manatee Jr. College of bringing up tomorrow's leaders. Only lack of time prevented an interesting meeting with Alison and Bill WINTER, also of Bradenton, who were to entertain Jeane and Sam McCORNOCK that evening.

Sam, it appears, has finally been frozen out of the Iron River, Mich., area. Alison and Bill now boast three grandchildren and feel that their most recent move, their 43rd, should also be their final uprooting. Also in the area, but not to be reached by phone, were Herby Jukes, Talluly Wilson, Pat (Pavlic) Spahr, and P. D. Quirk.

P. D.'s work with the Florida Industrial Commission keeps him away from his Port Charlotte home much of the time.

On Thursday, 3 Feb., the Pensacola chapter of '32 mustered 100% at a luncheon in the O Club, Mustin Beach, for a "hail and farewell" to Jerry Miller. Hap ASMAN, Henry DeLONG, Loki MANG and Dutch CLOSE got together for the second time in a week for the occasion. They first met for a visit with Jeane and Sam McCORNOCK as they passed through en route to California. They report that Sam is heading for warmer climes, for real, and might even end up in the South Pacific. Hap and Loki are "retired all the way" and each does some boating and fishing. Dutch runs his own insurance agency and Henry is interested in an automobile dealership.

Golfing is Dutch's forte and Henry has turned sailing enthusiast. Friends will be glad to learn that Marion Close is recovering from a recent setback.

Courtesy of Hap Asman, we have a current address for Biddy and Bill KELLY. They live at 4500 South Ocean Blvd., Imperial House, Palm Beach, Fla., where Bill teaches in the West Palm Beach Jr. College.

Chmn., Mr. Turner A. Duncan AVCO Corp., 1701 K St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. 21402 The monthly luncheon of the Washington group of the class, held on 8 Feb., was devoted to a discussion of class sponsorship of the 33rd Co. wardroom. Draper KAUFFMAN was present and explained the program wherein it is hoped that alumni classes would sponsor the wardrooms of correspondingly numbered companies of the Brigade of Midshipmen. Thus, the question was whether the class of '33 should undertake such sponsorship at an initial cost of $300-S500 and an annual sustaining fund of $100-$200. The intent of the program is, of course, to strengthen the ties between the alumni and the Brigade, and to provide a point of contact for alumni desiring to visit the Academy, and men of the Brigade.

It was recognized from the beginning of the discussion that the class constitution requires referral to the members of a question involving the commitment of class funds for other than routine items. This will be done in the near future. It was also recognized that the program is a very worth\one and that steps had to be taken immediately to insure participation of the class before the February deadline. To meet this requirement. Tad DUNCAN and Bill MOTT offered to contact a few classmates whom they felt would like to sub.scribe to a fund of sufficient amount ($300$500) to enable the class to enter the program.

These classmates will be reimbursed from profits of the 30-year book when the class membership

authorizes the expenditure. If the class does not authorize the expenditure, they are stuck. However, the Washington group, with only one dissenting vote, considered that the project was worthy and would receive the strong support of the class. Present at the luncheon were: Blouin, Curtis, Curtze, Dawson, Derickson, Duncan, Galantin, Kauffman, King, Lacey, Lane, Macintosh, Mandarich, Mayberry, McDonald, George Miller, Mott, Shifley, Strean, Thompson, Travis, and Joe Williams.

Classmates will be saddened to learn of the sudden death from a coronary of Dr. C. A. (Bunny) FLEISCHLI which occurred at his home in Springfield, III., on 28 Jan. All will join in extending deepest sympathy to Martha, and to Bunny's daughter, Kay. Martha resides at 1725 Wiggins, Springfield, 111.

Fred ASHWORTH is the latest classmate to be promoted to 3-star rank. A recent press release noted that Fred is slated to become Commander, 6th Fleet, and will be promoted to vice admiral in the new post. The date of Fred's promotion is not known at this writing. All hands join in sincere congratulations!

Dick Derickson sent over two letters that he had received as editor of Shipmate. The first was from Dick White, giving the names and addresses of Naval ."Academy alumni residing in the Atlanta area. Five classmates were included in the list: Bob Coleman, Paul Ellis, Barney Meyer, Henry Strozier, and Dick White. A check of the addresses included in the list revealed that the 30-year book was correct except for Dick White's.

He now resides at 271A Lakemoore Dr., N.E., Atlanta, Ga. The second letter was from Bill LAUGHON, giving an account of his recent activities. Operating from his home base of Jensen Beach, Fla., Bill has been running a fine 38-foot sailfish charter boat and having a ball in so doing. He reports that George and Dinny KOCH recently visited the area and purchased a lot in a vibrant new development on the intercoastal waterway. Although there is no indication that George plans early retirement, it appears that he is all set with a place to park when the time comes.

A note from Bob MacPHERSON from his headquarters as Chief of Naval Air Advanced Training in Corpus Christi informs us that Lt. (jg) Joseph W. Prueher, the son of our deceased classmate Bert, received his wings at Corpus on 30 Dec. 1965 and was ordered to VA-43 (F9 Carrier Replacement Air Wing). Bob reports that he and Marncy are thoroughly enjoying their duty in Corpus Christi.

A letter from Dorrie Pray contained the sad news of the death of Helen Isely, widow of classmate Bob ISELY who was killed in action in 1944. Helen died Thursday, 3 Feb., after a brief illness and was buried in the National Cemetery at Fort Rosecrans. Helen had been a resident of Coronado for 20 years, and is survived by two children, Dr. Patricia Isely, M.D., of Los Angeles, and Robert, Jr., of San Francisco.

In addition to the sad news contained in Dorrie's letter, she reported that the Prays are all in good health and enjoying life in general.

Ralph is in management at Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. which keeps him busy, but not to the extent of getting in the way of his daily handball game. Dorrie does girl things and swims daUy to keep fit. Ralph III is in the 2nd year at Hastings Law School in San Francisco. Thomson is in college in Colorado and near enough to the Shellabargers to visit often.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

Classmates will regret to find the passing of Retl GRIFFITH recorded in the Last Call of this 49

issue. Pat ROONEY was on deck in Pensacola and active in handling this sad situation.

Back to Christmas messages again to provide a column for this issue. The AUyn COLES send: "Greetings from Hawaii! It has been a long time and a long road, but we finally think we are home, so please make a note of the above address (4216 Puulani Place, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816), because we expect it to be as permanent as things are likely to be in this uncertain world.

At any rate, we hope that you will no longer have to wonder where the Coles are each year at Christmas card time. The important part of our year began on the first of July when Allyn retired and we embarked on a new way of life. . . . After leaving Washington we spent a few days at the Crestmont Inn in Eaglesmere, Pa., to rest up from the packing and partying. It is an ideal place to rest as there isn't much else to do.

Next on to New York and to visit the World's Fair. . . . Our next stop was Oklahoma City to spend a few days with Charlie Coley, AUyn's roommate at the Naval Academy, and his family.

It was great being there and hashing over all the things that have happened during the more than 30 years since the famous song and dance team of Cole and Coley entered the Academy. Some of the tales told might even have been true.

"Then on into Colorado. We spent most of one afternoon highballing over Baca County trying to find the ranch where Allyn was born.

Things have changed—. . . . Perhaps it is better to keep the memories and never go back and try to recapture the setting. We spent two weeks in Glenwood Springs with Mother Cole and AUyn's brother, Jean. All the family managed to be there during the time we were there, and, for the first time, all of mother's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren were present at the same time.

It was a wonderful and never to be forgotten experience for us all. . . . After Colorado we spent a few days in another beautiful spot.

Grand Teton National Park, with side trips to Yellowstone. This portion of the trip was marred somewhat by Helen's acquiring a case of giant hives—a m.ost remarkable affliction and a most uncomfortable one. Several shots and many pills later she was back to normal. From there we headed west for San Francisco, our favorite city, with a Saturday night stop in Reno, not our favorite city. . . . We left Travis Air Force Base on the 14th of August not quite sure of our destination, because the plane we embarked on was a Caribbean Airways plane. The sight of Diamond Head 4'/2 hours later was not only a thrill but a relief.

It was heavenly to be met by many friends at Honolulu airport and to bury our faces once again in ginger, pikake, and plumeria leis. There are many changes here—some good and some bad, but it is still Hawaii. The climate is the same and

the friendly spirit of the Islands still prevails, which more than tips the balance on the good side. . . . Do come over for a visit and we will greet you with leis made from flowers blooming in our garden. Aloha."

Surprised to receive a Christmas card from the Bruce McNAUGHTONS with return address 4851 Cote St. Luc Rd., Montreal, Que. A note from Pat MORAN (3520 Waldorf, Dallas, Tex.) occasioned by an article in the local newspaper telling about the death of Walt Griffith. It reads in part: "It had been my pleasure at the Navy-Oklahoma game last October to have seats next to Walt and his wife. This was the first time I had seen him in 32 years. We promised each other we would get together, and I had invited him to our Army-Navy game brunch in November but he failed to show. Bill Dickey and I are the only ones of the class of '34 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area."

Sec'y, Capt. E. D. Vestel, Jr., (SC) USN Staff, Com MSTS, Washington, D. C. 20390 The editorial staff of Shipmate wishes to extend sincere sympathy to Captain Vestel, '35 class secretary, upon the loss of his wife, Marion, on 6 Feb. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

Mrs. Vestel made her home with her husband at 3601 Kanawha St., N.W., Washington, D. C. She had been suffering from a heart ailment but died unexpectedly. For more than 25 years she had been a volunteer worker for the Navy Relief Society, and was a Red Cross worker at Bethesda Naval Hospital. She twice served as president of the Navy Supply Corps Officers' Wives Club of Washington.

Besides her husband she is survived by five sisters and a brother. In lieu of flowers for the services it was requested that donations be made to the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation.

Spurge S H A R R ( X ; K S is retiring soon to accept a job as director of the administrative department of the city of Lancaster, Pa. Spurge has been serving as 11th ND supply officer.

Wyman PACKARD was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptionally meritorious service as assistant director of Naval Intelligence for Foreign Intelligence and also as Deputy of Naval Intelligence. The award covered the period from 21 Sept. 1962 until Wyman's retirement on 1 Oct. 1965. Wyman is employed as a consultant for Airtronics in Bethesda, Md. Johnny CLINE retired on 1 March and has moved to Dallas, Tex. He works for Ling-TemcoVought, Inc., in that city. Johnny was in the

office of the Undersecretary of the Navy when he retired.

George O'CONNELL left Virginia Beach and is now living in Anniston, Ala. He is against adopting the '35 Company and furnishing a wardroom in Bancroft Hall. Freddy BROOKS writes from Wellesley Hills, Mass., that he is for the idea. At this writing they are the only two constituents exercising their franchise to vote.

Holy LEE was snowed in with 101 inches of the white stuff in Oswego, N. Y., during the last week in January. He said there was no telephone service but he managed to retain electric power.

Oswego is on Lake Ontario.

Bob and Niecy HINCKLEY are still enjoying the Riviera and expect to be there through June, and are planning to take Marriner Bertholf's ('34) new villa on Ibiza for the summer. They are anticipating a visit by Bob's mother and father at Easter, and should any classmates be venturing that way. Bob says, they would appreciate hearing from them. Dotty and Bill HAZZARD stopped by for a night in December.

Twenty-one classmates attended the Washington area monthly luncheon at the Naval Gun Factory on 20 Jan. Those attending were: Badger, Brandt, Bottoms, Claggett, Gotten, Cutter, Detweiler, M. Freeman, Gimber, Goldberg, Hyland, Kear, Lyie, Neyman Mecklenburg, Parker, George Powell, Sherwood, Stanley and Tarantino.

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 For those of you not in the area as of this reporting we are digging out from under three feet of snow, the largest amount in 40 years, according to the Weather Bureau. It really was deep! It took your correspondent two days to dig out after returning from the midwest. Thank gosh for the Toro Snow Pup blower that Ede gave me for Christmas two years ago. Otherwise we never would have gotten clear. I guess we shouldn't complain. The winter has been fairly clear. So we shouldn't fuss when we get one big snowfall, even as late as late January. After all, it could happen four months out of twelve.

We regret to report that Ede Ellis' mother passed away in Davenport, Iowa, on 28 Jan. It was a rugged trip through the storms to Oklahoma, but we made it in spite of buying a taxi from Dulles Airport on our return and having to trudge two blocks of snow to get home. Notes and expressions of sympathy received are greatly appreciated.

In case you missed it in the January issue. Hank SCHWANER died very suddenly on 8 Dec. We

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if^^ .* " " ' ^ "f acknowledgement from Anita thanking the class for the flora! expression of sympathy and for participating in die services at Ariington. Hank was just Hank to all his classmates and those who knew him from the day he entered the Academy. Anita's and the family's loss IS shared by us all. Hank was true Navy through and through to his end, and he epitomized the true Navy tradition in his life and the service which he served so well. Our deepest sympathy is expressed again to Anita and to Jack and to Hank's sister, Mrs. Clara Weaver.

Jim McCAULEY writes that his new address is 1427 5di St., Coronado, Calif. Incidentally, if you haven't received your latest copy of the '36 Directory, please let Frank Law know as soon as possible. He is desirous of getting all your addresses correct and the blanks filled in before he retires and gets out a final roster. So please respond promptly.

Jim SHAW wrote to thank the class for its contribution to the Christopher G. Shaw Scholarship Fund sponsored by the Humane Society of the U. S. (Connecticut branch).

Ned BEACH responded to the secretary that the nomination of Bill Ellis as Trustee at Large on the Alumni Association slate was received one day too late for this year's election, but that he was turning it over to his successor for consideration next year.

Dave SEAMAN was in town and visited with the Laws. H e reported that everything in Alaska was fine and that he and his family were enjoying their new home. H e reported lots of snow up there, but doesn't mind same in comparison to the earthquakes, which incidentally didn't shake him down.

A note from Higgy HIGGINSON reports his whereabouts and the fact that he is Merchant Marine (Ret.), not USN or USNR. A note from Phil FOX reports that he is in Mercer Island, Wash., with Boeing Aircraft, systems simulation, missiles and information division.

He requested technical information regarding his principal area which is that we must perfect mathematical and modeling techniques if we are to do our engineering homework properly.

Reports are that Jim GRAY was married in Denver, Colo., in December. We are all happy

for Jim, but will report more definitely when the report is confirmed. Jim retired on I Jan., having completed his naval career as Deputy Commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College, NorVa. Other retirees in January were K. C. Lovell and Bill Parham. Ross Hirshfeld has requested retirement as of 31 May. Did you note the article in Business Week, 5 Feb. issue.' On page 52 under "Where Defense Decision Makers Learn the Trade" are pictures of Chuck PHILLIPS as the Director of Resident School. A very interesting article. Look it up!

Moose BROWN writes from Norfolk that he and Frankie hosted a '36 get-together at their quarters on 20 Dec. It was a good mrnout as you can see from the accompanying photograph.

From the top, left to right, they are Bill Lewis, Kelly Knapper, Nancy Reed, Tom Reed, Dottie Crawford (partially viewed), Mac Fleming and Helena Knapper, Frankie's sister Janet Campbell, Frankie Brown; behind her John Court, Scrappy Crawford, Al Fleming and Nancy Bennett, Mildred Lewis, Mimi Court, Moose Brown, Fred Bennett, and Nigel Campbell, Moose's brother-in-law. Unfortunately, the Richardsons, Fyfes, Michaels, Carrs, and Jim Gray could not be present to complete the group. Any time you get this many '36ers together other than in Washington, history is made! Thanks, Moose, for the picture and the dope; we all wish we could have joined you to make it a 29'/2 reunion. Keep the dope coming from Norfolk.

The annual C&O Canal barge trip is on for 7 May. Keep the date open and plan to be present.

This is always a good '36 get-together and a wonderful evening. Don't miss it! Tell Frank Law you will be there now. Let's hope there will be water in the canal this time! We want no cancellations.

Al FLEMING is back in town and on duty in OpNav. Vince COMBS has left to take command of DesFlot 3. Welcome home, Al Flemings; bon voyage and good luck. Bunny and Vinceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;we will miss you on the local scene.

Recently bumped into the Bob MORTONs amid the P'gon parking lot snow. They have moved from River House to the new Water Gate in the District.

Deadline precludes reporting on the 19 Feb. dinner-dance at the A&N Country Club. Will fill vou in next month. S'all for now.

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Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. J . P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.), 5439 41st St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20015

WASHINGTON NEWS P. K. TAYLOR writes from 135 Villa Road, Newport News, Va.: "We had the very great pleasure of visiting very briefly with the Mehles, the Rex Wheelers, the Lanhams at the commissioning of the Polaris submarine LEWIS AND CLARK. Roger's son is in

the gold crew. Rex and Harvey are in Norfolk. . . . Tyg and I have been grandparents for a couple of years nowâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one grandson and one granddaughter, Pete and Mike, respectively. Papa Peterson USNA '60 has just gone as engineer of SAM HOUSTON in New London."

Thomas M. Adams '37

H. Wyman Howard '37

Industrial Nucleonics/Accuracy of 650 Ackerman Road, Columbus, Ohio, announces the appointment of H. Wyman HOWARD, formerly Director of Research and Development for the Columbus Division of North American Aviation, to Director of Federal Marketing, Industrial Nucleonics. Wyman will be responsible for all phases of a rapidly growing segment of the business, marketing the firm's research, development and production capability to the federal government.

Helen and Wyman will continue to live at 1946 Tewksbury Road, Upper Arlington, Columbus.

T. Mac ADAMS has been appointed educational director of the Capitol Radio Engineering Institute, a Washington-based home study school.

Tom will be responsible for CREI's text and development and instruction service. Prior to taking this job, Tom had published (by Howard W. Sams and Co.) seven texts on electronics including transistor and solid-state circuitry. He also taught electronics classes at the College of William and Mary, Norfolk, Va., and at Glendale College, Los Angeles. A member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), Tom and Meredith live with their four sons at 1409 South 24th St., Arlington, Va. Spike BARKLEY stopped by the office this week on his trip to the eastern seaboard. His firm.

Aquanautics, Inc., P. O. Box 11092, Palo Alto, Calif., has developed and is marketing a propeller driven sea or snow sled depending on what season of the year and where one wants to use it. It is called the Nordak II.

'36 Get-together 20 Dec. 1965 at Moose Brown's quarters, Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Coming down the stairs (approximately): Bill Lewis, Kelly Knapper, Nancy Reed, Tom Reed, Dottie Cranford, Mac Fleming, Helena Knapper, Janet Campbell, Frankie Brown, John Court, Scrappy Crawford, Al Fleming, Nancy Bennett, Moose Brown, Mildred Lewis, Mimi Court, Fred Bennett and Nigel Campbell.

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Charles L. BRO'WNING has retired and is living at 2201 Hawthorne Drive, Sarasota, Fla. Dorothy and Charles have a midshipman son who is due to graduate this year.

Rex WHEELER has written that he and Walt BARRY have been disappointed in the amount of news carried in the 1937 column during the year 1965. I accept full responsibilitv- of its omission. However, they are starting a news51

collecting activity. This sounds wonderful! With his letter was an up-to-date roster of the 16 classmates that live in the Norfolk area. That group should generate some news: Anderson, Barry, Bell, Burch, Carr, Currie, Dalton, Ford, Hessel, Ingling, Joyce, Lanham, Narter, Parker, Schmidt, and Smart. This group includes chaplains, realtors, insurance men, motel operators, active duty, and what else we will find out.

Turned the page over and found five more names: Strong, PK Taylor, Watkins, Wheeler and White, making 21 in all.

The USNA 1937 dinner-dance at the old Gun Factory Officers' Club on 28 Jan. was the first of its type for several years. The previous one had been cancelled due to the Kennedy assassination, so it has been some time. The cocktails and dinner were in a private dining room upstairs with dancing on the main floor after the dinner was over. It was a successful party with 22 classmates and their wives and some guests being present: Curly and Tom Adams, Libby and Ace Barton, Caroline and Larry Bernard, D. J. and Sid Bottomley, Bea and Larry Brantley, Anne and Jim Cruse and Anne's brother Gus Prentiss, USMA '37, Midge and Jimmy Denton, Gwen and John DeVane, Mary Virginia and Ted Gibson, Madge and Jimmy Gustin, Betty and John Johnston, Betty and Curt Kelly, Betty and Charlie Lake, Ruth and Bill Mack, Jean and John Reese (just started in real estate business in Arlington, Va.), Bess and Jack Slaughter, Jane and Chuck Stein, Fran and Walt Stencil, Lil and Wyman Howard from Columbus, Ohio, Janet and Red Vance, Ray and Jack Wadleigh, Jean and Red Woodard, with their guest Betty Culhane. It was a splendid party and may there be more of them. As I think about the dinner-dance, my memory barkens back to October 1965 when the Mehles and Shuppers gave a most delightful in-the-home cocktail party for the class.

Invitations were sent not only to us in Washington but to the classmates in Norfolk. Responding from out-of-town were Harvey and Shirley Lanham with Harvey receiving congratulations on his recent selection for Rear Admiral. Our other new selectee, Larry Bernard, with Caroline, were also present. Larry is now holding down the Op-43 assignment. I believe 20 couples enjoyed a fine party which Patty and Rog Mehle and Barbara and Bunny Shupper hosted at the Mehles' home. It was warm enough to have much of the party on the terrace and a good time was had by all.

night so the three of us drove down to Colorado Springs. We circled through the Air Force Academy grounds en route. I might add that when the Air Force decides to do something, they do it up big. They have enough ground there for a city of 100,000. The academy buildings, although modern, are quite striking. I hope to see them during daylight the next time, though.

"Joe and Trudie Yavorsky were thrilled to have three classmates drive down to see them. The cocktail preparations reflected their sentiments. So that night the entire '37 Rocky Mountain contingent was reunited in the Yavorskys' residence.

After several cocktails and many rolls of music on the Yavorskys' old fashioned player piano, we retired to the local Shakey's Pizza Parlor for dinner. The Shakey's menu offers a selection of 21 different pizzas. I suggested we sample a few Shakey's pizzas because I'm interested in the franchise for Washington, D. C. "We all thoroughly enjoyed our small reunion and hope we may repeat it with more classmates attending. Joe Yavorsky manages the local Acacia Life Insurance Agency. Joe Dodson is the president, Mountaineer Sales, Inc., handling the distribution of Sav-Ree-Pak Foods. Wayne Brown is the president. Combs Aircraft, which, in addition to providing airport services for private aircraft, has the Rocky Mountain area distributorship for Beech Aircraft. Wayne showed me through a plane he had just sold the local telephone company for about 480,000 bills.

"Wayne Brown asked me to pass the word along that he would welcome meeting any classmate who passes through Denver, even if it involves no more than a plane stop. I'm sure both Joe Dodson and Joe Yavorsky extend the same welcome. However, they are not as close to Stapleton Airport as is Wayne, whose office is at the airport, a short walk from the passenger terminal.

"Addresses are as follows: Wayne M. Brown, 6375 E. 6th Ave., Denver, Colo. 80220, Tel.: home 333-0284, office 388-2471; Joseph A. Dodson, Jr., 5401 S. Prince St., Litdeton, Colo. 80120, Tel.: home 798-0630; Joseph T. Yavorsky, 114 Trout St., Colorado Springs, Colo., Tel.: home 634-6389, office 633-4616.

"Incidentally, Wayne and Betty are planning to fly their airplane back to Annapolis for our 30th year reunion homecoming in 1967 and have invited the Dodsons and the Yavorskys to accompany them. In this connection I personally am promoting a big get-together in 1967."

Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN 3900 Watson PI., Apt. 7B Washington, D. C. 20016 WASHINGTON WINTER WONDERLAND The weather guesser claims that we are behind a year in annual rainfall and nature is making up the deficiency with an abundance of snow.

Those of you who ever had duty in Washington know how little prepared and equipped the nation's capital is for this children's delight. So we oldtimers are spending most of our evenings at home by the fire while the family car becomes more and more indistinguishable as the snow piles higher and higher.

Despite the snow, both the husbands and wives held their respective monthly luncheons and a goodly number of hardy souls were present for the well planned and enjoyable occasions. Julie Ferriter entertained the wives in her lovely home for coffee and bridge with Jean Coward as cohostess. Twenty-one arrived for coffee and ended up at four tables of bridge.

Pat FOLEY, our chairman, arranged for our first luncheon of the new year to be held at the Fort Myer Officers' Club. The club has been newly remodeled and will prove a very cheerful as well as convenient place for us to gather each month. The date of the luncheon remains the fourth Thursday of the month but you visiting firemen please note the new location at Fort Myer.

Admiral Delaney was our guest of honor and has always been a warm sunnorter of our class since the days when he was our fourth battalion officer. The admiral is now the executive vice president of the Naval Historical Society, looks exceedingly well and fit and alwaj-s a welcome inspiration to our admiring classmates. Others who made it through the snow were Calhoun, Graves, Bolam, Hunnicutt, Silk, Raymer, Burgess, Morris, Glennon, Alexander, Owen, K. G. Robinson, Foley, Homer Conrad, Carter, Vinnack, Elliott, Dacey, Morrison, Mansfield, DeCamp, Ratcliff, Red Johnson, Ela, Jackson, Small, Adair, Mann, McManus and yours truly. We welcomed Jamie ADAIR for the first time as he reports for duty in BuShips and said farewell to Bill RATCLIFF who heads for warmer duty as Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration on ComTwelve Staff and quarters on Treasure Island. Chairman FOLEY announced that our next luncheon would be our annual combined husbands and wives get-together and that the March luncheon would be with the West Point class of 1938.

The 13 Jan. class luncheon had 20 classmates present of which 11 were retired. May we keep our ties strong in retired life as we have on active duty. Ray VROOME called long distance this past week and made reservation to attend the second Thursday luncheon at the Army and Navy (Town) Club this 10 Feb. Spike BARKLEY said he would try to extend his visit to Washington to include the luncheon. May it, too, be well attended.

From Larry BRANTLEY came this letter (dated 14 Nov.): "I'm aboard TWA Flight 176 en route Denver to Washington. Wayne Brown drove me to the airport and escorted me aboard the airplane. I arrived Denver Friday evening from Los Angeles, having called him earlier telling him I would be in Denver on business and hoped that I would be able to see him. That was all that was needed.

Wayne not only met me at the airport, showed me through his Queen Bee Beech aircraft, took me as a guest to his home, but also called my business associate and set up appointments. Wayne and Betty treated me like a returning brother.

"Wayne Brown is beyond a doubt one of our most gracious classmates. He called Joe Yavorsky in Colorado Springs and arranged a get-together.

Fie also called Joe Dodson, who lives in Denver.

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'38ers present at the monthly Naval Academy alumni luncheon in Boston. From the Marinke, Iggie Stubbard, Bill Leonard, Tom Suddath and Ed Conrad.

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Our speaker was our capable and always cheerful classmate K. G. ROBINSON who has made a most successful second career as the administrative officer for Georgetown University. His remarks were most appropriate for those of us still on active duty and dealt with the role the naval officer could play in the educational world.

He gave us a rundown on the organization of a typical college or university and pointed out the sizable areas that did not require educators. For example, there are 7400 people at Georgetown and 3000 of them are non-academic people. Under the vice president for administration, there are such fields as food service, a book store that does a half million dollars annual business, a first lieutenant who takes care of the dormitories and a purchasing department that does about five million dollars worth of business annually. Under the financial vice president there is a bank that serves the students and handles foundation loans, grants and contracts, provides insurance of all kinds and administers the retirement program and investment funds. There are also areas for opportunity in public relations, television, newspapers, special programs and many others.

All in all, college or university administration is a very broad field and covers a wide range of skills. Salaries are good and much information on these opportunities is available by writing to the department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Other steps to follow are to do research in a large library on college administration, select the field that best suits your background, begin now to fit yourself into this field and write a resume and translate your naval experience into something that makes sense for the job you seek. If this last step is not done properly, experience has shown that the college gets the impression that you are too big a man for the job. A good example of this would be the applicant who would appear to need six secretaries and helpers to match his importance. Thanks for this good advice, K. G., and I hope by passing it along that others will be encouraged to follow your successful footsteps.

We received a very lovely note from Ann and Al CHURCH, which was read at the luncheon, thanking the class for the flowers and sympathy that were sent on the occasion of his brother Adm. Bill Church's death just before the Christmas holidays.

BOSTON IN THE NEWS Ed CONRAD, head of the Institute of Naval Studies, sends news of the '38 chaps who were present at the monthly luncheon of the Boston Naval Academy Alumni Group. On hand were: Chariie Marinke, CO Naval Station, Iggie Stubbard of Charies T. Main, Inc., Bill Leonard ComCarDiv 14, Tom Suddath of the International Marketing Institutes, and Ed. At the luncheon. Bill Leonard addressed the Boston area alumni group on his recent experiences in recovering astronauts of Gemini 6 and Gemini 7. Bill, who flies his flag in WASP, gave a very interesting talk on his personal observations in connection with the astronaut recoveries and accompanied the talk by extremely interesting and colorful photographic coverage. Thanks for the dope, Ed, and let us hear from your area more often.

Sec'y, RAdm. C. E. Bell, USN 6359 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va. 22044 I'm continually amazed, since I took on this writing chore, how fast each month rolls by and another deadline pops up to scare me!

Ned BEACH was thoughtful enough to provide me with a copy of a recent letter from Curt VOSSLER who is with Aerospace Corp. at Vandenberg AFB, Calif., the Air Force's west coast long-range missile firing base. It's written in Curt's usual warm and breezy style and I MARCH,

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quote certain parts which will be interesting to all of us: "This is a very interesting job involving advanced ballistic re-entry R & D and NIKE-'X' work. We live on a fairway (18th) near the base.

In fact, it takes me longer to drive from the gate to my office than from my house to the gate! As you may guess, we are co-located and work directly with the Air Force Systems Command.

"We seldom see classmates here, but I get to San Diego now and then so it isn't too bad (worse for Mimi). Also, when I visit my dad in Monterey, Mimi and I find Jim May, Hank Lloyd and Don Taugher on occasion."

Sue and Jim WALLACE called with the happy tidings that Betty Gill, Paul's widow, recendy married Capt. Chet Ruffin, whom I remember as a particularly fine gent. We went to the Armed Forces Staff College together years ago. Sorry ladies, this column does not report what the brides are wearing.

Tom WESCHLER is in town today (20 Jan.) for some briefings prior to putting on his broad stripe and going out to Vietnam to organize a new job as commander of naval forces at Da Nang. Trina will be staying in Coronado during this tour.

Val HOLZAPFEL passed me some news on Benny STEINKULLER which is included as received: "Gay and I had a very brief but most enjoyable visit from my roommate, Benny Steinkuller, during the Christmas holidays. You will recall that Ben went to Canoe U. for three years and, although a strong scholar, was forced out on eyes. He has done extremely well in civilian life and just reitred from his job as sales manager of York Air Conditioning Corp. for the entire west coast. A recent letter states that he is now recovering from a ruptured disc operation in San Francisco and that he plans a trip to Washington this summer. After his operation, Ben will be out looking for a second career jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looks like he is paralleling the course of many of our classmates."

The class of '65 column carries the details on the wedding of Val and Gay's daughter.

We were deeply grieved to learn of Betty Siegmund Madden's tragedy. Her husband, Capt.

Bill Madden (MC), USN, passed away the first week in February. We all extend deepest sympathy, Betty.

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Sec'y, Capt. Art Esch, USN OpNav (Op-602), 4ED10 Pentagon, Washington, D. C. 20350 Corr. Sec'y, G. G. Williams c/o J. C. Wheat & Co., 15 Selden Arcade, Norfolk, Va.

WASHINGTON REPORT The January luncheon produced not even one fist fight. Getting older, I guess. Some sneaky politics of devious proportions catapulted Mike HANLEY and this lad into local class office. As prexy, Mike has enunciated a clear policy of two chickens for every coop, but anyone with two coops will be investigated. Oh yes, he is also for Fun, without stipulating What, Where, and for How Much. Nor, thank goodness, did he say that it had to be, pardon my French, cost effective.

With such precise policy guidance before us, pressing on vigorously is our marching order.

Pressing on, aye, aye!

Eighteen at February luncheon. Right memorable talk by Sal WALLINE's colleague, Capt.

Hans Klose, of the FRG Navy. Late note has Bill LANIER soon moving to head McGraw-Hill's Chicago office. Plaudits.

Jake BOWELL and Ed MUHLENFELD were accorded a resounding vote of thankful admiration for the generous service in class office. Both more than went the second mile, time after time, reunion-wise and all-wise. Jake announced a forthcoming and comprehensive class directory, putting to fine use the sum salvaged from reunion expenses. Flash, late changes reaching me as

above may get entered. Joe D'AREZZO reported the recent Army selection of our Ed DONLEY for brigadier general. Wonderful news, we are proud of you, Ed. He is stationed at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville. With Fritz FREUND and Ed wearing stars, Forty is batting high in the Army. Back to Joe D'AREZZO, we are pushing him for alumni trustee at large. Good man. Bill DOBIE has just put on his broad stripe as befits the ASW research czar that he is. Trying to get a proper picture of him in ahead of the 10 Feb. deadline is tight; we may have to drop the Pentagon entirely in order to make it. Sold. Mike MICHAELIS, who is everybody's short-fused Pentagon study director, is the next number and will follow this happy process before long. Mike, get a picmre now.

HERE AND THERE Al COOK and Jack LONGING are deeply engaged in the study business, along with Mike HANLEY. This priority program holds forth at the diggings of our Center for Naval Analysis nearby. Deacon FICKENSCHER is also plunging into a hot slot as chief of staff of the group to streamline logistic operations in the Department. Bob KALEN hasn't anything to do as the executive assistant to Secretary of the Navy, i.e., from midnight to dawn and even then he must tidy up numerous details. Erek and Lucy ERECKSON are considering a move soon to Jacksonville, Fla. Word from Earle CHILDS through his brother reveals that his shipbuilding talents in San Diego are as high as ever. Herman TRUM was in town for BuPers Board duties. Good to see him and hear of Elaine.

Eloise CHASE is pursuing, in the prescribed manner, her John all around Europe. Good. John is skipper of a fine cruiser. In the spring, John expects to move to Newport as director of naval warfare at the War College. Jonnie BERNDTSON is also traveling the European circuit with Karen and Jonnie's sister, anticipating the arrival of Art, in his squadron command, whenever. And whenevers can be slippery we know; yet, much sightseeing is to be had, so have fun. Carl SANDERS is deployed the long way with his squadron. Good luck and good hunting. Hooky WALKER was up Newport way from Philadelphia visiting in-laws over Christmas. There, Harry FISCHER reports (and a stalwart reporting help to me he is) that George and Garnie HAWES are flourishing in War College things. Harry is being proud and coy about what major command he will assume in late summer; if not already, it will be a crackerjack soon thereafter.

Norfolk news wafted in through some right special offices. You'll see. Bill FLY is in his carrier overhauling in Boston. Isabel is just leaving to make Newport their home for the cruise, meanwhile retaining their Norfolk home for the future. Cagy Andy ANDERSON is off with his group on Springboard. I say cagy because it is so smart to head for fine weather for training that we ought to do much, much more of it. Son Philip has been accepted at VMI where he hopes to carry on the fine football. Puddy reports that their daughter Jeannie has April wedding plans to keep both busy. Jake and Mary PLUMMER are now in Richmond, where both are happily teaching. Gene and Lorraine KIRK of Dayton, Ohio, were seen at Annapolis recendy visiting their plebe son.

Adm. Bob WOODING is out on the line in charge of much construction. Ruth is living in Sans Souci Apts., Charleston, S. C. Rally around, mates, look in on Ruth.

WHERE AWAY.?

With almost an eight-week lead time, it is not easy to include some notes on things ahead. But it is the purpose of this section to try. So bear with, will ya, huh.'

John REFO has taken on the class Homecoming 1966 plans for next fall. Stout soul. Al BERGNER S3

is cranking up something for a Washington class party for late April or early May. Keep in touch on this, you outriders, and join us if you possibly can. It is sure to be a lively lively.

Orders are sometimes only issued so that the detailers can start modifying them. So, when we mention expectations of future moves, we mean just that, including informal understandings and all. Ed MUHLENFELD is to relieve Chuck BEERS in his Norfolk ServRon this summer.

Chuck is to move to Chief of Staff, ComServLant.

Dick COCHRANE looks forward to a spring relief of Bill McKINNEY as a busy PhibRon boss out west.

AH SO.?

This early February gem finds the puzzle palacers right puzzled by the snow siege. Some saps were even out playing golf in the early parts of this. I froze my hands. This doesn't, however, hamper sizable criticisms of the computer problems on snow disposal which seem to have overwhelmed the administrators hereabouts. Shall we reprogram.? Computers, administrators, or both.?

But sir!

Nor do any other debilities, large or small, seem to inhibit a speculation or three in this section periodically. Where are we going.? And why?

And then there was the tigress who pitched right in in the hour of need. I sent off a special plea to Chuck BEERS to be our Norfolk spy and newshawk. Like Andy, Chuck was away in his squadron enjoying beautiful weather off Puerto Rico and training like sixty. Did my cry for help go unanswered? No ma'm. Wonderful June Beers filled the bill with lots of effort and touch. Thanks abatch. I don't want to suggest that Chuck go away too often, but if he does have to be away, we are in good hands. Young Chuck is quite a second classman at the Academy. Their Sue is a freshman at Hood College.

Again, there was this other friend. About our age. He had his "37th" birthday. When Joe and I called with a large good wish, we mentioned his slippery arithmetic. And then I asked him to say something profound in keening with his advanced wisdom. Quick as a flash he responded: "37-22-37." Me, I could only assume he was referring to a safe combination, or something. You do?

For some time many of our youngsters are rapidly becoming much less young. Moreover, we are talking school completions, marriages, and grandchildren at a growing rate. Why shouldn't we give good coverage to many of these matters here in these lines? I agree. Let's do so. Our spies may prod you; but if they do not, do jot off a note to me from time to time. And remember, there will always be a few timid mates around who do not believe in teUing of mundane family things. These we must convert to tigers or fill in for them. Charge!

What are we collectively doing to help the many classmates make the transition to second career?

It would seem to me that maybe some of us are at the best saying, in effect, "take two aspirins and see me at the next reunion." If so, this speaks poorly for the band of brothers we should offer to be and certainly be in spirit in every possible way. Moreover, it may well be that there is a great deal we can do in a material way. Think it over. Views please. One pitifully small step in the right direction is to practice some Golden-Rule neighborliness, especially for those resettling. Altogether now, heave aroundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;together. See you.

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Sec'y, Capt. V. A. Moitoret, USN 6000 Merchant Rd., S.E. Camp Springs, Md. 20031

Yet one more sign that we are getting a little older is when we get into the ribbon-cutting class, and I don't mean for Christmas gift-wrap54

ping. Ace CLARK is the latest I've heard about who has joined this Top People category. In his capacity as Commander Fleet Training Group, Pearl Harbor, Ace wielded the scissors to open the Navy's newest training school for the fleet, the Advanced Undersea Weapons School, on Ford Island. This AUW School will be similar to others at Key West and San Diego, providing officer and enlisted training, including foreign naval personnel, with the latest and straightest on the maintenance, theory, and operation of underwater weapons.

Still flashing the same warm smile he used to show on the third sack of a battalion baseball team, Freddie MAXWELL'S face looms out of the middle of a clipping from the Seatde PostIntelligencer of 13 Jan. Boeing engineers are working on the preliminary design of an air-launched nuclear warhead strategic missile, called SRAM, for short-range attack missile. Our Fred is directing the program on which some 500 Boeing people are engaged in the Missile and Information Systems Division. Boeing is competing with Martin Marietta for an Air Force contract which may total a billion dollars over an 8-year period. According to the paper, where Fred is authoritatively quoted, this was the first interview he has given. Sounds like he has a big challenging job out there in the Pacific Northwest.

Across on the other side of the USA another retired '41er also got his picture in the paper in January. The Washington Post shows us Dante MARZETTA with the news that he has been named as administrative services manager of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md. Dante moved over from the Vitro Corporation Labs in Silver Spring to his new post.

Some news takes a while to trickle through to us. After a recent official business phone call to Ben BYRNSIDE in the Office of Naval Research, we learned incidentally that Ben's daughter, Barbara Lee, was married three days after Christmas to John Mansfield, son of Capt. Jack Mansfield '38, at the Fort Myer Chapel. Barbara has been attending George Washington University while her new SOPA is a student at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, which is where Ben will have to go from now on to see his daughter.

The large '41 concentration in the D. C. area will be slightly reduced in the near future. Jay HOUGHTON will be leaving OpNav to go to London to relieve John DOHERTY as Asst. Naval Attache, and Bunny SHUTT has orders in hand now to leave Op-90 and go to sea as ComServRon 7. Burt ANDREWS got orders, too, but all he'll do is move from ONM in Main Navy to the Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering, in the Pentagon.

Houghton isn't the only classmate headed for London, though. In the middle of the transit strike in New York in January, Tully SHELLEY says he finally found time to read the Dec. Shipmate, which reminded him he'd better send in the big news about himself. After a 15-year tour of duty for McKinsey & Co. in NYC, Tully is to start a two- to three-year tour in the same company's London office around July of this year. Maggie will move with him from the New Canaan residence, along with Blythe (11) and litde Mag (8).

The other 3 Shelley offspring will remain Stateside, however. Sue (21) graduates from HoUins College in June and is making a tough choice between marriage or a job, while young Tully (20) and Bill (19) will continue at Princeton and Denison respectively, which, according to Tully, "seems to consume the bulk of their lives (and my money) Well, we have a firsthand report that London is readying for the '41 influx. John DOHERTY writes us in mid-January: "At an unplanned but delightful business meeting of the class of 1941 (London detachment) to-

day, attended by Somers, Rush, Engle, and Doherty, it was decided to hold a London reunion on 1 July. The date of 1 July is more than just a pleasant coincidence of favorable zodiac signsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was selected so that funds from either fiscal year could be applied to travel; it would be in the middle of the turnover from Doherty to Houghton; would cover the advent of Tully Shelley's residence in London; and in addition would provide a reasonable gamble on good weather. In addition to the informal committee of four, we would also expect that regular London residents Steve MORRISON and Pat MURPHY will also be here. With a bit of foresighted planning we should be able to muster a sizable group."

Are you interested in having a handsome bronze version of our class crest to hang on the wall in your den at home or on the bulkhead in the CO's cabin in your ship? Our fine porkchopper, Capt. Rollo RIEVE, the man who so successfully served us in getting out our 20-year junior Lucky Bag, is willing to work for you again.

Rollo is now exec at the Naval Aviation Supply Office in Philly and he has been in touch with Bailey, Banks & Biddle after his curiosity was aroused by hearing of similar ventures by other classes.

He reports that the class crest would be made of bronze, size about 6 inches in height. A mold has to be made first, and amortized, so that the cost per crest would be $25 including postage and handling. This sounds like it might fly with '41, as it has with other classes, so the most direct approach would seem to be this: if you are interested, get off a postal card to Rollo right away.

Just write "Yes on Crest" on the card and mail it right off to: Capt. Rollo Rieve, (SC) USN, Naval Aviation Supply Office, 700 Robbins Ave., Philadelphia 11, Pa., with your own name and address. If, in a reasonable length of time, Rollo finds he has the required minimum of 30 takers, he'll tell you to send in your money. If he doesn't, the project can fall apart quietly. Meanwhile, if you really are interested, you could help by first talking it up with other classmates you contact in person or by mail, and give what is always needed, that extra prod to remind them to send off the postal card!

Now that '41 has five real live rear admirals, maybe you've been wondering just what it took in '41 to get to that broad stripe first. Of course only the selection boards could tell, and they won't, so we can each have fun guessing. Here are a few random musings from your secretary, based obviously on the seeds planted by Chuck Merdinger in his fine analytical article in Shipmate last year which weighed performance at the Academy versus success in a naval career as measured by reaching Captain rank.

First off, you had to have wings: CAGLE, CHARBONNET, GUINN, LEMOS, and WEISNER are all aviators. That won't help you now, but you might keep it in mind in advising any midshipmen sons! Also, all 5 attended the National War College, so we must assume that can help. You can stretch statistics any way you please, so we can point out that while at USNA 3 of the 5 took Spanish as a foreign language (with one each for French and Italian).

Don't look for age at entry to USNA as any key. Our 5 varied from young Pierre at 17 years 6 months up to Bill Lemos at an even 20.

Final merit standing at graduation doesn't offer much clue either. One came from the top quarter of the class (Guinn at 29); two were in the second quarter (Caglc at 124 and Lemos at 176); and two from the third quarter (Charbonnet at 237 and Weisner at 291). It may be significant that none came from the bottom quarter.

None of the 5 were among the 24 star men who "graduated with distinction" in '41, but Quinn at 29 on the list was certainly close. Of course, this takes a deeper look to be explained.

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Of the 24 star men, only 9 are still left on active duty, but none of those 9 are aviators. (Of the other 15, 4 were lost in WWII and U have resigned or retired. And the 9 remaining include only 3 unrestricted general line officers plus 2 EDOs, 2 AEDOs, 1 CEC, and 1 SDO.) One rather striking observation emerged from the close look at die USNA records of our chosen five. There was no significant change at all in their class standings for plebe year as compared with their over-all final standing for all four years. Here they are, with the plebe figure first in each case: Cagle 115/124, Charbonnet 233/237, Guinn 67/29, Lemos 193/176, and Weisner 306/291.

We might be a little concerned at the thought that every one of these fine gents stood lower than 148 out of 400 in navigation during their first class year—until we realize that admirals do very little navigating; they can use a sharp staff officer for that. By a strange coincidence, too, 3 of the 5 tied at standing 270 in juice for 1/c year—so that they had better consult Tex Guinn in any black box problems, because he was way up at 18 in that subject. Tex also had the highest single academic subject standing for the group during our final year: he stood number 4 in hygiene! But people who worried about the trees should have relaxed a litde—there were only 28 of us who stood any lower in steam during 1/c year than Mickey did!

Merdinger's article made much of trying to evaluate how well the system worked in the important area of the marks for aptitude for the service. Well, with the brief sample we have so far, it seems a pretty unreliable indicator for predicting below-the-zone attainment of flag status 25 years after graduation, for our five range across the board from Guinn at 49 to Charbonnet at 382.

If there is any significance at all to the grease mark grading, it might lie in the fact that some of the aptitude standings for 1/c year for our selectees were quite measurably higher than the same man's over-all standing for that year: Weisner at 58 vs. 189 and Cagle at 54 vs. 116, for example. But then Pierre throws this for a loop with his 382 vs. 295. We'll just have to call Pierre a "late bloomer" to fit him in to any pattern.

After we've been through another couple of years of selections, we'll have some more meaningful statistics to play with. We have, of course, our full share of outstanding black shoe boys to reckon with, and '41 will count a lot more stars before it's over. Then maybe Merdinger can favor us with another fine grain analysis!

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

Norm NASH and Muff are a continent away from Norfolk, but he remains the faithful correspondent—now from Long Beach and his tour in BAYFIELD. They arrived on the coast in time for the Army-Navy game and open house at the Ray WIGGINs. In Coronado they visited with Sue and Ed ROSENBERG, Odette and John DAVIS, and Mimi and Bill HURST. Several times they have visited Barb and Dick SEWALL at their home in Northridge. Dick is with Litton Industries. The boys were at home over the holidays, Don from USNA and Gordon from Bullis. When they took Don to San Diego to catch a flight bacic east, other returnees and escorts included Tom PIERSON, Walt PRICE, and Al May '43, with wives (Cadet May, USMA, however). All of which adds up to a fervent wish on Noriri and Muff's part for a long and pleasant stay in the west.

Leo CULJAT has added a footnote froni Seattle to the effect that a transfer within Boeing has moved him from the staff of die Assistant Comptroller, Corporate Headquarters, to Marketing and M A R C

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Economics Section, SST Unit, Commercial Airplane Division. He turned up an article in Aviation Week ^ Space Technology to the effect that R. G. "Bob" Gibson, formerly director of product development for Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., has been appointed Assistant Deputy Director, Combat Systems, U. S. Department of Defense Research and Engineering.

Reed CLARK, president of Czarnikow-Rionda Co. of New York, has been reelected vice president of the 84-year-old New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, the world's largest marketplace for trading in coffee and sugar futures contracts.

Reed and Audrey still live in Glen Head, N . Y. At the annual dinner meeting in January of the Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, Cdr. R. S. "Hap" DAY, USN (Ret.), was installed as president. Hap had previously served three years on the board of directors.

The 25th ring dance on 12 Feb. was a howling success. Over the past several years, the annual gatherings in Washington have been held in the various clubs in the area so as not to favor any one precinct in this metropolitan area, but it had been nearly a decade since we had gathered at the Navy Yard—the site of our monthly luncheons (second Wednesdays). Had about 80 in attendance, but space precludes listing all attendees. Must acknowledge Max and Arlene OSTRANDER from Philly, however, and particularly, Ann Beale, who came over from Baltimore-way with Gus and Ginnie EHREKE. Bunky HERNDON supplied the "incidental" music for those who chose not to make the trek downstairs for the regular Saturday night dancing. Newcomers to the area included Bob and Betty GIBSON, Bob and Peggy SWEEK, John and Betty WELSH, Jack and Mary Helen HILL, and Lou and Elenora MEIER. It also marked Gene and Madge MALONE's last party with us. Gene retires 1 March and will be Sierra Madre way later this spring. Dave and Lucie Adams didn't make it, as Lucie is still recovering from spinal surgery and the problems attendant on a move into their retirement quarters in Annapolis. They will be at 201 Hanover St. after 1 March.

group included Hank and Gladys Woessner— Hank is Deputy G-3, FMFPAC; Gene and Ann Farrell—Gene is Fleet Communicator, CinCPacFlt; Tom and Emma Lee Williams—Tom is ConSubRon One; John and Barbara Neff—John is Staff, ComFourteen; John and Clara Hansen—John is retired and with the University of Hawaii; Doc and Mimi GuUedge—Doc is CO FICPac; Bridget Riley—Bob is CO MAURY; Jean Dozier—Bill is Staff, ComServLant; Fran Poage—Bob is Staff, ComSerPac; and the Dupncans—Max a year and a half into his tour as CO Subase.

Just to balance the Pacific gathering. Handy Cruser sent along a full report on the Newport 24th at Doug and Peggy PLATEs. At the time of party. Honey Cruser was a patient at Bethesda, but has since been long recovered. Handy expected to drive YOSEMITE off for Springboard as flagship for ComCruDesLant, then back to join Honey and the Washington contingent in July.

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Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, III (SC), USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St. Kailua, Hawaii 96734 Wash. Area Sec'y, Cdr. Frederic T. Hansen, USN (Ret.), 6424 Cavalier Corridor Falls Church, Va. 22044

It was wonderful hearing from Stub DORAN, CO USS WRANGELL, who has orders to the Joint Staff. We're looking forward to the Dorans rejoining the Washington group. Most of his letter follows: "I brought WRANGELL around from Charleston via Panama and arrived in Subic in November.

Since dien I've been getting more than a little bit of that sea duty we all used to dream about from behind our desks in Washington. It's hard work, but it's an interesting and most rewarding tour of duty. I can highly recommend it.

"There are quite a number of classmates out here, but the operating schedules make it very difficult to get together. When I first arrived, Jess Naylor was here in MOUNT KATMAI. He was in

Hong Kong before going back to the States and I didn't get to see him. I did see Bill Busik for a moment one night at the Subic Officers' Club.

Bill has DesRon 25, and so far as I know is Max DUNCAN and Trilby rounded up the still in WestPac John Newland has ANNAPOLIS, gang in their Pearl Harbor quarters for celebra- but our in-port periods have never coincided. He's tion of our "coming out" 24 years ago. The gay so busy helping to carry the tremendous commu-

'42 gathering at Pearl Harbor.

At the Newport 24th. First row: Harry Rice, Handy Cruser, Earl Greer, Doug Plate. Second row: Isabelle Britner, Peg Carter, Peggy Rice, Peg Plate. Third row: Jackie Baker, Ray Baker, Pete Smith, Olga Stone, Howie Stone, Ann Greer, Dottie Smith and George Britner.

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nication load in 7th Fleet that I don't think they let him get in port very often.

"Earl Buckwalter with his DesDiv is a recent arrival. We swapped greetings by flashing light a few days ago. Unfortunately, he was too busy running the Task Group Screen to stop and chat.

Yesterday, however, his flagship came alongside for some ammo and we did manage to exchange a few words via the bull horns.

"Since I spend most of my time rearming the attack carriers, I have talked to all of our classmates who are in command of CVA's. Except for Jim HoUoway, whom I met one evening in Subic, my sole contact with the others has been over the bridge-to-bridge phones while alongside. Not a very satisfactory way to meet old friends, but it's better than nothing.

At Grand Opening of Supply Super Market operation in USS FULTON on 7 Jan. RAdm. J. A. Tyree '33, Deputy Commander Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force; Capt. R. B. Gustafson '44, Commanding Officer, FULTON; Cdr. Walter Grechanick '48, FULTON'S Supply Officer

"Gerry Colleran has BON HOMME RICHARD. We

worked together during his last week on the line before he departed for home. He should really be an expert on WestPac, since he had just completed a long deployment in a fleet oiler before taking over the BONNY DICK. I rearmed HANCOCK

with Jim Donaldson a couple of times about a month ago. The seas were really kicking up and Jim gave us a demonstration of fine shiphandling, by holding that big 'bird farm' alongside like it was set in concrete.

"We have rearmed Jim Holloway's ENTERPRISE three times so far. The ENTERPRISE is a fabulous ship and the job Jim is doing with her in the South China Sea should once and for all conclusively prove the Navy's case for nuclear power."

News Release: "Rochester, N. Y., January 17, 1966â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The appointment of Mr. George Edgar Spaulding, Jr., as a senior vice president responsible for the three industrially oriented divisions of Consolidated Electrodynamics Corp., subsidiary of Bell & Howell, was announced today by Robert M. Garretson, CEC president, from his office in Pasadena, Calif. Spaulding will continue as president of the local vacuum company, a subsidiary of CEC and Bell and Howell, but will move his offices from Rochester to Pasadena.

"Spaulding first came to Rochester in 1962 when he was made president of the local corporation. Previously he had served as vice president of engineering for Bell & Howell's Photo Products Division in Chicago and as general manager of the SPARD Division of Electric Autolite in Toledo."

The accompanying picture was taken at a ASWGru One mess night during the holidays in Sasebo, Japan. Left to right: Capt. Will PARDEE, USN '43, CO, USS HORNET, ComASWGru

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flagship; RAdm. E. P. AURAND, USN '38, ComASWGru One, and Capt. Bill BUSIK '43, ComDesRon 25 and Screen Commander for ASWGru One. Jane Pardee joined Will in Hong Kong in December and Midge Busik joined Bill in Japan for the holidays. Bill's DesDiv returns to west coast in late February.

Bull DURHAM, in a rather surprise move, changed his status to Capt. USN (Ret.) on the first of February. He is now with the criminal division of the Department of Justice. Bull says the first impression of his job is excellent, and Mary seems happy to became a permanent member of the Washington gang.

Leafing through a recent copy of U. S. Lady, I came upon two pictures of Carl Holmquist, CO Point Mugu, presenting awards to women's club members. Haven't heard from Carl, but from the pictures it looks like California is agreeing with him.

Hazel Greenwood is fully recovered from a couple of operations (she's too busy to dwell on details) and back winning duplicate tournaments at Army and Navy Country Club.

Ran into Danny Freeman in Main Navy in early February. He is still very pleased with the life in Boston and his job with Raytheon.

Seems as though the flow of news has slowed down a little. I'm strictly a gathering point for items of interest. If we haven't heard from you for a while and you've got some hot scoop, pass it on, please.

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Class Sec'y, Mr. D. V. Ness 6520 Walters Woods Dr., Falls Church, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. J . A. Harkins, USN 6213 Beachway Dr., Falls Church, Va. 22041

Dear Classmates: A slightly delayed report on the January luncheon with the wives. About 70 of the guys and dolls showed up and a delightful time was had by all. I had hoped to have the name of my successor, but the Washington blizzard forced a cancellation of the February luncheon and elections will be held in March. My west coast cor-

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respondent. Bee Deprez, came through in fine style with the following letter.

"Dear Jack, I heard you! and the next time you chastise me in print, please spell my name correctly! Herewith is a newcomer's attempt to close the Southern California episde gap. It's pretty wet out here, but it hasn't seemed to dampen the spirits of the '44 stalwarts in the area.

"For a starter, we hoisted one with the Stetsons and the Davises; two weeks and 30-odd telephone calls later our journalistic computer spewed forth the following tales and tantalizing tidbits: "Jack Stetson is readiness officer, First Fleet, and he and Nancy staged a Xmas bash complete with musical bartender (son, Brad) and do-ityourself instrumental interludes.

"Jeff Davis commutes weekends from Long Beach where the USS TALLADEGA is home ported, is scheduled to deploy again in the near future.

"Gladys Nelson, back from a 3-month visit with the senior Nelsons in Florida, spent the week before Xmas moving and setding in with her lively four.

"Bud and Doyen Salsig are rebuilding their Coronado home-with-pool, Bud studying economics on the side and Doyen hoping to apply her biology major to science writing.

"Two classmates are serving on the ComPhibPac staff: Art Battson as readiness and training officer, and Wayne Fitzpatrick as force and maintenance officer. Wayne recently officiated as panel leader at the annual Pacific Fleet Maintenance Conference where he bumped into Bob Boscole from SupShips, Seattle, and Bill Knull, SubPac, Hawaii.

"Chuck Tisdale and Robert 'Rojo' Adamson command the cruisers PROVIDENCE and GALVESTON

respectively. Ralph 'Freddie' Merrill is CO of the MATTAPONI in San Francisco. And from Betty I learned that Anne (her sister) and George Montgomery are living in Yazoo City, Miss., where George is with a chemical company and Anne is teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grades.

"7 Sept. was a highlight of the year for Bill Prigmore who, as commanding officer, swore his son David into the Navy on his 17th birthday, aboard the USS PICKAWAY. Becky may not have the class record, but should come close with six children ranging from 20 to one-and-a-half. " 'Gov' Ward commands USS CALVERT, while J. G., junior, is a second classman at the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N. Y. "Strat Wentworth commands USS REEVES, a guided missile frigate, out of L. A. George Watson is officer-in-charge of Naval Personnel Research Activity in San Diego. Bob Pettitt is CO of the destroyer tender, PRAIRIE. Bob Kitt leaves command of DesDiv 12 in February and he just might turn up at the next Washington, D. C , luncheon.

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Frank Biewer is pursuing a junior college teaching credential in mathematics at San Diego State.

"Marvin May and A. J. 'Andy' Papageorge are studying for doctorates in business administration at UCLA, both planning to teach at the college level. Andy and family leave shortly for three rnonths in Greece where he will do his dissertation on a comparison of American and Greek business management techniques. Look for them in Athens, all ye Med cruisers!

"Sorry this wasn't in time for your Xmas stocking, but who can meet a 13 Dec. deadline?

And now you can be my first New Year's resolution. Best to you and Mary Jane. And, oh yes, Dick Deprez is operations officer on ComCarDiv Staff Nine, first in the ORISKANY, now in the TiCONDEROGA.

"Sincerely, BEE."

On 19 Jan. there was a large turnout of classmates and wives at the graveside services for John Roy Bass in Arlington Cemetery. John is buried with his infant son on the slope across from the Arlington annex.

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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

And when I looked out on the third morning, the air was still filled with snow. Work was cancelled; northern Virginia was in "a state of emergency"; no automobiles were allowed to move except "in extremis." On the second day, Sunday, I started for church, properly garbed for the final 500 yards up Everest. The first 100 yards were easy, snow only to the knees with drifts to the thighs. Then I was winded. The rest of the mile was tough and slow; the normal attendance of 1200 dropped slighdy to five. Now, 10 days later, the drifts shrunk, the tunnels collapsed, the streets finally cleared, and crocuses pushing up under the snow, we look back and see how it was in "The Blizzard of '66 in Washington."

Janet DOEHLER from Centreville, Md.: "Hope to join the Feb. 15th lunch, but will be alone, of course, as Bill is in Vietnam which is referred to as going 'to the sound of the guns' these days.

He has just taken over the 1st Battalion—9th Regiment and is his usual exuberant self about being in the middle of things. We are very proud of him." And so are we all, Janet. (Naturally we assume that "take-over" was a normal promotion or fleet-up. But that word does mean strange things over there "in China 'cross the bay.")

John WHITE, Front Royal, Va.: "I went to the University of Virginia for a year and a summer, and still have 9 more hours to complete for my Master's; I will get 6 hours this summer. I am now teaching algebra in Front Royal High School.

I will never make any money in teaching, but we have a pleasant life here. Rolfe is a junior in high school, Diane in the 8th, and Corrine in the 6th —all doing well. Jane is going back to college for some math courses, commuting to Shenandoah College, Winchester. This first year of teaching is a busy one for me since I put in more time than the students. It should be easier next year."

For comments on the recent class newsletter proposal to sponsor a company wardroom at the Academy: Ed CONKLIN, Louisville, Ky.: "Yes, but or and, sponsor two companies—the 4th and 5th for '45!" Zee LOFTIN, Pt. Mugu: ". . . you are on the right track in wanting to align the class with the midshipmen at the Academy. However, I am not in favor of committing the class to a continuing program of financial support to provide things that could probably be obtained with appropriated funds. I am in favor of one time expenditures for this purpose, but these continuing programs as you know tend to grow like Topsy."

(Zee also adds that he has in a request to retire in Sept.) Jim WHEELER, Milwaukee: Has no comment about the Braves. "We have to 'keep alive' our good class image 'Look Alive' and there can be no better way to do this than the proposal.

Let's sponsor a company and if someone else hasn't already done it, let's be first. Enclosed to help the ball roll in the right direction!" And there

was Jim's check for $10. Craig RANDALL, New York: "I am gready in favor of our class sponsoring a Midshipman Company at the Academy. I was with the Exec. Dept. as a Company Officer in '57, and know that the Midshipmen would gain appreciably from the association with an Alumni class. It would definitely tend to forge a link in the 'long blue chain.' Recommend $500 initially and $200 per year thereafter." Craig added, "Have recendy changed jobs and am with the John J. Sughrue Company, producers of TV and motion pictures."

As for me, knowing what most colleges request of their graduates over and over for the alumni drives, this could be of tremendous benefit to both the Academy and to us. The personal touch which could be added to this room by each classmate giving an action shot of his current station or command, and for those retired a picture best exemplifying his career, a memorial book containing the record of the classmates who have given that last full measure of devotion, a copy of the Lucky Bag, and the Twenty-Year-After Book, ^"d . . . What's the delay, schedule the dedication service—at Homecoming next fall!! Hail, FortyFive!

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Sec'y, LCdr. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR USS TULARE (AKA-112) FPO San Francisco 96601

SAN DIEGO This is being written on 6 Feb., one day before my birthday and five days prior to getting underway in TULARE for WestPac deployment. What better way to get me in the mood for writing than to have a class party? Thanks to Fil and Jim IRVINE, ably assisted by Mary Robeson and Rita Bailey, 24 classmates and/or wives gathered for cocktails last night at the North Island Officers' Club. I was especially glad to be here for this once since I had missed everything connected with the 20 th anniversary due to the more urgent sea duty requirements of TULARE. Dorothy and I enjoyed talking with Bill and Judy ADAMS (he is still with Ryan Electronics

CLASS PARTY The midwinter '45 gala at Bethesda was a smashing success with the largest crowd ever— about 130. The dinner was undoubtedly the tastiest given a '45 group in years. There was a slight problem for the MC, Don POE, as you can see by the snaps. Walt DEDRICK had his trusty camera.

LETTERS FORM LOOK ALIVERS San Diego chapter. Gus SWAINSON: "The local class officers, Gil GAYLOR, Ruth MAY, Evelyn KLEBER and I led the attendance at a Christmas party at North Island. Also attending were Hank and Duffy Anson, George Brown, John and Julie Degrazier, Pat and Mary Ellen Gowen, Gil Gaylor and the future Mrs., Frank and Evelyn Kleber, Julien and Priscilla Lebourgeois, Bob and Ruth May, Mace and Hilda Milliken, Red Dog and Greta Orbeton, Greg and Pat Panawek, Scotty and Maria Peck, Jack and Joan Riley. " 4 5 " in San Diego area are largely retireds, but expect more of the class as they rotate through their deep draft and major commands."

WASHINGTON Don Brooks: "Re one of the 'lost '45ers' listed recently—Joe HOLZBAUER—he is in Paris, SHAPE, APO, NY 09055. They just added a small boy, Remy, to their family—named after a French bishop of the champagne country! Also the FALLONS at Camp Lejeune had a daughter in December—Mary Scott. The Marines are keeping up future midshipmen and drags." Now we must check that date in December to see if after the 12th, if so, the KESSLERs lose the loving cup for the youngest '45er.

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Look-Alivers at Bethesda.

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in San Diego); Vince and Nancy BACON (one of the more hardy employees of General DynamicsConvair. It was generally agreed by all hands that the Bacons would bring home the prize for attendance at class parties in San Diego); Rita BAILEY (Jack had been detached from duty in

SubPac DivComs at Pearl Harbor Oct, '65 conference. Seated: Frank King, Wally Hankins, Jack Gordon, RAdm. Fluckey '35, Bob Page, Bob Thompson and Albie Beutler. Standing: Sam Anders, Jack Lindsay, Bob Gautier, Tom Auger, Bob Williamson and Lee Cravener. RAdm. Fluckey and Cdr. Cravener are the only non-'46ers in the picture, Cravener having taken over a SubDiv as the result of the untimely death of Ord Kimsey ' 4 6 .

YORKTOWN and was on his way home but was

stuck in Pearl for lack of air transportation.

Sorry to have missed you. Jack); Jim BURTON— one of the few remaining bachelors in the class and currendy commanding USS COLONIAL. Jim and I will be deployed together in PhibRon 3.

Also Joe and Jane CAMPBELL—we've been trying to get together ever since our shore duty days in Annapolis '51-'53, and finally made it.

Joe is on the Staff of ComPhibGru Three. Thanks to Jane's mother, Mrs. C. G. McKinney, a '21 widow, they will be reading this in Shipmatel; Bob and Marigold GORTON (Bob is retired now and works for Impulse Products Corp., currently tooling up to manufacture a small hydraulic impulse hammer); Jim and Fil IRVINE (Jim also retired recendy and is working for Ryan Aeronautical Co.); Marian Hooks, who received her California teaching certificate and is ready to face the litde monsters on equal terms; Madeline LANGILLE (Jack was at sea with DesDiv 213.

Dorothy and I attended the change of command on 26 Jan. on board the JOHN W . THOMASON in San

Diego. Madeline said that on the way to the party she mailed a birthday card to Charlie GUY in Tampa. As you may know, Rosemary Guy is Jack Langille's sister).

And "Gem" Mills—Dud is deployed in USS MAHAN with orders either to the destroyer desk or to MAAG Belgium; we are all anxiously awaiting the decision; Robie and Mary ROBESON —he had just completed two weeks refresher training in USS BRADLEY and was celebrating that; Minot and Jean SIMONS—he is the local representative for Hydro-Marine and is busy trying to get his hydrofoils accepted as a means of rapid surface water transportation. We're happy that they have become recent Coronado residents.

Bob and Jan THOMPSON represented the submariners in the area, all of whom seemed to have been invited to their admiral's party. Bob didn't reveal why they weren't going but he didn't seem to be worried about it and he has already been selected for captain. He's ComSubDiv 32; Bob and Pat WELANDER (one of the biggest joys of the evening for us as Bob roomed right across the hall from me in the 1st Co. They just came from Charleston where Bob commanded USS SEMMES, and are living in San Diego at 1002 Santa Barbara St. Bob is the PCO, USS Fox DLG-33, which he expects to commission sometime in May at Todd, San Pedro,) Fran Culpepper (also a steady attender at San Diego class parties); Bert and Dona DECKER (teaching at Hoover High School and keeping up his Navy status as a lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve); Pearl Groves— Tommy has USS HOEL in overhaul in San Francisco and couldn't make it down for the weekend.

We almost had a visitor from the east coast. On my way to the ship yesterday I was surprised to

has returned to their home at 5580 Warbler Way, La Jolla, with the boys, leaving Dagwood until June to finish his work for General DynamicsElectronics. ". . . Discovered the schools to be so poor where we were that it would have meant our 11th grader repeating next year at home while his classmates were graduating seniors."

Jack and Lorraine BUCKNUM have moved from Cxironado to 5678 Sunmist Dr., Palos Verdes Peninsula 90274. Jack is the Navy regional airspace officer with the FAA at Los Angeles International Airport. Ran into Mac SNOWDEN not long ago who said he was leaving soon for duty in OpNav, Op-506, Airborne Weapons Systems.

Evelyn and the children will be following at the end of the school year, I believe he said.

Bob Welander told me that Tedee Whalen is married to Cdr. Victor B. Rink, USN, a nonacademy aviator in year group '44. They are living at 1225 N. Bay Shore Dr., Virginia Beach 23450. I'm sure all classmates wish them much happiness.

Al KELLEY is mentioned in an article in the Jan. '66 Reader's Digest entided "The Great Boston Power Play." Al retired in July with a Doctor of Science degree at M.I.T. and is deputy director of NASA's Electronics Research Center. That's what the article is all about. Al and Jinny live at 79 Hinckley Road, Milton, Mass.

Chosica, about 1 hour up the Andes away from Lima. I have been at our BuShips for the past year. In October I travelled to Europe to two FAO meetings on fishing vessels (I am the P.N.'s naval architect) and on the way back stopped in N.Y.C. and Washington. Just missed John Collins who was on a trip to the west coast, but did see Bill Francy, recently appointed head of the English Dept. at USNA." Sally HINCHCLIFF reveals that Grant retired 1 Sept. and is working on his Master's and credential at U.S.C. and is employed by the L. A. City School System as an assistant teacher of algebra in a junior high school. Looking forward to full time teaching. Grant, Sally, and the six children continue to reside at 13641 Glenhaven Dr., Garden Grove, Calif. 92640.

A short, surprise letter from Joe DRUMM says he enjoyed meeting with classmates at the ArmyNavy game in November and says: "I have just returned from a honeymoon trip to Bermuda, having been married to Dorothea R. Hammell on Dec. 26th." His address is: Joseph T. Drumm & Associates, Manufacturers Representatives, 350 Fifth A v e , New York, N . Y. 10001.

Bea Pavis writes from 3904 Terrace Dr., Annandale, Va. 22003: "We're moved in as of Nov. 29th and are pretty well squared away. George and Paul both 'bus it.' We were surprised to find we are about 10 blocks from the Wertheims (have Harris ROGERS recently sent a letter post- been there for dinner already) and near Dick and marked from USS WASP on 16 D e c 1965. If Melba Scott. . . . Talked to Dottie Lucas and hope to see them soon." Bill PECK is ass't intelliyou were watching your TV that morning I don't need to explain the occasion! The letter says: gence officer (G-2) at Headquarters, Third Marine Amphibious Force, in Da Nang. Peggy is staying "We send you greetings from a small class of '46 reunion in WASP. Seasons Greetings! David A. in Virginia with Bill's parents.

Barksdale, R. I. Boland, Jr., Harris G. Rogers.

Don't believe I've printed the PEARSONs' new P.S.—Several other people crashed the party, as address: 5922 Wilton Road, Alexandria, Va. 22310. you may have noticed on T V ! " Crasher # 1 — "We found a place with lots of trees and lovely Wally Schirra '46; Crasher #2—^Thomas P. yard in an older section just across the city limits Stafford '52. from Alexandria called Wilton Woods."

It was almost a year ago that John MURRAY Needless to say, this philatelic item will be wrote that their new address in Florence, Ala., is afforded a safe place in the class archives. In case 185 Patsy Dr. John and Billie used to be our neighyou didn't already know it, Dave Barksdale is bors on Norwood Blvd. in that city. John says: the Air Group Commander of CVSG 52 in WASP and Bob Boland is submarine officer on the "I called Mrs. Johnson and Tommy is still with see USS MASSEY parked behind TULARE at the Staff, ComCarDiv 14. At the time of the Gemini McGraw in New York City. His address is: 251 Naval Station. By the time I got back there to 6 recovery, Harris was in the process of being W. 89th St., New York, N . Y. 10024." invite Jack KEARNS to the party he was engulfed relieved as navigator and relieving as operations in a series of meetings so I didn't get to see him. officer of WASP. Thanks, Harris.

Jack had one of his ensigns phone me to say that Dorothy, who reads the Dorothy Manners copythey were getting underway as soon as the meeting was over and would be on their way to righted column, caught the following item: Hugh Cullman '46 has WestPac. See you out there. Jack!

"Pretty interesting fellow, this personable young been named Executive Vice President for man, Ted Hardey, making his screen debut with Operations of Philip Al and Delly BOWEN missed the party comCary Grant in 'Walk, Don't Run' at Columbia."

Morris, Inc. He first pletely as he has USS PREBLE in San Francisco Ted went on to spill the beans that he and joined the company in for overhaul and Delly went up there for the Wally Schirra once played chorus girls in the 1954 and was elected weekend. Al will soon be relieved and report to Musical Club Show. How many remember that? a director in 1964. He ComCruDesFlot 11 for a WestPac tour on that Had a late Christmas card from Al JIMENEZ in lives with his wife and staff.

Lima, Peru: "Biggest thing happening in the three children at Rye, Peruvian Navy is my promotion to captain as of Dale and Doris BOWEN have moved to 1335 N.Y. 1 Jan. '66. The Jimenez are now 6: my wife Halley Court, Imperial Beach, while Dale is ComZoila, Alberto Jr. who will soon be 13, Felipe is 8, mander Air Anti-Submarine Air Group 51. A late card from Bev Bumstead reveals that she Zoilita is 6 and Maria Elena is 1. We live in 58

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John PENNY wrote last May from 121 Julie Lane, Brandon, Fla.: "I am a registered mechanical engineer working for American Cyanamid, married to the former Margaret Horcher (Texas '46) of Lake Charies, La., and have 3 children.

I would be tremendously happy to have a classmate drop in when in the Tampa area. I promise a deep-sea fishing trip in my boat to boot."

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

LUCKY BAGS AVAILABLE Hank and Carolyn ENGELMANN, 5957 Joffa Place, Springfield, Va. 22150, wrote that "we have some extra Lucky Bags that we would be glad for someone to have just for the asking and postage. We have one 1944, one 1945 (centennial edition), two 1946." If anyone, any class, is interested, just drop a line to Hank and Carolyn.

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WHERE ARE THEY? If you know, tell me: John E. Bryant, Thomas C. Chitty, James J. Cunat, Lonzo R. Davis, Jr., Arthur L. Erikson, Martin L. Frank, Richard Grenier, Augustine W. Hampton, Jr., Charles W. Harman, DeWitt T. Hunter, Jr., James P. Jackson, Jr., John A. Jandrall, John D. King, Donald L. Larson, Clinton G. McGovern, Robert G. Mclntyre, John H. McKnight, Milton S. Sartain, Howard B. Shofner, Jr., James R. Smith, Phil T. Sprickman, Robert M. Swanson. The smallest lead may be all that's necessary to re-locate these classmates. Drop me a line today!

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Sec'y, Cdr. Jack M. Stevens, USN COMCVSG-50, NAS Key West, Fla. 33040 Wash. Corr., Cdr. C. E. Donaldson, III.USN 1824 Baldwin Dr., McLean, Va. 22101

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS Because of the "Blizzard of '66" there was no monthly luncheon during February. However, just for the record, we remind all you visiting firemen that we DO normally meet on the first Wednesday of each month at the Officers' Mess at the Washington Navy Yard (the old Gun Factory) at 11:30 for lunch. When you are in town, just give me a call at OX 6-4615 and we will make arrangements.

Chris Yeatman entertained a group of the local '47 wives at coffee at her home on 13 Jan. Dick CRANE came into the office the other day to visit. He is currently with Northrop Nortronics and is living in Torrance, Calif. He reports that he was happy to lend a hand in helping Bob and Bobbie BARKER move into their new home in Palos Verdes after the move from Philadelphia.

At this point, we would like to render a vote of THANKS to Bob and Bobbie for their part in the always-welcome cocktail party after the ArmyNavy game each year for the past several years.

One of my ED confreres. Chuck SLONIM, writes that he and Lois plan to get to the big 20th reunion party in June, all the way from Bremerton!

Another of our EDs, Bob ROCHE, sent us a nice letter from Hunter's Point Division, San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, reporting the local addresses of 12 members of '47 in that area. Command-atsea seems to be the order of the day there. Bob reports seeing Ely KIRK in CHEVALIER, Bill TEASLEY in PERKINS,

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and Mike LEDDICK in KAMEHAMEHA. Many thanks for the dope, Bob, and keep up the good work.

Red NIEDFELDT's better half, Phyllis, dropped us a note the other day to report their address as 102 Selby Lane, Atherton, Calif. 94026. They, too, plan to attend the 20th, as do a surprising number of our west coast classmates! Phyllis reports that there was a '47 dinner party at the Officers' Club, Treasure Island, on 17 Jan. with about 10 couples in attendance. Sorry we didn't get the names this time, but it's good to see that "2 or 3 still meet" under the old '47 banner.

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Preliminary returns of the 20th reunion first flyer we mailed out recendy indicate a very large percentage of the class intend to attend. As indicated above, quite a few from the west coast will make the trip . . . all the more incentive for those of us on the steering committee to spare no effort to make it the finest party you ever saw.

We have just published the annual revision to the '47 Washington Area Roster and a few copies are available for the asking to those who want them. There are 97 classmates in the area with the distribution slighdy favoring the military over the civilian percentage.

Well, it's time to get this into the post office before the deadline catches me again. Keep that weekend of 3-5 June open!

Regards from Washington, JEEP Quite a pleasant surprise a couple of weeks ago to have a nice visit in Key West with John JAHANT. John, whose card reads impressively: "Naval Attache, Naval Attache for Air, Embassy of the United States of America, Seoul," was traveling with die ROK CNO. The visit to Key West was quite short but John allowed that they were relatively well settled in Seoul and enjoying some very interesting duty. This trip had taken them throughout a good portion of the U. S. and John was anxious to get back to Seoul and family. John can be reached c/o American Embassy, A.P.O., San Francisco, Calif. 96301. He said he didn't think he could swing a trip around Reunion time and wished all of us lots of success at the 20th.

Was lucky enough to make a flying trip to Sanford, Fla., on 31 Jan. to attend the change of command ceremony for RVAH-3. Guess we have

been in Key West too long because I nearly froze, in blues, watching B. B. BROWN be relieved. In spite of the cold the ceremony was impressive and permitted a chance to talk with B. B. and Donnie. They are headed for the west coast, where B. B. will be Ops in RANGER. Also had an opportunity to talk briefly with Ann Matula. She still lives at 148 N . Upsala Road, Sanford, but is planning to move to South Texas this summer with the children to be near Val's home.

Hope you have made your plans to be in D. C. in early June for our tremendous Twentieth. See you there. Yours, JACK

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Sec'y, LCdr. Robert W. Hanby, USN 1864 Branchwood St., Norfolk, Va. 20113 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. S. K. Moore, USN 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va. 22302

Hubert Bradford LOHEED I know the entire class was shocked and terribly distressed to hear that Hugh LOHEED, skipper of VA-146 in RANGER, was listed as missing in action after he led a first of February attack against targets in North Vietnam. Hugh has always been one of our most outstanding aviators and was engaged in the mission for which he had trained his squadron. The heartfelt sympathy of the class is extended to Vilma Loheed, who lives at 108 Kitty Hawk St., NAS Lemoore, Calif., and our prayers go with her.

I hereby report having relieved Jack HOFFMAN of the duties of class corresponding secretary. At the last Washington area luncheon. Jack announced that his orders out of the area together with the fact that he had volunteered for this job for only a year put him in the market for a relief. Volunteers were requested. I felt that there would be plenty of people eager for the job, and so, to help provide a goodly number of aspirants from whom a choice could be made, I raised my hand. Of course, I was astonished to find mine the only one in the air. Before I knew it I was acclaimed the new secretary. I did not fail to notice the look of blessed release that spread over the Hoffman face. Thus, the sack was transferred.

I therefore take the liberty of speaking for the whole class, the Shipmate readers anyway, in expressing to Jack our thanks for a job efficiently, interestingly, and overall extremely well done.

Needless to say, the success of the column depends upon all of us, and the dope we send in, but it also requires someone to gather it in and make a readable column of it. Take a well-earned breather. Jack. I intend to continue the "Reporting In" feature, as long as I can get material. The last item on hand appears this month, and is taken from a printed PIO handout, so the picture may not be good enough for reproduction. If I don't receive another, with picture, please, before the next deadline, I may be forced to report in myself. So, I appeal to each and every one of you to get busy and send me a biog, or at least a nice newsy postcard. Go ahead, blow your own horn.

REPORTING-IN Mike Ames put in about 18 months of enlisted service prior to entering the Academy, all

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of it in the aviation cadet program, so he was well on his way towards being an aviator even before he graduated and sailed off in TOLEDO. Flight training finally got him in 1949, and he received his wings in F4U's, transitioning soon into jets.

From the fall of 1956 to the spring of 1959 Bob taught religion and mathematics at Marquette University High School in Milwaukee, a Catholic high school run by the Jesuit Order (the Society of Jesus).

Mike was married to the former Carolyn Crowley of Fort Lauderdale prior to reporting to Fighter Squadron 11. He went to VX-3 in 1950 where he flew F2H's and other jets in the test and development programs. In 1953 he opted for more education and went the PG school route, obtaining his M.S. in aeronautical engineering from Cal Tech in 1956. The next four years saw him in Fighter Squadrons 122, 121, and 92, all in the Pacific, with the usual dose of WestPac cruises.

In June 1960 he was selected for test pilot school at Patuxent. After a short tour at Service Test, he was assigned to the Fighter Design Branch BuWeps as the Phantom II project officer, where he served until July 1963. In December of that year, Mike became XO of Fighter Squadron 14, moving into the skipper's slot in November 1964.

So, Mike Ames has followed a classic career in naval aviation, culminated by the best job in the Navy, that of command at sea.

The Washington classmates let the wives in on a luncheon at the Gun Factory O Club on 11 Jan., representing a departure from the usual luncheon spot, the Army and Navy Town Club.

This club did so well by us that we decided to continue the luncheons there, with the next one scheduled for the second Tuesday in March, and bi-monthly thereafter. A reasonable number of fair ladies mrned out to enjoy the cocktails, ragout, and pleasant company. The guest speaker was Dr. William J. Morgan from the Naval Historical Section, who spoke amusingly and interestingly on the history of the ladies in the Navy. Just so you will know who was there if you were not, here is the list: Dick and Mary Lou Hoffman, Frank and Beverly Crump, Bill and Iris Arnold, Charlie and Jean Mertz, Andy and Barb Anderson, Dwight and Lynne Wadsworth, Bill and Peggy Bartow, Hugh and Carolyn Rardin, Jack and Rosalind Ayers, Art and Dorohty Blough, Ty and Betty Dedman, Bill and Retha Newell, Howard and Phyllis Crosby, Bob and Jean Wurlitzer, Cab and Libby Davis, Gene and Jean Kelly, Joe and Mary Jochum, Sumner and Jane Moore, Paul and Billie Borlaug, Bill, Edwina, and Mrs. Lee Sr. (Bill's mother), Kitty Bacon, Roger Chapman, Bill Kanakanui, Paul Keenan, S. Trusso, Neri Osborn, Hal Deely, Ed Sutter, Wilbur Klemm, and G. H. Sullivan. Wilbur Klemm had dropped in from Pomona, and Sully, who is an M.D. specializing in internal medicine, was visiting east from the Los Angeles area. Sully gives his address as 15445 Varden, Sherman Oaks, California. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think that Sully is the only M.D. in the class.

There is a gala formal dance scheduled for the 26th of February at the Army and Navy Country Club for the Washington area folks, and it will be reported in next month's column, but let us not permit the column to become a Washington listening post exclusively.

Rev. Robert L. Faricy, S.J., '49

He spent the next summer in Paris learning French, and then went to Lyon, France, to study theology in the Jesuit house of studies there. He was ordained a priest in the summer of 1962, remained at Lyon for another year of theological studies, and then went to Ghent, Belgium, for a year of spiritual formation and pastoral work, sort of an internship for priests.

For the past two years Bob has been at Catholic University in Washington, D. C , continuing his graduate studies. He should finish shortly and receive his doctorate in theology in May of this year. He then expects to begin teaching theology next fall at Catholic University.

His present address is Carroll House, 1225 Otis Street, N.E., Washington, D. C. MISCELLANEOUS At the last D.C. area class luncheon we had several present from out-of-town.

OIlie COLVIN, who is with Cargocaire Engineering Corp. of Amesbury, Mass., was one of those attending. Ollie and Jean live at 4 Burnham Road, Wenham, Mass. One of the news items that he passed along is that Phil RILEY is city counsel for Des Moines, Iowa.

Jack LANDERS was also in from Massachusetts.

He is with North American Aviation as manager of the Autonetics Field Office in Boston. Jack, Nan and their five children, John, Jr. (12), Marie (8), Elizabeth (5), Jean (4) and Janet (1), currently reside at 43 Old Middlesex Path, Arlington, Mass.

Emile ACHEE, who is with North American Aviation in El Segundo, Calif., was also in town and attended the class luncheon. Emile reports that he, Joan and their children. Randy (13), Robby (11), Suzie (9), Denise (6) and Jon (3), live at 748 Paseo Place, FuUerton, Calif. Emile is now CO of Submarine Reserve Division 11-7 at Terminal Island. Incidentally, Submarine Reserve Division 11-6, also at Terminal Island, is commanded by Jim FERRERO. HUNTSVILLE, ALA. We received the following note and photo recently:

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Sec'y, Cdr. Wm. C. Dotson, USN P. O. Box 2651, Washington, D. C. 20013 FORTY-NINER OF THE MONTH Bob left the Navy in May of 1950 and later that year entered the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order of priests and brothers that is involved in teaching and missionary work. His next three years were spent near St. Louis, with two years of spiritual formation followed by a year of study in Greek and Latin. He then spent three years at St. Louis University studying philosophy.

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Here is a picmre of two '49ers taken at the January meeting of the USNA Alumni Assn., Huntsville, Ala., chapter. On the left is Dale HAWLEY, who is with Boeing Co., doing research in information systems planning and design. On the right is Lt.Col. John M. JOHNSON, Jr., USMC, who is assigned as Marine Corps Liaison Officer to the U. S. Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Ala. CORRESPONDENCE The Forty-Niner post office box has been somewhat bare this past few weeks! How about the many of you who have been intending to write for a long time taking a few minutes aside to send us some news items about yourselves, families and classmates. And for the regional '49 get-togethers from time to time, would each gathering arrange for someone to take the lead to mail us a write-up for Shipmate} Also, send pictures! We can use negatives or glossy prints, regular or Polaroid, any size.

Sec'y, Cdr. J. J. Pausner, Jr., USN 2544 Marymount Ave., Vienna, Va. 22180 Through sleet and freezing rain, and announced "hazardous driving conditions," came the stouthearted denizens of the Washington area to the winter party at Andrews AFB on 22 Jan. Some of us were chicken. Those who made muster were: Leighton and Ann Palmerton, Dutch and Joan Schultz, Jerry and Molly Coleman, Harold and Dottie Buehler, Jack and Barbara Morrissey, John and Anita Cavanaugh, George Driscoll, Bill and Jackie Diehl, George and Bunny Shick, Lee and Gloria Bendell, Dick and MaryLou Thurston, Tom and Ann Ross, Marsh and Dorothy Treado, George and Betty East, Bob and Margy Shultz, Walt and Peggie Flint, Chuck and Billie Howard, Rip and Cathy VanKleeck, Frank and Joan Carter, Hal and Ginny Vincent, Gene and Joyce Dunaway, Bill Kiehl, Andy and Nancy PuUar, and Roy and Ann Snyder. An outstanding party which we hope will become an annual tradition.

Someone took us at our word when we asked for news. Our thanks, therefore, go to Annapolis reporter Lee BENDELL for the following for which our class can be proud: UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF FPO SAN FRANCISCO 96610 In the name of the President of the United States, the Commander in Chief U. S. Pacific Fleet takes pleasure in awarding the Silver Star Medal to Major Edward Joseph Bronars United States Marine Corps for service as set forth in the following: CITATION "For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as Senior Marine Advisor, Rung Sat Special Zone from 8 August 1964 to 22 July 1965. Major Bronars accompanied Vietnamese paramilitary forces on more than forty squad, platoon, company and battalion size combat operations in Rung Sat Special Zone, the largest Viet Cong infested mangrove swamp in Vietnam. Major Bronars unhesitatingly led one assault on a fortified insurgent position, which routed the enemy forces; exposed himself to heavy hostile fire on numerous occasions in order to influence the action against the armed insurgents; volunteered for and participated in a daring ambush attack deep in Viet Cong controlled territory; coolly conducted a successful medical evacuation of an American Army Lieutenant and 5 S H I P M A T E

Vietnamese soldiers while under sniper fire; and successfully influenced the destruction of more than twenty Viet Cong bases in the Rung Sat Special Zone. With knowledge of the dangers involved and complete disregard for his own personal safety. Major Bronars repeatedly accompanied operational units in order that he could better evaliiate the advisory effort. As a result of his heroic conduct and fearless devotion to duty, he became an inspiration to the Vietnamese officers and men and was direcdy responsible for disrupting the Viet Cong attempts at controlling Rung Sat Special Zone. Major Bronars' personal heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest tradition of the United States Naval Service."

ROY L . JOHNSON

Admiral, U. S. Navy Ed, Lee reports, is now back in Camp Pendleton with his wife. Dot, and their two children, Bobbi and Bruce. Ed has just been assigned as CO of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines—a high compliment for a new lieutenant colonel. He was presented the Silver Star by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Wallace Greene on a visit to Camp Pendleton.

Lee also reports that while Ed and Joe (Red) McLERNAN were in Vietnam, their wives were injured in an auto accident near Pendleton when their car was hit by a truck while the girls were waiting at an intersection. Dot is reportedly fine now and Carol McLernan indicates she is on the road to complete recovery, although she had been the more seriously injured. Carol tells us that Joe had been executive officer of a battalion but with promotion he was assigned as director of the MAF Command Center. Joe should return from Viemam by this coming summer.

Lee reports that Kitty DeWitt is in quarters at Pendleton and that Birch is currendy in Okinawa (as of Christmas). John GREENWOOD is die aide to General Krulak, CG, FMFPac. Margaret and their three boys are enjoying the fine weather of Hawaii with John.

Lee concludes that the east coast, Washington area Marines were fondly thinking of these overseas classmates during the holidays. Bringing in the New Year at Janet and Fred LEDER's lovely home in Springfield was a group which included Carol and Charley COOPER, Diane and Ross MULFORD, Elaine and Bob WATSON, Pat and Bob WHITESELL, your true-Lee and Gloria, and several of our Basic School classmates.

Our Representative, Tom McGRATH, after spending a tough, legislative year away from home in the hallowed halls of Congress, spent Christmas in Vietnam. Among our classmates he saw out there were Dodge McFALL and Phil RYAN in ENTERPRISE. Tom has graciously given us permission to reprint the report of his trip as it appeared in the 10 Jan. '66 Congressional Record. We reprint this in the hope that it will increase our understanding of what it's all about.

"THE MORALE OF THE U. S. FORCES IN VIETNAM HIGH "Mr. McGRATH. Mr. Speaker, I had die honor and pleasure of spending the Christmas holidays with our Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine troops in Vietnam, and I am thrilled to be able to report to you and to my colleagues that the morale of the U. S. forces fighting in that terrible war is tremendously high.

"It is a compliment to the 195 million Americans that, when a tiny group of their number began creating the impression that our people were not behind our Viemamese effort and that our troops there were forgotten men, the majority of our Nation showed by actions as well as talk that they are, indeed, behind our war effort and, more important, highly cognizant of the sacrifices being made by our mihtary men and of the MARCH,

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wonderful job they are doing against tremendous, unimaginable odds.

"Mr. Speaker, no American who has not seen it for himself can imagine what type of war our men are being called upon to fight. Never in the history of modern warfare have trained, wellequipped troops been sent to fight an army of guerrilla fighters in terrain such as the terrible landscape of South Vietnam. Yet, our troops are proving themselves adaptable to their situations and are making tremendous inroads in Viet Congheld territory, are taking a fearsome toll among Viet Cong and North Vietnam soldiers, and, just as important, are convincing the Vietnamese people that they are in that country only as liberators and without any other motives.

"The example of American-styled democracy being exported to South Vietnam by our fighting men is, slowly, perhaps, but nonetheless surely impressing the Viemamese with its many benefits.

In the ultimate test—the choice Vietnamese villagers are daily called upon to make between loyalty to the Viet Cong or partnership with the Americans—more and more of these decisions are going to our side.

"And our fighting forces are backed up in Vietnam by thoughtful, workable plans for the self-governing of villages and hamlets liberated from the Viet Cong, and these programs have been accelerated as of January 1. Our psychological warfare tactics are making ever greater impressions upon individual Viet Cong, and today, desertions from their forces are taking place at a faster rate than our military forces can kill them in battle.

"Mr. Speaker, we have sent dedicated, highly motivated men to fight in Vietnam. During my Christmastime tour of the battle areas and to our 7th Fleet's nuclear task force in the South China Sea, I asked every commander to whom I spoke how he compared the men under his command with those over whom he served in World War II and the Korean conflict.

"Without exception, generals, admirals, colonels, majors, and captains told me that today's American fighting man is superior to their counterparts of one and two generations ago. Our military men today are more highly educated and, thus, better able to understand what is at stake in southeast Asia. And they are more adaptable to conditions under which they must prosecute the war, and this is of high importance in Vietnam.

"There is no question among our fighting men that the vast majority of the American people is solidly behind them and behind the administration's policy in southeast Asia. What is more, they are deeply and vocally appreciative of the tremendous outpouring of support in the form of letters and gifts received by them at Christmastime.

"The picture in Vietnam is by no means entirely rosy, Mr. Speaker. Nor are our troops able to understand our military policy in this warfare completely. Like many of us in the United States, they cannot understand why we do not disrupt North Viemamese supply lines by blockading or bombing the harbor at Haiphong and by other means.

"But their loyalty to our cause is unquestioned and unquestioning, and they are acquitting themselves wonderfully under conditions of warfare and civil disruption which could turn the military efforts of lesser men into shambles.

"The principal impression which I brought away from Vietnam is that of the great military job being done by our fighting men and of their fine morale. But, Mr. Speaker, there is a second impression which I have gained while there and that is the necessity to improve the scope of the information we at home receive of that strange and terrible war.

"Americans living today can recall World War I, World War II, and the Korean fighting, in all

of which there were organized lines along which the fighting took place. When our troops advanced in a certain direction, we were making progress.

When the enemy advanced in the opposite direction, we were retreating.

"There is nothing like that in this war. Our forces secure pockets, or enclaves, in a nation which is otherwise completely held by the enemy. Our troops can enlarge these cleared areas, but they are not linked by any front lines.

Our pockets dot the South Vietnamese map.

Some of them are close to Saigon, the capital.

Others are dozens of miles south and hundreds of miles to the north or west. When the Viet Cong attacks or overruns a Vietnamese or American position near Saigon, for instance, in the absence of real knowledge of the situation, many Americans are apt to think, as I have heard some of my constituents say: " 'They're within a few miles of the capital.

We've just about lost the war.'

"Nothing could be more incorrect, Mr. Speaker, but if our people are only given daily reports of fire fights or patrol movements or air strikes, they will never be able to understand what kind of war their sons and friends are fighting, and if our military participation should be necessary for a long period of time, they will have no knowledge on which to base their evaluation of our efforts.

"We are in the Vietnamese war to stay until an honorable settlement has been achieved, and, therefore, I think greater pains must be taken to inform the American people who have, so far, given their unstinting support to our involvement in it, a better picture of what that war is like, since it cannot be likened to any other war in which Americans now living have fought or watched.

"My trip to Vietnam was tremendously worthwhile, Mr. Speaker, since it gave me a full picture of what type of war it is and what we are doing to win it, both in battle and in the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese. Most important, it made me tremendously proud to be an American and a Representative of Americans who are fighting this difficult war and of those who are supporting it at home."

Correspondent Gene MORIN reports from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, that he ran into Frank YOUNG, who has his Ph.D. and is attached to the Air Force Research Lab at WrightPat. Frank told Gene that there were many USNA graduates at the base but few from '50. Gene also ran into Gil GORDON visiting there for an Air Force Logistics Command conference. Gil reportedly resigned from the Supply Corps around 1961 and is now an industrial engineer for the Air Force at McClellan AFB. Gene promises to see us at a class luncheon (first Wednesday of every month at Hogate's in Washington) shordy after completing an eleven-week school in project managership whereupon he will resume duty with the FDL Project Office in Washington.

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The monthly meeting of the Washington area class of '51 (Executive Committee) was just concluded and a good group was in attendance to conduct the business about the annual meeting.

The annual meeting and party will be on 7 May 1966 (for sure) at Boiling Air Force Base Officers' Club (tentatively). Everyone will receive firm directions on the meeting location, party arrangements, and an official ballot. Please mark your calendar for this important event. Tipp MottSmith (the master party manager) has agreed to volunteer to set up the party—we have some important annual elections to be conducted—in short, please prepare for a good time on 7 May 1966.

(Proxy votes for all official elections are authorized in the by-laws.)

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Saw Bob Adler in Washington, D. C , on his way west for First Fleet duty—look out, Pacific people—^Adler's "on the way"!

Your attention is invited to Last Call, and our loss to the class of a fine sailor and individual, Dick Richardson. The class was represented through the efforts of Herb Zoehrer.

Bill Weaver was in that experimental Lockheed test plane in California that came apart. Bill stayed together in a high-performance bail-out, had only minor injuries, and is back "on the line" in the test department.

Thank you Bob Young for your letter from the Newport War College. He reports Joe Salin, Bob McLaughlin, Bearcat Jarvis and Lee Kollomorgan in the Command and Staff curriculum, and Bob Baldwin, Jim Bacon, and Joe Grace in the staff side of the College. Bob Young has volunteered to write a Newport column to me from 2 Seaboard Ct., Middletown, Rhode Island (X847X3225), so keep in touch so he can write in to the suffering secretary.

The Wednesday night club of the class of 1951 had 13 classmates attending the February session at the Gun Factory. It's become a place to meet and see whoever is in town or visiting the area.

Who's starting the drums rolling for the homecoming for year 1966, 15th anniversary of the class. Remember, we had 127 classmates last year, and it's geting bigger every year. An additional statistic of no mean import: we have about 140 classmates (active service and civilian) in the Wash.-Balto.-Annapolis area now.

Who will send in some pictures of "Family of the Month, Sailor of the Month, Wife of the Month, Secretary of the Month," or whatever other event of importance.' We need pictures for the column of the classmates so that we can see the changes of time and stress of duty.

In conclusion, this is the third from the last column of this secretary. Who—who—who volunteers for this splendid oppormnity to increase your spelling capability, your reportorial skill, and elbow bending every second Wednesday of the month.? Those who qualify please stand up at the annual meeting on 7 May scheduled tentatively for Boiling Air Force Base Officers' Club. 76 proxy votes will elect you.

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Sec'y, LCdr. Richard W. Case, USN Science Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

(it was sold out), a nice guy moved over to make room for him in the stands. Said nice guy turned out to be Lawrence WINKLER, who left '52 after plebe year. He roomed with Pat McDONALD after coming here from NAPS. Larry got a doctorate in psychology from George Washington, and works in the Arlington school system as a psychologist. He coaches wresding at Wakefield High School in Arlington, and referees wresding on weekends. Wakefield has built a fantastic record, and has not lost a dual meet in 5 years.

Larry is married and has two children.

Among the spot promotions to Commander 6 Dec. were: Bill FOSTER, exec of USS TELEFAIR; George HULL, Commander Mine Division 93; and John R. C. MITCHELL, exec of VF-33. All three had been selected for Commander but were near the bottom of the list, and this sure beats sweating out enough "June 30th retirees" to make our number 1 July. We hit a high of 17 last month.

Dick DENFIELD visited USNA over die weekend of T H E BIG SNOW but avoided most of us in an effort to keep from getting snowbound. Out my way the wind had whipped the ground bare in many spots and had drifted six feet high in others. The drifts extended for as much as 50 feet to leeward of any obstruction. I guess it would have been bad for Dick to come all the way from the Air Force Academy in Colorado to Annapolis in order to get stuck in the snow.

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ANNAPOLIS LCdr. Will STEADMAN has just been detached from the Naval Academy to become the supply officer for a construction battalion. The battalion is forming at Davisville, Conn., and should be ready to deploy by late summer.

VIETNAM Paul SLACK is the U. S. Advisor to the 3rd Vietnamese Marine Battalion. Recently the Battalion has been involved in several joint operations with the U. S. Marines to the north. Presently they are engaged in guarding the area around Saigon. Paul is due to be back in the states this summer to attend postgraduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jerry ZACHARIAS writes: "On 26 Nov., aboard USS FOREESTAL in the

Med, we lost a classmate, John Manfredi, in an aircraft accident. John was a F4B 'Phantom' pilot attached to Fighter Squadron 74 and was the squadron operations officer. I was Air Wing Ops officer at the time and worked closely with John.

He was a real tiger, always had something to contribute to the effort and loved flying most of all. John will be missed by all of us who knew him. His wife Terry and family were in the Med at the time of the accident and have since returned to the states. They are residing here in Virginia Beach.

"VF-74 is purchasing a memorial chair for John in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

"I have just left the CVW-8 staff after four years with them and was relieved by another classmate, Gus Eggert, who is now the Ops officer. I was on the staff from Dec. '61-Dec. '63 as LSO and admin, officer; then I stayed with the air wing after receiving orders to Attack Squadron 83. I was maintenance officer and Ops with VA-83 until June of '65 when I was ordered back to the staff as Ops officer. I just left the squadron aboard the FORRESTAL in the Med and will be in the 31 Jan. class at Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk."

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Sec'y, LCdr. W. G. A. Sympson, USN Dept. of Mathematics, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

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KAST COAST Sec'y, Mr. David P. Smalley, USMCR Dept. of Physical Education, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21401 WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. Thomas E. Dyer, USN Box 2700, USNPGS, Monterey Calif.

I must apologize for not getting any Dope in our last two issues of Shipmate. The reason for missing the December issue was simply that there wasn't anything to be put in. For some reason or another very litde information drifts in during the winter months. Why the slack? I'm sure some people could have at least dropped me a line telling me what they did for the Army-Navy game.

Just a postcard would be welcomed and it would keep our column going.

The January deadline slipped by because yours truly was out of town on business (basketball).

However, while we did have some information that could have been used, again there was very little to report—oh, those dark ages!

Ron MARRYOTT did attend the Army-Navy football game and noted the following classmates in attendance: Herb Bauer, Bob Swartz, Roy Brenner, Pete Neumann, Dan McGlasson, Dick Leahey, Don Beatty, Al Wattay, and Jim Paulk.

Ron also received recently some news from Jim RAMBERGER. Jim and Maria (plus three girls and one boy) are now stationed at Plattsburg AFB in New York working for Air Force OSI. Since graduation Jim has been on duty with USAF

in Washington, Baltimore, Dayton, Ohio, and Montgomery, Ala. He has also been overseas in Korea. Jim informs us that his "wife" at USNAY, Bill HESKE, is working as a personnel type at SAC Headquarters in Omaha.

C. W. Swenson '57 is now a second officer aboard Continental's Boeing Golden Jets after graduating from Continental Airlines' jet pilot training school at Los Angeles International Airport.

Before joining Continental he was a graduate student at Drake University.

In mid-December a class luncheon was held in the O Club at the Naval Academy, featuring Ben Carnevale, head basketball coach, as guest. Ben gave a brief talk on the basketball picture and tried to touch on the different aspects of the basketball program as it involves Navy. Unfortunately, time would not allow him to go into as much detail as he would have liked.

In case some of you have missed reading the sport pages lately, Ben has just accepted the director of athletics job at New York University.

This is indeed an honor and, believe me, it was a very difficult decision for him to make. He is closing out his 20th season at Navy and I know he leaves with mixed emotions. I know that Navy could never have a more loyal and devoted supporter than he. We are all unhappy to see him go, but wish him nothing but the best, which is only what he deserves. I have known this man for 15 years and they just don't come any better. We will truly miss him.

We now have to pay some tribute to Lee HYATT. At this same class luncheon in December Lee gave us a report on his special project, which is bringing our class roster at the Alumni House up-to-date. We all owe a lot of thanks to Lee for undertaking this tremendous task. He put in a lot of man-hours on it and has done an amazing job. At last report he had succeeded in achieving over 8 5 % accuracy on present names and addresses. If you take the time to consider this feat, you will understand how remarkable it is. Now all the rest of us have to do is keep it up-to-date whenever we make a location or rank change.

How about it? We will need everyone's cooperation on this if we are going to keep it current.

Please keep in mind we will be having our 10th reunion next year and, to ensure a successful one, we need accurate addresses.

A few other news items before we sign off.

Charlie and Nancy BIELE proudly announce the birth of their 3rd, a boy, on 25 Jan. They now have 2 boys and a girl and are in Windsor, Conn., where Charlie is training on the nuclear prototype.

A letter from Bob LOEWENTHAL finds JoAnn and him living in Newport News where he has reported to USS QDEENFISH Precommissioning Unit as navigator ops officer. They and their four troops are now living at 728 Sunnywood Road in Newport News and would like to see anyone passing through the area. Bob also reports on other classmates in the shipyard who are aboard various new construction submarines. In the USS SIMON BOLIVAR are John HELLEWELL

(engineer) and Duane GREENHOE (weapons officer). Ken STRAHM is in USS GEORGE C .

MARSHALL and we have three classmates aboard USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER—Bill JOHN-

SON (weapons officer), Dave FAHRNEY (navigator) and Dick EMMET (weapons officer).

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Fmally, a news release from die Air Force finds Julio TORRES as one of five Air Force scientists to receive national recognition in the field of research and development. He was presented his award by General Schriever, Commander of the Air Force Systems Command, at a Pentagon luncheon. Stationed at Hanscom Field for three years, Julio conducted research for the "Spacetrack" system of the Electronic Systems Division. He was cited for his work in the fields of tracking radars, optical surveillance devices and timing systems, as well as the more theoretical aspects of the atmosphere and its effects on radar energy. Julio was reassigned in June to the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio. Congratulations, Julio, keep up the good work and let us hear from you!

One final remark—my usual comment. Everyone who has anything at all to add to our column is invited to drop me a note or a card or anything. Just send it in, please!

EAST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Edwin B. Smedberg, USN Flag Lieutenant/Aide, U. S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Md. 21401 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. George C. Skezas, USN Box 703. USNPG School Monterey, Calif.

FROM THE MAIL BAG (SIGH) A venture into the spider webbed mail bag has brought forth twice the number of missives (2) than were received last month ( 0 ) . This column is doomed to wither on the vine unless more of you will venture forth with some information about yourselves.

John SWOPE writes from Washington, D. C : "As I read of my classmates being elevated to lieutenant commander, I feel somewhat retarded being only an ensign. To give an explanation, I resigned from the Navy in August 1962 and entered Georgetown University Medical School. I then accepted a commission as an ensign USNR in the Medical Corps. Now, as a senior medical student, I am on active duty as an Ensign USN. Come this spring, hopefully, I will graduate and do my internship in the Navy.

"Another change of status coming up this spring involves the area of social cardiology, otherwise known as affairs of the heart. Plans are marriage to a delightful nurse (Georgetown product).

Prospective date is 18 June.

"That is all the news I have about myself, tho I wish to join the rest of the class in congratulating the new LCdrs."

From Jim CLEMENT comes a very interesting account of the trip that he and Carol took to South America during the Christmas vacation period.

They met Terry PARKS, who is an exchange officer at the Brazilian Naval Academy, teaching English and infantry drill, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Terry and Janet were apparently outstanding hosts and showed all the sights of Rio to Jim and Carol. During his trip the following was brought to light: Mac LUPFER is married to Terry's wife's aunt—therefore we have one classmate who is the uncle of another classmate. That could easily be put in the "For What It's Worth Department!"

Dick TILLMAN sends that his address has been changed to: HqAPRE, P. O. Box 3126, APO New York 09010.

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Sec'y, Lt. Lloyd H. Adams, USN Exec. Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

NAVY NEWS '59 Several months ago this column indicated that the whereabouts of John S. MITCHELL was unknown. Well, he finally got the word, which prompted him to write us a quick note saying that he is still alive, kicking, and active (USN, that is). He writes the following history of himself since June 1959: "Following graduation I M A R C H ,

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was married on 9 June in Duncan, Okla., to the former Pat Bothin. We now have two children: John III, age 5, and Leslie Ann, 2. I spent a couple of years in destroyers USS AGERHOLM and USS SOMERS prior to entering sub school in April of 1961. From sub school it was to USS BONEFISH where I spent nearly 3 years qualifying SS and later for SS command. Along with numerous others I was selected for the Nuclear Power Program in the fall of 1963, actually entering Nuclear School a year later in late summer 1964. I am now M Division Officer in USS TRITON." Glad to hear from you, John! Hope you will keep us up to date on your address and station assignment.

A note from Diane (J. P.) Williams indicates that John has left USS VANCOUVER and that they have taken up residence in Bethesda, Md., where John is now attached to the U. S. Naval Security Station, Washington, D. C , as deputy supply and fiscal officer.

An article from the Newport Daily News, Newport, R. I., dated 10 Jan '66, is reprinted here for the information of all '59ers: "Lt. Tylor Field, II, was presented the Bronze Star Medal with Combat ' V device in ceremonies on board the destroyer tender GRAND CANYON this morning. The presentation was made by RAdm. J. Neven Shaffer, Commander of Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 2. Lt. Field, now antisubmarine warfare officer on Adm. Shaffer's staff, was cited for heroic achievement in connection with operations against Communist insurgent forces in Vietnam from October 1964 to October 1965, while serving as a member of the Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam.

"In part, his citation, issued in the name of the President by the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, reads: 'As a member of the Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Viemam, Lt. Field served as a Coastal Force Advisor to the Third Coastal District. In that capacity he participated in 15 combat junk patrols and three major combined operations with Vietnamese Army units against the insurgent Communist guerrilla forces (Viet Cong). During these patrols and operations Lt. Field, without regard for personal safety or comfort, lived regularly with the paramilitary junkmen aboard their junks and on their bases. He habitually placed himself on the lead junks on patrol. Lt. Field repeatedly exposed himself to enemy fire from junks and river banks, as well as from beach positions. Lt. Field's personal leadership, devotion to duty, and courage under fire were in the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service. " 'Lt. Field was graduated from the Naval ,A.cademy and was commissioned an Ensign on June 3, 1959. Prior to assignment with the Naval Advisory Group, Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, he served as weapons officer aboard the Newport-based destroyed NORRIS and as an instructor at the Fleet Sonar School, Key West, Fla. Lt. Field is married to the former Susan Bragdon of McLean, Va. They live with their son, Tyler III, at 21 Catherine St. in Newport.' " Congratulations, Toby, on a job well done. We are indeed proud to claim you as a '59er.

AIR FORCE NEWS '59 Speaking of Vietnam and contributions to the big effort in that area by '59ers we find that those of our group that went USAF are also out there doing a d— good job. Mike STEVENS writes from Okinawa, "Greetings from Okinawa. I received the November issue of Shipmate while on the alert pad here at Kadena and thought I'd better take pen in hand and bring my address up to date so that you'll include me on your newsletter list. Since December '63 I've spent two tours in Viemam. First 14 months as an aide-decamp to Maj. Gen. R. R. Rowland, then Commander of USAF MAAG forces, Viemam. I had the oppormnity to also fly with the Vietnamese Air Force as an MAAG advisor. I was reassigned to Okinawa as a F-105 pilot with the 67th

Fighter Squadron and have just returned to the home base after 4 months of combat missions over North Vietnam. I have a total of 462 combat missions in Viemam, maybe that's a high for our class, and expect to spend several more tours over there if the situation does not improve. We Air Force types worked with the Fleet off of North Vietnam a great deal and I sure was proud of the outstanding service that these units provided us. The Navy was right there ready to come in on rescue duty and I saw several of the carrier boys take hits getting one of our downed pilots out of trouble. One of the destroyers kept me from becoming a house guest of Ho Chi when he sent an emergency air refuel tanker, A-4 I believe, with enough fuel to get me back to one of our bases. I expect to stay here at Kadena for several years and would like to extend a welcome to any of the '59ers who are passing through to stop by and say hello."

CIVILIAN NEWS '59 Wayne LOCK WOOD sends a . - d from Harvard Business School, where he is finishing up this spring. He indicates he'll be out job hunting soon, something he's been looking forward to for the past three years.

Richard J. Madden '59, newly appointed sales engineer, western area, of the Industrial Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, O.

A news release about Richard J. MADDEN indicates that Industrial Nucleonics Corp. has appointed Dick as sales engineer of their western sales area. The Maddens have moved to San Francisco, where he has his office. Dick graduated from Harvard Business School in June 1965, and joined the corporation shordy thereafter.

More news comes from Cambridge, Mass., and the '59ers enrolled in the Harvard Law School.

Mike CRONIN writes: "Just a short note to let you know of several classmates who are now at Harvard Law School. There are so many, in fact, that we have entered a Naval Academy team in the Law School intramural basketball tournament.

Stan Legro, Michael Cronin, Fred Dorworth are all in their last year here, while Bob Currie is finishing his second year. The class of '59 has more representatives (four) at the school than West Point and the Air Force Academy combined.

Surprisingly, we are all doing very well academically, all of us standing near the top of the class.

Stan plans on moving to California in June, and working for a law firm there. Fred is going home to Tulsa, Okla., to practice law. Mike is flirting with Wall Street but is still undecided. Bob has no definite plans, but will spend the summer as he did last—on active duty, teaching at Newport.

We are all out of the service but Mike, Fred, and Bob have been spending the summers, partially at least, on active duty making some money to send them through school. All of us are married, with children going all the way from 3 for Mike, to none for Fred and Stan. Three years of the academic atmosphere has been fine, but we are looking forward to finally starting the practice of law. Stan and Mike are taking a course in Admiralty Law to keep the old hand in the pie.

All of us relish the intellectual batding with the Peacenics at Harvard, but surprisingly there are very few in number, most of our fellow smdents are as patriotic as those at USNA. 1959 must be the smartest class ever in the Naval Academy history. A class reunion at Boston last year mrned 63

up nearly 40 of us who were then attending Harvard or MIT." You'll find very few of us who will argue with those last two sentences, Mike. Keep us up to date on your address after you leave Harvard.

NEWS AND DUES Paul GUAY, head of our class association, reports that over $200 has been donated by classmates and by members of Junk Force Advisory Group, Vietnam to a fund for a memorial for Bill BROWN. Bill was killed in an attack on a junk base by Viet Cong last July in Vietnam. It has been requested that a memorial chair be purchased in the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium for Bill with part of this money. The class hopes to purchase a memorial plaque to be placed in Dahlgren Hall with the remaining money, memorializing William L. Brown as the first graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy class of 1959 to be killed in action by aggressor of a hostile nation.

Anyone desiring to contribute to the fund, please address your contributions to Paul Guay, Executive Department, USNA. It might be appropriate at this time to also mention that the plea of several months ago to help find some of Bill Brown's personal possessions (sword, Lucky Bag, and uniforms) has not been successful. These things have not yet been located; however, several '59ers have volunteered to donate their extra copy of the '59 Lucky Bag. If Bill's gear is not located one of these yearbooks will be offered to his parents.

The second annual '59 Newsletter is slovifly getting underway. Hopefully, by the time you read this, the letter will be "on the street." If you have not received your copy by 1 May, chances are that our class records do not reflect an accurate address for you. If you want to be sure, drop your correspondence secretary a line with your current address.

And since you are updating your address you are asked to do two other small things: (1) include some news items about yourself and other '59ers in your area to be passed on to the class in this column; (2) also enclose a check for your 1966-67 class dues. As will be seen in the Newsletter, the treasury did well last year but less than one-third of the class contributed and paid their dues. Dues are three dollars (or more if desired) per year. Members of the class will not be billed if their dues are not paid, but we would like to think that every member of the class is active, interested and participating as much as possible in the class association.

Pres., Lt. H. A. Lawinski, VF-162 NAS, Miramar, Calif.

Sec'y, Lt. Chico Chavez, USN OICC RVN, c/o APO San Francisco, Calif. 96309 WEDDING Got the word that George GROSSMAN has finally settled down. He married the former Miss Mecky Sheidt, a pert, pretty blond of Delaware and Germany, on 4 Dec. '65. George is by now a civilian working for DuPont in Wilmington, Del., where he met Mecky. The newlyweds honeymooned in Canada and plan to attend the Octoberfest in Munich next fall. George and Mecky welcome one and all passing through Del. to stop by and pay a call.

FROM SAIGON Had the grand opportunity to make a business trip to Taiwan by way of Hong Kong in January. It had been 11 years since I had been to both places. From what I can remember as a young seaman, both have undergone great changes, though nothing is comparable to the remarkable growth of Hong Kong. One of the high points of a visit there is the fascinating view of the colony as the aircraft makes its approach for a landing on a bright sunny day. In Taiwan, I visited Taipei and Kaohsiung. It was in 1955 that my ship pulled into Kaohsiung and I can vividly 64

remember the extremely narrow entrance to the harbor with gun emplacements at each side of the cliff, the Soviet tanker, which had been captured by the Chinese, anchored in the harbor, and I'll never forget that when getting underway from Kaohsiung (I was the flag-raiser for the special sea and anchor detail), I raised the national ensign upside down! Kaohsiung is a thriving port now and it was here that I saw the only classmate I was to meet on the whole trip: Ken BAUM. Ken is the Headquarters Support Activity Taipei Representative in Kaohsiung and since he's the only officer assigned to the port, he also wears the hat of the MSTS Representative, plus other collateral duties, which include running the dependent's school. Had a little difficulty finding him, but we finally got together and over lunch discussed our official business and compared notes on past experiences. Ken's real happy in Kaohsiung and is considering extending for 6 months.

I thought it was unusual that he doesn't look a day older than he did 6 years ago.

In Saigon I see big Jay Metzler and Sid Jones every day. Jay is the same ol' happy-golucky guy. And that Sid is a persistent little sonof-a-gun—always asking for information and giving me a hard time in his friendly southern way. I see Brad Purinton and Bob Powers from time to time. And the guy who just showed up in Saigon is Jim BULLOCK, who is with the Naval Advisory Group TAD from Japan for an indeterminate period. I thought Jim looked real thin—'cause I remember him as husky, clumsy runner and when I asked he told me about his near-fatal accident in New York. Except for a couple of barely noticeable scars on his face he looks fit as a fiddle but he isn't the big Jim Bullock he used to be. Jim left his wife and 2 children in Japan.

Got a note from Neal PARKER, who is at Anh Ke flying helos and fighting the VC. My incoming class correspondence has been steadily dwindling. I wish more classmates would take pen in hand and scribble a note to me every once in a while. One of these days I'm going to go on strike.

Pres., Lt. James R. Traa, USN USS HADDO (SSN-604) FPO New York Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 5736 Salerno Rd., W. Jacksonville, Fla. 32210 Tom MITCHELL hit on an excellent method of sending in a data card, a 4^ postcard! Won't be long before we'll have a list out naming the stragglers, so take heed! Tom and Patricia are presently in Groton, Conn., with their three children, Jennifer (3), Michelle (18 mos.), and David (6 mos.).

From Baltimore, Paul LANG sent word of his civilian status. He is an employment representative for Bendix Field Engineering Corp. in Baltimore and is attending George Washington University Law School in Washington. Paul resigned his commission in June of 1965 and is presently in the Naval Reserve. In 1964 he received the Antarctica Service Award. The Langs are residing at 6727 Townbrook Drive in Baltimore.

Bob HOFFORD has just returned from his second cruise with VA-163 flying A4Es off ORISKANY. They spent over six months of the cruise "on the line" off Vietnam, where Bob received II Air Medals. His third cruise starts in May, and Beverly and their two boys will be at Lemoore until his return. Bob is on the list for aeronautical engineering, and hopes to reach Monterey this year.

Since graduation from sub school in March of 1963, Dick NORMAN has been attached to USS SEAWOLF, which is presendy undergoing overhaul in Portsmouth. Dick was married to Dave Quinlan's ('60—24th Co.) sister, Kathleen, in Sept.

1964, and the happy pair became proud parents of Suzanne Elizabeth on 2 Jan. of this year. They

are presendy living at Cutts Island, Kittery Point, Me. Jack ALLEN is aboard TICONDEROGA "over thar," according to Judy. What a way to spend a first anniversary!

Two lengthy and very newsy letters arrived this mondi from Dave WRIGHT and Barry GASTROCK. Dave has recendy reported to the Virginia Beach area after completing a three-year tour in USS BECUNA in December. From July through October BECUNA was on a Med run, and Marianne toured with the ship from early August until the end of September. They saw several classmates, and in Rota met Pete FERRISO, who flys with PatRon, Rota. Dave is presently enrolled in the Weapons Officers Course at Guided Missiles School in Dam Neck. He is due to complete the course in May, and will join the FBM Weapons Division Staff at Dam Neck as an instructor. Other '61ers in the course are Frank VISTED, en route USS GRANT; Lawson BRONSON and Al CHEAURE

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Before leaving the New London area, Dave saw Bob FENICK, a Supply Corps instructor on sub school staff. He had news of Tom WHITE, who is out of the Air Force, and is working for Bell Labs, Matawan, N . J. Tom and wife, Carole, have one child.

Dave recently attended a memorial mass held for Jack PRUDHOMME at NAS Oceana. Other '61ers attending were Pat Fitzpatrick, Ernie Frankenberg, Ray Herzog, Bob Shupe, John Champlain, Jim Joyner, and Ara Swisher.

Dick OLDHAM, wife Suzie and son Marc, will be in the Newport News area in May, when ETHAN ALLEN comes in for overhaul. Classmates already in the area are Andy SALKO, Fred LOWACK, and Gene DVORNICK aboard USS GEORGE MARSHALL,

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Mike

McMAHON

in

LEWIS AND

CLARK.

Barry GASTROCK's news should keep us all busy for the next few minutes. Barry and Sue have two sons: Barry, Jr., 3V4, and Kurt, 6 months.

After receiving his wings in Nov. 1963, he went to NAS Lemoore for five months of RAG training in VA-125, then on to VA-212 with which he is aboard USS HANCOCK for his third WesPac cruise.

There are now three other '61ers aboard HANCOCK: Dave BEDSON (VF-24), Bobby HULSE (VF-211), and Al THIEL (C.I.C). Last cruise Frank MORROW was aboard in VA-215, but he has gone on shore duty at Pav River; and Bob DERBEY put in a short hitch with 212 before going to TOPEKA. The TICONDEROGA has been Jay

S H O W E R ' S home for a few cruises. Jay is in VA56. In BONNIE DICK, Barry ran into Howie WINFREE, VA-195. Back at Lemoore he saw Mike MALDEN, who was going through the RAG with VA-125, and Jim CONNELL, who was getting ready for another ride aboard RANGER with VA-55.

At the end of his second cruise, Barry talked with Skip BENNET and Gerry CHASKO aboard CORAL SEA. He says Skip must tell us about his swimming lessons in the South China Sea sometime.

We've a ready ear and pen. Skip!

In the O Club at Cub Point, Barry saw the MIDWAY contingent getting ready to go on the line: Bill NEWMAN and Willie CLARK. Jim ABBITT and Van TEMPLE, both in VA-164, have recendy completed a cruise with ORISKANY, and Barry says he understands that Bob DAVIS is with VA-93 aboard ENTERPRISE. Gene GREEN was aboard HANCOCK for a while just before she left the States. He is flying in VAW-13.

The Gastrocks keep in touch with Larry and Judy KOCH, who are in the San Diego area with VS-25; that is, when Larry isn't making his home aboard YORKTOWN. Barry reports that the Kochs' son Tommy has redder hair than his dad. Quite a feat! Both Larry and Barry are planning on going to Monterey soon.

Ed and Lee DECKER happily announce the arrival of their third child, Elizabeth Lynne, on S H I P M A T E

27 Nov. The Deckers live in Thornton, Colo., at I I 4 1 E. 95th Ave. Buzzy NEEDHAM compiled diis list of classmates recendy chosen to attend PG school. Thanks, Buzzy, here goes: Gary A. Abrell, Don M. Alger, Arnold C. Allen, W. C. Allen, Jr., J. E. Ardell, III, Paul R. Arneth, A. E. Bailey, Jr., W. Bardeschewski, Jon M. Barr, Harold C. Barrett, Perry A. Beem, Andrew J. Bennett, David A. Benson, M. D. Bickel, Jerry H. Black, John W. Black, Milton H. Boudon, James S. Bowrn, John E. Boyer, John J. Brannan, W. P. Batten, Jr., William T. Brooks, D. A. Brummersted, Charles R. Bubeck, David V. Burke, Jr., Thomas J. Burke, A. F. Campbell, Gary L. Carlson, Neil S. Cams, Thomas R. Case, Gary M. Chapel, Malcolm W. Chase, Kent R. Chastain, R. F. Chipchak, Donald P. Chiras, B. W. Churchill, Thomas S. Corboy, J. D. Coullahan, Jr., F. Dattilo, III, R. T. Davis, II, A. L. Dean, Jr., David T. Dean, J. P. W. Decker, R. S. Derose, A. E. Dighton, Jr., Alan H . Donn, Robert L. Drake, R. C. Drummond, T. P. Dugan, Jr., Hugh C. Duncan, Eugene Dvornick, Thomas R. Eckert, W. S. Emmerich, Ronald A. Erchul, D. C. Erickson, E. J. Ettinger, II, Robert S. Fitch, P. C. Fitzpatrick, Wilson F. Flagg, James A. Flynn, S. L. Freeland, Dana P. French, John L. French, Jr., Dale F. Furman, Jr., Barry A. Gastrock, James L. George, R. N . Giuffreda, J. R. Gloudemans, Eugene L. Green, Dwain G. Gregg, Robert G. Grubb, G. E. Guenter, Robert C. Hanson, Harold E. Harden, John A. Hay, WiUiam C. Helton, J. P. Herlihy, R. F. Herzog, W. D. Hicks, Jr., Richard M. Hixson, Robert F. Hoffard, D. P. Holbrook, C. C. Holcomb, Richard W. Holly, Anthony S. Hooker, R. J. Horhutz, Daniel J. Houton, Robert C. Hulse, W. B. Humphrey, Richard B. Jacobs, Frank A. Jones, Jr., Milton H. Jones, Colin T. Kagel, Joseph A. Kasales, Joseph A. Kiel, Thomas R. Kinberg, F. M. Kirk, Jr., W. F. Klumpp, II, Larry N . Koch, Jon P. Komarek, A. B. Komoraske, Jr., Thomas B. Korsmo, F. R. Kroner, Jr., Howard E. Kuhn, James Kulesz, Jr., A. F. Lazzaretti, Ira E. Livingston, H. E. Logan, Larry L. Lubbs, James A. Luper, Donald J. Lyons, Harold P. Martin, Harry A. Marzen, John Matechak, R. K. Matzelle, L. B. McEwan, Jr., E. S. McGinley, II, M. J. McMahon, James W. Meadows, Carlos E. Mercado, R. W. Michaux, Alan K. Miller, John A. Momm, Mark W. Moore, John K. Morris, H. L. Morrison, Frank A. Morrow, Paul D. Moses, M. J. Maynahan, W. R. Needham, Robert J. Nemes, William E. Newman, C. J. Nosal, Lionel J. Nowotny, James H. Nutt, Roger P. Onorate, P. J. Oppenheimer, David M. Parker, Robert G. Partlow, A. H. Passarella, John D. Pearson, J. S. Perry, R. J. Petrucci, C. E. Plaugher, Lawrence H. Price, J. M. Quarterman, P. A. Rasmussen, James D. Rattan, Ronald H .

Reimann, J. C. Richardson, N. H. Ridenour, George P. Ritter, C. B. Robbins, K. A. Rohdenburg, Stanley R. Roman, Melvin M. Romine, Neil B. Rosengren, Michael C. Roth, W. C. Rothert, Daniel L. Rush, H. L. Sandefer, George J. Saupe, Robert P. Schin, Henry Schmidt, Jr., H. L. Schotde, Gerald N. Seneff, Guarino J. Seraly, R. E. Seyfarth, R. J. Shaw, Jr., J. E. Shaw, Jr., Thomas A. Shields, A. J. Shower, Jr., R. S. Shreve, III, Glen W. Smith, John A. Smidi, Robert C. Smith, Wayne J. Smith, James T. Snedeker, Harold E. Spooner, M. D. Stanley, Jr., Boyden T. Steele, J. J. Stewart, Jr., W. F. Strobach, David H. Stryker, D. J. Sullivan, D. A. Sullivan, D. J. Svendsgaard, Kenneth R. Sydow, A. A. Thiel, Jr., Gayle R. Thompson, C. S. Thorell, J. E. Tulodieske, R. B. Vanmetre, K. L. VanSickle, Robert K. Vogel, Gordon W. Wacker, Richard D. Waer, K. W. Waldorf, John M. Welch, Frederick J. West, R. E. Westfall, R. M. Whitney, Jr., L. J. Willetts, Jr., D. D. Williams, III, Jack R. William, Robert B. Wilson, B. R. Wittmann, Ned C. Wolfe.

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Sec'y, Lt. H. S. Pinskey, (SC) USN USNAV Box 26, Clarksville Base Fort Campbell, Ky. 42222

NAVY AIR I received a letter from Tom WOODKA saying he is aboard

USS FORRESTAL in

the Med.

He

writes there are five other classmates aboard including Lou GRANT attached to HC-12 who just took part in a heroic rescue operation off the side of a mountain in Greece. The other pilots include Fred LEWIS in VF-74, Layton SMITH in VA-81, Bob DEPUTY in VFP-62, Bill BOND in VA-1I2 and Tom, the only prop pilot of the group in VAW-12 Detachment 59. While in the Med, Tom ran into Doug COTTON who is engineering office aboard USS CECIL. Tom is interested in starting a 13th Company chain letter so if the members of that company would send a postcard with their address to Tom at 4200 Flowerfield Rd., Norfolk, Va., the idea could get off the ground.

Frank and Gay WAGNER are proud to announce their first child, a boy named James Peter, was born on 30 Dec. in Athens, Greece.

Their boy was named after our deceased classmate James Pete KOCH who was killed in an aircraft accident last October. Frank is ordnance officer of VA-85 flying A-6 Intruders from USS KITTY HAWK in the South China Sea. Gay has heard from Al GEZELMAN and wife Fran who now have a son Allen and a daughter Alexandra and are living at Fort Belvoir, Va. Al has orders to Vietnam.

TUTUILA in Norfolk and served in the jobs of disbursing, commissary, and assistant supply officer over two years. He and his wife Donna are now living in Temple, Pa., where Charlie is stationed with the Defense Contract Administration Services in Reading, Pa. This is a DOD assignment and is very interesting. He serves as chief of the Production Support Branch of the Production Division.

AIR FORCE I heard from Bill THURSBY last month that he graduated from the North Carolina State University and received his Master's degree in physics in June. He was married that same month in Baltimore, Md., to the former Marian Legters of Baltimore. Brooks and Betty MANCINI were in attendance. Bill is presently stationed at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Mass., working with atmospheric problems at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories in the Optical Physics Lab. J. D. RUNNELS informs me that he is to be married on 30 April to Miss Linda Linstruth of Castorland, N. Y. Linda is presently a dependent school teacher in Germany. The civil ceremony will take place in Luxembourg with a church ceremony at Betburg, Germany. J. D. spent the Christmas holidays with Bob and Sybil WESTERMAN in Wiesbaden, Germany. Bob is stationed there with the Air Force.

CIVILIANS I received a card from RAdm. E. T. Seaward, USN (Ret.), '24 telling me that his son Jerry now lives at 4141 California Ave., S.W., Seattle, Wash., and is employed by Sears, Roebuck. After leavSnoopy WALKER communicates from the big ing USNA Jerry returned to Iowa State University and graduated in '60. He then served in the E, USS ENTERPRISE, that they are in the war zone also and he is flying for VAW-11 Det. Mike, Navy for five years on active duty as a reserve officer, his last assignment being aboard USS along with Buzz HURST. Aboard are Roger KISIEL flying A-4's and Phil OLSON who is in RANGER as a bombardier-navigator for which he received the Commendation Medal. He is now a the ship's company engineering department. Fenn BEASLEY and Dave HOFFMAN round out the weekend warrior with a Seattle reserve squadron.

'62ers present.

It has been suggested to me by J. D. Runnels that the class have a plaque placed on the grounds MARINE CORPS at the Academy with the inscription of the names The picture sent to me by Al SOMMERS was of our classmates who have passed on. It could taken at Chu Lai, Vietnam, just before the Army- be a simple stone and bronze plaque with a suitable engraving. This could be a fine way to Navy game. This auspicious group includes (left memorialize our departed friends. If you have to right): Ed O'SuUivan, John Chesson, both '62; any other comments or ideas concerning a MeEd Fox '64; Al Sommers '62; Daryl Robert and morial Fund, please pass it along to me. I think Joe Gardner, both from '63. the time is at hand to make a decision and set the wheels in motion.

Well, the dark ages are about over!! It's time to write me about your activities. It takes a few minutes of your time and it gives over 500 subscribing classmates many pleasant and happy thoughts.

Smooth sailing until next month.

EAST COAST Sec'y, 1st Lt. John L. Newton, USMC Depot Athletic Officer, Depot Special Services, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S. C. 29905 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) W. B. Orgera, USN VAW-ll ECHO, FPO San Francisco 96601 Ready for the B!g Game.

SUBMARINES Mike RAGGETT dropped me a quick note telling me that he was enjoying his WesPac cruise aboard USS PLUNGER hitting ports of Subic Bay, Okinawa, Japan, and Hong Kong. Pete THOMAS is also aboard.

STAFF CORPS William HEINE informs me that he now stationed at the Public Works Center, Subic Bay, Philippines, working in the engineering department. Bill's wife Judy and daughter Cindy are enjoying the Pacific also.

The Supply Corps came through as usual with word from Charlie KOSCH. After graduation from Supply Corps School he reported aboard USS 66

WEST COAST This column gets shorter and shorter as the months go by. I know that everyone enjoys it, or at least that is what they say, so how about dropping a line now and then because I enjoy writing it.

Ollie DONELAN dropped a line to fill us in on some of the latest dope. It looks like they had quite a Beat Army party from the picture. From left to right are Bob and Liz Polich, Bob and Pat Wildman, and Dotty and Jim DeFrancia.

Standing are Joan Gill, Buzzy and Cecelia Barlow, Ron Machens, Jerry Smith, George Theroux ('61), Sandy Donelan, Denny Bell, and Ed Gill. Also at the party but not in the picture were Linda Theroux, Vern Von Sydow, Steve Hoy and Ollie.

Ollie said that Terry and Sue ABELL became the parents of a litde girl, Tamara Lynn, on 3 Nov.

Bob EASTMAN wrote to say that on 25 Nov. his wife Darlene gave birth to Jillinda Jean, who was a big addition to their family. Bob and Glenn MARTINSEN are in PatRon 17, which is presently deployed to WestPac. They have been to Vietnam, Sangley Point, Okinawa, and Wake Island. Marty as the I and E officer is putting his art talents of the Log days to work with problems of retention.

Rich WILSON and Bob MILLER are flying die F-4 on the Big E. Mike RULAND and Don SAIDMAN are aboard as nuclear types and Don M C A L L I S T E R is minding the helm. Don said Dud HENDRICKS just finished up EOD school and is hoping to get to VN. I met A. B. TAYLOR in Hong Kong. He got off the CORAL SEA in August, after his second WestPac cruise, went to Charleston for three months of mine school, and is now in the IMPLICIT MSO-455 as the first lieutenant and gun boss.

He should be XO in a few months.

Also in HK I saw George TRACY. He is the ASW officer in the MCKEAN, but is getting orders as XO in an LST, the POLK COUNTY. Right now he is escorting the BONNIE DICK back to the

States.

The KITTY HAWK was in Yokosuka when we

pulled in and I ran into Brev MOORE who is flying Spads and Bud JOHNSON who is flying the A-4. Also saw Tom SHERIDAN who is getting ready to take over a swift boat.

Bob HUDSPETH is at die U. of Washington working on his Master's in oceanography.

Larry GRAHAM and Ed GILL are still holding down the U D T teams here in Coronado. They both are brown and fit as usual.

This is a sad note to inject. I read about Don MacLAUGHLIN getting killed in V. N . I would like to express my sympathy for the class. It is strange to talk to a guy, and a couple of months later find out that he is gone. The price is dear to pay but the reward of liberty is sweet.

Yours truly is on leave at present so I have plenty of time to write. That's a hint. I am taking over as special services officer in the squadron when I get back on the 1st of March.

This is a rather sizable job with over a thousand enlisted men in the squadron. Best of all, it is good to be back.

George GOTTLIEB made a New Year's resolution to write and that he did. Last summer he got his M.S. in physics at U. of Michigan. He is a physicist at AF Weapons Lab doing atomic physics. Still single, he goes skiing almost every weekend and awaiting the warm weather for a litde skydiving.

Right across the passageway is Ron SAQUI's office; he got his M.S. in nuclear engineering at the AF Inst, of Technology at Wright-Patterson.

He is working on nuclear type work also. Mike BLACKLEDGE got his M.S. in math from N. C. State and is also working in the same outfit.

George talked to Virgil MARCUS recendy. He got an M.S. in math and is working on computers at Ent. AFB. Virg applied and was accepted for navigator training this spring.

Bob McCRACKEN is at Berkeley working on an M.A. in English and has a teaching job lined up when he finishes.

If anyone is in the the Kirkland-Albuquerque area, Ron, Mike or George would be happy to see them.

Carl KOLON wrote to say diat he, George Kell, Dick Omohundro, and Chuck Calvano were the first of our class to graduate from Destroyer School in June. Carl is the operations officer in the INGRAHAM. Homeported in Newport, he is now deployed to WestPac for seven months.

In Pearl he saw Fred and Mary Ellen BECKHAM, and spent an evening with Jack and Ann M C D O N A L D . He bumped into George FARRIN several times in Yokosuka, also Dick KANE in S H I P M A T E

Saiigley with a detachment of P-5s. Also ROTO at Villanova. Joe was commissioned last Felix deGOLIAN, ComTraPac's flag lieutenant, January and has been serving as second division officer of USS WRANGELL, an ammo ship, deployed and Abel GARCIA on the PhibGru staff.

John TRUESDELL wrote from DaNang to say off the coast of Vietnam. that he is the message center officer. Eric TURNER is the port services officer and Mike SMITH is with supply. They are all attached to the Naval Support Activity whose function is to get the cargo from the ships to the beach. John hopes to be back to the states in June. Here's looking for youâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;.

Roy and Vickie WARREN were here in Coronado to welcome me back. Roy is in VS-2I and will deploy (finally) in June in the KEARSARGE.

He said Steve LEISGE is in VN flying F-4s with the AF. His wife Sue is teaching school at George AFB. From the family of Lt. (jg) Donald Clay MacLAUGHLIN, Jr., USN ' 6 3 : "We wish to thank all of his classmates and friends for their many kind expressions of sympathy. They are deeply appreciated and will never be forgotten.

Our prayers are with you all." Mac's wife Gayle is living at 3742 Oak Ave., Baltimore 7, Md. Jim PENROD of the old Second Company was medically retired in July '64 as a result of an aircraft accident at Meridian, Miss. Jim wrote that he is presently in his second year at George Washington Law School.

Raymond L. WITTER and the former Miss Eleanor Provost Bonham were recently married at St. John's Episcopal Church in Somerville, N . J. Ray was stationed aboard USS ENTERPRISE; his address was BO(5 Rm. 513, U. S. Subase, Groton, Conn., or in care of his ship, FPO, New York. As ushers from '63 were Mark Schwing, Rodney Hopkinson, and Bruce Alitt.

Paul SAACKE sent along the following info: After three months in the LAWRENCE at Norfolk, Paul made his way through nuclear training via Bainbridge, Md., and Windsor, Conn. He and the former Carolyn P. Junice were married 24 Oct. '64 after prototype training and before reporting to Sub School in New London. They were joined by a girl-type tax deduction on 20 Dec. '65. After Sub School Paul and Larry DOLL re-

W i l l and Helene Settle.

Will's address until the latter part of June is 184 East Bay St., Charleston, S. C. (tel.: 803-7230540); he would appreciate hearing from classmates in the area.

As for myself, I am heading for three weeks TAD to train as a naval gunfire aerial spotter at Little Creek.

I'd like to remind you that the editorial deadline is the tenth of each month except for the double summer issues. Let's hear from you.

out of San Diego as did Bill HABERMEYER. Joe says that after all that school, it is great to be a sailor again!

Shortly before leaving Pensacola, I saw Glen RUSSELL who is at Saufley after finishing Basic School. He and Miss Carol Terrell of Richmond, Va., were married in the USNA Chapel on 18 Dec. Glenn says diat Mike CHUMER is still in the DaNang 7th Engineers and expects to return to the states in March. We wouldn't know him there as he has lost 40 pounds running around VN. Tom Holden went to VN at Christmas. Bruce Welch finished Glynco and is in El Torre. Bobby and Karen Prath are in Glynco. Karl Vogeler, Dick Briner, Morry Kemple and Bill Krulak have received their wings and were assigned A-4s out of Jax. Steve Hastings, Read Mecleary, and Jay Finney got A-4s out of Lemoore where Matt Evans got A-ls. Nick Markoff got F-8s in Puerto Rico. Art Collier got F-4s in Oceana where Jim Holian got A-6s. Dick Phelan, who is getting married in March, is flying P-3s in Jax. The surprise of the age came when we found that Rog KIETHLY was married in Dec. No details but he must have gone to the wrong church for rehearsal again and got caught this time.

Morry and Judy KEMPLE stopped in Pensacola to visit Dave and Dee GOULD. Morry had many tales of advanced training including one of John BUCHANAN landing an F - I I so hard that he blacked out but got airborne and managed to take the gear. John just cannot get over the fact that his F - I I is painted training command gray and not Blue Angel blue.

Soupy CAMPBELL, Charlie DESANTIS, Charlie SHIELDS, and Dave SJUGGERUD went to Corpus to watch Dick (84 second) MERRITT win the regional Golden Gloves. His manager, Art PARROTT, diinks that Dick has a great future in boxing as long as Art makes up the poems to taunt the public. He is tough but no good at poetry.

We were very sorry to hear that Pat MALONE was recently admitted to the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia and then transferred to Bethesda. It is feared that the wounds he received in Vietnam ported to the GEORGE WASHINGTON at the Electric Marc and Fran CALHOUN announced the will make it necessary for his name to be transBoat Co. in what, at the time, seemed to be a birth of a daughter, Linda Frances, on 28 Nov. ferred to the retired list. As a class, we all wish perpetual overhaul. Larry was in the gold crew him the best and a speedy recovery. at Jacksonville Beach. Marc has been CIC officer in and Paul the blue. They were anticipating a JONAS INGRAM for about a year. During that time missile shoot at Cape Kennedy. he made two Med cruises and several Caribbean trips. Marc has his application in for the June Sec'y, Ens. Edward A. Orr, Jr., USN Birney PEASE, a man in Air Force blue, sent 700 Paulding Ave., Apt. 2 class to Des Tech. word from mid-America. Kent MAXFIELD and Warrington, Fla. Birney were Deputy Missile Combat Crew ComNick PRESS wrote to fill us in on the weddings manders on Minuteman missile crews at Whiteman of several classmates. Miss Mary Barton and Tom In last month's article I stated that I would AFB, Mo. Kent was working on a M.S. in busi- McFEELY were married in late November. Nick, let everyone know where to send a note or card ness administration' at the University of Missouri Phil JACOBS and Bill TINSLEY were in the to John MICKELSON, who is recovering from a in the AFIT program. Birney and Barbara are wedding in the NAS Pensacola chapel. Miss Susan serious car accident, as soon as I found out. At parents of another litde girl as of last Oct. Bill Bates and John NUERNBERGER took the big step that time Mik was in the hospital here in PensaHOWARD was still working for McDonnell in in Chester, Conn., on 19 Dec. Nick, who is in cola. Since that time his recovery has been excelSt. Louis as a design engineer and had married the HC-4, Lakehurst, N. J., was recently joined there lent and he has been moved to the Naval Hospital former Candy Daniel about a year ago. John

by Dave TRACE. Chris WHEMPLE is there in in Oakland, Calif. Somehow or other there was a KELLY was married in Sept. '65 and took his HC-2, "the Fleet Angel" squadron. slight mix-up and Mik was sent first to Bethesda bride to Monterey for graduate school. Birney but now he is at Oakland. I'm sure that any cards Bob and Bonnie LAUTRUP wrote a long letter would like to hear from Moose McGRATH and or letters you could send to him c/o Oakland to explain their activities since they left USNA in Bob NOBBS; Birney's address is 614 Westside Naval Hospital would do a lot to speed up his November of 1964. He and Dave TORNBERG Drive, Knob Noster, Mo. 65336. were the only '64 types in sub school in New recovery.

London. Later Bob and Jim SORENSEN were the Spike KARALEKAS is back at his desk in the Will SETTLE wrote to let the class know of only classmates at Mare Island. They planned a Chief of Information Office in Washington at his recent marriage to the former Miss Helene Ann wetting down party which received wide publicity the Pentagon, following a month's deployment in Becker of Cheshire, England. They were married in the local paper. Luckily the photographer came the Med on a project for ComServLant, and two on 29 Dec. at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in early and was in time to enjoy the party. months in Norfolk. Spike got engaged to Tina on Charleston, S. C. Will was attending the Mine Warfare School staff officers' course which is a Presendy Jim and Bob are in Idaho Falls Christmas day and they plan on taking the big six-month course, having been relieved as operawhere they report that they are learning to work. step sometime in October. Besrinning in June he tions officer .in USS ABILITY, a Charleston-based Roy JONES is in the class ahead of them and is will be assigned to the staff of Commander First Naval District, Boston. setting all kinds of records. Neil Swertman, Hal mine sweeper.

Anderson, Bruce Bowman, Potsy Scoville, and Spike had talked to Gordie WHITE who had Will had a Christmas card and letter from Mike OWEN, who was the Salty Sam '63. Mike Gary Zimmerman are also in Idaho Falls. Bob and just returned from Vietnam aboard USS INDEwas flying with VT-6 on the west coast and was Bonnie are doing fine and are full of proud tales PENDENCE, and Tom DAMES who is at Great of their son Joel.

Lakes with the CEC. expecting a transfer to Hawaii. Will also had been in touch with Joe PTAK, a Tenth Company Joe INCE is on a diesel sub, USS CARP, out of Bob VAUGHAN wrote from protot>'pe school classmate who left the Academy and became a Norfolk. Chuck WELTY got a nuclear attack boat in Windsor, Conn. He reported there in December MARCH,

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from Mare Island along with Pete GALBRAITH and Mike McGARAGHAN. Also in Windsor are Ralph RICKARD and Hugh DOHERTY who were at Bainbridge prior to reporting to prototypes. Bob also reported that Aaron SPURWAY and John O'DWYER went to Idaho from Mare Island, and Steve MLADINEO and Bruce MOUW went to West Milton, N. Y.

Ens. and Mrs. Arnold W. McKechnie, Jr.

The smiling bride and groom in the picture are Ens. and Mrs. Arnie McKECHNIE, who were married at the Navy Chapel in Washington on Dec. 19th. Mrs. McKechnie is the former Carol Linda Holzapfel. The ceremony was followed by a reception at the Bethesda Officers' Club. Tom FORBES acted as best man and Tom's sister, Mrs. Marjie Hughes, was Carol's matron of honor.

Arnie is presently stationed aboard USS RICHARD S. EDWARDS out

of San

Diego.

Chis MANGER was married on Jan. 8th to the former Janis Louise Lowery. The ceremony took place at the Methodist Community Church in Los Altos, Calif.

Tex WITTIG also became a happy husband during December. His wife is the former Patricia Anne McKinley of Brunswick, Ga. Patti attended Furman University for two years, then worked as a stewardess for Eastern Airlines prior to their marriage.

Nick PALDINO wrote from Craig AFB in Selma, Ala., where he is about half-way through his flight training program and is due to get his wings in August. Nick flew home and back for Christmas leave with Mike RILEY and reports that marriage has not changed Ril one bit. While in the operations cafeteria at NAS Memphis on one of his hops, Nick ran into another old friend. Col. Hogan himself!

Another marriage that took place on 18 Dec. was that of Skip LANE to the former Virginia Whelan, in Washington. While honeymooning in Bermuda, Skip and his wife ran into Mr. and Mrs. Jim SAVARD, also on their honeymoon.

Skip began pre-flight training in Pensacola on 8 Feb. following a tour in combat intelligence on the staff of Basic School, Quantico. He reported that Ted NANZ recently returned from two months in the Med aboard the WILLIAM V. PRATT, and that Mike HESTER is company commander for " D " Company at Basic School. Mike was injured this summer and thus could not complete his class with the rest of the USNA group.

My plea for news from Bainbridge was answered very ably by Phil FERRARA. Phil got together after New Year's with his old roommate Hal AMEREAU, who is first lieutenant aboard USS LEARY. They ran into Don BROWN, who had just finished Basic School at Quantico and was headed for Pensacola. Don told them that Dick VOGT had married Sam DUTROW's sister over the Christmas holidays.

Phil also reported that Jim WILSON was married to the former Alice Balsbough on 18 Dec.

Jeff GARGISH, John DALY, and Dave SHIPLEY were all in the wedding party.

After leaving New London, Phil reported to Nuclear Power School the last of December. While in New London the party-set included Bill PREVITY, Skip GUNTHER, Jerry SULLIVAN, Doug WRIGHT, and Mike EPPRECHT, and many of the Connecticut College lovelies. Dave ADAMS was forced to drop back from the class ahead of Phil's because of an ulcer operation.

Steve KATZ recently finished DASH School in California and is now DASH officer aboard USS ANDERSON.

George KENT graduated first at New London and is now stationed aboard a sub until beginning graduate school on his Burke Program Scholarship.

Dave ADAMS, Dave ANDERSON and Lenny BLANKNER are all planning spring weddings.

Bob HENNESSY finished near the top of his class at the Air Force flight school at Valdosta, Ga. New London Sub School couldn't have been too bad because there was a two-week training cruise to Puerto Rico where a "good time was had by all."

Denny McCOMB was married right after sub school and honeymooned in New Hampshire before reporting to Mare Island.

Many thanks to Steve FABRY for sending all the duty assignments for the Supply Corps class which graduated on 27 Jan. Brian MUIR ended up as the top man academically in the class. One bit of sad news is that Chuck WOLF dropped out of Supply School before Christmas to have a kidney removed at St. Alban's Naval Hospital. We all wish Chuck a very speedy recovery.

Since this column does not include lists of official changes of orders, I cannot print the whole list. If anyone would like to know the new duty assignment of a friend in the Supply Corps, just write me and I will be glad to answer you.

Keep the letters coming!

ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS ALBUQUERQUE The Albuquerque chapter commences its first full year of operation after considerable 1965 spade work by Chuck Langston '35, Frank Woods '57, Eldon Frame '46, Del Williamson '27, Bob Oliveri '54, and others. With Navy fliers at Sandia Base, and Navy Academy Air Force types at Kirtland AFB, there are many active duty graduates who have shown interest in the chapter.

Officers for 1966 are Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, USN (Ret.) '31, president; Maj. Gerald E. Weinstein, USAF '53, vice president; Capt.

Anthony J. Chiota, USAF '55, secretary. Directors are RAdm. A. E. Uehlinger, USN (Ret.) '22, RAdm. John M. Bristol, USN (Ret.) '30; Capt.

Charles B. Langston, USN (Ret.) '35, and Cxlr.

William B. Shepard, USN (Ret.) '45.

Current plans call for a spring meeting in late April, a fall meeting in late August or September, and the joint meeting and rally with the West Pointers before the Army-Navy game. With the Navy-Air Force game scheduled for Colorado Springs on 1 Oct. 1966, some organized special projects will originate in this fairly close area.

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Blank and John Davis, chairman, will meet before the March meeting, with installation to take place at the May meeting.

The regular monthly meeting was held at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel at Towson, Md. A membership drive is now underway.

BOSTON Capt. Charles Shane, USN (Ret.), spoke on the subject of U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, at the 8 Feb. luncheon meeting of the chapter held at the Officers' Club, Charlestown Navy Yard. Walter J. Toner, Jr. '43, presided.

Capt. Shane is assistant dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. In 1940 he entered the Navy in the first V7 midshipman class in USS ILLINOIS based at New York, and was commissioned an ensign USNR. Commencing in 1944 he flew PBY aircraft in the Aleutian Islands until the end of WWII. From 1945-49 he served with Naval Air Transport Service and later MATS in Honolulu, and in 1951 was on the staff of Commander Carrier Division III operating off Korea.

After attending the Naval War College he commanded P2V squadron operating off Washington and Alaska and in 1956 was navigator of USS BOXER. From 1963-65 he was general plans officer and later assistant chief of staff of Commander-in-Chief U. S. Naval Forces Europe, stationed at London. He retired last August.

Mrs. E. C. LIndon (left) registers Lt.(jg) and Mrs. Stuart Settle as they arrive at the start of the Charleston, S. C , dinner-dance.

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Capt. and Mrs. W. C. P. Bellinger (left) chat with RAdm. and Mrs. Jack S. Dorsey at the Charleston Chapter dinner-dance. Capt. Bellinger is Chapter President and Adm. Dorsey is Commandant of the Sixth Naval District.

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The annual dinner-dance of the Charleston chapter was held at the Naval Base Officers' Club on 20 Jan., with 34 couples attending. Music for the evening was provided by the Sixth Naval District Band.

The host for the occasion was Capt. W. C. P. Bellinger, chapter president.

Officers for the new jear were elected at the regular chapter meeting held on 29 Jan. at The Pines, Indian Harbour Beach.

President is James J. Vaughan '33, who lives at Palm Bay; W. L. Graham '45, of Melbourne Beach, vice president; R. G. Bowen '61 of Merritt Island is secretary-treasurer.

The board of directors includes Dick Dole '22, Sully Sullivan '27, Dave Inbusch '38, Pete Koonce '54, Tim DeGarve '61.

Luncheons are held on the last Saturday of the month, and those visiting or living in the area are invited to attend the social hour starting at 12 noon.

COLUMBUS At the chapter meeting held at the Columbus Athletic Club the following officers were elected: Robert D. Macklin '41, president; Thomas W. Budd, Jr. '44, vice president; Robert L. Rubel '44, secretary; Robert B. Hadden '47, treasurer; Robert A. Brown '49, director, and Robert F. Egnor '36, director.

Those attending the meeting were: Atkins '32, Brown '49, Darling '24, Egnor '36, Haines '45, Howard '37, Jordan '27, Macklin '41, McCombs '30, McDaniel '24, Mott '46, Nichols '28, Rhees '44, Rogers '39, Schratz '39, Willingham '58, and Yantis '54.

CONNECTICUT The Connecticut chapter held its winter meeting at the Tobacco Valley Inn, north of Hartford, on 21 Jan. The guest speaker was A. Bernard Drought, the academic dean of the Naval Academy. In addition to 28 members and their wives, the parents of ten midshipmen attended the dinner and talk. Wendell E. Kraft '24, vice president of the chapter, presided.

Dean Drought gave an excellent summary of the general background of how the many necessary naval, engineering, scientific, cultural and basic academic subjects are blended into the 4 years of midshipman life without penalizing the leadership or technical requirements. An interesting question period, in which the midshipmen's parents actively participated, was a highlight of his presentation.

Alumni attending were: M. L. Sperry '15, W. B. Pape '22, R. H. Shepard '22, W. E. Kraft '24, J. J. Scheibler '24, R. S. Burr '26, L. C. Mabley '2(., R. S. Rickabaugh '27, P. B. Tankard '27, V. B. Cole '28, G. E. King '28, A. O. Momm '28, S. F. Quarles '32, R. E. Bourke '34, H. E. Miller '38, L. L. Davis '39, R. B. Laning '40, J. T. Hine '41.

B. Meulendyke '42, D. C. Cole '42, W. S. Graham '46, F. C. Johnston '46, S. Melesko '51, R. A. Reckert ' 5 1 ; W. W. Rothmann '51, R. K. Gregory '52, F. C. Andrews '53, and S. W. Gregg '58.

In addition to his Bachelor's degree from the Naval Academy, Col. Donley earned an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1949. He completed the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., in 1943, and a course at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Ft. McNair in 1961. During WWII he served with the 76th Division in the European Theater. Prior to entering the Army in August 1941 he was employed by Babcock and Wilcox Co. as a marine engineer.

Chapter officers are William P. Watts '38, president; Donald B. Blue '42, vice president; Dale A. Hawley '49, secretary-treasurer. The past president and founder is A. G. Thalheimer '44. Committee chairmen are Edward F. Ferguson '31, attendance; John E. Snyder '47, naval liaison, and Kenneth F. X. Smith '44, arrangements.

NEW ORLEANS Mr. Fred Wendt '46, a vice president of the Mississippi Shipping Co., was guest speaker at the 4 Feb. chapter meeting held at International House.

At the January meeting the following officers were elected: Dom A. Versaggi '45, president, J. R. Lirette '37, vice president, and John W. Sharp '48A, secretary-treasurer.

HUNTSVILLE Chapter members were guests of the Huntsville chapter of the Reserve Officers' Assn. at their annual military ball on 12 Feb. at the Officers' Club, Redstone Arsenal. A reception from 8 to 9 P.M. was followed by dancing and the serving of breakfast.

On 25 Jan. the Pershing Project manager. Col. Edwin I. Donley '40, who has been selected for brigadier general, was guest speaker. He is deputy to the Commander, Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.

New officers of the New Orleans Chapter are, from left to right, Frenchie Lirette '37, Vice President, Dom Versaggi '45, President, and John Sharp '48, Secretary-Treasurer.

Officers and speaker at Huntsville January Meeting. From the left: Capt. W. P. Watts, USN (Ret.), Administrative Assistant to the Head of the University of Alabama Research Center; Col. E. I. Donley, USA, Deputy to Commander, Redstone Arsenal; LCol. D. D. Blue, USMC (Ret.), Manager, Boeing Co. Program Control Center; Mr. A. G. Thalhamer, New Business Planning Staff of the Boeing Co.

DETROIT Chapter members, and their friends, saw the Naval Academy color film, "Ring of Valor," on I March. Capt. Daniel M. Karcher, USN, academic assistant to Dean Drought of the Naval Academy, gave a brief summary of the Academy curricula, with a question and answer period following.

At the 17 Feb. luncheon meeting held at the Harmonic Club, farewells were said to RAdm. Oscar H. Dodson upon his departure. Frank J. Drayton, Jr., is chapter president.

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Huntsville, Ala., Chapter January Meeting. From the left: J. M. Johnson, Jr., '49, D. D. Blue '42, E. I. Donley, Army '40, W. P. Watts '38, A. G. Thalhamer '44, E. S. Burns ' 3 1 , E. L. Lenihon '53, K. F. X. Smith '44, E. F. Ferguson ' 3 1 , J. J. Hall '45, W. J. Wachsler '44 (cup in hand), F. H. Gralow '48B, R. A. Croft (rear) and J. E. Snyder '47.

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Other members present were: H. P. Benton, Jr. '24, H. B. Broadfoot '16, Harry Cook '34, A. H. Eddins '13, Harold H. Ellison '42, Alden J. Labordc '38, David Levy '45, Hugh H. Lewis '34, J. K. McCue '28, R. S. Rogers '37, T. J. Ryan '21, R. D. Samsot '27, J. W. Sherar '52, Gene E. Sullivan '44, W. A. Weaver '46, F. A. Wendt '46, and Don E. Wilson '42. Guests were Frank Williams, Norman Mayer and J. T. Knight, Jr., West Point '17.

NEWPORT The regular January chapter meeting was held in the Fleet Room, Officers' Club, Naval Base, Newport, R. I., on the 21st. This was a repetition of a most enjoyable ladies' night held last June.

Present were: Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Arnold, LCdr. P. C. Bennett '56 and Mrs. Bennett, Como. G. C. Bowdey '07, Capt. T. A. Brown '35 and Mrs. Brown, Capt. and Mrs. M. M. Cloukey, RAdm. R. Dees '17, Capt. J. E. Dougherty '35 and Mrs. Dougherty, RAdm. W. M. Foster '30 and Mrs. Foster, Capt. L. Lovig '39 and Mrs. Lovig, Capt.

D. W. Olney '30 and Mrs. Olney, Capt. J. W. Rankin '08 and Mrs. Rankin, Col. and Mrs. M. C. Shattuck, Capt. P. Staley '33 and Mrs. Staley, Capt. L. Taylor '35 and Mrs. Taylor, Capt. L. F. Welch '06 and Mrs. Welch, Col. and Mrs. Mangini. The following were guests: Adm. H. K. Hewitt '07 and Mrs. Hewitt, and Mrs. S. A. Taffinder.

NEW YORK chapter members were fortunate to have Hanson W. Baldwin '24 speak at the January luncheon at the New York University Club. His perceptive comments on Vietnam were given before a record crowd. Those who attended were rewarded with an exceptionally interesting talk on the various areas of the country, the people, and southeast Asia, as well as the future role of the United States in that part of the world.

Capt. Sheldon Kinney, Cxjmmandant of Midshipmen, was guest speaker at the February meeting, and James Warner Bellah will be the honored guest at the annual dinner in March.

PHILADELPHIA The seventh annual Naval Academy athletic and fathers' night was held at Kenney's Suburban House, Cherry Hill, N. J., on 24 Feb. Cocktails preceded the dinner hour, with Ralph A. Sentman '25 the chairman and toastmaster for the evening.

RAdm. Robert H. Speck '27, Commandant of the Fourth Naval District, gave a "Welcome aboard" to all hands, and fathers of the classes of '66, '67, '68 and '69 were introduced.

RAdm. Draper L. Kauffman, superintendent of the Naval Academy, who was to speak, was unable to attend since he was in San Francisco for the funeral of Fleet Admiral Nimitz. Speakers included VAdm. William R. Smedberg '26, president of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, whose subject was "The Naval Academy and the N. A. Alumni Association," and RAdm. William F. Fitzgerald '21, executive director of the Association, who talked on "Your Alumni Association."

VAdm. Robert B. Pirie '26, president of the Naval Academy Foundation, spoke on the objectives and needs of that organization.

Also introduced were Capt. Alan R. Cameron, director of athletics at the Academy; Edgar E. "Rip" Miller, assistant director, and football coach Bill Elias. Among the former Academy superintendents who were introduced were Adm. James L. Holloway, Jr., and RAdm. John F. Davidson.

Max H. Ostrander '42 is president of the Philadelphia chapter.

PITTSBURGH The installation of officers for the new year was held at the January dinner-meeting in the Ivy

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On U March chapter members met for cocktails and dinner at the home of the Zechellas.

SEATTLE RAdm. John Crumpacker, (SC) USN (Ret.), administrative director of the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation, Inc., talked about the Foundation and its first project, Vinson Hall, at the 1 Feb. dinner-meeting held at the BOQ, Naval Air Station, Seatrie.

At the January meeting Dr. Dixie Lee Ray, director of the Pacific Science Center, spoke on the importance of oceanography and the necessity of establishing sea grant colleges, sea experimental stations, etc. He pointed out the unique values of the Puget Sound area for the pursuit of such studies. J. L. P. McCallum '35 presided at the meeting held at the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open), Naval Supply Depot.

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