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THE NAVAL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM

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the "Northv/est Channel Passage" and the North Pole, the nuclear submarine SEADRAGON surfaced several times in the ice and her crew played the world's first polar ball game.

THE NAVAL NUCLEAR PROPULSION PROGRAM A Joint Atomic Energy Commission Holland to Rickover: "Looks like we did it.'

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INTRODUCTION

The material for this article was provided by the Chief of Naval Material, VAdm. I. J. Galantin, USN, in cooperation with the Deputy Commander of the Naval Ship Systems Command for Nuclear Propulsion, VAdm. H. G. Rickover, USN (Ret.).

HE Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program is a joint program of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Navy which has as its objective the design and development of improved naval nuclear propulsion plants having high reliability, maximum simplicity, and optimum fuel life for installation in ships ranging in size from small submarines to large combatant surface ships. The program is directed by VAdm. Hyman G. Rickover, USN, Director, Division of Naval Reactors, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and Deputy Commander for Nuclear Propulsion, Naval Ship Systems Command.

Design, development, testing and evaluation of these improved nuclear propulsion plants are carried out by the Atomic Energy Commission's Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, New York. These two government-owned research and development laboratories are operated for the AEC by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and the General Elec-

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tric Company respectively. The AEC also has six land prototype naval nuclear propulsion plantsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Submarine Advanced Reactor (S3G) and the Destroyer Type Dual Reactor (DIG) at West Milton, New York, the Small Submarine Reactor (SIC) at Windsor, Connecticut, and the Large Ship Reactor (AlW), the SIW Reactor Facility, and the Natural Circulation Reactor (S5G) at the AEC's National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho.

In addition to being used to test power plant designs, the land prototypes are used to train the officers and men who operate the shipboard nuclear propulsion plants. Approximately 2,500 officers and 14,000 enlisted men have been trained at these prototypes to date. The nuclear power training program is divided into two phasesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first consisting of a 24-week course of instruction in science and technology at the Nuclear Power School located at either Bainbridge, Maryland, or Mare Island, California. Upon successful completion of this phase, the trainee is ordered to one of the prototypes SHIPMATE

for six months to undertake a rigorous training program that emphasizes principles and understanding of fundamentals instead of memorization. Courses are, therefore, on a college level for enlisted personnel and on a graduate level for officers.

Congress has authorized 104 nuclear-powered submarines including 41 Polaris missilelaunching type and one Deep Submergence Research Vehicle, and 6 nuclear-powered surface ships. Of these, 66 nuclear-powered submarines, including 40 Polaris missilelaunching type, and 3 nuclear-powered surface ships—the aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE, the guided missile cruiser LONG BEACH, and the guided missile frigate BAINBRIDGE—have been placed in operation and have steamed over 7,690,000 miles. Never once has a mission had to be aborted because of a failure in the reactor plant.

Through fiscal year 1967 the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Navy will have invested approximately $12.9 billion in the design, development and construction of naval nuclear-powered ships.

The AEC has provided $1.1 billion in research and development funds from the inception of the program and an additional $0.4 billion for capital investment for facilities. The Navy has invested $11.0 billion in the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and surface ships and an additional $0.4 billion for research and development.

A total of 223 nuclear cores have been ordered to date. 86 are in operation today.

The first core in the N.^UTILUS cost over $4 mOlion and steamed 62,000 miles. The next core cost $3 miUion and steamed over 91,000 miles. The long-life cores which will be installed in nuclear submarines cost about $3 miUion and will propel the ship for approximately 400,000 miles. This progress has been made possible only by building and operating land prototypes and ships and concurrently conducting an intensive research and development program.

Naval nuclear propulsion plant components, including the nuclear reactor and its special instruments and controls, are procured from private industry on a competitive fixed-price basis. Over 500 industrial contractors—150 large and 350 small businesses— are engaged in the fabrication and supply of these components and equipment. Five private shipyards—Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts; Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia; New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, and Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation, Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Mississippi—and six naval shipyards —Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California; Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii—are engaged in the construction or overhaul of naval nuclear-powered ships.

Pre-nuclear submarines using traditional fuels required oxygen to operate and to keep their crews alive. Once submerged, that oxygen supply was cut ofi:. The boat was dependent for its power on short-lived electric batteries, its crew dependent upon the air trapped within the hull or carried in bottles and chemicals.

A nuclear reactor eliminated the combustion engines which limited a submarine's range and speed, the need for a large amount of space to store oil, and the necessity for surfacing to recharge batteries.

The power plant of a nuclear submarine is based upon a nuclear reactor which provides heat for the generation of steam. This, in turn, drives the main propulsion turbines and the ship's turbine-generators for electric power.

The primary system is a circulating water cycle and consists of the reactor, loops of piping, primary coolant pumps and steam generators. Heat produced in the reactor by nuclear fission is transferred to the circulating primary coolant water which is pressurized to prevent boiling. This water is then pumped through the steam generator and back into the reactor by the primary coolant pumps for reheating in the next cycle.

USS NAUTILUS

In January 1948 the Department of D e fense requested the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake the design, development, and construction of a nuclear reactor which would propel a naval submarine. Shortly thereafter, the AEC assigned initial research and conceptual design aspects of the Submarine Thermal Reactor (STR) project to its Argonne National Laboratory.

In December 1948 the Commission signed a letter contract with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation for the development, engineering design, construction, operation, and testing of a prototype nuclear propulsion plant. Under terms of the contract, the AEC agreed to furnish funds for the construction of a government-owned, contractor-operated research and development laboratory which Westinghouse built on the old Bettis airport site outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In return, Westinghouse agreed to assemble a staff of scientists and engineers to build a thermal, water-cooled submarine reactor. By March 1949 Westinghouse had moved into the hangars on the former aiiport site and had begun construction of what is now the AEC's Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory.

In August 1949 the Chief of Naval Operations established an operational requirement to develop a submarine nuclear propulsion plant, including a "ready-for-sea" date of January 1955. The late Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, then CNO, recommended the construction of a nuclear submarine to Congress on April 25, 1950, and the following August President Harry S. Truman signed Public Law 674, 81st Congress, which authorized

In the steam generator, the heat of the pressurized water is transferred t o a secondary system to boil water into steam.

This secondary system is isolated from the primary system.

From the steam generators, steam flows to the engine room where it drives the turbine-generators, which supply the ship with electricity, and the main propulsion turbines, construction of the NAUTILUS. which drive the propeller. After passing That same month, August 1950, brought through the turbines, the steam is condensed the start of construction of the NAUTILUS and the water is fed back to the steam gen- land-based prototype (STR Mark I ) at the erators by the feed pumps.

AEC's National Reactor Testing Station in There is no step in the generation of this the Idaho desert. Due to the highly developpower which requires the presence of air or mental nature of the project and in order to oxygen. This fact alone allows the ship to meet the January 1955 ready-for-sea date of operate completely independent from the the NAUTILUS (STR Mark I I ) , Mark I was constructed from the start inside a submaearth's atmosphere for extended periods of rine hull, complete with a surrounding time.

During the operation of the nuclear power tank of water, and on the assumption that plant, high levels of radiation exist around it was a true seagoing power plant. Engineerthe reactor, and personnel are not permitted ing shortcuts were not allowed. Initial critito enter the reactor compartment. Heavy cality was attained at 11:17 p.m., MST, on shielding protects the crew so that the crew March 30, 1953—marking the first producmember receives less radiation on submerged tion of significant quantities of useful nuclear patrol than he would receive from natural power in the world. On June 25, 1953, Mark I reached its full design power and comsources ashore.

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Following completion of her first refueling, she again commenced operations with the Fleet, deploying to the Pacific via the Panama Canal and upon returning to Atlantic waters participated in NATO exercises in Northern European waters—completing several excursions under the Polar Ice Cap and penetrating to within 180 miles of the North Pole.

On August 12, 1958, the ship completed a history-making trans-Polar voyage from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to Portland, England.

After diving under the ice near Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 1, 1958, she became the first ship to reach the Geographic North Pole, passing beneath it on August 3. She surfaced in the Greenland Sea two days later, having steamed a total of 1,830 miles under the ice in 96 hours. For this achievement, which demonstrated the strategic potential of the Arctic, President Eisenhower awarded the NAUTILUS the Presidential Unit Citation (the first such award in peacetime) and her commanding officer, Cdr. (now Congressman) William R. Anderson, the Legion of Merit.

In May 1959, the NAUTILUS entered the

menced a successful 96-hour sustained fuUpower nm, simulating a submerged crossing of the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, on August 21, 1951, the Bureau of Ships (now the Naval Ship Systems Command) awarded a contract for the construction of the first nuclear-powered submarine to the Electric Boat Company, and on August 30, 1951, awarded a contract to Westinghouse for the design and construction of the nuclear propulsion plant for the NAUTILUS itself. President Tnmian laid the NAUTILUS' keel on June 14, 1952, at Groton, Connecticut. She was christened by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 21, 1954, and was commissioned on September 30, 1954. Her nuclear propulsion plant was first operated at power on December 20, 1954, and first developed fuU power alongside the dock on January 3, 1955.

On January 17, 1955, the NAUTILUS, putting to sea for the first time and under the command of Cdr. (now Rear Admiral) Eugene P. Wilkinson, signaled her historic message—"Underway on nuclear power."

Her Mark II reactor, a refined version of the prototype Mark I reactor, performed perfectly.

On her shakedown cruise in May 1955, the NAUTILUS steamed submerged from New London, Connecticut, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, traveling over 1,300 miles in 84 hours —a distance that was greater by a factor of ten than that previously traveled continuously submerged by a submarine. It was the first time that a combatant submarine had maintained such a high submerged speed (about 16 knots average) for longer than an hour, the longest period spent submerged by a U. S. submarine, and the fastest passage between New London and San Juan by any submarine, surfaced or submerged. Later she made an even faster submerged passage from Key West, Florida, to New London, a distance of 1,397 miles at an average speed of over 20 knots.

After more than two years of operation and evaluation, the NAUTILUS was refueled in April 1957. On her first core she steamed a total of 62,562 miles, more than half of which was totally submerged. To duplicate this feat, a conventionally-powered submarine the size of the NAUTILUS would have required over 2,000,000 gallons of fuel oil; a train of tank cars over a mile and a half

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to undergo her second refueling and the first regular overhaul of a nuclear-powered ship. On her first two reactor cores she had steamed a total of 153,886 miles—115,383 of which were fully submerged; during her first four and one-half years of operation, she had operated fuUy submerged for a total time of over one year.

She rejoined the Fleet in August 1960 with her third reactor core installed and was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet, with which she operated untU January 1964 when she entered the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to undergo a scheduled overhaul. She rejoined the Fleet on May 1, 1966, and on September 14, 1966, completed 300,000 miles of steaming on nuclear power—over 250,000 of which were fully submerged.

The nuclear propulsion plant of the NAUTILUS has proved to be particularly reliable due in large measure to the experience gained in the construction and operation of the land prototype plant. After being refueled in late 1955 following two years of nearly continuous operation and test, the prototype plant completed a continuous full power run of 66 days duration with its new core installed.

This would have been sufficient to carry the NAUTILUS twice around the world without refueling and served to vividly demonstrate the virtually unlimited cruising range of nuclear-powered ships—even at high speeds.

The prototype plant, again refueled in early 1958 and late 1960 and currently being refueled with an advanced design core, is used today as a flexible test facility for investigating new concepts in the technology as well as a training facility for officers and crews of nuclear-powered ships.

USS SEAWOLF

Initial work in the development of naval propulsion plants involved the investigation of many concepts. Of those investigated, only two—pressurized water and liquid metal (sodium)—were of sufficient interest from a naval standpoint to pursue a prototype and shipboard installation. The pressurized water concept was first applied to the NAUTILUS, the liquid sodium concept to the Navy's second nuclear-powered submarine—the SEAWOLF.

As with the NAUTILUS, the development of the SEAWOLF liquid sodium plant involved the construction of a land prototype plant.

Known as the Subarimne Intermediate Reactor, the prototype plant was constructed within a 225-foot-diameter steel sphere at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory's West Milton, New York, Site. The plant attained initial criticality on March 20, 1955, and was operated until its dismantlement in February 1957.

The SEAWOLF'S keel was laid at the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut, on September 15, 1953. She was launched on July 21, 1955, and her reactor attained initial criticaUty on June 25, 1956. Steam leaks developed during dockside testing of her plant in August 1956. The plant was shut down, and it was determined that the leaks were caused by sodium-potassium alloy which had entered the superheater steam piping. Dockside testing resumed in early December after modification and repairs to the power plant involving the bypassing of the steam side of the superheaters. After further repairs and testing, the SEAWOLF got underway on January 21, 1957, for her first sea trials. These trials were run at reduced power necessitated by the repairs; maximum power developed was 80 percent of design reactor power.

After acceptance by the Navy, the SEAWOLF operated as an active unit of the Atlantic Fleet, and on October 6, 1958, completed a record-breaking 60-day submerged run traveling a distance of 13,761 miles submerged with a completely sealed atmosphere.

Although the ship was able to operate satisfactorily for almost two years on its sodium-cooled reactor, overriding technical and safety considerations indicated the abandonment of the sodium-cooled reactor as a means for propelling naval ships. Accordingly, on December 12, 1958, the SEAWOLF entered the Electric Boat Yard at Groton for the removal of her sodium-cooled plant and its replacement with a pressurized water plant similar to that installed in the NAUTILUS. When she shut down her sodium plant for the last time, she had steamed a total of 71,611 miles of which 57,118 were fuUy submerged.

The SEAWOLF, with her new pressurized water plant installed, was recommissioned on September 30, 1960, and was assigned to operate with the Atlantic Fleet. On May 5, 1965, she entered the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to undergo her first refueling since the installation of her pressurized water reactor. On this core she steamed a total of over 161,000 miles, of which over 130,000 were traveled submerged.

USS TRITON

Congress authorized the construction of a nuclear-powered radar-picket submarine in the fiscal year 1956 Shipbuilding Program.

The ship was to be designed to be fast enough to operate in conjunction with a fast carrier task force for the purpose of providing the task force with radar information.

The Atomic Energy Commission assigned the development of a nuclear propulsion plant suitable for the propulsion of such a submarine to its Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Due to the project's developmental nature, a land-based prototype plant was built at West Milton, New York. Construction of the Submarine Advanced Reactor Prototype (S3G), consisting of a section of a submarine hull containing a reactor and associated steam generating equipment and machinery for one of the two shafts of the TRITON,

was started in October 1955. The reactor S H I P M A T E

went critical for the first time on August 18, 1958, and developed 100 percent of its rated power on October 1, 1958. The prototype was refueled and commenced operation in February 1965 with a new advanced core installed.

The TRITON, largest submarine ever built, is 447 feet long, displaces over 7,700 tons submerged, and carries a crew of approximately 170 officers and men. Each of her two pressurized water reactors, one for each of her two propellers, has a higher power rating than any previous submarine reactor.

Her keel was laid May 29, 1956, at the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut. She was laimched on August 19, 1958, commenced first sea trials on September 29, 1959, and was commissioned on November 10, 1959.

On February 16, 1960, she departed New London, Connecticut, on a voyage which was to test the cruising range and endurance of the nuclear submarine—a submerged circumnavigation of the world. Following the same route taken by Ferdinand Magellan in 1519, the TRITON proceeded to St. Peter and St. Paul's Rocks in the Atlantic and crossed the Equator on February 24, 1960. On March 7 she rounded Cape Horn and entered the Pacific Ocean. From there she sailed to Magellan Bay in the Philippines, thence south through Lombok Strait and rounded the Cape of Good Hope on April 17, 1960. She again reached St. Peter and St. Paul's Rocks on April 25 and proceeded via the Canary Islands and Cadiz, Spain, to the United States.

Surfacing off the coast of Delaware on May 10, 1960, she had traveled 36,000 miles completely submerged in 83 days and 10 hours. For this unprecedented voyage. President Eisenhower awarded the Presidential Citation to TRITON and the Legion of Merit to her commanding officer. Captain Edward L. Beach, USN. The TRITON entered the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut, in July 1962 for her first overhaul and refueling. Upon completion of this work in March 1964 she returned to duty with the Fleet and now operates as an attack submarine.

USS TULLIBEE

The development of a nuclear propulsion plant suitable for the propulsion of a small submarine was undertaken by the Atomic Energy Commission in response to a request from the Department of Defense dated October 20, 1954.

The design and development of this plant was assigned to the Combustion Engineering Company, and a separate land prototype plant built at the AEC's Windsor, Connecticut, site to test out the development aspects of this project. Construction of the prototype began in June 1957, the reactor core was loaded March 11, 1959, and the plant was operated at full power for the first time on December 19, 1959.

The TuLLiBEE, specifically designed for anti-submarine warfare, was authorized for construction in the FY 1958 Shipbuilding Program. She is 273 feet long and displaces about 2600 tons. She was launched on April 27, 1960, at the Electric Boat Division's Groton yard, completed her first sea trials on October 7, 1960, and was commissioned on November 9, 1960. Since commissioning she has operated with the Atlantic Fleet, and entered Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in October 1965 to begin her first refueling and overhaul.

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SUBMARINE FLEET REACTOR ( S 3 W / S 4 W )

After the land prototype of the NAUTILUS reactor plant was placed in operation, the need became apparent for a similar but smaller nuclear propulsion plant suitable for the propulsion of submarines of lesser displacement than the NAUTILUS. Accordingly, work was begun at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory on the development of such a plant.

This plant, designated the Submarine Fleet Reactor, employs a pressurized water reactor similar to that used in the NAUTILUS but represents a considerable simplification from the NAUTILUS plant with an improvement in operation and maintenance. Two different plant arrangements are utilized in this concept, and both have proved to be satisfactory. Since the plant employs a pressurized water reactor similar to that installed in the NAUTILUS, a land prototype was not constructed.

Five submarines are powered by this type plant. Four are attack submarines— the SKATE, SWORDFISH, SARGO, and

SEADRAGON.

The fifth. HALIBUT, is a Regulus-missile firing submarine and the first submarine to be designed from the keel up as a guided missile submarine.

The SKATE, first attack submarine with a Submarine Fleet Reactor power plant, commenced sea trials on October 27, 1957, and was commissioned on December 23, 1957.

On February 24, 1958, she departed New London, Connecticut, on her shakedown cruise, arriving at Portland, England, eight days and eleven hours later. Her 176-hour submerged transit of the Atlantic Ocean set a new west-east submarine record. On her return trip the SKATE surfaced off Block Island on March 29, seven days and five hours after departing Lizard Head. She is the first submarine to make the transatlantic voyages to England and back while submerged. Her east-west submerged transit set a new submarine record and bettered her west-east record.

On August 11, 1958, the SKATE crossed under the North Pole. During this voyage she conducted extensive exploration of undersea routes beneath the Polar Ice Cap, spending 10 days, 14 hours and traveling 2,405 miles under the ice. She surfaced within the ice pack 9 times, one of these, on August 14-15, adjacent to the International Geophysical Year's Floating Ice Station Alfa where scientific information was exchanged with the resident scientists.

In March 1959, the SKATE made the first extensive trip in winter under the Polar Ice Cap. On March 17 she surfaced through the ice at the North Pole and in a commemorative ceremony members of her crew scattered the ashes of the late explorer and submariner. Sir Hubert Wilkins, over the ice.

During this trip she traveled 11,495 miles, 11,220 of which were fully submerged and 3,090 of which were under the Polar Ice Cap. She broke through the polar ice to surface on ten occasions.

On January 6, 1961, the SKATE entered the Electric Boat Division yard at Groton, Connecticut, to undergo her first refueling and overhaul. When she shut down her initial reactor core for the last time, she had steamed a total of 120,862 miles of which 105,683 were fully submerged.

The SWORDFISH, the second attack submarine in this class, commenced sea trials on August 9, 1958, and was commissioned on September 15, 1958, at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The SARGO followed soon after, commencing sea trials on August 3,

1958, and being commissioned at Mare Island Naval Shipyard on October 1, 1958.

In January and February 1960, the SARGO conducted the first mid-winter cruise under the Polar Ice Cap. Sailing from Pearl Harbor, she gained access to the Arctic Basin by way of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Fitted with a new iceberg-detecting sonar, she proved that it is possible for a nuclear-powered submarine to transit this shallow route any time of the year. Numerous ice ridges extending to depths as great as 100 feet were encountered. On many occasions it was necessary for her to split the distance from the ice to the ocean floor, clearing each by just a few feet. The SARGO surfaced at the North Pole on February 9, 1960, and returned to the open Pacific via the Bering Sea. Altogether she steamed 6,000 miles under the ice in 31 days, and surfaced 20 times, most surfacings being accomplished by breaking through the ice.

The SEADRAGON, constructed at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, was commissioned on December 5, 1959. On August 1, 1960, she departed Portsmouth for assignment to the Pacific Fleet. She deployed via the Northwest Passage (Lancaster Sound, Barrow and McClure Straits), proving the feasibility of an all-weather passage for nuclear submarines. During the transit she gained valuable information on iceberg bottom contours.

Upon completing the passage, the ship remained in the Arctic Basin collecting scientific data, and on August 24, 1960, became the fourth United States submarine to reach the North Pole. While there she surfaced, and her personnel established another first— a baseball game was held on the pack ice between the officers and crew. On the way out of the ice packs, she transited the shallow Bering Straits and stopped at Nome, Alaska.

She arrived at Pearl Harbor on September 14, having steamed 11,231 miles, of which 10,415 were fully submerged.

On July 7, 1962, the SKATE departed New London, Connecticut, for the North Pole via Greenland and Ellesmere Island. Five days later the SEADRAGON left Pearl Harbor and similarly set course for the Pole. On August 2,

1962,

the

SKATE and

SEADRAGON rendez-

voused under the ice at the North Pole, conducted anti-submarine warfare exercises, and surfaced together at the pole. This marked the first time that two submarines had conducted simultaneous operations under the Arctic Ice. President Kennedy, in praising this achievement, termed the feat a conquest of "inner space."

Tracks of the nuclear powered submarines SEADRAGON and SKATE in their historic rendezvous under the Polar Ice.

THE FAST ATTACK SUBMARINE

H E Department of Defense in a letter T dated October 19, 1955, requested that the Atomic Energy Commission undertake the development of a single-screw nuclear propulsion plant suitable for installation in a submarine of lighter displacement and higher speed than the NAUTILUS. The development of such a plant was assigned to the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory which had developed the NAUTILUS and the Submarine Fleet Reactor propulsion plants and was accomplished without benefit of a land prototype. Much of the experience gained from the Submarine Fleet Reactor project was used to incorporate improvements and advancements in this type propulsion plant. The plant is now being extensively used in both fast attack and fleet ballistic missile class submarines.

This improved nuclear propulsion plant was combined with an advanced cylinder-ofrevolution hull form developed with the ALBACORE (SS-569), a diesel-powered developmental submarine, to produce a submarine of superior capabilities.

The keel of the SKIPJACK, first submarine of this type, was laid at the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut, on May 29, 1956. She was commissioned April 15, 1959.

She was stripped of any projections; everything on her superstructure was recessed or made retractable. This clean design enabled her to sweep all existing submarine speed records and most nuclear submarine designs since have been outgrowths of the SKIPJACK design.

THE POLARIS SUBMARINE

HILE the NAUTILUS was still undergoing W operational testing, the Navy began development of a ballistic missile of intermediate range. Brought from conception to initial operation in five years time, the Polaris Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) weapon system was mated with nuclear propulsion to produce a virtually invulnerable missile-firing submarine which today constitutes one of the highest priority elements of the United States' deterrent capability.

Each Polaris submarine carries 16 solidfuel, two-stage ballistic missiles powered by solid fuel rocket motors, guided by a selfcontained inertial guidance system, and providing a combined explosive power greater than the total of all the bombs dropped by all aircraft during World War II. Nuclear propulsion enables these submarines to remain on patrol, hidden beneath the surface of the sea, and ready at all times to launch their missiles.

On station, a Polaris submarine maintains complete radio silence, receiving radio messages while submerged but transmitting none lest it give away its location. Each ship has two complete crews, the Blue and the Gold, of some 130 men each. A major change in the Navy's traditional ship-manning methods, the crews alternate on two-month long patrols, providing maximum on-station time for the submarine whose endurance is limited only by its personnel.

The GEORGE

WASHINGTON

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first

ballistic missile submarine to be built. Originally designed to be a SKiPJACK-class fast attack submarine, due to the urgency of the Polaris program, her partially constructed hull was cut in half and a 130-foot missile section added amidships. Redesignated the GEORGE WASHINGTON, she was launched on

June 9, 1959, and commissioned on December 30, 1959. Six months later—on July 20,

A Polaris missile Is loaded aboard PATRICK HENRY by the USS PROTEUS in Holy Loch.

1960—she successfully test-fired two 1,200 nautical mile Polaris A-1 missiles while submerged off Cape Kennedy, Florida—the first such firing from a submarine. On November 15, 1960, she departed on the initial armed Polaris missile patrol, remaining submerged for 66 days, 10 hours. She returned to the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut, on June 11, 1964, for refueling and refitting for longer range missiles after deploying on 15 submerged patro's and steaming more than 100,000 miles. This first overhaul and refueling of an FBM submarine was completed on February 2, 1966, and the GEORGE

WASHINGTON deployed for further patrols.

Four other FBM submarines are included in the GEORGE WASHINGTON class. Although

originally designed to carry the A-1 missile, all five ships are being converted to handle A-3 Polaris missiles.

The ETHAN ALLEN was the first ballistic

missile submarine to be designed from the keel up as an FBM submarine. The five ships of this class are 410 feet long, displace 6,900 tons, and accommodate the A-2 (1,500-mile) Polaris missile. Since no place on the globe is more than 1,700 nautical miles from the sea, the range of the Polaris puts virtually every spot on earth within reach of the American deterrent capability.

On October 23, 1961, the ETHAN ALLEN

fired the first submarine-launched A-2 missile; on November 8, 1961, she set a missilefiring record by successfully launching six out of six Polaris A-2 missiles off Cape Kennedy, Florida; and on May 6, 1962, she fired a Polaris into the Christmas Island Pacific Test Area in what was the first complete test of a ballistic missile, including detonation of the nuclear warhead. She departed on patrol with the first shipload of A-2 missiles on June 26, 1962.

The LAFAYETTE class, third class of FBM submarines, is approximately 425 feet long and displaces approximately 7,000 tons.

These 31 ships carry the A-3 missile. On

September 28, 1964, a ship of this class, the DANIEL WEBSTER, left Charleston, South Carolina, to begin her initial deployment carrying the first shipload of the longer range Polaris A-3 missile. On December 25, 1964,

a sister

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BOONE,

departed her operational base in Guam loaded with sixteen A-3 missiles marking the first operational deployment of a Polaris missile submarine in the Pacific. The WILL ROGERS,

last of the 41 currently authorized FBM submarines, was launched at Groton, Connecticut, on July 21, 1966, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Hubert H. Humphrey, signifying the near completion of the planned-to-date FBM shipbuilding program.

In a special message to the Congress on January 18, 1965, President Johnson announced that his administration proposed to develop a new missile for the Fleet Ballistic Missile System—POSEIDON. The growth potential of the ballistic missile submarine launching system will enable Poseidon to fit into the same 16 missile tubes that carry Polaris, and like Polaris A-3, it will be able to reach any spot on earth from its nuclearpowered hiding place.

Commenting on the effectiveness of the FBM submarine, Senator Clinton P. Anderson, former Chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, stated that "the nuclear propelled ballistic missile submarine marks the closest approach now forseeable to an ultimate deterrent."

NATURAL CIRCULATION REACTOR In September 1958 the Department of Defense requested the Atomic Energy Commission to undertake the development and test of a natural circulation pressurized-water reactor for submarine application. The AEC assigned responsibility for design, development, and construction of a prototype plant to its Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.

Congress authorized construction of the Natural Circulation Reactor (S5G) protoS H I P M A T E

type plant as part of the Atomic Energy Commission's fiscal year 1960 construction program. Construction began in May 1961 at the AEC's National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho, and was essentially completed in April 1966. The reactor achieved initial criticality on September 12, 1965.

On June 3, 1966, the S5G prototype plant successfully completed a simulated 3,867 nautical mile voyage from New London, Connecticut, to London, England. Plant operation was conducted by the Navy crew undergoing training at the S5G prototype site.

The Natural Circulation Reactor plant offers promise of increased reactor plant reliability, simplicity, and noise reduction due to the elimination of the need for large reactor coolant pumps and associated electrical and control equipment by taking maximum advantage of natural convection to circulate the reactor coolant. Since the most difficult problem in the development of such a reactor is to insure that the plant will operate satisfactorily imder severe conditions of ship motion, this prototype has been designed to simulate the ship motions the reactor will experience at sea.

NR-1

On April 18, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of the Navy had undertaken the development of a nuclear-powered deep submergence research and ocean engineering vehicle. The capability of this maimed vehicle, designated the NR-1, will be an order of magnitude greater than any other developed or planned to date because of the vastly increased endurance made possible by nuclear power, and the technology gained by its development will provide the basis for development of future nuclearpowered oceanographic research vehicles of still greater versatility and depth capability.

The NR-1 vehicle, which will be able to move at maximum speed for periods of time limited only by the amount of food and supplies it carries, will carry a crew of five and two scientists. The vehicle will be able to perform detailed studies and mapping of the ocean bottom, temperature, currents, and other oceanographic parameters for military, commercial, and scientific uses. The development of a nuclear propulsion plant for an oceanographic research vehicle will result in greater independence from surface support ships and essentially unlimited endurance of propulsion and auxiliary power for detailed exploration of the ocean.

The submarine will have viewing ports for visual observation of its surroundings and the ocean bottom. In addition, a remote grapple will be installed to permit collection of marine samples and other items. With its depth capability, the NR-1 is expected to be capable of exploring areas of the Continental Shelf, an area which appears to contain the most accessible wealth in mineral and food resources in the seas. Such exploratory charting may also help the United States in exploiting the resources of the Continental Shelf; a ship with its capability is capable of exploring an area several times that of the United States.

Congress authorized construction of the NR-1 vehicle in the fiscal year 1965 Shipbuilding Program. The reactor plant for the vehicle is being designed by the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. The remainder of the propulsion plant is being designed by the Electric Boat Division, Groton, Connecticut.

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THE NUCLEAR SURFACE FLEET

ECAUSE of the great importance of the B Polaris weapon and the significance of nuclear power in the propulsion of submarines, nuclear powered surface ships have, to some extent, been overpowered in the public mind.

Strategically, the mobility of naval forces is dependent upon readily available fuel supplies, whether at a land base or through use of a fleet of oilers which can refuel at sea.

Oil, the traditional lifeblood of modern ships, is a quickly exhaustible material, particularly in small vessels; without oil a conventionally powered fleet is impotent.

More important, perhaps, is the strategic consideration. Readiness to sail where needed without regard to replenishment of fuels is the great advantage of a nuclear powered fleet. Released from ties to bases or fleet oiler support, it can proceed on almost instant notice and at full speed. Thus a nuclear fleet can gain valuable hours for a commander reacting to an emergency.

USS ENTERPRISE

Design of the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was started in 1950, and work on the then existing Large Ship Reactor program continued until 1953 when the National Security Council adopted a recommendation by the Department of Defense that the entire program be deferred pending further scientific development and the completion of experimental work on the NAUTILUS reactor.

The Atomic Energy Commission, following notification by the Department of Defense that development of the land-based prototype reactor for aircraft carrier application was cancelled, reoriented its program towards development of a pressurized water reactor for industrial power application with the objective of generating at least 60,000 kilowatts of useful electrical energy. (On December 18, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, the world's first full scale nuclear power station devoted exclusively to peaceful uses, became a reality when it produced electric power for the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, district.)

The Department of Defense reinstated the Large Ship Reactor project in 1954, and the Atomic Energy Commission, following receipt of a letter from Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson stating that technological advances achieved in reactor development during the past fourteen months had led him to the conclusion that "it is now timely and highly desirable from the military standpoint to undertake active development of a practical working prototype of a reactor and associated equipment suitable for the nuclear propulsion of large ships," approved development of such a reactor and assigned the prime responsibility for this project to its Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory whose work on the Shippingport and former Large Ship Reactor projects would be applicable to this undertaking.

Construction of the land-based prototype plant ( A l W ) , consisting of two reactors and associated steam generating equipment to drive one shaft of an aircraft carrier, commenced in April 1956 at the AEC's National Reactor Testing Station in the desert near Idaho Falls, Idaho. The first A l W plant was first operated at full power on January 17, 1959. The second reactor core was operated at full power on September 4, 1959.

While plans were being developed for the steam and reactor plants for the prototype, a group of Newport News Shipbuilding and

Dry Dock Company personnel was assigned to the Bureau of Ships to develop contract plans for a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

This work became the basis for the final hull plans. Following authorization of the ENTERPRISE'S construction in the fiscal year 1958 Shipbuilding Program, the contract to build the carrier was awarded to Newport News on November 15, 1957. Following successful completion of sea and propulsion trials during which she developed more horsepower than any ship in history. ENTERPRISE (CVAN-65) was commissioned on November 25, 1961.

The ENTERPRISE, largest and fastest warship afloat, displaces 89,400 tons. High as a 23-story building (keel to mast top) with 4.47 acres of flight deck and an over-all length of 1,101 feet, she carries a crew (including her air group) of 4,600 men. Her eight pressurized water reactors, operating on four shafts and arranged in pairs, produce in excess of 200,000 shaft horsepower and propel her at speeds greater than 30 knots.

During her first year of operation she completed a six-week deployment with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, played a niajor role in the Cuban quarantine, and achieved over 12,000 arrested aircraft landings. No other aircraft carrier had accomplished over 10,000 aircraft landings in its first year of operations. In February 1963 she deployed to the Mediterranean for a second time—a seven-month assignment with the Sixth Fleet.

The ENTERPRISE deployed to the Mediterranean for the third time in February 1964, and while there joined the BAINBRIDGE and

the

LONG BEACH to

form

the

world's first nuclear-powered task force.

Task Force One departed for the Mediterranean in August 1964 and set out on OPERATION SEA ORBIT {Shipmate, Oct. 1966), a 30,000-mile round-the-world cruise completely free of refueling or logistic support of any kind.

On November 2, 1964, she entered the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard at Newport News, Virginia, to undergo her first overhaul and refueling, having steamed over 207,000 miles— the equivalent of more than 8 trips around the world—and having conducted over 42,000 arrested aircraft landings since her commissioning in 1961. The overhaul and refueling was completed on June 22, 1965, and she rejoined the Fleet in July 1965. On October 26, 1965, she departed the east coast of the United States with the BAINBRIDGE for assignment to the Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. She returned to the United States on June 22, 1966, proceeding to her homeport of Alameda, California. On November 19, 1966, the ENTERPRISE left San Francisco to join the Seventh Fleet for her second Vietnam deployment.

TWO-REACTOR AIRCRAFT CARRIER

Congress authorized construction of a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVAN-68) in the fiscal year 1967 Shipbuilding Program.

In response to a request from the Secretary of Defense in August 1964, the Atomic Energy Commission is developing a two-reactor nuclear propulsion plant for installation in this carrier. Development is proceeding on schedule at the AEC's Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. The Navy has contracted with the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, builder of the ENTERPRISE, for the preparation of plans and specifications of the two-reactor carrier.

NEW FRIGATES

As part of the fiscal year 1967 Shipbuilding Program, Congress, on its own initiative, reauthorized construction of a third nuclearpowered frigate and authorized $20 million for long-lead-time procurements for a fourth.

Construction of a third nuclear frigate was originally authorized in the fiscal year 1966 Shipbuilding Program and $20 million appropriated for long-lead-time procurements.

The Department of Defense, however, did not release these funds to the Navy and failed to include the additional ship construction funds in the fiscal year 1967 program.

Congress directed in the fiscal year 1967 DOD Authorization Bill that "the contract for the construction of the nuclear-powered giuded-missile frigate for which funds were authorized under Public Law 89-37, and for which funds are authorized to be appropriated during fiscal year 1967, shall be entered into as soon as practicable unless the President fully advises the Congress that its construction is not in the national interest."

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In January 1957 the Navy requested the Atomic Energy Commission to develop as rapidly as possible a pressurized water reactor plant for a nuclear-powered destroyer.

Complying with this request, the AEC undertook the development of the destroyer project (D1G/D2G) on a priority basis at its Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory in Schenectady, In addition to CVAN-68, the Secretary of New York. Due to the developmental nature Defense has indicated that he expects to ask of this nuclear propulsion plant, the AEC for two additional nuclear-powered aircraft built a land prototype plant, consisting of carriers in future shipbuilding programs mak- the reactor and machinery for one of the ing a total of three new nuclear aircraft car- frigate's two shafts, and instaUed it in the riers in addition to the now operating ENTER- 225-foot diameter sphere at West Milton, PRISE. New York, which previously housed the SEAWOLF sodium-cooled prototype propulPresident Johnson, in aimouncing the un- sion plant. The reactor first operated at full dertaking of the two-reactor aircraft carrier power on May 9, 1962. project in September, 1964, described it as constituting "a major step forward in nuclear Congress authorized the construction of a technology and will make nuclear power nuclear-powered guided missile frigate (deinore attractive in the construction of our stroyer leader) in the fiscal year 1959 Shipaircraft carriers. . . . It is important to note building Program. The keel of this ship, the that the two-reactor plant will be less expen- BAINBRIDGE ( D L G N - 2 5 ) , was laid at the sive than others, particularly with respect to Bethlehem Steel Company's Quincy, Massaoperating costs." chusetts, shipyard on May 15, 1961. Steaming 570 miles on less than 5 ounces of uranium fuel, she completed her initial sea trials on September 2, 1962, meeting all trial USS LONG BEACH requirements including design full power.

She was commissioned on October 6, 1962, The USS LONG BEACH ( C G N - 9 ) , the world's first nuclear-powered surface warship and was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. and the first United States cruiser to be built The BAINBRIDGE, 564 feet in length and from the keel up since World War II, was authorized for construction by Congress in displacing 8,430 tons, carries Terrier missiles the fiscal year 1957 Shipbuilding Program. mounted fore and aft on two twin launchers Her keel was laid at the Bethlehem Steel and is also fitted with two 3-inch, 50-caliber Company's Quincy, Massachusetts, shipyard twin mounts amidships. Her ASW armament on December 2, 1957. She was commissioned includes torpedoes, launched from six tubes amidships, and the ASROC (antisubmarine on September 9, 1961. rocket) system capable of rocket-launching either target-seeking torpedoes or nuclear The LONG BEACH is 721 feet long and displaces 17,350 tons. Possessing excellent sea- depth charges against a submarine. keeping ability, outfitted with advanced In February 1963 the BAINBRIDGE deployed weapons including Terrier and Talos missiles, and having excellent command and control for a five-month assignment with the Sixth facilities including the Naval Tactical Data Fleet. She completed her Mediterranean System, she is one of the most versatile war- deployment in July 1963. In April 1964 she ships afloat, capable of anti-air and anti-sub- deployed to the Mediterranean where, in marine operations and shore bombardment, June 1964, she joined the ENTERPRISE and either in company with other ships or acting the LONG BEACH in Task Force One. On independently. Her nuclear propulsion plant, October 25, 1965, BAINBRIDGE departed an adaption of the prototype plant developed Charleston, South Carolina, for assignment by the Atomic Energy Commission's Bettis with the ENTERPRISE to the Seventh Fleet in Atomic Power Laboratory for the ENTER- the Pacific. She returned to her homeport of PRISE, employs two pressurized water reac- Long Beach, California, on June 22, 1966. tors to drive two screws which are capable On November 17, 1966, she departed from of propelling the ship at speeds in excess of Long Beach for her second deployment with the Seventh Fleet.

30 knots.

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USS BAINBRIDGE

Her keel was laid on June 17, 1963, at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, and on December 19, 1964, eighteen months later, the TRUXTUN (DLGN-35) was launched. Her nuclear power plant is similar to the two-reactor plant installed in the BAINBRIDGE. She displaces approximately 9,000 tons at full load, is 564 feet overall, with a beam of 58 feet and a draft of 20 feet. Armed with improved Terrier surface-to-air missiles as well as ASROC and DASH systems, homing and wire-guided torpedoes, 5-inch, 54 caliber and 3-inch, 50-caliber guns, she will also carry a long range sonar, Navy Tactical Data System, and a high capacity communication network.

Under Construction

If the CVAN-68 escort ships were all nuclear-powered, CVAN-68 and her escorts would be available for practically unlimited operations. She would then carry about twice as much aviation fuel as a conventional carrier, enabling her to support twice as many airstrikes without replenishment. She will also carry 50 percent more ammunition than a conventional carrier.

On August 2, 1965, the LONG BEACH en-

tered the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for her first overhaul and refueling after having steamed over 167,000 miles since her commissioning in 1961. She rejoined the Fleet on February 3, 1966, as scheduled, and was assigned to the Pacific Fleet. On November 30, 1966, she entered the South China Sea on her first deployment with the Seventh Fleet in Viet-

In Operation

This new reactor is the highest powered, longest core life reactor under development in the Naval Reactors program. Each reactor in the two-reactor carrier will produce about as much power as four of the ENTERPRISE reactors. Since the cores will last for approximately 13 years of normal ship operation, the ship is expected to require refueling only once in a normal ship lifetime. The energy produced by the two cores is equivalent to more than 10 million barrels of oil costing over $25 million, not including the cost of delivering the oil to such a ship.

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To date, we've built the nuclear carrier Enterprise—and refueled her before she went into action off Vietnam. Fourteen Newport News nuclear-powered Polaris submarines are in service. We made the first delivery to the Navy of the new

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nuclear-propelled attack submarines and we have six more under construction or being outfitted—a whole new generation of Newport News-built fighting craft.

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NUCLEAR POWER IN THE

motive power, but this advantage has been significantly reduced by the constant requirement for fuel whether it be coal or oil. Today, this inhibiting characteristic has been eliminated by the development of nuclear power.

The advantages of nuclear propulsion for surface ships do not appear dramatic nor spectacular when compared to nuclear powered submarines, for nuclear power gave us the true submersible for the first time in history—a truly dramatic breakthrough. However, once the lines are cast off from dockside and the nuclear powered ship starts to move, the commander realizes immediately that the unlimited, sustained power in the hull of that ship can give us or any other power that develops it, a dynamic revolution

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in Naval Warfare. It allows a commander to devote his attention ;md plans toward effectively executing whatever task he has been assigned, without having to worry every step of the way about his logistic support of black oil.

As you recall, dimng World War II, we developed replenishment and refueling at sea to a high art. Such achievements greatiy reduced our dependence on shore bases, allowed us to keep oiu: combat ships at sea longer, and thus increased our combat effectiveness. Still, the times that fuel oil or the lack of it played a vital role in the success or failure of batties of World War II is astoimding. Historians credit the inability to provide adequate fuel oil as being one of the most significant items leading to the downfall of Japan.

Today, nuclear powered task groups, without the constant periodic black oil replenishment, can add to our combat effectiveness by totally eliminating the black oil need.

Nuclear power has and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the effectiveness and capability of the Fleet as a whole.

The ultimate product of nuclear power when equated to a surface warship could probably best be summed up as "a vastly increased response." Whether it be providing greater versatility, flexibility, mobility, reliability or any of the dozens of highly desirable features of a man-of-war, the nuclear propelled man-of-war responds the best. In short, it can do just about everything better, easier, and faster than her conventional brethren. As such, nuclear power becomes of vital significance in the execution of national policy and the application of naval power.

Recentiy we have had occasion to observe, in combat, the first nuclear task group, including the aircraft carrier USS ENTERPRISE and the frigate USS BAINBRIDGE. A broad

biological and chemical attack—a quantum jump in ability to survive.

4. Elimination of the undesirable stack gases and smoke which not only make it difficult for the pilots sitting in their planes prior to take-off or during approaches to a landing but also adds considerably to the Navy's maintenance bill due to the corrosive effects of the stack gases on communication and radar antennas and on aircraft.

5. The concern for loss of fuel oil facilities is eliminated. This includes the loss of facilities at the source (in any foreign country) by political action. It also includes the loss of prepositioned fuel depots to the enemy or the loss of the replenishment oilers enroute to refueling rendezvous as a result of enemy action.

6. There is the ability, under severe threat situations, to operate from distant bases completely free from mobile logistic dependency, with the capability of high speed return to such bases for replenishment of aviation fuel and ammunition.

7. Increased maneuverability resultiog from much more rapid acceleration and deceleration.

8. High standards of technical training set in the nuclear propulsion program.

9. A cleaner ship internally and externally saving hundreds of thousands of hours a year in cleaning ship and aircraft.

10. And finally—ships in the 1967 and '68 programs will be with us until the turn of the century. We are buying time if we build nuclear-powered ships. We are buying reduced effectiveness if we purchase oil burning warships.

Most of the above comments apply to any nuclear combat ship, be it carrier, destroyer, or cruiser. I would like to emphasize a few pertinent points, however, with respect to the DLGN BAINBRIDGE. Several specific examples of her performance on this deployment will be mentioned later. She, of course, derives all the same benefits from nuclear power that the carriers do with the exception of those affecting air operations. But some are particularly applicable to her specialties —-air defense and anti-submarine warfare.

reference has just been made to the influence nuclear power could have on the waging of war. I would now like to draw attention to several advantages of the superiority of the all-nuclear powered task group. Then I want to give several specific examples that have been experienced during the past several months of combat and that point up 1. With a nuclear ship, the screen comand support the advantages I will now mander has one always ready as a submarine enumerate: search and attack unit. There is no need to 1. Increased tactical flexibility as a result worry about which ship is ready or how long of unlimited endurance at high speed. This the unit may be away from the screen. Nor is there a need to relieve her with a freshly permits: a. Greater use of evasive tracks when ap- refueled ship. proaching the objective area, thereby reduc2. Independence from an external fuel ing the probability of detection. source enables her to provide uninterrupted screening of aircraft carriers or other large b. Longer routes to avoid storms. c. Capabihty to operate in bad weather ships. This is especially applicable during reis improved by the elimination of the hazard- plenishment operations while the force is at ous and, sometimes, infeasible refueling re- a vulnerable slow speed and steady course.

3. There is no need for the carrier to inquirement under these circumstances. terrupt air operations to refuel her nuclear d. The high speed endurance extends the powered escort because the escort is freed ability to attack along a greater perimeter from worries over fuel. of coastline.

4. She can more readily follow speed e. The ability to maintain high sustained changes of the carrier, e.g., faster acceleraspeed reduces the vulnerability to submarine tion and deceleration. and guided-missile attack. High speed is one 5. And finally, as a picket she can remain of the most important measures to employ on station without oiler need, or destroyer against submarines and guided missiles. relief in order to retire to refuel.

2. Reduction of replenishment frequency with a greatly reduced dependence upon all OW, for some examples of how some of forms of mobile logistic support (not only these advantages of nuclear propulsion fuel)—as a result of increased storage space formerly required for fuel oil. ENTER- have affected our operations while deployed.

First, let me speak of the transit of ENTERPRISE took on aviation fuel and ammunition PRISE and BAINBRIDGE from Norfolk, Virabout once every few days.

3. Air intakes for boiler operations are ginia, to Subic Bay in the Philippine Islands, eliminated thereby greatiy improving the a concrete example of not only flexibility capability to seal the ship against atomic, but conservation of resources as well.

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We were directed to maintain a speed of advance (SOA) of something in excess of 20 knots the entire 16,000-mile trip. This was accomplished with ease, with absolutely no strain. While doing this, flight operations were conducted for a total of nine days and tlu-ee nights. In addition, a 13-hour search was made in an area of the South Atlantic Ocean as a result of a man falling overboard.

Regardless of this high SOA and resultant delays, the entire transit proved to be a routine event with arrival in WestPac exactly as scheduled and yet with sufficient jet fuel remaining to conduct days of heavy combat operations. The most obvious and immediate gain was the fact that ENTERPRISE commenced combat operations shortly after arrival with an Air Wing in a comparatively high state of readiness. This was demonstrated by the fact that on only her second day of operations, she set a new daily record for combat sorties by any CVA performing incountry support.

In contrast to the ENTERPRISE transit, had

any other oil-burning CVA such as Forrestal Class attempted to accomplish the same transit in the same time span and conduct similar operations, it would have consumed some several million gallons of fuel enroute.

This would have necessitated prepositioning oilers along the track. The inconvenience and added expense of maintaining the oilers are, of course, obvious. A conventional frigate the size of BAINBRIDGE would have had to refuel several times along the track at the high sustained speed made by ENTERPRISE and BAINBRIDGE.

This same situation would exist in a tactical environment as well. If for example, FORRESTAL and ENTERPRISE were

ordered

from the South China Sea to another area at A native of Fairbanks, .Alaska, RAdm. Miller entered the Naval Academy and graduated with the class of 1934. Duty at sea was followed by flight training at Pensacola and in June 1938 he was designated Naval Aviator.

While on duty as a flight instructor at Ellyson Field, Florida, early in World War II, and in much secrecy, he trained Gen. Jimmy Doolitde's "Tokyo Raiders" in carrier take-offs and then accompanied them to within 700 miles of their destination on board the USS HORNET. Promoted to flag rank in 1960, Adm. Miller subsequently commanded Carrier Division 15, an Anti-Submarine Hunter-Killer Group in the Pacific. This duty was followed by an assignment as Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, Joint Staff, Commander in Chief, Pacific, during the time when the simation in S. E. Asia began to escalate.

In September 1964 he assumed command of Carrier Division 3 and at the same time took command of Task Force 77, the Carrier Striking Force of the Seventh Fleet.

In February 1965, as CTF 77, he launched the first of a succession of aircraft carrier strikes on North Vietnam from the decks of the RANGER, CORAL SEA and HANCOCK. In October 1965 Adm. Miller took a nuclear powered task group composed of the ENTERPRISE and BAINBRIDGE from Norfolk to Subic Bay, P. I. On 2 December 1965 he engaged these ships in the first nuclear powered combat with the enemy in Vietnam.

On 13 April 1966 Adm. Miller became Chief of Information, Navy Department.

flank speed, to forestall or counter another outbreak of Commimist aggression, FORRESTAL, in order to carry out the speed required, would possibly (depending on how far) require refueling before departure and perhaps require it soon after arrival. This would generate a requirement for an oiler to be scheduled to fuel FORRESTAL soon after arrival. If an oiler were not available for this purpose, FORRESTAL would proceed to station at a much slower speed than desired in order to conserve fuel, and upon arrival limit her operations—also to conserve fuel— until an oiler could be positioned.

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BRIDGE as an escort ship, could respond instantiy, arriving ready to meet the task without need for fuel and remain on station within the limits of her expenditure of aviation fuel and ordnance. This is much greater than FORRESTAL, as a result of the increased storage space for these items usually required for fuel oil storage, air intakes for boilers, and the huge smoke stacks.

Thus, in comparing the responsiveness and staying power of these two mighty ships.

ENTERPRISE would be able to arrive sooner, stay longer, and deliver many more combat sorties than FORRESTAL—^this increased effectiveness stemming primarily from the fact that she has nuclear rather than conventional propulsion.

To document this in even more detail, I would like to mention the following: First is the fact that ENTERPRISE carries one more squadron—an A4C squadron at the present—than any of the other big CVAs. Although ENTERPRISE is slightiy larger than FORRESTAL, for example, one of the primary space savers comes as a result of elimination of smoke stacks, air intakes and the many other items normally running up through the ship to provide for the proper functioning of conventional boilers. A quick glance at a side view diagram of ENTERPRISE and any other CVA points up the smaUer island structure of ENTERPRISE with a resultant increase in available aircraft parking space. This same condition exists down through the lower decks as weU. The end product is more shop space, living space, storerooms, etc., and on the hangar deck, again more aircraft parking and maintenance space.

Commenting further on the storage space, we have now found, even with the high intensity of flight ops, that a longer refueling cycle is completely acceptable with respect to aviation fuel. The only factor affecting this cycle is the pumping rate of the tanker ENTERPRISE refuels from. The advantages to be gained from this longer period between replenishments vs the shorter period include such important items as: 1. Lesser period of higher vulnerability from air, surface, or submarine attacks.

2. Greater periods of time to be performing combat operations.

3. Greater periods of time can be spent at remote distances from the underway replenishment "lifeline."

4. More crew rest in what is already a greatly overworked environment.

These, and many others have often been enumerated before in discussion of nuclear power, but they have been particularly notable during the operating period since 2 December 1965 when ENTERPRISE went on the firing line in the South China Sea. A similar situation exists with regard to conventional ordnance stowage, the second item of primary significance in evaluating ENTERPRISE'S combat staying power. If, under normal circumstances, a reasonable on14

board reserve is maintained, this, with the previously mentioned greater jet fuel, provides a potent and previously unattainable sustained operational capability. And going still further, ENTERPRISE could be sent with full jet fuel and ammunition loads to any ocean area of the world and fight for many days before running out of fuel and ammunition.

E had several specific examples of rapid W reaction during the first few days of our combat operations. The first occurred as we were proceeding from Subic Bay to our station off the southeast coast of South Vietnam. We received word of a submarine sighting by an underway replenishment ship some 145 miles from our position. This ship was without ASW protection so we were directed to detach a ship to provide assistance.

BAINBRIDGE was, without question, the obvious and, in fact, only choice. 'Within less than 5 hours she had transited the 145-mile distance and was actively performing ASW search in the suspect area. Most probably our earliest concern with BAINBRIDGE would have been several days later when we may have had to send an ammunition ship to replenish ordnance if she had had any extensive ASW engagements. If the ordnance usage were relatively light, our next concern may have been weeks hence when we decided to send along some fresh vegetables.

In contrast, the two conventionally powered destroyers also accompanying us required nearly five hours time to close ENTERPRISE, top off with black oil and then depart to the submarine contact area. By the time they arrived, some 10 to 20 hours had elapsed. Then, of course, the immediate and necessary problem of keeping them in fuel oil began. Regardless of the amount of combat operations they engaged in, an oiler underway replenishment ship would have been a twice a week necessity. Again, the inconvenience and added expense is obvious.

Some five days later this situation repeated itself when an additional destroyer was required to be moved rapidly from our Task Group north to the Tonkin Gulf area, a distance of about 500 miles. Again, BAINBRIDGE was the logical choice. Twenty hours after she was directed to detach, she arrived on station fully prepared to execute all missions assigned. Not so a conventional destioyer. The average oil burner would probably have required refueling soon after arrival in the Gulf area. Continued frequent refueling would, of course, then have continued as the norm.

ENTERPRISE, too, was involved in a similar incident shortly after arriving on the line.

Late one evening, while operating southeast of Saigon, a message was received to the effect that the Cam Ranh Bay airfield was generally unserviceable because of heavy rains. ENTERPRISE'S bird farm of about 100 planes was required early the following morning in the Second Corps Northerly area of South Vietnam. Response was instantaneous and because of her capability for sustained high speed. ENTERPRISE was launching support operations in this northern area in less than 9 hours after the initial alerting message. Conventional ships can, of course, take similar actions. However, they would require redisposition of replenishment ships to supply fuel. The nuclear ships can immediately respond to a request of this type, operate for some days, and then return to their normal stations without affecting replenishment force schedules and positions.

Increased maneuverability was mentioned earlier as a much desired advantage of nu-

clear power. The examples of this are a daily, in fact, more properly, an hourly occurrence. The maneuverability, combined with tremendous acceleration and deceleration characteristics, provide the carrier skipper with a truly amazing response—it is an instantaneous response. Getting underway, turning into the wind for launch and recovery, approaches to replenishment ships and general ease of shiphandling are constantly recurring examples of this. And, of course, in the ever-present environment of possible enemy offensive surface craft and surface-tosurface missiles, this rapid response could very easily mean the difference between survival and disaster. In routine evolutions.

ENTERPRISE has consistently left the destroyers—commonly referred to as the Greyhounds of the seas—in her wake. One conventionally powered D D skipper said he drops behind station some 1,500 yards in, for what is to the Big "E," a routine acceleration from 15 to 25 knots. In a man overboard maneuver if " E " is 12 knots or lower, she stops immediately and goes to full speed astern. This cannot be done in a conventionally powered ship.

This capability for sustained speed and outstanding maneuverability provides another especially attractive feature in the South China Sea. Because of underwater geographical conditions, the submarine in this area is essentially required to remain near the ocean surface. ENTERPRISE considerably enhances her own safety by avoiding the submarines with the use of her speed.

An advantage also mentioned earlier was elimination of stack gases and smoke. The point was made of the reduction or elimination of these corrosive effects on the aircraft and the ship, and on ship's components so that many thousands of manhours were saved each year in the process by a vast reduction in cleaning requirements. Today under our present tempo of operations, this saving in manpower is probably one of the most important items that can be realized. 'When 16 to 20 hour days are the routine, the ability to make available additional manpower, even if only to permit the crew to get an additional hour or so of much needed sleep, is of special significance in the ship's overall performance.

An excellent example of corrosion control was available in one of the F4B squadrons on board. A year earlier this squadron with essentially the same aircraft was deployed in the USS RANGER, a conventionally powered ship. Any man who was a plane captain on that cruise will attest to the long hours he devoted to sweeping stack gas residue from his airplane in an attempt to maintain some semblance of cleanliness. The problem of corrosion control became so acute that corrosion control teams on the F4B had to be increased from four to six men working 12 hours a day plus augmentation with an additional four to six men on non-operating days just to curtail the spread of corrosion. And still within three months after deployment the airplane out of commission time because of the necessity to repair and replace access covers, stabilators and all open seams on the F4B approached the point of being unacceptable. A post deployment inspection revealed that some of the aircraft had reached such an advanced stage of corrosion damage that a major effort had to be expended in this area of repair.

Conversely, in the first three months aboard ENTERPRISE, the F4B corrosion control teams were maintained at a level of five men. They noted a marked difference in the corrosion control effort required aboard S H I P M A T E

ENTERPRISE as compared with other carriers.

The aircraft were immeasurably easier to keep clean, freeing the plane captain for other important duties. Records indicated that a 15% to 2 0 % reduction in manhours required for corrosion control had been realized during this deployment on ENTERPRISE.

Similarly the Commanding Officer of BAINBRIDGE completed a survey of his ship which indicated a savings of 440 manhours per week as a result of having no oil burning residue to contend with. This time was, of course, well spent in preventive maintenance and training rather than in cleaning the ship.

One minor but interesting side note that helo pilots have brought to the attention of the Commanding Officer of BAINBRIDGE was the lack of stack gases when inflight refueling. Any aviator who has ever operated off a conventionally powered carrier can attest to the discomfort of random stack gases blowing over the flight deck. To a helo pilot, required to sit directiy in the gas for upwards of 10 minutes when refueling, the advantages from BAINBRIDGE'S unique situation could be quite helpful.

Another advantage gained directiy from the nuclear plant is increased electrical power. The demands for this power are many and varied and increasing almost daily with the introduction of better radars, sonars and missile systems. This electrical power is, of course, generated by steam power, and is made available through the ship's propulsion plant. It follows that the greater the requirement for electrical power, the greater the fuel consumption and thus a consequent reduction in fuel available for propulsion.

For nuclear powered ships this is not a consideration.

One additional word on catapults. As you know, all our carriers now use steam pressure for the firing of catapults. And, of course, as just mentioned, this steam must come from the ship's engineering plant. We found last year in the South China Sea in RANGER during conditions of low wind and high temperatures requiring the ship to steam at very high speeds during launchings that the rate of buildup of steam in the catapults could become critical. Delays of ten to twenty seconds between launches on the heavy aircraft was not uncommon while waiting for adequate steam pressure to build up. Although this seems minor, when the requirement exists for large laimches or for rapid response to a threat to the force, this time can be significant. This slow buildup has not been the case with ENTERPRISE. Regardless of the conditions, steam is available now and in the quantities desired.

These last several paragraphs have cited just a few examples of the many advantages we have already experienced during this "combat cruise." They are realistic and typical. They are the type of items that will continue to occur in increasing frequency as the full operational capability of nuclear power is investigated, exploited and documented.

And now let us examine another facet of nuclear power that takes on considerable importance when the topic of providing for additional nuclear propeUed warships is discussed. This facet is cost effectiveness.

B

Y 1963, nuclear propulsion technology had progressed to the point where we were technically capable of constructing a carrier of the same size and operating characteristics as ENTERPRISE but with only four reactors producing the same shaft power as MAY,

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ENTERPRISE'S eight. These reactor cores had about a 7-year life as opposed to the approximately 3-year life of ENTERPRISE'S cores.

Since that time, the state of the art has taken another quantum jump and we can now produce a two-reactor plant that can drive a ship the size of ENTERPRISE and will require refueling only once in the life of the ship.

A study was made on the total cost of constructing and operating a two-reactor nuclear carrier over its lifetime, with its aircraft.

The nuclear carrier was compared to the conventional carrier's total cost under the same conditions. The total cost for the nuclear powered carrier came to 2 % more than the conventional. With nuclear powered escorts, the all-nuclear task group was calculated to be about 6% more expensive than the conventional carrier group, depending on the specific assumptions for force composition and costs.

The successful operations of ENTERPRISE, BAINBRIDGE, and LONG BEACH have demon-

strated the military advantages of nuclear powered surface ships, and have confirmed our ability to build effective and reliable ships of this type. Reactor core improvements in the past 10 to 11 years, as validated by the nuclear submarine program, have increased the life of nuclear cores by a factor of over 3 and at the same time have decreased the cost by a factor of 3 or more, so that today the actual cost per unit of energy is only one tenth what it was 10 years ago, and there is every possibility that we will be able to make further improvements in the imit cost of nuclear energy in the future.

There are two final points that have implications far beyond the immediate situation with ENTERPRISE and BAINBRIDGE.

First, we have seen an almost complete revolution in undersea warfare with the advent of the nuclear submarine. And all within the last decade. The concept of what are virtually self-sustained boats in our submarine fleet, combined with the deadly Polaris missile, is one of the greatest single military advantages that the United States possesses over any other n„tion in the world today. We know, however, that the USSR has succeeded in producing nuclear powered submarines and I assume they are progressing rapidly with a submarine compatible missile similar to Polaris. In other words, the power advantage in this one vital area is lessening. We have, however, the most powerful surface Navy in the world today. We can retain our current overall n^^val superiority— and, in fact, increase it—by a conversion to nuclear powered warships. Nuclear power is such a significant advance in the art of Naval Warfare that the nation with the first nuclear navy will become the world's leading naval power.

My second point is the significance that the nuclear power program can have on our national industrial potential. Nuclear plants for civilian use are a natural follow-on to nuclear power in naval ships. This advancement in technology, and, in fact, creation of a new industry will be a requirement for our future domestic needs. The Atomic Energy Commission has stated as early as 1962 that in 10 years 20% of our new power plants will be nuclear powered. This will continue to spread well beyond the borders of the United States. Every nation will be looking for a nuclear power plant and other products of nuclear power, and will naturally turn to the nation with the best product. A nuclear power industry with a sound base in research, development and production will provide vast benefits to that

nation, far beyond all expectations. We have competition. Great Britain, France, Russia, and Germany at this very moment. All are engaged in building nuclear power industries of some kind. France is concentrating her nuclear power in building submarines. Germany, on the other hand, is pointing her R&D in nuclear power to merchant ships.

Great Britain and Russia are interested primarily in putting nuclear power into their navies. The United States, however, has one dramatic and successful advantage—a full decade of experience with at least a partial nuclear navy and one merchant marine ship.

This is an advantage we cannot—we must not lose. The freedom and economic well being of our Nation is at stake.

In summary, the evolution of the Navy to a progressive program of nuclear power can revolutionize our naval establishment and naval warfare in a more dramatic manner than that realized by the change from sail to steam or from coal burning to oil burning propulsion plants. The future of the United States Navy is nuclear power. We must not ignore it.

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by Fred Lardner

"I recommend an increase in regular pay similar to the raise for civilians—an average 4.5 percent effective October 1, 1967."

B r e a k d o w n O f Compensation

T T HE RUSSIAN-CHINESE agreement to a.ssure •*- unhindered passage of Russian military equipment across China to North Vietnam appears to emphasize what many authorities have been contending for a long time, that the Vietnamese war for the Communists is merely a step in an attempt to take over other parts of Asia. This agreement, arrived at secretly around March 1, was confirmed publicly April 18 by Soviet Communist Leader Leonid L. Brezhnev, who called for unity of action by Russia, Red China, and other Communist states "in the widest sense" in providing "planning and practical aid for the fighting Vietnamese people."

The following testimony was part of Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearings on the fiscal 1968 Defense Department appropriations bill.

Senator Thurmond (R.-S. C ) . "I understand this group of people also advocates that we withdraw from there entirely. If we should withdraw —to me unthinkable—in your opinion would the Communists take over the rest of Vietnam.?"

Admiral McDonald. "Quickly."

Senator Thurmond. "In your opinion would they stop there or would they take over Cambodia, Laos, perhaps Burma, and other countries in southeast Asia.?"

Admiral McDonald; "They would take those over unless we or somebody else stopped them."

Senator Thurmond. "If they take over southeast Asia, do you think their appetites are going to be satisfied.? Isn't it still the desire of the Communists to dominate and enslave the world, and will this not assist them, if they acquire southeast Asia, then, to go further, perhaps attacking Indonesia, and possibly later Australia and possibly New Zealand and other countries in that part of the world.? Eventually it will assist them in encircling us, so to speak, and coming close to the United States."

Admiral McDonald. "My long-range planning hasn't really gone quite that far. I don't disagree with that, but I have not gone into this quite as much as you obviously have—that far ahead."

Senator Thurmond. "Is it possible that the Philippines would be attacked.?"

Admiral McDonald. "Yes; I think it is quite likely that there would be some expansion over those areas."

Senator Thurmond. "If we had not stood fast in Vietnam, isn't it unlikely that those who believe in freedom in Indonesia would probably not have risen up and taken power away from Sukarno.?"

Admiral McDonald. "I believe that is what our people closest to that believe; I think so."

The U. S. News and World Report said, concerning the Russian-Chinese Communist agreement: "Experts make this point: The argeement between Moscow and Peking marked the end of a phase of the Vietnamese war when peace hopes were on the rise."

However, peace hopes were falsely fed by the large number of persons and countries who attempted to get into the peace act. They spouted peace, but the truces they tried to arrange would invariably have been at the expense of the United States and South Vietnam.

The war situation is considerably different than it was six months or so ago. Ho Chi Minh, the North Vietnamese leader, insultingly refused President Johnson's offer of a truce, and can be expected to ignore other offers for at least some time to come. He may be waiting for the Presiidential elections of 1968, but George Romney, Michigan governor and a leading Republican 16

candidate for the Presidency, has said he does not favor leaving Vietnam without a victory.

"It is now clear," said Walter Lippmann, "that Hanoi's attitude has hardened and sharpened, and the probable reason for this is that Ho Chi Minh can now count on reinforcements of food and material and, if necessary, manpower from the whole Communist world."

Communist manpower—those are ugly words!

Mr. Lippmann, considered by some an international seer, hasn't been able to get us out of Vietnam with his diplomacy. Is he now trying to scare us out.?

Pay

Comparability

President Johnson is intent upon obtaining for Federal personnel pay which compares favorably with that of private enterprise. Thus, he asked Congress for larger pay increases in 1967 for civilian and military personnel than expected earlier this year, and has promised further increases in 1968 and 1969.

The proposed increase for Federal civilians is 4.5 percent. The increase for military employees is 4.5 percent, but in this case the 4.5 percent applies to basic pay, quarters and subsistence allowances, considered "regular military compensation," which translates into a raise of 5.6 percent for basic pay.

"We have made great progress recently toward a pay scale which approaches that of private industry," the President said, in his message to Congress on the proposed legislation. "Since 1962, civilian employees have received pay increases amounting to more than 23 percent. We have improved retirement and other fringe benefits so they now compare favorably with benefits in private industry. There have been corresponding increases in military pay, and fringe benefits have been improved substantially."

Earlier, the President mentioned that military pay in the four years 1963-1966 had increased 33 percent.

"Yet we still fall short of comparability with private industry," the President said. "The Annual Report of the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget describes the gap which remains between Government and industry pay scales. To close this gap in one year would require an average pay increase of 7.2 percent. With a similar increase for the armed forces, the cost would be more than $2.5 billion per year."

In his original budget for fiscal 1968, the President earmarked f 1 billion for civilian and military pay increases. In early April there was talk of a $500 million increase for the military, but the total of compensation increases in this legislation is $810,400,000.

"I recommend a 4.5 percent pay increase for civilian employees effective October 1, 1967," the President said. "I recommend that the Congress take the final step this year to achieve full comparability with private industry. I proposed a two-stage plan to remove the remaining comparability lag in all grades by October 1, 1969. The first step would take effect in October 1968 and the second a year later.

"For our military personnel, pay alone can never reflect the full measure of our debt. On the battlefields, in outposts where there is tension but no battle, in the vast defense installations of our country these men and women protect our national security. We must assure them and their families that they will be compensated for their service on a scale which is comparable to that of their 2.5 million civilian co-workers. As civilian pay goes up, so should the pay of the Armed Services.

Increases

The bills on this subject are H. R. 8197 by Representative Rivers (D.-S. C ) , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and S. 1475

by Senator Russell (D.-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The breakdowns in compensation proposed by these bills are explained below.

Basic Pay Increase. "Regular military compensation," said Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance, "is defined as basic pay; quarters and subsistence allowances, either in cash or in kind; and the tax advantage thereon.

This regular compensation is considered to be the equivalent of the gross salaries payable to Federal employees under the Classification Act." Allowances

For

Bachelor

Personnel.The

proposed legislation would establish authority, First, to pay a basic allowance for quarters to a member without dependents who is in pay grade E-4 or above, for the period he is in travel or leave status between permanent duty stations; and.

Second, it would permit payment of a dislocation allowance to a member without dependents when he is transferred to a permanent station where he is not assigned to Government quarters.

Presently members without dependents do not receive these allowances under these circumstances.

Quarters Allowances For E-4s and Below.

Some 270,000 members in the four lowest enlisted grades (E-1 to E-4) would receive increases under the Dependents' Assistance Act for quarters allowances, so that such allowances would vary from $60 for those without dependents to $105 to those with three or more dependents. E-4s with one or two dependents would receive $90.

Senior NCOs. Under the legislation, the recentiy established top nonconmaissioned ofiEcer positions in each service would receive $844.20 monthly, regardless of years of service. This is an increase of $150 above highest enlisted basic payAdministratively, the Defense Department took another action to benefit bachelors, permitting 9,800 of them in grades E-7 to 0-3 to live off post and draw quarters allowances.

Sea P a y

Quandary

It is doubtful if there will be sufficient recognition, for purposes of special pay, among top civilian officials of the Navy and the Defense Departments for the many years of service at sea by officers of the surface Navy.

The Secretary of the Navy's Retention Task Force suggested a special pay for sea duty varying from $15 per month for members with two years or less of such duty to $105 monthly for those with more than 12 years of such service.

Enlisted men have been drawing some sea duty pay for many years, but it is not enough. The new proposal has been kicked around within the Navy Department, and now it has been sent to the Defense Department, under another name.

In forwarding the plan to the Defense Department, the name of the proposal was changed from sea pay to family separation pay, and Richard A. Beaumont, Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy for Manpower, said, in part: "We recognize that family separation is not unique to the Navy and that what we ascribe to sea duty can be justifiably ascribed to remote or isolated duty of the other services."

But many and perhaps most surface ship career officers spend about half their active duty at sea, separated from their families for long periods of time. It is doubtful that any considerable number of Army or Air Force members have to endure such hardship.

S H I P M A T E

The Defense Department Compensation Study Group, which is studying compensation in general, is considering a "hardship" pay proposal designed to replace sea and foreign duty pay. But sea and foreign duty pay should never be equated.

Some foreign duty now means extra pay, and there is litde foreign duty without family, and almost none without women.

Transportation a n d Dislocation

Payments

The Defense Department is sponsoring a new bill (H. R. 8375 in the House) which would authorize payment of travel and transportation expenses and dislocation allowances not now authorized. Five situations are involved. The House previously passed legislation to eliminate disadvantages in two of them, but the Senate refused to go along. In the other three cases, legislation now existing might have been effective except for decisions of the Comptroller General stating that existing legislation does not justify payments.

Parking Fees, Travel Tolls. The bill authorizes compensation for payments of parking fees, ferry fares, and bridge, road, and tutmel tolls, in addition to the fixed rates per mile, for official travel in a privately-owned vehicle. According to Secretary of the Navy Paul H . Nitze, these fees and tolls often exceed other travel costs.

From Temporary To Permanent To N e w Station. Under present law, a memf)er who receives orders to a new permanent station while at a temporary duty station is entided to allowances for travel to the old permanent station only if orders specifically direct his return. However, it is usually necessary for the member to return to his old permanent station in order to setde various personal affairs before going to the new station. The bill would provide for compensation of the additional e.xpense of travel involved in return to the old station, which term includes the home port of a vessel or mobUe unit.

Travel Prior To Effective Date of PCS Order. This bill authorizes payment of a dislocation allowance to a member whose dependents travel prior to the effective date of PCS orders, when those orders are subsequentiy cancelled, revoked, or modified to send the member elsewhere.

The Comptroller General has ruled that no authority exists for payment of a dislocation allowance "unless the member actually makes a change of permanent station." This ruling has caused many service members to lose money.

Dependent Travel To Be Near Sick Member. Currendy dependents are entitled to transportation but no dislocation allowance when moving to the vicinity of a hospital where a member is undergoing observation or prolonged treatment. The Comptroller General has ruled that a dislocation allowance can be granted only in case of a permanent change of station, and an order to proceed to a hospital is not a permanent change of station. A move of dependents to the vicinity of a hospital, said Secretary Nitze, involves many of the same hardships and expenses which the dislocation allowance is intended to alleviate in a PCS move.

Dependent And Household Transportation and Change of Sea Duty. The bill also authorizes transportation for dependents and household goods when a member is transferred from sea duty to sea duty and the vessel or other afloat mobile units involved have the same home yards or home ports. When a Navy man is ordered to sea duty for an extended period, said Secretary Nitze, he often wants to have his household goods placed in non-temporary storage or have his household goods and dependents moved to a designated place. If he is subsequentiy assigned to another tour of sea duty on a ship or staff with die same home yard or port, there is no authority for this transportation, and the member must endure separation from his family for two consecutive tours or personally assume the costs of reunitMA Y,

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ing them. The Comptroller General has ruled there is no authority to make such payments. The bill stipulates: "An authorized change in the home yard or home port of a vessel or other afloat mobile unit or the transfer of a member from sea duty to sea duty when the vessels or afloat mobile units involved had identical home yards or home ports is a change of permanent station." Thus, the way is paved toward elimination of another inequity.

FDL Ships Lost?

The Fast Deployment Logistics Ship, a sort of dream ship designed to help avert or overcome international trouble, has been turned down by the Senate and may be disapproved by die House.

Officials of the Defense Deparmient, and generals as well as admirals, had agreed this was to be one of the handiest methods of transporting military goods and equipment to a distant scene of trouble.

S. 666, the bill authorizing appropriations for procurement of aircraft, missiles, and naval vessels for fiscal 1968, called for construction of seven of these ships to begin with. The contract would have been placed with one manufacturer, the successful bidder for mass production of these huge ships.

"The Department of Defense proposed the procurement over a period of several years of as many as 30 of these ships," the Senate Armed Services Committee stated, in reporting the bill, "which would be deployed throughout the world with heavy combat equipment embarked to facilitate a prompt reaction whenever and wherever there was a decision to commit U. S. forces abroad. In concept, our ground forces would be flown to the trouble spot and the heavy equipment would already be there. The ships would be procured from a single contractor over a period of several years by using the total package procurement technique. The estimated cost of procuring 30 of these ships is more than $1 billion, and the cost of operating them over their useful life is about $1 billion.

"The committee is unconvinced that a program of such cost is justifiable. The ships would be constantly deployed in forward areas. Near a combat zone it would be necessary to provide antisubmarine escorts or antiaircraft protection or both, thus increasing the costs of the system. Beyond the cost, the committee is concerned about the possible creation of an impression that the United States has assumed the function of policing the world and that it can be thought to be at least considering intervention in any kind of strife or commotion occurring in any of the nations of the world. Moreover, if our involvement in foreign conflicts can be made quicker and easier, there is the temptation to intervene in many simations.

"In those locations where the United States is by treaty or other commitment obligated to resist aggression, there are other possibilities for providing the heavy equipment needed by our ground forces. In some of these locations, such as Western Europe, the heavy equipment is pre-positioned on land. The Committee was informed that the C-5A, a new large jet transport now under development, will be capable of carrying 98 percent of the heavy equipment ground forces require for maximum combat effectiveness."

In the shipbuilding program for fiscal 1966, the Defense Department sought authorization to build four of these ships. Congress approved procurement of two. For fiscal 1968, the department was to take the 1966 funding and add it to 1968 funding to have enough money, $233,500,000, for construction of seven FDLs. The Senate recommended that the 1966 funding, $67.6 million, be applied to construction of other vessels.

The Senate committee's thinking on this subject can be challenged. It would not be necessary to pre-position all these ships. Even if some of them

were pre-positioned, would they be any more apt to spread a picture of Uncle Sam as an international policeman than the many naval vessels now scattered throughout the world.? If we had had FDLs and the C-5A cargo plane prior to Pearl Harbor, we might have stocked some of the more southern Pacific islands with enough men and equipment to keep the Japanese off. We almost lost Korea because it took 56 days to get the first U. S.-based division there. As for Vietnam, the buildup was slow, and we had time to meet commitments with MSTS, commercial and reserve ships, many of them slow-moving and literally quite out of date. The transportation to Vietnam emphasizes the need for new and faster ships designed, as closely as possible, for military service.

Battle For Battleships

The battle for employment of batdeships in the Vietnam war is heating up, and the Defense Department is now considering the possible use of one or two of the four battleships in the reserve fleet. An increasing number of Senate and House members are convinced that the big guns of battleships could do much good for our side, and save lives as well as planes.

Senator Richard Russell (D.-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has for more than two years been seeking use of battleships. He claims that experts have told him that 16-inch guns, with modern propellants, can hurl a 2700-pound shell 40 miles or more bringing within range 500 or 600 targets in North Vietnam.

Some top-ranking naval officers would like to see a battleship or two in operation. Many officers have said privatelv that the Defense Department and the Navy went too far in eliminating big guns and batdeships.

Senator C. T. Hansen (R.-Wyoming), newly arrived in Washington and a former Wyoming state governor, gave probably one of the most convincing arguments for the use of 16-inch guns.

Using data furnished him by naval experts, he said that it would cost $16 to $27 million to commission a battleship from the reserve fleet, and annual operating costs would vary from $13 to $17.5 million, depending upon the extent of manning necessary. Six to ten planes and their crews cost $16 to $27 million.

"One can look at a map of Vietnam and see that the principal highway which connects both halves of the war-torn country. National Route One, could come under naval gunfire for almost its entire length," Senator Hansen said. "Indeed, there are places where almost half of North Vietnam on a north-south axis could come under the main batteries of battleships."

Various objections to the use of battleships in Vietnam have been made, such as their cost, lack of sufficient number of gunners' mates and turret captains. However, Admiral David L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations, told Congress the Navy has 16-inch gun men available.

As for the cost, the Vietnam war is costing $70 to $75 million daily, and the commissioning of a battleship and its use in battle for a year would cost only about half of that.

Such high-ranking officers as Admiral John S. McCain, Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Europe, and Vice Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, U. S. Commander of the Pacific, are reported to favor use of battleships. Batdeships would constitute an all-weather, around-the-clock interdiction and destruction capability, something beyond the scope of air power. They could also provide protection for U. S. vessels from the larger coastal guns now being furnished the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. Batdeships would require an aviator spotter, but so, often, do bombers.

HOMECOMING 20-22 October 17

ACADEMIC PROGRAM AT USNA WITH SURPRISE, and sometimes indignation, Naval Academy alumni who reside outside the 100-mile radius from the chapel dome often learn that alumni who live in the Annapolis area haven't kept track of what's going on inside the walls at USNA. To alleviate this seemingly inexcusable simation the Superintendent recendy invited local alumni to an all-day presentation which was carefully prepared to bring them up to date. Following a general background and familiarization session in the Assembly Hall, participants broke up into groups for briefing in depth in a department or area of individual choice.

Luncheon at the Officer and Faculty Club was followed by presentations concerning the Master Plan, the USNA Athletic Association and the Department of Physical Education. After a question and answer period the group adjourned to Worden Field to witness the first dress parade of the spring season.

A large number of alumni availed themselves of the opportunity to attend this well planned and executed briefing. All spoke well of the interest generated and the benefits derived. Typical of he outstanding presentations made during the early forenoon session is the following address delivered

by Capt. D. M. Karcher, USN, Assistant Dean for Midshipmen's Affairs.

THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM In order to give you a good overview of the academic program now found at the Naval Academy, 1 would like to describe first the smdent we find as the midshipman participant. Taking a cross section through our most recendy arrived class— and looking at the plebe, who will graduate in 1970, we would find a man who stood in the top half of his class in high school. 9 1 % were actually in the top 40%—the mean Scholastic Aprimde Test scores in the verbal area were 586, and in math 655 out of a possible 800. Many were members of National Honor Society and other distinguished student groups, and at least 4 1 % had won scholarships to other universities or colleges. In addition, we would find 3 5 % were class or student body officers, 69% were varsity athletes, and 17% had had some previous college experience. I believe you will agree that this is quite a select group—a group which would be a welcome addition to any college campus throughout the United States today. By law, the three service academies are authorized to go to a total student strength of 4517—we have hovered at the 4000-4100 level for several years now, more than the other academies, but we are not quite ready to push much beyond this level at this time. At present, our plebe class numbers about 1110 men, the youngster class 1030, and the two upper classes about 890 apiece—^for a grand total of just under 4000 midshipmen.

To guide and to educate such a distinguished and erudite body of students, we are convinced that our faculty must be on a par or better than that found in the majority of universities throughout the country. Thus over the recent years we have made a dedicated effort to upgrade the educational calibre of our faculty. By design, our faculty is half civilian and half military. Acmally, because of the exigencies of the war In Vietnam, our military ranks are now somewhat reduced, and we find 54% of the faculty to be civilian, but this is just a temporary situation. We now have 293 civilians and 253 officers on our faculty. We are fortunate to have all military services represented here, with naval and Marine Corps officers, 2 Air Force, 2 Army, and 1 Foreign Service officer. We even have five naval officers from foreign friendly nations serving as instructors in the Department of Foreign Languages. The significant thing, however, is that 7 5 % of this entire faculty has obtained at least a Master's degree in some 18

subject, while 123 faculty members (including both officer and civilian) have acquired their Ph.D. Should you be a college professor seeking employment at the Naval Academy today, you could expect to be turned down if you did not have your Ph.D., or at least were in the final stages of obtaining same. For officers, an outstanding operational background in the Fleet, plus evidence of advanced education are requisite for consideration for a tour here.

Next, I wish to discuss our academic facilities.

Within the 300 or so acres of land at the Naval Academy, we find 291 buildings; however, only 12 of these are used by the academicians. In these 12 buildings we find 178 classrooms and 57 laboratories. These are not as many as may be found on other comparable campuses for a student body of our size, so our utilization rate is quite high—75% of the time you could expect to find any given academic facility in use. Michelson Hall —the new Science/Mathematics building now under construction, is the first academic building to be started here in over 25 years. We anticipate that we will be able to use Michelson Hall for the Academic Year starting in 1968, but even with the 98 more classrooms and 63 laboratories that this new edifice will give us, our utilization rate will only drop to about 6 5 % . For your information, we attempt to keep class sizes at about 16-20 midshipmen to a section, and this gives an excellent professor to student ratio.

I have summarized the student, the faculty, and the facilities, and now a few words about the curriculum we offer. Our present curriculum at the Naval Academy can be traced back to 1959 when a group of eminent educators and senior naval officers gave the old academic program a close scrutiny and compared it to academic programs being offered at other comparable institutions of higher education. This Board advised the Naval Academy that too much emphasis was being placed on memory type courses, there was too much hardware—^breech-blocks, guns, torpedoes, boilers, turbines, etc., where the student was required to become intimately familiar with the inner workings of a particular item—only to graduate into the Fleet or Marine Corps and possibly never again be exposed to that specific piece of equipment during his entire career. No consideration was given to previous education of the smdent—each midshipman was required to study the same 48 courses, regardless of whether he had been to college for several years, or whether he was fresh out of high school.

As a result of the recommendation of this Board, and in the interest in providing our Fleet with the best educated officers possible, the Naval Academy made a complete revision of its methods of instruction, in the overall course content, and in the subjects offered. The entire academic program was thoroughly overhauled and up-dated.l Now, those midshipmen who can are permitted to validate previous college level work by taking examinations in those areas after arrival at the U. S. Naval Academy. The memory type courses have been discarded, and considerably less emphasis is placed on a detailed knowledge of naval hardware.

The Naval Academy now teaches the basic philosophies and theories underlying the technologies considered essential for our future officers. There are over 300 elective courses offered in our catalogue, and thus, a midshipman may drink as deeply as he desires from that fountain of knowledge. I will discuss the validation program in more detail a bit later on, but let's take a look at the present curriculum of the Class of 1970 for just a moment. (See chart no page 19.)

1. The

1967

edition of the REGISTER OF ALUMNI

presents a discussion of the programs now being followed in each of the seven academic departments.

A. The course runs for four years with 2 semesters of 16-18 weeks apiece in each year.

B. Core Curriculum contains 119 Semester Hours of smdy.

Each Minor Program contains an average of 18 Semester Hours.

Total is a minimum of 137 Semester Hours as compared to 136 Semester Hours at a typical engineering school, where B.S. in E.E. is given, or 120 Semester Hours at a good liberal arts school.

C. The Core Curriculum ( 8 5 % of die total academic program) contains: 8 professional courses—indicated (P) 7 semesters of Science—indicated (S) 5 semesters of Math—indicated (M) 8 semesters of EH&G—vindicated (H) 2 semesters of Foreign Languages—indicated (L) 4 semesters of Engineering—indicated (E) D. Each Minor Program contains six courses ( 1 5 % of total academic program).

E. Courses for which validation examinations are given to all entering midshipmen are ten in number and are indicated with a (V).

F. Academic effort contained in the core curriculum may roughly be divided as follows: (1) Engineering and Engineering Science —25% (2) Humanities—25% (3) Basic Science and Mathematics—25% (4) Professional Courses—25% G. Academic Day starts at 0755 and continues until 1515: 6 periods at 50 min/day or 34/week, with mandatory smdy hour 6 nights/week.

I mentioned the Minor Program earlier, and I'll just say here that the Naval Academy offers 23 different minors. These are programs designed to provide an oppormnity for a midshipman to enrich his education by smdying some particular area in greater depth. A Minor consists of six specific courses which are added to the core curriculum, one per semester, during the last three years at the Naval Academy. About midway through plebe year each midshipman indicates his interest in three different minor programs, in order of preference, and these are then carefully reviewed by the Academic Departments. If it appears that the midshipman acmally has the academic capability to pursue his number one choice, he is so assigned.

In some cases, however, it is necessary for us to assign a midshipman to his second or third choice, simply because it is highly probable that he will fall into academic difficulty if he attempts the program he himself has chosen, or because his first choice is heavily oversubscribed. This year we were able to accommodate 9 3 % of all first choices. I should say right here that the Minor Program has litde if any effect on shaping a midshipman's ultimate naval career, or in getting him into a particular sub-specialty after graduation— however, it does go a long way towards giving him a much more fully rounded education than otherwise possible.

The minors offered by the various Departments are: a. Engineering—^Aerospace Engineering, Marine Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecmre. b. EH&G—Foreign Affairs, History, Literamre, Politics and Economics. c. Foreign Languages—French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian Spanish. d. Mathematics—A solid course in Math.

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e. Naval Science—Management, Oceanography, Operations Analysis. f. Science—^.^pplied Science, Chemistry, Electrical Science, Physics. g. Weapons—Systems Engineering.

Associated with the above described programs is the matter of validation. This is where a midshipman indicates, by examination, his proficiency in a given subject. I indicated those ten courses or semester of work which can be obviated by the successful validator—we require each midshipman to take examinations in these areas shortly after he arrives here plebe summer. In other words, validation examinations are mandatory. This past year 647 midshipmen validated over 1644 semesters of work. The majority were able to validate some foreign language, while math, physics and chemistry, and English courses were also validated in lesser numbers. Midshipmen are encouraged to attempt to validate other core courses if they have had previous college level work in that discipline; this past \ear, one midshipman actually validated twelve different courses.

What happens when a midshipman validates a courser Well, basically, this permits that course to drop out of his academic program, thereby leaving a vacant block in the chart. We move all following courses in the same discipline over to the left, and this, of course, opens up other blocks later on, and it is into these open spots that the midshipman is able to put electives of his choice. Thus you can see how the core curriculum is further enriched. As you might expect, this program has several interesting side effects. First of all, it has made scheduling of midshipmen to class a real chore—we now do it by computer, and even with high speed equipments now in use, it is still a long and complicated procedure. Secondly, we now find midshipmen of all classes reciting together, since many plebes and youngsters are capable of taking upper class courses early in their academic program. And, finally, it is impossible to have midshipmen march to class an3more—and this has caused some concern among certain of the alumni.

Midshipmen who do " C " plus level work or better are permitted to carry one additional or overload course each semester, and if they do " B " level work, they may carry two overloads. " B " plus work permits three overloads—and although approximately 3 0 % of all midshipmen do carry one or more overloads, only 12 midshipmen acmally carried the maximum number last semester.

How they did that I'll never be able to understand .

As I said earlier, each midshipman must complete a Minor for graduation. If he is able to carry the requisite number of overloads during his academic program (usually 3 to 4 above the required forty courses) a midshipman may also qualify for a major in that particular discipline.

Last year 347 midshipmen so qualified.

In addition to the formal academic program I have briefly discussed, we also schedule an interesting lecture program for the three upper classes.

We bring well known authorities in various fields to the Academy and, after a one-hour lecmre, hold a stimulating question and answer session.

You would have been interested to have observed how closely the midshipmen pressed Victor Reuther on labor unions, or how scientific the discussions became with Jacques Ives Cousteau or Rear Admiral Leydon following their lecmres here. Midshipmen are also still required to participate in two formal after-dinner talks before distinguished guests such as Congressmen, senior naval officers, or educators. For some, this is quite a traumatic experience.

Unformnately, I do not have sufficient time to go deeply into one of my favorite academic developments here, and that is the Trident Scholar program—suffice to say, a very small number of the smartest midshipmen are given the opportuMAY,

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THE CORE AND MINOR PROGRAM FOR THE CLASS OF 1970

Fourth Class Year

Third Class Year

First Semester

Second Semester

First Semester

Second Semester

Air-Ocean Environment

Introduction to Psychology and Management

Engineering Statics and Dynamics

Mechanics of Materials

(P)

(E)

(E)

(P) Chemistry I

Chemistry II

Physics I

Physics II

(V) (S)

(V) (S)

(V) (S)

(V) (S)

Calculus I

Calculus II

(V) (M)

(V) (M)

Calculus III and Probability

Differential Equations

(M) Composition and Literature (American)

Composition and Literamre (English)

Modern European History

(V) (H)

(V) (H)

(H)

Foreign Languages

Foreign Languages

Elected Minor

(V) (L)

(V) (L)

(M)

Navigation

(P)

Elected Minor

First Class Year

Second Class Year First Semester

Second Semester

First Semester

Second Semester

Naval Operations Analysis I

Naval Operations Analysis II

The United States in World Affairs

(P)

(P)

Management and Military Law

Introduction to Electrical Science

Applications of Electrical Science

Ballistics and Weapons Control

Weapons Systems Control

(S)

(S)

(P)

(P)

Vector Mechanics

Modern Physics

Elements of Fluid Mechanics

(M)

Elements of Thermodynamics

(S)

(E)

(E)

U. S. Government and Constitutional Development

Economic Analysis

History of Sea Power

Readings In Western Ideas

(H)

(H)

Elected Minor

Elected Minor

(H)

(P)

(H)

(H) Elected Minor

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MAIL BOAT shipmate: The observations and comments of Vince Davis in The Mail Boat, March, compels me to write.

As a graduate of the USNA, the Naval 'War College, a professor, and an administrator of a civilian institution of higher education, I concur with his recommendations. Based upon my experience of the past several years and my understanding of the objective of the USNA, the incongruity of a civilian faculty at the USNA becomes increasingly apparent. Abraham Kaplan (professor of philosophy) acknowledges the existence of great minds in the mUitary (Time, May 6, 1966). There are many intellectuals in uniform. 'Why not utilize them in the manner recommended by Professor Davis ?

The two points made by Professor Davis are well taken, i.e., meeting the competition in the academic market and the inability of a service academy to "accommodate these prima donnas."

Not only is his perception and honesty in viewing S H I P M A T E

the situation refreshing, but also his restraint in describing the shortcomings of his colleagues. (I should say "our" colleagues because I have taken up residence in "the olive grove of Academe.")

By "troublesome and ornery" could he have been alluding to the shibboleth "involvement in the government of the institution," which translates into "insist upon participation in all decision making but accept no responsibility for the execution" ?

Can the USNA create conditions to accommodate this as well as the imagined and exaggerated slights referred to by Professor Davis,'' I believe the objective of the USNA would be better served by adherence to the plan proposed by Professor Davis. Seek out the intellectuals in uniform and use them. I believe they would have more empathy with the final product—a professional naval officer.

C. J. \V.U.TERS '34

Dean, School of Business Administration Menlo School and College shipmate: The remarks offered by Dr. Vince Davis as to faculty' policies of the Academy warrant some sort of a reklama, even if it is always necessary to go back over ground that is well-known to many of us.

First, let me say that I consider Dr. Davis' remarks to have been well-conceived and sincere. As a member of a professional society of which he has lately been the president, I have considerable respect for Dr. Davis. I will, nonetheless, contest his conclusion that an all-uniformed faculty would be an improvement over the present Naval Academy system of a mLx of civilians and officers.

Second, let me investigate the implication inherent in his letter that the present faculty at he Naval Academy is inferior in some way to the demands appropriate to it. I doubt strongly that there is any reasonable basis for such a thesis, particularly since I ha\e had the oppormnity to compare Naval Academy professors with their counterparts from other institutions in teaching comparable courses. One need not be shy about the credentials or the abilities of the Naval Academy civilian facult}' vis-a-vis their academic contemporaries. At the same time, the steps taken in the last years have given the Academy an officer faculty whose strictly academic credentials are respectable —and in demand at other colleges, I might add.

But I would not contest the idea that every faculty must constandy strive for improvement.

Like Alice, one has to run faster and faster in order to stay in the same place in recruiting faculty in this Century of the Academician. I would suggest, however, that we look when we are running before we go down a hole perhaps more wonderful than the one Alice fell into.

We cannot expect to have a faculty with the engineering distinction of Cal Tech and at the same time the liberal arts talents of Harvard. The business of the Naval Academy is not, let us ever repeat, to produce scholars nor even professional engineers. It is to produce broad-gage professionals whose interest in the naval service is such that they will man the ships and squadrons necessary for the defense of this country and whose education and training will provide an adequate basis for managing the efforts of specialists in fields which support our national policy. This is not an anti-intellectual approach, any more than the Commandant of the U. S. Army Ordnance School is being anti-intellectual when he recommends (Army, April, 1967, p. 82) that most Ph.D.'s be exempted from military service because of lack of genuine interest in the military. This merely acknowledges that military life and academic life are quite dissimilar for the most part.

They both require dedication—to different ways of life.

The record of the Academy in providing such professionals has been good, and possibly better dian that of other schools with a different faculty MAY,

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policy. Naval officers managed the Polaris program so efficiently that it is not only becoming the predominant strategic system of this country, but it has also provided a model for modern management in all phases of industry. In general purpose air forces, the Vietnam war has proved the leading weapons system to be the Phantom 11, the Intruder, the Vigilante, the BuUpup, Shrike, and the whole family of Eye-weapons—with the Corsair II soon to follow—all Navy developed. On the ground, the Marines need defer to no organization where advanced capabilities and concepts are concerned.

And, if I am not mistaken, the Naval Academy has provided 11 of 40 astronauts to date, with no other school even close.

That the education is broad-gage enough to accommodate more liberal pursuits is suggested by the distinguished ambassadorships of Admirals Spruance, Kirk, Wright, Anderson, and Ageton. In recent years, the Academy has contributed at least one college president (to Georgia Tech) and at least one university chancellor (to George "Washington University). A survey last year indicated that the Naval Academy stood 12th among all colleges in the United States in the number of its alumni holding top executive position in the 600 largest non-financial institutions in the country. (I must admit that we failed somehow with the senior member of the Mommas and the Poppas, but I do not personally worry greatly about this.)

The Academy faculty's most recent record is significant for the numbers of Rhodes, Churchill, and Fulbright scholars which have been selected from graduating classes, although it remains to be seen whether or not these men as scholars will prove as valuable to the Navy as they would have after seeing the operating Navy in action.

Having suggested what I find to be an adequate basis for my conviction that the present situation is far from desperate, I would investigate Dr. Davis' proposal that we go to a fully uniformed faculty.

Such a system falters on its inherent hypocrisy, it seems to me. The teaching profession and the military profession indeed have points of tangency and of overlap, but basically they are two different animals, as even Dr. Davis suggests. An officer who devotes the greatest part of a career to teaching—and to acquiring the education and interest essential to a true teaching career—^is no more a professional military officer than the English professor who answers an academy faculty advertisement and is put into a lieutenant colonel's uniform. Except in truly exceptional cases, you can't have it both ways. A command pilot flying proficiency flights cannot begin to compare his experience to that of a Phantom pilot just back from Viemam, nor will he impart comparable inspiration for a military career, which is the basic purpose of the academies. If we put our teaching completely in the hands of academicians, we can expect them to breed their own kind—which is one of the problems of American higher education today.

Further, an all-uniformed faculty inevitably involves development of a corps of officer-teachers, a clique, set apart from the rest. West Point has handled this situation as well as it can possibly be handled, I think, and the results are for the most part impressive. Nonetheless, the presence of such a corps is always divisive in a military body, and it is better not to provide unnecessarily the soil for its emergence. There is also good argument that military elite corps of any kind, while they may meet special needs, are in the grand view a drain on the available human resources.

In sum, if the argument for changing the present civilian-officer Naval Academy faculty is that the faculty has failed to meet its requirements, I say the verdict should be "not proven." If the argument is that an all-uniformed faculty would be better for the Academy—and for the service as a whole—I say that logic and experience both argue against it. The faculty as it is now consti-

tuted is doing a fine job and the mixed faculty system provides more room for healthy development than either an all-civilian or an all-uniformed system can.

WILLIAM C . CHAPMAN '44

Shipmate: The article in the February 1967 Shipmate entitled "An End Product—Successful Versatility" listed nine officers who had served as ambassador to sovereign nations under presidential appointment, after previous naval service.

Capt. Franz O. Willenbucher has called attention to the service of an additional distinguished alumnus, VAdm. Paul Frederick Foster, USNR, who served with distinction in the Atomic Energy Commission, including a stint as General Manager in 1958. While serving as U. S. representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna in 1959-61 he received a letter from the President which accorded him the personal rank of ambassador during the tenure of his assignment as representative of the U. S. to the IAEA and as U. S. representative on the Board of Governors of IAEA. VAdm. Foster graduated in 1911 and resigned from the service in 1929 with the rank of lieutenant commander and accepted a similar rank in the U. S. Naval Reserve. He returned to active duty after the attack on Pearl Harbor and transferred to the retired list on 1 December 1946 with the rank of vice admiral, USNR. VAdm. Foster was the first naval officer to receive the three highest decorations: Medal of Honor (1914), Navy Cross (1925) and Distinguished Service Medal (1918). His career in business and public service has been outstanding, in addition to his distinguished naval service.

These have been previously covered in Shipmate (Oct. 1956, "Biographical Profiles," and March 1954).

F. V. RIGLER '23

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ATHLETICS

by Budd Thalman

T T W O WEEKS of the spring season have passed -*- and things are going swimmingly for the Midshipmen in lacrosse, golf, and track. The baseball and tennis teams, however, are having difficulty getting untracked.

The overall outdoor record was 12 wins, 7 losses as the May issue of Shipmate went to press.

Coach Bill Bilderback's defending National Champion stickmen won their first three starts of the season to extend their collegiate winning streak to 31 straight. The Midshipmen easily disposed of Syracuse (18-4), Harvard (15-1), and Princeton (12-6). The road ahead is a littie rougher with Mount Washington, Maryland, Virginia, and Hopkins on successive weekends. Maryland and Hopkins, both undefeated at this writing, appear to have their strongest clubs in years.

A \3Vi-7yi golf setback to Maryland marred an otherwise perfect record for the linksmen, who defeated Pittsburgh (7-0) and Harvard (6-1) in action to date. The track team rolled it up at the expense of Pittsburgh (131-23) and Manhattan (111-43) to carry a 2-0 record into the St. John's meet.

One-run losses to Vermont (1-2), West Chester (3-4), and Harvard (0-1) were the difference between a baseball record of 6-1 and the 3-4 record carried by Coach Joe Duff's nine after seven outings. The tennis team was 2-3 with wins over Georgetown and Syracuse. Colgate, Penn, and Harvard administered the losses.

In the first spring regatta. Navy's sailing experience roughly paralleled the dilemma of the baseball and tennis teams. The Midshipmen wound up third in a 13-team field for the Middle Atlantic Spring Invitational Dinghy Regatta and were eighth among the 10 colleges in the 3rd annual John F. Kennedy Regatta for yawl sailors.

The Kennedy Regatta, which has become in a short time one of the most glamorous collegiate sailing events, was won by Stanford University, which edged out Harvard, 38-26. Southern California was third with 35 points followed in order by: Tufts 28, Princeton 27, Wisconsin 26, Georgetown 25, Navy 20, Florida State 15, and Ohio State 12.

Rick Miller, Navy baseball.

Baseball—Good pitching was not enough to offset a lack of batting punch for the Navy baseball team. Coach Joe Duff's pitching staff had an overall earned run average of 1.74 after seven games but a .190 performance at the plate sent the record tumbling to 3-4.

Second classmen Rick Miller and Rick Buchanan and firstie George Volkman shouldered the lion's share of the pitching responsibility in the first seven games. This trio worked all but eight of 62 innings. Buchanan had the best won-lost record of the three with a 2-1 mark but Miller (1.32) and Volkman (1.53) both boasted better ERA's.

Miller paced the mound staff in strikeouts with 23 in 2014 innings.

Navy's heavyweight and lightweight crews did not make their spring debut until April 15th, too late for a report on their inaugural test.

Here is a rundown on each of the spring sports:

In the hitting department, outfielder Denis Tierney, a youngster, carried a .292 average—best on the club. Tierney, inserted in the lineup when a muscle pull sidelined firstie Ted White, rapped out safeties in five of his first six trips. First sacker Bill Dukiet was second to Tierney with a .261 average. Dukiet and youngster Ed Stopyra were tied for the club leadership in RBI's with five apiece.

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Golf—Coach Bob Williams is hopeful his golfers will rebound from their Maryland disappointment and right themselves for the remainder of the campaign. If they do, the Midshipmen have an excellent shot at the top spot in the East.

After three matches. Captain T. R. Jones and Jack Diesing, another first classman, had the top individual records. Both were unbeaten in three tries. Bill Cobb, Williams' number one man, was 2-1 as were Eric Utegaard and Harry Buzhardt.

Carl Edmonds had a 2-0 mark. Bob Cuccias was 1-2, and Jim Walters had a tie in his only match.

Lacrosse—Youngster attackman John Bodine, who at 5-foot-7, 151 pounds, bears a remarkable physical resemblance to departed three-time AllAmerican Jim Lewis, was also making like Lewis in the Navy scoring statistics after three lacrosse outings. Bodine, a product of the same Long Island lacrosse fields that spawned Lewis, topped all his teammates with six goals and eight assists for 14 points.

Another youngster, attackman Ron Sadler, ranked right behind Bodine with seven points, achieved on four goals and three assists. Firsties Hank Giffen and Joe Schwanebeck occupied third place on the scoring chart with six points apiece.

A group of three others—midfielders Al Davey and John Mcintosh, attackman Bob McCleery—were bracketed in fifth place with five points.

Coach Bill Bilderback, who was most concerned with his attack at the start of the campaign, was breathing a little easier with the performance of Bodine and Sadler. Giffen, Art (Skip) Meinhold, McCleery, and Dick Scott were also effective on attack for the Midshipmen.

In the midfield, the first unit of Mcintosh, Schwanebeck, and Davey has been an extremely effective outfit. The currently-constructed number one defense of Carl Tamulevich, Bob Havasy, and John Goldschmidt has been stingy—allowing the opposition only 11 goals in three games. In the net, goalie Mac Ogilvie has had very little business, recording only 11 saves.

Tennis—Despite three early setbacks. Navy's prospects for an outstanding season remain bright.

Two of the Midshipmen's early conquerors, Penn and Harvard, boast some of the top net talent in the area.

Coach Harvey MuIIer could trace his early problems to disappointing doubles play. The Midshipmen came out of singles tied with Harvard and Colgate 3-3 only to drop the match in doubles.

Colgate won two of three in doubles and Harvard swept the two-man competition.

Co-captain Bill Burns and youngster John Bunker shared top individual laurels with records of four wins, one loss. Youngster Bob Cowin, the number one ranking midshipman in singles, logged three victories in his first five outings.

Cowin, in the opinion of Coach MuUer one of the best tennis players to enter the Academy in the past decade, lived up to his billing in the early going.

Other individual singles records: Bob Chester 2-1, Lance Home 2-2, Wes Overton 2-3, Dave Beard 1-2.

Track.—Second classman Tom Palkie, the sensation of the Outdoor Heptagonal games last spring, was off and running on another great outdoor season. Palkie won five firsts and anchored two victorious 440-yard relay teams.

"I feel stronger this year thanks to some extra mile relay work during the indoor campaign," Palkie says, "but I'm still slow out of the blocks."

Navy fans wonder what miracles Palkie might reap if he ever gets "fast" out of the blocks. He already had clocked a 9.8 for the 100 and a 21.7 220 in runaway triumphs over Pitt and Manhattan.

Firstie Buzz Lawlor has set a personal goal of a sub four-minute mile before he winds up his varsity career on June 2 at West Point. Lawlor took his first step in that direction vs. Manhattan by slicing the varsity record to four minutes, 9.7 seconds. Lawlor's old mark was 4:10.3.

Here are some of the old top times and distances in the first two outdoor starts: 440—John Cosgrove 49.3; 120-yard high hurdles—Eric Houin 14.7; 880—Ron Knode 1:53.1; 2-Mile—Dick Brantigan 9:21.6; 440 intermediate hurdles—Phil Katauskas 54.9; Hammer—Ray Smith 1727"; Triple jump—Tom Fahy 46"/2"; High jump—Jeff Root 6'4"; Broad jump—Palkie 2 4 ' / 2 " ; Pole vault—Ron Holcombe 14'6"; Shotput —Karl Mahumed SVVi"; Javelin—Dave Finch 2 1 2 7 " ; Discus—Leo Kuehn 153', and Mile Relay —3:16.1.

The Naval Academy Athletic Association has installed a new service for Alumni and all Navy sports followers. The innovation is called "FanPhone," a daily telephone recording of the latest in Navy athletic news. The 24-hour service features : SHIPMATE

1—The daily sports schedule with last minute cancellations or changes; 2—Ticket information, including availability and price; 3—Results and highlights of the daily athletic contests; 4—Interviews with Navy athletes and coaches; 5—"FanPhone" features such as a weekly sports quiz, great moments in Navy sports, and others; 6— Fast-breaking sports news of a current nature.

The "Fan-Phone" number is Annapolis (Area Code 301) 268-7343. The recording is changed dailv. Give it a call.

Coach Bill Elias called a halt to spring football practice with an intra-squad scrimmage on Saturday, April 1st. The Midshipmen wound up taking 17 of the allotted 20 days. We will feature a detailed prospectus of the 1967 season in a later issue of Shipmate.

Generally, Elias reported he was pleased with the drills. "We did a lot of hitting and a lot of experimenting," the Navy coach reported. "It is difficult to believe that we could have an improvement in team spirit but, under the skillful leadership of Captain Bill Dow, we saw just that this spring."

The major move of the spring was the conversion of Terry Murray, top rusher the past two seasons, from a running back to flanker. "The results were extremely gratifying," Elias reported.

With Murray to complement split end Rob Taylor, Navy's passing game becomes even more of a menace next fall.

To afford the luxury of using Murray as a pass receiver, the search for a proven running back became item number one. Elias thinks the staff may have uncovered a pair of good possibilities in sprinters Roland Laurenzo and Jeri Balsly, both 9.7 men over 100 yards.

Miscellaneous Navy Sports Notes: Coach Ed Peery returned from the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championships at Kent, Ohio, with three All-Americans and a Navy finish in the top ten. The Midshipmen wound up ninth in the run for the team trophy, won by Michigan State.

Gary Burger, third at 123 pounds, and Pete Vanderlofske and John Kent, fifth at 145 and 160 respectively, were the All-Americans chosen.

Fencing coach Andre Deladrier was inducted into the Helms Fencing Hall of Fame during the collegiate championships at Northridge, Calif. In 10 seasons at the helm, Deladrier's teams have won 56 and lost 26, been N.C.A.A. Champs twice.

This year's edition wound up fourth in the N.C.A.A. field with epeeist Frank Hewitt finishing as runner-up in that weapon.

Another honoree was former gymnastics coach Chet Phillips, who received a citation for special contribution to the sport.

If you have a well motivated football prospect who is interested in attending the Naval Academy, and who has the necessary academic qualifications, you should put him in touch with the coach assigned to the territory in which he lives. That list includes: Steve Belichick—Maryland and Washington, D.C. Sterling Brown—New England States, New York, Northern New Jersey Whitey Campbell—California Jack Cloud—^Virginia Lee Corso—Ohio and Michigan Jack Gregory—^New Jersey (South of Trenton), Delaware, Pennsylvania Joe Mark—Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee Don Ross—Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado Carl Schuette—Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota MAY, 1967

PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER'S 8TH ANNUAL NAVAL ACADEMY AND DADS' NIGHT The date was moved ahead to 30 March and the snow was all. The spacious and finely appointed Officers' Mess, Defense Personnel Support Center, Philadelphia, furnished a perfect setting for the assembly of more than 300 alumni, dads of graduates, fathers of midshipmen, twenty-four scholar-athletes, a large contingent of "brass" from the Academy, with John W. Buxton, '24, president of Philadelphia chapter, and Ralph A. Sentman '25, acting as chairman and toastmaster for the eighth year.

The head table included RAdm. Draper L. Kauffman '33, Superintendent, USNA; RAdm. Robert H. Speck '27, Com4; RAdm. M. F. D. Flaherty (Ret.) '28, Governor, Naval Home, Philadelphia; RAdm. John F. Davidson (Ret.) '29, President, Wilmington Chapter; RAdm. W. F. Fitzgerald (Ret.) '21, Executive Director, National Alumni; Capt. Sheldon H. Kinney '41, Commandant of Midshipmen; Capt. Alan R. Cameron '43, Director of Athletics; Capt. Bruce L. Canaga (MC), Senior Medical Officer, USNA; Capt. Clyde Stroud (MC), CO of Philadelphia Naval Hospital; Capt. Robert C. Giffen, Jr., '38, Chief of Staff, 4th N. D.; Rip Miller, Asst. Director of Athletics; head football coach Bill Elias; Cdr. R. T. E. (Bud) Bowler (Ret.) '45, Executive Director, Naval Academy Foundation, Inc.; LCdr. John F. Laboon, (CHC) '44; Cdr. F. B. Harris, USNR Public Affairs, 4 N. D.; Canon James E. Purdy, Episcopal Diocese of N. J.; John W. Buxton '24, president; and Ralph A. Sentman '25, chairman.

The program was fast moving as usual and was received with more enthusiasm than ever.

"Happy Hour" was from 5:30 to 7:15. Chaplain Laboon pronounced the invocation. Next a prime rib of beef dinner with all the trimmings.

President John W. Buxton '24 made a few remarks and introduced Ralph Sentman '25 as toastmaster. A minute of silence was observed in honor of alumni, dads and all members of our Armed Forces who have passed away during the preceding year. Introduction of the head table was followed by a fast-moving program.

RAdm. Robert H. Speck '27, Com 4, welcomed "all hands" to the Fourth Naval District.

The dads of '68, followed by '69, were called forward to "Sound Off." The plebe dads '70 reported "on the double"—were given the "brace up" bit—and "sounded off" with a loud SIR! RAdm. Fitzgerald '21, Exec. Dir. Alumni Assoc.

(National), made brief remarks on the status, success and future plans of our parent association. He made an even shorter "graduation address," and as the dads of '67 came forward he presented each with a "diploma" from the Philadelphia chapter.

The toastmaster next presented to Cdr. Joseph D. Marshall, USNR (a Blue and Gold Officer and "bird-dog"), a certificate as an associate member

of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Assn. of Philadelphia in appreciation of his outstanding contributions in assisting the Naval Academy in locating selected scholar-athletes. Herbert R. Fifer was next presented a certificate as an honorary member for the same reasons. To round out the "bird-dogs," Richard J. Raab (an honorary member since 1963); LCdr. James V. Healy, USNR '54; Hayden Machomer; Wayne C. McKee '58; and asst. head football coach Jack Gregory joined Sentman on the platform. Each "bird-dog" called his scholar-athletes forward—gave a "thumb-nail" sketch of their background and inti-oduced their dads. Each of the 24 young men either has a nomination for '71, or is a likely candidate for prep school and the class of '72.

The inimitable Rip Miller was introduced as the "papa bird-dog." He completely flabbergasted the toastmaster by presenting him with a plaque from Capt. Alan R. Cameron and the U. S. Naval Academy Athletic Association: Commander Ralph A. Sentman, USN (Ret.) "Molder of Men" In deep appreciation for his outstanding contribution to the United States Naval Academy. His midshipmen have distinguished themselves in the classroom, on the athletic fields, and as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps. Our debt to him can never fully be repaid.

Naval Academy Athletic Association 1967 Capt. Alan R. Cameron, Director of Athletics, made a few remarks and presented head football coach Bill Elias. He made predictions of "things to come"—all optimistic. Cdr. R. T. E. (Bud) Bowler, Exec. Dir., N. A. Foundation, made a status report on the Foundation and was awarded a substantial check from the Philadelphia chapter

by John W. Buxton '24, pres., as the proceeds from the annual Army-Navy game cocktail party.

It should be stated that one of the features of the evening was the dinner activity of Adm. Kauffman. The candidates and their dads sat at six tables in front of the head table. The admiral requested that he abandon the head table during dinner and eat one course with each of the candidate tables. This gesture made a fine and lasting impression.

The "highlight" of the evening was the address by the Superintendent (the first active duty "Supe" to visit a Philadelphia meeting in fifty years). His subject was so well done that you could have heard a pin drop. He was given a standing ovation.

Believe it or not . . . the entire program was concluded at 10:15 p.m. But . . . there followed much healthy fraternizing!

At the head table.

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'53—Donald D. Smirfi Thomas A. McCreery William W. Von Hansen Watson W. Goldsmith Lamont E. Ochs Charles W. Lamb Charles M. Cooke, Jr. Herbert R. Tiede John P. Sinnott Glenn L. Woods Frank B. Wolcott Oakah L. Jones, Jr. Robert H. Shaidnagle John P. Kraynak William A. Fredlund Eugene E. Paro, Jr. James D. Baldinger Franklin B. Shakespeare Walter C. Russell James Michael Blew Franklin B. Jayne Frank M. Kellam, Jr. Edward Lyon Keyte, Jr. Robert L. Serpa Richard Glade Shimanek Thomas L. Theotokatos Thomas F. Vallee

Edward W. Page Thomas D. Linton, Jr. Joseph Z. Taylor Kenneth E. Turner Theo P. Riegert Danforth Clement Alfred J. Morency '50—James W. Marsh Wells P. Rollins Gordon M. Gray Robert E. Bowyer Kenneth G. Hoge, Jr. John Skien G. F. Dooley Andrew J. Callahan, Jr. Frank H. Moxley, Jr. Adrian D. Vining William G. Petty Scott G. Burgess John T. Ashley Floyd Martin Caylor Walter Vincent Dunne James R. McCausland '51—P. A. Smith James H. Grady Raymond H. Howard Clark R. Wozencraft Joseph J. Mularz Leo Glenn, Jr. '52—1. Richard Thomas Robert A. Gay Robert N. Phillips Laurence A. Brown, Jr. Donald E. Jensen Doane F. Kiechel, Jr. James H. Smith Keete L. Hester John R. Sell John William Schwartz Richard T. Mulcahy Charles F. Craig Robert W. Washington William E. Quimby Joseph A. Farrell, III Roi F. Prueher, Jr. James R. Bowser, Jr. John E. Hutton, Jr. Thomas R. Cotton, Jr. Kenneth R. Price Jean M. Marchand Charles W. Newland Anthony C. Sealese, Jr. Richard T. Crouse Stanley R. Swanson Frank N. Hannegan Jimmy L. Smith Arthur J. Hedburg, Jr. William R. Delahunty, Jr. Howard F. Haggard Donald L. Feller Lester R. Hewitt Ferris M. Smith, Jr. H. Lee Blanton, Jr. John R. McCandless

'54—Donald O. Pflugrath William L. Haygood William E. Thurman Richard C. Solderholm Edgar F. Tatum, Jr. Charles E. Pollard, Jr. James F. Austin Henry W. Cianflone Donald Fullam Marshall R. Messinger John W. Havicon Robert G. Shields Jerome M. Adams Philip H. Avery John Oliver Crouse David Evans II Robert Norman Findlay Eugene Garove Donald R. Halagan Edward Willis Hart John Edward Laughlin Samuel Sheridan Matthews James Denning Nelson, Jr. Ray M. Ross Roger Glenn Slaughter '55—Morton J. Rubenstein Robert K. Weir Robert A. Hammond Billy M. Grimes Harold A. Levin Allen B. MacDiarmid James K. McPherson William C. Martin Franklin P. Eller David G. Hamilton Frederick M. Bowles William R. Ball

Joseph A. Gattuso John R. Curnutt Robert L. Fischer Richard K. Mattox Joel D. Patterson Richard J. Cisewski Joseph L. Gimbrone F. Gregory Newbeck Lawrence S. Delplato John Morra Francis L. Castillo Richard M. Kittler Wilfred S. Fisher David M. Hammett Richard T. Knock Walter W. Lamb Raymond R. Henderson John B. Morris Bill G. Lowrey William P. Kuhne Felix Frederick Andriano, Jr. William L. Ehrle Murray Clark Havens William Daniel Hurley, Jr. Richard William Reavis Ronald W. Ridgway '56—Robert E. Park Andreus A. Piske, Jr. Richard P. Tucker John C. Pumam James E. Whelan Edgar W. Weeks, Jr. Frank B. Tatom Raymond M. Kostesky Richard J. Mann Charles D. Van Ry Roy M. Gulick, Jr. Mark A. O'Hara, Jr. James L. Cooper James L. Milne Robert E. Zehnder Bernard W. Boshoven Thomas L. Weisner George H. Wilkins William S. Hunt, Jr. Charles E. Knetdes Robert F. Milligan Douglas V. Rigler Charles T. Andrews Lloyd B. W. Kriner John F. Magagna Richard Payne Guest, Jr. George J. Mercuro Norman L. H. Frith, II George W. Weigold, Jr. James W. Smith Charles R. Green '57—Harry E. Wells William J. Heske Donald L. Hirst Richard D. Lull Donald L. Miller David H. Sixbey

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SEA BREEZES

by Paul Schratz '39 A THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS

ALUMNI

NEWS

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

D.C. Vice President (Eastern

Area)—

RADM. ROBERT H . B.^RITOM, USNR '33 (11102), Scarsdale, N. Y.

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

Vice President (Western Area)— VADM. HAROLD O . LARSON, USN (Ret.) '25 (7899), Coronado, 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. R. E . HAWTHORNE, USN '43 (15416), USNA, Annapolis, Md. At Large (To serve until Spring Meeting 1967) RADM.

GORDON

L.

CASWELL,

USN

(Ret.) '27 (9125)

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

(7380)

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

'32 (10515)

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

'27

(9015) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1968)

CAPT.

EDWARD

L . BEACH, USN

'39

(13221)

CAPT.

PAUL

R.

SCHRATZ,

USN

'39

CDR. HARRY D . TRAIN, II, USN

'49

(13436)

R A D M . C . S . COOPER, USN (Ret.) '27

(8653)

(20423) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1969)

L T G E N . A. L. BOWSER, JR., U S M C '32

(10650) RADM.

J.

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

(Ret.)

'26

(8189) E.

KIRKPATRICK,

USNR

CDR. C . A. H. TROST, USN '53 (23314)

(Ret.) '31 (10277) From Local Chapters (To serve until Spring Meeting 1967) CAPT. A. J. GREENACRE, USN (Ret.) '26

MR. W . J. TONER, JR. '43 (15778),

'23

CDR. ROLAND R . RIGGS, USN (Ret.) '04

'24

V A D M . F . T . WATKINS, USN (Ret.) '22

(2653), San Francisco

(6952), Coronado (Ret.)

(7572), Detroit LCDR. E . R . QUADY, USNR '43 (15800)

Los Angeles MAY,

1967

CDR. R . A . SENTMAN, USN (Ret.) '25

(8107), Philadelphia

'35 (11825), Connecticut R A D M . C . S. SMILEY, USN (Ret.) F . R . DAVIS, USN

R A D M . J. A. ROBBINS, USN (Ret.) '30

(9912), Peninsula

Boston R A D M . JOHN D . GERWICK, USN (Ret.)

LCDR.

R A D M . E . B . DEXTER, USN (Ret.) '28

(9254), New York

(8197), Annapolis

It is often said that the way a nation uses leisure time is a key to the national character. The relation of work and leisure habits fuels one's drive variously toward a distant star or toward mere drudgery of existence. The former suggests that one's reach should exceed his grasp, "else what's a heaven for," the latter, the apochryphal Indian porter who sees no need to carry a bag because he has already eaten. Depending on how one fixes his goal and drives himself to achievement, if realistic, brings success and contentment; if unrealistic, disillusionment and ulcers.

Nations, like individuals, vary from the energetic to the apathetic. Policies between nations must not lose sight of different national values.

For instance, a school built by the U. S. Agency for International Development in Vietnam, and later burned by the Viet Cong, is shrugged off by the South Vietnamese peasant—"the round-eyes lost a school." Both the U. S. and South Vietnam favor education; they value it differently. On the other hand, had we built a wooden bridge to provide a one or two kilometer short cut between the village and the rice paddy, its destruction would bring the outraged cry, "They burned our bridge."

Professor Hans Morgenthau criticizes the lack of ambition in underdeveloped peoples with the story of a Kenyanese fisherman who is given a motor for his fishing boat, yet fishes only until he has made his normal catch, then quits for the day to do whatever one does in Kenya in his leisure time. The good professor grossly and falsely translates national values. In the first place, he assumes inherently that the fisherman has a gasoline pump at the end of the pier, when in fact there is no pier. He assumes that an ignorant fisherman can maintain a complicated engine and that repairmen and spare parts are available when needed, neither of which is true. Lastly, he assumes that the fisherman really wants to catch as many fish as possible, a conclusion based wholly on American values. The Indian porter, the Kenyanese fisherman or a Hawaiian beach boy may view the prospect of leisure as the only worthwhile lure for his labors; perhaps our overdrive for fame and formne causes many to lose sight of such a goal by substituting security for leisure. We dream of the good life, calm seas and a prosperous voyage, yet in trying to beat the system we end up merely drowning ourselves in seas of cholesterol.

Aid to the fisherman based on American values immediately capitalizes him on a much higher level so that he must work far harder to stay in the same place; we guarantee him only American style success, a set of ulcers. T o help him in terms of his own values, one would better have bent efforts toward stocking streams and lakes for more fruitful use of existing technology which, even though primitive, is as sophisticated as his society can manage.

There's a moral in all this. I wish 1 could find time in a sixteen hour day to figure it out. My goal is the same as the government's—to get that Hawaiian beach boy off the surfboard and me on it. Except it's farther away each time I look.

(6359), Seatde VADM.

JOHN SYLVESTER, USN

(Ret.)

'26 (8148), Washington, D. C. 25

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ALL HANDS 101 Admiral Richard H. Jackson, USN (Ret.), is the Academy's most senior living alumnus. He graduated with the class of 1887. Admiral Jackson, now residing at 504 Glorietta Blvd., Coronado, Calif. 92118, celebrated his 101st birthday on 10 May. The President of the Alumni Association addressed a letter to the Admiral as follows: Dear Admiral Jackson, As President of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and on behalf of our alumni throughout the world, 1 extend sincere congramlations and all good wishes to you on the auspicious occasion of your one hundred and first birthday.

You are a shining example to all of usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an outstanding example of the famous leaders whom our great Naval Academy has produced to serve our country with honor and distinction. Your naval career followed by your significant contributions in civilian affairs has marked you for all time as a truly great American.

Your fellow-alumni, shipmates, and your host of friends extend to you our respect and warmest greetings. May you enjoy all the good health, joy and pleasant living this world has to offerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a just reward you so well deserve.

Sincerely,

"I would venture to say that about the only thing the nuclear sturgeon will not be able to do that can be done by the natural sturgeon is to produce other sturgeons, or perhaps caviar," he stated, "and even the Soviets can't boast of a submarine that accomplishes this."

The 292-foot, 4,100-ton STURGEON is the 25th nuclear submarine to be built by the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics.

AWARD WINNERS RAdm. E. M. Eller '25 and RAdm. Norvell G. Ward '35 have won top awards conferred by the Navy League of the United States. Adm. Eller, Director of Naval History, Navy Department, has received the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement and Adm. Ward is the winner of the Stephen Decatur Award for Operational Competence. The presentations will take place at the Navy League's annual convention in Jacksonville, Fla.

JOs FOR NUCLEAR POWER TRAINING The Chief of Naval Personnel is seeking applications from junior officers of year group 1962 or junior for assignment to the Naval Nuclear Power Training Program.

A continuing urgent need exists for a larger number of outstanding sea experienced unrestricted line officers to enter in one of the nation's highest priority programs. The program provides unprecedented oppormnities to increase professional qualifications and potential. Outstanding officers serving in nuclear submarines have had an enviable record of success in being promoted ahead of many of their contemporaries.

Detail information on Nuclear Power Training is contained in BuPers Instruction 1520.88A while information on personnel aspects of nuclear power utilization in the Navy may be found in SecNav Instruction 1000.3.

COMMENDATION MEDAL

W. R. SMEDBERG, III

DR. SEABORG CALLS FOR MORE NUCLEAR SHIPS Groton, Conn. (NavNews). USS STURGEON, lead ship of a new class of nuclear attack submarines, joined the fleet 3 March, as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission called for more nuclear powered naval surface ships.

Speaking at the commissioning ceremonies. Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg said the achievements of the Navy's nuclear surface vessels and advances in nuclear ship technology should "convince those not yet convinced of the wisdom of giving future navy vessels the many advantages the atom has to offer."

Terming the reliability of the naval reactors "remarkable," Dr. Seaborg said nuclear power plants have propelled submarines for 8,000,000 miles without a mission having been aborted because of reactor failure, and attributed this to the Naval Reactors Program under VAdm. H. G. Rickover, USN (Ret.).

Referring to the STURGEON, Dr. Seaborg said the sub will become a creature far more versatile in that environment than its natural namesake.

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Midshipmen Paul E. Kanive and James L. Bost are seated in the Superintendent's section as spectators for the "Pass in review" after being presented the Navy Commendation Medal at the 5 April dress parade.

They have the distinction of being the only two midshipmen in the Brigade who wear this medal. Presented by the Superintendent on behalf of the Secretary of the Navy, the medals are in recognition of the initiative and sense of responsibility demonstrated by these two young men when, coming upon the scene of a head-on automobile accident moments after it had happened, they administered emergency life-saving treatment while spectators who had gathered stood by and watched.

SHIPMATE

HEADQUARTERS REPORT

Gentlemen: Enclosed is my personal check to cover my annual dues for membership in the U. S. Naval .\cademy Alumni Association, an organization in which I consider it a privilege and an honor to be qualified for membership.

Although a non-graduate of the Academy, I have for many years supported the Association through membership and have a deep and abiding interest in the Naval Academy and the Naval Service, which brings me to a point of issue upon vvhich I should like to express my opinion.

There is considerable correspondence dispatched to the membership relative gaining new members, support of the Naval Academy Foundation, and various other projects endorsed by the Association where membership support is needed. The figures recendy published in Shipmate as to the percentage of alunmi that are members of the Association as compared to civilian and private schools to me is appalling. Certainly everyone who has ever attended the Naval Academy, motivated by a personal desire to become a member of the Naval Service, should support their Alumni Association—nongraduates as well as graduates. Here occurs the "rub" and is, in my opinion, one of the greatest weaknesses of the Association as well as of the various classes' secretaries; that is the failure to contact and run down and extend the "Welcome Aboard" greeting to the thousands of non-graduates of our Institution, many of whom, I am sure, would become contributing members of the Association if they had not formed the opinion that the primary and principal interest of the Association is only in graduates of the Academy. For example, how many non-graduates are approached or hear from their class secretaries regarding 20year books or 25-year books, or receive personal notices regarding annual reunions, etc., even though they may be contributing members of the Alumni Association? The fact that due to circumstances and reasons, in many instances unknown to the various secretaries and no doubt to the .Association itself, a non-graduate did not complete prescribed courses at the Academy should not place him in the position where he feels he is on the outside looking in, when he would like very much to be a part of his class and of the Association.

Such apathy on the part of the various class secretaries and the Association itself is a self-placed obstacle to the goals which you are attempting to obtain. Of course, there is tremendous room for improvement in the category of graduates, because 1 know from personal experience that many of them apparendy have no interest whatsoever in their Alumni Association. They would do well to do a litde reflecting and remind themselves that they not only deserve a great deal of credit for having completed their courses of instruction at the -Academy and serving with distinction in the Naval Service but that it was a distinct privilege for them to have had such an opportunity.

1 think the accomplishments of the Alumni Association, its aims, and its goals are outstanding.

The officers, past and present, and particularly the Executive Director, Admiral W. F. Fitzgerald, are doing excellent work and deserve a hearty "Well done" for their efforts in behalf of their brother alumni to make the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association one that is second to none, which it should be. Also, the editors and staff of Shipmate certainly are to be congratulated for this excellent and informative alumni publication. I sincerely hope that my comments will be construed in the vein in which they were intended, namely, constructive criticism but motivated completely by my interest in the future of the Naval Academy and our Alumni Association.

Yours sincerely, E M M E T T H . DURHAM '40

Assistant Vice President Atiantic Coast Line MAY,

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This letter is published with the consent of its writer. Its philosophy points to the very heart of the Alumni-Naval Academy relationship. Anyone who h.is spent a night in Bancroft Hall has certainly "lived a bit of Navy," and earned the honor of being an alumnus of the Academy, whether or not he was graduated.

Unfortunately, there is a large majority of the non-graduate alumni who have no address at all listed in Alumni House nor in the files of the Class Secretaries.

Hopefully, Mr. Durham's letter will inspire all readers of Shipmate to record, on the form provided on page 24, known addresses of non-graduates, in order that the Association Headquarters may re-establish communications with these alumni.

In the last year more than a hundred Shipmates have not reached their addressees because of incorrect addresses. In most cases, postal authorities (including FPO's) have not forwarded the magazine, even though they did advise the Alumni Headquarters of the new address. An attempt is being made to correct this situation. In some cases postal authorities advised the headquarters that no address is available.

Discussion with naval postal authorities reveals that domestic second class matter need not be forwarded by civilian post offices to naval personnel unless change of address is due to official orders.

SO—when you submit a Change of Address card to your Post Office, check the section relating to forwarding instructions, and note on the card: CHANGE DUE TO OFFICIAL ORDERS This should facilitate your receipt of every issue of Shipmate.

A L U M N I HOUSE NEEDS

In its continuing endeavor to enhance the attractiveness of Alumni House, especially the first-floor rooms and hallways, the Alumni Association would greatly appreciate the donation of rugs appropriate for the Colonial decor of the building and its present furnishings.

Particularly needed are floor coverings for the Main Hallway and the Entrance Hallway. Dimensions of the Main Hallway are 10 by 28.5 feet, and those of the Entrance Hallway 12 by 16 feet.

Oriental rugs or runners for these hallways would be most appropriate since the adjoining rooms now have magnificent rugs of this type.

The Ballroom and Drawing Room rugs were donated by classes several years ago. Schuyler Pyne '25 has recentiy donated a very attractive Moroccan rug which adds gready to the charm of the Reception Room.

Your consideration is requested—and remember, a contribution of this nature to the Naval Academy Alumni Association is tax-deductible on the part of the donor at the current fair market value of the contribution.

RACING Y A W L ADDED T O USNA SAILING SQUADRON

MAREDA, a 60-foot ocean-racing yawl, has been presented to the Naval Academy for inclusion in its Sailing Squadron. A gift of Mr. Homer Denius of St. Petersburg, Fla., MAREDA brings to 15 the number of yawls which make up the Squadron.

This fine sailing craft will race in class A competition and is scheduled to compete in the Annapolis-Newport, Marblehead-Halifax and Block Island Race Week competition this summer.

ROYONO, which was presented to the Academy in 1950, is the only other class A racer in the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron.

MAREDA's original construction was designed to put as much advanced technology as possible into her and yet maintain luxury cruising accommodations. Mr. Denius raced MAREDA for two years, attaining an impressive record, rarely finishing below third in major competition.

N A V Y RELIEF AIDS 3 5 4 COLLEGE STUDENTS

Washington, D. C. (NavNews). Navy Relief's educational fund is helping 354 college students in its second year of existence. The students are dependents of active, retired or deceased sea service personnel.

This year, no-interest loans went to 252 new applicants and 102 renewals, 195 boys and 159 girls. Of those attending accredited universities and colleges, 160 are freshmen, 115 sophomores, 47 juniors and 15 seniors. Seventeen students are attending vocational schools.

Eligible for Navy Relief student loans are the sons and daughters of Navy and Marine Corps personnel on active duty, or those who have completed 20 years' active service or are retired with a physical disability. The applicants must be under 23 years of age. Application forms may be obtained from the Navy Relief Society, 1030 Munitions Building, Washington, D. C. 20360. To be considered, the application must be completed and returned on or before 15 June 1967.

PRIZE TO M I D S H I P M A N CHAPTER OF A I A A

The Midshipman Chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Naval Academy has received first prize in the annual Bendix Corporation-AIAA Student Branch National Competition. The $300 prize was awarded to the midshipmen for their proposal on the design and construction of a water-based two-passenger glider. The glider, to be constructed by the 200-member AIAA branch at the Academy, will utilize the waters of Chesapeake Bay as its runway and landing strip.

The unique lightweight design of the hydroglider will enable it to become airborne at a speed of about 15 miles per hour. In addition, a simplified control system will reduce weight and improve the handling characteristics of the glider.

While no date is set for the completion of the project, a model of the glider will be in the wind tunnel of the Naval Academy's engineering department by the end of this semester.

NATIONAL SPACE CLUB ANNOUNCES 1967 COMPETITION FOR GOODARD HISTORICAL ESSAY A W A R D

The National Space Club has announced the opening of the Robert H. Goddard Historical Essay Award competition for 1967. This annual nationwide competition, with a |500 prize, is open to any U. S. citizen. This is the first year the $500 prize has been offered.

The contest is named in honor of the world rocket pioneer. Dr. Robert H. Goddard, whose scientific and technological contributions—although belatedly recognized in the United States—helped open the door to space.

Essays may treat with any significant aspects of the historical development of rocketry and astronautics and will be judged on ti:ieir originality and scholarship. They may bring new information to light or may cast a new and different light upon events or individuals influencing rocketry and astronautics in the United States.

Rules for the contest may be obtained from the National Space Club. Entries should be submitted

by November 1, 1967, addressed to The Goddard Essay Contest, c/o National Space Club, 1625 I St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20006. The winner will be announced at the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Dinner in March 1968. He will receive the Goddard Historical Essay Trophy, Certificate and a $500 prize.

Winner of the fifth Essay Trophy, for 1966, was Ensign Richard R. Hobbs, USN, for his essay on Development, Applications, and Downfall of Congreve's War Rockets. Ens. Hobbs, a graduate of the Naval Academy in the class of 1966, serves in the USS RICHARD E . BYRD. 27

PG SCHOOL ADVANCED DEGREE

PROGRAM

The Naval Postgraduate School which, for the past 15 years, has been located in Monterey, is unique among the naval institutions of the world in that it is the only one which is empowered to confer advanced degrees. From the end of World War II until the end of the year 1966 it conferred 2,153 Master's degrees and 22 doctorates in various fields.

An indication of increased tempo in postgraduate education in the Navy is the fact that, while some 22 doctorates were awarded in the last 20 years, there are at present 16 officers who are active candidates for doctorates now studying at the Naval Postgraduate School. Two of the doctoral candidates are foreign officers, of whom there are 76 presendy at the PG School, representing 19 countries.

To be nominated for studies which lead to a doctor's degree, officers must have shown exceptional promise in postgraduate studies in their fields. Not all of those who pursue doctorates actually receive the degree at the conclusion of their work. If the student's marks are not sustained at a high level, or if his project of individual research is not considered to be an important and original contribution in his field, the coveted doctorate is not awarded. The typical course of study for a doctorate requires three years of graduate work.

University in 1936. He also taught night courses at the Anne Arundel Community College. In his student days he had been an avid sportsman, participating in swimming, track and basketball; he had officiated at many sports events.

He is survived by his widow, Helen Fisher Dunleavey, and three daughters, Jennie, Jessie and Erin, of 111 Smith Avenue, Annapolis.

offensives. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre and twice praised in French army orders for courage and devotion to duty in the face of overwhelming odds. After the war he served on international and Olympic rifle and pistol teams as a marksman.

Hasit CaU BEARDSLEY, HENRY LEIDENHEIMER (RADM SC USN ' 3 8 ) , 8 A p r i l ' 6 7 , U S N H , Bethesda, M d .

BORSIC, JAMES PAUL (LT USN ' 6 2 ) , 2 9 M a r c h ' 6 7 , off Quonset Pt., R. I. B R O W N , DONALD GEORGE (LCDR USN ' 5 7 ) , 10 M a r c h ' 6 7 , South V i e t n a m .

BURNS, MICHAEL

FRANCIS

(LTJG

USN ' 6 4 ) ,

2 9 M a r c h ' 6 7 , off Quonset Pt., R. I. DAVIS, J O H N MALCOLM (COL USMC RET ' 3 0 ) , 13 A p r i l ' 6 7 , USNH, Bethesda, M d .

DELPHIN, BARRY RONAL (CAPT USAF ' 6 2 ) , 2 0

Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller, Jr. '08

M a r c h ' 6 7 , South V i e t n a m .

He received his reserve lieutenant colonel rank in 1934 and returned to active duty as officer in charge of Marine target practice at Corps HeadRET ' 2 0 ) , 16 A p r i l ' 6 7 , USNH, Bethesda, M d .

USS W A S H I N G T O N REUNION quarters, Washington, D. C. In 1943 he became The eighth biennial meeting of the USS WASHEARNHARDT, E D W I N SHELL (CAPT USN RET Director of Personnel of the Marine Corps, then INGTON Reunion Group will take place at the ' 1 6 ) , 15 A p r i l ' 6 7 , H y a t t s v i l l e , M d . commanded the Marine defenses on Johnston and Lake Wright Motel in Norfolk, Va., on 10, 11, E R W I N , VINCENT PAUL (LT COL USA RET ' 1 1 ) , Midway Islands and of naval bases in the 12 and 13 July 1967. All former shipmates are Hawaiian Islands.

2 9 M a r c h ' 6 7 , V A H , Las A n i m a s , Col. welcome. For information please write to John Gen. Waller was awarded the Navy Cross, A. Brown, USS WASHINGTON Reunion Group, Inc., F L A N I G A N , H O W A R D ADAMS (RADM USN Legion of Merit, the Mexican Service Medal, the Box 27035, Columbus, Ohio 43227.

RET ' 1 0 ) , 3 0 M a r c h ' 6 7 , S w i t z e r l a n d .

Expeditionary Medal with two stars; the Victory T W O NAVAL ACADEMY PROFESSORS G O R D O N , DONALD STUART (CDR SC USN RET Medal with Aisne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, MeuseDIE I N A N N A P O L I S Argonne and Defensive Sector clasps; the Army '28), 31 March ' 6 7 , VAH, Hampton, V a .

Two members of the English, History and GovKORNEGAY, ROBERT ROACH (LCDR USN ' 5 8 ) , of Occupation of Germany Medal; the AsiaticPacific Theater Medal, and the Purple Heart. Folernment Department at the Naval Academy died 15 M a r c h ' 6 7 , Columbus, O h i o . lowing his retirement in 1944 he became presiin Annapolis recendy, following lengthy illnesses.

LAMBERT, WALKER W I N S T O N (LCDR USN ' 5 4 ) , dent of Waller Motors Co. He was a past president On 25 March, Prof. Herman Oscar Werner, 11 A p r i l ' 6 7 , N A A S , Fallon, N e v .

Professor Emerims of the E, H and G Department, L O N G , WILLARD HAROLD (CDR USNR RET ' 3 9 ) , of the Jenkintown Rotary Club and had served as president of the Board of Trustees of the Abingdied in the Veterans Administration Hospital, 8 Dec. ' 6 6 , Pittsburgh, P a . ton Hospital.

Washington, D. C. A native of Providence, R. 1.,

he was graduated from Brown University and received his Ph.D. in Enelish literature and philology from Harvard University in 1939.

After several years of teaching at college level he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve in 1942, and attained the rank of commander prior to his retirement. Much of his wartime service was in the Pacific and he served for one year as an officer member of the Academy's faculty before joining the civilian faculty in 1947.

Other than his teaching duties he had served as senior associate editor of the Naval Institute Proceedings; was head debate coach for several years; helped organize the book store division of the Midshipmen's Store; was a member of the Academy Sailing Squadron for 20 years, when he skippered various squadron boats during ocean races. In 1963 he was instrumental in the preparation of a series of television lectures on naval history themes, a series that has been utilized by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Prof. Werner was co-author of The United States and World Sea Power; Men in Arms, and Sea Power (1960). He wrote a number of articles and reviews in the Proceedings and served as consultant to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.

He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth W. Werner, of 211 Scott Drive, Annapolis, and a daughter, Constance W. Werner.

On 6 April, Associate Professor Paul C. Dunleavey died at his home in Annapolis. He had been a member of E, H and G Department for 20 years.

Prof. Dunleavy, a native Annapolitan, was graduated from St. John's College in 1934, and received a Master's degree from George Washington 28

DETTMANN, FRANK CARL LOUIS (RADM USN

PLARR, STEPHEN W I L L I A M (LT SC USNR-R ' 4 8 ) , 7 March ' 6 7 , Allentown, Pa.

RICHARDSON,

EUGENE

GILMOUR

(LT USN

RET ' 4 3 ) , 3 A p r i l ' 6 7 , O m a h a , N e b .

ROCKWELL, STEPHEN GEIGER ' 1 5 , 3 1 M a r c h ' 6 7 , Longwood, Fla. WALLER, LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL, JR. (MAJ GEN USMCR RET ' 0 8 ) , 14 A p r i l ' 6 7 , Abington, Pa. LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL WALLER, JR. ' 0 8

Maj. Gen. Litdeton W. T. Waller, Jr., USMCR (Ret.), the first Marine Corps reservist to rise above the rank of colonel, died at the Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital on 14 April, after a brief illness. Services were held in St. John's Episcopal Church at Huntingdon Valley, Pa., where he had made his home.

Gen. Waller was born at Norfolk, Va., and attended the Naval Academy with the class of 1908. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in October 1907, then served in the Panama Canal Zone and with the American Legation Guard at Peking, China. In 1914 he participated in the capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, as a member of the Marine Brigade which was commanded by his father, Maj.Gen. L. W. T. Waller, USMC. He commanded the Marine detachment in USS MICHIGAN, then the 81st Company, First Machine Gun Battalion.

In 1917 Gen. Waller commanded the battalion which had been redesignated the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion which joined the Fourth Marine Brigade, forming a part of the Second Army Division. As division machine gun officer he fought in five major operations when his battalion was cited for its part in the Belleau Wood and Soissons

He is survived by a step-daughter, Anne Rowland of Haverford, Pa., and two brothers, RAdm. J. B. W. Waller, USN (Ret.) '14, of Manchester, Mass., and Brig.Gen. H . T. Waller, USMC (Ret.), of Princeton, N. J. HOWARD

ADAMS

FLANIGAN ' 1 0

RAdm. Howard A. Flanigan, USN (Ret.), died in Geneva, Switzerland, on 30 March, after a heart attack. Services were held at Fort Myer Chapel, followed by interment with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery on 4 April.

Adm. Flanigan was born in New York Cit\-, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1910. He served at Vera Cruz and Tampico during the Mexican Campaign in USS CONNECTICUT in 1914.

During World War I he was executive officer in USS JACOB JONES, and served as aide on the staff

of Commander Sixth Batde Squadron. He was executive officer, then commanded USS ROWAN until the end of the war. For his services he was awarded the Navy Cross.

In August 1936 he retired as a commander to become administrative assistant and later executive vice president of the New York World's Fair, working under the director Grover A. Whelan.

He then became chairman of the board of the New York Dock Co. He was recalled to active duty in May 1941 and was assigned to Special Mission in London.

Adm. Flanigan served on the staff of Admiral Stark, Commander Naval Forces, Europe. Later, he was promoted to commodore and served as Admiral Stark's Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Bases until January 1945. He then became Chief of Naval Transportation and senior Navy member of the Joint Military Transportation ComS H I P M A T E

mittee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He made two inspection trips to the Pacific area and attended the Potsdam Conference as an advisor to the JCS. He held the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre.

Following his retirement in February 1946 Adm. Flanigan organized the firms of InterAmerican Shipping Services (marine transportation consultants and ship brokers); Flanigan Loveland, Inc. (tanker operators); Flanigan, Loveland Shipping Co., S.A. (tanker owners), and Philadelphia Marine Corp. (tanker owners).

He was an officer or director of each of these firms and continued as chairman of the board of the New York Dock Co. In addition, he owned and raced horses and his filly "Two Stars" won the Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga in 1954.

In the late '50s he retired from most of his business activities and established his home, "Le Prieure," at Prangins, Vaud, Switzerland. He was a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Assn., a member of the New York Yacht Club, and the Army and Navy Club.

He is survived by his widow, Margaret Dives Flanigan; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Jones of Deerfield Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Lucie C. Tobin of Fairfield, Conn., and several grandchildren.

Also a brother, Mr. Horace D . Flanigan of Purchase, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. Alec Dickins of London, England.

STEPHEN GEIGER ROCKWELL ' 1 5

Mr. Stephen G. Rockwell died after a long heart illness at Longwood, Fla., on 31 March.

Services were held at the Sanford Naval Air Station Chapel, and, after cremation, his ashes were flown over the Adantic Ocean, according to his wishes.

Mr. Rockwell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1915. He resigned in October 1915 because of defective hearing. He was a member of Kenyon College DKE and of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He had an interesting career in shipbuilding at Zenith Dredge and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minn. During World War II, many tankers and Coast Guard cutters were built there, and the company earned a "Navy E." He and his wife owned several orange groves at Longwood, Fla., where they lived after he retired.

He is survived bv his widow, Ann Harley Rockwell, P. O. Box 21, Longwood, Fl. 32750.

EDWIN SHELL EARNHARDT ' 1 6

Capt. Edwin S. Earnhardt, USN (Ret.) of Hyattsville, Md., died on 15 April at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda. Services were held at the Riverdale Presbyterian Church, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Earnhardt was born in Lenoir, N. C , and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1916.

He was assigned to USS DELAWARE, which fought with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea during World War I. During his tour in this batdeship he designed an electronic device to determine the distance from the ship to enemy targets. He had two teaching assignments at the Naval Academy in the 1920s, then had an extended tour of duty in China. He later served on the staff of Commander, Scouting Force. He held the Haitian and Yangtze Campaign Medals.

Capt. Earnhardt retired in 1937, but was recalled to active duty in 1939. He served in the Navy Department, Washington, D. C , until 1947, then joined the staff of the Navy Relief Society.

He was active in alumni affairs and served the class of 1916 for many years as secretary-treasurer, culminating his activities in the 50th class reunion.

He is survived by his widow, Gladys, of 3900 Calverton Road, College Heights Estates, Hyattsville, Md.; two sisters, Mrs. T. E. Christenbury of Greenville, S. C , and Mrs. A. R. Ivey of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., and three grandchildren.

FRANK CARL LOUIS DETTMANN ' 2 0

RAdm. Frank C. L. Dettmann, USN (Ret.), died of lung cancer on 16 April at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda. Services were held at Ft. Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Adm. Dettmann was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1919 with the class of 1920. He served in the cruiser PUEBLO until May 1920, then in various ships until he qualified as a submariner in USS CHEWINK in June 1924. He served in USS S-8 for three years; attended the Naval Postgraduate School at Annapolis, and received a Master's degree in engineering from Columbia University in 1928. H e commanded USS S-18 and the R-3, was assigned to the Industrial Department, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N . J., and at Headquarters, Third Naval District, and in USS N E W ORLEANS. Throughout World War II Adm. Dettmann had submarine maintenance duty. For his services as repair officer in the submarine tender HOLLAND from 8 Dec. 1941 to 14 March 1942 he was awarded a gold star in lieu of a second Bronze Star Medal with combat " V " "for meritorious achievement . . . in action against enemy Japanese forces during extended withdrawal from Manila, Philippine Islands to Australia. . . " H e later served as engineer with Submarine Squadrons 4 and 10 and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with combat " V " for services in hostile areas in the Pacific.

Following duty in the office of the Commander Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet Administration, Mare Island, he reported to the Navy Department as a member of the Board of Inspection and Survey, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.

He then became assistant liaison officer for the Internal Combustion Engines Branch, Bureau Ships.

Following his retirement in June 1950, Adm. Dettmann became project director for Washington Engineering Services and project manager in other engineering offices. Among his other awards were the World War I Victory Medal and the AsiaticPacific Campaign Medal.

Survivors include his widow, the former Katherine dePeyster McKim of New York, who lives at 3725 Upton St., N.W., Washington, D. C , and two brothers, Clifford F. Dettmann of Cleveland, and William E. Dettmann of Hollywood, Fla.

the result of a car crashing into the side of his car. He spent 14 months at the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, then was transferred in May 1965 to Hampton. Services and interment were held at Portsmouth.

Cdr. Gordon was born in Oswego, N. Y., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1928.

He first served in the batdeships ARIZONA and NEVADA, then became chief engineer in PRUITT. In 1933 he was executive officer and navigator in PELICAN, then served in TANAGER in the Aleu-

tian Island Survey Expedition. After attending the Student Finance and Supply School at Philadelphia he transferred to the Supply Corps in September 1935, and became material officer at the Norfolk Navy Yard.

During World War II Cdr. Gordon had duty in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, then became supply officer at the Naval Air Station, San Juan, and at the Naval Supply Depots at Brisbane, Australia, New Guinea, and the Admiralty Islands.

He was Staff Supply Officer in ANTIETAM, then became senior assistant at the Naval Supply Depot, Oakland.

From 1947-50 he was Assistant District Supply Officer, Reserve Program 12th Naval District, then fiscal officer and later comptroller at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. From 1953-56 he was Supply Officer, Submarine Group One, Mare Island Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet. Among his awards were the Navy Occupation Medal China Clasp, China Service Medal, and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal.

Following retirement on 1 April 1956, he had graduate work at the University of California, attended Harvard summer school, and was employed by the Design Service Co. in New York City as a supply analyst. He became associated with Southeastern Virginia Regional Planning Commission as assistant planner, and had been loaned to the State of North Carolina for one year. He had an excellent record as planner for the cities of Morehead and Beaufort, N. C. He was a member of the Virginia Society of OrnithologySurvivors include his widow. Norma G. Carney Gordon of 205 Monitor Road, Portsmouth, Va. J O H N MALCOLM DAVIS ' 3 0

Col. John M. Davis, USMC (Ret.) of Lexington, Ky., died of cancer at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, on 13 April. Graveside services were held at Arlington National Cemetery.

Col. Davis, who was born in Morganfield, Ky., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1930. After attending Basic School at Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, he served at Marine Barracks, Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., then was assigned to the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk. In February 1933 he commanded B Company, Second Brigade, in Haiti, and was awarded the Haitian Brevet of Merit for his services. From 1936-38 he was Battery Control Officer, Marine Detachment in USS WEST VIRGINIA, then served with the Sixth

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Marines in San Diego, with duty as aide to the EUGENE GILMORE RICHARDSON ' 4 3 Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

Lt. Eugene G. Richardson, USN (Ret.), died During World War II, Col. Davis served with at his home in Omaha, Neb., on 3 April followthe First Marine Amphibious Corps, New Cale- ing a heart attack. Services were held at the donia. He commanded the First Base Depot at Dundee Presbyterian Church, with interment in Noumea, and the Fourth Base Depot, Solomon Oak Hill Cemetery at Plattsmouth, Neb. Islands, then was assigned Assistant Planning Lt. Richardson was born in Mynard, Neb., Officer, Service Command Headquarters, Fleet and attended the University of Nebraska before Marine Force, Pacific, at Pearl Harbor. During entering the Naval Academy. He was graduated the operations at Iwo Jima in February and in 1942 with the class of 1943. He served March 1945, he was ordnance officer of the Fifth throughout World War II, and held the National Amphibious Corps. He then was executive officer Defense and American Theater Medals and the of the 18th Supply Battalion, Maui, T. H .

Asiatic-Pacific Theater Medal with two bronze After duty as Assistant G-4 and later G-4 of stars. the Fifth Amphibious Corps, Sasebo, Japan, he Following his retirement in February 1955, he became a member of the Navy Regulation Board, became a partner in the Hugo Heyn Co. and Office of the Secretary of the Navy, after which was the national president-elect of the Edison he was assigned to the Command and General Voice Writer Lodestar Club. Fie had served on Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. the Board of Directors of the Sunset Hills RecreHe was commanding officer. Seventeenth Maation Assn., and was active in various community rines, First Marine Division; was appointed G-4, activities.

Headquarters, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, then Survivors include his widow Eileen of 8910 became Assistant Chief of Staff G-4, Marine Frances St., Omaha; a son Bruce and daughter Corps Base at Camp Lejeune. He was named Susan; his mother, Mrs. Hugo Heyn; a sister, director of the Fifth Marine Corps Reserve and Recruitment District, Washington, D. C , in Mrs. Clark Harris of Hillsborough, Calif., and a 1956, and was retired in July 1960. Among his brother, James R. Richardson of Omaha. awards were the Bronze Star with " V " and the STEPHEN W I L L I A M PLARR ' 4 8 Navy Unit Citation.

He is survived by his widow Alice M. Davis Lt. Stephen W. Plarr, (SC) USNR-R, died in of 304 S. Hanover Ave., Lexington, Ky.; a son, the Allentown Hospital on 7 March, following a John M. Davis, Jr.; three daughters, Mrs. Charles heart attack at his home in Allentown, Pa. He Nix of Batesville, Miss., Mrs. Lee Hirschland of was born in that city.

Reno, Nev., and Mrs. Lyal Morse of Falls Church, Lt. Plarr was graduated from the Naval AcadVa.; his mother, Mrs. Virginia C. Davis and two emy in 1947 with the class of 1948A. He served brothers, Thompson and Patrick Davis, of Morganin the carrier PRINCETON, had supply duty at the field, Ky., and eight grandchildren.

Charleston Navy Yard, and his final tour was at the Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He reHENRY LEIDENHEIMER BEARDSLEY ' 3 8 signed from the service in April 1954 as a lieuRAdm. Henry L. Beardsley, (SC) USN, died tenant. at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, following a heart attack at his home in McLean, Va., on 8 Lt. Plarr succeeded his father, Mr. Robert L. April. Services were held at Ft. Myer Chapel, with Plarr, as head of the nationally famous amusement interment with full military honors in Arlington park, Dorney Park Coaster Co., Inc., of AllenNational Cemetery. town, in February 1966. For many years before that he worked closely with his father in the Adm. Beardsley was born in New Orleans, La. He attended Louisiana State University for two operation of the facility. years prior to entering the Naval Academy, from He was active in the Western Lehigh Rotary where he was graduated in 1938. He served in Club, and was vice president of the Allentown the light cruisers HONOLULU and PHOENIX, then Chamber of Commerce Tourist and Convention Bureau. He was a member of the Naval Academy attended the Naval Finance and Supply School, Philadelphia, and transferred to the Supply Corps Alumni Association, the Martin Lodge, F. and A.M., and the National Association of Parks and in 1940. H e then served as supply officer of Patrol Pools.

Wing 6 and Fleet Air Wing 14.

From January to December 1944 he was supply officer in USS PRINCETON during the occupation of Kwajalein, Majuro and Eniwetok Atolls; Hollandia, Western Caroline Islands and Leyte operations. He was senior assistant at the Aviation Supply Depot, Oakland, Calif.; Staff Supply Officer, Naval Air Transport, NAS, Moffett Field, Calif.; served on the staff. Chief of Naval Air Training Command, NAS, Pensacola. After receiving his Master's degree in business administration in 1952, he joined the staff of the Comptroller of the Navy.

After serving at the Naval Supply Center, Pearl Harbor, and at the Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R. I., Adm. Beardsley was assigned to the Bureau of Naval Weapons, Navy Department, then became Force Supply Officer and Force Comptroller on the Staff, Commander Naval Air Force, Pacific Fleet. In August 1965 he was assigned Director of Financial Services in the Office of Comptroller of the Navy, where he was on duty at the time of his death. He held the AmerStephen William Plarr '48 ican Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with four stars, and the Purple Heart for injuries during Survivors include his widow, Jean Deibert fighting in the South Pacific in 1944.

Plarr, and four children: Robert W., Debora J., Stephanie W. and Scarlet L., of 413 Main BouleHe is survived by his widow, Virginia Beardsley vard, Allentown; his mother, Mrs. Wiltracy Plarr; of 1244 Titania Lane, McLean, Va.; a son, Lt. two brothers, Robert J. Plarr and Charles J. (jg) John W. Beardsley, USN '64, of San Diego, Plarr, of Allentown, and a sister, Mrs. Robert F. Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Virginia L. Cacchione of Ott of Dorney Park.

Waltham, Mass., and two grandchildren.

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ROBERT ROACH KORNEGAY ' 5 8

LCdr. Robert R. Kornegay, USN, who was serving with the Naval Air Facility at China Lake, Calif., died in a military plane accident near Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio, on 15 March. The plane was on an operational flight at the time of the accident. A memorial service was held at the Protestant Chapel at China Lake, with military services and interment held at Centreville, Ala., on the 20th.

LCdr. Kornegay, who was born in Alabama, attended the University of Alabama before entering the Naval Academy. He was graduated with the class of 1958, and was designated a naval aviator at Pensacola. He was assigned to China Lake in June 1966 and held the positions of Pilot Indoctrination and Air Navigation Officer at the Naval Ordnance Test Station.

Robert Roach Kornegay '58

Survivors include his widow, the former Diane Jamieson of Vancouver, Canada, who is living at 54-B Ringgold St., China Lake, Ca. 03555; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kornegay of 136 Cooper St., Centreville, Ala. 35042; three brotiiers, George Kornegay of Montevallo, Ala., Stanley Roy Kornegay of Adanta, Ga., and James Kornegay of Centreville, and a sister, Mrs. Cora Mae Flam of Oak Ridge, Tenn.

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Lt. Kenneth J. O'Dea, USN, died in an aircraft accident at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Meridian, Miss., on 17 Feb. The accident, which is still being investigated, occurred shortly after take-off in marginal weather conditions. He had been serving as an instructor in basic jets in Training Squadron 9 at Meridian, flying the T2A. Lt. O'Dea was born in New York City, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1961.

He is survived by his widow Johan and two children, Steven Richard and Karen, who are living at 3607 50th St., Meridian, Miss. 39301; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. O'Dea of 6914 Caldwell Ave., Maspeth, N . Y. 11378.

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Lt. James P. Borsic, USN, died on 29 March when the helicopter he was piloting in a training flight off USS ESSEX crashed in the Atiantic Ocean off Quonset Point, R. I. Memorial services for him and two other men lost in the accident were held at Quonset Point Naval Air Station Chapel on 1 April.

Lt. Borsic was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He attended Ursuline Catholic High School before entering the Naval Academy, from where he was graduated in 1962. He completed helicopter flight training and was designated a naval aviator in January 1964.

Following the completion of replacement pilot training in HS-1 at Key West, Fla., Lt. Borsic reported to Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 9 at Quonset Point where he held successive duties S H I P M A T E

as First Lieutenant, Ground Training Officer, and Aircraft Division Officer. He was designated a plane commander in the SH3A helicopter in August 1965.

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

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He is survived by his widow JoAnn, presently residing at 620 D Forrestal Ave., Quonset Point, R. I. 02819; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Borsic of 806 Struthers Road, Poland, Ohio; a brother, Michael Stephen, and two sisters, Mrs. Eleanor Geidner and Mrs. Katherine Heffinger.

MICHAEL FRANCIS BURNS '64 Lt.(jg) Michael F. Burns, USN, died on 29 March when the helicopter he was co-piloting crashed in the Adantic Ocean following a takeoff from the carrier ESSEX off Quonset Point, R. I. Services for him and the two other men killed in the training accident were held at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station Chapel on 1 April. Interment with military honors was held for Lt. Burns in Arlington National Cemetery.

Lt. Burns, who was born in Mineola, N. Y., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1964. As a midshipman he played tackle on the football team. He was assigned to a training squadron at Ellyson Field, Pensacola, where he received his wings in February 1966. While at Pensacola he played football with the base football team, the Goshawks.

He was assigned to Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron 9 as a helicopter pilot at Quonset Point, and last October was sent to the Ascension Islands to participate in a practice recovery of an American space capsule. He received a citation for his participation.

BuPers informs us that most of the biographies of our classmates on file in the Navy Department are pretty old and that it would help if more up-to-date information could be obtained such as: activities since retirement, home addresses, next of kin.

These biographies are used by Shipmate, newspapers, etc. The following classmates have no biographical data on file: Abbett, A. A. Baker, Baughman, Clark, J. W. W. Gumming, D. E. Cummings, Dyer, Evans, Heim, Hewitt, Humphrey, E. F. Johnson, Lagerquist, Parker, Pousland, Russell, Schelling, Schuyler, Shirley, Spencer, Starr, Robinson, Thompson, Ritter, Vossler, Williams and Windsor.

It is suggested that you supply data to Secretary Public Affairs, Headquarters Naval District, Washington, D. C. 0) (1) iJ

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

A nice note from Elizabeth Hodgman, widow of our classmate, "Bill" HODGMAN, who died on 9 Feb. in San Diego, Calif., expressing her appreciation to the secretary and the class of 1908, for their kind sympathy. She visited Bill's sister, Elsie Giffen, widow of VAdm. Robert C. GIFFEN, in Annapolis during the Easter holidays. From Annapolis, Elizabeth will go to Saratoga Springs, N. Y., for graveside services for Bill when his ashes will be placed in the family crypt. She intends to continue to reside in La

Jolla.

A gracious note from Charlotte Magruder, widow of our classmate, Cary MAGRUDER, who died on 6 March, in Chapel Hill, N . C , and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Charlotte has asked that her appreciation be conveyed to the class of 1908 for their kind sympathy and to Nick Carter, Bobby Waters and to me, for attending the services in Arlington. She has been suffering from arthritis and the class hopes that she will benefit from the warm climate in Chapel Hill. The secretary wishes to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of newspaper clippings from the Providence, R. L, Journal sent by Bobby Waters and from the Newport, R. I., Daily, sent by Hugh Douglas, Capt. USN (Ret.). The clippings speak highly of Cary and especially of his civic work in the Newport area.

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

CLASS LUNCHEON: Only 5 attended the March class luncheon on the 21st: Braisted, Hustvedt, Train, Gillam and Moore. Bad weather prevented some from coming.

BIRTHDAYS IN MAY: Happy birthday to: Haxton on the 2nd, Morrison on the 3rd, Alexander on the 14th, Peirce (1910) on the 14th, Carter on the 17th, Weyler (1910) on the 24th and Guiler on the 29th.

HAROLD TRAIN M i c h a e l Francis Burns '64

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Patricia McClary Burns, and a young son, Michael Francis Burns III, of Box 18, Saunderstown, R. I. 02874; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Burns of 344 Lafayette Ave., Harrington Park, N. J.; a brother Brian, and three sisters: Mrs. Gwendilyn Sturzenberger of Westwood, N. J., Mrs. Gail Plafcan of Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Susan Burns.

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tery. (See the obituary in the Last Call.) Pat had a very special place in the class of 1910, and in the affections of each 1910er. Certainly his life has been among the most colorful of any of us. His credits of distinctions and accomplishments in both his naval and civilian careers put him high up among the distinguished alumni of the USNA. Your reporter recalls many contacts with Pat in the past quarter century, all of which left him with a distinct sense of pride in being a friend and classmate of Pat. "He walked with kings, nor lost the common touch." Pax vobiscum!

And the sympathy of all 'lOers and associates goes out to Gertie Lang Smith (Mrs. S. H.) on the death of her husband. "Beau" Smith was a close friend of many years of Ted and Gertie Lang. After Ted's death in '59 Gertie and Beau were married, and have had several very happy years together. A very fine gendeman!

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Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J. Moore, USN (Ret.), 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey 0. Thomas 725 West Boulevard, Kokomo, Ind. 46902

What a shock of sadness to learn of the death of RAdm. Howard Adams (Pat) FLANIGAN at his home, "La Prieure," Switzerland, on 30 March. Burial was in Arlington National Ceme-

M G e n . J o h n E. (Tod) Sloan ' 1 0 a n d M r s . Sloan (Amy Ewbank) in the g a r d e n of their home a t W e a v e r v i l l e , N . C.

It took considerable pleading by your reporter to get the candid camera shot of Tod (MGen. John E.) SLOAN and Mrs. Sloan in their N. C. place of retirement near the Great Smokies. Our Lucky Ba^ about Tod: "A trim little fellow is Sloan, with a brace and a walk all his own . . ."

Obviously Tod has that same brace, which his many honors and distinctions have not weighed down. Who recalls that Tod commanded the 1st Division that entered Rome in WW ll?

Frances Underwood (Mrs. "Judge") took off recently for a 30-day cruise "around the world," with a party of friends under the auspices of the Marines Memorial Assn. Shades of Jules Verne: It took him 80 days and he saw nothing. Frances does it in 30, and sees everything—with maybe a chat with Webb TRAMMEL in Istanbul.

A very interesting note from old friend Fred (Cdr. W. F.—'11) Kurfess posted in Hong Kong en route to Brisbane, Australia, to visit geophysicist son down there. Home soon via air.

Your reporter has been trying hard to get a copy of the book: Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, USN—A Study in Command. Our good secretary having been Adm. Spruance's Chief of Staff in the march across the Pacific, your CS has an idea that our CJM figures pretty prominendy therein. But Charlie says he can only be quoted as confirming the accuracy of the book. He thinks it is very readable; and he feels a tremendous pride in having served so intimately with a great man. Your reporter recalls when Charlie was no. 3 on one of the old 4-stacker destroyers— forget the name—based on Olongapo. Then Lt. (jg) Spruance was the skipper.

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Sec'y, Capt. W. D. Chandler, USN (Ret.) 2029 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Corr. Sec'y, Adm. Harry W. Hill, USN (Ret.) 20) Prince George St. Annapolis, Md. 21401

Versatility plus I Look at the picture of one of our favorite classmates leading the Richmond Symphony Orchestra! The selection.? The Stars and Stripes Forever. Vince MEYER has been keenly interested in music all his life, and after his retirement in Richmond played a major role in organizing the Richmond Syphomny. He was the first president and business manager of that thriving organization, and has continued as Chairman of the Board. The Richmond Symphony comprises 59 men and 34 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a total of 88.

Dick and Doris BOOTH recendy celebrated their fiftieth anniversary with three generations of their offspring present: their daughter Barbara and her husband, August Beldin, granddaughter Nonie, and her husband Frederick S. Allen, Jr., and great-granddaughter, Christina Allen. All in group live within about a mile of Dick and Doris, who now have an apartment at 202 Kent Ave., Kentfield, Calif., about 15 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Mike and Brenda CHEEK report all well at their house in Ross, Calif. Mike says that he has a littie emphysema, but no complaint.

Again your rookie correspondent reminds all classmates that this column is only going to be as interesting and useful as you yourselves make it.

A POEM BY JOYCE McCRAE There are moments of supreme agony in history. Moments that blend glorious dignity with simple humility. Such was the incident of the Perjumed Pink.. The passion of that unforgettable occasion is burned forever upon the memories of those who know. . . . I should like to add some kindling to the fever of that long-gone day . . . when the Golden Gate Bridge was closed to traffic and strewn with cheering throngs; and the noble United States Navy steamed beneath her spanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that October 1945. The air was rent with the cacophony of horns and whisdes, of shouts and bells, while the men stood straight, proud and stiff in their blue and gold aboard the South Dakota until that sacred moment when an infamous pair of very pink . . . very feminine panties appeared and drifted toward the deck of the mighty ship bearing Admiral Halsey and his Staff. Bereft of womankind for months . . . even years . . . the salty men of the sea forgot the war, the Admiral, the Fleet . . . this one supreme moment in history and dove as a body . . . en masse . . . for the wisp of pink fluff. . . .

Photo by The Richmond Times-Dispatch B G e n . Vincent M e y e r ' 1 1 , USA (Ret.), leads Richmond Symphony rehearsal.

It is of this historic event . . . emblazoned in their hearts forever . . . that I set this down for him . . . as my dear, drole, druid friend, M. C. Cheek, told it to me . . . , Joyce McCrae: THE PRIZE OF THE PERFUMED PINK

She rose with her railing draped by a crowd, A newspaper clipping of 27 Feb., describing the concert, states: "General Meyer, who is an Her towers in touch with the blue. amateur musician, mounted the podium and She swayed with the weight of the human race conducted with poise and aplomb a performance As the mighty fleet sailed through. of The Stars and Stripes Forever. Applause for And there in the lead with her decks agleam. the music, the orchestra, and the conductor was The SOUTH DAKOTA ran. tumultuous." Well done, Vince!

Jam-packed to the gunwalls with Halsey's men Under the mighty span.

Anotiier Army file, Billy HICKS, and his wife Margaret, were recentiy in Huntington Beach, Calif., visiting their daughter, whose husband, All they, who looked down from her golden heights.

(Mr. E. J. Casey, Jr., is at sea in the forward Where the white hats shown in the sun. area. Now that the snow-shoveling season is Were proud of the boots and the high-toned brass. over, I presume Billy is back home in WynneWell-dressed in their blues, every one. wood, Pa. They cheered at the top of their bursting lungs, Dottie Chandler Reigert's daughter and 6- The Fleet answered back with a blast. month-old grandson are in Charleston visiting her And a wild thrill rose from the hearts of those parents while her husband, Lt. Grant Telfer, is Who'd come home from the wars at last. in Vietnam on board PRINCETON. Two thousand men lined the spit-polished decks Scott and Gladys McCAUGHEY now have all Of the great batdeship in the lead 20 of their grandchildren in the Long Beach area except for one now in the Navy and a And gratitude poured from the bridge and the shore couple more away at school.

As she lighdy lessened her speed . . .

Margaret and Harry HILL once more have glad When . . . suddenly there . . . on a puff of air . . . tidings to announce. A third great-grandchild, It couldn't be . . . Oh! but it was.

Christine Rodman Clancy, was born on 31 March And setding down on a shaft of wind to Capt. and Mrs. Joseph B. Clancy, USMC, at As a parachute often does. . . .

Kaneohe, Hawaii. Capt. and Mrs. John C. Hill, II, are the proud grandparents.

At full balloon and wafting fair.

It is with deep regret that I report the passing So gossamer pretty and plump: of Margaret Hinrichs on 21 March, at Daytona Pink panties were gracing the perfumed air Beach, Fla. She was buried alongside Bob in as though on a feminine rump.

Arlington on the 28th. She is survived by her The sweet bubble hovered above the ship sisters. Miss Rosaline Haynes (571 Orange St., And above the war-weary Yanks. . . .

Macon, Ga.), and Mrs. A. W. Huntress, and by But, 'ere the fluff setded upon the deck Bob's daughter, Mrs. F. H. Chappel.

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And it's whispered, now, in a place or two That brass buttons gleamed in the fray . . .

And who came up with the treasured prize . . .

Well, I'll not be the someone to say.

But, I learned it from an admiral friend Who related it all to me As fondly he fingered a filmy wisp Of faded lingerie.

By JOYCE MCCRAE

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

Our 55th reunion luncheon or dinner will be held on 24 May at the Army and Navy Club.

More of this later. This gathering is for those living in Washington and Annapolis but other members are invited if in town. Members living in other localities are urged to plan reunions in more convenient places. Froggy FULTON hopes to attend the 55th reunion in Washington, D. C. Mammy and Marguerite WEEMS have returned from a round of visits in Florida. Mary B. Hall has moved from Eastport to 205 Scott Dr., Wardour, Annapolis. She has an apartment next to her daughter, Betty Williams. Mary B. is planning to visit Ireland, England, Scotiand, and Wales, leaving 6 May. She will be a member of a group of 30 or 40 people under the leadership of Dr. Fogg of the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania. Mary B. will be gone about one month. Upon her return, she hopes that her friends will come to see her in the new apartment.

Lawrence and Mary BISCHOFF are back home.

They met Becky and Dorothy SANDBORN before the Bischoffs took off from Waikiki for home.

The Naval Academy held the first dress parade of the spring season on 5 April. The old grads were the guests of honor. Mammy Weems represented the class of 1912.

Exec. V. P., Paul D. Sleeper, Apt. 710 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, 0. C. 20008

I am glad to have no obituaries to write this month; and happy that I have regained the address of a classmate who was "trail lost" on our last address list: Cdr. Howard N. HARTLEY, (SC) USN (Ret.), Central Gardens, 1355 Ellis St., San Francisco. He is also a Golden Knight member of the Army and Navy Club of Washington, D. C. He was sent a copy of my last class address list and of my January '67 "All Hands Bulletin." I also sent him a note and hope he vidll get in touch with some of us.

Have just learned that Capt. J. T. Mathews, Jr., (SC) USN (Ret.), son of our Jinuny MATHEWS, is on duty in Washington, D. C , as Asst. Administrative Director of the NavyMarine Corps-Coast Guard Residence Foundation, Inc., Bldg. 59, U. S. Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. He has been invited as a guest to our next N'13 luncheon on 13 April. We hope to meet him then; but this news must be in Annapolis by 10 AprU, and your next Shipmate will be the June-July issue which you probably won't receive until late July.

The N'13 DC group would like to be notified of any sons or grandsons of our classmates, or former classmates, who are also from USNA whenever they are on duty in DC as we would enjoy meeting them. (Just drop a note to Sleeper at above address.)

Our March luncheon was attended by Abbott, Davis, Helmick, "Jake" Lee, Thebaud, Sleeper and our fine honorary member Maj.-Gen. Davidson, sec'y-treasurer, A'13. Be sure to join us at these all-year monthly luncheons whenever you can, or inform me in advance if you expect to be in DC at any other time.

ARD's card says "Easter 1967. Here's to a lot more."

SHIPMATE

CL.ARKSON—"We are holding the thought that we can make our 55th and see all of you in Washington in June, 1968. Our best to .ill."

GRAYSON—"No Easter college boys on Florida's west coast—still quiet on this front. Regards to all."

HUDSON—"As time passes I think more often of our wonderful times at Annapolis. Some days were rough, but now it seems the good ones were 'way ahead of the bad ones."

MILLER—"Still OK. Glad to see the spring coming again and hope we all can enjoy it."

RUBLE—"(6 Mar.) No news here. Our trees have been in bloom for the past month, but the thermometer still reads winter. I really miss the more or less semi-monthly letters from Roy Dudley. I still cannot realize there will be no more letters from him. Best wishes to all."

THEB.AUD—"I miss both the N'13 and A'13 monthly lunches gready. Hope to go to the Army and Navy game this fall, preceded by visit to Washington. I would certainly like to be there to take in both of these lunches. Luv to all hands and the ship's cook."

TISDALE—"Best regards to '13ers everywhere." (Why not come down to a DC luncheon, Merrick.?)

WHITE—"Mar. 22—Mddred Ellsworth Davis is at Boca Raton visiting her daughter Dorothy and two grandchildren. We have talked to her and e-xpect to see her soon. Our best to all."

Have just received letter from J. B. Timberlake, 3rd, president of Productos de Maiz, S.A., Hamburgo No. 70-2, Piso, Mexico 6, D. F. He is son of our "Tim," J. B. Timberlake, Jr. He tells me that his son, J. B. Timberlake, IV, is now 12 years old and might some day want to go to USNA. I have referred him to the USNA Foundation, Inc., at Annapolis. He is wondering if or how an appointment to the Academy might be obtained as he does not live in the U. S. If any of you have any ideas, please write to him.

I also received cards from Dillingham, Donahue, DuBose, Hall, Hatch, Henderson, Doug Jones, Masek, Thurston and Todd, all of whom send their best to everyone, as I do.

PAUL

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Sec'y, Cdr. Robert H. Maury, USN (Ret.) 208 Prince George St., Annapolis, Md. 21401 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D. Swain, USN (Ret.), 10231 Vivera Dr., La Mesa, Calif. 92042

By the time you read this I am quite sure that Ned ELLSBERG and Carl BRYANT will have returned to their respective homes in Maine after having escaped the many blizzards in that area of the country. Ned and Lucy spent their time at their winter home in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., while Carl and Betty enjoyed the sunshine in Santa Barbara, Calif.

On Tuesday before Easter Hazel and I had the pleasure of meeting "Bea" Stengel's daughter and three grandchildren who flew from their home in California to see the sights in the Washington area; the grandchildren were on their Easter vacation.

Although most all of their time was spent in Washington, they spent the greater part of one day in Annapolis. We met them at the Annapolis bus station and took them over to the Naval Academy. Our first stop in the Academy grounds was on Upshur Road where we showed them the house where the daughter was born; her father was Lesley B. Anderson, class of 1906, who was on duty at the Academy at that time. At the time of his death in May 1933 he was a captain. In 1937 Bea married Schlitz STENGEL. Our next stop was the Naval Academy Museum where, in addition to the many other historic displays, the Director, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), showed us a number of mementoes, medals, etc. which had been presented, to the MAY,

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museum by Bea some years ago in memory of her father, RAdm. John M. Hawley, USN, who graduated from the Academy with the class of 1868.

One of the items shown to us was her father's sword.

After almost an hour in the museum we walked over to Bancroft Hall where we were introduced to two very nice midshipmen who had previously been assigned to show them other places of interest in the Academy grounds. After several hours of sightseeing with the midshipmen, they rejoined us in our home where we entertained them until time to catch the bus back to Washington.

After they returned to California Bea wrote us saying what a wonderful time her daughter and grandchildren had, not only in Annapolis but also in Washington where they spent about five days. One of the grandchildren was a very charming young lass of 18 years, Diane Lucas, and the other two were her younger brothers who may become midshipmen within the not too distant future. Their names are Terry and Rickey.

During recent months I have received letters expressing surprise why certain information was not in our column of Shipmate for that particular issue. It is suggested that you look for the deadline date which is at the beginning of the "Now Hear This" section which contains the Last Call and the class news columns. As an example, the deadline date for the May issue is 10 April. The reason that an obituary is sometimes in the Last Call and not in our class column for that particular month is due to the fact that the news reaches Shipmate before 1 get the word.

"A TOAST TO THE BEST OF THEM ALL, FOURTEEN!" BOB Sec'y, Adm. Arthur D. Slruble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. M. W. Hutchinson, Jr. 6 Acton Place, Annapolis, Md. 21401

We received the following news announcement from Rip STRUBLE: "The marriage of Mrs. Kenneth Duval Ringle of Fidler's Green, Avery Island, La., to Adm. Arthur Dewey Struble, USN (Ret.), of Chevy Chase, Md., was quiedy celebrated Saturday, 11 March, at the Avery Island home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Daniel Dudley Avery. The Rev. Robert Wayne Jackson officiated at the noon ceremony performed in the presence of the immediate families. Following the ceremony there was a small informal reception.

"Attending the nuptials were Mrs. Ringle's daughter and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jackson Hotchkiss III of Lynchburg, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Avery Ringle of Richmond, Va.; Mr. Andrew Dudley Ringle, who attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Cdr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Struble, Jr., of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.; Midn. Arthur D. Struble III, Mr. Dennis D. Struble of Yale University at New Haven; and Adm. Struble's daughter, Mrs. Drewery R. Wilhite of Quarry Heights, Panama, Canal Zone.

"After their wedding trip, Admiral and Mrs. Struble will be at home at 4017 Oliver Street in Chevy Chase, Md." (Best wishes and much happiness to you both, from the Fifteeners!)

Hazel Shelley's address is changed to: Mrs. Tully Shelley, 137A Heritage Hill Road, New Canaan, Conn. 06840.

Claude VICKREY sends an interesting reminiscence about Bing SPERRY—"As you know, Frances and Grot Wood and I went up to Middlebury, Conn., to attend the beautiful services for Mark Sperry. Afterward, we were all invited back to the Sperry home for a large gathering of their family and friends. I recalled to Lois Sperry the happy houseparty they had for many of our classmates and wives during the weekend of the Navy-Yale football game, around 1938. We all had a very gay time with dancing, golf, tennis,

M a r k a n d Lois Sperry

riding and swimming, which last—only rugged Dan Armstrong tried. I am enclosing a snapshot of our host and hostess taken at that time. So far as we could recall, the following were there: Dan Armstrong, Ted Breed, Rafe Bates, the George Groves, Tiger Lewis, the McCormicks, Prestons, Bascom Smiths, Claude Vickrey, the Winslows, the Grot Woods. It's sad to note that so few of this gay group are still around.

"1 have just returned from Palm Beach where I played a lot of golf. Had several battles with our old nemesis, Ed Garbisch, and got some revenge.

I saw Dave and Jesse Collins while there. They both look fine.

"Would love to hear from any classmates passing through New York."

We regret very much to announce the death of our classmate, Steve ROCKWELL, on 31 March, at Longwood, Fla., after a long illness. Steve was always so interested in the class, and full of plans for our 50th reunion, which he was unable to attend. Flowers were sent from the class, and Mel PO'WERS and Glenn EASTON attended the services, which were conducted by Chaplain TuUilove of the Sanford Naval Air Station. In a note from his widow, Ann, she writes: "The Navy takes care of its own How true! Steve loved his Navy and his classmates through all the years since graduation, and forced resignation due to defective hearing. Steve's wish to be cremated and his ashes flown over the Adantic Ocean has been realized and fulfilled. I am truly grateful.

The Sanford NAS took charge and—'Mission Accomplished'."

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Sec'y-Treas., Capt. H. C. Merwin, USN (Ret.) 8104 Kerry Lane Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 West Coast Sec'y, Cdr. E. F. Cochrane, USN (Ret.), 4315 Avalon Blvd.

San Diego, Calif. 92103

With great regret the death of Capt. E. S. "Earny" EARNHARDT is reported. Ernie passed away on 15 April at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, and was buried in Arlington. Classmates among the honorary pallbearers were Bob Bourne, Bill Fechteler, Bill Hawthorne, Pete Merwin and Jim Steele.

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Ernie served the class for many years as secretary-treasurer, culminating in the 50th reunion, the great success of which was due in large measure to his meticulous hard work. He will be keenly missed. Our deepest sympathies go to Gladjs, his widow.

Capt. H. C. (Pete) MERWIN has assumed the duties of secretary-treasurer. Pete's address is listed at the top of this column.

Those MSGS: From Jake DAVIS who writes that he and Florida have dropped anchor in the old homeport, temporarily. Moored bow and stern in an apartment, they are just resting and Jake is busily engaged in completing some writing.

Prior to arrival in Crabtown, they had been in the SFC area and were planning to drift down the coast and take in the SD area. But urgent business dictated otherwise and they had to hightail it back east. Better luck next time! . . .

Raddy RADFORD gave us a call while in our area on a very short visit during a speaking engagement at Claremont College. He hopes to drop in for one of our luncheons when next in the west. . . . Gyp BREWSTER relates some of die goings-on in and around Baltimore. An active member of the Baltimore Country Club, Gyp's duckpin team came in second in their league games. Gyp, at this writing, is in the finals shooting for the individual championship. More power, Gyp! And in between club affairs. Gyp is a member of the Puzzle Club. Recently came in with a substantial money prize for his solution of the last mystery. As he closed his interesting expose, he noted that it was snowing on the first day of spring when it is supposed to have Warm gende breezes with the odor of flowers. That snow shovel! Thanks for the MSGS. More, please.

Time seems to have slipped by for all of a sudden we are faced with that Shipmate deadline.

Another SD '16-'17er luncheon had gone into the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this one at the MCRD Club the day before that aimual St. Pat's turmoil. Seventeen pleasurebent souls poured thru the portals expecting to put on the usual prelims. Most unexpectedly, the club was jammed to the rafters. Thus, it was a forgone conclusion that those prelims were impossible and the boys setded back to enjoy themselves and the scenery. With the submarine officers' wives holding forth and the Marine officers' wives staging a clambake, there was plenty to see.

Among those present was Mooch TWINING. Millicent and he had streaked across the continent in their gasoline buggy headed for a visit with Mooch's brother, General Twining, and his wife who have setded in Fallbrook. It was great to have him aboard. As a result of the conversations, we got the idea that they were sizing up the area with an idea of settling down out here.

That would be wonderful news to us! Possum WEBB, with his nurse, Lucielle Haskins, arrived.

Possum looked much better and Lucielle was a welcome visitor to this stag luncheon. One thing is sure, she is welcome at any and all of our affairs in the future. Parson RICHARDS also came aboard and looked okay after his emergency appendix removal and stated his readiness to take his place at future engagements.

After a good luncheon, B. COCHRANE submitted his financial record for the past yeaar. Ably assisted by his deputy, Amos ROOT, the report was carefully considered. There were sundry comments but the report was approved by a lack of protests. Don Curtis, our '18 advisor, took the deck and assured the assemblage that '18's informal presentation luncheon on the occasion of their 50th anniversary was definitely set for Wednesday, 28 June, at North Island and we were all invited, including wives and widows.

Regardless of those unexpected complications which changed our modus operandi for this session, a good time was had by all and the boys headed for their casas satisfied with the day's events. Once again we request MORE MSGS! Hasta luego, amigos.

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President, RAdm. Walter C. Calhoun, USN (Ret.), 4i30 Fordham Rd., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016 Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis, Md. 21401

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WEST COAST The Big Day had arrived! The scene was tiie Neptu'ne Room, North Island O Club. It was noon, 29 March, and 1917's local Golden Anniversary Reunion was on! Ing KILAND, the MC, assisted by Kay and Spike FAHRION, Elistine and Phil WARREN as greeters and Chippo ROGERS, treasurer, greeted the guests as they arrived to celebrate and pay homage to that great class and extend their congratulations. The spacious, colorful Neptune Room was quickly filled with 71 happy pepole, visiting and relating stories of yore and experiences dating back to 1913.

There were those who had not seen each other for many a year, even some in several instances since that day when Uncle Joe Daniels presented diplomas to 182 deserving '17ers beginning with our Fred HAEBERLE and winding up with our anchor man, Ken HOEFFEL. Then our MC sounded 4 bells and the party adjourned to the colorful U-shaped tables to participate in a most wonderful luncheon. As those assembled sat down, our capable MC greeted us formally with a few appropriate words. Then, with luncheon passed, the big event of the day came. The MC called on Fred HAEBERLE to make the toast for '17. This is what he said: "Time marches on! Fifty years ago the class of 1917 jubilandy tossed their caps on high and said goodbye to studies, classes, exams, drills, confinement and discipline.

"The future seemed blanketed with roses; but experience soon proved that roses have thorns hidden in the foliage. However, our blessings have more than compensated for the troubles met along the way. Now, we need only to forget the pesky thorns and remember the beautiful blossoms, and adopt a happy philosophy for the future so well expressed in the closing lines of Jimmy Durante's favorite song. Paraphrased it goes: 'If you should reach a hundred and five Think of the joy you'll derive Just from being alive.

If you keep on being very young in heart.'

"So, let us count our blessings! I shall propose a toast in four parts to some of them. At the end I shall ask you to rise and join me in this salud. First, to our very dear friends in 1916 and 1918 and their lovely ladies. For over a half a century we of 1917 have enjoyed serving with these fine people, many of whom honor us today by joining in this celebration of our fiftieth anniversary. Their warm comradeship and friendship has meant and still means so very much to us, and it waxes stronger each day of our retirement years. May God bless them.

"Secondly, I propose a toast to the great success of the official class of 1917 fiftieth reunion back in Crabtown on the Bay in May. You '17ers who are fortunate enough to attend will please carry a message of love and affection to all assembled in Annapolis. We who cannot go will live in spirit with you at all scheduled events.

"Thirdly, a toast to all '17ers wherever they are, and particularly to their lovely ladies whose sacrifices, love, and devotion kept their 'ships of life' afloat, upright, stable, steaming ahead through fair and foul weather, steady on their courses to their destinations.

"Lastly, a toast to our beloved country that granted us the privilege of serving. I ask all of you now to rise and join me in the toast to each and all of these with gratitude in our hearts and a prayer on our lips for time to enjoy our blessings."

Bunny Cochrane '16 was then asked to respond to Fred's marvelous toast. First he read a telegram from the president of '16, Bill FECHTELER, extending greeting to those assembled and

congratulating and saluting the class of 1917.

Bunny proposed a toast to 1917 requesting all to join with him in that toast. Tommy Sprague '18 was then called upon and proposed a toast to '17, which he did beautifully, asking those present to join with him. Tommy then extended an invitation to join with the class of 1918 in their informal reunion of their fiftieth reunion on 28 June at the North Island O Club. The MC then presented the widows: Tiz Bartholdi, Dot Brewer, and Elsie Conyne of '17; Kay Gill '16; Lilly Thornhill '18. Those who came from out of town then rose and extended their greetings and congratulations: Denny Denebrink and Ned Marbourg, of SFC; Helen and Tex Harper of Westwood Village; Marion and Pi Park from way back east; Gaile and Bo Wells, Palm Springs; Jean and Ted Caldwell and Ethel and Eddie Hagen of Cardiff; Ruth and Laurence Wainwright, Encinitas; Elistine and Phil Warren, Rancho Santa Fe; George Hussey, Norwalk, Conn.; Vic Barringer and his charming daughter. Pinky Worsham, Escondido; O s s and Don Curtis of El Cajon.

Others who attended and not already noted: Mary and Ike Bennett, Allene and George Chapline, Polly Cx>chrane and her houseguest, Mrs. Carey Congdon of New London, Eleanor and Merrill Comstock, Angle and Count Grassie, Faye Haeberle, Alice and Sleuth Holmes, Esther and Hook Jenkins, Isabelle Kiland, Dolly and Joe Loventhal, Ruby and Soc McGinnis, Virginia and Cy Perkins, Sport and Dick Richards, Marie and Bert Rodgers, Marguerite and Amos Root, Edith Rogers, Judy and EP Sauer, Elliott Senn, Elsie and Wilbur Shown, Claire Sprague, Gilda and Jack Terhune, Ben Wyatt.

I n closing, Ing read a telegram from our president, Walt CALHOUN, sending warm greetings to all. Another wonderful party had come to an end but the memories will be cherished along with those countless ones of the past. May God bless you all.

A letter was received from Herb ANDERSON, Col. Herbert W. Anderson, USAF (Ret.), who said: "All two of Santa Barbara's 1917 members celebrated the 50th anniversary of graduation day on 29 March.

"Katie and Frank Irby sat in with Mildred and Herb Anderson. Fireside toasts to all of 1917 were accompanied by warm memories of living it up in Bancroft Hall, steamboating on summer cruises and occasional brushes with Tecumseh's Order of the 2.5.

"Katie and Frank have the good fortune of attending the May reunion at Annapolis, after which they will weigh anchor to spend several weeks in Europe. Mildred and I, being grounded, will keep 1917 home fires burning in Santa Barbara, with finest wishes to all at the Annapolis show in Mayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;good sailing and a fair wind!"

Nine members of the 1916-17 classes met for luncheon at the Army and Navy Club, Washington, D. C. Present were: Bill Fechteler, Ernie Earnhardt, Bill Hawthorne, Jim Steele, Len Austin, Walt C^alhoun, Frank Dean, Lisle Small and Doug Spencer.

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

We have just received from Ion PURSELL living in Frankfort, Ky., a February 1967 news flash from the director of the radio station there (WFKY) from whose broadcast we quote in part as follows: "A pioneer in the field of adult education . . . is my friend, Adm. Ion Pursell of the Southern Hotel. Adm. Pursell has for many years conducted an educational effort among underprivileged adults using their children and grandchildren as the teachers. He supplies textbooks paid for by himself and offers a prize of 1100 annually to the State's Best Child Teacher SHIPMATE

of .\dults, in the field of the Three R's." That broadcast, signed by Mr. D. T. Caywood, referred to Ion's unique endeavor known as Good Samaritans for the Three R's. Also, in an editorial of the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsville, the editor in 1964 wrote: "Adm. Pursell h.^s done more to stamp out illiteracy in Kentucky than has any other individual." One of Ion's letters from the Supt. of Public Instruction contains the following: "I am happy to state your (Ion's) program . . . has been instrumental in bringing about an awakening of interest in the field of adult education in Kentucky," and further on the letter reads, "I am also aware that you could not have carried out this program without the help of your good wife, Mrs. Karola Pursell." Congratulations!

Ion and Karola are deserving of much praise for their worthwhile endeavors in the field of education.

On 1 Jan. the following classmates were knighted to the Golden Circle of the Army-Navy Club, Washington, D. C , after 50 years of membership: Ralph C. Alexander, Einar R. Johnson, William J. Malone, Elbert C. Rogers, and Ralph S. Riggs.

Our treasurer, E. C. ROGERS, has received an acknowledgement from the Commandant of the USNA for our $100 check (the first of the yearly sustaining payments following our initial one of 1500), and thanking the class of 1918 for its sponsorship of the 18th (Zk>mpany's wardroom.

Cleemann "Tim" WITHERS sent in tiie following memo of family news: "Marie and I are enjoying retirement in our comfortable manor at 530-N Via Estrada, Leisure World, Laguna Hills, Calif. 92653. We keep in good health, continue the unequal struggle against the middle-age spread, and pursue our hobbies. The latchstring is always out to '18ers. Our son succumbed to cancer in 1956. Our elder daughter Anne Marie (now Mrs. Jaime Aranguren) lives with her husband and four children in Holt, Mich. Our younger daughter Juliette M. (now Mrs. Bruce L. Shepherd) lives with her husband and four children in West Covina, Clalif. After our planned visit with Marie's family in Belgium and France this summer, we hope to attend the 50th reunion in October."

And speaking of our Golden Anniversary, the following have written in the affirmative and have sent their checks: E. C. Rogers and Irma, John W. Rogers and Flora, Gordon Sherwood and Kathleen, Horace Corbett and Alice (from Hawaii), Ralph Riggs and Kathryn, Henry Stailey and Arietta, Leon Lovette and Charmian, Hazel Wilson, E. W. Wunch and Eleanor, Cleemann Withers and Marie-Juliette, L. B. Richardson and Thelma, W. R. Nichols and Dorothy, W. K. Phillips, and E. E. Duvall.

Sec'y, VAdm. H. R. Thurber, USN (Ret.), 1661 Crescent P I . , N.W., Washington, D. C. 20009

As this is written, the program for our class annual spring get-together at the Naval Academy is completed: Saturday, 13 May—noon. Lunch at Naval Academy Officers' Club, then business meeting. 1730-1930. (Cocktails at George and Adaline DYER's "Simmerdown," with Val and Grace SCHAEFFER co-hosting. Sunday, 14 M a y After Chapel. Brunch at Tubby and Nan Read's (210 S. Cherry Grove Ave.).

Because of your secretary's absence from the firing line in February and March, George DYER sprang into the breach, and sent out notices of the foregoing. Report of this 49th anniversary reunion will be in the next Shipmate.

We were most pleasantiy surprised the end of March when over the phone came a familiar voice, none other than that of James Leon WISENBAKER. Wisie, last heard of from his home in Macon, Ga., wrote us the following at our request: "I lost a brother while in Georgia, and Louise lost a couple of uncles, so we decided to move back to Virginia where our friends were.

MAY,

1967

My address is 7481 Lee Flighway, Falls Church, Va. 22042." Valued additions to our Washington area, and Wisie an immediate attendee at our ANC luncheon in April.

Carl FINK has marked some dates around midMay on his calendar. This is the time Eloise expects to be back in full commission after having her second successful cataract operation (one for each eye, that is). She was released from Bethesda in time to be home for their 41st wedding anniversary.

Tex and Fay SETTLE journeyed south in early March for a month's vacation in and around Orlando and Naples, Fla. On their return to the Washington scene, they reported a grand stay "soaking up lots of Florida sunshine," and also that they visited Malcolm and Marcia SCHOEFFEL in their Naples home. "The Schoeffels," says Tex, "find their relaxation in playing golf all day and bridge all night."

Nick NICHOLSON, sending Carl a check that sees him through 1970 and two-thirds, comments from Weirsdale, Fla., that "(we) become very native in this backwater"; and further, that it is "interesting to read of the doings of various members."

Dutch WYNKOOP wrote us from Florida in February. "We decided early in January to get out of New York's winter weather at Ransom's doctor's suggestion; so we took a trip to Florida by way of San Diego." Dutch and Ransom really touched base with Nineteeners on the west coast, and planned to do the same in Florida before they left for home. "Ransom is fine and enjoying the change," says Dutch, for which we are happy.

Jimmie and Joe HOLLOWAY, now ensconced at Virginia Beach, "are planning on the 50di."

Jimmie avers that "with some trepidation accepted what I am determined to be my last speaking engagement—commencement speaker at Saint James School (Md.). Third grandson graduates this year; two other grandsons and Jim went there. Two of these entered USNA from there direct."

Dave CLARK, another (and longer-based) resident of Virginia Beach, says: "Definitely planning on the 50th reunion in 1968." Dave, who retired with distinction from the Navy in 1953, re-retired last 31 Dec. as executive director of the Virginia State Port Authority, after 13'/2 years organizational service. He states, as many have done, "I have adjusted to retirement without difficulty," and then adds: "Catharine has an itching foot. Claims she joined the Navy 40 years ago to see the world and hasn't seen it. So some travel is in prospect the next few years."

Dick and Sarah CRAWFORD, up in Port Royal, Pa., and shown in our 45th Anniversary Directory as the first great-grandparents of '19, with one great-grandson, now (14 February) send us an "up-dating: two great-grandsons; one great-granddaughter."

Rod DeKAY checks in from his home in Port Washington, Long Island. "I still play tennis— not singles, unless forced to. Have been working on the tennis program for our Port Washington Youth Activities—had about 120 boys and girls turn out for tennis last spring." Rod also reports doing a littie lumbering during the fall and winter, undermining the roots of dead trees and hauling them down with a four-part purchase. He says that "sawing them up into fireplace lengths is the strenuous part." Rod and Ann were planning a sea trip in April to Ireland (their first), entering and leaving by way of Cork, "a place my grandfather sailed the old MACEDONIAN to in 1848." Rod ends with: "Looking forward to seeing you and the rest in 1968."

From Jack REDMAN, our west coast associate, comes news, with an able assist from Chal CHALLENGER. Charlie REND had been in the hospital for about 10 days, having an old ulcer looked after.

but was back home on St. Patrick's Day. Helen told Jack that "Charlie is restricted on liquor and certain foodstuffs including strawberries—he misses the strawberries more than the liquor." (Jack notes "that wouldn't be ME.") Helen said they were momentarily expecting news of their 13th grandchild.

General LEE is still improving, and is now working in his hobby shop regularly, presendy building a dining room table for a favorite relative —inlaid top, etc.! Amy had talked with Marian Anderson about Jo-Jo. (We had a note from Marian which said Jo-Jo was regaining his old professional skill at bridge by playing a rubber or two almost daily with the family.)

Jack caught Tony PITRE loafing at home on a Sunday. "Tony and Alix are well and happy. . . .

He is chief engineer for the company (Western Asbestos) . . . has tried to retire . . . but they recalled him . . . as they think very highly of him."

Chal writes that Paul and Sue TALBOT continue to live a calm and happy existence, and are chief suppliers of apricots for nearby neighbors.

He notes that Russ and Peg IHRIG are in good shape; that "Marion and 'Fink' Challenger expect both daughters to attend Santa Clara in the fall, one as a freshman, one as a junior"; and that "like Jack Redman, Chal is a 'Honey-Do' first class."

Chal also writes that Marjorie COLYEAR fell and broke a hip and is recovering in a San Francisco hospital; adding "The son. Dr. Ckilyear, has a very fine reputation as an eye specialist in San Francisco."

Kay Hunt has sold her home in San Diego; future plans not yet settled at the time of this news, in early April.

Also, from the west coast, comes a most welcome note from Chick CARTER, saying, among other things, "Hope to make the 50th reunion!"

Chick sent a check for the chapel fund, writing, "It is a privilege to enclose a contribution for King Dierdorff, certainly one of our most beloved classmates." Another attached check brought Chick's dues marked "Paid to June 1969"—for which our thanks.

And now for a final checkout on the east. The Washington area luncheons in March and April at the Army and Navy Club were enjoyable.

Present on 7 March were: Callaghan, DuVal, Dyer, Fink, Grant, Greer, Hicks, Rochester, Schildhauer, Setde, Tarbutton, Willenbucher. On 4 April—the last area class luncheon at ANC until Tuesday, 5 Sept.—the following answered "present": DuVal, Dyer, Fink, Grant, Greer, King, Rochester, Schildhauer, Settle, Tarbutton, Wisenbaker.

Your secretary took a sudden and unintentional leave in early February and returned home from Bethesda in time for Easter. It was unfortunate timing, as at the closing date that '19 copy was to be submitted for the April issue of Shipmate, he was ordered by the medicos not to write it, as he had promised so to do. His apologies are proffered!

(Footnote: According to the doctors, bless them, it was the pure life he had led that enabled them to get your secretary out of a rather deplorable situation.)

The following letter was received from Virginia Morris Kincaid: "Dear Shipmates: This has been a wonderful winter for me and I've almost forgotten what snow looks like anymore. Spent the Christmas holidays in California with my daughter and two fast-growing garndchildren and then joined my dad in South Carolina for some belated hunting.

"In early March the Ralph Nettings spent a week with us and seemed to have enjoyed the hunting, the fattening Willingham Plantation breakfasts with its real thin pancakes, the smalltown gay southern cocktail parties and the many we hoisted with our other guests.

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Harold Helm and his brother Tom. Harold is chairman of the executive committee of the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company and is now on the advisory committee of the U. S. Naval Academy. He loves to tease my dad about his love of the University of Virginia so it was decided (having been properly put on the agenda) that after the merger of Yale and Vassar, the University of Virginia and Sweet Briar would follow and the new consolidation would be called 'Sweet Virginia'! What my dad said when he heard that is only fit for Playboy! Since Earl had painted the lawn of the University of Virginia on the long dining room wall, Harold felt very vulnerable sitting with his back to The Wall! Oh well, what wasn't settled at dinner was continued on the agenda in the jeep.

"Dad and I spent a long weekend with Pat Kiernan at her paradise in Stuart and enjoyed her splendid hospitality. Now I am at my sister's in Ft. Lauderdale before I drive north the first of April. It's a long trip driving my Black Peril alone from Washington down and back but orders is orders. Can't wait for '68!"

Sec'y, Capt. Roswell B. Daggett, USN (Ret.), P. 0. Box 201 Annapolis, Md. 21404

Attendance at the monthly class luncheon at the Army-Navy (31ub on 31 March was below average with 17 present as follows: Browder, Bryan, Christmas, Crowe, Fred Cunningham, Hague, Savvy Harrison, Holsinger, Mansfield, Mead, Nibecker, Osborn, Patterson, Pearson, Plaskett, Clyde Smith, and Thompson.

The New York chapter of the Alumni Association held its 42nd annual dinner on 17 March at the Biltmore Hotel. The class of '20 was represented by Roy Graham, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Sol Isquith and Barney Talbott.

The Annapolis chapter of the Military Order of the World Wars was very much impressed at its March meeting with the talk given by the Superintendent, RAdm. Draper Kauffman. He stated that the simplest and obvious mission of the Naval Academy is to turn out the best possible Navy and Marine officers in the world. He separated this mission into five distinct categories.

The first is moral or character development, without which you would have nothing in an officer.

The other four were not listed in order of priority and are: military training, with emphasis on leadership; academic education with the purpose of preparing the men for a lifetime of study; physical conditioning to emphasize a strong spirit and will to win; and motivation toward a lifetime career in the service. To promote leadership the Academy has placed the control of the Brigade, to a great extent, with the first classmen as the more respon-

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sibility you give a young man the more responsible he becomes.

Space here does not permit recording the details of this splendid talk, so I will limit it to one case. Many of the elective courses are considered of graduate level rather than undergraduate courses. Clonsequently, qualified midshipmen may obtain Master's degrees from schools such as the University of Michigan, Georgia Tech and Mass. Institute of Technology within seven months.

The Academy was anxious to make the same arrangement with the University of California, especially with the physics graduate program under the renowned Dr. Edward Teller. But the superintendent was disappointed with Dr. Teller's reply that absolutely no one completes the Master's degree requirements in his physics program within less than two years. However, a few weeks ago Dr. Teller agreed to visit the Academy. He did not review the curriculum or visit classrooms, but spoke directly with the midshipmen interested in a seven-month physics program. After these interviews, Dr. Teller said he was absolutely flabbergasted by the knowledge of these men and after he returned to California the superintendent received another letter in which he agreed to the seven-month program.

It was a pleasure to hear from Hal WEED. He resigned in 1927 as a Lt. and entered the Naval Reserve. He went on active duty in Jan. 1941 and was released in May 1946 as a captain USNR. Hal is located in Greenwich, Conn., and is president of Weed and Frost, Inc., which firm specializes in personal and trust estate management. After over 31 years of marriage, he lost his wife on Christmas Day 1958 and says he has not remarried, and, incidentally, has no prospects.

He has one son, W. H. Ill, who also lives in Greenwich, and two lovely granddaughters.

Your scribe sometimes gets satisfaction from what this column induces. A case in point resulted from the picture of Paul and Emily HEINEMAN which appeared in the Jan. issue.

When this was seen by RAdm. F. E. Janney, Commander Service Group Three, Pacific Fleet, home port Sasebo, Japan, he wrote Paul: "You will be most surprised to hear from me, and I will be most surprised if you even remember me." He then went on recalling that when he reported to USS DETROIT in June 1937, Paul as a navigator started him off on his career as an officer. He stated that the lessons he learned stood him in good stead while navigating a submarine for nine war patrols and commanding three more.

He added that he feared he gave Paul a few headaches and problems at that time, but that Paul's initial guidance is something which he remembers vividly and with gratitude. And by the way. Watertight Hart, Adm. Janney apparently liked that picture of Paul and Emily.

I understand Maurice CURTS and his bride, the former Fay Hobbs, are vacationing in Florida.

Wap and Frances MARTIN journeyed to Charleston, S. C , at mid-March and had lunch at the home of W. T. and Eleanor HART. They spoke glowingly of the ingenious ideas the Harts have in combining modern comforts with antique charm in the restoration of their home at 6 Prices Alley. Their former home on South Battery is featured on postcards with credit given to Walter for its restoration. The Martins saw Ed and Allie TILLMAN and Lois Fitz and report them in fine health and spirits. Bailey and Evelyn CONNELLY also spent a weekend in Charleston during March visiting their son, Bob '52, and his family.

Wap THOMPSON sent me a card from San Salvador where he was visiting his son who is with the First National City Bank. He said the weather was superior to that of Florida. En route, he spent a week in Sarasota, Fla., and had lunch with the Freddy McMAHONs. He reports that they own a very lovely apartment in the Reef Club in Naples, Fla. Ted and Dottie HAFF have had a wonderful winter in Sarasota and hate to

leave but expect to return to Annapolis by 21 April after a visit with their middle daughter in Adanta. I have been unsuccessful in worming any details out of the Red HEPBURNs, but I am told they also spent some time in Sarasota and had accommodations near the Haffs.

Just had word from Slim COWDREY diat he and Rosita had spent three weeks of March in Florida where the warm climate aided Rosita in ridding herself of a persistent series of colds.

When in Fort Lauderdale, they purchased a twobedroom, two-bath corner apartment in the Atlantic Towers. It is their present intention to close their New York apartment this summer and move to their home in Wilton, Conn., where they will spend six months of summer and then six months of winter in Fort Lauderdale, eventually moving to Florida permanendy.

We in Annapolis seldom see our classmate Heinle NEILSON. But the other night the local paper carried his picture, as club president, accepting a trophy for winning the winter trap league shoot in the Anne Arundel Fish and Game Assn. Bill and Mary Jo SWANSTON report a recent addition to their list of grandchildren with the arrival of William Brownlow Swanston in Waynesboro, Va. In the Annapolis Naval Hospital are two classmates at this writing. Wade DeWEESE fell and severely damaged his left shoulder, necessitating surgery to repair the fracture and slip the muscle back into place. He is now much more comfortable but it will be some time before he has the complete use of his arm. Paul MILLER entered the hospital yesterday for what he believed to be a flare-up of his ulcer trouble but the doctors were testing and had not made a diagnosis last evening.

I was delighted to receive a biography from Henry CHALKLEY which was accompanied by a most interesting letter describing his and Dell's trip of last autumn to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Chalk resigned in 1924 and immediately joined the Reserves as a Lt.(jg). He took cruises and correspondence courses regularly and was recalled to active duty in 1941 as a LCdr. and assigned to the office of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Orange, Tex. As a captain, he became the supervisor in 1945 and was released to inactive duty in 1946. He took a short course at the Naval War Ck>llege, Newport, in 1950 and retired in 1954. His civilian interests have been too numerous to detail here but include land, oil, canals, rice, grain and banking, to mention a few. He has been a director of the Federal Reserve Board of Atianta for several years and was Deputy Chairman 1955-63. He is deeply involved in civic causes in his native town of Lake Charles, La., where he and Dell reside.

Chalk says that while most of our class are enjoying retirement, he is still at the grind but is able to get away each year for some foreign travel, either for business or pleasure, which he believes keeps him in running order to meet the demands of the rice industry. Last fall he and Dell got a glimpse of Israel and Black Sea ports behind the Iron Curtain. Israel was the miracle of their journey and occupied a place on the opposite side of the spectrum from the countries under communism. Its progress, scarcely 30 years in the making, is something to make the world sit up and observe. The fervor and joy of the people could well be revived in many quarters of the globe. Russia and Bulgaria seemed arrogant. The masses thronged the drab streets and parks and risked shy smiles. In Varna the broad avenues were nearly bare of traffic yet thronged with pedestrians whose faces wore the tired look of resignation. There were rows of empty shops and the few that were open offered meager, costiy and shoddy merchandise.

Rumania was entirely different. It was harvest time and the bins were full, cattie and poultry fine and the farmers snug in comfortable houses.

Competition is encouraged. Everybody appeared SHIPMATE

well fed and dressed. Bucharest hotels are excellent, the food lavish and service unexcelled.

Transportation is plentiful and reasonable. In Gibraltar, Chalk had a little nostalgia. There he saw six of the destroyers he supervised building in Orange, Tex. He said they still looked formidable.

Chalk was leaving on 1 .\pril, with four other men, on a flying trip to the Orient in an effort to promote rice sales for dollars. He explained that our government requires all foreign purchases to be paid for in our currency which is a stumbling block in international trade. Vietnam has dollars, owing to the numbers of our men stationed there, but other countries in the Far East, desperately in need of rice, are not so flushed. He wants to see what can be done toward moving thousands of tons of rice piled up in our warehouses toward destinations where they will fill a genuine need.

Sec'y, Capt. S. S. Bunting, USN (Ret.) Kensington House, 10225 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, Md. 20795

Some time ago the class of 1921 voted to sponsor the 21st (Z^mpany at the Naval Academy and gave them funds to outfit their wardroom in Bancroft Hall. On 29 March 22 of the class met in the rotunda of Bancroft Hall where they were welcomed by the Commandant of Midshipmen, Capt. Sheldon H. Kinney '41, the 21st Company officer, Lt. Jim Curtin '59, and members of the first class of the 21st Company, including their Company Commander (6 striper) Mike Glyim. We then had dinner with our adopted company in the mess hall and afterwards proceeded to the '21 wardroom where our class president. Homer Elmers, presented a class crest on a shield to the company commander.

The following classmates participated in the ceremony: Bolger, "C^t" Brown, Colclough, Boone, Country Moore, Tommy Thompson, Fitzgerald, Giles, Elmers, Bunting, Erck, Allen Cook, Barbaro, Brumbaugh, Ham Hamilton, Russell, Fletcher, Dudley, Gallery, Thorp, Swigart, and Houser. This was a fine representation of the class including two four-star admirals, an exsuperintendent of the Naval Academy, an expresident of George Washington Uiuversity, two ex-judge advocate generals, a member of the world championship 1920 Olympic crew and a member of that year's Olympic wresding team.

Also a senior professor at the Naval Academy and the executive director of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Homer Eimers, President of ' 2 1 , presents Midn. D. G. Matthews, 21st Company Commander, with a '21 class plaque.

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" C a t " Brown, Ozzle Colclough and others of '21 visit with midshipmen of the 21st Company at wardroom ceremonies.

Hank FORD writes that Cliff and Lurline CRAWFORD live a short distance from him in Golden Hills north of Ocala, Fla. Joe SAURETTE, who lives in Chatham, Va., keeps busy by working in his garden, singing in the Chatham men's chorus, playing the piano for prisoners in the nearby prison camp, and in season hunting the illusive dove. Joe still does a handstand on his diving board.

Your secretary apologizes for not answering all the letters you send with news of your activities for publication in Shipmate, but 1 find that I simply do not have the time. However, please keep your newsy letters coming.

Scherer is now assistant director of the Lunar and Planetary Programs, NASA. We '21ers are pleased to learn that the young Hunts became the proud parents of a daughter, Cynthia Lee, on 18 Feb. Our congratulations!

The following classmates attended the March luncheon at the Washington Army and Navy Club: Jim Dudley, Ducky Lamdin, Wayne McDowell, Cat Brown, Charlie Welborn, Dolly Fitzgerald, Ed Thompson, Blackie Loker, Oz Colclough, George Russell, Jimmie Hamilton, Wilson Leggett, Dan Gallery, Pinkie Thorp, Syd Bunting, Swig Swigart, John Waters, Allen Cook, (Country Moore, Charlie Booth, Wop Barbaro, and Homer Eimers.

BAY AREA NEWS On 3 Mar. Gypsy and Nick COULTER and Billie and Hank DIVOLL co-hosted a delightful cocktail and sit-down dinner party at the Officers' Club at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale. The following '21ers attended: John and Eleanor Ames, Abie Carlisle, Clarence and Marian Conlan, Dalton and Lee Davis, Dave and Marjorie Davis, Eddie and Susie Duncan, Louie and Marian Entwistle, Jimmie and Vera Harris, John and Irene Harris, Lew and Bunty Johns, Kirby and Mildred Kirby-Smith, Bob and Betty Lewis, Norman and Eleanor McKee, John and Virginia MacQueen, John and Bobbie Madden, Al and Margot Main, Scup and Dodie Miller, Slats and Kay Moore, Phil and Ruth Nichols, Nike and Irma Nyquist, Anice Ramsay, Jim and Corinne Reisinger, Charlie and Tram Roland, Piggie and Bess Schwien, Frank Talbot, Anna Thayer, Tommy and Cathie Thomas, George and Ann van Deurs, Charlie and Virginia Woodson.

Sabe Sabin '21 and Spike Fahrion '17 on tennis court of La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.

Sabe SABIN informs me that he and Spike FAHRION '17 belong to the "Old Men's League" of the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club. The average age of this group is around 67 and runs as high as 75.

Wop BARBARO reports that he left Washington ahead of a snowstorm the week of 16-23 Feb. to check in with his old golfing pals, Kitty and Burton BIGGS, at Jekyll Island, Ga. The Biggs have built their retirement home on this island paradise with its wonderful golf course, perfect expanse of beach, and good fishing. The one floor spacious house was built to Kitty's specifications. Wop says that Burton still licks him at golf and that he keeps in trim by throwing rocks at squirrels and rabbits to keep them out of Kitty's garden. He maintains a handy littie rock pile for this purpose.

Those of us who attended the 40th reunion dinner-dance at the N clubhouse at Annapolis in 1961 will remember the young plebe Bill Hunt '65, son of Ralph B. and Phronie HUNT, who addressed us with courage, poise and wit.

Young Hunt, now a Lt.(jg), is communications officer in USS BROOKE. He is married to Candace Scherer, daughter of Capt. Lee Scherer, USN (Ret.) '43, and Mrs. Scherer. (3aptain

Pat Carlisle has returned home from the hospital and our latest information from Abie says that she is back on the road to complete recovery.

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"Wop"

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John Ames, Abie (Carlisle, George Cohan, Joe Connolly, Nick Coulter, Dalton Davis, Red Erwin, John Harris, Paul Howard, Lowden Jessup, Bob Lewis, Dan MacGurn, Norman McKee, John MacQueen, John Madden, Al Main, Scup Miller, Phil Nichols, Charlie Roland, Piggie Schwien, Tommy Thomas, George van Deurs, and Charley Woodson.

Your submission of news items was pretty slim this month, so your scribe is going to go dig up some. Starting with a stop in Cherry Point, where we'll help son Wayne wet down his first lieutenant's commission, Harriet and I plan to continue down the east coast as far as the Keys.

You'll get a full report next month, so don't say you weren't warned!

Mostest of the bestest, ABE

Sec'y, Farm,

Gerald A. Stacey, Golden Propeller R2 Box 146, Mercersburg, Pa. 17236

As this is written (4 April), 15 orders have gone in for class plaques. As Sherman CLARK is going abroad this summer, he wants to get out of the plaque ordering business and he requests that classmates desiring plaques send their orders with a check for $35 to Mr. George A. Meell, The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Chestnut at 16di St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102. Checks should be made payable to Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co. The company will mail the plaque directiy to the address you designate.

Ralph SHEPHERD has painted an oil of a 4-stack destroyer in the North Atiantic and presented it to the 22nd Company wardroom. It is a beauty—and very appropriate for the "Destroyer Club" class. Bill SEBALD has made another gift to the wardroom: two copies of Japan: Prospects, Options and Opportunities which Bill co-authored with Dr. C. Nelson Spinks.

A note from Streuby DRUMM states that he is "quite pleased and happy after one year in the position of Business Executive in Residence at Tulane University. It has been most rewarding and challenging, acting in a consulting capacity to the staff, faculty and students as I do. Being the first position of its kind in any university, we are more or less exploring virgin territory so that we can set our own patterns and activities."

Carl ESPE sent us the dope on the luncheon at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, on 14 March.

"We had 17 present, including Frank AKERS, who was on hand from California following a detour via Phoenix and Florida. On tap were: Akers, Atkeson, Hal Baker, Ernie Becker, Bibby, Butier, Coleman, Dugan, Espe, Ralph Hudson, J. N . Johnson, Don Johnston, Kneeland, Lott, Malstrom, H. R. Stevens and Toney. There were no speeches—not even from Johnny Johnson, nor any world shattering decisions made; just a very pleasant get-together."

You have all received the Clyde's message on the subject of the revised by-laws, with ballot enclosed. To preclude a repetition of our failure to return sufficient ballots to constimte a legal ratification, be sure to mail yours to Clyde if you have not already done so!

Frank WHITAKER sent us a ''program" of the forty-second annual dinner of the New York Naval Academy Association held at the Hotel Biltmore on 17 March. Note that date, because it becomes important later. The speaker for the occasion was Adm. David McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations. The class of 1922 had the largest attendance, which must be a testimonial to the sales ability of Heinle Berger, as he was a "division officer." He succeeds Art Schmidt, who served in that capacity for the last two years. So maybe it was Art who was responsible for the good turnout. '22s on hand were: Berger, Blount, Bill Campbell, Harshman, Hooper, Kaplan, Kosse, Krecek, Lowe, Maginnis, Nold, Rosenstein, Art Schmidt, Shenier, Joe Smith and Frank Whitaker.

Frank also wrote: "About a month ago. Bill Finn called me. He retired from the Worthington Co. about a year ago as vice president for international operations, and was retained as a consultant.

He had just returned from several months in Australia on a mission for the company. He was then leaving for Washington where he will be an advisor to the AID program in the State Department, concerning technical personnel."

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Acting Sec'y, RAdm. Morris Smellow, (SC) USN (Ret.), 100 S. Cherry Grove Ave., Annapolis, Md. Recorder, RAdm. J . N. Wenger, USN (Ret.) 4918 Tilden S t . , N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016

Efforts to increase class news for Shipmate have, initially at least, borne some encouraging fruit despite skepticism about the possibility of reviving '23, or, as Don FELT put it, "stirring up responsiveness in a bunch of independents."

The regular monthly luncheon, held on 8 March at the Army and Navy Club in Washington, drew 28 members, including a surprise and very welcome visitor from out of town. Harold KRICK, who happened to be in the area on a business trip from Austin, Tex., where he is now working and living, took time out to join the group. Now director of the Defense Research Laboratory of the University of Texas, he gave an interesting account of the missile and other important work in which he and his laboratory are engaged. Hal expects to retire later in the year and settle in Texas to enjoy his family, which now includes three grandchildren.

Members at the luncheon voted unanimously to repeat, on 10 May at the club, the coed gathering which proved such a resounding success last year.

Hope was expressed that the area husbands and wives could be joined, as previously, by the widows and also by any other class representatives who happen to be in town at the time.

One of the latter who has already indicated a desire to be present is Wink FOLK. Writing from Knoxville, Tenn., to verify the date. Wink said he was planning a "pilgrimage" to Annapolis, Washington, Stratford, and Norfolk, and desired to arrange his movements so as to attend the May luncheon.

From Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where he has been spending the winter, Ray LEAVITT reported that he was digging in his ever-growing garden which now includes, among other things, a variety of fruit trees that thrive in the Sunshine State. As an additional activity, Ray joined a fine 70-voice chancel choir and, in the current ecumenical spirit, was "singing Latin masses in a Presbyterian church." He hoped to return to his Maryland home in mid-April. Added were the following notes on Bob MACKERRACHER who, Ray said, still seemed trim enough to show his heels to a lot of us as he did in his track days: "The Mackerrachers have a very lovely apartment right on the ocean. Allegedly he has retired from teaching but he made one fatal mistake; he let the Broward County school superintendent know he was here. Now they won't leave him alone! And they do need math instructors badly."

Also returning from Florida (in May) is B. B. WILSON who takes his sun in Winter Park.

Still another northward migrant is A! RICHARDS, heading for the Gaspe Peninsula via Washington, D. C. According to reports, Al is greatiy enjoying the nomadic life in his land yacht. Our faithful Florida correspondent, Karl HENSEL, reported receiving a pleasant visit from Al and Virginia at Ft. Myers, Fla. "We parked the bus— all ^Vi tons, on our lawn," Karl wrote, "along the riverfront, between two mango trees and under a Royal Poinsiana. We did considerable conviviality, dined at the Yacht Club, and in the evening phoned Bob Hicks and had a good conversation. I last saw Bob 41 years ago . . . his voice seemed totally unchanged." After laying in

a supply of citrus fruits from Karl's trees, Al and bride got underway, and were last heard from in the Venice area.

Karl added diat Emmett and Mary SPRUNG provided a delightful surprise by also stopping in for a visit, which was all too short.

Concluding in a personal vein, Karl expressed relief that his son-in-law (Col. Tom Fields, USMC) had returned safely from a tour in Da Nang, and also indicated much pleasure over the prospect of an early visit from son David, who was flying in from Maine with three granddaughters.

Brick ROBERTS, who, to Karl's disappointment, failed to show up in Ft. Myers, returned to Washington after an enjoyable fishing venture with Al RICHARDS. Brick came home a luckless but still honest man. He reluctantiy had to admit that the fish were too wary.

Returning home also were Homer AMBROSE, from a vacation in San Juan, and Jo JOHANNESEN, from a Caribbean cruise. Aside from reporting a pleasant trip. Homer gave news of the forthcoming marriage of Homer, Jr., to Miss Marcia Wills of Connecticut.

From Ken MOSES at Los Angeles came word that Johnny and Millie GOODNOUGH have returned home after nearly 11 months of seeing North America "from Vancouver to Halifax via the Arctic Circle and Florida." Both seemed none the worse for wear and were now busily sorting the slides recording their long trek. According to Ken, Frank GOOD retired again, this time from the Rand Corp. He and his French poodles were allegedly busy defending the home fort against an invasion of 'possums. However, as indicated in a later action report, it appears that when the fur finally settied the critters turned out to be raccoons. Ken himself bad been in dock but evidendy was now back in service.

Also having encounters with the medicos were Duke CHANDLER and Pete HAAS. Botii fortunately were at home and indicated improvement.

Charlie BEAUMONT is still at Bethesda, and we trust he, too, is making progress. Meanwhile his duties as class secretary have been assumed by Morris SMELLOW. Duke, our Norfolk area correspondent, sent in a feature article about Vic TATE which appeared in a local paper as one of a series on "Your Neighbor and His Job.'' Under the headline "Horsing Around Keeps Him Busy," the article described at some length the activities of Vic and carried a picture of hirn in full western regalia. Evidendy upon retirement Vic returned to the interests and pursuits of his early life in Kansas, and has been very active raising cattie and horses on his farms. Also, he has been operating a specialty shop to serve equestrians in southeastern Virginia. For those who have read Truman Capote's best seller. In Cold Blood, it may be of interest to know that the Judge Tate who presided at the trials described therein was none other than Vic's brother.

In a letter from Hawaii, Art AGETON confirmed his arrival there as previously reported by Don FELT. Art gave an account of a very nice lanai party given by Don and Katherine Felt at their lovely home in Kahala on Sunday, 5 March. Present from '23 were Art and Jo, Ron HIGGINS and wife, and Pauline Birdey. Other guests included the Batt Cruises '22, Bob Morses '22, Ole Olson '21, the Bob Campbells '24, die Bob Weises '29 and the Colin McKenzies '34. Art reported that he and Jo were nicely settied in an apartment at the Illikai Hotel, but expected to return home after mid-May. There is apparently plenty to do, according to Art, since Honolulu has gone cultural, with excellent opera, plays, and music, not to mention the usual entertainment for which the Islands are uniquely famous.

With the appearance of spring, the wanderlust is beginning to stir. Al MURDAUGH and wife are off on an extended jaunt to Sicily and the Greek Isles, while Fred and Louise WITHINGSHIPMATE

TON are planning an ambitious tour through Scandinavia, Scotiand, and other parts of Northern Europe.

An event of interest to '23ers occurred on 11 March at Avery Island, La., when Margaret Ringle was married to Adm. A. D . Struble, USN (Ret.). It is understood that they plan to live at least part of the year in the Washington area. We extend our very best wishes to the newlyweds.

Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Paul Siegrist, USNR (Ret.), 22 Macopin Ave. Upper Montclair, N. J . 07043

We are glad to have new comments on USNA from our Annapolis correspondent, Colby RUCKER: "The new science building rears on the tennis courts; one half is well up in the air.

This is due for completion next year. A new water tower rears its ugly head high above the countryside at the end of King George St. at Perry Circle. The new Public Works Building has been completed, and looks swell in grey brick at the old Homoja Village. So you can see that the 'new' Naval Academy progresses according to plan. The new enlisted barracks is completed and occupied. It is down by the Field House.

And the hotel ships out at the old REINA MERCEDES

docks are gone." Continuing, Colby philosophizes: "So, the physical plant changes, but the midshipmen do not. They think they are different than we were, but I doubt it. They smdy things we didn't, but I notice they still paint Tecumseh, and in general do the same foolish things we did, and have the same pains and heartaches—• and by the same token go out and die just as bravely and gallantiy as did their predecessors.

The more things change, the more things are the same."

Colby also gives us a new report on Jack WILLIAMS, who writes: "I have managed to keep out of the hospital for a year now. But the dentists and I are having a 'go'—^just got back from Perrin AFB Dental Clinic. We stopped at Bonham, Tex., and saw Artie Williams, who is

in the Vet Hospital there. He has been in and out of hospitals for the past five years, but seems to be better now. . . . I think he will be in Dallas, with Polly, his wife, this summer."

We regret to have to report the death on 17 March of Mrs. Martha Siegrist Spratiey, daughter of Norma and Paul Siegrist, after a short illness: heart failure, following acute pleurisy.

Bill HICKEY pleases us greatiy by sending in a restored picture of the 1924-25 JO mess of USS ARIZONA, and we are counting on its appearance in this issue. You'll recognize 14 of these ensigns from 1924 (10 now living) and five from 1923.

For himself. Bill writes: "I am still teaching physics at Cal Poly, along with Mowatt '26, Tom Flynn '27, and Konigsberg '30. Ann and Paul Graf are always present at our symposiums, and I am happy to report that Paul is doing nicely. . . . I'm planning to 'haul out to the boom and secure' after this summer's teaching."

Newt LEWIS has been laid up with an infection, and while not critically ill we understand he will not be available for a while as sec.-treas. of the Washington lunch group. Bob KEYER gave a hand at the last luncheon on 22 March, and as George ROBILLARD puts it, "Bob made the mistake of volunteering to help, and suddenly discovered he is the new secretary-treasurer."

George also speaks for many when he mentions that "I have always thought of Bill and Barbara Cleaves as two of the loveliest people I have ever known." In a lighter note, George tells us that Ed CUNNINGHAM now carries a business card, and under his name is the single word "Consultant." We want Ed to fill us in on what all this means. Another news item on which we need further details is that one of the sons of Mildred and Hank DUVALL is currently appearing in a Broadway show, and will soon make a movie.

Yes, Hank, fill us in on that, too. It all sounds like Washington had a lively March meeting: Count Austin, Bradley, Burroughs, Collins, Cunningham, Frank Deam, Duvall, Hartwig, Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kalisch, Keyer (and son W. S. Keyer), Mercer, Petersen, Robillard, Sin-

clair, Tichenor and Wright. E. O. Titus '22 was also a guest. Since leaving Coronado around 15 Dec, Frank DEAM and Lucy have had a fine long trip through the south and the east, being scheduled to visit Mrs. W. C. (Mildred) France at Annapolis after leaving Washington.

Last month we announced the great coincidence of a tie vote in our election of a president. Now we have a new one, which comes to light in connection with Bob Keyer's efforts to locate Tom GORE. Bob asked both Austen MAGLY and Bert QUINN to look up Tom at the last address we had. Reported Bert: "I looked up the address and discovered no houses in the area. All homes had been razed to make room for a boat harbor.

I then made a list of Tom Gores from the phone book and started calling. The first one tried was answered by a man who identified himself as our Tom Gore—and he stated that Austin Magly was in his house at that moment! I must admit that to be one of the greatest COINCIDENCES of my life. . . . As for me, I finally quit working last May, when they put me in a hospital for a heart condition. I am getting along all right now, but taking things easy." Reports Austen MAGLY: "Living at 456 Palos Verdes Blvd., Redondo Beach, Calif., Tom is very much alive and active, has a good job with Harvey Aluminum, and has been asked to stay on there, even though he has had his 65th birthday. Tom married for the first time in 1952 to Elizabeth, a widow with three married children. She was born and raised in my home town of Columbus, Ohio. . . . Haven't heard from Dick Penny since Christmas, and am worried about him."

Kissam Hunt: The Bob Keyer search brought the following news from a leading citizen of Lawrenceburg, Ind.: "Gordon Kissam is a good friend of mine and I am happy to help you reach him. He and his wife now own and operate an antique store where collector's items and homemade candles may be purchased. The home address is 571 Ridge Ave., Lawrenceburg, Ind. 47025." Then, Bert KALISCH wrote Gordon a long letter from which we quote: "Had lunch

USS ARIZONA JO mess of 1924. From the left, seated: J. M. Sweeney, Burton Davis, Arleigh Burke, M. K. Kirkpatrick, E. J. Taylor, W . A. Hickey, H. H. Loomis, ^ T. W a i d , H. M . Hayter, W . B. Thompson. Standing: G. M. Stoddard, M. J. Tichenor, R. S. Moss, F. H. Gardner, R. C. Sutiiff, D. H. Day, W J. Longfellow, Crutchfield Adair and J. B. Hogle.

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with some of 1924 a week ago and Bob Swart, our new president, suggested I start thinking about getting out the 1969 Cruise. Now, that next Cruise should be something special, and have something special like the Gordon Kissam touch. Do you still do sketches, etc., like those which made the 1920-24 Log outstanding.'' I know it's a long time, but hope you developed your talent in the intervening years. Anyway, let's hear whether former Midshipman Kissam will volunteer to help us—Allah Kissam!" Yes, now that we have the address, let's all try to "Smoke Out Kissam!"

Yes, dear readers, this is the Keyer issue of this column—Bob has supplied most of the news.

In connection with his searching out. Bob has a letter from Eddie HUNTER, which says, "I was unable to get any dope on Paul Riggs. . . . You probably don't get much credit for the great job you are doing in bird-dogging, but you certainly deserve it! . . . I'm retiring June 1 and will remrn to California this summer. We have a place about ten miles north of Santa Rosa."

Again, another Keyer scout reports in to Bob, and we quote from his letter from Bob MINTER: "I have had no word that H. P. Stevens was in Miami. He is not listed in the telephone directory. . . . Ed Wilkinson is now living in St. Petersburg. We saw Ed and Mildred while they were living in Miami. . . . Skipper Warburton occasionally we run into. . . . Tom Huckins used to drop into Miami each winter and contact us.

I haven't heard from him recently. . . . I'm completely retired, so I am now floundering around, but trying to enjoy the wonderful Miami climate.

Please give my regards to George Brydon and Joe Cabanillas, as well as to other classmates around Richmond and Washington."

Malin CRAIG helps us find the "lost Vern WALBRIDGE" by sending a newspaper story concerning Vern's son in Vietnam: "Air Force Capt. James Walbridge dangled helplessly in a North Vietnamese tree for an hour and a half Tuesday. The flier was plucked from 100 miles behind the enemy lines in an area as rugged as can be found in Vietnam. He was stranded there when his F105 jet was blasted by Communist ground gunners north of the Mu Gia Pass. Walbridge's chute slipped into a jungled area and caught on a tree, leaving him suspended helplessly.

Four Skyraider planes swept in low to provide cover during the wait for a rescue helicopter, which reached the scene 90 minutes later. Commenting on Capt. Walbridge's ordeal in a tree, his father, Col. Vern Walbridge, remarked: 'He liked to climb trees as a child!'"

"One of the highlights of the evening was seeing Edith Rook on the dance floor once again," says the Northumberland (Va.) Echo in reporting on a March dinner-dance at the Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club, of which our Gene Rook is president. Says Gene: "I'm still working at that non-pay job—they re-elected me in January. . . . I've had Edith home from the hospital since Labor Day (following serious auto accident). Now she is practically on her own again —all except the cooking. I'm still it."

a count as to who's coming from Florida as we go to press. The Dale HARRISSes will miss it, since they are flying from Pensacola in late April to Stuttgart, where they will pick up a car for a European tour, returning home via SS CkiNSTiTUTioN in July.

George MATTUCCI explains his absence from the annual dinner of the N. A. Assn. of New York as being due to his being in Florida, and adds: "I retired from B & W in January, 1966.

Since then Ethel and I have been taking life easy down here (14 York Ave., Spring Lake, N. J.), which area I would highly recommend. We also enjoy a litde travelling: last year Europe, and the past winter, Florida." And at that New York dinner meeting George was missed by those attending: Clint Sayres, Sam Singer, Raoul Weller, J. J. Whalen and Spuds Witmer.

Yeh—hope to see you at the Monterey 4 June reunion!

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

John HART very deservedly made the headlines in Annapolis for his part in saving two lives in the Severn River. John's house overlooks the Severn River, and on Saturday, 3 March, he happened to be looking out when he saw a big tractor-trailer truck break through the guard rail of the bridge and plunge into the icy waters.

John ran next door to get his neighbor. Between the two of them they dragged a rowboat some 12 feet to get it in the water, then rowed out to the bridge pier where the driver and a hitchhiking sailor were hanging on. The sailor got by with slight injuries, but the driver was in serious condition, and would surely have been lost except for John's prompt actions.

Judge ELLER has just received another wellearned distinction. The Navy League of the United States has selected him as the 1967 winner of the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement. The award will be presented at the awards luncheon, 4 May, during the National Convention of the Navy League in Jacksonville, Fla. Frank TIMBERLAKE has been making some sales trips recentiy, one to Coronado for a candy convention. There CamiUe and he were given a delightful dinner by Vick and Virginia LONG and among those present were Cam BRIGGS and his attractive wife. Then when he was in Phoenix recently they had dinner with Gene and Marge LEE at their lovely house on the side of Camelback Mountain. They had just returned from Europe where he purchased a Mercedes S230 SL combination convertible and hardtop, which he is very proud of, and I don't blame him. Gene is still high up on the vice president's list of the Valley Bank and looks fine.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: The 43-year anniversary of our graduation will be held 4 June at the Officers' Club, PG School, Monterey, Calif., as announced here last month. It will be a great affair, especially for those of us who plan to stay in the area a few days for sightseeing. Some of us are planning to attend the quarterly dinner meeting of the San Diego group also; it will be held 26 Aug. at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. At this time you might not make the San Diego party, but you can still make the 4 June meeting at Monterey: Advise RAdm. R. S. Hatcher, 1256 Castro Road, Monterey, Calif.

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Lew PARKS writes: "We are glad to learn that Bob and Elsie GIBBS have left Houston, Tex., and established a new home in Stewart, Fla. Butch and Betty PARKER celebrated their 33rd wedding anniversary by taking a group of friends in their cabin cruiser from Pompano Beach to a waterfront restaurant in Deerfield for a champagne luncheon. The trip en route was not exactly dry, either. In addition to the host and hostess, their guests included '25ers Byron and Louise LOOMIS, Lew and Zelda PARKS. Monty and Ruth EGGERS have returned to Fort Lauderdale for their annual winter visit. They are occupying the same delightful waterfront apartment where they have stayed for the past few years. Charles and Phoebe McKINNEY, and Lew and Zelda Parks were present at a large KT party which tiiey hosted and we know that these two live wires will keep the social pot boiling while they are here."

Stock COLT reports he is Woof Hatcher's Florida distribution manager, putting out the dope on the Monterey party in that area, but not having

Roger NICKERSON reports that he is still working with Civil Defense, being now the Deputy Director for Monroe County, Fla. The work is

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mosdy planning and coordination with other agencies, such as welfare, health, and Red Cross.

He and Mag have had their annual physicals at the Naval Hospital, and apart from being a bit overweight, and the encroachments of age, are in good health.

Pat RYAN made the headlines in the Fort Lauderdale paper by visiting the SS HOPE while she was in that city. Pat had commanded USS CONSOLATION in Korea, before she was turned over to her present errands of medical mercy and renamed HOPE. Accompanied by his grandson Chuckle, he revisited the bridge, where he took over the con, while Chuckle manned the wheel.

Jack GRIFFIN reports that there is a very good turnout of '25ers at the monthly luncheons of the Annapolis chapter of the Alumni Assn. '25 is tied for second place with 10 regular attendants; '23 has 15, and '20 has 10. That should shame our Washington group into getting a few more out.

Charley TRUXALL is on a trip to Texas, to visit his daughter and her family, then to the west coast for a while before going to Hawaii to visit with his son, Charles, Jr., and his family.

LCdr. Charles W. Truxall, ]i., is serving in USS STERLET (SS-392), which is just back from a cruise in Vietnam. . . . Doc and Elizabeth MOWATT left the west coast in mid-April for a month's visit in Florida, where they hope to see some of their old friends.

George BAINS wrote from Capetown in early March concerning their progress on their round the world below the equator trip. Before leaving Los Angeles they had a visit with Ron and Mary MacKINNON; in Sydney, Australia, they had dinner with Shorty and Denise Gwinn '24. In Capetown they ran into Bill and Patti HOWARD, who were on a two-month cruise covering South America, Africa, and some Mediterranean ports.

Sec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) 3410 15th St., North Arlington, Va. 22201 Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg, I I I USN (Ret.), 8405 Burdette Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20014

The Washington group held its March class luncheon at the Navy Yard on the 28th, to which the ladies were invited. Appropriately enough, there were 26 classmates present, some with wives, some with guests, and several of our loyal and beloved widows as follows: Thelma and Dwight Agnew, Bob Armstrong, Alice and Nat Barker, Bion Bierer, Upton Brady, Rita (Willingham) and Connie Conway, Lucy and Bill Dolan, Grayce and Hank Fravel, Harriet and Roy Gano, Jack Greenslade and his son John, Anna and Val Havard, Becky and HoUis Hill, Ham Dow, Kay Hutchinson, Bea and Benny Katz, Sara LeHardy and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ward Morehouse; Orin Livdahl and his brother, Ruth and Ben Lovett, Marge and Charlie Lyman, Bay and Tiny McCorkle, Speed McKee, Alice and Frank McQuillan, Ruth and Jim Morrison, Helen and Nels Nelson, Bob Pirie, Bill Smedberg, John Shoemaker, Virginia Stiegler, P. D. Stroop, Katrinka and Mario Vangeli, Irene Weaver and Jim Ward. Bob PIRIE, president of the Naval Academy Foundation, gave a report on the Foundation and on the progress of the 1926 Scholar, Nicholas Williams. Classmates present, acting as an executive committee of the class as a whole, voted unanimously to donate another $1000 of class funds to the Foundation for another 1926 Scholar. As this project also has the approval of the four class officers, our treasurer. Jack GREENSLADE, has forwarded a check in the amount of $1000 to the Foundation.

The subject of the 1926 sponsorship of the 26th Company wardroom was also discussed by Jack Greenslade, acting in Charlie BUCHANAN'S absence (Charlie and Kack were in their part-rime home in Maui at that moment) as chairman of the '26 Wardroom Committee. There was an appeal for books about the Navy to be donated to the SHIPMATE

now mosdy empty, newly built bookshelves in the 26th Company wardroom. These books should be sent either to Jack Greenslade at 5020 Millwood Lane, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016, or direct to the 26th Company Officer, Bancroft Hall, USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402. All who read this should take a look at their own bookshelves, attics or cellars and send those books they no longer use or need, which are in good repair. It would be an appreciated gesture were the books to be inscribed "To the 26th Company Wardroom" and signed by the donor, "Class of 1926."

A clipping from the 12 March issue of the Baltimore Sun tells of the election to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame of Royce N. FLIPPIN, who was an all-American on the 1925 Naval Academy lacrosse team which won the national championship. The class is mighty proud of your new honor, Royce.

John F. GALLAHER writes from 1030 Nortii Lake Sybelia Drive, Maitland, Fla. 32751, that he has been elected president of the Central Florida Chapter of the Retired Officers Assn. for the year 1967-68. The chapter has well over 650 members and is an interesting one which meets about ten times a year for luncheons or dinners.

John is also a member of the Military Affairs Committee of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce, and active in their affairs and meetings.

He says, further, "Clare and I are enjoying living in Maidand, and see our daughter Jean, her husband Colonel Cutbill and the four grandchildren frequently, either by their coming to Maidand or our going to their home in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Holly HoUingsworth and his lovely wife Jean are Maidand neighbors." (Several years ago Holly promised, when he found time, to write about the life and vicissitudes of an orange grower. Many of us would find such a description very interesting and the (3S is going to try for it again.) John ended by saying that he and Clare would like to see classmates and their wives when they pass through.

Mac McCORKLE passed on to the CS a short commentary by one of our classmates, saying "it sounds just like him," as follows: "When I became 64 I thought I was too young for Medicare, too old to die young! The funny thing is I don't feel 64 but maybe that's because I haven't had any experience at it. Neither do I think I look 64, because 1 refuse to wear my glasses when I look at myself in the mirror—that way I merely look sort of blurry"—Gloom Mills. Gloom adds that he will have had 10 years with the State of (Z^lifornia in June 1967, will be 65 in September and will retire from state employ in October, after which he and Martha are going to try to more fully enjoy their remaining years.

Speaking of "remaining years'' reminds the CS (corresponding secretary, to those whose memories are also fading) of a short poem which seems appropriate to those of us who are the upper half; one-half of our nation now being less than 25 years of age: "Blessed are they who understand My faltering step and palsied hand.

Blessed are they who know that my ears today Must strain to catch the things they say.

Blessed are they who seem to know That my eyes are dim and my wits are slow.

Blessed are they who looked away When I spilled my coffee at table today.

Blessed are they with a cheery smile Who stop to chat for a little whUe. Blessed are they who never say 'You've told that story twice today.'

Blessed are they who know the ways To bring back memories of yesterdays.

Blessed are they who make it known That I'm loved, respected and not alone.

Blessed are they who know I'm at a loss To find the strength to carry the cross.

Blessed are they who ease the days On my journey Home, in loving ways."

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1967

T. H. "Ted" KOBEY writes from a new address, 2190 Washington St. # 7 0 8 , San Francisco, Calif. 94108, as follows: "Just got my annual bill from NA Alumni Assn. and it reminded me how much we all enjoy Shipmate and the '26 column, and that 1 might help fill a few lines.

The cause of it is a major change in our abode and way of living, and my second retirement.

"Since retiring from the Navy in '52, we have lived down the Peninsula from San Francisco in Menlo Park, which adjoins Palo Alto and Stanford University. Most of the time I have drawn pay as a Deputy County Assessor. But as time has gone on, as we all know, the kids grow up. Terry, our daughter, has given us three grandchildren and our son, Ted, Jr., just passed the Calif, bar and is now a practicing attorney (says he went to law school to keep his dad out of trouble). Since Lo's health has not been too good the past few years and she wanted to get out of the big house and into an apartment in San Francisco, when the last chick flew, that is exactly what we did.

"1 retired from the county job and we moved in short order. Were fortunate to find a very nice place where we can watch the Navy ships come and go and are handy to all the facilities at the Presidio, not far from Treasure Island, and only about ten minutes from downtown by bus. Somewhere in my past, tho, I must have done something really horrible because the Presidio Golf Course is only 18 blocks away and I can't join.

Too many Army. Always did believe there was too much Army!

"Needless to say, we are not far from a liquor store, and so there is always a jug at hand for any of '26 passing thru, and we would love to see them. This weekend (1-2 April) we are hoping to see the whole gang out here as the Jack Taylors, in their very gracious manner, are throwing a party for '26 at their quarters on T. I. I'm sure you'll get a good story out of Jack."

Washington members of '26 will have an opportunity for an unusual get-together on 17 July with a trip on the barge up die old C&O Canal.

There will be room for a maximum of 40 couples and the price will be very reasonable, approximately fl.50 per person. We will bring our own suppers and drinks, or make appropriate arrangements after we learn how many will be interested.

Those who have never made that canal trip will find it extremely enjoyable. All interested drop a note to W. R. Smedberg, III, 8405 Burdette Road, Bethesda, Md. 20034, or telephone (during daytime) oxford 6-5411 to make a reservation.

Joe CALLAHAN writes from Coronado that his son, Lt.(jg) Joseph W. Callahan, Jr., is now on his third tour in Vietnam, in command this time of a Swift Boat, at the age of 24. He also proudly reports (and very understandably) that his son was awarded the Secretary of the Navy (Commendation for Achievement by RAdm. H. S. Monroe, Commander Amphibious Training Command, U. S. Pacific Fleet, on 3 March, for the organization and direction of the Combat Information Center in USS TOWERS, from August to November 1966, that was responsible for the rescue of 10 pilots whose aircraft had been damaged by enemy fire while operating over North Vietnam. Young Joe was in the class of 1964 at the Naval Academy.

Sec'y, Cdr. Howard C. Adams, USNR Pacific Far East Line, Inc., 9 1 8 16th S t .

N.W., Washington, D. C. 20006 Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. Howard W. Gordon, Jr., USN ( R e t . ) , 3127 18th S t . , North, Arlington, V a .

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Appropriate ceremonies attended by the Secretary of the Navy and many friends at the Washington Navy Yard on 31 March marked the retirement of Donk DONAHO. A well deserved Distinguished Service Medal was pinned on Donk to add to three Navy Crosses and two Silver Stars received during World War II. Louise, looking her prettiest as usual, says they will remain in Washington.

Red YEAGER was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery on 16 March followed by Jean's burial on the 21st. Both died as the result of a tragic fire in the quarters of OimNine at Great Lakes.

Red died as the result of trying to save Jean who has been an invalid for a number of years. The Yeager deaths will be mourned not only by his classmates but by many service and civilian friends. He had planned to retire soon and had accepted a position as assistant to the president of Zenith Corp. Pallbearers for Red were Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, VAdm. Charles Wellborn, Capt.

Robert Barnes, Mr. Milton Kronheim, Mr. John Pidcock, Mr. Joseph S. Wright and Chief Musician Sidney Zeramby. Pallbearers for Jean were Admiral Denfeld, Adm. Page Smith, Admiral Wellborn, Captain Barnes, Capt. J. N. C. Gordon (MC), Cklr. James Ckmnor, Capt. William Hogan and Stewards Mate 1st Class Ernest Javier who had served with Red for 11 years. Among the classmates attending the services for Red were Addison, Wickman, Sipe, Saunders, Riley, Casewell, Fairlamb, Adams, Gordon, Melson, Shipley, Giambatista, Hubbard, Klakering, Barnes, Miller, Anderson, Schumm, Maginnis, Steiner and Loud.

The executive committee met in Annapolis with the local members of the 40th reunion committee to discuss plans for the reunion. Parker FAIRLAMB, Herb RILEY and Bill SAUNDERS will shordy submit a report on plans to the full committee before finalizing the arrangements for a wonderful long weekend. Don't miss it.

Program details of the FABULOUS FORTIETH will be in the mail before the next issue of Shipmate reaches you. Be sure to watch for the WHEN, WHAT, WHERE and HOW (MUCH!).

Meanwhile the list of attendees continues with: Eckberg, Eckelmeyer, Edsall, Edwards, Ehle, Engeman, England, Evans, Faigle, Fairlamb, Fauntz, Ferrall, J. Fitzgerald, W. Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbon, Fitzwilliam, Foley, Eraser, Freeman, Garcia, Giambattista, Gilday, Gordon, Gregg, Mrs. Julian D. (Eleanor) Greer, C. D. Griffin, Habecker, L. Hansen, H. D. Hansen, Harnley, Hamilton, Heinlein, Hellauer, H. A. Henry, Pet Henry, Herron, Hetter, Hewins, Mrs. Ralph (Dorcas) Hickox, A. J. Hill, Hines, Hinners, Hogg, Honsinger, Hubbard, Huck, Hughes, Mrs. R. V. (Beeb) Hull, Hummer, Hunte, Hunter, Mrs. W. R. (Kathleen) Ignatius, Irvin, Jarrell, Jelley, Jennings, A. W. Johnson, D. H. Johnson, Mrs. George L. (Frances) Jones, Kaitner, Kearns, J. W. Kern, Klakring, W. L. Knickerbocker. By the way—a note from M. T. EVANS, playing on my sympathies—and 1 quote, "Parker: After 40 years I may get lost in Crabtown—if you see some fat litde chubby soul wandering around as if he is lost it will probably be old M. T. trying to locate the reunion." Now come off it, M. T., you never were little!

Cdr. Edwin Burton ROBINSON, USN (Ret.), of 3436 Zola St., San Diego, Calif., announces the forthcoming marriage of his daughter, Edwina Gail, to Don Harrison Depue, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Cooper Depue, of Cambria, Calif. She is also the daughter of the late Sally McLaughlin Robinson. The bride-elect is a graduate of the Academy of Our Lady of Peace in San Diego, and of Mount St. Mary's College of Bel Air, where she was a member of Delta Epsilon Sigma honor society. She is presendy a Lt.(jg) in the Nurse Corps, Naval Reserve, stationed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland, Calif. Her fiance is a graduate of California State Polytechnic College where he majored in bio-chemistry. He is an ensign in the Naval Reserve serving on active duty in the CORAL SEA. The 6 May wedding was to be held in the Main Chapel at the Oakland Naval Hospital.

Miss Susan Henderson Smith, daughter of Col. and Mrs. Randolph M. SMITH of Nashville, Tenn., was a January graduate of the University of Wisconsin, with a degree of Master of Arts in French. During her studies at this university she served one semester as a teaching assistant.

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and subsequentiy completed her work as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. Prior to this she was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts in French, cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.

She is presently employed as a teaching assistant at Vanderbilt while pursuing studies leading to the doctorate degree. Smittj' reports running into Harry HARNLY last fall after the Navy-Vanderbilt football game, at Nashville. Harry is contract administrator for RCA Service Co. and is located at HuntsviUe, Ala. Roy Scott, who retired as chairman of the board of Cuno Engineering on 1 July 1966, is now residing in Jupiter, Fla. His recent houseguests included Smut and Sally Cortner. Roy said that during the Cortners' visit the group got together with Ken and Velma Knowles and Arkie and Marian Carruthers at Jupiter, and with Jesse and Frank Cook at Punta Gorda.

When Roy is bored with everything on the beach, he takes a quiet cruise in his beautiful cabin cruiser QOEEN O" SCOTS.

The University of Rhode Island has conferred upon VAdm. Charles L. MELSON, USN (Ret.), the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.

We congratulate Charlie on this honor and warn him that we will look for free legal advice.

The following letter was received from Harrison ETHRIDGE: "Many '27ers will recall Thomas T. Sugg, who was the roommate of Gardner K. Grout and myself during plebe year. Tom and his wife Mary Frances stopped recentiy for a short visit with us in Petersburg, Va. I had not seen him since 1942 when he was serving with the Seabees. He is school superintendent of Dickson County, Tenn., which is near Nashville. Tom and his wife invite any classmates traveling nearby to stop and see them.

"Naval Academy graduates in the vicinity of Fort Lee, Va., were invited to the West Point Founders' Day dinner held at the Fort Lee Officers' Club on 17 March. Including wives, a total of 21 Naval Academy guests attended the dinner.

Among them were Capt. W. C. Wickham '06 and Brig.Gen. Vincent Meyer '11. The occasion was most enjoyable. I appreciate Shipmate very much."

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Sec'y, Mr. John T. Kent 6209 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016

The 1967 Nutmeg Reunion for the class of '28 will be held in Andover, Mass., on Saturday, 1 July. Vince and Dot TREANOR will be hosts at Hobby Horse Farm.

Overnight accommodations will be available at Rolling Green Motel on State Rt. 133 near Interstate 93.

Vince says, "Come any time on Saturday." Golf or tennis in Andover, sailing at Marblehead will be available if desires are expressed in advance.

Swimming at the farm wUl be available any time.

Cocktails and dinner are scheduled for the Lanham Club in Andover (Dutch treat) beginning at 1800 local time. No particular program is projected for Sunday, 2 July, but golf or sailing can be arranged.

Please send word of your plans to attend to Capt. George E. King, 5 Old Mill Lane, Simsbury, Conn. 06070. Burzynski, Momm, and Scott have already confirmed their intentions.

After a cool winter, the Washington group inaugurated the spring season with a luncheon at the Genghis Khan on 4 April. Everything came through loud and clear from Archer, Boyd, Gallery, Jordan, Kent, Lee, Lull, Norgaard, Peden, Rittenhouse, Roberts, Schoech, Sears, Stanley, Stringer, Urquhart and Watts. We regretted the absence of our president Jimmy JAMES, who was out of town attending the funeral of his brother Charles, who died in Sarasota, Fla., on 31 March.

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The class extends our deepest sympathy to the James' family.

A recent note from "Slim" QUILTER who reported that, "In January Adrienne and I took a week's trip to the southern part of the state and spent some time in that hotbed of '28ers—Palm Springs. There we saw Shag Ransford, Pinkey Madsen, Dan Wagner and wives. All were comfortably setded and enjoying a very attractive community. Since returning to the Bay area we have visited Bill Searles in Mill Valley. Bill continues to put up the good fight."

Many thanks. Slim. I would hope that more classmates would be as thoughtful in sending items of interest for others to enjoy. Slim and his lovely wife Adrienne live at 500 Westridge Drive, Portola Valley, Calif.

A recent communication from Bob WATTS passed along the information that his son Bruce was married to Mrs. Susan Baker Hughes, the widow of Lt. Joe Paul Hughes, USN, at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Va., on 31 March. In addition to acquiring a lovely bride, Bruce becomes father to a charming littie daughter, Ashley Elizabeth Hughes, age 21 months. Susan's parents are Capt. Lawrence H .

Baker, Jr., USN and Mrs. Baker, presentiy on duty in Germany. Bruce graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and is now an ensign serving in USS NEWPORT NEWS. They will make their home in Norfolk.

Sec'y, RAdm. C. B. Laning, USN (Ret.) 6404 Lakeview Drive Falls Church, Va. 22041 WEST COAST Sec'y, RAdm. Robert N. S. Clark, USN (Ret.) 28232 Lobrook Dr., Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. 90274

Sometime during last winter this column carried the record of the discussion of the class executive committee for all of us to assist in the creation of the wardroom of the 29th Company in Bancroft Hall. Unformnately only 60 percent of our class subscribe to Shipmate and it is necessary to circularize the class by direct mail for contributions or dissent. This is in process. Meanwhile, we sent $200 for implementing the wardroom before the present first classmen leave for the fleet. We received the following letter of thanks: "On behalf of the 29th Company I would like to sincerely thank the Class of 1929 for your generous gift. We have used a portion of the money to purchase a set of drapes to round out the decor of the wardroom. We are also searching for a painting with an appropriate naval theme to add a needed touch of color. Our main desire now is to add more professional atmosphere to the wardroom. If any member of your class could offer any suggestions along this line or if they have some item of professional interest they would care to have displayed we would be very grateful. Thank you once again for your help; we will keep you informed on the progress we make with the wardroom." Signed by C. E. Brown, Midn. First Class, 29th Company Wardroom treasurer.

C. J. "Dinty" MOORE has recently been made general manager of the Industrial Division of Electric Storage Battery Co. Hope he has the same charming secretary, inasmuch as he apparentiy can't read or write. Dick and Ginny BALLINGER are making plans for a trip to France and England. They depart San Francisco in the French Line freighter CHILE on 8 April. Wally BAIRD is still consulting for McDonnell (now, I guess, McDonnell-Douglas), going to St. Louis one week a month. His field is propulsion, in advanced design. He says it is interesting "mixing it up with the young engineers" in that line of work. At the Los Angeles end of the commuting line—at home—^Wally putters around with technical literature, gardening, investing and household chores.

Chic FRANKEL is working in tiie next office to me (your secretary) harder than I am. He has been promoted to department manager of the Intelligence (computer data processing) Department of System Development Corp. in Falls Church. I now have a hard time getting a lunch engagement with him, as he is always on the go.

Nevertheless, in keeping with his hobby of watch and clock repair, he has repaired my alarm watch.

It now keeps good time and the alarm doesn't ring.

Whitey BEARDSLEY and Grace divide their time between a winter home in Menlo Park, Calif., and building a summer lodge in Jackson Hole. A letter from Whitey was lost in the conviviality of one of the Washington class lunches last winter. Herewith is a recent letter: "As I recall I wrote from Jackson, Wyo. Anyway, we spent July in Jackson working on our son-in-law and daughter's house. We returned to Menlo Park for August while they supervised the job in Jackson and installed about 80% of the wiring.

We relieved them in September, staying on until about 10 Nov. By then the house was essentially closed in for the winter. We found the Jackson Hole area delightful in the fall after most tourists had stopped coming through. The fishing improved. Friends kept us supplied with ducks, venison and elk meat. Late October and early November mornings found temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees above zero. Days generally warm, i.e., 45 to 60. On the way home with the trailer we visited George, Jr., in (!x>rvallis. Ore., where he is teaching oceanography at OSU. Also, spent a night with the Thurlow Davisons in Paradise. He appears to have recovered quite well from the heart attack. Both still enjoy Paradise.

This winter they made a driving trip through parts of Mexico.

"I have just returned from another trip to C^rvallis where I spent five days in the OSU Oceanography ship SS YAQUINA. Had several good days weatherwise. Two fronts went through while we were at sea so you can imagine how rough it was on this 180-footer. Grace flew up for a short visit and to drive home with me.

I have been more active in Scouting. Am now serving as advancement chairman for our district.

We will haul trailer back to Jackson about the end of AprU or early May. Trout season opens the first of May. Will work on house until sometime in June or early July. Hope to finish it by fall. We have a box at the Jackson, Wyo., post office.

Will keep the trailer out on the property this year as we now have electricity and water there. We are adjacent to the country club some 4 to 6 miles northwest of Jackson. Howdy Bernet and family found Grace last summer in a trailer court after doing some good detective work. I was in LA so missed them. Give our best to all the classmates."

Among those classmates whom we have tried to contact in recent years is our valedictorian Jack (Noah) WEBSTER. He was last reported (about 1955) to be in the Long Island area. Anyone have news? One of the stories of Noah's prowess with mathematics was told at a recent Washington group meeting. It seems that the Yard in Colon, Panama, could not put the motor control panel of the USS S-13 back together so the pigboat would run. Noah was browsing through McLarin's Theorems in his cabin on a survey boat across the pier from the helpless 13 boat. He took a minute off to glance at the panel blueprint and suggested a circuit change. It worked. What has Noah been doing since.'

A pleasant pattern is showing up at the monthly lunch of Washington area '29ers at the Army and Navy Club (downtown). It is the surprise appearance of some out-of-town classmate who arranges his visit to Washington to coincide with the regular "fourth Wednesday" date of the lunch. No notice in advance is required, but a phone call or note to Frankel or Laning may rally SHIPMATE

a few extra old friends. Often, when a classmate calls at other times, a few of us get together anyw.iy. Al STR.\HORN came to the March lunch, from Wilmington, Del., where he is special projects manager of Atias Chemicals, International Division. Al had been managing director. Atlas Taiwan Corp., until a couple of years ago. He is about to head East again for India, Taiwan and Thailand. A rousing reunion was held with Al buying the drinks. He looks recognizably like Ensign Strahorn, who resigned in 1930 from USS OKLAHO.MA along with Whitey BACHER and Burl BUSH after carrying out explosive operations under Snackenberg with McCoy directing spots from the maintop.

Red WELSH has returned from a survey of Mexico including die retired life at Lake Chapala, where as yet '29 has no representative. He writes, "Fran and I have just returned from a five-week, 6,400-mile, motor tour of Mexico—down the east coast, across central Mexico and back up the west coast to Nogales. Had a fine time up to the last few days when 'Montezuma's Revenge' caught up with me and chased me across the border. An efficient but unpleasant way to lose weight. On our way south to Ladero we had a bang-up evening in Austin, Tex., with Nemo Nieman '28 and his lovely new bride, Nell. Looked for the Howertons '30, but they were out of town, and then what happens? We run across Ann and Sunshine at the bar of the Camino Real in Saltello, Mexico. Small world? Also had a delightful visit with Eve and Put Storrs '23 in their new home in Chula Vista. On our way home we spent a few days in Coronado and saw as many friends as time permitted.

Sue and Buck Brandley had us and Lisa and Al Loomis for dinner at their quarters on Point Loma. .\ delightful evening. After leaving Coronado we visited with Lisa and Al in their beautiful home near Escondido. Al is a working rancher and I can testify that he can pick avocados with the best of the 'wet backs.'

"All in all we had a very enjoyable trip. And, as always, it made us appreciate what a wonderful land we live in—where 3'ou can turn a spigot and get clear, fresh water you can even drink!

Just before we left on our trip we had cocktails and dinner in San Francisco with Bunny and George Ashford and Win and Al White. All were hale and hearth'."

Sec'y, BGen. Ronald D. Salmon, USMC (Ret.), 640 Oakland Ter., Alexandria, Va. Corr. Sec'y, Capt. F. E. Wilson, USN (Ret.) 8507 Burning Tree Road, Bethesda, Md.

The Washington contingent's spring lunch was held at the Gun Factory on 14 April. The new committee members for 1967-68 will be elected at the June meeting.

A request for $5 annual dues was mailed to each member of the class in March. A report of collections will be contained in next month's Shipmate. For those who may not have received the notice please send check to RAdm. C. B. Brook, 5925 Chesterbrook Rd., McLean, Va. Checks should be made payable to Class 1930 Fund.

Ed BRUMBY reports on a class cocktail party in San Diego as follows: "The Southwest group of '30 held a cocktail party at the Cximmissioned Officers' Club at North Island, Coronado, 1 April.

Attending were Burrell and Bee Allen, Jay and Bunny Bowen, Fred and Else Bradman, Ed Brumby (Ralphia was recovering from a cataract operation); Harvey and Evelyn Burden with Capt. and Mrs. Bemis of '39 as their guests; Bernie and Estelle Fuetsch, Mary Alice Hahn, Charlie and Olive Hayes, Kay Hindrelet with her daughter Katherine and Col. Ernest Ewbank as her guests; Bob and Marge Jennings, Jack and Gwen Lee, Fred Lucas, Frank and Julie Luongo, Blackie and Louise Lynch, Ted and Dixie Miller, their son and his wife and RAdm. and Mrs. Ambruester of '28 as their guests; Jack Moreno, MAY,

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Roscoe and Billie Newman, Roy and Ellie Newton with Captain and Mrs. ToUeson as guests; Mell and Ann Peterson who were on their way to Tucson that night; Ed and Trudy Price, Foo and Marie Rutter, Eddie and Peggy Sanders, John and Gertrude Seargeant, Frank Sloat, Bob and Pat Trowcr with Red Earl '30 from Sacramento; Sam and Marion Weller (our latest addition to the Southwest area); Willie and Betsey Wilbourne, Roy and Dot Wolverton with her sister and their daughter as guests. Many of the group enjoyed dinner at the club and all admired the new features that had been added since we last had a party there. The only bad news was that Benny Mott was in the new Long Beach Naval Flospital with an unknown diagnosis."

On 14 March Rebel LOWRANCE was presented with the Distinguished Service Medal for services as Commander Submarine Force U. S. Atlantic Fleet from 1 Sept. 1964 to 19 Nov. 1966. Congratulations, Rebel.

Pete and Elinor BRADY's daughter Clarke was married to Buckley M. Byers, Jr., of Sewickley, Pa., at a nuptial mass in St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington, D. C , on 1 April. Congratulations to the happy couple.

Your corresponding sec'y requests contributors to accompany news items with photographs when available. After all these j'ears we would like to see how you're holding up!

30TH COMPANY NOTES With the arrival of spring leave the third set striper list was announced and Thirtieth Company placed five men in out-of-company striper positions. Included on that list are the following men: Midn. LCdr. Michael J. WUliams—5th Batt.

Cdr.; Midn. Lt.(ig) Robert L. Earl—D&B Sub Cdr.; Midn. Lt.(jg) James T. Claxton—^D&B Platoon Cdr.; Midn. Lt.(ig) Thomas L. Wilkerson— Reg. Supply Officer; Midn. Lt.(jg) John Wright— 5th Batt. Supply Officer.

Leading the (Company are the following men: Midn. Lt. John Kieffer—30th Co. Cdr.; Midn.

Lt.(jg) Wesley Brandt—30di Co. Sub. Cdr.; Midn.

Lt.(jg) Edward Laskowski—1st Platoon Cdr.; Midn. Lt.(jg) John O'Brien—2nd Platoon Cdr.; Midn. Lt.(jg) Alonzo Overson—3rd Platoon Cdr., and Midn. CPO Richard Kunkel—Co. CPO. In company sports spotiights, the slow pitch Softball team is out to defend its Brigade championship. Fast pitch Softball hopes to improve on last season's record with help from several new men rounding out the squad.

Turning to the class of '68, we found all of them admiring their class rings just arrived this past week. The arrival of this visible sign of their soon-to-be-acquired status emphasized more than ever that the year is fast closing.

Cruise announcements were being made and members of the new first class will be stationed with all fleets from WestPac to the Med. Foreign exchange cruises include one of our members, Midn. 2/c Rick Buchannan, who wUl train with the Royal Navy.

In closing, we of the company wish to thank the Class of 1930 for their gift of $100 received this March. It will help to make our wardroom even more enjoyable for all hands. Very respectfully, Midn. J. L. Wilkerson, First Class.

Sec'y, Capt. Oscar E. Hagberg, USN (Ret.) 1109 Grove St., N.E. Albuquerque, I\l. M. 87110 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, USN (Ret.) Atmospheric Sciences Program National Science Foundation Washington, D. C. 20550

Bud BARR reports that he and Doris have changed their Annapolis address to 29K Eastern Ave. 21403. Cathy and Don WACKWITZ have returned from a trip to Europe visiting daughter Linda who is attending Institute Montesano at Gstaad, Switzerland, and inspecting their new apartment dwelling at La Palma, Canary Islands.

New address—3900 Watson Place, N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016. Incidentally, Don is no longer with Melpar, but is maintaining his own consulting service in the air space business. Jean and Andy HILL are getting settied in a new home at 1295 Bangor St., San Diego, Calif. 92106.

Not too long ago a severe windstorm brought down an old tree in the east quarter of the Ray HUNTER estate and completely demolished a greenhouse full of orchids and other tropical plants. Ray advises that his new imported version, larger and on a solid handmade foundation, is now complete and ready for occupancy. He'll be very happy to provide a first class environment for any exotic horticultural prizes you might care to have stored.

Bill GILES came through Albuquerque in the fading days of March on Polaris business with the Sandia Based Field Command, Defense Atomic Support Agency. Bill is with the Lockheed Co. near Moffett Field. O'Toole and Hagberg tried to convince him to join the mile-high dwellers with unknown results thus far. Bill's business trip was to carry him on to Charleston, S. C , with the prospects of a trip to Hawaii in the week that he returned to California. Lockheed must have some shore duty jobs, too.

A long mislaid announcement of Johnny GANNON'S relief as Commander Fleet Air Wings, U. S. Pacific Fleet, and Commander Fleet Air Moffett at U. S. Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, has been found. Johnny was relieved on 30 Nov. 1966, and included his address after retirement on 30 Nov.: 850 Alameda Blvd., Coronado, CaliL 92118.

Sec'y, RAdm. Robert B. Fulton, I I , USN Commander, NAVSEC (6600) Dept. of Navy Washington, D. C. 20360

HERE AND THERE WITH '32 Shown is a picture of a group of '32ers who attended a luncheon given by Luke LUKER, Commandant, Third Naval District in his quarters in New York. He reports that the only area absentee on this occasion was Rex LITTLE who was hospitalized at the time for a minor ailment.

George Luker, Com 3, entertained '32ers in his New York quarters.

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Present were: Thomas B. Hurley, S. M. Archer, B. J. Harral, J. R. Leeds, C. W. Frey, P. H. Grouleff, W. C. Short, L. Smith, and Frederic Wolsieffer.

We were interested to hear recentiy that WUlard FELDSCHER has been appointed manager of the instrument division of Applied Radiation Corp., Walnut Creek, Calif.

Willard Feldscher '32

At the March luncheon we had our usual good turnout of some 28 classmates. A welcome visitor was Will DOBBS from Waukesha, Wise, where he is associated with Waukesha Motors in their engineering department.

We had a brief note from Dick BLAIR, who is now teaching science and math in a Los Angeles prep school.

Phil CANN is another teacher. His subject is algebra and the school is Cathedral Prep in Erie, Pa. He finds it very rewarding, if at times a litde frustrating. Daughter Bunny and family are stationed at West Point, where her husband is an instructor. As one of the scattered few in his part of the country, PhU would welcome a call from anyone passing through Erie.

From down in Florida comes a note from another teacher, John CHITTENDEN. He is now in his fourth year teaching math at Manatee Junior College in Bradenton. Johnny says he is working harder than ever before. But he finds it a challenge and most rewarding "when you see some spark of understanding in your students" and "Mary and I are most happy with our choice of retirement area—but we have so many projects going we wonder how the time can sail by so quickly. We have just acquired a spanking new truck-camper outfit and are looking forward to next summer's travel. Our only regret is that the teaching routine will not permit us to join in all the fun at the 35th reunion. We are planning on tiie 40th."

Dutch CLOSE, in Pensacola, writes that he and Marion are living across the street from Hap and Janie ASMAN, whose new swimming pool the Closes enjoy very much. They also spend many delightful hours with Loki and Peggy MANG in their cabin cruiser.

Dick CRAIGHILL writes that he and Virginia are still basking in the land of sunshine (Puerto Rico) while the rest of us are shivering in the States. They see many friends and other snowbirds on their winter-escaping trips to San Juan.

Nick and Sue NICHOLAS have been living in San Juan since 1960, when he retired from active duty. Nick writes that he is operating a modest small business of his own and is managing to survive in that very expensive area. They have a large degree of independence which they do enjoy —-"Puerto Rico has been very pleasant living but our lifelong habits of mobility are hard to break.

After six years here we are about to move on to another island and have already set the wheels in motion to build a house in St. Croix and hope to move in by this coming summer. So we will be starting a new life which should be stimulating at this stage of the game. We are in the phone book and welcome one and all."

Paul EMRICK was transferred last summer from California to Arizona, where he is manager of the Citizens Utilities Water C^. of Arizona and associated companies.

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They moved from Saratoga, Calif., first to Tucson and then in December went on to Sun City, Ariz., where the company provides water and sewage services. Sun City is the Del Webb retirement community about 10 miles from Phoenix. You have to be over 50 to live there, so Paul says he had to lie to get in. Of the papulation of 10,000 people, two are '32ers, the other being Jerry MILLER. Loraine and Paul would be happy to see any who pass that way.

From Sam LABOUISSE, "Am on leave from present job as construction superintendent of a hospital in St. Lucia, B.W.I. Between construction jobs in West Indies, my wife and I do a lot of sailing in the West Indies on our 35-foot sloop, as well as other places in Central America. While in the Virgin Islands 6 months ago, visited Bat Eye and Ridie Arthur. Would be interested in planning another long cruise in my boat, or to the 35th reunion from the Gulf Coast, with any one inside or outside class. All they have to do is bring themselves and stand wheel watches. So long untU tomorrow. My mail address: 744 West Beach, Pass Christian, Miss. Mark 'Please Forward'."

And from Joe McGOLDRlCK in Honolulu, "With the passing of George Pressey I feel very lonely out here. However, with my small publishing business which I started from scratch here two years ago (after I left the Chrysler Ckirp. in San Francisco) and polishing a very rusty medula oblongata as a full time student at the University of Hawaii, where I am working on my Master's in educational administration, together with various civic duties (executive committee of the Citizens Committee for Ethics in Government, exec comm. of the Business League for Sound Government, U. of H. conference planning comm.), I am, like so many of our other industrious (?) classmates, busy 25 hours a day. Alma's photographic artistry still receives international acclaim, even though our two youngsters (Carolyn will be 8 on Xmas day and Tessa, believe the baby in the class, 6 on New Year's) demand most of her time. Her poster for Aloha Air Lines won top award at the international exhibition in Hong Kong this past spring and during this year she has had many covers and feamre picmres in a number of leading newspapers and periodicals throughout the world."

Mike PARRISH is living in Wichita, Kan. He is vice president of the Clinton Oil Co. and area representative of the class in the southwest. He writes that son Ned is working in Fresno, Calif., as an engineer, and daughter Matilda is an artist in New York City. Deedee and Mike are two of the most regular in returning to the east coast, particularly at Army-Navy game time. He expects to see us next fall and, in the meantime, anybody in Wichita be sure to call him up. (He is listed in the phone book under "L. W." and under "Mike.")

P. D. QUIRK has lived in Port Charlotte, Fla., since 1960. In recent years he has been with the Florida Industrial Commission in several capacities and in various parts of the state. He spent some time in Pensacola, in Winter Haven, and is now back in Fort Myers. P. D. is waiting for his new neighbor, Moe ARCHER, to arrive from New York. He is going to take some weight off Moe on the golf course, maybe some money too, at least so he says. P.D. and Jean thoroughly enjoy Florida life. They are planning to make the 35th if our committee gets the motel accommodations squared away.

From George ROGERS in Charleston, S. C , comes news of his activity in real estate there, where he has been living since 1960. He now has his own business specializing in property management. He writes that business has been good, with numerous housekeeping headaches and a schedule which makes it difficult to get away for any extended period. So he stUl is pondering the question—to work or to retire?

John SPANGLER is still the retired country squire of the Monterey Peninsula, but neverthe-

less he stays busy. With a regular schedule of golf he is holding his handicap down to 10.

John writes that he devotes much of the rest of his time to cabinetmaking in his home workshop.

"My last project as a furniture maker was a grandfather's clock which turned out quite nicely, at least Charlotte allows it in the living room.

Now and then the Navy Department permits me to return to active duty for a refresher in convoy tactics. It is always wonderful to get to sea again."

Don THOMAS is still in San Diego and associated with the Solar Division of International Harvester Co., where he is engaged in their corporate planning. He and Anne are living in their home on Point Loma where they have been located for some four years now. Daughter Ethel is married to Lt. Tom Sanford, USNR, and younger daughter Jinny is attending the University of Arizona. Don and Anne look forward to the reunion next fall.

We have a note of greeting from Bob and Gayle Walker, who say they are taking it easy out there in Coronado. Gayle has recovered quite well from major surgery last summer, which is good news to all of us.

BUI WYLIE is now Deputy CinCUSNavEur in London. We had the following note from him: "My first 'hard cover' book, tentatively tided Strategy: A General Theory, will be published by the Rutgers Universit>' Press this spring. The exact date is not yet known. I have read both the galley and the page proofs, so I know it is going along— but we (the editors and I) are not yet agreed on a tide. There is a good chance that it will be changed to something longer and not as clear as that above. Otherwise, nothing new to report."

But there is something new to add. A recent press release is quoted below: "VIETNAM TO GET FIRST WAVE "A Navy Junior has become the first WAVE to be assigned to Vietnam. She is Lt. Elizabeth Wylie, daughter of Rear Admiral Joseph Caldwell Wylie '32, Deputy 0)mmander in Chief of naval forces in Europe.

"Lt. Wylie is a graduate of Dickinson College, OCS and the Navy Justice School, Newport, R. I. She will report for duty in Vietnam next June."

We are happy to recognize and salute Lt. Wylie and her family on the distinction accorded her.

Continuing our rundown of class juniors—only three were identified to us as now being midshipmen. They are: Walter D. &)leman, Jr., '69, Edward C. Munger '67, and R. E. Tutde '67.

And with the Marines now are: Maj. John G. Miller, Staff, CinCLantFlt; Capt. Ken W. Nisewaner, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Lt. Richard L. Ruhlman, A Company, 5th Tank Bn., 26 Marines, 5th Marine Div. Maj. Robert P. Rogers attends the P. G. School, Monterey, Calif., and Pvt. Howard F. Stones, Jr., serves at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Chmn., Mr. Turner A. Duncan AVCO Corp., 1701 K S t . , N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN ( R e t . ) , U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. 21402

By the time this is published, Fred ASHWORTH will have been detached as C>)mmander, Sixth Fleet, and will have relieved Wally WENDT as Deputy, CinCLantFlt. Wally's next job is DCNO Plans and Policy.

Adm. Tom MOORER had a busy two days in Crabtown, 16-17 March. He addressed the third class as the final speaker in their Sea Power series of lectures; attended the funeral of RAdm. Howard A. Yeager; was the Naval Institute's honored guest in their "Distinguished Visitor Program," and attended one of the Academy's classroom sessions.

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Joe ENRIGHT announced that he and Virginia will be leaving Dover, Mass., this summer and will move to the Los Angeles area. Joe is with Northrop, builders of the surface ship Omega Navigation Receivers. Northrop is moving this project to California and Joe goes along. Joe mentioned that he and Virginia had recently seen Eloise and Elliott Stanley, also MUlie and Hank Sturr. They look forward to joining the west coast community of the class.

A visit in the 33rd Company wardroom.

The accompanying photo was taken during a recent visit by Draper Kauffman, Tad Duncan and your secretary to the 33rd Company wardroom.

The midshipmen from left to right are: J. P. Harrington, P. E. Kanive, E. B. Hontz (Company Commander) and D, R, Perkins, II. The purpose of the visit was to inspect the new carpeting recendy purchased by the men of the company.

The 1967 donation of $100 by the class in support of the wardroom was used to pay for the installation of the carpeting.

Although the first annual class fund drive is now officially terminated, contributions will be accepted at any time from those who missed earlier notices. The drive was a limited successâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a complete report will be included in the next issue of Shipmate. An important dividend from the drive was the fact that a number of contributors enclosed notes bringing us up to date on their activities. The following items were gleaned from these notes:

Jim and Peggy BEWICK are still enjoying life in Honolulu where Jim heads the math department at lolani School. Their youngest son Tom was married last August and is now serving in the Marine Ojrps at the Aviation Ordnance School at Jacksonville, Fla. Their oldest boy James is a Lt., USN, and is the weapons officer in USS H. J. THOMAS.

Henry RUMBLE noted that he is a grandfather for the 3rd time. The grandchild, Andrea Lynn Rumble, is the daughter of Henry's son Richard and his wife. Richard graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He is now a graduate student and teaching assistant at that college.

Willie RAKOW wrote from Jacksonville, N. C , where he continues in the insurance business. Eventually he hopes to move to Annapolis and move into the new home that he built nearly three years ago. He and Dottie are looking forward to a California trip this summer.

The secretary had a very nice note from Jean Weintraub enclosing a contribution to the class fund in memory of Paul. It was very much appreciated.

The number of classmates wearing three or more stars in their assignments will be increased to 12 when Hal BOWEN reports as Commander, Anti-Submarine Warfare Force, PacFlt in June.

A native of Annapolis, he is currentiy serving as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Development). He wUl relieve VAdm. John L. "Jack" Chew '31. Congratulations, Hal.

Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md. 21401

The San Diego contingent of '34 staged a cocktail party at the " O " Club, NAS North Island on 11 March which had a fine turnout. In the picture kneeling: Larry Becht, Dottie Chandler, Kay Baumberger, Butch Robbins, Bob Chandler, Dottie Robbins, Leo Flynn, Rita Phelps, Jack Phelps, Merle Hembury, Eleanor Shepard, Bill Hembury.

Standing: Jan Maples, Hugh Maples, Red Baumberger, Rose Belle Smith, Jane Flynn, Bob Ovrum, Bob Leeman, Fritz Payne, Dick Mann, Ester Becht, Virginia Upham, Tom DuBois, Gladys Leeman, Dorothy Payne, Frank Upham, Ray Ours, Lady Ours, Tony Antoniak, Peg Antoniak, Alex Hay, Arline Scherer, Don Scherer. At the party but not

San Diego '34 get-together.

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in the picture: Oralee and Bill Bobbins, Jim and Helen Davis, Sally Mann, and Dick Shepard, the picture snapper.

Date line San Juan. Clyde VAN ARSDALL was relieved by Fritz Harlfinger as ComSoLant on 27 March. Clyde is slated to take over as ComCruDesLant.

Corr. Sec'y, Capt. E. D. Vestel, Jr., (SC) USN, Supply Officer, Key West Naval Station, Key West, Fla. 33040 Sec'y-Treasurer, Capt. Louis N. Detweiler, (SC) USN, 6650 Van Winkle Drive, Falls Church, Va. 22044

Now here this, all you campers! River Ridge Private Campground run by none other than Page KNIGHT is open for business. It is located about 20 miles east of Tappahannock near Kinsale, Va. It is on White Point Creek which runs into the Yeocoraico River and thence the Potomac.

Page says the boating, water skiing, and fishing is great but the sea netties made swimming a bit unpleasant last season. This year he plans to erect a net to keep the rascals out. Page and Alice invite any '35ers in the area to stop by. Avid campers themselves. Page says what he makes teaching school in the winter, he loses on the camp in the summer. Anyway, the kids love it and you might too if you're near there this summer. If you want a brochure, write Page at the camp, Arlington Farm, Kinsale, Va. 22488.

Trudy Petrovic helps Pete cut the cake after RAdm. F. B. Schultz '32 turned over command of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard to RAdm. W. F. Petrovic '35 on 15 March.

When Pete PETROVIC took command of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on 15 March, Mac McCallum, Rocky Holmes, and John Middleton attended the ceremony. Mac and Dot McCallum hope to take a month's European vacation this month.

Nick POULOUS, who was Pete PETROVlC's wife for plebe and youngster years and who attended prep school in Kentucky with Buzz BORRIES, Rhodam McELROY, Frank SMITH and George LEE at Lawrenceburg is now president and owner of Excell Builders Supply Co., Sarasota, Fla. When Nick had to leave the Academy because of bad eyes, he returned home to the Kentucky mountains. He applied for active duty in '39-'42. In '42 he bilged the Navy eye test in Louisville and was drafted into the Army where he spent 8 hours a day reading aerial photo pairs with a stereoscope. He received a citation and a Bronze Star for this work.

Nick has a son who graduated from Tulane, a married daughter, and another son in high school; he's also a grandfather. Nick is president of the Sarasota Rotary Club, District Chairman of the Boy Scouts, and an official in the local Elks Club.

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Calif. Red saw John BARONOWSKI at Vandenburg AFB several months ago. The Baron was working for a commercial concern on a missile program. He and Felicia live in Santa Maria. Red said he attended a retired officers' gathering at Long Beach where he encountered Soupy Campbell, Chester Briggs and Dusty Dornin. Red and Nellie enjoy life in Santa Barbara where the climate's mild and they're out of the smog. Surfing and golf take up Red's spare time and he's interested in an aircraft charter, taxi and leasing service. The two Bowker boys, Alfred 13, and Peter 11, are being taught surfing at Rincon Point which Red calls the best surfing spot in California.

The Bowkers have also made several surfing safaris to Mexico.

Nev SHAFFER was detached as ComMinLant on 6 .^pril. He and Fran are now in Honolulu where Nev is Deputy C/S for Military Assistance, Logistics and Admin, on the Staff of CinCPac. Bob BLACK, Amos HATHAWAY and Johnny BECKER attended Nev's change of command ceremony in Charleston, S. C. A gracious note from John THEIS' widow Kitty expressed the gratitude of her three sons and herself for the floral tribute the class sent to John's funeral service. Kitty said Steve GIMBER had been of great help to her.

'35 is represented on the Navy-Marine-Coast Guard Residence Foundation by Ace HUSBAND who is a member of the board of trustees. Ace, who's gone all the way to the top of the Civil Engineer Corps, is the last of our classmates still on active duty in that elite group.

Jack McCORMICK says he and Jerry are settled in what they hope is their permanent home at 205 6th St., Coronado, Calif. Still with Convair, Jack is asst. project engineer on the staff of the head of advanced engineering. In mid-March he was working on a new ASW type aircraft. This involved going to sea in a carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which he'd never done on active dutyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;having been an old cruiser and 4-piper sailor. Jack also reports sleeping in a JO bunkroom (where the other civilian engineers were quartered) for the first time. This was during an 8-day ASW exercise in the HORNET. With the flight deck and catapaults just overhead "sleeping" wasn't exactiy easy. Jack adds he's always had great admiration for our carrier pilots and that those young men really earn their pay.

The elder McCormick son, John, after completing OCS and receiving a USNR ensign commission, volunteered to serve with the Marines in Vietnam where he is a Naval Gunfire Liaison Officer (spotter). He started out with the 12th Marine Regiment (artillery) in Dong Ho, moved to Da Nang and Hue. He has recentiy been shifted to the 3rd Marines as part of a special landing force.

We regret to report that Dusty DORNIN's mother passed away after a brief illness on 22 March in San Diego. Mrs. Dornin had many friends in the class of '35. Another son RAdm. Marshall E. Dornin, USN '31 commands the Navy's operational Test and Evaluation Force.

The engagement of Emmett RIERA's daughter, Miss Anne Gay Riera, to Lt. (jg) Robert Haywood Pewett has been announced. Miss Riera's parents are living in Naples, Italy, where her father commands FltAirMed. Lt. Pewett is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hendel Pewett of Chevy Chase, Md. Another engagement of interest to '35ers is that of Joe W E S S O N ' S daughter. Miss Anne Campbell Wesson, to Mr. Herbert Theodore Schmidt, Jr., of Los Angeles. Miss Wesson has been living with her mother in Coronado. Her father lives in SUver Spring, Md. She attended the University of Washington and is now studying at UCLA. A 2 July wedding is planned.

Buzz BORRIES says he's a jack-of-all trades at St. John's Cbuntry Day School in Orange Park, Fla. Buzz is a senior teacher, math teacher, PE

teacher and occasionally fills in as bus driver.

Buzz's wife Bruce is secretary with the Bank of Orange Park. Their eldest son Bill is a plebe in the class of '70. Their other son Bob is in the 8th grade of his dad's school. Buzz hopes the National Science Foundation will send him to summer school so he can brush up on that new math.

Bob JACKSON and his wife Katie continue to live just outside of Sanford, Fla., at Lake Mary.

Bob keeps busy as vice president. Graves South Dade Ck)., a refrigeration concern in south Miami, as a board member of the U. S. Bank of Seminole in Sanford and as a member of the Military Affairs (Committee of the Fla. State Chamber of Commerce.

Sam L(X>M1S allows as how there's nothing new on the home front in Aurora, 111. He says he misses the sea and Jean and he miss the travel afforded by Navy life. Their son Jim, now 21, is an Airman 1/C stationed at Offutt AFB near Omaha. Their daughter Nancy attends Aurora College and is studying to be a teacher.

Sam's old roommate Slade CUTTER and Fran had Cy AUSTIN and Sally as overnight houseguests on 16 March. The Austins were en route from Washington to California which we mentioned last month. Fran and Slade left Tucson on 19 March to visit their daughter Anne and her family in Charleston, S. C. Anne's husband, Lt. John McCarthy '62, resigned on 1 AprU to enter private business. After leaving Charleston, the Cutters drove to West Point for Parent's Weekend.

Slade added he thought he had a son at West Point but wasn't sure as the last word he and Fran had was a collect telephone call on Washington's Birthday. They expect Bub WARD and Lib to spend a few days with them this month as Bub heads for his new assignment in Japan.

We are proud to report that Bub, formally addressed as RAdm. Norvell G. WARD, USN, was selected to receive the Navy League's Stephen Decatur Award for operational competence. Bub had been in command of U. S. Naval Forces Vietnam until he was relieved by Ken "VETH recently. The award was presented to Bub at the Navy League's annual convention in Jacksonville, Fla., on 4 May. The Hon. Thomas S. Gates, Jr., former Secretary of the Navy, was chairman of the National Awards Board which made the selection. Bub is now headed back to the Far East to take over as C^omServGru 3 in Japan. He and Lib have quarters in Sasebo.

RAdm. N. G. (Bub) W a r d '35, recipient of the Navy League's Stephen Decatur A w a r d , has been relieved as ComUSNaval Forces, Vietnam, and is now off to take over as ComServGru 3 in Japan.

Except for volunteer work, Pat FINNIGAN has completely retired in Winter Park, Fla. He is chairman of the Military Affairs Committee of the local Chamber of Commerce and hopes to be helpful in matters of housing and recreation for naval personnel who will come to Orlando when the new Recruit Training Center opens there. Pat says that once the income tax return is submitted and the snowbirds have returned north, he may bring Janey down to Key West, which she's never seen.

Pat reports seeing Dick JACK from time to time. Dick is completing work on a Master's degree in commercial science at Rollins College.

Pete PETRIE is very active in the local chaper of the Retired Officers' Assn. and also in the newly organized Orlando branch of the USNA Alumni Assn.

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Squidge Lee, first ' 3 5 line officer t o a t t a i n 3 stars, talks to Joe Lyle, first ' 3 5 staff corps vice a d m i r a l .

Wally NELSON, a Ph.D. who is associate professor of economics at Rollins, is planning to resign in June and return to the University of Florida in Gainesville for a year of post-doctoral research and writing. Wally's temporary summer address wUl be -\pt. 27, Georgetown Apts., 1324 N.W. 16tii Ave., Gainesville, Fla. Morrow DECKER is now with IBM in Kingston, N. Y., about 20 miles north of Poughkeepsie where those regattas used to take place. Instead of crew racing. Morrow's interest now lies in sports car racing. He has a Fiat Abarth with a handmade aluminum body. Morrow has raced in the Governor's Cup race in Nassau and last year he raced at Sebring. To finance this littie hobby.

Morrow is a quality assurance factor representative.

His job is to insure that numerous vendors furnishing parts to IBM meet the specs, are rejected or that a waiver is granted. Nearest Navy comparison would probably be INSNL^T. .\fter several seasons of ice, snow and cold in Antarctica, Fred BAKUTIS is relinquishing command of Project Deepfreeze. Now when Fred feels the urge to see a penguin he'll have to walk over to the zoo in Alameda where he'll be (DomFltAir. And a little further south Connie KAR.\BER1S wUl have the same tide in San Diego after being relieved by BUI ABHAU in the Naval Material Command in Washington.

Don CLAY, who left Alexandria, Va., in February, now lives at 1205 Ridgecrest Dr., S.E., Albuquerque, N . M. 87108. And your _maU for Pete BCYLE should be addressed DirUSAid AmEmb AD/Logistics, APO San Francisco 96243.

Pete spent a year with John Hancock Life Insurance Co. in San Francisco where the Boyles frequentiy saw the Hesses, Lloyds, Tom Henrys, Cochrans and Ruehlowes. On 21 March, Pete departed for Saigon for duty with the State Department in the U. S. AID program. Saigon won't be too strange as he spent 2 years on the MACV staff as Deputy J-Y. Not only wdl Pete find Kenny VETH in South Vietnam but Bob CUSHMAN as well as those flexible FLACHSENARs, John and Marge. They left Bangkok 24 Jan. as the Philco project on which Flash was working was short-term and limited. The Flashes headed for Tokyo and planned to return to Uncle Sugar on a job hunting expedition. However, while still in Tokyo, he was offered and he accepted a job with Everett Steamship Cxi. in Saigon. Before Flash went to work there he and Marge left Tokyo on 5 Feb. and managed to mush through the snow drifts to visit his mother in Mankato, Minn., and then get in a littie sun and a visit with her father in San Diego. They were in Saigon on 18 Feb. As you can see, they don't tarry long in any one place.

We won't guarantee what it is now, but on 23 March mail could be sent to Flash using the address NavFor V, Box A, APO San Francisco 96214. Their local address, in case you're visiting Saigon, is Everett Steamship (^orp. (Vietnam) Ltd., 20 Nguyen Hue, Saigon. The telephone number is 93-528; we don't know the area code.

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We do know though that the Embassy Hotel there has about the fanciest stationery we've ever seen.

Occasionally, and we like to think that's the proper word, we make a mistake in this column.

We'd like to correct our last two. In the March issue we reported George Towne BAKER was en route to Saigon to work for a government contractor. Seems like George Towne never got past the Coronado Ferry terminal. He's back in the boat selling and sailing business again close by Shelter Island. GTB reports turning down Bob HINCKLEY'S invitation to sail Bob's 29-foot sloop from Cannes to Honolulu this fall. Says he'd much more enjoy viewing Bob's colored slides over a tall frosty one.

Last month we said Steve SHERWOOD was leaving Hersch GOLDBERG to command the Naval Supply O u t e r at Pearl Harbor. The names were right except the geographical ones. Steve is going to the Supply Center in San Diego and not Pearl.

Sec'y, MGen. P. R. Tyler, USMC 5529 Edgemont Dr., Alexandria, Va. 22310 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN 4101 Downing St. Annandale, Va. 22003

With the April showers over and the May flowers blooming—they'd better be, after all the effort we put out during leave cleaning up the outside, pruning, leaf raking, etc.—here's the news.

23 March found 18 out for the bi-monthly luncheon at the Hunt Club Room of the Jefferson Hotel—good drinks, good food, good company!

Present were: Baumeister, Dick Bradley, Butier, Dabney, Ellis, Gordon Fowler, Jim Gray, Hanger, Kiker, Ed and Tom King, Oseth, Price, Rice, Ryder, Sanford, Dick Teel, and Tyler; Parker Folsom programmed to come, but his computer must have goofed—he couldn't make it at the last minute. Discussion centered around the president's report on the 36th (Tbmpany wardroom and the fact that 107 contributors now had subscribed 1585. This means not only that the initial $500 donation was met, but we already have $85 toward the $100 annual commitment ready for next year. Doggone good response on short notice, topped only by the campaign put on several years ago to insure a stadium seat in honor of all our classmates who gave their lives during WWII. Joe also reported on the progress being made in getting the 36th Ck>. WR settled as given him in a letter from Midn. David, the Cxjmpany Commander. The purchase of drapes, an air conditioning unit for the window, several hassocks, a '67 class crest in metal, and partial payment on a color TV to remain in the WR have been voted.

A '36 class crest plaque has been furnished and Joe Rice is now working on bids for the sign to go over the WR door showing the company and the class sponsorship. The purchase of a rug has been left for the class of '68 since these are not inexpensive and it was not desired to expend all the funds donated willy nilly. So it now looks like the 36th Co. is in business—a good outfit when you consider it has the distinction of not only having its share of star men and athletes, but also the number one man of both '67 (Rich Mies) and '68 (Dennis Blair). Of the 26 graduating this June, 11 will go to Pensacola, 7 to surface ships, 4 to nuclear training, 1 to Supply Corps, 1 to the Marines, 1 to Ga. Tech to work on his Master's degree, and 1, Chris Cano of Honduras, back to his home country where all wish him God's speed and the best of continued success.

Unfortunately, space precludes reporting the entire letter received from Midn. David, but a few excerpts shared with you all are in order: "On behalf of the 36th Company I wish to extend our grateful appreciation to the class of '36 for its sponsorship of our company wardroom. . . . All are very enthusiastic about the new class and company relationship that is being established. We now have the opportunity to develop lines of communication whereby both the class of '36 and the

36th Co. may keep abreast of current events and developments in each other's spheres of activities.

Furthermore, we now have the opportunity to initiate friendships which will bond graduates during later years in the Fleet. . . . Thursday 1 intend to appoint either a single midshipman or midshipman committees to handle a company newsletter to the class of '36; acquisition of and suggestions for professional publications; plans for the actual presentation of the WR by the class of '36 and other class-company events; and ideas of a varied nature. . . . In closing I wish to extend an open invitation to visit the wardroom whenever any of the class of '36 are in the area, and to be our guests in the Brigade mess hall. . . . Please convey to all '36 our heartfelt appreciation and enthusiasm for their interest in and generous sponsorship of our company wardroom." With an expression like this from the Company Commander how could anyone lose? It restores faith in the fumre of our Navy with fine young men like this taking up where most of us leave off.

Our best wishes to the 36th (3o. and to its members who strive to carry on the traditions to which we are all endeared. Our best wishes to '67 and to all those who follow.

Ed KING announced that arrangements for the June dinner-dance at the A&N Country Club were made for either the 3rd or 17th of June. The latter date was chosen to loud cheers because it was the Ellises 29th wedding anniversary so your reporter would pick up the tab—oh yeah ? ?!! Ed has since confirmed the 17th as the night with the party starting on the roof garden—so mark your calendars now and plan to be present.

Paul TYLER also announced that the schedule for luncheons for the balance of the year was 25 May, 27 July, and 28 Sept. The November date falls on Thanksgiving Day, so a vote is still in order when to hold the luncheon—more on this later; meanwhile, mark the date and plan ahead.

For you out-of-towners, a call or card to Paul or me will confirm the time and place. Just come!

Had a wonderful letter from Mrs. B. R. Ellis, mother of Charlie ELLIS, who apologized for her typing, now being past 80. She writes that Charlie and Allison's two daughters are now married, and that Ben, their son, is still a bachelor at 20, very good looking, and 6 ft. 3 in. tall. Allison, because of the rigors of battening down the hatches for hurricanes, has moved from their waterfront home and is now located at 2407 Ferdinand Ave., Tampa, Fla. 33609. It was good to hear the news and to get Allison's latest address. Our best wishes to both Mrs. Ellis and Allison.

A letter from the general agent of the Lincoln National Life Insurance reports on our own "Abe" LIN(X)LN: "It is my pleasure to inform you that Fred I. Lincoln, C.L.U., placed over a million dollars of permanent life insurance on his clients during 1966. . . . He received the National Quality Award from the California Life Underwriters Association for the quality of business he writes, and this is certainly a credit to you as it takes excellent clients to produce lasting business. . . . Fred is currentiy teaching Part II of the Life Underwriters Training Course and is chairman of the Chartered Life Underwriters Training for our association. He is a member of the East Bay Estate Planning Council and the Sonoma County Estate Planning Council; active in the community and currently serving as a member of the Budget & Finance Committee of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. . . . Through Fred's outstanding production, our agency has moved into the top 50% of agencies in the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. even though we are in one of the smallest towns. . . . I knew that you all would be interested in Fred's activities and that you would be proud as I am of his tremendous accomplishments in 1966." Its good to hear from classmates, but when you get an unsolicited report from the boss, that's really something. Our Congrats to Abe and best wishes for continued 47

„ , ^ „ " P y °^ ^ San Diego "flyer" from Jack BLITCH announces that Carol Bayless and Ralph HUMES were married on 8 AprU. As a result, upon their return from their honeymoon, the SD '36 contingent threw a party in their honor on 29 April at the NAS North Island Officers' Club. Quoting tiie flyer: "Having taken each other for better or for worse, we should therefore inquire as to their health after a couple of weeks and treat tiiem to a few drinks and dinner—a good reason for a party!" We look forward to a later report on the get-together from Jack and wish we could all have been present.

BUI KAUFMAN writes from 3628 19th St., Sacramento, CaliL 95818: "The reason for my residence in this non-Navy city is a pretty good job in the Trust Dept. of Crocker-Citizens National Bank here. It's somewhat rural, but generally pleasant and only 1 Vz hours drive from San Francisco. . . .

Regards to all in Washington."

With his five bucks for the 36th Co. WR "Butch" JOHNSTON sends best wishes and regards to all.

Harry BRENT writes: "The wardroom sponsorship is the best '36 idea I've heard of in a long time. For the price, we shouldn't let it go down the tube because of the attitude expressed at the spring luncheon. If you come up short, don't hesitate to pass the hat again. . . . I enjoy the Shipmate column very much. I notice that some classes are using pictures taken of them at the Academy. Do you plan to use any? . . . Regards to all." Thanks for the kudos, Harry, and yes, we can use news, pictures, etc. at any time.

From 515 Glenridge Rd., Key Biscayne, Miami, Fla. 33149, comes the following from Ann and Otis CXDLE: "After a seven months VW trip thru Western Europe following retirement last July, Ann and I have temporarUy settled down in Miami while I take a few PG courses in oceanography and ocean engineering. Hopefully I will learn enough in one semester to assist me in getting A position in the underseas field some place. . . .

Please note our new (but temporary) address—will probably be here until June. . . . Best regards."

Good to hear from you, Ann and Otis, and find out you are back from your European roving—• what next? A scuba tour along coral reef valley?

Good luck to you both.

A. W. Brown '36, inventor, associated with Owens-Corning Fiberglas.

A long letter from Windsor BROWN brings us up to date on his family and his accomplishments: "To date I've received 12 U. S. patents in my name along with other co-inventors. Over 250 invention records have been filed by me over the last nine years; about 20 patents are pending in many different fields (Windsor is with OwensCJorning Fiberglas). . . . My five older sons are all taller than I am. The oldest, A. W., Jr., graduated Tau Beta Pi from Rennselaer Poly Tech and is now a graduate student getting his M.S. at Cal Tech in Pasadena. . . . Number 2 son was a dean list student in pre-med at U of Vermont and was accepted at Georgetown Medical School for next year as a 2nd Lt., USA. . . . Steve, No. 3, is a sophomore at University of Rhode Island; No. 4, Douglas, is president of the senior class at Woonsocket High; No. 5 graduates from junior high this year—he wants to go to the Academy, is an excellent athlete and will probably be the tallest. Clare (13) and Jossie (12) are in grade school, both musicians and in the band. KB, the 48

youngest, is 9 and doing well. . . . As for me, so it goes; a little more progress and hopes that '67 will bring more of the same. . . . Regards to all." Good to hear from you, Windsor.

Apologies to Ben ROBERTSHAW for the misspelling of his name in March. S'all for now.

Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Cdr. J . P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.), 5439 41st St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20015

WASHINGTON NEWS OF '37 A two weeks' leave took me down to Charleston, S. C , by one routing and on return by another. In Charleston we called on Phoebe Baer in quarters "M" Charleston Naval Shipyard. Pinky was away on one of his tours of inspection. The Charleston News and Courier did show a picture of Pinky being shown about the TEC School by Jack Reigart '39. Jack was showing Adm. Baer the model of the Confederate submarine HUNLEY under construction at the Berkeley-CharlestonDorchester Education Center. Jack, now retired, is dean of instruction there. Don was with the visiting Commander Submarine Flotilla Six. In the U. S. Naval Institute's Naval Review of 1967, there is a listing of the authors with their photographs for the 12 essays. Bunny SHUPPER wrote "Manning the Fleet in the Nuclear Age." Send your biographies in for the Thirty Year Fix! Soon the consolidation work will have to be started.

Driving north via the Outer Banks, we drove right past Tom NlXON's beach cottage looking over the sand dunes at the Atiantic. Inquiring locally we had missed him by one week.

Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN 3900 Watson PI., Apt. 7B Washington, D. C. 20016

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS As has been our custom for many years past, our class luncheon this month was combined with the West Point class of 1938 in the Washington area. The Fort Myer Officers' Club was the site for the enjoyable occasion and 42 classmates overwhelmed our 19 counterparts in the Army and Air Force. We have not compared statistics for the last several years but a quick glance around the room showed that we had almost caught up with them in the star area. However, we are all looking forward to that time when our much respected flag officer classmates put on 3 and 4 stars and run this great Navy '38 style.

Next months we have planned our annual husbands and wives luncheon and since there is little chance of snow on 27 April, we expect an even better turnout than we had at the blizzard luncheon last year. For June, we have again been invited by the vary gracious OWEN family for a picnic and swim party at their lovely home on the Virginia banks of the Potomac. Kay and Chet have been more than kind to the Washington group and we surely hope that they realize how much their kindness is appreciated.

1 have seen several new welcome faces in town. Walt KREAMER arrived for temporary duty from Spain so as to be on hand for a serious operation Patty is undergoing at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. We are all praying for a successful operation and 1 will let you know in the next column how she is progressing. The BIDWELLs arrived in town to take up new job as the assistant director of the George Washington University Law Library. Biddy attended the joint Navy-West Point '38 luncheon and looks his youthful energetic self. While wandering through the endless corridors of the Pentagon, I ran into Pete AURAND. Fie, too, looks youthful and a good man to head up a new division to study the future of the Navy.

Walt SMALL has been ordered as CoMidEastFor and by the time you read this article he and Jane will be in Bahrein in the land where when drUl-

Jake Reed '38, CO Amphibious School Command, Phib Base, Little Creek, welcomes television songstress Anita Bryant to participate in the base's 25th anniversary ball.

ing for water there is a hundred percent chance you will strike oil. Hope you are lucky, Walt, and hit a big one. We will miss you but are glad to know that area of the world is in good hands.

Herb GRAVES plans to retire on the first of August and take over as professor of political science at Polk Junior Cx)llege, Winter Haven, Fla. Good luck and Godspeed in your second career. Herb, and we will surely envy you next winter living in sunny Winter Haven.

The wives have been busy too. They mustered a good group of 30 for a luncheon at the Alpine Inn in Virginia. Ann Adair and Betty Dybdall served as hostesses and a pleasant time was had by all.

We received word that Lee ROGERS was hospitalized in Yokosuka and that he is getting along fine. Lots of luck, Lee, and hope our next news is that you are back at the old stand.

Fred McENTIRE and sons O'Connor Lee and Fred III sent the class a most appreciative note for the flowers we sent on Julie's sudden passing away and I quote: "Our spirits were gladdened by the beautiful lavender and white flowers. Your thoughts and blessings sustained us during the sorrow and gave us strength to continue. Bless you all." Thanks, Fred.

We were saddened to learn that Jean Varney had passed away on 15 March and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery. Unfortunately we did not receive word in time to send flowers but some classmates were able to attend the service. Jean had been a lieutenant commander in the WAVES and retired in 1964. She and Newell had been living in Seattle where he retired as a commander in the Supply Corps. His address is 7719 34th Avenue, N.E., Seattie, Wash. Our deepest sympathy to j'ou, Newell.

NEWS FROM ALL AROUND Carlo ROVETTA has been appointed to a newly created position in charge of management development, according to an announcement made

by George C. Lucia, vice president of Blue Cross in northern California. Carlo will conduct management training sessions and prepare special studies for improving organization efficiency, managerial performance and effective utilization

Carlo A. Rovetta '38

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of personnel. He retired as a colonel in the Marine Corps to accept the position of professional development administrator with the Martin-Marietta Corp. in Denver, Col. Before coming to Hospital Service of California, he was vice president and joint owner of the Ben Grady Co. in San Francisco. Carlo resides at 2829 Alida St., Oakland, with Winniefred and their five children. Congratulations, Carlo, Charlie MacDONALD writes to say: "Just a note to tell of our move to Las Vegas, Nev. We have been here in Long Beach since last fall where I have been working hard at finding work! Have now landed at Holmes and Narver, Inc., who as contractor to AEC are concerned with test site faculties—from an engineering and construction point of view. The work promises to be interesting, and I am ready to get back into harness.

We have leased a house for a year at 1801 S, 8th Place, Las Vegas, Nev, 89104, and would be happy to see any of the class traveling out this way—please bring your own money for the casinos. Best regards." Many thanks, Charlie, and we wish you good luck and Godspeed in your second career. I have many fond memories of lost wages and wUl try to visit the casinos again, A submarine friend of mine from World War II days now living in New Orleans sent me an article written by Al LABORDE on "The Problems of an Offshore Drilling Contractor," Al, as you know, retired in 1948 and organized the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co. in New Orleans. He has been president since the company first started business and now operates 9 offshore units in the Gulf of Mexico, 3 in the North Sea and has 1 unit under construction in Australia. To give you some idea of the figures he deals with I quote herewith his thoughts on: "'MONEY' PROBLEMS , , , Our next big problem is money. Take one of our big new rigs, costing some S7 to $8 mUlion. Domestic debt capital for such is now costing us 6/4 percent, up from 5 percent a year ago, and we now pay about 8 percent in the foreign money market.

"Why use the foreign money market, then? It is because of the President's 'Balance of Payment Program,' under which we are required to find sources of capital outside this country to offset foreign expenditures, such as the cost of building a rig abroad.

"Apply a 7 percent interest rate to an $8 mUlion price tag on a new rig, and you will come out with something like $1,500 per day interest alone as a starter for the day rate you might expect during the early life of that unit. Put on top of this the 9% percent insurance rate discussed earlier, or some $2,000 per day, and we're up to $3,500 per day 365 days a year, "And we are no place yet. We have nothing for labor, supplies, for amortizing the debt, for idle time, and nothing for a profit for the contractor.

"Should it surprise you then, when we come in and tell you we need $7 or $8 or $9 or $10 thousand dollars per day for the unit?"

Al is not unhappy, though, for he concludes his article as follows: "I'm breaking my promise to quit while ahead, and even though I've got lots of problems yet, I'll close here and you'll just have to guess at the rest of them." Good luck, Al, and we are proud of you.

of the port and got my hand back into the irons in time. When he finally shoved off I hauled the machine back in by the piece of line it's attached to and got back at the job. Incidentally, fellows, everybody is still on that list I told you about. You don't get off it by ignoring me!

Got a report from the C S . the other day (C.S., by the way, stands for Class Spy, what else?), anyway, the C S . was in Utah a while back and heard Vince DEPOIX giving with the real hot dope out in the University of Utah. He's been out on Yankee Station and is due back again sometime this spring. Wonder why the C S . didn't have the exact time and date of his ETA back out again—as if we could not guess! Sometimes the less said the better.

I guess Noble HARRIS has got himself off the list—he's just come in with the info that since September he's been with the Naval Electronics Systems Command, with offices at Bailey's Crossroads. He has been a regular at the class lunches, says he has grown to appreciate them more and more. Recentiy he's seen Bill DUNN, living at Troy, New York, and Joseph Aloysius JOHNSTON, a non-graduate, who has become a priest.

Speaking of class luncheons, there was a good one recentiy out at Fort Myers. The C S . brought back the dope that there were 41 gents present, but more rieliable information from Charlie CHANDLER, who claims he had to pay the bill and therefore ought to know, is that there were 39 guys there from '39. Also, he says, this is the second time in a row for this magic number.

Among the relative newcomers present was Gordy GAYLE with his B,G. star on, saying that he liked it in Litde Creek but is glad to be back in Washington (that's not what he really said, but you'll have to ask him yourself!) The youngest guy there was Bob TRUAX—anyway, he looked youngest. How about it, Bob, did you send one of your kids to impersonate you? Anyway, Bob's working for Aero Jet in Sacramento and must be enjoying it. Right now, and for how long he couldn't say, he has reported in to the Institute for Defense Analysis for some kind of a strategic missiles study, on loan from Aero Jet. Another new face was Tommy WESCHLER, just in from Vietnam but minus all the sunburn people are supposed to be getting out there. Maybe old Tom kept his nose to the grindstone too much.

He said that four days before he was supposed to leave to report to San Diego he answered one phone call too many and got the news that he was instead slated to come back to Washington.

So he's here now, holed up in Main Navy, working on something they call the "DX-DXG Program." Is that a new form of detergent, now?

Speaking of new faces, a colonel in the Army, legal branch, showed up to everyone's surprise and introduced himself as Danny GHENT. Charlie CHANDLER was responsibL for getting him there—ran into his name somewhere, inquired if it were the same Danny Ghent he used to know.

From the left: RAdm. Vincent P. de Poix '39; Horold F, Chester, President of the Salt Lake Chapter of the Navy League; Secretary of State Clyde Miller; BGen, Max E. Rich, USAF (Ret.), executive of the Chamber of Commerce and president of the Olympics in Utah.

and by golly it was. Danny made it in the Army the hard way; enlisted when the war broke out (eyes too bad for the Navy, but all the Army wanted at that time was the ability to memorize what that great big single letter was at the top of the eye chart), and now he's a colonel. Nice going, Dan! Also present were Dale QUILLIN, saying that he couldn't turn down a free ride to the lunch, and Bob WOOD announcing what it is that he's been thinking about recently. Going to retire soon, says he. More power to you. Bob. They tell me it's not bad on the outside—it's what they've been training us for! Thump WILLIAMSON also managed to tear himself loose from his budding activities out in Fairfax to make it into town. His story is that the trout are running and the bulldozers too, and all's right with the world. Sandy SIMMONS was in from Norfolk, where he has several consulting jobs and is affiliated with a new firm of which the C S . failed to get the name, and there was also Bob Slagle, Larry Lovig, Stan Kerkering and Bill Gentry.

Jim Dick MILLER somehow surfaced from the depths of the Pentagon basement where he's been hiding out, and Jim HINGSON surfaced for a look around, as has been his custom for a long time. The dope flowed freely. It appears that J. B. RITCH is working for an outfit known as the All States Engineering Co, which is not (rpt not) affiliated witii Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. Located in Pennsylvania, makes his home in a "great littie town" name of Yardley, and is having a ball. Rip KLINE may be going to Jax, but he wasn't there to defend himself, Carol Ruhe has been in the hospital getting her back nailed back together (don't ask what they really did; the old C S . really ain't a bear for details, but anyway it was not a suddenly necessary operation, but the premeditated type). She's doing well, her friends will be glad to learn.

News from Newport and Boston has two members of '39 relieving each other. Our adopted

Sec'y, Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN (Ret.) 1622 29th St., N.W. Washinston, D. C. 20007

OLD BUCK Well, .friends, the keeper of the zoo heard this typewriter clacking away in the secret top deck of the Washington Monument tihe other day and nearly nabbed Old Buck plying his surreptitious trade, but I managed to heave the typer out MAY,

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RAdm. de Poix addressing the Battalion of Midshipmen, University of Utah, at the change of command ceremony 7 Feb, 49

classmate Roy Benson has finally made it up to Boston from the Pentagon and taken over from Means JOHNSTON, who has been "double hatted" as ComOne in addition to his regular duties as Commander Naval Base Newport ever since last June, Old Buck watched the whole thing through his long-distance telescope, and it was a pretty impressive ceremony they put on, on OLD IRONSIDES quarterdeck. Then the C S . really crashed through with some dope on Fred TAEUSCH. Heading for Jax in June, the C S . said. How about it, Fred? Help us take your name off that list and give with some information about yourself. Regards to Cynthia, by the way.

And, oh yeah, the C S . had it that son Carl is in Japan smdying Japanese on some grant or other, and will later come back to finish up at Princeton.

So now you really have a reason for writing in to straighten Old Buck out!

The deadline for this column is the tenth of the month (except for the combined summer issues) as I guess most everyone knows, and what follows hasn't yet taken place but will have by the time anyone but ye Ed gets to read it. The old C S . has really outdone hisself, reporting about something that hasn't happened yet, but anyway a bunch of the boys were whooping it up for old Bing GILLETTE on the occasion of his fiftieth (fellows, he ain't the only one, either!) at a surprise party cooked up by his steady girl friend Margalee, when the door flung open and who should walk in with a sort of a half smUe on his face but a Stranger from Spain, daring anybody feeling up to norm to take him on. Watch this column next month for a full expose of what happened next!

And that's all for now, folks. I can hear the zoo keeper coming back up the stairs, so out the window goes the typer! Regards from your old pal. Buck.

P.S.—For those who might experience difficulty in deciphering what gives about this Stranger from Spain bit, it's Bing's older brother, RAdm. Norm Gillette, presently assigned in Madrid, and the whole thing is a huge surprise for Bing.

Sec'y, Capt. Arthur G. Esch, USN OpNav (0P-60C), 4E566 Pentagon, Washington, D. C. 20350

WASHINGTON REPORT At the April luncheon Roy JOSLIN announced plans for our May combined luncheon with brides.

Rose Michaelis and Jo Esch are guiding lights.

This sounds like a real bell-ringer, for we plan to turn out all the good guys from roundabout.

Watch for the wrap-up on this, Shirley Walline had a March hospital sojourn.

She reports that she is 101% on the mend. Thank goodness. And thanks for the solicitations.

BGen. "Jocko" ANTONELLI is back with us as Chairman, Long Range Studies, Marine Corps School, Quarters 340, Quantico, Va. 22134. Now we look forward to Lillian and him joining us.

Just learned from Ace BARTON that his son Peter graduated from King's Point Academy in February. His dad swore him in as ensign, USNR. Pete is now a third mate in a Farrell Line ship.

Ace, as you know, is one of the several classmates in the provocative Study World in our Weapon Systems Evaluation Group.

Tom GURLEY, a fine engineering duty officer who was with the Navy Inspection and Survey Group, has retired. He is well into career two as a design engineer with the Stanwick Corp. here in Washington.

HERE AND THERE Bud BEAVER writes from Coronado thanking us for a note concerning his son. Brad. This sparkler of a young gent has orders to the GALVESTON upon graduation. And it will be something of a reunion, for he spent his first class cruise in her at the very time Scott G(X)DFELLOW was 50

flying his flag there. Vic VICKERY writes from 8 Richard Drive, West, P. O. Box 301, Mount Ariington, N. J. 07856. Vic retired in '65. He reports that he and Gerry are very happy to be back east again. They look forward to occasional visits to Norfolk to see their daughter and grandson; also they promise to get to Washington for a class shindig. I am writing a quick note now concerning our combined luncheon for May. Bill CARPENTER the everready also took some excellent pictures of the Fourth Company wardroom dedication. Humor and artistry prevailed as can be seen. Harvey Vogel, Ted Hechler, and Roy Joslin are seen inspecting the illustration and the fancy mugs. This is an attractive wardroom indeed.

Humor a n d artistry too!

Joe TATSCH claims the fanciest zip code in the country. And I believe it. Joe writes from P. O. Box 201, Sudbury, Mass. 01776. After 25 years in the Marine Corps, Joe is near his doctorate in mathematics supreme, and this includes astronomy, celestial mechanics, and physics. Gads! From Collins Research Lab, Joe spent a tour at Ingersoll and is now with the Space and Information Systems Division, Raytheon Co. Joe, thanks for your felicitations; we return them in kind manyfold. . . . Larry FOX sent a kind note from Lockheed on the west coast where he works with Snuffy SMITH. Sentiments appreciated. Parenthetically, do you two Lockheeders know that Stanford Research is definitely beating your "Washington visit" time in the form of old pro Cliff BUNDY? We are mighty pleased that Cliff gets back; what we don't like is that you two are not. Can you tidy this up?

From 7010 MUne St., New Orieans, La. 70124, comes a check and news from Russ MOON. The Moons spent Christmas in Pittsburgh to see their first grandchild—born to Dr. and Mrs. Charles Pavlick on 4 Nov. Son-in-law Tom is on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh Dental School. Their second daughter Margo is teaching French at Mercy Academy in New Orleans; she plans a return trip to Europe this summer. Son Russ Jr. is a junior in Jesuit High and is trying to decide where to go to college. The Moons continue to enjoy life in the south. They send best wishes to all the class. , , , Kent and Becky BULFINCH celebrated their 21st anniversary with Don and Jeanne BRUCE. Following a visit to their midshipman son Scott in Annapolis, the Bulfinches could not say enough about Loretta and Ted HECKLER. For the latter have been terrific as loco parentis, blue and gold. Inter alia, Scott just made his academic stars. Congratulations.

WHERE AWAY? Yes, as deduced. Bill LANIER has been promoted again. He returned to McGraw-Hill headquarters as Director of Marketing. Whale of a job! This we hail. BUI says we're rapidly acquiring one of the world's larger collections of unusable draperies. Note the new home address: 599 Forest Ave., Larchmont, N. Y. 10538. Now on to Washington, too.

The mighty ST. PAUL is again off on a serious business jaunt with Harry FISCHER in command.

And his band had much too littie rest. Scottie GOODFELLOW sent glowing reports of Harry's combat achievements as he presented the Bronze Star with Flossie's help. Bravo again. , , , Well, about the time one could only feel that war at sea must be unbearable to worse, in rolled another sea-faring vignette. CO ST. PAUL greets Miss Universe, Margarita Arvidsson, on board. Hmmmm.

Nice footnote to the preceding is this. All this arrived from Scottie without so much as a word on his own laurels. From a class agent—and they are everywhere, ever so highly paid—we learned that Scot as ComCruDesFlot 7 was awarded the Legion of Merit for tremendous combat performance. Moreover, he was also decorated by Premier Ky of South Vietnam out on the line, in a ceremony which was something of a first. We certainly salute the valor and the modesty.

This newsy item just arrived from Cissie and Roger SMITH. It seems only yesterday that we were close neighbors in Norfolk—17 years ago.

They reside at 1363 S.E. Overloo'' Ave., Roseburg, Ore. 97470. Roger teaches physics at the senior high school along with coaching wrestling; he leaches physics as well at the local community college. Cissie is a local radio personality; she knows just about everyone in town. Their oldest daughter, Terryman, was married last summer and is living in Roseburg. Their daughter, Lesley B. Smith, is attending Georgetown University and resides with an uncle at 5327 28th St., N.W., Washington, D. C 20015. The other four are at home, in perpetual motion: Roderick, 16; Russell, 14; Maria Elena, 10; and Laurea, 9. They report the last classmate in Roseburg was Jim HEDRICK who gave a bang-up commencement address in June 1966. Natch!

C o m b a t decoration for H a r r y Fischer ' 4 0 . Flossie Fischer a n d Scot G o o d f e l l o w t a k e part.

Best wishes to all hands come from Ed HEARN. New address is 241 Quincy, Long Beach, Calif.

90807. Approving class activities with typical enthusiasm, Ed reports that he is having great fun teaching math in a Long Beach junior high. Go, man, go. . . . Carl ADAMS has a fascinating report. He had returned to his regular post as a Professor of Geosciences, 2525 Correa Road, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822. Not only is one impressed with Carl's title and field, but note this. For the past year he has been "geodeep" at the University of Tokyo doing advanced scientific Fellowship studies using the Japanese language. Wow! It's all Greek to me.

AH SO? Midn. Harry Dittmann, as Fourth Company Commander, wrote the class a note. Said he, in pertinent part: "I would like to thank you for the beautiful plaque and color pictures of your class's window in the chapel. . . . They are hung in such a position as to enable us to receive the spirit and dedication that your class have given to us." This young leader is not only good with men and sports, but with eloquent expression, too.

We thank Harry and the Fourth Company.

Thus far, 183 mates have answered the call to shape up the class treasury. And, generously too.

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Bless you. Tigers. Too, many more wUl want to join the parade.

One need not, in pondering that electric word •'service," look afar. For right at hand is, inter alios, a giant within our very own ranks. I refer to Gen. Fritz FREUND. A fabulous record has he in Vietnam. He is currently in command of an .'Vrmy infantry brigade in the Mekong Delta.

During the past three straight years there, he has also been an early military advisor, staff training director, a joint public affairs officer, and special assistant to General Westmoreland. He has only begun to fight, yet already has been decorated with the Bronze Star, eight Air Medals, three Vietnamese medals, and earned the parachutist's wings. You agree with "electric service"? And then some, we proudly say in tribute. Pretty Margaret is no less noble here at home widi the three fine and busy boys. All are at James Madison High School, Vienna, Va. John, 17, senior and very good smdent; Peter, 16, sophomore and a year book editor; and Bruce, 15, freshman and Vietnam expert first class, . . . See you. Art.

Sec'y, Capt. Charles W. Styer, Jr., USN 8113 Birnam Wood Dr., McLean, Va. 22101

Received unfortunately just a day late for the AprU issue. Curly PLEMONS' welcome report of a get-together on the west coast: "The southern California group of '41 held their 26th reunion party at Betty and Bob Celustka's home in Coronado, We had a fine turnout of 13 classmates and their wives plus Doris Perez and Claire Gray (Paid is stUl out in Vietnam). Charlie Carr and Frank Cuccias came all the way from the LA area. Others present were the Jones, Steens, DeVenters, Leasures, Plemons, Burbages, Wirths, Lenzs, Enseys, and Jim Botten, also from the north country. The food was prepared by the local Cjronado wives and the booze by the participants.

Needless to say, it was loud and boisterous, molar dust flying a mUe a minute and girls more beautiful than ever. Nothing much new out here, I spent most of the month of Jan, away. Grant, our oldest, graduated from San Jose State in Feb, and is now in Puerto Rico training for Peace Corps duty in Hondiu'as. Occasionally see or hear of classmates passing through, but they are usually en route to Viemam, which of course is tho prime topic of discussion in this all-Navy and Marine (3orps area," Tom McWHORTER sent in some dope on a book he has had published. The tide is Res Publica, published by the Craig Press, Nutiey, N . J, Tom says: "Of course it is quite a satisfaction—and relief—to me to see it in final form after all of the effort that it took in writing it." Tom enclosed a Xerox shot of the dust jacket flaps to indicate what he book is about. Quoted therein: "Res Publica is a superb statement of classical liberalism, a tardy classic in that field of thought. Dr. Robert Morris, the president of the University of Piano, calls Res Publica 'a carefully written assemblage of useful and luminous expressions of learning from the past to the present.' He goes on to say that McWhorter's book is a 'welcome contribution to the world of education. Its penetrating analysis of the nature of man, truth, law and justice, based on classical definition and the writings of great men of the past, should aid the aspiring student toward personal fulfillment'," Noted also in the dust flap is the fact that Tom received his LL,B, in 1955 from the University of Texas, and was admitted to the Texas bar, Currentiy he is practicing law in the Houston area, Tom closed by saying: "It was great seeing all at the 25th reunion over a year ago. If we are not careful, the 30th wUl soon be upon us!"

to Chief of Naval Air Basic Training at Pensacola: Willie ELLIOTT shifts from a temporary OpNav job to the Office of the Chairman, JCS; Paul WIRTH shifts from NavAirSysCom Rep San Diego to Staff, ComFAirMed, The March Washington area class luncheon was better attended than usual, with Charlie RUSH in from London, and that erstwhile traveler, Grant PALMER, down from Conn, Also present were: Bardett, Crenshaw, Hines, Hoker, Moiteret, Owen, Rogers, Sisk, Styer, Vincent, Young, Nicholson, Blount, Wyse, Cagle, Reinhardt, WUliams, Price, Beardall, Nolte, Gaddis, and Taussig, Charlie Rush brought greetings from that mainstay of the London contingent, Jay Houghton, Other news tabled at the luncheon: Young J. C DOHERTY, Jr., a Marine thrice-wounded in Vietnam, is now convalescing out of the hospital at South Weymouth, staying with John and Jane, and doing well. Joe HOKER is working hard on his Master's degree in industrial engineering, besides enjoying all the goodies and tribulations that go along with a new house in Annapolis, Joe TAUSSIG reports his Marine son Joe is taking Vietnamese at Monterey Language School, and his son-in-law, also a Marine, is probably headed for Vietnam, Hensley WILLIAMS, CO at the Marine Air Facility at Quantico, is in Washington for temporary duty as a part of the Defense Inspection Service team currently inspecting the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Jim BARTLETT reported to the luncheon group the results of a comprehensive survey he had made of the project to sponsor a company wardroom at the Naval Academy. As a result of this fine briefing and following discussions, the Washington Area Executive Group voted unanimously for '41 sponsorship of the Second Company wardroom in Bancroft Hall, By the time you read this column, you will have received initial details in the maU from Lloyd YOUNG, the president of the group. This is indeed a worthwhile project, and deserves full support from each member of the class. As a reminder, send your fund donations to Jack HADLER, 6425 Dahlonega Rd,, Washington, D, C 20016. Any questions you may have, donations of '41 memorabUia appropriate to the project, or any ideas which will be useful to those of us here representing you, towards carrying out the detaUs of the project, will be most welcome. Please address these to Lloyd Young at 5500 Ridgefield Rd., Betiiesda, Md. As a final note on the March luncheon, Jim Bardett gave us a nut-shell briefing, with scale models, of the future plans for the Washington Navy Yard.

Abby SVENDSEN is busy working up the plans for the D, C area '41 wives luncheon "to treat their boyfriends," set for 26 AprU. I'll report on this next month, with pictures if all works out.

On a short trip to Norfolk recently, your reporter spent a pleasant luncheon at the SacLant

Willie Elliott and Andy Anderson compare "then and now" in Lucky Bag pictures.

mess as guest of George BRANDT. George has an interesting billet on the CinCLant Staff, He reports few classmates in the Norfolk area—most there are retired. How about some news from the retired group there?

When Vic Moiteret maUed a couple of newsletters to me, he noted that he was looking forward to reading a column in Shipmate, and have it be news to him, too, for a change!

Sec'y, Cdr. R. S. Day, USN (Ret.), P. 0. Box 6042 Shirlington Station Arlington, Va. 22206

Leo CULJAT reports from the Seattie area that Bob LIM had visited briefly in January and was treated to a brief tour of the Boeing SST mock-up.

Bob and Gloria were due to visit Seattie again the end of AprU, and a '42 reunion is planned, Eda Boyd, widow of Bob's roommate, lives in the area.

The Seattie alumni plan a get-together the first Wednesday evening of each month and Leo will be happy to welcome any visitors. Cedric BERGQUIST has moved from the Boeing Turbine Division to the Airplane Division, where he is in International MUitary Sales—-Africa and Asia areas. Leo has moved from the SST Division to 747 Project in the Airplane Division. Art TAGLAND has shifted from the Aerospace Division to a planning bUlet on the 747 Project. Jim BURTON is now at Boeing's Kent Space Center, a few miles south of Seattie. Bruce ROBB is still in the Treasurer's Department of SAFECO Life Insurance Co., a Seattie-based company.

Bill HOUSER has agreed to represent the class at the graduation ceremony of the U. S, Naval Preparatory School class of 1967, scheduled for the afternoon of 26 May, BUI was frocked when he moved into the JCS, Similariy, Hal SHEAR was frocked on reporting as Chief, USN Mission to Brazil, Art RAWSON has gotten safely back to Italy, where he has been touching base with Frank TOFALO in Rome, and has called on Lou STECHER in COLUMBUS.

'41's 26-year get-together in D. C, Present: Hueys, Styers, Andersons, Morrisons, Cains, Elliott and date.

Some retirements accomplished, or in the offing: Vic MAULDIN in Feb., Jerry REE'VES in Aug., and Earl ROWSE in AprU. Earle has taken a position with Lockheed in Sunnyvale. Some recent orders: Dick GUINN from ComCarDiv 4 MAY,

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Sec'y, Capt. Willian T. Peach, I I I (SO, 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

after which Mrs. Lim presented to each member of the graduating class their first lieutenant's bars, in honor and memory of Bob's father. General

Lim. UntU Norm and Muff leave for Japan, they will have as San Pedro neighbors (3 of 5 houses James B. Osborn '42 on their circle) Bob and Sue MILLS and Marion and Bill MONTGOMERY. Received a cute card from Marcelle Ruehrmund, enclosing a San Diego roster and assuring me that while Bob POAGE had retired he was still resident in Coronado. To celebrate the fact, the POAGEs and RUEHRMUNDs hosted a Chinese party at the latter's residence, attended by the Jim OSBORN, who is due to report to OpNav, Bergins, Burkes, Glaesers, Hursts, F. S. Knights, was on hand for the commissioning of the last of Pearsons, P. B. Smiths, Dotty Howard (Hal out the 41 ballistic missile submarines currently of town). Sue Stokes, Sue Rosenberg, and Marge authorized by Congress. This 1 April event closed Wood. Bob Graham had to bow out at the last out a chapter in Jim's life, since he commanded minute, and the Dick Evans were unable to the first Polaris submarine, USS GEORGE WASHINGmake it, as Flossie was quite ill. Subsequently, TON. Jim has a number of firsts to his credit, havwe are sad to relate, Flossie slipped away on 24 ing commanded the first guided missUe submaFeb., leaving Dick, two daughters, Kathy and rine, USS TUNNY, which carried the Regulus Jet, and a son. Rick. She was a native of Philamissile; and was the first CO of USS SIMON delphia and had served as a WAVE in World LAKE, a submarine tender designed to serve as a War II. mobUe support base for those Polaris submarines deployed to distant operating areas.

Scroggie WILEY, our peripatetic Stanford Research Institute director, has been in and out of Frank ANDREWS, now Dr. Andrews, is head Washington often enough in the past several of Catholic University's Institute of Ocean Engiyears to be included in our roster. Recently, howneering, currendy staffed with nine professors ever, he broke stride in Cleveland to look in on and anticipating some 25 graduate smdents for the new term. Frank was recentiy featured in the Ray and Peg FIERZBERGER. They refought the Battie of the Pacific and the automobile business Washington Sunday Star and was quoted as forefor most of the night, but Scroggie reports that seeing an oceanic land boom similar to the surface they both look well and seem to be on top of boom in the United States in the 19th Century, the world. He also sent along a picmre taken at but perhaps slightly more orderly, with the possithe swearing-in ceremony for son. Rick (Frederick bility existing of going after oil and mineral John)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;flanked by his lovely wife, Pame. Rick has deposits 20,000 feet down in the Middle Atiantic. now been commissioned at Pensacola and emThe new institute is for graduate students only. barked on the formalized phase of flight training, It will offer a Master's degree and a doctorate, with the latter taking three or four years to earn.

Photo by Caufield Robert D, Cousins '43

He became president of Consolidated Vacuum Corp., a Rochester, N . Y., subsidiary in 1962, and in 1966 was appointed a senior vice president of the electronic instrumentation group, with responsibility for Consolidated Vacuum and the group's analytical and control and Devar-Kinetics divisions.

Gordon S. Wiley '42 swears in his son, Frederick, as Mrs. Frederick Wiley stands by.

leading to at least 20 years of service according to Rick. The rest of the WUeys are in bubbling health and Jeanne is planning a round-the-world trip with Scroggie this summer, to include a six weeks stopover in Bangkok, where a Stanford project is in the works.

Poage retirement party.

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George E. Spaulding, Jr., '43

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Norm NASH is back in San Pedro after relinquishing command of BAYFIELD, and is awaiting orders as ComSubFlt 7 as relief for Hank SWEITZER in Yokosuka. The interval hopefully will provide an opportunity to visit Rip at USNA and Grodon at Bullis. Norm wound up his tour in the Far East hauling Marines to Vietnam, so had a chance to revisit J. T . HILL, and the pleasure of Commodore Jack Lowentrout's company as Task Group Commander. Jack, we hurriedly concede, is USNA '40. Norm was close to, but did not catch up with Ed ROSENBERG, who was busy providing fire support in CANBERRA; and, similarly, overlooked George BRITNER while hailing the CO MANLEY, which is George's flagship. Norm's flight to Pearl found him recuperating at SOQ Pearl and enjoying a visit with Kay and Phil COLE. Norm states that the most memorable event on his wrap-up of the BAYFIELD command was a wonderful visit, which Ward MILLER (TICONDEROGA) shared, with Bob Lim, his mother and part of the family at Baguio. Bob attended the change of command ceremony at Subic, then took our boys to meet the family and share in the Philippine MUitary Academy Baccalaureate Mass,

George SPAULDING has recentiy been promoted to president of the electronic instrumentation group of Bell and Howell headquartered in Pasadena, Calif. George, who was a Navy P.G. student in 1947, joined Bell and Howell in 1961 as vice president, engineering operations of the company's photo products group.

Prior to joining Bell and Howell, Spaulding served in various sales and engineering posts with Electric Auto Lite, Toledo, Ohio, including that of director of research and engineering, Spaulding, a licensed professional engineer in the states of Ohio, Illinois, New York and CaUfornia, holds a number of patents on ignition devices and automotive electrical components.

He is a member of the Instrument Society of America, Society of Automotive Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Inc., Marine Technology Society, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the American Ordnance Assn., Air Force Assn., American Society of Naval Engineers, American Vacuum Society, U. S. Naval Institute, American Institute of Physics, the American Management Assn., and the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Assn.

Bob Cousins, manager of Curtis lOOO's Louisville Division, has been named regional vice president of the envelope and business forms company.

In this capacity. Bob will continue in direct management of the Louisville Division, but will also assume overall responsibility for the company's SHIPMATE

St. Paul and Chicago Divisions. This complex, known as the Western Region, covers more than half the land area of the United States and is the largest of Curtis lOOO's three regional areas.

In 1953, after service in Korea, Bob associated with Curtis 1000 in New Orleans. In 1959 he was named Curtis lOOO's sales promotion manager and moved to the company's St. Paul location.

WhUe living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Bob served as president of the Naval Academy Alumni Assn. of the Twin Cities. In 1963 he was named manager of the company's Louisville Division, and moved with his familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wife Ruth, and children, Nancy, Bobby and David, to Louisville, Ky. Bob is active in Louisville's community life, having been recently named an honorary Kentucky Colonel. He is a member of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis International, and of Louisville's Christ Methodist Church, where he serves as a member of the church's official board, WASHINGTON AREA NEWS The recendy formed firm of Detweiler and White (Lanell & Jackie) conducted a fashion show at the most recent wives club luncheon. The show was well received. According to my source the styles were mostiy "at home" fashions, pretty, gay and fresh.

The flow of news has been so slow that I'm reduced to writing about myself. Jan, daughters Sally and Pany and I are leaving on 7 April for Pier 66, Ft. Lauderdale and the bi-annual convention for Acacia's top production clubs. Spare time activities will include sun bathing and visiting with two older sisters, an uncle and two cousins who are all in the Ft. Lauderdale area.

Ought to keep us busy.

Frank REY reports that items for the 25-year Lucky Bag will be received until about 10 May. Publication which was originally scheduled for June has now been set for Sept. to accommodate the encouraging large number of replies. Don't be left out. .\mong those attending the sweetheart luncheon held at the Charcoal Hearth in Washington, D. C , on 28 Feb. were, as seen in the picmre (left to right): Jesse and Barbara Naylor, Tom and Mary Smith and Bob Smith ( ? ) . Below, Lib Sibold, the Woodards and Jack Hudson.

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on the freeway. Vance COX hosted the ComCruDesPac change of command in CHICAGO. Bill ALEXANDER arrived in his home town (Caronado) with his bride of six weeks, Ann, to take command of OKINAWA. "Red Dog" DAVIS, in MONTROSE, passed OKINAWA at the sea buoy en

route west and flashed the message, "Never fear, the Ramblin' Rose is here." Bob WOLF recently reported to AirFac Staff as weapons officer and Newt FOSS is expected soon to take over as Deputy C/S Training. Bill BARROW passed through Reftra in ALUDRA and this really interrupted his golf but it didn't faze Mary who came down from San Francisco at the same time.

ANNAPOLIS CORNER The 13 th Company wardroom should be in first class condition for the dedication program in May. Drapes and a few similar plushy items are now installed. Plaques from '44 skippers are coming in at a great rate. As a matter of fact, it may come to pass that there will be sufficient space to display only a "limited edition" of plaques.

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The photos show some of the local "officials" observing the plaques now adorning the bulkheads. The Commands present and accounted for are: 1.

USS CHICAGO

Capt. D. V. Cox 2.

USS FRANKLIN D . ROOSEVELT

3.

USS RANGER

Capt. George C Talley Capt. W. E. Donnelly, Tr. 4.

USS SPERRY

Capt. M. M. Elliot 5.

USS OKLAHOMA CITY

Capt. David H. Bagley 6.

USS

WINSTON

Capt W. E. Donnelly, Jr. Capt. W. L. Bennett, Jr. 7. AIR DEVELOPMENT SQUADRON ONE Capt. J. S. Laney 8.

USS ALBANY

9.

USS GALVESTON

Capt. Jack Wohler Capt. R. E. Adamson Ralph

Sec'y, Cdr. Hugh D. Butler, USN (Ret.) Honeywell, Inc., Suite 804 1701 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 Annapolis Corr., Capt. Edgar E. Mallick, USN, Offii^e of ttis Academic Dean, USNA, Annapolis Md. 21402

The Washington Chapter Class of '44 held elections during the March luncheon meeting.

Elected were W. C CAMPBELL, president (TRW Systems Inc.); Roy COWDREY, vice president (OpNav) and Hugh BUTLER, secretary-treasurer (Honeywell Inc.).

The 13th C>mpany wardroom, being sponsored by the class '44, was scheduled to be dedicated on 10 May. The Washington chapter planned to journey to Annapolis on that date to participate in the dedication. Plans were also being made to attend the noon meal formation, lunch at the Officers' Club, attend the Wednesday parade and close out the day with cocktails at Charlie BECKER'S quarters.

Col. Leon HERNANDEZ, Philippine Air Force, is the Commander of the BASA Air Base. His address is Commander 5 th Fighter Wing, BASA Air Base, Pampanga, Republic of the Philippines.

BUI BENNETT recentiy passed along the following information on the west coast '44 crowd: Bill spends his weekends dodging the wrong-way drivers and fender-benders on the Long BeachSan Diego freeway while WINSTON (AKA-94) is in overhaul. Dave WEBSTER took the DALE to Long Beach also and is now dodging Bill Bennett M A Y ,

S w e e t h e a r t luncheon f o r ' 4 3 .

C h a r l i e Becker ()left) ponders the a r r a n g e m e n t as John Donaldson observes M i d n . T. E. Christopher, 13th C o m p a n y C o m m a n d e r , a n d M i d n . M . A .

Haskins, chairman of the W a r d r o o m Committee, install p l a q u e s on b u l k h e a d .

Frame,

CO

USS

FRANCIS

MARION,

phoned to say that he has a plaque in the mail.

Rumor has it that Jack Stockton, CO USS ELOKOMiN, will in the near future personally deliver a plaque from his ship. You will also note that USS WINSTON wUl have had at least two '44 skippers. Bill Donnelly, now CO USS RANGER, preceded Bill Bennett in USS WINSTON. Bill Bennett has orders to take command of USS YORKTOWN this summer. Jack Laney will also change commands when he goes from CO VX-1 to Commander Fleet Air Wing 10.

Summer transfers will bring two additional classmates to USNA when Randy KING takes over as head of Engineering Dept. and Harry CUMMINGS heads up the English, History, and Government Dept. Some quarter of a century later the class of 1944 population in the Annapolis area is on the upswing. If we added those who have retired here, we would have more than a quorum Sec'y, Capt. William H. McLaughlin, SC, USN, 9123 Volunteer St., Alexandria, Va. 22309 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. John B. Haines, USN (Ret.), 6011 Hibbling Ave. Springfield, Va. 22150

Ed M a l l i c k (left) looks a t another section of the wardroom bulkhead which awaits additional plaques. M i d n . V e r n W r i g h t ( 3 r d from left) d e signed the installation racks. Lt. Troyer, 13th C o m p a n y Officer ( r i g h t ) , gives his a p p r o v a l .

Is it that time of the year again? June Week, graduation, summer vacations, leaves, moves, and best of all, new challenges and great opportunities. If I mentioned the paucity of orders before, not this month! The War CiUeges are closing, and the sabbaticals are over. The highlight of the month of April was the Valentine luncheon with ladies and chaired by Hardin and Weaver of local radio station fame. These worthies starred when asked to comment on the qualifications of the 53

new nominees for class office. Armed with liberal quotes from our Lucky Bag, they raised some doubts as to the identity of the candidates. The single slate which was up for election at the 2 May lunch included: President, Jim Cockrill; VP, Sam Rorex; treasurer. Gene Hunter; secretary, Vern Anderson, and corresponding sec'y, Vince Anania. Trustees: Bob Eidson, Tip Watson, Dick Van Orden. Thanks to Jerry O'Rourke for the excellent job of heading the nominating committee.

The first official job of the new officers was supervising (?) the 6 May dinner-dance. For further qualifications, check the next issue.

Those attending the luncheon were: Dave and Liz Saunders, Thad and Nancy Taylor, Pat Hannifin, Layne Gambrill, Cal and Mick Callaway, Tip and Charlotte Watson, Mal and Kathryn Fortson, Arnett and Mibby Taylor, Chuck and Sue Priest, Jack Barron, Hank and Duffy Anson, Dave Cullen, Gene and Maggie Hunter, Willie Crenshaw, Jim and Betty Cockrill, Jerry and Lil Johnson, Bud and Helen Geneste, Fred and Roie Gore, John and Lynne Loveday, Peggy Bradley, Stan and Helen McCbrd, Dick and Ginny Dzikowski, John and Jeanne Peters, Lewin and Corda McDonald, Sam and Taffy Rorex, Lando and Jo Zech, Ed and Lee White, Tom and Audrey Utegaard, Bill and Jane Strong, Jim and Geni Braun, John and Rammy Gillcrist, Ed and Mary Snyder, Dick and Nancy Van Orden, Tiny and Anna Atkinson, Don and Helen Poe, Bee Hodsdon, Vern Anderson, Tod and Barbara Packer, Jack and Shirley Wilhelm, Barbara Gorsline, Ed and Beth Behm, Howie and Virginia Blum, Frank and Mary Sperberg, Don and Nancy Brooks, Andy and Rusty Kerr, George and Nancy O'Shea, BUI and Pat Stewart, Doc and Nancy Prothro, Johnny and Sue Johnson, Alex and Jeane Julian, Forrest and June Petersen, Warren and Betty O'NeU, Bill and MoUie O Hayler, Bill McLaughlin. A special salute to the outgoing officers who did so much to inculcate the friendly spirit of '45. Just noting that several of the ladies came alone is indicative of the fun and fondness which marks our class.

And now let's see which wives are going to receive their "moving" pay this summer. With the Marines Doc FALLON and Jim HOLTZBAUER are both due to WestPac Ground Force, Doc from 2nd MarDiv, and Jim from SHAPE—after already moving from Paris to Belgium. Tom GLEASON makes an in-Norfolk move, from SacLant to PhibLant. And to and from the colleges: Buck DIETZEN to OpNav, Vince ANANIA leaves Newport to relieve as corresponding secretary '45 with additional duty in BuPers, Pat HANNIFIN swapped with Buck; Al OLSEN leaves DesFlot 4 for Industrial College; and John WISE leaves his VON STEUBEN (blue) for N W C Washington. Paul NUSCHKE will join him. Bill PAGE shifts from OpNav to the new Navy Council of Personnel Boards here. Dean AXENE leaves the Foreign Service Instimte in Arlington, and goes down the road to OpNav, Bill CARRIER leaves the air action at Patuxent for the surface tension in the ammo Navy-ViRGO, Dave SAUNDERS will take over the CHARA, another AE in Concord, Ted COCHRANE will try out the missiles again after the NWC

Washington

in JOSEPHUS DANIELS.

John

CULLEN sticks to the long titles as he shifts from NavMine Countermeasure Station, Washington, to CO NavAirTechTraUnit, NAS, Pensacola. Pete BEIREL leaves Portsmouth Shipyard, for NavShips, Walt GODSHALL from NavMat to <X) NavResTraOnter Hawthorne. Do you get the Ammo Depot, also, Walt? Chan SWALLOW wUl relieve Chet MOUL as CO WILLIAM H . STAND-

LEY. And Al SLAFF leaves Harvard to the Bostonians for the warmer life in Saigon with the Mil Advisory Command.

ART FOR ITS O W N SAKE. The Naval Officers' Wives sponsored an art show at Fort McNair in April and it was truly a delightful evening. As several of the lady "look-alivers" are officers of the NOW, and several others entered, it was a 54

good group. For the first time in my short life I saw an abstract which was vigorous with a multi-faceted impact. Done by the instructor.

Those attending: Tip and Charlotte WATSON, Jim and Betty COCKRILL whose daughter had an oil entered in the juvenile class; John and Bobbie HAINES (Bobbie won an honorable mention with a seascape of Nags Head); Dave and Liz SAUNDERS, Sam and Taffy ROREX, Jack and Jeanne PETERS, and Jerry and Lil JOHNSON. Liz Saunders is creating an exciting business with her interior decorating. She expects soon to try for membership in the American Institute of Interior Decorators. She was with Lord & Taylor for a few months, but is now on her own. She expects this to help pass the days when Dave is juggling that ammo in the Pacific. But if the ship should go to Hong Kong, there just might be time to join him for a few days.

Our hearts go out to Bill and Ellie McGARRY on the sudden death of their daughter Anita in March.

CONGRATULATIONS. Bob LAUER, Toledo, Ohio. For writing a note for inclusion here, and also for the promotion. "It is time for me to write my eighth note for Shipmate. All the others were to announce the birth of a child. This time it is different. I have just been named vice president for engineering at Haughton Elevator Co., Division of Toledo Scale Corp., where I have been for four years. The enclosed photo is to remind people who wrote the note." Bob, I hope the company doesn't make the gasoline pumps like the one which pumped 23 Vz gallons into my car when the tank holds only 22. When I complained the fellow replied, "We fill it right up to the top."

Robert J, Lauer, recently promoted to Vice President, Engineering, Haughton Elevator Co,

Bill CHAIRES, For encouraging initiative in his ship. When the radar antenna drive motor failed recentiy, it was replaced with the motor from the ice cream machine. It might have restricted the menu, but it enabled the ship to proceed on its mission.

FAREWELL. For the last time (for a while) I'll make the deadline. Whenever you want to know if time flies, get for yourself a deadline. The weeks positively dash by. As with the Academy Awards, I want to thank all those who have made this possible: first, 1 can't even remember who invented the typewriter; second, the family for letting me be isolated during these sessions; third, the class of '45—without which the pleasure would not exist; fourth, the mailmen and friends who have carried the letters; and last, our editorial assistant friend in the Alumni House who often has talked the editor into waiting until the next mail because I called to say, "It's on the way!" Thanks, y'all.

JOHNNY Corr, Sec'y, Cdr, C, V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR 119 Crestwood Dr. Tacoma, Wash. 9849S

Recentiy I managed to find a litde time for some letter writing and wrote 34 letters to classmates who have retired from the Navy within the last several years and with whom I had essentially lost contact. So far five have answered, so I'll share these with you.

Al DAVIS writes: "Thank you for your comments on my retirement letter. It seems like so long ago. I understand it did get a lot of mileage up to and including Secretary McNamara who, at

about that time, I was briefing on the concept and results of the SSN-594 Class (formerly THRESHER Class) submarine evaluation program I was running while at SubPac. I talked to him about the personnel situation and, hopefully, helped to change his mind concerning a pay raise for our people . . . which he eventually supported and, as you know, later became fact. 1 think he liked the 594 analysis and also what I had to say concerning a needed pay raise, etc. As you may know, this 594 project later developed into the Fleet ASW Data C)llection System which is now going all-Navy . , , as a means to assist in the derivation of weapon system effectiveness for our combatant forces. I find my present assignment here in New York most challenging.

"As Assistant to the President of Grace Line (W. R, Grace & (x>.) I have the wonderful opportunity to look objectively at all phases of the business operation. Unfortunately, I do not believe that business has fully recognized the talent that is available to it by way of the mUitary establishment. If for no other reason, business is in need of leadership which exemplifies integrity, devotion to company and its senior management. These qualities above all else, I believe, can be found in the mUitary man. I find also that personality conflicts and little power groups abound within the world of business, and that the only successful course is to stay above all of this, become professionally knowledgeable of details concerning the business, and be patient. The latter is perhaps the most difficult. I don't know why I am telling you all this since you have been exposed to the civilian way longer than I. At any rate, I find it most stimulating and challenging, and being geographically located near Wall Street doesn't lessen the intrigue. CIA could probably learn something from the intelligence network which operates within this general area. In order to verify your records, I retired on 1 July 1965, Sissy and I and the four children, two boys and two girls (ages 6-13), live in Bronxville, N , Y, BronxvUle is a lovely litde village (one square mile) located in Westchester County approximately 24 minutes by commuter train or automobile from Grand Central Station, New York City, From Grand Central I take the 10-12 minute subway ride to Wall Street and walk to my office at Hanover Square about 3-4 minutes away. The commuter life in itself is an adventure , , . but any advantage to it escapes me at the moment!!! I don't have any information on our classmates you listed on your attachment, but we did see Gene and Bev Gralla a few weeks ago. Gene has a fine position with TWA as director of their EDP group," "Frenchy" FONTAINE writes from 626 Luverne Ave., Panama City, Fla. 32401, where he is an account executive for A. G, Edwards & Sons.

"Upon retirement (7-1-65) I went to work as a Registered Representative with this New York Stock Exchange firm. It's a fine firm, maybe a littie too conservative, and I have never enjoyed myself more. Panama City is a fine town but 1 wish we had a littie more Navy here. The Air Force outnumbers us but they are a good bunch also, I must give them (Air Force) credit because the ones that I have talked to wUl be in much better financial shape when they do retire than their Navy brothers who wait too late to think of retirement. Maybe it's the going to sea that keeps the Navy out of the mainstream of the investment world because most of the Navy retirees 1 come across have only lots of bets with insurance companies that they have lost and fond memories of big cars they used to own. Conversely, the Air Force retirees are still driving around in big cars and living it up on their investments—there must be a lesson here. But to sum up my position —I have a first class position, in a first class office, with a first class firm in a first class business. The satisfaction of performing a service is great and I might add the remuneration is not bad."

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Jack HAYWARD writes from Captain Hadley House, Marion, Mass. 02738: "Greetings from the cranberry bogs of <Z)ape Cod where we are setded astride Buzzards Bay in the small New England town of Marion. Life finds us comfortably snug in the glowing warmth of a handsome old colonial house built by a whaling sea captain in 1847, Jack can walk to work at Francis Assoc, Sippican C>rp, where he is busy developing the marketing plans for their new expendable bathvthermograph (for measuring water temperature and depth) and other sensors.

You are probably wondering about our last year's adventure. We journej'ed all about Western Europe missing only Finland and Greece. We flew over TWA jet and returned next spring by ship. One of our favorite recollections occurred in Galway, Ireland, where the welcome was so warm and friendly. On a day's excursion with a group of professors and their families we visited the ruins of a 12th-century abbey, A four-year-old in the party was crawling in and out of small crevices when he found an open crypt H e returned on the run with eyes as large as saucers and gasped, 'Mommy, mommy, a skull, a cross and all his luggage!' A month later we picked up our VW camper in Germany and motored north through Hamburg to spend the month of October in Scandinavia, The days were sunny but chilly; the daj'light hours were all too short at that latitude and month, but we were thoroughly entranced by the beautv" of the Norwegian fjords, the delightfiU blend of ancient and contemporary in Sweden and the delicious food and marvelous shopping in Denmark, Finally, snow laden clouds above forced our departure south. The U, S, Army hosted us on a trip by mUitary train into W, Berlin—the glittering showcase of the western world. Only a short walk away was the grim wall between E. Germany and freedom and enough barbed wire to encircle the globe. That raw, cold November day at Checkpoint Charlie etched an indehble impression in all our minds of the chasm between our two worlds. We even had brushes with intrigue. In Paris at the Kirow BaUet of Leningrad, we had a sinister-looking character in our 'private box.' H e was poorly clad and wore what appeared to be a leather necktie.

He paid no heed to the dancers but carefully scrutinized the audience below. Half way through the performance he arose and, in reaching for his coat, revealed a shoulder holster complete with pistol. Next day we read that Nureyev, who had defected to the west four years ago, had made a daring visit to see his old troop perform, but when recognized had declined all offers to visit backstage and left early. We felt it was a wise decision in view of the character whom the girls nicknamed 'Mr. Leather Tie,' Holiday shopping was 'simply mad' in Paris.

"Christmas time in Madrid it was either 'fiesta or siesta' (Jack couldn't get any work done and we were lucky to even eat), There was a gay New Year's celebration in Lisbon where we found an American colony at a most luxurious campground.

Then back to Spain where wc rented a 3-bedroom balcony apartment in Malaga where the European sun spends the winter. We made some delightful English acquaintances and learned the secrets of making marmalade. When the A-bomb was lost we sensed the anti-American feeling. Embarrassingly, we had to learn about it from our British friends. Our managed news is glaringly apparent when one is living in a foreign community overseas. We followed springtime into the Mediterranean. In Italy even the girls responded to the grandeur of Michelangelo and the art treasures of Florence. We obtained a 3-day visa and drove into Jugoslavia. First day we encountered the policzei witii BIG RED STARS. There was a moment of apprehension as the two officers came over. Jack was able to speak to them in German; it seems diey were just curious and hoped to see our car!

We were snowed in at Berchtesgaden (Hitler's hideout) and jumped at the chance for a week MAY,

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of skiing in the Bavarian Alps. Switzerland was a picture book with the profusion of spring blossoms against the snow-white Alps. The girls list their highlights as—exploring old ruins, the littie mermaid in Copenhagen, a performance of Hansel and Gretel in Bremerhaven, the Nefertiti Head at the Dahlen Museum in Berlin, the Spanish riding school in Vienna and cheeseburgers at U. S. mUitary snack bars!"

Bill PFEFFERKORN writes from 455 Schley Road, Ann;tpolis, Md. 21401: "Since retirement I have purchased some old houses. Most of them aparmients; i.e., multiple dwelling units. I also have converted some houses into apartments. The long and short of my post retirement—I am working for myself maintaining houses and renting houses."

The other letter I received was from Dick RABE, Arrowhead Springs, San Bernadino, Calif., but there isn't enough space remaining in this column to do it justice so I will save it for next month.

Bob KAUFMAN is CO of the Blue Crew of USS

Richard Duden III was best man for his father.

Our heartiest congratulations, Dick, from the whole class.

On the Washington scene, a large group of the '47 wives "coffeed" at Hope Bowdey's home on 21 March, Co-hostesses for the morning social event were Norma McDonald and Rosemary Estelman,

W I L L ROGERS ( S S B N - 6 5 9 ) , which was commis-

sioned at New London the first of April. Makes you aware of the march of time when you realize that W I L L ROGERS is the last of the 41 programmed fleet ballistic missUe submarines and '46 has been active in the nuclear submarine program from the very beginning. Bob took command of USS SCORPION in March '62 and after about a year went to command the Naval Nuclear Power Trainina- Unit at Idaho Falls. He has been O-in-C of the W I L L

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detail throughout the submarine's construction and rode the ship down the ways at Electric Boat last July 21st after it was christened by Mrs. Hubert H . Humphrey. Secretary of the Navy Paul H . Nitze was principal speaker for the launching.

Joe and Jane CAMPBELL have finally "released" the news of the arrival of Christina Bradford on 9 March. I was sworn to secrecy when Jane told me her mother reads this column and she'd faint if she found out about it before the baby acmally arrived. Sorry about that, Mrs. McKinney! "I do resent being congratulated on my grandchild tho, when Mimi is carrying the baby for me. Now that we are eight I'm willing to drop out of further competition for youngest '46 baby. After all, Skip will be 21 on 28 Aug. Now that's dragging it out enough! P. S. Father survived!"

DAISY

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Cdr. jacK Jack ivi M. Stevens, USN aec-y, 4779 Parkham Parkham Court Court, 4779 22003 Annandale, Va. 220 Wash. Corr., Cdr. C. E. Donaldson, I I I , USN 1824 Baldwin Dr., McLean, Va. 22101

Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mrs. LUlian Kepner Larrimore, daughter of Mrs, I, Wilson Kepner of Shipwright Street, Annapolis, and the late Dr, Kepner, to Mr. H .

Richard DUDEN of Ferry Farms. The ceremony was performed on 20 March by Chaplain Reaves at the Main Chapel of the Naval Academy. H .

Cdr, H o w a r d G . Heininger a n d C d r . Richard P. Y e a t m a n a t their retirement ceremony a t Leutze P a r k , N a v y Y a r d , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C ,

A very impressive retirement ceremony was held at the Washington Navy Yard on 29 March honoring Bo HEININGER and Dick YEATMAN. An excellent Navy band played, citations were read, and two platoons passed in review with Dick and Bo receiving the salutes. As a finale, the band marched right up to the retirees and played Auld Lang Syne—it was most touching. At a reception in the Officers' Club following the ceremony with some 125 friends, classmates and their wives attending, it was almost like a '47 party.

Saw the Rumbles, McDonalds, Marouseks, Wiggins, Roses, Bradys, and the Tuckers to name a few. Dick is all squared away with the University of Delaware as director. Management Systems, and Bo is going to Owego, N , Y,, to work with IBM at their R&D facility. Their presence as strong boosters of all local class activities will be missed and I know we all wish them smooth saUing in their new careers.

Uncle Ernie writes: "Well, here we are in Napoli! Working now for the last month, househunting, learning to drive again (defensively), Still living in a hotel awaiting the arrival of our household goods. Wonderful trip over. We were all spoiled by the service in the CONSTITUTION; 400 passengers and 475 crew on our voyage. We've visited with George and Aggie Fowler—he is attached to the NATO Headquarters Command at AFSOUTH, leaving in July for N W C Newport.

Jim and Pat Moss are in town. Jim is in GALVESTON, Staff CruDesFlot 10, and Pat on a twomonth holiday following the ship. I see by the Naples Daily American that according to the social column, Ginny and Barney Martin are spending the Easter weekend in Ravello. He is

Bo H e i n i n g e r a n d Pat a n d Saumi M a r c h in London, Bo w a s then a N a v a l A i r Systems C o m m a n d r e p a t a joint U, S,-U, K, d e v e l o p m e n t conference f o r " H e a d s - U p " display in aircroft cockpits, Pat is in a n intelligence billet with C i n C U S N a v E u r ,

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on Sixth Fleet Staff and I hope to visit Gaeta soon to see him," Ern volunteered to be our Naples correspondent and I can't think of a better arrangement, I'll be your relief.

In an effort to stimulate the old mail bag I wrote to three classmates who had not been heard from recentiy. Received one very excellent reply from Bobby Tom JENKINS. Who can ever forget Bobby Tom and his rambling gallop around the ends and through the line? Bobby Tom, with two parmers, owns Modern Machinery Associates in Birmingham and is involved in the sales and service of machine tools. He says: "I stUl have my hair—put on a tremendous lot of weight— and, am sad to say, have gotten older. Still married to my redhead Janie—have three children: Tom, age 19 and a freshman at the University of Alabama; Patricia, age 13, and Mary Bentiey, age 7.

One dog and one cat. E. S. (Stokes) McGehee is also in Birmingham and is vice president and works manager of Vulcan Rivet and Bolt. I see him quite often." Bobby Tom's address is 3705 Overbrook Circle, Birmingham, Ala. 35213, and he concluded his most welcome letter by adding that while he loves his work he has missed his friends in the Navy. I can assure you, Bobby Tom, that you do have many friends in the Navy who appreciate your taking the time to write us.

At the Washington class luncheon on 5 April we had Desanto, Rumble, Houck, Jack Edwards, Peniston, Jex, Van Osdol, Lakey, Fred Martin, Day, Heininger, Walter Johnson, Davidson, Sloan, Marousek, Rog Johnson, Matthews, Turnage, Caine, Darby, Lilly, Fortson, Larkin, Barron and Stevens.

Chatted with Bob MARMET (who was out of town at luncheon time) who said he and Walter Johnson were in Jacksonville, Fla., recentiy on "business" and while sipping refreshments overlooking a golf course who should come strolling in with clubs and natty golfing attire but the navigator in FDR, Chan VAN SCHRADER. Chan arranged for a tour of the ship for the kiddos and a fine time was had by all.

Jeep has been traveling again but has planned an executive session of the Washington Steering Committee very soon to reorganize for the next few years. At that time we hope to determine a nominating committee for the class election which will be held in the fall.

Hey, big deal. Through the efforts of John PREHN you can now be the proud owner of a huge '47 pin. It is nearly three inches in diameter with a large blue '47 in the center with "BEST ON THE SEVERN" across the top and "U. S. N. A." across the bottom (with a gold background).

We only have 200 so the first ones who get one littie dollar to Bob Marmet, 1822 Jefferson Place, Washington, D. C 20036, will have a pin sent immediately. The little old $1.00 wUl cover the mailing also. Don't wait—they will not last long.

I have mine.

JACK

Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner K. IVIoore, USN 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va.

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Bob HANBY, our long-time secretary whose name has graced the head of this column, has requested that his name be withdrawn from the masthead. Although he has not written the column for some time, he still occasionally receives news from classmates or business from the association, and must forward it. For a long time I thought he must be getting all of it and filing it, but now I know he faithfully sent it all to me.

Please accept the thanks of the class for some few years of service.

I learned of Steve PLARR's death (see obituaries) from Floyd YOUNG, who had received a letter with the sad news from Sy and Ruth SIMON. The heartfelt sympathies of the whole class go out to Jean and the children.

The second Tuesday of March saw the Washing56

ton chapter gathering at O'Donnell's downtown for a snort and a fish. I somehow lost track of time and found myself occupied and unable to get there. I understand it was very successful, although I got no news tidbits.

While hastening across the Pentagon concourse today 1 suddenly found myself face to face with Dick SCOTT, who was hastening just as fast in the other direction. I yielded the right of way.

We had a quick chat, and then I carefully explained to him how to get to the room toward which he was headed, and in which the meeting had already started. Tomorrow morning first thing after I get to my office I shall check the Pentagon lost-and-found to see if Dick really got there.

Jim STRONG reports the stirring of the Norfolk classmates. On 18 March they met at the Little Creek Officers' Club for dinner. At this gathering, considerable interest was evinced in the 20th reunion. In answer to Jim's queries: Preliminary information from Ray L(X;HNER and his Annapolis committee indicates that we have a hunk of the " O " club for homecoming, with a sit-down dinner and stand-up dance. We get two "twentieths," with no competition at homecoming for two successive years, so you Norfolkians can send suggestions or ideas to Ray Lochner via me or directly.

here in Cincinnati. I am now manager of Advanced Applications for the J97 Project, and seem to travel a fair amount.

"We have had a few classmates visit us here in landlocked Cincy: Johnny Herlihy runs the Mayflower trucking company in Chillicothe, O. Len Mulbry, who is now an M.D.; Dick Shimshak John Russell, who is with GE in Lynn, Mass. and you may remember Bobo Bolton, who was a classmate, but didn't graduate, and now lives in Mobile, Ala, "For most of my civilian career I have been fortunate enough to keep up with a lot of classmates because I had the F4 and RA5C programs for GE, and an amazing number of classmates still drive airplanes."

I had lunch with Bill PIERSON, LCoL, USAF, the other day, and found that he is now with the Air Staff, having completed a Vietnam tour.

He transferred into the light blue suit about 10 years ago, remaining in the flying game, and feels the AF has been good to him. Since he is an Army brat who went into the Navy, he has certainly rounded out his service associations. Bill looks great—the life certainly agrees with him.

Incidentally, he informs me that we have two other transferees ( I shan't call them turncoats) in Jud SHOOK and Dave SMITH, both of whom switched into AF civil engineering about the same time Bill made his move.

Well, so much for this month. A few classmates are sending dope in, but not nearly enough, so let your conscience rattie you a littie and send me the information that comes tumbling out.

Kenneth L. S h u g a r t

'48 Sec'y, Cdr. F. W . Benson, J r . , P. 0 . Box 2651 Washington, D. C. 20013

A February official Navy news release told of Kenny SHUGART's indoctrination in the RA5C "Vigilante" at Sanford, Fla., prior to his becoming Commander Carrier Air Wing Seven in INDEPENDENCE. He has had two tours in SE Asia, completing recentiy a tour as CO VA-212, an A4 squadron in HANCOCK. The article also notes that Kenny has been awarded four Distinguished Flying Crosses, 17 Air Medals, Joint Service Commendation, Navy Commendation, and three Navy Unit Commendations. He certainly has had more fun than most of us.

Last month's Shipmate listed the current candidates for Alumni Association offices, and I hope all hands noted Tom ALEXANDER'S picture led the rest of those trying for Trustee at Large.

I have a letter from Tom, via Bob Hanby, excerpts of which follow: "I missed Alumni Weekend last fall because I was in California. I intend to make it this year.

I thoroughly enjoy seeing everyone, "Several weeks ago I was in Washington on business. It's unfortunate that business trips don't allow for more personal time but I did see two old friends. For all of ten minutes in the Pentagon corridor I talked to my old wife Bob McClinton.

He was working night and day, and there was no socializing. I did talk to Gunvor on the phone, and she sounded as sweet as ever.

"The next afternoon I saw Carlos Villareal for a couple of hours. Carlos is VP of marketing for Marquardt, and is living in Washington. Doris is getting acclimated from leaving her home in Cincy.

"1 think you are pretty well up to speed on me, but at the risk of repeating: after flight training, I served in two fighter squadrons for a total of 4 K years, and then spent three years as a steam prof at USNA. Ruth and I were married in 1951 and have 3 children: Tommy 14, Julianne 12, and Brad 8. 1 left the Navy in September 57 and joined the Flight Propulsion Division of GE

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WASHINGTON AREA NEWS With the advent of a typically pleasant Washington springtime, people were emerging from their places of business and the government office buildings in droves, as if to escape the stale air trapped inside and bask in the warm sun and fresh air. I would not be at all surprised if this exodus accounted for the large attendance at the regular class luncheon in April. Many classmates, regular residents of the local area, put in an appearance after a long absence. At first, I was inclined to think they were new arrivals, since 1 had not seen them since my return to Washington.

The turnout was most gratifying. Among those who showed were Bone Hamilton, Jack Venable, Joe Taylor, Bill Anderson, Luke Capone, Myron Gerber, Bob Berg, Ted Hammer, Jack Benoit, Al Jenks, Harry Train, Tom Thurber, Fred Grabowsky, Roy Goldman, Roger Peard, Don Smith, Lloyd Hoover, Ed McQuiston, Russ Goodacre, Bill Lynch, Ken Schiweck, Jim Patton, Charlie Haskell, Chuck Hickey, Harry Morgan, Chuck Martin, Jim Carpenter, Al Thomson, Bill Broughton, and John Barrow. Tom THURBER announced that he had recentiy gotten married.

Jack VENABLE, having just recentiy returned from down under, told me how glad he was to be back. Don SMITH said that he was sending out letters to Al SCHAUFELBERGER's son and to his own son to report to the Naval Academy this summer.

In updating the class directory I was amazed to learn that there are many classmates in the local area about whom we have had littie to no information previously. I hope they will be able to join local class activities in the future as they are scheduled. Also, greater activity among class chapters in other large metropolitan areas is strongly encouraged. The New York chapter shows signs of rivaling the Washington chapter. I received a couple of letters this month which, as you will see below, spoke of get-togethers on a small scale in other areas of the world. I am frank to admit 1 am anxious to receive more letters and pictures from classmates that can be used in this article.

SHIPMATE

CORRESPONDENCE AND GENER.\L NEWS Ping COLLINS took some time out of his busy schedule to send along a brief but newsy sketch of his life over the past 18 years. I am certain everyone wUl enjoy it. Though there is not handy a picture to accompany this unique biography.

Ping qualifies for '49er of the Month.

"Just a note to bring you up to date with tny activities since graduation. I went CEC upon graduation, and after a short tour in San Francisco attended R. P. I. for 17 months and received a B.C.E. degree upon graduation. Served with the Seabees in Gitmo, North ,'Vfrica, and Argentia. Then a tour in D, C, (BuShips) and two years at Brooklyn (N, Y. Naval Shipyard), I was retired with a physical disability in June '57, "During my active duty tours, Doris (wife) managed to present me with three lovely children (Michael, Paul and Susan), each of whom was born on 24 Jan. This was duly recorded in Ripley's 'Believe It Or Not.' I believe I am the only USN.-V graduate with this distinction. After selling some insurance for Jack English '49, I took a refresher course in engineering, and received my professional license in 1960. Since that rime I have developed a practice in New York that consists primarily of pile driving supervision.

It's the roughest, dirtiest, most dangerous type of professional engineering, but I manage to make a good living at it, and developed it to the point where I always have at least four other P.E.'s working. I do most of the biggest jobs in New York, including the recendy completed General Motors Bldg. (foundations completed, that is).

Incidentally, every pUe driving rig in New York has a large BEAT ARMY stencUed on it. Also, every avaUable construction fence is also similarly adorned.

"1 don't see too many '49ers, only because my schedule prevents me from attending the mid-day luncheons. I did see Tom Gill when I was on the General Motors Bldg., also Hugh Krempe (O'Brian-NAPS '45). I have managed to attend the last six Army-Navy games in Philly and naturally it's always a ball, although we haven't fared too well lately.

"I was shocked to hear about Stan Cooper. I knew him well in NAPS at Bainbridge. Has anyone heard from my old roomie, Paul Smith, lately? If so, I'd like to know his whereabouts.

Well, that's all there is at this time, so take care and send my regards to all."

The latest I have on Paul SMITH is that he is currentiy in command of USS PRITCHETT ( D D 561) on the Pacific coast. Mail should reach Paul if sent via FPO, San Francisco, Calif. 96601.

John WALKER broke into his valuable studying time to provide a report from Monterey: "1 regret to report that, having stayed in the Navy, I haven't gotten to be vice president of anything yet I am, however, attending the Naval Management course in Monterey, expecting to graduate this summer and head for Mare Island and duty with San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard.

"I hold frequent but lonely class reunions here, usuaUy about 'Gunsmoke' time on a Saturday night 1 did see three forty-niners at last month's E. D. luncheonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all here for the one-week course in computersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dick Romley, Bob Eustace, and Vern Klemm. I also said 'hello' to Jules Demyttenaere last week at Hunter's Point on business.

"I am pleasantly surprised not to be headed for Washington but please say 'hello' to regulars at the luncheons such as John Barrow, Ace Boughton, George Benas, Ted Hammer, Easy Ed Alderman, Drew Chevalier, and any others who may still recall me."

Hugh ALBERS dropped a note from faraway Guam to keep us up-to-date and to brag about '49er activities there: "Jack Magee and I are the total representation from '49 currentiy on Guam. Jack is Chief Staff Officer for Commander Submarine Squadron 15 MAY,

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and I am XO of Fleet Weather Central/Joint Typhoon Warning Center. Walt Marquardt and Chet Ditto were here when Jack and I arrived last summer, but they have since moved on. We had a visit from Don Henderson, out of Hawaii, in January and F. M. Adams came down on business from Japan in February. Jack and I have frequent class parties and believe we are the only chapter of '49 that always has 100% attendance. We can arrange a reunion on little more than a moment's notice and hope that any '49ers passing through will call one of us for a measure of the island's hospitality. Hafa adai!"

The following article with a dateline of Gulfport, Miss., 1 April (UPl) will be of interest: "A Seabee outfit that won fame in World War II, the 128th MobUe Construction Battalion, was reactivated today because of the Vietnam conflict.

Adm. D. L. McDonald, Chief of Naval Operations, presented the battalion colors to the unit's new leader, Cdr. D. W. WITTSCHIEBE of Nutiey, N. J. On hand were dozens of top ranking Navy officers, including the 128th's first commander, Adm. Alexander C Husband, and Sen. John C Stennis (D.-Miss.)."

Congratulations, Don. Congratulations are also in order for Warren FREDERICKS and John LANSILL, who were among those who have been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst ( C F. A.) by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts. Last year, 562 financial analysts in the U. S. and (I^nada received the C F. A. designation, which is designed to promote professional standards among persons who analyze stocks and bonds for investment. The C F. A. program consists of three examinations, in investment principles, applied security analysis and investment management decision-making. More than 2000 persons took the last group of examinations.

Warren Fredericks is an investment manager for Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Newark, N. J.; and John Lansill is a partner, H. C Wainwright & Co., New York.

John C. Barrow '49

I have learned that John C BARROW recently completed an intensive one-week indoctrination course in the Navy RA5C "Vigilante" aircraft and Integrated Operational Intelligence System (lOIS) at Reconnaissance Attack Squadron Three, Sanford, Fla. In between sea duty tours, John has continued his professional education by earning his Master's degree in 1962 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tuft's University) in Medford, Mass., and he is presently working on his dissertation for his doctorate.

William S. TAYLOR writes to say he's been working for IBM in the D. C area for the past nine years. Bill, wife Jane, and daughters Frances 10, Janie 8, Natalie 6, and Mary 3 live at 912 Dresden Court, Alexandria, Va. Will is honest enough to admit this was the first time he's sent an item for the column, and promises to report at regular 17-year intervals.

Fred TERRELL and Nancy Krenck Sanders were inarried recendy at the Naval Academy Chapel. Chuck GREENWOOD, Fred's roommate at the Academy, performed the ceremony and Dean FRENCH served as best man. Nancy and Fred have made their home at 5421 Gary Court, Alexandria, while Fred is stationed at the Pentagon, OpNav (OP-31).

John SIVRIGHT forwarded a clipping on Ron HAYS which appeared in one of the Chicago newspapers. The article reported how a lone Navy jet piloted by Cdr. Ronald HAYS of Olla, La., dodged heavy gunfire and guided missiles to attack North Vietnam's major power plant at Bac Giavg. John also added that Rod EYSTER has moved to a Chicago law firm from New York.

The maU included announcements of changes of command in which John McNALLY assumed command of VS-33 aboard USS BENNINGTON, and John CHAMBERS was relieved as CO of VF-151 at NAS Miramar. On 7 AprU Jackie and I had the pleasure of attending the ceremony at Pax River at which Roy SNYDER assumed command of VP-44. At the reception following the ceremony, we spent several pleasant hours in the company of John and Anita CAVANAUGH enjoying Roy and Ann's hospitality.

The monthly luncheon at Hogate's was vastiy more attractive with the presence of many wives for the first time. In attendance were: Bob and Charlotte Monroe, Gene and Joyce Dunaway, BUI and Debby Martin, John and Barbara Morrissey, John and Lorna Stinson, Bill and Sue Ayres, Cliff and Jeanne Colvin, Dean and Geri French, Tom and Pat Sherman, Zeb and Joan Schultz, Cathy and George Jessen, Dick and Beth Wiseman, Dave and Cynthia Heerwagon, Bill and Jackie Diehl, Tom King, Earl Halpern, Henry Kilroy and Stan Krohn. Obviously, we should invite the girls more often, at least once every ten years.

Jess CARIKER compiled the latest list of classmates in the Norfolk area as follows: W. W. Anderson, Andresen, Barber, Beck, Block, Burt, Cariker, CoUeary, Cramblett, DiNardo, F. F. Duggan, Emerson, Fox, Grigg, Marty Hardy, Larry Hawkins, Hays, Hussman, Jacobsen, Bob King, Lynn, Madera, Mandeville, Dick MUler, Oberholtzer. Petty, Portnoy, Prescott, Ruos, Shannon, Sharp, Solomon, Spiller, W. B. Thompson, Whitesell, Wooldridge, Sam Hoffman, and Baggett, Those of you moving into the area should contact Jess and join in the class activities.

James B. Vosseller '50, Manager, Lockheed Marine Systems, Europe.

Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. W. F. Diehl, USN 5307 Rolling Road Springfield, Va. 22151

Appointment of James B. VOSSELLER as manager of Lockheed marine systems in Europe has been announced by Lockheed Aircraft International, A.G., a subsidiary of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Jim will be responsible for European area manufacturing and marketing of the firm's line of marine anti-corrosion systems. After his resignation from the Navy in 1957, Jim served as a staff engineer for the Mitre Corp. and as president of Semitronics, Inc., an electronics firm, before joining Lockheed in 1962.

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Sec'y, Lt. Col. J . W. Hammond, Jr., USMC Editor & Publisher, Marine Corps Gazette Box 1775, M.C.S., Quantico, Va. 22134

But still when two or three shall And old tales are retold . . .

meet.

It is that time of year again, when everyone on the west coast rushes to the east coast and vice versa. By the time you read this, the service schools and colleges will have released their students for greener pasmres, the Pentagon and Arlington Annex will have paroled their three-year inmates and conversely, another group will be about to arrive at those shorebound establishments. To the latter group I extend both sympathy and empathy; to the former, i.e., those of us who are formnate enough to be going back to sea or to war, I can only offer congratulations and participation in good wishes. The list of the lucky is long. W. P. ST. LAWRENCE (Cdr. USN) to CO

T.C.W., APO 96326. Ellen says that Sporty came aboard for a visit, dinner and then spent the night aboard.

There was also a long note from R. L. ANDERTON (Lt.Col. USMC). Dick, as mentioned a few columns ago, is Assistant Naval Attache in Madrid.

May and September, Like me, each one of them seeks his own battalion. They are the ones I have to fight. The Marine Corps, unlike the Navy, does not assign officers (with certain exceptions) to particular jobs, hence the scramble to filter down from Force headquarters to division, to regiment to a battalion. There are many bUlets that can be detours along the way.

Incidentally, you may wonder what I was doing in the job I have had for the past two years.

It is one that is assigned by name. I've been doing two things. One, putting out the Marine Corps professional journal; and two, managing an almost half million dollar account in the process. I have learned a lot (mostiy that I wouldn't want to be in the magazine business for a living), and I have enjoyed the tour. Now, like the old firehorse, I can hear the bell and it wUl be good to be back to work. It has not been an unproductive tour. I did manage to earn an M.A. (major in International Law) from Catholic University, and USS CONY; H , T . DIETRICH, JR. (Cdr. USN) I did manage to get to a few Homecomings, but I to CO, USS DAMATO; Dana ESTES (Cdr, USN) think the high point of the whole tour was this to USS YOSEMITE; R . A, BALDWIN (Cdr, USN) last year as class Secretary. to US COLUMBUS; P , W . SHERMAN (Cdr, USN) I wish to express my thanks to each and all to CO VA-56; and J, P, CROMWELL (Cdr. USN) Class of '51 to Class of '70. From the left: RAdm, who contributed to the column throughout tile to USMACV, W, F. Fitzgerald, Executive Director of the Naval year. The Secretary can do nothing himself, the Academy Alumni Association; Midn, Anthony J, Those coming ashore or going to school include: news and dope must come from the class. I have Watson '70; Cdr, William P. St. Lawrence, Jr, ' 5 1 .

G, P, BARNEY (Cdr, USN) to National Defense found all to be most cooperative. It has been a Communications System, Arlington; J. L. BUTTS joy and a privilege to be able to assist. I'll miss the On 5 April 1967 some of the class made the (Cdr, USN) to Naval War College; C P. BARNES letters and comments that I have looked forward trip to the scene of many of their "crimes" to (Cdr. USN) to OpNav; and A. D. HOLLAND to in the past twelve months. I promise to do my present the second annual pump-priming stipend (LCdr. USN) to Naval Schools Conamand, San to the current plebe class. As you can see by the best to help the new slate of officers, especially the Francisco. Also R. G. BILLS (Cdr. USN) is Secretary in the coming year; and can truthfully photograph, there were a few of us present. Besides going to the Carib Sea Frontier. look back on my brief tenure with pride in and Bill St. Lawrence, who as executive V. P. made the award to Midn. 4/c A. J. Watson (president a satisfaction of being part of "Fifty-one, second '70), there were Lee Doggett, Ashby Reardon, to none."

Dick Inman, Matt Breen, Tom Ward, Chuck Now, lest my tears rust my typewriter (Marines Ward, BUI Heim, Gene AUender and myself. It don't cry), I'll close and go off to war. was a most enjoyable evening. Not wishing to WES face all those young faces "alone," we assembled in the club earlier and then proceeded to Memorial Hall, There we were greeted by our escorts and Sec'y, Cdr. Augustus B. Cheatham, USN the group photograph was taken. We stood on the Superintendent's Office USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402 front steps of Bancroft Hall and observed evening meal formation. As my five-year-old daughter once Bob CONNELLY writes from Charieston, S. C , observed, "It isn't much of a parade, they don't with the latest from that far-off corner of the play 'the Marine Corps Hymn'," From there it world. It seems that '52 has one of its bigger was to dinner in the mess hall (delete mess hall, insert wardroom mess; delete wardroom mess, in- contingents there. The photo and caption are self sert midshipmen mess; oh, anyway, you know explanatory.

Bob reports: "George Brown is en route Vietwhere I mean). For me, this was the first visit nam as a naval advisor, having just been resince June Week '51, I distincdy remember my lieved as CO NOTABLE; Jeff Badgett is CO ANDREW last meal there. I was BOOW and in blue service.

The dessert was strawberry cream pie. Ed GUTH- JACKSON; Dick Lumsden is CO JAMES MADISON; Walt Brooks is C O THOMAS A, EDISON in overhaul RIE dared Pat BURKE and . . . It was lucky diat I had no further use for blue service and imme- at Charleston and I am CO JOHN C , CALHOUN, Newly promoted, LCol. C. D, Billingslea ' 5 1 , USAF, diately switched to Marine green. But getting Also joining us unexpectedly as a visitor to the receives his silver leaves from IMdm, Roger W . back to the night of 5 April, the mess hall-ward- area was Roily Harper, now a civilian with Mehle '37, ComCarDiv 1. LCol. Billingslea served room-midshipmen mess has changed considerably. NavShips operating out of Philadelphia, Others for a month as lioison ofRcer with ComCarDiv 1 , You all know that it is larger, but you would be I know of in the area but unable to attend include the Yankee Team commander in the Tonkin Gulf, most pleasantly surprised by the change in decor. Syl Des Roches (assistant officer in charge of the The 7th Battalion has changed, too. The shuffling Polaris Material Office), Chuck PoUak (CO LAFAYAs you can see from the photo, C D, BILfeet are gone and so have most of its characters. E T T E ) , Pat McDonald (CO POLLACK), Swede LINGSLEA (Lt,Col, USAF) had to go to sea to The quiet unobtrusive service is an improvement.

Josephson (CO TRUMPETFISH), Art Thompson get promoted. Dixie sent a short note with the But you can still recognize the cuisine, Sabu the (CO SENNET), and Bill Roberts (XO SAM RAYpicmre. He was aboard ENTERPRISE for 30 days Elephant Boy would have recognized that evenBURN), In early Feb, I spent part of a week enTAD (TDY in the USAF) as a liaison officer with ing's menu. One disappointment, cannonballs with joying the fine hospitality (Fred Hopewell '56) ComCarDiv One for operations in the Tonkin hard sauce were the final course. As I remember of the Air Force Academy, I saw Ray Coble (Maj. Gulf. His real job is operations officer with the them, they were quite formidable; the present USAF, associate professor of political science) for 390th Tactical Fiehter Squadron. They fly the generation seemed rather flat and hardly a chalthe first time in 13 years. I envy his 5 consecutive F-4, the USAF version of the F-4C. Dixie had 81 lenge, "Time marches on," Bill St, Lawrence years in Colorado." missions as of the date of the letter (12 Mar 67). made a garrulous speech (see photo), we presented Earl CHINN's last letter from KRETCHMER Prior to that, he spent three years in Germany the stock certificates and adjourned to die Club to anticipates the first of his series from USS SAMUEL flying F-105s. Next stopâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Washington, since he recover.

GoMPERs, which he is joining on 1 May in Bremercloses with "see you in D. C. in the fall." ton for fitting out.

This month's report brings me to the end of Another correspondent sending in a short note Wendell STOCKDALE's appointment as vice was Ace TREADWELL's lady, Ellen. She is very my string. This past year has been most pleasant president of United System Supply, Inc., reported as Secretary, but I must be moving off to different familiar with the problems the class secretary last month, was very short lived indeed. On 3 pursuits, I expect to leave the Washington (Quanfaces (when Ace was secretary, she had to put AprU he was made president of the company. tico) area about mid-June, Donna and brood wUl up with his temper et al. as column deadlines Wendell and his famUy reside at 8216 Tomahawk drew near), so she very kindly helped us out this be safely escorted to her mother's home in ColoRd., Shawnee Mission, Kansas. time. D. V. BANNERMAN (Maj. USAF) and L. rado and I will go off to face and fight the enemy. Incidentally, the enemy is not the Viet P. TREADWELL, Jr. (Cdr. USN) are serving in The Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts Cong, it is the 83 other infantry lieutenant USS TUTUILA on station off Vung Tau, RVN. Ace has awarded the professional designation of colonels that are reporting to WestPac between is CO of the ship and Sporty is with Hq 483 Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) to Malvin 58

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A class of '52 get-together was held on 11 Feb. at the Naval Station Officers' Club, Charleston, S. C. Top row: JoAnn Lumsden, Ruby Badgeft, George and Patty Brown, Bob Connelly and Betty Brooks, Bottom row: Dick Lumsden, Jeff Badgett, Pud Connelly, Walt Brooks and Betsy Pollak,

not being left out intentionally but due to my forgetfulness.

"I am just about to execute orders sending me to PCO School at Mare Island in May, then to Pearl Harbor to relieve Jim Burgess as CO of the best submarine in SubPac, the USS STERLET. To date we don't know where we will be setding down, but classmates in the Pearl area are welcome to look us up after the first of July. As a matter of interest to old Second Company troops.

STERLET'S XO, at present and for the first few months after I have relieved Jim, is Joe Talbert, 2nd Co. '56. Jim, Joe and I traded a few amenities at a gathering I was fortunate enough to be able to attend at Jim's Ford Island quarters.

"Also of interest to old 2nd Company types—my XO

Burt ROESCH, Mal is assistant vice president of Investors Management Co., Inc., Elizabeth, N . J. I'm still looking for the owner of the miniature ring so long lost. It's a lovely ring, and someone must miss it badly. It's still here, just waiting to be identified.

Corr. Sec'y, James B. Walker 4S50 Lone Hill Road Chattanooga, Tenn. 37406

The letters are increasing and for this I want to thank those classmates who have taken the time to drop us a line. Keep up the good work and for those who remain sUent please let us hear from you.

Chuck WALKER writes from New Jersey: "I was pleased to see the names of a few men I knew pretty well at USNA in the last issue and thought I'd get into the act with a few more names.

"Cliff Thomas bought himself a seat on the American Stock Exchange. He lives in Norwalk, Conn., with his wife Marie and their three children, one gal and two guys. Cliff has managed to keep up his golf game and has the distinct honor of having been the first person to have won his Country Club's golf championship five years running.

"Dick Dalton, Salty Dalty, my brother-in-law, is quite happy with his Navy career. Dick and his lovely wife Pat are living at 209 John St. in Monterey, Calif., whUe he attends P. G. School.

They have three sons, future all-Americans, I'm sure!!

"WhUe ice skating on our club lake earlier this winter we had a chance to chat with Audrey Kruse, Chuck's widow. Audrey and the children are living just down West Shore Trail from us on Lake Mohawk in Sparta, N. J. Audrey is doing a fine job of raising the children.

"Dana and I have three children, two gals and one guy. I've been with Industrial Nucleonics Corp. since transferring to inactive duty in late '57. I. N. is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, my home town. I will shordy be taking on the job of Marketing Manager, National Accounts.

This involves moving from the east back to Columbus in late March. Our Columbus address is 4350 Brauton Road.

"Do you know where Charlie Seiber is these days? I would like to make contact again."

Our congratulations to Chuck on his promotion and we wish them the best of luck back in Columbus.

The following was received from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of Charlottesville, Va.: "James Robert Hocking was among those who have been awarded the professional designation of Chartered Financial Analyst ( C F. A.) by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

"Last year, 562 financial analysts in the U. S. and Canada received the C.F.A. designation, MAY,

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which is designed to promote professional standards among persons who analyze stocks and bonds for investment. The C.F.A. program consists of three examinations, in investment principles, applied security analysis and investment management decision-making. More than 2,000 persons took the last group of examinations."

Jim is with the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago in Chicago as an invesmient officer.

It was indeed a pleasure to hear from a fellow member of Submarine School Class 100 and one with whom I have shared many pleasant experiences. Kit ERASER. He writes: "Every month when I pick up my newly arrived copy of Shipmate I am forced to think, 'now why the heck doesn't '53 have a column again this month?' About every two months it occurs to me that the answer is that there are so many of our classmates who simply neglect to write concerning their latest doings. Since it has been about five years since I have written, I figured I had better say hello to the class again.

"I am currendy serving as assistant operations officer at the U. S. Navy Astronautics Group at Point Mugu, Calif. NavAstroGru operates and maintains the Navy Navigation Satellite System.

It sounds at first like a rather odd place for a submarine type to be working but I came here after placing USS SAM RAYBURN in commission and serving two cruises as navigator. Since the NavSat system is a prime navigations reference for Polaris boats, it is fairly namral to have at least one ex-navigator assigned to NavAstroGru. It has been a most interesting tour of duty, and it has convinced me that this littie known system holds great promise for future use not only by Polaris submarines, but also by the entire Navy, including aircraft in fhght.

"There are not too many classmates passing through the Point Mugu area, that I have been aware of. When we first moved into our quarters, Johnny Florence, then with VX-4 at Point Mugu, came down to welcome us to the neighborhood with a pitcher of martinis. John has since departed the area, I believe for a VF squadron at Oceana.

I ran across Lou Fead in the O Club here one day. He is now with General Dynamics, operating one of their experimental submarines down in San Diego. I escorted a group of students through our building one day and among them was John King. We had a pleasant dinner and a few reminiscences toeether that evening.

"It seems I have to go on TAD in order to run across classmates in any numbers. Among those seen in the course of various junkets—Dave Cannon at the Special Projects Office, Dave Fudge at the Fleet Submarine Training Facility, Pearl Harbor (he was involved, when I saw him, with being detached to go to San Diego to assume command of USS SEGUNDO); Bob Doelling and Scotty McComb, both CO's of boats in Pearl (Scotty's ARCHERFISH, fittingly enough, is the only boat I know of in the entire Navy manned 100% by bachelors); and probably some others who are

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Connelley '52. A very pleasant working relationship; he was relieved by Gene Van Hoof a year or so ago.

"As to the family, Rosemary and I have two younguns now—Melanie Joy, born in Charleston in 1963 and as you can see from the enclosed birth announcement, a new 'orbiting satellite' named George K, III, born January of this year at Port Hueneme, Calif. One thing I inadvertentiy left out of the announcement was the 'payload dimensions'—6 pounds, 6 ounces, and 18 inches, tip to tip.

"Once again, anyone who is in the Pearl area after July is welcome to look us up in our littie grass shack—and from what I hear of housing in Pearl, that's probably exactly what we'll be living in."

My sincere thanks to Kit for taking the time to write and bring the class up to date on his activities. Our congratulations to them on the birdi of George K. 111.

It's not too early to start planning for Homecoming!

Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Thomas J . Lawson 3140 Anchorage Dr., RFD 3 Annapolis, Md. 21403

Just received word that Dick PARKS was reported missing on 5 April on a flight from NAS Miramar to NAS Whidbey Island. The aircraft wreckage had been located in the snow.

Last month's blank '54 space was not due to lack of correspondence from classmates; blame it on a virus at a deadline time. So, a report on news; first a letter from Bill MONTGOMERY: "Here's a short item for the '54 column in Shipmate. We have recently moved from Chatham, N. J., to 2404 Old Trace Lane, Reston, Va. I have accepted a position with LogElronics Inc. of Springfield, Va., as manager of marketing services. We'd be very pleased to hear from any of our USNA friends in the area."

Thank you for keeping us up to date. Bill; as you'll see later in the column, there are many who don't. The next letter is from Jay SMITH. "After a tour as an instructor to fourth class in the Engineering Department, USNA, I attended the PG course Management/Data Processing, Monterey, Calif., graduating 3 Aug. 1965. I reported to the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts 30 Aug. and was immediately assigned as Director, Data Processing Division. This was a 'temporary' assignment since the job was normally held by a civilian GS-14. Seventeen months and two reorganizations later, I was finally returned to my intended position in the new Naval Supply Systems Command working with the Uniform Automated Data Processing System for Stock Points. Both jobs appear to be excellent experience for anyone interested in data processing as I am. Littie did I realize that my first course 'Introduction to Data Processing' taken at USNA in 1963 under the George Washington University Master's program for personnel administration would lead me here.

"While in Monterey our fourth child was born.

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Marilyn picked the name Jay Randolph Karlton Smith. He certainly gets plenty of attention with three older sisters.

"We expect to be at 3516 6th Street, S. Arlington, Va., for the next 18 months, so if anyone is in the area please stop and say hello."

Another piece of correspondence that came into this office is the latest list of names to go into the address unknown file at the Alumni House. Not all are graduates, but they are all former classmates who were interested enough once to join the association. Please write if you know the current address of any of the classmates listed on page 24 of this issue.

In remrn for information on any of the missing persons, I give you the latest information on the following: John and Dolores BURCHAM, 6921 Nashville Road, Lanham, Md.; Don and Mary AYRES, 19315 S. Rhinehart Ave., Gardena, CaliL 90247; and BUI and Kitty LAND, 3814 Warburton Dr., Washington, D. C 20022. Don is a major in USAF, Bill works at NASA headquarters in the Office of Manned Space Flight, and John is a senior associate with Planning Research Corp., specializing in transportation systems planning.

Carl and Carolyn MASTER announce the birth of a daughter, Kristin Elizabeth, on 4 March. Carl has been in Saigon since December, so Carolyn, Kristin, and 2^-year-old son Carl are staying with Carolyn's parents in Ohio.

That's the news for this month. Remember, this column can only keep you as well informed as you keep it.

Sec'y, LCdr. S. W. Resztar, USN Weapons Dept., USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

John M C D O N N E L L is in Portsmouth, N . H., and has reported as PCO of USS DOLPHIN, an ex-

perimental submarine under construction. John, Mary and their four children reside at 155 Grove Rd. in Rye, N . H., and are enjoying the pleasures of country living. Received the following information on classmates from Mary: Joe DUNN is XO of USS HARDHEAD. Joe and Pat and their two

children left Hawaii with the McDonnells aboard the SS LURLINE, bound for New London. Stationed in Hawaii are Jack RENARD, XO of USS BONEFISH; Chuck MASALIN, on ComSubPac Staff and Jack McNISH, XO of USS HALIBUT. Charlie EDSON is Navy spokesman for the Secretary of Defense and resides at River House Apartments in Arlington. Don STUART is on the shipyard staff at Yokosuka. Steve RUTH is at the Supply Center in San Diego. Don AVEN is in Charleston, S. C , where he and Millie welcomed their fifth child, John Brian. Bill PUGLIESE is in the office of CNO in Washington. George McMURTY received his doctorate from Notre Dame and is working as a physicist in Syracuse. He and Margaret are residing in Liverpool, N . Y. Tony HASTOGLIS is completing the course at the Air Force Staff College in Montgomery, Ala. Ed and Carol TURNER are the proud parents of the fourth child, Timothy Howard, born on 5 Dec. Ed is on duty at the Sub School in New London.

Jim WIESNER and Bill WELCH have received recent promotions to major in the Air Force. Jim is a reliability engineer at Norton AFB, Calif. Bill is a math instructor at the Air Force Academy.

Fred WILHELM has been named engineering manager of EAI's Digital Computer Division and will be responsible for all product development and engineering administration related to the company's line of digital computing equipment.

Fred and Christine reside at 180A Eaton Crest Drive, in West Long Branch, N. J.

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Frederick A. Wilhelm, Jr. '55

William W. Welch '55

Sec'y, LCdr. G. S. Connolly, Jr., (SC) USN P. 0. Box 1926 Annapolis, Md. 21401

The following letter has been mailed to all members of the class of 1956. LCdr. F. Worthington HOBBS asked that it be printed for the purpose of further informing friends and associates of the late Merrill Francis COLLIER as to tiie establishment of a Naval Academy prize in his memory.

"Dear Classmate: I think you will be pleased to learn that this June a new annual prize will be awarded to an outstanding member of the Naval Academy graduating class in memory of our late class president and Brigade Commander, Merrill Francis Collier. The prize description will read as follows: " 'A ship's bell striking clock will be presented to that member of the graduating class who is selected by a committee appointed annually by the Commandant of Midshipmen as the best prospective career officer among those who, before entrance, were enlisted in the regular Navy or Marine Corps. This prize is awarded on behalf of the Collier Memorial Trust by Mrs. Henry M. Rogers, Jr., in honor of her late husband. Lieutenant Merrill Francis Collier, Class of 1956, who gave his life in line of duty as an officer of the USS THRESHER.' Several aspects of what has transpired and what is proposed require further explanation.

makes it a gift to be cherished and enjoyed not only by the recipient of the award, but an ever present memorial for others to appreciate in the name of Merrill Collier and the principles for which he stood. "c. While the ship's clock obviously denotes a nautical feeling and, therefore, is an appropriate Naval Academy award, it has utilitarian value which can be translated to any service or any walk of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stateroom at sea, BOQ room on a base, a den in any home, office appointment, etc.

"The 3 % " dial clock with a polished yellow brass finish, mounted in a mahogany display base with an appropriately engraved plate could be financed for approximately $110 to | 1 2 0 each year.

A trust fund of about $3,000 with an average yield wUl provide this level of funding annually, "There you have it. Those of you who desire to participate in this tribute to the ideals for which Merrill lived may forward your contribution to the Merrill Francis Collier Memorial Trust in care of: Mrs. Henry M. Rogers, Jr. 26 Paisley Terrace Pittsfield, Mass. 01201 "The names of all participants wUl be permanentiy affixed to the charter which establishes the trust and your contribution will be formally acknowledged.

"If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate in contacting either Helen or myself at: LCdr. F. W. Hobbs, III, USN 804 South Overlook Drive Alexandria, Va. 22305."

News has it that Sid DAVIS is now with Delta Air Lines as an attorney on their corporate legal staff. Sid received his LL.B. degree from the University of Florida and prior to joining Delta was a partner for foiu: years in the law firm of Jennings, Watts, Clarke, and Hamilton in Jacksonville, Fla. Sid and wife Susan have two daughters, Susan 7 and Kathleen 4 Vz. H e can be reached through his parents at 3312 Shakespeare Lane, Toledo, Ohio.

"First, Mrs. Henry M. Rogers, Jr., is the former Helen Harveycutter Collier who knew Merrill better and loved him more deeply than any of Photo by us who had the privilege of benefiting by his comDelta Air Lines passion, his warmth and his integrity. More than Sidney F. Davis III '56 a year after Merrill's death on AprU 10, 1963, however, Helen met, and in the fall of 1964 married, Mr. Henry M, Rogers, Jr., of New London, Conn. The security and happiness which has developed from this marriage has been a blessing, particularly in that Mr. Rogers (Hank) fully recognizes and appreciates the contributions Frank SMITH has been elected treasurer of the Merrill made to the betterment of this world as Student Assn. at the Harvard Graduate School of a father, a Christian, and a naval officer.

Business Administration. The S. A., which repre"Secondly, you should notice that Helen wUl sents and generally supervises the school's 1340 make the award on behalf of the Merrill Francis students and their activities, is the top student Collier Memorial Trust. Although Helen and Hank organization on campus. Frank, a candidate for are financially capable of supporting the prize anhis M.B.A. in 1968, resides with wife Bis at 12 nually, Helen feels strongly that the establishment Prouty Road in Burlington, Mass. of an award to perpetuate Merrill's memory should From Taiwan we hear that Larry BERGER is provide an avenue for voluntary contributions for flying C-130 Hercules out of Ching Chuan Kang those who would desire to be a part of such a AB. Larry had previously received his M.S. tribute to him. The ultimate responsibility for degree in 1966 from the Air Force Institute of supporting the award, however, will rest solely Technology, Dayton, Ohio, before moving half with Helen. way around the world. He and wife Lois are "Thirdly, a ship's bell striking clock has been having an interesting tour on the big island. selected for the prize on the following criteria: Ted OLIVERIO writes: "I have what may be a "a. Although wrist watches and swords are rare distinction of being the only member of the excellent gifts, they do not possess the display class of '56 on board the YORKTOWN (CVS-10)! characteristics which are afforded by this type of I may be a littie slow in getting around to writing clock with a suitably engraved plate. (this is my first letter to Shipmate), so when I "b. Most naval officers possess a wrist watch do, I want to get my 24 in. It seems that I went and a sword. The uniqueness of this ship's clock to a homecoming at USNA a few years ago and SHIPMATE

was met by more than one comment of 'Hi, we heard you got killed' so I thought I'd get my name in print once in a while to let people know I am still kicking. The family consists of my wife Lynn, son Theodore 11, age 7, and daughter Victoria, age 4. I am the meteorologist in the Fighting Lady and have such little odds and ends for collateral duties as: public affairs officer, ship's training officer (believe it or not, I am also listed in the roster as being my own assistant "ass't ship's training officer"; actually I get along pretty well with myself). Operations Deparmient training officer, officers career and retention officer, cold weather officer, enlisted counseling officer, C.D.O., OOD (Ta.sk Force), plus the usual number of courts and boards. In my spare time I sleep.

On our last WestPac deployment in '66 I ran into Don Johnston who was with an A3D Detachment at Cubi Point. He was getting more flight rime than most patrol plane drivers. Ralph Schwarz is at FWF Sangley. It is getting close to the time when I can expect orders. I'm due for the second installment on my split tour sea duty.

My dream sheet has every imaginable combination of exotic dut\' listed.

Ted Oliverio '56

"Best wishes to all of our classmates and shipmates and 'I'll see you in the fleet'. P.S.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;May as well combine a littie humor with the letter. The enclosed pic IS of me, and was taken during our '66 WestPac cruise when we had time for beards. The monocle bit of course was for the picture only."

From New London area, John LANGENHEIM writes, "In AprU of last year I completed my second, and last, patrol in USS SAM RAYBURN (SSBN 635) (Gold). After two weeks' leave in Spain with the wife, we packed up for New London where I became the Director of Weapons Division, SubSchool. A house was found on Harvard Terrace, Gales Ferry, and Harriet, two kids and I settied down for a two-year tour.

"The adage that all submariners pass through New London after awhile seems to be holding up, as we have enjoyed seeing John Slough, Ed Covey, BUI Henry, Dave Minton and Reb Wootten.

Reb is now a member of the grey flannel suit set and resides in New Jersey. On the staff at Sub School, and attached to boats in the local area are: Jim Bruso, Pete Spink, Joe Ttaff, Mike McBride, Jule Coolidge (SubFlot T w o ) , Sam Morris (SuBS.'VFE Ctr), Dick Jensen, Chauncey Hoffman, Dick Shafer and Jim Owen. Kirn Hovater dropped in also awhile back. He lives in HuntsvUle, Ala., now and works for Brown Engineering. On the trip up here we visited with Worth Hobbs at the White House.

"Mike Ahrens, a member of the soft collar staff at USNUSL, hosted a '56 get-together last fall. Art Keegan threw a similar soiree around Christmas time. Most enjoyable. Dough Ohmen is also in this area, and last I knew he was with SupShips, Electric Boat Co. I may not have mentioned a few other classmates hereabouts, but all told 1956 has a good many representatives in New London.

"We are enjoying our tour here. Although Harriet is a full-time student at Connecticut College (a perennial college kid) we've made a good many skiing trips and the pond behind the house has afforded lots of skating. A welcome is open to all who might be passing throughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all caUers wUl be gladly seen." John and famUy can MAY,

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WASHINGTON NEWS The first stag luncheon for the area chapter was held on 23 Feb. at the Fort McNair Officers' Club and 23 of the class attended. It was enjoyed by all and looks like a continuing thing.

EAST COAST Sec'y, LCdr. Richard L. Madouse, USN 31 S. Park Drive, Arlington, Va. 22204 WEST COAST Sec'y, Lt. Thomas E. Dyer, USN Box 2700, USNPGS, Monterey, Calif. 93940

It is with deep regret that we learn of the loss of one of our truly fine classmates, Don BROWN. Don was kUled in a plane crash in Vietnam on 10 March. Burial with full military honors was in Arlington National Cemetery on 11 AprU. Don's loss saddens us all. Those who knew him well, speaking for the entire class, extend their heartfelt sympadry to his widow, Ann. It appears we have quite a contingent in the New London area, for way back on 14 Jan. a '57 party was held at the New London Lighthouse Inn. It was a rousing success, as attested to by the smiles in the group photo. By some strange coincidence, 57 classmates showed up for the affair. Ron DEL DUCA filled us in on the details.

Capt Jay D. LINDQUIST, USAF, has been decorated with the Bronze Star Medal at Tyndall AFB, Fla., for meritorious service while engaged in military operations against yiet Cong forces.

Captain Lindquist was cited for his performance as a liaison pilot advisor. He is now assigned as an aerospace research flight test officer at Tyndall as a member of the Air Defense Command which provides aerospace defense against hostile aircraft and missiles.

Bob and Kay MORROW are now living in Frederick, Md., with their four children, Ken 8, Greg 7, Virginia 5, and Amy 1/4. Bob is serving as a project engineer in the Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power Program (SNAP) office at Hq. AEC, Germantown, Md. His official orders assigned him to Hq. USAF Miscellaneous Boards and Committees. He is still an Air Force captain. He says, "Come see us you'all."

Sec'y, Lt. James E. McNulla, USN Engineering Department USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402

It is with deep regret that I must report the death of Bob KORNEGAY, who was killed in an A-3B accident near China Lake, Calif., on 15 March.

The following letters were received during the month. From Bruce CONZELMAN (1st Co.): "In the ancient history line, 1 have been a civilian since November of 1962. Like many of the local residents, 1 came to San Diego with the Navy. First as gun boss of the ANDERSON, then training officer for Fleet Gun School, San Diego (now merged with another command). At the time I resigned, we owned and were operating several apartment buildings here, so a logical extension of that seemed real estate sales. I am currently sales manager of Beach 'N' Towne, a new real estate company which we opened here 18 months past.

"I am the only Conzelman in the San Diego phone book. I would enjoy hearing from anyone from '58. Incidentally, in the last six months since I have had time to do so, I have been hunting for a San Diego Chapter Alumni Association, but no one seems to have any information on it.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of same, please write."

From Hy LYONS: "The first time you write for the Shipmate column I guess you should recap the years since graduation. My orders from the training command were to VP-47, flying 'boats.'

From there to Monterey where the mysterious selection process, usually called 'they,' allowed me to go to Cal Berkeley in the Advanced Science Program. Three years here will end in June, hopefully, with the award of a Ph.D. in chemistry (solid state). My present orders read to proceed to 'VP-4, wherever' after the VP-31 RAG. Our new address will then be VP-4, FPO San Francisco.

"On the family side, Miriam and I have been blessed with three of the most wonderful boys in the world, Mathew, Andrew and Jonathan. We are all looking forward to our stay in Hawaii.

However, we leave Berkeley with mixed emotions having been here through the past newsworthy

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years. It certainly has been a growing experience and is a constant source of conversation for both now and the future."

From John SCHMIDT (20tii Co.): "As I was thumbing through a batch of old letters and came across the Annual Newsletter I wondered how many classmates made it into the port of Boston. Since my civilian job touches on a bit of Navy work, I'm extending an open invitation to any classmate who happens to be in the area anytime to drop in, stay overnight and the drinks are on the house.

"Since leaving the Marine Corps in '62, I went to work at the MIT Instrumentation Lab in Cambridge, Mass., just across the river from Boston. The Lab designs and builds the prototype guidance systems—it has developed the Polaris guidance and we're now working on the Poseidon system. We also did a litde work on 'that other system,' Apollo.

"Although the Lab doesn't mass-produce the final design system, we do ride herd on the program from start to finish and keep liaison with the fleet personnel to find out if there are any complaints from the boats. So if there is anyone interested in taking a Cook's tour of garage where we put together these guidance systems, you're welcome."

John C ROBERSON has been elected a managing principal in the Chicago office of Fry Consultants, Inc., international management counsel.

John C. Roberson '58

John joined Fry in 1965 after serving as an economic analyst for Humble Oil and Refining Co. John received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1964. H e resides with his wife and two children at 1520 East Lillian Ave., Arlington Heights, 111.

Capt. Lewis F. TODD has been awarded a Master's degree in business administration by the University of Southern California.

Lew, a navigator, studied under an Air Force program which assists members toward advanced degrees at civilian institutions. He is being reassigned to Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam.

Orders are beginning to come through for the June shift. Marty KUHNEMAN is going to HS-11 in Quonset Pt., Al CARRETTA is coming to Annapolis, and Mike LYONS is headed for the HERMITAGE (LSD-34) out of Norfolk. Some of us are hanging with tentative orders and should know for sure next month, so our friendly detailer tells us.

Nic FRANK and Stamps HOWARD are currentiy attached to Naval Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center in Washington, D. C Nic said he saw Al CARRETTA and Bill HODKINS (in the DAHLGREN) at Pearl Harbor in March.

HERE AND THERE Got a short note from Pete VAN NESS, who is now employed as a cost engineer in Kodak Park Comptroller's Division in Rochester, N . Y. He joined Eastman Kodak after receiving his M.B.A. from the University of Florida last Dec. At a recent USNA alumni dinner party in Rochester, Pete, Rick Johnson, and Jim Gilstrap, all of whom work for Eastman Kodak, represented the class of 1960.

Good ol' faitiiful Paul MANKOWICH never fails to drop us a line whenever something new comes up (wish more of our classmates were like h i m ) . Paul is still shuttiing back and forth between Travis AFB and SEA, as a C-141 navigator attached to the 75th Military Airlift Squadron. On a recent stop-over in the Philippines he ran into "Doc" DOHERTY at Base Operations.

Doc is stationed in the Route Briefing Section there, in charge of flight planning and briefing flight crews which will be entering Vietnam or transiting any hostile areas en route from Clark.

He is supposedly one of those unique Air Force types (they're all unique) who wears a missUe badge as well as the wings of a navigator. Going back to Paul, he says he's hoping to embark on an evening's Master's program in aerospace management at Southern Cal this June—that is, if he can find time from his MAC flying. (Note: I always enjoy hearing from Paul 'cause he keeps me posted on the latest Navy track news.)

FROM WASHINGTON Last Feb. when classes started I walked into one of the rooms and sat down. Sitting at a table across the room was a guy that looked real familiar (that happens often when I'm not wearing glasses) and I kept staring until it got a littie embarrassing. Finally at the break I had to go over and check the guy out carefully. To my surprise it was Mark GOLDEN. As I mentioned in last Oct.'s column, Mark and Ray TAYLOR have been selected for the Olmstead Scholarship. Well, the scholarship is somewhat connected with American U. and before the selectees go off to their 2-year study program abroad, they have to take 18 credit hours here at A.U. For some reason, Ray Taylor couldn't get here this semester, but Mark did and what's more he's taking the full 18 hours.

To make matters worse, he came up with an eye infection which prevented him from reading for over a week—I don't know how he's going to do it. But, as they say, old sailors never drown, they just sink, slowly. Anyway, Mark was telling what he's done since graduation-;-he first went to nuclear school at Mare Island, then on to sub school, and has since served on 2 different subs—• the last one being a Polaris sub, in which he served as engineering officer with a few guys from the class of '58 under him. After this semester here at A.U., Mark will go on to the University of Madrid (if it ever reopens) where he will study for 2 years, ending with a Master's degree in international relations.

I had another chance meeting recently. This time it was with Hal JEWEL, who was an old NAPSter and left us after 3/c year. I walked into the nearby Hot Shoppe with a couple of freshman friends—that's why Hal said he didn't recognize me—and we sat by a booth where Hal, his wife, .iiul :iiKitli('r cfniplc wire sitting. Hal's been in

Sec'y, Mr. Chico Chavez 4624 Verplanck Place, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016

ANNOUNCEMENTS Continental Airlines announces that Gene CHANCY has recentiy graduated from their jet pUot training school at Los Angeles International Airport. Before joining Continental, he was assigned as a naval aviator at San Diego. He is now based at Los Angeles, flying as a second officer aboard Continental's Boeing Golden Jets.

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Eugene J. Chaney '60

the Washington area for many years and is the owner of a flower shop in town—and he's practically my neighbor.

Got a short note from our class ueasurer, Mike MIDAS—a very welcomed one with a $300 check enclosed (I paid part of the bill for the directory)—in which he informed me that he had just received a spot promotion to LCdr.—the first in our class, I believe. He had this to say (and I quote him 'cause it's indicative of why he was selected): "I hope in a small way my spot promotion represents the performance of our class and the part we are playing in this Navy of ours today." So I know you all join me in a salute to Mike on this happy occasion. Mike, by the way,

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One last note—the total cost of our class directory was $490, a littie higher than expected, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that it is well worth $.49 per copy. I do have a few extra copies, so if by chance you didn't get one or know of one of otur classmates who didn't get one, please let me know. My address is in the directory.

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Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 5736 Salerno Rd., W. Jacksonville, Fla. 32210

The class was saddened to learn of the death of Kenneth Joseph O'DEA on 17 Feb. See the Last Call column for the circumstances under which he died. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to Ken's famUy and friends.

From the island of balmy sea breezes, we received a nice letter from Dick GILL. Juanita and Dick had their second child, a boy named David, born on 12 Feb. The Gills will be leaving the hula songs and pineapples of the islands to come to Charleston where he will assume duties as engineering officer in HADDO. Prior to these orders Dick was in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN until Dec. '66, then in Submarine Squadron 15 staff.

Dick reports that there are quite a few classmates in submarines out of Pearl. Mike BRADLEY is in KAMAHAMAHA and is expecting orders soon.

Buzz CARNS is in FLASHER ( S S N - 6 1 3 ) . Dave PARKER was in FRANKLIN (Blue), but has been accepted at Harvard and will probably be out of the Navy when this reaches print. Al KOMORMSKE was planning to get out in March and go to work for Lockheed in Calif. Dave and Pat MIDDLETON are in the area and Dave is communicator in FRANKLIN (Gold). Bill CESILIA. is in KAMAHAMAHA (Gold). Dick NORMAN is in DANIEL BOONE (Gold). Dick also read Bob WESTFALL's orders as weapons officer to FRANKLIN; he has also seen Dick DUNN often.

The news from the submariners continues to pour in this month—this letter from the distaff side—Suzie Watterson. The Wattersons are temporarily settied in Charleston, but will be leaving for MIT at Boston in May. She reports on many others: Doug and Sue HOLBROOK had a dinner party for classmates recendy. Those attending were Rod and Suzie; Dud and Judy WILLIAMS (Dud is a civilian now and hoping to go to Harvard Business School in the fall); Ken and Kelo WALDORF (Ken is heading for school as a civilian in AprU); Hal and Ellen SPOONER; Bill and Linda DICK (Bill is now going through Weapons School at Dam Neck, and will report to JOHN ADAMS on completion). Doug HOLBROOK became a civilian 1 March.

With Rod in EDISON are Ray MENDEZ, who is supply officer, and Joe BENEDICT, the navigator. Walt DRAPER spent several Sundays widi the Wattersons before leaving on patrol in GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. He is supply officer. Berne HUMPHREY

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of the DFC, 7 Air Medals, and the Navy ComDERSON now have a girl and a boy; and BUI and Jeanne BUTLER are looking forward to mendation Medal with Combat "V." their first in May. Don LYON is in New Orleans and Jim HENDERSON is at Monterey.

Sec'y, Lt. H. S. Pinskey, (SC) USN Frank and Gail GIAMBATTISTA proudly anUSNAU Box 26, Clarksville Base Fort Campbell, Ky. 42223 nounce the arrival of Frank Daniel, III, on 23 Jan., weighing 8 lbs., 9Vi oz. That makes 3 It is with a great deal of sorrow that I anfor Frank and Gail. He is now serving as flag nounce to the class the death of James Paul secretary to ComSoLant in San Juan.

BORSIC who was killed at sea in a helicopter Leo WILLETTS sent us a complete roster of accident on 29 March. Larry LAINE, Jim's roomthose classmates at Monterey P. G. The list is mate at the Academy, sent me the news of his certainly appreciated and it is hoped that we death. Larry and Bob GUYON represented the can get a data card from each of those plugging class at the requiem mass and the funeral services. away at the books. Leo was married to the A memorial stone wUl be dedicated at the Arlingformer Miss Kathee Corse on 3 Sept. '66 in ton National Cemetery and chairs will be purSan Diego. chased at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial StaAnyone interested in contacting anyone in the dium at Annapolis. Contributions for this purpose foUowing list write to them at the Naval Post- may be sent to me. Jim's wife, Jo Ann, can be graduate School, Monterey, Calif. 93940: L. Anreached in care of Lt. R. J. Guyon, 60 Dahlia derson, Brooks (now instructing in Advanced Drive, North Kingston, R. I. The deepest symTraining Command at BeevUle), Bruno, Copes, pathy of the class is expressed to Jim's wife, his DeRose, Duich, G. Dunn, W. M. Dunn, Evans, relatives and his friends in the passing of this Farrell, Flesher, Furman, Gastrock, Giuffreda, fine classmate and naval officer.

Glavis, Gregor, Grinnell, Hancock, Hardison, Hart, Hartman, Hay, Henderson, Hinton, Hoerne- NAVY LINE mann. Holly, Horhutz, Humphrey, Hyde, JohnThe Jim JORDANs wrote last month that they son, M. Jones, Kiel, Kline, L. Koch, W. Long, are proud parents of a new boy, Jimmy, Jr. They Mack, W. Martin, Mays, Mercado, Metcalf, Mock, also have two girls, Laurie age 4, and Kellie age Momm, Norfleet, Painter, Pappas, Passarella, Pigeon, 2 Vz. They have been living in the Charleston area Post, Quarles, Rauth, Richardson, Rowe, Sande- for the past 8 months where Jim is the executive fer, Schottie, Seyfarth, Shoemaker, Shower, W. officer aboard USS AGILE, an MSO homeported Smitii, Snyder, Steele, Straight, Svendsgaard, there. The Jordans are trying to get in contact with Thiel, Umberger, Waggoner, Wells, West, WU- James B. JACKSON. If anyone knows his address letts, WUimon, Bardeschewski, Dattilo, Dean, or duty station, please pass it along to the Jordans, Erchul, Kirk, Onorati, Van Sickle, Waer, F. West. c/o 2208 Glendale Dr., Springfield, Rt. 4, ChariesCapt Al DOHERTY, USA, writes from Viet- ton, S. C 29407. nam (TV Corps Area) where he is Sub Sector Advisor to Kien Tau District in the Mekong Delta. MEMORIAL FUND .\1 and Susan had their first boy—Al C III on I received a very generous contribution to our 25 Feb. Al III joins sister Pamela Anne. Susan proposed memorial fund from the father of one and the kids are home in Mass. until Al returns of our classmates. BGen. Malcolm Beyer, Sr., the in July. Since arriving in Viemam Al has earned father of Cap BEYER, made this donation to the Combat Infantryman's Badge and the VN om- class to be used in our fund. 1 wish to thank Cross of Gallantry. Congratulations, Al. WhUe in him at this time for his kind gesture. I think it Saigon he roomed with Tod B.-^RNES who was is about time that a final decision be made as to the course this fund should pursue. We have been with ComNavForV. out of the Academy now for five years and we Another underseas seadog now on shore duty have lost 15 beloved classmates. I would appreis Bob GLOVER. He is an instructor in the ciate any more suggestions that are forthcoming Executive Division at Submarine School. Since I from the class. 1 propose that at Homecoming last saw Bob in 1965 he has made the UNITAS Weekend 1967, we hold a meeting of classmates VI cruise in ATULE (SS-403) around South Amerin attendance and vote on all suggestions that ica (Aug. to Dec. '65). Bob was with ATULE have been offered and also set up a permanent through a yard period at Charleston (July '66 to memorial fund committee. In the interim, I Jan. '67) untU detached for New London. will accept all contributions to this fund and forward them on to our class treasurer until we On 14 Feb. Nancy and Mark WAGGONER can set up a treasurer for the fund. This fund got a special Valentine's gift—a son named John deserves your attention and action. If you care to Michael. He weighed 7 lbs. llVi oz. Mark is offer a suggestion or volunteer for the fund compresendy at PG after various duties in BAUER mittee, please send this information along to me.

(DE-1025) and CHIPOLA (AO-63).

Pierre KIEFFER, Capt. USA, 101st Airborne Div., recendy was cited for heroism in Vietnam.

He was awarded the Army Commendation Medal with Combat "V" for actions in an important intelligence gathering operation. His wife Cathy and two children, Kristen and Scott, are residing in Randolph, Vt., awaiting his return.

Classmates whom 1 have seen recentiy are the instructors flying the TF9s and the new TA4F at VA-45, die instrument RAG at Cecil Field, Fla. Van TEMPLE and Tony PAPANDREA both gave some of the lecmres and Tony and Jerry CHASKO both endured a ride with me while I was "under the bag" getting my instrument card renewed. T. P. MAISFNING is also in VA-45, although I did not get to see him.

Dan MARCH was at Cecil spreading the gospel from BuPers as a traveling member of tile BuPers Career Counseling Team ( L t detailers). Dan's previous duties since leaving the Academy are: Training Command as a student, tiien as an instructor in VT-2, the RAG, VA165, VA-152 (Bien Hoa Air Base), VA-165 (Vietnam cruise), and now BuPers. He is the recipient MAY,

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SPONSORSHIP OF MIDSHIPMEN'S WARDROOMS The following letter was received by me from RAdm. R. B. Fulton, Commander Naval Ship Engineering Center, Washington, last month and I include it in this column for the attention of the class: "I am the secretary of the Class of '32 and am writing you at the request of our Class Council The subject is Midshipmen's wardrooms, and specifically that of the 32nd Company.

"1 am sure that you are famUiar with the Superintendent's program aimed at the sponsorship by various classes of the company wardrooms in Bancroft Hall. After a very slow start, my class has just completed a drive which has provided us with the necessary funds to kick off the wardroom for the 32nd Company.

"From long experience in the Navy we have come to appreciate the value of making sure you have a relief when you are going to need one.

So now we are looking around to see if we can interest a younger class in joining us in the spon-

sorship of this Company with the idea of transferring to that class the major responsibility for the annual supporting funds after about five years.

1 am advised by RAdm. Fitzgerald at the Alumni House that '62 is not committed as of this time to any company. So I am writing you, among other classes, to ask whether or not your class would be interested in committing yourselves to this company.

"In the case of '62 we would suggest that you join us as co-sponsors of the wardroom now, or as soon as convenient. We have provided for the initial outfit and would carry any additional costs of the wardroom say until 1972. Then, at the time of your 10th reunion and our 40th, we would pass the sack to you.

"Lt.Gen. Bowser of '32 (and currentiy CGMFLant) had some earlier discussions along these lines with one or two Marines of your class, who indicated to him that they felt this proposal might be attractive to your class. RAdm. Fitzgerald has advised me that an interclass arrangement like this would be acceptable to the Alumni Association and to the Academy.

"We would be most interested in hearing from you as to whether or not an arrangement along these lines would be of interest to you. With all good wishes, and my congratulations on your exceUent Shipmate column."

I believe this to be a very worthy project and I would appreciate your views on this matter as soon as possible so I can reply to Admiral Fulton.

After much searching and consideration, I have decided to leave the Naval Service. My resignation has been accepted and will become effective on 9 June 1967. I plan to live in Scranton, Pa., and become associated with an insurance underwriting firm doing business in that area. I also plan to remain in the active reserve and I have already contacted the reserve unit in the area and they have indicated to me that a bUlet is available when I return to Scranton. I feel it will be an honor and a privilege to serve as part of the Naval Reserve.

With the permission of the class, I would like to continue writing our monthly column for Shipmate. I will be close to the Annapolis area and can attend to matters of class importance as they arise. Effective 1 June 1967, please address all further correspondence to Mr. Howard S. Pinskey, c/o Margolis-Unger Insurance Co., 800 Brooks BuUding, Scranton, Pa. 18503. Thank you very much for your help and cooperation in the past, and 1 am sure that with your continued interest, we can insure the success of our '62 Shipmate column.

Have a pleasant Memorial Day holiday and if you have any ideas about the topics mentioned in this article, please pass them along to me.

EAST COAST Sec'y, Capt. John L. Newton, USMC Mar Det, USS OKLAHOMA (CLG-5) FPO San Francisco 96601 WEST COAST Corr. Sec'y, Lt. (jg) W. B. Orgera, USN VAW-11, NAS North Island San Diego, Calif. 92135

The most recent classmate to be heard from is Joe MORRA, presently the CO of H&S Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marines. Prior to this assignment, Joe was recuperating from a wound which he had received on a patrol in South Vietnam; at that time he was serving as CO, M Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines. Joe had spent 5 months in USNH Camp Pendleton. He and his wife Susan are living in Santa Ana. I received a very colorful envelope/letter from Jim ECKLAND who was finishing six-month TDY as engineer supply advisor to the Peruvian Army (working thru U. S. Army Mission to Peru). Jim and Betsy were on their way to Jim's home unit—8 th Special Forces Group (Abn) at Fort Gulick, Canal Zone. After a short break in Panama, Jim was slated to go to Ecuador as team 63

chief ot a civic action technical assistance team.

He sent word of Tom and Rita ROSSA who had become the proud parents of a son, Steven James, born 10 Feb. Tom was working on commissioning of his sub (set for 12 AprU) in Norfolk. Other classmates of whom he wrote are: Karl KAUP, who was maintaining his bachelor status and had recentiy traveled cross-country from (Connecticut to San Francisco for bis new assignment in USS SNOOK (SSN-592), homeported out of S. F. John DAVIS (USAF) was at Mather AFB in Sacramento. John and his wife Ann had been at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs prior to his new assignment.

After finding an old copy of Shipmate, Tom MILLER and Larry ATKINSON sent along greetings from USS FRED T . BERRY'. Larry was the chief engineer and Tom the weapons officer—both from the old 14th Co. Larry had been in Class 13 at Destroyer School and was looking forward to PG School. Tom had been in Class 15 and was slated to go to the Junk Fleet down Viemam way in late summer. Larry had been aboard about a year and Tom about 8 months; the BERRY'S homeport was Newport, R. I. More details on J. D. FIELD: he married the former Miss Susan Sears of Spokane, Wash., on 5 June '65. They became the parents of a son, James David, on 15 March '66. Jim had returned to CONUS for assignment with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, which was sent to Hawaii and finally to Viemam. He saw duty as a platoon commander and an XO. He returned to CONUS again on 28 July '66 and assumed duties as Assistant G-2, Marine (Corps Base, (Camp Pendleton.

1 am going back to pick up some more dated info. A letter came from Ed WEATHERS prior to his departing Colorado Springs for the AFIT Program at Georgia Tech. Ed was going for his Master's in information sciences (computers) which would require about a year and a half. On 1 April '66 Ed and his wife Gloria were blessed with another daughter, Suzanne AvrU. Their other daughter, Cherie Lee, had been born in '64.

From one of the stalwarts of the class—a bachelor, to be specific—came news of Spencer JOHNSON who was at that time flag lieutenant and aide to ComCruDesFlot Six. Spencer had been aboard USS JAMES C OWENS for two years prior to his assignment to the staff. He strongly recommended staff duty for appreciation and insight into the functioning of the higher echelons of command. He had been in that billet for about a year and was due to go to the SacLant Staff in Norfolk. Spencer expected to be back riding the "Greyhounds" after a year's tour in the Norfolk area.

A couple of other classmates with whom Spencer had been in contact: Bill HIMCHAK and his wife Chris had a daughter Cathy in Jan. '66. Bill was stationed in Quonset Pt., R. I., flying S2-Fs in a VS squadron. Their neighbors were the Phil ROONEYS. While on a trip through the JaxMayport area, Spencer looked up Dave WELLES and his wife. Dave was stationed at the Fleet Intelligence Center at NAS Jax and was expecting orders to the Washington area. When last heard from, Ron MATTHEWS was stationed at MCRD, San Diego.

When the CruDesFlot Staff embarked in USS LUCE for a Caribbean jaunt, Spencer saw Fred STORZ, the disbursing officer, and Jim FONTANA, the missile officer. Both were still bachelors and enjoying their freedom and a ranch on the beach. WhUe in San Juan Spencer saw a few members of '63 who were on a Destroyer School cruise—all noticeably sunburned. Among those in the area were Dick WUliams, John "J. C " Peterson, Dave Moore and Bill McCann. Down around the Charleston area were Joe WATERFILL who was aboard the SELLERS and expected orders to PG School in naval architecture at MIT and Bobby LYONS who was the DASH officer in 64

USS STRONG and was hanging onto his bachelorhood.

Don't forget to drop me a line or two about yourself and any classmates in your area. Also, I need current addresses to help bring the Register up to date and to correct my files.

Sec'y, Lt (jg) James L. Roberts, USN VF-142, FPO San Francisco 96601

Somewhat unique among naval aviators were brothers George, USNA '64, and Jim HISE in the same F-8 squadron aboard HANCOCK. In late March, Jim was kUled in a flight deck accident while on station in the South China Sea. Although he was not a classmate, he gave his life in service of our country and we join George and his family of Des Moines, Iowa, in grievance of Jim's passing.

Jeffrey Scott Boyd was born to Linda and Terry BOYD on 21 Feb. in Groton, (Conn. Terry has since joined ABRAHAM LINCOLN in New London.

Smoky FIELD is in JOHN ADAMS in Charleston.

Joe PONDER and Dick SHAPACK are enjoying sub school and there is a rumor that Woodie VAUGHAN wUl soon join them.

For six months last year Donnie THOMPSON was a fleet command advisor on a Vietnamese PGM and has since been transferred to Naval Advisory Group, Fleet (Command Office as logistics advisor working with LSTs and LSMs. Chris SCHWEMM is an asst. material officer working out of the same office and, as such, he advises on material and repair problems. Chris has orders to leave in June for Littie Creek and Counterinsurgency School. Herb BRYAN is a watch stander in ComNavForV Headquarters in Saigon.

Charlie LOUNSBERRY is OinC of a PCF at Cat Lo as is Larry PROBST. Larry has orders to the NavyComSta in Londonderry, Ireland. Jim HOWSER is OinC of a PCF at Qui Nhon and Tony GODHINO is a Navy liaison officer stationed some 20 miles from Saigon. Tim CANALE is working for NavSupAct Saigon. Donnie has orders to Corpus Christi, quite near his home in Harrlingen, Tex., and plans to spend 30 days in Europe en route.

Phil and Cynthia LANK announced the arrival of Christopher on 19 Feb. Phil received a medical discharge from the service in Sept. 1966 on the same date that Duke JAMES met a simUar fate.

Phil is a sales engineer for Johnson Service Co. in Harrisburg, Pa., and Duke is teaching math and coaching football at a Virginia Beach high school. Just prior to his discharge, Phil was relieved by Glenn "Hook" SHINDLER as DesRon 26 comm officer. Jay EGGERS visited the Lanks on his way home from DesTech for Christmas.

Cynthia and Phil invite any classmates who are in the area to drop by 1107 Charles St, Mechanicsburg. Pa. Many of our classmates are now Captain, USMC, but very few have attained the rank of L t , USN. Fred BEAUDRY served a tour in Vietnam aboard INGRAHAM and has since been transferred to JOSEPH P. KENNEDY. He received a spot promotion to the rank of Lt. when given the billet of operations officer for ComDesFlt 102 in the Med. Our congratulations to Fred and here's hoping we all join him in wearing raUroad tracks later this year.

John KLEIN sent a short note from Puerto Rico where he enjoyed two weeks for Operation Springboard. In June he will head west for Sangley Pt. in the Philippines.

Joe INCE is presentiy finishing his qualification period aboard a sub in the Med. After some leave in Texas, he hopes to get a FBM at Charleston and join Geoff KIRKLAND and John DALTON in establishing a snake ranch there.

Some notes from the area: Bill SHAUNESSY, Joe CALLAHAN, Jim CAROLYN, and Tom BARNETT left for Vietnam in late March and

early April to take command of Swift Boats. Dick ROBBINS is now an advisor to the Vietnamese and John ROBERTS and Arch WOODWARD are back in Vietnam with the U D T forces. Dale LUCAS, who is on the MCKENZIE, Dick CECIL, who recentiy returned from the yards in San Francisco aboard SEGUNDO, and Tom SWARTZ, aboard POMODON, will all be in San Francisco during April.

Sam DAVIES, Bob PRATH, and Tom SWARTZ were ushers at Dave and Judy LIPSCOMB's wedding at Naval Training Center in San Diego on 18 March. Other recent weddings were Mike HEWITT and Lynda Helwig in (Conn, and Dave LESTER. No more details on Dave's wedding at die present time. Brian BAUMRUK, Bill HOLMES, and Mike OLIVER recentiy returned to San Diego, Brian from many months in San Francisco and Squiglie, sporting a beard, and Mike from WestPac. Mike MITCHELL is planning to get married in June. Gary ZECH, Chuck GATES and Dave LIPSCOMB are some of the submarining brownbaggers in the area who have managed to evade WestPac for a few weeks. Larry LOVIG recentiy left for WestPac aboard SCAMP. Hue and Kathy WRIGHT are living in San Diego with Al STRUCK as a next door neighbor. Hue is an admiral's aide. Sandy WOOD.^RD is just in from Washington and is assigned to a destroyer staff.

Jack DANTONE has forsaken the east coast navy and given up a second tour to the Med to come west for the remainder of his first tour. He is flying Phantoms with VF-161 at Miramar and will deploy in CORAL SEA in August. Mike and Betsy TACKNEY are living in (Coronado whUe Mike goes to Swift Boat School. Dick "WILSON will be aboard FORRESTAL when she comes around the Horn to WestPac this summer. Tom SAUCIER, an A-4 aviator, and Bill MALIN widi VF-21 and Mike QUAINTANCE witii VF-154, both F-4 aviators, returned with CORAL SEA in late Feb. Brent BENNITT, flying A-4s in VA-94, is presentiy in HANCOCK in the Tonkin Gulf. Rog KIETHLY, who was in VA-94, broke his neck at a predeployment party in San Francisco, Quite recentiy I received some 150 names of classmates who have had mail returned to the Alumni House because of an incorrect address.

Much of this mail was for people who left our class sometime during the four years at Annapolis but many names were those of our numbers who graduated. Remember that anyone who has been in a class at Annapolis for any length of time has his name on record at the Alumni House, whether he is a member of the Alumni Assn. or not.

First class mail is forwarded for six months for a change of address due to official orders but much of the information sent by the Alumni Assn. is not sent first class and will not be received if the mailing address is incorrect. Consequently, everyone should endeavor to ascertain that their address is up to date. A postcard to the .A.lumni House at 247 King George St, Annapolis, Md. 21402 will suffice and will assure that you receive the class letter in June as well as all other alumni mail.

From CONSTELLATION at sea this date 1967, Art HOLZ, Don WRIGHT, Warren CHRISTIE, Geofl SHUMWAY and I wish you good luck and smooth saUing this summer.

Sec'y, Lt. (ig) Edward A. Orr, Jr., USN 5845 Everhart Rd., Apt. 66 Corpus Christi, Texas 78413

John O'DWYER sends word that four bachelors of the plebe year 2nd (Company have made it into Key West diesel-electric submarines via the nuclear power program. Bill PURDY in USS QUILLBACK, Steve MLADINEO in USS CHOPPER and John in USS TRUTTA; all reported to their subs about a month after Christmas. Bill PREVITY recentiy reported aboard USS SEA CAT after completing his prototype training. Two more members of that plebe year company were in Class 35 at Sub School—Pete GALBRAITH, who went to tiie SHIPMATE

Blue Crew of USS JAMES MONROE out of Charleston, ;tnd Bob VAUGHAN, who reported to USS DACE, a nuclear fast attack sub out of New London. In conclusion, John said that he is really enjoying subs and is looking forward to his coming Med deployment.

Bill COVINGTON is presentiy stationed in .\tlanta working on a Master's in civil engineering at Georgia Tech. Dave SCHLESINGER is also there in the same program, and both will be there untU 1968. The main reason Bill wrote was to announce that he and his wife Charlotte became parents of a baby daughter, Kellie Anne, on 21 Jan. Thel and Robin HOOKS are the godparents. Thel is stationed in Norfolk flying Phantoms after having been in Key West for the past few months.

Daws RICHARDSON stopped in to see Bill a short while ago. After a struggle. Daws got into UDT and should complete his training shortiy.

At last word he was in Fort Benning getting his jump wings and learning karate, Johnny JOHNSON was also in Atianta for a few weeks on TAD before reporting to Barber's Point, Hawaii, Bill's wife Charlotte added a note to his letter saying how glad they were to be back in their home state, and she extended an invitation to anyone who is in the Atianta area to drop in and see tiiem at 4586 Roswell Rd., N.E. Larry REECE has had quite an interesting career since graduation. Larry originally reported to Pensacola for flight training. While there, he decided to drop out of the flight program and ask for a ship on the west coast. He was assigned to USS MAHAN where he served in the biUets of assistant ASW officer, assistant navigator, missile officer and first lieutenant. During his second deployment he decided to reapply for flight training. He was happUy surprised when he found tiiat he was accepted. He flew back to the States from Subic Bay and then drove cross-country to Florida.

During his travels, Larry ran into Ted and Jessie G.ALE who are living near Moffett Field where Ted is assigned to a P3 Squadron. Also in the area are Bob and Carol LASSETER who are quite proud of their new addition to the family, a baby girl. WhUe in San Diego, Larry also visited Don and Carol LUTHER who are living in Imperial Beach. Don is presentiy assigned to a training unit at Camp Pendleton in preparation for 3 year's deployment as an advisor in Vietnam.

In Pensacola, Larry stopped by to see Dan and Susan RUMBLEY. They are living in Milton, Fla., where Dan is a T-28 instructor at Whiting Field. Their litde girl is now eight months old.

After he finishes at Whiting, Dan hopes to be transferred to jets.

Last, but not least, comes some good news from Tom KOCH. Tom has been stationed at Andrews AFB in Washington, D. C , ever since graduation and says he really is enjoying his work. The good news concerns Tom's wife, the former Candice Lynn Moke of Topeka, Kan., who was recendy selected as "Mrs. Washington, D. C 1967."

On 4 May, Tom and Candy were scheduled to leave for San Diego where she will compete in the "Mrs. America Pageant." Their two-week trip is all expenses paid. Tom asked all those in the San Diego area to get together with him during the pageant. Unfortunately, this article will reach most of you after the pageant is over, so the best we can do for now is wish Candy the best of luck.

Sec'y, Ens. Robert G. Johnson, Jr., USN USS LONG BEACH CGN-9 FPO San Francisco, Calif. 96601

The first thing this month I would like to call your attention to my new address. I received orders last month and joined LONG BEACH in WestPac in April. Be sure to include the zip code for faster delivery.

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Quite a lot has happened in Florida since last issue. Tony and Helen PAL.AZZO and Pat and Kathy O'REILLEY sent a nice letter with the news down Pensacola way. Bill CLAYTON didn't like Bainbridge and has decided to fly. Ed FUTCH didn't like flying and decided on a DDR. He and Barbara are living in Long Beach. De FAWKES is leaving NAO school with his wife Barbara; he is headed for A'3s in Guam. Gary "Snoopy'' SCFIMIDT also finished NAO school and will be flying P3s. Chris REDDINGTON was high scorer for NAS Goshawkes B-ball team this season. Jim LEWIS gave up the lacrosse stick to play B-ball with Chris. Joe TAUSSIG and his wife Dolly passed through Pensacola on the way to Vietnamese Language School. Rich MULLER is on his way to Vietnam after standing very high in his Quantico class. Jim LOOME is in the USS TURNER in JacksonvUle and will be leaving for Charleston soon. George and Barbara KEEFE are at Newport for Sub School. Kathy and Rodge CARTER were married over Christmas and are at Meridian after Rodge stood number one in his pre-flight at Saufley. Would you believe . . . rice fell over Scott and Diane SHIELDS as they were married over the Christmas holidays.

Frank BRYANT gave up flying and left with Karen and dog Gretyl for an MSO out of Charleston.

1 had a letter from Pete BULETZA whose sister Vicki and Larry DEAN were married on 21 Jan. Performing the ceremony was Pete's father, the Rev. Peter P. Buletza of Elizabeth, N. J. Ushering and arching swords were John BURNS, Bruce

Mardi Gras weekend had an old gang together in New Orleans. At the Playboy Club and a few of the night spots on Bourbon Street were Kathy and Pat O'ReUley, Helen and Tony Palazzo, Carol and Dave Sadd, Diane and Scott Shields, Suzanne and Bob Wittenberg, Joan and Al Sears, and Jan and Carl McCuUough. Carl says that flying is a lot more fun than running the BAC.

HEITZ, and Skip STEPHENSON. Bruce and Skip are now on their way to Vietnam.

Bill and Candy SPADAFORA are in Norfolk where Bill is in the NEWPORT NEWS. Bill heard from Ted HOLLEY who is working for IT&T in Long Island.

Well, that's it for this time. Be sure to use the new address when sending class information.

Over at Whiting Field are Judy and Ben Bennett, Kay and John Earhart, Bill and Dee Caiazza, Bonnie and Daryl Spelbring, and Pamela and Steve Berg. I had a letter from Steve who said that Mike Field, Pete Buletza, Bill Snyder and he had their first solo flight on Friday the 13 th, and finished up at Saufley the next week. Steve went to Whiting with Ron Gurley, Pat James, Bruce Touve, Brian Cronyn and Harry Thaete.

The word was that Dave Schnibbe had a complete electrical failure on his first solo but he said it was his clutch thinking from plebe year that brought him out smelling like a rose!

News from the Third Company grapevine is that Roger WHITE was married last November.

Jim KAPPES married the former Linda Bales of Pensacola and is on his way to Glynco, Ga. Bob ELLIS is also headed for Glynco and they will both be in RIO training in Phantoms. Port MARTIN, also from the third, is in Paris on his Fulbright and is having a great time. He is scheduled to remrn sometime in early July.

Also over at Whiting Field are Nancy and Owen McFADDEN, Eileen and John KISH, Barbara and Tom LOMACCHIO, and Val and Charlie MASON, who will be leaving soon for Corpus Christi. From the local snake ranch circuit Scott HOOD, Skip ESTY and Gary BLINN are still throwing their week-long parties. At Saufley are Fran and Bob LEWIS, Jan and Bob BEAL, Didi and Jack HASTREITER, and Bob KEELEY, who was married over Christmas. Up at Meridian are Donna and Buster Shelton, Lois and Rags Ragland, Karen and Mike Anaber, Dolly, Jon and baby Phillip Barton, and Helen and Jerry Knott. Chris Brix, Harry Thaete, Andi Simonpietri, and John Sulfaro are part of the bachelor complement Also from Meridian I received a playbill from the production of "Mr. Roberts" at the Little Theatre.

In the lead role of "Mr. Roberts" was none other than Andy SEKAN. With a fresh start in stage and playing the part of "Ensign Pulver" was John "Rocky" ROCKWELL, less motorcycle. Playing the role of "Stefanowski" was Steve ROHRKEMPER, and playing the part of "Dolan'' and handling the lighting and sound effects was Doug THOMPSON.

N e w l y w e d s Vicki a n d Larry D e a n

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Midn. David A. Materna, Vice-President S. Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland

As 7 June gets bigger and bigger on that calendar, the yard becomes more crowded with tourists every day and our minds are focused on the future. But where has the time gone since that fateful day of 26 June 1963.?

Four years is a long time, but really there's been a lot of things happening in those four years. I guess we'll always remember the new plebe system with those plebe morning-runs, the meal ticket system for the weekends, and the new company watch system. But now that's all behind us and we're all splitting up to go our separate ways. For the first time some of our classmates are going directly to postgraduate work to obtain their Master's degrees; others to Rhodes, Burke, Fulbright, and Churchill scholarship programs, and still others to Pensacola, Quantico, the Nuclear Power Program, and various ports. But no matter how far we all become separated, let's stay together as a class through these Shipmate articles and let everyone else know just what is happening in your corner of the world.

We've done a lot of things to be proud of here at the Academy and we're all eager to get away from the books and into the practical knowledge which we wUl need for the rest of our careers.

So good luck and smooth saUing until we get together for those class reunions. Just drop me a line in care of the above address and let me know what's happening.

MAKE HOMECOMING This YEAR 20-22 October

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ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS

CENTRAL FLORIDA

ALBUQUERQUE

BALTIMORE

The first meeting for the year was held on 25 Jan. Oscar E. Hagberg '31, outgoing president, was drafted by the membership to serve again as president for '67, Other officers elected are: A, C Harshman '23, vice president; secretary-treasurer, Carr C Whitener ' 5 1 , The executive committee is composed of Charles B. Langston '35, A. E, Uehlinger '22, John M. Bristol '30, and T, J, Rafferty '22,

Chapter officers for 1967-68 were elected at the 18 April meeting held at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel, Towson. President is W. Beverly Bristoe '27, and secretary-treasurer, Murray Blank '58.

The last meeting of the season was to be held on 16 May, with ladies attending. The new chapter officers were to be installed at that time.

ANNAPOLIS It was election night, 12 April at the Alumni House, and Bob Adrian '43 was elected to succeed classmate Dan Karcher '43, who has served so ably as chapter president for the last two years.

Other new officers are Charles Becker '44, vice president; WUliam W, Bennett '49, secretary; Ray Christensen '53, treasurer, and A, J, Greenacre '26, national trustee. The council members for 1967-68 will be Don Bayly '46, George Brungot '47, Dick Inman '51, Frank Rigler '23, and Charles Truxall '25,

BOSTON The annual meeting and election of officers for 1967-68 was held on 9 May at the Officers' Club, Charlestown Navy Yard. The following officers were elected: President, Capt. Thomas H . Suddath, USN (Ret) '38; vice president, Capt. Charles Cassel, Jr., USN '39; treasurer, RAdm. M. B. Duffill, USN (Ret.) '27, and secretary, G. Gilbert Tallau '56, all for one-year terms.

Trustee is RAdm. Alvan Fisher, USNR (Ret.) '22, three-year term; and National Trustee, oneyear term, Walter J, Toner, Jr. '43.

THUMBNAIL SKETCHES: Tom Suddath attended Duke University for a year and was appointed to USNA from Georgia. He was a member of the crew squad, a wearer of the varsity N and was graduated in the class of 1938. He commanded USS WILLIAM C

LAWE; stood No.

1 in DesLant Battle Efficiency Campetition; had three years in the office of the CNO as Technical and Administrative Assistant to the DCNO (Operations & Readiness) followed by three years as naval attache in Singapore. H e also graduated from the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program, and is presentiy business manager of the Boston Consulting Group of the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co.

Bob Adrian '43 (left) relieves Dan Karcher '43 as president of the Annapolis Chapter.

President Dan Karcher summarized highlights of the chapter's program for the last two years and noted with pride that for the second year the chapter is tenth in the nation in alumni membership, which authorized the local chapter to continue being represented at the National Association's Board of Trustees. A new high of 210 members in total membership was also reached.

The program that followed the business meeting was a talk by Midshipmen First Class Richard W. Mies and John P. Lay. About 50 members and guests listened to this very fine presentation on "Life at the Naval Academy, the Challenges and Opportunities as seen by a Midshipman Today."

Midshipmen Mies and Lay discussed the many new programs at the Academy, including the midshipman honor code, the plebe year program.

Trident Scholars, the squad system, validation of academic courses, scholarships, elective courses, minor and major programs, the athletic program and midshipmen privileges today.

Midn. Mies is the Deputy Brigade Commander, a Trident Scholar and a fine athlete, while Midn.

John Lay is class president for the class of 1967, and a Regimental (Commander.

All members of the Alumni Association can be very proud of the presentation that these two fine gentiemen gave and of the fact that they will join us in the ranks of alumni of our Naval Academy in June.

The 10 May meeting will be the annual chapter spring cocktail party held at the Alumni House from 6 to 8 p.m. See you all there.

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Charlie Cassel was born in Harrisburg, Pa., moved to Hagerstown, Md., and was appointed to the Academy from the 6th Congressional District of Maryland. He graduated with the class of 1939. After several assignments during WWII he attended the Naval War College in 1949. In 1958 he was assigned Chief of Staff, DesFlot 3; in 1963, ComDesRon 18â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the only all-missUe ship squadron in LanFlt; in 1965 ComSTSELM Area, London and Bremerhaven, and is currentiy ordered CX) Naval Station, Boston.

RAdm. Draper L. Kauffman, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, was the speaker at the 18 April dinner meeting held at the Officers' Club, Navy Building. He told about the new facilities and changes in curriculum, supplemented by color slides.

CARACAS The inauguration of the new Equipex Building marked the meeting of the Caracas chapter, with Nat Heller '47, managing director for Equipex, in charge of arrangements.

Attending were Capts. Paul George and Dan Abercrombie, LCol. Vail, Cdrs. Bryant '48B, Diaz Ugueto, Reyes Leal and Carlos Tovar ' 5 1 , Nat Heller '47, Henry Rodner '43, Larry Chervenak, Dan Flenry '38, Frank Storms, Gerald Maxfield.

Also, Mr. Roger Pieplow, associated with Long Line Computer Division for Latin America, the guest of Larry Chervenak and Mr. Clifford Wise '41 of Bethlehem Steel, and members of the New York chapter who were guests of Frank Storms.

On 10 Feb., near the end of the Venezuelan Mardi Gras season, a meeting was held in the Club Doscientos. Regular monthly meetings are customarily held on the first Thursday of each month at the club.

The election of officers for tiie 1967 period was held at the recent chapter meeting, with W, L, Graham '45, president; J. O'Shea '26, vice president; E, C Branson '46, secretary-treasurer. Board of governors: J, J, Vaughan '33, E, J, Sullivan '27, D. N, Inbush '38, and R, E, Tims '57.

Thirty-four members and guests attended the 18 March luncheon-meeting at Ramon's Restaurant at Cocoa Beach. Col. Paul R. Wignall, USAF (Ret.), spoke on the subject of "Teaching as a Second Career."

Chapter meetings will be held on the third Saturday of the month, and visitors to the Cape Kennedy area are invited to attend. They may contact R. E, Tims '57, at 105 Freddie St., Satellite Beach, Ph: 773-2529, concerning chapter activities.

Those attending the meeting were: Dick Dole '22, John and Carol Melgaard '25, John and Audrey O'Shea '26, Emmett and Betty SiUlivan '27, Jim and Alice Vaughan '33, Hank and Sonia Surface '38, Dave and Barbara Inbush '38, George Holly '38, Bob and Betty Doherty '42, BUI and Betty Graham '45, Gene and Dorothy Branson '46, Bill and MarUyn WUson '51, BUI Ritchie '53 and Mrs. Ritchie; Bob Hemings '54, Dave MUler '54 and Mrs, Miller; Fred and Nora Schoenberger '55, Tom and Marge Sims '57, and Bob and Mimi Tims '57.

CHARLESTON Samuel G. Stoney, Charleston architect, historian and author, was the principal speaker on 16 March at the monthly meeting of the Charleston chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Assn.

The session was held at the Naval Base Officers' Club. Capt. W. C P. Bellinger, (Ret.) '33, chapter president, presided.

CHICAGO An interesting meeting was held on 3 March, when reports of plans for future chapter meetings were discussed. Those attending with their ladies were Mike and Shirley Berngard '49, Gordy and Mary Buchanan '22, Chuck and Carol Prieb '53, Joe and Ginny Mallach '26, Orrie and Maggie Crepeau '44, Jack and Lolly BaUey '44, Swede and Helen Eskilson '26, Bill and l i l Brandfon '49, Larry and Phyllis Novak '52, And Harry Quast '28, John Lumly '27, Bob McCarthy '45, Dave Goldenson '25, Red Morse '29, Charles Silsbee '25, Peter Schoen '59, Charies McDaniel '25, and Wayne Lockwood '59, Gains and losses in the Chicago area continue: losses, Frank ORR '48B, who has rejoined the General Electric Co, in Syracuse, His home address is No. 10 Old Farm Road, FayettevUle, N. Y. 13066. John C VANCE '59 has moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and joined the Management Consulting Firm of Elmendorf & C)., Inc. His new address is 16911 Lake Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107.

Gains: Robert W. NEWELL '43, witii Rheem Mfg. Co. in Chicago. His home is 924 Kimberly Way, Lisle, 111. 60532. Ben Frana '40, who retired this past summer, is now teaching at Northwestern University. He lives at 1420 Chicago Ave., Evanston, 111, 60201, THUMBNAIL SKETCH OF T H E MONTH Oreal J, CREPEAU '44: Following graduation in '43, Orrie served in submarines in the Southwest Pacific until the end of WWII, His first boat, the SANDLANCE, struck pay dirt on her first war patrol, sending 17,000 tons of Japanese ships to the bottom and winning a Presidential Unit Citation, This portended of big things in the future for him. His second patrol in SANDLANCE got Orrie a gold star on his Submarine Combat Pin for 18,000 tons of Japanese shipping, SHIPMATE

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Orrie settied down in the Chicago area in 1947, and joined the Inland Steel Co,—never to leave. He has been one of their brightest stars, and is currendy occupying the awe-inspiring seat of General Manager, Orrie and Maggie "tied the knot" in '43, and the latest count is 6 offspring ranging from 7 to 22 years. He is a giant for public service: Chamber of Commerce, Red Cross, Ommunity Services, et al,, and is one of the mainstays of the Chicago chapter, having served as chapter president,

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Mr, Don Jacobs, chief engineer of the Boeing Co, at HuntsvUle, Ala,, gave an inspiring and entertaining talk on our future in space at the 28 March meeting held at the Redstone Arsenal Officers' Club, FTis subject was "Stairway to the Stars" and was accentuated by the use of colored view-graph slides.

One of the most distinguished members of the chapter, Brig,Gen, Ed Donley, USA '40, has been transferred to a logistics command with headquarters in Sl, Louis, Mo, He and his charming vvife Jo are occupying quarters at the Grant Army Depot in Illinois across the river from St, Louis, Members were sorry to have him leave but were glad that he has his own command, Lt.Col. John Johnson, USMC has received orders to Vietnam and wUl be leaving the area soon.

The chapter had the unique distinction at one time of having at least one active duty member from four branches of the armed services. They were Brig.Gen. Ed Donley, USA '40, Capt, Harmon Penny, USN '46, Lt,Col. John Johnson, USMC '49, and Lt.Col. WUliam Loomis, USAF '50.

RAdm. Draper L. Kauffman, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, wUl be the guest speaker at the 19 May meeting, A large gathering of alumni from northern Alabama and southern Tennessee is expected to attend.

LOS ANGELES Over 60 alumni, wives and guests heard Mr. L. "Buck" Conover speak on topics of universal interest in the law enforcement field and particularly the many-faceted aspects of capital punishment, at the 29 March meeting. Mr. Conover is chief deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County.

An outstanding steak dinner was held preceding the program, at Allen Center, Officers' Club, Long Beach Naval Station. Representation at the meeting ranged through '08, with Rufus McB. Beanfield on hand, to the late '60 classes.

On 19 AprU Mr. Ed Piatt, the "Chief" on NBC's TV series "Get Smart," was the scheduled speaker, and on 17 May Mr. Ed Hergenrafher of H. & Associates, an executive placement and consulting firm, spoke on "How to get a good job and make lots of $."

On 21 June Mr. Bob Martin of M. Lynch, Pierce, F. & S. ("We the People") will tell us how to invest all those dollars and make more.

When in the area, alumni are asked to contact the chapter president. Bill Campbell '52, at (213) 634-4106; the vice president. Dean Strong '53, at 454-0633 or the secretary, Warren Parr '49, at 847-3087. You will almost always greet a classmate.

MIAMI A brief rundown of activities held by the Miami chapter included the dinner-dance held on 26 April in tile Binnacle Room of the Coral Gables (Country Club. The regular May meeting was held on the 27th, also at the country club.

At the February get-together, those attending were: Capt. Oberiin '05, Cdr. White '13, RAdm. Biesemeier '18, Capt. Crist '20, Cdr. Southard '22, Capt Zimmerman '22, Cdr. Gallagher '22, LCdr. MAY,

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Ginn '23, Cdr. Power '27, RAdm. Poor '33, Capt.

Thorn '33, Cdr. Crowell '34, and Cdr. Barron '40.

The regular June meeting will be held on the 24th in Ft. Lauderdale,

MILWAUKEE A fine gathering of alumni and their wives, along with Naval Academy candidates and their parents, attended the combined "bird dog" and chapter meeting which featured Midn, Tom Leiser '67 as guest speaker. He made a realistic and straightforward presentation to the candidates concerning what they could expect upon entering the Academy in '67 or '68.

The movie Ring of Valor was shown, with comments by Midn. Leiser. His participation in the 1964 Army-Navy game is included in the movie.

Many of the alumni had pertinent questions regarding the curriculum at the Academy, Barney Thielges stressed the great desire of the Navy to attract the highest caliber student-athletes to Annapolis, He requested that all of the local alumni become "bird dogs."

Attending the meeting were Jack Little '46, and four guests; John Weir '40, Walt Rose '45, Gladys and John Illingworth '47 and son, John; Lois and Ralph Stair '43, Mike and Skeet Eaton '44, Pat and Jim Winters '57, Ginny and Jim Wheeler '45, Frances and Bill Dobbs '32, Jane and Bob Knox '42, Lois and Ken Schlager '51, Ceata and Barney Thielges '43, and Tom Leiser '67 and his parents.

Among the candidates presented were Jonathan Starke, James Claffey, Duane Jones, Dick Lewis, Bob Nelson and Randy Bricker.

NEWPORT RAdm. F. H. Schneider '37 gave a well-illustrated and interesting talk on the "Reorganization of the Department of Defense since 1947" at the 28 March meeting held in the Fleet Room of the Officers' Club, Naval Base. Questions were answered from the floor.

Attending were: P. C Bennett '56, G. W. Bowdey '07, T. A. Brown '35, J. P. Carney '21, Capt M. M. Cloukey, E. B. Henry, Jr. '39, Col. R. A. Mangini, I. W. McKeehan '07, D. W. Olney '30, J. W. Rankin '08, F. L. Robbins '23, Col. M. C Shattuck, Capt. J. L. Thompson, USCG (Ret.), J. H. Wellings '25, and guest Mr. Duval.

At the 28 Feb. meeting. Father Christopher of the Portsmouth Priory gave a very interesting talk with slides on "Portsmouth Priory—the school and its part in today's modern world."

Present were G. W. Bowdey '07, T. Brown '35, J. P. Carney '21, Capt. M. M. Cloukey, N. Dougherty '35, W. M. Foster '30, H. B. Heneberger '26,

H. K. Hewitt '07, H. H. Mcllhenny '27, G. Morgan '16, B. W. Olney '30, J. W. Rankin '08, P. C Staley '33, Leroy Taylor '35, L. F. Welch '06, Cdr. Windsor, C McR. Winslow '24.

On 25 April Lt.(jg) Aticins, (CEC) USN, discussed "Seabees in Vietnam."

SEATTLE Capt. E. A. Christofferson, commanding officer of USS STERETT, was guest speaker at the 1 March meeting held in the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open) NSD. He gave a very interesting talk on his ship which was commissioned on 8 AprU, and showed a movie used in recruiting young men into the surface missile force.

Members and guests present were: Cedric Berquist '42, Ken Borgen '24, J. L. Brown '23, O. M. Browne, Jr. '30, Jim Burrow '33, Bert Cassels '22, D. Chapman '51, E. A. Christofferson '45, Jack CoUey '32, Leo Culjat '42, E. W. Elliott '25, J. H. Elsom '39, Dallas Emory '21, W. E. Ferrall '27, Earl Finney '32, Jim Flenniken '32, George Foot '30, Philip H. Fox '36, Robert R. Fox, Jr. '22, M. W. Graybill '27, Fred Hetter '27, Lauren E. Johnson '38, W. F. Kramer '36, Don Krick '30, R. M. LaBarron '46, Tom Laneen '32, H. Lasell '39, J. N. Longfield '45, J. L. P. McCallum '35, H. M. McLellan '23, John R. Middleton '35, H. E. Regan '22, John Rogers '18, Leo Schwabe '38, Frank Schwartz '33, F. A. Strohecker '24, F, M, Strohecker '53, Wells Thompson '28, G, C Towner '24, N. E. Walker '27, Frank Wadcins '22, Charies S. Weeks '25, and F. M. Welch '39.

Mr. Stu Bledsoe discussed "The State Legislature in Action" at the 5 April dinner meeting. Capt.

C A, Lippincott, District medical officer, gave a short brief on the new Navy Medicare Program, New members are hCdi. Darrell S. Chapman '51 of 1228 N. 191 St, Seattle; Mr. Robert Barnes "53, 2420 160th N.E., Bellevue, and Mr. George M. Rouzee '37, 31416 Century Blvd. S.W., Federal Way, Wash.

WASHINGTON, D. C. RAdm. Odale D. Waters, Oceanographer of the Navy, spoke on the newly kindled interest in the oceans of the world at the 15 March chapter meeting, held at the Army and Navy Club.

The class of '32 honored their classmate. Admiral Waters, by winning the most numerous pennant, although the average in attendance for '32 over the past few months has been low. The class of '06 was the senior one present and the class of '56 the junior.

RAdm. Frederick S. Whithington, president, announced that a nominating committee was presenting a slate of officers for the 1967-68 season.

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