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When space capsules come down to earth, who picks them up?

Attach all the importance you like to the exploration of space, you can't escape the fact that ships of the Navy play a tremendous supporting role.

Ships of the merchant fleet are equally vital to America's strength. And yet we remain dependent on foreign shipping for nearly 9 5 % of our imports and exports . . . because two-thirds of our merchant vessels are too old, too inefficient to compete effectively with newer foreign ships. Of 77 strategic materials we must import 66.

America's stake in the seas is no way secondary to her stake in outer space.

And the payoff is a lot more imminent.

Yet this nation continues to ignore Russia's enormous programs of maritime expansion. The Soviet fleet has added, on the average, 100 new merchant ships in each of the last five years.

Compare this with the recent U . S . average of just 15 new ships a year.

Consider, too, that within the next four years, more than 400 of our dry cargo ships will reach 25 years of age and should be scrapped. To ofl'set this attrition, U.S. shipbuilding programs must be enlarged.

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U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT X H E 28th of May, 1969, marks the end of my tour as President of the Alumni Association.

It has been a privilege, an honor, and an education. Also, there has been an element of luck in the timing of my tenure for I have had the assistance of my very able predecessor. Admiral Smedberg, and the assurance that the continuing responsibilities and the growth plans of the Association will be in the capable hands of a distinguished successor, Mr. Hanson Baldwin.

All of us—I, predecessor and successor—regard the knowledge, judgment and competence of the Executive Director, Admiral Fitzgerald, as the real key to intelligent and business-like administration of the affairs of the Association. And it would be an unpardonable oversight not to give a "well done" to the efficient and dedicated staff at Alumni House. & A word about the Trustees. This is no "tame board." They have been faithful in attendance, they represent an impressive variety of skills and experience and they have been unhesitatingly out-spoken—and wise—in discussions and the advancing of view^points. Which is as it should be; "yes men" are no help. The committees have all been working groups.

I believe I am justified in saying that in the past two years the Association's curve of I)rogress has continued its upward trend. Extrapolating further future growth, the staff has developed a Five-year Plan for phasing in the additional resources of space, equipment, personnel and funding needed for efficient operation of a growing and progressive service organization.

An electronic data processing ( E D P ) system has been installed with a view to handling administration matters which were on the verge of becoming too big and too complex for the staff to handle with the former manual efforts of individuals. The E D P system, with its data storage capacity and its extensive and swift recall, will be able to render quick response to the ever-wider range of queries to be expected from alumni elements, government agencies, and other organizations seeking relevant information. It permits of rapid mailings of particularized information or queries to specific addresses. In short, it vastly increases the services, qualitatively and quantitatively, which the Association can render to its members and to other properly interested agencies.

The 1969 R E G I S T E R O F A L U M N I is a product of the E D P system. This first effort at putting out t h e , R E G I S T E R is not without errors, but as statistical input is revised and polished, future R E G I S T E R S will be more comprehensive and useful than was heretofore possible.

As President of the Alumni Association I have been privileged to sit in at meetings of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors. The last report of the Board recommends that the President of the Alumni Association be an ex officio member of the Board. Navy's endorsed position on this point is quoted.

Board of Visitors. The Navy Department's position is that Admiral Carney's participation in Board of Visitors meetings under existing arrangements has proven so highly satisfactory that legislation need not be sought for ex officio status for the President of the Alumni Association. The Secretary of the Navy intends to nominate Admiral Carney to the President for full membership on the Board of Visitors next year.

It is my personal hope that in any case the Board will continue to accord the incumbent Association President the privilege of attending meetings of the Board of Visitors and its committees.

Specific instances of Alumni Association support to the Naval Academy have been reported by the Executive Direcor as they occurred. The quality and magnitude of such support depends on the strength of the membership and the financial strength of the Association—both factors having been targets attacked with some measure of success.

My successor, Hanson Baldwin, has long been a loyal and industrious worker in behalf of the Association and he has attained national stature as a keen, thorough, logical and articulate analyzer of strategic and military matters. H e brings high qualifications to the Presidency. To him, with confidence, I bequeath the unfinished business of my own regime, the Association goals which iiave already been set, and assurance of my support in his new undertakings toward ever better service by the Alumni Association.

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Assistant to the Executive Director RICHARD A. TEEL, '36 Capt. USN (Ret.)

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Editor R. B. DERICKSON '33 Capt. USN (Ret.)

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June 1969

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passage of 25 years and many a consignment to storage are the penciled-in boat lanes and anchors marking the various positions from which the ship carried out her missions.

OMAHA BEACH AN EPISODE OF NORMANDY

by V A d m . L. S. Sabin, USN (Ret.)

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Adm. Kirk's flagship, AUGUSTA, lies within a few thousand yards of Omaha Beach as landing craft after landing craft head for the boat lanes.

USS NEVADA'S turret one lets go a salvo to port.

FOREWORD IV/rR. S. E. Smith, in his excellent book about the U. S. Navy in World W a r II, expressed concern that a whole new generation had come along with little or no knowledge about a war that produced aw-esome Allied casualties and the incineration of six million people by the T h i r d Reich. This participant in that conflict not only shares Mr. Smith's concern generally but is also a bit concerned lest such a paucity of knowledge about the war lead to a conclusion that the whole bloody war was fought and won in the Pacific Ocean areas.

To be sure, it was in the Pacific that the United States Navy was the dominant service and performed the majority of its glorious deeds. Nevertheless, the United States Navy had some "stuff" in the Atlantic and European Theaters which contributed its fair share toward victory over the Axis, without which there would not have been any Allied victory at all. It is worth remembering that in World W a r II the United States, along with its Allies, was forced to fight the war on two fronts and they had to win on both fronts, for if they had lost on one most assuredly they would have lost on both.

The final Allied thrust at the heart of Europe which spelled defeat for Hitler began with the invasion of Western Europe over the beaches at Normandy. The battle for Omaha Beach was a vital episode for Normandy. T h e recollections set down in this piece are not intended to be a military analysis of that action. Rather, they are an account of some of the incidents in which this participant had a part. Hopefully, they may contribute something to the record, else there would be no point in setting them down. In any case, in this piece are some of the things this participant observed prior to and during that mighty project; and let no one say that Normandy was not a mighty project, nor that a lodgement on Omaha Beach was obtained without a bitter struggle. T h e r e were times when things were touch and go and there were times when they were no touch and no go. There were moments when frustration was the dominant emotion in nearly all of us. But there were no moments when we did not feel the inspiration of a calm, determined Force Commander, Rear Admiral James "Jimmy" Hall, who never doubted that the job could and would be done.

This piece is a part of a larger account we are attempting to do on Normandy as a result of collecting a number of incidents hitherto unpublished. If the few observations made herein, which indicate that everything did not go as planned, should cause a reader to lift an eyebrow, let us say that they are as nothing compared to those we included in our battle report. In that document we classified them under the JUNE

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more merciful term of "constructive criticisms." But we didn't get away with it. W h e n we called on our inspirational boss to bid him goodbye after we had received a change of orders, we found that our timing was bad. W e caught him reading our battle report. Fixing us with a stony stare, Admiral Hall said icily, "I have been reading your battle report and I am getting sicker by the moment." Then, with just the right amount of salt in his voice, he added, "After all, we won the damn battle, didn't we ?" " W e sure did. Admiral," we replied, "and nothing succeeds like success!"

I—THE CONCEPT ' T ' H E assault on the beaches at Normandy was a "combined operation"—that is, it was a military project which involved the armed forces of more than one nation. T h e code name for the overall operation was O V E R L O R D . F o r the amphibious phase of O V E R L O R D the code name was NEPTUNE. Before Neptune could plunge his trident into the sands of the Normandy beaches some preliminaries had to be worked out among the participating nations. One of the first priorities in these preliminaries was a determination of which theater of war, the Pacific or the European, would receive precedence on the calendar of Allied victory. The European theater won that one. Another decision of immediate importance was the matter of which nation would furnish the top commander. T h e United States won this one. A third and vitally important matter to be decided was the strategic plan for achieving victory in Europe. This one created quite a hassle for quite a spell.

Adm. Sabin's story is no review of history books and official reports. On the invasion armada's channel crossing and the approach to the coast of France Capt. Sabin commanded Assault Convoy 0-2 comprising the initial assault units, vessels embarking the UDTs, artillery, tanks, beach groups etc. His basic assignment was that of Commander Close Gunfire Support Group, made up of some 110 assorted rocket ships, gun ships and flak ships, and on D-day and for four days thereafter, with additional duty as the Task Force Commander's specially designated close-in observer, he was in the thick of the action. On D plus four Capt.

Sabin was suddenly and unexpectedly ordered to take over as Naval Officer in Charge of Beach Activities in which assignment he remained until he was relieved by RAdm. Wilkes several weeks later. This is a personal story of one who was there.

Adm. Sabin, Naval Academy class of 1921, has contributed a number of articles to past issues of Shipmate.

Our Force Commander, Rear Admiral Hall, saw the problem that was developing and he tried to alleviate it by making his staff planners available to his major subordinate commanders during the latter part of the planning phase. This was a great help, of course, but as his operations officer, Captain "Chick" Little, said at the time, "In our shop things change daily and what we tell you today may not be correct tomorrow. 'Then there are the problems of time and security.

You cannot spend all of your time here; we cannot give you all of our time and security keeps us from telling you everything." It did not matter much. At the task group level we got our documents ten days before the operation. Some of the lower echelons got theirs six days before in sealed envelopes not to be opened until after all units were sealed off in their assembly ports. So by the time we cut our own orders and our immediate subordinates theirs, there was so much paper that there wasn't enough time to get all of it around to the little fellows who had to do the job.

Above this cliff an enemy gun emplacement commanded a vital Omaha Beach and its water approaches. After a preliminary up by naval gunfire from the heavy bombardment group U. Rangers landed, scaled the steep heights and took the gun

sector of softening S. Army position.

When one recalls that our Pacific Fleet had been clobbered by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor and that Japan was exerting great pressure on us in the Pacific, he can understand the reluctance of United States military strategists to show much enthusiasm for the British strategic plan to first attain victory in Europe. U. S. strategists, already disappointed in the decision to make victory in Europe the first priority, pushed for a direct confrontation with Hitler's forces in Europe at the earliest practicable time to enable us to get on with a full effort against Japan. The British flatly rejected the U. S. proposal as impractical and too risky. Instead they proposed a peripheral concept of preliminary encirclement. The U. S. military strategists, while admitting that the British plan had considerable validity, still opposed it on the grounds that it would require large and time-consuming campaigns which would unduly delay commitment of a big part of United States industrial and military resources to the Pacific where they were sorely needed. The hassle ended when Sir Winston Churchill persuaded President Roosevelt to approve the British proposal after some minor modifications.

In brief, it was agreed to conduct a campaign to solidify North Africa for the Allies, to gain complete control of the Mediterranean Sea, to pierce Southern Europe through Sicily and Italy in order to force Italy's surrender, thus sealing off Hitler's southern perimeter, after which the final assault on the heart of the enemy's European forces would be launched through Western Europe over the beaches of an area to be later designated. The area ultimately designated was in the vicinity of the Cotentin Peninsula and the Carentan Delta over the beaches of Normandy.

II—THE PLAN IVTO military venture in history ever presented more difficult and more complex problems than those which were involved in the planning for Operation OVERLORD. It is probable, and a matter of somewhat dubious credit to the planners, that no military plan for a major undertaking was ever produced in such quantity and minute detail. Everything that could be thought of by everyone who was concerned with the planning was somewhere in some plan. Hence, all one had to do under any conceivable situation that might arise was to read and remember everything in the multitude of plans, orders, annexes, appendices, special instructions, references, modifications, changes and errata.

The probable deluge of papers was recognized by at least some of the high level commanders. For example, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, RN, the Allied Naval Commander-inChief, stated in the preface to his naval plan, "Since this is the largest operation in naval history . . . the plans are necessarily voluminous." That had to be the understatement of the planning phase.

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Directly related to the problem of too much paper was the problem of too much security. It seemed to many of us that a large number of the various documents having to do with the obvious could have been downgraded in security classification and could have been released to subordinate commands much earlier than they were. Of course, there were two pieces of information so sensitive to the success of the operation that they not only had to be withheld until the last possible moment, but they also had to be withheld from all those not having a "need-to-know" clearance of the utmost privilege—namely where and when it was going to happen. The number of locations suitable for Allied assault were necessarily limited and the enemy knew where these locations were. His problem was to learn which one. General Hans Speidel, who was Rommel's chief of staff and hence in a position to know, stated in his book, Invasion, that consideration had been given to the Normandy area as one of the possible Allied targets of attack and therefore one of the locations which must be defended. He also indicated that except for a broad range of dates within which the assault was possible, the Germans did not know exactly when the Allies were going to attack.

This participant is convinced that the enemy never did find out when we would attack until our invasion armada appeared off the coast of France. In fact, General Speidel wrote that some German intelligence sources actually named May 18, 1944, as the certain date of the invasion attempt. However, when that date came and passed without incident they concluded that D-day could not occur before August.

Ten days before sortie we drew our plans and orders after a final briefing aboard the Force flagship ANCON. After a look at the mountainous stacks of documents a Royal Navy captain sitting next to me whispered, "I say there, old boy, if we could just dump all that paper in the channel we could jolly well walk over to France!"

A S everyone knows, the top command for the operation went to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, U. S. Army, with the title of Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces.

Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Armies went to General Sir Bernard Montgomery; Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Navies went to Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay; Commanderin-Chief of the Allied Air Forces went to Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory. These three top service command assignments next under the Supreme Commander were British.

Reporting directly to Admiral Ramsay was Rear Admiral Addison E. Kirk, USN, with the title of Commander Western Naval Task Forces. Embarked with Admiral Kirk in his flagship AUGUSTA was General Omar Bradley, USA, Commander U. S. Army Expeditionary Forces. Admiral Kirk's immediate U. S. Navy subordinate force commanders were Rear Admiral James L. Hall, Commander Assault Force "O" in USS ANCON with Commander U. S. Army V Corps, Lieutenant General L. T. Gerow, USA, and Major General C. J. Huebner, USA, Commanding First U. S. Army Division and Rear Admiral Don P. Moon, USN, Commander Assault Force "U" with Major General J. L. Collins emS H I P M A T E

barked in BAYFIELD and Commodore Campbell D. Edgar, USN, Commander Follow-Up Force " B . " Omaha Beach was the objective for the assault by Force " 0 " and for the assault Rear Admiral Hall's command consisted essentially of the following A r m y and Navy components : ( a ) A landing force composed principally of elements of the United States A r m y V Corps and including the First U. S. Army Division plus two Regimental Combat Teams ( R C T ) . Supporting the landing force on the beach was a shore party commanded by Brigadier General William Hogue, USA, consisting of components of the Fifth and Sixth Engineers Brigade augmented by the Sixth and Seventh U . S. Navy Beach Battalions. T o coordinate Naval activities on the beach there was a unit called " N O I C " (Naval Officer in Charge) under command of Captain Chauncey Camp, USNR, taken over later in the proceedings by this writer. (b) A naval force consisting of nearly 700 various types of ships and amphibious units which included the following: 15 attack transports 78 close gunfire amphibious support craft 42 minesweepers 200 assault landing craft 300 amphibious ships, craft and special vessels of varying sizes, a variegated assortment of escorts including destroyers, frigates, submarine chasers, patrol craft, etc.

A heavy bombardment group composed of the following types: 2 U. S. battleships (TEXAS and NEVADA)

1 U. S. heavy cruiser (QUINCY) 1 British heavy cruiser (GLASGOW) 2 Free French light cruisers (GEORGES

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Plus a various assortment of trawlers, repair ships, hospital ships, service craft, rescue vessels, a pontoon drydock and other heavy equipment needed for the artificial harbor, etc.

The mission of Force " O " was to "Attack along the Vierreville-Colleville sector of the Normandy coast with the assigned Naval Forces, land embarked A r m y troops and equipment on designated beaches, establish necessary services for imloading follow-up convoys, coordinate construction of an artificial harbor and exploit all available facilities in the Carentan peninsula, in order to establish a firm lodgement on the continent of Europe for the conduct of future operations against the enemy."

The scheme of attack had been carefully worked out in a coordinated and meticulously prepared plan for a major amphibious assault. T h e gunnery and fire control plan prescribed a pre-landing heavy naval bombardment accompanied simultaneously by a beach saturation with bombs from the airplanes of the U. S. A r m y A i r C o r p s ; both to commence at H-hour minus 30 minutes and to be followed by a beach smothering rocket attack from the rocket ships of the Close Gunfire Support Group at two minutes before touchdown of the first wave. Small gunships of the Close Gunfire Support Group, stationed inshore as close as possible, were to engage targets of opportunity within their range. Subsequent fire support from the Heavy Bombardment Group, destroyers and the craft of the Close Gunfire Support Group was to be rendered against targets called for by the shore firecontrol party or beachmaster and against targets of opportunity. Flak ships, equipped with Bofors 40mm guns, were to engage enemy aircraft in augmentation of the Force Anti-Aircraft Defense.

The firecontrol plan was excellently conceived. Unfortunately it did not work exactly as planned.

The plan of assault called for the approach to the various landing beaches to be made through 16 marked boat channels previously cleared of obstacles by members of the Underwater Demolition Teams ( U D T ) , more commonly known in the amphibious trade as "Frogmen." This was a good plan, too, which also did not go as planned.

To gain an initial lodgement on the beaches, two R C T were to launch a frontal attack, with one on the right flank and the other on the left flank, with each employing two of its three battalions for the initial attack, holding the third J U N E ,

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This limited view of Omaha Beach shows unloading, beached LSTs and a small part of the Allied shipping anchored or lying off and waiting to rid themselves of their much-needed cargoes. Bottlenecks and difficulties were greatly relieved when the MULBERRY commenced functioning. The purpose of the barrage balloons was to discourage any low flying enemy aircraft.

battalion for immediate follow-up. Nine of the twelve Army Ranger Companies were to participate in the initial assault with three left for special assignments. A group of specially designed and supposedly supersecret weapons called " D D " tanks ( D D for dual delivery), equipped with flotation gear, were to be launched from their parent L C T s and propel themselves into the beach with guns blazing to clear the way for landing conventional tanks and artillery. (This little innovation to amphibious warfare didn't work either.) Finally, certain rifle companies and designated special service units were to land on call. Since the plan of assault was based on sound military concepts it succeeded despite some anxious moments before the lodgement was effected.

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U S T to let us know that we were not being neglected prior to the invasion, the enemy dropped over in airplanes on bombing attacks regularly at night. Their targets for the most part appeared to be in the London and Portland complexes, but occasionally they hit other areas of military concentrations.

On the night of 27-28 May they hit Start Bay at Norcross and also Portland, disabling several L C T s and causing some disruptions in loading due to necessary substitutions.

For the cross channel movement. Force " O " comprised five convoys, two of which (Convoys 0 - 1 and 0 - 2 ) were the assault forces and the other three ( 0 - 3 , 4 and 5) were followup convoys.

As one of two collateral assignments, in addition to our basic command of the close gunfire support group, the Force Commander had assigned us command of Convoy 0 - 2 . This was accurately dubbed the "Slow Convoy." It was composed of about 300 assorted naval units, the majority of them keelless, flatbottomed, barge-like craft which, under a combat load and with wide open throttle, could go whizzing along at six knots. Its designated speed of advance was five knots, leaving one big whole knot in reserve for emergencies!

June 5, 1944, had originally been designated as D-day but, as those who were there will remember, it was postponed 24 hours—with some unhappy consequences for Convoy 0 - 2 .

This rather important information was not received by Convoy 0 - 2 until we were at sea and well on our way—one section under command of Captain Will D. Wright, out of Portland, and the other, under my command, out of Poole. My section received the message four hours after we had sortied and about three miles from the rendezvous point of the two sections. T h e message to delay 24 hours was " P O S T M I K E O N E " and it came to us unenciphered, probably because previous efforts to reach us had failed. This message reached us in the foulest kind of weather with the convoy struggling in

Hardly a night passed that enemy aircraft didn't make an effort to break up the operation. In each case the intensity of anti-aircraft fire from the ships of the invasion fleet set up a pyrotechnic display of tracers that would be hard to describe.

a howling gale, driving rain and heavy seas. We broke radio silence to get a signal through to the convoy to reverse course and even that was a major accomplishment. We were so busy praying that the turn-around would be successful that we forgot momentarily about Wright and his section. By the time we got around to thinking about him, we had lost one large LCT, one L C V P ( L ) (Landing Craft Personnel, Large) and one PC (Patrol Craft). The LCT, No. 2049, managed to get oft' a signal, "I am foundering. Immediate help needed."

Miraculously, all personnel in the three craft were rescued but the equipment went to the bottom of the English Channel where it probably still remains.

After completing our turn-around we began wondering whether Wright had received the postponement. Amphibious ships and craft were not noted for tlie excellence of their communication equipment. So we sent an escort to intercept him to be sure that he didn't go on over and attack the coast of France all by himself. Wright had the same concern about us. He sent a destroyer to intercept us and keep our section from blowing the whistle on the whole project. It was a rather interesting exercise in ESP. Like the ill wind, the postponement had one good result for our side. Convoy 0-2 got two more escorts and Force "O" two more wave control boats. Just the day before we sortied for the first time, two submarine chasers (SC) arrived in Poole from the United States with orders to report to us for duty. It is hard to believe, but neither of the skippers had been briefed. Neither knew anything about the operation and neither had made any preparations for it. When they were informed of their assignments the senior skipper said, "We are useless for these assignments. Neither ship has been magnetically flashed, both have leaky hulls, we have no depth charges for our Y-guns and no ammo for our machine guns.

We have no MERSIG signal books, my ship has one engine out of commission and number 1291 picked up a steel wire coming in here which is wrapped around a propeller." This on the eve of the greatest amphibious assault in history! By dint of great efforts, including wonderful cooperation from the Royal Navy Repair Facility at Poole, the SCs were ready for the next sortie.

'T'HE Force Commander had conducted a rehearsal for Op-*- eration NEPTUNE, called Exercise FABIUS, in the U. K. at Slapton Roads. Out of FABIUS came some important lessons, one of which was of immediate concern to us. Exercise FABIUS verified a suspicion, first mentioned to us by Captain Miles Imlay, U. S. Coast Guard and a superb officer with whom we had served in the Mediterranean campaigns, that unless the intervals between convoy arrivals in the objective area were expanded, serious confusion and disorder would 10

occur. Prior to the critique following FABIUS, Imlay brought up the problem and we agreed to "carry the ball" at the critique. Pointing out that the transports in the Fast Convoy ( 0 - 1 ) , followed by Imlay's LCI(L)s, were scheduled to arrive in the objective area just ahead of the van of the-Slow Convoy ( 0 - 2 ) , we stated that there could be trouble even with perfect timing. In the wake of the transports, Imlay's flotilla would be moving around 0-2 about the time that the van of that Slow Convoy was arriving. At the same time, the Heavy Bombardment Group with two battleships, two heavy cruisers and two light cruisers plus their escorting destroyers, under Rear Admiral Carleton F. Bryant, would be moving through the small craft to the swept channel enroute to their assigned stations. Wave control boats would be breaking off trying to locate the units in their waves and position them in the assembly areas and at the line of departure. Attack LCTs loaded with the supersecret DD tanks, LCTs with conventional tanks and armor and those towing LCMs loaded with UDT personnel and equipment would be splitting off from the Slow Convoy, half of them trying to carry out orders to proceed around the transports to seaward while the remainder tried to hold position near the flank. All of this, we pointed out, was going to take place in pre-dawn darkness at a time of very lowest visibility, under strict radio silence with all ships blacked out and every unit operating on a schedule so tight that even a slight error in times of arrival at their designated stations could throw the entire operation into a confused melee. In supporting us, Imlay and Wright both added, in essence, that FABIUS had demonstrated that it was not a question of whether confusion would occur but whether confusion would be chaos.

The Force Commander considered our recommendation to increase the arrival intervals but, on advice from his staff, he turned it down. His disapproval was based on the logical reasoning that precise timing was of over-riding importance in order to permit the landing craft to discharge their loads, retract and get clear to permit subsequent waves to go in before being caught by the change in tide and dried out.

Convinced that if the confusion got out of hand, landing times would be adversely affected anyway, we worked out an alternative plan in which Captain Wright, riding in an LST in the van of Convoy 0-2, would take tactical command and bring the van of the convoy into the objective area as nearly as possible on time. We would nurse the ships of the Close Gunfire Support Group plus the combat loaded LCTs on the flank to a point called KING TWO, between the assembly area and the Line of Departure (LOD). The remainder of the LCTs would proceed around the transports as planned and if Captain Imlay observed them in any trouble he would break off from his L C I ( L ) s and guide the LCTs across unswept waters to KING TWO. Captain Wright would attempt to shepherd all units of the convoy coming into the area behind the van and direct them to their proper stations.

We thought it was a good alternative to the basic plan but as it turned out no plan would have worked in the mess we found ourselves.

TX^RIGHT brought the van of Convoy 0-2 into the objective area about five minutes late, a remarkable feat under existing circumstances of adverse weather, currents and the types of units in the convoy. However, the van was but one part of a convoy which stretched out some 15 miles with its rear units still three hours away from the objective area. The transports, which were supposed to have arrived just ahead of Convoy 0-2, were 35 minutes late, due partly to tangling with the tail of our convoy and partly because the minesweepers were late in sweeping a channel for them. Thus they had to stop, and in view of this unforeseen situation, we directed Captain Wright to stop Convoy 0-2 in order to allow the transports to move ahead of our units before we got hopelessly tangled up with them. Wright questioned the order, and properly so, because any experienced amphibian, or for that matter any seaman, knows that flat bottomed, keelless vessels cannot remain stopped in the open sea for any appreciable time without drifting and becoming scattered. We knew this; but SHIPMATE

we also knew that the transports, already late, had to reach their assigned positions in time to lower and disembark their troops into their own landing craft on schedule. It was our hope that the transports would get clear before Convoy 0 - 2 was disrupted to the point of getting out of hand. Unfortunately, things got very much out of hand.

Convoy 0 - 2 began to scatter. W h a t was already a loose, straggly formation at best became a widely separated, disoriented and disorganized hodgepodge of landing craft. Meanwhile, the rear units of the convoy were piling into the area not knowing where to go and posing serious risks of collisions.

Going alongside W r i g h t ' s L S T headquarters ship and using a bull horn, we told him to hell with our alternative plan. T h e only thing we could do was to round up our straying herd before they drifted on to the beaches and threw the entire assault into one god-awful mistake. W r i g h t said that he would try to keep together the units he had already corraled while we found as many of the others as possible, either directing them back to him or sending them to their assembly points.

Unable to contact Imlay, we could only hope that he had already sized up the situation and was taking direct action.

That is exactly what that splendid Coast Guard officer was doing.

Among military men there is a popular ditty designed to solve all problems of confusion and disorder. It goes something like this: When in danger or in doubt.

Rim in circles, yell and shout.

We first heard that little jingle when we were a plebe midshipman at the Naval Academy, but we never thought that there would come a time when we would put it to serious use. Yet that was exactly what was done off Omaha Beach in the pre-dawn darkness of D-day on June 6, 1944. W e ran in ever widening circles while we yelled and shouted through our bull horn, " W h o are you ? W h a t is your number ? Your course is 'so and so.' Get going." W e chased landing craft all over the coast of Normandy. I n the pitch black night some were trying desperately to reorient themselves, others were heading toward anything that loomed up (hoping it was friendly!) while still others were just aimlessly drifting, wishing someone would find them and tell them where to go.

The situation would have been ludicrous had it not been so frightening. Many of those landing craft were loaded with the most important personnel and equipment in the initial assault. T h e frogmen with all the tools of their trade were in LCMs under tow of the drifting LCTs, D D tanks and conventional tanks and artillery were in other L C T s , wave control officers in their small boats, rocket ships required for the beach barrage and so on. W i t h almost zero visibility, methods of orientation were poor and hazards of collision high. No coordinated assault on Omaha Beach was going to be made without those units. If the assault was uncoordinated and "just happened," with units reaching the wrong beaches at the wrong times, there wasn't going to be any assault—period !

With exceptional luck the round-up was completed just before dawn with three artillery L C T s , one D D tank loaded LCT, one gun ship and two rocket ships still missing. They were found after first light but did not arrive on station in time to participate in the initial assault. F o r the D D tanks in the lost L C T it was a fortuitous happenstance. The skipper was forced to land the tanks on the beach thus enabling them to escape the disasters suffered by most of the others. A few of the units got in the wrong waves at the L O D and landed on the wrong beaches causing the A r m y some headaches and some bellyaches to the beachmaster. But, compared to what might have been, the situation had been brought under reasonable control with our biggest assistance coming from an early dawn and a long morning twilight.

Our able and sometimes cryptic operations officer, Lieutenant Robert Lee Smith, U S N R , summed the whole thing up rather neatly when he commented, "The arrival of Assault Force ' O ' in the objective area off Omaha Beach on D-day was an unmitigated mess which we were just plain lucky to get away w i t h ! " JUNE,

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The ebbing tide reveals the obstructions which accounted for the loss of many landing craft. Capable of snogging or holing any vessel that struck them, their effectiveness was augmented by attached explosives and buried mines. In the foreground are some personnel and vehicle casualties.

IV—THE ASSAULT T H H E R E is a long morning twilight off the Normandy coast •*- in early June, a phenomenon in that part of the world which worked well for the personnel of Force " O " who were trying to clear away the confusion of the pre-dawn hours.

Under almost any conditions the dawn of a new day is refreshing and it surely was in our case. The darkness had been dissipated and along with it our serious concerns of the previous few hours. The first bright streaks of light had given us a lift. W e felt good just as one generally does when he is bathed in the fresh atmosphere of early dawn.

The situation appeared to be shaping up well, so, in accordance with the second collateral task which had been assigned to us by the Force Commander, we donned our special inshore observer's cap and set out for the Line of Departure. W e arrived at 0540, exactly 50 minutes before H-hour. All the way to the L O D we had the feeling that the enemy was being either very generous not to interfere with our activities, or, unbelievably, he was not aware that we had gathered in his front yard for a bit of fireworks. H e had given no indication that he had observed us and up to then it had been just like one of our exercises. Actually, it was incredible. H o w could it be possible for a naval armada of the size and composition of Assault Force " O " to approach within a few miles of a fortified enemy coast without opposition or even deteclion?

But there we were getting ready to blast the daylights out of the place and the enemy hadn't even given one sign that he was concerned. H e hadn't sounded off nor had he shown. There was not a sound from the beach nor from any place else except for the unmuffled engines of our landing craft and the salty comments of the wave control officers as they herded their charges along the L O D . It was real quiet—so quiet that on our bridge we found ourselves talking in whispers as though the enemy might hear us and wake up.

W i t h 45 minutes still remaining until H-hour, we began moving in slowly towards the beachline to reconnoitre the inshore situation. Just east of Beach DOG G R E E N we could see the concrete wall which had appeared on our overlays and with binoculars we could see openings in the wall which we surmised were—and later proved to be—gun ports. The steeple of the Catholic church at Vierreville, also on our intelligence overlays, stretched upward like a finger pointing to the sky.

To the left on top of the hill overlooking the beach we saw a few houses and about a third of the way down the slope of the hill we could make out pill boxes and what appeared to be concrete gun positions. Along most of the beachline were barbed wire impediments which, we assumed, were boobytrapped. Every officer and man on our bridge was searching

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the area for some sign of life, but, except for a mongrel dog scampering along the top of the hill, there was none. N o r was there any sound except the beat of our diesel .engines and the swish of our propeller wash.

W e relayed the results of this first "look-see" by flashing light to the Force Commander and to the wave control officers.

On our way back to the L O D we received a pre-arranged flag hoist signal that the guns of the small gun ships were loaded and ready and that the rockets in the rocket craft were on their pads with switches on full salvo and ready to go.

Zero hour was approaching for the Air Corps bombers and the opening salvos from the Heavy Bombardment Group. As the minutes ticked off tension mounted. By now the enemy had to knovir we were out there and that we had not just dropped in for a friendly call. Thousands of eyes searched the enemy's shores for some sign of reaction, but there was none. H e just kept quiet and did nothing.

A T precisely six o'clock the eerie silence was shattered by a deafening roar. T h e big guns of the Heavy Bombardment Group had opened up on schedule. W e wondered how the Frenchmen in GEORGES LEGUES and MONTCALM felt as they

hurled bullets on their homeland. F o r the rest of us it was an inspiring spectacle and for this spectator, personally, it was a scene filled with emotion and pride. Among those great ships was the United States Battleship NEVADA and as I watched her big 14-inch rifles belching forth fire and smoke my mind went back two and a half years to Pearl Harbor and another scene. A t that time we had watched in horror as NEVADA floundered helplessly in the channel while taking a terrible mauling from the bombs of Japanese aircraft. T h e Japanese had good reason to believe that they had scratched her from any further combat usefulness. But here she was, half way round the world from Pearl Harbor, with her battle ensign again proudly flying and her guns again roaring in angry answer to another challenge to freedom.

In the midst of the bombardment Lieutenant Smith shouted, "Where a r e the airplanes?" It was a question no one could answer at the time. Not one bomb was dropped on Omaha Beach by our airplanes during the assault. Later we heard that the bombers did come over but, due to faulty navigation, their bombs were dropped harmlessly on vacant land inland.

O u r troops would not have walked across the beach at their leisure, as an A i r Corps general had promised at the briefing, even if the bombs had found their targets. It is probable, however, that the initial lodgement would not have entailed quite such a bitter struggle.^ T h e initial assault waves had been despatched from the L O D and were on their way to their designated beaches during the bombardment. A s the landing craft in the first wave reached 12

a point about 200 yards from touchdown, approximately 6,000 rockets left their pads on the rocket ships. F i r i n g these rockets at the proper time was a heavy responsibility for young reserve officer Lieutenant E d Carr, in command of the rocket ship division. T h e launch time was a minute and half before touchdown—provided a constant speed and course were maintained by the craft in the first wave. Carr had to ensure that the rockets were fired at the last possible safe time but not so late as to endanger our own troops. H e did just that. However, due to excessive dispersion, the rockets inflicted very little damage on the enemy. They did pay some dividends; they acted as a temporary harassing agent to the enemy and, in the absence of the air attack, they were a morale booster for the troops who were in the first waves. I t was the last morale boost those troops, boat coxswains and beach personnel were going to get for h o u r s ; for the enemy finally let us know that he knew we were there and that if we wanted Omaha Beach we were going to have to pay for it. " P V E N without opposition, making a touchdown on Omaha Beach was not the easiest assignment. Irregular contours and currents between the L O D and the beachline had caused numerous runnels and floor rises under the surface of the water. Many of the landing craft struck the rises and were grounded on them. Unable to retract, the troops were forced to disembark several hundred yards from the beach. Under the heavy load of their combat packs some of the soldiers fell or stumbled into the deeper runnels where they were drowned.

Others struck booby-trapped obstacles and were blown to bits.

Those who managed to discard their packs and swim or wade ashore were immediately pinned down by enemy gunfire. In dire need of tank support and artillery fire on the beach, the troops were unable to get it because the landing of tanks and artillery had been stopped.

T h e decision of the wave control officers to stop the landing of tank and artillery loaded L C T s was due to unacceptable losses from enemy gunfire, especially mortar fire, and to the hazards of underwater obstacles in uncleared boat channels.

As measured by military standards the intensity of enemy gunfire would have been classified as moderate, but its accuracy was excellent. Enemy mortars were particularly effective and seemed to be zeroed in on their targets every time they let go. L C T s which escaped being hit by gunfire but which tangled with underwater obstacles had holes blown in their hulls and foundered. Under those conditions the wave control officers notified the Force Commander that they were stopping the advance of follow-up waves.

Failure to open all designated boat channels was costly but it could not be blamed on the U D T . This valiant corps of Navy supersailors simply did not have the time to complete their job. They were delayed in starting because of the melee and confusion on arrival in the objective area and when they were able to commence their dangerous task they were slowed by the clever, intricate and hazardous system of underwater obstacles which the Germans had devised. Successive rows of high explosive hedgerows were paralleled by lines of stick detonators, each interspersed at varying intervals with boobytrapped wire mesh and with shallow mines imbedded in the sand. No one works in haste amid that sort of surroundings, not even experts—and Navy Frogmen are experts. Even so, they performed a heroic task. By H-hour they had succeeded in opening five channels and clearing three channels partially.

1 There is no intention here to derogate the tremendous contribution to victory in Europe made by our gallant Army Air Corps.

They eventually submerged the Nazi Air Force as a threat to our advancing armies. Nevertheless, this incident emphasizes two factors of utmost importance to maximum effectiveness of a major amphibious assault. First it points up the need for Navy aircraft carriers as an integral part of the assault force and, second, it emphasizes the importance of direct control by the assault force commander over all aircraft entering, operating in or leaving the objective area. With Naval Air as an integral component of his force the commander has this control and he also has the means for maintaining a continuous combat air patrol over his force as an important element of his defense against enemy air attack.

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Nevertheless, of the sixteen channels designated for clearance, half of them had not been cleared at all and a third of them only partially cleared. With landing craft halted between the LOD and the seaward edge of the obstacles, the troops and beach personnel who had already landed were in a precarious position.

Contributing to the unhappy conditions was the disaster suffered by the so-called supersecret DD tanks, a Britishconceived innovation to amphibious warfare which was a complete flop. The tanks were mounted in a canvas arrangement called "bloomers" with rubber flotation gear. The idea was to inflate the bloomers and flotation gear, launch the tanks from their parent craft after which they would propel themselves into the beach with guns blazing. Once ashore, the bloomers would be discarded and the land tractor system of propulsion would take over. Unfortunately, almost none of them ever reached the beach. They either capsized when launched, sprang leaks and sank or were destroyed by enemy gunfire. It might be added that the carefully guarded secret of those washouts was no secret at all. Captured enemy documents revealed that they were known down to the last minute detail. Isometric sketches had even been made by the enemy showing their more vulnerable points.

While the UDT were working feverishly to clear additional boat channels to allow more waves to move in, the shore party was urgently requesting fire support to knock out enemy batteries while at the same time sending warnings of probable heavy losses to follow-up waves. The wave control officers were understandably cautious about releasing additional waves not alone from what they were hearing from the beach, but from what they could see with their own eyes. What they could see was that anything that came inside the 1500-yard beach markers was immediately subjected to punishing gunfire. This was a dilemma facing the Force Commander. On the one hand, if the troops pinned down on the beach were going to be able to advance they would need immediate tank and artillery support. On the other hand, if the tank and artillery loaded LCTs could not land without imacceptable losses they could not be sent in.

A BOUT H plus five hours we received a message from the Force Commander requesting a situation report. Turning inshore, we moved to about a thousand yards off the beach where we were taken under immediate fire. At 500 yards we paralleled the beach, zigzagging at maximum speed. We saw our troops on the beach, the dead lying still and the living digging into the sand. Machine gun fire from the pill boxes was quite heavy and it was accompanied by intermittent artillery fire coming from emplacements in openings in the hill. Mortar fire, still moderate but increasing in intensity, was deadly accurate and was causing by far the greater part of our casualties. It seemed apparent to us that if our troops were to advance at all, that mortar fire would have to be silenced and soon. We thought there might be a possibility that our troops could advance under a rocket barrage, so, with two rocket ships (the lost lambs) still loaded we sent a message to the Force Commander requesting permission to lay down the barrage. It was promptly refused with an additional order in the reply to proceed to the Force flagship immediately and make a personal report.

On the flag bridge with Admiral Hall when we arrived were Generals Gerow and Huebner. After briefing the situation as we saw it we repeated our request to lay down the rocket barrage. It was again refused. We did not think so then but later we realized that Admiral Hall's decision was correct. In those days the firecontrol equipment for rocket fire, especially those mounted in landing craft, was crude at best. Accuracy of fire was far from pinpoint as had been demonstrated a few hours earlier. Adding to the hazards to our own troops was the high incidence of premature explosions in the rockets. Undoubtedly, our people would have suffered casualties and this was Admiral Hall's concern. He figured that they had had enough casualties from the enemy without suffering any more from us.

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A ship of the Close Gunfire Support Group and two LCVPs maneuver to take troops and crew off a damaged landing croft.

General Gerow wanted to know what the chances were of getting more tanks on the beach. We said that if they were sent in some of them, of course, would get through but the casualties would be heavy. General Huebner asked why the small gunships could not get at the mortars. We replied that the mortar locations were not accurately known and, further, that their apparent locations were out of the gunships' range.

We suggested calling in some bombers if the Admiral had any on immediate call but the press of time ruled this out even if they were available.

Throughout the conversation everyone except Admiral Hall seemed to be tense, worried and disturbed. Perhaps he was too, but if so, he never showed it. In his calm manner he kept insisting that the enemy was not going to stop the landings and that final victory would be only a matter of time. I recall his saving to no one in particular, "I did not come here to fail.'"

As the discussion was ending, a message came in from the shore party giving the coordinates of the mortar locations.

Admiral Hall immediately passed this information to Admiral Bryant, commanding the Heavy Bombardment Group of Force "O," with orders to destroy the mortars. Then, to fill the gap of tank and artillery support, he decided to turn Captain Harry Sanders, Commander Destroyer Squadron 18, loose with a division of destroyers. This turned out to be redundant as Harry had already anticipated the order and had swung his DDs inshore as close as possible at high speed where, under a protective cloak of heavy smoke, he opened up with a blaze of five-inch gunfire.

Taking advantage of the smoke screen, the little gunships moved in to the beach to take targets of opportunity under fire—meaning to engage anything from which enemy gunfire seemed to be coming. One of them, unable to find a target he could reach, moved a few miles to the east where, of all things, he found a small Nazi merchantman hiding in a cove.

He promptly sank it. Although this action had absolutely nothing to do with enemy resistance, it must have made the crew feel good as evidenced by the message the skipper sent us. "Have just removed one Nazi coaster from Hitler's merchant fleet. No survivors. They all jumped over the side and made it to the beach."

Meanwhile a company of Army Rangers, attempting to open exits behind the seawall, were getting a rough deal from German machine gun nests in the steeple of the Catholic church. The Rangers requested naval fire support and Captain Sanders directed Commander George Palmer in the destroyer HARDING to silence the enemy machine guns. Palmer complied by the simple expedient of knocking most of the steeple off the church. In fact, between the guns of the Heavy Bombardment Group and Captain Sanders' destroyers, things were becoming so uncomfortable for the enemy that the troops were now advancing and follow-up landings were resumed.

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^^ W e noticed an L C T about a half mile off the beach apparently in trouble. H e signalled us that he had a load of wounded Rangers and was en route to a hospital ship when one of his engines broke down. Going alongside, we started transferring the wounded to our headquarters L C I ( L ) . As the last soldier, mortally wounded in the throat, was being passed over to us, an enemy battery of two 90-millimeter guns opened up on us. T h e first two shots were just over and the next two just short. Since we were dead in the water it was a lead pipe cinch the next two would be right on top of us. So we ordered the L C T skipper to cast us off and we moved out at full speed. Both shots from the next salvo landed in the slick we had just left and the following two shots struck the stern of the L C T .

T h e situation was becoming more optimistic by the hour just as Admiral Hall had predicted. Pressure on the enemy was steadily increasing as additional tanks and artillery were landed. Exits from the beach on the right flank had been opened by the Rangers through which troops were pouring inland. By midnight of D-day the Army had landed a sufficient number of units ashore to form a line from the Vierreville Saint Laurent sector to a point just south of Colleville.

Follow-up waves were landing forces over the beaches and by noon of the next day Admiral Hall could safely report that Force " O " had established a firm lodgement on Omaha Beach. If the subsequent build-up of men and material came as planned, the Allies were on the continent to stay. Admiral Hall's calm confidence in ultimate success had been justified.

"U^ARIOUS explanations have been given regarding the German army division which was encountered near the Omaha Beach area. Some said it was there for refresher t r a i n i n g ; others said that it was a part of the regular coastal defense system; while still others said it wasn't there at all.

I n Paris in 1959 while attending a N A T O conference, the author asked a German army officer, Brigadier General von Templehoff, if he could shed any light on it. H e said that an additional army division had been ordered to augment the German coastal defense and that he thought it was the 2nd Panzer Division, but he did not know exactly where it had been sent. General Speidel indicates in his book, Invasion, that this particular division had been stationed back of the immediate lines of defense as a mobile reserve to bolster the coastal defense system.

T h e Germans had put up a stiff fight, making the Allies pay a hard price for what they gained. In military parlance casualties are classified as light, moderate and heavy. T h e author has not researched the total number of casualties, dead and wounded, incurred by Force " O " as a whole. If the losses suffered by his own basic command, the Close Gunfire Support Group, is any criterion they were by no means light.

In our command alone we had 67 men killed or wounded, 12 ships sunk and 15 with light to heavy damage.

IVrO account of the action at Omaha Beach should fail to mention the men who transported and constructed the M U L B E R R Y artificial harbor and who laid the G O O S E B E R R Y breakwater. Under the driving leadership of Captain Dayton Clark this was a fabulous accomplishment. Clark spared neither himself nor his men from the time those big clumsy units were towed across the channel to the completion of the harbor. By ten o'clock on the morning of D-day, while the outcome of the battle for a lodgement was still in doubt, the anchor ship for the G O O S E B E R R Y breakwater (the obsolete British battleship C E N T U R I O N ) was sunk in place.

Simultaneously, the construction of the artificial harbor was started. Dredges were working, steel pylons driven home and Lobnitz piers were butted and strapped. A great harbor was springing up where there had been only water. Contributing their magnificent talents to this project, as they did all over the world, were those wizards with tools, the Seabees. It was sad to see most of their work demolished two weeks after D-day by the greatest storm ever to visit the Normandy coast.2 14

By D-day plus three, Omaha Beach had been secured for the Allied forces. Post D-day activities were in full swing and they represent a full story in themselves. Except for the enemy skip bombers by day and the high level bombers by night, combat for the beach personnel and forces afloat had ended. T h e difficulties, however, had not ended. Lost invoices of follow-up convoys, a huge logjam of shipping in the harbor that threatened the success of the invasion itself, the destruction wreaked upon the entire project by the great storm . . . all of these and more were part of the post D-day activities.

Yet despite all difficulties Omaha Beach, along with Utah, Gold, Juno and Sword, remained firmly in Allied hands to become the great channel base through which continuous build-ups of men and material would flow as the life blood of the armies penetrating the heart of Western Europe.

A N Y assessment of a battle, or a war, will depend on the parameters used. These in turn will vary with the purpose of the assessment. I t is not unreasonable, in this writer's opinion, to assess the Battle for Omaha Beach, as well as the Allied victory in World W a r II as a whole, in terms of its future meaning. T h e conflict of forces which were engaged in Europe during World W a r I I was caused by the rise of the Nazi-Fascist philosophies of totalitarian governments whose rulers were not content to keep their philosophies within their own borders. T h e blood spilled on Omaha Beach and throughout the entire European Theater by Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen was shed to prevent those philosophies of totalitarianism from engulfing other nations, including our own. Unfortunately for the nations of the Free World, the war brought an undesirable ally into our camp—an ally in the form of the Soviet Union with an ideology of totalitarian government far more vicious in its objective to rule the world than that which we had just defeated, and far more dangerous to the peace and comfort of the world because of its determination to exploit the suffering endured in the war by both its former allies and its former enemies.

Our political masters should take a good, hard look at the events of history during the 25 years preceding World War I I and the 25 years since our great armadas appeared off the coast of Normandy. Such a cold, hard look might be helpful to them and to us all in making up our minds where, when and how our nation is going to stop the advance of communism before it does indeed dominate the whole world.

In the past half century over two billion people and nearly half the world's real estate have been brought either directly or indirectly under the domination of a communist government. It is incomprehensible that the once strongest and most powerful nation in the world, whose people of all people should know the values of freedom, could adopt and continue a policy of appeasement, or retreat and surrender of principle to expediency in the face of the gravest threat to its freedom in all of its history. It now seems to be our custom to find a way to avoid the challenge to our freedom while World Communism creeps steadily onward towards its determined goal of world domination without paying the slightest bit of attention to what the Free World thinks or does.

2 The great storm struck on June 19 and for three days all operations came to a standstill. After the storm Admiral Kirk held a conference aboard his flagship AUGUSTA to assess the damage and to make plans for resuming operations. On June 10 I had taken over the duties of NOIC on the beach from Captain Camp and, along with the rest of the beach personnel, had had little or no sleep for three days. All of us "Beach Boys" were therefore a bit testy so when some remarks were made by one of my most revered and respected senior officers which seemed to reflect on the performance of the beach personnel, my testiness blew a gasket. I deserved, and fully expected, that Admiral Kirk would boot me out of the conference but he didn't. After a mild admonishment and an apology from me he let me take a bath in his cabin in the tub installed for President Roosevelt and directed his staff medico to prescribe some medicinal spirits with orders to "share this with Clark and Wright." I not only shared it with them, but even let Brigadier General Hogue have "a couple of snorts of that prescription I" S H I P M A T E

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Loebnitz piers and causeway before and after the storm.

Fifty-two years ago this writer was sworn in as a midshipman in the United States Navy at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. One of the great memories he has carried throughout his life is the spine-tingling inspiration he felt during his first visit to Memorial Hall when he read the words "Don't give up the ship." He never dreamed that there would come a day when he would learn that a public vessel of the United States Government under commission to the United States Navy would be surrendered on the high seas to foreign boarders without even a good fight. If this is to be the pattern of the future wherever our rights and our national honor are challenged, then the blood spilled on Omaha Beach and all during our past history must be a vainless sacrifice and without any profit from the knowledge of what has gone before.

It isn't as if we have had no warning of what is happening.

Without taking any firm steps to stop the threat to our liberty, present living generations of our people have watched as a once proud and free people gradually surrender their birthright of freedom. And most distressing of all, there are people in our nation today who are actually participating in the destruction of their own freedom.

"He who knows not what has gone before remains forever a fool." So wrote Lord Henry Bolingbroke, a 17th century English statesman. We cannot plead ignorance of what has gone before for we have seen it happen. Of us, then, some future Bolingbroke may well write, "He who knows but fails to heed what has gone before deserves to remain forever a fool."

The U. S. Navy's older battleships (OBBs) played a vital role in providing an indispensable and telling heavy gunfire support. Here the ARKANSAS " u n loads one through the muzzle."

The Director of Naval History has no more than a very few photographs of this important element of the Normandy operation and will appreciate hearing from individuals who might be able to fill in this gap from their own collections.

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The breakwater formed of sunken ships to seaward of the MULBERRY harbor facilities offered some protection and perhaps prevented total destruction from the storm of 19-22 June. Breaking up a heavy sea in this Coast Guard photo one sees a part of the main deck and a barbette of the old British battleship CENTURION.

THE NAVAL ACADEMY MEMORIAL FUND

by Rear Admiral James Calvert, U. S. Navy

P VER since my arrival at the Naval Academy in the summer of 1968, I have felt the need for a fund which is authorized to receive financial donations for the Academy without the legal requirement of formal acceptance by the Secretary of the Navy, and which is free of the legal restraints placed on funds received in that manner. West Point has a fund which accomplishes these aims and which has been in operation since 1961. It has a net worth at present in excess of five hundred thousand dollars and has already accomplished projects for the Military Academy in excess of eight hundred thousand dollars.

Members of the Board without specific administrative duties—Captain Donn L. Ashley, CEC, USN, Public Works Officer Mr. Albert J. Goodman of the Annapolis law firm of Goodman and Bloom For the present, all authority for the control of expenditures is vested in the Board of Directors.

On the 14th of April, I met with Rear Admiral W. F. Fitzgerald, Jr., USN (Ret.), Executive Director of the Alumni Association, Mr. J. Pierre Bernard, Class of 1923, and Commander Harold R. Tall,

Allen Photographic Service Looking west at the Naval Academy's presently planned new library. Maury Hall is seen at the far left. An architect's concept.

Clearly, we must make a more modest beginning but, as the Chinese say, a voyage of many miles starts with one step. With the leadership of Lieutenant Commander Steve Wise, my Flag Secretary, and Commander Charles Waite, my Legal Officer, a beginning has been made.

A non-profit organization has been formed, incorporated in the State of Maryland, and formally approved by Vice Admiral Charles Duncan, the Chief of Naval Personnel, which is authorized to invest its holdings without those restrictions normally applicable to funds held under government auspices. The organization of the Memorial Fund provides for a 5-man Board of Directors. Those that have been elected are— President—Captain Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.), Director of the Naval Academy Museum Vice President—Commander Charles E. Waite, JAGC, USN Naval Academy Legal Officer Executive Director and SecretaryTreasurer—Lieutenant Commander Thomas B. Potter, Jr., USN, Candidate Guidance Officer 16

USN (Ret.), former Comptroller of the Naval Academy, and the following members of the Board of Directors: Capt.

Donn L. Ashley, CEC, USN, Cdr. Charles E. Waite, JAGC, USN, LCdr. Stephen A. Wise, USN, the then incumbent Executive Director and SecretaryTreasurer, and LCdr. Thomas B. Potter, USN, newly elected Executive Director and Secretary-Treasurer. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Memorial Fund's relationship with the Alumni Association and to gain a consensus as to the proper role of the Memorial Fund.

The meeting was a most successful one in my opinion and reflected full cooperation and mutual approval between the Memorial Fund and the Alumni Association. Admiral Fitzgerald stated, "There has long been a need for an organization of this nature to provide simplified procedures for financing projects to enhance the beauty and prestige of the Naval Academy."

During the meeting we reached general agreement that we would like to see the Memorial Fund accomplish projects similar to those undertaken by the fund

at West Point. Over the past ten years, these have included a $287,000 amphitheatre, a $54,000 ski facility, and a $51,000 electronic carillon. It was, of course, recognized that while it might be some time before efforts of such magnitude could be underwritten, one great advantage of the Memorial Fund concept is that smaller contributions can be pooled, invested, and, in due time, used to finance relatively ambitious projects.

From time to time, the Alumni Association has published lists of facilities and improvements which are needed at the Naval Academy and for which government funds would not normally be available. The Memorial Fund will review such projects as funds accumulate and, hopefully, will be able to undertake some of them. In addition, there are smaller projects worthy of note. One of them is the furnishing of the Annapolis Room on the fourth floor of the new Naval Academy Library. This room, which will look out over the river, will be available for receptions and board meetings of an official and semi-official nature. The Class of 1955 has tentatively decided to contribute $5,000 through the Memorial Fund toward the furnishing of the Annapolis Room. A bronze plaque in the room will indicate the donor class.

It is my belief that, properly managed, the Naval Academy Memorial Fund can give the same sort of outstanding support to the Naval Academy that the West Point Fund has provided on the Hudson.

It is my intention to keep the Alumni fully informed as to the progress of the Memorial Fund and, from time to time, there will be entries in Shipmate to this purpose. In the meantime, I hope each class and each alumnus will think seriously about the use of the Memorial Fund to improve and support our Academy.

Its address is: The Naval Academy Memorial Fund, Inc. United States Naval Academy Annapolis, Maryland 21402

Editor's note—The President of the Alumni Association has stated that the subject of the Naval Academy Memorial Fund will be presented as an agenda item for discussion at the Spring Meeting of the Association's Board of Trustees.

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by Fred Lardner

A STUDY of pay, service benefits, and •^^other factors designed to make service life more attractive so that an all-volunteer force may be established, has been ordered by President Nixon.

Leaders of Congressional committees told Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird there is no chance for legislative action on the proposed Hubbell plan this year.

Thereupon Mr. Laird said he was going to have a non-government study made of the proposed Hubbell compensation plan, to get an opinion of its logic from civilian analysts. The Logistics Management Institute, which has done food and exchange store studies for the Defense Department, has been mentioned as a possibility for the Hubbell study.

The House Armed Services Committee is conducting a study of various fringe benefits, existing and proposed, for military personnel. One reason for this study is the contention of Hubbell plan sponsors that, with the Hubbell plan effective and service members receiving larger salaries, there would be less need for fringe benefits.

Because of these studies, the only significant action this year in the field of pay and personnel benefits may be the 12.6 percent increase in pay scheduled for July 1, 1969, by the pay law enacted in the fall of 1967. However, some minor allowance and benefit bills may be enacted.

President's Commission

An "Advisory Commission on an AllVolunteer Force," named by the President, will make his proposed study of pay, benefits, etc., and report by early November.

"I have directed the Commission to develop a comprehensive plan for eliminating conscription and moving toward an all-volunteer armed force," the President said. "The Commission will study a broad range of possibilities for increasing the supply of volunteers for service, including increased pay, benefits, recruitment incentives, and other practicable measures to make military careers more attractive to young men. It will consider possible changes in selection standards and in utilization policies which may assist in eliminating the need for inductions. It will study the estimated costs and savings resulting from an all-volunteer force, as well as the broader social and economic implications of this program."

Those named to the President's commission are former Secretary of Defense Thomas S. Gates, chairman. William Hechling, dean. College of Business Administration, University of Rochester, executive director. Retired officers Army General Alfred M. Gruenther and Air Force General Lauris Norstad, both former Supreme Allied Commanders in Europe. Former Representative Thomas Curtiss (R.-Mo.). Crawford Greenewalt, 18

former board chairman, E. I. du Pont Company. Alan Greenspan, New York economist. Stephen Herbits, Campaign Systems, Washington, D. C. Reverend Theodore Hesburgh, President, Notre Dame University. Jerome Holland, President Hampton Institute. John Kemper, headmaster, Phillips Academy. Professor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago.

Jeanne L. Nobel, National Council of Negro Women. W. Allen Wallis, President, University of Rochester. Roy Wilkins, executive director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Drive Against Military . . . And Spending

There is a movement in Washington, deliberately being spread elsewhere, against the military, the thinking and the influence of military leaders, and for reductions in military spending. "AntiABM Campaign Is Taking Shape" . . .

"Military Influence Deplored" . . . "2,072 Military Retired Work For Top Defense Firms" . . . "Shoup Assails Influence Of Military Elite," referring to General David M. Shoup, Ret., former Commandant of the Marine Corps . . . "ABM Debate Recalls Ike's Warning" . . .

These are some of the headlines.

Much is made of the fact that Dwight Eisenhower, in his farewell address as President, warned against the influence of the "military-industrial complex," but little is said of the fact that he kept this country strong, after a war (Korean), and prevented various communist takeover attempts.

The primary fight is in the Senate, with some Senators seeking the formation of outside groups to help oppose installation of the Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile system proposed by the President. Some of the anti-military legislators, and various other authorities, including some who were opposing anti-communists five to ten years ago, are for ending the Vietnam war, on almost any terms, and even for some disarmament.

There are very few writers who speak out for a stronger military stand, as David Lawrence did in his column headed, "Let's Warn We'll Resume Bombing."

Few Senators speak out as did Senator Richard Russell (D.-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, recently. "We could win the war within six months," he said, "if we use more muscle. Up to two years ago, it would have taken only three months to end it."

Navy's Dilemma

The Navy's dilemma—not being given sufficient funds to maintain a program of ship modernization—is now critical.

Years ago the House Armed Services Committee and naval leaders realized that a real start would have to be made in some fiscal year's appropriations toward building sufficient numbers of new

ships to overcome fast creeping obsolescence. But in the past four fiscal years Navy requests for $10.7 of procurement funds have been cut to $6.7 billion.

The Navy wanted $3.7 billion for use in fiscal 1970. Representative L. Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , HASC chairman, introduced a special bill, H. R. 574, calling for an appropriation of $3.8 billion. However, the Defense Department military procurement bill, S. 1192, sponsored by Senator John Stennis (D.-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, specifies $2,698,000,000 for naval vessels; $2,568,900,000 for Navy and Marine Corps aircraft; $865,100,000 for Navy missiles and $20,100,000 for Marine Corps missiles; and $2,207,100,000 for Navy and Marine Corps research.

In hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Vice Admiral John B. Colwell, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, asked for $2.8 billion for fleet modernization in fiscal 1970. Secretary of Defense Laird has approved the $2.8 billion figure for fiscal 1970. Admiral Colwell said that more than an annual $2.8 billion appropriation would be needed in succeeding years for a proper long-range modernization program. However, Mr. Laird would not agree with this estimate, stating that the Navy's program for ship modernization through 1974 "does not appear to be very practical as a whole."

Mr. Laird said he could present a revised program next year.

The ratio of anti-military spenders to total members in the House is much less than this ratio in the Senate. The House often agrees pretty much with the House Armed Service Committee's recommendations concerning naval spending in DOD procurement legislation. However, this legislation is only authoritative, and the House Appropriations Committee determines the amount of funds actually appropriated. It is possible that the ship modernization fund approved by the House will be considerably larger than that of the Senate, and the compromised total will be more than $2.8 billion.

With the $2.8 billion. Admiral Colwell told the Senate committee, the Navy could build 16 new ships and modernize 17 ships now on the line. Included would be: one Nimitz aircraft carrier, $510 million; two nuclear attack submarines, $383 million ; one nuclear guided missile frigate, $222 million; five general purpose destroyers, formerly designated DX, $342.7 million; two general purpose amphibious assault ships, $287.7 million: three fast deployment logistic ships, $186.7 million; two motor gunboats, $1.1 million; various landing craft, $13.2 million.

About $528 million would be used to modernize six nuclear submarines to carry the larger Poseidon missile: add new anti-aircraft weapons to a guided missile frigate; and modernize 10 minesweepers.

Admiral Colwell expressed the hope that the size of the shipbuilding program planned for fiscal 1970 and succeeding S H I P M A T E

years will encourage the shipbuilding industry to modernize.

Mr. Laird's criticism of the Navy's program is that currently shipbuilding costs are running about $700 million over estimates. These cost overruns will be compensated for by elimination or deferment of various 1969 and 1970 projects.

Status Of N a v a l

Ships

The status of naval ships is certain to improve, tliough such improvement will take time, money, a greater public awareness of the dangers of the modern and enlarging Russian navy, and a recognition of the fact that the U. S. Navy could play a greater role in the nuclear deterrent system.

These conclusions can be derived from a study of the report of the Special House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower.

As a whole, too many naval ships are old, and some are outmoded. About 54 percent of combatant ships in the Pacific Fleet are 20 years old or more, and some 85 percent of the auxiliary vessels are just as old. Of ships in the Atlantic Fleet, 53 percent are 20 years old or more—only 25 percent are less than 10 years old.

The subcommittee, headed by Representative Charles E. Bennett ( D . - F l a . ) , said that in the fiscal years 1962 to 1969 the funds allocated to the Navy by the .'Administration were substantially belov/ original Navy estimates of its requirements.

Wholly or partially as a result of this Many of the older ships can not meet Southeast Asia requirements, as the need to handle faster and larger aircraft, defend themselves against surface-to-surface missiles, carry helicopters for search and rescue; Integration of new capabilities into old hulls is handicapped by insufficient space, electrical power, water-making capability, refrigeration; Newest sonar systems, with their power supply, have to be built into ships not originally designed for t h e m ; More Atlantic Fleet ships have antiaircraft guns than have antiair missiles: Only three ships capable of fighting air, surface and subsurface opposition have been funded since 1964.

Subcommittee

Recommendations

By the 1980's the United States should have a fleet of about 850 ships of modern design and construction, the subcommittee said. This would make possible a 5-to-lO percent reduction in manpower. Included should be the 41 Polaris attack submarines and only nuclear attack submarines; more antisubmarine c a r r i e r s ; any new attack carriers nuclear powered; nuclearpowered escorts for the carriers, and nuclear ships for independent missions; amphibious ships, fire support ships, missilefiring destroyers, and other destroyers needed for amphibious operations.

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T h e new amphibious ships being built ( L H A ' s ) can be used in both waterborne and airborne assaults.

Following are the primary needs for a modernized fleet, the report stated: To have as many ships as possible free from fuel oil logistics; To have an American presence in many world areas formerly covered by the United Kingdom; T o meet the increasing Soviet submarine threat; To meet the increasing Soviet Navy threat anywhere in the world; T o use the fleet for other strategic purposes.

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N a v a l Missile Protection

During recent hearings and debates on the proposed Safeguard A B M for Minuteman missile sites there was some mention of additional naval missile capability as protection against attack. T h e Subcommittee on Seapower would like to have the Navy play a greater role in missiles.

"More missiles at sea," their report stated, "utilizing missile-age geography, would place additional and expensive burdens upon the Soviet Union's effort to cope with our retaliatory force. T h e survivability of sea-based systems greatly inhibits the will to strike and the feasibility of striking first in a surprise nuclear attack upon the United States. " A decision to put greater emphasis on sea-environment weapons, after a judicious reallocation of national resources to implement it, might be less expensive in the long run and more effective than present approaches to strategic problems. " I t has the element of being more likely to secure peace because the ability to move about at sea with weaponry capable of attacking major land targets makes it extremely difficult for any potential aggressor to win."

This proposal could be, the report added, "one of the greatest opportunities we have to deter attack and to secure and maintain world peace."

N e w types of ships proposed for study are the undersea, long-range missile ships ( U L M S ) , the sea-based antiballistic missile ships ( S A B M I S ) , and ballistic missile surface ships ( B M S ) . " T h e S A B M I S , " the subcommittee said, "could be an important part of the overall mix for a defense against ballistic missiles, constituting a defense in depth and providing a 360-degree protection for the country against any type of missile."

Bonus For Nuclear Officers

T h e House has passed H . R. 9328, a bill to give nuclear submarine officers a bonus of $15,000 to remain on active duty for one period of four years after primary obligated service. It is expected that the Senate will pass the bill.

Officers in year groups 1961-1966 would be eligible to participate in this program in the first year, the 12 months beginning July 1, 1969.

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Officers in the year group 1969 would be the last to be offered the bonus, according to present plans.

Testimony on the bill indicates that about 523 nuclear officers would sign up in fiscal 1970, and receive payments of $2,750 a year for four years. The bill provides that officers could sign before the end of their five-year obligated tours.

Thus, they could sign after four years for additional tours with a bonus of $3,000 a year. About 150 officers are expected to sign for five years.

There are now about 2,000 naval nuclear officers. Retention has averaged about 75 percent. However, resignations under consideration are numerous, and if all were approved the retention rate would drop to 40 percent. As of February, 1969, the Navy had 370 resignations from Regular, nuclear-trained submarine officers, and 44 scheduled releases for active duty Reserve officers. Resignation rates from these 1961-63 year groups approach 50 20

percent, with new resignations averaging about 30 a month.

About 300 nuclear submarine officers are scheduled for release from active duty in calendar year 1969. If it were not for the Navy's policy of deferring resignations for one year, another 100 would be released.

James D. Hittle, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, told the House Armed Services Committee that the bill concerns as many as 1,123 officers, almost all of them lieutenants. Unless the proposed program has wide appeal, the Navy would be hit hardest by resignations in fiscal year 1970.

Surveys and interviews indicate that the present critical situation is due to: 1. Lack of a satisfactory sea-shore rotation, with advanced education possibilities and inadequate home life (many of these officers have recently married) and little hope of a change;

2. Inadequate financial compensation, coupled with an increasing civilian demand for nuclear specialists; 3. Extremely long hours of duty necessary on nuclear submarines.

The reasons for resignation requests mentioned above, coupled with what may be too high personal qualification standards, may constitute reasons why the Navy has never been able to obtain enough officers for nuclear submarine training.

Nuclear submarines will go to sea no matter what the result of this legislation, the House committee was told. The vessels would be partially manned with nonnuclear trained officers, and continuation on sea-duty of those nuclear-trained officers still available. "Press-gang methods" might have to be used.

But Defense Department witnesses believe the H. R. 9328 will ease the strain, though it would not provide a long-range solution. Representative Mendel Rivers (D.-S. C ) , committee chairman, said it might be necessary that nuclear submarines have three crews, instead of two.

It was pointed out that nuclear submarine enlisted men, with sizeable pro pay and sizeable reenlistment bonuses, have the highest average retention rate in the Navy. Doctors and dentists also get sizeable financial benefits to remain in the Navy. It may be that the continued service of Naval Academy men is taken too much for granted.

Travel To Homeport

H. R. 8020, a Defense Department bill, would authorize travel by government owned or procurement transportation, or expenses paid by private auto, to naval personnel for travel to a homeport when the members' "ship of permanent station" is being overhauled at some place other than its homeport.

SOCIETY OF MILITARY WIDOWS SEEKS CORRECTION OF INEQUITIES IN SURVIVOR BENEFITS

Coronado, Ca. A relatively new organization, devoted to the welfare of widows of military personnel, will mark its first anniversary this summer and has achieved membership representation in nearly every state in the Union.

The group, the Society of Military Widows, is composed of widows whose husbands died either while on active duty or following retirement.

The Society hopes, through its organization, to correct what its members believe to be long standing inequities in survivor benefits. These benefits, together with active duty and retired pay, were reviewed by the Hubbell Pay Study Group.

The Society, a non-political organization, plans to have chapters throughout the country. Widows wishing further information may write: Society of Military Widows, P. O. Box 254, Coronado, Ca. 92118.

SHIPMATE

ATHLETICS

Navy Football Foes Con Expect a Hornet's Nest

hornet (hornet), n. (AS. hyrnet.)

A large strong wasp whose stingis very severe.

That's the dictionary definition.

Rick Forzano offers a synonym—the Navy football player in 1969 "We wanted to breed a nest of hornets, who would seek out and sting opposing ball carriers, and I believe we have," the new Navy skipper reports. "With aggressiveness and attitude, we hope to overcome some of our shortcomings—depth and experience to mention just two.

"Spring practice left one lasting impression—there is no doubt that this football team is made up of people who will hit."

From the 1968 club that slumped to a 2-8 won-lost mark, Forzano inherits 16 lettermen, eleven of whom were starters in the finale against Army. Eighteen lettermen, including top pass receiver Bill Newton, number two rusher Tom Daley, and four-fifths of the defensive line, comprise the losses.

"We went into spring practice knowing that we didn't have much depth." the first-year coach continued, "and that impression v^-as reinforced by what we saw.

We knew that we would have to move offensive players to defense and, as our final depth chart reflects, three of the defensive front four are converted ofifensive performers.

"Still other goals of spring ball were to learn our personnel and to improve each man individually. We feel that we now know where each man belongs and, in every case, were able to see improvement in individual offensive and defensive skiUs." To run the offense, Forzano has Mike McNallen, who hung up some impressive statistics as a youngster last fall. The native of Chicora, Pa., ranked 23rd among the nation's top passers with 1,342 yards on 124 completions. His one unhappy habit was a tendency to throw the interception. He had 19 tosses pilfered by opposing secondaries a year ago.

Co-captain Dan Pike, the Midshipmen's top rusher with 500 yards a year ago, and Karl Schwelm, a converted flanker, are expected to man the running back positions in the pro-set. "Pike," Coach Forzano enthuses, "is probably as dedicated a runner and football player as I know. He senses the goal line and points himself in that direction. Dan has fine balance and is a hard runner for his size (5-foot-9, 184 pounds)."

Swinging over to defense, Forzano has installed numerous new faces, a new basic formation, and, hopefully, new pride in a unit that was battered for 303 points a year ago.

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by Budd Thalman

"You'd have to say our defense is a big question mark," Forzano reports. "We've moved practically the entire offensive line to defense. When we play our first ball game, we'll find if that makes an improvement. The secondary was riddled by injuries during the spring and, unless everyone heals without complications, a number of green lads could wind up in the four deep."

The new coach has scrapped the basic five-man front that Navy used under Bill Elias in favor of a pro 4-3 that puts Ray DeCario, a blue chip athlete, in the pivotal middle linebacker spot. "DeCario could play for anyone in the country," Forzano says. "We will look to him for our leadership on defense. He has an uncoachable feel for the game and the instinctive talent to locate the ball in a hurry."

The front-four has undergone the most thorough shakeup. None of the men listed at the end of spring practice started on defense against Army. Three played offense a year ago and the fourth, a defensive tackle, was a third stringer. Even that young man, second classman Dick

Rick Forzano, Navy Football Coach

Wheldon, has been shifted from the right to the left side.

Wally Winslow, who played 68 minutes in seven games as an offensive tackle, and newcomer Frank Miller worked at defensive end during the spring.

Like Winslow, Miller played offensive tackle for the Plebes. The tackle berths went to Wheldon and Dick Wilkes, regular offensive center until injured last fall.

Forzano is frankly pleased with the swift advancement of his defensive converts, particularly Wilkes and Miller.

Here is Navy's 1969 grid schedule: Sept. 20—Penn State at Annapolis, 2 p.m. ( E D T ) , $6.00; Sept. 27—Boston College at Boston, Mass., 1:30 p.m. ( E D T ) , $6.00.

October 4—Texas at Austin, Tex.,

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G r a b Bag Of N a v y Athletic

Right-hander Pat Fletcher, a youngster from Fryburg, Pa., unloads his first pitch In Navy's 4-1 v/in over Southern Connecticut. Fletcher v/on two of Navy's first three games while pitching to an earned run average of 1.89.

7:30 p.m. (CDT), $6.00; Oct. 11—Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh, Pa., 1:30 p.m.

(EDT), $5.00; Oct. 18—Rutgers at New Brunswick, N. J., 2 p.m. ( E D T ) , $5.00; Oct. 25—Virginia (Homecoming) at Annapolis, 2 p.m. ( E D T ) , $6.00.

Nov. 1—Notre Dame at South Bend, 2 p.m. ( E S T ) , $7.00; Nov. 7—Miami at Miami, Fla., 8:15 p.m. ( E S T ) , $6.00; Nov. 15—Syracuse at Annapolis, 1:30 p.m. ( E S T ) , $6.00; Nov. 29—Army at Philadelphia, 1:20 p.m. ( E S T ) , $8.50.

The Naval Academy Athletic Association has announced that a season ticket for the three Annapolis games—Penn State, Virginia, and Syracuse—will sell for $15.00, a saving of almost 20% over the single game price. For ticket information, write the Business Office, NAVAL ACADEMY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, Annapolis, Maryland 21402.

Lacrosse T e a m Spanks Mount Washington and Maryland: Tennis Pace Blistering

Navy's tennis team, off to the best start in 18 years, and the lacrosse squad were vying for the major spring headlines at Shipmate's deadline.

Under coach Harvey Muller, the netters reeled off victories in their first eight matches of the season, something that hasn't been done since the 1951 racketmen got off to a similar beginning.

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The lacrosse team, which won four of its first six, numbered a 15-4 blitz of club champion Mount Washington and a 7-6 verdict over previously undefeated Maryland among its four triumphs.

Overall in five spring sports (exclusive of heavyweight-lightweight crew and sailing), the Midshipmen had a cumulative won-lost log of 19 victories in 30 outings. The baseball and track squads found the early going a little rough with records of 3-4-1 and 0-3 respectively. In golf, Maryland was the only outfit to conquer Coach Bob Williams' crew in five outings.

New skipper Carl Ullrich still hasn't hung up a victory with his varsity heavyweight eight but observers close to the scene agree it won't be long before the energetic Ullrich starts things rolling. In their first regatta, the Midshipmen trailed Princeton and Northeastern but, just a week later, Yale needed a course record to escape with a win on its home waters.

The lightweights were away from the gate in much better fashion, blowing past Georgetown and Princeton-Rutgers in ISO-pound outings to open the campaign.

In sailing, the list of first-place finishes

by Navy entries included the Admiral Moore Invitational Regatta and the M.A.I.S.A. Spring Invitational race for dinghies, and the Service Academy yawl championships.

REGISTER

OF A L U M N I

The 1969 REGISTER OF ALUMNI, carefully packaged for shipping, is ready for mailing to any desired address for $8.00 a copy.

The REGISTER OF ALUMNI is primarily a source of information on persons who attended the former Naval School at Fort Severn or the U. S. Naval Academy which the Naval School subsequently became. The names of all ex-naval cadets and ex-midshipmen, graduate or not, up to and including the class of 1968, are included. For each there is listed certain biographical information, plus the address most recently recorded at Alumni House.

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Notes

Navy trailed Penn, Harvard, and Columbia in the team standings at the N.C.A.A. Fencing Championships in Raleigh, N. C, but the Midshipmen came away with a pair of All-American and one of the tournament's major trophies.

Foilsman Bert Freeman, a second classman from Philadelphia, wound up third among 39 entries in that weapon and firstie Jim Davidson was fifth in epee.

Freeman was a first team All-America pick while Davidson made the second team. Davidson, however, did win the coveted trophy as "College Epee Fencer of the Year."

Ben Welch, Navy's 167-pounder from Bakersfield, Calif., was the lone midshipman to place in the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championships at Provo, Utah. Welch wound up fifth. In the team standings.

Navy, with a total of nine entries, was 19th. Although eliminated from the tournament in his second bout, firstie Bob Ahrens made enough of an impression to win an invitation to the East-West allstar meet at Penn State where he decisioned John Woods of Cal Poly, 3-2.

Woods was runnerup in the N.C.A.A. Tournament at 167 pounds.

In a 3-2 baseball win over Syracuse, lefthander Dennis Losh, a segundo from Lorain, Ohio, fanned 16 Syracuse batters.

The strikeout total was within one of the Naval Academy's nine-inning record, established by another lefty. Chuck Davis, vs. West Chester in 1961.

Navy established a pair of high marks in its 15-4 flattening of Mount Washington's lacrosse club. The IS goals were the most the Midshipmen have scored against the Wolfpack since the series got started in 1909. The margin of eleven goals also represented a new high.

Forward Scott Semko of Whippanj-, N. J., and Hal Mashburn of Perryton, Tex., were selected as captains of the basketball and squash teams in balloting by their teammates. Other winter captains chosen include: Wrestling—Dale Stahl of Coon Rapids, Minn.; Gymnastics—Steve Klotz of Miami, Fla.; Swimming—Cap Parlier of San Mateo, Calif.; Pistol— Tom Noonan of Dubuque, Iowa, and Track—Monty Felix of Riverside, Calif.

FOR

1969

Enclosed is my check (M. O.) for $ Name Address Zip Make check to: U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Mail to: Alumni House, Annapolis, Md. 21402

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Three alumni chairs are now available. They make handsome and appreciated gifts.

The chairs are made of northern yellow birch—expert workmanship—attractive black and gold coloring—highest quality throughout—proportions just right. The rocker comes with black arms only.

Shipped in cartons from Gardner, Mass., by express collect. Prices: the A d m i r a l , $38.00, the Commodore, $24.00, the Rocker, $31.00.

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Chapel, library, lounge, and an infirmary geared to lifetime medical care to maximum extent possible. Penthouse

dining room, crafts, hobby rooms, beauty shop, elevators and parking facilities. Present public bus transportation will be augmented if required.

Required deposit: 10% of Founder's Fee ($7,OOO-$15,500).

Interest paid to extent earned on all deposits from contract execution until occupancy. Refund of 2% on Founder's Fee for each year over 70 at date of entry.

Financial aid for widowed applicants and occupants requiring assistance.

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High quality blazers are available through arrangements with Harry G. Peddicord & Son. Buttons for the blazer come in sets of seven. Each with an 18 kt. gold plate USNA seal and rim against a background of blue enamel, these buttons odd the final touch of elegance.

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UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

SEA BREEZES Kl'i Schratz '39 God

ALUMNI

T h e American Civil Liberties Union h a s just taken a step which will be questioned by a great many N a v y people. Complaining that the A r m y was using its character guidance p r o g r a m for religious indoctrination, A C L U suggested that it is all right to schedule mandatory lectures in t h e armed services to help instill a sense of moral r e sponsibility but t h e freedom of choice g u a r anteed under the First Amendment would not allow any hint of religious infiltration in these lectures. F o r example, an old A r m y character guidance manual held that A m e r ica's doctrine of basic freedoms regarded "man as a creature of God. A s such," it continued, "every soldier is responsible and accountable to his Creator for t h e w a y he performs his civil and military duty, for the maintaining of his o w n a n d his nation's honor, and for t h e quality of service he renders to his country as a soldier."

NEWS

OFFICERS President— ADM. ROBERT B . CARNEY, USN (Ret.) '16 (4521), Washington, D. C. Vice President (Eastern Area)—

In a nation founded "under God," that doesn't sound so bad n o w , does i t ? B u t to be on t h e safe side we asked o u r good friend Captain Goddard of t h e good ship T u s c A RORA how he felt about it.

VADM. FELIX L . JOHNSON', USN (Ret.) '20 (5289), Leonardtown, Md.

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

Vice President (Western Area)— CAPT. J. L. P. MCCALLUM, USN (Ret.) '35 (11761), Seattle, Wash.

Past President— VADM. WILLIAM R . SMEDBERG, III, USN (Ret.) '26 (8367), Washington,

D.C. Executive Director— RADM. W . F . FITZGERALD, USN (Ret.) '21 (5912), Annapolis, Md.

Representative—

CAPT. THOMAS E . JACKSON, USN '47 (19165), USNA, Annapolis, Md. At

Large

(To serve until Spring Meeting 1969) LTGEN-. A. L. BOWSER, JR., USMC '32

(10650) RADM.

J.

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

(Ret.)

'26

(8189) E.

KIRKPATRICK,

USNR

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

(Ret.) '31 (10277) (To serve until Spring Meeting 1970) CDR. WILLIAM R . SMEDBERG, IV, USN '51 (22237)

M R . H . R . DUDEN, JR. '47 (19003) LCDR. R . B . PIRIE, JR., USN '55

RADM. J. W. CRUMPACKER, USN (Ret.)

(To serve until Spring Meeting 1971) CAPT. C . H . BLAIR, USN '45 (16617)

LCOL. W . G . LEFTWICH, JR., USMC '53

CAPT. W . C . CHAPMAN, USN

CAPT. E . P. RAXKIN, USN (Ret.)

(23456) '44 (15857)

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(To serve until Spring Meeting 1969) RADM. SCHUYLER N . PYNE, USN (Ret.) CAPT. T . H . SUDDATH, USN

(Ret.)

HERBERT

CAPT. F . K . B . WHEELER, USN (Ret.)

'35 (11962), Peninsula

(13135), Boston CAPT.

CAPT. PAUL W . SIEGRIST. USNR (Ret.)

'24 (7369), New York

'25 (7724), Annapolis

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(Ret.) '38 (15155), New London VADM. PAUL D . STROOP, USN

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'26 (8167), Coronado

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'04 (2653), San Franciscf)

RADM. L . J. JACOBI, USNR (Ret.) '21

CAPT. J. B. BURROW, USN (Ret.) '33,

(5786), Detroit LCDR. E . R. QUADV, USNR '43 (15800) Los Angeles

(10961), Seatde RAdm. R. P. HUNTER, USN (Ret.) '31 (10130), Washington, D. C.

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" T h a t ' s where I think A C L U will really help the commanding officer. After all, this is a government vessel and in spite of ship's regulations and all that, we sometimes have difficulty in deciding what's proper or improper language in separation of church and state under t h e F i r s t Amendment. M a n y times my E x e c thought a m a n in a moment of stress seemed to be invoking t h e n a m e of the Lord improperly, and from all t h e good it did him it did seem to m e to be in vain. B u t it's not a question of m y personal moral or ethical beliefs b u t a question of law."

"Yes, this h a s always been the problem, but h o w will A C L U h e l p ? "

(25101)

'31 (10294)

(Ret.)

" I think t h e American Civil Liberties Union is doing a fine thing," he said. "Both my E x e c and I feel that there's entirely too much frivolous use of t h e name of t h e L o r d on the lower decks and even in t h e w a r d room. If A C L U is willing to help, we'll cooperate to t h e full."

"But can't you, as commanding officer, forbid improper use of t h e Almighty within your c o m m a n d ? "

TRUSTEES Superintendent's

on t h e Lower Decks

"Well, if some of t h e troops want to g o along with the fashion these days a n d stage a good lively protest, what better and more wholesome outlet can I suggest? T h e y use mass influence to cut down on improper references to t h e d e i t y ; they get a charge out of it because they feel they're rebelling against authority by doing so and in fact the command h a s t h e same goal."

"But what about the chaplain a n d the character guidance p r o g r a m ? A r e n ' t w e missing t h e point of t h e A C L U a c t i o n ? " " N o t in this command, old friend. T h e chaplain conducts services, assists in counselling and guidance in family problems of the men and a host of other duties. C h a r acter guidance is m y problem, t h r o u g h m y E x e c , m y officers and petty officers. I t ' s the major reason for m y existence as commanding officer."

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SHIPMATE COPY DEADLINE

September-October Copy due at Alumni House 21 July November Copy due at Alumni House 10 September

ALL HANDS CONGRATULATIONS TO A D M . SEIJAS

RAdm. Jose Constantino Seijas, USNA '47, has been appointed Comandante General de la Marina, the office in the Venezuelan Navy corresponding to CNO in the U. S. Navy. Adm. Carney has addressed the following letter to him.

Dear Admiral Seijas, As President of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association and on behalf of all our members, I extend sincere congratulations to you, a fellow-alumnus, on your assignment as Comandante General of the Venezuelan Navy.

Your assumption of this highly important post is greeted with enthusiasm by your host of friends and classmates in the United States Navy. We -wish you all success and smooth sailing.

May your memories of your days as a midshipman on the banks of the Severn be the means of continued and increased cooperation between the navies of Venezuela and the United States.

Cordially, ROBT. B . CARNEY WHITE JACKET (1850)

A scholarly, annotated edition of Herman Melville's White Jacket (1850), which was based largely upon Melville's experiences as an ordinary seaman aboard the United States Frigate UNITED STATES during her 1842-44 voyage, is being prepared by Prof. Wilson L. Heflin of the Naval Academy's Department of English, History and Government.

The ship's company of the UNITED STATES

at the time included a number of midshipmen of the first graduating class of the Naval Academy. The ship flew the broad blue pennant of Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones during this voyage and was commanded first by Capt. James Armstrong and then

by Cdr. C. K. Stribling, later to become the third Superintendent of the Naval Academy.

It is possible that readers of Shipmate might have in their possession memorabilia of this cruise of the UNITED STATES. Professor Heflin would appreciate hearing from anyone who has documents—letters, journals, and especially a Watch, Quarter and Station Book—relating to that voyage. Any letters which expressed the reaction of naval officers 26

RAdm. Jose Constantino Seijas '47 Venezuelan Navy

in 18S0 to Melville's book would be most helpful.

HOMECOMING 1969

Mark your calendar now! Homecoming 1969 will be the weekend of October 24th, 2Sth and 26th. With no anticipated deviation from the established program, Friday will be the day for check-in at Alumni House, Brigade dress parade on Worden Field, and the world's largest cocktail party in Dahlgren Hall. The alumni assembly with its informative addresses is scheduled for Saturday morning and the afternoon's football game is with the University of Virginia in Navy's Navy and Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. As usual the entire weekend will be a time for class parties and reunions of all kinds and sizes. Don't miss it this year I THE NITTY GRITTY OF COMPUTERS

Numerous requests have been received to change the name line in addresses used for general correspondence mailed from the Alumni Association. Most of these are requests that the full name not be used, but

rather only the first name and middle initial, or only the two initials.

The reason the name appears as it does is because the computer is programmed that way as a result of our basic decision at the time of conversion to E D P . For historical purposes we must have the full name in the file. For reasons of economy, and because we could foresee no objections, we took advantage of the listing for general correspondence addresses. To add another mailing list would require a new and more complicated computer program.

Shipmate labels are produced by a special program using only the first two initials and the last name in order to print the labels "4-up" (four columns on the printout sheets).

We programmed it that way in order to reduce the costly time of each computer run for Shipmate. This program can produce only "4-up" sheets and cannot be used to turn out the "stuffer" used in first class mailing.

A few members have received two April Shipmates. This has resulted from a program modification which was instituted to standardize A P O / F P O addresses. This makes a long story short, but if two copies of one issue should again be received please notify the editor.

Shortage of the February issue for some members to whom back issues were mailed is due to the happy but much more than expected large increase in half-year memberships.

ERROR ERROR

The April issue of Shipmate and the ballot for the election of Alumni Association officers and trustees referred to Col. R. B. Collins, US.A.F, as the first member of the Naval Academy class of 1953 to attain the rank of colonel in the Air Force or the equivalent rank of captain in the Navy. This is not correct in the strictest sense of the word. Col. Collins writes, "There are two other Air Force officers from the class of 1953 who were selected for promotion to colonel on the same list that I was on.

These two classmates are Colonel Robert R. Foster and Colonel Stuart H. Sherman, Jr. The three of us have the same date of rank—16 March 1968." Col. Collins continues, "I would appreciate it very much if you would have this error recognized in a future issue of Shipmate."

S H I P M A T E

CLASS NEWS 0) n) y

Sec'y, Cdr. Allan G. Olson, USN (Rel.) El Miradero, P. 0. Box 131 Bonita, Ca. 92002

Everything is gloriously beautiful as I write just before Easter. All the hills are lush green, with waves of yellow mustard flowers advancing and receding along the highways. The sunny California skies are reflected in the deep blue of the bay and the ocean. Come join us in "heaven on earth" for San Diego's 200th Anniversary.

You will enjoy seeing classmates who are living here: Capt. Frederick Conger of Coronado, Capt. D. C. Lazure in La Jolla, Capt. Harry Hird at Valley Center, and yours truly at Bonita.

A Get Well card was sent to Adm. Paul Henry BASTEDO at U S N H , Bethesda, Md. We hope he has fully recovered.

Sec'y and Treas., RAdm. Frank A. Braisted, USN (Rel.) 3104 Cleveland Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008

The seven attendees of the April class luncheon at Washington, D. C , were: Belt '08, Braisted, Gillam '10, Glennon, Hustvedt, Moore '10 and Robertson.

JUNE B I R T H D A Y S Best wishes for a Happy Birthday t o : McCandlish on the 3rd; Doyle on the 22nd; Hustvedt on the 23rd, and Piatt on the 30th.

Howard Hubbell '21A writes, "I had a delightful visit with General Spiller in Piedmont; he looks fine. Several years ago he sent to me VAdm. W. W. Smith's book, Midway, Turning Point of the Pacific."

heart and a major operation, he seemed to have come back well."

It is with regret that the death of Capt.

James D. MALONEY, USN ( R e t ) , is announced. Jim died on 12 Jan. at Knoxville, Teim. He is survived by two sons James Jr. of Chillicothe, Oh., and Samuel D. of Davidson, N. C. Living in his home town, Jim taught at the University of Tennessee and commanded the Knoxville branch of the Military Order of World Wars. Jim's wife Rebecca died in 1954 and he later sold his home; he moved to New Smyrna Beach, Fla., where he became the local champion of duplicate bridge. Interested in alumni affairs, Jim was a member of the Alumni Association, attended the Fiftieth Reunion and had contact with the class secretary in 1968.

Clifford VAN H O O K reports his wife Winifred Pigott Van Hook died 3 March at the Palo-Alto-Stanford Hospital, after a long illness. Her ashes will be privately interred in the Van Hook plot at Arlington National Cemetery.

Winifred was born in Great Falls, Montana, and was the daughter of the late Judge William T. Pigott of Helena, Montana, who was a justice of the Montana Supreme Court. In 1946 Winifred married RAdm. Clifford E. Van Hook, USN, postwar Inspector General, Western Sea Frontier, stationed at San Francisco. After his retirement in 1948 they maintained a residence at San Francisco until 1951 when they moved to their Menlo Park home.

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Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J. Wloore, USN (Ret.), 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase, Bfld. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey 0. Thomas 725 West Boulevard, Kokomo, Ind. 46901

N. J. Reppen '65, USS

Stumps (Col. John P.) EDGERLY has been out in San Diego recently visiting his daughter, and son-in-law who is senior supply officer of that area, and checking with 'lOers.

A letter from the LEEs (RAdm. R. C.) in New York, written by Elsie—Bob is "holding his own" and maintains his inter-

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FORSTER.

Fanny Sherman (Mrs. Ted) keeps herself as one of the busiest ladies of San Diego—more "do-good" job than enough I The picture below is submitted for publication as probably the oldest photograph of any 'lOer in uniform. It took over a month to convince the medicos that your reporter would not be a physical liability.

Only he and the photographer, Carlton A. (Pedro) N O R T H C U T T , survive.

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A letter from Bob Piatt tells of a recent visit that he and Mary Grafton made to Hawaii and California. At Honolulu they were met by their son Grafton (Cdr. USN), his wife Peggy, and grandson Steele, age 9. Cdr. Piatt is a submariner, attached to staff, CinC PacFlt (Plans).

Bob writes, "As I hadn't been in Hawaii since 1937, I saw enormous changes. The traffic on the freeways is like all big cities.

There are dozens of new hotels, high-rise apartments, etc., and housing has gone up all the hills and miles out of town. One of the highlights of our trip was a visit to the USS ARIZONA memorial. Upon our return to the mainland, I rented a car in San Francisco and we drove to Carmel to see a granddaughter at Pebble Beach. Had a visit with Frances Underwood and a nice chat with Steve Stephenson, at his home in Carmel. After a hard time with his J U N E ,

est in '10 and Shipmate. Their second granddaughter graduates this June from Mount Vernon Junior College in Washington, and studies this summer at the University of Madrid. Bob Jr.'s third book has just been published by McGraw Hill. They have recently acquired the rank of greatgrandparents. And Margie (Mrs. Pat) Flanigan is visiting her old home of Reading, Pa. The Skate (Capt. Frank) LUCKEL always checks in when he sees the word "Kolcomo" in his paper—this time when a fellow townsman of your reporter was publicized as the SO millionth visitor to the Washington Monument.

Quoting Baldy (VAdm. Chas. A.) P O W N A L L : "As to 'lOers who were at Vera Cruz in 19141 Further record that Ens. Pownall was there! He commanded (his first) the USS REID in a division of coal burners. We escorted the transport of Gen. Funston's Brigade from Galveston to Vera Cruz. On the return voyage the REID picked up refugees (women and children) at Tampico. As an old destroyer man you can visualize that one!" Dutch H A M M E S please note. The author of the book mentioned the destroyers but forgot to name the COs. Baldy seems fine except for a bit of trouble with writing; Mary is cheerful, as usual.

Red (Commo. Frederick G.) R E I N I C K E and Nan have had a very pleasant winter jaunt to Puerto Rico. They were spared the hectic side of this now popular resort— thanks to the Navy.

Frances Rossell (Mrs. Henry E.) has been visiting her niece and two children in Hawaii. The niece is the wife of Lt.

O n the Santee Dock in e a r l y June 1 9 0 6 . S e a t e d : Tom Nicholson, John W a l l a c e . S t a n d i n g : Frenchy LaMont, C a r l W a d e , Frank Steinwachs a n d in "cits"—your reporter. Photo was by Pedro Northcutt. A l l recent g r a d u a t e s of Bobbie W e r n t z ' s Prep School, a n d Miss Em Atwell's candidate

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Sec'y, Capt. W. D. Chandler, USN (Ret.) 2029 Connecticu,. Ave, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Corr, Sec'y, Adm. Harry W. H i l l , USN (Ret.) 201 Prince George St. Annapolis, WId. 21401

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be relieved of his duties as second-in-command in Vietnam in July and will relieve Gen. Lemnitzer as Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Our hearty congratulations.

Word from Glenn H O W E L L says that he has not been feeling well lately, but is on the mend and the chin is up.

Just as we go to press, word has been received of the death of Albert MACK in the San Diego Naval Hospital on 5 April.

Further details will follow in the next issue, but meanwhile our deepest sympathy to Mattie and her family.

On 5 April at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the late Morris GILMORE was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He was a member of the first lacrosse team ever to represent the Naval Academy.

Altho he had no prior knowledge of the game, he quickly earned a reputation as a hard-hitting defense man. After his retirement he was secretary-treasurer of the Naval Academy Athletic Association for 22 years. During this period he served a term as president of the National Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association; was a member of the executive board, and for five years was chairman of the N.C.A.A. Lacrosse Rules Committee.

At the ceremony on the field between halves of the Navy-Mt. Washington lacrosse game which the midshipmen won lS-4, Mr. Douglas Turnbull, president of the Hall of Fame, presented Anna Gilmore with a handsome plaque. He presented a similar plaque to the Naval Academy, which was accepted by Harry H I L L for the Academy.

The whole class will be very proud of this recognition of Morris and join in congratulations to Anna and Morris' two daughters who were unable to attend.

After the game the '11 rooters had a small celebration in the home of Harry and Margaret Hill. Among those present were Anna Gilmore, her son and wife, Betty Meigs, Randy and Margaret King, Anne and Ed Batcheller, and Jack and Mary Helen Hill. Starr King, not well, couldn't attend; Titus Oates and Bob ancl Marion Hinckley were at the game, but had to return directly to Washington.

Gen. A. J. Goodpaster, USA, who is the son-in-law of Jonathan ANDERSON, will

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

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Walter and Lou DELANY had a rough crossing of the Atlantic, so rough that the GRIPSHOLM was late arriving at Tangier and pushed on to Casablanca.

Josh and Dorothy V E N T E R sailed abottt the middle of April on a tour of the Mediterranean ; they returned home in the early part of May. Exec. V. p., Paul D. Sleeper, Apt. 710 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008

Those attending our DC A'13-N'13 lunch on 2 April were classmates Davis, Helmick, Sleeper and Thebaud; A'13 MGen. Davidson, president of his class, and Co. Dupuy, USA Ret. We were delighted to have Thebaud with us; he and his wife Babs were on an auto trip south and hoped to see others of '13. (I am still receiving expressions that it is a fine idea to have these combined lunches with A'13.

We, in DC, certainly enjoy them and hope that other classmates join us on any first Wednesday of each month. P.D.S.) Tom S H I N E informed us that his new address is Monte Vista Lodge, 2211 Massachusetts Ave., Lemon Grove, Ca. 92045, and sent greetings to all of his classmates.

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ARD, "I hope soon to get to a DC luncheon; the new meeting date is fine."

DALE (25 Mar), "Am camped at Borego Springs on Coyote Creek along which DeCuega made his first trip to California. It is fine here, except in the middle of the day when it is really so hot the ink dried in my pen. My best to all."

GRAYSON (27 Mar.), "Still cold here —worst winter we have had for 20 years."

HOARD, "Received an impressive invitation from the Oklahoma City Council of the Navy League of the U. S. for a 'black tie' champagne dinner-dance honoring the Naval Academy Glee Club in concert; BUT the distance to it was a little more than I could take." He enclosed a generous contribution to our class fund—and we all thank him.

H U D S O N , "I am still hoping to arrange a trip to take in DC at the time of a class luncheon."

Elizabeth Robinson, now Mrs. Nelson Taplin Nowell, writes that Mrs. Charles B. Hazeltine, of Carmel, was her attendant at her wedding on IS April. "At Pat Hazeltine's I saw Gibb and Dorothy Hatch looking very fit." In the literary world she is known as Elizabeth demons and has written many books for children. For the present she will be using her former home as a studio, but living at her nearby husband's home overlooking the ocean. Mr. Nowell is a retired Stockton businessman who has been a resident of Carmel for several years. He is a longtime member of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, and a member of the Pacheco Club. She can be addressed either at Box 686 or Box 2716 Carmel.

Cards or notes were also received from Clarkson, Dillingham, Donahue, Evans, Hall, Henderson, "Buck" Jones, Quinlan, Thurston, Tisdale and Todd. All send their best to all '13ers everywhere, as I do.

I very much regret to inform '13 that our fine classmate, Henry Livermore ABBOTT, Capt., U S N R Ret, passed away on 2 April, after a long illness in a Washington hospital. He was a descendant of President John Quincy Adams and John Adams. (See Last Call.)

A memorial service was held on 7 April in the Naval Chapel in D. C. Those of '13 attending were Gardiner and Leah Helmick, Paul and Frances Sleeper, Mrs. H. V. Bryan, Mrs. G. B. Davis, Mrs. J. D. Jones, and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Frazier, Mrs. J. A. Lee, Mrs. B. H. Lingo and daughter Jane, Edith and Margaret Moore, sisters of our classmate Nobre Moore, and Mrs. P. P. Powell. Interment was private. Class flowers were sent, and Mrs. Abbott expressed her appreciation for them.

Henry Abbott was very well liked by those who really got to know him. He was a regular in his attendance at our DC luncheons and was always most willing to do anything for our class. As expressed in our class Lucky Bag, "He was a man well worth knowing."

Acting Sec'y, RAdm. H. A, Spanagel, USN (Ret.), 5302 Briley PI., Washington, D. C, 20016 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D, Swain, USN (Ret,), 10231 Vivera Dr., La Mesa, Calif. 92042

A recent letter from C. D. Emory '21 contained information concerning members of ROOKS' family. The letter stated that Harold R., the elder son of Rooks, is now a prominent Seattle attorney. He graduS H I P M A T E

ated from Harvard in the early '40s, served in the

USS

N E W ORLEANS,

and

subse-

quently graduated from Harvard Law School. He then entered private practice in San Francisco and later served as legal officer for the United Nations in Beirut.

According to the letter, the other son Albert H. has recently been promoted to the position of president of the United Control Corp. In his new position, he will be in charge of the Redmond Operations as well as the Kistler Instrument Co. of the Sundstrand Corp. Emory's letter also mentioned that Edith Rooks is not in the best of health and presently is in a retiretnent home near Seattle. Incidentally, Emory served in the U S S PHELPS as executive officer under Rooks from 1935 to 1938.

Although it is premature to make definite predictions in regard to the attendance at our 55th reunion, it does appear at this time (9 April) that there will be 17 members present and in addition it is expected that eight widows will attend, making a total attendance of about 35.

Birthday greetings in June are extended to: Lahodny on the 6th, Haylor, 7th, Waller 9th, Pennoyer 23rd, and Teasley 2Sth. Sec'y, Adm. Arthur D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. M. W. Hutchinson, Jr. 6 Acton Place, Annapolis, Md. 21401

Although Horse and Peggy P E N N O Y E R were celebrating their Slst wedding anniversary. Horse took time to write of the Coronado visit of the Grot WOODs and Rafe BATES. "Grot and Frances Wood's visit was a delightful treat. Both fully enjoy life, making the very best of every minute of each day wherever they are. Grot made the trip for a golf match with Skeeter and yours truly, but I had to drop out. Steve Robinson '12 and Ing Kiland '17 played Skeeter Mitchell and Grot Wood. The results were disastrous for '15, who lost by one stroke on the first nine and by two strokes on the second nine.

"Rafe Bates arrives on 31 March. His arrival usually coincides with that of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano Mission.

Rafe had been visiting Swede and Emily Overesch at Pebble Beach and wants a reservation at Hotel del Coronado. The last time, the hotel was crowded due to two conventions. Rafe asked the manager what they would do if the President asked for a reservation despite the conventions. The manager admitted that some arrangements would undoubtedly be made and Rafe retorted, 'as the President is not arriving how about turning over the arrangements to me?' As far as I can make out, the nearest Hoke Smith got to Coronado was to La Jolla.

"Did. you know that the 1915 class ring in the Naval Academy Museum collection is that of Ralph Kiely? It was presented by his widow. In a letter the Superintendent of the Naval Academy mentions a number of remarkable cases including the class ring of 1895 which has a discolored stone because it was submerged on the body of Lt. R. D. Merritt in the wreckage of the battleship MAINE from 1898 to 1912.

"In General Eisenhower's book, At Ease, Stories I Tell to My Friends, one of the most heart-warming stories is about Swede Hazlett. The two were close boyhood friends in Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower writes that his one ambition was to enter the Naval Academy in 1911 in the same class with Swede. With Swede's help he stood number one in the competitive entrance examinations JUNE,

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and won a principal senatorial appointment.

It was a blow when he learned that the next plebe class would not be formed until he had passed the age limit of 20; he then accepted an appointment to West Point. His tribute and affection for Swede are tear-jerkers.

"Warning to Hunkie-Dunks—a gem of advice which should be passed along to all '15ers came from Ted Breed's brother Dick, Yale 1915. He broke his hip in a fall last Dec. and finally left the hospital to go home on 18 March. His advice is not to put on your trousers while standing up. I strongly urge all hands to heed this gem. With the advent of the mini-skirt, men's tailors have shrunk the width of trousers legs to the point where to be safe, one must take off his shoes to get his trousers on or off.

Actuaries advise me that home accidents from this source now exceed bathtub falls.

Best wishes to you, Mardie and Heather— Horse."

A last minute bulletin from Coronado.

Rafe had arrived and after a pleasant evening returned to the hotel. As he was climbing the steps into the hotel, a young lady toppled off the top steps heading in his direction.

Remembering his experience as a linebacker on the football team years before, he checked her fall before she crashed on the concrete sidewalk below and all was well. There is never a dull moment when Rafe is around.

Heather just received a "Flugpost" Easter card from Coop, saying that he and Dorothy had just seen off their daughter, son-in-law and grandson headed for Berlin, from Vienna, where he expects to stay for a short while.

Hasn't decided where they will gypsy next.

Sec'y-Treas., Capt. George P. Brewster, USN (Ret.) 611 West 40th St. Baltimore, Md. 21211 West Coast Reporter, Capt. George F. Chapline, USNR (Ret.) 1327 Inspiration Dr. La Jolla, Ca. 92037

Members of the class attending the regular '16-'17 monthly luncheon at the ArmyNavy Club in Washington on 20 March were Mick CARNEY, Bill HAWT H O R N E , and Pete M E R W I N . These luncheons are held on the third Thursday of each month with the exceptions of June, July and August when many of the local members are away for the summer.

The RADFORDs have been on an extended trip to the Far East and as of this date (6 April) have not yet returned home.

We hope to have an interesting account of their trip to report in the next issue of Shipmate.

Contrary to some apparent guesses made by some of the T V commentators as to why Raddy was not present as an honorary pallbearer during the services for General Eisenhower, it was not, thanks be, due to any illness.

You all should have received the memo from Dolly Fitzgerald as to the results of the appeal for funds from the classes of '13, '14, '15 and '16 to bid at auction for the sterling silver punch bowl presented by those classes to the late Edward McLeans on the occasion of the wonderful reception they gave us following our participation in the Inaugural Parade for Woodrow Wilson in 1913. It was thought that this rather historic bowl should be in the possession of the Naval Academy rather than in a less appropriate place. Due to the fact that time for action was of the essence in this appeal it could have been unsuccessful had it not been for the beneficence of a wife of one of our classmates. It is fervently hoped that further donations by all who are

able will largely, if not ivholly, repay this generous "Lady Bountifui" for her timely support of this worthwhile cause.

W E S T COAST N E W S On 20 March in the Destroyer Room at the Admiral Kidd Club (Naval Training Center), 18 alumni gathered to enjoy the regular monthly luncheon for 1916-17-18ers.

At Bert RODGERS' suggestion the '16ers came early to discuss class business. During the courageously contested preliminaries, honors were won by Amos Root and Gippo Rogers.

A guest introduced by Soc McGinnis was Dick Sampson, now on Eastman Dillon's staff in San Diego. Dick is the son of "Dick" Sampson '38 who was lost in enemy action over Okinawa in 1945, when CO of VF-40. Ed Price '18 drove down from South Pasadena to join the fun. Others present and not previously mentioned were Carrington, Chapline, Holmes, Loventhal, Terhune, Possum Webb, Walter Webb, Bennett, Comstock, Richards and Curtis.

Chuck and Trudie EMERSON are on a cruise through the Panama Canal, across the Caribbean, on to the Mediterranean, as well as visiting a spot dear to them in Italy. Count and Angie GRASSIE are touring England and southern Europe, particularly the recreational south coast of Spain where they will have an extended visit with their son Jack in Torremolinos.

We will miss one of our San Diego regulars, Duke CARRINGTON, as he shifts residence to Urbanna, Va., on the Rappahannock where he joins his sister Mrs. Carrington Richardson. Duke says to come join him for Virginia hospitality and a good sail. Byron and Beatrice DAGUE were La JoUa-way as they toured south making many visits; they then continue on east where they will visit through Florida, then north to New England before driving back to the Golden Gate.

Thanks, Chappie, for your usual interesting report. Glad to see your part of the country did not sink into the sea come Good Friday, as rumor had it. That day having come and gone, we can all breathe easier for you out there, that is, until another such rumor.

We are sorry that the Dagues in their eastern trek didn't make it to this Monumental City. They missed a big welcome and some wonderful reminiscences, you can be sure. Don't forget us next time, Byron, and that goes for all who are cruising hereabout.

Don't forget to send Raddy suggestions for our 55th reunion. It's later than you think!

And so for now, adios, amigos.

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President, RAdm. Walter C, Calhoun, USN (Ret,), 4230 Fordham Rd,, N,W,, Washington, D. C. 20016 Sec'y, Capt. J, G, M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis, Md. 21401

The regular '16-'17 luncheon was held at A & N Club, Washington, on 20 March but there has been no word yet on those attending. Many were away or indisposed.

On 29 March we celebrated the 52nd anniversary of our graduation at noon time in Crabtown. It being a Saturday and a lovely day the following graced 248 King George: the Bradys, Hanafees (it was a pleasure to see Rosa attending a class party again), Nobles, Heffernans, Kellys, Wardens, Headlees, Nino Gregory, Jack Jenkins, Tex Rogers, Adelaide Fullinwider, 29

•^ Dayton, Oh., and six grandchildren. Cdr. Faith Gale, and Elise Skylstead and the Biesemeier wrote, "My father was of that regular inmates of 248. Pleased to have Bill Stephens (RAdm. MC U S N Ret.) and his breed whose only reason for being was the charming wife Hilda with u s ; we elected Navy. He gave his all and his best to the service. I don't believe that his warmth and Bill class surgeon and an honorary member of '17. It seemed about time to get affiliated leadership will easily be forgotten, certainwith a doctor and maybe, now that we are ly not by those old shipmates who knew cramming for our finals, we should also him well." tie up with a sky pilot.

Flu and other indispositions prevented attendance of Ward and Kay Davis, Len and Ruth Austin, Pi and Marion Park and Bob and Mary Porter. Ken and Mary Hoeffel had to cancel because one of his sons was arriving to help celebrate Ken's 75th birthday, an event that many of us have endured long since. Walt and Louise returned to Washington on the day of the reunion to find their house had been robbed and so had to count the losses.

Everyone had such a good time and all decided we should repeat next year. Nothing could give the host and hostess more pleasure. Of all those attending our little local anniversary no one seemed to radiate more pleasure than Tex ROGERS. Tex, who has suffered much eye trouble and can hardly see anymore, was in high spirits.

Herb A N D E R S O N contributes the following: "A note that our '17 members of Santa Barbara warmly observed the 52nd graduation anniversary on 29 March.

"Frank and Katie Irby joined Mildred and me at a seagoing dinner, preceded by annual fireside toasts to the whole of '17, present and departed.

"Ours is earnest and fond hope that there will be many, many more 29 Marches for all of the class who are still privileged to be on deck at this beginning of our 53rd year.

"Best to everyone."

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

On 2 April the following attended the class luncheon at the Army-Navy Town Club: Dobyns, Kennedy, Mitten, Murphy, Richardson, Rogers, Hayden Smith, and Perry Taylor.

We are pleased to note that Capt. Willis M. P E R C I F I E D , who had been in the hospital, has recovered and is back home again at 1200 East Newell, Walnut Creek, Calif.

In the afternoon of a bright Easter Monday, classmates and friends paid a respectful farewell to RAdm. Harold B I E S E M E I E R whose ashes were interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Togo, as he was known to us since midshipman days, died of pneumonia and a stroke at Mercy Hospital, Miami, Fla., on 29 March after a prolonged illness. A graduate in law at George Washington University, RAdm. Biesemeier was appointed by President F. D. Roosevelt as legal adviser to the board which established the Lend-Lease Program; he also served as judge advocate of a Pearl Harbor Court of Inquiry. His last

command

was

the

USS

ROCKWELL,

which participated in the occupation of Japan. After retirement in 1946 Togo practiced law at Daytona Beach and Miami.

He is survived by his wife Maria at the home address of 540 S.W. 25th Ave., Miami, Fl. 33135; a son Cdr. Harold W. U S N (Ret.) of Ocean Spring, Miss.; a daughter Mrs. Mary Carol McWhirt of 30

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Sec'y, Capt. Donald C. King, USNR (Ret.) 4201 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016

By the time this is published you should have received the annual class bulletin and a brief account of the annual get-together and business meeting on 24 May. As this is written we expect a good attendance at the class meeting and the Dyers' afternoon party.

The new address for Mrs. Hubert H .

Anderson (Marion) is 353 Kingsley Ave., Palo Alto, Ca. 94301.

Your secretary hopes that you all have a good summer whether at home or traveling.

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

The class suffered another great loss on 14 Mar. in the sudden death of Joe TALBERT. I am indebted to Roy Sackett and Dutch Christoph for such information as I have received. I understand Joe was having dinner on a tray watching T V when he simply keeled over. The diagnosis was a coronary thrombosis. Joe was retired for a heart condition in 1947, and in spite of curtailed activity, had a history of occasional recurrences ever since. But this curtailmeiit did not extend to class or Navy affairs in which he remained extremely interested and contributed enthusiastically.

Annapolis instead of in Washington. The ladies were invited and it was a huge success. Bill MARTIN arranged the affair and deserves our sincere thanks. The food and drinks were excellent. A total of 66 attended consisting of 31 classmates, 26 wives, and 9 widows as follows: Eric Anderson, Bassett and Eleanor, Beck and Evelyn, Browder, Bryan and Anne, Christmas and Wee, Connelly and Evelyn, Mary Gwyn Crocker, Crowe and Consuelo, Fred Cunningham, Curts and Fay, Pope Daggett, DeWeese and Kitty, Claude Doolin, Nancy Gearing, Savvy Harrison and Elizabeth, Haugen and Margaret, Heineman ancl Emily, Hepburn and Marilyn, Felix Johnson and Fay, Lyon and Gladys, Bill Martin and Frances, Paul Miller, Mullinnix and Helen, Nibecker and Vivian, Osborn and Happy, Patterson and Eleanor, Pop Perry and Ann, Sabalot and Mila, Sexton and Ruth, Shope, Fran Sickel, Clyde Smith and Eddie, Swanson and Clemena, Mary Jo Swanston, Harriet Taylor, Alice Ten Eyck, Thompson, Mary Wilkes, Ed Wilson and Ethel, and Marion Wooldridge.

Your scribe was forced to miss this luncheon and also the one in Feb. Since late Feb. I have been indisposed with an affliction I had never heard of called pneumothorax. A routine chest x-ray revealed that I had a slightly collapsed left lung.

To make a long story short, the condition grew steadily worse until there was a 40 percent collapse making breathing very difficult. I was hospitalized twice. As of this writing, x-ravs show the lung nearly back to normal, but my activities are greatly restricted, at least for the time being.

Marion CRIST sent me an account of a bad auto accident his wife Ethel had the evening of 12 Feb. in Miami. She suffered a slight concussion and was knocked out and had broken ribs. She returned home from the hospital on 2 Mar. still having considerable pain. Flip says he believes Ethel will be in shape to accompany him Interment was at Rosecrans National Cemetery with a graveside ceremony and to our 50th Reunion for which they have military honors. Roy wrote that it was the reservations. A letter from Jim DONNELlargest funeral he had seen at Rosecrans LY tells of his poor health. He has had a couple of heart blocks, causing loss of conand that fellow officers and friends really rallied around. Our class was represented sciousness, the last one when he was driving and resulted in a collision. So his doctor by the Binfords, Deckers, Townsends and has forbidden him to drive, and since GerSacketts and the following who came solo: trude does not drive, they have disposed of Helen Arthur, Christoph, Gregory, Hartman, Mildred Hatch, Stoker, Murray their car. Jim is still teaching and finds it extremely difiicult to carry on as he suffers Smith, Tillson, Weiler, Wheyland, and Wyatt. Joe's plot is in a beautiful location considerable fatigue after minimum exertion. Unless he is careful, this becomes comoverlooking North Island and the harbor plete exhaustion. The doctor has given entrance. permission for him to attend the Reuiiion Joe is survived by his widow Anne and provided he gets plenty of rest. By the time his two children who were present at the this issue of Shipmate reaches you our 50th funeral accompanied by their respective should be history and it will be known if spouses. His son Joe Jr. is a LCdr. aiid Jim and I made it. on duty in submarines in Hawaii. His Carter and Viola ANDERSON are movdaughter Joanna is the wife of Capt. Robert ing from Evanston, 111. Effective 10 April, Bulmer who is on duty in submarines Atlantic. In addition Joe is survived by their address will be 2710 35th Place N.W., Washington, D. C. 20007. They will be near four grandchildren. neighbors of Allen and Helen MULLINJoe was all enthused about our 50th ReN I X who reside at 2714. union. I understand he had made his reserI am happy to comply with the request vations as far back as last Aug. He had of our late classmate's widow and insert expected to visit his daughter at Virginia Beach and make a real outing of the affair. the following notice in this column. "Mrs. George Merrick Dusinberre announces her Clarence and Virginia L E E spent several days with Joe and Anne in Coronado last marriage to Mr. William Robert Snelson Jan, Plans were then made for them to of Old Colwyn, North Wales on 29 March spend a few days with the Lees in N. J., in the First Congregational Church, Manbefore driving down together to the Rechester, N. H . After a summer in Great union. We are going to miss him. He was Britain, they will reside at 203 Milford a "real good Joe." St., Manchester, N. H . 03102." On beFor variety, the class luncheon on 28 half of the class, I wish them much happiMar. was held at the Alumni House in S H I P M A T E

Charlie Roland, Dorothy and Malcolm Selby, Frank Talbot, Anna Thayer and her escort, Mr. Pen Johnson, Cathy and Tommy Thomas, Ann and George Van Deurs, and Virginia and Charlie Woodson.

Lee Davis went on a Caribbean cruise in February on the Holland-American ship

the seascape exquisite and the golf course good. Mexico is more expensive than Spain, not as clean, and the natives do not know about the pill." The Jarretts, in Coronado On 30 Nov. in the Chapel of the Convent for about a month catching up with their of St. Joseph of Corondelet, over which her old friends, planned to be back in Washingdaughter Sally presides as the Superior, ton in late April.

Helen Rooney Kaye, widow of the late From Elmhurst, N. Y., Gus and STATENDAM ; of the islands she visited she Lewis G. Kaye of Louisville, Ky., became Helen MAGNUSON expect to attend the wife of Frenchy Cherbonnier, who was especially enjoyed Port of France, Mar- the 50th Reunion. He attended the tinique, the spice island Granada and St. widowed by the passing of Cecile. The quiet 30th but missed subsequent ones. Gus renuptials were attended by daughter Sally, Thomas, Virgin Islands. She found Venezuela to be much more progressive than the ports that he is well and that Helen is son Don Lovelace (LCdr. U S N '55) and the making a fine recovery from a recent eye A. B. Cooks. The Cherbonniers will make ports of Colotnbia, South America. The operation. We are glad to hear from you, weather for the cruise was delightful. their home at their lovely place "Holly Gus. Fields" on the bank of the St. Mary's River, On 25 March the bi-monthly luncheon Marion and Ruth M U R P H Y had a St. Marv's County, St. Marv's City, Md. was held in the Patio Room of the Fleet housewarming at their new home, 3510 20686.

Admiral Nimitz Club with the following present: John Ames, and grandson John Emerson St., San Diego, on 29 March, Helen will be remembered by her host Ames I I I , Joe Connolly, Nick Coulter, attended by more than 75 of their friends of friends as the wife of LCdr. Don LoveRansom Davis, Eddie Duncan, Red Irwin, including Beany and Ward Jarrett and lace '28, who was killed in the Battle Doc Harris, Paul Howard, Bob Lewis, Harold and Ginny Baker who were visiting of Midway while flying with that immortal in Coronado. Ruth and Murph have a beaugroup of naval aviators that tipped the bal- John Madclen, Norman McKee, John tiful new home on Point Loma and everyMcQueen, Phil Nichols, Jim Reisinger, ance in the Pacific; she was later the widow Charlie Roland, Frank Talbot, Tommy one enjoyed their gracious hospitality. of the most colorful Admiral Massie Murphy, busy with class business, has been Thomas, Everett True, and Charlie WoodHughes '23. son. The following wives and widows instrumental in initiating '22 class lunchOn 16 March Dan GALLERY was fea- lunched together in the main dining room: eons for the San Diego group. tured on the television program "The MeetLee Davis, Marjorie Davis, Irene Harris, At their 7 March luncheon at the Ading of the Minds." Among other subjects Betty Lewis, Virginia McQueen, Bobbie miral Kidd Club the following attended: Dan discussed certain aspects of the PUEBLO Madden, Corinne Reisinger and Tram Ted Brautigam, Goodwin, Huffman, Libby, case.

Roland. Pat and AB CARLISLE were Murphy, Quarton, Ragonnet, Rockey, absent from the above luncheon meetings, Stickley, Whaley and Williams. We haven't The Ed Fullinwiders recently returned seen Ted Brautigam for a long time and it from a flying trip to Hawaii. While there having been detained at the Bay Bridge due to the perversity of their automobile was good to see him again. they visited Ed's son who is an officer in mechanism. the submarine service.

Ted ZINN writes, "Edith and I have Wop BARBARO reports he and Phronie just returned from a month's safari in East At our monthly class limcheon held at the Army-Navy Club, Washington, on 27 have recently returned from Florida where Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, ZanziMarch, the following were present: Awilda they were the fortunate recipients of an in- bar, Rhodesia and South Africa. We saw many wild lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes, Ferris, Cat and Eleanor Brown, Homer vitation from NASA to view the launching buffalos, hyenas, gazelles, etc., at close camand Louise Eimers, Wop and Phronie of Apollo 9. En route to Cape Canaveral Barbaro, Oz and Kitty Colclough, Joe they stopped off for a few days visit with era range. Travelled by plane, minibus, and land rover. Mt. Kilimanjaro and Victoria Kitty Biggs at Jekyll Island. Kitty will Bolger, Fred Boone, L. A. Brown, Dick take up residence at Vinson Hall when it Falls were highlights. Also visited Kamand Ray Dickens, Tommy and Bert Dell opens as well as (for the time being) keep hola, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Salisbury, etc. (from Philadelphia), Dolly Fitzgerald, Bill If you contemplate an African safari, check and Gerry Fletcher, Ed Fullinwider, Dan the lovely home she and Burton planned your health first; roads through the jungles Gallery, Don and Margaret Giles, Van and and built before his sudden passing. and bush are rough and dusty." Thanks for Doris Hamilton, Harold and Vera Houser, En route to Tampa they dropped in for Addie Kirk, Blackie Loker, Swig and Mar- an hour's chat with the A L D R I C H E S in your letter, Ted. garet Swigart, Pinky Thorp; and John their home at Green Cove Springs, Fla. Another visitor to Africa was Libs Waters. After cocktails and before lunch Found Clarence pruning his trees and Ger- LIBBY, columnist for the Copley Press, was served to the men the wives gathered trude taking a siesta. making a six-week trip to various African in the main dining room for their luncheon. countries reviewing the current political, They spent the night at Tampa with Fort economic and military situation. This is his Our classmate John Mason FRIER, 69, and Lucille CALLAHAN, who are both third trip to Central and South Africa durdied 2 April at the Fairfax Hospital, Va. well, did a lot of reminiscing, and loaded ing the last four years. His column is interJohn resigned from the naval service in the car with grapefruit and oranges from esting and revealing, and is widely read in 1926 and since then he had worked at sev- the trees in their beautiful three-acre yard. the area served by the Copley Press. Libs eral jobs in and out of government. H e is Fort selected his home on a lake close to survived by his wife Grace, a son John the dog track and the Jai Lai arena where is very busy following his new and absorbing profession.

Jr., and a daughter, Grace Rudzis. The he can place his bets now and then.

Ed and Carmen GARDNER spent a class extends its sympathy to the widow and While in the area they visited Redington month beginning 15 April in Guadalajara, children.

Beach where Wop's submarine and Italian On 21 March Dode and Scup M I L L E R language expert pal Mike Russillo '27 and Mexico, and expect to visit the east coast in late May and June. Hal and Ginny celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary his wife Cris are thoroughly enjoying re- BAKER spent a month in California and with a cocktail buffet at the Fleet Admiral tirement since moving into their new home Scottsdale, Ariz., and returned to their Nimitz Club on Treasure Island. The guests last October. Not much sun, but lots of home in Washington in late April. included 'their daughter Nette and husband fun! The Barbaros returned to Alexandria George W A T S O N sends greetings from Conway Peterson and granddaughter just in time for the launching' of Wop's Arizona where George and Clytie are Susie; cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond first grandson Joseph Herold Barbaro Jr. Eberhardt; Mrs. Allen Calvert (widow of at Columbia Hospital, Washington, D. C. making their home in Litchfield Park, a suburb of Phoenix. H e says they are relaxAdm. Calvert '24) and her escort, Mr. They left on a two-months trip to Europe ing and enjoying their home on the fairway Martin Kurtz; Capt. and Mrs. Eugene on 26 April. of the Wigwam golf course and will welLugibihl '27; and the following classmates come calls from any classmates passing and wives or widows: Eleanor and John Sec'v, Capt, E, R. Gardner, USN (Ret,) through Phoenix. H e is doing pretty well Ames, Pat and AB Carlisle, Marian and 1700 San CaMos Ave, with his golf and all is well with them.

Clarence Conlan, Lee Davis, Marjorie and San Carlos, Ca, 94070 Corr, Sec'y, VAdm, H, D, Baker, USN (Ret.) Dave Davis, E w i e and Harry Guthrie, The class lost a most popular member 2210 Wyoming Ave,, N,W. Vera and Jim Harris, their two daughters when Johnny S H U L T Z passed away at the Washington, D. C. 20008 Mary Ann Wills an(i Vera V. Vinn and Bethesda Naval Hospital on 9 March after husband Capt. John Vinn and granddaughBeany and Ward J A R R E T T arrived at a series of abdominal operations. H e and ter Pamela Vinn, Irene and Doc Harris, Coronado after a trip through Mexico and Martha came up from their home in St. Bunty and Lew Johns, Mildred and Kirby a sojourn at Mazatlan. Beany writes, "The Croix for a physical checkup which resultKirby-Smith, Betty and Bob Lewis, Eleanor weather has been beautiful, the fruits delied in surgery for both of them. Martha and Norman McKee, Bobbie and John made a splendid recovery and because of cious, fishing outstanding—three marlins on Madden, Kay and Slats Moore, Tram and three lines at the same time (not mine). Johnny's continuing illness has been living Sec'y, Capt. S. S. Bunting, USN (Ret.) Kensington House, 10225 Kensington Parkway, Kensington, Md. 20795

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temporarily at 8200 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, Md.; she plans to return to her home in St. Croix. Johnny was buried in Arlington with full military honors on 14 March with a large number of classmates attending the service.

Martha and Johnny had made their home in St. Croix for the last eight years and had been hosts to many classmates and their wives who thoroughly enjoyed their warm hospitality on that lovely island. Their three sons are in the service, Col. John M., U S A ; Cdr. Robert T. and LCdr. Theodore B., USN, both of whom are currently serving in the Western Pacific. We all extend our sympathy to Martha and the family.

Ted T I T U S has had a plaque made which shows the record of the Naval Academy lacrosse teams for the seasons of 1920, '21 and '22, during which time they were undefeated and National Champions in 1922. Zeke SANBORN presented this plaque to Capt. John Coppedge, the head of the Naval Academy Athletic Association, who accepted it and will have it displayed in an appropriate place. These teams made a great record and it is a fine gesture by Ted to make a permanent display attesting to the excellence of Navy athletics nearly half a century ago.

There is considerable interest being displayed in our 50th Reunion and our 40 reservations have been received at the hotel for the reunion weekend. The capacity of the hotel is about 100. A $20 deposit is required and in order to insure a reservation it is desirable to make them soon.

Hitch Saunders is the chairman of the reunion committee and he can furnish information regarding the reunion.

All members are requested to send items of interest of themselves or classmates to Hal Baker or Ed Gardner so that this column can keep the class informed. News items have been scarce lately. Marion M U R P H Y has a number of class ties on hand which still sell for $3 each. Murph has also said that anyone who has occasion to expend any money for flowers at funerals or make other proper class expenditures

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Recorder, RAdm Joseph N. Wenger, USN West coast travelers were Bo and Peg ( R e t . ) , 4 9 1 8 Tilden St, N,W., DODSON who returned to Ventura after Washington, 0 . C. 20016 a four-month circuit of Pacific spots. Bill Sec'y, RAdm. Morris Smellow, (SC) USN (Ret.), 100 S. Cherry Grove Ave,, T H A Y E R and Put S T O R R S made the Annapolis, Md. 21401 trek from their respective homes to San Those who have been following these Diego for the March '23 luncheon. Put, notes will be pleased to know that Art and who has been living at Ajijic, Mexico, was Jo AGETON have returned home after a reported to be considering repatriation, with the idea of settling down somewhere pleasant five-month stay at Honolulu. A r t in the Rancho Bernado area. Bob and Ruth begged off, however, from resuming his former recorder's duties until after his an- CASSON started south for the luncheon but got only as far as Ken MOSES' house nual bout with Form 1040. We trust that before having to return home because of he will be back here at the old stand for her illness. Ken managed, however, to reach the next issue of Shipmate.

San Diego for the event. Meanwhile, the The first quarter of '69 seems to have BRENDELs were reported in Mexico, and been an unusually propitious time for '23 travelers. Mel GROSVENOR was in Hon- the Harry CHASEs had left Southern California to take up residence in the wilds duras with his youngest son where he got an introduction to scuba diving and found of Washington State at Oak Harbor. it "definitely preferable to snorkeling." Mel Along with these peregrinations, east returned to Washington but then took off coast '23ers were logging their share of again for the west coast to attend a meeting mileage. Elliott and Beatrice STRAUSS of the Cruising Club of America, of which returned from a lengthy stay at Geneva, he is an enthusiastic member. Back in where Elliott was associated with the Washington once more, he was expecting European office of T E M P O (GE's adto make another visit to his winter retreat vanced planning group). He has now at Coconut Grove, Fla., where he had been joined I N T E R P L A N , a spin-off from earlier in the year.

T E M P O , and expects to remain in Washington at least for a while. Returned also Dave and Kitty B A S K E T T were in San were Fred and Louise WITHINGTON Juan in late February and early March.

Stew LINDSAY, Scaley S H O U P , Pierce from their trip to Brazil and Buenos Aires.

L E A V I T T , FARRAR, and SMELLOW, KINGSLEY, and Homer AMBROSE all when last heard from, were either still in returned from visits of various lengths to Florida or en route there. Dutch WILL the west coast where they made contact with a number of other '23ers. Neil D I E T - paid a brief visit to Washington and took RICH made a brief trip to the coast also, enough time out to put in a welcomed apto attend an A S W conference at San Diego. pearance at the Washington environs While there he was able to see his daugh- luncheon in March. Doc HUDSON spent ters-in-law, former Commandant USMC a couple of months in St. Louis following and Mrs. Lemuel Shepherd at La Jolla. the unfortunate loss of his youngest Neil reported that the old familiar Coro- brother, whose affairs he went there to nado Hotel has been completely rejuve- wind up. nated. Another visitor to the west coast, The prize for mileage undoubtedly was though from the opposite direction, was due Arleigh and Bobbie BURKE. FollowDon F E L T who made a quick hop from ing on the heels of Arleigh's trips to Tokyo Honolulu to witness young Don's assumpand Europe, they took off on 8 March for tion of command of VA-27. Young Don a month's rugged tour of the Far East.

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Their scheduled itinerary included Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Manila, Djogjakarta, Bali, Perth, Melbourne, Darwin, West Irian, Sydney, Kalgoorlie, Brisbane, Townsville, Noumea, Honolulu, and San Francisco, plus stops at various other points along the way before their return to Washington. Arleigh's durability is beginning to look like that of the wonderful one-horse shay.

Your recorder's modest fling at traveling was pleasant enough but unfortunately not very productive of '23 news, due in part to an uncooperative bug picked up in Florida.

He did, however, have a most enjoyable two-day visit with Karl and Olive H E N SEL in their attractive riverside home at Fort Myers, Fla. A brief fishing trip there with Karl recalled some earlier piscatorial expeditions which he and your recorder undertook more than 40 years ago, as shipmates in the old W E S T VIRGINIA. Karl had

purchased an outboard motor for the ship's dinghy, only to find that it was too heavy for the stern. To prevent the tub from upending, he inveigled Y.R. into serving as ballast in the bow. As was invariably the case then, Karl again caught all of the fish on this latest joint effort.

The most recent letter from Karl, our ever faithful contributor to these notes, reported that Edie Gold stopped by his home one afternoon en route to Naples, Fla. She was planning a sea voyage to the West Indies before returning to the Maryland eastern shore in April. Karl wrote that he and Olive also had a delightful visit from Dave and Mary Byerly '21, who had been traveling in the S.W. and S.E., and were anticipating with much pleasure an early visit from Carlton and Jo Todd, also '21.

Karl enclosed with his letter a clipping from the San Diego Union editorial page, received from Fred N E L S O N . The author of the clipping was none other than Savvy SANDERS who, it appears, has joined the ranks of the columnists and commentators.

Savvy was giving vent in this particular piece to some commonly held feelings (at least by the "older generation") anent current disturbances in the universities, and he expressed himself with admirable cogency and literary style.

Another writer in our ranks who has been gaining recognition is Frank RIGLER. Shipmate readers will recall his recent articles in this magazine and will be pleased to know that an interesting article by him appeared in a late issue of the Retired Officer.

The March bulletin of the Army and Navy Club in Washington carried this item relating to one of our members: "As he has so graciously done in the past, LCdr. Walter S. Ginn, U S N (Ret.) '23, remembered again the Knights by sending ingredients for their special Golden Circle apertif of rum, gum, and calamondin juice.

Cdr. Ginn, a club member since 1923, will in four years become a member of the Knights of the Round Table." (It seems our age is beginning to show in some unexpected ways.)

Your recorder had a brief visit from Fred T R A P N E L L who managed to escape the confines of the Bethesda Naval Hospital long enough for the purpose. He was suffering from the adverse effects of a blood thinner on his ulcer, but apparently the medicos have the situation sufficiently under control to permit his return home shortly.

Fred's main diversion now is sailing out of his home port at Oyster, N. Y., in his personally designed and unusually rigged aluminum ketch.

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Other '23ers sharing his confinement at Bethesda were Goat M E N D E N H A L L and Scaley S H O U P , both reported to be undergoing surgical repairs. We wish them well.

Mort NEELEY, who is still slowly recovering from his bout with the surgeons, was pleased to report the marriage of Mort Jr. in December. According to the latest word from the west coast, Cabell and Marion G W A T H M E Y were also still on the mend after their near fatal automobile accident and were showing remarkable courage and cheerfulness under the circumstances.

Class luncheons were held in March in both Washington and San Diego. Attending the former were Baskett, Beaumont, Briggs, Coe, Cofer, Cutting, Daisley, Hudson, Johannesen, Lewis, McCutchen, Mclsaac, Mendenhall, Morrison, Murdaugh, Oliver, Pottle, Roberts, Shoup, Smellow, Spring, Stephens, Straus, Tucker, Wadbrook, Walton, and Will. Those present at the San Diego event were Anderson, Barnes, Chapman, Connelley, Dodson, Dugan, Good, Goodnough, Jackson, Jecklin, Leith, Lemly, Moosebrugger, Moses, Pearce, Sanders, Smiley, Storrs, Thayer, and Woods.

One item of interest gathered at the Washington happening was that Joe MORRISON had been sitting on a State Department selection board for promotion of foreign service officers. It seems that distinguished outsiders participate in this task, in an interesting variation of the naval system.

At the San Diego event it was learned that Shirley BARNES had retired from the canning business and was preparing for a trip to Europe, leaving in the Q. E. II and returning

by the SS UNITED STATES.

Ken MOSES was in the process of closing out his industrial career; Cary S T E V E N SON was still busy with his newspaper Vista News; and the J. R. McKINNEYs, long retired, were contemplating moving to Poway, Calif.

The main subject of discussion at the Washington meeting was the Naval Academy Alumni Foundation scholarship program. Arleigh, as class president, had given his approval to the project of raising funds for a class scholarship, and Charlie COE spoke on the advantages and tax savings to be gained by donations of stock.

Encouraged by the initial response. Class secretary SMELLOW urged members to support the project. He subsequently indicated that a letter he had sent out asking for pledges contained some unintentional and possibly misleading wording. Morris said that the pledge should read: "I would be willing to give $ in 1969 (check enclosed), $ in 1970, and in addition, $ • annually thereafter as I may desire." The intent is that the donor may give a specified sum this year, next year, or both years, and may continue should he so desire until the fund reaches its goal or he decides otherwise.

Ralph WOODS, secretary of the San Diego group, put forth these thoughts on the subject: "We have been rewarded by respect and honor for our service to our flag and country. Ours has been a life of excitement and integrity; we were good representatives of the Navy and capable defenders of our nation; for many of us the Navy has been our whole life; few among us have gained afHuency but we all know of the successes attained through 'spirit' and team effort; we are now in the evening of our earthly existence and we still love the Navy. Isn't it true that each of us would

'23 at the Bowers' in Los Altos, Calif., mentioned in the May class column. Back row, left to right: Harriette Williams, Frances Bowers, Alyce Arnold, Marie Northcutt, Louise O'Regan. Front row: Arnold, Bowers, Williams, Northcutt and O'Regan.

like to see our trust, honor, integrity, understanding, insight, love of country and patriotism emulated and improved upon by those who follow after us ? Many fine young men, who have had less opportunities than we, have been lost to the Naval Academy for lack of a preparatory education. Let us . . . help our class to gain a 100 percent record in this drive which will reflect nothing but credit on '23." Well said!

At the time of deadline (10 April), "volunteer" chairman Shorty W A L T O N reported that arrangements for the coed luncheon at Alumni House, Annapolis, scheduled for 14 May, were progressing satisfactorily.

The following late flash was received from Charlie K E E G A N : "I have just returned from a golfing tour at Freeport in the Grand Bahama Islands. Stayed at the King's Inn and Golf Club and had a truly relaxing time. This is another spot I worked in when U. S. Steel was building a cement plant back in 1964. At that time there was practically nothing on the island. Now it has developed into a fabulous tourist area. It was quite a change from then to now—particularly clean sheets, private bath, and palatable food.

"Just read that Abe Myers went to Taiwan under contract with the International Executive Service Corp. G. G. Weston and his 1 9

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'^ wife Ethel went to Cartagena, Colombia, S. America the latter part of 1968, under a similar contract, to work for a soft drink bottling concern. They reported having a wonderful time." (G. G. was previously with the Coca Cola Company in Atlanta, Ga.) To readers of the Washington chapter bulletin, much of the foregoing may be repetitious, since the bulletin appears five or six weeks before these notes covering the same period are published. Items from it repeated herein are for the benefit of those who do not receive the bulletin.

As Tony McISAAC observed, this monthly report is beginning to read like a combination travelogue, obit page, and binnacle list. f, I li ll

Sec'y-Treas., Capt, Paul Siegrist, USNR (Ret.), 22 Macopin Ave. Upper Montclair, N. J. 07043 Asst., Mr, Robert A, Keyer Box 7234, Richmond, Va. 23221

John D. H A Y E S (RAdm. USN Ret.) was honored at a 7 April meeting at the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library, Wilmington, Del., held in celebration of the publication of John's 3-volume work, Samuel Francis Du Pont, A Selection From His Civil War Letters. As many of us have learned, this was a monumental work on John's part, and more or less a "natural" for him, following his earlier works on naval leaders, including Stephen B. Luce. The April meeting included a symposium entitled "Admirals in Transition," with papers on .'\dmiral Charles Wilkes and Admiral John Rogers, read by noted historians; and was followed by a brief ceremony conducted by Dr. R. D. Williams, library director, to thank Longwood Foundation, Admiral Hayes and his assistants for the important edition of letters from the Library collections. We enjoyed particularly John's brief response— he looked and spoke very well. There followed a reception, and an opportunity for inspecting an interesting exhibit of Admiral Du Pont's naval career memorabilia.

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Last month we reported on a published review of John C A P L E S ' famed ad, "They Laughed When I Sat Down At The Piano."

Now we learn that John has been asked to write a series of articles for Saturday Review; and from the 8 March edition we find his article called "$1,000 a Word" giving further information on how early John's advertising experience began. We quote from it: "My first ad writing experience was helping my mother write small classified ads for her private tutoring school. We used to run 34

ads in the N. Y. Sunday Times. The cost was 65 cents a line, and we were allowed six words to the line. We worked hard to make every word count. . . . We felt a sense of triumph when we started by writing a 4-line ad, and then by careful pruning cut it to 3 lines—65 cents saved. Today's advertisers face the same problem, but the cost is higher. . . . A certain 4-color page in a recent issue of Readers Digest figures out to $1,000 per word"; and this leads to John's story on how to make advertising words pay.

Whenever our Washington luncheon group runs out of ideas for speakers or activities, you can count on a return to the old debate on "shall we change our meeting-place?"

Well, Newt L E W I S tells us that they are at it again, he and Sylvan B E R L I N E R being on a committee to make a new survey to determine if a better luncheon location is available in the Washington area. One difficulty in connection with the A & N Town Club is the parking problem; but we understand parking is a problem which applies to most of the other places considered. Your reporter suggests that the simple answer is "take the bus," as we consider the advantage of the town Club meetings to out-of-town visitors who do not relish the heavy traffic around Washington. We'll report if any change in meeting-place is made, and again remind out-of-towners that the meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of each month; and these meetings are going strong.

There were 24 (class numerals!) at the 26 March luncheon, who were given a chance to speak on meeting-place location, and many other topics: Keyer, Berliner, Hartwig, Hoffman, Lewis, Kalisch, Cunningham, Nesser, Dyer, Bell, Sinclair, Collins, Swart, Wilson, Richards, Granbery, Bradley, Dick Johnson, Longfellow, Kelly, Mercer, Count Austin, Petersen and Bachman.

Well, all we hear at this time is "Reunion," but of course that will all be over by the time this is read. We hope the remaining six of the original "OKLAHOMA Eight" will have made it as planned. These were the eight seamen who left the USS OKLAHOMA for N A P C and the Academy in 1920, reduced to six by the loss of Slim Palmer and Charlie Schenck. But the remaining six are said to be making reunion: Caples, Day, Falge, Kalisch, Kennaday and Robillard.

The by-laws of our Class Association provide for an election of officers this year.

This means that President Bob Swart vvill be appointing a committee on elections, which will have the task of selecting two candidates for each of the ofl&ces, and two directors.

Our next issue should carry the names of this committee, to whom you may make recommendations.

Blackie (E. C.) B U R C H E T T is one who has not reported in this column in years (and we notice in his Cruise picture that the top of his head shows him living up to his nickname). We quote from his letter: "I have read and enjoyed the Shipmate column for years, and offer my apologies for a severe case of writer's cramps. . . . Since Cruise publication, Mig and I are enjoying full retirement. Last week we vacationed at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas: spectacular shows, the gambling casino, and gourmet dinners provided a pleasant change from our rather quiet life in our San Mateo apartment, where Mig, our son Bill and I have been happy since 1951. We also vacation at South Lake Tahoe occasionally. . . . We both enjoy our vacations and are looking forward to our next visit to the Lake. . . . Have not seen classmates lately, none live nearby.

However last year we enjoyed Alice and John Buxton's visit, when they came through, en route to Japan. . . . Our best wishes to all."

As you have observed, one of the interesting results of the Cruise publication is the responses we get from those who left us before graduation. Ed. (E. H.) KORNH A U S E R is a case in point. If you were in a Spanish Batt in our plebe summer you will remember Ed, who has had a very successful business career, and writes us from 1240 Southwest Natl. Bank Bldg., El Paso, Tx. 79901: "I was very pleasantly surprised on my return from an extended trip to find a copy of the 45-year Cruise awaiting me.

Although I am one of the 'early strayed sheep,' I have maintained membership in the U S N A Alumni Assn. for many years. Consequently I enjoy reading reports on the class of '24 in Shipmate. And reading through this book brings back some memories of early years. I would like to express iny appreciation to all the people who contributed their efforts to such an excellent publication; and to make it more tangible I am enclosing check as a donation to the Association of the Class of 1924, in hopes of enabling the good work to continue. . . . My wife and I will make every effort to attend the 45th Reunion."

Another liberal contributor to our Cruise effort, and who left us before first class year, is Steve F R E E M A N , on whom we had a report last month prepared by Herman (W. E.) Kraft. Steve writes: "Somehow, I think you should date the years from 1920, instead of 1924—for the memories of all of us go back to plebe year. And I think memories of those years are very strong. Thank you for my copy of the Cruise; I have pored over it, and will do so again and again. All honor to all of you." Well, many of us will agree with what Steve says. 1924 was an important year, for sure, but many of us had more fun during plebe summer, and even in second-class year. Yes, our Navy memories really do go back to 1920!

Cleo and Bert K A L I S C H are GREATgrandparents I Sarah Katherine McGrath arrived in April, the daughter of the Kalischs' granddaughter Barbara Kalisch McGrath. And to make it a bit unusual, little Sarah has a new aunt who is younger than she; a few days after Sarah arrived, there was born Roberta Kalisch (Barbara's sister), another daughter to Mr. (USMC in W W I I ) and Mrs. Bertram Kalisch Jr. All this excites our features editor—maybe we should have a silver cup started to list those classmates who become great-grandfathers, like the cup we have listing those who made "father of the year" after 1950 (Herrington, Grifiith, Temple, Bearce, Cowan, Zelenka, Freels, Miller (cum laude) and Gwinn). Anyway, with only Bert Kalisch and P-K Smith on our recorded list of "greats" we hope to be informed if there are any others.

Latest report (6 April) on Joe Farrell: "I'm in great shape after my little run-in and first trip ever to a hospital. Back on the golf course again." Joe adds, "most everyone out this way is planning to attend Reunion.

I expect to see the Dave Wights and Ash Evanses this weekend. Understand the Richters are headed for Ireland and Norway after Reunion (Harry has to brush up on his brogue). Also, the Tiemroths are headed for Europe, visiting Turkey, Greece, Egypt and Israel."

Whitey (W. L.) R I C H A R D S has been designated by our president to represent '24 at the USNA June Week awards cereS H I P M A T E

monies, and make our annual award presentation. Meanwhile, Ens. Clark Williams, last year's winner, writes Bob Swart: "I did not own a wristwatch prior to your presentation, and I sorely needed one. I trust it will remain with me throughout a career in submarines."

Reporting a rough winter at Asheville, Bill COCHRAN indicates his annual Foreign Affairs Forum at Asheville-Biltmore College may not be held this year. But the chances of a resumption of the Forum later are enhanced by the proposed consolidation of the College with the University of N. C. Marge and Bill made their winter trip to California, instead of Florida, "to maintain useful relationship with grandchildren." In February they went for a week in each San Francisco and L. A., and experienced California's worst weather in 79 years!

We are late in learning, with regret, of the death in January of Mrs. Agnes Johnson Blaylock, wife of LeRoi. We extend belated sympathies to LeRoi and his daughter Jeanne, who we understand is at home with him. A letter from LeRoi tells of a short visit he had with Bill Mansfield in March, when the latter's train passed thru Salt Lake City.

Ladies were included at the 21 March annual dinner of the New York chapter of the Alumni Assn., and 1924 was represented

by Rose and John Cullen, Min Miller, Dorothy and John Morrill, Norma and Paul Siegrist, Sam Singer and J-J Whalen, We're late also in noting in the Dec. 1968 Readers Digest an interesting story (did you read it?) by Janice (Keyset) Wilkin Lester, title "The Woman Who Would Not Tell."

And our closing line comes from Noble: "Life's fun, when you have so many wonderful classmates!"

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

It is reported that Butch and Betty PARKER have at last yielded to the siren lure of Florida, and have their lovely home in Annapolis up for sale.

San Francisco notes from Frank T I M BERLAKE : "I would like to say that Bennett W R I G H T and I met with Walter Mayer for lunch, and afterwards took a tour of his home in Hillsborough with special emphasis on his terraced gardens and woodworking shop in the basement. Walter has been busy becoming an expert in making inlaid trays and plaques. His workmanship and technique are amazing! He recently made me a wooden plaque with our trademark, measuring about 18" square and using about 10 kinds of wood to commemorate our 100th Anniversary. It really is a beautiful work of art and is now on display in San Francisco at an exhibition with some of his other trays. He is also making a plaque with the Dartmouth coat of arms which is even more difficult and exacting work.

"Last week I had an enjoyable golf game with George Purmont and Bennett Wright at the San Francisco Golf Club . . . both are good golfers and enjoy taking a few dollars from you I Bennett and his wife Edith left on the first of April for a trip east visiting friends, along with a stop at points of interest along the way such as the Grand Canyon, Indian reservations, etc. They are not sure where they will finally locate, but we hope it will be back in California—maybe in Marin County—after their prolonged eastern trip in their new car.

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"Minerva Ludewig gave a delightful little cocktail party for Shane King and his wife last Sunday in her new apartment at Park Merced. Also present (besides Camille and myself) were Walter Davidson and his new bride, and Jack and Lillian Redman (who also live in San Francisco). Jack, as you know, is a champion wrestler, although a few classes ahead of us. I think he wrestled at 165—and although that is my weight today, I would hate to take him on!!

"Camille and I were going to Europe in May, but have postponed the trip to await the arrival of a grandchild later this summer ; naturally we don't want to be away when the big event occurs! In the meantime I am still stirring the chocolate pot."

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non-reg '25 plebes: Bill Headden, Joe Stryker, Bill Graham and Easy Pickens.

Florida notes from Red Eye C O L E M A N : "This was the first time since Sept. leave, first class year, that Kitty and I have had more than two or three weeks off at once.

So we really have been enjoying retirement with three weeks in Britain, two months in Naples, Orlando and points south in Florida, and with reunions here and there. Ham Love looked great and told us about his family.

Two months ago, it was Ham's son-in-law Harry Davis, captain of a National Airlines plane, that talked the young and threatening sky-j acker out of going to Havana.

"Going through Delray I talked with Kathryn Tuzo and heard about Squeak's heart pacemaker and his recent (January) serious operation in Miami. Squeak was back for a re-check the day I called and I'm sure he is back home full of pep again.

"Our biggest reunion was at Orlando on 14 Feb. for the Alumni Association luncheon at the Naval Training Center Officers' Club. Of course, the class of '25 took the honors for having the largest turn-out—6 I Good old Eddie Peabody and his banjo added to the fun of the occasion, but our being together again was really heart-warming and shared by Freddie Warder, Harman and Pauline Bell, Carleton and Jo Hoffner, Johnny and Betty Lambrecht, Horace and Louise Trainor and by Kitty and Red Eye Coleman.

"Guess we will have to team up with Hamp Mitchell or Von on the second Von

Kleeck reunion circuit in Florida next winter when we go back to RIC Jr.'s (USNA '51) in Orlando I" We just received, via Joe STRYKER, Jug R A Y ' S electioneering card. He is running for councilman of Santa Barbara, Calif., in a 15 April election. It was noted in the May issue that he has been very active civically, particularly in the fight against offshore drilling for oil in the Santa Barbara channel.

We have been following up our Naval Academy Foundation honor scholar, Midn.

Philip Jessop Rodgers, class of '72, and find out he is getting along extremely well. His company officer and the first classmen in his company really were enthusiastic about him.

The 25th Company wardroom at the Naval Academy has received quite a bit of help this year. We put the television in good shape and are supplying some money for new furnishings (badly needed). Public Works is giving them a new rug (also badly needed). We visited the wardroom in early April and had a nice chat with Midn. Hooper and Tevebaugh, class of '69, who run the establishment. We also had lunch in the mess hall with the company, a fine bunch of young gentlemen.

Butch P A R K E R has bought a house in Pompano Beach, Fla., and is selling his place in Annapolis. Hamp M I T C H E L L is following suit; we understand Hamp also has a residence in Bronxville, N. Y., to take care of. Best wishes to Betty and Butch and to Hamp and Eugenie in their new homes.

Jane and Schuyler P Y N E made a twoweek trip to Curacao and St. Croix in early March returning full of "wim, wigger and witality." They also had their son and his family and daughter Ellen Crow and her brood for Easter dinner, four adults and five grandchildren. Son Richard, class of 'SS and a major in the Marines, is on his way back to WestPac for another tour of duty.

With regret we report the sudden death of Rut COLT in his Baltimore home on 17 March. Rut came to us from '24 in our youngster year and subsequently received a medical discharge for bad hearing. Although he was only with us for a few months he was a loyal Navy man and classmate who attended reunions, class functions and alumni meetings especially in the 1940's and 1950's whes he was in better health. He was closely associated for many years with Shorty ORVILLE, another late classmate, in the Friez Instrument Division of Bendix where the two of them did a fine job of designing and producing different types of special instruments for BuAer, BuShips and BuOrd. Rut relieved Shorty as chief engineer of that company when Shorty left Friez in about 1960. Rut's wife Augusta died in 1966. He is survived by his brother Stock U S N A '24, and by another brother, a sister, three sons and several grandchildren. Our deepest sympathy to all his family.

'25 Reunion in Orlando, Fla. Harmon and Pauline Bell, John and Betty Lambrecht, Freddie Warder, Louise and Horace Trainer, Jo and Carleton Hoffner, and Kitty and Red Eye Coleman.

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Sec'y, Cdr. H. A, Fravel, USN (Ret,) 3410 15th S t , , North Arlington, Va, 22201 Corr, Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg I I I , USN (Ret.) 8405 Burdette Rd. Bethesda, Md. 20034

Bea Prifold, George's widow, visited the Naval Academy from her home, Coffin Point Plantation, Frogmore, S. C. 29920, on 19 April. While at the Academy she presented, as a memorial to George, a beautiful set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica to enhance the literary splendor of the 26th Company wardroom. The gift, also shared by their two daughters, Cora Beebe and Joan Mcginnis, was received by Midn. Lt. Mike B. Clark, the 26th Company Commander. After the presentation Bea witnessed the mid-day midshipman formation from the steps of Bancroft Hall. Later she was entertained by the Class Wardroom Committee and their wives at a luncheon at Alumni House. Others present at the festivities were Sara LeHardy, Dot Gunther, Major and Mrs. Ennis, tlie 26th Company Officer, and Midn. Mike B. Clark, David S. Burlin, and David Mize.

Phil N I E K U M writes from Monrovia, Calif., to say that he has now reached the "age of experienced incompetency" and must retire, as of the end of July from the company for which he has been working for the past nine years. I assume that it is from one of the divisions of General Dynamics since he refers to it as "Charlie Home's sweatshop." He says that he has enjoyed working there: "no ulcers, no nervous breakdowns, and some very fine co-workers." When and if he and Rose can sell their place in Monrovia they are planning on "bumming around for a while and perhaps spending next winter in the highlands of old Mexico." He says they just might settle there in some place like Lake Chapala, or Alamo, or Lake Guanajuato, adding that, "once you get away from the border cities Mexico is a beautiful country."

Rosy R O Z E N D A H L writes that instead of going to Florida this winter as he had done for the past four to avoid the cold and storms in the mountains around Fancy Gap, Va., he settled in Winston-Salem and joined a church and a little theatre group; he returned to the mountains in late March.

Again my faithful correspondent from the west coast. Jack McNay TAYLOR, has recognized that '26 news flows like molasses into Crystal River and sends in some bits of news from the Bay area. True to form, the class of '26 had the largest turnout for the March Naval Academy alumni dinner in San Francisco, with Jack, Louie French, Bob Lowther, Te(l Kobey, and Tom Langley present. Louie and Don Alexander are in charge of the next '26 gathering in the San Francisco Bay area. Hugh Webster and Paul Webster were among those at the Navy League luncheon in San Francisco for the Superintendent of the Academy, Jim Calvert '43, who gave a fine talk concerning changes in the curriculum and relation between midshipmen and campus unrest elsewhere. He also gave an "up-check" to Rick Forzano, the new football coach.

The last item reported from San Francisco seemed unusual to me. A clipping from the local paper concerning one of our associate members who did not graduate with us but who had a distinguished career in San Francisco : "Public announcement of the marriage 23 Feb. of Ray Kimbell, retired general manager of the Recreation-Park Department, was made at the bottom of the Bay in the BART tube; his bride—Elaine Batmale."

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The 26th Company wardroom of the Naval Academy receives the Encyclopaedia Britannica from Mrs. George Prifold Jr. From left to right: Cora Beebe, David S. Burlin, Mrs. Prifold, Mike B. Clark and Joan McGinnis.

Zealand to see her son, LCdr. David G. Willingham, (SC) USN, who has been stationed in Christchurch for almost two years as supply officer for Operation Deepfreeze. Dave and his wife Kathleen have so thoroughly enjoyed the community in which they live that she is a charter member of the Christchurch Toastmistress Club and he is president of the Christchurch Toastmasters. On one occasion when Dave was honored by being asked to propose a loyal toast to the Queen, one of the local men remarked that he "was quite surprised to hear a citizen of one of the rebellious colonies called upon for this ceremony!"

The Washington classmates met at the Navy Yard (Gun Factory to some) on 26 March and as so often happens by pure coincidence, the following 26 members of 1926 were there: Adair, Agnew, Barker, Brady, Briner, Buchanan, Bruton, Busey, Cavenagh, Claiborne, Fravel, Gano, Greenacre, Greenslade, Grenfell, Hill, Katz, Deeper, Lovett McCorkle, McKee, Morgan, Morrison, Nelson, Stiegler and Strain. As usual, Grayce Fravel did all the work.

The SMEDBERGs returned to Bethesda, Md., at the end of April, after a delightful six months in Florida and can hardly wait to get back there again when the weather starts acting up, come next Fall, north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

Sec'y, Cdr, Howard C. Adams, USNR Pacific Far East Line, Inc., 918 16th St. I\I,W„ Washington, D, C, 20006 Corr, Sec'y, RAdm. Howard W. Gordon, Jr., USN (Ret,), 3127 18th S t „ North, Arlington, Va, 22201

Liles CREIGHTON from Pittsburgh, Pa., growls like some of the rest of us by writing, "We at Pittsburgh don't get to see many classmates and the dope in Shipmate is skimpy compared with '25 and '26 plus some of the other classes. I wish we could maintain better contact by that good magazine."

Get it? He further reports, "Last month the Dapper Dans held their sports banquet and inducted four of the outstanding athletes of an earlier era into their Hall of Fame. All of these men have contributed their time, money and skills into improving sports in this area and also helped a great many of the young boys develop into leaders in the commercial world.

"Tom Hamilton, one of the four, added this to his many other laurels. It was quite an honor to be chosen, especially as Tom has been in California for about ten years.

It was a great pleasure to see him and get all the dope on the west coast crowd during his visit at my home where I was recovering from the Hong Kong flu.

"If you are ever out this way, please stop over with us. We have four bedrooms, a dog and Siamese cat and a big urge to talk Navy with Navy people. . . . The welcome mat is always out and it would certainly be good to see you." Liles' address is 1425 Browning Rd., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15206.

Milton DAYTON of Sacramento, Calif., died of a heart attack on 9 March and was buried in Arlington on 18 March. Our sympathies to his widow and son Charles who were present at his burial.

Our president writes in late February that Frank W I C K H O R S T , who had a minor heart attack and was in the hospital, was to return home soon thereafter. Paul RAMSEY is the new vice president of the Coronado chapter of the Alumni Association.

George A N D E R S O N , one of the honorary pallbearers for ex-President Eisenhower, is currenty president of the Washington chapter of the Alumni Association.

"Having just poured myself a drink in celebration of my 6Sth birthday," writes Otie GREGG from 1536 West Little Neck Rd., Virginia Beach, "I have been inspired to write my first letter to Shipmate and to take action in response to the recent admonition about the silent classmates of '27. Furthermore, Ferol Overfeldt's excellent report in the last issue gave me another good reason to write. Also, I had to report on a wonderful June '68 visit and party with the hospitable Howard and Dorothea Caldwells, in Jacksonville, but more of that later.

"Ferol's mentioning his connection with the First National City Bank has given me cause to say that Doris and I were invited to accompany Mr. Ed Crabbe on a cruise in his yacht BARNEGAT this past January. We had come to know him, last year, through a neighbor of ours, here on the Lynnhaven River, who is a Princeton '24 classmate.

When I learned that he had been a vice president of the bank, I proudly mentioned I was a classmate of both Ferol and Jack Dimon. With that, our stock shot up to new highs and, not long afterwards, we received the invitation to head for Florida. This is a round-about way to brag about the class of '27, but that is what is intended!

"Doris and I flew down to Daytona Beach (our second son is now a T W A pilot) and picked up Mr. Crabbe's car, then drove over to the Deutermanns who are enjoying retirement on their lakeside estate near Melrose; now referred to by some as the 'Monk of Melrose,' because Sally neither can be dictated to, nor knows the Gregg shorthand system. However, in spite of his stiff joints, he has put most of his classmates to shaine with his accomplishments. Doris and I chrisS H I P M A T E

tened their new guest 'compound' and recalled old days, especially those in the Far East when we were shipmates in the HOUSTON and they were married in Manila, along with Walter and Claire Price, and where Doris lassoed me under a mango tree at the Army-Navy Club. Also on the scene at that time were Ben Born and Andy Mechling, not to mention many characters of other classes. Which brings to mind that we didn't see any other of '27 as we zig-zagged our way to cruise in Sarasota but did spend some wonderful nights with the O'Sheas and McElroys. We visited the Caldwells on our way home from our son's wedding to Carolyn Sue Jackson last June at Pensacola. Lt. (jg) Frederick M. Gregg, U S N '66, our third son, and bride are now headed for the Far East in connection with the deployment of PatRon Nine from Moffett Field. While in Pensacola we touched base with Lonnie and Jane Pancoast and visited Jack and Phyliss Munroe's villa next to the country club.

All visiting golfers are warned that Lonnie is as sharp as ever! He and Pat Henry were reported to have shot matching mid-seventies during Pat and Sue's safari in Florida.

However, getting back to Jacksonville, Howard and I won 50 cents against formidable 'honey-dew' associates, but had the best time when they gave a party including the Deutermanns, Charlie and Margaret Pfingstag, Tom and Eleanor Green. Other prominent graduates of the School of the Severn attending were Dave and Tommy McDonald, Red and Gloria Stroh, Charley and Winnie Turner, and Rags Parish. Judy was away with a new grandchild! Doris and I are dug in here at Sunset Cove where we see the Dixons, Hottels, Zondoraks, Chiltons, Burches, Atkinsons, McCunes and Rickertts too infrequently. Stick Sutherland and Biscuit Wev take money from me regularly at the Sewell's Point Club. Jack Brown is a member there as well but we merely talk about having a game because I am sure that he'd take my money too."

Thanks, Otie, after that I'll be glad to pour you another.

Mary McBryde Patterson suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on Palm Sunday and died 2 April. She was buried in Raleigh, N. C. Our sympathies to Pat, who is still on the job as State Historian.

Ted F A U N T Z reports from Seattle: "I am up for retirement again any time—can hold out 'til next year. Jan is egging me to go back to California but I do want to hold out here a bit longer until I finish going through the chairs in Scottish Rite.

I can't see the L. A. area, altho we both have lots of friends there, because of the smog. I might compromise with her on the Bay area, though. I'd like to find something to do there—but, am afraid my age is against .starting in something new again, but will keep looking. Norm Walker is retiring soon from a high school teacher's job. Bill Graybill shows up at alumni dinners—hasn't lost any weight appreciably. Henry Marshall also shows once in a while. Has recovered remarkably from his eye operations. Also see Harry Homey and Pete Fravel periodically at alumni meetings."

Ted enclosed a copy of Transit News, a publication of the Seattle Transit Company, reporting the retirement of Spike DUDLEY. "Clayton Dudlev, S T S project technician and retired rear admiral, retired from Transit after Syi years duty. Before that he was with the City Engineering Department for two years. His wife shares Du(dley's love of the outdoors. He's an ardent salt and fresh water fisherman. They both like to travel.

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using their camper trailer. Plans include visits to relatives in Southern California and trips to Missouri and the east coast. They have a son and a daughter, both married and living in Seattle, and four grandchildren."

Bob Q U A C K E N B U S H was recently presented with a framed photograph of Mount Quackenbush named for him some three years ago by a decision of the U. S. Board of Geographic Names, and by the approval of Secretary Udall, then Secretary of the Interior. Presentation of the picture was made by friends of the U. S. Geological Survey, at the recent annual meeting in the Washington Hilton Hotel of the American Society of Photogrammetry of which Bob was president in 1963. In 1961 and 1962 he was financial vice president of the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers of which he is a fellow—an honorary award voted on by the Society in recognition of outstanding contributions to the technical or scientific progress of photographic science or engineering. Bob recently re-retired as government program manager for the Polaroid Corp. Congratulations even though a little late. Get out from under that bushel basket.

Eastern Corr., Maj.Gen, Arthur F, Binney, USWIC (Ret,) 2815 Cathedral Ave,, N,W, Washington, D, C. 20008 Western Corr,, iVlr, A, Mclntyre Leary 20 Dudley Sq. Shreveport, La. 71106

Due to the dearth of correspondence the class news is brief. It has a Florida tinge because that is where your secretary has been the last ten weeks.

Nordie and Bucky LEE had an enjoyable air trip to Mexico, D. F., via Merida. They hope to repeat. They returned from Mexico just too late to see Bert and John K E N T in Key West. They also missed Lil and Tom R O B E R T S because the latter didn't know that the Lees and Bob A R C H E R were in Key West. Jean and Art Binney had better luck and spent an enjoyable evening as guests of the Lees.

With lengthening days and warmer weather, the seasonal northward trek began;

Bob Archer in M / S

who chose more remunerative careers than ensign USN. Our best estimate is that over 80 per cent will come, some from as far as Hawaii and Europe. One guy has arranged a directors' meeting for 30 Oct. in Washington 18 months ahead. Two gents sent their checks and said, "Here's our bet that we'll get there, but keep the marker if we cannot make it." Kemp reminds you that Friday and Saturday are the busy days, but don't shove off without taking advantage of the leisurely gatherings before and after Chapel on Sunday. Special invitations are going to our widows, with no charge for events. Several classmates have advised they are bringing widows who live nearby.

Last month this column published the stirring example of Oliver Wendell Holmes who served faithfully as class poet of the class of '29 (1829 Harvard) past the age of 90. This inspiration has brought Henry FORD, our superior class poet (remember the censored "Hetirae"?), out of retirement.

He has just submitted the first verse of an epic poem for our fortieth roundup.

"In 'twenty-five to Severnside, we came, a youthful crew, And there upon the playing fields we built up honors due, We learned Ohm's law and calculus, that girls were heady wine, Then out we reared within the year of panicked twenty-nine."

We have just learned (7 April) of the death of Pete and Miriam Peterson's son, LCdr. Carl (Duke) Peterson, in Vietnam.

Burial will be in Arlington. We have no information of the circumstances in Vietnam, but many in the class, particularly those of us who have young friends in the class of '58, have been aware of the venturesome duties which Duke chose.

DELPHINUS, the

Roberts, Tish and Tom Jones, Clarisse and Ted Martin, the Kents and the Binneys.

Nate BABBITT sent a folder of excellent color snapshots, taken during 28's 40th reunion. They will be available for viewing at class luncheons at Washington, D. C. '28 Nutmeggers arise I Ray and Caroline BURZYNSKI have remodeled their house at New Castle, N. H., and have asked classmates and their wives to try to fill it on Saturday, 21 June. Ski says there is plenty of room and the party will really start with the warm-up beginning after 3 P.M. on Friday, 20 June.

Anderson, Momm, Scott, Watts and King have their hammocks in the nettings. Check with Ski at Cape Road, New Castle, N. H. 038S4, for your reservation.

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,) 29303 Stonecrest Rd, Rolling Hills Estates, Ca, 90274

Response has been terrific to the one-shot circular describing the set-up for the roundup in October. Johnny Davison says that the flow of checks indicates that planning for attendance is already definite for over half the lively class, including many of the gang

What deed did these guys commit?

Almost all personal news reaching your secretaries is in the form of updated biographies for Muster Notes. Until you receive your copy about 1 Aug., there will be a scarcity of personal reports here. The reaction to requests for Muster Notes biographies has been tremendous, eliciting responses from such "long time no news" stalwarts as Joe BERKLEY who teaches and writes about electronics when he's not off on a house trailer peregrination; Don B U S H who, besides being a successful patent attorney in Detroit, spends time on his cattle and wheat ranch in Wyoming; Larry BALD A U F who complains that his work with General Dynamics at Pomona is interfering with his golf; and Swede W O T T O N whose recent marriage has renewed his interest in life and events.

A few guys were late responding (3rd or 4th request) to the Muster Notes (lata gathering. As Jimmy H E Z L E P wrote, "I've been too busy loafing." (Jimmy's photo is the only black tie affair one.) One salubrious thing about the late, late guys—their 37

guilt was often covered by a large check for the class maintenance and bouquet fund.

Some interesting comments on wise expenditures for this fund came. The business meeting scheduled for the fortieth's morning after should be invigorating and relevant I P.S. The printer received the dope sheets and photos on 1 May. He promises mailing of the Muster Notes direct to you by 31 July. This should be in plenty of time to brush up on your old friends' marital, business, and physical conditions before the encounter at the fortieth.

Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. M. H. Simons, Jr., USN (Ret.), 5506 Cromwell Dr,, Washington, D, C, 200)6

BRADY has provided some statistics concerning our Fortieth Year Book. Pete has written 331 letters, 254 to grads and 11 to non-grads. As of mid-March he had received 165 replies. That's only a 50 percent return — 6 1 ^ percent from grads and WYz percent from non-grads. These are not very impressive figures. The total number of books ordered is 182 with 30 persons ordering more than one copy. We are committed to purchasing between 350 and 400. The publisher's deadline is in November, so not too much time remains. If you are able to communicate with any classmates, remind them to send Pete the information he needs, if they haven't already done so.

Thanks to the efforts of several classmates we now have a fairly complete file of addresses of the classmates who graduated.

Still missing are Philip C. E V A N S , Albert R. W E S T , and Stewart BOYLE. Not even BuPers could supply their addresses. Bill MOORE wrote that Baldy COOK died in 1946; he was in the Coast Guard during W W I I . He also reported that Charlie MILLER was now a lawyer practicing in the Washington, D. C, area.

Mac McCREADY writes from San Jose that Leo M A R I H A R T (his brother-in-law) lives in Pebble Beach and "is in OK shape, retired, and plays much with that small spherical thing on 4.0 courses."

We were saddened to hear that Whitey LLOYD died 27 March of a heart attack.

Whitey wrote last fall that he had just returned from a trip around the world during which he and Gay spent four full days with Styx P H I L L I P S in Sydney, Australia.

Whitey and Gay had been planning on being at the fortieth reunion. Whitey was buried in the Veterans' Cemetery in Hawaii. Gay's address is P. O. Box 185, Makawao, Maui, Hi. 96768.

A note from Lt. James F. Duffy, 30th Company Officer: "I have received orders back to my old squadron, AirAntiSubRon 24, homeported at NAS Norfolk. Prior to my detachment in late June I want to thank the entire Class of 1930 for their fine efforts in supporting the wardroom and the midshipmen of the Company. The interest shown by your Class in the 30th Company has created a very noticeable feeling of identification with your Class on the part of the midshipmen.

"Worthy of a special word of appreciation is RAdm. Ailes whose continued attention during the past three years has made the relationship between your Class and the Company active and warm. Becoming acquainted with many of you and assisting in supporting the Company/Class relationship has been one of the most pleasant facets of my tour as the 30th Company officer. I hope that all of you will feel that the wardroom is your home at the .Academy and visit it 38

and the 30th Company whenever the opportunity presents itself. My sincere thanks to all of you."

T H I R T I E T H COMPANY N E W S by Midn. M. F. Donilon Spring has arrived and with it many outdoor activities. Militarily, the company is working out very hard on Worden Field. In the first dress parade, thirtieth was seventh and Fifth Battalion was first. But the company is not only concerned with doing well in the formal parades; there is also the platoon and company competition not far away.

Along with marching, spring also brings many outdoor sports. The members of the company participating in varsity and plebe athletics are too many to list, but we are represented just about everywhere, from the crew shells to the baseball diamond, from the track to the ocean racing yachts.

On 29 March our company officer's wife presented him with a son. Naturally Lt. James Duffy '60 was very happy and he proudly passed out the traditional cigars among the company members.

One of the leaders of the company, Jim Davidson '69, recently had several things worth meiitioning happen to him. First, he was named to the All-American Fencing Team for the second year in a row after finishing fifth in the Nationals. Also in fencing, he was named Fencer of the Year in Epee, and he finished first in epee in the Easterns. Second, he was named as third set Fifth Battalion Commander. Third, he finally found, after months of hard work, the answer to his Trident Scholar Project. Jim was working out a graphical solution for changing the orbits of rotating bodies. Following graduation, Jim will spend several months at NASA in Houston and then will go to flight school at Pensacola, Fla. We are all very proud of Jimmy and know he has a very brilliant career ahead of him.

Sec'y, Capt, Oscar E, Hagberg, USN (Ret,) 13600 Sunset Canyon Dr., N,E, Albuquerque, N, M, 87111 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. S. W. Betts, USN (Ret.) Atmospheric Sciences Program National Science Foundation Washington, D. C. 20550

Hi MASSEY has taken on an extra job for the last few months before his retirement scheduled for 1 July. He relieved Tom Davies as Com Car Div Twenty on board the USS ESSEX on 21 March at the South Boston Annex of the Boston Naval Shipyard ; he continues as Com FAir Quonset.

Some new addresses : Max Firth, 29 Chestnut Ave., still in San Rafael, Ca. 94901; Joe Flynn's zip code should be 19087; Doug Moulton, 234 Foxhurst Dr., Pittsburgh, Pa. 15238; Bud Needham, 3323 Parkside Terr., Fairfax, Va. 22030; Bert Robbins, 336 S. Norton, Apt. 101, Los Angeles, Ca. 90005, and Alvey Wright, 922 Makulua Dr., Dailua, Hi. 96734.

During their last trip to Mexico the CULLINANs picked up a new home close to Ralph's brother who is retired and a permanent resident. The word is there's a guest cottage and "when the snow starts to fly in the north we can be reached at Apartado 129, Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico."

Bunky H E A D reports that he is retiring as administrator of the Office of Sponsored Research of the George Washington University effective 30 June. He continues: "Future plans: Summers at cottage on Rhude River below Annapolis, Md., winters who knows? Travel or Florida, if we can

make some arrangements for our big old house in North Arlington, Va., and the accumulations of the years, plus possessions which came to us from our families.

"Older son Nelson Jr., now 33, masters in electronics engineering with Aero Geo Astro ( K E L T E C H ) recently relocated to Springfield, Va., resides in Rockville, Md., area. Wife has just presented us with grandson in February to add to their daughter, now 2J/2.

"Younger son Thomas A. U S N A '60 recently selected LCdr. USN, now stationed Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth as technical assistant for Combat Weapons Systems, resides Virginia Beach, Va. Married, no children."

The sudden death by heart attack in March of Dick A N T R I M at home in Mountain View, Ark., was a very sad shock. He had laid careful plans to counter just such an emergency but things happened too fast and too final.

Pres., Capt. S, P. Moncure, USN (Ret.) 3625 Trinity Drive, Alexandria, Va. 22304 Sec'y, Capt. J. D. Lamade, USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 6294, Washington, D. C. 20015

H E R E AND T H E R E On 11 March, the Washington group held a cocktail-buffet at the Bethesda O Club.

In addition to all the Washington group.

Hank M U N S O N came from Princeton where he is in the David Sarnoff Laboratory of R.C.A. and Buck J A M E S and Boots came from Norfolk where he has built up his lucrative insurance business. Buck's the type, as we all know, who could sell air conditioners to Eskimos.

Congratulations to Bill and Janet S T U A R T in the announcement of the engagement of their daughter, Melinda, to Bernard McCabe of Canberra where he is with the Department of External Affairs of Australia. As Janet said, she was the last of the three to be married.

The accompanying photograph shows Lloyd M U S T I N and his son Hank '55 when Hank took command of the USS HENRY B. WILSON. The only way you can tell them apart is to count the stripes.

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Don T H O M A S informs us that he saw Chief E V A N S at North Island where Al SHINN had a symposium in The Old Timer's room at the O Club there. Chief is with General Dynamics, advanced planning, at Quincy, Mass. Don also said that he haci the pleasure of meeting Harry and Stella DREANY's daughter Sally and her husband where he is assigned in the San Diego area as the medical officer for an LST Flotilla.

Our hardworking San Diego reporter further added he saw Johnny F A H Y who was down from Pomona where he is with the General Dynamics Missile Division and also that Mud(ly W A T E R S gave an interesting talk before the local chapter of the American Ordnance Association on what's up (or is it down?) in oceanography.

Your secretary wishes to express thanks to Frank N U E S S L E for pinch-hitting for him while getting over a cataract operation.

The class of '32 takes this opportunity to welcome all the graduates of the class of '69 into the alumni of the Naval Academy and wishes them fair sailing and calm seas throughout their naval careers.

Chm., Mr. Turner A. Duncan P.O. Box 90 Arnold, Md. 21012 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.) U. S. Naval Academy Museum Annapolis, Md. 21402

As Dale has been such a good neighbor during my recent hospitalization, I have accepted his offer to let me substitute for him during his eye operation tour. Let me add my appreciation and praise of U S N H Annapolis staff; it would appear that they are becoming quite adept in caring for our senior citizens. By the time this is in print, we hope that Dale's vision is 20/20, both eyes; there is so much more to see these days.

Howard DUFF, enclosing his check, writes that he visited with Jim BURROW, who was just being released from U S N H Bremerton, after an illness, and that he had also recently seen Karl Neupert. Bill H O W E L L reports that he and Gertrude have been in San Francisco since 1963 (says he is not the Bill Howell who opened travel agency in D. C ) . Bill attended San Francisco State for a semester, and then went to work for Wells Fargo Bank, which he finds interesting. Dick W H I T E sends picture and article about Wilbur McNenny's Longwood Picking Aid, which is a citrus picker. Jean Weintraub sends check for class fund in remembrance of Paul.

Porter BEDELL reports a nice reunion at Pensacola, where Porter is vice-president of Bank of the South. Faith and Larnie Blatchford were guests of Janet and Smoke Strean. Jake Jacoby joined a golf-foursome.

The Bedells' younger daughter Susan was recently married to John A. Hanley IV of St. Petersburg, Fla. Along with his check, Leo Erck gives his address a s : Gulf House, 2 Portman St., London, W. I. Wally Wendt apologizes about being late with his check (it isn't too late!), and sends his regrets at missing our 35th reunion.

Shelly and Betty S H E L L A B A R G E R were using their spring vacation to visit in California with daughter Susan and Bill Catlett '61 at NAS Lemoore, hoping to welcome number three grandchild while there.

Along with his contribution, Arnie SCHADE reports that his job keeps him quite busy, and that in spite of the many difficulties, he is still in the world's greatest outfit.

JUNE,

1969

The present 1969 class fund drive now stands at $358, with 33 contributing. They are Barnum, Bierer, Franklin, King, Kuehl, Rakow, Bobo, Barker, Rumble, Titus, Bellinger, Gambling, Thompson, Staley, Hagemeister, Bewick, Mayberry, Camera, Dick White, McMullen, Duff", Barnes, Lane, Jahncke, Moore, Duncan, Meyer, Wendt, Howell, Shellabarger, Jean Weintraub, Schade, and Erck.

The April luncheon of the Washington group was held 8 April at Hall's Restaurant.

Present were Blick, Caldwell, Dawson, Tad Duncan, King, Lane, Loughlin, MacDonald, McMullen, Ed Miller, Rakow, Slayton, and Travis.

While the undersigned was hospitalized, encouraging communications or visits were enjoyed with many old friends. Henry and Eleanor FOX are still in San Marino, Calif., and Henry is busy feeding the computers for Philips Petroleum. Buck (E. C.) W A L S H is enjoying his L. A. law practice and golf.

Bob LEACH reported he was snowed-in (February).

Ben T H O R N is teaching business statistics at Miami U., while Iraida supervises the pharmacy of a large Miami hospital. The Thorns have bought a place in western North Carolina, and when he retires two years from now they plan to summer in N. C. and winter in Puerto Rico.

Warren C H R I S T I E finds teaching math at University of South Alabama an undemanding method of handling house payments.

Daisy and Warren had just finished baby sitting Butch's children during a Med cruise for two months, and Daisy was just recovering. Butch (Warren B. Jr. '64) has been selected for Test Pilot School, and as an alternate for Aero Space Program. The Ogdens and Travises, here in Annapolis, are looking fine.

In spite of the many responsibilities and travels which Tad DUNCAN has for AVCO, Charlotte and Tad are always available for the promotions of '33. He and Dale really keep the outfit going.

On 9 Feb. my first granddaughter Christina arrived at U S N H Quantico (Maj. W. M. Rakow Jr. '61 and Lani St. John Rakow, daughter of Sheldon St. John '38). Advice from most old friends—"Take it easy"— Willie Rakow.

Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P, Harbold, Jr., USNR 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, Md, 21401

On 28 Feb. Bob T O W N S E N D added another star as he assumed duties as Com NavAirLant, after relieving VAdm. Charles T. Booth '31.

V A d m . R. L. Townsend,

USN

Along with their contributions to the class fund these classmates added the following messages: Ward BROCK, "I have been meaning to write for some time (how many times have you heard that before?) but that is the way with good intentions—in fact I

started this 10 days ago if you will note the 10-day difference between date of letter and enclosed check for donation to the class fund.

Emily and I have been living in Charlotte County, where I am math/science supervisor for the county (K-12), for going on five years. I had hoped to get to the reunion in Las Vegas but it comes at one of the busiest times of the school year.

"If any of the class ever cruises the west coast (of Florida) Inland Waterway we would be glad to have them visit us. Our home is on Lemon Bay only ISO yds. from the Inland Waterway and my boat basin, alongside the house, is shown on Chart SC 857—Charlotte Harbor to Tampa Bay or it is at exactly 27—54.8N and 82—20W. Dutch Lundfelt was down last month for a swing around the golf spots in the state and we got to see him for a few days. Maybe I'll see you in June when we head north to our place in Jersey for a couple months of the summer. Keep up the good work."

Earl LOGSDON, "Better late than never!

Here is a small check. May I add my small voice to the words of praise by others for your outstanding efforts in behalf of the class. . . . It appears I won't see you in Las Vegas as my earlier promise to go to Boston this spring still interferes. There is an outside chance, but not probability, that we might make the 31 May gathering at Bethesda."

Charley MANN, "It was a great surprise to see my name in print, when the March issue of Shipmate finally reached me. Please convey my best regards to Pete Howard, and confirm that the mailing address which you published is correct, Caixa Postal 395ZC-00, Rio de Janeiro. We live on Copacabana Beach, with the finest ocean view you ever saw. Visitors always welcome.

"I've now been living in Rio for seven years, with only one trip back to the States, and expect to stay for a while longer. My work is involved in representation of American firms, principally consulting engineers, and, for instance, one of my companies is a special consultant in the largest bridge project ever done in Brazil. My second wife Martha and I have three fine daughters of our own, oldest 10 years, and are just now in the process of adopting a 3-year-old Brazilian boy, so you can readily see that retirement for me remains far in the future. A modest check for the class fund is enclosed, together with my warmest regards to you and to all our classmates."

Ray OURS, "I read in the April Shipmate about the need for funds in the class treasury.

I missed out on the financial report but I'm sure it's not too late to get out of the 40 percent who never get the news. Lady and I are looking forward to a grand reunion in Las Vegas. We are sorry we will not be able to join you in Bethesda but circumstances dictate that we be on the west coast the latter part of May. It is sincerely hoped that the response to the 'Thirty-Five for '34' program will be sufficient to make it a GO. I am looking forward to having an up-todate, ready reference to locate the members of the class. If things work out as planned we may see you at the Penn State game on 20 Sept."

Curt PAYNTOR, "The value of what you have done for our class group over a long period of years would be a difficult thing to enumerate. I know what it has meant to me personally, and when that is multiplied by the number of men in our class, it becomes of tremendous value. You have a right to feel very proud of the time and effort you have devoted to this service.

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"We always see Ben Walkup when Navy plays in the midwest—also saw Dave Miller at the last Michigan game. You did the line work for Ben's yardage a number of years ago and I know you will be interested to know he looks real well—possibly a few additional pounds and a few grey hairs. His two sons are chips off the old block. For the past several years we have stopped to see Edna and Bart Day on our Florida vacations. Bart's last assignment was CO of Naval Avionics in Indianapolis and at that time we saw them quite often. They are both quite well and have a delightful retirement spot.

On 14 Dec. Red BLOUNT was still traips- became very ill and had to spend several ing around South Africa. Red wrote us on weeks in the hospital at Asmara, Ethiopia. that date (the mail is a little slow) and Van picked up a bug of some sort in Pakissaid his letters should be sent to him c/o tan or India which laid him low, too. By Mrs. J. A. Blakeney, Box 270, Rt. 1, the time they reached Nairobi he had to Matthews, N. C. 28105. spend a week in bed.

When they were able to travel they rePat and Johnny BECKER's daughter turned home to Mundelein, 111., and Marie Pamela was married 29 March to Mr. Thomas Harlow Jones in St. Thomas Church underwent an operation which we're happy to report turned out well. Van lost 15 pounds at Charlottesville, Va. Pam had been a member of the May Court at Sweet Briar College. and weighs only 5 more than he did as a midshipman. Now they're rarin' to go again Mr. Jones is a pre-med student at the University of Virginia. He is the son of Capt. and hope to resume their junket where they left off this fall.

Stuart C. Jones, U S N (Ret.) '41.

In Bangkok before they became ill the Johnny is associated with the University Van Nesses located Elsie and Pete BOYLE. "We always spend a few days with Mar- of Virginia. He and Pat purchased a home mie's sister in Ocala, Fla., so naturally we at 2504 Northfields Rd., Charlottesville Pete was visiting from Saigon where he is Chief, Logistics and Operations, Refugee stop and chat with Marion and Duke Doss. 22901. Their No. 1 son Ens. J. J. Becker Duke has been active in the orange grove Jr., U S N '68, is attached to U S S WEDDER- Div., CORD, A P O 94243,. A P O San Francisco. Elsie teaches English at Thammasat business and they are both enjoying a lovely BURN with the 7th Fleet.

University in Bangkok (no dependents perhome and the 'change of pace.' The idea for Edie and Holy L E E have announced the mitted in Saigon) and Pete flies over to see the 3S-year resume sounds good. I hope that her when he can. my response is accompanied by many more— marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Blackburn Lee to Mr. James Harry Rausch in to make the project possible. I am enclosing Elsie and Pete's daughter Barbara is maranother check as a contribution to the class Cicero, N. Y., on 4 Feb. An interesting ried to Dr. Fuller Torrey. Barbara lived with sidelight about these two marriages is that fund along with my regrets for being late." the natives out in the bush of Tanzania from the two young ladies involved Pam Becker Bill S T E V E N S O N , "My apologies for and "Busy" Lee were close friends and 1963 to 1965. She is on the Peace Corps staff in Washington and is presently getting this brief note and my belated response for neighbors at San Juan in the mid-SOs when funds. One of these days I really will write their fathers were on the Com 10 staff and a Doctorate in international economics at Stanford. Barbara is the youngest member that letter. Jean and I plan to attend the ^occupied adjacent quarters at the Naval Staof the Board of New York State University.

Las Vegas shindig. My best regards to the tion there.

Pete Boyle Jr. is now serving in the Army.

Washington contingent."

Baron BARANOWSKI is on the techIt is with sadness that we report the death nical staff of T R W Systems at Redondo Joe T I B B E T S , "I just read a backlog of of Capt. Clinton A. Neyman, (ChC) USN Shipmates. Really, take Jack Bain's sugges- Beach. Felicia and the Baron have one (Ret.), on 9 March at Tracy, Calif. The granddaughter born to their elder daughter tion seriously. As I progressed through the 78-year-oId father of Ted NEYMAN, months I felt progressively more guilty about Felicia, who is now Mrs. David Brown of Claire Lee and Bob Neyman '36 was comnot contributing, but as of now I still do not Santa Monica. The Baranowskis' other know exactly what I am delinquent about, daughter Patricia lives in Los Angeles and missioned in the Chaplain Corps in 1918 and spent 30 illustrious years as a Navy is the wife of James Gibson. as apparently I missed that issue. You, chaplain before his retirement in 1948.

Butch, bless you, are daily involved. Enclosecl Fred BAKUTIS was awarded NASA's my contribution. I will be returning to A firm believer that the handicapped need Exceptional Service Medal for contributions America, as it is called here, in July. Glad to the success of the Apollo 8 Moonshot. a hand and a chance, Dick JACK'S wife to be returning, glad for a new situation and Fred is Com 14 and he commanded the Dotty is studying braille to help the blind. a new job. I will be at Quonset Point, class- Pacific Recovery Force which recovered the Dotty attends courses given by the Orange mates and friends. Welcome all."

Apollo 8 astronauts and the space capsule County (Fla.) Braillist Assn. one evening each week. As Dotty completes an assignWith their contributions to the class fund on 27 Dec. ment she mails it to the Library of Congress the following classmates sent best wishes The current address of Louis SCHMIDT for correction and grading. During the 9and regards to all: Roger A H L B R A N D T , is 2 Huntingdon Rd., Lynnfield, Mass. month course she will do a manuscript in Jim COMPTON, Joe DICKEY, Frank 01940. Clarence P E T R I E has been elected braille which will also be submitted to the T H A R I N and Clyde VAN ARSDALL. 3rd vice president of the 7S0-member Cen- Library of Congress. When she finishes the course Dotty will prepare textbooks in braille It is with regret and sorrow to report that tral Florida chapter of the Retired Officers for blind children. In case others are interMary Lou Smith, beloved wife of Jimmy Association. ested in this humane work a letter to the S M I T H , passed away peacefully at home on Mid-April found Joe B E T T E N S batching 20 Feb. after a long bout with cancer. Her it in Bay St. Louis, Miss., while Anne, who Division for Blind and Handicapped, Library of Congress, Washington, will bring inforashes were buried at sea off the beach near is president of the Hancock County (Miss.) their home during simple services attended Republican Women's Club, attended the Re- mation on how to proceed. by the immediate family. BM3 son Jim Jr. publican Women's Conference in Washingwas back from PhibGru One duties in West ton. After visiting the White House with old Sec'y, Capt, W. M, Hanger, USN (Ret,) Pac and his wife came in from Seattle. Not friend Betty Baker and meeting Mrs. Nixon, 4720 Sedgwick St., N,W, Washington, D, C, 20016 present—their first grandchild James Rich- Anne and Betty drove down to California, Corr, Sec'y, Capt, Wm, A, Ellis, USN (Ret.) ard, born 9/12/68, who met Mary Lou in Md., and joined George Towne BAKER 4101 Downing St. September and December. Younger son, who'd also been doing his own cooking while Annandale, Va. 22003 Mac, now a high school sophomore, and his wife was in Washington.

Jimmy will continue on at 997 Waiholo, Well, June is here, and with it the 33rd Among the Naval Academy Brigade's third anniversary of our graduation after "four Honolulu. With this sad announcement set of company commanders for the 1968-69 Jimmy enclosed a contribution to the class years together by the sea where Severn academic year is Mdn. Robert Emmett meets the tide." Since then we have scatfund. Classmates and their wives wish to Riera Jr. express to Jimmy and his two sons their tered far and wide. It only seems like yesThe sympathy of the class goes out to terday that we sat there in Dahlgren Hall, deepest sympathy in their bereavement.

Elaine Holmes on Doc's passing. Elaine's naive and impatient, ready to throw our hats younger son, M.D. Jr., resides at home sky high as the last symbol of those happy, Sec'y-Treasurer, Capt, Louis N. Detweiler, with her while he attends college. The elder though at times disappointing and frustrat(SO USN (Ret,) 6650 Van Winkle Drive, Holmes son Richard, USNA '68, is an ensign ing, days during which we struggled through Falls Church, Va, 22044 aboard U S S DIRECT. Number one daughter Corr. Sec'y, Capt, E, D, Vestel, Jr., (SO Bull, Dago, Juice, Seamo, Steam, etc., to USN (Ret,), 680 Virginia Dr. Karen is the wife of LCdr. R. E. Wyatt, say nothing about such early learning as Winter Park, Fla, 32789 USN '57, an atomic submarine officer. Num- "God But It's Cold In Maryland" and "Mr. From Sunnyvale Jack COWN sent in a ber two daughter Sandra lives in Upland, Speaker—Mr. Speaker I" "Those were the check for our Scholarship Fund and also Calif., and is the wife of John Clenivia, a days! We are sure each '36er has fond memGeneral Dynamics engineer. Elaine is six ories of the good times we had together at paid his class dues several years in advance.

Oslo, Copenhagen, Berlin, Jack is San Jose area manager of the Inter- times a grandmother as both daughters have Edinburgh, three children.

"Gib," Funchal, Gloucester, and Newport, nal Revenue Service. H e continues to maintain his membership in the Society of Naval Marie and Don VAN N E S S were forced but best of all in dear old Crabtown. We Architects and Marine Engineers. to cut their world tour short when Marie salute those years gone by, and now say 40

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welcome to '69 as you graduate and enter service careers and carry on the heritage and traditions we cherish. By retirement most of us now leave to you the duty to carry on in the true Blue and Gold way. To you all, we say good luck and best wishes for a long, safe and happy voyage.

You will recall that last month we reported regretfully the deaths of Archie T E A L L and Fred H O L M S H A W with little or no details available at the time. A last minute note regarding the former, received direct

by Shipmate, was in time to make the April issue. For classmates and friends correct details and the latest address of Mildred Teall —32 Rainbow Dr., Hilo, Hi. 96720—were contained therein.

In fact, Orange County has now passed San Diego County in population—Claremont, Garden Grove, Stanton, Laguna Hills and Orange are all in the L A / L B area; within 30 minutes of Long Beach with Freeway all the way.) Bob O'Dening also showed up as well as Norm Gillette who was in port and will host our next luncheon on 9

From Harry STARK a short note reports on the latter: "Fred had been a patient at the Naval Hospital San Diego for several months. He was released for a short time in December after improvement, but reentered in January with pneumonia. He again improved after a rugged fight, but suffered a setback which proved fatal. Memorial services, attended by most classmates in the immediate area and by his many friends who reside in San Diego, were held in the Graham Memorial Presbyterian Church, Coronado, on 24 Feb. In accordance with Fred's wishes his ashes were committed to the deep off the California coast. Fred's widow Margaret resides at 801 Adella Ave., Coronado, Ca. 92118, as does their younger son Fred Jr. Peter, the older son, returned to school at the University of California in Santa Barbara. The classes of '35 and '36, as well as all of Fred's friends in the area, will miss him. While he had to give up golf during the last six months or so of his life, Fred still maintained interest in the game and longed to be back on the fairway."

"For the record, Bob Neyman has moved to 6892 Rio Vista Dr., Huntington Beach, Ca. 92646; phone: 842-3087. He had been commuting from Woodland Hills which is a good hour even by freeway to the Huntington Beach Douglas plant, so he moved to within 5 minutes of his work. Reports also have it that Dale Pinkerton has moved to the San Francisco area, but I have no address for him yet although his mail is being forwarded. Regards to all from the LA/LB gang." Thanks, Jim, not only for all the dope, but for putting us straight on the LA area in good fashion. For those of us who have been gone so long from the old Fleet hangout, the chart furnished will come in handy and we are correcting the Register accordingly.

On 12 March the DC area clan gathered once again at the A&N Country Club for luncheon in the Stag Room. Fifteen were present: Baumeister, Bradley,. Court, Dabney, Davenport, Ellis, Gordon Fowler, Jim Gray, Tommy King, Law, Morton, Oseth, Ryder, Tyler (who acted as host for Bill Hanger who had a previous commitment), and Williams. Main topics of discussion were a dinner-dance and the '36-sponsored award for morale and leadership to be presented to the Bainbridge U S N A Prep School graduate so chosen. No decision on the former, but Jim O'GRADY will be the flag officer to make the presentation of the award at the Academy sometime in September, possibly at the last plebe formation, during plebe family weekend, or at the first Brigade formation, whichever is agreed upon by our president and the Academy. There will be further notice on this when the final decision is made.

Not to be outdone by the DC group, Jimmy R U T T E R reports that 7 March saw 14 in attendance at the '36 LA/Long Beach area luncheon which was held in the Brass Hat Room of the newly refurbished Allen Center, NavSta Long Beach. Says Jimmy: "This was the first time the Club made mention of our group in its monthly paper. As a result we had Charlie Bates show up. He lives in Rosemead, right here in LA. (We hadn't picked him up because the Register carries him in the San Francisco area, whereas South San Gabriel is a former unincorporated area of LA County recently annexed to Rosemead, zip code the same.

Guess in making up your geographical locator, zip codes should be your clue. You see we have 78 different unincorporated cities in LA County and another 24 or 25 in Orange County which is also the LA area.

JUNE,

1969

May

in his flagship, BENNINGTON, after, of

course, the usual adjustment hour at Allen Center. Others present were: W. W. Bradley, Brent, Burkart, Caldwell, Fussell, Haylor, Hemenway, Neyman, Smith, and all the way from China Lake for the first time, Chenault. A good time was had by all just chinning, munching, and swapping sea chanties.

Speaking of '36 sponsorships reminds us that our president was the recipient of a letter from the 36th Company for whom we sponsor their wardroom. Reports Midn.

Michael Milhanowski, 36th Company Commander for this year's final set: "The coming of spring finds the 36th in high spirits.

After the winter set, the company stands 9th in the color competition, with an eye on the number one spot or, perhaps, most improved company. The two main reasons for the overall good showing were intramural sports (we posted 21 wins to 13 losses) and out-of-company officers, with Steve Leaman and Larry Cavaiola holding 6 and 3 stripes respectively. . . . For the 3rd set, both of these men keep their stripes, while Jim McGovern, the winter set Company Commander, becomes Regimental Operations Officer and John Doolittle regains his fall position as Drum and Bugle Corps Commander (we always knew there was a good reason this former 'Hell Catter' liked the 36th). I, of course, am getting my old first set job back as Company Commander. This accumulation of stripes is one of the reasons the Company is optimistic about its future standing in the Brigade.

"Service selection night in February found 11 of the 36th 'Firsties' choosing surface line, 7 Navy air, 4 nuclear power, 2 Marine Corps, and 1 the immediate master's program. As a class, '69 had the largest percentage of men selecting line (both surface and sub-surface) in recent years. As a whole we will be sending 45 percent into line billets while 36 percent will be going to Pensacola and 12 percent to Q'lantico. The few remaining men will be divided primarily between the N F O program and Staff Corps. . . .

This newsletter is offered in an attempt to keep you, our sponsors, posted on the progress of the Company. We all extend our best wishes to you and express our hopes for a continuing cordial relationship between the class of '36 and the 36th Company." A fine report which Joe RICE forwarde(l as a matter of interest to all in following our Company.

Newsy letters in March from Otis COLE and "Moose" BROWN brings the following: From Otis, "Enclosed is check for '36 class dues in response to the plea in March Shipmate. As correctly reported, I have gone back to school (USC) in hopes of obtaining a Ph.D. in international relations, but it is going to be a long rough road.

With luck and hard work I hope to make it. . . . Ann and I are enjoying our home and friends in Coronado. Son, Otis 3rd, is a 'Jaygee' in Destroyer School at Newport, having recently returned from his second deployment to Vietnam. Daughter Carole graduates this year from Wellesley College.

Am looking forward to receiving the new class Register with appreciation for those who did the work on it. Regards to all."

From Moose, "Am enclosing a check to help the class treasury. Have been intending to send something for some time but was only reminded of the need when I read the latest copy of Shipmate. . . . Am still here at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. This area is now building up quite a cadre of '36ers with Bud Masters, Jim O'Grady, 'Scrappy' Crawford, and Dick Pratt soon to report as ComServ Lant. We hope to have a get-together of sorts at the Crawfords' sometime later this month. . . .We, Mary Lou and Jake Fyfe on occasion—also Nan and John Boland. . . .

Frankie and I took two weeks off in early February and drove down to southern Florida. We visited Naples and stayed at Homestead AFB where we made a brief run over to Miami and Miami Beach. We returned to Norfolk after a few days at Fort Lauderdale where we did some deepsea fishing. Best regards to all."

Other tid-bits: Jim GRAY recently received his MA in political science from GW. He is now at Georgetown—having left GW to get clear of the Hippies—working on his doctorate. "Mac" and Al F L E M I N G visited Hawaii in March where Al Junior met his parents while on his R&R period. He is now on his second tour in Vietnam. Al Senior has orders to Naples, Italy, where he will take over as ComFAir Med. Visited with Bruce W A R E in Tower 11 Bethesda in late March.

He is doing nicely, but looking forward to getting out and back home; says h e : "Frustitis of the Bed is worse than having the heart attack that put me here!" We know what you mean, Bruce, and sincerely hope that by the time you read this column you will be back in the more pleasant environment of your home and loved ones.

Audrey and Randy M E A D E were in town in early April visiting Randy's aunt. Randy's phone call was most welcome, and it was good to chat with him about things up Delaware University way where Charlie E I S E N BACH was recovering from a series of operations and it was hoped that Bill L E D E R E R would appear as guest lecturer before leaving for Greece. Tried to see 2nd Lt. Charlie Eisenbach while visiting Bruce, but he was down in therapy taking treatment.

However, Jack RYDER reports he talked to him in March and that Charlie II is now walking with a cane and hopes to be out of the hospital before long.

Have had many inquiries about the reported $3 annual dues proposal approved at the January luncheon. You all can expect the official word on this in a memo from Joe Rice attached to your new Register— which incidentally is at the printers as of this April deadline. Hopefully, it should be in your hands by the time this issue comes out. Your book committee hopes you will like it with all its additional family info.

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Read it carefully and bring to the attention of your reporter—whose duty it is now to keep the geographical locator up to date—any errors you find. If you spot a classmate whose address is unknown, and YOU know it, shoot it to us promptly!

April issue reported from Pensacola and bemoaned the passing of old landmarks.

Don't know how many of our readers may have gone to old Pensacola High ( P H S ) — or maybe your children—but in case you hadn't heard, the old school burned to the ground in March. Someone on the scene remarked, "I can see only a skeleton left!"

For our money, Jimmy CROOKE, an old P H S alumnus, put it in proper perspective as he watched the fire when he wrote: "Somehow the smoke cleared and I didn't see a skeleton. I saw me on my way up the front steps with my incompleted homework under my arm, and a familiar face standing in the door smiling occasionally, hurrying the latecomers. Yes, it was Professor 'Tingaling' Workman, the principal. How could they see only a skeleton ? ? ?" We too remember those days, and oddly enough only last February stoo(l in Lee Square reminiscing; seeing again those familiar faces of our teachers as well as those of our schoolmates as we scrambled up those long, high front steps to get in before Tingaling closed the door. Thus passes another beloved old landmark—her mission completed; her epitaph a deserving "Well done, oh good and faithful servant."

Keep the news coming in.

Corr, Sec'y, LCdr. J. P. M, Joiinston, USN (Ret.), 2118 Bancroft Place, N.W. Washington, D. C, 20008,

WASHINGTON NEWS Bob T A T E has written from 880 Parke's Run Lane, Villanova, Pa. 19085: "Material for Shipmate from our class has been rather scarce recently, I suppose that I am one of the worst offenders. I recently ran across the attached clipping in the Burrough's Corporation Company magazine announcing John Garvin's recent promotion." The clipping reads: "John's new assignment includes his present duties as manager of the P E R S H I N G program, and also encompasses the CENPAC program and other applications of the D84 computer."

Bob M O U N T R E Y has written from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "A rainy Saturday provided time for cleaning up odds and ends and I just came on your letter of a year ago. I'm very sorry but someone else should be also.

After spending 30 years with ESSO I find The Thirty-Year Fix managed to line me up with Texaco! My 30-year watch almost stopped running. However, I'm enclosing a check and hope it's not too late.

"We expect the new company Ocean Industries Inc. will probably go public this year. Perhaps after that is over and all runs smoothly I'll try to retire for a second time and catch up on the fishing and sailing I've been missing. Any classma'tcs coming this way would be more than welcome." (Sec'y's note: The Twenty Year Fix does record Bob as being with ESSO.) The April Army-Navy Country Club news bulletin carries Bunny S H U P P E R as president of the club and makes an announcement of new members of the club: Lt. (jg) W. P. Mack Jr., USNR. All of which reminds me that Bill MACK is a new vice admiral.

The class had a spring get-together on 21 March at the Officers' Open Mess, Fort Lesley J. McNair. Bernie BIERI handled 42

the arrangements for the cocktail buffet affair. It was well attended by: Curly and Mac Adams, Phoebe and Pinky Baer, Caroline and Larry Bernard, Peggy and Bernie Bieri, Ann and Fog Blasdel, Bea and Larry Brantley, Anne and Jim Cruse, Mary and Tom Cunningham (from Annapolis), Midge and Jimmie Denton, Helen and Bob Farrington, Jay and Fil Gilkeson, Margaret and Paul Hartman, Betty and John Johnston, Betty and Curt Kelly, Ruth and Bill Mack, Margrit and Cliff Messenheimer, Jack Slaughter, Marion and Schnitzle Schneider, Jane and Chuck Stein, Barbara and Bunny Shupper, Gladys and Buck Wilsie, Lou and Tony Zavadil. It was a good party.

There have been two first Thursday luncheons since the last writing and a few news items have been picked up. Hubie R E E C E has been with Gibbs & Cox, Inc., since April 1967 and has been appointed Washington district manager for the firm. He is living in Crystal House One, Arlington, Va. His son Larry is a naval aviator class of 1965 now instructing in jets at NAS Meridian, Miss.

Fifteen classmates attended that luncheon: Bernie Bieri, Jim Cruse, Bill Mack, Fred Janney, Tom Adams, Wes Steesy, Dave Bell, Chuck Stein, Hubie Reece, Art Grantham, John Johnston, Bob Farrington, Jim Cresap, Jimmie Denton, and Fil Gilkeson.

The next class luncheon was on 13 March with 12 in attendance. Five of the 12 were Rear Admirals Bernie Bieri, Paul Hartmann, Bunny Shupper, Schnitzle Schneider, ancl Fil Gilkeson. Schnitzle and Pinky have recently made upper half rear admirals. The rest of the Indians present were Bob Farrington, Chuck Stein, Tom Adams, Jack Slaughter, Hubie Reece, John Johnston, Larry Brantley. The news from this meeting was Connie and Tom T U R N E R have returned from Ghana after a three-months stay when Tom was consultant in Forest Industries methods. Tom owns and operates a furniture factory in Walpole, N. H. Larry BRANTLEY, a loyal supplier of information, has written a long letter of news derived from a trip he took to Florida by car and then plane to Colombia to visit Bea's family. He said to condense it, but it is better to provide it in full.

"Bea and I drove down to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a get-together of Shakey Pizza Parlor franchises. (Sec'y's note: Larry owns two of such.) From there we drove' to Miami, parked our car with Bunny Shupper's sister (Mrs. Mildred Avella) and flew on to Bogota, Colombia. We were met at the Bogota airport by Mel and Gini Cooper, who took good care of us. Mel has almost as much information on the class of 1937 as perhaps we do in Washington. Probably his information is not as up-to-date as yours because Shipmate doesn't reach him for one or two months after we receive it in Washington. Mel commented that sometimes Shipmate doesn't have much about '31 activities.

Mel is president and/or vice president of three companies down there—Atlas Construction Co., VOL CO, Inc., and another; they are primarily engaged in contract drilling and have bicl and won some big contracts.

After a long luncheon at Loas Lagartoes Country Club, Mel and Gini drove us to the airport where we left the 10,000-foot-high city for a stay at sea level with Bea's parents in Cartagena.

"On the way back up we stopped off at Sanford, N. C , to check on the activities of Ace and Libby Barton. Ace answers the phone as 'H. H. Barton.' We had planned on spending one night but they pleaded . . . so we spent another night. The following

morning while I was brushing my teeth, Ace casually asked if I had seen the 'white stuff' out there. (He says the weather man has ruined his golf for the past five straight weekends.) We were darned near snowbound for the weekend. That wouldn't have been so bad, but Ace announced there was plenty of food but we might run out of whisky and rum. With that prospect to face Bea and I (especially me) made a determined effort to get through the snow and we did. On arriving back to Washington after that seven-hour drive in the snow my acceleration leg was really cramped and tired.

"On Friday during working hours while Ace was doing his duty as purchasing agent for Thomas-Pomerantz Company, makers of textile machinery, Libby drove us down to Whispering Pines and showed us their lakefront lot which they will later build on.

(They have the plans drawn up now.) On Thursday evening we had a big class reunion. Ed and Kay Pace joined us for cocktails at the Bartons. Ed is going to N. C. State under the G. I. bill for his Master's.

"While at the Bartons, Ace, Eddy and I discussed a different method of disseminating info to our scattered classmates (scattered by area, that is). We thought several regional commanders or representatives should be named (solicited, appointed, volunteered, etc.) to receive inputs (or outputs) from Washington, D. C , for relay to their region.

"At this time I would like to express my gratitude and appreciation to Walt Barry and others who have sorta appointed themselves to provide local area information. And if some space permits, would you please thank the Coopers, and the Bartons for making our journey so enjoyable and complete."

Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN (Ret.) 3900 Watson PI., Apt. 7B Washington, D. C, 20016

WASHINGTON AREA NEWS The new administration has taken charge with Bill Spears as chairman; John Ferriter, vice chairman; Red Coward, treasurer; Jamie Adair, secretary; Grant Heston, social chairman; and Harry Mason, John Dacey, Homer Conrad and Ed Luby at large. Our regular monthly luncheons will resume on Thursday, 25 Sept. No luncheon in Oct. and instead a homecoming cocktail party after the game at the U S N A Officers' Club in 25 Oct. A luncheon on Thursday, 20 Nov. No luncheon in December and instead a Christmas informal cocktail dinner-dance at the Bethesda Naval Hospital Officers' Club on Friday, 19 Dec. So put these dates on your calendar and try to join us.

Attending our recent class luncheon were Aurand, Mann, Bidwell, Don Brown, Al Church, Heston, Coward, O'Brien, Beshany, Spears, Ferriter, Harry Mason, Art Johnson, DeCamp, Mclntyre, Long, Adair, Jones, Arthur, Mansfield, Dacey, Owens, Wells, Luby, Homer Conrad and Dybdal. Some corrections to the local roster were passed out and second careers find Gaines BLASDEL working for McLaughlin Research Corp. in Silver Spring; Agee MELVIN has left the Civil Service Commission and joined the Naval Air Systems Command; Dick MUGG is working for the local Sperry Systems Management Division of Sperry Rand Corp.; Joe T U C K E R is with the Computer Command and Control Company and Skip G I F F E N has left the banking business to join Westinghouse near Annapolis.

The wives gathered 30 strong for their luncheon at the New Orleans House in Rosslyn, Va., with co-hostesses Anne Adair and SHIPMATE

Emilou Melvin. The Grant H E S T O N S are enjoying a 30-day leave period for Grant Jr. before he heads for Vietnam with his paratroop outfit from Fort Bragg. In a recent letter to Jean Heston from Ruth Boyd, we learn of a gathering of '38ers for a cocktail-buffet party hosted by Beverly and Bud W O L F E in their home on the Peninsula, 17 miles south of San Francisco in Hillsborough. Those in the area on hand for the gay occasion were the Boyds, Harts, St. Johns, Pughs, Harrises, Gugliotas, John Bowers, Worthingtons, Newtons, Neels, HoUingsworths, Haslers, Tyngs, Douglases, Riesenbergs, Jack Robertsons, Tinlings, Pierces, Westbrooks and Vic Graff.

FLORDIA S P E C I A L Irv S U P E R F I N E , as assistant vice president of the First National Bank of Hollywood, attended a recent five-day seminar for commercial banking executives held at the IBM Western Region Education Center at San Jose, Calif. Irv was elected president of the class and spoke in that capacity at the farewell dinner. He has been with the First National Bank of Hollywood since Aug. 1968 and he, Marjorie and two daughters reside at 5001 Grant St., Hollywood, Fl. 33021. Congratulations, Irv. EUROPE VIA B E E T L E (Continued) Rosemary and Harry S T O T T spent a few days in Washington after their European tour, then headed for Palm Beach to check on their apartment and on to Coronado to work out their future plans. Harry has some interesting prospects including an offer to join Bache and Co. in an overseas brokerage office. While they are making these big decisions, let's pick up their travels where we left off a few columns ago.

"Since writing you from Lewes, Sussex, England, have had some enchanting and exciting experiences. We returned to London via Stratford-upon-Avon where we saw two thrilling performances at the National Theatre— 'King Lear,' and a lesser known rarely performed Greek tragedy by Shakespeare— 'Troilus and Cressida.' We visited Cambridge and Oxford to refresh and reacquaint ourselves with their historic and colorful colleges and campuses.

"Believe we enjoyed our second stay in London even more than the first. Two highlights—in Lewes we had met a charming English barrister there on a case. He invited us to lunch with him at the Middle Temple Bar, a rare experience. From this stemmed an invitation to witness the Lord Mayor's (Inaugural) Show from the building which houses the high courts of England, the Chief Justices and their chambers. This we did, and then to our surprise a friend of his, who was ushering, got us into the swearing-in ceremony performed by the Lord Chief Justice of England in a courtroom holding no more, I would venture to say, than 200 dignitaries and immediate family. We felt quite privileged as we took in the pomp and circumstance of this ancient and honorable ceremony. There followed a mid-afternoon lunch at an old English pub in the vicinity and then we put the frosting on the cake by attending a performance of the 'Nutcracker Ballet' at Covent Garden that evening. There is something special about anything staged at Covent Garden. We saw several additional plays before leaving London including 'Hadrian the Seventh,' an unusual story and very well staged, which is soon to open on Broadway, I believe.

"We returned to Sussex for several days before departing England—to a charming old JUNE,

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inn in Rye, near Hastings. The Mermaid claims to have been remodeled in 14201 Imagine I However, it does have bathrooms and all modern conveniences, a fine kitchen, a picturesque old pub with huge fireplace completely across one side of the room. We ran into three English couples during our stay with whom it was a delight to sit up over the local brew until the wee small hours.

"Proceeding to France from Dover, we spent the night in Calais where we have a favorite small restaurant that prepares mussels in a memorable manner. Two days was not long enough in Rouen, this attractive and historic French city; we plan to return.

Here we ran into our first snowfall which only added to the beauty of the city as we tramped the streets on a Sunday afternoon after a pleasant luncheon over a bottle of wine and relived the trials and times of Jeanne d'Arc. Continuing in Normandy, we visited the American and British invasion beaches on the Normandy coast and the serene American cemetery that sits on the hillside overlooking Omaha beach. This is a very emotional experience, I think, for any American. Departing the beaches, we overnighted in historic Saint Lo which has recovered from severe war damage and^ is once again a thriving community.

"The following day, after visiting the remarkable and unforgettable Mt. St. Michel, we turned towards the chateaux country of the valley of the Loire. We spent our first night at Angers where the following morning we witnessed Ambassador and Mrs. Schriver dedicate the Place de J. F. Kennedy in Angers. We then continued to Tours from which city we visited a number of the most beautiful and historic chateaux of this area and learned their history. To do this at this late autumn season free of the crowds and associated problems of the high season was a delight.

"Concluding our three-day visit to Touraine and the chateaux land, we turned for Spain and Portugal via the southwest coast of France and the Basque country of France and Spain. After a routine overnight in Cognac, we enjoyed a one-night stay in St. Jean de Luz and a superb restaurant there, Aux Pigeons Blancs. Entering Spain through San Sebastian, we continued to Santillana del Mar (near Santander), site of the famed caves of Altamira and their world renown drawings. Here, in the small but colorful village of Santillana del Mar, is a government-run Parador, a delightful hostelry, located in what was at one time a lovely mansion. We had a charming room overlooking a peaceful and gaily colored court below— all for the equivalent of $4.00 a day.

"Reluctantly we departed our pleasant quarters in Santillana del Mar and moved on to Ribadeo. We found the Alberque here so attractive and comfortable that we decided to stay over for Thanksgiving. The prices here in the Alberque (a modern Parador) are the same as Santillana. No wonder more and more tourists are flocking to Spain.

Tomorrow we move on to Bayona and the unique Parador there situated in a former ivalace. It is not far so will spend some time en route in Santiago de Compostela of which they say every street is a museum. Will spend a second day in Bayona to visit Pontevedra and other local points of interest before proceeding to Portugal with destination Lisbon where we intend to spend several days. After Lisbon, our intentions are uncertain. We may head for Switzerland, or Majorca for Christmas. Either way we'll

probably return to Spain, with a few days in Madrid en route."

Many thanks, Harry and Rosemary, for sharing your trip with us and good luck in your future career planning.

S e c y , Capt, Edward L, Beach, USN (Ret,) U, S. IMaval War College Newport, R, I, 02840

Ole Buck made it to the Washington lunch in April, and he found out that though 'tis true that Herb K R I L O F F may have been trying for the record of coming for the most times from the fartherest away, this time old '39 was a-layin' for him. Herb was there, sure enough, but there were no less than four classmates—even Buck was one—who could claim to have come from farther. Dwight NESS showed up from California, as a result, he claimed, of a little careful planning. Val HOLZAPFEL, working for the 3M company and transferred to St. Paul, Minn., came from pretty far away; says it has been cold up in Minn. Looked like the first prize was won, however, by Onofrio (Fred) SALVIA, in from Buenos Aires. Fred got on his feet and gave an account of what life as a defense attache is like in Argentina, and it could be said that the Argentines have a good unofficial ambassador in our boy Onofrio. Looks as though Onofrio will be going back for another year or so—a while, anyhow—but Buck neglected to find out what his plans are, and that 30 June date is certainly less than a year away! So don't believe what you read in this column, just listen to the tune.

Incidentally, this is one of the rules with which Buck began: believe only half of what you read anywhere, and especially here.

That's supposed to make it more fun. It doesn't always, but one can try, and them's the kicks.

Poor Onofrio did not get to wear his laurels very long, however, even though there may be some contest over what happened next, for in walked Doc ABBOT—and he, by golly, had come, if you want to count it that way, from even farther south than Freddie. All the way from the South Pole, in fact. He said the fall season is just starting down at the South Pole and it's cold down there.

Others present were: Foo Vannoy, Jim Hingson, Means Johnston, Bill Ruhe, Mike Perna, Murray Frazee, Jerry Norton, Sandy Simmons, Bing Gillette, Mac McCrocklin, Lee Savidge, Chas Dancy. Ernie Schreiter, Jim Glennon, Bob Slagle, Bob Raleigh, Her Fairchild, Ebbie Bell. Chas Chandler, Red Balch, K. C. Childers, Fred Kittler, Paul Loustaunau, Stan Kerkering, Emmett Compton, Jim Crowe, J. C. Lawrence, George Duncan, Jack Michaels and a couple whose names old Buck can't decipher from his scribbles.

A note from Ray Sanders was received expressing thanks to the class for the flowers sent for Hugh's funeral at Arlington.

Hugh died very suddenly in February after retiring in 1962 with physical disability from a heart attack. Things had been looking well for some time, when suddenly the old ticker kicked up and that was it. Ray (Mrs. Hugh B.) and the family are still residing at 106 Wiltshire Lane, Severna Park, Md. 21146.

There is a report on why there was no San Diego lunch in February: Seems as though '39 tried, but one of the worst rainfalls ever to hit sunnv California decided to downpour that day. Partee CROUCH and 43

Bob CLARK were conferring on the matter by telephone when all electronics went to you know where in a basket. Partee's lights began to drip water out of them (well, anyway, they went out), and while Bob was trying to get this story straight on the phone, water began to pour out of the telephone receiver. A little investigation showed Bob that in fact it was pouring in through his air conditioner instead of his telephone, but the initial shock was genuine enough.

to move, back and forth. For the time being, the address is 145 Forrest Lake Dr., N.W., Atlanta, Ga. 30327.

The C P is moved in at the U of Mo— 6336 Forsyth Blvd., St. Louis 63105. Leave it to old Paul! H e was just driving by this nifty hacienda in a lovely neighborhood when out of the corner of his eyes he noticed a man come out of a house carrying a brandnew For Sale sign and plant it on the lawn.

All stop, all back two thirds, all stop, finished with engines. Paul marchecj back into As for March, the weather cooperated the house carrying the. sign and bought the more, and looks like they done their best to place then and there. He swears the sign make up for the missing Feb. lunch. One of didn't say "estate sale," and he had no prior them officers' motor boats first got Bob knowledge, but it turned out to be just CLARK, ComFleTraGroup, from alongside that. Washington U (one of Paul's) and the A S W School (Johnnie W E A T H E R - the St. Louis Art Assn. also were interested W A X ) , and somehow Dunny REILLY, in the place, but Paul's decision-making Fred and Betty CLARKE, Bobo and Jane machinery was faster than theirs and his BOBCZYNSKI and Art F I S C H E R also funding unilateral. The day after they moved happened to be there and so they naturally in they gave a party for SO people who came got in the boat too. Deploying by the new to the U of Mo for some kind of a convention Harbor Island Marina development, the boat or symposium. hove in sight of a pier near the San Diego County Admin. Bldg., where there were Paul's master plan for international studies Skeet and Kathy BEMIS and Ken and is before the state ExCom; he's already been Madeline BARKER. Thence south down the a panel member interviewing a British cabbay, past carrier moorings at North Island inet member and another with the British and First Fleet flagship to starboard and ambassador to the UN, lectures all over the Broadway landings and piers on the port place, is on a radio weekly program, member hand to the Navy Coronado Landing where of the St. L. Council on World Affairs, also Eileen CLARK happened to be standing. the World Trade Club and Committee on Then across the ferry lanes and crumbling Foreign Relations. In his spare time he went piers and tired old ferryboats, south under and oiled up that fiddle, and now holds down the new, big and sweepingly graceful San a chair in the St. Louis Philharmonic Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge—nearly finished Orchestra. and a beautiful blue—west into Glorietta Bay The area class spy claims to have found to the Amphibious Base Landing (Partee out that SCHRA'TZ has a secret twin CROUCH) where a bus was sitting, revved up and a-ready, destination the PhibBase brother.

In San Diego there is a yacht club that closed mess, there joined by Donna Fischer, Ouida Reilly, Gordy and June Glaes, Ray can recognize talent in its midst. This year the Alonzo de Jessup trophy for the indiviand Nellie Laird, Bull and Betty Dawson, Sam and Gretchen Caldwell, Hank and Judy dual who has contributed most to the local Reaves and Lou and Isabel Spear. Not bad yachting scene was presented by the San Diego Association of Yacht Clubs to none planning, eh ? other than Bill FARGO. Down in the fine print Bill was cited also for his fine work It just so happened that there was another outfit lunching at the same place, from in arranging a trip for all hands, boats and NSIA, including Bill R U H E and Pete gear to Acapulco. Anybody who gets a whole tribe like that down to Acapulco of the burS H U M W A Y . So they dropped the NSIA outfit (is this the way to treat your bread nished sands and gleaming waters deserves a trophy I Kidding aside, this sort of accolade and butter?) and joined the other group for a more fun kind of frolic. Gordy Glaes an- cannot but have been deserved. Another '39er who gets things moving. nounced for Ultima Thule in August, and CLARK, FISCHER, REILLY and CALDHowie T H O M P S O N , Polly and the two W E L L said they were volunteering on 1 girls will be coming back to the States in July. Partee CROUCH wasn't there to speak the UNITED STATES from Le Havre in midfor himself, he and Scotty having had to June for processing to Ultima Thule on 1 head for West Virginia because of the death July. The place will be the Naval Station of his father, but it looks as though pretty in Boston, where Charlie CASSEL has the much of a clean sweep will have been made conn, and apparently a couple of plans have of '39 by this summer, for only Johnnie been laid on. He reports also that Bing and Weatherwax and Jim S M I T H will be left Margalee G I L L E T T E showed up in Brusaround. sels on a spot of leave and the quartet spent While a heck of a lot of '39ers are leaving two delightful evenings together. the Navy and going into teaching somewhere, The ExCom in Washington has come there's at least one in Atlanta getting ready through with its promised proposed new to leave school teaching and begin a new constitution. The vote for it or agin it has career. Ed H A R R I S O N , he of the lighted to be in the hands of the ExCom prior to candles on the old auto's dashboard, began 1 June, and therefore this notice will proba long leave of absence on 1 March from ably reach you, so far as this column goes, Georgia Tech, where he has been president after the fact. When Buck pointed this out for nearly 12 years, and on 1 July will join it was answered that this fine point had been up with J. P. Stevens & Co. as executive overlooked, but that the new draft constituv.p. for technical services. Ed will have tion and ballots were being mailed out engineering, R & D and information report- through the Alumni Association's new ading to him, and it looks like a nifty job dress list (computerized) which Charlie except that he'll have to work in New York C H A N D L E R has had a lot to do with upand leave Dorothy and Rick in Atlanta for dating as far as '39 is concerned. (Note that a year, until Rick gets out of high school. vou still could wind up listed as "in bilges, Having gone through this bit, Buck doesn't Bancroft Hall" if you've never given him recommend it, and 'tis clear that Ed doesn't your most recent and correct address. Check relish it. Anyway, in June of 1970 they will the book and see if it has you right.) Theredecide whether they move or Ed continues fore, all hands should have received and 44

voted on the new constitution by the time you read this. If you've not done so, or if the mailing didn't reach you, write immediately to Chas at 3104 Holly St. AlexVa and tell him you vote for it anyhow.

The final item in the ExCom's memo says that the election of a class president is a proper order of business for our 30th reunion next October. A nominating committee has been named, consisting of Ebbie Bell, Bud Gore, George Cattermole and Tom Weschler.

Nominations will be forthcoming soon.

Watch for them.

And a final item from old Buck. It says right here in a report from the c.s. that we should B E W A R E O F MACK T H E K N I F E . Big letters, too. Details to interested parties only.

Sec'y, RAdm, R. G. Anderson, USN WSEG, 4 0 0 Army-Navy Drive, Arlington, Va. 22202

WASHINGTON REPORT June is here again; a time for weddings, a time for moving, a time for vacations, and a time for the beginning of many changes in the coming military year. May we keep our "cool" in all of the above.

Vincent P. HEALEY, fresh from Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla Six, has been assigned to OpNav as director, Undersea and Strategic Warfare Development Division (OP-71). We welcome the Healeys back to Washington, looking forward to enjoying their company.

Willie H. H O U S E from his job as deputy commander. Naval Forces, Vietnam, overshot good old D. C. and landed in the Tidewater area as ComCar Div Four. The grapevine dope was that he was coming to Washington. We will be ready to intercept him next time he passes over. Come up and see us, and from the class, continued success.

Bill M O R T O N returned to the Washington area for duty in the Bureau of Personnel, Transportation Division. H e was relieved as Chief of Staff, Chief of Naval Air Technical Training, at Memphis, Tenn., by Bill BUSH. Pat CLANCY gathered the following from a recent west coast trip. H e saw Swede CARLSON who works at Lockheed Sunnyvale and reported that his family is all well and enjoying their new life in sunny Calif.

Swede also reported the following other '40 facts: John SIMS is at Cal. State College in Hayward as chairman, Management Sciences Department. Other classmates in the Bay area are Don Bruce, Cliff Bundy, Larry Fox, Ozzie Osborne, Bill Braley and Snuff Smith. Willie Walker and Stan Orser are stationed at Treasure Island.

Ed M U H L E N F E L D , on a recent trip to San Diego, brought back the following dope.

Harry F I S C H E R is doing a fine job at the Recruit Training Command. Ed attended one of the graduating parades and saw about 1600 young gung ho sailors complete their final act of training before reporting to the Fleet. The Naval Training Center Band, the Recruit Drum and Bugle Corps, the Bluejacket Choir and the Fifty State Flag Team made this ceremony colorful, enjoyable and most impressive. Believe it or not, the feature speaker at the ceremony was Bill BOEHM, Commander, Naval Electronics Lab. Bill did his normal "outstanding" job in speaking and gave the troops a sendoff.

Nearby we find Al COOK in command of the Naval Station and a full-time member of the board of governors of the local golf club. Finally, our man, Al BERGNER, S H I P M A T E

Commander, Naval Training Command, is apparently the busiest of them all keeping the local classmates busy. The class of '40 slipped some place along the line in that if we had a '40 commanding officer at the Air Station, San Diego would be ours—this includes the Seabees under control of Bob WOODING.

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Sec'y, Capt. A, D, Engle, USN (Ret,) 6746 Towne Lane Rd, McLean, Va. 22101

While it's never easy to relieve a wellorganized ace like Charlie STYER on a job such as this, at least the current dearth of news flashes allows space for a public expression of appreciation on behalf of the class for Charlie's consistent and good work with both pen and camera for our edification. The lucky guy will probably read this one in Madrid, where he is headed as Chief of MAAG after his tour with the Joint Staff. Charlie, thanks again from us all for a job well done, and we're looking for an excuse to drop by over there I Frank SANGER has emerged from retirement to affiliate with Westinghouse in the Washington area.

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Tony LILLY sent a photograph from the Far East on the occasion of a visit by Lou DAVIS, up from Hong Kong. Tony and Ginger had visited Lou in H. K. in February.

The GRAYS and STEENs, also in the area, were unable to join for this occasion. Tony is Chief of Staff, Seventh Fleet.

Continuing Charlie's custom of passing on the digests of classmates featured in "Skippers in the Spotlight" of Navy Times, I am pleased to share with you the following on plebe summer roommate Andy A N D E R SON: "RAdm. Herbert H. Anderson, Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel (education and training).

"Herbert Henry Anderson was born in Campbell, N. Y., on 21 Nov. 1918. As a boy in Savona, N. Y., he delivered papers, achieved Star Scout rank and played in the school band. His high school principal interested him in a Navy career, and after a year at Bucknell University, he entered the Naval Academy where he was a varsity wrestler.

"RAdm. Anderson survived the sinking of the carrier LEXINGTON in the Battle of the Coral Sea and served in the destroyers DAVISON and

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"Subsequent assignments included command of the destroyer ZELLARS ; director.

Navy Management School at the Postgraduate School; CO, guided missile frigate HALSEY, and Commander Destroyer Squadron 17, receiving the Navy Commendation Medal for developing training programs for air and sea forces for operations in the Gulf of Tonkin. He received a second Commendation Medal for his service as Director, Program Change Control Division, OpNav. Adm. Anderson took his present post in March 1967.

"He is married to the former Marguerite Cornell of Lincoln, Neb. His hobbies are woodwork and furniture refinishing, music— stereo, tapes and records—and golf. The Admiral adds, 'I have an abiding faith and interest in youth.' "

R A d m . H e r b e r t H. Anderson, U S N , was presented the Legion of M e r i t a n d citation by VAdm. Charles K. D u n c a n , U S N , C N O , on 7 A p r i l . The a w a r d was for service as Assistant Chief for Education a n d T r a i n i n g , Bureau of N a v a l Personnel from M a r c h 1 9 6 7 to A p r i l 1 9 6 9 . RAdm. Anderson has b e e n o r d e r e d to duties as C o m m a n d e r Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla 1 1 .

Sec'y, Cdr. R. S. Day, USN (Ret.), P. 0. Box 6042 Shirllngton Station Arlington, Va. 22206

Short and sweet this month, as deadline is between Easter, and our annual class picnic and our salute to our wives and sweethearts. The Sweetheart luncheon was scheduled on 7 May at Ft. Myer and the picnic on 18 May at Annapolis. Our new class chairman, Art (Swabbo) RAWSON, took charge of the luncheon, while Frank A N D R E W S handled the arrangements for the picnic.

To bring the accounting of our stewardship of the Eighth Company wardroom in Bancroft Hall up to date, it can be reported that Buck and Lucie ADAMS finally tracked down all of the requested purchases within the original $100 allotment, but are still to provide a window fan. The first purchases were a vacuum cleaner, coffee pot and several magazine subscriptions. The window fan got sidetracked when it became obvious that no one stocks window fans in the dead of winter at Annapolis.

Capt. Jack E. K E N N E D Y , U S N R (inactive), sent along a tidy dues check from Villa Park, 111. Jack is with MIDAS-International Corp. of Chicago, as a corporate V P and general manager of the Travel Trailer Group. He is having a "whale of a time" looking after the five companies which make up their fast-growing group. Laura and Jack have two granddaughters 35^2 and VT. yrs. old, and still look forward to retiring back home in old Mississippi following our 30th reunion, or thereabouts.

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Jerry PEDDICORD retired as CO Chase Field, Beeville, Tex., on 31 March and took over as manager of the Tanglewood Hills Country Club, Pottsboro, Tex., on the following day. This puts him on Lake Texoma, about 80 miles north of Dallas. The 750 members live in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Denison, and Sherman. The club sports a 9-hole course, tennis, swimming, living accommodations, restaurant, fishing and boating, and a 3,300' landing strip. It's obviously not a cinch job, but an interesting challenge and we wish Jerry all of the best. Incidentally, an ad he found in the Wall Street Journal led to this opportunity. Tim and Craig are at Kansas U and Craig made the Orange Bowl as a cheerleader. Cindy is in Del Mar College at Corpus Christi. .A. fun letter arrived from our newest recipient of honors in higher learning, Bill MORGAN. As he tells it, "I may now be properly addressed as Doctor Morgan. On 28 Feb. I underwent the final ordeal of examination, and thanks to a unanimous vote of the committee and those present, I passed into the ranks of P(iled) H(igher) and D(eeper). I mentioned 'those present' for a purpose; USC is flexible and permitted my wife and son, as well as classmates, to attend. Gary Brown appeared in uniform to lend support to my thesis of the importance of sea power. I was out of the room when the vote was taken, but my wife assures me that Gary's vote was given without hesitation. During the examination, everyone was permitted to question me. Mary Lee and Tom passed, but not Gary. He threw me a tough question. However, since he proceeded to answer it himself, it presented no problem.

"I have been attending USC since retirement, and during that time have called on various classmates for help in my research.

Please note my thanks to Gary, Bob Hanson, his predecessor as P N S , Norm Nash and John Drew, who at one time or another were most helpful. I would also like to include Roy Werthmuller, and the incomparable Jeannette, for their TLC during a summer of research in Washington. I still teach in high school, but am attempting the change to college—preferably one where the natives are not restless."

Our congratulations to Bill and family for his accomplishment. His thesis, in> all its glory, was Sea Power in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean During the Mexican and Colombian Wars of Independence, 1815-1830.

The morning following the services for Joanne Woodson on 10 March, many of us were able to gather together again, to say farewell to Jean Wallace, Jack's lovely wife, at Ft. Myer. Jean was laid to rest in the new part of Arlington National Cemetery. Like Joanne, Jean had succumbed to cancer, but after a relatively brief illness, so her passing was a bit of a shock to all.

To complete that task, I'm enclosing the photograph I mentioned and, in case you are unaware of the participants, from left to right you find Cathy Rapp, yours truly, Mouza Zumwalt, Jack Logan and Jack's wife, Libby. As you can see. Jack looks pretty good—for a gent who just about entered the 'Pearly Gates'—and I'm happy to report that he has made a fine recovery.

You may be wondering why Mouza Zumwalt is in the photo. She is living at Clark AFB while Bud is over in Saigon. He gets over to Clark infrequently, but occasionally at least, to see her—on the order of sometiiing like once a month. Mouza has been most helpful to many of our class passing through the area and certainly was a tower of strength to Jack's wife while he was in the hospital. Clyde/Andy Anderson is also close by (at Subic) but, of course, with Jack at Clark it was a bit impossible to commute between Subic and Clark Field. That is how Mouza was so helpful.

"I'll be looking forward to the announcement in the column in Shipmate as to the class decision on the support of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. I do hope the result of the survey was favorable.

"Despite my being here on Okinawa at 'the crossroads of the Western Pacific,' it just doesn't seem that I get to see too many of our friends out in this direction. Bill Hardcastle, of course, has left now and is en route or has already reported to his new job at the Amphibious Base at Little Creek and I regret to say that I missed him while he was up at Sasebo (although we did write a few letters to one another). There are several other classmates in the Seventh Flet but, unfortunately, I have not been able to see them either. I'm referring to Al Cameron, who spent a lot of his time with '43 but ended up in '44, and Ed Cummings who has a DesRon out here. Other than that, and the aforementioned presence of Clyde Anderson down at Subic, there are not many of our group out here. Most all the ship commands have passed to '44 and '45 by now so that perhaps is one reason for it.

"I read with pleasure the fine report on the Christmas party which was chaired as usual in an outstanding fashion by Lanell Detweiler and must admit that I certainly missed seeing everybody. Hopefully, we'll be back next Christmas in time to join in the fun. Please give my best to all the '43ers at the next luncheon. I do hope that this finds you and your family in fine health and enjoying life."

Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, 111, (SC), USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St. Kailua, Hawaii 96734 Wash. Area Sec'y, Capt. Robert B. Greenwood, USN, 1400 South 22nd St. Arlington, Va. 22202

Barney R A P P writes on ComPatFor Seventh Fit letterhead to report on a visit to see Jack LOGAN in the hospital at Clark FieM (in part) : "In my last letter to you on 30 Jan. I mentioned having gone to ClarkField en route to Naha from Baguio and running into Jack Logan in the Air Force hospital there. You recall I mentioned taking a photograph or two and my plan to send one to you for showing to the rest of the class.

' 4 3 e r s , left to right: C a t h y a n d Barney R a p p , M o u z a Z u m w a l t , Jack a n d Libby Logan.

S H I P M A T E

From Paris George CORNELIUS writes from his address (31 Ave de L'lle de Migneaux, 78 Poissy, France, tel. 965-0297) to say "Illness (not sick, just a se * slipped disc) has prevented me from holding the fall or winter meetings of the USNA Alumni European chapter, but I plan on a spring session in Brussels and will publicize this again at that time. (My V.P., Dick Neuendorffer '47, also got transferred without a relief.) Regards to all '43ers in Washington and vicinity, and tell em all the welcome mat is out in Paris."

At the regular fourth Tuesday lunch at .\NCC there was a good turnout, but very little to report except that Ellrod SUGGINS saw Jack and Jean J O N E S in Jacksonville.

Jack is in the stock broker game and enjoying life at a very nice home on Ortega Blvd. He said that they were going with the BERQUISTs on a rent-a-houseboat trip to the Bahamas. We all hope they take a sailornavigator along.

Sec'y, Capt. S. P. Hills, USN 71 l i Enterprise Ave. McLean, Va. 22101 Annapolis Corr., Capt. Edgar E. Mallick, USN, Office of the Academic Dean, USNA Annapolis, Md. 21402

The timing throughout the years was such that older daughter Ann (a graduate of the University of Florida, and now with the Tobacco Institute in Washington), and younger daughter Sue (graduate of Temple University, and dental hygienist at Bancroft Hall Dental Office) both had the same first grade teacher at West Annapolis Elementary School—Miss Daniel. Young Jeff Donaldson, now 13, was also born at the U S N A hospital.

The Donaldsons are the type of people that help to make an outfit tick. Emily has been very active in the U S N A Chapel Guild —arranging flowers for the Chapel, and assisting there with all of those June Week weddings. Among many other things, John has been busy keeping all of the athletes sat. There's no doubt that John and Emily will be missed. John has been at the Academy for seven years this tour; it must be some sort of record. Can anyone challenge it? He hasn't definitely decided on a means of gainful employment after retirement, so if any of you alumni executive tycoons are interested in a good hand, drop John a line. All wish the Donaldsons well as they set out for a new venture. BEAT A R M Y !

Sec'y, Capt. Vernon F. Anderson, USN 300 S. Cherry Grove Ave. Annapolis, (I/id. 21401 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Lawrence N. Smith, USN 1002 Darton Drive Alexandria, Va. 22308

ANNAPOLIS CORNER

The Donaldsons—Sue, Jeff, Emily a n d John in their Rodgers Rood quarters. Missing f r o m the picture is older d a u g h t e r A n n .

Big Change of Duty. Almost 29 years ago to the day, 19 June 1940, to be exact, young John DONALDSON from Mt. Clemens, Mich., stood in the rotunda, Bancroft Hall, and took the oath of office as a Midshipman United States Navy. On 30 June 1969, Cdr. John Donaldson, executive officer, Physical Education Department, USNA, will retire from active duty. John's active career in the Navy, therefore, will end just where it began —at the Naval Academy.

During the interim 29 years, John has enjoyed a most successful and interesting career in which Annapolis has played a significant part. After graduation John was in the second group of Annapolis ensigns that went to Florida for aviation indoctrination.

Although the first group cut a fairly wide swath as they forayed through the Everglades, they missed a few of the unattached beautiful Florida girls, and ol' eagle eye, navigation-minded John took a bearing on a heavenly body in the person of Miss Emily Thompson of Jacksonville, Fla. After several tours of sea duty, John returned to U S N A where he was an instructor from 1950-52 in the Ordnance and Gunnery (now Weapons) Department. The Donaldsons also chose to live in Annapolis, while John was stationed in Washington on a later tour, and John again returned to the Academy for duty in 1962.

JUNE,

1969

Sam GORSLINE stopped by while en route to USS CORAL SEA. By the time this column hits the street Sam should have taken command.

With Joe Moore taking command of USS RANGER, Bill Chaires taking command of USS YORKTOWN and Herb Poorman taking USS GUAM you have to scratch to find a carrier that is not under '45 command.

Morrie E S M I O L has just given up command of NAS Lakehurst; he is moving to DASA Sandia Base, Albuquerque, N. M. We will not be seeing Hugh M U R P H R E E at the monthly luncheons for awhile as Hugh is taking command of USS ARLINGTON.

Al H O W A R D has become president and chief executive officer of Williard, Inc. after withdrawing from the firm of McCulloughHoward and Co., Inc., where he was president for the past ten years. Al is also the current president of the Admiral Farragut Academy Alumni Association.

Photo by Fabian Baciiracli Al Howard Jr.

From Annapolis Bill Cosgrove and Hub Davidson have sent us an accounting of the 5th Company wardroom account. The wardroom has had a complete face-lifting and is shipshape. There is still room for many ship pictures and plaques. You carrier skippers could cover a wall. Why not?

Dan Clements is still picking up lifetime members. The latest is Joe S C H R O E D E R who writes : "Enclosed is my check for $47;

3 dollars to sponsor a prospective midshipman, 4 dollars for back dues, and 40 dollars which says I'll live long enough to gain by the gamble."

Dan also received a note, with dues payment, from Cliff BERMANN who tells of moving to Houston recently to take charge of ESSO/Humble Oil's marine bunker fueling operations for all U. S. ports.

Vince A N A N I A is still receiving mail as evidenced by a late report from Bill MORROW. Bill says that the high interest in the 25th reunion has caused the Blue and Gold to surge through his cholesterol-filled arteries and even promises to take Shipmate so he can keep up with our Navy.

Bill MORROW and Charles J A R V I S (remember when it was Billy and Bitsy?) with their wives plan a nostalgic flight on 22 Oct. They flew together to Washington from the same home town way-back-when to take their entrance physical exams. It promises to be a grand repeat.

The nominating committee consisting of Vern Anderson, Gene Hunter, Ralph Stell, Vince Anania and Sam Rorex announced nominations for the new slate during the April luncheon. We plan to publish the names of the new class officers in the summer issue of Shipmate.

The highlight of the April luncheon was an extremely well received briefing by Bud BOWLER describing the outstanding services being done by the U. S. Naval Academy Foundation. The question period went for more than 30 minutes and would have gone far more if Sam Rorex had not reminded us that our jobs were calling.

On 26 April the class held its annual spring formal at Arlington Hall, Arlington, Va. The ladies in their new finery and all of us in the same old black ties with overstressed cummerbunds enjoyed cocktails, steamboat roast beef, and (lancing until the last strains of "Goodnight Sweetheart."

It is with regret that we announce that Col. Joseph F. HOLZBAUER, USMC, died 31 March at the Naval Hospital, Quantico, Va. His widow Joan resides at Qtrs. 344, MCB Quantico, Va. 22134.

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Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR iMaval Reserve Training Command 30th and Fort Sts,, Omaha, Nb. 68111

Shortly, I depart for Omaha where I'll be living alone until after school is out here at Tacoma. Although it was difficult determining what I could take with me and what had to remain, the class files naturally got first consideration!! Away we go. . . .

Tom and Adrienne AUGER still hold forth at m i l Lamplighter Lane, Potomac, Md. 20854, although the kids are growing up and beginning to disperse. Tom is in the A S W Systems Project Office. Floyd and Jean AVEY still are located at 3788 Vancouver Dr., Dallas, Tx. 75229.

Hart BANCROFT'S address is still Westmont, N. J. 08108 but the street has changed to 504 West Dr. Hart's company handles specialty industrial products. Al B O W E N is still on duty in BuPers where he is special assistant for surface missile systems. Al and Delly live at 3159 Patrick Henry Dr., Falls Church, Va. 22044.

Jim BURTON from 4567 Del Monte Ave., San Diego 92107: "I am still attached to the Fleet Computer Programming Center, Pacific. After two years in a small house which I purchased on Point Loma, I finally feel rather settled."

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Big Sam C A N D L E R : ". . . Away from missile reentry work and to RCA's group at U S N A U T E C Project on Andros Island in Bahamas. A little slower tracking but still a lot of work. Good to get home to Florida after sea duty, Hono, VAFB in Calif, these past six years. I commute back and forth to home every other weekend." Home for Jeanne and Sam is 475 Bahama Dr., Indialantic, Fl. 32901.

Bill and Evie CROSBY wrote from 4629 Curtiss Ct., Virginia Beach, Va. 23455.

Bill wjrks for Grumman as a project manager jf an analysis group at HUKForLant at NAS Norfolk and Evie keeps busy with oil painting, church group and a power squadron piloting course. ''We have a new hobby—in the spring we bought a 46-foot cabin cruiser. Named it the 'Four C's.' It sleeps seven, three bathrooms, two cabins, a sitting room, galley with electric refrigerator, stove and oven. Bill says that it also has twin diesels, a flying bridge, ship-toshore radio and fathometer. It was completely furnished. We go out every weekend.

Have ranged from just south of Washington, D. C , to Elizabeth City, N. C, and out 75 miles to the fishing grounds. Bill and I are taking a piloting and charting course and have a big exam in a couple of days.

This is old stuff for Bill and I'm on my toes keeping up. With all this I wonder what we did with our spare time."

From Nancy and Bill CULWELL at 615 Camborne Ave., Ft. Walton Beach, Fl. 32548, "I'm still in the school teaching business—teaching physics and physical science at Okaloosa-Walton Junior College. We're moving into a new campus during the Christmas holidays which promises to make things even better."

Lee CUTCHALL is still on duty in the Naval Electronics Systems Command in D. C. and, as Kay says, "fortunately, is in town most of the time." Last fall Kay and a friend started a catering business, specializing in bar mitzvahs, weddings, receptions, dinner parties, etc. Kay makes all the wedding cakes and petits fours and everything else from scratch and says the courses she took while in Japan have helped a great deal.

The Cutchalls live at 6516 Fairlawn Dr., McLean, Va. 22101.

Bill and Sue D U N S E A T H , 107 Enfield Rd., Baltimore 21212, say their older daughter Sherry will be married in July. Their son Ross has classmate Bill P O R T E R for an instructor at the Oilman School. Who's getting old?

Liz and Jim F O R R E S T give their address as Qtrs. J, NSD, Mechanicsburg, Pa. 17055.

Jim is XO of the Fleet Material Support Office, the data processing center of Navy Supply. Liz says: "He likes it and we enjoy our country living." Last Christmas found Jerry and Lody GIBSON at their Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598 address—717 Wiget Lane.

Jerry still works at the Radiological Laboratory at Hunters Point.

When I reported the GIESEKEs' new address several months ago it reminded Bill that he neglected to tell me that he left Sylvania about two years ago and now works for Lockheed at Sunnyvale—Poseidon Program.

Marigold Gorton has graduated from the Mercy College of Nursing after two years of study at the University of San Diego, summer school at San Diego State and night school at Mesa Junior College. Bob still works for Impulse Products when he isn't busy remodeling their home at 1615 Beryl St., San Diego 92109.

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Had the usual Christmas card from Bev and Gene GRALLA at 199 Rogers Dr., Scarsdale, N. Y. 10583. Gene left T W A last August to join International Paper Co., still in N.Y.C. Said they had a small reunion at their house in November with Father Tom CONNELLAN, By O S T E R W E I L and Al D.A.VIS. Enclosed in a Christmas card from the GROJEANs was a color photo taken outside the N. A. Chapel at Charlotte's wedding last June. 'Ole Chuck was grinning from ear to ear and looked mighty proud!

Doris lacobelli wrote at Christmas time that Ben MARTIN was to be in town and they hoped for a get-together to include the "Ace" J O N E S and Tom MELISEs. Nothing more has been heard from 6iiS East Calle Rosa, Scottsdale, Az. 85251, so perhaps the reunion didn't materialize.

Eight Elena Rd., Lexington, Ma. 02173 finds the K I L L E F E R s finally surfacing after two rather hectic years. Killy works for Lincoln Lab. at M.I.T. and says he has exactly the type job he wanted lor retirement.

Connie finished her Master's in library science at Simmons College last June and is now a high school librarian at Brookline, Mass.

Dawn and Toby LYON report a new address, 2645 White's Point Dr., San Pedro, Ca. 90731. "Moved around the corner into captain's quarters." Toby "fleeted-up" into the Chief of Staff billet for ComASWGru 5 which meant a fourth year at sea and three out of four Christmases without 'ole Toby at home! Naturally, they both look forward to shore duty in July.

Jack and Jane MARSH live at 4362 14th St. N.E., St. Petersburg, Fl. 33703, where Jack is an account executive with Financial Security Planning Corp. of Florida. He retired 1 Feb. '68.

Doc MARTELL writes from 95 Warren Rd., Framingham, Ma. 01701 to say that he is now operations manager of a new RCA peripheral manufacturing plant now building in Marlboro, Mass. Also, he says that they added number seven, Kristen, last March.

Jig-Jig DOUGHERTY gives his new address as 52669 Brookdale Dr., South Bend, In. 46647. Works for the University of Notre Dame as an administrative systems analyst.

"When Joint Task Force Two was 'phased out' by Secretary Nitze on 31 Dec, Bob McClelland had already transferred back to the Naval Weapons Evaluation Facility, from which he had retired in '65. His home address was thus unaffected by the phase-out, whereas Marian and I took the opportunity to transfer my dubious systems analysis capabilities from weapons systems to university administration. (From what I read, some universities need weapons systems analysts.)

Notre Dame's need, as seems true of many universities, is for administrative systems analysts." Bob and Ellen McCLELLAND still live at 7805 Pickard, N.E., Albuquerque 87110.

Bea and George PAVIS are living at 608 Wolcott Ave., Middletown, R. I. 02840.

Serrano, Los Angeles, Ca. 90005, where Si is marketing manager for WorM Research and Engineering, makers of high pressure equipment, and Jeanie is active with her violin.

Margaret and Pablo S T U E V E (he was my Academy wife) still live at 2938 W. Parkwood Dr., Peoria, 11. 61614, where Pablo has given up bowling to become an avid golfer. Their oldest son Gary has graduated from college, is teaching school in his Dad's hometown of New Bremen, Ohio, and will be married in June. Where has the time gone, Pablo?

Although we don't hear much from the San Diego contingent I occasionally see correspondence signed by Bob Thompson from ComPhibTraPac where Bob is Ass't Chief of Staff and know that Jan and Bob continue to enjoy their lovely Point Loma home at 2330 Plum St. Hopefully, Dorothy and I will get to San Diego for some leave this summer and look forward to renewing all the acquaintances there.

The TURLEYs of 3310 Goldsboro Place, Falls Church, Va. 22042, say that Jim is still with IBM and enjoys the work while Mary Jane has a job with the Defense Fuel Supply Center, Cameron Station, which keeps her out of mischief. Alice and "Red" TWIBLE are now living at 37 Glenwood Rd., Colts Neck, N. J. 07722.

Toby and Whizzer W H I T E have a new address—7518 N. Calera Ave., Glendora, Ca. 91740. Their oldest son John will graduate from U S N A in June and, of course, they plan to go back for the occasion.

On 22 March the Seattle group had a small but extremely enjoyable get-together at the home of Edie and Blackie YERBURY, 8517 S.E. 76th Place, Mercer Island, Wash. In addition to Edie and Blackie, Dorothy and Daisy, those present included Nonie and Joe Skoog, Dick Daly, Ginny and Jim Ferguson, Dorothy and Jim Wasner, Carla and Wayne Robinson and Connie Merrill with Bob Barnes, who gave me his new address of 2413 Boylston E. #402, Seattle 98102. The Robinsons said they have bought a large house on E. David Court in Fife, Wash, (near Tacoma) and will move from Bellevue in June. The Fergusons also expect to be moving to Huntsville, Ala., about the same time.

MEDALS, DECORATIONS AND AWARDS

George is CO of GRAND CANYON homeported

in Newport. He and Harmon P E N N Y exchanged jobs last October.

Heard from Virginia and Hallie RICE again this Christmas. They still report home as 2002 Dumont Rd., Timonium, Md. 21093.

Their crew now numbers seven with three in college and the youngest age 2 and they both still find time for sailing. Sidney and Stu SAVAGE are still enjoying life at 6445 Eppard St., Falls Church, Va. 22042. Stu retired in Feb. '67 and now works for ConSul Tec, Inc., as a senior systems engineer.

Si and Jeanie SIMONS live at 829 S.

Bill

Spangler receives the Legion of Merit.

Capt. William S. SPANGLER, (CEC) USN. The Legion of Merit. "For service from May '65 to July '68 as Chief, Facilities Branch, Logistics Division Hqs., Pacific S H I P M A T E

Command. During this period, Capt. Spangler was responsible for planning, funding, and executing military construction programs to support the buildup of forces in Southeast .Asia. As a result of his exemplary efforts, the Staff, Commander in Chief Pacific, developed into a highly effective construction gianagement agency, which successfully managed a multi-billion dollar construction effort vital to successful prosecution of the war in Southeast Asia. Where no established procedures existed, Capt. Spangler established necessary multi-service construction management systems and procedures throughout the Pacific Command. His success is best illustrated by the fact that no essential military operations in Southeast Asia have been precluded because of the lack of facilities. By his professional knowledge, sound judgment, ingenuity, and analytical ability.

Captain Spangler upheld the highest traditions of the L^nited States Naval Service."

LCdr. John A. DAVIS Jr., USN. The Legion of Merit. "For . . service as CO of the USS GREENFISH. Exercising a high degree of leadership and professional ability, LCdr. Davis was eminently successful in carrying out a mission of great value to the Government of the United States."

LCdr. John A. Davis Jr., USN. Gold Star in lieu of the Second Legion of Merit. "For meritorious achievement as CO of the USS GREENFISH during the winter of 1960. Under LCdr. Davis' outstanding leadership, the GREENFISH completed an operation of great value to the Government of the United States."

Lt. Linsey Simpson ASHLEY, USN. The Bronze Star Medal with combat "V." "For meritorious achievement as navigator the

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advance attack group in the amphibious assault on Wolmi-Do at Inchon, Korea, on 15 Sept. '50. Exercising outstanding courage and skill while subjected to enemy fire during the assault, Lt. (then lieutenant, junior grade) .Ashley expertly navigated his ship during the hours of darkness to her anchorage approximately 1200 yards from the well-fortified enemy island, skillfully accomplishing the maneuver despite the strong currents encountered in narrow passages and the absence of most of the navigational lights."

The Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Lt. Lloyd R. W H I T E , Jr., USN. "For heroic conduct on the night of 20 Feb. 1955 when a series of explosions occurred in the forward battery on board the USS POMODON. Immediately after the first explosion Lt. White assumed charge of damage control operations in the forward torpedo room without accepting the delay of donning a breathing apparatus. Although almost overcome by the dense fumes, he accomplished what could be done in fighting the fire with C02 flasks and J U N E ,

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then secured the bulkhead. Following the action he organized a party to clear the watertight door between the forward battery and the control room which was obstructing all efforts to rescue two shipmates who were entrapped in the forward battery as a result of the explosion. Taking direct charge of the operation from the bridge and the conning tower he continually exposed himself to the dense smoke and noxious fumes in order to maintain communication with the party below. While proceeding from the bridge to the conning tower, he was critically injured by the blast of a second explosion. Lt. White's outstanding courage and inspiring actions throughout were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."

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Sec'y, Capt. C. Turner Joy, Jr., USI\IR 1001 Priscilla Lane Alexandria, Va. 22308 Washington, D. C , Area Sec'y: Capt. Pat March, USN 2713 S. Grant St. Arlington, Va. 22202

Bob GATEWOOD, who is a general agent in Washington for the Philadelphia Life Insurance Co., was presented with the 1968 Wilner award in January. This award, the

to provide Washington representation, technical consulting and government relation services to several companies. Robbie is VP and secretary, with his office which is located in Suite 1004, 1501 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Va. One of his clients is Bruce OLIVER who, thanks to Robbie's persuasiveness, has volunteered to take over as the center post for the class of '47 activities in the Chicago area. So all of you "Best in the Severnites," Bruce's address is 232 E. Hickory St., Hinsdale, II. 60521. And while on the subject of area coordinators, Stu EVANS will handle the southern California area and can be reached at the U. S. Navy Purchasing Office, Box 2311, 312 N. Spring St., Los Angeles 90053, telephone (213) 688-2690. In Norfolk I think Ted DAVIS has volunteered, if not he's elected. Ted's present address is Quarters SP34E, Naval Air Station, Norfolk 23511.

We need other area volunteers, not only to provide inputs for Shipmate, but to help Bill P O R T E R with the 25-year book, which as we all recognize is a large undertaking. However, these area coordinators can't do it alone, they need help from all of us by way of keeping them informed as to your whereabouts and activities.

From Tennessee comes the good news that Andy PEACOCK, who has been the assistant superintendent of the Kodel Fiber Division of the Eastman Company in Kingsport, has moved to Columbia, S. C, where he became the assistant plant manager of the Carolina Eastman Company.

For many of our classmates who have inquired about Joe BROWER, Joe resides at the Hawthorne Hotel, Rm. 312, 2125 G St. N.W., in Washington, D. C. Joe has been in various VA Hospitals and is presently recovering from a recent illness. I know that he would enjoy hearing from his classmates.

Swoose and Bette SNEAD hosted a party at the Snead Manor in March in honor of Jack and Mickey SULLIVAN who drove down from Philadelphia. Leading into the party was a small game of, "who's the biggest con artist?" at Quantico's very fine golf course between Swoose, Jack, Dick SAVAGE and yours truly. When the smoke had cleared, and particularly after the 18th hole where three "professional" shots landed 3 ft., 8 ft. and 19 ft. from the flag on this par 3 hole, a certified public accountant had to be called in to figure out who pressed who and who owed who. As it turned out all members

The W i l n e r A w a r d , highest honor of the D. C .

Life Underwriters Association, is presented to Bob G a t e w o o d by John D. M a r s h . (L. to R.) John Marsh, Bob and Marilyn Gatewood, William Haggerty.

highest honor of the D. C. Life Underwriter's Association, is awarded annually for accomplishments and sustained activity in the interest of life insurance. Bob has served as president of four insurance groups in Washington, has taught for Chartered Life Underwriter groups and has written several articles for insurance publications. Among Bob's other accomplishments include lectures in 33 states and three foreign countries, being named "Agent of the Year" on several occasions, active participation on school boards and golf where he is desperately trying to con your class secretary into getting four strokes on the front side and three on the back. Bob, Marilyn and their 13 children, ranging from a senior at Holy Cross to a S-year-old, live in Spring Valley which is a residential section of Washington, D. C. Robbie BRADY has merged with Nessel and Downs Associates into Interface Inc.

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Ace A d a m s , John J a h a n , Jack Sullivan, Jim C h a p m a n a n d Floyd Bowdey.

left to right: Fred Bromley, Arnie Schuknecht, Floyd Bowdey a n d W e s M c D o n a l d .

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of the foursome proved equally adept at working the "press" bets. Welcoming the Sullivans to Washington included Ace and Julie Adams, Floyd and Hope Bowdey, Robbie and Pat Brady, Fred and Mariana Bromley, Jim and Jeanne Chapman, Bob and Clare Gower, Tom and Georgea Hudner, John and Jane Jahant, Wes and Norma McDonald, Jim and Pat Moss, Tom and Marilyn Pownall, Vern and Kak Rose, Dick and Ginny Savage, Arnie and Mary Schuknecht. The party was great; the Sneads, perfect hosts, and Jack and Mickey Sullivan looked as young as ever.

RAdm. Jose C. Seijas ' 4 7 , C o m a n d a n t e G e n e r a l of the V e n e z u e l a n N a v y , B G e n . M a r t i n G a r c i a Villasmil, V e n e z u e l a ' s Minister of Defense, a n d R A d m . Jesus C a r b o n e l l I z q u i e r d o , C h a i r m a n of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a n d former C o m a n d a n t e G e n e r a l de lo M a r i n a .

As of 10 April, RAdm. Jose Constantino S E I J A S became Comandante General De La Marina of Venezuela (which is the equivalent to CNO of the United States).

Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, Va. 22302

Saturday I was routinely glancing through my morning Washington Post noting the interesting faces on the obituary page and those of various rioters, oddly dressed socialites, and appointees when a familiar face popped off the page and rang my doorbell.

There was Carlos V I L L A R R E A L with his right hand raised, and he didn't appear to be in the witness stand either. Congratulations to Carlos on his being appointed manager of Urban Mass Transportation under the Secretary of Transportation. He has forsaken the business world to become a bureaucrat. We of the Washington group particularly welcome Carlos and Doris back to the area. You will recall that last month's column reported that Jim BEGGS is the new Undersecretary of Transportation.

Jim T R E E C E : "Just a note to advise you that I have been appointed U. S. attorney for the District (state) of Colorado. I finished law school at Colorado U. in 1949 and have been with my present law firm (Yegge, Hall, Treece, and Evans) since 1951.

I see State Senator W. Joe Shoemaker frequently; he is serving his second term of four years. He was defeated in 1966 by Mark Hogan (D.) in the Lt. Gov. try. I have also been working as a part-time municipal judge and am chairman of the State Board of Social Services (primarily welfare). I will resign all of these."

On 8 March there was a big class dance at Ft. Myer, at least the ballroom was big.

After all, George Ball is the one who arranged it. The formal affair with a sit-down dinner was a great party, and the gals looked splendid. The gents sported a variety of dinner dress, with a fair sprinkling of tuxes.

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Bill B.-^RTOW's dress shirt outdid anything the ladies wore, and there were others almost as fancy. Valuable prizes were awarded (bottles, of course) to the first to arrive— Dwight W A D S W O R T H , also the last to leave; last to arrive—Perry and Grace NELSON, snarled in traffic, and first to dance—Willie LEE's brother, who preempted Willie. Late in the evening, George BALL elbowed the trombone player out of the way, hoisted his horn, and cut loose with a medley of good-old tunes a la Tommy Dorsey. Shades of the NA-10. It sounded great, and there wasn't a dry eye (or glass) in the house. Those lucky enough to attend are: Walt and Virginia Spangenberg, Bill and Peggy Bartow, Gene and Jean Kelly, Paul and Carol Martenson, Bob and Gunvor McClinton, Angus and Mavis McDonald, I'erry and Grace Nelson, Oz and Quinn Osborn, Ken and Mu Shugart, Ed and Mary Stacey, Wink and Pat Winkler, Bill and Grace Harkins, Dick and Frances Robertson, Russ and Ginger McKechnie, Jim and Polly Strong, Dave and Dee Hurt, George and Carolyn Ball, Troy and Pat Stone, Edwina and Willie Lee and Willie's brother, Guy and Bebe Buck, Bill and Colleen Pierson, Chantee and Lorna Lewis, Bob and Glo Schwoeffermann, Sumner and Jane Moore, John and Glenys Dyer, Dick and Mary Lou Hoffman, Harry and Peg Lee, Jim and Izzy Gammon, Floyd and Mary Jane Young, Lou Zeleznock and a date with the snazzy name of Beverley Beach, Jim and Mary Beggs, Walt and Helene Ah, and two loners, Dwight Wadsworth and Lou Urbanczyk. Now four others were also there with their wives, but I am embarrassed to say I do not know their wives' names and none of my lists are that complete. No, honestly, they were there with their wives. These four were Bunny McCallum, John Clithero, Norm Norman, and Wally Holton. It was a great party.

The DC area bi-monthly luncheon at O'Donnell's fell on 25 March, a couple of weeks out of kilter because of the dance. Dick H O F F M A N , in absentia of course, was elected treasurer for an indefinite term, and one of his first duties will be to collect from the local chapter for a chair in the Navy and Marine Corps Memorial Stadium dedicated to Jack ROBBINS, whose death was reported in this column two months ago. It was felt that since Jack was so active in this area, that it was fitting that the local classmates take this means of remembering him. Several shiny new faces popped up at this luncheon, Tricky John Everngam, Jack Gracey and Casey Taylor. Also on hand were: Shugart, Pierson, Klemm, Zeleznock, Ghormley, George Hoffman, Zeb Alford, Winkler, Andrus, Dyer, Christoph, Willie Lee, Edelson, Buechler, Floyd Young, Osborn, Wadsworth, and Ken Phillips.

Incidentally, being in the Air Force has its fringe benefits. Bill and Colleen PIERSON, having a friend with an empty apartment in Paris, found an empty airplane flying that way and nipped smartly off to spend a couple of weeks in that fair city.

Sec'y, Capt. Stanley S. Fine, USN P. 0. Box 2142 Washington, D. C. 20013

W A S H I N G T O N AREA The group gathered at O'Donnell's on 2 April for the monthly get-together over veal and fish. (Crabcakes are no longer on the menu.) Present for muster were John Barrow, Bart Bartholomew, Jack Benoit (still recovering from a visit from Warren P a r r ) , Frank Benson, Bill Broughton, Stan Counts,

Johnny Green, Ted Hammer, Bob Kennedy, Jim Linder, Chuck Reid, C. Ray Smith, who reported Roger Boh would be joining the Washington group this summer at NavAir, Voss Vosseler, Dave Woodard and myself.

A welcome out-of-towner who came was Bill S H A N H O U S E down from Great Neck, N. Y. Bill is V.P. of P&F Industries and also teaches philosophy at Hofstra.

As a reminder, the class will continue to meet on the first Wednesday of each month over the summer at O'Donnell's. If you come to town and want to confirm, just call me at Oxford 7-2325 or drop by Room 4E748 at the Pentagon.

REUNION I will repeat in this issue my announcement of the last issue. If you want hotel reservations for homecoming, send a check for $20 to John BARROW at 204 St. Ives Garth, Chartwell, Severna Park, Md. John will handle the details.

To date, I have heard from the following far-flung classmates that they intend to come to the reunion: Warren Parr from Los Alamitos, Calif.; Max Bailey from Beverly Hills, Calif.; Bill Duke from Richmond, Va., Bill reported that the Ooghes and Hotchkisses will also attend; Don Fisher, from Rochester, N. Y.; Craig Aalyson from Columbus, Ohio; Bill Fulton from San Diego, Calif.; George Schuchart from Seattle, Wash., and Burt Miller from Milwaukee, Wise.

I will publish the names of other probable attendees in future issues. Most important— send your reservation to John Barrow.

GENERAL N E W S A press release from the Hewlett Packard Corp. informed us that "Bark" BUSH has been appointed as the company's Philadelphia area marketing manager and regional medical sales manager. Congratulations from all of us.

Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Charles L. Mull, USN 5200 Lawn Way, Chevy Chase, Md. 20015

With the coming of 2 June, we can sit back, have an extra martini, and recall that on this day 19 years ago, we managed to achieve our four-year goal. Those of us who attend some of the June week festivities this year look at the new graduates and realize that it really has been 19 years since we went forward to claim our graduation scroll and gold bars. Alas, the years between have taken their toll, but to everyone: skoal.

A number of copies of "The Years Between" are still available which "J. K." NOBLE has presented to the class for disposition. I know all share my feelings for the tremendous job Ken did in compiling this 15-yearbook for the class. Those copies remaining will be used by your executive committee as a source for additional class revenue. Perhaps many of you would like a copy for your (or your wife's) folks. If so, copies can be obtained for half the original cost: $5 each, postage paid. Please send your check and mailing instructions to Pete WOOD, 5100 Baltan Rd., Sumner, Washington, D. C. 20016. Do this before the supply is exhausted: first come, first served.

Notes from the class responding to addresses for "lost" classmates, as well as those thanking me for increasing interest in this column, have been most appreciated.

However, I do not wish to claim undue credit. Our treasurer, Joe MANCI, has burned the midnight oil too in keeping up S H I P M A T E

with receipt of your reunion questionnaires and class dues, and passing to me notes attached thereto. You have been providing most of the news and all I have to do is assemble it. Please keep the communications coming.

Joe reports receipt of 265 responses to 614 letters sent to classmates concerning the 20th reunion representing 43 percent of the class heard from. So as of 1 April, 81 definitely are planning to attend the reunion during 9-10 Oct. 1970, 127 probably will and 57 are not likely or are unable to attend. All not included in these statistics are urged to get questionnaires in right away. Jack BRANSON is making motel-hotel accommodations and party arrangements and will soon put down the necessary deposit for a tentative list of reservations.

Other thoughts being considered are a theme for the reunion, determination of a distinctive apparel device, a class slogan ("Nifty-Fifty"?), and an appropriate class gift (painting, battle trophy?) to the Academy commemorating our 20th anniversary.

Suggestions are most welcome.

In keeping with our policy of acknowledging '69 class dues received, your executive committee would like to thank the following who forwarded their dues this past month with additional years paid as indicated: Jack .Ashley, George Bowen (2), Charles Clark (2). Bill Ely, Bill Fillmore, Leland Halleck, Chuck Howard, Harry Hussman, John McNabney, Bob "Red" Oliver, Jim O'Reilly, Frank Roth (5—who assessed himself, he says, for having missed enclosing his dues with his questionnaire earlier), Bob Schneider, Milt Schultz, Dave Taylor (who says he never received his "The Years Between" ; we'll take care of that, but is there anyone else in the same boat?), and Walt Wagner.

The class fund now stands at $811 with all outstanding memorial chairs having been purchased. Needless to say, unpaid dues are still earnestly solicited.

The Alumni Association would like to know the dates and places of death, and names and addresses of widows of four deceased classmates for whom they are lacking information. Some of you have provided partial information, but any of you who can be specific, please let me know. The four are Ed HOTZ, Cedric P E T E R S O N , Jerry RASSMUSSEN and Bill B. TAYLOR. Attendance at this month's Hogate's luncheon produced a few surprises. Out-of-towners included Ken "J. K." Noble, Dan Mayo, Norm Carpenter, and Harry Hussman with locals John Kirk, Earl Halpern, Marsh Treado, Bob "Re(i" Oliver, Cliff Skinner, and myself.

Dan was down from Baltimore where he is with Westinghouse. Norm and Harry are both at the Naval Weapons Laboratory, Dahlgren, Va., the "country club of the east" according to Norm (typical supply officer chatter). John, quoted in last month's column, was attending his first luncheon after having avoided Washington duty up to now.

J. K., CO Naval Reserve Unit R2, NAS New York City, was here on two weeks active duty with the Naval Intelligence Command. He is the senior publishing analyst with F. Eberstadt and Co., NYC, and president of the Printing and Publishing Industry .Analysts Association; his home address is 45 Edgewood Lane, Bronxville, N. Y. 10708.

Our local gals had a fine luncheon at Velura Highberg's home with Kathy Jessen as co-hostess on 12 March, with some early arrivals for bridge. Attendees included: Jackie Axe, Bela Block, Janet Cunningham, Joyce Dunaway, Dottie Fahland, Janie J U N E ,

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Featherston, Naomi Greenley, Sally Hardy, Thea Kempf, Jo Minnis, Sally Mull, Fran Powell, Elaine Roth, Mary Satre, Elaine Skinner, Ginny Vincent, Lucile Weymouth, Beth Wiseman and Kathy Young. A coffee is planned in May at Lucy Still's home with Lucile Weymouth as co-hostess.

The girls have established a volunteer call committee to bolster attendance and are planning this year's family picnic outing at Sally and Bill HARDY's splendid colonial home at McLean, Va., on 7 Sept. We are most appreciative to the Hardys for hosting what has become a traditional occasion. Last year's picnic was extremely successful in spite of an early thunderstorm. Mark your calendar now.

I think the S C H L A P P I s have moved at least three times since I've been corresponding secretary and Nancy reports their newest address as 6340 Green Valley Circle, # 106, Fox Hills, Culver City, Ca. 90230. Nancy says they are even nearer the L.A. airport than before and welcome calls, phone 6458794. Could it be that they are attracted to noise ?

As mentioned before, some of my renewed meetings with classmates occur under most unusual circumstances. I recently went to a local community center for a meeting concerning summer camp youngsters. About six groups of parents with their youngsters were in attendance, including myself and John M A T H E W S . Up to this time John was a missing person on my list. So now our daughters are going to the same camp! Anyway, John is with the Army Material Command as a GS-15 and his current address is 12425 Sarah Lane, Bowie, Md. 20715.

Removing his name from the missing persons list, LCol. Bob L O F T I S writes that his address is 2125 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, Ca. 90803. He's assigned to the office of the Secretary of the Air Force, Special Projects, at Los Angeles.

From Eleanor Rogers and Dick Powell I learned of a very unfortunate accident which occurred in mid-March. While working on his dryer Wayne S M I T H had a screwdriver bounce back off a spring into his eye resulting in serious injury. Although several operations have been done, the full extent of permanent injury is not yet known. Wayne was CAG-6 now based at Oceana after a recent deployment aboard AMERICA. ^ We're all praying for your best possible recovery, Wayne. Wayne is being relieved by Tom Rogers.

Two of our ambitious wives deserve special commendation. All of us appreciate the fine Lucky Bag that our class has and the effort that went into its preparation. But I've had one problem with it that apparently is shared by others. Since I'm not aware of what part of the country each member of our class is from, I have had some small measure of difficulty finding people in this popular reference book, like not being able to find anyone at all. Jean Wilson has solved this for us and just before she and Bill left

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for Japan, she completed indexing our Lucky Bag and Dottie Fahland has typed it. So, those of you who want to be able to use your Lucky Bag after all these years need only to drop me a card requesting a copy of the six-page Wilson-Fahland index. Thanks, girls, for your contribution to class organization.

Dick T H U R S T O N writes from London, England, to pass on information regarding formerly missing classmate Dan WILLARD, who seems to have run into quite a few people and has been mentioned in previous columns. Dick continues, "Mary and I just returned from a 12-day trip through the Holy Land. We visited Lebanon, Egypt, Israel and Athens, Greece, and hacl a marvelous time. Eleven days of glorious sunshine out of the 12—after London that's quite a change. I recommend the tour and particularly this time of the year. During the regular tourist season the trip would have been impossible in the time allotted."

Thanks for taking the time to write, Dick.

Sally and I envy your frequent trips around the continent, perhaps next year we'll join you.

Bud CALHOUN also contributed to reducing the missing persons list as did Emily Doak. With all this fine support we'll have everybody rounded up. Here are the remaining missing persons for whom midshipman home of records or later sources have resulted in non-delivery of our 20th reunion letter : Ralph BAGLEY, Bill BIRKEL, Frank BONNER, Bob BOWYER, Carl BURN E T T , Guy C H E A T H A M , Charles DAVIDSON, Harrison FRASIER, Bill FRITZ, Tom GEORGE, Erik GUDE, Gil H A I N , Floyd HARRISON, Ken HOGE, Sanford HOLCOMB, Beverly JAKIMER, Hank KILROY, Don LIND, Marv MARTIN, Bill McBROOM, Ambrose McCOY, John OLTERMANN, John PARMER, Jim ROBINSON, Welk ROBBINS, Francis SACONE ( C I R E N C I O N E ) , John SIEG, REV. John SKIEN, Phil W. SMITH, Doug STONE, Harold WALSH, and Bill W U L F T A N G E . I think 32 out of 692 is a record for any class.

From New Mexico State University where he is in the Department of English Keith WILSON sends his regards to everyone.

Keith's address is Box 3E, Las Cruces, N. M. 88001.

North American Rockwell's Atomics International Div. at Canoga Park, Calif., recently named Jacques TREVILLYAN as vice president for operations. He heads a new division which includes the facilities and industrial engineering, material manufacturing, quality and reliability assurance departments ; nuclear materials and waste management, and a program management office for component production. He added a Master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School before joining Atomics International in 1956 as a staff assistant to the chief project manager. During his 12 years with Al his assignments have included serving in key positions on nuclear power projects at Hallam, Neb., and Piqua, Ohio; serving as chief of contracts and proposals and director of various departments including contract administration, marketing research and technology, planning and administration for product operations, and management system and planning. His most recent assignment was as executive assistant to the Al president—management operations. Jacques, his wife Marlene and their four children, Mona Jeanine, Jeffery, Jonathan and Judson, make their home in Northridge, Calif. Congratulations, Jacques, and drop us a line soon.

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With the summer transfers coming up, please keep me advised of your new addresses.

My card file is organized now and various lists are better coordinated. I wish it were computerized, but I'm working on that too.

Next year's alumni Register (1970) will have everyone's latest available address in it, thanks to iny efficient wife and visiting mother. This might be called a cooperative family effort.

Just in time to make the issue is a letter from Willy AYRES, 12 Oama Place, Aiea, Honolulu 96701:: "I have just come from our first monthly luncheon at Pearl Harbor in recent history. I have been here for nine months and have been working on getting the class organized for the last three. Unfortunately I selected Easter week and hit many leaves, visitors in town, etc. Those attending were Curtis Barnette, Carl Dughi, George Halperin, Tom Ledew, Floyd Muck, Dick Shannon, and myself. We are currently planning to try again next month and aim for a coed get-together sometime in May. I am enclosing our current roster of '50 in Pearl.

"The level of activity shown by the class (at least the Washington group) is certainly commendable. We will try to keep moving ourselves and provide some news to you on our activities."

Thanks for your note, Willy, and well done on getting the class together in Hawaii.

Bill's phone number is 462-782 for those who want to touch base with him while passing through Pearl. Bill's roster lists these others in the area besides those already mentioned: Dick Doan, Ray Engle, J. B. Farell, Ron Kelly, Jim Kennedy, Don Miller, Ross Mulford, Al Pride, Dick Satterlee, and families of Tom Bulger and John Greenwood who are in Vietnam.

Lew K E S S L E R reported on his missing roommate Jim KINGSBERG, 1609 Wayne Dr., Brandywine Hills, Westchester, Pa. 19380. Lew indicates he's currently in planning at the Ford Motor Co. and invites classmates to drop by and renew their sailing skills in his boat, "right here at Ford (what else) lake." Lew's address is 1724 Grove Rd., Ypsilanti, Mich. 48197. Thanks, Lew, for your note and again my appreciation to everyone for helping me locate our "missing" classmates.

Sec'y, LCdr. R. Brodie, I I I , USN (Ret.) QATR0I\I Corp.

12000 Old Georgetown Rd. Rockville, Md. 20852

"Whenever two or three shall meet, And old tales are retold . . ."

This is my farewell column. Dixie BILLINGSLEA (LCol. U S A F ) , and the nominating committee are preparing a slate of new class officers for the annual business meeting. Before this column is on the street, that meeting will have been held. Our new secretary will greet us in the July-August issue of Shipmate, li this column is too short, or badly written, take heart.

John T I L L S O N (Cdr. U S N ) recently sent a follow-up note about the memorial service for Gerry YORAN which was held on 7 March at San Diego. The class was represented by John, Will Surman (Cdr. U S N ) from the First Fleet staff, and Sandy Winnefeld (Cdr. U S N ) , CO VS-21.

Seats in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium will be dedicated to both Gerry Yoran and Carl J A F F U R S later this spring.

Twelve classmates turned out for the April meeting. Dixie Billingslea had to double as secretary; Brodie was writing proposals and recruiting people. The prospect of more of 52

the same is the principal reason for bowing out as your secretary. In addition to Dixie, those present were: Donabedian, Dunn, Kitterman, Reardon, Lou Roberts, Rough, Schutz, Stuart, Treadwell, and Truesdell.

On 9 April, a group from the Washington area led by Dixie Billingslea made our fourth annual presentation to the plebe class. Those also present were: Donabedian, Olson, Reardon, Rough, and Truesdell. The group met with RAdm. Fitzgerald and representatives of the class of 1972 in the reception room of Bancroft Hall. They observed the evening meal formation of the brigade and then proceeded to the mess hall for dinner with the midshipmen hosts. After dinner, and when the upperclassmen had left, Dix made a brief speech and presented the savings bond to Midn. Thomas Ruggles, class of '72 president.

The planning of Cdr. William Hunter, the First Battalion Officer and fourth class representative, contributed greatly to a successful evening.

In keeping with the requirements for the award of this gift, the bonds will actually remain in the custody of the Naval Academy Alumni Association until such time as the class of 1972 has established a formal class organization. They are allowed a period of five years subsequent to their graduation in which to take this action. This is the fourth such award that our class has made.

Since this is my last column as class secretary, there is a great temptation to editorialize. Mercifully for you all, however, I will forego this and merely say: It has been both a challenge and a pleasure to make my small contribution to our class.

Sec'y, Cdr. Grady H. Roby, USN Science Department USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402

Al KELLN became Commander Submarine Division 62 on 8 Mar. Al served in the precommissioning crew of the USS SKATE and during her famous Arctic operation. He was the commissioning crew engineer and later the XO of the USS SHARK. Since then he has served on the precommissioning unit of the JOHN C . CALHOUN as XO and chief

engineer in USS ENTERPRISE. While recently CO of RAY he was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Navy Commendation Medal.

Al, Prudence and four children reside in Newport News, Va. Jim LOVELL and Bill Anders flew in to return the special Brigade flag to the Academy after its trip to the moon. Bob TAYLOR came down from Pittsburgh and toured the Academy with family during Easter weekend. Al E N D E R L E called as he passed through Washington looking for maps of the southwest Pacific.

The Naval Academy Junior Swim Club swamped the Quantico Marine Devil Dolphins in the history-making dual swim meet held in the Scott Natatorium on 5 April.

Congratulations to the club and especially to the '52 juniors.

Congratulations to Corky L E N N O X and the Jolly Rogers of VF-84 for capturing the Golden Hook award of Air Wing Seven. In addition Corky was awarded the "World War I Flying Ace" award modeled after "Snoopy," for being the number one pilot in the Air Wing in carrier landing proficiency for the nine-month Med. cruise.

Have you renewed your Alumni Association membersliip?

LCol. Ernest C . Schultz briefs son Ernie on the B-57 C a n b e r r a , the aircraft the colonel flew on many a e r i a l combat missions in Southeast A s i a .

Ernest SCHULTZ received the DFC and 13th Air Medal at Clark AB, Philippines.

He was also honored by the Republic of Vietnam and awarded the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star. He is now attached to Headquarters Thirteenth Air Force as flying safety officer.

The last issue had a few early pictures of the 8 Feb. "Dark Ages" party at the Boiling AFB Officers' Club. Special thanks and "well done" to John HAAREN, the party's organizer. There was an excellent combo, composed of US Marine Corps Band members and a wonderful stand-up buffet.

The Air Force members played host and a good time was shared among classmates and wives. Those attending as best can be determined were: Jack and Joan Beecher, Paul and Peg Blackadar, Bob and Carroll Bowser, Jim and Marge Brickel, Bob and Marilyn Brown, Dick and Marjorie Case, Jim and Gretchen Crews, Bob and Joan Denbigh, Dick and Bobbie Denfeld, George and Sjana Dimon, Jim and Claire D'Orso, Toby and Karia Dykers, Gene and Jane Fames, Bill and Lucille Fisher, Hi and Ann Gurney, John and Wanda Haaren, Frank and Gloria Haggard, John and Janet Hardesty, Harv and Bonnir Hunt, Demps and Marylyn Jackson, Bob and Nancy Jacob, Tom and Nona Keef, Doane and Lois Kiechl and Frank and Suzan Kovarick.

Walk and Barbara Lavimer, Bill and Barbara Laux, George and Virginia Lester, Jim and Peg Link with Mrs. Bill Maxson, Doug and Betty Lockwood, Tom and Mary Lou Luckett, Dick and Jo Lyons, Ron and Agnes Mathis, Art McCullum, Bob and Cornelia McKee, Lou and Helen McMillan, Red Moser, Bill and Betty Moore, Jim and Joan Naugle, Jim Organ, Jack and Jane O'Connell, Tom and Cam Paris, Tom and Carolyn Quinn, Jerry and Jan Rapkin, Bill and Jackie Sayer, Dick and Lois Smith, Red and Lonnie Stein, Lee and June Welsh and Bill and Mary Zobel.

There are hundreds of letters awaiting to be opened by the ballot counting committee, John KUNKAS, Dave S T A P L E and Zug ZASTROW. It is hoped that the letters also contain short notes of interest ready for publication.

With regret I report the death of Raymond L. TACKE on 8 March at Taipei, Formosa.

Pat was the navigator of a C-130 that crashed while landing. Services with full military honors were held on 17 March with interment at Cottonwood, Idaho. To Rita and family, now residing in Cottonwood, we extend our sympathies.

News of the tragedy was received from Paul Gilchrist who attended the services. In Pat's memory the class will dedicate a memorial chair in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

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The class of 1953 in the Newport, R. I., area gathered at the Datum Club for a cocktail party followed by a "shrimp-a-peel" dinner at the Main Club in the fall. Most of those attending are students at the Naval War College. Not all of those in the area for duty were able to attend. Those attending from the Naval War College were R. L. and Delle Brummage, Harry and Chris Bergbauer. Jack and Sue Frost, Walt and Carol Hogan, Jerry and Susan Hayes, Hart and Martha Sebring, Joe and Nancy Tarleton, Peyton and Charles Wise and Bill Robinson and guest. Those attending from other commands were Don and Audre Cannell and Chris Zirps on CruDesLant staff, Ralph and Betty Westmoreland on Destroyer School staff. Ken and Nancy Lee Wright on Officer Candidate School staff" and Logan and Luree Sharrah on Destroyer Development Group Two staff.

With much sadness I announce the death of Cdr. Harry Barnes who was killed in an aircraft accident at Oceana on 28 March. He was executive officer of FleCompRon Four at the time of his death. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on 3 April. We express our heartfelt sjinpathies to his wife Genevieve and their three children.

As promised last month a new proposed set of by-laws have been written and are submitted for your consideration.

The following paragraph is quoted from Article IX, Section 1, of our present by-laws.

"All votes on proposed changes will be sent to the Secretary and must be received within 60 days after the date of publication.

The concurrence of Vi of the responding membership shall be required to amend the By-Laws. The results will be published in the class column."

Gerry Weinstein, our class secretary, requests that your responses be sent t o : Corresponding Secretary, Class of 1953, Naval Science Department, USNA, Armapolis, Md. 21402.

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2. Widows of deceased members of the class shall be considered as Honorary Members of the Association. Honorary Members may not vote or hold office and shall not be liable for assessments or dues.

3. Any person specified above not desiring to be a member of the Association, should so indicate in writing to the Executive Committee.

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PURPOSE 1. The purpose of this Association is to facilitate the orderly administration of the affairs of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1953.

DUTIES OF T H E EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

CONSTITUTION Preface. This constitutes the first revision to the original By-Laws of the Class of 1953, U. S. Naval Academy.

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NAME 1. The new name of this organization shall be, "The Association of the United States Naval Academy Class of 1953."

BY-LAWS OF T H E A S S O C I A T I O N O F T H E UNITED S T A T E S N A V A L ACADEMY CLASS O F 1953

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 1. The Association shall be administered by an Executive Committee consisting of four Regular Members, a Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. They shall be selected from among those Regular Mernbers residing in the Washington area (within 50 miles of the District of Columbia) and shall serve for a term of one year although they may serve successive terms if so elected.

Election of officers will be held approximately annually at a meeting convened by the committee. Nominations will be received from those Regular Members in attendance whereafter each of these Regular Members will submit a ballot indicating his choice for each officer post under consideration. A majority of votes will be required for election. Nominations and the composition of officers should in general, but not necessarily, reflect representation by Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and civilian components of the class. Original class officers when serving or residing in the Washington area may meet regularly with the Executive Committee where they will act in an advisory capacity. In addition they may be elected to an office on the Executive Committee in accordance with the procedures specified in these articles.

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1. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to act on all class business which the Association may desire or direct.

2. The Executive Committee shall meet at least once each six months, and at such other times as the Chairman may direct. A quorum will consist of at least three members.

3. The Executive Committee shall be empowered to act in behalf of the Association in the planning, programming and execution of those projects of Class-wide interest.

4. The Executive Committee may appoint such committees as may be necessary to further the mission of the Association.

5. The Executive Committee shall plan and conduct those class functions taking place in the Washington area.

6. The Secretary of the Executive Committee shall be responsible for all correspondence of the Association and shall keep minutes of all Executive Committee meetings. In so far as practical, he will maintain a list of the home address and/or duty station of each member. He will be responsible for the monthly articles in Shipmate magazine, and will be custodian of the Class Scrapbook. He shall maintain a permanent address as follows Secretary, Class of 1953 U S N . \ Alumni House Annapolis, Maryland 21401 7. The Treasurer of the Executive Committee shall be responsible for the custody of the Class funds. He shall make expenditures when directed by the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and shall submit a financial statement annually and upon relief to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will cause these reports to be published in the April issue of Shipmate magazine.

A R T I C L E VI ASSOCIATION F I N A N C E The initial Association Financial assets will be established by transfer of the assets presently in the Class funds. The assets of the Association will be divided into two funds, the USNA Class of 1953 Operation Fund and The USNA Class of 1953 Sayings Fund. The purpose of this division is to provide the Executive Committee with sufficient readily available funds that may be used to conduct routine Association business in behalf of the Class, but to retain the bulk of Association funds in an interest accruing non-speculative investment.

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1 1. The USN.4 Class of 1953 Operating Fund. This fund will be used to finance the routine administration of the Association.

The Chairman of the Executive Committee will be responsible for the control of this fund, and will direct the Treasurer to make the necessary expenditures.

A. The operating fund will initially be established at $300 and will be replenished to that amount from the savings fund whenever the operating fund falls below $100.

B. In behalf of the Class of 1953, any Regular Member of the Association may purchase flowers or appropriate remembrance for a deceased classmate and will be reimbursed by the Executive Committee. Each such expenditure should not exceed $50. If time permits, before making such expenditure, a member should attempt to contact and inform a member of the Executive Committee. Coordination with classmates in the same geographic area should be made in order to avoid duplicate representation.

C. Routine expenditures are those which defray the cost of such items as printing and mailing expenses, and purchase of memorial floral arrangements and other tributes.

D. Obligations shall not be incurred in excess of available funds.

2. The U S N A Class of 1953 Savings Fund. All monies not held in the operating fund will be deposited in the savings fund.

Unless otherwise approved by the Association, these funds shall be deposited in a Federally-insured interest-accruing account.

A. Funds may be transferred from the savings fund to the operating fund in accordance with lA. above.

B. Any other utilization of all or a portion of the savings fund, other than cited in A. above, must be with the approval of % of the Regular Members attending a meeting convened by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will be responsible for notifying each Regular Member, registered in the Washington area, of the time, place, and subject of such meeting, this notification to be in writing and mailed to such members in order that they may reasonably be expected to have received notification at least ten days in advance of the meeting.

3. Assessments. Every effort will be made to maintain workable class funds based on the voluntary contributions of all the members of the Association. However, the Executive Committee may assess the Association membership, if necessary.

4. Expenditures will be authorized only for those purposes which will be of benefit to or in behalf of the entire Association. The Chairman and the Treasurer of the Executive Committee shall be authorized to withdraw funds and will be bonded.

5. In the event of dissolution of the Association, and unless otherwise provided for by amendments to these By-Laws, the USNA Class of 1953 Funds shall be transferred to the Treasurer of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association.

ARTICLE VII ELECTION, P E T I T I O N A N D REFERENDUM 1. Election of Members of the Executive Committee will be as follows: A. Elections to each of the four posts on the Executive Committee shall be held annually and shall be from among those Regular Members expected to be stationed and/or residing in the Washington area during the forthcoming year.

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B. A meeting to receive nominations and hold elections will be convened by the Executive Committee in the same manner as that specified in Article VI, paragraph 2B. C. Officers of the Executive Committee will be selected on the basis of those receiving the majority of votes cast by Regular Members attending the meeting. Proxy votes will not be accepted.

D. In the event that a post is vacated prior to the completion of the term of office, the Executive Committee will designate a Regular Member to fill that post until regular elections are held.

2. P E T I T I O N S and R E F E R E N D U M S .

Petition for action signed by at least ten members may be submitted to the Executive Committee via the Secretary. These petitions, referendums or other proposals of the Executive Committee will then be submitted for Class membership referendum via the Shipmate column or other means available.

3. VOTING A. Each Regular Member of the Association is entitled to one vote.

B. Voting shall be by mail only, except as provided in Article IV, paragraph 1.

C. Voting by proxy is prohibited.

D. Votes shall be counted at a time specified by the Chairman of the Executive Committee in the presence of at least two members of that Committee.

E. Petitions, Referendums, and Proposals other than those specifically provided for in Article VI, paragraph 2B, shall be decided by the majority of the votes cast. The close of voting shall be 60 days following the date of notification and will be specified in writing in the Petition, Referendum, or Proposal.

F. The results of an issue being voted upon will be published in Shipmate magazine.

4. Matters can be submitted to the vote of the Association only by the Executive Committee.

ARTICLE VIII AMENDMENTS Amendments to or revision of these ByLaws may be proposed by petition and approved by referendum as provided for in Article VII. If approved, an amendment will become effective no later than 90 days after the close of voting.

Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Thomas J. Lawson 3140 Anchorage Dr., RFD 3 Annapolis, Md. 21403

A letter from Joe F. ANDERSON arriving the night of the deadline for the last issue of the column provided a luxury for me to have some material so far in advance. However, I know how frustrating it must be for Joe to take the time and effort to send in material and not see it in print for so long.

The March issue of Shipmate has an explanation for the deadtime in the beginning of the class dope section for those interested.

You can also find at the beginning of that section each month the deadline date for the class sec'y to submit his material. So, if you can plan to get the material to him a few days before that, you will have the shortest delay until the news hits the street. Joe tried to do all this but made one fatal mistake.

He didn't allow for the speed of the U. S. postal service. Enough editorial comment, on to Joe's letter: "On a recent visit to the Cape Kennedy area I spent a most enjoyable evening with Mike and Marty S T R O O P in their lovely home. Mike is now with Bendix Corp. in the

space program and was at the time of my visit very deeply involved in the preparations for the Apollo Nine launch. Mike's brother is now a iirstie at Navy.

"Bud

Foster, CO USS LAFAYETTE, was

also a guest of the Stroops and we enjoyed swapping news of classmates each other had seen since my last visit when, strangely enough. Bud was also present as he and I were in opposite crews in ETH.\N ALLEN." The U S S SUNFISH, the second nuclearpowered submarine built in Massachusetts, was placed in commission on 15 March at the Quincy Division of the General Dynamics Corp. RAdm. William C. Hushing, USN, Commander of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, accepted the submarine for the Navy Department and placed the ship in commission.

Dick T H O M P S O N is serving as the submarine's first CO. Good sailing, Dick.

Maj.

Jerry P. Holman, USAF '54, awarded the Silver Star Medal.

Cited for saving the lives of five fellow airmen during an extremely dangerous recovery operation in Southeast Asia, Jerry HOLMAN was decorated with the Silver Star at Eglin A F B , Fla., by Gen. William W. Momyer, Commander of the Tactical Air Command ( T A C ) . Jerry was awarded one of the highest U. S. decorations for gallantry in combat for risking his life in a severely damaged helicopter to rescue his flight leader and surviving crewmen. He unhesitatingly hovered his crippled chopper as a vulnerable target for the enemy until the survivors were hoisted to safety. Previously assigned at Nakhon Phanon Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, Jerry now flies UH-IF Iroquois helicopters for a T A C combat crew training squadron. Congratulations, Jerry.

That's all the news that has flowed this way in the last month. All USMC types might note that this is the second month in a row that there has been no column from Ed T I P S H U S . Have you sent him any news lately? His address is DPP-31, H&S Co., H&S Bn., 3rd Force Serv. Regt., FPO San Francisco 96602.

Sec'y, Cdr. Ray Hine, USN 6203 Tyner St. Springfield, Va. 22150 Corr, Sec'y, Cdr. Tom Potter, USN Candidate Guidance Officer USNA, Annapolis, Md. 21402

A N N A P O L I S SCENE Bill A N D E R S and fellow astronaut Jim Lovell '52 received a hero's welcome at noon meal at the Academy on 4 April. The two astronauts, who made history in the Apollo 8 flight last December, returned to present to the brigade a "borrowed" blue and gold brigade flag which accompanied them on their lunar mission.

The miniature flag was a veteran of three space flights and a deep submergence ocean trip and was accepted by the brigade commander from Jim Lovell who made the presentation.

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Bill and Jim received a sedan chair ride throughout the mess hall while the brigade cheered and applauded.

SCHOOL DIRECTORY

W A S H I N G T O N AREA (Ray reports) The Washington-Annapolis chapter of the class met in !March for lunch at the Officers' Club located at Arlington Hall Annex. It was the best turnout in quite some time, if Preparation for not ever.

WEST POINT-ANNAPOLIS The turnout of 54 classmates, almost reachAIR FORCE ACADEMY ing that fine number of 55, was a tribute to COAST GUARD ACADEMY Host Bob COULTER who made the arMERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY rangements and sent out the invitations.

Hopefully the 15 April luncheon will be Removed from distractions of large city. Strict as successful. Host Jim GREGO and his discipline. Summer course prepares for Civil loyal band have been making the phone calls Service Designation Examination notifying classmates in the area of the date High success rate. Low cost. and place. As a reminder, all classmates MILLARD SCHOOL arriving in the Washington area are urged to Box N, Bandon, Oregon 97411 contact class secretary Ray H I N E (4515966) so they can be placed on the local roster for notification of Washington-Annapolis chapter functions. Ray maintains a complete list of all those in the chapter and last count the breakdown was as follows: Known number in the Washington-Annapohs area is 111. Civilian, 2 5 ; Military, 86; 'The Service-Academy Prep" Est. 1909. Intensive, individualized preparaUSAF, 16; USMC, 7 ; U S N , 63; CHC, !â&#x20AC;˘; tion for West Point, Annapolis, Air Force SC, 5, and CEC, 5. and Coast Guard Academies and all civilian colleges. How-to-study training. ConcentraAt a recent Dark Ages party on 22 March, tion on greatest needs. Continual testing and hosted by Dan and Kerry B U T T E R F I E L D review. Outstanding record of successful graduates. Special "cram" courses begin in in their Silver Spring home, a total of 24 January and February. Summer School June classmates made their presence known. and July. Fall term begins September. For full information, write: How many could walk the next morning COLUMBIAN PREPARATORY SCHOOL after several hours of limbo and bamboo Registrar, 1811 Biltmore St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 stick games that evening can only be guessed, but I understand the Pentagon conditioningroom has received increased attention since that evening. Notwithstanding the following morning's pains, the evening was delightful and a fitting beginning to a new spring season. Present were: Kerry and Dan Butterfield, Ann and Jerry Nay, Marion and Otto Zipf, Judy and Dave Stembel, Mary and Gordie Hamley, Margaret and Bob Binish, Nancy and Paul Abernathy, Renie and Tony ^FORMERLY GEORGIA MiUTARY AGADEMYJ Dopozo, Joan and Ed Ogden, Audrey and Emphasizing the art and skills of "thinking Tiger Wilson, Judy and Ray Hine, Ann and things through," Woodward Academy is one of the Wes Saunders, Margie and Denny Sullivan, leading preparatory schools in the Southeast.

Small classes and a select faculty assure each Dorothy and George Martin, Shelia Burke, student of personal and professional attention. date of Wally Christmas, Naomi and Len Woodward welcomes boarding boys, grades Duffy, Sally and Bill McSwain, Bumpsy 6-12, and boarding girls, grades 9-12. $4,500,000 and Ace Davis, Betsy and John Thune, Jean plant, new chapel, indoor pool. Open to qualified and Chuck Gray, Eleanore and Bob Emery, applicants as shown by personal interview and Sandy and Ted Hyman, and Lena and Stan potential.

Kuplinski.

MILLARD SCHOOL

COLUMBIAN

WOODWARD ACADEMY

At a recent dinner party at the home of Judy and Ray H I N E , 20th Company classmates gathered to reminisce about Dusty Roads, Mother Bancroft and Pierre RICH. The suspense as to the whereabouts of Lucky Pierre was too much, so early morning phone calls were made and that notorious but favorite classmate was finally contacted at Winter Haven, Fla. It's difficult to believe that the great lover whom the world awaited upon graduation is now securely married, a reliability engineer and also the father of three. How time marches on!

This is the season for moves and more moves. The Washington area is just as acutely affected as other areas of the country.

As of this writing, the following known classmates of the Washington-Annapolis chapter await orders: Otto Z I P F departs in May with his family for the U S S HOLLAND,

which is homeported in Spain. H e hopes to have a leisurely vacation en route to the ship.

Ace D A V I S has already sold his home and departs early June for Iceland for Joint Staff and Supply Department Head duty.

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For iniormation and catalog, please write: Capt. W. R. Brewster, Jr. '42, Woodward Academy, Box 87190-Q, CoIJege Park, Georgia 30337.

'55 reunion of the 20th Company at the home of Judy and Ray Hine, Sitting left to right: Ace and Marguerite Davis, Eleanore Emery, Mary Hamley and Len Duffy. Standing: Gordie Hamley, Judy Hine, Ann Nay, Bob Emery, Jerry Nay, Naomi DufFy. Unable to attend were Tom and Patsy Lapham. The Duffys were delightful 23rd Company intruders.

The entire family of Bumpsy and four children is going, except the poor family dog which seems to be breaking Ace's heart.

Bob P I R I E leaves in June for New London and command of SKATE. We all wish Bob

the best of luck and hope that he has better luck with ship's plumbing, than that in his Springfield home.

Wes SAUNDERS leaves in April/May for U S S DELTA on the west coast. Ann will remain in the area until approximately November.

Hugh W E B S T E R departed in March and took command of the U S S SOMERS in San

Diego sometime during April. Hugh joins that select group of 55 classmates who now command missile ships: Ted P A R K E R and Hank MUSTIN. FAR AND W I D E Congratulations to Roy F R E E M A N who received the USAF Commendation Medal at Vandenburg AFB earlier this year. Roy, a major in the USAF, was decorated for meritorious service as a research and development director.

Sec'y, LCdr. Edward A. Seclirest, USN P. 0. Box 1926, Annapolis, Md. 21402

That time of year is here again when many '56ers will be changing their surroundings including yours truly. I expect to relieve the weapons officer in USS BOSTON during the latter part of August. Someone will be picking up the sack as class secretary and present intentions are to give the job to someone in the immediate Washington area.

More classmates will be ordered to the Washington area in the future and few will be located at Annapolis, therefore you will probably see the base of operations for the entire executive committee shift to D. C. In this same vein, consideration is being given to shifting our after-the-game festivities at homecoming to a place nearer Washington or more centrally located to the many Washington suburbs, for example Andrews Air Force Base. This may encourage more to attend (wives will not have as long a distance to drive husbands home!).

Carl NELSON, Roger LYLE and Dick TARBUCK are trying to get the Washington chapter active again. Anyone in the area should contact one of these three. Although Carl will be leaving for War College soon, someone will carry the ball for him.

Memorial chairs in the stadium, donated by the class for Bill COOK and Dave LLOYD, will be dedicated to their memory during June Week. Details concerning location will be published in the next column.

This is the first plea to mail your ballots on the proposed amendments to the class constitution as soon as possible. Also your comments on the class prize to the graduating class are earnestly solicited by the executive committee.

Pete B E N N E T T finally found the right girl! He was married to the former Miss Nancy Bailey on 12 Feb. and Charlie and Elina Vanry were on hand for the happy event. The newlyweds will be at Long Beach until August when Pete departs for Korea and duty with the JSUNC. Rod F L A N N E R Y was very much in evidence at a party hosted by the Bennetts. Pete's bride and family are friends of Link and Terry MOSSUP. Link is still with Barrett & Co. in Providence, R. I., and wrote to me in March that he is interested in obtaining a class ring miniature. Dan GARGES gave me a call 55

also concerning miniatures and I hope that by the time this column is published some arrangement will have been made with one of the jewelers concerned.

Bob FRANCIS, who received the Air Medal for air action in Southeast Asia, is assigned to P A F and flies transports out of Tan Son Nhut.

Maj. Bob L. Francis, USAF, awarded the Air Medal.

This may be my last column. I will be in the area during the summer to complete a second Master's degree and to attend Missile School in Dam Neck but the task of writing to you about you will probably belong to somebody else. It has been a pleasant and enjoyable task and please forgive the shortcomings. The next guy needs your letters too, so keep writing.

Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Richard N. Leahy P. 0 . Box 8 8 5 , Benjamin Franlilin Station Washington, D. C. 20044

Joy of joys—after a barren spring, your executive secretary has received some "news notes" from the far flung members of '57.

By the time this is printed and distributed, our second class election for national officers will have been completed and the ballots tabulated. If you did not receive a ballot— please send in your current address to the class PO Box As of 10 April, we had received 375 ballots. Deadline was established as 1 May—I expect to have received some 400 ballots by tabulation time. The ballots will have been tabulated by Clifi^ ELEY and George DEMPSEY—with moral support and free beer from your executive secretary. Requests for recounts will not be considered— nor will the transcript of the afternoon's activities be published. Next election—1973.

HERE AND THERE Last month, I made a business trip to the great southwest and visited with several classmates: in Fort Worth, Tex., I was privileged to catch on the ground Orrie H I E T T (10), who is currently head of corporate flight operations for General Dynamics (otherwise known as company pilot). After a sumptuous Texas style meal in Orrie's ranch pad—I listened in rapt awe to the exploits of America's newest corporate flying ace—who can now get even with me by stopping in on his frequent trips to DC. In Memphis, Tenn., I had a very pleasant lunch with Chuck M A H O N E Y (04) who is now a priest and is heading an experimental project to test methods by which the Church can be of service and be more responsive to the needs of the ghetto (otherwise known as the inner city).

In St. Louis, Mo., I had about 15 minutes between planes and found Art S P R I N G (10) in his office buried behind the restaurant in the Air Terminal. A little heavier (aren't we al!) and jovial as ever. Art heads the Host Int'l food service operation for St. Louis.

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Milt BANK (21) writes: "My naval career came to a screeching halt last year when it was discovered that I was diabetic.

I was retired last August and settled in .Atlanta where I'm pursuing a Doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech." From Dave COLLINS (11), "The first thing that I do when I receive Shipmate is to thumb quickly to the '57 column to see what's going on—it upsets me to find no news—and also embarrasses me as I have not made an effort to contribute. My current billet is CO, Research Operations Det— USNS VAI.DEZ. This follows a four-year tour in Edzell, Scotland. At this writing my ship is in Monrovia, Liberia, after a leisurely trip down the east coast of South America and a visit to Recife, Brazil, for 'carnival.'

Nancy and our six children reside in Philadelphia and we anticipate returning to DC for my next duty station."

Gary L O W E (24) notes that he will not be able to assist on 1 May in tabulating the election results as he is now in WesPac in the U S S

SwENSON.

Bob SARACCO (10) now sparkplugging New London social affairs reported a February luncheon attended by Dave Cooper (13) ; Pete Didier (18); Dick Emmett ( 1 4 ) ; Dick Enkeboll (01) ; Bob Foss (03) ; Al Hawk (16) ; John Holt (14) ; Wendy Lueker (01) ; Larry Magner (22) ; Jim Murphy (01); Jim O'Connell ( 0 1 ) ; Jim Pitney (08); Bob Saracco (10); and Dick Scales (18).

From Norfolk we hear Barbara and Ray STOETZER (04) had a '57 get-together at the shipyard attended by Harry and Marna Yockey (01) ; Bill and Pat Truxall (04) ; Clay and Fran Parnell (22) ; Joe and Susie Neary (21) ; Gil and Kay Livingston (22) ; Urb Lamay (01) and Bruce and Pauline Bennington (09).

Recent Press Releases: Congratulations to Duane G R E E N H O E (24) who has been awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with combat "V" for meritorious performance of duty while executive officer of USS BLUEBACK. "Maj. John B. TILLMAN (12) was awarded his second A F Commendation Medal in ceremonies at Maxwell AFB. He was cited for meritorious service while assigned to the Math Department US Air Force Academy." LCdr. Jerome J. BARCZAK (05) has been awarded the Navy Commendation Medal at ceremonies conducted at NAD Hawthorne Nevada.

LCdr. Barczak's citation reads: "for meritorious achievement while serving as resident officer-in-charge of construction LMorn Thailand from 1 Dec. 1967 to 1 Oct. 1968 incident to construction of urgently required facilities for support of US.AF and Army missions."

LCdr. Jerome J. Borczok, (CEC) USN, awarded the Navy Commendation Medal. Left to right: Mrs. Mary Ann Borczok, LCdr. Borczak, now PWO at NAD Hawthorne, Nev., and Copt. W. D. Baker, USN, CO, NAD Hawthorne, Nev.

Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. John D. Rohrbough, USN Superintendent's Office USNA Annapolis, IVId. 21402

I regret to inform the class of the loss of two of our classmates. Peter "Rip" KIRBY was killed in an auto accident 11 March in Marlboro, Mass. He is survived by his wife Judy, two sons and his mother, Mrs. Zelma M. Kirby. Judy's address is 89 Pine Hill Rd., Ashland, Ma. 01721. He is interred at Gettysburg, Pa. LCdr. Carl J. P E T E R S O N , USN, was killed in Vietnam on a river patrol boat by rocket shrapnel 2 April. At this writing, his father, Capt. Carl A. Peterson, USN (Ret.) '29, requested classmate honorary pallbearers to be present at the interment in Arlington National Cemetery. The address of Carl's father is: Maplebrook Rd., Rt. 1, Tuxedo Park, N. Y. I know I speak for the class in expressing our deepest sympathy to the families of both departed classmates.

John P O T T E R reports that he and Judy Wandel (John's widow) will be married in June as soon as she graduates from Mary Washington. John is in school at Stanford.

They will honeymoon in Scotland and return to the States in the late summer. Congratulations, Judy and John!

Donald Wayne J O N E S has been named manager of program coordination in the corporate communications department of Xerox Corp. He joined Xerox in 1967 as a projects coordinator. He, his wife and two children live at 15 Winhurst Dr., Brighton, a suburb of Rochester.

Mike McLANE writes, "The Sixth Company attempted a reunion on 15 March but things just didn't work out. Jack Hoel flew up from Norfolk, but family illness kept him at home. Clyde Morris had the same problems. Frank Caldwell was at sea and didn't make it back in time. Chet Grocki and Mike McLane, and wives, did show up and had a very nice evening, but wished that the others could have joined them. We plan to try again sometime in the summer or fall. Any other Sixth Company people in the area give Frank or Clyde a call about September.

"Here is a little background on this group.

Frank is attached to the Submarine School and living in Navy housing. Clyde is working at Electric Boat Company in the Ship Supe's office. Jack is attending Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, but his family is remaining in the New London area pending his completion. Mike is the XO in the THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Blue), and has been

in the area only about six months. Chet is working for Monsanto Chemical and lives in Avon, Conn., but gets down to the Sub Base fairly often with his Reserve Unit.

"That's it from the New London area for now. I'm getting ready for a patrol and will be out of touch for a while."

An Air Force news release reports, "U. S. Air Force Capt. Lewis F. Todd has been decorated with his second award of the Distinguished Flying Cross and 10 awards of the Air Medal at Norton AFB, Calif.

"Capt. Todd, a navigator, was awarded the DFC for heroism while participating in aerial flight in Southeast Asia. On 23 Oct. 1967 he discovered a convoy of hostile vehicles. Despite intense and accurate antiaircraft artillery fire, he made repeated passes supplying flare light and forward air control for numerous jet aircraft. His efforts resulted in the destruction of the convoy of eight hostile vehicles and four 37mm antiaircraft artillery positions.

"Capt. Todd received the Air Medals for his outstanding airmanship and courage on S H I P M A T E

Capt. Lewis F. Todd, USAF, receives second award of the Distinguished Flying Cross and 10 Air Medals.

successful and important missions under hazardous conditions. He now holds 11 Air Medals.

"He is now assigned at the Space and Missile Systems Organization as a systems program manager."

Glen and Jeanie L E R U M stopped by Annapolis recently. Glen, out of the Air Force, is now flying with American Airlines out of Chicago. They and their two children looked excellent; we enjoyed seeing them for the first time since graduation.

At this juncture I introduce Bill SCHRAMM as my relief as corresponding secretary and class editor for Shipmate. His address is: LCdr. William G. Schramm, USN, Naval Science Department, U. S. Naval Academy, Aimapolis, Md. 21402.

I have enjoyed the associations the job has brought me and I am sure Bill will share the same wonderful experiences I have had during my tenure. Welcome to those monthly deadlines, Bill!—^John D. Rohrbough.

Corr. Secretaries: Mr. Albert T. Mays, Mr. Harry C. Ketts, 111 P. 0. Box 1692 Annapolis, Md. 21404

IN MEMORIAM It is with regret that we report the death of Ernest J. E H L E R S in an aircraft accident on 3 April. We send our condolences to Joanne and her four children. W e are grieved by the loss of a fine friend and classmate.

HERE AND T H E R E This month the mailbag was anything but empty (happily) ! Carl K E S K E brings news from Hawaii: "A group of '59ers stationed and visiting the Pearl Harbor area got together for a good time at the Tripler Hospital Officers' Club on 28 Feb. The following were there: Tom and Nancy Bond, Dave and Joan Boyd, Joe Brantuas, Lou and Rosalee Evans, Jim and Jeanne Grise, Bill and Roberta Honadle, Karl and Kathy Keay, Carl and Carol Keske, George and Jane Lehmberg, Tom Long, Angus and Penny Macdonald, Jike and Jan Maynard, Frank and Jeanne Meredith, Joe and Dianne Mitchell, Bob and Lucy Morgan, Al and Susie Ovrom, Dick and Peg Pagnillo, John and Janice Pechauer, Ron and Lynn Render, John and Susan Sullivan, Ed and Joy Veazey, Larry and Rusty Vogt, Toby and Marion Warson, Vern and Sandy Young.

"Ron Doyle, Wayne Rickman, Gene Morgan, Lee Cutler, Phil Powers, Karl Moellmer, John Patten, Larry Scott, Marty Hanson, Bill McGowen, Gary Wheatley, Mike Commons and Joe Bell were unable to attend due to other commitments and unfortuJ U N E ,

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nately missed Angus Macdonald's umbrella dance and Pechauer's rain dance. Bob and Carol Starck are en route to Pearl and hope to attend our next reunion which is planned for the summer, most likely in August."

And from Ed VEAZEY the following on his status : "I'm Nav/Ops in the U S S GRANT. My wife Joy, the two boys, two girls and I are planning to move to Bremerton, Wash., in the fall when the GRANT goes in for overhaul." Ed sent a slide of the party at Tripler Hospital Officers' Club, but the printing is taking a bit longer than anticipated and we'll have to wait for the next issue to print it.

Sam LIGON writes that he can now be contacted via the U. S. Naval PG School in Monterey, vice Washington, D. C. From Dave SEARS the following letter: "After 39 months in destroyers ( U S S MURRAY) I went to Submarine School and nuclear training. This was followed by 18 months in USS BARB. During this time our class was ready to take over the 594 class submarines in the Pacific; Tom Hassler and Bob Bovey were shipmates of mine in BARB. After BARB I spent 2?/2 years as new construction engineer in HADDOCK, most of the time at Pascagoula, Miss. I am now almost through with my first patrol as executive officer in USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER (Blue). I mar-

ried the former Cathy Neos on 1 Sept. 1962; some classmates may remember her from our dating at the Academy. We have a boy and two girls.

"Haydon Leon, who was a shipmate in HADDOCK,

is now

engineer in

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BOONE in Pearl. Joe (H. D.) Mitchell and Carl Keske were also in Pascagoula in TAtJTOG. Joe was engineer and Carl was operations and navigator. I saw Ing Kiland in Norfolk in December, and had a nice lunch with him in the Admirals mess. Ing is on ComSubLant staff. If Ing's lunches are always like that I certainly envy him. H. D. (Dusty) Rhodes and Mikey Garverick are both in the SAM HOUSTON (Gold) at New London. Dusty is weapons officer and Mikey is navigator.

"I hear off and on from my roommates— Ray Yenchko has not been seen since he 'borrowed' a jet in Florida in 1962 to attend my wedding in Penna. He showed up in flight suit at my bride's house 30 minutes before the wedding looking for a place to change.

Now out of the Navy, he is flying for an airline, living in Florida, and raising a fine

Jim and Audrey Kelley

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family. Cliff Rose is still the terror of the unattached women from Hong Kong to Japan. When last heard from he was on ComSubFlot Seven staff, but should be in receipt of orders by now. I lived next door to Wayne Hildebrand at Mare Island last spring; he is now at Halifax, N. S., as assistant attache."

And from the Guy CURTISes: "Guy reported to the U S S STURGEON, at Groton, last May. Having spent three years at N P T U sea duty was a welcome relief for him. He is thoroughly enjoying being Nav/Ops and likes the SSN operations. We have purchased a home in Gales Ferry and have extra bedrooms for any classmates passing through.

Elizabeth, our only child, will start kindergarten in the fall but meanwhile is happy in nursery school. We understand that E. L. (Bear) Bryan and his wife Susan are still residing at Greenville, S. C , with their two children."

Also received a letter from Ron BOSTICK, now residing at Philadelphia, Pa., with his class dues attached. Thanks, Ron, as we can sure use the money.

From Bailey YEAGER the following note: "Sorry I won't be able to make the '59ers '69 affairs but I'm presently stationed at Subic Bay. Mary Lou and the boys have been here since Sept. '68 and are enjoying it.

I have the freight terminal department at the Supply Depot. See a few of the class when they pass through—Hank Mauz, CO PRIME; Roger Erickson, SO GRAFFIAS; Bob Logie, flying from RANGER; Chuck Schanerman, in a sub, and Mike Brown, XO in a DD." Steve SNYDER reports: "I am now XO of U S S HAROLD J. ELLISON. When we're

not in the Med, as we are now, we're homeported at Norfolk where Nancy and the kids are holding down the fort. ELLISON left Norfolk on 6 Jan. Since getting into the Med we have visited Naples, Istanbul and Athens.

The only other '59er I've run into here has been Jim Langemo who is the meteorologist in FORRESTAL. Terry Camilleri, who lives just dovm the street from us at Norfolk, has just arrived in the Med in SHARK, but we haven't crossed paths yet."

Also heard from John M E E H A N of Glenview, III., and we're looking forward to seeing him and his wife at homecoming. John McCABE, from Wilbraham, Mass., is also looking forward to being in Annapolis for homecoming and the tenth reunion with the class.

The pictures are of J. P. and Mary FORD, Dave and Joyce CLAUTICE, Bob and Mary Jo H A R M U T H , and Jim and Audrey KELLEY during the festivities at our ninth homecoming celebration.

HOMECOMING An open letter from the executive committee: This year marks our tenth anniversary.

Recognition of this milestone will be centered around Homecoming 1969. Specific details of the class of 1959 tenth reunion are contained in our letter to the class which was mailed in April. To restate some of the highlights: 1. Homecoming 1969 is the weekend of 25 Oct. 2. 35 rooms have been reserved at the Holiday Inn, Glen Burnie, for the class. Cost of the rooms is $14 per couple per night. Make checks payable to the "Association of the Class of 1959." Rooms will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis.

3. Saturday night's gala dinner-dance will be held in the main ballroom of the Bay Ridge Inn (seating capacity 300 plus). Cost for 57

the dinner-dance and surprise package will be $25.

We are working long and hard to make this Homecoming a most memorable occasion.

CONGRATULATIONS From Richmond, V a . : Hugh S N I V E L Y has been appointed automation projects manager at Robertshaw Controls Co. Congratulations, Hugh.

Hugh

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LCdr. Daniel C .

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Dan RICHARDSON has been selected for inclusion in the 1969 edition of "Outstanding Young Men of America." Dan is presently conducting research involving air flow around various shapes, while studying at the U. S. Naval PG School, Monterey.

Congratulations from all of us, Dan. R I S E A N D S H I N E W I T H '59.

Sec'y, Mr. Chico Chavez P.O. Box 7009, Austin, Tx. 78712

From Austin Turning to class affairs, as has already been announced in the previous Shipmate, our classmates in the Washington/Annapolis area have organized themselves as a chapter of the class, and have elected area officers.

Lest this step be misinterpreted, I want to make it clear to all members of the class (Henry L A W I N S K Y and Mike MIDAS concur with me on this) that the establishment of the Washington/Annapolis chapter will in no way affect the existing class organization ; it will, in fact, function as a part of the class, with the area officers coming under the direct authority of the class officers. As far as the area input to our column in Shipmate, Jim DIMSDALE, the area secretary, has already been instructed that space will be allocated in our column for them under the subtitle "Washington/Annapolis Area" and that he may, if he wishes, submit the local news to Shipmate directly.

It has occurred to me that perhaps some of the other areas, where a large concentration of our classmates are located—such as at Monterey, San Diego, Norfolk, etc.— might want to follow the Washington/Annapolis area example. That would be one way of sprucing up our organization, which would enable us to conduct our class affairs more effectively.

Sorry to report that no headway has been made with regards to the class charter proposal—but then again, there's no real urgency—we have operated pretty well without one all these years. I will, however, keep the class posted on the latest developments on this matter.

Washington-Annapolis Area HOMECOMING—Preliminary arrangements have been made to hold the class aftergame party at the Annapolis Roads Country Club. Arrangements include a multi-course 58

buffet and a three-piece band. This is one of the choice locations for class parties in the Annapolis area and should be worth attending. The price is estimated at $20 per couple. More details will be provided as the final arrangements are completed.

Jim DUFFY's wife Carol gave birth to an 8 lb. 14 oz. boy on 29 March; the new arrival has been named Brian John. Jim, who has two other children Kevin, age 8 and Ellen, age 5, has orders to VS-24 in Norfolk, which is the same squadron he was with prior to his assignment to USNA. David P. G A U T H I E R received the instructor of the year award while serving with VT-24 Training Squadron, Chase Field NAB, Beeville, Tex. David has recently been transferred to Miramar NAB, San Diego.

Dick EBER will finish postgraduate school at Stanford in June and hopes to get duty in the Washington, D. C , area. Dick's present address is 331 Lexington Dr., Menlo Park, Ca. 94025.

Joe SESTRIC has orders to the National

City, Woodbridge, Va. 22191, which is about 30 miles south of D. C. Larry mentions that those classmates who chose the light blue are in the secondary zone for major in '69 and will be in the primary zone in '70. Jack MATTIACE, who lives a block from Larry, is a major USMC and assigned to the Inspector General's Office. Jim McCUNE, also in Dale City, is assigned to the R&D Procurement Shop of Office of Aerospace Research. Others in the area, reports Larry, are Mike McMillan, at Hq U S A F and living near Mt. Vernon; Bob O'Neil, USMC, working at Marine Corps Annex; Don Evans, USMC, also working at the MC Annex and living near Fort Belvoir.

American Airlines has Charles W. DUKE flying as flight officer after recently completing American's training at Fort Worth.

Charlie, Joan and two children Charles and Bradley will make their home in the Chicago area.

Sari LIEBLER, a management consultant with a large international firm in the New War College from the U S S COCHRANE, which is homeported in Honolulu. The COCH- York area, says with some modesty that his RANE has recently been involved in the Apollo rank as manager is somewhat akin to the recoveries. Joe writes that he has seen the rank of captain in the flag selection zone. following classmates: Lew Powell, Al Mur- Sari's work consists of serving as a corporate ray, Bob Tague, Bud Pegett and Eddie doctor. With a team or alone he leads in the Kelukoa, who is working for Matson Lines diagnosis of corporate sickness and in implementing a cure. Sari and Jane with children and lives in Kaiser Village.

Eric and Elizabeth recently moved into their Mike and Marge S H A N O K announce the first home in Briarcliff Manor; this town birth of their first son Jerold Robert on 17 is on the Hudson and just south of Ossining, Feb.; young Mr. Shanok weighs in at 8 lbs. N. Y. 7 ozs. The Shanoks have two other chilSari sees Archie S P E N C E R almost every dren, Judy, age 5, and Cindy, age 2}^, and live at 107 Exeter Rd., Hamden, Conn. Mike day; Archie is with Manufacturers Hanover works for Farrel Company, spending most Bank. John MORRIS and his wife Brenda live in Rockaway where John is with First of his time on commercial airlines.

National City Bank; John and Brenda recently welcomed their first—a son. Sari has seen Ben GERSON in N. Y. while Ben was Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 532 Harton Circle learning the brokerage business from E. K. Virginia Beach, Va. 23452 Hutton Co.; Ben is in D. C. now. Jack From Madison, W i s . : Jim GLOUDE- McQUADE, with IBM, resides with his MANS is engaged in studies for a Ph.D. family on Long Island.

Joe H A N S O N proposes that the class in the nuclear field. After various destroyer duties. Nuclear Power School, and division sponsor the 22nd Company wardroom. It's a fine idea as those of you who read Shipmate officer in ENTERPRISE, Jim resigned in Aug. '67. Jim and Joyce, who have four children, thoroughly recognize the need for classes to James Robert II, David Michael, Elizabeth continue the sponsoring of company wardrooms. However, prior to sponsoring anyAnn, and John Thomas, live at 5421 Dahlem Dr., Madison, Wi. 53705. The Gloudemans thing, it would be necessary for our class to would love to hear some "Navyese" if you adopt a means by which we could secure a continuing source of funds. At the present are traveling that way.

Dick KIBBE, who is flying with Delta time the class cannot afford to sponsor anyAirlines as second officer, and Marcella have thing.

Joe recently saw Kevin GROWNEY at a daughter Kathryn Ames, and make their the Navy League Symposium at the Sheraton home in Houston.

Park Hotel in D. C. 25-27 Feb. Kevin was Daniel KNIGHT, studying for his Master's degree in meteorology at PG School, working on the Naval Supply Systems ComMonterey, was recently awarded the Bronze mand display while Joe was working on the Sikorsky Aircraft exhibit.

Star for service with Commander, Coastal With the U. S. Navy Recovery Force for Division 13 at Cat Lo, Vietnam. Congratulations from '61. Dan, wife Annette and family the Apollo 9 Space Mission a letter was written by Bob SHAW, supply officer in reside at La Mesa Village.

U S S ALGOL as it was steaming in the vicinity Larry COX was stationed at White Sands of the Canary Islands. Classmates that Bob Missile Range, N. M., from Aug. '64 to has seen recently: Ben ALLEN, who was Dec. '68 working on the Air Force ops officer in U S S BARRY when Bob saw him A T H E N A Program as the project officer in in Gitmo last fall. During the same Gitmo charge of Real Time Ground Guidance Sys- visit, Bob missed seeing Joe MATALAtems. A T H E N A is an R&D test vehicle VAGE who is attached to the Naval Station used to test re-entry vehicles. It is launched Supply Department. After last year's Armyfrom Green River, Utah, and impacts 500 Navy game Bob saw Tom W H I T E , the miles downrange at White Sands, thus mak- Ed STRAWS, the Doug FALCONERs, ing it the longest overland launch in the and the Archie SPENCERs. Tom is pracU. S. Larry says that it is most interesting. ticing law; Ed is stationed at the Aviation Supply Office, Phila.; Doug is working at Presently Larry works in the Office of Aerospace Research in sounding rocket and s p e c , Mechanicsburg; and Archie is in high altitude balloon programs. The Coxes New York. In the Norfolk area Bob has and their three boys Chris 7, Mike Syi, and seen Curt and Mary Alice NORFLEET Stephen ZVi, live at 3803 Corona Lane, Dale and Frank V I S I T E D . Curt was at CIC S H I P M A T E

School in Glynco, Ga., and reported to U S S a tour in Vietnam with an independent ComSubLant howitzer battery about five miles outside staff, and Ellie are next door neighbors to of Da Nang; it's a part of the 1st Marine Pat and Helen T A F T at Virginia Beach.

Division. Nancy adds that Don MILLER During a recent visit to D. C. Bob visited went over with Jud while his wife Brenda is briefly with Larry LUBBS and Ned staying at Fort Worth, Tex. The career WOLFE, both are stationed in BuPers. Via paths of the Millers and Sages have crossed the phone. Bob learned that T. P . MAN- frequently including tours in France and GerNING is enjoying his "tour" with T W A ; many. Before leaving for Vietnam, Don was Tom and Bridget are making their home in awarded the Joint Services Commendation Sparta, N. J. Bill B R A T T E N relinquished Award. Jud writes that Tom DRAUDE is his hold on bachelorhood and married at San back in Vietnam as an advisor near Saigon Antonio on 14 Feb. Bill and bride Gail are and Ken U P D E G R O V E is near Da Nang both finishing up their postgraduate work at at the 3rd M A F Headquarters. The Sage Trinity College in San Antonio. Bob's chat family includes two boys and a girl. Nancy with Al H O L I F I E L D revealed that he and loves Germany and is presently teaching at Mugs, enjoying shore duty at New London, one of the American elementary schools at are residing in the country on a farm near Heidelberg. An avid golfer, Jud has broken par a couple of times and Nancy has also Gales Ferry. taken up the sport. The Sages would like If anyone is visiting the scenic Marble to hear from Craig S T R A T T O N .

Moimtain Air Field area in Vietnam and desires a good cold beer and a handy bunker, A I R FORCE Arnie SWARTZ will be glad to provide.

My old prep school classmate Jim ROBArnie is presently on his third overseas deE R T S received his Master's degree from ployment with the Marines since graduation second tour in Vietnam. During his first tour Pittsburgh last December and his wife gave to VN, Arnie flew H-34s helicopters, and birth to their second daughter the same now H-53s with HMH-463. In May '64 a month. Jim is presently the commander of an Georgia Peach charmed Arnie into settling Air Force TAC manpower and management down and now the couple has a 3j^-year-old engineering detachment at Pope AFB, Fort Bragg, N. C. daughter Lisa. Arnie has seen only Carl BLEDSOE recently and he is flying OV-lOs ARMY out of Quang Tri. A welcomed letter from Jim HOLBROOK, ". . . So many things have happened since Sec'y, Lt. Hovrard S. Pinskey, (SO USNR-R I bilged out in '61, I'll just give it to you in c/o W. R. Grace & Co. Clarksville, Md. 21029 chronological order. While at USNA I was Annapolis Corr. in the 16th and later the 2nd Company.

Lt. John C. Eller, USN Engineering Dept., USNA "In June '61, I married Elaine Worman, Annapolis, Md. 21402 my childhood sweetheart and steady drag at Promotions : Congratulations to the follow- the Academy. In July '61 I enlisted in the ing nuclear submarine officers who were re- Army and went to Monterey to study Ruscently spot promoted to the rank of lieuten- sian. We spent 20 months there, in which time we were visited by Bob Burns and John ant commander. This is mostly a result of up-grading engineering officer billets from Hitchcock and later attended Larry Rank's lieutenant to lieutenant commander. The wedding at San Jose.

"Our next assignment was Frankfurt, Gerofficers include Bob Majeski, Emery Reisteter, Charles Arnest, Dick Riddell, Tom many, and later Berlin. In 1964 we returned Yeatts, Dick Lee, Ed Little, and Dick Plath. to Fort Meade, Md., where we stayed until June '65. At that time the Army sent me MONTEREY full time to American University at WashSince graduation Don G R I F F I N has had ington, D. C , where I finished my BA assignments with DD-498, Submarine School, and got my MA in Russian. In June '67, SS-398, Destroyer School and destroyer upon completion of my work at the University, I was given a direct promotion from duty in the San Diego Kong Beach area.

Now stationed at Monterey working towards SSgt. to 1/Lt. After a brief T D Y stay at his Master's degree in operations analysis, Fort Devens, Mass., I went to Vietnam.

Don is enjoying his first tour of shore duty. While in Mass. I took the opportunity to He was married on 18 Sept. 1965 with visit the parents of other classmates Joe Rossi and Bill Ise. RAdm. Kelly ( C H C ) officiating.

"In Vietnam I was promoted to captain The '62 contingent at P G is quite active; new arrivals include Andy Hesser, Ernie and worked first at II Field Force HeadPerkins, Chuck Koeber, Mike Sullivan, Dave quarters. I then took command of an intelligence detachment with the 199th Light InfanHoffman and Pete McWhite. try Brigade. While in Vietnam I received two Bronze Stars. A few days before I left, MARINE CORPS A picture of Ray MADONNA and his I chanced to meet Larry Rank again in Saigon. H e is due to return from there late bride, the former Maureen Rae Chittick of Hawaii, on the society page of the Washing- this summer. ton Evening Star, accompanied the announce"I returned to be stationed at the Pentagon. ment of their marriage on 29 March at the My wife and our boy 5 and girl 3 reside Academy Chapel. Ray's best man was Tom at: 1450 N. Beauregard St., Alexandria, Va. Draude who came from Quantico for the 22311; tel. 931-1263. I started work on my wedding; other '62ers who served as ushers Ph.D. at Georgetown University and may were Jeff Nelson, head usher, John Kelly, soon be assigned to West Point as a Russian Rich Henley, John Ripley and Steve Todd. instructor.

After a short stay at San Juan, and liv"That's it. Sure do enjoy reading about the ing in Annapolis until June, Ray will return other classmates in Shipmate." to Vietnam for a second tour and Maureen will live in Hawaii. Congratulations to you H E R E A N D T H E R E both. Ray was the last of the three remainCathy Claypool writes, "Al became a ing Annapolis bachelors to marry. civilian on 1 June 1967 and on 3 June he Nancy Sage, Jud's wife, and the children entered the University of Michigan Law are living in Germany while Jud is serving School. His last duty was with Destroyer AMERICA in May. Frank, on

JUNE,

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Squadron 362 as operations officer, stationed out of Norfolk, Va. "Since then, he has been plowing through criminal law, civil procedure, tax, estate planning, business transactions, etc. In Sept.

1967 we had an addition to the family, Lisa Elizabeth, who has added spirit to our student life.

"Al will graduate with his Juris Doctorate degree in August. He is also planning to take the Michigan bar exam in Aug. He's been on the accelerated law school program â&#x20AC;&#x201D;meaning that it will have taken him 2'/3 years instead of the usual 3 years for law school. Al has been going to classes all year round since 1967. He'll be joining the law firm of Foster, Campbell, Lindemere & McGurrin in Lansing, Michigan, on 1 Sept.

"Al joined the Navy Reserve in 1968.

He's presently CO of the Ann Arbor Unit.

"Perhaps this will help in letting friends know what he has been doing since his active Navy years. I promise he will keep in touch more often after his graduation. As for now, I'm performing his corresponding duties."

Thanks, Cathy.

Madeline Trax writes that she and Lindsay are living at Succasunna, N. J., where he is flying commercially for Eastern Airlines.

After leaving the Navy last year and VT-1, Lindsay entered training and upon completion was domiciled in New York. The many pilots living in their area are mostly exmilitary. News of other classmates flying commercially included Dale W I N D H A M working for T W A out of New York. Dusty R H O D E S is now flying for National and he and Nancy are living in Miami; they recently visited with the SAPPs and LOCHERs in the sunshine state. Western Airlines has its share of '62ers including Marty Farber, Dick Luker, and Dave Bourland. Out in the San Francisco area flying for Pan Am are Bill Cliff and Larry Senn. Madeline continues that Tim and Alice T H O M A S S E Y are living in Meridian, Miss., where Tim is a jet instructor.

Tom and Wendy BRANDONS just added their first son to their roll call; Tom, who is at Key West, plans to become a civilian this summer.

Bob and Peggy KUNTZ are living in Allentown, Pa., where Bob is district manager for the Income Planning Corp. at Allentown.

Bob GUYON is an industrial engineer with Eastman Kodak at Rochester. He and Jeri have had a home built nearby and recently added their third child and first daughter to the family.

NAVY L I N E Jim BEWICK, an instructor in A S W at the Fleet Sonar School in Key West, is enjoying his first shore duty. After graduation he married and then went to Hawaii and DD-S77 as the CIC officer; his wife Muriel gave birth to their first child in Hawaii.

His tours included: Destroyer School; weapons officer

in U S S H. J. THOMAS out of

San Diego; staff of ComDesDiv 72; and a WestPac cruise with the return to the states via Australia and Samoa so he is now a qualified Shellback. Their son Kenneth was born in 1965. Jim says the training at Key West is an excellent stepping stone for an XO's billet.

The Bewicks say the golf, fishing and weather are great in the southern-most point in ConUS and invite any classmates to stop in for some socializing. Also in the Key West area is Tom UBER who recently reported aboard a sub.

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SUBMARINES Pete S U S H K A went to Sub School and then U S S GROUPER, followed by duty at Dam Neck and weapons SSBN Officer School. H e made six patrols in U S S JAMES MADISON before reporting to his present duty station, Charleston, S. C , as assistant FBM weapons director at the GBM Submarine Training Center.

Taking advantage of shore duty, Pete is working towards his Master's degree in math. In late March he relieved as the FBM weapons director at FBMSubTraCom. Pete says '62 has the F B M submarine training program locked up since Jeff SEARCY has the billet at Pearl Harbor and Charlie C R E I G H T O N and Rog K A N E hold the billets at New London. Supporting these men is Al H U G H E S at the special projects desk at Washington. At sea duty in early April were Ed BARKER, U S S SAM RAYBURN, and Vic MEYER, U S S LEWIS AND CLARK.

Al MORE, who married in 1968, is engineer aboard U S S SHARK.

Pete continues that Dick L I F E is serving at the Pentagon in an intelligence billet and Bob FOYLE, out of the Navy, is back in school at Calif. Bob S T I L L W E L L and Marshall MAGRUDER are working toward their Master's at Monterey. John W H I T E is now CO U S S PAGE COUNTY, an

L S T on a Vietnam cruise. At Groton, Larry GHIRARDI is aboard U S S TIGROVE and Dick R I D D E L L is aboard U S S JOHN MARSHALL.

Incidentally, Pete, who enjoys playing the field, is still a bachelor (a vanishing breed, I say). _ The increase in correspondence is appreciated; it's a good sign and I do hope it continues. A questionnaire requesting important and pertinent data regarding status, billet, family, schooling, etc., is being prepared and will be mailed to you. These statistics will be compiled for the general information of the class. The questionnaire will be out shortly before Homecoming '69.

ANNAPOLIS AREA Several classmates will be departing the Aimapolis area this summer due to perennial summer rotation. John KELLY has received orders as CO of SNOHOMISH COUNTY, home-

ported in Guam, thus increasing the number of '62ers who have had or presently have command. The 15th Company wardroom will be looking forward to your ship's plaque, John. Several submariners, all presently company officers, due for rotation are John C L E A T E R will be going to GURNARD in San Diego; Ernie F I S C H E R to KAMEHAMEHA in Pearl Harbor, and John B U T L E R to GEORGE BANCROFT in New London. Others

who will be transferred but have not yet received definite orders are Pete McCAMMON, Ray MADONNA, and Jeff NELSON. We wish these classmates smooth sailing and good fortune in their new assignments.

Mike C O R N F O R T H has received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from Iowa State University. We congratulate you on this achievement, Mike.

Homecoming 1969: The executive committee has again reserved a banquet room in The Barn Restaurant located in Glen Burnie for Saturday night of homecoming weekend.

Homecoming this year will be 25 Oct. The football team tangles with Virginia and will no doubt be looking for some measure of revenge after last year's defeat. A cocktail party followed by dinner and dancing to a swinging band will highlight the festivities of Saturday night. Details of homecoming 60

weekend will be forwarded to each classmate this summer and more information will appear in the next issue of Shipmate.

That's it for this month. Keep in touch with '62.

Corpus Christi area where Dick is an instructor in VT-31; Woodie Jr. and Valerie Paige are helping to fill up the home Dick and Dee bought near the base. Buzzy and Cecilia BARLOW and daughter Katrina vvere in the Corpus Christi area for a brief visit with Cecilia's family. Buzzy leaves for Sec'y, L t . I . H. Sargent, USN WestPac the end of March.

Executive Dept., Pete and Marty W A T E R S are in R. I. USNA, Annapolis, M d . 21402 Pete just left VS-31 and is now serving oii ANNAPOLIS the staff there before getting out of the The representation of the class of '63 Navy; they have two children, Peter D. Jr. present at USNA was recently strength- and Kristen. Bud and Joey MUSITANO ened by the arrival of T. A. (Tony) WOM- lived in Quonset and Bud is now an instrucBLE and his wife Virginia. Tony, completing tor in VT-5 at Pensacola; Bud and Joey a tour in RVN attached to the Naval Advis- have a son Bruce ( 5 ) . ory Group, is now assigned to the Candidate Quantico: L. J. ( L u ) SCHUMACHER, Guidance Office. H e and Virginia have pur- having been an instructor at Marine Corps chased a house in the area and are preparing Basic School for almost two years, is now for three years in Annapolis recruiting for attending Amphibious Warfare School. After the Boat School. five months at A W S he expects to go back H. P. (Harry) SALMON has received for one more tour in Southeast Asia before his orders for transfer during the coming reporting to U S N P G S at Monterey. Lu and Marjorie have a son, Ludwig Jr., and two summer. Harry will be leaving his present billet as flag lieutenant and Aide to the daughters, Deborah and Christine. Additional Superintendent for the job of engineer of the members of the class at Basic School at this time are Dave MUNGER and Bernie USS SKATE in New London.

CONATSER. Continuing with a previous effort to give Jacksonville: March 11 produced another some publicity to members of the class presently residing in the Annapolis area the fol- Dennis for the world. J. A. (Jake) and Anne D E N N I S announced the birth of J. A. lowing is provided: III. Congratulations!

Another sterling member of the Executive Suspicions Confirmed: Another accurate Department, riding herd on the 16th Company, is L. E. (Larry) LINN. Larry and prediction by your secretary-in-action. C. L. (Lew) BLACKWELL, following precisely Dottie arrived at USNA in April 1968 from Quonset, R. I. While in Quonset Larry was my estimate of last month, is planning an flying S2's for VS-28 attached to the WASP. August wedding. Although the date is not Larry and Dottie have three daughters: firm as of this writing, the place (San FranNancy, Cheryl and Stacy, the latter's cisco) and the bride-to-be (Lynne Randall) recent arrival was reported in a previous are. Needless to say, those of us who knew issue of Shipmate. As indicated in the last young Lew certainly wish them well. issue, Larry heads up the social committee of the local chapter of the class organization CLASS M E M B E R S H I P and is presently working up a party for memThe receipt of class dues is slowing down, bers in the area, to be held about the time if you missed the earlier opportunity please this issue goes to press. don't be afraid to submit your dues late.

Over in the Naval Science Department The next issues of Shipmate will contain our class is well represented on the manage- current lists of members in good standingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; ment committee in the person of K. R. (Ken) don't be left off the list.

BUELL. Ken and Mary, with daughter Suzy (5) and son Rick (2) expect to be in Annapolis for one more year. Ken reported to Sec'y, L t . James S. Baumstark, USN USNA from VX-6 via R.P.I. While attached Executive Dept., USNA, Annapolis, M d . 21402 to VX-6, Ken flew support missions for April 15th concluded the drive for info Operation Deep Freeze and otherwise generally aviated around at that end of the for the Directory and other questions includworld. A year studying at R.P.I, earned Ken ed in the December newsletter. Some 850 a Master's degree in financial management newsletters were mailed out in early December ; approximately 600 replies were received. and prepared him for his present duties.

Considering the number of changes of adThere are more but I hope all concerned dress that had occurred in some cases, I will pardon me if I save a few for future feel this response was excellent. The results issues. At the present rate of my receiving of the voting on the questions proposed are: outside assistance I have to keep at least a 1. Class Secretary vote (4 highest totals) couple of items in reserve so that we don't end up with a blank on some future date. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;BAUMSTARK, 238; P I N N E Y , 99; SHUMWAY, 5 1 ; ARNY, 46.

CORPUS C H R I S T I 2. I do desire Tom SWARTZ to remain Many thinks to Chris Himchak for the fol- as president of '64. 356 voted for/181 voted against. lowing information about Bill and herself and other classmates they've encountered.

3. I do not feel '64 should undertake a In October Bill checked into VT-31 in Cor- special memorial to Jim Roberts. 221 voted pus Christi, and after weeks of school he got for/310 voted against (general consensus on his first two students. Chris says, "this isn't this question was that the memorial should be heaven, but it sure beats a sea duty tour!" for all our fallen classmates and not just They lived in Quonset Point, R. I., for three one). years, where Bill was in VS-22. Cathleen 4. I do wish our class to contribute to the (3) and William A. I l l (Billy-17 mos.)

Alumni Computer Fund. 462 voted for/63 were born while at Quonset, R. I. voted against.

Spencer J O H N S O N is now serving aboard Although these numbers do not consistthe USS PERRY and is in the Orient. Accord- ently total somewhere in the vicinity of 600, ing to Chris, Spence was going to Destroyer it is to be noted that a number of classmates School at Newport while they were at Quon- did not vote on all of the issues. As your set. Dick and Dee M I S T E R are also in the newly elected secretary, I will attempt to do S H I P M A T E

my best to carry on the spirit of '64. Tom SWARTZ called from Hawaii last week and asked me to convey his gratitude for your continued support. On to new's of the classâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Baby announcements were received from the following new parents: Carol and Glenn RUSSELL, their second son Kevin Terrell born 3 April in Monterey where Glenn is a student at PG School. Sandy and Hal ANDERSON, a daughter Hilary Jane born 3 April in Newport News where Hal is serving aboard

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DRUCIS, a daughter Dana Elaine born 14 Feb. in Puerto Rico where Tim is a supply type at the Roosevelt Roads Naval Station.

Peg and Dick CURLEY, a son Charles Kemp born on 10 Jan. in Monterey where Dick is a student. Valerie and Bob STOUGHTON, a daughter Sara Elizabeth born in Florida on 18 Feb.; Bob is with VT-3 at Whiting Field. Pam and Dave TUMA, a son Jon Stewart born in Portsmouth in February; Dave is on the commissioning crew of the GRAYLING. Ann and Rick DAU, their third son Brian Thomas born 10 March in Idaho Falls, Id., where Rick is an instructor at the land-based nuclear prototype. Marge and Will WALDRON, a daughter Sharon Elizabeth born 31 March in San Diego where Will is engineer aboard a DD. Judy and John T E N BROOK, a son John Douglas born in March in Annapolis where John is 10th Company officer at the Naval Academy.

Dave Tuma, in writing of the birth of Jon Stewart Tuma, related some '64 news in the Portsmouth area. With Dave aboard GR.WLING are Gregg CRANSTON, Eric CARLSON, and John MARSHALL. John recently married the former Jeanie Gillespie of Huntington Beach, Calif. John had heard from Jack CREMIN who is aide to Com 7th x^ir Force. Jay EGGERS is also exiled on Com 7th Air Force staff, serving as a naval advisor for Com 7th Fleet at Tan Son Nhut. Dave had also seen Larry LOVIG who is working on his Master's degree at Harvard Business School.

Service academy exchange weekends are still a big thing 2/c year. As a company officer, the viewpoint is a little bit different.

Pat, my wife, and I made it up to the Coast Guard Academy in March and while in the New London area got together with Joyce and Gary ZECH and Carol and Bob DAVENPORT. The Zechs have two girls Donna 4 and Debbie 2, while the Davenports have 2 boys Ricky 3 and Brian 2. Gary is AWeps in PATRICK H E N R Y ; Bob is Squad-

ron 2 communicator. Charlie J E T T , still a bachelor, recently arrived in the New London area and is now in the Advanced Tactics Department at Sub School. Charlie had just come from the RAY, a boat recently distinguished by being awarded both the Presidential Unit Citation and the Navy Unit Commendation, a rare feat for any nuclear sub. Pete MORGAN is also on the staff at Sub School, serving as an instructor in an R P S custodian course. Jim O U N S WORTH is serving with Gary in PATRICK HENRY; he is presently M P A . Dave MARTIN is aboard W I L L ROGERS. Dave and wife Carolyn have two sons Scott 2j4 and John \V2. Austin K O E N E N and Keith W A L D RUP are both in the New London area in SKATE.

John W A T K I N S wrote from Jacksonville where he is instructing in VA-44, the A-6 RAG. John just completed a tour with VA-66 which included a Med deployment in '67 aboard the AMERICA and a SE Asia JUNE

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cruise aboard the INTREPID in '68. Also in VA-66 was Bill LIFSEY, who is now at Lemoore with VA-125. Aboard INTREPID with John were Dick W I L S O N in VA-106 (now also at VA-44), Strom E V A N S in VAW-121, Joe SATRAPA, and Mac J O H N S T O N . John reported that Nick M A R K O F F was in the J a x area undergoing RAG training in VA-174 (A-7's). Nick completed a tour in VC-8 at Roosevelt Roads prior to reporting to Cecil Field. Jay F I N N E Y is also in VA-174, serving as an instructor. Joe F R E N Z E L had recently checked in VA-44 as a replacement pilot following a Med cruise as cat officer aboard the INDEPENDENCE. John had also seen Rich GIBSON in the Jax area. Rich was bound for Kingsville, Tex., and instructor duty following a Med deployment in VA-64. John, wife Jacqueline, and son John Jr. live in the Jax area (7442 Tintern Cove) and invite any classmates in or passing thru the area to stop in and say hello.

Chuck and Elaine GATES wrote from Charleston where Chuck is communicator aboard SIMON BOLIVAR (Gold). Dick K E Y SER is serving aboard the Blue crew of the BOLIVAR. The Gates have two girls; the latest, Jennifer Lynn, was born last August.

George L E O N A R D is at Penn State where he is a nav/ops instructor attached to the N R O T C unit. George and his wife were in the Annapolis area in mid-April for the wedding of Jack MUMAW. Jack married the former Lillian Beach of Annapolis and was with George in VP-6. Jack is now in VP-31, the west coast RAG. George also wrote that Bill GLEASON is a grad student at Penn State and that Dick BOWERS is a freshman N R O T C instructor at Marquette.

Dick S H A P A C K and B. J. H A Y N E S , both serving in SAM RAYBURN, are both bound in the near future for Harvard Business School. Dick is going this summer (and getting married on the way) ; B. J. follows next year. Serving with Dick in the RAYBURN (Blue) are Charlie MOORE and Bernie MAGUIRE. Joe SAUL wrote from the Med where he was deployed as engineer in HOLDER. Joe had been in HOLDER for over two years and was expecting orders to P G School this summer.

At one time there were three members of '64 on board; Joe, Dick CURLEY as Ops (Dick is now at Monterey) and Jerry J U L I A N as 1st Lt. (Jerry's now in the BEVERLY W . R E I D ) . Joe had seen Vince

CANALE in Souda Bay, Crete, serving as SupOff on ComFAir Med staff. Bruce W O O D R U F F is on ComCruDesLant staff in the maintenance area following a tour aboard the JULIUS FURER on which he served as a member of the commissioning crew and then as engineer. A 1400 ( E D O ) selectee, Bruce was expecting orders to the Marine Engineering program at M I T in June. With his wife Ellen, Bruce was spending March weekends househunting in Boston. Bruce had recently seen George PALMGREN who had just relieved Murray K A U F M A N as engineer of ZELLARS.

Shel ZANE wrote from Da Nang where he was S-3 (operations) of NMCB Five.

With him was Joe RUDY who was Alpha Company Commander. Shel left SE Asia in April for Hq NavFacEngCom in Washington after two years with NMCB 5.

Hank S C H M A U S S is serving as flag It./aide to the Commander of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station following a tour as weapons officer aboard the LEONARD MASON. The MASON was Yokosuka-based half the

time Hank was on board and he found his job as gun boss both challenging and enjoyable during sessions down on the gun line and while participating in operations such as Seadragon. Much to his chagrin, however.

Hank had to leave his wife Peggy behind during the year in Yokosuka and also during the initial months of his present assignment (there is apparently quite a wait for housing at Gitmo). At any rate, Hank reports that things should be pretty well settled by June and anyone passing thru the area is more than welcome to stop by.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anders, the parents of Bob, have sent a note to the class, part of which is quoted below: "Mrs. Anders and I want to say 'Thank you' to the class for the beautiful spray of flowers. . . . Bob was our only living child and as such, the loss to us was, and is exceedingly great. The sense of loyalty and honor instilled in those who graduate from the Academy is unsurpassed in any other branch of the service. Our son is gone, but we are fiercely proud to have been numbered among those belonging to the family."

Dan CONNELL, presently 27th Company officer at the Academy, takes over this summer as flag lt./aide to RAdm. J. F. Calvert, Superintendent of the Naval Academy. Bob BOLGER is weapons officer aboard the BLUE, a Long Beach FRAM II DD. Ed LOSURE, presently in the Engineering Department aboard PLUNGER, is expecting orders from Pearl to the east coast this summer. Denny H O F F M A N recently departed PLUNGER for duty in San Francisco on the staff of ComSubSanFran. See you in the July-August issue.

Sec'y, Lt. Richard P. Genet, USN USS BLUE (DD-744) FPO San Francisco 96601

A number of the troops will be returning from Vietnam this month. Jim F R E E M A N has completed a tour at Saigon as a supply officer for MacV Sog and is headed for the Navy Development Training Center, San Diego. Jim will be living in Coronado and plans to spend some time coaching the local high school football team. If you're in Diego and looking for a golf partnerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;^look up Jim. Jim FOLEY is returning to Bayonne, N. J., for leave after a tour in Saigon with OICC. Dave RICHARDSON is also winding up an in-country tour.

From the Mekong Delta region Jeff L E W I S reports that he'll be leaving Helo Attack Squadron 3 after a one-year tour there, and will be reporting to HS-2 in San Diego after a 6-month training period. Ray SANDERS, Capt. USA, is the 3rd Battalion Adjutant for the 47th Infantry based at Dong Tam, and is also homeward bound. Wayne ALLEN, another shortimer, is a naval intelligence liaison officer at Vinh Long.

Chuck F E H R S is at Binh Thuy working for C T F 116. Dave SECREST is based at Saigon but spends much of his time in the Delta.

Tony J O H N S was married in London on 25 Jan. and now speaks with a British accent! Can you believe Rome, Ga., to a British accent?

Pat D O N N E L L Y is home-based at Hawaii, but his present CEC job (as a con.sulting engineer for Navy construction jobs in the Pacific) takes him to the Philippines, Taiwan, Okinawa, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Dick S M I T H sent the pic of the VP-28 '65ers. Dick just qualified as a patrol plane 61

^^ commander in P-3's and is also the squadron's ass't personnel and public affairs officer. Doug BAYLESS has had some back problems and is going to an air intelligence billet. John O W E N S has just checked in to the squadron from the training command.

Bob SNELLING, who has also just arrived, was in a Mayport D D before going into flight training.

Sec'y, Lt. (Jg) Robert G. Johnson, Jr. Public Affairs Office NSA Saigon Code 03 Box SOB FPO San Francisco, Ca. 96626

After several days T A D in Pearl Harbor I arrived in-country on 15 April. I am now the Public Affairs and Protocol officer for the Naval Support Activity which is located in the green pastures just south of Saigon.

Bob and Suzanne W I T T E N B E R G announced the arrival on 16 Feb. of young Jeffery Robert at 5 lbs. and 12 ozs. Bob says that although he is small, he'll be fast and we can use him in the backfield. Bob's address is 2575 20th N.E., Oak Harbor, Wa. 98277.

Pat HALEY, who attended the Academy with our class, is a navigator for the Marine Corps and is attached to VMCJ-2 at Cherry Point, N. C. While at Cherry Point, one of his collateral duties has been keeper Left to right: Doug Bayless, John Owens, of the squadron mascot, a huge playboy Bob Snelling and Dick Smith. buruiy.

At New Orleans, Jim ANGEL has landFrom Napoli, all the latest Med scoop ed a fine job in public relations with the thanks to Tom H O W E L L . Tom is fuels Louisiana and Southern Life Insurance Comofficer on ComServForSixthFlt staff homepany. He is their mass marketing represenported at Naples. Forest H O R T O N , weap- tative. Jim and his wife Lou are living just ons officer in ELLISON, was recently married outside New Orleans in Metairie, La. Jim's to the former Miss Janet Palkovic on 27 business address is 225 Baronne St., New Dec. at Quonset Pt., R. I. Tom Young and Orleans 70112. Mouse VORWALD's wife, Bob Halsey were in the wedding party. Jim Rae, stopped by in February while Mouse CARTER is the chief engineer in O'HARE. was deployed; he's back now and is stationed Ed F I C K E N S C H E R , a recent DesTech in Seattle, Wa. Mardi Gras was quite a grad, is the ops boss in FOREST SHERMAN. scene, according to Jim. Richie "Brownman" Ray MOORE is the chief engineer in P U T - H U L S E flew from Quonset and had a few NAM. on Bourbon St. Pat and Barbara CARROLL Doyle W I N T E R S and his wife, the form- stopped by for a weekend while Pat is at er Miss Karen Gittings of Severna Park, Meridian for jet training. Over at Pensacola recently had a second honeymoon at Hong are Steve and Dawn SHRAWDER. Steve Kong. Doyle is deployed to WestPac and is going through helo training at Ellison is flying jets.

Field.

Bart J E A L O U S returned from Vietnam Rob C R E N S H A W just got back from a last October after completing an in-country WestPac cruise in April. He met his wife tour flying H-34s. H e is presently with his Sheila in Tokyo for an R&R in mid-January. wife Deb at Pensacola as a member of VT-1, Dick BARCHI is now in Baltimore atinstructing in the T-34. tending Johns Hopkins Univ. His address Tom YOUNG represents the class at the is 5726 Northwood Dr., Baltimore 21212.

U. S. Naval Facility at Bermuda. (Three Dick and Joan just announced the arrival paragraphs from him raved about Bermudaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; of Daniel James on 19 Feb. Scotty REDD wish I could join vou, Tom.) Tom expects stopped by the Barchis' on his way to to go to Des'Tech in June. Bermuda visitors DesTech. have included Dave A N D E R S O N , who was Frank BRYANT is XO of the U S S E N in HARDER and on the way to a S S B N ; and DEAVOR which is in the yards in Baltimore.

Jerry H E R R I C K and Bill W I L L I A M S who Frank's address is 520 Beach Dr., Annapare flying with VP-16. Jim O'HANLON (SKIPJACK) and Supply Officer Bill STA- olis 21403. Frank and Karen have been back W I T Z were also in the area. Les H E S S E L - to school several times this year. They welTON, Ed E N T E R L I N E , Chris PILGER, come any '66ers in the area to stop by for and Al W E I S are also stationed in Bermuda a couple of beers. flying with VP-8.

Back on the east coast Kevin McCook Received a newspaper clipping from Rick just returned from a 19-month tour in VietB R U S H ' S wedding, the picture from which nam. He is headed for shore duty in Athens as an instructor at the Supply School. unfortunately cannot be reproduced. Rick was married to the former Miss Kim Blow Here in Nha Be where the Naval Support in an 8 March ceremony at Coconut Grove. Activity is located, I've run into quite a few Rick has returned to Qui Nhon to complete of our classmates. Oak S H A N N O N is with his tour in Swifts. a Riv Div of PBRs and has seen quite a lot Charlie and Susie MORRISON announce of action in his first five months. Scott Beachy has been in-country for about three the birth of their "new commanding officer," Matthew Macdonald, born on 10 April in months and at this writing has just returned from several months of duty in Operation the Naval Hospital, Annapolis. Matt weighed in at 8 lbs. 10 oz. Grandparents are Slingshot. Also over here is Frank Duserick.

Pierce CRABTREE is a NILO_ and has former Navy wrestling coach Ray Swartz and Mrs. Swartz, and Capt. C. H. Morrison been in and out of here several times. Jay P R O U T just returned from a five-month Jr., U S N (Ret.) '38 and Mrs. Morrison.

Great-grandparents include Commo. R. S. deployment in support of the Seal teams.

Speaking of the Seals, Tom M U R P H Y has Wentworth, U S N (Ret.) '12 and the late Mrs. Wentworth, and in Coronado, Calif. been doing an outstanding job over here, and Gary GRAY is due to deploy in late Capt. C. H . Morrison Sr., U S N (Ret.) '09 May for six months. and Mrs. Morrison.

Charlie is on duty in Annapolis as execuThat's about it for this month. Be sure to tive officer of the Marine Barracks at the send in your dues to the Alumni Association U. S. Naval Station. for the next year. Your dues expire in June 62

if you prepaid them while at the Academy.

Otherwise you may be left out of the action!

A couple of late notes: Bo and Judy W I L E Y spent a week in Hong Kong in early March on Bo's first R&R. Bo is flying 46's for the First Helo M A W in Phu Bai. Dave BILL is with Riv Div 551 out of Nha Be. Dave was wounded his first day in action but was last heard to have recovered and was back in action. That's it for

Sec'y, 1/Lt. Edward H. Mills, USMC VMCJ-2, MCAS, Cherry Point, N. C. 28533

Dale H E E L Y has arrived at Cherry Point from Laughlin AFB, Texas, and is now transitioning into the F-4 prior to going to WestPac this fall.

E. Dale Heely '67

Ted W H I T E and John W R I G H T are at Ft. Rucker, Ala., training in the Huey Cobra and then are going to HAL-3 in Vietnam; Hal Castle, John Cook, Bill Calhoun, Gary Wright, and Buddy Barnes are already in HAL-3.

John LAY was three days short of his first hop in the advanced jet syllabus when he tore his achilles tendon early in February.

Now he is laid up in the Brooke Army Hospital at San Antonio.

Dick K R A P O H L is gun boss in his DE. Steve W O O D A L L is somewhere in West Pac as M P A in some DD. Bob T H U R L O W , who wrote from Newport News where he is on his second West Pac cruise, is on his way to several months school ancl pre-commissioning training at San Diego, and then back to Boston to pick up his ship upon its commissioning. He will be XO in SURPRISE (PG-97) which will be homeported at San Diego.

Mike S V E N D S E N is weapons officer's right hand man in PERRY. Cal H U E Y was seen on liberty in the great liberty city of Olongapo. Mike PAULK has his wings and is instructing in VT-7 in Meridian.

George SAMARAS is believed to be flying somewhere over I Corps tearing up the VC and handing out courtesy issues of the Annapolis Evening Capital.

John MILLEN is property officer at Camp Hansen, RVN, and is expecting to be relieved to work with 1st Division before heading back to ConUS by 12 July. Priscilla and John had a son born in Februarv at La Jolla, Calif. John and Susan BARBER had a girl Sally Jean born in March at Kingsville, Tex. The postgraduate selection board selected 13 men from the Navy line to go to school and then into the C E C ; of these, seven were our classmates. Rick P O O L E and Bob GRONCZNACK are going to U of Michigan ; Chuck J E F F R I E S and Bill W A T E R S S H I P M A T E

to Purdue; Bob MOELLER and Eldon SCHIERMAN to Stanford, and George Y A N K O U P E to Ga. Tech. Bill H A N L E Y and Pete A N T O N I A K who were commissioned directly in the CEC are going to U of Michigan and Stanford, respectively. All will earn a Master's degree in civil engineering.

Bill BARTZ is waiting to leave RICKETTS and go to Destroyer School in June.

Gary V O O R H E I S is 1st Lt. in BARNEY. Dave CANDLER wrote from 96D Woodland Dr., Fleetwood Park Apts., Uncasville, Ct. 06382, where he would like to have anyone in the area drop in, and letters are encouraged. Dave is on the Gold crew in ETHAN ALLEN. Dave has completed Nuclear Power School and graduated from Sub School on 20 Feb. with Steve Andres ( A N DREW JACKSON-B), Ross Barkhurst ( S A M HOUSTON-G), Ashley Beavers (ANDREW JACKSON-B), Mike Bennett (SIMON BOLIVAR-B), Don Bezdek (GEORGE BANCROFT-B), Ed Blackwood (GEORGE CARVER-G), Pat

Brown (PUFFER), Al Btirkhart (Nuclear Power School, Mare Island), Tom Burns (HENRY C L A Y - B ) ,

Bart Q a r k

(ABRAHAM

LiNCOLN-G), Gery Corcoran (HADDOCK), Curt Cowgill (NATHAN H A L E - G ) , DicJc Cuciti (TULLIBEE), Gfety Daniels ( J O H N ADAMS-B), and Gary Detter

(STONEWALL

JACKSON-B ) .

Roy M U R P H Y is flying C-121's out of Pax River.

Dave BAKER and Walt E L L I O T T are attending Sub School; Dave is back from the PROTEUS and Walt has completed Nuclear Power School and prototype.

John R E N W I C K is at Bainbridge for Nuclear Power School after his tour at Cathohc U. as is Sam H E N D E R S O N .

Rick DAVIS is in SHANGRI-LA. Rich McNEAL

(STONEWALL

JACKSON-B)

and

wife just got to Waikiki for duty—tough life. Rich. Howie RENZI (DANIEL WEBSTER - B ) is also at Hawaii.

Sid MOHSBERG has been in DEWEY where he spent a tour in Vietnam and in exercises ranging from the Caribbean to the Norwegian Sea above the Arctic Circle. H e is now completing the boat operations course in San Francisco in preparation for his prospective duties as chief staff officer/ operations officer of River Division 152, RVN. Greg M A R S H A L L started out in San Diego in TOWERS, finally passed the flight physical in June '68 and is finishing up VT-7 at Meridian, Miss. H e would really appreciate some mail. Greg is living with his instructor, classmate Walt V A N D I V O R T .

Tim FERGUSON is also there in the same boat as Greg—an ex-blackshoe turned flyboy.

Mike R I N E H A R T is now at Whidbey Island as a BN in the A-6 RAG. Rene CHICOINE should have his wings by now and be on his way to New Brunswick with P-3's. Dan MULLIGAN is still at Long Beach in PICKERING but is soon going to PBR's.

Tex H A R K I N S has been detached from the Naval Support Activity at Da Nang where he has been the shop stores officer—• responsible for repair parts support of all the materials handling equipment, automotive equipment, construction equipment and generators for the support activity. H e is on his way to Holy Loch, Scotland, with his

Sec'y, Ens. R. M. Brown III LO) Box l l l B Sikes Hall 2942 0 1 I 0 1 ''**5 Whiting Field \ZJ V l / Milton, Fl. 32570

Well, guys, as the farmer once said to the old mule, "that's one." It doesn't seem possible that we have been out of the Academy for a year. Hopefully we'll be Lt.(jg)'s by the time of this reading. Here in the Training Command at Pensacola, the immediate significance of our new rank may seem less obvious, but I know in my heart, and in yours too, increased responsibility lies ahead; good luck on your perspective, guys.

Hey! Don't anyone pinch me—I received quite a bit of mail in the past month. I'll try to do everyone justice, so don't stop the influx of gouge.

Wedding bells never seem to let up. This March it was Joe SLATTERY for whom the bell tolled. Joe was married to the former Linda Ann Daniels at N A S Chapel, Pensacola. Bill Taylor served as best man, with Chet Dufford and Clay Thomas among the ushers. Tom P A R K E R wrote from his Supply Corps billet aboard the U S S DIXIE that he and Sara plan to exchange vows 21 June at Quakertovm, P a . ; I hope to make the ceremony.

In the result column on the local scene, I received word from Diane and Jerry CRAWFORD—it's a boy! Wayne Bracken Crawford II, weighing seven pounds, ten ounces. Congratulations.

From the west coast Ray CONRAD's wife Mary wrote. After returning from WestPac, Ray is going to various schools in San Diego to qualify him for his new billet as CIC watch officer aboard his can; Mary is finishing up her undergraduate credits at Cal State this summer. They saw Barb and Ron B E R N I N G who have a baby boy Pete. Shirley and John LAPICOLA stopped through on their way to Disneyland, and the Conrads also saw Harve and Mike McHUGH for a weekend. Both couples seem to be enjoying PG School at Monterey.

Bill R U C H wrote from aboard the U S S NEW anchored at Litra, Bahrain. As we all know . . . Bahrain is an island in the Persian Gulf, and serves as virtual headquarters for the Middle East Force. Bill's cruise, November to May, took him to Tsaro Game Park outside Mombasa, Kenya, for the Christmas holidays. H e saw Guy EASTMAN in Mauritius aboard the KRAUS, and Bill's ship relieved the SARSFIELD with John D E W aboard. Since then. Bill spent six days at Bombay, India, which he reports is a good place to buy clothes. Liz was looking forward to their return on 13 May. From the green machine end of things came a letter from Paul W I L S O N at Ft. Wolters, Tex., where he is attending U S Army Primary Helicopter School, along with classmates Bill Palmer, Mike Morschauser, John Golich, Mike Burkhart, George Tucker, and Denny Dugan. Rog W A N I A T A should be joining them soon.

The poor fellows have to suffer through 18 weeks there and another 16 at Fort Stewart, Savannah, Ga., making $16 per diem. Their designation will be army aviator after that, then on to specific birds.

Paul heard from Charlie W E S T C O T T , who has an infantry platoon in the First M P Battalion on Monkey Mountain near Da Nang. H e provides security in the form of patrols, ambushes, and reaction teams for wife in the SS UNITED STATES. H e wants 30 square miles of mountain. Jack K L I M P anyone who pulls alongside to look him up. is in the same company and Chuck DONOThanks for the letters this month, but I F R I O is in the same battalion. Warren S M I T H and Lenny MROZACK went artilsure could use more.

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lery and were at Ft. Sill, Okla.; they were due tor Vietnam by mid-April.

It's great to hear from '68 in the thick of things. Hap Carpenter and Jack Esposito called Tom NOEL last week; Tom is recovering from an AK-16 wound in Guam Naval Hospital and received a minor wound from a grenade two days previous; Tom could be up for two Purple Hearts. Hang in there, guys, my Huey gunship and I will be over there soon enough!

I attended college life with Alex LAI, Jack RUSS and Clay T H O M A S . Clay was singing and playing guitar with a religious folk group there that night, and the program appears to be outstanding. They have chapters on most campuses throughout the country, and I recommend looking into it as a means to strengthen your Christian fellowship. It'll do a lot for your outlook on the upcoming crop of college students who follow us too. Jack is off to Glynco, Ga., as part of his N F O training. Bill METZGER wrote that he received his N F O wings out of Airborne Electronic Warfare School in March and following a little recruiting in Seattle hopes for VAG-130 out of Alameda. H e sends word that Rick FERRIS at Meridian married the former Thelma Lee (T-Lee) Callaghan in February. This marriage bit might be a trend, but I'm still holding out.

Clay Thomas, Jack Esposito, Rick Evert, Karl Koenig, Mike Prince and his girl, and Phil Fossum and his girl, and I had dinner together at the BOQ at Whiting. The guys in the Master's program at Pensacola supposedly have it rough, just ask 'em. Chin up, guys.

Also, I've heard again from Bill STEVE N S and from Don K I N S M A N , who put out company newsletters for the 27th and 36th Companies, respectively. The newsletters are 10 to 12 typewritten pages of specific gouge; it is an excellent idea for other companies with interested members who have some spare time. Both Bill and Don are stationed at Meridian, Miss.; so if you're in either company and not receiving the newsletters, write to Bill or Don. General gouge: anyone desiring a class directory to replace a lost one, contact Dick KRULIS at the BOQ, Whiting Field.

Chris GLUTTING sent another tape from the ROGERS in WestPac. After a good crossing highlighted by the Pearl Harbor stop and the goonev birds on Midway, the "Legend" has been working the WestPac route.

While at Subic he had time to stop in on the Kauffmans, and they are fine. Chris, Bill COBB, Dave L E E and Floyd SAMMS got together at the " O " Club in Soyen, Cow Chung, for a big reunion during happy-hour.

They toasted the class and anything else that came up. H e also saw Dave S T E E R E at Subic, as well as Hal D A N T O N E who had just passed his flight physical. Hal was supposed to head down our way_ soon, but I just learned BuPers reviewed his physical and due to some marginal retina condition, told him he would have to settle for the N F O program. Would you believe Air Force ?

Keep the news flowing, guys, J.G.'s_ should have lots of spare time to write their class secretary. It's been a long winter, guys, so max out the summer months, it's still an uphill road.

WELCOME TO THE ALUMNI CLASS OF 1969 63

Hillside Dr., Davidson, N. C. 28036. His wife Rebecca Dow Maloney died in 1957.

ABBOTT, HENRY LIVERMORE (CAPT USN RET ' 1 3 ) , 2 A p r . ' 6 9 , W a s h i n g t o n , D. C. BARBEY, DANIEL EDWARD ( V A D M USN RET ' 1 2 ) , 11 A p r . ' 6 9 , U S N H , B r e m e r t o n , W a s h .

BARNES, HARRY GRINNELL, JR. (CDR USN 'S3), 2 8 M a r . ' 6 9 , off coast of O c e a n a , V a .

BASTIEN, LOUIS JULIUS, JR. ' 2 4 , 2 4 Sept. ' 6 8 , Chicago, I I I .

BIESEMEIER, HAROLD (RADM USN RET ' 1 8 ) , 2 9 M a r . ' 6 9 , M i a m i , Fla. COLT, RUTGER BARCLAY ' 2 5 , 17 M a r . ' 6 9 , Baltimore, M d .

COOK, BALDWIN 1946.

FREDERICK ' 3 0 , deceased

D A Y T O N , MILTON THEODORE (RADM USN RET ' 2 7 ) , 9 M a r . ' 6 9 , S a c r a m e n t o , Calif.

EDE, ALFRED LOUIS ' 3 4 , deceased 1 9 4 9 .

EHLERS, ERNEST J O H N A p r . ' 6 9 , Luray, V a .

(LCDR USN ' 5 9 ) , 3

FISCHER, NILS GUSTAF ' 2 6 , 19 J a n . ' 6 9 , P l a i n field, N . J. FRIER, J O H N M A S O N ' 2 1 , 2 A p r . ' 6 9 , F a i r f a x , Va. O I L M A N , DONALD EDWARD (COL USMC ' 4 7 ) , 4 Apr. ' 6 9 , Honolulu, Hi. HOLMES, MERLYN DONALD (COL USMC RET '35), 2 6 Feb. ' 6 9 , USNH, San D i e g o , Calif.

HOLZBAUER, JOSEPH FRANCIS (COL USMC ' 4 5 ) , 3 1 M a r . ' 6 9 , USNH, Quantico, V a .

LLOYD, RUSSELL (BGEN USMC RET ' 3 0 ) , 2 7 Mar. '69, Waiiuku, Hi. MACK, ALBERT ROSCOE (CDR USN RET ' 1 1 ) , 5 A p r . ' 6 9 , U S N H , San D i e g o , Calif.

MALONEY, JAMES DODSON (CAPT USN RET '09), 12 J a n . ' 6 9 , K n o x v i l l e , Tenn.

PETERSON, CARL JERROLD (LCDR USN ' 5 8 ) , 2 Apr. '69, Vietnam.

POST, ALEXIS EVERETT ' 2 2 , 6 A p r . ' 6 9 , A t h e r t o n , Calif.

JAMES DODSON MALONEY ' 0 9

Capt. James D. Maloney, USN (Ret.), died 12 Jan. at Knoxville, Term.

Capt. Maloney was born in Knoxville, Tenn., attended the University of Tennessee, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1909. Early sea duty included the U S S LOUISIANA, the last voyage of the HARTFORD,

and a cruise to Syria aboard the MONTANA. He was assigned to Navy Yard, Norfolk, and in 1920 reported as executive officer to USS PANTHER. Shore duty at Navy Yard, Cavite, P. I., and at the Naval Academy was followed by a cruise to Australia and New Zealand aboard the PENNSYLVANIA. Capt. Maloney also had duty as assistant Inspector of Naval Material at New York City. He was retired in June 1937.

Recalled to active duty in Nov. 1939, Capt. Maloney became executive officer of the Merchant Marine Reserve Officers Training Center, Receiving Ship, New York.

Stationed at the Third Naval District when the war was declared, he was assigned convoy commodore duty, and was awarded the Commendation Ribbon. As representative of Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet headquartered at New Orleans, Capt.

Maloney was returned to inactive duty status in Oct. 1945. He taught at the University of Tennessee for a short time and commanded the Knoxville branch of Military Order of Worid Wars.

Survivors include his two sons James Maloney Jr. of 468 Summit Dr., Chillicothe, Oh. 45601 and Samuel D. Maloney of 105 64

HENRY LIVERMORE ABBOTT ' 1 3

Capt. Henry L. Abbott, U S N R (Ret.), died 2 April in Washington, D. C , after a long illness. Memorial services were held in the Navy Chapel, Washington, D. C. Capt. Abbott, born in Lewiston, Me., was graduated from the Naval Academy with the class of 1913 and reported to USS WYOMING. For service as commanding officer of the U S S L-1, based in Ireland during World W a r I, he was awarded the Navy Cross Medal. Following duty on the Technical Board of Inspection of surrendered German submarines he served in the BUSHNELL, and then was executive officer and navigator in the ex-German UB-88 making passage to the United States. Capt. Abbott had duty in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department, until 1921 when he resigned from the regular Navy and joined the Naval Reserve.

In 1921 Capt. Abbott joined the Guaranty Trust Company of New York and was subsequently an engineer with Mack Trucks, Inc. and with Osborn Development Co., Inc., both of New York City: in 1933 he joined the Public Works Administration.

Recalled to active duty, he reported to Foreign Branch, Office of Naval Intelligence in 1940. As senior naval member of the Joint and Combined Intelligence staffs of Joint and Combined Chiefs of Staff, Capt. Abbott was awarded the Commendation Medal.

From 1946 to 1952 he served as an expert on international security with the Department of State, Bureau of United Nations Affairs. He was retired in May 1952.

Survivors include his widow Marie of 4221 Van Ness St., N.W., Washington, D. C. 20016; two daughters Elizabeth Abbott and Mary A. Clyde; a son William H. G. Abbott; a sister Mary O. Abbott of Concord, Mass., and a brother Dr. John A. Abbott of Lincoln, Mass.

HAROLD BIESEMEIER ' 1 8

RAdm. Harold Biesemeier, U S N (Ret.), died 29 March in Mercy Hospital at Miami, Fla. Graveside services were held in Arlington National Cemetery, with simple military honors.

RAdm. Biesemeier, born in Hiawatha, Kansas, was graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1917, with the class of 1918, and served in the USS N E W HAMPSHIRE

on convoy duty. A graduate of Submarine School, RAdm. Biesemeier commanded U S S L-4, E-1, K-3, 0-8, and S-24, and from 1938 to 1940 commanded the USS PHELPS.

During World War I I he commanded Assault Transport making initial combat landings in Africa, Sicily, Italy and Normandy, and was an operations officer for assault attacks on Okinawa, le Shima, Aguni and Iheya Shima. With command of the ROCKWELL he participated in the occupation of Japan.

Shore duty included tours in the office of Judge Advocate General of the Navy, as chief of various divisions. RAdm. Biesemeier was the Navy representative in settling claims against Japan for sinking U S S PANAY, special assistant to the Navy Secretary Edison, and as legal adviser, he participated in negotiations for bases in British West Indies. He also served as Judge Advocate Navy Pearl Harbor Court of Inquiry.

He was retired in Jan. 1947. Among other awards he held the Legion of Merit with gold star. Bronze Star Medal and Commendation Ribbon.

With a Master of Laws degree from George Washington University Law School, RAdm. Biesemeier practiced law in the Daytona Beach area. H e was elected to Order of Coif in recognition of scholastic excellence and leadership in the field of legal education.

Survivors include his widow Marie of 540 S.W. 25th Ave., Miami, Fl. 33135; a son Cdr. Harold W., U S N (Ret.) '40; a daughter Mrs. Mary C. McWhirt, and six grandchildren.

JOSEPH TRUITT TALBERT ' 2 0

Capt. Joseph T. Talbert, U S N (Ret.), died 14 March at Coronado, Calif. Graveside services were hold in Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Born in Holly Springs, Miss., Capt. Talbert was graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1919, with the class of 1920, and was assigned to U S S FLORIDA, with subsequent sea duty. H e had flight training at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, but did not qualify. From 1926 to 1928 he was an instructor at the Naval Academy; he then commanded the SINCLAIR, served with the Eleventh and Fifteenth Naval Districts, and had command of the MANLEY in the Mediterranean during the Spanish civil war.

In 1941 Capt. Talbert was assigned as enlisted personnel officer with the Bureau of Naval Personnel. As Commander of the former Italian liner CONTE BIANCAMANO, he carried troops to Le Havre, and then commanded the TRENTON in the Pacific until the end of World W a r II. Attached to the Eleventh Naval District, Capt. Talbert was retired in April 1947. During his military career, he attended the Chemical Warfare School at Aberdeen, Md., and the Commander in Chief School at San Diego.

He held the Commendation Ribbon among other decorations.

Capt. Talbert had been a trustee of the Naval Academy Alumni Association for six years and served as an officer of the Coronado and San Diego chapters. Interested in civic affairs, he was active in the Community Chest, the American Red Cross and the Military Order of World Wars.

Survivors include his widow Anne of 506 First St., Coronado, Ca. 90018; a daughter Joanne R. Bulmer of Virginia Beach, Va.; a son LCdr. Joseph Jr., U S N '56 of Hawaii, and four grandchildren.

J O H N M A S O N FRIER ' 2 1

Mr. John M. Frier died 2 April in Fairfax Hospital at Fairfax, Va. Mr. Frier was born in Bridgeport, Conn., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921. After resigning from the service in Jan. 1926, he spent 15 years in the automobile business in Kentucky. Failing to qualify physically for the Navy during World War II, he became chief of the small business branch of the W a r Assets Administration, Washington, D. C. He was later a consultant of the Senate Small Business Committee.

Mr. Frier had been associated with the Perpetual Building Association of Washington, D. C , for the past eight years. He was a past state vice commander of the American Legion in Kentucky and belonged to the University Club of Washington, D. C. Survivors include his widow Grace of 6305 Eppard St., Falls Church, Va. 22044; a son John Jr. of Los Altos, Calif.; a daughter Mrs. Grace F. Rudzis of Carmel, Calif.; a brother James; a sister Mary, and 10 grandchildren.

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JOHN HENRY SHULTZ ' 2 2

RAdm. John H. Shultz, USN (Ret.), died 9 March in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., ot complications following surgery. Services were held in Ft. Myer Chapel, with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

RAdm. Shultz was born in the Caribbean Island of Antigua where his parents were missionaries of the Moravian Church. He was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1922, and reported to U S S ARKANSAS before serving five years in the REUBEN JAMES, operating with Scouting Fleet. Study in mechanical engineering at the Postgraduate School, Annapolis, was continued at Columbia University where he received a Master's degree in 1930.

Staff" duty in the Pacific area during World War II included service on the staff of Commander Cruiser, Battle Force, and Commander Allied Naval Forces, Southwest Pacific Area for which he was awarded the Commendation Ribbon with combat "V." Following command of the Naval Base at Brisbane, Australia, he received the Bronze Star Medal with combat "V" for actions as commander of U S S MOUNT OLYMPUS during

the landing opertions at Leyte and Lingayen Gulf.

Assigned to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RAdm. Shultz served as director of Enlisted Personnel Activity, senior member of the Naval Reserve Inspection Reviewing Board and as assistant Chief for Naval Reserve; he was retired in July 1952. His sea duty also included command of the U S S PERRY and the MACON.

He is stu-vived by his vridow Martha of Box 978 Cristiansted, St. Croix, Virgin Islands 00821; three sons Col. John M., USA (USMA '46) of Cariisle Barracks, Pa.; Cdr. Robert T. '50, CO of U S S AGER-

HOLM; and LCdr. Theodore B. '56 on the staff of the Seventh Fleet in the western Padfic; a brother, the Rev. Paul T. Shultz Jr., of Greene, N. Y., and ten grandchildren.

WALTER JAMES STUART ' 2 4

BGen. Walter J. Stuart, USMC (Ret.), died 26 Feb. in his home at North Springfield, Va., of a heart attack. A requiem mass was held in St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Annandale, followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Harbor he commanded a contingent of Marines at Recife, Brazil. In 1942 he was assigned command of the Marine guard at President Roosevelt's retreat, Shangri La. For services as commanding officer of Second Marines in invasions of Saipan and Tinian, BGen. Stuart was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat "V." He was a member of the Executive Staff G-4 Second Marine Division, and in 1945 became commanding officer of the Recruit Depot at Parris Island, S. C. He was retired for physical reasons in Feb. 1949. A graduate of the National W a r College, BGen. Stuart received a Bachelor's degree in history from George Washington University, Washington, D. C , in 1954.

He is survived by his widow Harriet of 5504 Hinton St., N. Springfield, Va. 22151; a daughter Mrs. John Pearson of Ann Arbor, Mich.; two sons Walter Jr. and David, both of Virginia, and 14 grandchildren.

RUTGER BARCLAY COLT ' 2 5

Mr. Rutger B. Colt died in his Baltimore, Md. home on 17 March, of a cerebral hemorrhage. Interment took place in Baltimore.

Mr. Colt was born in Elizabeth, N. J., and entered the Naval Academy with the class of 1924. Shortly after being turned back to the class of 1925 in 1922, he received a medical discharge for poor hearing. A varsity lacrosse player at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, N. J., Mr. Colt was graduated from Stevens in 1926 and commenced a notable career in electrical, aeronautical and special-type instrument design and production. After two years with the Western Electrical Instrument Company, he joined the Julian P. Friez Instrument Company of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1928. The company later moved to Towson, Md., and became the Friez Instrument Division of Bendix Corporation; Mr. Colt retired in 1968 as chief engineer.

He is survived by three sons Rutger Jr., C. Trenholm and John C. Colt; a brother Stockton B. Colt of 126 Baublits Dr., Warrington, Fl. 32507, U S N A '24; another brother; a sister, and several grandchildren.

Mr. Colt's wife, the former Augusta Trenholm of Baltimore, Md., died in 1965.

After Marine Corps Basic School at Philadelphia, he was assigned to the Marine Detachment aboard the USS CHICAGO. Col. Holmes later attended the Base Defense Weapons School and served with various defense battalions.

During World War II, Col. Holmes was stationed at Pearl Harbor and Woodlark Island before commanding the 13th Defense Battalion at Cape Gloucester. For services as commander of the 13th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion during the Peleliu campaign, he was awarded the Legion of Merit with combat "V." Following the war, he graduated from the Amphibious Warfare School, Quantico and from the National War College. Col. Holmes headed the promotion branch. Personnel Department at Marine Corps headquarters, Washington, D. C , and then was assistant commanding officer of the Landing Force Training Unit in Coronado.

Upon his military retirement in July 1960, Col. Holmes became design engineer with the California Division of Highways where he was employed at the time of his death.

He is survived by his widow Elaine of 68 E. Sierra Way, Chula Vista, Ca. 92011; two daughters Mrs. R. E. Wyatt of Bremerton, Wa., and Mrs. John Clenivia of Upland, Calif.; two sons Ens. Richard T., U S N '68, attached to USS DIRECT and M. D. Holmes Jr., of the home address.

J O H N WADDELL McMANUS ' 3 8

Capt. John W. McManus, U S N ( R e t ) , died 11 Feb. in the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md. Services were held at Grace Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Va., followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors.

Born in Paxton, Ind., Capt. McManus attended the University of Wyoming before he was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1938, and assigned to U S S PENNSYLVANIA

He had flight training at Pensacola, Fla., and in 1941 was designated a naval aviator.

He joined Scouting Squadron 72 attached to the W A S P and operated in the North Sea, the Mediterranean and the Pacific until the W A S P was sunk in 1942. He was awarded the Air Medal with two gold stars, the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart. He was a White House naval aide to the President, before reporting to the

MERLYN DONALD HOLMES ' 3 5

Walter James Stuart '24

Merlyn Donald Holmes '35

John Waddell McManus '38

Born in Hoboken, N. J., BGen. Stuart was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1924 and was commissioned in the Marine Corps.

After serving with the Marines at Nicaragua during the late 1920's, he commanded a Marine Detachment aboard U S S SAN FRANCISCO. Shortly after the attack on Pearl

Col. Merlyn D. Holmes, USMC (Ret.), died 26 Feb. in the Naval Hospital, San Diego, Calif. Interment was held in Glen Abbey Cemetery, Chula Vista, Calif.

Col. Holmes, born in Cannon Falls, Minn., was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1935 and commissioned in the Marine Corps.

Bombing Squadron 75 and Attack Squadron 3-B. Following the war he had air intelligence work with foreign nations, including NATO countries. From 1958 to 1960, Capt. McManus was director of the Naval Section,

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^ Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he received a graduate diploma. He was head of the Shore Activities Control Branch, Office of Naval Operations, before commanding the Naval Air Facility at Litchfield Park, Ariz., for two years. Capt. McManus was retired in July 1968. A graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. and of the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., he was also commanding officer of the Naval Air Station at Memphis, Tenn. He also held the Army Commendation Medal.

Survivors include his widow Elma Sandra of 2001 Columbia Pike, Apt. 602, Arlington, Va. 22204; a daughter Mrs. Joseph Saggese of Los Angeles, Calif.; four sisters and two brothers.

R A Y M O N D LEROY TACKE ' 5 2

Maj. Raymond L. Tacke, USAF, died 8 March as the result of an aircraft accident at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Taiwan.

A requiem mass was held in St. Mary's Catholic Church, Cottonwood, Idaho, followed by interment in the Cottonwood Catholic Cemetery, with military honors.

Bombing Squadron, and a missile launch commander with the 10th Stiategic Missile Squadron.

Maj. Tacke earned a Master's degree at Malstrom Air Base Division of the Air Force Institute of Technology, and in 1965 received the SAC Aerospace Education Outstanding Achievement Award. He served in the Rocket Propulsion Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., until his Southeast Asia tour. Rated as a senior navigator, he was serving with the 50th Tactical Air Command Airlift Squadron, headquartered at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, at the time of the accident; the Squadron deployed to various bases in Vietnam and Thailand. Awarded the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters, Maj. Tacke was also authorized to wear the Senior Missileman Badge.

His survivors include his widow Rita Marie of Box 36, Cottonwood, Id. 83522; three daughters Kay, Christine and Elizabeth ; his parents Mr. and Mrs. Elvin M. Tacke, also of Cottonwood; four brothers Mark and William of Cottonwood, Thomas of Seattle, Wash., and John of Alexandria, Va., and a sister, Sister Mary Paule, C.P.S., a missionary at Cape Province, South Africa.

23452; two sons Robert and Joseph; his daughter Elaine; his mother Mrs. Lillian G. Barnes of Sterling, Va., a sister Mrs. Sally Cobb, and his twin sister Mrs. Harriet Richards.

PETER ANDREW KIRBY ' 5 8

Mr. Peter A. Kirby died 11 March as the result of an auto accident at Marlboro, Mass. Services were held in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church at Marlboro, followed by interment in National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pa. Mr. Kirby was born in Philadelphia, Pa., attended Peddie Prep School at Hightstown, N. J., and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1958. He served in USS SHIELDS, and

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HARRY GRINNELL BARNES JR. '53

Raymond Leroy Tacke '52

Maj. Tacke was born in Cottonwood and attended Gonzaga University at Spokane, Wash., for two years. He was captain of the cross-country team during his first class year at the Naval Academy, and was graduated in 1952. Commissioned in the U. S. .'Mr Force, he served as an aircraft performance engineer, a navigator with the 360th

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Cdr. Harry G. Barnes Jr., USN, died 28 March at sea off the coast of Oceana, Va., as a result of injuries sustained in an aircraft accident while on a routine training flight. He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.

Born in Iowa City, Iowa, Cdr. Barnes attended Grinnell College and the University of Iowa before he was graduated from the Naval Academy and assigned to USS MATHEWS. Designated a naval aviator in 1955, he had duty with VF-174 at the Naval .\h Station Cecil Field and with VT-23 at NAAS Kingsville, Texas.

In 1961 Cdr. Barnes reported to Perrin Air Force Base, Tex., as exchange officer with the U S A F Air Defense Command.

Following duty with Commander Cruiser Destroyer Flotilla Ten, and with Headquarters Fifth Tactical Air Force, he earned a Master's degree in computer management from the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, Calif. On 21 March 1969 Cdr. Barnes reported to Fleet Composite Squadron 4 as executive officer.

He is survived by his widow Genevieve of 805 St. George Ct., Virginia Beach, Va.

Peter Andrew Kirby '58

Survivors include his widow Judith of 89 Pine Hill Rd., Ashland, Ma. 01721; two sons Gregory D. and Brian T.; his mother Mrs. Dunne W. Kirby of 181 Exeter St., Eau Gallie, Fl. 32935; a brother Timothy Kirby of Mississippi, and a sister Mrs. William Churchill of Florida. He was the son of the late Capt. Dunne W. Kirby, (MC) USN ( R e t ) .

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ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS In the interest of timely chapter reporting, chapter secretaries are requested to forward their with as little delay as possible. Copy received after the 15th of the month misses the issue preparation and may not reach the reader until two months or more later.

ANNAPOLIS Officers for next year were elected at the 9 April meeting at Alumni House. Those elected are: president, Capt. Thomas E. Jackson, USN '47; vice president, RAdm. Thomas H. Morton, USN (Ret.) '33; secretary, Cdr. John J. Branson Jr., U S N 'SO, and treasurer, Capt. Robert C. Giffen Jr., USN (Ret.) '38; national trustee, RAdm. Schuyler N. Pyne, USN (Ret.) '25; and council members, Capt. Randolph W. King, USN '44, Capt James D. Collett, USN (Ret) '32, Capt W. T. Doyel, U S N ( R e t ) '43, Lt. Thomas C. Lynch, U S N '64, and Cdr. Robert R. Zastrow, U S N '52.

Following the business meeting, LCdr. Robert R. Cunningham, (ChC) USN, Chaplain, U. S. Naval Station, Annapolis, gave a lecture on "Views of Rural Vietnam." He showed slides of the countryside, the villages, the agricultural methods, the fishing techniques and many other aspects of their rural life. Chaplain Cunningham had served in Vietnam with the First Marine Division and had been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroically saving several Marines while under heavy enemy fire.

-A^ spring cocktail party at the Alumni House on 14 May was the final meeting of the year.

BALTIMORE An important meeting was held on 15 .April at Bernie Lee's Penn Hotel, Towson, Md. BOSTON Ladies' night was held on 8 April in the Officers' Club, Charlestown Naval Shipyard.

Guest speaker RAdm. F. J. Harlfinger II, USN '35, Director of Naval Intelligence, discussed "The Strategic Implications of the Russian Naval Buildup."

The election of officers for 1969-1970 was scheduled for the 13 May meeting.

A good block of 200 tickets have been reserved for the Navy-Boston College football game on 27 Sept. at Boston College.

Plans will be formed for a postgame gathering.

COLUMBUS Wives' night was held on 28 Feb. with dinner at the Defense Construction Supply Center Officers' Qub, Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Fred Rapp entertained the group of 40 members and wives with color films of

material then in

the "Hound Dog," the AV-10 and other aeronautical svstems.

Those attending the meeting were: the Ralph McDaniels '24; Frank Nichols '28; the Bob Egnors '36; the Lovells '53; the Bill Eddys '55 and Nancy's mother Mrs. Glazer; the Hank Hancocks '50; the Lee Haines '45; the Derrell Hausers '51; the Fred Rapps '51; the Bill Dobbs '32; the Ed Mesons, and the George Rogers.

New York Chapter: Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, USN, Dr. William S. Shields and RAdm. Dave M. Martineau, USN (Ret.).

The Columbus Chapter, 28 Feb.

INDIANAPOLIS Candidates for the Naval Academy was the subject of interest at the regular bimonthly dinner held at the Naval Armory on 21 March. Members attending included John and Lillian Carlson '38 and son Gary, Jerry and Jean Clare '43, Fritz and Bee Graf '26, Elton and Vera Knapp '38 and their daughter Nancy, Bob and Betty McMurray '22, Bill and Jenny Morrison '35, Cliff and Alice Rigsbee '51 and oldest son Cliff, Ed and Ruth Schock '40, Bill and Dottie Ullrich '44, and Scott and Betsy Woods '58.

Guests included Midn. 1/c Tim Oliver '69, Dick and Betty Meserve (LCdr. U S N R â&#x20AC;&#x201D;the local Academy Blue and Gold representative), Hal and Jo Higgins (Lt. U S N ) and son Hal Jr., and Ben Lagadon, son of an Armory employee.

Midn. Oliver and LCdr. Meserve shared the speaker's rostrum describing the Academy's academic programs and entrance procedures. A spirited question and answer session followed, especially from the boys present. Gary, Hal Jr. and Ben presently have appointments for the class of '73; young Cliff has similar plans for the class of '74.

Election of new officers was scheduled to be held on 16 May in the Armory.

Admiral Calvert meets alumni in the Marines Memorial Club, San Francisco, on 4 March. More than 150 alumni. Navy Leaguers and friends of the Navy gathered to hear the Admiral talk about the Naval Academy. Pictured with the Admiral are (left) RAdm. H. J. Armstrong, president of the San Francisco chapter, and (right) RAdm. J. A. Robbins, president of the Peninsula chapter.

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NEW YORK Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, was the guest of honor and speaker at the 44th annual dinner held on 21 March in the Hotel Roosevelt. Three hundred and fifty members and guests were on hand to greet him and to join in making it a delightful and memorable evening from beginning to end.

Following the reception and dinner, the annual award of the chapter was presented to Dr. William S. Shields for his 29 years of outstanding service to the Naval Academy as Dean of Admissions, Educational Advisor and member of the faculty.

Speaking off the record and extemporaneously, Admiral Moorer gave an inspiring talk on problems and challenges confronting the Navy in today's uncertain world. Looking to the future, he indicated particular concern that irresponsible attacks on the Navy from certain of the news media and other sources may be discouraging many otherwise promising young men from career service. This, he said, increases the danger to the Navy and the nation of mediocrity in future positions of leadership and command responsibility.

Commenting on the modern Naval Academy, RAdm. James Calvert, Superintendent, gave some well received and appreciated remarks on the high caliber of the present day midshipman, and efforts there to keep pace with the times.

The following officers were reelected for the coming year: Dave Martineau '33, president; Ed Hill '45, vice president; Howard Berkowitz '59, secretary, and Tony Marks '59, treasurer.

PHILADELPHIA The ladies were guests at the 17 April dinner meeting held in the Philadelphia Navy Base Officers' Club. Guest speaker LCol. Walter H. Flint, U S A F (USNA 'SO), discussed "Man On The Moon in 1969." LCol. Flint, stationed at NASA in Washington and involved in the Apollo program, discussed the Apollo program, emphasizing the moon landing. The spectacular film footage and slides from the recent Apollo shots were enjoyed by members and their ladies.

WASHINGTON, D. C. It was a privilege to have Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations, as guest speaker at the 16 April meeting in the Sky Room of the Army-Navy town Club.

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SHIPMATE

FOR THE JUNE WEEK

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^EDGWOOD DINNER PLATES CUPS AND SAUCERS Sets of eight plates in STAFFORDSHIRE BLUE The Chapel

$35.00

Naval Academy Hop 1869

Sailboat Drill

U.S.N.A. circa 1858

Bancroft Hall

Dress Parade

Color Guard

Alumni House

Sets of four cups and saucers in Staffordshire Blue only

$20.50 Sets of eight bread and butter plates Staffordshire Blue $15.00 Order and check addressed to USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, ALUMNI HOUSE Annapolis, Maryland 21402 will receive prompt and careful attention

ALUMNI HOUSE CRYSTAL iru UmhExLaL SMALL DECANTER HI BALL GLASSES $7.50 S12.50 LARGE DECANTER OLD FASHIONS $8.50 14oz. 115.50, 8 OZ. $10.50 COCKTAIL SHAKER WHISKEY SOURS $14.00 118.50 RYE BOTTLE PILSNERS $14.50 $20.50 Glasses are sold in sets of six Each piece etched with the Naval Academy seal USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, ANNAPOLIS, MD. 21402 To Please ship sets hi balls

NAME_

sets 14-OZ. old fashions ADDRESS

_sets 8-oz. old fashions _sets whiskey sours _sets pilsners

A check for $_

.small decanters .large decanters

payable to

_cocktaiI shakers

T H E USNA ALUMNI ASSN.

_rye bottles

is enclosed