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YOU'RE SOMETHING SPECIAL! So are we. But with over 600 courses, in science, engineering and management, we're not so special that we wouldn't have something to interest you. The way things are going, the Navy's newest weapon s y stem will be obsolete in 15 y e a r s . . . w i l l you be too?

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ROY C. SMITH, III, '34 Capt. USNR (Ret.)

No. 3

March, 1972

Vol. 35 Executive Secretary JO LAGATTUTA Editorial Assistant A N N DONALDSON

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Escape from Corregidor

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Harpoon Testing

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The New Naval Training Command

by VAdm. Malcolm W. Cagle, USN

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The Naval Reserve in the Total Force

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The Current Status of the Engineering Curricula at the U.S. Naval Academy

by Cdr. R. C. Gentz, USN

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A Few Inches From the Yard

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The Mail Boat

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Athletics

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Capitol Hill

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Lucky Bag of Books

Mr. Gene Kraemer, Advertising Manager Chonin Building, 122 East 42nd Street New York, N. Y. 10017 Telephone (212) 867-6177

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Sea Breezes

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Now Hear This

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Chapter News

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Last Call

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Classified Services

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THE COVER Springtime in the Yard (Photograph by the Editor)

Two Savings Plans With The Military ' In Mind '

THE NAVY vs

POLLUTION The U.S. Navy has embarked on continuing programs committed to environmental quality. Programs are focused on ship, aircraft and shore pollution abatement—three areas hitting pollution at the source. Several programs are in active operation by the Navy to clean up the air, land, and sea.

Typical are those at San Diego, which have netted tremendous results in the Navy's efforts on pollution abatement in that area. They include:

From One Military Man to Another Harry E. Sears Vice Admiral, USN (Rel.) | Chairman o( the Board "Our monthly dividend plan is designed to supplement your retirement income; our high-paying regular passbook accounts have no minimum deposit or time restrictions. And Government Services is as close as your nearest mailbox."

ANTI AIR POLLUTION PROGRAMS Use of sanitary landfills have completely eliminated open burning of trash. * All shore-based power plants meet air pollution control standards. * The "mobile mulcher," a device built by the Navy's Public Works Center of San Diego, has eliminated the need for 26 incinerators formerly used for burning classified documents. * An increase in pierside steam and power facilities has reduced the number of ships required to generate their own steam and power, thereby permitting them to shut down boilers during inport stays. * Ensuring that all fire fighting schools are shut down during days of open burning alerts. * A $1,300,000 smoke abatement system to completely eliminate smoke and greatly reduce other air pollutants from the fire fighting school was completed in November 197L

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ANTI WATER POLLUTION PROGRAMS 1969—all garbage and trash are brought ashore where they are disposed of at sanitary landfills. None is dumped into the harbor nor barged out to sea. The "garbage cooker," another device built by the Navy's Public Works Center of San Diego, treats garbage (collected three times per day from ships in port) prior to disposal at sanitary landfills. * Sailors from the Naval Station constructed, on their own initiative, a catamaran scooper which patrols the waters at the Naval Station twice daily removing floating debris of both Navy and non-Navy origin. * Navy maintains 3,600 feet of portable booms to contain Navy oil spills should they occur in harbor area in addition to a contract with a commercial firm for cleanup services and an additional 2,000 feet of portable booms.

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To minimize the noise of aircraft flying out of North Island Naval Air Station, take off and landing patterns now permit approach to runways over water, where possible. * The Navy has moved its jet aircraft combat maneuvering areas more than 100 miles off the California coast.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT The Navy has cooperated with the community's Project SLOBB (Stop Littering Our Bays and Beaches) Campaign by contributing divers, a diving barge and rechargeable air for scuba divers, its mobile oil skimmer, scoopermaran and teams of men to assist in picking up litter from the beaches and off the bottom of the bays. * Navy commands as well as individual sailors are working closely with ALCOA's "Yes We Can" program to reclaim and recycle aluminum cans. * Several Navy commands collected and contributed aluminum cans in the community drive to raise funds to assist in the re-seeding of the forest area ravaged by a fire in September 1970.

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USS PERMIT (SS-178)

n P H E LAST TIME I saw Commander (Francis C.) Bridget was in the little, wooden Naval Administration Building at Mariveles. He was lying on one of a long row of cots, long since vacated because the building was one of few left standing and the target of almost daily bombing. I sat down beside him and began to talk of some of my problems on Bataan and about the Naval Battalion, knowing he had malaria but not realizing how ill he really was. He became excited and talked very nervously of his own problems. I felt his wrists and head, and it was clear that he had a very high fever. To my question whether he had any quinine, he replied that he had only ten pills left. I had a new bottle of fifty and immediately split it with him, but hoping silently that I could find more somewhere when my little supply ran out. Needing two each day, that could become a problem.

He and I were the only persons there. He slept there for a little while and then began to toss and turn, shouting commands in delirium while I held a cold towel over his head.

In about half an hour he began again to talk coherently.

Since Bridget was an aviator, I asked him about those Zeros that buzzed around overhead over the whole area bombing and strafing at will. He wondered why everyone was surprised about these Jap planes and about the large number of planes the Japs were using. Before he came to Cavite he had served as Naval Attache for Air in Tokyo. He wondered, rather bitterly, whether his reports had been read in Washington.

And, if they had been read, if anyone had done anything about them.

I later heard that he loaded a rickety old sea plane with Army nurses, took off, and landed on Lake Lanao in Mindanao. In this landing, one of his pontoons was ripped by a submerged log. Believing it to be beyond repair, he left the plane and took his group to join the remaining American Forces on Mindanao. I was told that, shortly thereafter. Captain McGuigen, of the Construction Corps, successfully repaired the same plane, located a pilot, and took off with his group, landing safely in Australia.

But it was here, in the little Administration Building at Mariveles, that I last saw Commander Bridget. It was an honor to know him. This officer, whom I regarded as one of the best in the entire Philippine Campaign, had just been decorated with the Navy Cross. He had, almost singlehanded. thrown together and trained a Naval Battalion, led them into the jungle against the Japanese and saved the main supply

road to General Jonathan Wainwright's forces. His action at Longoskowayon Point opened the eyes of all in authority on Bataan, to the threat from the sea, the threat of large scale Jap landings on the beaches behind the lines.

A T T H E END of February, I was called to the phone to hear Captain Hoeffel, commanding the Inshore Patrol, say, "Pack whatever you have, at once, and come to Corregidor. I expect to see you by six o'clock this evening." This was strange. Usually, I talked over the phone to the Chief of Staff, Captain Ray, or to one of the officers standing watch at the Inshore Patrol desk. Why was Captain Hoeffel phoning me?

I asked to talk to Captain Ray. Hoeffel's answer was, "He is not available. You are to come down at once." I said, "Aye, aye, sir," and packed my few belongings into the musette bag.

I wondered if I was being relieved or if I had been deficient in my work in any way. Then the thought flashed into my mind that possibly MacArthur had gone and had taken Admiral Rockwell with him. As soon as I had my things packed, I went over to the General's trailer and told him that I had just received instructions from Captain Hoeffel to go to Corregidor and asked if this was in accord with his desires.

He said, "Yes it is, Champ. I might as well tell you now something which Admiral Rockwell told me three days ago when I went to Corregidor to relieve General MacArthur.

You are to leave for Australia tonight. General MacArthur has been ordered out and so has Admiral Rockwell. They planned to leave by Motor Torpedo Boat and I assume that, by now, that plan has been successfully carried out." He went on. "Champ. You are still Admiral Rockwell's aide and I only borrowed you for a short period. You are to carry out your orders and I wish you luck." He paused. "Please take a letter which I have here and mail it for me in Australia."

Tears came into my eyes when I thought of leaving General Wainwright. We did not speak of it but both of us knew that the recent change of command meant that the end was in sight. We had worked very closely together and had come to know each other quite well. I have never known an officer in the Army or Navy of the United States with so many fine qualities of military character, with such knowledge of his business, and yet, so downright human. We shook hands and that slow, half-amused smile came into his eyes and spread over his face. This was courage. American courage, and it gave me the strength to turn and go.

ESCAPE FROM CORREGIDOR Captain Malcolm M. Champlin, USNR (Ret.)

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When I arrived at the dock at Corregidor, Mike Cheek met me and we had quite a long chat. He told me that MacArthur had received orders to leave and had taken with him a number of senior officers from Corregidor. Admiral Rockwell and the Chief of Staff had also received orders to depart. The entire group had gone in Motor Torpedo Boats, threading their way through the islands to Mindanao. From there they were to be flown by Army bombers to Australia.

All of them were to carry on the war from Australia, forming new American Army and Navy Commands in that area. I asked Mike how it happened that I was included among the ones to go and, if so, how was I going to leave ? He told me the Navy had ordered Admiral Rockwell and his staff to depart at once. We were to go by submarine later this very evening. In our group was Captain Morsell, Supply officer; Lieutenant Commander Grandfield, Operations officer; Lieutenant Commander Cheek, Intelligence officer; and myself, as Aide and Flag Lieutenant. It was hard to believe that not so long ago, I had checked myself off and had written letters home in which I told my parents that they would probably never see me again.

As I entered the tunnel, Captain Hoeffel took me aside and handed me my orders. As always, the arrival and departure of this submarine was to be a secret except to the persons directly concerned. I gave to Colonel Clements of the Marine Corps the complete set of Jap equipment I had gathered on Bataan, including a small Japanese mortar used in jungle warfare. He assured me that these things would be carefully packaged and sent to Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington by the next submarine that came in, but neither of us realized that there would only be one or two more submarines before the end. At about ten fifteen, the four of us slipped quietly out of the tunnel down to the dock. I cannot find words to express the mingled feeling of anticipation and reluctance which I felt at turning my back upon that tunnel.

After all, we were leaving behind a goodly number of fine men, men that I had learned to know well. Men that I can never forget.

At the dock we got into a small boat and went out to the tug, RANGER, where there was a large number of enlisted

men and some officers who also had orders to embark on the same submarine. The tug steamed out to a selected rendezvous point, and waited It was a very dark night and the wait seemed ages.

On board the tug, to my intense surprise, I found Captain Dooley, Aide to General Wainwright. I asked him what he was doing and he said that he had come down with Tommy Suddath to have a look at a submarine, since he had never been aboard one. While on this tug, waiting for the submarine, Captain Dooley told me that General Wainwright had just signed a general order which had conferred upon me two Army Silver Star awards; one for the strafing incident in which I helped to save the General's life, and the other for the inspection of caves at Quinaun Point under fire.

Soon the word was passed quietly about the deck that the submarine. PERMIT, was surfacing nearby. We gathered about the rail as the black hulk slowly emerged and lines were tossed over as she came along our starboard side. We lowered aboard some torpedos from the precious little hoard that we had been guarding so carefully in one of the tunnels of Corregidor. These were MacGregor's torpedoes; he had checked every last one of them as a jeweler checks a fine watch.

As we climbed down through the conning tower, I became suddenly conscious of the dozens of men pouring into this boat. That made me feel good. The more competent naval personnel that we could get out of this area to fight again, the better. I looked around us and discovered that most of these men were radio specialists and most of them highly rated men. The officers were also highly trained specialists who would be wasted in just fighting with rifles in the jungle.

These officers and men were from our special communications unit, the "hush hush" operation. They were Japanese language experts who were busy breaking Japanese Navy codes. By amassing a tremendous volume of intercepts, patterns emerge, and their mission was of the utmost importance. Where in the world better for those intercepts than the Manila area?

It was absolutely vital that these particular specialists be transported safely to carry on their work from Australia Some truly "very important people" were going down those hatches.

On the way down I met the Captain, "Moon" Chappie, the famous heavyweight boxing champion I had seen in the ring at Annapolis. He was known and liked throughout the Navy, looking like a big Swede and always smiling. In an old S-Boat in Lingayen Gulf the Japs had plastered him with fifty-four depth charges and, when his boat finally surfaced, out of control, .the batteries exploded and killed some of his crew. He returned to Corregidor, dragged out the bodies, asked for volunteer replacements, and shoved off to resume fighting the Japs. He was tough, but he had a quality of tenderness which could not be hidden from those who knew him even slightly.

It was evident that he was happy to have us aboard. His Exec, was "Eddy" Baker, who had straightened me out a few times when I was a Plebe and he a lordly First Classman.

"Moon" Chappie, Navy Fighter

W I T H I N AN HOUR the torpedoes had been loaded, the passengers were all aboard and the bags of secret mail had been stowed away. The lines were cleared and PERMIT pulled slowly away from the tug. Remaining on the surface, Moon took her along the prescribed route, clear of the mine fields, and swung to the west and south toward the island of Mindanao. Down below we gathered in the small wardroom and counted noses. There were fourteen officers, not counting the Captain and the Executive officer, to share a compartment about nine feet by six with a small table in the center. It was clear that, if we were to get any sleep at all, we would have to take turns in the bunks. A muster was soon taken of every officer and man in the boat and it was then that I learned a startling fact. PERMIT, with a normal complement of fifty officers and men, and with facilities to take possibly ten more as passengers, was now carrying a total of one hundred and eleven people!

S H I P M A T E

Moon Chappie stuck his head into the little wardroom.

"Gentlemen," he said, "one of the other submarines received instructions to transport from Corregidor certain personnel and among them there were some very distinguished persons.

On the trip out an opportunity presented itself for that submarine to go into a Japanese formation and make an attack.

H e r Captain believed that his primary duty was to carry his distinguished passengers safely to their destination. I assure you that, on this trip, if I have a chance to attack the enemy, I will do so. W e are all Naval personnel and I am sure that you will be happy to be with me if we do have a chance to attack."

W e were more than happy. Now, at long last, we might have a chance with a r.eal Navy weapon. Torpedoes!

A t this time we learned why this particular sub was the buUseye in the Japanese scheme of things. They apparently thought General Douglas MacArthur was aboard. When the President of the United States ordered General Douglas M a c A r t h u r to leave the Islands he turned to the Navy. For a trial spin he boarded a submarine in Manila Bay and submerged. T h e good General got a little claustrophobia and decided to leave the Islands on the surface, in the motor torpedo boats. Assuming the effectiveness of their surface blockade of Manlia H a r b o r against all surface vessels, the Japanese Navy expected departure to be by submarine and the timing was just right. T h e U S S P E R M I T just fit into the pattern and it became the bullseye in the target.

After another hour of chatting, we faced, for the first time, the problem of getting some sleep. T w o officers slept on the wardroom table. One lined up three chairs, side by side, and slept there. Another slept on the deck under the table, and two slept in the folding bunks that were let down from the side of the wardr(X)m. T h e rest sat in the corners reading books, or stood up, depending on their turn. The remaining officers took their turns, using the bunks of the Captain and the Officer of the Deck while they were in the conning tower.

At night we ran on the surface and used this chance to charge the batteries. It felt good to hear the diesels throb while running on the surface because we made many times the speed that can be made submerged. During the daytime, we remained submerged completely, to avoid being spotted by the enemy. Their patrol planes and surface vessels were ever present. F r o m inside the submarine there was no way of telling whether we were submerged or on the surface, except by looking at the gauges and by breathing the wonderful cool air when the main hatch was open. Our diet consisted primarily of "Dutch H a s h , " and thereby hangs a tale.

Moon Chappie was in Surabaya. H e had received orders to provision and depart for Corregidor As he prepared to go ashore, the Japs came over and bombed hell out of everything. Moon took off for the deepest part of the harbor and submerged. W h e n the raids were over, he surfaced and swung in towards the docks. A small tug, towing a provision barge, passed nearby. Moon watched it. It chugged on by, heading for a drydock to provision a Dutch submarine. On arrival the skipper of the tug was informed that this Dutch submarine had been hit by Jap bombs and that provisions for it were no longer necessary. A s the tug swung around and again came past. Moon grabbed a megaphone and hailed it. T h e barge swung alongside the submarine and Moon asked if he could have the provisions. To the skipper of that tug, one submarine was as good as another, so Moon got case after case of dutch hash. H e stowed it all over the place. Cans of this hash were stuck behind every pipe and valve in the boat. Even the engine room overflowed with cans of dutch hash. W e had it fried.

W e had it baked. W e had it fricasseed, boiled, stewed, and any other way to prepare food known to man. F o r the first three days, it was delicious For the next three days, it was good. F o r the next three days, it was fair, and from then on, the less said the better!

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' T H E F I R S T M O R N I N G , just before submerging for the day, a dispatch was received from Corregidor directing P E R M I T to investigate some ships in Toyabas Bay. T h e message stated further that they appeared to be three Jap cargo vessels escorted by a submarine. This dispatch, on the face of it, appeared to be in error. Only under very unusual circumstances does a submarine ever escort or convoy anything.

A submarine must remain hidden to carry out its mission.

It is not designed to defend or protect merchant ships. But there was no time to question this dispatch nor did we want to break radio silence and disclose our position to the enemy.

W e submerged, at once, and changed our course to go through the Verdi Island Pasage toward Toyabas Bay. Early in the evening Moon surfaced the boat in the Passage heading south. Some distance ahead there appeared to be either a sharp fog bank or a rain squall. The rain squall was coming toward us slowly and Moon was concerned because, in that direction lay Toyabas Bay. As he mentioned this, a ship thrust its nose out of the squall, then a second and a third. They were headed across our bow in column and they were Jap destroyers. This, then, was what had been sighted and called transports. As yet, they hadn't sighted us and apparently their listening devices were not turned on or they would have located us in a matter of seconds.

Moon Chappie swung the bow toward the leading ship.

Destroyers or not, they were flying the Jap flag. H e fired two torpedoes at the leading destroyer, then he swung around hard astarboard so that he could use the stern tubes, which were also the ready tubes. As he did this, he was sighted by the destroyers. T h e torpedoes passed just ahead of the leading ship. Moon had over-estimated the enemy speed. They had only been making three or four knots while in the heavy rain squall. They immediately turned on their listening devices and came toward us at thirty knots. Chappie crash dived but was still broadside on. Down we plunged at a steep angle. All of a sudden I heard a noise like a sledge hammer hitting a rain barrel and the boat shuddered from stem to stern. This was the first depth charge of a great many that were to follow.

Those three destroyers passed overhead time after time and each time a depth charge would explode there would be the same shock and vibration, the same sound of a sledge hammer on a rain barrel. This kept up for thirty-six hours. The ordinary lighting was knocked out and we shifted to emergency.

One of the ballast tanks was blown after a depth charge went off close aboard. W e almost surfaced out of control. Moon regained control and levelled her off again at close to the maximum depth for which the sub was designed. Their sound devices were right on and we could tell by the sound of their propellers that they were passing overhead forming their patterns at will. Slowly, we were approaching some shallow water. T h a t was good. Silence in the boat was necessary. T h e fans were turned off. There was no slamming of doors, no loud talking. Just as everything became silent as a tomb.

W h a m ! T h a t one appeared to be almost directly under the bow and the bow lifted about forty degrees. T h e dishes fell out of their racks in the wardroom. The chairs fell over. All loose gear in the boat rattled and crashed to the deck. Again

Captain Champlin is an authentic hero of Cavite, Corregidor and Bataan, where he earned the Navy Cross, Army's Silver Star and four Presidential Unit Citations. A U S N A graduate of 1934 with 15/20 eyes, he became a lawyer and later a Special Agent of the FBI. He was ordered to the Philippines as Lt.(jg) U S N R in 1941; later served in the Aleutians, Western Pacific and at the Naval War College. After the War he returned to the law, remained active in the Naval Reserve, won the 1%5 Freedoms Foundation's Medal, and in 1967 was appointed Judge of the Oakland (California) Municipal Court.

they were overhead forming their patterns at will. Most of the lights went out and the air became nauseating. Very quietly the specially prepared lime was placed on the deck to absorb the carbon monoxide. A pitcher of water was passed around. It was not a happy moment. At this particular time.

Captain Morsell began to tell jokes. They were, in a word, foul, but wonderful at a time like this. He reminded me again of our bombing experience. "Remember, Champ; only mosquitoes!"

Slowly, the explosions of the depth charges began to fade away. The swish of the propellers became fainter and fainter.

The Japs must be dropping their ash cans on some pinnacles in the ocean floor. More power to them. Let us hope they expend them all that way. All hands relaxed and within an hour Moon surfaced.

It was not quite dark yet, but the destroyers were gone and the heavens were clear. The hatches were opened wide and the wonderful cool air flowed into that submarine. All through that night the officers and men came up four at a time for ten minutes in the conning tower. We reached out and felt this cool air, letting it slip through our fingers as it passed.

Xp ROM T H E R E ON nothing mattered. Not even the Guam Blisters, little boils which covered our bodies. Not even the foul air and the lice that began to spread. With the small evaporators knocked out, we had only a minimum of drinking water and none for baths. With one hundred and eleven men on that boat and a twenty-three-day trip there were no baths.

But we were heading for freedom and for Australia. We passed through the Sulu Sea, the Celebes Sea, around the

Island of Timor, and down into the Indian Ocean to Freemantle, Australia, the seaport just a few miles from Perth.

As we came up the narrow channel on the surface we stood in line in the boat, crowding toward the control room hatch.

As the engines stopped the hatch was opened and we filed through the control room and up the ladder to the conning tower. All passengers and the off-watch sections of the crew were crowded on deck.

On the dock alongside, just ten feet away, was a welcoming committee—Comdr. Mort Mumma, two bluejackets and a half dozen freezers full of ice cream! What a treat!

We sat around on the dock for an hour just dreaming, feeling the dock to be sure it was actually there, eating ice cream, and laughing. The whole panorama of recent events in the Philippines Campaign passed before me. Little did I realize that my chance to blast some Japs to kingdom come was already approaching. By operating submarines from Australia, and in battleships at Attn and Kiska, I obtained revenge many times over. Then came a short course at the Naval War College followed by a final pleasure, the training of hundreds of thousands of officers and men on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, "the cradle of invasion," for the final thrusts to the Philippines, to the China Coast and to Japan itself!

How humble and how grateful I am to be one of the few veterans of Bataan who lived to see the United States of America aroused and moving with overwhelming power to victory. Impressed upon my mind is the clearcut picture of the first months of the war, the Philippine picture, as it was in the beginning.

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

James Otis in Boston, 1761

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HARPOON TESTING IN MARCH Point Mugu, Calif. (NAVNEWS)—Testing and evaluation of the Navy's first anti-ship missile will start this month on the Pacific Missile Range here. Harpoon will be the Navy's first anti-ship missile designed for both air and surface launchings.

The Naval Missile Center at Point Mugu and the Naval Ship Missile Systems Engineering Station at Port Hueneme will conduct the extensive tests.

The Harpoon project was begun in 1968, soon after the Soviet anti-ship missile, the Styx, was used by the Egyptians to sink an Israeli destroyer near the Suez Canal. The Egyptians used three Styx missiles mounted on a 132-foot ship to sink the destroyer, forcefully demonstrating the threat small, missile-armed vessels could pose to major U. S. fighting ships.

Harpoon, still in the design phase, has a conventional warhead and a radar seeker for all-weather operation. The missile is powered by a jet engine. The surface-launched version also has a solid fuel rocket booster for boost from the surface.

The Navy expects to spend between $600 million and $1 billion on the Harpoon, depending upon how many ships and aircraft are outfitted with the missile.

As the Spanish say, "For fin."

S H I P M A T E

The Admiral gives a briefing

P O R T H E F I R S T T I M E in the Navy's history, a major, single command—The Chief of Naval Training—exists for the sole business of training. F o r many years we have been training by mission and function—air, surface and submarine— with too little tie-in and too much overlap. As the first Chief of Naval Training, I am charged with unifying the Navy's training business and managing the funds, the facilities, the curricula, and the support for all training, except for certain aspects of fleet training and professional training assigned to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

In the early days of the United States Navy, sailors acquired their skills at sea. At the turn of the century, only four shore training activities existed—the Naval Academy, the Naval W a r College and two recruit training programs at Newport and San Francisco.

T h e first Washington office associated with training was a small division in the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting devoted to apprentice training. This was established in 1879.

Ten years later, this training office was shifted to the Bureau of Navigation. H e r e it stayed until World W a r ,11 when the Bureau of Navigation became the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

Thus, for a period of nearly a huridred years, responsibility for training was assigned to a personnel bureau.

Before World W a r I I , the Navy numbered about 300,000 sailors. T h e training establishment then consisted of some 75 schools with an average annual attendance of 10,000. When the war came, the shore based school system soared as the Navy grew to more than three million Navy men and women.

There were simply not enough ships to fight a war and train

that many people on shipboard. So training moved ashore in full force. Schools sprang up in factories, colleges, universities, hotels, country estates, trade and vocational schools, navy yards and other navy establishments. Soon we were conducting training in 947 schools ashore with an average daily attendance of 303,000.

Many of the schools were disbanded at war's end, but once the roots of training had grown ashore, the fragmented training structure created during the forced draft pressures of wartime proved difficult to control and centralize in peacetime. Aviation, submarine, surface and medical training continued to move down individual paths. Duplications arose in course subject and content, as well as training facilities and equipment. T h e self-contained training organizations for producing aviation and submarine personnel, both officer and enlisted, performed a creditable job of meeting the individual needs of naval air and the submarine service, but the training of the remainder of the Navy left something to be desired.

A i r had its D C N O for Air, its own training organization ( C N A T R A ) , its own reserve air command, and its own technical training command. Submariners had their sub school, their submarine type commands, their strong control points in S S P O , and the Nuclear Power Directorate in the Naval Ship Systems Command. While surface training had its OP-03T, which later became OP-37, there was never a strong surface training organization within O P N A V . For the most part, training for the surface ship side of the Navy remained the responsibility of a division ( P e r s C ) within the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

T h e problem did not go unrecognized in higher echelons.

A number of boards met to study training—many of them convened as the result of definite failures. The Pride Board was convened in 1961 when the Tartar, Terrier and Talos surface missiles were introduced into the fleet and there were too few trained personnel to maintain and operate them. This board criticized the lack of central direction and strong support for the Navy's overall training effort and recommended long range planning to include all training in a single field organization, external to the Washington area.

A single training organization had been suggested even earlier, in 19SS, when the Hopwood Board recommended that a senior officer be designated as the Chief of Naval Training. " H e should coordinate all ashore schools and training, including the reserve training centers, except for air." Although the Hopwood Board did not recommend the merger of air training with other training, it did recommend a follow-up study to explore that possibility.

T h e Dillon Board in 1962 recommended that "the Chief of Naval Operations clearly define the responsibilities within his organization to set training policies and to appraise the results of education and training." It further recommended a study to determine the advisability of creating a separate training command and to consider consolidation of such a command with air training. T h e Freeman study of a single training command recommended a phased plan with the following as a final phase: "Establish a naval training command to encompass professional training, technical and reserve training."

(Incidentally, several of these studies recommended that any consolidated training command which was created should use Air Training for the model.)

THE NEW NAVAL TRAINING COMMAND Vice Admiral Malcolm W . Cagle, USN MARCH,

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' p H E S E STUDIES CAME TO NAUGHT insofar as consolidating training was concerned. It was not until the fleet began scaling down in size after Vietnam that consolidation of all shore facilities assumed real urgency. It made little sense to have a fat shore structure and a skinny seagoing Navy. With the fleet down from 930 to about 650 ships, we obviously needed a smaller supporting structure, including training, ashore. Faced with a shrinking Navy, the CNO directed in early 1971 that training consolidation not be studied but implemented. He directed the establishment of "a single Naval Training Command in the field, consolidating the existing Navy training structures to the extent necessary to achieve a higher quality of individual, team and functional training and to achieve a tightened OPNAV training organization."

The Implementation Board started with many prejudices, mine included. I knew little about training except air. The surface sailors knew little about air. And neither of us knew much about submarine training. Soon we accepted the fact that we indeed needed the ONE NAVY which the new CNO was working toward. It is the same ocean, the same environment, and the same enemy—-whether you're serving aboard a submarine, an aircraft or surface ship. An electron doesn't know whether it's in an airplane, a destroyer or a submarine.

The principles and fundamentals of electricity, sonar, gas turbines, metalwork, electronics, communications, data processing, or electronic warfare—and dozens more—are valid in every mission warfare area and every part of the Navy. The training structure ashore needed to reflect the fact of ONE NAVY. In short, the Board realized we had to abandon parochialism in order to create a better, readier Navy, to reduce the sprawling training establishment, and at the same time upgrade training for an even more complicated and modern Navy of the late 1970's.

Another consideration was time. We didn't have the time nor the money to build new headquarters at a new location, so we looked for an existing and successful organization on which we could build. We found it in the Naval Air Training Command. With the pilot training rate down to 2100, three staffs of more than 500 officers were not needed to supervise air training. A single flight training command, supported by a new training air wing system, was not only possible but would give better air training. Moreover, Pensacola had the buildings, civil service and military personnel available to start the new organization. And, most important, the air training command was an experienced and successful training structure on which to build, as several earlier studies had recommended.

The Secretary of the Navy approved the recommendations of the Cagle Board in June, and by 1 August the Chief of Naval Training staff was formed at Pensacola. The former Chief of Naval Air Basic Training in Pensacola, Rear Admiral John M. Thomas, assumed the title and the functions of'the Chief of Naval Air Training, and the Basic Air Training staff disappeared.

Along with centralized management in the field, the earlier Boards and the Cagle Board found an obvious requirement for a single budget spokesman for training in Washington.

This requirement was met by giving a second "hat" and title to CNT. In addition to the centralized field Naval Training organization, an OPNAV training organization was created—a Director of Naval Education and Training (OP099). By filling both these positions, I am able to coordinate training and education requirements with budgeting and funding and make changes more rapidly and efficiently.

The Washington staff consists of Rear Admiral V. G. Lambert, and a staff of about 120 people. Disestablishment of the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Training (OP-OIC) and the Bureau of Naval Personnel Training Division (Pers C) gave us a nucleus for this new OPNAV training staff.

Just as important as OP-099 was the creation of training divisions in the new offices of the Deputies for Surface Warfare (OP-03) and Submarine Warfare (OP-02). Two divisions, OP-29 Submarine Training, and OP-39 Surface Training, would parallel the experienced Aviation Training S H I P M A T E

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Division in D C N O ( A i r W a r f a r e ) ( O p - 0 5 ) . These three divisions, plus other training desks in 095, 093, C N M , Communications, etc., would generate training requirements in their individual areas. These requirements would then be passed to the Director of Naval Education and Training for introduction into the budget and programming process.

W i t h C N O ' s guidance and direction, D N E T would then set training priorities, training programs and defend training funds throughout the entire budget cycle.

In addition to the Planning and Programming Budget Systems ( P P B S ) functions, the Director of Naval Education and Training has an Education Programs Division. The Secretary, C N O and C H N A V P E R S all agreed that education programs could not and should not be separated from training, but could be more easily managed in Washington rather than in the C N T field organization. For example, the selection of candidates for the Navy's main educational institutions— U S N A , R O T C s , Naval W a r College, Naval Postgraduate School, etc.—remains the responsibility of the Chief of Naval Personnel, and Congress demonstrates a continuing interest in these institutions as do S E C N A V and C N O . Keeping education in the Director of Naval Education and Training's organization can insure greater responsiveness.

Thus, the education programs and schools managed from Washington by D N E T are the Naval Academy, Naval W a r College, Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Management Systems Center, Navy Supply Corps School, Naval School T r a n s portation Management, Naval School for Civil Engineer Corps Officers, Naval Justice School, Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps units, N E S E P units. Naval Schools Command/ Naval Officer Candidate School Newport, Naval Academy Preparatory School, Departments of Naval Science at six Maritime Academies, Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps units, Naval Honor Schools, Surface Warfare Officer School, Tuition A i d / P A C E / U S A F I / G I Bill, A D C O P , Dependents Schooling and B O O S T . Previously, all of these had come under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Naval Personnel.

T N T H E F I E L D , under the Chief of Naval Training in Pensacola, there are four subordinate commands: Naval Air Training, Naval Air Reserve Training, Naval Technical Training and the Naval T r a i n i n g Support Command.

T h e staff of the Chief of Naval Air Training at Pensacola will move to and merge with the staff of the Chief of Naval A i r Advanced T r a i n i n g at Corpus Chri.sti in the late spring and summer of 1972. The latter command will then disappear.

From his Texas headquarters, the Chief of Naval Air Training will then direct all pilot and naval flight officer training through eight new air training wings now being established at each major flight training air station. These wings resemble and parallel the fleet " R A G S " (Replacement Air Wings and Groups) which provide postgraduate training in the specific fleet aircraft, a system which has been so successful over the past decade. T h e wings are training, operating staffs—not planners, logisticians, administrators, etc., but experienced aviators who specialize in teaching and training students.

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T h e Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training, Rear Admiral Howard E. Greer in Glenview, Illinois, also wears two hats.

A s Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training, he presently reports to the Chief of Naval Training at Pensacola. As Commander Naval Air Reserve Forces, he reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations, as does the Commander Naval Reserve Training at Omaha. This reserve structure and its eventual and final relationship to the new Training Command is still under study.

T h e Chief of Naval Technical Training in Memphis (formerly headquarters of the Chief of Naval Air Technical T r a i n ing) assumes responsibility for the bulk of the widespread shore training establishment. Rear Admiral Allen A. Bergner assumed this post on October 1. The Technical Training Command directs training at 83 activities in 37 geographical locations stretching from New London, Connecticut to San Diego, California, and Pearl Harbor. This responsibility includes recruit training, fleet and weapons systems training and individual technical training for both officers and enlisted men.

Annually, the input into the schools and activities exceeds 200,000 trainees. Of significant interest to the fleets, schools, such as the Naval Schools Commands, Service Schools Commands, the Development and Training Center, Damage Control Training Centers and Guided Missiles Schools, report directly to the Memphis command. So do the Recruit T r a i n ing Centers and the specialized mission oriented schools such as amphibious, destroyer, submarine and mine warfare training schools.

A major and most significant part of the T r a i n i n g Command reorganization is the direct tie between the new T r a i n ing Command and the Fleet Commanders. A direct command line has been established for the Commander, Training Command Atlantic and Commander, Training Command Pacific to report to C N T E C H T R A and C N T for duty. Of course, C O M T R A L A N T and C O M T R A P A C continue to report to their respective Fleet Commanders for duty. Moreover, Admiral Bergner, as C N T E C H T R A , controls primary interest schools such as Fleet Training Centers, Fleet Anti-Air W a r fare Training Centers, and Sonar and Antisubmarine W a r fare .Schools as well as afloat training activities. This vital linkup with the two fleet training commands and these important schools insures that the entire training establishment ashore is coordinated in all respects to serve the customer— the fleets at sea.

T h e Chief of Naval Training's fourth subordinate command—Naval Training Support Command—is now being aggregated. The former BuPers C-4 division. General Military Training and Support, was retitled and became the new T r a i n ing Support Command on 1 August 1971. It becomes fully active in July 1972 and will move out of Washington sometime next year to a new location now under study. This new command will develop, produce and distribute training aids, publications and examinations. It also initiates and directs programs to provide on-duty instruction in technical and professional subject areas not conducted in formal schools or courses of educational and training activities. The Naval Education and Training Support Centers, Naval Correspondence

Course Center, Naval Examining Center and Naval Training Publications Centers will come under this command.

Thus, training has been moved out of the Bureau of Naval Personnel and has been joined to fleet, air and technical training activities to form a unified naval training organization.

A strong training staff has been created in the CNO's office.

T h e overall guidance, direction, management and responsibility for all training rests with the Chief of Naval Training in Pensacola.

VAdm. Cagle was born in Colorado, grew up in Tennessee, graduated from the Naval Academy in 1941 and became a naval aviator in August 1943.

He was promoted to Rear Admiral in October 1966 and donned this third star upon assuming his present command on 1 August 1971. In addition to a distinguished naval career. Admiral Cagle won both the Naval Institute's Gold Medal and the Navy League's Mahan award in 1957 and he has authored or co-authored five books, several television scripts for the "Navy Log" series and numerous articles.

T J O W D O W E G E T this new organization rolling? My staff headquarters has started by forming several action groups to examine the many problem areas that were identified by the Naval Training Command Study Board. The goal is simply a better, consolidated training organization responsive to fleet needs.

First of all, fleet responsiveness requires a change in training philosophy. In the past, helping the individual move up the promotion ladder was, in large part, the goal of many training activities. Providing trained men to the fleet was the second purpose. In some areas, advancement needs of the individual seemed to be driving the schools. While meeting the advancement goals of the individual is very important, it is not the primary reason for training. T h e number one task lies in finding out what training the fleet requires for each particular rate. W e then train the man for this job and, second, we train him to help him advance and gain a promotion.

largest percentage of recruits go on to service schools before going to sea. By the time they are ready for sea duty, some of the firefighting training, telephone talker procedures, etc., must be repeated. Is defensive driving instruction really necessary for the recruit or can a civilian driver's license be accepted? W h a t is essential, in 1971, in recruit training and what is not? These and other questions can only be answered by feedback from the recruit graduate serving in the fleet.

Other study groups are examining duplication between the service schools and the mission oriented schools. Can we not "common core" or teach such fundamentals as gas turbine technology to both an aviation jet mechanic trainee and to the engineman who will man a DD-963 turbine powered engineroom? Can't digital fundamentals be taught for all trainees whether destined for aviation, surface or submarine assignments? Many other possibilities for common coring exist across the entire Navy—data processing, welding, metalwork, etc.

I have listed but a few of the tasks we face in training.

W e cannot accomplish them overnight. It may be as much as two or three years before the things we are doing now will pay off in the trained man who reports to the fleet. The important thing is that we now have the vehicle—a single training organization—to work through. Slowly, we will be pulling the training branches together, pruning the unnecessary ones and strengthening those that are already functioning well.

T h e object is simply—a strong, better trained, readier Navy.

H o w does one find out what training the fleet needs? The answer is task or job analysis. Normally, a trained team of fleet officers and enlisted men performs these analyses, which describe in detail the work to be performed by each rate, and which determine what specific tasks are involved and what qualifications are required of personnel to perform the work. This system is thorough and time consuming, and it provides many other valuable answers—such as job satisfaction, career planning information, advancement, etc. However, to get a handle on exactly what training the fleet needs, I have adopted a "quick and dirty" way of doing task analysis which will enable us to refocus our training requirements.

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' p H E DECADE OF T H E 1970's has brought to the Naval Reserve many changes. These are new or modified programs, new policies, new concepts, new responsibilities. These changes evolve from actions taken, and events and conditions which existed or transpired during the 1960's.

Naval Reserve units traditionally have depended on "fall out" from the fleet for aircraft, ships, and major items of equipment. Between the years 1965 to 1969 this "fall out" was negligible because of the urgent and priority requirements for additional equipment for the Southeast Asia operations. The shortages, obsolescence, and combat unserviceability of much of the equipment in the Naval Reserve adversely affected our overall readiness during this period. This lack of real readiness was evident at the time of the call-up of the six Naval Air Reserve Squadrons and two Naval Reserve Construction Battalions in January and May of 1968, respectively.

The Congress, recognizing the importance of the role of the reserve components, enacted the Reserve Forces Bill of Rights and Vitalization Act which became effective 1 January 1968, and which expresses the will of the Congress that the Reserve Forces be adequately supported in order to insure their viability and readiness when needed. An adequately supported Reserve force will thus become a reliable partner in the total force, and will underscore the Nixon doctrine as we lower our military profile abroad.

The national strategy for the decade of the 1970's and beyond includes the reduction in the U.S. military effort in Vietnam and the lowering of overall military strength to allow reallocation of Federal resources in line with changing national priorities. This national strategy has caused a sharply increased interest in the readiness and ability of the Reserve Forces. Beginning in 1969, the size of the active armed forces has taken a long downward slide in the face of rising costs

THE NAVAL RESERVE IN THE TOTAL FORCE Rear Admiral Edwin J. Zimmerman, USNR M A R C H ,

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of defense programs. Increased reliance and dependence have therefore been placed on our Reserve Forces as a combatready part of the total force structure.

While the reserve components have had a broad mission statutorily set forth in the Armed Reserve Act of 1952, a new priority mission has been given these components by the Secretary of Defense in his memorandum of August 21, 1970 to the military departments and in statements before Congressional Committees. These enunciate the Administration's policy that the Guard and Reserve will be assigned new responsibilities and will be employed initially to augment the active force if the need arises, rather than rely on the draft for the initial augmentation as practiced in the past. In the August 21 memorandum the Secretary of Defense directed the military departments to apply a total force concept to all aspects of planning, programming, manning, equipping and employing the Guard and Reserve forces. Attention was also focused on the fact that the Guard and Reserve forces can contribute to the peacetime missions of the active forces with significant manpower and monetary savings.

Within the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Zumwalt, has emphasized the policy that "Modernization of our Navy includes increased reliance on and support for our Naval Reserve." Also, he has stressed the importance of looking on the Naval Reserve, in combination with the active force and our allies, as an integral part of the total Navy force and capabilities. H e has divided responsibilities, in relation to the Navy mission, into four functional categories; that is, Strategic Deterrence, Sea Control, Projection of Power Overseas, and Overseas Presence. As a mirror image of the active force, the Naval Reserve must provide additional combat resources to enhance the capability of the Navy to accomplish these basic and critically important responsibilities.

Reduction of active force and manpower levels does not necessarily require compensatory increases in the numbers of drilling reservists. The fiscal constraints will not permit a numerical balancing of forces, nor would the reduction of immediate response capability inherent in the shift from fully active to a part-time active reserve force be a prudent course of action. So with the initial reduction of active Navy forces, it was determined that our efforts with respect to the Naval Reserve would be directed toward increasing the readiness of units and individuals generally within the manpower currently authorized, with changes as necessary to improve effectiveness. During the past two years changes have been made in organization, management and equipment toward the goal of the overall objective—readiness.

At the Navy Department level, the Chief of Naval Operations has re-emphasized the position of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower and Naval Reserve) as the focal point for all Naval Reserve matters. Additional Naval Reserve Coordinators have been established in O P N A V , the Bureaus and other major offices, and in the Systems Commands, a step which will help insure greater opportunity for consideration of reserve matters in the early stages of planning and budget formulation. It is the expressed desire of the Chief of Naval Operations that Reserve planning be concurrent with regular force planning as a key ingredient in the total force concept.

SH-3 "Sea King" helicopter assigned to Helicopter Antl-Submarlne Warfare Squadron 85 based at Alameda, California, mokes approach to USS TICONDEROGA during operations conducted by Carrier Anti-Submorlne Air Group Reserve 80.

to two Attack Carrier Air Wings, two Carrier Antisubmarine Air Groups, 12 Patrol squadrons organized into East Coast and West Coast Wings, and three Transport squadrons. The feasibility of expanding this force is being studied. The Force presently consists of 45 squadrons, organized along active fleet lines and equipped esentially with combat deployable aircraft. T h e chain of command has been established with the Carrier Air W i n g Commanders, Carrier Air Group Commanders and Fleet Air W i n g ( C O M F A I R E S W I N G ) Commanders reporting directly to the Commander Naval Air Reserve Force who in turn reports to the Chief of Naval Operations. Additionally, the Commander Naval Air Reserve Force reports to the Air Type Commanders for additional duty in matters concerning readiness, training and material support.

The two Attack Carrier Air Wings consist of 6 Attack, 4 Fighter, 2 Tactical Electronic Warfare, 2 Light Photographic Reconnaissance, and 2 Airborne Early W a r n i n g type squadrons. The two Carrier Antisubmarine W a r f a r e Groups consist of 4 Helicopter Carrier Antisubmarine Warfare, 6 Carrier Antisubmarine Warfare, 2 Antisubmarine Fighter, and 2 Airborne Early W a r n i n g type squadrons. Also included in the Naval Air Reserve Force are one Tactical Air Control squadron, 29 A S W Operational Control Groups/Units/Elements, and 25 Naval Air Intelligence Units.

Reserve E-1 "Tracer" aircraft assigned to VAW-207 of Norfolk, Virginia, line the flight deck of USS J. F. KENNEDY during the Naval Air Reserve's history-making carrier deployment.

THE AIR RESERVE Beginning in Fiscal Year 1970 and continuing into Fiscal Year 1971, the Combat Unit Components of the Naval Air Reserve Force underwent a major reorganization. The restructuring of the hardware units of the Naval Air Reserve into the current Naval Air Reserve Force was initiated primarily as a result of problems experienced and lessons learned in connection with the call-up of Naval Air Reserve squadrons in early 1968 following the PUEBLO incident. The primary purpose of this reorganization was to permit the Commander Naval A i r Reserve Force more effectively to meet his mission of providing personnel and aircraft in a state of combat readiness which would permit rapid employment in the event "of partial or full mobilization. The term "2-2-12-3" is used frequently to identify the new Force organization and refers 12

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was established 1 November 1970 at the Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Training Center, Alameda, California with the Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command as the program sponsor. T h e purpose of this program is to provide a capability within the Naval Reserve to offload Military Sealift Command shipping. More such battalions are planned for the future.

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The Commander Naval A i r Reserve Force "double-hats" as Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training. Under the control of the Chief of Naval Air Reserve T r a i n i n g is a total of 158 Fleet Augmentation, Fleet Support, and Training and Supp o r t / S h o r e Establishment units. T h e Chief of Naval Air Reserve T r a i n i n g is responsible for training of reservists to meet the manning requirements of the Naval Air Reserve Force and augmentation of the active Naval Air Force when needed in time of emergency.

THE SURFACE RESERVE The combat/functional unit structure of the Surface Naval Reserve consists of 34 destroyer type ships, 18 minesweepers, 18 mobile construction battalions, 22 inshore undersea warfare units, 1 cargo handling battalion and 1 coastal/river squadron. The destroyer type ships (30 D D s and 4 D E s ) make up five destroyer squadrons. D E S R O N S 27 and 37 ( N R F ) are homeported on the West Coast, and D E S R O N S 28, 30 and 34 ( N R F ) are homeported on the East Coast. The minesweepers on the West Coast are assigned to M I N E R O N 5 ( N R F ) , with M I N E R O N 12 ( N R F ) the East Coast command.

T h e Naval Reserve Cargo Handling Battalion program was authorized by the Chief of Naval Operations effective 1 August 1970 and the first unit under this program, C H B 12-3,

Reservists prepare an F-8 Crusader from VA-201, Dallas, Texas, for cotopault launch during the Naval Air Reserve's first Air Wing carrier deployment.

As a first step toward developing a Naval Reserve Coastal/ River capability. Coastal/River Squadron 2 was established at Little Creek, Virginia; the Reserve element was established on 1 April 1971 followed in a little over three months by official activation on 10 July. The unit is composed of approximately half active duty personnel, the balance being inactive duty reservists, and is assigned to the Commander, Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet for command and operational control. W e hope also to expand this program in the future. VAdm. D. H . Guinn, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower and Naval Reserve), has stated that " W e recognize the need for retaining a capability in 'brownwater' operations within the Navy, and the Naval Reserve can play a valuable role in this mission."

PASSING OF OPERATIONAL CONTROL During Fiscal Year 1971, we implemented one of the major concepts of the Naval Reserve Force Study wherein command, operational control and readiness responsibilities for combat/ functional units are assigned to commanders responsible for active force counterparts. As Admiral Zumwalt has stated, "This will go a long way toward making reserve forces an even more integral part of the Navy capability and strengthening the one-Navy concept." T h e command, control and responsibility for training and administration of the Naval Reserve destroyers and minesweepers was transferred to the Fleet Commanders-in-Chief beginning on dates as follows: Pacific Fleet Destroyers Atlantic Fleet Destroyers All Mine Warfare Ships

—1 October 1970 —1 January 1971 —1 July 1971

The primary mission of these ships remains that of training the Selected Reserve portion of the assigned crew and individual reservists on active duty for training. T h e Commander, Naval Reserve Training, through the District Commandants, provides Selected Reserve manning for the crews in accordance with established allowances.

The reduction of active fleet forces beginning in F Y 1970 has resulted in the transfer to reserve status of many of our Sea Control units. Thus, we have been able to upgrade the Naval Reserve aircraft and ships. The replacement aircraft and ships in the main have a greater degree of modernization, reliability, and possess equipment which enhances the capability of these hardware units to operate and communicate with fleet forces in a sustained operational environment. During F Y 1970 and 1971 20 destroyers, 9 minesweepers, and 262 fleet aircraft were transferred to the Naval Reserve, largely as replacements for less modern ships and aircraft.

Last July, 2 additional destroyers and 4 ocean-going minesweepers were added to the Naval Reserve Force. As an example of the upgrading of aircraft in the Naval Air Reserve Force, the improved A-4L aircraft has replaced the A-4C aircraft in four attack squadrons ( V A ) . Also, one attack squadron has completed transition to modern A-7A aircraft and another attack squadron is now in the process of transition. W e will continue this plan to upgrade significantly the aircraft and ships in the Naval Reserve hardware units.

RECALL AND MOBILIZATION If experience during the past decade continues, and in the light of the new policy enunciated by the Secretary of Defense, a partial or selective call-up of Reserves can be expected to be the most likely utilization of the Reserve to respond to national needs in the foreseeable future. However, the Naval Reserve must be prepared to meet the full spectrum M A R C H ,

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of mobilization requirements from partial through full mobilization. Therefore, we will continue to train reservists as individuals as well as in units, to provide qualified men and officers as the type of emergency or mobilization demands.

Recently, we began to restructure the Naval Reserve Surface Division program to provide recallable units where feasible.

These units will be formed to meet identified mobilization requirements for specific types of units of the operating forces and shore establishment. Personnel requirements for inactivated ships planned for early activation will be included. The existing Surface Division program will be restructured to provide Fleet Expansion Units ( F E U ) , Fleet Support Units ( F S U ) , and Fleet Staff/Unit Expansion Groups ( F S U E G ) .

This action will result in a greater portion of the Selected Reserve becoming recallable units. It further provides greater visibility, imparts a greater sense of specific mission and places more emphasis on functional units and their capabilities.

Except for the Antisubmarine Warfare and Minewarfare ships and the Coastal/River Squadron, the units of the Surface Naval Reserve are under the control of the Commander Naval Reserve Training (Omaha, Nebraska) who exercises his command and administrative responsibilities through the Naval District Commandants.

Marked improvement in the training of the Naval Reserve has been realized during the past two years. The Selected Reserve portions of the crews for all Naval Reserve Force ships perform their annual active duty for training ( A C D U T R A ) requirements by cruising principally as units. These ships participate in fleet exercises and special assignments as well as cruising as training ships for other Selected Reservists for annual active duty training and week-end drills. In the training of reservists in the Surface program conducted at the Naval Reserve centers and facilities, continued emphasis has been placed on individual training through the use of the Functional Individual Training System ( F I T S ) , the use of

by changes in Fleet tactics are jointly developed by Commander Naval Air Reserve Force and the Fleet A i r Type Commanders. This method ensures, to the maximum extent possible, that Reserve Force squadron combat training reflects the desires of the Fleet Commander who will receive the unit on recall.

Associated with the organization of the Naval Air Reserve Force is the authorization of an opportunity for 84 drills annually for flying personnel in the C V W R s , C W S G R s , and the V P and V R squadrons. Also 36 Supplementary Training and Readiness Periods ( S T A R P S ) are authorized flying personnel in the Attack Wings and A S W Groups. These additional drills assure attainment of a higher level of operational readiness.

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USS DETECTOR—Naval Reserve ocean-going minesweeper homeported in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

T h e receipt of newer aircraft models has increased combat training capability and strengthened Fleet and Reserve syllabic compatibility. Carrier landing qualifications are now conducted for squadrons which normally would deploy aboard carriers upon mobilization. During F Y 1971, Reserve pilots amassed a total of 1640 jet, 1422 propellor and 259 helicopter carrier landings. This total of 3321 carrier landings represents a quantum increase in combat readiness. It is even more significant when one reflects that it was carried off without a single accident. In fact, this past fiscal year not only showed the greatest improvement in combat readiness, but logged the lowest aviation accident rate in the history of the Naval Air Reserve. A record low of .41 accidents per 10,000 hours of flying was realized for the year.

READINESS USS LOWRY—Naval Reserve ship at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Regular Navy courses of instruction, and conduct of team training and competitive war games. Damage control training has been enhanced by the use of mobile damage control vans (soon to be in all Naval Districts) and a gradual (if disappointingly slow) accretion of gear and training aids and material. Military Training Divisions ( M T D s ) , which provided pre-active duty training to 2X6 enlistees (Naval reservists who serve 2 years on active duty), were phased out during F Y 1971. Such enlistees now receive regular recruit training and, in most cases. Class A School training prior to their assignment to a Selected Reserve unit or to active duty.

Training syllabi for Selected Air Reservists assigned to Naval Air Reserve Force squadrons are based on current Fleet training requirements. Syllabus modifications generated 14

Recent innovations have upgraded practical training. In June 1971 the Naval Reserve Force destroyer U S S GEARING (DD-710) departed her homeport in the United States for the Mediterranean with 110 Selected Naval Reservists aboard.

GEARING operated with units of the Sixth Fleet conducting coordinated Anti-submarine Warfare ( A S W ) exercises including the firing of A S R O C missile and a M K 44 tube shot, participating in Anti-air Warfare ( A A W ) and jamming overflights, A A W live firing exercises, etc. This was the first extended Mediterranean training cruise in recent history for a Naval Reserve Force Ship. GEARING was augmented each two weeks during her two and a half month deployment by five replacement groups of approximately 110 reservists each from reserve units in the United States.

F o r the second consecutive year, a Naval Air Reserve Force detachment was established at Rota, Spain, to assist the Commander, U. S. Naval Forces Europe, to provide continuous patrol squadron ( V P ) support for Mediterranean and adjacent waters. This support continued for about six S H I P M A T E

months during the year. Naval Air Reserve transport squadrons also were deployed to Europe for support of Fleet transport missions.

These are examples of practical and effective training of Naval Reserve units as well as fine contributory support of the active Naval force rendered by the Naval Reserve.

Some problems are expected in connection with exercises of this category; however, the reserve participation was outstanding and highly beneficial to the Naval Reserve program and the operating forces. W e plan to conduct these deployments annually.

RECRUITING AND RETENTION The total strength of the Naval Reserve as of 30 June 1971 was 637,830 officers and men, of whom 69,500 were on active duty. There were 410,349 in the Ready Reserve not on active duty, 52,003 in the Standby Reserve, and 105,978 in the Retired Reserve. The average strength authorized the Selected Reserve for F Y 1971 was 129,000. Although slightly under the average strength level authorized, we ended Fiscal Year 1971 with 130.014 on board in the Selected Reserve.

Much has been said and written about a zero draft and a volunteer force. The Navy has traditionally considered itself as a volunteer force. However, the procurement capability of the Navy, like other Services, historically has been sensitive to draft pressure. T h e Congress, by enacting Public L a w 92-129, has extended the draft, within certain ceilings, until 30 June 1973, authorized increased rates of pay primarily for

USS DYESS—modern Naval Reserve destroyer, homeport—Brooklyn, New York.

Following are excerpts from a report made by Dr. Theodore C. Marrs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs), following his trip to the Mediterranean during August 1-10, 1971: ". . . At Rota, Spain, a tour of facilities was conducted and a briefing and discussion held with the Reserve V P and VR squadrons on station. The VR Transport squadrons appear to be completely integrated with the local fleet logistic requirements system. T h e V P Patrol unit is actively engaged in 6th Fleet surveillance activities. . . .

On balance, the training received and readiness contribution make this evolution worthy of continuance and expansion. . . .

Observation of exercises revealed a high degree of skill and professionalism by the crew of the GEARING in making repeated simulated attacks on a live submarine ( U S S S E A LEOPARD). Discussion with active 6th Fleet unit commanders disclosed that the GEARING was considered to be a part of the total capability package of the Fleet while on station."

A "first" in Naval Air Reserve Force training was accomplished by Reserve Carrier Antisubmarine Group 80 ( C V S G R - 8 0 ) when this unit, as a whole, performed its two weeks annual A C D U T R A aboard the U S S TICONDEROGA ( C V S - 1 4 ) during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, earning excellent marks in the annual Operation Readiness Inspections.

In addition to the training conducted by the Naval Reserve ships at 28 different homeports, training of the Surface Naval Reserve is conducted at 367 training centers and facilities throughout the United States. Training of the Naval Air Reserve is conducted at 21 flying sites and 10 non-flying sites.

It is possible that the portion of the National budget available for the Armed Forces will continue to be constrained.

In such a funding climate, neither active nor reserve forces can have all they would like to perform their military missions. Therefore, priorities are established to insure the most effective allocation of resources. T h e monetary value of the transfer of equipment from the active forces to the reserves during the past few years has been substantial even though it does not show up in the budget. While the active Navy has taken heavy cuts in ships, aircraft, and personnel, the Navy has not cut its allocation of funds to the Naval Reserve, In fact, reserve support dollars are increasing. A s the Secretary of Defense recently stated, "the National Guard and Reserve forces were either neglected or stripped of much essential equipment. W e have changed that. . . . W e can no longer afford to treat the Guard and Reserve as stepchildren."

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USS GEARING—one of the most modern of the destroyers In Naval Reserve Force; operated with Sixth Fleet during deployment in Mediterranean In summer 1971, homeport—New London, Connecticut.

personnel in the lower grades, and authorized a B A Q allowance for Reserve enlistees during their initial tour of active duty for training. There is a wide range of factors which will affect our ability to attract and retain Reserve forces.

These include the quality of equipment on which they train, more adequate compensation in some form for vulnerability to recall and for disruption of their primary vocations during training periods, and the attitude of the citizen sailor toward military life. The Department of the Navy supports fully the development of incentives which include enlistment and reenlistment bonuses as well as other benefits. Maximum effort on the part of all concerned with the training and administration of the Naval Reserve will be required in an effort to maintain Naval Reserve strength. Your help is earnestly solicited.

T N R E V I E W I N G and evaluating the actions we have taken during recent years, we feel real progress has been made in strengthening the Naval Reserve and that the readiness potential of the Naval Reserve is at a higher level than ever before.

T h e increased reliance on reserve forces serves not only as a challenge, but also as an opportunity for the Naval Reserve to demonstrate its capability as an important part of the total force. There undoubtedly will be more changes in 15

the Naval Reserve as we move forward in the decade of the seventies. W e must avoid the danger of a "status quo" philosophy and must be able to move in step with the dynamic changes in the active Navy. I look forward with confidence and in anticipation of greater readiness and achievements for the Naval Reserve in the years to come. I share the stated views of the Chief of Naval Operations that the future of the Naval Reserve has never been brighter.

A graduate of Southern Methodist L^niversity, Admiral Zimmerman was commissioned as Ensign, USNR, in 1942 and served through W W I I in the destroyers

KNIGHT and AULT.

After

a short break in active service, he returned to active duty in September 1950 and has performed a variety of sea assignments including Aide and Flag Secretary to Commander Battleship Division Two in flagships NEW JERSEY and IOWA, command of Atlan-

tic Fleet destroyer COMPTON winning Battle Efficiency "E's" in 1960 and 1961, command of the fleet oceanographic ship TANNER and command of Reserve Destroyer Squadron THIRTY-FOUR. Ashore, Admiral Zimmerman has served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Personnel/Administration, Third Naval District; Director, Naval Reserve Plans Division, OPNAV, and additional duty as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Naval Reserve) ; Deputy Commander, Inspector General, and Commander of the Naval Reserve Training Command. On 17 July 1970 he assumed, for the second time, the duties of Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Naval Reserve).

The Naval Reserve is to the Navy what a parachute needs it, he'll never need it again.

ALUMNI TO VISIT SWINGING LONDON IN MAY Your Association is interested in developing a foreign tour program and is sponsoring, on a trial basis, a one week tour to London May 7-14. T h e initial announcements were sent only to Alumni living in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area as a test of interest, but the response has been terrific and all indications point to a wonderful time to be had by all.

This is not an ordinary "group tour," but a travel experience planned with utmost care to give Alumni a delightful week in the British capital.

The non-stop flight departs from Washington's Dulles Airport via T W A . T h e cost is only $379 and the best of everything is included . . . deluxe accommodations at the London Hilton . . . breakfast each day . . . cocktail party each night . . . four dinners at the finest restaurants . . . sightseeing . . . a theatre ticket, and ample leisure time to relax, shop for excellent bargains, or wander about London.

Some reservations are still available. Interested Alumni should get in touch with Matterhorn Travel Service, 1923 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. Phone (301) 2687822, or in Washington 261-2323, to request detailed information.

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THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE ENGINEERING CURRICULA AT THE U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY Commander R. C. Gentz, USN

T^HE UNITED STATES NAVY has long been noted for its technical ability. At no time in the Navy and Marine Corps' history has the need for a high level of this expertise been greater. The requirement for officers who have a solid engineering background is a direct adjunct to this need. It is somewhat a paradox that this is the case because, in general, the demand for engineers has waned somewhat. Without young officer engineers who are involved in the day to day problems of operating today's highly specialized and complicated systems it would be very difficult to manage effectively the technicians, anticipate problems, or suggest new and better ways of getting the job done. There is absolutely nowhere in the Navy today that the requirement for trained engineers does not exist.

Since the Naval Academy's mission is "to prepare young men morally, mentally, and physically to be professional officers in the Naval Service" it is apparent that a significant part of that preparation must today be devoted to providing a technical background.

HISTORY Prior to 1959 all midshipmen received the same education.

At that time the opportunity for some entrants to validate college level work began. This permitted those students to pursue various minor programs and overloads were encouraged. In 1966 an Immediate Graduate Education Program was instituted permitting exceptional men to continue their education at selected institutions and earn Master's Degrees in nine months to a year. Beginning with the Class of 1970 the changeover to the Majors Program was completed, finishing the break with the old "lock step" routine. The Naval Academy now offers 26 majors; 8 of these are in engineering fields.

DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND WEAPONS ORGANIZATION AND FACULTY The Division of Engineering and Weapons is broken into 5 Engineering Departments: Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Naval Systems, and Weapons and Systems Engineering.

The Naval Systems Engineering Department offers majors in Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, and Ocean Engineering. With the inclusion of a General Engineering Major, the total becomes eight. Of these, the Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical and Systems Engineering Majors are ECPD [Engineering Council for Professional Development] accredited. The Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, and Ocean Engineering Majors will be evaluated shortly for accreditation.

Currently, Captain Perry W. Nelson, USN, B.S., U S N A ; M.S., Marine Engineering and Naval Architecture, Webb Institute, is serving as Division Director. The Chairmen of the various Departments may be either civilian or military.

The faculty is divided approximately 50-50 between military and civilian. All civilian and military faculty members who are involved with the instruction of courses related to the MARCH,

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Majors Program have advanced degrees. The civilian faculty is relatively stable and its members are heavily involved in various research projects to maintain their currency with respect to their disciplines. The officer faculty has a relatively high turnover rate, the average duty tour being two to three years, but along with graduate degrees they bring with them operational experience and they are intimately familiar with the problems and needs of the Navy.

Each midshipman is assigned a faculty advisor from the department of his major.

FACILITIES The Naval Academy is currently involved with a large scale building program, of which the most impressive project will be a new Engineering Studies Complex. The foundation for this building has been started and it is expected to be ready for classes by the fall of 1974.

The classroom and laboratory facilities in this building will be on a par with any university in the country. Just a few of the items to be included in the building are a 380-foot ship model towing tank, a subcritical nuclear reactor, numerous wind tunnel and gas dynamic facilities, complete dynamics and physical systems laboratories, a propulsion test cell, and several computer aided instruction classrooms. All of these facilities are presently available to some lesser degree but, while adequate, there is no room for growth or more advanced equipment.

Since the Naval Academy is an undergraduate school, some of the more esoteric equipment is not required. However, in order to support faculty and student research, it is necessary that the proper facilities and equipment be available. One of the Academy's major capabilities lies in the fact that its Computing Center has a Honeywell 635 Digital Computer with adequate memory capacity and associative communication computers to allow time sharing operations for up to 100 remote terminals located about the Yard. Within the Division of Engineering and Weapons, considerable effort has recently been used in computer aided design courses and obtaining and using plotting and graphic terminals.

ENROLLMENT In order to fill the needs of the .Navy and accommodate the varied abilities of the midshipmen, it is desired that approximately 40 percent enroll in an Engineering Major.

The choice of major, engineering or other, is left up to midshipmen themselves. Since many do not know where their real interests lie, the actual choice of picking a major is delayed until the latter part of their first or plebe year. Through plebe year they will all take a common curricula. In order to account for the differences in ability of the students, several levels of difficulty for mathematics, chemistry and composition and literature courses are offered. In addition, courses in naval science, history of seapower, and introduction to computers are required.

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F o r those who do not select an Engineering Major, 20 hours of engineering subjects are offered in weapons systems, naval, and electrical and electronics engineering. F o r those who wish to take nuclear power training but who are not engineering students, additional technical courses are strongly suggested.

THE ENGINEERING CURRICULA H a v i n g chosen an engineering major, each student will complete as a part of his course of instruction professional courses in navigation, shipboard weaponeering, operations and tactics, law for the naval officer, and psychology and leadership. As a part of his engineering background he will have physics, calculus through differential equations, materials science for engineers, and all will have some electrical and electronic engineering. Four courses in humanities or social sciences are required. Language courses are no longer required for Engineering Majors.

Table I shows a projected breakdown of the enrollment in the Engineering Majors for Academic Year 1972-73.

Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Strength of Materials Graphics Control Systems Thermodynamics Flight Performance I Aerodynamics 1 Aerospace Structures I Stability and Control Aerospace Vehicle Design Gas Dynamics 1 Flight Propulsion Math Elective

Electives (3 required) Computer Aided Design Flight Performance II Orbital Mechanics Aerodynamics II Elements of Flight Test Engineering (taught using a leased light plane as an in-flight laboratory) Aerospace Structures II Aeroelasticity Gas Dynamics II Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering

Out to launch "Hope it works."

TABLE I Total Egineering Majors Academic Year 1972-73 Aerospace Engineering Electrical Engineering General Engineering Marine Engineering Mechanical Engineering Naval Architecture Ocean Engineering Systems Engineering Projected

Electrical

Enrollment 223 131 90 30 166 44 173 59 Total

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PARTICULARS OF THE VARIOUS MAJORS OFFERED Aerospace Engineering (147 semester hours)* T h e Aerospace Engineering Major is designed to provide students with a broad background and solid foundation in basic principles in aerospace engineering. It is designed to permit the individual readily to continue his education and specialize in a particular phase of aerospace engineering at the graduate level. While at the Academy, the electives and research opportunities that are offered permit the student to tailor his undergraduate program somewhat in his chosen field of interest. Beginning with the Class of 1975, all students will complete an aerospace vehicle design course, during which they will, as a class, complete the preliminary design of a flight vehicle. *The semester hour totals that are given represent the total of all subjects over the four years.

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Engineering

(148 semester

hours)

T h e Electrical/Electronics Engineering Major places emphasis on analysis techniques and experimentation. The program permits the electrical engineering graduate to stay abreast of advancing technology in this dynamic field. By graduation the necessary groundwork will have been laid to permit the understanding of all the facets of Electrical/Electronics Engineering and allow the continuation of study at the graduate level. All students design and build several projects including a transmitter or receiver capable of communicating with Baltimore or Washington from Annapolis.

Required Courses Engineering Mathematics 1 Electricity and Magnetism 1 and II Probability and Statistics Introduction to Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering 1 and II Applied Thermodynamics Applied Fluids Control Systems Communications Electronics Energy Conversion Electronics I and II

Electives (3 required) Communications Theory 1 and II Network Analysis and Synthesis Electronic Properties Semiconductor Electronics Waveshaping Techniques Logic Design Microwave Systems Radar Engineering Acoustics Automatic Control Systems Electronic Instruments and Measurements Communications Engineering Naval Sensors Electromagnetic Waves Modern Physics Wave Physics Atomic and Nuclear Physics Introduction to Complex Variables SHIPMATE

General Engineering

(143 semester

hours)

T h e General Engineering Major was designed to permit the student who finds a designated field too demanding, or who cannot choose a specific area of interest, to complete a basic engineering curricula. It provides a sound background in mathematics, basic sciences, and Naval professional engineering subjects as well as fundamental engineering topics.

As such, it provides the widest latitude in choosing a postgraduate field.

Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Strength of Materials Graphics Introduction to System Design Essentials of Fluid Dynamics Thermostatics Engineering Management

Electives (5 required) Electives can be chosen from the various courses offered by the Departments with the approval of the student's Faculty Advisor.

Required Courses Thermodynamics Fluid Dynamics Dynamics and Statics Strength of Materials Graphics Introduction to Oceanography Principles of Ocean System Engineering Ship Structures Ocean Systems Design Resistance and Propulsion Ship Hydrostatics Seakeeping and Maneuvering

Electives (2 required) Hydrofoil and Propeller Theory Advanced Marine Vehicles Computer Applications in Naval Architecture Analysis of Marine Propulsion Equipment Design of Submersibles and Support Vehicles

"Gently, now.'

NAVAL SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Marine Engineering

(145 semester

hours)

T h e Marine Engineering Major provides the broadest possible background in the fields of energy conversion and marine propulsion systems design and analysis. It requires some reactor physics using the Academy's subcritical nuclear reactor. Considerable emphasis has been placed on data acquisition and computer techniques.

Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Strength of Materials Graphics Introduction to Oceanography Principles of Ocean System Engineering Heat Transfer Ocean Systems Design Reactor Physics I Control Systems Thermodynamics Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Marine Propulsion Equipment Naval Architecture

Electives (2 required) Resistance and Propulsion Reactor Physics II Reactor Control Analysis Advanced Reactor Theory Marine Propulsion Plant Design and Performance Laboratory Undersea Power Systems

(145 semester

hours)

T h e Naval Architecture Major places its prime efforts on the comprehensive analysis and design of vehicles and structures which operate under, on, or just above the surface of the sea. It requires a wide range of skills and emphasizes creativity and individuality. A design course is required which leads to the creation of the design for a new marine vehicle or system. T h e computer is used for numerical analysis and interactive design applications.

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"But, why that way?"

Ocean Engineering

(145 semester

hours)

The Ocean Engineering Major is primarily concerned with the applications, hardware and operational techniques having to do with systems placed in an ocean environment. T h e discipline deals largely with the study and analysis of ocean structures, undersea vehicles, underwater sound, wave mechanics, and life support systems. Currently under construction by the midshipmen is an underwater habitat for use in the Chesapeake Bay. Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Strength of Materials Thermodynamics Fluid Dynamics Control Systems Graphics Introduction to Oceanography Principles of Ocean System Engineering Ocean Engineering Materials and Structures Ocean Engineering Mechanics Undersea Power Systems Underwater Acoustics and Sonar Ocean Systems Engineering Design

Electives (2 required) Resistance and Propulsion Engineering Properties of Marine Sediments Life Support Systems Coastal Engineering Advanced Marine Vehicles Design of Submersibles and Support Vehicles

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Mechanical

Engineering

(146 semester

hours)

T h e Mechanical Engineering Major is, as always, the most multispecialized and diverse of the engineering majors. I t offers an extremely wide latitude of electives which gives the student the opportunity to specialize in two areas of his choosing.

computers for the simulation of complete systems. I n addition, considerable use is made of control theory. T h e electives offered provide the student with a strong but varied background that suits his interests.

Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Introduction to Systems Engineering Systems Engineering I and II Applied Thermodynamics Applied Fluid Mechanics Systems Simulation Advanced System Simulation Systems Engineering Design Probability and Statistics

Electives (6 required; complete the requirements of three of the following sequences; there are two courses required in each) Advanced Data Sequence Control Systems Sequence Computer Engineering Sequence Systems Engineering Sequence Engineering Science Sequence Physics Sequence Math Sequence

RESEARCH All programs offer to the student numerous electives and for some the opportunity to pursue a research project. In some cases, for exceptionally qualified students, this research project becomes a thesis project and consitutes a major part of his senior year academic program. These students are given the title of Trident Scholars.

GRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES While many graduates will choose to continue their careers and education in engineering fields, a large number will find that they can readily couple an engineering degree with one in management, business, or personnel administration. These programs are all available at t h e graduate level and further matriculation is encouraged by the Navy.

CONCLUSION "Hey, look at thatl"

Required Courses Dynamics and Statics Thermodynamics Principles of Design Graphics Strength of Materials Control Systems Fluid Dynamics Heat Transfer Mechanical Design

Systems

Engineering

Electives (4 required; two from each of two of the following groups) Dynamics and Physical System Engineering Process Dynamics Systems Engineering Mechanical Vibrations Energy Conversion and Environmental Systems Computer Methods in Engineering Turbomachinery Environmental Systems Engineering Materials Science Physical Metallurgy Mechanical Behavior of Materails Structural Materials Experimental Stress Analysis Advanced Mechanics of Materials Computer Methods in Structural Mechanics Fluid Mechanics Gasdynamics Aerodynamics Hydrodynamics Nuclear Engineering Reactor Physics I and II (146 semester

hours)

T h e Naval Academy offers a unique engineering curricula to its students. T h e leadership, management and professional training which is a part of each midshipman's education, coupled with an engineering degree, gives the graduate a powerful background which permits him to best use his talents. H e can be relatively sure that, no matter what duty he is assigned to, he has the background that will give him the confidence "to get on with the job."

Commander Gentz is a graduate of the class of 1957. He attended flight training immediately after graduation and was subsequently assigned to VS-27 operating off the carriers TARAWA,

VALLEY

FORGE and in the

North Atlantic during the Berlin crisis in the winter of 1961-62 aboard ESSEX.

H e attended the U.S. Naval

Postgraduate School at Monterey receiving a B.S. and an M.S. in Aero Engineering-Electronics. His thesis dealt with the F-lllB/Phoenix weapons system. H e was next assigned to VS-32 serving as squadron safety officer aboard ESSEX

in the

Mediterra-

nean durmg the Russian build-up in the summer of 1967. He then received orders to the pre-commissioning crew of the JOHN F .

KENNEDY (VCA-67). After the ship's commissioning he served as flight deck officer. He is presently an instructor in the Aerospace Engineering Department at the U.S. Naval Academy. Commander Gentz is an associate member of Sigma Xi and has attended the Interim Command and Staff course at the Naval War College.

T h e Systems Engineering Major is a true interdisciplinary major which is designed to tie together many diverse engineering fields. I t is directed toward the understanding and analysis of complete engineering systems and the study of the interfaces between various components. I t relies heavily on t h e use of analog, digital and hybrid (analog/digital) 20

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A FEW INCHES FROM THE YARD Always indicative of spring at USNA are the beautiful flowers blooming along Chapel and Stribling walks. The multicolored blooms seldom fail to cause a smile to break on the faces hurrying to class. Of course, smiling is a little bit easier this time of year. Spring and all it brings always has a special meaning to Mids. For the Plebe, the end of the unending year is nearing. Youngsters are getting over that sophomore slump and looking forward to being a "real upperclassman."

The second classman has the roughest academics behind him but is getting "psyched" for the coming challenge of preparing to run the Brigade and training the new Plebes. And, for the Firstie, his June Week is on the way. That day in June only dreamed of during an August four years (was it that long?) past is finally on the calendar, circled in red with a gold stripe drawn next to it. Spring is a special time, and the Brigade thanks the Navy wives that make it a little more so with the flowers they have planted. The only other ladies that do so much to make the yard so pretty and spring so special are those wonderful drags that sprout from nowhere each weekend.

In the last few issues of Shipmate we've tried in this column to give you a small insight into Midshipman '71-'72. It is difficult to really know what you as alumni are interested in, and we depend on your response for that. One such area of response has been questions concerning the Midshipman striper and command organization. Points of query have included the extent of our participation, our effectiveness, the role of the "Shadow Command," and the new staff organization.

Perhaps a good starting point in discussing the midshipman command organization would be to relate part of the contents of a survey letter received not long ago by the Brigade Commander. The survey was from the student body president of a well-known civilian university and was part of an effort to "gain greater student involvement in university administration and government." The letter asked that a form be completed, checking off the areas in which the student body was represented and indicating those areas students would desire, but did not have, representation. Cooperating with the request, we not only were able to check off every applicable area of representation, but added a half-dozen as well.

This survey brought attention to a fact that few outside the Academy would ever realize. With the Midshipman Striper Organization, Class officers, and numerous councils and boards, the Brigade of Midshipmen has one of the most effective and viable "st--dent governments" in existence. That a service academy nas been a forerunner in an area of vital concern to today's college students is well worth note. Our organization is, of course, military in structure and serves not only to represent the mid, but is a most effective means of working towards fulfillment of the Academy's mission, as well.

With the evolvement of the Shadow Command Concept, the striper organization has become even more realistic as a training and leadership device. The basic idea of a shadow command is to place the operation of the Brigade in the hands of the Brigade itself. This calls for an acceptance of the "learn by doing" principle and the fact that if a position of leadership doesn't incorporate a decision-making requirement, it is worthless. Decisions are the name of the game and that means giving a man more to do than march the troops on Wednesdays and inspect shoes at noon meals. How has the shadow command worked towards these ends ? Many ways.

Every action concerning aptitude, conduct, or honor that reaches the Commandant's chain of command has first been MARCH,

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reviewed and considered by the midshipman chain of command. To the midshipman squad leader, platoon commander, and company commander is assigned the responsibility of personnel evaluation and counselling. Any time the Brigade goes to a football game, hosts a conference, or has a new product made available in the Mid Store, it has countless hours of midshipman input behind it. There is no board or committee that makes decisions directly affecting the Brigade that does not have midshipman membership and representation.

These administrative and operational responsibilities of running a brigade are carried out by the midshipman "stripers."

This is the chain of command of first classmen that parallels that of the Commandant's office down to the Company Officer and, further, to the midshipman squad leader. At the "top" is the Brigade Staff. In recognition of the fact that stripers do more than march today, the regimental and brigade staffs have been reorganized into Operations, Logistics, and Administrative Departments. The heads of these departments, each a midshipman commander, are responsible to the Brigade Deputy Commander and, in turn, the Brigade Commander, for carrying out those routine tasks of a military organization as well as any projects assigned by the Commandant's office. As an indication of the scope of these functions, the Brigade Staff functions out of office spaces that are seldom empty.

In the everyday performance of their jobs the midshipmen work with their officer counterparts. In such jobs as writing movement orders for the Army-Navy Game, evaluating menus, running the color competition, and arranging intramural sports programs midshipmen learn much about the intricacies and rewards, as well as frustrations, of working within "the system." It is knowledge that can best be appreciated from the viewpoint of experience, and the striper organization is geared to supply that experience. By shifting positions among the first class by having three different "sets" of stripers, the experience is varied and maximized.

The shadow command is carried down through the six battalion commanders, midshipman lietutenant commanders, and the thirty-six companies headed by midshipman lieutenants.

Commanding the three platoons of about thirty-six men in each company are midshipman lieutenants (j.g.) and their nine squad leaders hold the rank of midshipman ensign.

The shadow command is a training device as much as anything else and, as such, has its faults. Oftentimes it is hard for a company officer to let a squad leader make the mistake that, if made, would do no real harm, but would teach a not-tobe-forgotten lesson. Midshipmen, as well, sometimes make it difficult by failing to realize their responsibility or to adequately analyze a particular situation. The problems arise, yet they are in themselves a part of the training. An officer must learn that the military is not and cannot be a democracy.

Even more important, though,-is the need to learn that the military encourages and rewards the officer who is aggressive, innovative, and capable of accepting responsibility. The shadow command concept can and will continue to be improved upon as it has in recent years. As the saying goes, "we've come a long way."

One very important aspect of midshipman life is honor and the Brigade Honor Concept. This Concept also is in the hands of the Brigade and in the next issue we will attempt to give you an insight into its role at the Academy. Until then, smooth sailing from the Brigade.

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THE MAIL BOAT Shipmate : Many congratulations on the splendid December issue. F r o m the beautiful cover to the "Merry Christmas" ending, it deserves the "Well Done" I know you have received from many readers.

Captain Champlin's article on December 1941 as experienced in the Philippines stands out particularly. This account ranks with the finest narration of the war and readers of Shipmate are" fortunate that you printed it. I wish all our citizens could read it—and especially the youth who have been led astray from patriotism and service by false teachings.

E. M. ELLER '25

Shipmate : ,In the December Mailboat, General Griffith raised strong criticism of the Navy S A C O unit in China. My husband spent several years cross-checking figures so that A Different Kind of War at least would be factual.

General Griffith's comment that S A C O and Miles' work was "wasteful and unproductive" bothers me. H e limits his knowledge of S A C O to weather reports and "kidnapping a Japanese Major General and his Chief of Staff." They accomplished many spectacular feats (since my husband never mentioned such a kidnapping, I suspect it should be accredited to a different g r o u p ) . T h e Japanese, at least, recognized this and gradually raised the price of Miles' capture or assassination to equal that of Chennault.

Although my husband saw the main job of guerrillas to be not combat but prevention of supplies reaching the enemy, they nevertheless accounted for about 71,000 dead. Body count with U. S. observers the last six months of the war were more than 20,000 dead (p. 477). Adm. Cooke, who was sent to Chungking in February, 1945, to close out S A C O unit if it was doing as poorly as indicated by U. S. Army reports, announced in surprise that S A C O guerrillas were killing more men per gtin delivered than the U. S. Marines.

The Japs per ton of supplies was the highest for any theater (p. 447).

By May, 1945, SACO-trained men occupied both the coastal cities of Wenchow and Foochow (p. 499-504, and 575) ; and by June, controlled much of Amoy Harbor. This was accomplished with steady reduction of loss in guerrilla lives (from one-for-one when training started to less than one-for-ten in 1945, p. 447-448).

S A C O laid more ambushes than Merrill's Marauders, Wingate's Battalions, and Carlson's GungHo Raiders rolled into one (p. 479). They kept the railroads so effectively cut that not a single ton of war supplies ever got through that Japanese corridor (p. 474). On the contrary, S A C O did not lack effectiveness; it lacked publicity.

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Another not "unproductive" operation was the China coastwatch. They supplied information the BARB used in her famous exploit (p. 425-426). S A C O is credited with an assist to Admiral Oldendorf at his victory of Surigao Strait (p. 321). They also transmitted precise target information for Halsey's strike off Indo-China (p. 424-425).

Nee and his men "saved 14,000 pounds of aerological and medical gear and five loads of ammunition" when Liuchow was being evacuated. During the U. S. Army's "precipitate pull-out from Kweiyang we gained 800,000 pounds of salvage." S A C O did the same at Kanchou (p. 281), "collecting and using more than 100,000 lbs. of usable war materials."

My husband's work included readying and overseeing the laying of 100 mines a month in harbors such as H o n g Kong, Haiphong, and Keelung (p. 311-314).

Also, his units supplied all the oxygen for Hump flying, which made it possible for the airlift to increase its tonnage from 3,500 to 22,000 monthly. Of this, SACO's share was never more than 150 (p. 275), far less than promised.

Concerning the proposed Chinese "venality" and the total "bread and butter" used by S A C O , I lift a bit from page 571:

They performed other valuable assists to air operations. S A C O located and destroyed Jap listening posts through which they had received early warning of our strikes (p. 196-198, and 309).

They ran an underground railroad for rescuing downed pilots (p. 317) of which the coastal pirates alone picked up more than 100 (p. 271). They supplied information to Chennault in December, 1944, resulting in the destruction of Japanese winter uniforms and horses (p. 280), thus halting the expected attack on Kweiyang.

Contrary to General Griffith's "fact," Admiral Miles could and did initiate policy. H e was Deputy Director. In the SACO agreement, signed by Frank Knox and William Donovan, one article states: "The functions of all the sections of this organization will be discussed and determined jointly by the Director and the Deputy Director." Although my husband had been warned that Tai Li was a sort of Himmler, he found this to be untrue (p. 125). Unfortunately this canard has been repeated over the years, but generally only by people who did not know General Tai. General Griffith's opinion that "no one possessed of his senses would have given either money or supplies to the ' G i m o ' " is strong condemnation. Although some camps moved a dozen times, all S A C O supplies were accounted for and "nobody stole so much as a cotter pin" (p. 275).

On the other hand, the U. S. Army destroyed thousands of tons of supplies shipped over the Hump, as General Griffith mentioned, "at great hazard by Chennault's airmen." Some of this S A C O was able to rescue and use (p. 280). Lt.

"At a meeting between finance agents for both China and the United States the total bill was examined. We had (in four years) supplied 11 million in goods from U.S. and owed 20 million to China in settlement on 'no-rate' funds we had used for local goods and services. . . .

These 'venal Chinese' . . . however went over my accounts . . . scaled down the 31 million we thought we owed them to 18 million. None of the other allies did such a thing."

It is improbable that one reply to criticism will set the record straight. However, the above is fact, not opinion.

WILMA

S.

MILES

The Editor: Captain Paul B. Ryan, Deputy Director of Naval History, has kindly given us your name. H e thinks that you might help us by making us known to your readers. To this end, then, we are enclosing copies of each of our journals so that you can pass along to your readers an idea of what we do.

Our President is the Naval Curator at the Smithsonian, Dr. P . K. Lundeberg.

ROBIN H I G H A M ,

Editor, Military

Ph.D.

Affairs

Your Editor, as an amateur but dedicated historian, is happy to pass the word on these two journals, both published quarterly but in different months. One is Military Affairs, magazine of the American Military Institute, founded in 1933 "to stimulate and advance the study of military history, especially that of the United States," on whose Board of Directors naval historians have always been prominently represented.

The other is Aerospace Historian, published by the Air Force Historical Foundation, in whose current issue the lead article is an excellent discussion by a retired R.N. Vice Admiral of the different paths of development taken by maritime aviation in Britain and the United States—to our credit. Neither magazine is provincial nor single-service oriented; in its current issue each carries six feature articles covering a zvide range of subjects plus an outstanding book review section and other regular features of general interest.

Inquiries should be addressed to either magazine at the same address: Department of History Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66502 SHIPMATE

ATHLETICS I n d o o r Track T e a m Streaks

Toward

First U n b e a t e n Season in a

Decade

Fourteen years have passed since Navy track buffs could last boast about an unbeaten indoor team. That was in 1957-58, the first year in a new field house, when the Midshipmen went 5-0 under the late Tommy Thomson.

It is premature, with three dual meets still remaining as Shipmate goes to press, to anticipate that the 1971-72 edition of the Navy indoor track team will finish with a perfect record but, on the basis of its 5-0 log. Coach Jim Gehrdes' current cast ranks among the best ever assembled here.

Most recently, the Midshipmen have disposed of Pennsylvania, described by Coach Gehrdes "as the number one team on the east coast," and Maryland, a Navy nemesis indoors and outdoors since 1964, in convincing fashion.

Reflecting on the victory over Maryland, Gehrdes reported that he was "not surprised" by either the victory or the Midshipmen's 22-point final bulge. "I thought the score would be something like 62-37," Gehrdes said, "but I was surprised at the way we scored our points."

The Midshipmen and Terrapins split ten firsts in the individual events but Navy captured both the mile and twomile relays and had nine second-place winners as compared with only two for Maryland.

"This track team is an aroused group gaining spirit and confidence with every victory," Gehrdes said by way of explanation. "The win over Pennsylvania was a giant step for us. The Maryland win was harder to come by because it was exam week for the Mids. I think Maryland was definitely the more emotional meet of the two. We were flat early but gained momentum as the meet progressed."

Headliners for the Navy indoor ensemble are hurdler Wayne Kennard, a second classman from Mantua, N. J., and Steve Harkins, also second class, from Ogden, Pa. Harkins set an indoor record in the first meet of the season when he topped 6-10 in the high jump against Fordham and N.Y.U. In a later meet with Penn, he took first with a leap of 6-8, then cleared the magic seven-foot barrier after competition had been completed. Kennard tied his own Academy record for the 60-yard high hurdles with a time of 7.2 vs. Penn and was undefeated in his specialty.

Another indoor record of note, Mike Brown's long-standing 15-6j^ in the pole vault, toppled in the very first meet. The record-breaker was a Plebe, Jeff Baker of Fresno, Calif., eligible for the first time because of new N.C.A.A. regulaM A R C H ,

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tions. Baker and a classmate, Keith Zwingelberg, give the Midshipmen new sting in an event that troubled Gehrdes all of last season.

Also worthy of mention is the work of middle distance runner John Gorman, unbeaten in the 600-yard run. Gorman had relatively undistinguished Plebe and youngster seasons but has blossomed into one of the stars of Navy's track establishment.

Wayne Kennard, stellar hurdler

Covering O t h e r W i n t e r Sports . . .

A four-game winning streak, longest in six years, was the key to the basketball team's 7-6 record at the examination break. In the span, Coach Dave Smalley's five defeated Temple, Baltimore University, Air Force, and Haverford. Top scorer for the cagers was youngster Gary Carter of Newark, Ohio, with a 14.3 average. First classman Bob Kenney was second in scoring with a 10.0 average and led the rebounders wtih 111 recoveries.

Behind the excellent work of its 22-5 sabre team, the Navy fencers were scarcely pressed on the way to victories over St. John's, Princeton, and North Carolina State. Closest of the three was the Princeton match, which wound up with a nine-point Navy spread. Plebe Bill Rose owned the top record on the squad with a 7-0 mark in sabre. Ed Donofrio's 7-2 record was tops in foil.

All-America Pete Solecki led the epee cast at 5-2.

Narrow losses to Temple (by less than three points) and Southern Connecticut (by less than a point) left the Navy gymnasts with a 1-2 record. Outstanding performer on Coach Bill Savering's 1971-72 squad is pommel horse specialist Eric Swanson, a second classman from Butler, Pa. Swanson had three firsts, all on scores of 9.35 or better, in his event.

The pistol team ripped off five straight to open the season and extended its win string to nine in a row, dating back to mid-season of the 1970-71 campaign. The rifle team's bid to do likewise, that is carry an undefeated record into the examination break, was spoiled by a strong East Tennessee club, which stopped the marksmen after four consecutive victories.

Coach John Higgins' swimmers sandwiched victories over Johns Hopkins and East Carolina around four straight losses and arrived at mid-season with a 2-4 record. Principal bright spots for Higgins were All-America Rex Hand of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., still undefeated in the 100-yard freestyle; Captain Rick Stringer, a winner in five of his six appearances in the 200-yard backstroke; newcomer Jim Barrett, who sliced almost 1.5 seconds off the USNA record in the 100-yard freestyle; diver Roger McEvoy, a winner of 10 firsts in 12 tries off the one and three-meter boards, and Plebe breaststroker Dave Duffie, owner of five firsts in six 200-yard breaststroke races.

Harvard, a 6-3 winner at Cambridge, was all that stood between the Navy squash team and a perfect record. The Midshipmen were 9-1 at the break, six of their victories by shutout scores of 9-0. Individually, the best record belonged to second classman Rory Fisher, who was 10-0. Firstie Gordon Perry, who played at the top of Coach Art Potter's ladder, was 6-2.

The Navy wrestlers, soundly beaten by Iowa State and Oklahoma State on a pre-Christmas trip, reeled off four straight after the holidays to carry a 10-2 record into the recess. All-America Tom Schuler, two-time Eastern champion, showed the way for Coach Ed Peery's regulars with a 10-1 record that included a team high of four falls. Captain Lloyd Keaser, another All-America sidelined by a broken hand for the first nine meets, wasted no time getting back into shape, scoring falls in two of his first three outings. Brightest addition to the mat cast was youngster Bob Hartman, who was 8-3-1 at 158 pounds.

NCAA A p p r o v e s Legislation For Freshman Participation

in Football a n d

Basketball

The N.C.A.A., which approved legislation permitting "freshman participation in sports other than football and basketball several years ago, went a step further in its annual convention at Hollywood, Fla. Beginning with the fall of 1972, freshmen will also be eligible to compete on a major college level in football and basketball.

This past autumn, the Naval Academy used Plebes in its varsity program for the first time and a total of 10 fourth classmen won "N's." The group included: 23

Others honored by the N C A A w e r e : A r t h u r W . Collins, Jr., Boston Globe; F r a n k Gifford, American Broadcasting Company; William W . Sanders, Milwaukee Journal; H o w a r d K. Smith, American Broadcasting Company; Damon M. Stetson, New York Times; Jack H .

Drees, American Broadcasting Company; Maurice White, Des Moines Register and Tribune; Chet Forte, American Broadcasting Company; Martin I. Glickman, W N E W Radio; Curt Gowdy, National Broadcasting Company; Lou Kusserow, National Broadcasting Company; H a r r y J. Mehre, Atlanta Journal; Ernest L. Cuneo, North American Newspaper Alliance; John ( B u d ) Palmer, American Broadcasting Company; Harold P . Lebovits, Cleveland Plain Dealer; Tom Brookshier, Columbia Broadcasting System; Clark R. Mollenhoff, Des Moines Register and Tribune, and Gerald J. Liska, T h e Associated Press.

soccer players Jim Delpino, Kenan Knieriem, A r t Mastoes, and Tim Dantzig; cross country runners Dale Bateman, Don Bennett, Ray Booker, and Steve H u b b a r d ; and lightweight football players John Berberich and Martin Mason.

W a s h i n g t o n Touchdown Club Selects Rip M i l l e r For Its H a l l of Fame

E. E. ( " R i p " ) Miller, a part of Naval Academy athletics for 46 years, has been installed in the Washington Touchdown Club's Hall of Fame. Admiral Thomas H , Moorer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presided at the induction ceremonies on January 7th.

Miller becomes the 18th member of the organization's list of honorees since the Hall of Fame began in 1935. Miller's coach at Notre Dame, Knute Rockne, is among the football personalities enshrined by the Touchdown Club.

A native of Canton, Ohio, Miller played right tackle on three outstanding Rockne-coached teams, including the 1924 National Champions. In Miller's varsity career, the Fighting Irish won 28 and lost two. Rip was a member of one of college football's most famous lines—"the Seven Mules." H e was the first of the "Mules" to be elected to the National Football Foundation's Hall of Fame, winning that distinction in 1966.

Among the many dignitaries at the installation banquet were Jim Crowley, one of the famous "Four Horsemen" and a Miller teammate at Notre D a m e ; Vice Admiral James Calvert, Superintendent of the Academy; Captain Max Morris, Commandant of Midshipmen; Rear Admiral Donald B. Whitmire, former AilAmerican lineman under Miller; Captain W . S. Busik, Executive Director of the Alumni Association and former Director of Athletics; and Navy football coach Rick Forzano.

Ex-alumni President Hanson Baldwin A m o n g Journalists Honored By NCAA

Hanson Baldwin, past president of the Alumni Association and retired Military Editor of the New York Times, was among 19 nationally-prominent journalists honored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at its annual convention in Hollywood, Fla., January 6-8.

Baldwin received a commemorative plaque denoting significant achievement in the field of journalism after intercollegiate athletic participation at an N C A A member institution. The presentation was made at the N C A A ' s climactic Honors Luncheon.

Baldwin was a two-year letterman for the Naval Academy water polo team in 1923-24. In a distinguished career that spanned 40 years with the Times, Baldwin won many writing awards including the coveted Pulitzer Prize in 1942 for his reporting from the South Pacific.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The 1972 Spring Sailing schedule was not available at Shipmate's deadline.

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Our own, the inimitable, RIP MILLER VARSITY

March March April April April April April April April April April April April April April May May May May May May May May June

ATHLETIC

SCHEDULES

Baseball Momouth College American University Syracuse (2) Villanova at Georgetown at Pennsylvania (2) George Washington Brown Yale (2) Univ. of Baltimore Cornell Army (2) Gettysburg at Harvard at Dartmouth (2) Boston Red Sox (Major League Exhibition) 5 at Columbia 6 at Princeton (2) 9 Towson State 13 N.Y.U. 17 Maryland 20 Richmond 30 Penn State (2) 3 Army

April 1 April 8 April IS April 29 May 6 May 13 May 20 May 26-27 June 2

Track at American Univ. Relays St. John's at Maryland at Penn Relays at Quantico Relays at Outdoor Heptagonals Penn State I-C-4-A's at Philadelphia at Army Heavyweight Crew St. Joseph's (V,JV,P) Princeton (V,JV,P) Yale (V,JV,P) Goes Trophy Race vs. Cornell, Syracuse (V,JV,P) at Syracuse Adams Cup Race vs. Harvard, Penn (V,JV,P) at Philadelphia Eastern Sprints (V.JV.P) at Worcester, Mass.

IRA Regatta (V,JV,P) at Syracuse

April April April April

1 IS 22 29

May

6

May

13

June

1-3

April April

Lightweight Crew 15 Princeton (V,JV,P) 22 Georgetown (V,JV,P)

FOR

April May May

THE SPRING,

1972

29 at Harvard (V,JV,P) 6 Callow Cup Race vs. Penn, MIT (V,JV,P) at Philadelphia 13 Eastern Sprints (V,JV,P) at Worcester, Mass.

March March April April April April April April April May May May

22 25 1 6 8 12 15 22 29 3 6 13

Lacrosse at Washington College at Maryland at Cornell Harvard Princeton Univ. of Baltimore at Washington & Lee Virginia Johns Hopkins Rutgers at Hofstra at Army

March April April April April April April April April April April April April April April May May May May May June

31 1 1 5 8 10 11 14 15 19 21 22 25 28 29 2 5 6 10 13 3

Tennis Ohio State Williams Syracuse at Penn at Air Force Johns Hopkins Georgetown Brown Yale Penn State Cornell Davidson Maryland at Harvard at Dartmouth George Washington at Columbia at Princeton Swarthmore Washington & Lee Army

March 28 April 7 April 12 April 12 April 15 April 17 April 22 April 26 May 6-7 May 13 May 13 June 3

Golf Monmouth College Southern Connecticut at Pennsylvania Columbia at Philadelphia at Penn State at Georgetown Princeton Villanova Intercollegiates at New Haven at Virginia Maryland at Charlottesville Army SHIPMATE

CAPITOL

' P R E NAVY is given perhaps the most prominent place in the Administration's defense plans for the near future.

Plans for the fiscal year 1973, as outlined in the President's State of The Union message, call for a "substantial budget increase to preserve the sufficiency of our strategic nuclear deterrent, including an allocation of over $900 million to improve our sea-based deterrent force," the President said. "I recently directed the Department of Defense to develop a program to build additional missile launching submarines, carrying a new and far more effective missile. We must also proceed with programs to reoutfit our Polaris submarines with the Poseidon missile system, to replace older land-based missiles with Minuteman III and to deploy the SAFEGUARD Antiballistic Missile System.

"At the same time, we must move to maintain our strength at sea. The Navy's budget was increased by $2 billion in the current fiscal year, and I will ask for a similar increase next year, with particular emphasis on our shipbuilding programs."

The new submarines requested by the President will be the ULMS (undersea long range missile system) class, which the Navy has been planning for several years. These will be quieter subs, harder to detect, with advanced long-range missiles which can reach any point in Russia or China from American waters. Some writers are suggesting that the proposed start of this ULMS construction is a threat to induce Russia to agree to a limit on missile building submarines.

Defense Spending—Up Or

Down?

Defense spending may be increasing, but it is decreasing as related to the Gross National Product. Defense spending has fallen to 7 percent of our GNP in the current fiscal year, the President pointed out, compared with 8.3 percent in 1964 and 9.5 percent in 1968. That figure will be down to 6.4 percent in fiscal year 1973.

"Without sacrificing any of our security interests, we have been able to bring defense spending below the level of human resource spending for the first time in 20 years," the President said, "This condition is maintained in my new budget, which, for the first time, allocates more money to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare than to the Department of Defense.

"Military research and development programs must also be stepped up," the President said. "Our budget in this area was increased by $594 million in the current fiscal year and I will recommend a further increase for next year of $838 million. I will also propose a substantial program to develop and procure more effective weapons systems for our land and tactical air forces, and to improve M A R C H ,

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the National Guard and Reserves, providing more weapons and better training, "In addition, we will expand our strong program to attract volunteer career soldiers so that we can phase out the draft.

With the cooperation of the Congress, we have been able to double the basic pay of the first time enlistees. Further substantial military pay increases are planned.

I will also submit to the Congress an overall reform of our military retirement and survivor benefit programs, raising the level of protection for military families."

Shipbuilding A n d Conversion

A total of $3,564,300,000 has been allocated in the fiscal 1973 budget for shipbuilding and conversion. The 1973 program continues the Navy's long-range modernization and replacement program designed to provide the fleet with modern balanced forces which can effectively respond to a wide variety of challenges in support of our national objectives.

"Funds are requested for a major new strategic initiative," says the big Budget book, of more than 1100 pages ($8.50), "which will further strengthen our seabased deterrent force. In addition, conversion and modernization of six ballistic submarines to a Poseidon missile capability will improve our sea-based ballistic missile weapons system. Long-leadtime items will also be procured for additional conversions.

"Advance procurement funds are requested in 1973 for a Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier to improve the Navy's capability to respond to contingencies. This carrier will replace an older, less effective ship. Seven DD-963 class destroyers will be constructed as part of a program which over several years will replace older World War II destroyer types. These new destroyers will stress standardization, automation, and improved reliability and maintainability to minimize life cycle costs. They also include the latest design techniques and margins for future modernization.

"Funds are requested in 1973 for sixhigh-performance, high-speed nuclear attack submarines to provide a significant increase in the capability of the submarine force. Advance funds are also requested for procurement of long-leadtime components for more ships. Modernization of two gnided-missile frigates is also required to increase fleet antiair warfare capabilities.

"Several new design ships are included in the 1973 request. One ship, designated the patrol frigate, is the first of a new class of small, less expensive escort ships which will possess antisubmarine and antiship missile defense capabilities. These will have as their primary mission the protection of convoys, underway replenishment groups, and amphibious assault

groups. The request includes funds for the first two ships of a new class of high speed hydrofoil patrol ships with an antiship missile capability. Advance funding is also requested for the new sea control ship.

"In support ships, the 1973 budget provides for one submarine tender, two rescue and salvage ships, one destroyer tender, and the conversion of one submarine tender to support Poseidon missile firing submarines. Various service craft will be procured."

Another book on the Budget says: "A $6.3 billion increase in budget authority is planned primarily to strengthen our nuclear deterrent and modernize the general purpose forces. Research and Development will be increased to preserve and enhance our technological superiority. National Guard and Reserve programs will be increased.

"Programs proposed in this budget will make a military career more attractive.

Pay for the new recruit was almost doubled in November 1971. Other increases in pay and allowances are budgeted for January 1972 and 1973. The costs of attracting capable personnel are substantial. Although the military personnel levels are about the same as those of 1964, average military pay and benefits have increased from $4,470 per man in 1964 to $9,500 in 1973."

Survivor

Benefits

S. 2634, now before the Senate Armed Services Committee, is identical to H. R. 10670, the new survivor benefits bill which passed the House October 21, 1970, by a vote of 372 to nothing. Senator Edmund S. Muskie (D.-Maine) sponsored this bill in the Senate. Hearings are expected in March.

Organizations who have been backing the bill, including the Fleet Reserve Association, which originated the idea of service-wide survivor benefits coverage, hope to have some changes made in it.

For instance, the bill contains a provision authorizing attachment of part of retired pay to meet court assessments for alimony or child support. If there is to be a law subjecting Federal pay to garnishment, let it apply to all employees, military and civilian, critics say.

Another provision under attack would decrease the widow's annuity by the amount of survivor annuity she may be entitled to under Social Security. Retirees would also like to make sure that, if all eligible dependents die, there would be no further deductions from retired pay to support the survivor benefits program.

Enactment of a survivor benefits law this year is almost a certainty. The vote for the bill in the House was unanimous, and about half of the Senate members are co-sponsors of S. 2634.

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Recomputation

About N a v y

Recomputation of retired pay probably will be submitted to the House Armed Services Committee in the form of a bill next spring. As the proposal stands now, the following classes of retired personnel would be authorized to recompute their pay using the January 1, 1971, basic pay rates as a guide, as soon as the bill is enacted into law:

The following statements about Navy housing were made by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

"The Committee has followed with increasing interest the plight of the thousands of military families who are currently housed under unsuitable conditions, and has taken note of the reported total Navy deficiency of almost 60,000 units.

Although the recently enacted increase in the Basic Allowance for Quarters will serve to improve the living conditions of some military families, the Navy contends that the total deficiency will be reduced no more than 20 percent (to a requirement of about 54,000) and this reduction will have no significant impact upon the construction programs currently before the Congress. The provision of suitable housing for military personnel appears to be entirely consistent and to dovetail closely with the objectives of the zero draft and the all-volunteer service, and the committee is favorably disposed to support the Navy's efforts to upgrade family housing.

1. Those retired for disability with less than 20 years of service; 2. Retirees with a disability rating of 50 percent or more and 20 or more years of service; 3. Those 55 years of age or more with 25 or more years of service; 4. Those 60 years of age or more with less than 25 years of service.

Retirees not included in any of these classifications would be authorized to recompute their pay as soon as they can be included. Continuing increases in retired pay would be based on increases in the Consumer Price Index.

Experts in the Pentagon had to endure much mathematics and computerizing to arrive at formulae which would benefit all older retirees and still hold out hope for young retirees. For the benefit of the House Appropriations Committee, the table below shows part of their solutions, and apparently indicates that a one-time recomputation would not be so expensive as some parties have indicated.

The recomputation proposal should be a separate bill, not combined with other retirement proposals. Recomputation is readily understood, but general changes in the retirement laws are complicated, and there is no hope for their passage in this 92nd Congress.

Constant Active Force

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995,000 $5,343,000,000 $6,706,000,000

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1,213,000

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1,364,000 13,337,000,000 16,012,000,000

1990...

1,512,000 19,584,000,000 23,237,000,000

1995...

1,572,000 27,038,000,000 31,877,000,000

2000...

1,607,000 36,799,000,000 43,093,000,000

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8,852,000,000 10,783,000,000

Housing

"For years Navy and Marine Corps servicemen and their families traveling to new duty stations have had to dip into savings and often have had to borrow money to stay in commercial facilities while attempting to find permanent lodgings. Few commercial facilities had kitchenette facilities or if they did, they were generally not located in the vicinity of personnel support facilities the servicemen need to hold down the cost of moving.

"The Navy Department is solving this problem through construction of about 900 temporary lodging units for Navy personnel traveling within the United States.

"No tax dollars are being used for this construction. The temporary lodging units are built from nonappropriated funds generated through purchases of goods by servicemen at Navy and Marine Corps exchanges. The 900 units cost about $10,300,000. These expenditures will be repaid over a period of several years by monies collected in the nonprofit operation of these temporary lodging units.

"The lodging units provide a full bath, efficiency type kitchenette with stove, sink and refrigerator, two double beds and a pull-out bed, dresser and desk. Each unit is designed to accommodate a family of five and will rent for $8.00 a day. Appropriate lounges, office, laundry and maintenance spaces are being built in conjunction with the units."

LUCKY BAG OF BOOKS GERMAN MACHINEGUNS. Daniel D. Musgrave and Smith Hempstone Oliver. MOR Associates, P. O. Box 39022, Friendship Station, Washington, D. C. 20016. 457 pages, $17.50.

German Machineguns by Daniel D. Musgrave and Smith Hempstone Oliver is an extensively researched and profusely illustrated account of the development and use of automatic weapons in the German armed forces from the late 1800's to date.

This limited edition of under 3,000 copies was over four years in writing and will undoubtedly be the definitive English language text on German automatic weapons.

Musgrave and Oliver point out the late emergence of automatic weapons in the armed forces of Germany relative to her neighbors. By the start of World War I, however, the machinegun was well integrated as an offensive and defensive weapon of the Army and Navy. The Air Force was quick to accept and adapt machineguns to aerial warfare.

Relying almost completely on civilian firms to develop and produce, Germany established the design teams that have led the world in innovation in automatic weapons systems to this date.

The early development of machineguns, following the acceptance of the Maxim design, is traced by the authors. There are separate chapters on the Parabellum, Bergmann, Dreyse, Motor-driven Machine guns, the MG-34, MG-42 and Mauser to name a few. There are additional sections showing the development of automatic aircraft cannon, anti-aircraft cannon, ground and naval cannon, small arms and current weapons development in East and West Germany.

The book, written in the form of a technical text, has an extensive index to assist the reader. The photographs, however, may be the high point of the book.

There is extensive photo identification of weapons, subassemblies, accessories, ammunition, as well as training manual photos of weapons employment and combat use. In sum, Musgrave and Oliver have a detailed encyclopedia on weapons, accessories and ammunition that will be of interest to all military arms collectors and students and will be an asset to any weapons library.

Smith Hempstone Oliver, a Naval Officer in World War II, is the son of Frederick Lansing Oliver, U. S. Naval Academy Class of 1901.

LT. W . SCOTT TURNER,

USN

Curator, Navy Memorial Museum

S H I P M A T E

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

ALUMNI

NEWS

OFFICERS President— ADM. G. W . ANDERSON, JR., U S N (Ret.) '27 (8631), McLean, Va. Vice President (Eastern Area)— R A D M . ROBERT W . M C N I T T , U S N '38 (12837), Bethesda, Md.

Vice President (Central Area)— MR. DAVID B . BENHAM '41 (14487), Oklahoma City, Ok. Vice President (Western Area)— VADM. P . H . RAMSEY, U S N (Ret.) '27 (8629), Coronado, Ca. Past President— MR. HANSON W . BALDWIN '24 (7405), Roxbury, Ct.

Executive Director— CAPT. W . S . BUSIK, U S N (Ret.) '43 (15752), Annapolis, Md.

TRUSTEES Superintendent's

Representative—

CAPT. W . L . FOSTER, U S N '47, USNA, Annapolis, Md. At Large

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1972) R A D M . J O H N W . AILES, I I I , U S N

(Ret.) '30 (9686) LCoL.

JAMES

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CAPT. C . TURNER JOY, J R . , U S N R - R

'47 (19251) BOWSER,

JR.,

USMC '52 (22789)

CAPT. SAMUEL ROREX, JR., U S N

'45 (17097)

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1973) CAPT. LUCIEN CAPONE, U S N

'49

CDR. S . O . JONES, U S N '51 (22386)

'64

CAPT. R . H . ROBESON, U S N

(20818) LCDR.

T.

C. LYNCH,

USN

(32679)

'46

(18063) (To serve through Spring Meeting 1974)

RADM.

W . A.

BROCKETT, U S N

(Ret.) '34 (11311) LT.

CDR.

H . W . BURNETT, JR., U S N

CAPT. T . M . DELL, U S N R A D M . R . K . JAMES, U S N

(Ret.) '35 (11761), Seattle R A D M . S . N . PYNE, U S N

(Ret.)

MR. R . D . RUSSELL '59 (29038),

'28 (9190), Washington. D. C. B . LANDON,

USN

(Ret.) '44 (15967), San Francisco CAPT. R . B . LANING, U S N

(Ret.)

'40 (14026), Connecticut RADM.

D . L . MARTINEAU,

1 9 7 2

(Ret.)

'25 (7724), Annapolis Miami V A D M . P. D. STROOP, U S N

(Ret.)

'26 (8167), Coronado MR.

W . J. TONER

'43

(15778),

Boston CAPT. F . K . B . WHEELER,

USN

(Ret.) '33 (11029), New York MARCH,

CAPT. J. L. P . MCCALLUM, U S N

(Ret.)

'21 (6087), Philadelphia

JAMES

R A D M . C . A. CURTZE, U S N (Ret.)

'i^ (10882) From Local Chapters

(Ret.) '43 (15665). Detroit

CAPT.

C . J . MERDINGER, ( C E C )

U S N (Ret.) '41 (14307)

ROGER T . STAUBACH, U S N R

'65 (33716)

CAPT.

USN

(Ret.) '35 (11962), Peninsula

SEA BREEZES Schratz tJ:^'.'39 The UN: China in a Bull Shop?

The admission of Communist China to the UN and expulsion of Nationalist China was a stunning diplomatic defeat for the United States. American officials in Washington, New York and far away places around the planet had twisted arms for weeks trying to sell a new China policy. Secretary of State Rogers personally talked with 92 foreign ministers and other delegates; U S representation abroad lobbied like Texas politicians seeking support for the new U S view. Yet many nations clearly took an almost sadistic glee in kicking Uncle in the shins. This, unfortunately, is the price one pays for world leadership.

Few nations are able to long forget the overwhelming power of the United States.

That power is in business, trade, economics, national resources, wealth, military muscle or whatever. (Even our deficit last year was greater than the whole West German budget.) The influence of that power on policy is paramount. Most nations realize that economic power and domestic interests dominate U.S. foreign policy. Close allies, on issues seriously affecting their national security, rarely are able to achieve the degree of consultation and mutual understanding with the U S which they consider vital. The US decision to build the ABM, raising military technology above the capability of N A T O allies to provide for their own defense, was a unilateral U S action. Canada, a long time partner in North American defense and directly in the cone of missile fire, was not party to the anti-missile plan seriously affecting the common defense. Nonconsultation with allies marked major changes of strategic doctrine, the Cuba missile crisis, the Nixon price freeze (a violation of international trade and tariff agreements), and the China policy which Formosa and Japan learned from the newspapers. The NATO Nuclear Planning Group was born as a Washington speechwriter's gimmick.

We don't deliberately affront other nations.

The cliche is a world dominated by two superpowers: the reality is a world of only one power, with all the others, including the Soviet Union, variously as also-rans.

US policy in the U N epitomizes the above.

Where other nations find participation a necessity, we, unfortunately, do not. When a poor African nation wants to symbolize its nationhood, its leaders must come to the UN. When a weak Asian state can afford only three or four ambassadors, one goes to the UN. And when a Communist leader wants to bang his shoe on the table—and be heard—he, too must come to New York.

Our NATO allies, like the Soviet Union, send their most capable diplomats; we send Texas politicians and movie actresses. U S policy in the UN, in the words of a current Assistant Secretary of State, is "a combination, at best, of honorable intent and monumental ignorance."

The admission of China may immerse the General Assembly in a new word bath. Last year's ten million words of speeches and 27,000 pages of printed documentary were little noted by the world and less remembered. But China may mark a new era. Few experienced observers believe that the U S will be able to whipsaw either the Soviets or the Chinese. The Chinese "pu-shih!" may become as well known as the Russian "nyet."

But the Nixon policy of "readiness to negotiate" applies on the East River as well as the Mekong, and it promises some interesting years ahead.

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SHIPMATE COPY DEADLINE May Copy due at Alumni House 10 March June Copy due at Alumni House 10 April

ALL HANDS FLASH!

Just at deadline we received a petition from over 50 members of the Alumni Association requesting that William A. Anders, class of 1955, be added to the list of nominees for trustees of the Association. Mr. Anders, a Life Member of the Association, was the youngest member of the Apollo 8 space team.

That space flight, you will recall, was the first manned flight to leave earth's gravity and orbit the moon. The ex-astronaut is now serving as Executive Secretary of NASA. Congratulations!

Congratulations are extended to John E. Sheehan '52 on his nomination to the Federal Reserve Board. President Nixon nominated Mr. Sheehan to the seven-man Board on 23 December 1971.

Mr. Sheehan resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer of Corhart Refractories Company and severed all connections with the parent Corning Glass Works to accept this new governmental position. He is replacing William W. Sherrill.

Best of luck to you in this important and responsible office I Midshipman of the Year

Midshipman Joe H. Glover '72 has been selected as the "Midshipman of the Year" by the Greater Annapolis Chamber of Commerce. An award accompanying the honor, which singles out that midshipman who contributes "outstanding service" to the community, was presented at the annual Chamber dinner on IS January.

Midn. Glover, who completed a successful reign as fall set Brigade Commander, will be commissioned into the Marine Corps upon graduation this June. Hailing from Louisiana, he chose political science as his major field of study at the Naval Academy.

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Actively interested in both Academy and civic affairs, he has taught Sunday School in the Baptist Church, been a member of the Big Brothers of Annapolis for three years, served as president of his class and initiated the class of 1972-sponsored POW campaign last year. He additionally has found time to author the Shipmate column, "A Few Inches from the Yard."

Joe was nominated by Rev. D. P. Haney, pastor of Heritage Baptist Church. The Chamber of Commerce chose him from other nominees suggested by civic associations, ministers, and their governing boards in the community.

Shipmate joins in bestowing hearty congratulations to this well deserving fine future officer! Well done, Joe. CNO Scholars

A special graduate program, announced

by NAVOP 86, allows ten officers to do postgraduate study in their respective fields of specialty/subspecialty and within the framework of Navy P-coded billet requirements. An Oxford/Cambridge Committee will assist the scholars interested in doing their advanced study at recognized foreign universities.

Of the ten recipients selected by the Postgraduate Selection Board as the pilot group, six are Naval Academy graduates.

They are: LCdr. David E. Bottorff '59, LCdr. William A. Owens '62, LCdr. Winford G. Ellis '64, Lt. Morris M. Kemple, Jr. '64, Lt. Henry M. Kleemann '65 and Lt. John L. Grostick '66.

Naval Academy Women's Club Scholarships

The Naval Academy Women's Club announces that it will award four-year scholar-

ships in 1972 in the amount of $4,000 to be allocated in $1,000 amounts each year.

The recipient must be unmarried and the daughter, adopted daughter, or stepdaughter of a Naval Academy faculty member (officer or civilian), a regular Navy or Marine Corps officer on active duty or in a retired status with pay, or the daughter of a deceased officer in one of these categories.

Preference will be given to the aforementioned daughters of deceased personnel. The award will be made on the basis of scholarship, character, and need, and will be awarded for the four years of the recipient's college career.

Applications may be obtained from the Chief of Naval Personnel, Washingtcm, D. C., or the Scholarship Chairman of the Naval Academy Women's Club, Annapolis, Md. Applications should be received no later than 15 May 1972 by the Chief of Naval Personnel (Pers-P511), Navy Department, Washington, DC 20370. Final selection of the recipient will be made by the Naval Academy Women's Club.

Individuals or groups desiring to contribute to this scholarship fund may send checks made payable to the Scholarship Fund, Naval Academy Women's Club, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402. Checks in any amount will be gratefully received, particularly those sent as memorials. Such contributions are tax exempt.

Kurt P. Roderbourg

Associate Professor Kurt P. Roderbourg, a retired Naval Academy professor, died 18 January 1972 in Annapolis. A memorial mass was held in the Main Chapel on 21 January. Professor Roderbourg taught German at the Academy from September 1946 to June 1970. Shipmate joins in sending sympathy to the family of this dedicated friend of the Naval Academy.

SHIPMATE

Destroyermen!

Helps

The League of Naval Destroyermen will hold its fifth National Reunion-Convention, 1-6 August 1972, at headquarters in the Hotel Chamberlin at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Va. For details and further information contact LgNavDes, Drawer "M," S. Windsor, CT 06074.

Philadelphia Reunion

The USS PHILADELPHIA will hold its ninth annual reunion, 5-7 October 1972 at the Sheraton San Antonio Motor Inn, San Antonio, Tx. Those interested please contact the reunion chairman, Frank J. Amoroson, at 93 Dunbar St., Somerset, NJ 08873.

The Navy Department Library is seeking to have among its volumes the 1964, 1966, 1968 and 1969 Lucky Bags. If you can supply one of these editions, or can supply information leading to one of these, please contact Capt. Paul B. Ryan, USN (Ret.), Deputy Director of Naval History, Department of the Navy, Washington, DC 20360.

Encyclopedia Britannica Offer

Some years ago the Alumni Association and the Encyclopedia Britannica jointly sponsored a special program whereby the Encyclopedia was offered to

members of the Association on a very attractive basis. Because that program was so successful, a similar one is being offered this year, complete details of which will be mailed to all members in the next few weeks. It should be noted, however, that the Association does not and will not release its mailing list to the Encyclopedia Britannica, nor to any other commercial organization. This offer is being made only to members, through and under control of the Alumni Association, as an opportunity for those who so desire to obtain the Encyclopedia and associated publications at a very favorable price.

CLASS NEWS 0) n) ZJ

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Sec'y, Henry Williams, USN (Ret.) 4000 Tunlaw Rd. N.W., Apt. 621 Washington, D.C. 20007 Percent Members: 13

Mrs. Walter B. Tardy, widow of Cdr. Walter B. TARDY, died in Annapolis on 1 February. To her daughter, Mrs. Roger Perry of Santa Fe, N.M., and other members of the family, we send deepest sympathies. More details will follow next month.

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Sec'y and Treas., RAdm. Frank A. Braisted, USN (Ret.) 3104 Cleveland Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Percent Members: 46

Sec'y, RAdm. Herbert Seymour Howard, USN (Ret.) 2807 36th Place, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20007 Percent Members: 14

Sec'y, Capt. Louis P. Davis, USN (Ret.) Dresden Apartment 2126 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, 0. C. 20003 Percent Members: 28.5

Sec'y, VAdm. Alexander Sharp, USN (Ret.), 6306 Bannockburn Dr. Bethesda, Md. 20034 Percent Members: 38

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Pres: Capt. A. H. Douglas, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. Allan G. Olson, USN (Rel.) El Miradero, P. 0. Box 131 Bonita, CA 92002 Percent Members: 31

Sec'y, RAdm. C. W. Fisher, USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 1101, Carmel, Calif. 93921 Percent Members: 7

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I regret to report the death of our classmate Como. Stewart Allan M A N A H A N (Speck) on 3 January 1972 at the Kensington Gardens Nursing Home after a long illness. He is survived by his widow, Alice, of the home address, 2219 California St., N.W., Washington, DC 20008, and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Grinnell, 2603 36th PI., N.W., Washington, D.C. Speck had a long and colorful career including duty as Marine Superintendent of the Panama Canal from 1940 to 1946.

Those celebrating birthdays in March are Q U A L E on the 1st, Bill P O R T E R on the ISth and MANOCK on the 20th.

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This p h o t o g r a p h of some of the class of 1 9 0 6 was discovered a m o n g the personal p a p e r s o f C d r .

E. Rogers ' 0 8 b y his son, Bayly Rogers, of A n n a p o l i s .

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Sec'y, RAdm. Charles J. Moore, USN iei (Rel.), 5509 Grove St. Chevy Chase, Md. 20015 rr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey 0. Thomas 725 West Boulevard, Kokomo, IN 46901 Percent Members: 33.5

Sec'y, Clyde R. Robinson, USN (Ret.) 107 Scott Dr. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 40

Robert

Again holiday greetings bring a message from many 1910ers and associates which your reporter is happy to pass on to other friends : Theo (Mrs. Lorain) Anderson from Wilmington, N. C , recalls memories of "our Washington gang" of W W I I . She and her sister are happy in the lovely home for the elderly.

Capt. Walter E. (Squarehead) B R p W N is bothered with a touch of arthritis in his "port hip"—but living with it quite comfortably. He is off to the Canary Islands for the winter.

Capt. John A. (Tim) BYRNE spent Christmas with his son Robert in Westfield, N. J. Has been bothered a bit with "pump trouble" in 1971.

Capt. Howard B. (Sid) BERRY spent Christmas in Guadalajara—a city where your reporter encountered Cy GILBERT some years ago. It is Sid's first Christmas alone.

Jeannette Blandin (Mrs. "Ducky") checks in very cheerfully. She and her "Padre" son, Ducky Jr., are enjoying life in Annapolis.

Carolyn Davidson (Mrs. Lyal) sends cordial greetings to 1910 from Vinson Hall.

Col. John P. (Stumps) EDGERLY "still gets around quite a bit"—Denver for reunion ; California for visit with daughter and retired Navy captain son-in-law. Chrismas with granddaughter and her family in Glenview, II. "They used to come to Grandpa's for Christmas. Times do change."

A lovely card comes from Margie (Mrs. Pat) Flanigan, who is still at Le Prieure in Prangins-Vaud, Switzerland. She enjoys getting news of 1910 friends via Shipmate, and even more direct.

Capt. Edwin J. (Pop) GILLAM and Irene in a cute verse say Christmas once a year is quite enough. But "hello" to all.

Cdr. Fred Kurfess '11 is for a Happy New Year to all except the United Nations.

Phoebe Hoffman (Mrs. J. O. "Pete") is well and active in Pacific Grove, Ca. Pete's grandson, Gary Smith, and Patricia, daughter of RAdm. Geo. L. Cassell, were married in January. Ogden Jr. is Dean of "Trinity Church Cathedral in Sacramento.

Margo Merrill (Mrs. Robert T. "Skip") sends greetings to all from Atlantis, Fl. Cdr. J. Pugh (Swifty) N O R F L E E T and 29

Henriette: "Progress has missed Cape May. The termites are taking over. So it is a nice place to live. Come and see us."

Peg (Mrs. Tom) Nicholson sends cordial greetings from Oklahoma City to all of Tom's old friends.

VAdm. Charles A. (Baldy) P O W N A L L and Mary send news of the death of Ethel (Mrs. Howard "Chink") Lewis in Honolulu.

Gertie Lang Smith is a very busy "Do Good" Lady of La Jolla. She sees her 1910 friends frequently. Her memories are most pleasant, Cdr. John H. (Jack) SMITH and Virginia are happy that both are well.

MGen. John E. SLOAN (Tod) sends greetings to old friends with "appreciation and affection."

The lovely card with the nostalgic picture of the Chapel from "The Staff of Shipmate" is interpreted as a salute by the editor to the class of his father, our "Cam" SMITH, and his mother, Mary Alger Smith.

And from Fanny (Mrs. Ted) Sherman comes a characteristic warm and affectionate greeting to all 1910ers and associates via your reporter.

Evelyn (Mrs. F. P.) Traynor was at the Breakers in Palm Beach for Christmas and then on to La Jolla for visit with Pat's son Bill and his family. She will be at the Valencia Hotel during January and February.

Frances (Mrs. "Judge") Underwood sends a Christmas menu full of things that we all wish for each other in the coming year.

Your reporter spent Christmas with his juniors at a "house warming" of his senior granddaughter and her husband in Saginaw, Mi. As "Stumps" EDGERLY remarked: times do change.

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Sec'y, Capt. W. D. Chandler, USN (Ret.) 2029 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Percent Members: 38.5

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Pres: VAdm. George H. Fort, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Robert A. Lavender, USN (Ret.) 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Percent Members: 46

Junkin.

The Navy Department has honored our classmate VAdm. Dan BARBEY by naming a new Destroyer Escort 1088 the U S S BARBEY. The

ship was christened

by his

widow, Kate.

Dan had a most interesting and varied career in the Navy, having served in battleships, cruisers, destroyers and a gunboat.

He was on the staff of the High Commissioner to Turkey and was loaned to the Allied Commission in Trade with Turkey.

His greatest achievement, however, was in the field of amphibious forces. He devised, developed and executed the logistic plans of the first over-all, large scale amphibious operation involving both the Army and the Navy forces. He later served on the staff of Admiral King and organized the first amphibious warfare section of the Navy Department. In this position his primary role was in the design, testing, and development of the new beaching craft; the LSTs, the LCTs e's well as the Dock Landing Ships (LSD) and assault vehicles.

In 1943 VAdm. Barbey became Commander, Amphibious Force Southwest Pacific, where he personally led his Force through 56 major amphibious attacks against the enemy and involving the landing of over a million fighting men with their equipment and their supplies. His fearless leadership, tactical skill and inspiring devotion to duty were recognized by the awards of the Navy Cross, Distinguished medal (three awards) and the Legion of Merit.

After W W I I , Adm. Barbey landed the occupation forces in Korea and carried out the delicate mission of redistributing the Chinese Nationalists in China and Manchuria. Later he served as Commander Caribbean Sea Frontier and later as the Commandant of the Thirteenth Naval District.

In response to a monthly birthday card, Strat W E N T W O R T H writes: "1 remember the 18th of December is my 81st birthday. It finds me with problems in my head, heart and hip. But I feel well and am happy and contented." More power to you, Strat!

Warren SHAW writes: "Thanks for Shipmate. Do a little hunting, fishing and farming. A few classmates have visited. Best wishes to all classmates. As ever."

Steve ROBINSON visited the LAVENDERS over the New Year.

Margaret Weems has been in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda following an operation to construct and correct a hip joint broken by a fall. Margaret's progress has been normal and she is able to get about in a limited way with a "walker." She should now have returned to Annapolis.

A Christmas card from Beatrice and Fred H A T C H indicates that they are again at their winter headquarters in Tucson, Az., 1743 E. Adelaide Dr., 85719. They report being in average health, average for our age this is. Your reporter feels sure that they would welcome a call from any classmate or friend passing that way.

George McMILLIN, our west coast reporter, says "again no news." He does, however, report that he and Howard Berry ('10) with a couple of others, unnamed, had a K T and dinner party at Allen Center in November for about 100 guests. He also reports that he sees Gladys and Scott McCAUGHEY from time to time and that they are about the same as usual. Their son Bill has retired from active Navy duty and was settling in that area. George is getting Pres: VAdm. Glenn B. Davis, USN (Ret.) well and has his son George Junior living Sec'y-Treas., Maj. Gen. Charles G. Helmick, USA (Ret.) with him and is under watchful eyes of 4784 Old Dominion Drive daughter Frosty living across the street.

Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 46 My hint in a recent issue that contributions of news are scarce was effective in I am grieved to report the death of two producing a letter from Mort and Lila classmates.

DEYO. Mort says he can give a cheerful George Benn J U N K I N died 19 December organ recital. He had cataracts removed in 1971 at his home, 100 Waverly Rd., GladAugust and now has contact lenses which for the first time in several years enable wynne. Pa., after a long illness. Services were held at the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian him to see what the world of people and Church on 21 December. Jimmy HALL, Si books look like. If they were able to proceed as planned, they spent Christmas with GAR- SIBERT and Tom SEARLES represented N E T T family in Northeast Harbour, Me. the class. In lieu of flowres the class sent a memorial to the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian They send their best to all classmates.

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On Christmas Day the class lost Paul SLEEPER, the man to whom we are all so deeply indebted for keeping the class in touch with each other over the years. Paul had a relapse early in December, but seemed to be gaining strength. On Christmas Day he watched the football game, and at the end, when Frances helped him into another room, he sank to the floor, and was gone when a doctor next door arrived. The funeral was held at St. John's Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase, on 29 December, with interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Jimmy Hall, Glenn DAVIS, Gardiner HELMICK, Mac MILLER and Ernie Dupuy of the class of 1913 USMA were among the honorary pallbearers. Mamie Abbott, Lillian Enright, Margaret Moore and Eugenie Lee attended the funeral. The class sent flowers, and a memorial donation to the Children's Hospital.

Paul's ears prevented his being commissioned on graduation. For nine years he was with Newport News Shipbuilding, then went into the insurance business and from 1926 until his retirement in 1964 he was General Life Agent of Aetna Life Insurance Co. for D.C., Va., with offices in Washington. He kept records of the class, and by his bulletins and Shipmate notes kept the class in touch. Upon his retirement, he made this his main activity, and arranged for all the class reunions. We have lost a faithful friend and benefactor. Our deepest sympathy goes to Frances who took such wonderful care of Paul throughout his long illnesses.

No class notes will be included, as there will be an All Hands Bulletin.

Pres: RAdm. H. A. Spanagel, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John I. Hale, USN (Ret.) 4105 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D. Swain, USN (Ret.) 10231 Vivera Dr., La Mesa, CA 92042 Percent Members: 42

Margaret Gearing has changed her residence from Norfolk to 35 Locke Ln., Richmond, VA 23226. She will be pleased to see any of the class of '14 who may be passing through or when in the vicinity of Richmond.

Margaret has a daughter whose home is in Richmond.

Arthur WILLS has had some health troubles during the last year. In May he suffered a heart failure at 3:00 a.m., was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital where, after three weeks of therapy, he was discharged, but, about one month later, he was admitted to St. Albans for another malady requiring some transfusions. After about one month, he was discharged and in a much improved condition, so much so that he has resumed some commercial writing.

Pauline has also had some health troubles but none of them has, as yet, been disabling.

We wish for both of them full recoveries.

Bob and Nola HAYLER have been most happy with their selection, about 18 years agcD, of a beautiful spot in Carmel, Ca., for their retirement home—their residence is within sight of the ocean and about four blocks distant therefrom.

Bob advises: "Before Christmas we had some family with us and, in addition, a nice visit from Ted and Inez Ruddock. Our Bill, USNA 1945, is teaching at the California Maritime Academy, Vallejo. He and his family live in Vallejo. Bill expects to embark in the Academy school ship late in January . . . cruise through the Canal into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico . . . back t() the Pacific where various ports will be visited en route to Vallejo . . . involving some 12,500 miles and about 80 days.

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"Bob, U S N A 1941, and his family live in Arlington.. He is teaching in Fairfax County —both sons are enjoying what they are doing."

Bob and Nola are thinking of making a visit east next spring, but, at the moment, they are looking forward to the Crosby Pro-Am and the Open which will be played this year at Pebble Beach for the first time.

They extend their best wishes to classmates and their families. The Haylers' address: P. O. Box 3662, Carmel, CA 93921, Pinky P O W E R S and Virginia Kay (Mrs. Powers) and Dr. Laurence C. Jones are included in a group picture of seven in a recent issue of The Pine Torch, the official publication of the Piney Woods Country Life School founded in 1909 by Laurence C. Jones. Dr. Jones is a graduate of the Mar'shalltown, Iowa, High School and of the State University of Iowa. The Piney Woods School is located on U. S. 49 about 22 miles southeast of Jackson, Ms. Dr. Jones is said to have founded the school while sitting on a log in a pine grove with a capital of 35^. The school now consists of about 100 acies of land, dormitories, classrooms, library and other buildings—the buildings and the grounds are well and neatly kept.

The school has a current enrollment of about 500 and has several thousand graduates, predominantly blacks but also some whites. Th2 school exists for the underprivileged.

unless the course is too rolling. All of this, in large part, for the purpose of keeping fit and avoiding the need for a chair.

In 1968, Jerry suffered a throat affliction for which he was subjected to cobalt therapy. H e has since had four good years and is hopeful of several more. H e passed his 84th birthday fishing on the Great Barrier Reef. We wish the Wiltse family many more happy birthdays. Their address: 1865 Soledad Ave., La Jolla, CA 92037.

Foster C. (Bump) and Josephine (Jo) B U M P U S lead a leisurely and happy life in San Clemente. They have two children— a daughter, Nancy Kay, who lives with her family in Bucks County, Pa., and whose daughter, Deborah, is a freshman at the U. of Pittsburgh, and a son Foster, Jr., whose first wife died four years ago leaving two children, a boy of 12 years and a girl of eight. He and his second wife and their three children live in Menlo Park, Ca. Foster, Jr., is with Manning's in San Francisco.

Our Bump is in fairly good health, his hearing not so good and a chronic ailment is kept under control by medication. He takes daily walks, helps around the hous'e and he and Jo are amused at the antics of their clowning dachshund. Bump spends much time reading at their local library.

Their address: Box 553, San Clemente, CA 92672.

Dutch and Peg SPANAGEL have rePinky is in charge of the Kay Rovers, a turned to their house after a visit of two travel club of about 150 members which he weeks, over the Christmas-New Year's holioperates for fun—having grossed last year days, at Satellite Beach, Fl. (Patrick Air about $5600 with a loss of only .00023 per Force Base) with their son, LCdr. H. A. cent, but he and all the Kay Rovers have Spanagel, Jr., his wife, Elizabeth, and a good time. For the last ten years the Kay daughters, Elizabeth, Susan and Ann. Rovers have given an annual dinner in honor As of 10 January 1972, 41 of the 154 of Dr. Jones, the invitations being extended graduates of the Naval Academy class of at the instance of our Pinky Powers. One 1914 survive. year the City of Pasadena joined in the dinner and at a meeting following the dinner Chairman, Class Comm.: about five thousand dollars were raised for Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) the school. Ralph Edwards had Dr. Jones, Sec'y, Adm. Arthur D. Struble, USN (Ret.) who is a black, on one of his "This is Your 4017 Oliver S t . , Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Corr. Sec'y, Mrs. M. W. Hutchinson, Jr Life" T V presentations; Edwards requested 6 Acton Place, Annapolis, MD 21401 ^ donations of $1.00 from each viewer and Percent Members: 62 thus raised over three million dollars for the school. Edwards came to Pasadena for Ted BREED sent in a joyous holiday the dinner, at the invitation of Powers, greeting card with an anything but joyous MC'd at the meeting at Cal Tech which visage on it and said: "This is my brother followed the dinner.

Dick's (Yale 1915). How about getting out Virginia Kay writes a column for the a new Bulletin? There must be a lot of Pasadena Star-News. Last year she was one news. I have only seen one classmate lately— of five newspaper women from the U. S. Scott Baker. Rafe didn't show up at my who attended in Washington and New York Army-Navy buffet and all Phila. 1915 are the first International Congress of Women dead but Scott and Betty Baker. Best reJournalists. Healthwise, all is well with the gards." H e also adds—Merry Christmas !

Powers family. Address: 13800 Canoe Thanks for card. "Our paths will cross if Brook, 15-A Seal Beach, CA 90740. you get out a new Bulletin. Ted and 'Monty Ed P A L M E R is a contributor to the of Alamein'—my new bull dog."

Ike SCHLOSSBACH sent in a card: Piney Woods Country Life School. A Mis"All the important games this year seem sissippi friend of mine considers the school to be cliff hangers. I did not make it this to be a very worthy institution.

Jerry and Rosalind W I L T S E , since re- year either. My doctor said not to go. I had tirement, travelled extensively in our own been in the hospital—trouble with the country and abroad. They recently completed ticker."

Rafe BATES sent in a card: "You must a six-month leisurely trip around the world. have been on your travels again for our They were married in 1963—Jerry's first wife having passed away in 1959. He has Shipmate drew a blank. Actually I was glad to see it for it means that you are in good three step-daughters from each wife, ranging shape and, as regards the class, it means in age from 40 to 52 years, some of whom that no one has died. What a sad commenare widows, and 15 grandchildren. They are all well an(l active and he is fond of all of tary! But I have a right to say it, as I went to the Army-Navy game and no other them and they of him. classmates were there. We are truly getting Jerry keeps busy with his hobbies, ranging soft! from carpentry to photography to bird "All well up here. Temperature today watching, etc. H e finds that he can do most 15°F.—which I cannot say I enjoy—but of the carpentry, painting, electrical and early January, I head west first to Scottsplumbing work required to keep their residence in shipshape. He golfs about three dale, Arizona. After that, who knows?

"Thanks for your Christmas card. I did times each week and drags his own cart M A R C H ,

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not realize that you had snow and churches like that in Louisiana. Well, why not? The Acadians came from cold Nova Scotia.

Rafe."

A squib from George GROVE's son who was on his second deployment as C.o.S. to RAdm. Esch-1940. "On my last deployment we always seemed to have a class of '15 ship about but this time there are none present since the THEODORE E . CHANDLER has returned, the WEDDERBURN has gone out of commission, and the L Y N N MCCORMICK

has yet to deploy."

A letter from our reporter Peggy Pennoyer in Coronado says: "The holiday season was ushered into Coronado with a flock of exciting invitations. Belle Mitchell and this reporter decided to pop aboard the bandwagon. We chose December 14th as the date for a cocktail buffet to be given at the North Island Officers' Club in honor of BGen. and Mrs. Merian C. Cooper (who are now living in Coronado at 952 E Street).

We failed to take into consideration the arrival of two most undesirable visitors— namely flu and laryngitis. The germs spread so rapidly that in no time, half the town was laid low or staggering back on their feet. Many a hostess wondered if any of her friends would brave a cold, damp night and come to her party. Five minutes before our first guest appeared, Dorothy and Coop arrived at the club. Having only recently recovered from a sharp attack of the flu, they were a bit unsteady, but obviously looking forward to the evening. Picture a receiving line with no one able to speak above a whisper! Though he avoids large affairs, Vince Godfrey made a gallant effort and arrived with Emilie. Harry Campman was out of town. Though we had 40 refusals, the gaily decorated room with Christmas greens and red carnations helped everyone to get into a festive mood. The kissing ball over the bar caused quite a bit of laughter. A buffet table loaded with goodies and the cheese and wine bar proved very popular.

So, all in all, our fears did not materialize.

From beginning to end, it was a fun party.

"We are looking for Red Thomas to arrive at the Hotel del Coronado sometime in January, with an interesting story about his fabulous trip.

"And so to all of you—north, east, south and west—we wish you a bright and Happy New Year!"

In Annapolis this Christmas season, we had some warm and springtime weather, with forsythia and cherry blossoms coming out! It has now turned cold and we'll probably soon get a blizzard!

Pres: Adm. Arthur W . Radford, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. George P. Brevister, USN (Ret.) 611 West 40th S t .

Baltimore, MD 21211 West Coast Reporter, Capt. George F. Chapline, USNR (Ret.) 1327 Inspiration Dr. La Jolla, CA 92037 Percent Members" 58

As these notes are being typed it is the beginning of a New Year with the holidays behind us with all its cheer, friendly cards (still on display), and the many football games to watch on TV. We here at home wish to thank all those who remembered us by sending greetings. They were appreciated and helped greatly to add to these festive days. May 1972 prove to be a good year for us all . . .

In the June issue of Shipmate we paid tribute to the stamina and patience and cheerful outlook on life of Ike GEISENH O F F who had been fighting a losing battle for life for several months. On 11 31

Dec. Ike lost this fight, but only after a courageous effort on his part to prolong the inevitable end. He was laid to rest in the family plot in San Jose, Ca., alongside his late wife. Peg, and a former wife and mother of his four daughters who survive him. He is also survived by 14 grandchildren and by three great-grandchildren. Ike loved the Navy and had a loyalty to it and to his class that was exceeded by none and equalled by few. He was more than generous to all appeals for help of any kind from the class.

He served his country well during two major wars as well as his community between times and since. He will be sorely missed by all, though none will deny that there is some comfort in knowing that his long suffering days are over. He is at last at peace. The sympathy of the whole class is extended to his fine family in their loss of a beloved father and grandfather.

In tribute to the memory of Arthur Collins Geisenhoff, Capt., USNR, the class has made a donation to the American Cancer Society which did so much to help him in his long and futile battle for life—and kept him so cheerful and hopeful all during those trying years.

W E S T COAST N E W S On 16 Dec. the monthly 1916-17-18 lunch was celebrated at the Officers' Club, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Garden Room, where 13 enjoyed the very excellent arrangements and menu handled by Don Curtis. A letter from Nemo AWTREY was enjoyed by all telling of the marked success of his son-inlaw. A circular Christmas letter written early in December by the late Ike Geisenhoff was read in full. However, none then realized it was to be Ike's last communication with his classmates. We deeply regretted to learn of his death on 11 Dec. which was reported later in the month by his daughter, Jeanne (Mrs. D. H. Lindsay of San Jose, Ca.). Ike had exhibited that tenacious characteristic to cheerfully overcome all handicaps during the last few years and seemed so gay and bright during a telephone call he made to this reporter in November after having been thoroughly bed-ridden since 30 Jan. '71 when in a fall he fractured both hips and had experienced no mending. He was a great friend to all, keeping in communication by notes he struggled to pen from his bed and from cheerful telephone calls right up to his very last day.

Present at the luncheon were: 1916— Jenkins, Possum Webb, Walter Webb, Rodgers, Carrington, Root, McGinnis, Loventhal and Chapline; 1917—Kiland and Rogers; and 1918—Curtis and Perkins.

Dolly Loventhal, Marie Rodgers, Esther Jenkins and Ann Webb gathered in the main dining room for their cheerful luncheon.

Gib HOOVER paid our area a visit where he represented the Secretary of the Navy when the USS BRISTOL COUNTY, named for

Gib's now home county, was launched by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Corp.

CBS's local Channel 8 showed an excellent picture on its news-cast of Gib as he delivered his speech (which was said to be the real talk of the day).

Many are travelling—Angle and Count GRASSIE to England for the marriage of their son in London; the Duke CARRINGTONs to the east and south; Muriel and Lil H E R N D O N to the Phoenix-Scottsdale, Az., country for the holiday period; and, while you read this, Trudy and Chuck EMERSON will be in Hong Kong or Singapore on their around-the-world tour. The RADFORDs came west for the holidays with their sister and brother-in-law (the 32

Col. Paul Davisons of La Jolla). Both were cheerfully active—Raddy showing marked improvement physically over last August.

The March lunch will be the 16th again at the Officers' Club Marine Recruit Depot.

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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 Percent Members: 57

Molly and Cap W A R D in their annual Christmas letter enclosed their picture stating that the past year had been a very pleasant one for them. That now they had a happier tale to tell. The picture was taken on the movie set of "The Cowboys," a John Wayne picture in which they had fun by being extras made-up as grandparents, vintage of 1876. You will note that Cap is standing on his own feet. Since his last letter he has discarded wheel chairs, crutches and canes. On their grand South Pacific cruise, Cap navigated between decks under his own power. Cap is now able to do most of the work about the place other than "stoop labor." Swimming almost daily in the local "spa" in cold weather and in their pool during the summer. Cap and Molly are planning making our 60th reunion.

on Saturday but decided we'd be in such a state of flux around noon that it would not work. A list of those in town will be at the desk in the Hilton and those wishing to can get together at luncheon. Please let us know whether you're coming and by mid-March. Remember I Widows are guests of the class and we want as many as possible.

We also want our "bilgers"—all of you who can make it. Remember. If you want one of our Hilton reservations it must be made personally to the hotel.

Jim CONOVER is bringing his wife Luz. We are told she will be a great addition.

Christy writes from Cobb (Queenstown) and sends his best to the class.

It is very distressing to report the death of Bill LUDLOW [Capt. William Goodwin Ludlow, USN (Ret.)] on 9 December 1971.

Bill had not been ill and was in Crabtown overnight to be on hand for a dental appointment the next morning. He simply did not wake up for it. He was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery. It was a great shock to us hereabouts. As you all know. Bill was one of the most beloved members of the class. As Nifio Post wrote, "I do not think Bill ever had one enemy in his entire life."

I'll bet on that, too. May he rest in peace.

He certainly had the affection of his class— and returned it. mho GREGORY is in U S N H Annapolis following a few strokes. His muscular and speech coordination are somewhat impaired but seemingly improved. Our Walt went into Bethesda for exploratory surgery on 10 January—the day this was recorded. We are all hoping for the best. Good luck, Walt.

Len AUSTIN is having a little medical trouble. May it soon clear up.

With all the poor news there is this bright spot. Tex ROGERS has had a completely successful operation on his eye. He can now look at television and will soon be fitted for reading glasses. Cheers!

Remember the SSth—6-7 May 1972!!!

Pre?: Capt. W. J. Malone, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Perry R. Taylor, USNR (Ret.) 1211 South 25th St. Arlington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 52

Molly and Cap Ward

The following alphabetical list contains the names of those members of the class that have notified Jack STONE that they will attend the reunion on 6-7 May 1972. It is expected that they will be accompanied by their wives: E. E. Brady, W. C. Calhoun, M. Comstock, J. P. Conover, R. E. Dees, J. H. Forshew, F. J. Hanafee, R. H. Harper.

G. B. Hoover, J. H. Jenkins, L. E. Kelly, H. L. Maples, V. J. Moore, A. I. McKee, R. I. Porter, C. K. Post, F. T. Spellman, J. G. M. Stone, H. N. Wallin, F. L. Worden, A. G. Noble, P. H. Park and Adelaide Fullinwider. Perk Deane and Elise Skylestead.

We also expect faithfuls Faith Gale, Betty Murphy and Gladys Small.

The SSth reunion will be held 6-7 May '72—as previously announced. As originally planned there will just be a dinner on Saturday, 6 May, and Chapel and despedida at 248 following. We tried to rig up a luncheon

On 27 December, Elizabeth Maybery, wife of Jack P H I L L I P S , was buried in Arlington with a simple graveside service attended by a number of classmates, relatives and by many close friends of Betty and Jack. She passed away 22 December at Doctor's General Hospital in Plantation, Fl., after a short illness. A requiem mass was celebrated for Betty at her church in Fort Lauderdale. It was attended by many local friends and by her two brothers from California, Wm. H. and J. Richard Maybery, who accompanied Jack to Arlington and were at the graveside commitment service. Jack's nephew, John B. Phillips, a local resident, and his two sons from Boston were at the grave. Jack, Betty's brothers and the nephews have the deep sympathy of his devoted classmates. Address Jack at 1071 Tennessee Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, 33312.

We have just received a very generous donation from Dorothy, widow of Smith D. A. COBB of our class who died 28 January of last year. The donation will be placed in the class fund to be used at a later date for some purpose in the honor and memory of Smith who many of us fondly remember as "Red" or "Rojo." The class extends its thanks and gratitude to Dorothy for this donation.

In Shipmate, Nov. 1970, you saw a picture of Neebor Lee, home of Betty and Ross W H I T E M A R S H . In that issue you read of SHIPMATE

Ross's problem in preventing or at least delaying an extension of the Schuylkill Expressway through their property near Oaks, Pa. We learned just at press time that things look favorable for Ross. Although a final decision by the Pennsylvania Highway Department is still pending, condemnation proceedings against Neebor Lee have not been started. An alternate route is being discussed.

On Thanksgiving, Nell and Perry TAYLOR heard the voice of their son, Jeremy (1/Lt. C E ) , speaking from Vietnam.

The detailed information about Hoppie H O P K I N S which we expected long before the deadline for this issue has not come.

Consequently we cannot pass along much information about his activities since resigning in 1923. We suspect that he was hospitalized in a V.A. hospital because of T.B. A rumor has also been uncovered that he worked for Kaiser Shipbuilding during W W I I . This seems logical since he was a constructor and also a star man at the Academy. We think he entered with 1917 being turned back to our class for reasons quite honorable. Presumably he did consulting work in Pasadena following his resignation.

We received a friendly letter from Rev. Max Morrison of Pasadena who knew Hoppie as his next door neighbor. As a minister he had the sad experience of officiating at the funeral of Helen, Hoppie's second wife, who died in 1945, and of her mother, Catheran Crawford, who died later.

Hoppie died 3 July 1971 of cancer after a lingering illness. His funeral service was conducted by Rev. Morrison with only a few private friends attending.

The following paragraphs about Hoppie are quoted from Rev. Morrison's letter.

"During the 29 years I knew Mr. Hopkins as a next door neighbor our relationship was always very pleasant. Not one cross word passed between us. I was the recipient of many acts of kindness on his part. We often exchanged garden tools, camping equipment, food, etc.

"Hoppie was a great lover of the out-ofdoors and nothing delighted him more than an opportunity to go camping in one of the National Parks, Monument Valley, Death Valley and other interesting places.

"The affection he showed his wife and her mother during the long illnesses through which each of them passed before their (leaths will always remain a bright memory to me.

"During his last days when confined to his home or in some hospital, he turned his backyard over to the boys of the neighborhood and invited them to use it as a playground. One of those boys, hearing that Mr. Hopkins was ill, said to me: 'If there were more men in this world like Mr. Hopkins this would be a better world in which to live.' Coming from a 12-year-old boy I consider that a great and wonderful tribute to be coveted by anyone.

"Here is a poem which I think is a good description of Hoppie as I knew him: What was his creed? I did not know his creed, I only know that here below he lifted many a load From those he loved and those he came to know.

No beggar felt him condescend, no prince presume.

He simply bore himself at Manhood's simple level.

And wherever he met a stranger, there he left a friend.

MARCH,

1972

His magic was not far to seek, he was so human.

He never thought in terms of creeds.

But lived a life of deeds."

In the February issue we quoted from a letter from Henry McCOWN giving details of his and Judith's experience in Austin, Tx., and promised additional dope about them. This time their travels in Mexico will be highlighted.

The Sierra Madres Mountains have impressed them. They visited Monterrey—the Pittsburgh of Mexico—where they have been warmly welcomed for over 20 years. In Guadalajara they have enjoyed tropical beauty at 5000 feet altitude, which city is famous for beautiful women and parks, also its mariachis, imposing cathedral and opera house. Mexico City, because of its frantic millions, wild traffic and smog, is no longer their favorite city though it is truly one of the great cities of the world. Once they stayed in Villa Montafio, run by Cote in Morelia where they found the best food in Mexico.

In November '70 Judith and Henry drove to San Salvador to visit their second son.

Foreign Service Officer Henry, and his wife Arlene. In July and August 1971 they occupied a small apartment in San Miguel de Allende, an artists colony where many retired service people live. In August, Henry and Arlene flew up from Salvador, daughter Janet and husband came from the U. of Kansas for reunion with all the grandchildren. Fred, the oldest son, living in Oklahoma City, was not able to join them.

In summary we quote from Henry's letter: "We have watched great changes in the 20 years we have been exploring Mexico. Now we see that beggars are fewer in number, a solid class has emerged, health care and education are improving, so that despite many problems that remain, this lovely land is headed for a brighter future. And best of all to us—we love the innate dignity and courtesy of the Mexican people."

Let's hope the McCowns will attend the 5 5-year reunion.

Attendance at the class luncheon S January: Dobyns, Duvall, Mitten, Riggs, Smith, and Taylor.

B I R T H D A Y S IN MARCH We hope greetings reach classmates to whom we send our very best as follows: Oliver Marston, 4th; John Crecca, 5th; Arthur Craig and Sol Phillips, 11th; Vic Barringer and Lloyd Clifford, 18th. Ion Pursell and Graham Lester will have birthdays 1 April.

Pres: VAdm. George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, VAdm. W. M. Callaghan, USN (Ret.) 3502 Runnymede P I . , N.W. Washington, D. C. 20015 Percent Members: 57.5

Before the Ides of spring are upon us it is pleasant to recall that just before the old year passed into history the Don KINGS gave their usual and enjoyable preChristmas reception for all hands in the Washington metro area. Only a few were absent because of other commitments or were away for the holiday season.

The sweet often comes mixed with the bitter and so the pre-holiday period had the saddening shadows of the death of Elizabeth Bates Dingwell, Paul's widow, on 9 Nov. 1971 and of Maurice Harris ("Abie") S T E I N , Cdr. USN (Ret.), on 18 Deceml)er in Winchester, Va. "Abie" was buried in Arlington with graveside services on 21 Dec. Attending besides members of the fam-

ily were: George and Adaline Dyer, Carl Fink, Don King, Bill Tarbutton and your scribe. Ada Stein's later letter to George Dyer expressed deep appreciation for the floral tribute of the class and to those who were present at the burial services: "It was not long after our marriage in 1945," Ada wrote, "that I found out from Maurice that being a member of the class of 1919 was the one thing of which he was most proud."

No details were given by her son, Paul D. Dingwell, Jr., and daughter, Mrs. Lydia D. Wheeler, of their mother's death or place of burial.

The plaque presented to the Naval Academy in memory of Ralph J E N N I N G S (see Feb. Shipmate) carried the following inscription : "In grateful and loving memory of Vice Admiral Ralph E. Jennings, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Commanding Officer of 'The Fighting Lady' during the first strike on Truk and Saipan and the First Battle of the Philippine Sea. USS Yorktown (CV-IO) Association." George DYER had no immediate information as to where the plaque was to be located but thought it would probably be placed somewhere within the Memorial Stadium at one of the entrances.

Convalescing from operations of varying degrees of severity are: Count VON HEIMBURG, Kathryn Goodwin and Dan McGURL. All are reported doing well and home from the hospitals. It is also a pleasure to record that Jeff Metzel, Jr.'s son, Robert, is improving gradually in the rehabilitation hospital from the injury sustained last summer.

The Dyers were off in mid-January to Texas for a meeting of the Military Order of the World Wars and later in the month departed on a two weeks cruise in the Caribbean.

"Mike" W I L L I A M S reports, in a note accompanying literature from Texas Voters for Enforcing the Constitution, and Defenders of the American Constitution, that he and Jo had hoped to make the Army-Navy game but had to cancel reservations at the last moment because of illness. "Thank God," says Mike, "I am able to work again and in the first month following the illness was able to hit my old stride in the life insurance business of 1946-48 at which time it was reported that I had the largest such business in the South."

Elsa Cook advises that she has bought another mobile home and is nicely settled in Pomona to be near her son and his family. No address was given for the new residence, so let us know, Elsa, whether the former one we have in Pomona on West Holt Ave. is still correct.

The W Y N K O O P s were down from New York for a post-holiday visit to Washington and Tom was able to join the following for the January class luncheon: DuVal, Dyer, Fink, King, Rochester, Schildhauer and your reporter.

A typographical error in the January Shipmate gave the date of the annual class get-together at Annapolis as 2 May 1972.

The correct date is 20 May, so please make the necessary notation on your calendar.

Adelaide Waldron has already indicated that she is planning to make that date and Bill FERGUSON and Lillian Redman are even looking farther ahead to the SSth anniversary in 1973.

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Pres: RAdm. John B. Lyon, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. P. Martin, USN (Ret.) 2 St. Mary's St. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent

Members: 55

Ross DAGGETT reports that Johnny and Marion GREER had crossed the Line and were rolling down to Rio on the first month of their four-month cruise around the world.

From Slim and Rosita COWDREY in Fort Lauderdale: "Dear Friends, everyone in the Class of 1920, Roy in good health and we are happy as ever. Roy uses a cane and limps from his hip inqury. We joined Church by the Sea which is close to our home."

Harvey WILSON writes from 20 Yacht Club Dr., North Palm Beach, FL 33408, sending best wishes to all our friends and classmates in that area. "May you all have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. We really have a swell spot here, smack on the inland waterway at the north end of Lake Worth where there is lots of boat activity.

The marina behind our apartment has berthed some of our friends on their way N or S. I note that the Dec. Shipmate has done a great job printing our 'Tenth' picture. Incidentally, the last ( ? ) after Schmidt in the picture, I'm sure, is C. B. Gary."

Dec. IS the funeral service for Heine NIELSON's wife Virginia was held at Taylors' Funeral Chapel in Annapolis with burial in St. Anne's Cemetery. Besides Heine she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Theodore J. Banvard of Kensington, Md., wife of Capt.

Banvard, USN (Ret.) ; a sister, Mrs. Arthur W. Baker, and a brother, W. Morris Shannon, both of Annapolis; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The Rev. Edwin G. Reeder of Eastport Methodist Church conducted the service. Swanson and Martin were present from the class. Heine sent many thanks to the class for the flowers and for their expressions of sympathy. Mrs. Nielson had been ill for many years. Heine had kept their house in Annapolis which was in their joint names. He will now sell the house here and live in Baltimore at 720 W. 36th St., 21211.

Julian BOIT writes from 229 Main St., Amherst, MA 01002 (barbarous computer language) : "I'd like to do my bit in bolstering up the exchequer (he sent $100) and at the same time wish the boys a Merry Christmas—also thanks for representing all the class, particularly those who live far from Washington-Annapolis area." Many thanks, Judy.

Bill and Gay RICE write that they expect to move this spring to 2302-A Via Puerta, Laguna Hills, CA 92653.

A Christmas letter from the DECKERs: "This year has been one of travel. Edwina went to the Holy Land. . . . Benny stayed home to mind the store and improve his golf. In August Edwina and Benny made a tour of Northern Europe. We enjoyed it, but not the pornographer or the hippies in Scandinavia. Most of the hippies couldn't speak English. While we were in Norway, Nixon stopped the dollar drain, including mine; Edwina, in shock, snapped shut her pocketbook. . . . Benny plays golf three times a week with (our) classmates Hartman and Wheyland. We have had a happy year, grateful to our God for our many blessings. We have been married SO years (and, says Benny, every day a happy one)." Congratulations to both Benny and Edwina and many more!

At the class luncheon on New Year's Eve we had 14 present. Carter ANDERSON was bartender and won Paul NIBECKER's game. Besides those two we had: Christmas, Crowe, Daggett, De Weese, Harrison, Hol34

singer, Hitchcock, Lyon, Mansfield, Martin, Osborn and Pearson.

Ted H A F F is rarin' to leave the hospital here. He looks fit and planned to go to Florida 30 Jan. on the same auto train as the CHRISTMASes. Reports say that Wes HAGUE was home for Christmas and improving; Wally HIGGINS was in Cleveland with his sons and doing surprisingly well.

Jim CROWE and Fred CUNNINGHAM have been to see him. They say Wally hopes to transfer to a Veterans hospital in the Cleveland area.

On the optimistic side we have reserved 100 rooms at the Hilton in Annapolis for our SSth. The dates: May 10, 11 and 12, 1974. I hope we'll all be there. Deo volente!

Ted Haff, please note. The Hilton adds: "Reservations to be by list before 19 April 1974."

Marion Welchel writes nostalgically of Portsmouth Navy Yard and life there as a young girl: "Houseman-servants—an orderly life for the 'old' and bliss for the kids!

As Packy Graff used to sav: 'The Navy isn't what it used to be and never was!'

This is the time to sit and rock and watch football ori T V in front of my electric fire.

Billick is busy with his sweet potatoes during the winter and odd jobs about the places.

Am giving B. Eleanor and Franklin for Christmas—that should occupy time till plowin'."

Pres: Mr. Homer 0. Elmers Sec'y, RAdm. William B. Fletcher, USN (Ret.) 1866 Lindamoor Dr., Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 54.5

W A S H I N G T O N - A N N A P O L I S AREA The Washington-Annapolis group held their regular monthly luncheon at the Army and Navy Club in Washington on 22 December. Present were Jane and L. A. Brown, Eleanor and Cat Brown, Kitty and Os Colclough, Evelyn and Red Condon, Polly and Fred Boone, Louise and Homer Elmers, Gerry and Bill Fletcher, Fully FuUinwider, Margaret and Don Giles, Vera and Harold Houser, Tom Kelly, Betty and Ducky Lamdin, Mary C. and Legs Leggett, Peg and Mac McCollum, Blackie Loker, Sherwood Smith, Phronie and Wop Barbaro and John Waters. We were most pleased to have Bill Alexander join us, down from New York for a day or so.

Margaret and Swig SWIGART were hosts at a large cocktail and buffet party in their home in Pendennis Mount on 30 December for military and civilian friends. It was a gala affair enjoyed by all.

Raye and Dick DICKINS invited Navy and civilian friends to help them usher in the new year at their apartment in Severn House in Annapolis. Banjo music aided by a trumpet increased the decibels and added to the gaiety of the affair.

A lovely letter of thanks and appreciation has been received from Helen Cherbonnier for the flowers sent to the graveside service for Frenchy.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA The holiday season for Bay area dwellers was for the most part clear and sunny.

One storm, some fog and a daily misty vapor layer overall which local '21ers as well as others confused with SMOG. One weather guesser, however, announced through the local news media that it really wasn't SMOG but in reality "winter haze." That having been explained, we hasten on to more rewarding matters.

Early in the month Anise Ramsey and

John MADDEN, old old friends, decided to set up a non-romantic association and sent out invitations to a cocktail and buffet-type clambake at the Fleet Admiral Nimitz Clijb along towards the middle of January.

On Sunday, 12 December, Irene and Doc H A R R I S and Bunty and Lew J O H N S were co-hosts at a lovely cocktail and buffet spread at the Casa de la Vista. The '21 family was out in full force.

There was much entertaining during the holiday season in homes which were given over to greetings and reunion parties involving houseguests. Visiting relatives and, of course, grandchildren and other small fry were predominant. There were football games all over the dial and in the local stadia. Piggy S C H W I E N and his loyal band of '49er rooters cheered their heroes through the entire season up to and including their final defeat at the hands of former Naval Academy great Roger Staubach and the Dallas Cowboys.

And so 1971 slipped quietly into limbo around the Bay. Not a great year, but not a bad one either. But it was our 50th and we will all remember it as having contained for each of us many happy memories. And so we face 1972 cheerfully around the Bay. Pes: Capt. A. R. Sanborn, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. J. L. Pratt, USN (Ret.) 4000 Massachusetts Ave. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016 Percent Members: 36.5

Return cards for the '72 Roll Call are coming in thick and fast at this writing (9 January). If through any miscarriage you have not received yours do please send us some information prior to IS April. If there is no change in your address or status the Roll Call will carry the same data shown in the '67 edition. But a reply will give us affirmative information—rather than negative !

A total of 612 questionnaires were mailed to all grads, all non-grads for whom we have addresses, and 188 widows (included in the 612). The Alumni Association staff did a great job in providing and addressing the fillers for the window envelopes. The distaff side of the Committee licked the 1224 stamps and the 612 flaps. Some flappers!

Apropos the help from the Alumni Association we daresay that quite a few may not be fully aware of the contributions which Bill Busik and his staff make toward the success of all the reunions and homecomings for the more than 60 Naval Academy classes which make Alumni House their headquarters and rendezvous. Here are some of them: the upkeep and staffing of our handsome and historic Alumni House itself (Ogle Hall built in 1739) where hospitality awaits all comers, members or non-members. It is the home of Shipmate, the prime means of communication, and news for the alumni. There is a wide range of services to its members, to the Naval Academy programs, and the programs of the several related organizations such as the Athletic Association, the Blue and Gold Program, the Foundation, and many other essentials listed on page A36 of the Register of Alumni—itself a valuable reference published each year and listing every person who ever enrolled for instruction since the founding of the Academy, together with their status and/or address if known. Most of us are aware of the foregoing.

The point in writing about it is that the percentage of membership among the alumni is in the range of 40 percent. The Association deserves more support. The readers of this column are all members and it is sugSHIPMATE

gested that some missionary work is in order.

The non-members can be easily identified by the absence of an "M" or an "L" next to their names in the Register. It should be noted that our class participation, while not high enough, is higher than indicated at the top of this column, the reason being that the computer result includes all of the nongrad classmates listed in the Register. We have addresses for only 122 of the 287 nongrads which the computer accepted as active; whereas if the list were subjected to actuarial experience (among the 165 who haven't been heard from for years) the over-all and actual participation for the whole class would be closer to SO percent than 36.5.

We hasten to correct and apologize for indicating that Herb BERGER went to Texas instead of Ernie BECKER. We like to blame the linotype operator because he doesn't mind. In any case, Ernie went with Doris, and her son's wedding was a grand and successful affair done in true Texas style. The bride and groom are all settled in their new home in El Paso.

Dale Q U A R T O N writes that 14 attended the first luncheon of the new year. They were pleased to have Ben GOODWIN out again. He's been having trouble with the stairs so this was solved by having the luncheon on the ground floor of the Admiral Kidd Club. Beany and Ward JARR E T T have arrived in California on their annual escape from Jack Frost. Dale is sorry to report that Walter ROCKEY and Railroad JACKSON are both in nursing homes.

Both quite ill.

Bill F I N N has returned from a midwinter visit to Anchorage, Ak., where one of his married daughters lives. Bill says he wanted to be one of the first to shake hands with Santa Claus. Which reminds that we recently received a copy of the December issue of the Moroccan, the Shriner magazine published in the oasis of Jacksonville, Fl. The cover picture is a handsome, and we mean handsome, portrait of Chauncey MOORE. We have written for a copy of the original hoping that it would arrive before we go to press but it hasn't, so the pleasure of seeing it and reading the kudos bestowed upon Chauncey must be deferred.

We can say that his beard is more magnificent than ever as were his contributions to Christmas when Noble Chauncey was in great demand together with his real life sleigh and reindeer. Due to the absence of snow in Jacksonville the sleigh was fitted with auxiliary wheels but the device went unnoticed due to the magnificence of the driver and his equippage.

Don and Peg J O H N S T O N are planning a trip down the Florida East Coast stopping at Mayport to visit their son, Cdr. Don, Jr., and his family. Don is Chief Engineer of the Carrier F.D.R. which is about to return to the Mediterranean. On the way home Don Senior and Peggy will stop in Charleston where their grandson, Lt. Stephen Woodall ( U S N A '67), is operations officer in the SEMMES. Another grandson, Lt. (jg) Jon Woodall, a graduate of Virginia NROTC, is aboard the submarine BLUEBACK in the Pacific.

Returning to the F.D.R., I'm sure it is of interest to most of us that the F.D.R.'s skipper is Capt. Jack Youngblade, who married Shirley, the lovely daughter of Amante and Charlie C R A W F O R D . We had a letter from Charlie recently. Amante has had a difficult time with the guillaume-barre syndrome, an infection of nerve roots, during the past year, but is better now. They get in a lot of beaching in the summer and some "bird" watching at the same time, but MARCH,

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come cool weather Charlie changes hats to become yard man and chief housepainter, an occupation followed for 20 years at the same location where he has just kept even with a rnile and a half of trim and overhang with time out for siestas in the afternoon. Their son Charles graduated from F.S.U. with an M.S. in economics. He joined the Mellon Bank in '68, is now with their International Branch in New York, and expects to go to the London Branch in '73.

Frank and Baylis A K E R S are on a trip to San Diego. They will stay at the Hotel del Coronado where they first met.

Then to the San Francisco and Oakland area to visit old friends and neighbors before return to our teeming Capital where they have a charming apartment far above the hustle and bustle of the city at Watson Place next to the Westchester, a huge pile of masonry originally put up by Queen Wilhelmina, and into which Hal and Virginia BAKER have just moved.

As we hadn't heard from Nick DRAIM for a long time we quote his letter almost verbatim: "I find my life of late to be singularly devoid of news (after all, is that bad?).

All systems are still go for Marie and me although our pill intake is heavier. We have, so far, escaped the three major risks of life in California: i.e. fire, flood, and earthquake. We visited back east last summer and spent a week vacation with son John (Class of '49), Pat and two of the grandchildren at a lighthouse (not Eddystone but Prospect Harbor, Coast of Maine), and then visited our daughter Caroline ('Cricket') and her husband in Wethersfield, Ct. Our daughter Dorothy is in Djakarta where her husband Roland is senior geologist for the number one French oil company.

"My hobby: math research. Have just finished a paper (with co-author in San Jose) on Babylonian number triads, and am now working on a polar arithmetic (as opposed to the normal arithmetic presently in use), in which for example, 2 plus 2 equals 1, and zero is interchangeable with infinity. I received a letter from a pro correspondent, to whom I had described it, and his remark was classic: he said, 'Good luck with your abnormal arithmetic, Capt. Nick.'

Keep well. Doc. P.S. Just in case you don't have it, Jimmy (J.E.) Baker's address is Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, Mar Negro 1293. A Christmas card from Jimmy and Aida said, 'Just returning from Texas, Marvin, number one son, is second year med. student. Tony, number two son, is enrolled at Pasadena City College."

Not desiring to emulate one of the editors of the Log of so many years ago who signed himself "Philip Space," and not having any more material for this time we come t o : T H E END. Pres: Adm. Arleigh Burke, USN (Ret.) Recorder, Capt. Homer Ambrose, USN (Ret.) 3628 Trinity Dr. Alexandria, VA 22304 Sec'y, RAdm. Morris Smellow, ( S O USN (Ret.) 100 S. Cherry Grove Ave. Annapolis, MO 21401 Percent

Members: 42

As is customary on the second Wednesday of each month, except in the summer, the Washington-environs chapter of the class of '23 met for luncheon on 8 Dec. 1971 at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., Officers' Club. At this pleasant affair were Barrett, Baskett, Beaumont, Coe, Cofer, Cutting, Dussault, Haas, Holderness, Hudson, Huebl, Johannesen, Johnson, Lewis, Mclsaac, Murdaugh, Roberts, Smellow,

Stephens, Tucker, von Dreele, and Withington. All hands were glad to see that their trusted treasurer. Brick ROBERTS, was out of the hospital and, as usual, happily handling the till and keeping everyone at the meeting reasonably honest. Jim CUTTING reported that he and Winnie had had a recent trip to New England. Also, Bill MENDENHALL—who seldom misses a class meeting—and Sally were away at the time, deep in the heart of Texas.

Gerry FARRAR, who usually came to the Washington-area meetings until this past fall, was also absent. He has been physically afflicted with various troubles, the most recent of which has been a cataract that has affected his vision and caused him to give up driving a car. In a letter to Al MURDAUGH, the area president, Gerry wrote, "For a time, at least, I shall not be able to enjoy the company of our most enjoyable company, our classmates." He added that he had been with very few of his classmates during his later years of active duty and, therefore, especially enjoyed the local gatherings in Washington. He promised, however, to be back if the doctors could patch him up. Gerry's address is 3378 Chiswick Court, Apt. 2F, Silver Spring, MD 20906.

Lillian Parr is in the Bethesda Naval Hospital. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Pablo BARRETT'S latest roster has the home addresses of 59 classmates in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and of these, 16 have business addresses.

The most recent home address listed is that of Walter F. BURNS, Jr., 695 Americana Dr., Apt. lA, Annapolis, MD 21403.

For many years Neil DIETRICH'S secretary has graciously and gratuitously taken care of the area members' "accept" and "regret" mail and telephone replies for the Washington-area meetings. Neil's new office address is c/o Hazeltine Corp., 2001 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 811, Arlington, VA 22202 (phone 703-979-5500).

We have a letter from Peirce K I N G S LEY, who attended the November Washington-area class luncheon, and we quote from a newspaper clipping enclosed with his letter. "Navy Cdr. Stephen S. Kingsley, son of Capt. Marvin P. Kingsley, USN (Ret.), and Mrs. Kingsley of 562 Fairway Rd., Ridgewood, NJ, is the commander of the destroyer escort USS KOELSCH, which was awarded the Battle Efficiency 'E' for its performance during the fiscal year 1971."

Peirce reports that he made a couple of oneday trips with his son last summer when the ship was taking out midshipmen.

Mail from Florida indicates that Nat and Virginia H A W T H O R N E are back in Naples after their trip to Houston, Tx., where Nat underwent surgery. Frank LAMSON-SCRIBNER, following a big decision, bought a new car and enjoyed the year-end holidays with a son in Charleston, S.C, having been joined there by another son from Arlington, Va. Red OLIVER writes from Fort Lauderdale that he and Jerry are happy living in Florida and that he cruises along, more or less "steaming as before."

He notes, however, that Jerry was operated on in October to correct a herniated spinal disc and that, encouragingly, she is recovering steadily. Fritz and Inez P R I C E were in Canada for the summer and fall and returned to their Cape Coral home for the holidays.

The February issue of Shipmate had a news item from the San Francisco Bay area that Bear ARNOLD had been seriously ill. Happily for us, however. Bear wrote the following in a mid-December letter to Morris S M E L L O W : "I've been out of the hospital for three weeks now and, so far as I know, I am doing very well. The doctor 35

pridefully describes it as a 'classic case of angina.' It just means a strict diet and twothirds speed, maximum, from now on." Also from the Bay area, but received too late for the last deadline for Shipmate, is the report of an Army-Navy football game weekend at the home of Bill and Maryan T H A Y E R in Tiburon, whose guests from the Bay area were Eddie and Suzie DUNCAN and Cabell and Marion G W A T H MEY. Bob and Ruth CASSON were up from the California southland for the event.

Enjoying each other's company on the patio of Pablo and Keat BARRETT's Mount Vernon, Va., home last summer were the seven people pictured on this page.

They were, from left to right, Louise Ambrose, Keat, Mary Sweet, Joe Briggs, Homer Ambrose, Marge Briggs, and Pablo.

Mary was the widow of Edward Watson "Ed" Young, class of '24.

14 sections, among which were those that made proposals concerning education, health, housing, income, and transportation—to name a few. Many highly placed government officials, including cabinet secretaries, senators, and representatives, addressed the conferees; and President Nixon spoke to the 3,400 delegates and observers on 2 Dec. Paul sagely remarks that elected officials now realize that senior citizens have a lot of votes. National associations of retired persons and senior citizens took prominent parts in preparing for the conference. Incidentally, Paul is a member of the National Advisory Committee of the National Council of Senior Citizens, Washington, D.C. On 28 Dec. 1971, Dutch W I L L was the guest of honor at a luncheon held for him in New York City by the Maritime Industry.

In a letter to the executive vice president of the Maritime Industry, Arleigh BURKE

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From southern California we have had greetings from Put STORRS and John GOODNOUGH, each of whom was one of your reporter's shipmates. John and Millie were home for the holidays after a six-month tour in their trailer. In this connection, many of us recall that Al and Ginny RICHARDS came to Annapolis in their camper for our 45th reunion. Al writes that they sold their "bus" last October after doing 81,000 miles in it, 4,000 miles of which were covered in two trips last summer—one to Cape Hatteras and the other, upper New York State.

We regretfully inform our readers that Harry CHASE passed away in Coronado, Ca., on 31 Dec. 1971. A recent telegram from Ralph WOODS reported that Harry had had a stroke and was transported from Whidbey, Wa., to the Coronado Hospital a few days before he died. Funeral services were held on 4 Jan. at the North Island Air Station Chapel, and interment was in the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Our deepest sympathy goes to his widow, Helen, whose home address is P. O. Box 63, Oak Harbor, WA 98277.

Pete HAAS has informed us that Gladys Hennigar Amoss, who was Pop H E N N I GAR's widow, passed away on 17 Dec. 1971 at the Anne Arundel General Hospital in Annapolis after a long illness. Pop and Gladys are survived by their two daughters, who are Mrs. Elizabeth H. LaForce of Lisbon, Portugal, and Mrs. Patricia H. Shaddeau of Santiago, Chile. The latter's husband is Chester H. Shaddeau, class of '47. Our deepest sympathy goes to Betty and Pat. In response to a request from your reporter, Paul DUGAN has sent us more information about the White House Conference on Aging, held 28 Nov. to 2 Dec. 1971.

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regretted his inability to attend the luncheon and wrote, in part: "I would like to hear the many accolades he [Dutch] will receive from his distinguished associates as his special merit is recognized by people who have the experience and knowledge to really appreciate the tremendous ability of this remarkable man. He deserves the praise he receives, for he did much for a vital industry that very few people these days realize is vital. He applied his dynamic energy to making United States shipping competitive in an era when internal troubles and outside apathy were sapping the spirit and ingenuity of the whole enterprise. Even he couldn't overcome all the obstacles that beset the crippled industry singlehandedly, but he did make great progress and he did create success in an area where there is very little success these days."

Morris SMELLOW has had a note from Marion Gwathmey in which she graciously expresses her appreciation to the many classmates who showed concern for the G W A T H MEYs at the time of their near-fatal accident, three years ago last December. She writes, "Cabell has recovered almost entirely. I am and will be dependent on at least a cane as a 'lifetime traveling companion,' but shall cherish all the wonderful thought and compassion which came our way during those months of hospitalization and recuperation."

Morris reports that, as of late in December, our contributions to restore the class of '23 room in Alumni House had totaled $5,845. The anonymous "angel," who gave $2,000 of this amount, has also contributed— direct to the Alumni Association for the restoration of and improvements to Alumni House—stock that has been sold for approximately $41,000.

The November issue of Shipmate carried the wrong telephone number for John McCUTCHEN, who resides in Firenze.

Please note that it should have been 292524.

Pres: RAdm. G. R. Hartwig, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Paul Siegrist, USNR (Ret.), 22 Macopin Ave. Upper Montclair, NJ 07043 Asst., Mr. Robert A. Keyer Box 7234, Richmond, VA 23221 Percent Members: 45

As before, your reporters have looked over all Christmas cards they've seen from classmates, and from these we do get a few news items—although most of those we saw were personal topics and greetings. Well, the ARMOR card was most unusual (without news included) ; it had a photo of one of Hal's wood carvings, titled "Sheba" (black oak on black jade). Apparently Hal is "still at it"—and we just wish we could get some of his writings in this column! (Remember the "Jolly Arkansas" classic by Hal?) Ruth and Adolph BEDNAR say their activities have been confined to their own locality, due to Ruth's reluctance to be too far "from base; but we hope to see youall at some of the class or alumni gatherings in '72." Grace and Rube BENTON (newlyweds!) included news of their address (5676 Narcia Ave., New Orleans) in their impressive card. And the Ev BURROUGHS mention the obvious: "We are enjoying our Coronado home and friends in this area."

The COCHRAN card carries a summary of Bill's California trip, which included a visit with daughter Peggy and the grandchildren (taking them on a trip to Ensenada) before a visit with the H U R S T s in Coronado. And then, says Bill, "Willie had to go and beat me at golf!" (Burroughs and H E D D I N G made up the foursome.) The CUNNINGHAM card expressed regret at having to leave the September BELL ordination without taking part in the socializing which followed, in Washington, due to other commitments.

"We're off to Mexico for the month of January, Virginia and Dave Wight coming with us," writes Ash EVANS, and "our trip to New Zealand early in the year was wonderful—we had such a fine family reunion." On the FARRELL card we noted Alice explains that "Joe writes all the news."

The J. D. HAYES card states that "John teaches geography at the College of the Mainland, part-time—that's the way he wanted it."

Cruise reports predominate in the news enclosure of the H E R L I H Y card: "Our cruise sailing 29 December 1970 to the Orient was highlighted by Mary's sister Kathleen and her maid of honor accompanying us for 43 days. We made another cruise to the Orient in July. We are now signed up for a 90-day round the world cruise in the MARIPOSA, sailing 9 March 1972. This will be our 15th."

Good news in the H O L L E R greeting: "Two big thrills this year: our oldest granddaughter was married in March, lively wedding in the St. Alban's Chapel of Washington Cathedral; and John was transferred to Rocky Mount, N. C, in June. Walker is busy getting his garden ready for winter, before we go to Florida for January." And one of Walker's USNA roommates. Pinky H O P K I N S , plays down that spill he had on a ladder, and asks us not to broadcast it —but we do have to quote his philosophy: "We have so much good in the future to learn and speak of, without going into the dreary things of the past!" Well said.

Pinky!

Enclosures in a card sent by Virginia and Al H U N T indicate Al is doing a lot of research-reading. One is a historical sketch of Pioche, Nevada. And Al thinks he sees the background for the phrase in our song, SHIPMATE

"There'll be high elation . . . from Crabtown to ships at Timbuctoo," in the fact that in 1883 a French force went up the Niger River and took the town. "So, while it wasn't the U S N involved, at least there were naval forces activated." The H U R S T card confirms the visit of Bill Cochran with them.

The K E A R N S message is, "We miss seeing you-all," and, says Mike, "Retirement O. K.; getting used to doing nothing!"

Jack K E N NAD AY reports another long interesting letter received from Joe DARLINGTON, and will ask Joe for permission to reprint some of it in this column later.

Meanwhile, "the hurricanes Joe thought he'd be clear of have come unduly close." The Ed K O R N H A U S E R s say they enjoy our Shipmate column, and that suggests they'll be sending us some news! And the L U T H RINGERs announce, "We leave January 22 for Polynesia, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, to return the middle of March."

Edna and Whitey R I C H A R D S had an unusual and very interesting enclosure in their greeting, with their 1971 theme of "MORE." It included "more" of all the good things experienced in 1970, and, notably, "more and more we are grateful." The Richardses were in Florida for Christmas.

In the R U C K E R card Colby reports the asthma is "much better now," and we think that means we'll now have more Rucker reports from the Annapolis scene. The Royal STEVENSes assure, "We keep well, considering our age. Lee (nephew-ward) has two more years at college; until that is over we must remain at home." The W A L S H card came from Hawaii, and Beth explains: "Albert (you called him 'Red') always wanted to return to Hawaii; so here we are, having a great time, seeing so many natural beauties."

The Lillian and Boyd W I L S O N enclosure assures they are still travelling: "We made three trips, the first in February to Granada and St. Lucia, spending two weeks on each island. . . . At the end of May we took ship up the inland waterway to Alaska. . . . Then in August our entire family drove to Canada in our new three-seated estate wagon."

News on the Martha and RoUo W I L S O N card: "Believe we will have a co-ed class party here in January; no details yet. Red Ruhsenberger called the other day, just to say 'hello' and pass on greetings to all us Washingtonians from all hands in Largo."

From the Dave W I G H T s : "We have seen some classmates; not long ago the Farrells came down, and we had a game of golf. "The Evanses and ourselves are going to Mexico together in January."

And Ed W O O D Y A R D comments on the Army-Navy game: "There was one of the largest 1924 turnouts I've seen in years!"

We are showing in this issue a plebe summer picture, with classmates numbered from left: 1—Floyd, 2—P.-K. Bryant, 3—0.

L. Norman, 4—H. M. Taylor, 5—Deyo and 6^George King.

Our December Washington lunch was enlivened by the presence of a visitor from Madrid, Boney CLOSE, whose wife Katherine was at Bethesda for a check-up. Boney was welcomed by Austin, Bullis, Craig, Cunningham, Dyer, Granbery, Hartwig, Kalisch, Kelly, Petersen and Rose.

Now, here's a long-overdue news item: Apparently addicted to doing things the hard way, Tommy DYER has some 350 orchid plants growing in the basement of his home under artificial light. So far, it is purely a hobby, but one which he strongly recomM A R C H ,

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mends to any classmates who find time heavy on their hands. Given the chance.

Tommy will proudly display half a dozen pieces of silver that he has won at local orchid shows.

And now, proudly we announce another hole-in-one! Yes, we learn that Willie (A. M.) H U R S T made his on 24 April 1963, on the 11th hole at the San Diego Country Club! Adds wife Bess: "We have the lovely ball, flag, etc. mounted and inscribed to prove it. We don't know what others do with such trophies, but iiis is on the mantelpiece, and makes the best 'holder for outgoing mail' we have ever had. The last thing we do when going out of the house is to glance at the encased ball and upright flag to see if there is anything ready to mail."

In the December issue of Shipmate "Smeddy" reported that more than 70 percent of 1926 living graduates are members of the Alumni Association. Then in the January issue Shipmate shows under each class news column the percentage of members—but that figure includes non-graduates, and is naturally a lower figure. For 1924, Shipmate shows 45 percent of our class (including non-graduates) as Alumni Association members. Well, the Association and Shipmate are for all who have attended the Academy! Now, if we take graduates of 1924 only, we find that 66 percent are members, according to the latest Register, and giving effect to deaths since Register publication.

The Class of 1924 graduated 522. Our secretary finds that as of 1 January 1972, 222 of these were deceased, leaving an even 300 living. Of these, 198 are members of the Alumni Association: 66 percent. Of course we should have more, and it may be that some have been added since Register publication. We will not list non-members here—but from the Register you can see who they are. (Register available at $8 from Alumni House.) Now, what can we do to get more classmates to join?

We also find there are 24 Life Members of the Association among our living graduates. And of the 196 non-graduates listed in the Register, 22 are Members, and of these, four are Life Members.

With regret we have to record the loss of another colorful classmate, E. Tilghman (Greasy) NEALE, whose obituary appears under the "Last Call." Greasy had been seriously ill for two years. Your reporter remembers him best from prep-school (Pfeiffer's) days, where Greasy and Joe F A R R E L L first got organized, and were pretty much the life of the school. Lighthearted and agile. Greasy was a natural for

aviation, and had a good USN flying career, perhaps highlighted by that flight he headed from Australia to rescue personnel and records at Corregidor. Attending the funeral services in Baltimore were Dot and Roy Hartwig, Lila and Fred Bell, Ed Cunningham, the Bob Sutliffs, Eddie Rawlins, Edna and Whitey Richards.

From The Eagle, sometime publication of the 12th Army Group Association, we learn that Bert KALISCH, the Association secretary-treasurer (and apparently its "prime mover"), made out well at the important October meetings of the Association at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., and at Ft. Myer, Va. These meetings honored General Bradley— and we note that both the General and Bert photographed well. Bert has recovered nicely from October hospitalization which followed these meetings.

Now, our last line comes from Bob BERTSCHY, upon his return from that African safari: "Don't see the place by a land-rover!"

Pres., RAdm. S. N. Pyne, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. F. K. Loomis, USN (Ret.) 3055 FoxhalJ Road, N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016 Percent Members: 41.5

The opening remark in the 1925 article in the December Shipmate that we were over-subscribed with news for the November issue was a very temporary and unusual state, but some of our regular correspondents have remarked that they could slack off. Nothing is farther from the truth. As deadline time approaches, your editor is usually in a panic because of the paucity of material. So please make an effort to send in any dope that you may pick up.

The Washington group were delighted to welcome another classmate to the area. Jim and Marjorie McNALLY yielded to the persuasion of their daughter Patty (Mrs. Craig S. Atkins) to move to Potomac, Md., in January, to be near them and watch their grandchildren grow up.

Shane KING, in going over some papers piled on his desk, came across a page of the February 1971 Shipmate. He had cut it out because of the poem by Joe N E V I N S , and the Plan of the Day and Coaling photo of the 1922 cruise in USS DELAWARE. He said that "it brought back some memories that will never be totally forgotten, I believe. I was assigned to the 'black gang' when we started this youngster cruise and was shoveling coal in one of the boiler rooms. I can't remember the length of time exactly, but we were supposed to be shifted to deck duties in the course of training as everyone remembers. Some way I didn't get moved so I spent double time stoking furnaces.

When I finally did get moved I felt I was qualified for fireman 1st and watertender and I had lost 20 pounds since it was pretty hot in the Caribbean.

"Then on Second Class cruise we were in Gibraltar coaling ships. We had finished about 2400 and cleaned up the ship and turned in when about 0430 all hands were again called to 'Coal Ship.' (ED. Your secretary will never forget that coaling. What Shane doesn't mention is that it was Welsh coal, and of each bag dropped on deck about half of it went up in a dust cloud, so that the ship was soon enveloped in this choking cloud through which you could see nothing.

We in the TEXAS also had our post-coaling field-day, then were rousted out to resume coaling. But, to continue Shane's account.)

"Quite a few of us would have resigned right there if we had had any way to get back to the States.

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"Incidentally I was caught between a bag of coal and a bulkhead about midnight. 1 thought my leg was broken when I was taken to sick bay, dirt and all and just put in a bunk. The doctor said my leg was bruised but otherwise O.K., so I tried to get some sleep. Believe it or not the bedbugs were so bad I dragged myself topside and flopped on the deck until they routed us out for the second coaling as I said above.

"This is a long story but I don't think cruises are as tough as they used to be.

Do you remember that our First Class cruise was the last with the coal burners? After that it was oil and now some are nuclear I" Sam SIMPSON sent a newsy letter with his Christmas card, mainly about their children and grandchildren. He says, "Alice and Mel moved to Santa Rosa in October when Mel was called to be pastor of St. Patrick's Episcopal Church, there. They are very pleased as it marks a promotion for Mel from assistant to rector in charge. Ellen and Howard are busy adding an enclosed swimming pool to their house in Columbus.

Howard and his partners keep so busy that they expect to take a fourth doctor into their clinic soon. Dorothy is still in Corvallis.

She has a part time job at an interior decorating shop here with hours coinciding with the time her children are in school. They and all our other grandchildren are growing up fast. Jamie, our oldest, is going on 12 and MaryEllen, our youngest, will soon be 7; so time marches on."

Vic LONG, our faithful correspondent from Coronado (who also noted the false statement that we were oversupplied with news), sends us a rundown on class news in Southern California. "Minerva Ludewig returned to her San Francisco apartment in mid-November from a six-month aroundthe-world freighter cruise. She reports a relaxing and restful trip, and was lucky to hit the Middle East and India when there was no fighting going on there. She visited Vic and Virginia Long over New Year's, and this, combined with the presence of Frank and Camille Timberlake in Coronado over the holidays, sparked a round of parties.

The Longs hosted a dinner at North Island Officers' Club, and Frank and Camille turned right around and had a bash of their own in the same setting. Classmates seen at one or both parties, in addition to the above, included: John and Carol Melgaard (from Laguna Miguel), Charlie and Virginia Weeks, Ronald and Mary MacKinnon (from Laguna Hills), Cam and Doris Briggs, Ruthie Singer, Larry and Ruth Haugen, Jeane and Mary Clark, Marvin and Maude West, Bevo and Kathleen Bond, Swede and Lucille Larson, Haralson and Helen Smith, Hunter and "Dorothy Wood, Benny and Edith Wright, John and Louise Murphy, Ham and Louise Love (from Fort Lauderdale), George Purmont and Jimmy Dowden. This represents a pretty good roster of the class in the San Diego area, so you can see what a cohesive force our esteemed ex-President Frank exerts.

Happy New Year to you and all the gang in Washington."

The December class luncheon of the Washington group was delightful, and had a good turnout. Included in those attending were Toon and Gertrude Benson, John and Pat Brown, Bob and Jane Cronin, Judge and Agnes Eller, Dick and Jean Elliott, Gobby and Elizabeth Goulett, K. C. and Neil Hurd, Johnny and Dottie Johns, Woolsey and Melita Johnson, Kent and Kay Loomis, Bob and Pat MacFarlane, Abie Leggett and Lillian Harris, Bill and Cath38

The Kenny CRAIGs were at the ArmyNavy game in Philly, being rained on with the rest of the 97,000 who scorned TV, but when they returned to Maggie Valley, shortly .thereafter, they found themselves snowed in with 18 inches of that white stuff.

They report a 6th grandchild on the way and that, with all the young ones out west, they will probably be heading that way before the winter is over.

The Scotch McLEANs started the New Many of our classmates will have noted Year with another gathering of their clan in the January Shipmate that under the class heading in "Now Hear This" they are listing in Barbados; this time without the five the percentage of membership of class mem- grandchildren who will be with them in bership. Our class has only 41.5 percent, their lovely Puget Sound home come sumthe lowest of our contemporary classes. You, mer. who are members and get Shipmate, are in Martha and Joe CALLAHAN report that the clear but when you run across a classthey are hale and hearty and have had a mate who is not a member should give him fine year; Joe thoroughly enjoying his Corothe old sales pitch. nado City politics, Martha her participation in DAR activities and both of them feeling We report with great regret the death of lucky at the opportunity to see each of their our very popular and highly thought of married children during the year. classmate Johnny LAMBRECHT in HarMax L E S L I E reports that things are risburg. Pa., on 9 January. Johnny had been suffering from emphysema for some time and, about as usual with Elizabeth and himself; both sons now in Honolulu, and his golf after many brave rallies from this suffocating sickness, finally succumbed to it. still satisfactory. A touch of sacroiliac sciJohnny was a naval aviator and his duties atica slowed him for a while but a 75 in September showed that he was back-towere generally in that line. His last duty battery. He says that he has played well was in command of the carrier ORISKANY which made a trip around the Horn, and, over 3000 rounds since 1957; a dangerous entry in the 1976 tournament at the SOth we believe, the first carrier to do so. After reunion, if he shows! retirement he and Betty (his second wife; -Annette, his first wife, died in 1951) settled Edie and Bill PRYOR write from Mystic, down on a farm near Harrisburg, Pa. Ct, that they are well and active, and had Johnny and Betty attended the homecoming seen the Henry HODGSKINs just before last fall, having missed the 45th reunion in Christmas, "both looking great." The CS 1970 because of Johnny's ill health. T o Betty hadn't heard from or about them in a long and to all members of the family, our deepest time. sympathy.

The Stan NICHOLS, Bob PIRIEs and Shorty Davissons were among the alumni who watched the Army game together in Pres: RAdm. Kenneth Craig, USN (Ret.) the Pompano Beach area. "Nic" almost endSec'y, Cdr. H. A. Fravel, USN (Ret.) ed the year 1971 with a hole-in-one, the 3410 15th St., North Arlington, VA 22201 ball missing by one inch. It would have Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg I I I , USN (Ret.) Box 178, Crystal River, FL 32629 been his third!!! Another threat for 1976? arine Marshall, Joe and Ruth Nevins, Wally Newton, George and Bibs O'Keefe, Al and Marge Pefley, Schuyler and Jane Pyne, Robbie and Allie Robinson, Herb and Gladys Rice, Red and Anne Slaven, and Tommy and Anne Tonseth. It was especially nice to have a group of class widows as our guests: Estelle Wright, Marge Broadley, Ev Gingras, Louise Clarke, Ruth Reamy, Lydia Varian, and Barbara Delaney.

Percent Members: 44

We all learned, many years ago, never to start anything with an apology but, in this instance, the CS wishes to apologize to Mort FLEMING and Mac McCORKLE for having included their names in the list of those the 1970 Register of Alumni indicated were not members of the Alumni Association. Mort and Mac were rightly offended and lost no time in saying so; as / would have done.

The CS had a short visit with Elva and Jimmy L E E P E R in their lovely—really luxurious—home in St. Petersburg, Fl., in early January. The Leepers had watched the Army-Navy game with Holly H O L LINGSWORTH in Maitland, had visited in the Washington area from the 8th to the 29th of December, seeing their LCdr. son and their daughter in Fairfax, and were on their way in a couple of weeks to fly to California for a visit with their other daughter, Pat, in El Cajon. Her husband, LCdr. O'Connor, is home from his second tour as a helo pilot in Vietnam. So, though technically retired in Florida, the Leepers are far from stagnating there.

Frosty and Jack FRADD report another busy year for them in their home on the golf course at Port St. Lucie; that location probably accounting for the fact that Jack has gotten his golf back to the point where he has broken 80, approaching the form of his earlier years. Guess he will be one of the strong contenders for the 1926 Senior 50-Years-After Championship at our 50th reunion.

The Davissons, PIries a n d Nicholsons

At the request of the CS, Jim MORRISON has furnished the following comments concerning Vinson Hall, which may be of interest to some who are tiring of the cares of house and garden: "We have been in Vinson Hall since June 1969 and enjoy living here very much. We like long auto trips and find it so easy to leave by just turning the key in the lock; then coming home again with no accumulation of yard and house chores. There is a 'family feeling' about Vinson Hall, where no one is a stranger.

"There are now about 204 people registered here occupying some 180 apartments (as of mid-October 1971); other '26ers being Hollis Hill, Dot Grunther and Irene Weaver. There have been 'shakedown' problems but as time goes on and the building becomes fully occupied we expect most of SHIPMATE

our difficulties to disappear. There are many cornrnittees here, existing to provide for activity among the residents: games, welcome, Vinson Hall news, entertainment, garden, arts and crafts, etc.; something to employ each person's talents. The dining roorn has also experienced growing pains but is still operating and providing excellent food at minimal prices.

"The Director of Naval Communications has issued a MARS license so that our radio room is now part of the national emergency system, our station having been built by two of our residents. The chapel, the library and a complete hobby shop are in full operation, and there is a spacious barbecue pit available to any resident at any time, built by Navy Reserve CBs in their training.

"Ruth and I find life in Vinson Hall relaxing, comfortable, gracious and rewarding.

Our advice to those who are tired of maintaining a house and grounds is to come here and relax among friends with similar backgrounds. Some of the efficiencies are being combined, at an additional fee, to provide for those who desire additional space, with two baths. People are moving in at a slow but steady pace and I predict that another year will find a waiting list." (Many thanks, Jim, for an interesting slant: CS.) Mac and Bay McCORKLE visited the Kenny CRAIGs in Maggie Valley last November and felt their mountain views are not unlike those to be found in Bavaria and Austria. They are toying with the idea of visiting in Florida this winter; those of us who are here are hoping they will.

A Christmas card from "Doc" STANFORD'S widow, Alice Virginia, says she would have loved to have been at the 4Sth reunion, and that their son, Charles, is now in law school in Boston.

"Cleve" P R A T T flew to Santiago, Chile, to spend Christmas with his son, who is a major on duty there.

Christmas D a y , 1942—Espirito S a n t o , N e w H e b r i des I s l a n d — G r e e n s l a d e , Q u a c k e n b u s h a n d Stroop toast promotion to rank of c o m m a n d e r .

An interesting snapshot (accompanying) shows three very happy new commanders toasting their new brass hats in the COMAIR PAC Wine Mess in Espiritu Santo, Christmas Day, 1942: G R E E N S L A D E , Quackenbush, and S T R O O P . The snap was furnished

by RAdm. Howie Kuehl, SC, USN (Ret.), who, as Wine Mess Treasurer for Admiral "Jake" Fitch's Mess, mixed the martinis seen in the pitcher and is watching the reactions as he guards the refrigerator.

And last, but far from least, the class has received warm, appreciative expressions of thanks from "Ces" Day and "Peg" Simpson for the flowers and the help extended them by various classmates at the funerals of their loved ones in Arlington National Cemetery.

MARCH,

1972

Pres: RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Robert M. Barnes, USN (Ret.) 2800 Quebec St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20008 Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. Wm. D. Irvin, USN (Ret.) 3011 Foxhall Rd., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016 Percent Members: 44.5

The first of the year and there is very little news at this time, Parker P'AIRLAMB informs us that the next important mailing with respect to our upcoming 45th reunion will be posted from Annapolis in mid-April, The forms sent out at that time will be important. We caution you to watch for them, fill them out and return them promptly to the Reunion Committee. There is a fixed number of places for the banquet seating, fixed by law. From this mailing, Parker must get an accurate return on the number of persons attending the banquet. No limits will be set for any of the other events on the reunion schedule but he must have firm numbers for the banquet and, once set, the number cannot be changed. Please get your replies in promptly. If you do not receive a mailing, in April, let us know. We'll be on our toes in getting a duplicate out to you.

Barbara and Parker Fairlamb are off in March for two weeks at Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

Vera and Rosie LOUD sailed from Hoboken on 12 January in the SS CONCORDIA SUN, a Norwegian freighter, for a Med cruise. This is the third voyage the Louds have made in a freighter.

Mimi and Joe HAZEN have left the country at Herald Harbor and have moved into the city—specifically. Apt. 2E, 217 Vista Parkway, Annapolis, 21403.

Alumni House now has a very fine piano, the gift of Marian and Don GRIFFIN. And may I use this item as a reminder that the Alumni Association will be pleased to receive any other donation toward its refurbishing of Alumni House following the grievous fire it suffered.

In mid-January, Ellen and Charlie T O O K E were pressed into service as baby-sitters and bottle-washers at the upper New York state home of their daughter who made them grandparents for the ninth time.

We were greatly distressed to learn that Bob DIXON suffered a nasty heart attack Christmas night. He had spent the day with his children and grandchildren and was driving home alone when it happened, turning off to the hospital and made the emergency room, an action which astounds his doctors. Following three weeks in intensive care he is improving. We all send him our best wishes for a rapid recovery and an early return to good health.

The U S N A Foundation is in the process of sending out "beginning of the new year" reminders to those who made pledges, including our own '27 Scholarship Fund. As of the end of the year we had received $23,435.00 for our two scholarships, not including unredeemed pledges, which we hope will be considerable. As we start the new year, why don't you take a look at the old bank book and be generous with a big check for our Fund? If you haven't sent a check, how about doing it now? If you have sent one in, perhaps you could spare a little more. We still have some distance to go. Help close the gap on that $40,000.

From San Francisco, Heinie ARMSTRONG sends us the following: "Tom Hamilton has received a well deserved credit for donating 'A Legacy of Naval Aviation

History' to the Naval Air Museum at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fl. He acquired a considerable amount of material covering the war in the Pacific. This included photographs, personal correspondence with notables of the war, Navy Pre-Flight Training and carrier operations. The work mentioned LCdr. William R. (Killer) Kane '23, who Tom considers to be one of the greatest heroes of the war. Included was a yarn in which Killer was forced to ditch his plane, having run out of gas on return from a strike against the enemy and while attempting to get back aboard the carrier.

The carrier, chasing the Japanese fleet, left without him but a searching destroyer picked him up and later returned him to the carrier in exchange for 20 gallons of ice cream.

"The transfer of the material took place when Tom retired as executive director of Pacific-8 Conference in November of this past year. As previously reported, the Hamiltons are now residents of La Jolla, Ca. "Glad to relate that Betty Armstrong is now recovering nicely from the results of an automobile accident. This put her in Oak Knoll Hospital for three weeks with a fractured pelvis and clavicle. She plans on whirling about our 'Crows Nest' home for several months to come. Heinie and daughter, Jan, presented her with a bicycle horn at Christmas, with instructions to 'Sound Horn on Approaching Curves' about the house.

"Heinie is currently employed as gourmet cook, butler, maid, bartender, and of course, careful chauffeur and gardener."

Doris and Otie GREGG are back home after their 60-day flight around the world.

Otie says they managed to see the Taj Mahal just before it was camouflaged to protect it. While that was disconcerting, he said they really got a scare when they underwent an air raid alert in New Delhi.

The latter convinced them that they had seen enough of India and that it was time to move on to the next country.

Jim and Pat M I T C H E L L are off to Florida for a two-month stay.

Marian and Don G R I F F I N left the 21st of February for a two-month tour of the Orient. Flying out, they visited Manila, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei and wound up with two weeks in "Tokyo.

The end of January, a Washington/Virginia Beach group took off for a couple of weeks in San Juan followed by a cruise of the Caribbean in SS CARLA C. Included were the Carneys '16, the Naquins '25, the Romosers '26, the PHILLIPS '27 and the IRVINs '27.

No information as to when they left but a postcard just received tells me that Louise and Donk D O N A H O are in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, on another voyage in their land cruiser.

A long letter from Red STILLMAN tells me that he has been kept quite busy in Atlanta, Ga., as chapter secretary of the National Health Federation and has been reelected president of the local branch of the Theosophical Society. Ruth and Red hold weekly classes in theosophy and they lecture once a month. They both attended the National Theosophical Convention in July in Wheaton, II. Red says that in the spring he is "standing" for the position of National Director of the Theosophical Society in America for the Southeastern States—14 of them. He has also been nominated to membership on the board of directors of the National Health Federation (Monrovia,

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Last summer Janet and Hank JARRELL wrote an early Christmas note which I stated on several occasions I'd pass along.

Here are extracts from it: Hank sold his insurance business in Madrid and joined the "Every Day Is Sunday" club. Last May they sold their land and 16th-century mill outside Madrid. In June they were off to Rio for a visit with their daughter Kit and her husband, Luis Pinto Coelho, a Portuguese diplomat posted to Brazil. The end of the summer was spent on the Andalucian Mediterranean coast. In October and November they were scheduled for a long trip to the Orient and back by way of Russia. They should be back in Madrid by this time.

Sorry I have no more gossip for you. If you hear some, send it to me. I'll share it with our classmates.

Pres: VAdm. Harry E. Sears, USN (Ret.) Eastern Corr.

RAdm. P. R. Anderson, USN (Ret.) 4354 Lorcum Lane Arlington, VA 22207 Western Corr.

RAdm. J. F. Qui Iter, USN (Ret.) 500 Westridge Drive Portola Valley, CA 94026 Percent Members: 47

Your CS received the following note from Margaret Hall, whose husband Norman died in November last: "Dear Andy: I was deeply touched by the sympathy of the class of '28 as expressed by the donation to the Library, which you sent.

"It has been a real comfort to me to know Norman was remembered so warmly by his old friends. I hope all the members of the class will know how much I appreciate their sympathy and also know how much their kind thoughts have helped me. Sincerely . . . " Tom and Lil ROBERTS' Christmas card carried the following news: "And a happy Christmas season to you both. Sure wish we could toss a good 'wassail' with you all during the holidays. There come times when Florida is so durn far away from many friends. Want to catch you up on all the Roberts' doings lately, and will leave it up to you if any of the following is worth slipping into Shipmate. We have been in Florida a little over a year now, and I miss the luncheons and various get-togethers. On the other hand we love it down here, winter and summer, and wonder why we spent so many of our good retired years elsewhere.

We see much of the Joneses and Norgaards, and also the Kents during their winter stay, when they can be coaxed away from golf.

Lillian and I took off on a mighty journey late this past summer. Tom III, class of '62 USNA, is in Taiwan, brushing up on his Mandarin Chinese language at the State Dept. school in Taichung. He has an M.A. from Michigan in Far East Affairs, and a year at the Language School at Monterey in Mandarin Chinese. Lil and I were Old Hands in surface 'space available' tactics— but not by air. So, we gave it a try. The results were an eye opener! I phoned McChord Air Force Base, by Autovon, and they said come on out, no problem. We packed the old car, took off on a 'shun-pike' tour, angling northwest clear across the country, 3500 miles. We parked our car on a lot near the MAC Terminal and settled down to wait for a ride. As soon as we arrived protocol took us in hand and we had no worries. Nights in V I P quarters, and days in the protocol lounge at the terminal.

They had us on a plane in three days—a Northwest Orient charter. It put us in Tokyo, and from there we made it by commercial to Taipei.

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"We were so close that we didn't want to monkey with space available, and in all likelihood wait days for a flight. Protocol was waiting for us at Tokyo (Yokota), eased us through customs, etc., and even got our reservations on Northwest Orient 747 to Taipei from Haneda International. At Taichung we met our new granddaughter.

(Anne Bryant Roberts—age 6 months. It's Fran and Tom's first. Fran was Frances Anne Hill, of Martinsville, Va.) After two weeks of sightseeing in Taiwan with the kids the four of us took off for Hong Kong —made possible through the loving care and capable hands of the babe's 'Aman.' Lil and I did all our Christmas shopping in Hong Kong, and b'gosh every package had arrived safely! Back to Taichung after a week in Hong Kong, and Lil and 1 took off for home the next week. Again Northwest Orient to Tokyo, and then space available back to McChord. At Tokyo, to enhance the chances of a quicker flight, we signed up for McChord or Travis (and you must take either one you are called lor or you are dropped to 'the bottom of the list). At Tokyo Protocol took over again. They put us up in excellent quarters at Tachikawa. And, by the way, I love that Air Force system of all necessities and fixings in your quarters for a quiet evening 'at home.' It's one honor system that I hope never breaks down! We stayed two days there. Comfortable nights in quarters and, just as comfortable in the Protocol lounge during the day. We got off late the second evening. Could have made it the first evening except that a crippled CSA came in and dumped a bunch of priorities ahead of us. Returned by Flying Tiger DC-8. Filled with a bunch of helicopter gunship boys and ground crews. When we touched at McChord they set up a fantastic cheer! My car was still on the lot—perked beautifully as soon as I touched the key.

Five weeks. Then home again, this time via the deep South. Busy now preparing big fruit cakes for all the family, and getting out the Christmas cards.

"Our very best wishes for you all in the new year, and please come see us!"

Acy and Gloria BURROWS' Christmas letter explains why some of us didn't get a card last year: "We're sorry you didn't get a card from us last Christmas. Gloria couldn't see to write (cataract surgery in both eyes)—fine now, though, wears contacts 12 hours a day, sees, reads, and drives!

And Acy was recovering from receiving a new (nylon-dacron) aorta. Acy was taking what he thought was a routine physical required by the U. of Arizona. He thought he'd take the other half of the law course interrupted December 7, 1941, when he left Georgetown and returned to subs in the Pacific. But the doctors found a massive aneurism in the aorta.

"They made it sound a little more than somewhat: Like, 'It's just like carrying a keg of dynamite around. It could go off at any moment' and 'We could have you on a gurney just outside the operating room and if it bursts we'd be powerless to save you.'

"In searching about the country for a more than 'adequate' coronary vascular surgeon we found him—like Hafed's diamonds —in our own backyard—right here in Tucson, and lo! (unbeknownst) Gloria's second cousin! But all is well now.

"Gloria is about her myriad projects, and Acy made it back to law school. We've so much to be grateful and thankful for—and we do hope this Christmas finds you and yours well."

And from George and Ginny COLLINS: "Sorry we missed you when the Big Blue Team beat Duke! We intended to stay in Washington until near Christmas, but Chris called the night we returned from Europe, to say he was marrying Susie in two weeks.

They had postponed the wedding so we could go on our trip, so we regrouped and off we went to Miami! Wedding festivities and Susie were great, but by then, we were exhausted. A month of peace and quiet and sunshine has revived our spirits.

"Have a healthy, happy, 1972. Sing some good old Episcopal hymns for us, as we do not have an Anglican church here." (Note: We sang some, your CS being head usher at St. Mary's Episcopal Church here and being on duty both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.) John U R Q U H A R T reported from his convention hotel in Maui, Hawaii, that he and Mary Tyler had short visits with classmates on their stop-off in the San Francisco area on their way to Hawaii. The gathering with Slim and Adria QUILTER where they saw Evan Peggy Fickling (she's the twin sister of Bill Post '30) was reported

by Slim in the last issue of Shipmate. However, they had a brief visit with Bill SEARLES in his convalescent home. Bill has lost the use of both legs and is confined to a wheel chair. Has a clear mind, but difficulty with his speech. They also visited Bill's wife, Virginia, at their Mill Valley home. Virginia was not in top physical condition due to high blood pressure.

John also had a letter from Frank N I C H O L S , who had been released from Bethesda, too soon we believe, to return to his home for further treatment at a local hospital. It hasn't worked out. Frank suffered a relapse and return of the tumor and was finally hospitalized under emergency conditions at the Ohio State University Hospital. At this writing he is mending slowly and, hopefully, has been returned home and furthered his recovery. We all wish Frank a full and speedy recovery so we can see him at the 45th reunion!

O u r late classmate, N o r m a n T. Ball

Luke W H I T E reports the following in a note sending in his contribution for the Alumni House restoration fund: "You have noticed, of course, that I have both New York and Florida addresses. During the winter I practice some law in Miami in an effort to help pay the rent on my apartment there. From April through Christmas I relax and try to reduce my astronomical golf handicap here in beautiful Finger Lakes country. I get a lot of relaxation, but so far, no reduction!

"May you have a jolly Christmas and may 1972 be good to you and to all our classmates and their families."

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Luke's Florida address, in association with Mr. David W. Walters, is: 201 Southwest 13th St. (Coral W a y ) , Miami, F L 33130.

Otto O T T E R S O N , in his Christmas note to all classmates, sent in his donation for restoration of Alumni House and added: "My donation to Alumni House. If I were there I would help with hammer and saw."

That's the spirit, Otto!

Chester C. W I N E has been reappointed chairman of the Texas Industrial Commission for another six year term. Congratulations, Chet!

Bill S C H O E C H has been elected a director of Instrument Systems, Inc., of Jericho, N. Y. Congrats to you too. Bill! As always, it seems that there's bad news along with the good. As reported by his daughter, Mrs. Lynda Lewis Hammonds of 4600 Daphne Ct., Ashland, KY 41101, Bill Lewis died after a short illness in his hometown. Ironton, Ohio, on 23 November. Bill apparently left our class and joined the class of 1930, since he is listed with '30 in the Register.

Your CS has no other details. The class extends deep sympathy to Bill's survivors.

That's all for now. Except my hopes that your bout with income tax returns won't leave you so destitute that you won't be able to join the ranks of those who have contributed to the Class Memorial Scholarship Fund and still have enough left to be on hand for the BLC's 4Sth. Pres: RAdm. Gus Johansen, USN (Rel.) 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. Rollings Hills Estates, CA 90274 Percent Members: 43

Pete P E T E R S O N returned to Peat's Peat Bog (Tuxedo, N. Y., where the tux started) around yuletime, where they have a lovely home in the woods. In case you don't remember, when Pete retired he became engineering manager for the huge Adirondacks development 40 miles northeast of New York City. After several years he retired from that (how many times have you retired since you left the Navy?) and leased the peat digging and marketing operation there.

When that became a self-sufficient operation Miriam finally got him out of the dirty clothes and on the fun circuit. Pete writes: "For our annual report I can say that Miriam and I are in excellent physical health and no more senile than should be expected for advancing years. Our only serious problem is that Miriam reads the Shipmate column out loud. Otherwise very easy to live with. She travels well, too. We were two months in South America visiting most of the countries, but with emphasis on the ones that appear to have the most possibility of being denied to us in the future, viz., Uruguay, Chile, and Bolivia.

"Then we visited our girls in California.

Carolyn was married this summer to a Flying Tiger name of Elliott and lives in Playa Del Rey. Might get home with the air freight. Duchess still lives in Long Beach but has left J P L and now works for RPC which catches luminescent bacteria and makes them smell things like dope and bombs.

Spent two months in Spain and Portugal.

In Madrid we had a delightful dinner and visit with Dick and Joanne Visser. They still find Spain the finest place to live. Next we plan to take off for Guatemala and a jaunt thru Central America. Then, after a bit of exploring and beaching in Brazil, we hope, if we succeed in getting a place M A R C H ,

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to sleep (Ed. comment; that won't stop them. Micky and I found them asleep in an armchair in the lobby when the Maryland Inn didn't have their reservations last reunion), to be in Rio for the Carnival."

Sande DEN HAM was in Naval Hospital, Oak Knoll, for lung surgery in late December including Christmas. No later word as we go to press in January. The GALB R A l T H s are in Morocco at this moment.

Their son is stationed there with the State Department, we think. Sam and Terry F R A N K E L , after disposing of their town seat, have failed to take saddle in their country seat over the rolling Shenandoah, Last word is they are visiting the WELSHes. We'd like to get the dope on life at the "leisure community" in CalifOi'ia where Red has settled with Fran after taking the last tour of America in the vanishing crack trains. Have a rumor that Sam has bought a lot in Rancho Bernardo, halfway between Gus Gray, Al Loomis and Art Hill, who are located on the surrounding hills.

Sam assumes they will come in their wagons to help him raise the roof tree. Forgot to say that Sam has located right next to a racetrack. He has had a great deal of experience at the track at Tijuana.

We finally have word from Connie Cone (Gordon's, of drum and bugle corps fame).

As you can see from her letter to Red MORSE in Chicago, the trail was winding.

Connie says, "Bill Darnell reached me last spring after a struggle with the telephone company. Tommy Wilson's mother is a friend of mine nearby but somehow it took Bill Darnell with the telephone to identify me. Bill just moved heaven and earth to get the class together for the Army game at Terminal Island Club. About IS men plus wives and two widows. Among others I especially enjoyed seeing Warner Rodimon's wife. We had gone to the same hops, June Weeks and games, and, we find, write to some of the same people. Constance Ann's husband is LCol. Robert P. Wetzel, now stationed on Kwajalein. Deane Roberts couldn't make the gathering because Blanche has a broken hip. Forty-two years is quite an eraser. I couldn't remember some of the names of some of the boys who were in our own wedding. That is dreadful." Connie's address is 435 N. Palm St., Porterville, CA 93257.

Spud MARCY is on a four-month cruise around the world, aboard MV ESMERALDA of the Oriental Overseas line. Probably pulling his houseboat trailer. Johnny KNIGHT, from La Canada, Ca., is at last retiring, from NBC. Among his continuing activities is his operation of amateur radio station W6YY. Amateurs will know how long ago that call was issued. Joe BERKLEY has submitted the manuscript for another book which he started while teaching at Sacramento City College. He says the re-write is progressing slowly. They plan to do some more travelling in their recreation trailer.

Joe says about himself, "Decent health, minor ailments, quite a bit of golf."

Rachel Carmichael is now a schoolteacher.

She lives near Pomona at the exotic former ranch of Diamond Bar. ( E d : Glad to know what that bar address she gave really is.)

Jean McCauley's son, John Heinz, has been sworn in as the youngest member of the U. S. House of Representatives. Grace and George BEARDSLEY have returned to Menlo Park from a photo safari in Kenya.

Whitey recommends the trip to anyone who likes animals and birds. Now they plan to go to New Zealand and do a lot of fishing.

Win BROWN, whose attendance at the

reunion was held up by his marriage, writes that he is still doing business in Chicago.

We still have not met Lucy. Red M O R S E says the arbitrary age limit of 65 may make him retire from his university. Where will you go? Why not get in touch with Win nearby? A bronze sculpture of St. Francis was dedicated to Dick W O L F E in the First Presbyterian Church in Deerfield, II., recently. The sculpture was commissioned through memorial gifts of Dick's friends.

Heard at the Washington lunches: "When I sew a button on it STAYS sewed!" "I've worn out all my old khakis including my dress, but I can't find a way to use my white service." Our spring lunch with the wives will be held as usual in the lovely dining room of Vinson Hall, in the western suburbs of Washington. By the way, the convenient residence building is almost fully occupied, and so far no '29 wives have inquired. Your ed., who is a director, thinks that it will be necessary to go to a waiting list by July.

If interested, write now.

Pres: RAdm. Wreford G. Chappie, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. M. H. Simons, J r . , USN (Ret.), 5506 Cromwell Dr., Washington, D. C. 20016 Percent Members: 49

Wednesday, 15 December, was a big day for the class of '30 in the Washington area.

The Naval Academy Alumni Association luncheon at the Army and Navy Club was well attended. Present were Red and Peg Ailes (Red is president of the Washington chapter). Rip and Dot Briner, Bob and St. Clair Craighill, Dick Hunt, Chief Masterson, Bill and Lil Nelson, Buff Simons, Eddie and Anne Wagner and Glen and Vera Williams.

Wives were invited to attend this meeting since the speaker was Capt. Robin Quigley, USN, who is the assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations for matters concerning women in the Navy. Her presentation was interesting and informative.

That same evening the class cocktail party was held at the Naval Officers' Mess at Bethesda. It was one of the best parties we have had in Washington. Dave W H E L C H EL did an outstanding job of organizing and arranging it. From out of town were Jack and Agnes AGNEW (Delaware), Rip and Dot BRINER (Pennsylvania), Dick and Mary NIXON (New York) and Ira McMILLIAN. Attending from the Washington area were: Red and Peg Ailes, Fred and Martha Beans (from Annapolis), Bob and St. Clair Craighill, Tim Dorner, Peg Hanson, Dick Hunt, Jack and Louise Jones (from Fredericksburg), Marion Lord, Chief and Charlotte Masterson, Mac and Helen McCullough, Towser and Jean Miller, Bill and Lil Nelson, Art and Madeleine Owen, Gene and May Sands, Red and Bettie Sharp, Buff and Louise Simons, Bill and Patty Snead, Ted and Ev Stevens, Waddy and Lillian Wadsworth, Eddie and Anne Wagner, Elly and ,Herm Wakefield, Dave and Margaret Whelchel, Glen and Vera Williams and Dutch and Jo Wilson. Bill and Kay Gentner and Don and Fran Weller had made arrangements to be there but were forced to change plans at the last minute.

William Dean L E W I S died 23 November.

No details are available. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and lived in Ironton, Ohio. Originally in the class of 1928, he later was in '30 but did not graduate. There is a brief entry about him in the Hour Glass but none in the Fortieth Year Book.

1930 was quite a year, remember? In addition to graduating the best class ever to 41

come out of the Naval Academy, that was the year Bobby Jones accomplished the never-equalled feat of winning the four major golf tournaments—the U.S. and British Opens and Amateurs.

We note that the B. C. ALLENs are now giving their address as: Yakashba Estates, Williamson Valley Road, Prescott, AZ 86301.

A note from Angel GRANTHAM says he is enjoying a quiet life in retirement in Charleston, S. C. For the benefit of those who didn't receive a Christmas letter from Bill and Viv MOORE the following portions are extracted: "31 January found Bill retiring from his second career. He had been with the GM Research Laboratories here for ten years following his 1960 retirement from the Navy. That caused such an upheaval in our way of life that he went back to work in March . . . this time as an Administrative Coordinator for the Santa Barbara Schools, working on a manpower survey with local industry. The only good things about the two months off was that it provided enough material for Viv to sell an article about this traumatic interlude. During the spring we completed our plans to fly east to Reading, Pa., to attend Robin's and Ellen's wedding on 12 June with Bill as best man— the ultimate tribute from a son to his father.

We planned to fly on to Europe to visit a dear friend in Florence and return by way of Majorca and London. Late in the day on 8 June Brig arrived home from college and prepared to go with us early next morning. He and Bill were walking through the lower yard, watching the tomatoes grow, when Bill had a sudden violent dizzy spell.

Later he suffered a medium-sized stroke after he arrived at the hospital that evening.

Viv spent all night getting Brig ready to take off alone at 6:30 a.m. and trying to get messages to our travel agent and distant relatives about the change in plans. Have you ever tried to send a cablegram to Italy when Western Union is on strike in the U.S.? Naturally, it was a bitter disappointment to miss the lovely wedding. We were well represented by family and a few close friends. Terry and his wife, Linda, flew east from San Diego and Brig picked up Viv's mother in L.A. A sizeable contingent drove up from Arlington and Falls Church.

"Bill was in the hospital 18 days. At therapy two weeks later he suffered a heart problem and they incarcerated him in the Cardiac Care Unit for another four days.

Through it all we thanked God that if these episodes had to happen they occurred at home rather than in some out-of-the-way airport in Europe. In late August Viv had a happy surprise when Bill asked the neurologist if we could fly up to Keyport, Wa., the next week for the Naval Torpedo Station's annual salmon bake. This was Bill's last active duty station and we always loved it there. Viv nearly fell out of her chair when the doctor said he could go if he would take it easy. Bill says he intends to carry his cane every time he travels in the future. The airlines knocked themselves out for a cripple."

Travel notes: Red and Bettie S H A R P are spending about six weeks in Florida, soaking up the sun and looking for that final retirement home. Peter and Caroline HORN were in Florida for Christmas. Towser and Jean MILLER visited in California and -Arizona during the Christmas holidays. Cici Howard went to Charleston, S. C , recently for her niece's wedding. While there, she saw George and Frances PALMER, who 42

are enjoying life in Charleston. From the west coast we have news that Wally and Jo Ann EBERT recently had dinner with Herb and Elly A N D R E W S in Encino, Ca. Ann Peterson and Fred and Else BRADMEN were there. The Eberts were returning home from a visit to Australia.

Any members of the class who are not on the Washington group's mailing list and are interested in attending the co-ed luncheon Saturday, 6 May, at Alumni House in Annapolis should write to Bill NELSON for details and reservations. Bill's address is 1004 Priscilla Ln., Alexandria, VA 22308.

His phone number is (703) 780-3927.

Pres: RAdm. Raymond P. Hunter, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm, John Crumpacfcer, USN (Ret.) 1000 Twinbrook Parkway Rockville, MD 20851 Percent Members: 49.5

Pres: Capt. J . D. Lamade, USN (Ret.O Sec'y, RAdm. G. E. Pierce, USN (Ret.) 5416 Lambeth Rd. Bethesda, MD 20014 Percent Members: 4 3 . 5

H E R E ANl5 T H E R E W I T H '32 It is our sad duty to report the death of William Ponder HOLLOWAY who suffered a heart attack and died on 2 January 1972 in Austin, Tx. Bill left us just before graduation. He studied law at Texas University. Bill had a very successful business career, and at his death was owner and president of five Texas companies. Bill was a strong Navy supporter, and a generous contributor to class and alumni activities.

A short note from Greek GROULEFF informs us that he has gone back to work on a third career with the Association of Ship Brokers and Agents. His office is across the street from the old New York Custom House, where he, Bill SHORT and Tom HURLEY all took their entrance exams for the Naval Academy in February 1928. Forty-three years to walk across the street is a long time.

A recent Christmas-New Year's trip down to the west coast of Florida brought forth some excellent renewal of class ties for Andy and Eddie NISENWANER. In a way it was an advertising run for our 40th reunion. Andy writes: "Arriving in Tampa we got in touch with Baxter Billingsley, recently promoted to Associate Professor in History at the U. of South Florida and then on to Bradenton for a brief call on Bill and Alison Winter. Unfortunately we couldn't get in direct touch with Talluly and Elizabeth Wilson because they were out caressing the golf course, but Talluly had said ahead of time, 'The latch key is out— make yourselves known to the poodle.'

"A short but hectic drive in winter traffic (the natives call us northern visitors 'snowbirds') brought us to Port Charlotte and a great get-together party launched by Steve and Margaret Archer at their home bordering the golf course. Very much in evidence were P D and Jean Quirk and our Bethesda neighbors, Al Slayden and his bride, who were also touring the southland.

"The next day, after several side excursions, we landed in Naples, winter quarters for Salem and Betty Van Every and, although the Van Everys were away, Salem made the apartment available for a short but very enjoyable stay. While in Naples we also got to spend one enjoyable evening with Harry and Dorothy Reiter who lived just a few blocks away. Harry is still as active as ever in tennis, five days a week, but hasn't been smitten by the golf bug.

On the way back north it was a visit with the Quirks the first night, saw Steve and Margaret again, and then a round of golf with PD which found him as hot with his putter as his former red hair.

"Spent the last evening in Florida with John and Mary Chittenden at their lovely home near Sarasota on the banks of a nice natural waterway with eagles, blue herons, and egrets populating the sanctuary across the inlet. John was just as relaxed and Mary just as enthusiastic as ever. Missed making connections with Whitey and JoAnne Moore on our return to Tampa but will save that for a later day."

Andy says for everyone with a change of address in the last five years to send in your new address complete with zip code and phone number to himself or Leon KINTBERGER. They are making up a new Class Directory to come out at the time of our 40th reunion and need considerable revision and updating.

Chm., Mr. Turner A. Duncan Box 9 0 , Rt. # 1 , Arnold, MD 21012 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dale Mayberry, USN (Ret.) 270 Providence Rd. Rt. 5, Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 47

John and Marge T Y R E E announced in their Christmas card, that they are now settled in their retirement home at 14 Baldwin Dr., "Governor's Landing," Waterford, CT 06385.

The San Diego-Coronado area was well reported this period in a couple of notes from Ed FREDERICKS. "A few old standbys gathered at the Admiral Kidd Officers' Club for the monthly class luncheon on 10 December. Present were: Al Felling, Hank Monroe, Jack Coye, Ed Miller, Hank Rumble, ' L C Conwell and Eddie Fredericks.

"Pickles and Dee Heinz, Ed and Ernie Grimm and Eddie and Maudie Fredericks were among those helping Betty Townsend '34 launch the USS

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December 1971 at the National Steel & Shipbuilding Company here in San Diego.

VAdm. Bob Townsend was the principal speaker.

"James E. Felling, son of Margaret and Al Felling, was married to Judy Lynn Petersen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Petersen of Delano, Ca., on 1 January 1972 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in that city. The bride is a graduate of Fresno State College and holds a Master's degree in Theater Arts from California State College at Long Beach. She teaches in La Puenta. Jim Felling graduated from Cal Western University and took a Master's degree in Business Administration from UCLA. He is currently engaged in computer programming in Santa Monica.

"Also I regret to announce the passing of Helen Price, wife of George Price, on 18 December in Coronado. Services were held at the Christ Episcopal Church and interment in the Greenwood Cemetery. Pallbearers were: Hank Monroe, Ed Miller, Fred Bruning, O. D. T. Lynch '30, Jack Moreno '30, and Walter L. Phaler '37."

The sad news in Eddie's letter concerning the passing of Helen Price comes as a deep shock to all classmates who join in extending deepest sympathy to George and their daughters Valerie, Penelope and Pamela.

George resides at 740 Country Club Ln., Coronado, CA 92118.

Regular readers of this column will recall that it was Bob MacPHERSON who suggested a few years ago that we establish SHIPMATE

a systern of area correspondents to feed information to the secretary for publication in the column. While the system has worked with something less than complete success, it is very true that we would not have a column if it were not for the reports that are received from Bob, Ed Fredericks, Larry N E V I L L E and a few others. Now Bob has come up with another suggestion designed to strengthen the column, in the following letter: "I'm sure you are just as disappointed as I am, periodically, at the lack of news of '33 in Shipmate. I know that most classmates are interested—as indicated by the numbers who show up for reunions and class functions.

"At this time of the year it's always good to hear from old friends and classmates.

This has given me an idea. If we can get enough '33 area reps to send in reports on classmates from whom they have received Christmas greetings, we might get some worthwhile news—also news on classmates who seldom correspond otherwise.

"To start off, I had a phone call this past week from Henry Fox from Bartlesville, Ok. He and Eleanor are well and happy and had a recent good visit to California.

We've seen Jack and Ruth Stewart here in New Orleans, and had a cheery letter from them in their California home, and a Christmas card from them in their permanent abode in South Bend. LC Conwell sends greetings from La Jolla. Unfortunately, his wife Grace hasn't been well. Also news from Russ and Barbara Kefauver, Dottie and Willie Rakow, Pres and Beth Belcher, Fred and Nancy Wahlig, and others. We saw Bill and Edy Mott last October and they will be back in February.

We also heard from Jackie Garrison (Garry's widow) and Johnimae Taylor (jack's widow)—all fine.

"George Miller was down here last week in connection with a seminar. I was delighted to see him honored with his picture on the cover of December's Navy League magazine Seapower. He is doing an A-1 job with the Maritime Administration."

How about a follow-up on Bob's fine suggestion? Many of you have heard recently from classmates long unreported in this column. A note to your secretary is all that it takes!

Christmas greetings from Pete G.^L.^N-

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T I N contained the following interesting item: "Jack and Muriel Arnold '34 visited with us in Whispering Pines, N. C , after their own retirement as Chief of Naval Materiel on 1 December. Rufe and Karin Taylor came up from their hideaway in Frogmore, S. C., to join us. At a small reunion, Weaver and Molly Garnett, Russ and Barbara Kefauver joined in. Bill and Helen Leverton '31 and Red and Jean Coward '38 also in the group."

In last month's issue we noted that Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles had appointed Dick BIRD to the city planning commission. A note from Tay Pay O'CONNELL this month enclosed newspaper clippings which indicated that Dick had requested that the appointment be withdrawn. We don't have all the background, but it is obvious that the city of Los Angeles has lost the services of a good and highly talented man.

Tad DUNCAN has asked me to announce that we will have another get-together with the '33 West Point group this time with wives for luncheon at the Elks Club in Annapolis preceding the Navy-Virginia lacrosse game on 22 April. If you are going to be in the area, and can join us, get in touch with Tad. Like many other classmates who have retired recently, Arnie SCHADE had to go through boxes and boxes of old records and files accumulated over the years. Unlike many of these classmates, Arnie salvaged the accompanying photograph and passed it along for the Shipmate column. While it is obvious from the appearance of individuals that the photo is of very recent date, it might be fun to guess just where and how long ago it was taken. Answer next month.

Here's the gouge: Sitting on floor (left to right) : George Wendelberg, Henry Rumble, Miss Maurine Cook, Bert Morgan^, Ernestine Rumble, Karin Monroe, Wallace Sherrill, Roy M. Davenport; sitting in chairs (left to right) : Elinore Wendelberg, Catherine Laird, Lucy Clementsen, Becky Schade, Jane Davenport, Betty Bedell, Carol O'Connell. Tommy Marlowe, Nathylie List, Doris Chambliss ; and standing: J. J. Tomamichel, George Laird, C. C. Morgan, Arnold Schade, George Hewitt, Porter Bedell, Martin J. Mahoney, T. P. O'Connell, Henry S. Monroe, Robert A. Marlowe, Frank V. List, A. M. Chambliss.

Pres: RAdm. Edgar H. Batcheller, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.) 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 45.5

With the retirement of Adm. Jack ARNOLD and VAdm. Art GRALLA on 1 December 1971, ten members of '34 remain on active duty. They are: Adm. Chick Clarey, C I N C P A C F L T ; VAdm. BJ Semmes, President, Naval War College; VAdm. Red Baumberger, Commander, U. S. Taiwan Defense Command; VAdm. Nels Johnson, COM PHIBFORPAC; VAdm. Victor Smith, Commandant, Industrial College of the Armed Forces (these facts were submitted by Victor) ; VAdm. Bob Townsend, COMNAVAIR LANT; RAdm. Herm Kossler, COM S i x ; RAdm. Clyde Van Arsdall, COMWESTSEA FRON ; RAdm. Ernie Christensen, Deputy Director, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, O P N A V ; and RAdm. Joe Tibbets, COMFAIR, Quonset.

Van VAN ARSDALL sends the following: "Thirty-four's outpost in the land of beer and wurst closed when Scrappy Crawford ('36) took over in Stuttgart in October —I relieved Bill Groverman ('32) of WEST SEAFRON on 30 November, and the welcome mat is now in place at Quarters 1, Yerba Buena Island. The Keith Taylors (Pebble Beach), John Nichols (Menlo P a r k ) , George Cliffords (Carmel Valley), Francis Boyles (Monterey) came to the change of command. Virginia Close represented Bob and Jim Bentley who were tied up in classes at our morning hour. Also ran into Dave Edwards on Treasure Island, complete with Rasputin-type beard, and talked to Charlie Coley as we passed through Oklahoma. .'\11 are doing fine."

From Charlie S T E P H A N , a very regular contributor: "Enclosed please find my check for the 1934 Honor Scholarship Fund which, according to my records, completes my $200 pledge for the Scholarship. Hope you are receiving good response from our other classmates! Things continue much as before at home and at Florida Atlantic University.

It is hard to realize that I'm only two years away from a second retirement and, after the past few years in University life—it will be a welcome time when it arrives I With the general 'engineering recession' we find that many of our better graduates are going NAVY in OCS and frankly I believe that both the service and the grads will benefit a lot from the experience.

_ "Eleanor and I hope to make one 'normal' visit to our daughter's home in Springfield, Va., for the holidays where we also will see our son Bob who is a Yeoman 3/c qualified in submarines, and now on duty at NAS, Andrews Air Force Base I Duty assignments in the Navy always did confuse me—and still do! Charles (Skip) is still Exec of the CHARLES BERRY and just starting his second WESTPAC deployment in that job. The grandchildren total still remains 11, with no other known prospects at the moment. Florida still is 4.0 and the welcome mat is still out at 1010 N.W. 6th Terrace, Boca Raton. When are you coming down ?

The only thing we miss by leaving the Washington area is the many friends and get-togethers we had there. We groaned through the Navy-Miami game and saw a few old friends, but we see few '34ers here.

Best wishes to you, and through you, to all the 'old' classmates for the holidays and a happy and prosperous 1972."

Ann Smith accompanied Roy to a convention of the American Alumni Council and was astonished by winning the American International Travel prize of a one-week vacation in Hawaii, for two, all expenses paid. Roy was even more so. Neither had ever won anything in lotteries, bingo or what have you—but what a way to end a drought!

Now here goes again with a few notes from Christmas cards. Alice and Tom DUBOIS—"We are still working on this house but hope to be completed in a few more months. Then as soon as we can find a buyer we'll take off for Europe for a year or so, basing in Spain. Son Tommy is back in Vietnam, this time with AID." Helen and Allyn COLE—"We are busily planning a vacation cottage in the volcano area of the island of Hawaii. Hope to be able to spend next summer there. We are both playing a lot of golf. Patty and our year-old granddaughter come next week for a visit. Fond aloha." Emily and Bruce McNAUGHTON (4024 36th West, Seattle, WA 98199) — "We are such nomads, can't seem to stay put in our old age. Hope things are doing well with you." Sheila and Chet SMITH (1133 Bayshore Drive, Apt. 204, Fort Pierce, FL 33450)—"I enclose our contribution (Class Fund). Please tell all of '34 that we are settled down in Florida and would love to have any '34ers stop by to see us. We are only one hour from West Palm Beach."

Betty and Frank THARIN—"This spring the Tharins rented a houseboat on the Sacramento delta for several days—the Russ Maynards joined us for two daj's and a night and the Deakins joined us for a day's cruising. The Deakins paid us a visit on a Sunday and the following day sailed in the OSIANA for a Mexican cruise—which we hear was superb. Have seen the Marshall Whites also. All people mentioned look and seem just in the pink. Frank into civic things and golf." Helen and Gorman MERRICK— "Enjoying life in Coronado. We see the Bechts quite often. Fri. night at a party he was talking about a 40th reunion. Leonard and Jane Flynn have gone to Mexico for the winter. He is studying there. They will be back just for Christmas to visit their daughter. Our daughter Barbara, John and Brian (2) are coming from Bremerton for Christmas. John is a LCdr. Supply. Our two boys that live near Long Beach will also be here. A full house. We are having an 'Open House' for SO Dec. 26th. Wish you lived near enough to come. I keep Gorman busy helping me do the mailing of the 'Coroscope' for the Coronado Woman's 44

Club. We went to Bremerton for two weeks over July 4th. Trying to get Gorman to take a trip with me back east in the spring. He is tired of traveling."

Louise and Van VAN BUSKIRK—"This Christmas found Louise doing quite well, and myself fully recovered, but a month behind in my chores. It was a hectic year however.

Barbie graduated from the University in June; I had a relapse with my back, and that caused Louise to have another stroke.

Barbie was married on December 4th, and finally, we have our home for sale. So, our annual Christmas report is a month late. . . .

The doctor has OK'd our going to the Hawaiian Islands this spring. We plan to spend a month at the Coco Palms on Kawai. . . .

By the first of March our new address will be 10060 N. Royal Oak Road, Sun City, AZ 853S1." Betty and Reg RUTHERFORD— "Another busy year for all of us: Reg, still trying to teach mathematics to teenagers, and Betty, on our Pleasant Valley Elementary School Board, still trying to provide good educational programs for the younger set. We took time off this summer and drove 10,000 miles on a five-week meandering trip across our great country. Our primary goal was to attend Allan's commissioning as an ensign at the U.S. Naval Officers' Candidate School in Newport, R. I. Our journey took us through 28 states; and we thoroughly enjoyed the variety of country, our visits with some old friends and family, and our stops at historical and natural shrines from Montezuma's Castle, Meteor Crater, and Grand Canyon through Atlanta, Williamsburg, Gettysburg, and Old Sturbridge to Niagara Falls.

"Allan is now at USN Postgraduate School in Monterey, Ca., studying for a Master's degree in Communications Engineering. He has been augmented to USN (regular line) from USNR, and is eager to go to sea when this tour is completed. .. .

Our Thanksgiving Day was a joyous occasion with a family gathering including the Glerums, the Morrison Rutherfords, and Allan and a classmate. It was Betty's first big project since her October visit to the hospital for elective surgery. We wish you and yours a very happy holiday and all the best in the New Year."

Lollie and Bill McCORMICK—"Events have again overtaken us, and because it has been so long since we have sent all our friends cards we are trying to catch up this year. This morning, phone from Rome; daughter Cary, Tristan, Lucie (aged three) and Cecile (aged eight weeks) are arriving for Cousin Christy Small's wedding in Washington and spending the holidays with us. John and his bride have moved to Boston and he is hoping to go to graduate school.

Bill Jr. at Harvard will finish this year.

James struggling to be admitted there as a full time student. Our excitement above and beyond all the above is our dream house that should be finished in January. So after 1 January mail should be sent to 'Anchor's Down,' 1402 Thrush Ln., West Chester, PA 19380."

Nice cards from Dottie Chandler and Rutb Cole. Finally Season's Greetings from Anne and Jack MARTIN along with their reminiscence of a beautiful year—trips, meeting people and just enjoying life. Jack is still the Director of Navigational Information Products at the Naval Oceanographic Office.

Anne has tasted the life of a lady of leisure for the first time in almost 20 years, mostly because of Jack, who succeeded in putting stumbling blocks in her path every time she thought about going back to work.

Classmates will regret to note the passing

of our classmate Ralph R O T T E T on 26 November recorded in the "Last Call" of this issue. The class made a contribution to the American Cancer Society in memory of Ralph.

Pres: Capt. Jefferson D. Parker, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. L. M. Detweiler, (SO USN ( R e t . ) , 6650 Van Winkle Dr. Falls Church, VA 22044 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W . H. Packard, USN (Ret.) 5600 Yorktown Blvd.

Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 42

In the December Shipmate it was mentioned that Helen and Bill JACKSON visited their daughter, Jeri, and her family in Spain. I erroneously reported that their son-in-law, Dave, was on duty at Rota. Instead, he is a Capt. USA on duty in Cadiz managing the loading and unloading of containerized ships; and "Instead of" is the way Bill characterizes their experiences in travelling via charter flight and space available. Instead of taking off from Los Angeles at 2140 on 5 Oct., they departed at 0240 on the 6th; instead of arriving Frankfurt at 1930 the 6th it was OOOS on the 7th; instead of finding the room they had reserved, they found all rooms in all hotels filled and ended up spending the rest of the night playing bridge with another stranded couple; instead of waiting for the earliest space available which might have become available to take them to Rota on 11 Oct. they took Iberian Airlines to Seville arriving at 1830 instead of 1700, 8 Oct. where Jeri and Dave were waiting for them; and after a completely satisfactory dinner they arrived Cadiz at 2330. During their stay in Spain everything progressed more or less as planned: a four-day trip to Africa with Dave and Jeri, visiting Algeciras, Ceuta, Tetuan and Tangiers; a rented car trip to southern Portugal and north through Lisbon and Estoril, then east to Merida, Spain and back over tortuous roads to Cadiz; another trip with Jeri and Dave to Marbella, Torremolinos and Malaga on the Spanish Riviera; and finally another rented car trip to Seville and Cordoba and back to Cadiz. The return charter flight on 11 Nov. typically was from Frankfurt to Chicago instead of Los Angeles and after a two-day stop in St. Louis they finally arrived home on IS Nov. It was a memorable trip but they conclude it was great "to be back among all our blessings in God's Country." Before leaving Cadiz, Helen and Bill were informed by Jeri that she expected to be a mother in June, and upon arrival home they were informed by daughter. Dale, that she would be expecting in June; not instead of, but also!

Fran and Thos H E N R Y celebrated last June the arrival of grandson, John Robert McDonald III, to their daughter, Ann. Ann's husband. Jack, is an Army dentist and they, with their new son, were able to spend four weeks with Fran and Thos before leaving for new duty at Edgewood, Md. In Sept. Fran's mother broke her hip, and Fran and Thos flew back to Birmingham, packed her up and in mid-Nov. brought her back to live with them in San Francisco. The four weeks away from home were tough for Thos, but he managed, and Fran said "the airlines were wonderful. A wheelchair is the only way to fly."

The Washington Chapter of the Alumni Association had its annual luncheon with ladies, and the '35 representation included: Dottie and Henry Eppes, Monica and George Hutchinson, Margaret and Wyman Packard, Rod Badger, Ross Freeman and Art Tarantino. All enjoyed the talk given by Capt.

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Ross FREEM.AN mentioned that he has an extra '35 20 Yearbook Lucky Bag. He'll be glad to send it to first requester. His address: 4401 North 33rd Rd., Arlington, VA 22207. Ross, incidentally, is Executive Director of the Institute of Navigation.

Monica and George H U T C H I N S O N were much pleased to announce the remarriage of their eldest daughter, Sandy Vogel, to Lt. John Eckert, USN, on 4 Dec. '71 at the Little Rock AFB chapel. Sandy had been widowed in Nov. '66 with four small sons.

We wish Sandy and John long life and happiness together.

A note from Ed O U T L A W reports from Virginia Beach that a mini '35 reunion was held in Atlanta after the Navy-Georgia Tech game. He and Mary spent the weekend with Joe and Evelyn B R O W D E R ana were joined by John and Ann JAY for the game.

After the game they ran into Bob and Sally P H I L L I P S from Highlands, NC, Bill and Bea T H O M P S O N from St. Simons Is., Ga., Pete and Eunice P E T R I E up from Maidand, Fl., Joe and .Anne B E I T K X ' ^ over from Bay St. Louis, Ms., and Jack and Margaret BR-ANDT down from Alexandria, Va. Joe Browder is vice pres. for marketing for the Georgia Power Co. Ed said that though they were all disappointed with the results of the game, they ctpnverted it into a very fine occasion by hoisting several rounds to '35.

Ed K E A T S submitted an update on the brief mention on him in December '71 Shipmate. He has been elected vice pres. of Urban Systems Development Corp., a subsidiary of Westinghouse, involved in the developing, general contracting and building of housing.

The copy of the '35 annual report which was mailed to Bob N O R T H at Frankfurt, Germany was returned. If anyone has information on his currently correct address, we'de like to get it to update the '35 address list.

Leonard BAKER, who was added to '35's address list in the Jan. '72 Shipmate, sent in a capsule biography: "After leaving the Academy in 1932, I had V/i years of treatment for bad eyes by the Wilmer Clinic in Baltimore, and I am now as good M A R C H ,

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as new. As soon as I could read again, I started in public accounting after completing courses at Baltimore College of Commerce.

In 1943 I went out to New Zealand and Fiji as an enlisted man with the Johns Hopkins General Hospital, setting up the medical supply unit for them and then auditing reverse lend-lease. Came back to the States in Aug. '43, completed OCS in the Medical Administrative Corps., then to England in '44 and France in June '44. Met Margaret Fraser of Wishaw, Scotland, and when ordered back to the States in Feb. '45 we were married in Hampton-in-Arden, England. Went back to public accounting in Baltimore and attended U. of Baltimore Law School to get my LLB and LLM. Now run my own shop as a CPA and as Ellin and Baker, Attorneys at Law. We have one son, Robert, who is married and at U. of North Carolina working for his doctorate in quantitative psychology." We are glad to have Leonard back as an active member of the -Assoc, of USNA Class of '35 and to be able to fill this gap in our class history.

Two '35 juniors joined up in wedlock on 7 Nov. at Gig Harbor, Wa., when Helen and Sammy SAMPSON'S son, John, married Virgie and Roxy H O L M E S ' daughter.

Kit. Sammy missed the festivities because of a mild stroke on 31 Oct., but he recovered quickly and on 1 Jan. he opened up his own real estate office in Coronado, Island Co. Realtors. Best wishes to the newlyweds and to Sammy in his new venture.

Frank W H E E L E R has also shifted jobs and is now with a new electronic signboard company which has just started production.

Frank continues to serve as the USNA Alumni Assoc, trustee from the Peninsula (Ca.) chapter.

Betty and Steve GIMBER report a 12mile move west from Nashua to a new address : Juniper Dr., Amherst, N H 03031.

They have a smaller but very modern home in an acre of pines, and Steve has found that a three-day work week gives him a four-day weekend which is just exactly what he had been looking for for a long time.

Ginny and Bill G E R M E R S H A U S E N proudly pass on the news that their daughter, Betsy, graduated Phi Beta Kappa last June from U.C, Santa Barbara. She is now working for a loan company at San Jose while her husband, Terry, is doing graduate work at San Jose State.

Bruce ROSS's wife, Irene, was elected president of the Coronado Republican Women's Club for '72. It should be a busy year for her with the national convention being held across the Bay in San Diego.

Charlie and Mary Jo HARRIS'S daughter Suzanne, who is a sophomore at the Loma Linda U. School of Nursing, received her nurse's cap in appropriate ceremonies at that school. She has two more years there to complete her training. Charlie is Senior Social Worker for San Diego County.

George Towne and Betty BAKER confirm that they are back at their Coronado home at 980 Alameda Blvd. 92118. They report that their house and pool are in good shape after their long absence. They have done extensive redecorating and are happy to be back in Coronado.

Phyllis and Rod BADGER's youngest daughter, Jennifer, was married on 28 Dec. in Arlington, Va., to David Scott Dutcher of Sacramento, Ca. The newlyweds will

initially make their nest in Salt Lake City where Scott recently graduated from Brigham Young U. majoring in advertising, and where Jennifer has been and will continue teaching elementary school. We wish them success as they start their new life together.

The press has well covered Bob CUSHMAN's new job as Commandant of the Marine Corps. Congratulations, Bob, on that 4th star.

A couple of changes have come in during the past month for '35's address list: Tony PARRY stays in Harrisburg, Pa., in the same zip area but at 3300 Union Deposit R d , Apt. A-201; add Al BONTIER's widow, Mrs. Ruth M., 452 Parkview Dr., Sarasota, Fl. Your Corr. Sec'y frequently indirectly hears scuttlebutt about '35 get-togethers or trips several months after the event and with insufficient details to use in Shipmate.

Wish the instigators would send in the dope and/or related pictures of classmates at the time of the happening. Though not a supporter of the current women's lib antics, would like to point out that the '35 wives have an equal opportunity to send in the news, and it will be equally appreciated.

Pres: RAdm. J. E. Rice, USN Sec'y, Capt. W. M. Hanger, USN (Ret.) 4720 Sedgwick St., N.W. Washington, D. C. 20016 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) 4101 Downing St. Annandale, VA 22003 Percent Members: 40

It may be March when you read this column, but here in early January we are just getting over the holiday confusion. White Christmas ? We didn't have one! It was warm just like spring the whole time.

Pageant over ? Yes! Much to our relief in spite of all its rehearsal setbacks, it was an unexpected success, playing to standing room only for the first time in many years.

So now we can get down to brass tacks and try to bring you some news.

December 15 found us guys hosting our gals at a special pre-Christmas luncheon at Vinson Hall. A good turnout: 25 in all.

Present were: John Alford, Blanch and Jack Baumeister, Pat and Dick Bradley, Mimi and John Court, Ede and Bill Ellis with our sister-in-law Barbara Densford as guest, Norm Gillett, Harriet and Will Hanger with Mrs. Tanner, Will's secretary, as guest, Rosa and Frank Law, Claudiana Rice (Joe, unfortunately, was out of town on T A D ) , Peggy and Rosy Ryan, Kathleen and Jack Ryder, Anne and Dick Teel, Mary Ware, and Joe Woodville. After KTs, a delicious luncheon, and holiday greetings to the gals, two motions were made and passed unanimously: the first, to make Mrs. Auth, (Joe Rice's secretary) and Mrs. Tanner—the two gals who really do all the work keeping the local clan together—honorary '36ers; the second, to contribute $100 to the Alumni Association Fire Fund which is being used to rehabilitate the Alumni House after its first last summer. No other business being brought forward, the luncheon adjourned with a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

An 8 December note from Casey LOVELL says: "Despite all the dire medical predictions last August, I've been back on the job ZYz months nov^r. In fact, my health is such that all the doctors involved cleared me for a really wild business trip of six days duration to England and Germany late in November. And today the board of directors voted me a substantial raise; so I guess I'll continue my battle with the Delaware 45

and the Schuylkill Rivers—and assorted Philadelphia contractors—while we try to complete our $60 million program for the redevelopment of the Port of Philadelphia, the largest fresh water port in the world, and from the cargo tonnage standpoint, the second largest in the U.S. Best regards to all in '72."

We received many holiday greetings from classmates and friends for which we are most grateful. Gleaned therefrom are a few tidbits of news which we share with you: Ann and Warfield B E N N E T T : "It was a great homecoming; keep up the good work. Here's wishing you all the joys and blessings of this holy Christmas season and the new year."

Ruth and Harrison B R E N T : "It was wonderful seeing you all at the 3Sth reunion. . . . It was a very good year, and the 'Keep It Short and Simple Cookbook' is due for publication on 20 January. Unique characteristic is that none of the recipes has more than four ingredients. Meanwhile, back at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, Harrison has been working away, receiving a promotion in July from Executive Assistant to Administrative Assistant III. . . . We enjoyed our trip to Annapolis and our visits with the Robertshaws and Teels. We took the long way to get there, going by way of Vancouver where we were hosted at dinner on top of Grouse Mountain at a gorgeous restaurant that you reach by a cable tramway which at times seems to be going straight up. The weather cooperated, and the view of the breathtakingly beautiful city with the bay in the background and mountains close at hand was wonderful. . . . The merriest Christmas ever to all."

Barbara and Walter BOYD: "Hope you all have a grand Christmas and New Year.

Ours is pretty sad this year having lost our youngest son Bill suddenly last April. After that we both felt we needed a change to keep our minds occupied constructively; so we sold our Gulfbreeze home and moved into a new apartment. . . . We've started travelling a lot, and may still get up your way one of these days. Regards to everybody."

Winsor B R O W N : "We've sold the big house and have rented a duplex nearby at 119 Meadow Rd., Woonsocket, RI 02895, but not sure when we'll move in at this writing. . . . Had two sessions at Lahey Clinic trying to find out why I've felt so rotten since last September. To top it off, Larry cracked up my car, not badly, two weeks before Christmas. Anyhow, we had a fine holiday season with Clare, 18, down from McGill in Montreal where she is a freshman, and Larry up from URI where he's a sophomore. Naturally the house has been full of young people all the time with parties and get-togethers. . . . Josie and I sang The Messiah twice as members of the Rhode Island Civic Chorale where she is one of five high school students in the chorus of 100. She's a senior in high school trying to make up her mind where to apply for college. KB at 14 is taller than his two sisters and is doing well in the ninth grade.

Doug, his wife, and our grandson, Sean, three and one-half years, have an apartment in North Smithfield about four miles away where Doug, who graduated from Bucknell in June, is an assistant agent for Northwestern Mutual Life. Steve is back in college near San Anselmo, Ca., and thoroughly enjoying it. He hopes to graduate in June.

Fred got his MD from Georgetown and is interning as Captain, MC, USA, at 46

Tripler General Hospital in Honolulu. His wife. Char, had a darling baby girl named Mary Catherine back in October. Ted and his wife, Joan, are in a suburb of Aachen, West Germany, where he is the only American working for the German subsidiary of General Automation of L.A., a specialty computer company. Joan is expecting in February. As for me, I've been ill, but trust things will get better. I now have my name on my 20th patent assigned to OwensCorning for whom I have worked for 31 years; not too bad for an ex-sales engineer. . . . Hope you all have a very good New Year in '72."

Bunny and Vince COMBS : "It's a promise ; a vow; and oath—we will be there for homecoming 1972, Airstream trailer and all I" Lucille and Davy D A V E N P O R T : "As we finish our second year in central Florida, we are pretty well converted to the proposition that this is 'where it's at' for the '70s. Disney World, which opened this fall, is a beautiful modern miracle the way it springs out of the swamp. The Navy Training Center is fast growing into a big new Navy showplace, and at the Cape nearby, they expect to be shuttling men back and forth to a space station in a few years. Yesterday a new service began; people got off a train and drove off in their own cars which had come south on the same train. . . . As you might suspect, I've been working with the Orlando Area C of C, and back in October was named Ambassador of the Month, having pulled in 18 new members."

Lurline and Charlie E I S E N B A C H : "It was so good to see everyone at homecoming.

Bob doing very well in speech pathology, and loves it. . . . Best of everything in '72."

Med F O W L E R : "I have bought a condominium apartment on the beach and love it. Lots of nice people and we have many activities in our Club House. . . . Best wishes and happy holidays."

Mary Louise and Gould H U N T E R : "Nothing too new from here. Having a ball being grandparents. Number two arrived in April, another little girl. Guess we won't get east until Gould hangs up his suit.

Three weeks of vacation goes fast, and we take these great charter flights to Europe.

The flights go from here, refuel at Bangor, Me., and then on to Frankfurt where we get a rental car and just drive. In May we drove through southern France and had fun. . . . Have lots of good times with Cissy and Bill Kaufman—their Bill and Holly are real buddies with our Dick and Judy, which is nice."

Gene MOREAU: "A million thanks for your many kindnesses and for your noble efforts on behalf of '36. Am gradually getting used to my new apartment—3050 S. Abingdon St., Arlington, VA 22206. . . .

Happy holidays."

Nancy and Tom R E E D : "Not much news here. Saw the Griders at his brother's where we watched the A&N game. They'll be back in Memphis for Christmas and hope to see them again—also the Prewitts and Syd Millers when our daughter, Bette, is here. Jim, our Army son, is now stationed in Germany."

Bobbie and Bob S L E I G H T : "Couldn't let the season go by without sending greetings. That column in Shipmate bridges the gap of miles and years. . . . All's well here as we await our 'baby boy's' arrival from college for his last visit as a college man. . . . Merrill and husband now en route DD

duty in San Diego. We plan to have a reunion there next summer with Pete coming on from New Haven. Best wishes for '72."

Shipmate Staff: "May the love and joy of this Christmas be with you all throughout the New Year."

It is with regret that we must end again on a sorrowful note. Our Christmas joy was deeply saddened by the news that our beloved Georgia Odening passed away on Christmas Eve. Funeral services were held at All Saints Chapel in Beverly Hills on 29 December. To Bob and the family we add to Joe Rice's letter of condolence the deepest sympathy from all in '36. Classmates and friends may send personal messages to the home address: 1424 Via Cataluna, Palos Verdes Estates, CA 90274.

Sec'y-Treas., LCdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 2118 Bancroft Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Wesley Steesy, USN (Ret.) 9127 Sligo Parkway Silver Spring, MD 20901 Percent Members: 37.5

At our 9 December luncheon, besides the regulars (Brantley, Minter, Bernard, Denton, Baldwin, Shupper, Steesy, Farrington, Cresap, Wadleigh, Adams, Stein, Johnston), we were favored with the presence of Dick HOLDEN, in town for his employer. North American Rockwell of LA. He endeavored to summarize his responsibilities in understandable terms, and a few of the scientific types there were able to penetrate and translate for the balance of us. Perhaps our meetings are starting a new trend of profundity.

The previous month it was Jesse ROBINSON who expounded in a tongue other than any of the four foreign ones revealed to us during our Midshipmite years. That's all right, Dick; come back again and we'll give you another chance. Dick was to proceed on to Fort Knox (Ky.) for a weekend with a son in Army uniform.

Joe GERATH was present and distributing his calling card identifying himself as a ". . . pilot, inventor, international lover, collector of old money and naval lint, advisor extraordinaire, jokes, will travel; plus specialist in harem girl auctions, sorority reunions, saki sipping, work benches, mile high club rites and massage." (Plus a couple other categories that would be censored by the Shipmate editor.) Joe had a bit of "Bethesda uplift" a few months ago, and it may just be that some of his categories are now receiving a bit of de-emphasis— temporarily, at least. Joe is one of two (other, PATRIARCA) who promised Wes a wealth of class news copy every month to keep the column going. Of course every other classmate should share items of interest with the rest of us; just funnel it thru Sligo Parkway (locally, dial 585-8651) — it's that simple.

As this copy goes to press we read with interest that our own Wm. P. MACK is scheduled to become the new "Supe" next summer. In the minority are those classes who can claim even one of their own who have headed their alma mater. Now '37 will soon point with pride that two of theirs ruled the Severn. Congratulations, Willie!

Pres: Col. John A. Saxten, Jr., USMC (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN (Ret.) 3900 Watson PI., Apt. 78 Washington, D. C. 20016 Percent Members: 43

W I N T E R D I N N E R DANCE Jim A N D R E W S arranged another fine party for the Washington group. This time a Christmas dinner-dance at the Bethesda SHIPMATE

Officers' Club and it was done to perfection.

Cocktails were served in the Steerage Room followed by a delicious dinner on the bridge and dancing in the Terrace Room. We were most happy to see Betty Bolam and Muriel Wells. Others on hand were the Andrews, Arthurs, Bagbys, Bardshars, Berthrongs, Don Browns, DeCamps, Elas and K. G. Robinsons over from Annapolis, the Elwoods, Fleps, Hartigans, Hank Jacksons, Jones, Lubys, Mansfields, Harry Masons, Melvins, Raymers, Tuckers and yours truly. Duly noted and acclaimed was the fact that the largest identifiable group were those who had been ensigns together in the

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On a recent trip to the west coast, Frank J O N E S ran into Lowell J E T T at a dinner for the American Society of Engineers held at the Nimitz Center on Treasure Island.

Lowell is president of Cordes Brothers, an engineers and sales service organization in San Francisco. Congratulations, Lowell.

Walt K R E A M E R has taken up a new second career and left on New Year's Day for Swannanoa, N. C , to take up his new job as business manager of Warren Wilson College. Patty will join him in the spring and is happy that the new location is near where her stepmother lives. Good luck, Walt, and we'll miss you both here in Washington.

Skiing is fast becoming a major attraction for the Washington group despite the fact that we have had a rather warm winter to date. Peggy and Hugh ROBINSON took off for Switzerland for the holidays. Annabelle and Ray DUBOIS and family headed for Blue Knob, Pa., and Emilou and Agee MELVIN and family tried the sport in upper New York. The Frank J O N E S and Jack M A N S F I E L D s spent the holidays at Tidewater Inn where the weather was more appropriate for golfing. The Ray B E R T H RONGS drove down to Ft. Lauderdale after the holidays and embarked on a Caribbean cruise. Ray has just about given up his desire to go back to sea and has taken up surveying in Winchester, Va. It wouldn't surprise me to see them move to their farm in Winchester one of these days and spend full time surveying.

Cupid has had a busy time among our '38 Navy juniors and I am happy to report that Ann and Al CHURCH's daughter, Katherine, was married to Mr. Lee Sanford Hill on 20 November in Fairfield, Ct. Jane and Walt SMALL's daughter, Jane, was married to Mr. John William Cowan on 23 December in Alexandria, Va. Julie and John F E R R I T E R ' s daughter, Judy, was married to Mr. William Morgan on 19 December in San Francisco. Congratulations to all the proud parents and much happiness to the young couples.

Betty and Ed LUBY had a particularly memorable holiday with all of their family home. Michele and husband Howard Eldredge with grandson Ward came on from Boston. Howard is a Navy commander and has orders to Hawaii in the spring. Maureen and husband Don Woodhouse with granddaughter Marybeth came down frorn Pennsylvania. The family reunion occasioned a lovely cocktail party and proved there was no generation gap between '38ers and their offspring. The S P E A R s also enjoyed a M A R C H ,

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family holiday with some 25 of their clan on hand for the festivities. Those of us who were left in the city and not otherwise occupied with family gatherings headed for Jean and Grant H E S T O N ' s lovely home to bring in the New Year in the gay fashion that has become the Heston trademark.

Jack and Betty RAYMER returned from Honolulu with enough energy left to put on their now famous holiday glog party and the names embroidered on that tablecloth are a history of the class.

I always look forward to this time of year when I can thank each one of you for your many kind words and pass along some of the news contained in your much appreciated Christmas cards. This year again finds the DYBDALs in Korea and the MUSEs in the Philippines, each enjoying their duty assignments. The SILKs send word from Escondido, Ca., that Frank now sports a very distinguished Van Dyke and has been successful in forming the North County Navy League Council and serves as its first president. Congratulations, Frank.

Margot and Ed CONRAD are enjoying life in Castine, Me., and Ed informs me that since I am not on active duty, he believes he is the only active duty captain in the class, but wears the insignia of the Maine Maritime Academy. He finds Castine remote but pleasant and in his dealings with the midshipmen continues to relate back to his own midshipman experiences. We salute you. Captain Ed, as the last of the Navy's best.

Norma and Bill GLENNON continue to enjoy life in Houston. Wendy SUYDAM paid them a visit with his bride, Jean. Wendy is with Baker Oil Tools and is based in Los Angeles. The Glennons' youngest daughter, Susan, graduated from the U. of Texas in December. Mary and Hank LAUERMAN express appreciation for the lines of communication this column provides between their present world in WinstonSalem and all of their classmates and wives.

Mary is now serving in her fourth year as a member of the board of education.

Hank is still teaching law at Wake Forest University Law School. Daughter Nora Jane and son Tom are second-year law students at Georgetown and Virginia Universities respectively. The Only other classmate close by is Hank W E I L E R and his wife Marianna. John BARTOL is believed somewhere in the eastern part of the state.

Wanda and Dan H E N R Y send their new address: The York River House, 1175 York Ave., Apt. lOB, NYC 10021. Carol and Alec B.ALL invite me out for an ole times poker game in Arcadia, Ca. All is well with Marybeth and Bill COLLUM in Costa Mesa, Ca. On a recent trip north they visited Carlotta and Jack BURRILL in Sacramento and also made a trip to Honolulu and saw Pete AURAND. Bobbie and Charlie NORRIS send their new address at 206 Robin Dr., Sarasota, FL 33577. They say the weather is marvelous and they really recommend the life there. They hope to see Jane and Walt SMALL while they are down during the holidays to furnish their new condominium. They drove up to see the Jim MARKS in Orlando just before the holidays. Ev and Obie O'BRIEN send greetings from Ponte Vedra Beach and also enjoy and recommend their land of pleasant living. In February I took up the warm invitations of all these kind Florida classmates and made a Cook's tour for some sunshine and fun.

It was good to hear from El BALDRIDGE. He is in the real estate business

in Alexandria, Va., and sends news that his year in the Million Dollar Club put him in the high blood pressure category and he has had to slack off. He has traveled to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and all around the country with his fellow Classic Car Club Members in his Classic Packard.

Dick MUGG writes that he was blessed by a visit from young son Bill and his new bride, Ellen, for a few days during the holidays. Bill is a j.g. now, and soloed in Pensacola in November. Oldest son Rick is a captain in the Air Force and has completed 60 combat missions in S.E. Asia and expects to complete 200 by the end of his tour in May '72. He has gotten in on some of the raids into N. Vietnam, otherwise concentrates on the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Carol and John W I C K S from Maple Glen, Pa., say that the best thing that happened to them in 1971 was coming down to see this good Washington area group for homecoming. I hope this will be an incentive for some of you to put that great event on your calendars for 1972. Red MASON writes to chide me that I keep geographically placing him in Philadelphia when he correctly lives in the village of State College, home of the Nittany Lions of Penn State. He reports life is very pleasant in this area of academics and wildlife. There have been bears reportedly using the golf course in the deep winter—obviously having trouble in the sand traps. The out-of-bounds marker for the 11th fairway is in their front yard and all classmates are welcome.

Sorry to have dislocated you. Red, and watch out for those wandering bears and traveling classmates now that you have been correctly pinpointed on the map of Pa. Ruth and Gid BOYD send word from Saratoga, Ca., that when they heard that I had finally retired, they then knew the war was really winding down and suggest that I write a book on the subject. Jane and Bill ROGERS are still enjoying life in Coronado. Bill teaches American History in the La Verne College extension course at North Island and Government to the police cadets at Miramar College. They had a great fishing and sightseeing expedition as far north as Vancouver during the summer and hope to come east in the spring.

I'll continue with more of this holiday news in future columns and, again, thank you all for your kindness and thoughtfulness.

Pres: Capt. C. R. Chandler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. F. P. Anderson, USN (Ret.) 2725 N. Wakefield St. Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members; 38.5

It is with deep regret that I report the death of Harry Daniel H E L F R I C H , Jr., suddenly on 6 January 1972 at Annapolis, Md. Funeral services were held 10 January at the Ft. Myer Chapel followed by interment in Arlington Nat. Cemetery. He had retired from the Navy in 1962, following several important assignments in the aeronautical engineering field, and then had worked for Martin Co. for about three years. Since 1965, he had been employed

by NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., where, at the time of his death, he was Head, Flight Program Office, Test & Evaluation Division. He is survived by his widow, Diana, of Winchester-on-Severn, Annapolis, MD 21401; one daughter, Hope (Mrs. Wm. Mallett) ; and three sons, David, Michael, and Daniel. In lieu of flowers, the class of 1939 made a memorial contribution to the Heart Fund.

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for his untiring efforts in helping make our 30th reunion a big success. He will be greatly missed. The class extends its heartfelt sympathy to Diana and the children.

Switching to a brighter note, I believe that, with Christmas 1971 now being history, some of its pleasant memories should be documented both in words and in pictures.

The event that kicked off Christmas doings in N. Calif, was the huge 3 December party at the Moffett NAS O Club, sponsored by Bill and Dot CLOMAN. Present, with wives: Tex Harris, Rye, Wills, Harrell, Lawrence (Bob actually arrived from Wash, just as party was ending), Jenkins, Palus, Ellis Fisher, and Dick Gould. Also attending was Marion Gurnee.

One of the earliest parties for the Wash., D. C., area took place at the home of Stan and Anne KERKERING in Rockville on 11 December. See photo for an action view of the host with three of his joint celebrants.

It is apparent that a good time was had by all!

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On Sunday, 12 December, some members of the class of '39 and class of '40 got together at Doc ABBOT's quarters at NAS, Norfolk, for cocktails and buffet.

See photo for the '39ers who attended.

Standing, left to right: Casey Childers, Charlie McCall, Sam Major, Ellen Bell, Mo Moore, Chuck Nace, Flash Dailey, Mac McCarthy, Vince dePoix, Bill Manning, Bill Huffman, Ebbie Bell, Ed Dashiell, Betty Ann dePoix, Herb Cassidy, and Joan Cassidy. Kneeling, left to right: Pat Nace, Charlotte Dashiell, Lynnette McCarthy, Dottie McCall, and Betsy Manning. Sitting, left to right: Mary Major, Barbara Dailey, Doc Abbot, Marge Abbot, Lita Huffman, Helen Moore, and Betty Childers.

After a few months of silence, I finally heard from the San Diego contingent and their Christmas party via this letter from Bill DAWSON : "Now that all the harumscarum of the season is almost over I can get around to sending you the latest from the San Diego-Coronado group. We had our December get-together at the Admiral Kidd Club on 15 December. Cocktails and dinner beautifully arranged by Bob and Louise Dexter. There were 39 for dinner with two extra for cocktails only. No special program—just the usual sparkling talk before, during and after. The real highlight of the evening was having Scotty Crouch back with us. Attending (with wives) were: Barker, Bemis, Bobczynski, Brent, Bob Clark, Fred Clarke, Dawson, Dexter, Fargo, Fischer, Glaes, Henderson, Jolly, Jarvis, Knox, Lank, Paine, Reaves, Reilly, and Weatherwax. Personally, Bette and I were just back from the Washington area where we welcomed a new grandchild. Sorry I was not able to make a luncheon. We did enjoy getting to homecoming and seeing many old friends."

The Washington area Christmas party was held 18 December at the Fort McNair O Club (last year's affair there was so enjoyable that we went back). All arrangements were made by Betty and Stan CLAYPOOLE and Kathie and Jack MICHEL, and to them we say, "Well done!" It was another great success all around, from the terrifically delicious food and the two conveniently "free" bars to the excellent turnout of friendly '39ers with their wives and guests (85 total!). The list of those attending is too long to include here. Generally, with but a few exceptions, it was a slightly enlarged version of the group which so faithfully attends our monthly luncheons here in Wash.

We were glad to see Ed AIKEN join our activities again after a fairly long absence.

Also, Bob CLARK, Gene SHIRLEY, Roy TENANTY, Bob GREEN, and Red SYVERSON showed up for the first time in several months. Betty and Pres SHAMER even drove down from N. J. A songfest, most capably led by Bill RUHE, proved to be so popular that we missed the closing of the bar! Following this most delightful carousal, many of us stopped by Emmett and Betty BONNER's home in N. Arlington for additional repast, the highlight of which was Betty's delicious homemade soup and their gracious hospitality. Their daughter, Vance, had just arrived home from college for the holidays.

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There were several '39-hosted gatherings in the Wash, area over the holidays and I would like to touch on a few of them. First, Mickey and Harry HIGGS, at an evening party 28 December in their home in Rockville, announced the engagement of their daughter. Holly, to Mr. Daniel Swanson with a wedding planned for May. Holly and Dan both graduated last June from Denison U. in Ohio. Dan is currently a first year law student at Vanderbilt U. In addition to this joyous event, Mickey and Harry had another reason for celebrating. In the area for the holidays were their son, Lt. Jiggs Higgs, USN, '68, his wife, Linda, and their son, Trevor. Jiggs was en route from WESTPAC (USS

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On 29 December, Bob and Micky CLARK graciously entertained at their home in Alexandria. It was a beautiful party with many '39ers in attendance. It was good to see the BALCHes over from Annapolis and to cross paths again with Dave BRYCE after many years. The party was capably co-hosted by the Clarks' son, Robert (recently an Army Capt. and now a GS-13 in the Dept. of the Army), and daughter, Anne (now working for the Government after a year with the Red Cross in Vietnam). Their other daughter, Edith, was on her way back from Vietnam via Australia after also serving a year there with the Red Cross.

Then on 30 December, Bud and Mary SCHUMANN hosted a lovely gathering at their home in Chevy Chase. Co-hosting was their daughter, Estelle, a freshman at Maryland. Also assisting, was their son, Roland (age 10), seen periodically darting among the guests. One of the highlights of the evening was Norm B E N N E T T creating much nostalgia while serenading the guests at the piano. Everyone was glad to see Bliss, Bud's sister, who is still living in the Wash, area.

The monthly Wash, luncheon was held 5 January at Fort Myer O Club as usual with only a fair attendance—24 of our regular supporters. We were glad to see Tom RUDDEN and Bob TRUAX show up again after several months absence. Tom refused to commit himself as to what he is now doing.

He would only say that he's organizing a corporation and having fun! Bob has an excellent civil service position with the Navy's Ship Research & Dev. Center (also known as the David Taylor Model Basin) after having worked in industry for about ten years. Incidentally, he still keeps his hand in with rocket engines!

In reference to the December column and my mention of classmates working for the Government in Wash., D. C , area in a civilian capacity, here are a few more: Gerry NORTON, Dept. of H U D ; Red SYVERSON, Nat. Hghwy. Traffic Safety Admin.; and Eli ROTH, Arms. Contr. and Disarm. Agency.

A request from Bailey, Banks, and Biddle in Phila.—would the '39er who borrowed their class ring eligibility list please return same?

Congratulations again to Russ and Virginia BUCKLEY! With help, they have probably ended the "who had the heaviest grandchild at birth" contest for the Class of '39. Matthew Alexander Buckley saw the light of day at Bethesda Naval Hospital on 12 November 1971. He is the son of Linda Hunter Buckley and Russell, Jr. (USNA '64 now on duty at BuPers.) Matt weighed 11 lbs., AlA oz. and was 2 2 ^ in. long.

WOW! S H I P M A T E

Congratulations to the Bill D U N N E s of Troy, N. Y., and to their son, Mid. 1/c Patrick W. Dunne, for his being selected Brigade Cdr, of the 4200-man Brigade of Midshipmen at the U S N A for the winter term which ends 5 March. A math major, Pat has been named to the Dean's list (grades) and the Superintendent's list (leadership) every year since his plebe year.

After putting on his gold bars in June, Pat will report to Monterey for an Immediate Graduate Education Program in mathematics. From there he plans to go into submarines via Adm. Rickover's nuclear power program. His father retired from the Navy in 1954 and, currently, is manager of a manufacturing company in Troy—Geier & Bluhm, Inc. F L I P C L I P S : Tommy W I L L I A M S O N finally gave in to the call of the Deep South and has moved from Fairfax, Va., back to his home state of Ms.; Gordon GAYLE is a representative for Peter Bissell, Inc., an investment brokerage firm in Wash., D. C.; Fred CORLE is with Textron in Providence, R. I.; Don F U R L O N G is with Bechtel, S. F . ; Barney O L D F I E L D has left Quincy, Ma., and, reportedly, is building a home somewhere on N. C. seashore; Geo. SCOTT is with Davis, Skaggs Investments, S. F . ; Geo. P A L U S is with Internal Revenue, Saratoga, Ca.; Gene H E N R Y is Dir. of Public Libraries in Newport, R. I. In true '39 tradition, Bill and Carol RUHE's son, Barnaby, a Navy Lt. '68, is on duty in Vietnam with NAVFORV, while Pete and Adele SHUMWAY's oldest son (of five), Geoffrey, a Navy Lt. (LCdr. selectee) '64, is also on duty in Vietnam on his third tour flying A7s off USS

CORAL SEA.

With your help, more next month.

Pres: RAdm. John Chase, USN Sec'y, Cdr. Leigh Winters, USN (Ret.) 701 S. 23rd St. Arlington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 29.5

WASHINGTON REPORT "The stormy March has come at last.

With wind, and cloud, and changing skies; . . ."

—William Cullen Bryant And so now winter is nearly behind us.

We can start to plan that summer vacation with Ted RODGERS at Castine, Me. In case you've forgotten—Ted invited '40 to visit the Maine Maritime Academy for the July 4th fortnight (or a portion thereof) last year. Wally UTLEY's letter sums it up: "To all those classmates and families who missed the July vacation at the Maine Maritime Academy . . . you missed an outstanding family vacation. The kids loved it . . . we all left there happy and exhausted from the activities, hoping that we would be invited back next year. We salute you.

Marguerite and Ted Rodgers, for your gracious hospitality! Enclosed is a picture of our entry in the Castine 4th of July parade entitled 'The '76ers from Philadelphia.' We chickened out on 'Rodgers' Raiders.' The judges must have been impressed. All of the children were awarded individual Blue Ribbons, and the award for the entire unit was presented to Ted for his office trophy case. Included in the picture are: Bud and Ruthie Schafer, and son Scott; Ike and Nancy Blough, and daughters Alice and Ginnie; Joe ('44) and Jean Cross, and sons Gregg and Red; and Helen and Wally Utley, with son David. The Heimarks, Sledges and Lamimans were also vacationM A R C H ,

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July 4, 1971, Castine, Me.: Ruth SchafFer, Helyn Utley, Nancy Blough, Dove Utley, Gregg and Jean Cross, Alice Blough, Wally Utley, Scott and Bud Schafler, Red Cross and Parade Marshall Ike Blough.

ing with us while we were there, and I understand several other classmates arrived for the second week."

Out in Fresno, Ca., last 8 January Ed M E N D E N H A L L celebrated membership in the "Over-the-Hill-at-SS-Gang" with a birthday card signed by all 26 of the overthe-hillers who attended the 2nd-Tuesdayof-the-month lunch at Fort Myer's O Club 6 December 1971. Many happy returns, E d !

Signatories to the card included: Berndtson, Bowell, Dick Brown, Bill Carpenter, Chase, Esch, Figuers, Goodfellow (in from Monterey), Oz Gray, Greenbacker, Healey, Ted Hill, Howell, Kaufman, Keating, Longino, Montgomery, Quinn, Refo, Neil Rogers, Schneider, Sledge, Tom Taylor, Hugh Vickery, Winters and Walline.

Speaker of the day at the 6 December lunch was our own "Country Squire" Tom Taylor from Lovettsville, Va. His brief and humorous discussion of ol' Virginny politics was a high point in a talent-filled year of excellent speakers. Tom has doffed his navy blues for the mufti of a true Virginia gentleman-farmer, lawyer and judge. And we just happen to have a photo handy showing the Squire with his Betty Ann hosting one of last year's A / N game TV festivities at their home overlooking Point-of-Rock and the upper Potomac River.

Army-Navy game party at Tom Taylor's: Jo Gray, Sis Refo, Betty Bowell, Oz Gray, Mary Carpenter, Tom Taylor, John Henry, Bob White, Claudia White, Jack Bowell, John Refo, Elouise Chase, John Chase, Betty Ann Taylor and Ruth Henry.

Bill Carpenter took the picture.

There have been a few local changes: Jack CLAIR is back in town as a consultant to IBM, Litton, Burroughs, etc., operating out of 2111 Jeff Davis Hwy., Suite 1203N, Arlington, Va.; Bob KAUFMAN

is now associated with the American Association of Medical Clinics at 719 Prince St., Alexandria, VA 22313—he and Pat have moved their quarters to 6013 Wesson Dr., Camp Springs, MD 20023; (301) 423-4596; Pat GRAY is an ass't Attorney General with the Justice Department; Hugh VICKERY is now with I N F O R M A T I C S , Inc., in Rockville, Md. We had the pleasure of seeing the D'AREZZOs during the holiday season.

Helen and Joe are holding their own— magnificently! Joe has added maybe 10 lbs. since midshipman days. Time does fly tho'—• little Carol is now a tall, blond and beautiful 24 years young teacher (never had 'em like that when I went to school!) ; sister Vivian is an equally lissome and lovely young lady of 21 years; Paul—a strapping 19 years, will outgrow his big dad; Mark, at 11—nearly 30—will be running the show for Joe in just a few years.

A reminder to the distaff side of the local contingent: the next joint '40-and-wives 2nd-Tuesday-of-the-month luncheon will be 9 May 1972 at Fort Myer, Va. There will be nameplates, photographs—and cigars for the gentlemen (courtesy of Dave W O L F E ) .

W I N D O W DRESSING Treasurer Ray S C H N E I D E R reports that over 10 percent of our classmates who received the Memorial Fund letter from president John CHASE, along with their Class Rosters, have already responded (prior New Year's) with donations. Add these good people to the list of contributors published in the December 1971 Shipmate (p. 43) : Berndtson, Bowell, Dick Brown, Croft, D'Arezzo, Desmond, Ellison, Esch, Fickenscher, Oz Gray, Ted Hill, Hunt, Kaufman, Karch, Klare, Lothrop, McKinney, McLaughlin, Newbould, Newhall, Ramsey, Sledge, HJ Smith, Stanwick, Steuckert, Trice, Trum, Bill Vickrey, Dan Williams, Johnny Williams. Many, many thanks to you all! Keep those letters and photos and checks coming in, folks !

N E W S FROM H E R E AND T H E R E A welcome fall-out from Johnny C H A S E ' S mailing of nearly 400 Class Rosters has been the steady response from all of you out there. Here are some excerpts from letters to John, Ray S C H N E I D E R and myself: From Brussels—Harvey SEIM, our Man from NATO, reports: "Toward the end of May (1971) Betty and Harv went to Southern Germany for a meeting of the Defense Ministers of the N A T O Nuclear Planning Group, flying to Munich and then transferring to German Army helicopters for the flight to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. During the four-day visit our activities varied from an informal evening eating bratwurst and sauerkraut and drinking beer with N A T O Secretary General Brosio . . . to the unusual experience of getting on the train at Garmisch at four o'clock in the afternoon in formal evening dress for an hour-long ride to Munich to attend a reception and a Mozart opera as guests of the Minister-presi(lent of Bavaria. Lest one get the impression that it was all fun, be assured that there were games as well. For example: Harv hacl the dubious privilege of being lifted by helicopter several thousand feet up into the Alps to witness a demonstration of military operations by crackerjack German mountain troops. Snow-chilled schnapps helped the observers survive and each was awarded an edelweiss (n. a small composite herb with white woolly leaves and flowers, growing 49

in the high altitudes of the Alps . . .) for his fortitude."

From the West Indies—Lucian H U N T , managing director of British West Indian Airways, Ltd., writes: "I have finally gotten around to writing . . . of my present preoccupation with BWIA International.

This is my second airline to manage since leaving American Airlines in 1966. In early 1970 we put a merger together between American Flyers and Universal Airlines, and at that time I returned to the scheduled business, and enjoy much more what we are now doing in the International field...

BWIA is the leading carrier in the Eastern Caribbean. Living as an expatriate has its merits and also its disadvantages. Marguerite and I missed the homecoming this year due to the press of business combined with air travel fatigue. Some months we spend as much as 30 percent of our time in hotels, and travel as much as 10,000 miles together. Fortunately, other months we can spend more time at our home in Trinidad.

BWIA's major marketing headquarters is located in Rockefeller Center, NYC . . . and my office . . . is located on the sixth floor. Should any of '40 be passing that way, please pass in. If it is after 5 :00 p.m. you may get a free drink. (Sec. NOTE— and find yourself in one of Lucian's 707s en route Barbados?)

Back to CONUS, and swinging North— Clare and Ed HAYES, recovered from the trauma of having a grandson, are now preparing to leave Holden, Ma., for little Rhode Island. Ed has accepted the post of CO, Naval Jr. ROTC at Tiverton High School in Tiverton, R. I., and they are building a home in nearby Portsmouth.

In Connecticut—Priscilla and Lyle RAMSEY are living on Quail Road in Greenwich; not Fox Run Lane as listed in the Class Roster.

Annette and Joe SNYDER write from Madison, Ct., to remind us that they have eleven offspring and one and one-half grandchildren ! Joe is a Division Director at Yale University in New Haven . . . and I don't see how he has time for it.

And from Hamden, Ct., Eleanor and Pete P E T E R S O N send word that Pete is also involved in education in New Haven—at Hopkins Grammar School (mathematics, yet!!).

Down in New Jersey—Vic VICKREY of Mount Arlington, N. J., has moving news: "Gerry and I are in the midst of moving from N. J. to Fort Walton Beach, Fl., where I will work for the Air Force at Eglin AFB. I had to rush down there, so Gerry got stuck with the dirty job of staying up north in the snow and sleet (Sec. NOTE—this marriage won't l a s t . . . ) to get the house packed up and moved. She should be down here in about a week (before Christmas '71)."

In nearby Pennsylvania—Bill LINDSAY of Bryn Mawr, Pa., notes that even Shipmate can err. On page 17 of the December '71 issue Bruce Woolley '39 relates the Makaroff gift of ketch VAMARIE to USNA incident as occurring during his plebe year.

Not on your life, Bruce. That was our plebe year! Maybe every year just seemed like plebe year back in those pre-WWII days.

Swinging South—Doug P H I L L I P S is the Area Rep for State Technical Services, V P I Extension Division, in Richmond, Va. He should be running into Bill MEYER and Jake PLUMMER from time-to-time; also Richmond residents.

And in Georgia—Carol and Jim E L K I N S 50

sound an optimistic note: "The past year has been a good one. . . . Jim's job with the Institute of Government, U. of Georgia, continues to offer interest and challenge . . . daughter, Lynn, is here in Athens, as a Georgia U. senior. Also daughter Judy, and her husband, Jim Howell getting his Master's in Business in June '72. Our oldest, Carol, and her husband in Cleveland, now have three children. We had a great time in August when all the family spent a week together at the beach on Hilton Head Island near Savannah. The high spot of our year was the month spent travelling in Spain visiting with the many Spanish friends we had made during our two years at Rota. Our only complaint is that we miss old friends. We have plenty of bedrooms, are but 20 miles off the Interstate 85 N E of Atlanta, and an hour from the Atlanta airport (a pleasant drive). So come to see us."

From Hampton, Ga.—Cary HALL sends corrected addresses for two of our classmates : Bob TACKABERRY—now at 4 Kellogg Dr., Gentralia, MO 65240; Matt CAIN— now at 18 Arlington PL, Buffalo, NY 14201. Many thanks, Cary.

Southward to Florida—Johnny WILLIAMS, owner-broker of Sanford Realty, Sanford, Fl., has forwarded a contribution along with a bit of 01' South memorabilia: "Arlington Cemetery, which was General Lee's home, is where he wrote his resignation from the Army of the United States.

It was used for horses, the wounded and many other things during that conflict. In my humble opinion the final use assigned was something that would have warmed Lee's heart."

Saralee and Pete P E T E R S report that life can be beautiful in Ponte Vedra, Fl. Right on!

Westward to California where Stock STEUCKERT now teaches at the SABL School in Carmel; with one son in service at Treasure Island and the other in JC. Up to the far northwest and Elaine and Herm TRUM, busy going through the traumatic experience of building their first "from scratch" new home in Oak Harbor, Puget Sound; where Herman is COMFLTAIR, Whidbey.

T H E SECRETARY'S CORNER Our sincere condolences to Betty and Jake HEIMARK in St. Davids, Pa. Betty's father, RAdm. A. C. Bennett '12, died of a stroke in Carmel, Ca., 29 November 1971.

From the WE'VE LOST ONE Department : Anyone know where Jim PHELAN has moved? Last address was New Milford, Ct. Kudos to indefatigable Pat CLANCY and to John CHASE for updating, printing and mailing out nearly 400 Class Rosters.

The response to the Personal History sheets has been spectacular. You can help to make it 100 percent if you will please remind your non-Shipmate classmates that the USNA dues (including Shipmate) are only $12/year.

(I avoided the annual bills by sending in $125 for a Life Membership—good investment!) Applications go to: U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Alumni House Annapolis, Maryland 21402 Phone:

(301) 263-448

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Chairman: Cdr. Thomas E. Blount, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyle Road Bethesda, MD 20034 Percent Members: 31.5

The Christmas coed luncheon in Washington was a smashing success and, would you believe it, there were exactly 41 attendees. From all reports, everyone fortunate enough to be there had such a good time that another one has been scheduled for April. Abbie Svendsen and Babette Thomson agreed to do the organizing so if you are in Washington the last Wednesday in April be sure to attend! The latest word is that it will again be at Blackie's House of Beef. Those who made the Christmas affair were: Blounts with son and daughter-in-law, Buells, Burleys, Engles, Fosters, Hadlers, Hokers, Houghtons, Jamisons, Joe Marks, Messers, Ed Millers, Nicholsons, Prices, Rubels, Sangers, Svendsens, Thomsons, Wrights and Zirkles.

Among those missing the Christmas party were the RIEVES who were standing by for the movers so they could be on their way to Hawaii. It is really a shame that Rollo and Lucy have to leave just when our football fortunes seem to be pointing up for a change and they have been such faithful followers despite our recent tough seasons. Hawaii is a pretty good alternative, however.

Taking their place in Washington will be the TEBOS bringing with them some of that good California sunshine. I understand that this is a permanent move for Ken and Marcie but as of now I do not know other details or their new address.

Jeanne and Hank EASTERLING wrote a nice note from Hawaii where they see Ace and Pau CLARK often. They say there are no other '41ers there. So that's why we are sending Lucy and Rollo Rieve!

Charlie STYER wrote the following before he and Katie took off to California: "1971 has been eventful here in Madrid.

Katie and I have continued to enjoy our Spanish life and friends, and the Deputy j U S M G Spain job is as interesting as ever.

This year has seen visits to Spain of our President, Vice President, each Cabinet Officer, Admirals Moorer and Rivero and the Chiefs of each U. S. service, keeping us busy. The Styers also made many trips within Spain, and to CONUS, England and Portugal.

"I'm still hoping Tex Guinn crashes through with the picture his photographer took of the two of us with the Spanish CNO in Washington in March (1971). In September, on a short trip to Naples, I joined in dinner with Pierre and Mary Charbonnet and it was good to see them after several years. 1972 will see me leaving active duty and striking out in civilian life.

All my best to classmates."

And all the best to you Charlie, together with thanks for keeping your scribe current.

In the January issue, I noted that Court NORTON was "with India-Atlantic" and I am now chagrined to report that Indialantic is a one-square-mile town between the Indian River and the Atlantic—at least, it is in Florida. Court says that all who went through Melbourne NAS for operational fighter training will remember it. Guess that's why I missed it.

Court says that he has golfed recently with Enders H U E Y and Jack BEARDALL and cocktailed with Pat and Ruth MURPHY. Shyrl and Court will be happy to see any classmates who turn into "snow SHIPMATE

birds." Their address is: 410 Palmetto Place, Indiatlantic, F L 32903.

Jack Beardall has now started to work with the American Federal Savings and Loan in Winter Park as assistant to the president.

Next month there should be some pictures, but in the meantime don't forget to send me some news.

Pres: Capt. P. S. Smith, USN Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shirlington Sta. Arlington, VA 22206 Percent Members: 36.5

Winter is drawing to a close, but before spring makes its appearance and the cherry blossoms demand our attention here in Washington, the wrap-up of the 30th reunion dinner-dances in Washington and Long Beach is in order.

The west coast contingent kicked off the celebration in grand style on 11 December at the COM (Open), Naval Station Long Beach. Ivan and Vannie STURGIS spearheaded the get-together, which started with an hour or so of "attitude adjustment" followed by a wonderful dinner and an evening of dancing. In all, 49 attended with Peggy Bergin being the "ninth" in deference to Dan's deployment. Five of the couples had driven up from San Diego. Attending were the Bachhubers, Bishops, Peggy B., Betzers, Catlins, J. Davises, Des Granges, Gallaghers, Hansons, H. Harwoods, Hennings, Hopleys, Johns, Malones, R. Millers, Powells, Poages, Momsens, Richters, Ruschs, Salassi (and date), Skidmores, Sturgises, Wheldons, and Wiggins. Scarves and crests had been sent out for the occasion and were very much in evidence with the lucky buyers.

Conversation among the captain "whistle footers" obviously was concerned with upcoming retirement, but the center of attraction was the beauty and finery of the lovely gals with the thought that the old fuds present were a bit hard pressed to keep up with them. On Sunday, Vannie and Ivan hosted the DAVISes, BISHOPs, and RUSCHs at brunch in their beautiful home at Newport Beach. Reportedly, the STURGlSes are really living and the foursome "breakfasted" with the roof rolled back to permit all to bask in the sun under a clear, blue sky.

By consensus, the 31st, per routine, will shift down to San Diego. All are welcome to attend and we are assured that the weather will cooperate.

In Washington, 88 rallied, altho the Jack HILLs and Pete S M I T H s were unable to attend at the last minute when struck down by the "unnamed virus" which swept thru Washington during December. Classmates attending included the Days, Kelleys, Underwoods, Buntings, Robisons, Rawsons, Ruehrmunds, Duncans, Kidds, McWethys, Herndons, Griffiths, Sweitzers, Britners, Armstrongs, Pattersons, Engdahls, Conger (with date), Lowes, C. Smiths, Maddexes, Allendorfers, Moellers, Halvorsen (with daughter Mary and her husband Ray Scholten from San Diego), Clarkes, Childers, Clicks, Opps, Greers, Flynns, Westcotts, Ehrekes, Frys, Stegemertens, Palmers, Porters, Sullivans, and Binions. Ginny Ehreke designed the centerpieces, a sea scene of driftwood, sea shells, sea grass and milkweed pods with a blue and a gold sea bird jauntily perched on each. Jean Armstrong hosted the "assembly line" for the assembly of the pieces, Parker having been called out of town, so the social aspects of this gathering MARCH,

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were in most capable hands, and got the dinner off to a fine start. Harry ALLEND O R F E R arranged for the evening's entertainment and provided a good balance of tunes we danced to "back then" and a more modern update for the young at heart. Both tempos received a ready and spirited response. Snuffy G R I F F I T H handled the raffing of the centerpieces and door prizes and we all got into the act in honoring Belle Flynn on the occasion of her 39th birthday and in sharing her cake. George H A L V O R S E N introduced his daughter, Mary, and she and Angelique Kidd performed the drawings for Snuffy's give-away.

In Pete's absence, I acted as MC and got Jack CLICK to explain the availability of a Cunard cruise in October to the Caribbean which might just turn into a '42 reunion at sea. Jake has all of the information at the Retired Officers Association, where he is now Executive Director.

Homecoming this year is on the 30th of September (Boston College) and we have asked for a block of rooms at the SheratonNortheast (30th headquarters), but without any actual class functions planned.

Dick H U B E R is the Dean of the Boston College Law School, their third. Dick has served as a professor of law at BC for the past 14 years, having received degrees from the U. of Iowa and Harvard after graduating from the Naval Academy. He is a recognized authority in the fields of land use, zoning and environmental law. Dick is chairman of the subcommittee on zoning and subdivision control of the Boston Bar Association and is on the board of directors of the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association of Metropolitan Boston.

Ray and Jeanne MILLER finally succumbed to progress and now can reflect on what might have been if Los Angeles International hadn't enlarged its runways and facilities. Fortunately, they managed to stay roughly in touch with the ocean by settling at 702 Hillcrest St. in El Segundo where the doormat is still out for those who hit the big city and need a friendly spot of assistance.

Chief TOFALO and Peggy have settled in Rome, N. Y., where he is working at the Rome Trust branch of the Oneida National Bank & Trust of Central New York and studying for a degree in Business Administration. Peggy had so much fun selling their California home that she has caught the real estate bug. Rosemary is doing graduate work in social psychology on a Fellowship at Howard University in Washington. Mike graduates from Cornell in June (NROTC) and looks towards Nuclear Power School when commissioned.

Anne is a freshman at LeMoyne College in Syracuse with a library science degree as her goal. Joe is a happy fifth grader and has switched from swimming to winter sports and the piano.

Dick and Betty KING took off 43 days this past summer to log nearly 11,000 miles in a borrowed Shasta Royal Land Yacht. Thev are convinced no other way of travel lets one see and do so much. To prove it, they visited 22 states and provinces, 16 major parks, 30 families of friends or relatives, eight swims, five sleep-outs, three water trips, one flight, plus uncounted hikes and museums. Dick states it took no more than a bit of planning, an intrepid wife, tractable children, school teachers' vacations, one of those marvelous machines, incredible luck (no rain until the last day when they found the roof leaked), and wonderful welcoming friends and relations.

A lovely note came from Betty Byers, who with Anne Rickabaugh, represented our class widows at the 30th, telling us how much she enjoyed that gathering and welcoming any of the class who get down Jacksonville way in their travels.

On 5 January Helen Vose, Bill's lovely wife, was laid to rest in a private service.

Helen died 30 December after a very long illness. A memorial service was held at the NAS Chapel in Norfolk on 3 January. The service was attended by a large number of classmates.

Bill is a GS-14, having retired from the Navy several years ago, and is employed at the Navy Safety Center at Norfolk, Pres: Capt. Robert Adrian, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, I I I , (SO USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St. Kailua, HI 96734 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Frederic Hansen, USN (Ret.) 5677 Rayburn Ave. Alexandria, VA 22311 Percent Members: 34

In a note to Dave H O L M E S , Ed CUMMIN GS reports from San Diego that the Army game get-together at George and Marge MEYERS' (correction of Jan. edition) house was a social, if not artistic, success. In addition to the game festivities it was Peggy Smith's birthday, and Fenton provided a case of champagne to properly celebrate the occasion. Those in attendance were Art and Peggy Emerson, Phil Hambsch, Swede and Ann Hanson, Les and Jane Heselton, Fred and Barbara Lemley, Myles and Barbara Finley, John and Linda Nichols, Fenton and Peggy Smith, Charlie and Belle Taylor, Ed and Ethel Cummings.

The Washington area Christmas party was a bang-up success with attendance just under 100 people. Bob and Peggy GILLOCK and Maxine and Bert T H O M P S O N were up from Norfolk; and the BUSIKs and ADRIANS came over from Annapolis.

Frank DAILEY was in town for the occasion. His address is 19 Brookside Cir., Wilbraham, MA 01095. He is vice president and director of business development for Scott Graphics, Inc., Holyoke, Ma. Statistically, the latest word on the Daileys is eight children and four grandchildren.

On 6 January, John S H E P H E R D ' s coworkers, A-7 Program, threw a farewell luncheon for him at the Crystal City Marriott. Well over 100 people attended. Milly, complete with corsage, looked lovely and John's after-luncheon remarks were in his usual articulate style. His new duty station is Staff Defense Management School, Fort Belvoir. Classmates in attendance included A. J. VESCOVI (who is Assistant Program Manager for the A-7 Program), Dave HOLMES, Dick P H E L P S , Frank AULT and yours truly. This was about the most warm-hearted farewell luncheon that I can remember.

Frank Ault was in town on business. He is vice president of Systems Associates, Inc., 444 West Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90802. Frank promised to round up the Long Beach news for publication (hopefully next month's Shipmate).

I am receiving requests for hotel reservations for the 19 June reunion and have heard from Joe RYAN whose address is Mailbag International Inc., 201 East 42nd St., New York, NY 10017; Walt TONER, whose address is 100 Tower Ave., Needham Heights, MA 02194; and Al L E I G H T O N , who is with Chatham-Spartan, Box 542^ 51

Linden, NJ 07036. His home address is 97 Sunset Dr., Chatham, NJ 07928.

Mariella and Jim OLIVER (he is CO U. S. Naval Station, Pearl Harbor) have announced the marriage of their daughter, Marijo, to Lt. (jg) Lawrence (Skid) Heyworth. III, USN, class of 1970, eldest son of Lawrie and Jean. The wedding took place at 1600 Saturday, 5 February 1972, at the Naval Academy Chapel. Following the honeymoon, the couple will make their home in Pearl Harbor where Skid's ship, USS

RAdm. David H. Bagley

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Following the receipt of the donation of $450.00 from the class treasury to assist in the Alumni House restoration program after the fire of last year, the Executive Director, Capt. Bill Busik, sent a note of appreciation to our class president. Jack GILLOOLY. Bill's note reads as follows: "Please accept my thanks on behalf of the Alumni Association for the generous response from the Class of 1945 toward our restoration and improvement program at Alumni House.

"As you no doubt know, everything is pretty much back in shape again and looking great. We have installed fire inspection/prevention devices throughout the House which we feel sure will preclude any future tragedy such as we just experienced—and central air conditioning on the first floor and lower deck.

"Just yesterday we received the end tables and all of the chairs for the Tap Room and we now have our bar stools.

"The cottage on College Avenue is now at our disposal—with Dick Teel and his staff headquartered there; along with additional storage space and an overlap in having an additional kitchen at our disposal—when required for parties, receptions, etc., as needed.

"Please convey to those who donated from the Class our deep appreciation and a warm welcome to come see us when they can."

I am sure that in the years to come, the fire in the Alumni House will come to be viewed as a blessing in disguise and had it not occurred as it did, the building would have remained vulnerable to far more serious damage by an undetected major fire sometime in the future.

The December luncheon had a splendid turnout as evidenced by the over-flow crowd of attendees. In alphabetical order, the following classmates were able to desert their desks and break away for the monthly meeting: Homer Adrianse, Jack Barron, Guy Best, Ed Christofferson, Jess Cobb, Wiley Conover, Mort Cooley, Willie Crenshaw (all the way from La.), Ozzie Dale, Bert Findly, Jack Gambrill, Jack Gillooly (presiding), Carl Gronemann, Johnny Haines, Bob Hayes, Jerry Johnson, Bill McGarry, Bob Merrick, Dean Mitchell, Al Olsen, Gerry O'Rourke, Jack Peters, Pete Perkins, Don Poe, Chuck Priest, Randy Prothro, Paul Purkrabeck, Jerry Rester, Sam Rorex, Larry Schaffer, Dutch Schulz, Gene Silliman, Sam Simpson (from Bremerton, Wa.), Jim Smith, Ralph Stell, Thad Taylor, Tom Utegaard, John Wise, and Lando Zech.

Capt. Donald M. MILLER, present CO of the Fleet Training Center in Mayport, Fl., has been awarded the Legion of Merit.

The medal was presented by RAdm. Kenneth C. Wallace, COMCRUDESFLOT Twelve, during ceremonies held at the F T C on December 14.

Capt. Miller earned the Legion of Merit while in Washington, D. C, for "exceptionally meritorious service from July 1969 to August 1971 as Head of Strategic Objectives Plans Branch, Strategic Plans and Policy Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations."

Our "second Tuesday" meetings at the Fort Myer "O" Club have become a fixture.

If you are in Washington that day, the assembled '45 "lunch bunch" would be glad to see you.

A letter of interest from Stan HIRSCH showed up in this month's mailbag. Stan writes: "Just a short note to inform my classmates that I have retired from the Navy in July 1968. The following September, 1968, I attended the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., where I commenced my law studies. I graduated from law school in June 1971 with a Juris

DAVIDSON, is homeported.

Response to the appeal contained in the recent newsletter for action regarding the 30-year supplement has been disappointing.

To permit proper planning we need immediately : 1) the latest news on yourself and family using the form provided in the newsletter and 2) a $5.00 check made out to "1943—30-year supplement." Both should be sent to Capt. R. G. Zimermann, 2908 45th St., N.W., Washington, DC 20016.

As a new year starts, I want to thank all the out-of-town contributors for the news they sent me for publication. A prosperous, interesting, and happy new year to all of you.

Pres: Capt. Walter W. Honour, USN Sec'y, Mr. Dale V. Ness 6520 Walters Woods Dr. Falls Church, VA 22044 Annapolis Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. William C. Gibson, Nav. E 36 Williams Dr. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 30.5

Dr. Dom PAOLUCCI was recently named president of Lulejian and Associates, Inc., a system analysis company. Dom went with Lulejian upon retirement from the Navy and now makes his office in Roslyn, Va. At the December luncheon in Washington before a good turnout of 40 classmates, Adm. Dave BAGLEY spoke on his work of the past 18 months on personnel retention.

After graduation Dave had several assignments in destroyers with participation in W W I I in the Pacific and again in operations in Korea. He was assigned to the Executive Department at the Naval Academy in 1951 to 1953 and has had two tours at the Naval War College, Newport, R. I., and also commanded the U S S HENDERSON and the USS LUCE. After assignments in CNO and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), Dave became aide to the Undersecretary of the Navy. In 1966 he assumed command of the USS

OKLAHOMA

CITY

since he was in the city on business from Norfolk. Jack is with OPTEVFOR. Lest there be any confusion, two celebrations are planned for our 30th anniversary.

The first will take place in Williamsburg, Va., starting on Friday, 18 May. The second will be coincident with homecoming weekend that fall in Annapolis. A motel has been reserved for Friday and Saturday nights in Annapolis. More details will be forthcoming.

Jesse'COLLINS, who has been with the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, recently moved. His new address is 8512 'Tuckermann Ln., Potomac, Md. Vince CASSANI writes from San Diego that he has mailed out IS more copies of the 25th Directory to satisfy recent requests.

Of the original mailing of over 400 copies only IS were returned for lack of proper address. This isn't bad considering the length of time that elapsed since the anniversary.

Jack GODFREY recently moved to the Washington area. Jack is assigned to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md. Paul CRUTCHFIELD, in December, pinned second lieutenant bars on his son Jack when he was commissioned in the Marine Corps.

The most recent roster for the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area lists 135 classmates. Anyone can obtain a copy by dropping me a letter—providing the letter also contains news of the sender or classmates for use in Shipmate.

and

participated in combat operations in the Vietnam area. In 1968, after selection to admiral, Dave became COMCRUDESFLOT Nine. After an assignment in JCS Dave took over his present job in September 1970 as Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Personal Services and Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel (Personal Affairs). In this latter position he serves the unique role of the Navy's OMBUDSMAN, providing a single contact point between the top management echelons and all Navy men and their dependents.

Dave's talk covered the program the Navy is pursuing to not only retain its personnel but also to attract new enlisted personnel and officer candidates. He told of both the negative and positive aspects of the program and of the results to date. The discussion was both interesting and informative on this most important subject to the future of the Navy.

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Pres: Capt. John F. Gillooly, USN Sec'y, Mr. G. F. Rester 1697 Saefern Way Annapolis, MD 21401 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. T. F. Utegaard, USN Qtrs. " A , " Naval Communication Station Washington, D. C. 20390 Percent Members: 33

Marquita

Miller

looks on as RAdm. Kenneth C .

W a l l a c e pins t h e Legion of M e r i t on her husband.

Photo by David L.

SHIPMATE

Doctor Degree. Following graduation, I successfully passed the Virginia Bar Examination.

"I am now practicing law in Norfolk, Va. My home address is 7403 Chipping Rd., Norfolk, VA 23510."

Since the January luncheon was so close to the editor's deadline for the column, I am able to report at some length on the events and proceedings of 11 January. The meeting was attended by the following classmates arranged—this time—in no particular order: Jack Gambrill, Dutch Schulz, Don Shelton, Ed Hastings, Warren Taylor, Chuck Priest, Chan Swallow, J. W. Nance, Jim Smith, Phil Crosby, Mort Cooley, Lando Zech, Joe Moorer, Warren O'Neill, Walt Dedrick, Sam Rorex, Chuck Gardner, Gene Silliman, W. J. McGarry, Bill Stewart, Ted Johnson, J. T. Cockrill, Dick Neuendorffer, Jerry Rester, Paul Burdette, Oscar Dale, Ralph Steel, Red Colegrave Bob Merrick, Bones Thomas, Hubbell Davidson, Guy Best, Jack Gillooly, Jack Peters, Johnny Haines, Bill Geiger, Mike Marshall, Carl Gonemann, Stu Bowcock, Jack Knudsen, D. H . Brooks, Wiley Conover, Alexander Julian, Jerry Johnson, Tom Utegaard, Tip Watson, Larry Shaffer and Vern Anderson.

Capt. "Pappy" Sims '42 attended as a guest of the class.

Jack Gillooly relayed a report from Karl M U N N I N G E R from his lair in Albany to the effect that 187 classmates had sent in their $12 dollar checks for their reserved copy of the Thirty Year After book, and that another dozen had asked to be put down on the reservation list. If you have been putting this off, there is no better time than the present to move it from the P E N D I N G basket to the one marked COMP L E T E D B U S I N E S S . Karl is planning to attend the March meeting to bring us all up to date on the current status of the project at that time. In the meanwhile, LOOK A L I V E !

Pres: Capt. J. W. Foust, USN Corr. Sec'y, Capt. C. V. Wilhoit, Jr., USNR 4821 Mt. Bigelow Dr. San Diego, CA 92111 Percent Members: 38

I certainly have had lots of cooperation from classmates this month on the unlocatables, allowing me to remove four names from the list. Bill P E R K I N S sent in the address of Maurice Alfred AUGER —Education Dept., UNESCO, Place de Fontenay, Paris 7, France.

Al FOSTER'S information was particularly interesting: "The out-of-doors has always held a bit of allure for me and consequently we have gone camping as a family for almost every one of the past 20 years.

We even took all the kids to Europe twice for camping over there and we managed quite well even with the age span of 16, 13, 10 and 6. They have now had the chance to visit in 14 different countries. This coming summer we are planning a back packing trip up into the Alps. This is more feasible now since the youngest is all of 8 years old and can carry a little gear.

"All of this leads up to an interesting situation. I haunt the camping and mountaineering supply stores in this area and recently I was up in northern New Jersey looking in one such store. At the check-out counter I received a touch on the shoulder and the question was asked: 'Don't I know you?'

One of those odd and very difficult to explain things happened for as I turned and got a M A R C H ,

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view of the person I said: 'Sure, you're Mr. Hammell, '46 USNA.' My memory for names is awful and I haven't seen or heard of him since 1945 in Japan. Then of course your letter arrived and I did just happen to glance down the list on the back. Scratch one. Here are the particulars. Business: H .

-A. Hammell, manufacturer's representative, P.O. Box 153, Little Falls, NJ 07424 Home: 6 Skyline Dr., North Caldwell, NJ 07006."

Incidentally, Al's address is 749 Arden Rd., Jenkintown, P A 19046.

Bill SLESNICK sent me the label which was on the Christmas card he received from George AROYAN, 20700 Quedo Dr., Woodland Hills, CA 91364 John H U G H E S phoned me from right here in San Diego to report an address for Tom CHITTY, P. O. Box 237, Chuluoto, F L 32766. Tom still works for Convair at the Cape as a test conductor and lives on a small farm near Orlando, according to John.

Don BURNS wrote from Hawaii to send in an address for Slade RATHBUN—3065 Mt. View Dr., Laguna Beach, CA 92651.

Don says Slade is (or was) the president of a firm doing concrete repair work. A couple of more letters contained leads. Ed M A H I N S K E said: ' T h e last report I had of Bob Mclntyre was that he was working for Texas Instruments Company. As a matter of fact, I read an article concerning his work at that company, but that was some time ago." Bill B R A N T N E R said: "One of my 'wives,' A. N. Sampson, left Lakewood, Colorado, in 1964 and I think went to the Chicago area." Well, now, another month or two like that and we won't have an unlocatable list!

Bob T H O M P S O N recently retired from the Navy and has opened his real estate office at 1318 Scott St., San Diego (Pt. Loma). Dolphin Realty should give you a clue that submariners will receive extra special attention. Bob, Jan and children continue to live at 2330 Plum St. in Pt. Loma.

Bob and Nancy T I S D A L E will soon be moving from Newport to Norfolk when Bob turns over command of Destroyer Squadron 20 and reports to the Joint Staff, CINCLANT. Last summer found all the Tisdales in Europe while Bob was deployed to the Med. with his squadron. Nancy made it sound exciting!

"Red" T W I B L E gave his present address as 27 Cohasset Dr., Hudson, O H 44236.

Bob T U C K E R is with the Society of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins Univ. in Baltimore and makes frequent lecture trips all over the world.

Tommy TAYLOR has retired from the Navy and now lives at 601 Marlboro Ave., Chattanooga, T N 37412. Cal T U R K is on the

Staff

of

C O M P H I B L A N T and

lives

at

Qtrs. H, Amphibious Base, Little Creek, VA 23521.

Andy V A L E N T I N E has retired from the Navy and is a Counsel for AMTRAK. His address is 313 Skyhill Rd., Alexandria, VA 22314. Charlie ULLMAN has changed his address to 9261 S.W. 147th St., Miami, F L 33158.

"Nellie" U P T H E G R O V E gives his address as 1803 Half Moon Dr., Las Cruces, NM 88001. He works for Bell Telephone Labs, at White Sands Missile Range. Bill V A N D E R W O L K writes from a new addres.s—1 Strawberry Hill Rd., Bedford, N H 03102, and says he keeps very busy running his six McDonald's. Bill VOGEL has retired from the Navy and gives his current address as 1601 Evergreen St., St. Charles, IL 60174

Pictured at a recent get-together in Madrid, Spain, are Hank and Barbara SCHULTZ, Bill W A L T O N , Helen and Ted SAUNDERS. Bill was the visitor, having recently assumed the duties of Commander, Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Norfolk. Hank is the NASA Representative in Spain and Ted is the Officer in Charge of Construction in Spain. He will report in April to be the Commanding Officer of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory in Port Hueneme.

Other '46ers missing from the group are Bob and Marion L E U S C H N E R , Bob being the U S N Shipbuilding Liaison Officer in Spain.

' 4 6 destroyer sailors a t sea

Current address for Bob and Bunty W E I D N E R is 845 Windom PI., Virginia Beach, VA 23454. Bob retired from the Navy in '65 and works for the Fleet AntiAir Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck, "Whizzer" and Toby W H I T E and their second generation live at 6859 Maury Dr., San Diego 92119. "Whizzer" is a management consultant for Potomac Research Corp.

Chuck and Libby W I L L I A M S live at Qtrs. M, NAS, Quonset Point, RI 02819, where Chuck has command of USS INTREPID. Chuck took command last April in Lisbon and says that the Med cruise was the finest of his Naval career, both operationally and socially. Since we all know Chuck to be an outstanding social operator we know what he means. Libby followed the ship to Hamburg, Copenhagen and Scotland and they saw quite a bit of Bob and Nancy T I S D A L E during the same period. Incidentally, their younger daughter, Lee, is an ensign in the Nurse Corps on duty in Oakland. Danny W I E L A N D has retired from the Navy and gives his current address as 1164 Janaf Place, Norfolk. VA 23502.

Chuck W A L K E R has also retired from the Navy and is living in Page, AZ 86040.

Address is P. O. Box 1346.

Hal W I L L I A M S has moved back to New Jersey from Asheville, N. C , and gives his address as 7J Millside Manor, Delran, NJ 08075. H e works for S K F Industries.

Johnny W O L F E gives his current address as 201 Cabrillo Cir., Fullerton, CA 92632.

Stu W H I T E lists his business address as Suite 801, 24 Fifth Ave., NY 10011. R. J. W H I T E lives at 4512 Preston Dr., Kingsport, T N 37664 Ray W H I T E lives at 6808 47th Ave., Kenosha, W I 53140. Bob W E S S O N gives his current address as 80 E. North Ave., Lake Forest, I L 60045. Bill W E B E R lives at 126 Elna Dr., Vallejo, CA 94590. Hollis YOUNG now lives at 2903 David Ln., Arlington, T X 76013.

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'46 get-together in Madrid, Spain

From Al BOWEN : "Here is a photo of Bob Dise, 'Buzz' Pearson and me on YARNELL'S bridge during the recently completed R I M E X / O P R E D E X

2-72. YARNELL

participated as one of the units about to sail for 6th Fleet (on 1 D e c ) . Bob Dise, COMDESRON

Ten,

and

my

neighbor

here

at Cloyne Court, was embarked in YARNELL as COMCRUDESLANT'S

official

observer

for

the exercise. 'Buzz' came on board at St. Thomas for ten days as Assistant Senior Safety Observer for the RIMEX and as Assistant Chief Observer for the OPREDEX. Needless to say, the three of us enjoyed our reunion very much and also enjoyed an occasional word with Paul Boyd, COMDESRON Two, whose squadron also participated and will be in the Med with YARNELL. The 'HEY' hats always cause a double-take but really stand for HARRY E .

YARNELL. Having had the privilege of taking YARNELL on U N I T A S XI around South America last year, the Med cruise came as something of a bonus for us. Delly and I are moving out of our Cloyne Court Quarters next Monday and Tuesday, preparatory to her following the ship to the Mediterranean. We'll have Christmas in Naples and our 25th wedding anniversary, Jan. 4th, in Barcelona, unless Sadat makes good on his boast to do something decisive in 1971 and our schedule gets changed."

Clete K E N N E L L Y asked me to say that he has 16 extra copies of the 25-Year Book for those who failed to request one and, having seen it, now want to purchase one.

The price is $15. date's address is 7911 Sleaford PI., Bethesda, MD 20014 And incidentally, the 25-Year Book has been published and mailed. Those of you who ordered one should have received same. If you do not have yours as you read this, contact Mr. Charles B. COYER, 116 Prince St., Alexandria, VA 22314 I have just received my January Shipmate and am shocked at the low percentage of Alumni Association members, not only in '46 but also in all the other classes. I believe that the Naval Academy and our Alumni Association rate more support from us than our membership would indicate it is getting and I refuse to believe that there are so many people who just don't give a damn! Hoping that a great many of our problems relating to non-members are purely administrative in nature, I am offering my assistance to Capt. Bill Busik in every way possible to increase our membership percentage. If you will join me in this effort I am positive we can make a great improvement in this area. Then maybe the other classes will also get off their respective ditty-boxes and respond to our challenge.

How about it ? Can I count on your help ?

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Pres: Capt. C. E. Donaldson, M l , USN Sec'y, Capt. C. Turner Joy, Jr., USNR 1001 Priscilla Lane Alexandria, VA 22308 Percent Members: 36.5

of ASWFORLANT. Also present were Scotty S C H A E F E R who is Asst. Chief of Staff for Plans, ASWFORLANT and Dale BRUMBAUGH who has comand of SHENANDOAH.

The following letter speaks for itself.

"Dear Captain Donaldson, We looked on with respect and admiration during Homecoming Weekend as you celebrated your Twenty-fifth Anniversary of graduation from the Academy. It must have been hard to realize that only a few years ago you stood in our places with exciting careers ahead of you.

Not only do you deserve our respect but also our sincere congratulations on your Anniversary. We hope that Homecoming '71, highlighted by Navy's exciting victory over Duke, proved most enjoyable for all of you.

As sponsors of the Seventh Company, you could not have pleased us more than you did with your generous contribution that we used to remodel our wardroom.

Improvements which made it the finest in all of Bancroft Hall included wall-towall carpeting, new furniture and fixtures, a fresh coat of paint, and beautiful wood-grained panelling. It provides us with a truly relaxing atmosphere.

Our sincere congratulations once again and appreciation for your wonderful gift.

Sincerely, Signed by: Gerald R. Hirsch Midshipman Wardroom Officer" George BRUNGOT has established an account with Capital City Federal Savings and Loan Association of Annapolis. This special account, entitled "Class of 1947 USNA, 7th Company Wardroom Fund," will be used by the midshipmen for their wardroom but is subject to the approval by the 7th Company Officer.

Piatt and Betty TALCOTT report their new address as 4515 Willard Ave., Apt. 1710-S, Chevy Chase, MD 20015. Piatt is with Raytheon here in Washington. Matty M A T T H E W S came into Washington for two days as a member of the Submarine Command Board.

There are several class crest tie tacs and 2Sth Anniversary key chains remaining.

The cost of the tie tacs is $2.50 (J'i") for the small and $3.50 for the large (?4").

Key chains are $1.00—all monies gained therefrom to be deposited in the class treasury. Please send checks to me along with $.25 for mailing and postage. And while you're at it, please let me know what you are doing for this column.

A formal Christmas party complete with orchestra and all the trappings was planned for Washington area classmates. At the last minute the plans went sour and the party had to be cancelled. Undaunted, the '47 wives rose to the challenge and quickly put together a "BYOB" party to which all contributed lavish hors d'oeuvre dishes. The resulting party at the home of Bob and Leigh L E E was a gay success and permitted the Washingtonians to continue their tradition of an annual Christmas party unbroken. Attending were: Ace and Judy Adams, Tom and Mary Lou Bell, Floyd and Hope Bowdey, BB and Donnie Brown, Dale and Jayne Brumbaugh, Jeep and Pat Donaldson, Stu and Dee Ann Evans, Tom and Pat Fortson, Bo and Betty Heininger, Dick and Doris HoUyer, Tom and Georgia Hudner, Frank and Lois Korb, Gordon and Regina McPadden, Jim and Pat Moss, Duncan and Louise Packer, Jack and Ronnie Pavelle, Al and Margaretta Pichert, Doug and Althea Rumble, Swoose and Betty Snead, Piatt and Betty Talcott, Don Toohill, John and Georgie Van Sickle, Chan Von Schrader, Bob and Leigh Lee.

AROUND T H E HORN Lou

MARCKESANO

is vice

president

of the Pennsylvania Group at Two Decker Square, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 Nat H E L L E R reports having dinner with Rafael CEVALLOS and his charming wife on a recent trip to Ecuador. Following his retirement from the Ecuadorian Navy, as a captain, Rafael served as port captain at the seaport of Monta. He is now operations manager for Orienco, a company dedicated to getting oil materials into the Oriente Jungles where a large oil field operation is getting into gear.

George SHELDON has retired from the Navy and reports his address as Rt. 6, Box 648, Olympia, W A 98502. John P R E H N reports attending the change of command in E L PASO where Ken COLE assumed command as her third Commanding Officer, having recently completed a tour on the Staff

Capt. K.J.Cole

Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Or. Alexandria, VA 22302 Percent Members: 29.5

As this is being written we are immersed in the Dark Ages, and information is sparse.

I ran into Phil BOLGER the other day in front of the Office of Management and Budget, and found out that he had left NASA

and is now working for Mr. Volpe

in the Department of Transportation as D O T ' S safety expert. So he joins Jim BOGGS, Carlos VILLARREAL, Bob HEMMES, and A. B. HALLMAN in what has to be one of the best-run organizations in the government outside the Navy.

I checked up on A. B. HALLMAN to see what he was up to and found that he had retired in November of '69 and taken a position with Singer-Librascope, where he worked for some nine months. He then joined the Transportation gang, specifically in the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, whose manager, as you know, is Carlos. A. B. is working up their Management Information System.

Incidentally, Dr. Bob H E M M E S is UMTA's Assistant Administrator for R&D. Back to the Hallmans, A.B. and Dorothy live in Bethesda at 5812 Ogden Ct. Oldest son, Jeff, is a frosh at Davidson, Betty, 13, is in junior high, and Stephen, 8, is at Woodacres Elementary.

S H I P M A T E

As some of you may know, Jim BJORGE, once a practicing lawyer in Oregon, is now the Associate Director for Education at New York City's Lincoln Center. He says he enjoys it hugely, and finds his U S N A background just the thing, especially his singing with the—what was it. The BOBCATS? Jim has to do some traveling around to find and bring back various foreign choruses . . . cultural exchange with the Center.

Dudley H O L S T E I N reports that he ran into and "bummed around" with Dick H E N D E R S O N in Miami over the Christmas season. Dick is a professor of Business Administration at Georgia State in Atlanta.

Ty DEDMAN is having fun in the Pentagon as the plebe admiral who fields all the chores that no one else can or will do.

This is accomplished under the hat of AVCNO/Director Naval Administration.

John J E N S E N has resigned himself to the fact that he is on Washington duty, and no longer in Pearl or some other far-western Valhalla, and is actually almost acclimatized in his job.

Bob R A W L I N S , having been here in this area for almost a year, finally made a luncheon. He finds it very hard to break the OP-60 chains and slip out even to as august a gathering as the '48 bi-monthly O'Donnell's group. Yes, the first one of the year was well attended on Tuesday, 11 January.

Jim Bjorge flew in on a curiously timely business jaunt from NYC to join the fun.

Those there (including ladies this time) were Jensen, Rawlins, Howard and Phyllis Crosby, Reams, Balzer, Frothingham, Stokes Clark, Holstein, Jochum, Jim and Rose Ahem, Boo and Elinor Chew, Bill and Betsey Sallada, and Dee Hurt, Matty Matthew, Bjorge, Deeley, Sisson, and Ty and Bettye Dedman.

Pres: Mr. John E. Benoit Sec'y, Capt. John A. Jepson, USN P.O. Box 2142 Washington, D.C. 20013 Percent Members: 29.5

GENERAL The Dark Ages must be still upon us, as the amount of information coming through the Postal Service via the class mailbox is mighty slim. I did get notification from Don LOUDON in Frisco, that he was transferring some of his financial empire to our class memorial fund. Thanks, Don. Had a call from Pete F U L L I N W I D E R who passed along a bit of sad news. On 26 December Bill LALOR's wife, Sally, died suddenly. There was no amplifying information at the time, but we extend our sympathy to Bill and his two children. Bill's new address is 3512 Mill Run Rd., Mt. Brook, AL 35223.

It looks like U S N A will be soon taken over by our class, at least near the top level. Dee B U T L E R has orders there and this will bring the count to four. Pooley WOODS, when he finishes up at the NA'TO Defense College in Rome, will be moving up to C I N C U S N A V E U R Staff in London.

John McTAMMANY will move up a slot and take over the ROTC unit at Tufts University in Medford, Ma. Joining the ranks of the retirees on 1 February was Hugh A L B E R S . He is staying in the Washington area and is the Executive Secretary Interdepartmental Committee for Atmospheric Sciences.

WASHINGTON AREA The December luncheon was touch and go for a while, not in so far as occurring but MARCH,

1972

in finishing. There was an expressed fear that there was going to be a Marine takeover, as four of the active and one retiree showed up. These included Duke FRANCIS, who is no longer affiliated with Washington College; Tom GUNNING, who is due to report into the Washington complex, Johnnie J O H N S O N , who finally found his way over from the MC Headquarters, Tom PARSONS and Gene S P E C K A R T . Jack B E N O I T put Bill MYERS on the spot for an explanation on how to make admiral.

Additionally, some business was accomplished in that Bill CALLAGHAN was elected to complete the Executive Committee membership. Taking part in this, in addition to those already mentioned, were Albers, Barrow, Bartholomew, Bauman, Beckwith, J. D. Butler, Bob Clark, Dotson, Hammer, Kneale, Kraus, Rip Miller, Jerry Smith and myself.

Pres: Capt. D. G. Fraasa, USN Corr. Sec'y, Capt. John Thomas Coughlin, USN 7416 Churchill Rd. McLean, VA 22101 Percent Members: 35.5

This is being composed in the lull between Christmas and New Year. I am still having problems writing a couple months in advance and because of my not sending our best for the holiday season, let's send our best for a Happy St. Patrick's Day. Had a note from Bev J A K I M I E R who mentioned that he had a two-week active duty tour in Iwo JIMA. Joe H O W A R D is aboard as Operations Officer and I am sure that Bev and Joe got the outfit organized. Bev continued that he had spent a delightful evening with Tom E-AGYE who is on COMASWFORPAC'S Staff. The Jakimiers' address is 6405 Malvey Ave., Fort Worth, T X 76116. Thanks, Bev. Dave EMERSON was relieved as Commander Destroyer Squadron Six on the 5th of January and has been ordered to OPNAV. Deke FORBES spent an evening with Earl and Marty DILLE on a recent visit to St. Louis. Earl is a vice president of the Union Electric Company in St. Louis. Deke was in St. Louis on a field trip from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

George M U R P H Y was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal at the Los Angeles Air Force Station, Ca. The award was for distinguished service as project officer and chief of the missile and space branch of the Directorate of Aerospace Safety at Norton AFB, Ca. George is now stationed in Los Angeles as chief of Titan III test and operations with Headquarters, Space and Missile Systems Organization.

Received a note from Tom V I N E S via Chuck MULL. Tom is on CINCPAC'S Staff.

The Vines have five children with the oldest a high school senior. In addition to his job on CINCPAC'S Staff, Tom is hard at work on a Master's of Business Administration at the U. of Hawaii.

The Washington gals got together for a luncheon at the Country Squire hosted by Carolyn Brick and Jan Cunningham. Attending were Emily Doak, Marilyn Hoffman, Pam Space, Helen Wisenbaker, Kathy Foley, Mary Lasley, Velura Highberg, Fran McNalley, Molley Coleman, Sharon Simons, Elaine Roth, Barbara DeMers and Margie Shultz.

A nice note from Ray ENGLE. Ray is Chief of Staff for Administration and Personnel on the Staff of Commander, Naval Forces Marianas. The mailing address is

Box 38, Com NAV Marianas, FPO, San Francisco, CA 96630. The Engles are enjoying their Guamian tour very much and from their description the entire family is completely . immersed in the Micronesian area with many and very widely diversified activities.

Leland HALLACK reports in from Dalton, II., to advise that all are welcome when passing through the Chicago area.

Leland is working for the Nalco Chemical Company as a water treatment consultant.

As he notes, the company has been in the business for 35 years but only recently has public pressure really gotten things moving.

The Hallecks' address is 14821 University Ave., Dalton, IL 60419. Thanks, Leland, for the dues. Also our thanks to Bob L O E S T C H E R for your dues. Please let us know. Bob, how things are in Madison next time.

Pres: Cdr. Ward W. Degroot, I I I , (CEC) USN Sec'y, Cdr. B. I. Meader 5609 South 5th St. Arlington, VA 22204 Percent Members: 34.5

As you may have noticed in the heading to the January and February class of '51 columns. Shipmate now lists the percentage of living alumni who belong to the USNA Alumni Association. As of now, about one in three 'Slers are members. What this really means is that for two of every three classmates, our class association has no systematic way of maintaining communications with them. To keep the class up to date on events such as homecoming, annual reunions, the Association annual meeting, the winter formal and special parties, we have to resort to separate mailouts.

Statistically, those who are not members of the Alumni Association are also those whose addresses are least current. Thus, the problem is compounded. The fact that you are reading this means that you probably are a member; can you (or would you) make the effort to encourage at least one other classmate to join? All it takes is a check for $12 and the classmate's name and address sent to Alumni House, Annapolis, MD 21402.

Well, the winter formal, held at the Navy Yard (Gun Factory to you old reactionaries) on 26 February, was a blast. I hope to have some pictures of the festivities and a complete write-up of the proceedings in the May issue. Look for it.

The first "First Tuesday Luncheon" of the New Year was held at the Flagship Restaurant (where it's always held) and the turnout was pretty good. Those attending were: Cliff Rigsbee, Bruce Meader, Lowell Stockdale, Ford Schultz, Felix McCarthy, Sam Jones, Walt Boyes, Paul Utterback, Ashby Reardon, Glen Brewer, Bill Thompson, Robin McGlohn, Herb Zoehrer and Lee Kollmorgen.

Some of those at the luncheon were recent arrivals in the Washington area—or at least had not been reported earlier in this column.

Ford SCHULTZ is now assigned to NAV AIRSYSCOM and lives in Reston, Va. Robin M C G L O H N is in OP-601, having relinquished his post as XO of INTREPID (and having grown a beard almost as luxuriant as Bob BRODIE's). W. S. Bill T H O M P SON has reported to B U P E R S (A-24) from two years as Ops Officer in SARATOGA ; his wife Lee and their children were scheduled to join him in Alexandria this month.

Jack H A M I L T O N is back in town; he is working for the Chief of Naval Material.

Jack and Suzie have set up housekeeping at 55

9215 Cutting Horse Ct., Springfield, VA 22153.

Ashby REARDON was named manager of the Alexandria office of Johnston, Lemon & Company (stockbrokers) on January 1st.

Congratulations!

Buzz BIBBY is now Ops Officer on the staff" of COMSUBLANT and is living in Virginia Beach. Another of our submariners.

Bud H I N E S , has orders to take over as Commander Submarine Group San Francisco.

December 30th was a big day in Pocatello, Idaho, for Cliff and Alice RIGSBEE because that was the day they attended the wedding of their son Cliff to Miss Judy McArthur of that city. Both Judy and Cliff are sophomores at Idaho State, and both are attending school on scholarships. Congratulations and best wishes to them both.

How many other classmates have married offspring? How many are grandparents?

I'm not trying to spur competition in the population explosion, but the grandparent statistic is probably becoming a rather interesting one.

The mail bag for the 30-day period immediately preceding the writing of this column did not contain a single letter or postcard.

There was not even a press release or computer print-out from any of the P. G. institutions !

Make plans now to attend the annual meeting here in May. More in the next issue.

ber of the class, also, because he has that strong profile, as do all good men of the sea and we know he is a good man because he wears a white hat.

"I received yesterday the article about the birds from Joe Portney and the length of the shadows, the flights, etc., which I enjoyed. It comes to mind about the green turtle migration in the Caribbean and the migration of the eels.

"Richard Kersteen was my roommate for a while in 1948. He's from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., I believe. Glad to see he is still robust and in New England and to read about him.

I thought about J. Val Smith a minute ago and his strong voice and believe he was from Miami."

Had a nice letter from Jim LINK—he's still in Japan at Hdqtrs. Sth Air Force in the intelligence business.

John LANGFORD has orders to the Naval War College in Newport from CO, USS

GARCIA.

Recently received a nice letter and picture of 'S2ers taken on the occasion of Col. Tom STAFFORD'S visit to Wright-Patterson AFB. In addition to those in the picture, others in that area are Col. Larry Skantze, Dr. C. J. Bridgman, LCol. Bill Delaney, Maj. Bob Joyce, Colin D. Roach, Maj. Bill Rottler, LCol. Bill Studabaker, LCol. O. H. Tallman. Thanks to Jim Gallagher '57 for the picture and the info.

Pres: Cdr. N. F. Stein, USN Sec'y, Cdr. Zug Zastrow, USN Physical Education Dept.

USNA, Annapolis, MD 21402 Percent Members: 29

Spring is almost here—the class Dark Ages party is on 4 March, at Ft. McNair, 1900-2400. If you receive this issue prior to that date and are still interested contact Vince ARGIRO, 2302 Kingsway Rd., Oxon Hill, MD 20022. And the annual spring affair will be on 13 May at Ft. McNair.

Put that date on your calendar.

Toxey CALIFF will soon be returning to Washington. He is presently COMCARA S W G R U R E S 70 and will be going to O P NAV. Bill REED, presently COMCARANTISUB AIRGRU 56, is also heading for Washington— NAVAIRSYSCOMHQ.

Ned KING was over at USNA in January. He brought his son in for a physical exam. Ned is torn between influencing his son toward the Air Force Academy or USNA. Incidentally, Ned's son Dick was a football teammate of David Desroches, son of classmate S. J. DESROCHES, at Crossland High, Camp Springs, Md. Both were defensive halfbacks.

A very interesting letter from John WOODWARD, attorney at law, in Jesup, Ga.: "One of our classmates who entered 23 June 1948 was W. Wash. Larson. I know he was a classmate because he has six children, a prolific member if I ever saw one. He finished first in law school at the U. of Ga. in 1952 instead of the Naval Academy. He has now tossed his hat into the ring for Congress from the Bloody Eighth District of Georgia. It's so called because no Congressman lasts long here with so much opposition. Each term is sort of 'lame duck' with no seniority buildup and we all know what that means. If Senator Russell hadn't been in the Senate so long, the Bloody Eighth would have long ago perished and been cut-off and set adrift from South Georgia. We all know he is a mem56

John E. Sheehan Photo by Fabian Bachrach

parent Corning Glass Works in order to accept his new governmental responsibility.

"Commenting upon the appointment, James R. Houghton, chairman of Corhart, said, 'We are very reluctant to have Mr. Sheehan leave us because he has been a key man in the steady growth and progress of Corhart Refractories since he came to the position of president in January 1966. He is an astute businessman, a djTiamic leader, and a dedicated participant in civic and educational affairs. Our loss is tempered by the knowledge that Jack Sheehan will be serving our nation in a key capacity. We wish him every success in his new role as Governor of the Federal Reserve and know that Chairman Burns and the President have made a wise choice."

John's statement: "I am pleased and humbled that President Nixon would nominate me for this important position at a critical juncture in both American and international monetary affairs.

"While looking forward with considerable

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Spoke with classmate Vic V I N E the other day. Vic is still at CNATRA in Pensacola but may be moving to Corpus Christi this summer under present reorganization plans.

Harry BIXBY is now at Fleet Weather Control at NAS Alameda. His letter said that he speaks often with J. J. MacPHERSON who is XO at F W C in Pearl Harbor.

Harry is on the lookout for USNA candidates in his area.

Did you ever hear of Tegrin Shampoo or BC Tablets, or Nytol, or Sensodyn Toothpaste, or Poli-Grip, or Omega Oil? They are all products manufactured and distributed by the Block Drug Co. And in Memphis, Tn., our classmate Chuck CRAIG is the general manager of the Block Drug Co. plant. The plant is located on President's Island Industrial Center—has over 200,000 sq. ft. of floor space and over 200 employees. On a recent visit to Memphis I had lunch with Chuck (he paid and I thank him) and had a private tour of the plant.

It amazed me to see this operation—I had never seen toothpaste made and put in the tubes. Chuck welcomes any and all classmates to visit him when in Memphis.

It gives us all great pleasure to know that President Nixon has appointed our classmate John E. S H E E H A N as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board. John has been president of Corhart Refractories of Corning Glassware in Louisville, Ky. From the press release: "John E. Sheehan was nominated today (23 Dec. 1971) by President Nixon to replace William W. Sherrill as a member of the seven-man Federal Reserve Board, and will resign as President and Chief Executive Officer of Corhart Refractories Company and sever all connections with the

anticipation to this opportunity to serve the nation, my wife and children and I regret that we cannot continue to live here and enjoy the friendship and hospitality of both Louisvillians and Kentuckians. For in our six years in Kentucky we have grown to love them and this place well.

"As a professional experience, my relations with both my top management associates at Corning Glass Works and with my associates in the operating management of Corhart and its subsidiaries have been most satisfying; I am grateful to them.

"Given the depth of intellect, experience, obvious competence, and respect in every quarter for Dr. Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, it would appear to be a particular privilege and honor to begin an association with so distinguished a leader."

From classmate Capt. Bill K N U T S O N : "Just returned from the Mediterranean before Christmas. I turned CVW-7 over to Ken Koranville and I'm enjoying a few days of family fun prior to taking command of Fighter Wing One here at Oceana on 4 Jan. 1972. This note is prompted by reading the back issues of Shipmate that piled up during the cruise."

Dick and Eileen M O N I P O L I are the proud parents of a new son, Richard Thomas Monopoli, who arrived on 22 December and weighed in at 7 lbs. 10 oz. Dick reports that he is a potential candidate for the USNA class of 1993 and looks like a football player.

I had the opportunity to visit with the Monopoli family early last fall and that little boy will have a rough time with three older sisters!

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From Al CLARK '52 in Birmingham, Al.: "Enclosed is an article from the November issue of The Naval Reservist containing news of last summer's CIOR military sport competition. It is a penthathlon type contest consisting of shooting, swimming, obstacle course, grenade throwing, and orienteering run (12 kilometers). We trained for a couple of months at Ft. Meade, Md., prior to the games held in Hanover, Germany. Most of the N A T O countries fielded teams. I thought I was in pretty good shape when I reported for training, but the second day there I learned I wasn't—runs of 5 to 10 miles were the way the days started off. By the time I hit Germany I had shed 20 pounds and was still eating like a horse. It was a memorable summer, but the unpleasant recollections of the horrible training are already beginning to fade away and I might try out again in '72 when the competition will be held in the States. While in Germany I saw Charles McDonald, who met our plane as a big wheel in the European branch of the ROA (Reserve Officers Association)."

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Saw classmate A. A. BILODEAU the other day. The Bilodeaus reside in Cape St. Clair. "Billy" is with the Research Analysis Corporation of McLean, Va. The Phil D U C K E T T S travelled to Joplin, Mo., over the Christmas holidays to spend a few days with brother-in-law and classmate John IN MAN. John is president of Missouri Steel Casting Co. Incidentally, Zug and Phil D U C K E T T and sons have done a little goose hunting over on the Eastern Shore. So far, Zug is the only hunter without a goose.

On 4 Feb. 1972, at N A S , Cecil Field, Fl., Cdr. Richard P. Bordone, USN, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., relieved Cdr. Paul T. GILLCRIST of Freeport, N. Y., as Commander, Attack Carrier Air Wing Three.

Cdr. Gillcrist, a captain selectee, will report to the Staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington, D. C. Col. Donn E I S E L E , USAF, is at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. LCol. Frank MILLER is at the USAF Space and Missile Center, El Segundo, Ca. Tom NORMAN is a naval architect at the Naval Ship Engineering Center in Hyattsville, Md. Vince ARGIRO is in the Navy Dept., Washingfton, D. C , in the Strategic Systems Project Office. R. P E T T I G R E W is a Systems Engineer of NAV ORDSYSCOM

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manager for Logicon, Inc., of Falls Church, Va. Bill LYKES is an underwriter for Midland Mutual Life Ins. Co. out of Silver Spring, Md. Hank G R U P P E is the Mekong Coordinator for A I D (State Dept.) Cdr. Bill LAUX is on COMSOLANT Staff. Bill RICHARDS is with the Pittsfield High School System in Pittsfield, Ma. LCol. Roy P R U E H E R , USAF, was in Buckinghamshire, England. R. WILSON is a district manager for the Bearing Division of the Torrington Co. of Greenwich, Ct. Sven T H O M A S is a lawyer in Memphis, Tn. Larry CLARK is a Production Supervisor for Kodak. Doc COLLINS is senior reactor engineer for the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in Bethesda.

Thanks to the Honorable Tom T H A W LEY, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce, EDA, for helping the Zastrows to get on a White House tour during the Christmas holidays.

Thanks to all you contributors to this column. We all appreciate your letters and Zug is sorry he doesn't have the opportunity to answer all of them individually. Send me more!

quickly, there is a need for certain athletic and recreational facilities at the Academy which do not fall within the scope of publicly funded construction; the administration is therefore turning to us, the alumni, for assistance through the vehicle of the Memorial Fund, in parallel to the practice of other schools. Among the facilities envisioned are a sailing center to support the vastly increased interest in recreational as well as professional sailing, a swimming pool to which the midshipmen may bring their drags, with associated facilities, and an ice rink in Dahlgren Hall, which would provide a means to engage in a new intercollegiate sport . . . club hockey is already established, using facilities near the District, to my understanding. I had the pleasure of participating in a conversation a couple of years ago at which a most charming lady suggested that it is indeed a shame that we do not meet the Woops in "the best sport of all." I agree in principle, though I question the adjective, being an indifferent skater and having engaged in a little lacrosse for my Batt.

In any event, the Washington membership has acceded to the proposal, which is now submitted' to the full membership for comment and ballot in accordance with the bylaws, which provide that if substantial oppoChairman: Cdr. Dave Frost, USN sition is not registered within two months Sec'y, John W. Davison, Jr. of publication they shall be considered as 158 Edwards Ferry Road Leesburg, VA 22075 carried. In this case, the amount in question Percent Members: 25 is not trivial . . . between $1500 and $2000 . . . and there may well be discussion requirOn 22 December the Washington "mess" ing further extension; therefore we plan to convened at the Cameron Station Officers' wait somewhat longer for opposition to deClub for a dining out, with our wives as velop. Assuming that this column appears in guests. Presiding was Roger BOOTH, with early March, the end of June will allow Bill ALBERS as Mr. Vice. The photos and adequate time for any objection to be made complete list are not yet ready to hand, but known. If none has been recorded by that the 47 couples in attendance included Trost, time, I shall report to this effect at the July Randy Randall, Ogden, Kittler, Mumford, luncheon, at which time the Executive ComMercier, McCarty (sporting a beard in his mittee may direct the treasurer to make dress uniform), Ostronic, Brady, Gurnsey, the disbursement. For my own part, I recomWebster, Boyd, Ramsey, Deale . . . and mend the move; the funds have no well many others . . . pictures next issue, I hope. defined objective at this time other than The traditional toasts were offered, and an some as yet undefined memorial or gift, evening of dancing which followed was and a clear need for the facilities to be capped by a grand march. Thanks are due financed by the Memorial Fund exists. I to Gloria Booth, who bore most of the urge you to comment, on either side, both burden of the arrangements. We hope to on the transaction and its form if you agree repeat the occasion. to it. In view of the very specific immediate At the January luncheon, held on Wednes- objectives of the Memorial Fund, there is day instead of Tuesday this time since there little latitude for anything but a contribution is some problem with the day, elections were to become a part of the whole; however, held to choose new officers for the coming there may be a particular element in these year. As chairman of the class association facilities that we could underwrite as a unit we selected Dave FROST, and ALBERS if many feel that there should be something we could put our name to, with or without as vice-chairman; Art M E R C I E R is our new treasurer, and your correspondent con- some sort of label. Please make especial tinues to encumber the secretarial office. efforts to bring this to the attention of classOther business included discussion of nam- mates who may not have received the earlier ing a committee to set arrangements in mailings or this issue of Shipmate. train for the 20th reunion (it is not at all too soon, from what our immediate predecessors tell us) and the related subject of initiating a concentrated effort to locate as many of our classmates as we can. This also ties in with the letter which any of you who read this received from Ross, which was discussed briefly; any inquiries or comments should be directed to his organization. Although several of our classmates did assist him during the germinal phase, the actual mechanics are being handled entirely by his organization.

The final, and most important business transacted was Carl TROST's proposal that one half of the class fund be contributed to the Naval Academy Memorial Fund. Again, if you are reading this you should not be in any doubt as to what the Fund is, since you must have received the Superintendent's mailings on the subject. To refresh you, however, in case these were set aside too 58

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Jim T H R O O P writes from Quonset Point to forward pictures of Al DUNAWAY relieving him of the command of VS-22, and himself in turn reporting the relief to Ned SNYDER as CAG-S4. Jim is now a student at the War College with John DEVEREAUX, Frank ADORNEY, and

Don PAOLUCCI. He further reports that in November there was a Gansett Bay class party with a good turnout; Tyke FUREY of the War College Staff did the organizing.

That's the news for this month. The class luncheons still take place in the Washington area at the Fort McNair Officers' Club, but we have just lost the first Tuesday and have not settled on a new fixed day. It will certainly still be in a comparable time frame, so any time you are in D.C. in the early part of the month, give one of us a call and come on over if you can make it.

Pres: Maj. Clyde D. Dean, USMC Sec'y, Cdr. R. M. Olsen, USN OSD/ARPA R and D Center APO San Francisco, CA 963<I6 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. John E. Wells 810 Monroe Apt. T-3 Annapolis, MD 21403 Percent Members: 25 Pres: Cdr. Otto A. Zipf, USN Sec'y, Cdr. B. A. While, USN 4804 Kingston Dr. Annandale, VA 22152 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Charles F. Gerhan, Jr., USN Chairman, Aerospace Engineering Dept.

USNA Annapolis, MO 21402 Percent Members: 22 Chmn. Exec. Com.: Cdr. D. E. Lindquist, USN Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. David Shelso, USN Box 192a, Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 24

The following note was received from Matt RYAN : "Presently I'm on shore duty at NAD Earle as Quality Assurance Officer.

Having been here a month short of two years, the detailer has promised to let me stay until the summer of '73 in order to complete work for an MBA at Rutgers.

"The last classmate I saw was Charlie Cavanaugh who is presently stationed at Fort Monmouth and is an Army Warrant Officer. He is planning to retire in a year or so and attend law school. He said before being given the boot in October of our plebe year, that he spent some time in the RiiNA MERCEDES. Evidently our class was the first to attain such notoriety since nineteen aught something." (Note: the REINA no longer watches over USNA.) Matt ends by saying that the Ryan family now includes three boys and they reside in Colts Neck, N. J. Bob KELLER reports from Coventry, Ct., that his life is rather hectic since being elected to the Coventry town council. He is chairman of the Council's Finance Committee and is "up to my ears" in bond issues, assessments, grand lists and the like. In the fall he will assume responsibility of the C-E power simulator in Coventry.

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Rep. W. O. Mills of Maryland delivered the address for the occasion which was attended by the Cook family. We are all very proud and honored to have the memory of our fine classmate perpetuated in this outstanding manner. (See April 1971 Shipmate for details.)

As you can see, the Christmas holidays again produced a shortage of mail, hopefully next month's issue will be more newsworthy.

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Pres: LCdr H. M. S. Gimber, I I I , USN Corr. Secy, Cdr U R. Lamay, USN P.O. Box 885, Benjamin Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044 Percent Members: 27

IN MEMORIAM Cdr. Jacob Peter DIDIER, U S N (Ret.), set course on Tuesday, 14 December, at Norfolk, destined for his final port of call. This marks the last entry in a log whose other recent notations reveal discovery of a brain tumor, temporary recovery, and then a long terminal illness. Though we may thus have been somewhat prepared for his departure we are none-the-less saddened by the event.

To his wife, Janet and children Joan, Mary K., Ellen, John and David the class has expressed its condolence, and has given assurance that we stand ready to assist them through the troubled passage to calmer seas.

Janet and children will temporarily continue to reside at Quarters Q, Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

Red C L E V E N G E R is coordinating arrangements for a chair, dedicated to Pete's memory, in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The address i s : Cdr. R. L. Clevenger, 613 Cedar Ave., Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA 94952.

HEARD FROM A N D SEEN Through an oversight your correspondent neglected to include the following note from Bill H O D G E (Wright-Patterson A F B ) which was received with the homecoming responses: "I certainly would like to be with you this year, but they finally decided to let me out of the cockpit long enough to attempt to get an MS degree. I wonder if you can teach an old dog new tricks. Hopefully I will be far enough along at this time next year to make the ISth. WrightPatt is like old home week as it seems the closets are full of U S N A skeletons.

"Please pass on Barb's and my best to everyone and we look forward to next year.

Must get back to the books now."

Several months ago while on leave, Kathleen, the children and I stopped in at the Cherry Hill, N. J., home of Jule and Bob SARACCO for a brief visit. We saw Jule and children but Bob was holding down the duty at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard so we missed him. On a business visit to Phila. in mid-December Bob and I at last managed to get together for lunch at the " O " Club.

We found ourselves in agreement that projected rotation for each of us this summer is in direct conflict with BuPers limited funds for family moves and we were thus expecting probable extension at our present locations.

On 30 December while walking to lunch in the concourse of Crystal Mall I encountered a sizeable contingent of 22nd Company headed in the opposite direction. Ron GOLDSTONE, Dave McGUIGAN, Doug ROYSDON, and Jim SHAY, who are stationed in D . C , took the occasion of a Stan SEVE R A N C E business trip from Charleston, where Stan is CO of an SSN, to stage an end-of-year mini-reunion. For some it was the first such get-together since spring 1957.

From Dick T O N E R it is learned that Marianne Wright, wife of deceased classmate Dave W R I G H T , and their children are now living at 126 Mill Ln., Yorktown, VA 23490. Marianne welcomes contact with classmates and other friends who may be in the area.

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Pres: Cdr. John Poindexter, USN Sec'y, LCdr Bob Harshberger, USN Aerospace Engineering Dept., USNA Annapolis, MD 21402 Percent Members: 26.5

The "dark ages" are upon us here at U S N A and I can really tell it's so from the amount of mail received. The single solitary news item received this month comes from the old reliable U S A F H T N C .

U S A F Maj. John DICKSON has received his second U. S. Air Force Commendation Medal at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va. John was cited for his outstanding performance of duty as Director of Communications-Electronics, Headquarters, Fourteenth Aerospace Force, Ent AFB, Co. John has completed a tour in Vietnam and also holds the Distinguished Flying Cross and four Air Medals.

Remember, if you want to bring old friends up to date or announce your present location/duty to "lost friends" drop a line, that's what this column is for.

Chmn. Exec. Com.: Geoffrey Cant Sec'y, LCdr. Martin Finerty, USN P.O. Box 1692, Annapolis, MD 21404 Percent Members: 26

As you have no doubt noticed, the class column has been missing for the past few months. This has not been the fault of your class secretary, but rather the dire lack of news from around the world. If you keep those cards and letters coming we'll certainly keep up our end of the bargain.

The response to requests for submission of dues has been greatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;keep that money coming. The updating of the master class address directory is continuing and approximately a 40 percent change has occurred since publication last year. Our thanks to all who have submitted updated information; for the rest of you, please continue to keep us informed. However, when you do submit this directory information also provide us with material for this column.

W A S H I N G T O N AREA N E W S Our class luncheons are continuing to be held on the first Thursday of each month at the Cameron Station Officers' Club. It runs from about 1200 to 1300 and costs about $3.00 per person. If you are in the area at this time of any month contact Joe FLYNN at OX 4-2513 and make reservations. At one of the recent luncheons elections were held to fill three vacancies occurring on the Executive Committee. Cdr. Ted BAKER, USN, was elected as chairman, Maj. Art EMMERSON, USA, was elected as treasurer, and LCdr. Kent CLARK, USN, was elected as a member of the committee. Our outgoing committee members are Geoff CANT, who is now working for a law firm in Upper Marlboro, Md., Jack BUNDARIN, who is XO of a DD out of Long Beach, Ca., and Bud McFARLANE, who is a White House Fellow.

CONGRATULATIONS Our sincerest congratulations to those classmates who were recently picked up early for promotion to Cdr. .Also congratulations to Vince OBSITNIK, who was recently promoted to manager of marketing at IBM's Electronics Systems Center.

HERE AND THERE Received a note from Tony MARKS, who is currently serving as V.P. of the Naval Academy Association of N.Y. Tony's living at 449 Sagamore Ave., E. Williston, N.Y.

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And the following welcome information from George L E H M B E R G : "I'm presently about to complete my third consecutive tour of duty in Hawaii and expect orders about June. Am presently serving as XO of U S S -AspRO, having previously completed tours as COMSUBRON One Engineer, and Engineer in U S S DANIEL BOONE. Several other '59ers are serving as XO's of attack submarines here in Pearl: Phil Powers in SWORDFISH, Karl Moellmer in QUEENFISH, Dan Richardson in BLUEBACK and Larry Vogt in GUARDFISH. And last but not least Al Wildermann is CO PLUNGER."

And last but not least a very welcome note from Dick T R I P P E telling us that he, his wife, Beatrice, and two daughters, Francesca Maria (who will be nine in April) and Marjorie Delia (who will be one in May), are doing fine and living at 9303 Shore Rd., Brooklyn, N.Y. That about wraps it up for this month, so keep those cards and letters coming and R I S E A N D S H I N E W I T H '59.

Pres: Mr. Henry A. Lawinsky Sec'y, "Chico" Chavez P.O. Box 7009, Austin, TX 78712 Percent Members: 30

FROM A U S T I N Though it may seem odd to be reading about Christmas greetings when spring is just around the corner, the time lag between submission of our input to Shipmate and publication doesn't leave us much of a choice.

So here goes.

Agnes tells us that all's well with the MIDAS family in Newport, R.I. She says it's a grand old place and they love it. Mike is putting in some wicked hours as XO of the USS DAVIS, but is as enthusiastic as

ever about the job.

Got a relatively long letter from Ken and Eileen MacLEOD, in which Eileen summarized their activities this past year. Here are some excerpts: ". . . we moved into our first house. Since then, there has been no end to small and large household maintenance problems. One of these days we're going to have to take care of a few of them.

Speaking only for Butch, Rod and myself, we have enjoyed living here. For me, it's the pleasure of having my first home where I can put as many holes in the wall as I like.

We keep Ken too busy to know how he feels about living and working here.

"Though I can't rank them in priorities, the three most important things to most Louisianans are politics, football, and gambling. The boys are aware of all three.

Fortunately, at least to the best of my knowledge, they have taken an active interest only in football.

"Ken enjoys mostly fishing. In July he got a 22-ft. inboard-outboard that is about 6 years old. He has more problems with it 59

than he does with the house, car, and me combined. He named it the 'Yankee Fisherman,' though he's talking about changing it to 'Yankee Mechanic' "Thanks to cheap tuition rates in Louisiana State universities and to the short distance to LSUNO, I've been attending school.

If I pass everything this semester, I'll have enough credits to be a sophomore. Fancy that?

"Ken is still with Lykes Brothers Steamship Co. as their 'long range planning coordinator'—guess I should capitalize that.

Every once in a while I hear of some planning being done; however, I think the Co. still operates much the same as it did at the turn of the century, which means Ken has to find something else to do. So he's often involved with the sales people and those working on the new Seabee Systems."

The card from Mike and Maggie HAGEN showed a picture of their little girl, Reema, who apparently keeps both Mike and Maggie pretty busy. They're doing fine and are now in Sarasota, Fl. Rob and Diann KUNKLE had a "fun" Christmas with their "little people," Scott and Laura. Diann says that Rob is still working hard at Century Data and loves it.

Scott is doing well in school and loves it.

Laura is in nursery school and loves it. She has three mornings to herself and loves it.

Bob BOURKE tells us that he's finally finished his graduate work at Oregon State in early Sep. '71 and is now at the Naval Postgraduate School as an assistant professor in the Oceanography Dept. He, Portia, and the kids, Rob and Christopher, are enjoying Monterey, but still have fond memories of Oregon. Life is more quiet and slower there.

Al and Laurie HOLDEN had another busy and interesting year. After their Christmas in Europe in 1970 on a business trip, they went back twice in '71. The last one in Nov. was a truly delight vacation jaunt to the west country and Wales—they also saw a lot of Europe. Both Al and Laurie are at the same jobs: she with NY City and Al in banking. He had a couple more articles published and was promoted to head of the international economic section.

In the midst of the international monetary uncertainty he managed to have an interview published in one of the national papers along with some other colleagues. The family has grown enormously this past year. In addition to their reliable dogs. Mousse and Ffremlin, they acquired a baby airedale last March and he's really a tiger now. A cat became part of the group and lives in perfect harmony with all. They invite me to visit with them in NYC—how right they are when they say it would do wonders for me "after all those years in Texas!"

'68 after tours in SOMERS, NECHES, D A S A ,

Albuquerque, N.M., and Naval Advisory Group in Qui Nhon, VN. After a year as sales engineer for Elliott in western Pa., he was hired by Rockwell as its senior sales rep., selling valves in the states of Minnesota and Iowa. He tells us that his wife Fran delivered another girl in Nov., increasing "his harem" to four of 9, 8, 2, and 0 years old. He says that skating and hockey are two activities the family enjoys up in the "land of 10,000 (frozen) lakes."

And he invites all to stop by when in the area.

Pres: Mr. James Traa Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. Kenneth G. Craig, USN VA-115 FPO San Francisco, CA 96601 Percent Members: 26

This month your C S . didn't receive any class news. It must be attributed to the postholiday slump. Let's get those letters and data cards rolling in. The information desired on the data card is as follows: 1.

Name; 2. Wife's name; 3. Children's names and birth dates; 4. Current address; 5.

Permanent address; 6. Duties or positions held since graduation with inclusive dates and job titles; 7. Decorations, degrees, etc.; 8. Other information.

Remember the POW-MIAs—they never have a nice day!

Pres: L t . John F. H e w i t t , USN Sec'y, LCdr. Howard Pinslcey, (SC) USNR-R W. R. Grace Clarksville, MD 21029 Percent Members: 2 9 . 5

cruiser USS CHICAGO. John and Doris O V E R S T R E E T are still in Honolulu where John is attached to CINCPAC Staff. Bob and Colleen GILES have ^ d e d a boy to their household after three ^irls and are living" in Bowie, Md. After another tour in Vietnam (either his third or fourth) Al GEZELMAN is back in Germany. He is now operations officer for a brigade and is enjoying the work with mechanized infantry and tanks. The welcome mat is out at the Genzelmans for all classmates passing through the wine district town of Idar-Oberstein, about 60 miles southwest of Frankfurt.

Bill OWENS, presently at the Office of Program Appraisal in Washington, has been selected for the unique CNO Scholars Program. He was one of ten officers chosen in the pilot group. (See "All Hands" for details.) Congratulations to Bill on his selection and recognition of his outstanding work.

Tom and Nancy GRZYMALA and lovely daughters Elizabeth and Krysti are living in Middletown, R. I., where Tom has started his new job at the Destroyer Development Group. Tom writes that Pete BURGESS is an exchange officer with the Canadian Navy located in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Pete LABYAK is the XO in USS KOELSH home-

ported in Newport and Jerry BLESCH is XO of USS VOGE also in Newport.

Skip BROWN is a student at the War College and John REGAN is on the War College staff. Charlie BATTS left the Navy last June and works at the Naval Underwater Systems Center in New London. Tom also writes that Phil RIDGELY is at the Key West, Fl., Test and Evaluation Detachment and Bob POZZI reported to the Destroyer Development Group in February.

Our good friend John MUNSON phoned last week to tell me that he is now an institutional stock broker with Baird Patrick and Co. in New York and he and his wife are still enjoying the skiing of the winter and sailing during the rest of the year.

Bill BURK has recently been promoted to assistant vice president in the loan division of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Bill received his MBA from the U. of Michigan in 1968 and he and his wife Alice Ann and three children live in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe.

Brad SMITH enclosed the following picture that was taken during an Army-Navy game party at George GREER's house in Cambridge, Ma. Pictured are: back row (left to right) Brad Smith, Polly and Tom Reilly, Ingrid and Steve Duckworth, Tina Barker and Dave Copley; front row—Karen Smith, Sue and George Greer, Penny Copley and Ed Barker.

For those of us watching the national news during the first week of January it came as quite a shock one night to see that Dave HOFFMAN was a P O W in Hanoi.

He appeared at a televised North Vietnamese press conference where it was described that he was shot down in a bombing raid earlier that week. He apparently survived the crash successfully, sustaining only minor injuries. However, it was quite evident that he was being subjected to the inhumane treatment of his captors. This brings the numbfer of our classmates as POWs to three with Dave, Paul GALANTI and Mike McGRATH definitely known to be captured with a fourth identified as either POW or MIA. We must not allow al! these brave men to suffer any longer while their fate is being decided by the political whims of Hanoi. We must concentrate our efforts on helping their families at home while utilizing any and all methods possible to obtain their release N O W ! ! !

This month brought in news about a great number of our friends and their families.

Greetings also came from Al, Kathy, Kim, The response to our column is always enCarol and Christine W H I T A K E R . Al and couraging and I trust it will continue to family are presently in Gary, In., where expand. he's been an FBI agent since 1966. He Arleen and Fenn BEASLEY have a new resigned from the Marine Corps in 1965 address for the 15th time since graduation. and signed up with J. Edgar that very same They are now living in Meridian, Ms., day. He spent 17 months in Jacksonville, where Fenn is an instructor and safety N. C , just outside Camp Lejeune before officer in VT-9, the basic jet training squadbeing sent to Gary. While at Gary he went ron. Arleen writes that Karen Laws, Dick's back to school at night and received an widow, was married last year to Ed Engelke MA at Valparaiso U. in Jan. '71, he built a and is living in Huntington Station, N. Y. dune buggy, and got commended by the She received her Bachelor's and Master's boss for "sustained superior performance." degrees in Miami and has invited all friends The Greers' A r m y - N a v y p a r t y He expects to be sent to Quantico to become from '62 to visit with her, Dick Jr., Cheryl part of the FBI training staff. and Ed in New York.

Ed, George, Tom and Dave are second Del and Peg H U N T and three daughters year MBA students at Harvard while Brad Heard from Charlie PARKER, ^yho wanted to keep us up to date on his activi- moved from New London to San Diego is in his first year. Steve has his MBA and ties. He resigned his commission in Aug. where Del has orders to the guided missile is working on his doctorate in business.

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Brad spent his active duty time in PolarisPoseidon submarine and resigned in June 1971. Incidentally, the picture was taken with the camera balanced on a window sill while everyone was feeling H - A - P - P - Y !

I received one of the most humorous letters ever written recently from Marty SEELIG of dinghy sailing fame among others. I was in Seattle, Wa., in January and got together with Marty for a session of rememberings. He and wife Annice live in the suburb of Bellevue where Marty is engaged in the real estate business. He and his brother have just completed renovation of an F H A apartment building and are moving on to other accomplishments.

Of course, he owns a sailboat and is a member in good standing of a yacht club where he takes out the little craft at every possible occasion. At a recent party in the area Paul and Margie H A R V E Y entertained at their great home overlooking Lake Samamamish.

Paul is flying for Western Airlines. Dave and Nancy J O N E S were there as were Pablo and Connie ZIMMERMAN. Dave is with the Weyerhauser Company while Pablo is working for an electronics outfit as regional sales manager. Also in the area are Tim and Alice T H O M M A S E Y (Tim is stationed at N A S Whidbey Island) and Bill BOOTH, who is working as a mechanical engineer. Marty recently spoke to Jim D E L E S I E who will receive his law degree with honors from the U. of Florida in June.

He is presently in the top five percent of the class and owes his success to the fact that he had to study instead of wandering down the passageways as in older days.

Marty is planning to descend upon the class at homecoming '72.

Speaking of homecoming '72, it would be greatly appreciated and highly desirable for all hands to make their reservations as soon as possible to insure maximum fun and comfort for that great weekend. Please refer to your flyer for all details. Again, if you need additional information or assistance, please drop me a line.

Officer for his unit, and in August attended a public affairs conference at the Naval Academy. I believe Ollie is still busy with Virginia Squires basketball team. Navy team and community team.

Terry ABELL decided that he wasn't completely satisfied with teaching and began shopping the job market. In late June he went to work in the business world which he enjoys much more than teaching. Sounds like Terry and Sue and their family have a great family life . . . garden, golf, and interior decorating.

Spencer J O H N S O N is now in his third year at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Spencer picked up two Master's degrees and is currently in the Ph.D. program w'hich he expects to be able to wind up by next fall.

Soon he will be off to Britain for four to five months in order to carry out research in his thesis topic, "The Evolution and Formulation of British Defense Policy." Joe S T R A S S E R and Dick W Y T T E N B A C H finished their Ph.D. last June. They are now furthering their education at the Naval War College where they are in the Command and Staff course. Spencer understands that Dick McKENNA and Freddy BECKHAM are also at the Naval War College.

Both Dick and Joe received their Ph.D.s at the Fletcher School. Harlan ULMAN recently joined the clan at Fletcher after two years with Royal Navy. Harlan served both afloat in a frigate H M S BACCHANTE, and at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth as an instructor. Harlan is one of the few surviving bachelors in the class.

Another classmate in the Boston area is Sandy STODDART, XO of the USS PATTERSON. Sandy recently finished a program in Oceanography at the NPGS and received his MS in the field. Bill H I M C H A K also recently finished the Monterey course in Communications Engineering. Bill is communications officer in the attack carrier HANCOCK.

Ann and Tom O'BRIEN write from Port Orchard, Wa., where the LEWIS AND CLARK Pres: L t . Joe Bustamente, USN Sec'y, M r . E l i Dabich 543 Manor Rd. Severna Park, MD 21146 Percent Members: 2 7 . 5

There was no article last month due to the fact that there was a shortage of letters.

Keep those cards and letters coming. Christmas cards did produce some information.

Jack HOOD has volunteered his services as the 9th Company representative for the 1963 ten-year book. At the end of January, Jack and his family moved to Patuxent River, 4 Susan Ln., Apt. B, Lexington Park, MD 20653. Jack received his Master's in Aeronautical Engineering at P C School in October of 1969 and then reported to HS-11 aboard the FORRESTAL in March 1970.

He just recently completed a M E D / E A S T LANT cruise.

Birney T. P E A S E has been decorated with the Bronze Star Medal at Upper Heyford R A F Station, England. Birney was cited for meritorious service as chief of erigineering/operations, while engaged in military operations.

Rella and Tom H E S L O P sent a wonderful Christmas letter. They are still living in Philadelphia, Pa., where Tom has his parish.

I think I could sum it up quoting the last line of their Christmas letter, "Never have we had so little in the bank and so much to share."

Ollie D O N E L A N is now Public Affairs MARCH,

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is undergoing overhaul and conversion to be able to accommodate the Poseidon missile. No new baby this year but a new Dachshund pup. They love the duty station and will hate to leave, but it looks like Tom will be back in Charleston in 1973.

Jim O A K E S works for Smith, Barney and Company as an investment banker and institutional broker in their San Francisco office. Jim has been with them for three years. Jim sees Lou BLACKWELL, who is working for Standard Oil of California, quite a bit. Jim and family would welcome any '63ers visiting the Bay area. They live in Lafayette, 20 miles east of San Francisco.

Chuck DONOVAN and family are living in Middletown, N. J. Chuck is working for Electronic Data Systems in N. Y. C , and just recently joined a reserve squadron at Lakehurst, N. J. They are enjoying the area.

Russ BERRY and family are living in Virginia Beach. Russ is still in HM-12.

They saw Dick M I S T E R recently. He is going to be in the AMERICA and bought a house near them.

Bill P A W L Y K is finishing up at Wharton school and will be working for United Nuclear Corp. in New Haven as their Supervisor of Budgets and Analysis. They are looking forward to settling down in the Connecticut area. Their second child is due the end of June.

Gary BALDWIN and family are living

in the Minnesota area. Gary is still unemployed with Northwestern Airlines, but very much involved in real estate . . . now building. Gary and Joan have four boys.

Pres: Lt. Thomas J . Swartz, USN Sec'y, L t . James S. Baumstark, USN USS TULLIBEE (SSN 597) FPO New York, NY 09501 Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Grant Fulkerson, USN Weapons and Systems Eng. Dept.

USNA, Annapolis, MD 21402 Percent Members: 2 8 . 5

Another month has gone by and again the mailman didn't see fit to bring many newsy letters. Fortunately Tom S W A R T Z did write and his letter did contain quite a bit of news. Tom is still living in San Francisco and evidently having a great time.

Woodie and Connie VAUGHN are living in Woodbridge, Va. Woodie recently received his MBA from Stanford and is currently working at the Naval Supply Systems Hqtrs. in Washington.

Jerry ELLIS is also living in the Bay area but should be leaving soon. He has just about completed his tour as the head of the Enlisted Nuclear Power School at Vallejo.

Mike and Lynda H E W I T T and their children Heather and Jamie are now living in Charleston, S.C. Tom and Pat ELSASSER and their children Suzanne, Mark, and Matthew are still living in Groton, Ct. Tom is in a submarine out of New London, but he is also expecting orders soon.

Tom and Cathy LYNCH left the Annapolis area in January. Tom will be attending the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk starting this month.

Plans are presently underway for a class picnic here in Annapolis on the sixth of May. Hopefully we can make this an annual event, but for now we are concentrating on getting a big turnout for this one. It will be a family affair and will be hosted by those of us here at the Academy. If you think you may be able to make it, please send me your name and address and the number of people attending.

Pres: Lt. Pat Donelly, (CEC) USN Sec'y, Lt. Richard P. Genet, USN U. S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93940 Percent Members: 24

Pres: Capt. Robert L. Spooner, USMC Sec'y, Mr. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. 3920 Ingraham St. 11-313 San Diego, CA 92109 Percent Members: 23

As I promised in last month's issue, here is an updated list of the classmates that attended homecoming this past year. My thanks to Al K O N E T Z N I for the compilation : Ted and Vira Rice, 24th Co. Officer, two children; Andy and Joan Sosnicky, Operations Officer, USS ELLISON, Norfolk; Doug and Colleen May, 15th Co. Off., one daughter; Jerry and Linda Kerr, O P N A V , Pentagon, one son; John Suhy, NAVAIRSYS C O M H Q , Norfolk; Jim and Jackie Persels, 1950 Thunderbird, Florissant, Mo., civilian, two daughters; Rob and Sheila Crenshaw, 22nd Co. Off., one daughter; Jim and Jane Koons, P W P O , USNA, two sons; Wayne and Kathy Olsen, Engr. Dept., USNA, two sons; Ed and Jo Carlson, DesTech, Newport, two children; John Draper, Computer Sci. Dept., USNA ; Fred and Joan Moosally, Candidate Guidance Officer, U S N A ; John and Desi Posoli, 6337 Landover Rd., Chev61

erly, Md., civilian; Buggs and Molla Siegel, 11453 Cherry Hill Rd. #212, Beltsville, Md., civilian.

Joe Mandich, 44 W. Harrison St., Tunkhannock. Pa. 18657 (you may need the zip code for that one!), civilian; Dick and Joan Barchi, Johns Hopkins U., Burke Scholar, two children; Bob Wittenberg, 210 Kingston Rd., California, Md. 20653, test pilot school; Dee and Barb Fawkes, 15 Cornhill St., Annapolis; Jack and Fran Connolly, P T Dept., USNA, two children; Steve and Cheryl Potter, 11319 Harding Rd, Laurel, MD 20810, civilian, U. of Md. Dental School, two sons; Dick and Jean Hobbs, Navigation Dept. USNA ; Skip Blanchard, DesTech, Newport; Buck Thompson, 9718 BurkeLakern, Burke, Va.; Mike Polanski, 3147 Scenic Lake Dr. # 6 , Ann Arbor, Mi.; George Gorman, HMM 26/MCAS ( H ) New River, Jacksonville, N. C. 28540; Joe and Dolly Taussig, 508 Belmont St., Watertown, Ma., Harvard Business School; Bob and Fran Lewis, 202 Tohickon Ave., Quakertown. Pa., civilian, McDonald tycoon; John and Sandra Lorden, The Crossings Apts. #E211, Glassboro, N.J., civilian; Larry and Sandy Fish, 147 N. Passaic Ave., Chatham NJ 07928, one son; Tom and Barb Mintum, Navigation Dept., U S N A ; Gary Blinn, 288 Mt. Auburn, Watertown, Ma., Harvard Bus. Sch.; Morris and Gail Foote, 952 Covey St., Va. Beach, Va., one son, CO USS GREEN B A Y ; Kevin McCook, 2900 Northwind Dr., East Lansing, Mi., Graduate School, Supply Corps; Wayne Hicks, P T Dept. U S N A ; Hank and Kathy Giedzinski, 7th Co. Off., USNA, three children; Duke and Molly Kokoruda, Box 185 Fifth St., Westmoreland City, Pa., civilian engineer, Westinghouse (former steam slash makes good) ; Fred and Sue Gregg, IC Sellers Rd., Annapolis, 25th Co. Off.; Ned Sarno, civilian, Boston, Ma.; Helmuts and Elizabeth Feifs; and Jack and Laurie Richards.

John LING left the service after flying with VQ-1 out of Atsugi, Japan. He's now working on his M.S. in Industrial Administration at Purdue University, and living at 3019 Cernan Court in Lafayette with his wife, Judy, and daughter Laura. John reports that Larry GIDDINGS is in his first year of law school at the U. of Indiana and living in Indianapolis with his wife, Charlotte, and son, Christopher.

Chris Glutting returned from Vietnam and is in postgraduate school at Monterey.

His address is PO 2S66, 93940.

Dave BILL left Monterey in December and headed east for the Austrian slopes to ski for a few weeks before entering the March class at DesTech. Dave hopes to be assigned a west coast destroyer this summer.

Lane MALONEY receives this month's award for writing from the farthest away.

Lane is currently working for Global Engr. out of Sydney, Australia. If anyone is in that neck of the woods. Lane's address is 62 Blues Pt. Rd., McMahon's Pt., Sydney, N.S.W. 2060. Lane would like to hear from Bob W H I T L O C K and Doug MAY if they are within reading distance.

Frank "Spider" DAY writes from the Hawaiian Islands where he left the service last December. He plans to enter the U. of Hawaii Medical School in Sept. and is currently taking some of the prerequisites for the medical program.

Paul DONALDSON writes from the USS KRAUS where he is serving as Weapons Officer. Paul's wife, Carol, and daughter, Jennifer, are passing the deployment on the 62

Tennessee River in northern Alabama. Andy SOSNICKY was in Paul's DesTech class, and is now

serving in the USS

ELLISON,

Norfolk. Dale MOSES is Ops. Officer in the USS VESOLE, and Buster S H E L T O N is on the staff of COMIDEASTFOR. During his cruise. Buster's wife, Donna, is living in Boston with their six-month-old son.

Paul also said that he ran into Scott REDD who is currently an exchange officer at the Mexican Naval Academy. Duncan INGRAHAM has left the Navy and is now in CIVLANT forces after obtaining his business degree at the U. of Rhode Island.

That's all for this time. I noticed that our class participation in the Alumni Association is below our contemporary classes. Let's see if we can raise our membership. Be sure to pay your dues and keep up with what's happening!

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Pres: Lt. Dave Materna, USN Sec'y, Capt. Edward H. Mills, USMC U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, CA 93940 Percent Members: 27.5

Pres: Lt. Dennis C. Blair, USN Sec'y, Lt. R. Mitch Brown, I I I , USN HS-7, FPO New York 09501 Percent Members: 25

and their ten-month-old son. His address is 4202 Burrlord Rd., Portsmouth, and the welcome mat is out to any and all classmates.

John reports that Bruce NEEDHAM is now the Communications Officer for SAC LANT, and that Bill TAYLOR is the Marine Guard Officer for CINCLANTFLT. John MAYER is back in CONUS from Vietnam and is slated for an NROTC billet at one of the southern universities. Also Paul WILSON is now in Santa Ana, Ca., upon his return from the Orient.

Moving farther south, Tom and Anita OLIVER are still enjoying Charleston, S.C, where he is stationed aboard an SSN. Bob MUNSEY answered my call for mail from Glynco, Ga. He just received orders aboard the ROOSEVELT as IM-2 Division Officer, and he expects to join her in the Med sometime in April. Bob and Robin are real proud of Charles Robert Munsey III, code-named "Chad," and the picture with proud pop was taken during Chad's christening party (and after a bottle of Cold Duck!). Dan STILL stopped by on a cross-country from Pt. Mugu last December and was doing well.

Bob mentions that Dan's burner takeoff in his F-8 was quite a sight, and hopes he didn't lose his starting probe on the way back to the west coast.

After experiencing several meager months, letter-wise, all I can say is "Wow!" I only wish I could keep in touch with each of you personally through letters, but I'll try to tell it like it is here in the column. First let me get in a small plea to the president and veep to drop me a postcard or sumpin to let me know where they are now.

EAST COAST Starting on the Atlantic-half of the class, we heard from Rick and Terry BUCHANAN up in Portsmouth, N.H. Terry set up housekeeping in their new home in midSeptember, and Rick joined her and "T.R." late in October, as LAPON began her year in relief at the naval shipyard there. "They now have an Irish setter puppy to keep things lively and pull the dogsleds up there in snow country.

From Virginia Beach I heard from Dick and Bobbe TAYLOR. Dick is deployed with VA-3S aboard the AMERICA in the Med, and Bobbe met him in Athens. While there they ran into Chip and Linda DUDDERAR and Pam and Rick CLOVER, both aboard the AMERICA with VA-86 out of Jacksonville.

Hank and Bobbie SCHMIDT are still in Maryland, but will be joining the A-6 program in the spring. Hal and Tricia JONES, along with their two children, Julie and Jay, were headed out to PG School in Monterey, following a quick vacation in Spain.

Mike and Kathy KALASHIAN are still in Yuma finishing up his Marine flight transition, and expecting to fly A-4s. Joe SCIABARRA is in Lemoore. Denny and Dannye H A N R A H A N and son Patrick spent an enjoyable, but short, stay in San Diego before Denny left for WESTPAC in January.

Chet and Candy CARROLL had just received orders transferring them from Oceana to the A-7 program in Jacksonville.

I received a newsy letter from John LEE down in Portsmouth, Va. John left the Navy last July on a medical, after four unsuccessful operations on a leg injury incurred aboard his first ship in December '68.

He is now enjoying his work as a nuclear engineer at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and basking in the civilian homelife with Helen

Bob Munsey a n d son C h a d {'93?)

W E S T COAST Speaking of the Pacific contingent of '68, I received a Christmas card from the Legend, but no letter of late. Could it be that Chris plans no "legends" at the PG School ? Hope all is going well for all you guys out there "booking it." Also heard from Dave and Nancy LEE out in Pearl.

Young David is getting bigger every day, and it sounds like they are enjoying Hawaii.

Dave was due to deploy in January and Nancy hopes to meet him in Hong Kong in Marchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;oh, good times !

I received a little word from Phill FOSSUM, who is presently skiing up Whidbey way, and flying the A-6 when the slopes are bare. Phill was finishing up the A-6 RAG there and awaiting orders to one of the A-6 squadrons based there. Between Phill, Jack E S P O S I T O and Rick EVERT, I received great coverage of yet another blessed event in the annals of class history: the marriage of Rick Evert to the former Mary Margaret Kuszewski on 25 September at All Hallows Catholic Church in La Jolla, Ca. Phill, Jack, John LYDIARD, SHIPMATE

Kevin DWYER, and Jim "Boom" CANNON all attended "one of the nicest weddings I've ever seen," in Jack's words.

After a honeymoon in Monterey and Napa, Rick and Marty are settled in San Diego, where he flies F-8s with VF-42. Marty is originally from Westminster, Ma., and her dad is a retired colonel in the Army Security Agency (Woopoo!). She is presently supervisor of Occupational Therapy at Sharpe Rehabilitation Center in San Diego.

Rick began a six-month WESTPAC deployment in January. With him in VF-24 are LCdr. Dennis Bell '63, LCdr. Tom Najarian '64, Lt. Bill Olsen '67, Lt. Pete Phelps '67 and Dave T H O M P S O N . Kevin Dwyer is also aboard HANCOCK as Safety Officer with VF-211, flying F-8s. Kevin and Mary were blessed with a son, Kelly James, on 8 November. Rick B E N N E T T was due to return from flying A-6s with ENTERPRISE in January, which should make him and Debbie very happy.

Karl K O E N I G married the former Nancy Hebner, an Air Force nurse, on 13 November, and they are now in Patuxent River where he is the Maintenance Officer. Congrats to Karl and Nancy.

Just before Christmas Jack E S P O S I T O sent me a positively "juicy," two-part, 18page letter from Yankee Station aboard CONSTELLATION with VA-147. When ENTERPRISE headed for the Indian Ocean during the India-Pakistani war. CONSTELLATION inherited an extended line period, meaning Jack probably got to fly his A-7E on the big bombing operation the latter part of December. Hope he and the other Argonauts of VA-147 made it through the barrage okay.

Jack saw Mike P R I N C E , who was flying the A-7B with VA-21S out of Lemoore.

Mike married the former Carol Manzo 15 May and departed on cruise four days later!

He recently returned to continue their interrupted honeymoon. Both Jack's former roommates at Lemoore departed on their first cruises in January with HANCOCK—Chip DRURY in VA-5S and Rick S P E N C E R in VA-164, both flying A-4s.

Earlier in December Jack and Pete HAMRE (VA-16S aboard the CONNIE) went the N K P , Thailand, to fly the OV-lOA on a FAC exchange with the Nails of 23rd TASS, U S A F . It was an excellent opportunity to gain a new perspective on the war over there, and even better, Pete and Jack both rejoined that the whole four days N K P never rocked back and forth once! On board CONSTELLATION

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ber. Congrats to both families! In Lemoore Al P E A S E and Harry R I T T E N H O U R are recently back from cruise. Newcomers from Meridian include Mike and Barb R U T H and Bob, Susan and Christy SCHREIBER. Flip CLARK was in A-4s until his wife got sick, and is now a "stinger" in V.A-1113. Congrats to Flip for being selected top nugget while CQ-ing in the RAG. It seems '68 has had a few close calls of late. Ron R E I M E R T jumped out of an A-7 recently with no injury—also no details.

And Mike L E P P E R T had a compressor stall at altitude over Fallon, Ne., in December.

After unsuccessfully trying every proper procedure, passing through 1000 feet, as he was preparing to eject he switched to manual fuel control (which usually makes it worse), jammed it to military power, got a relight, and then limped into the N A A S , flaming out on the taxiway. Leps, your cool thinking saved the Navy an A-7, and my hat's off to you.

Up Quonset way, Mike LAGOW, Jack LUDWIG, Gary Calnan '67, John Marshall '67, Jack Croake '69 and I round out the JO boatschool contingent deploying aboard SARATOGA this spring with HS-7. Teddy OGDAHL came over the other day, having just learned he was transferred to VS-28 for the upcoming Med cruise. Another chance to excel for . . . . I also saw Dick KRULIS up in HS-3 and Walt HOGAN, who is finishing up VS-30. Ed and Sally MADDEN in VS-27 were blessed with a special Christmas package, a son, Edwin Randolph, who arrived 20 December. And last but by no means least, while Sandy and I were home for a welcome Christmas visit with our folks, who but my old roommate Kent McQUERTER walked in and blew my mind! Kent and his lovely wife Shirley and their fine son Artie drove up from Washington, D. C., just to surprise us. Kent left the Can Navy to go to diving school, and he expects to end up in San Diego by spring. We had a really great visit and took the opportunity to toast you all in the new year.

Please take note of the new address and keep me posted on your exploits. If any of you should visit SARATOGA on our upcoming deployment, stop on down at the Shamrock Ready Room and chew the fat awhile.

Pres: Lt. William H. Newton I I I , USN Sec'y, Lt. (jg) M. E. Rachmiel, USN Flag Lieutenant ComCruDesFlot 3 FPO San Francisco, CA 96610 Percent Members: 36.5

"rep" in each

squadron: Bill MOORE in VA-146, Jack in VA-147, Pete in VA-16S, John OLSEN in VF-92, John A N D E R S O N in VF-96. and Mike BOYCE in HC-1. Mike had been doing an especially appreciated job ferrying Christmas mail in from Da Nang after the C-2s from Cubi Pt. were grounded.

On the way out west the ship stopped in Hawaii for five days, and Jack saw Denny YOUNG, now United Steward in Honoliilu.

Also saw Mike BALL, who was finishing up two enjoyable years with VR-21 at Barber's Pt. Phil COFFEY had just received orders from VC-1 in Barber's to VR-21 there—oh, really rough! Also in VC-1 are Bill and Annie S T E V E N S , who had another little one, Joelle, back in the fall. In Cubi Jim C A N N O N and Fred COLE were deployed there with VR-19 out of Alameda.

Pres: Ens. Jeff Schott, USN Sec'y: Ens. Fred Hall, USN USS INCHON (LPH 12) FPO New York 09501 Percent Members: 41

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Pres: Ens. Ens. Michael E. McCuddin, USN Theodore A. Hermeling, Jr., USN Sec'y, The Surfway, Apt. 45 151 Surfw Monterey, CA 93940 Percent Members: 41

After returning from two weeks' Christmas leave, it was tough getting back into the academic mood again, but the Christmas mail brought notes from a number of our classmates and thus led to a great deal of news.

Mike and Maris W I L S O N wrote from Back on the coast Doug and Cookie Vallejo with some interesting news. They F R E E L A N D recently left VC-3 for y S - 4 1 reported that John B R A N D E S was married in San Diego and are expecting sometime in on 9 October. Ken T A P L E T T is engaged July. Bill and Billy R E E V E S are in VC-3 and plans a late '72 marriage. Duke BRUand were blessed with a baby girl in Novem- NELLI was also married and was nursing M A R C H ,

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a sprained ankle. Mike and Marie have been hitting some car rallies with John MASSIF, Chip G R I F F I T H S , and Mike MORRELL. Mike M. also broke both of his arms as he made a diving tackle and slid onto the pavement during an afternoon Rose Bowl game.

Kevin DOLAN spent some time with Mike and Marie before leaving for the Philippines aboard the U S S BRINKLEY BASS.

Dave STOREY and Tom J A M I S O N are enjoying Quantico and Tom was to be married 26 December.

Larry McDONALD is enjoying bachelor and "civilian" life at N. C. State while working on his Master's in Aero.

Scott MONSON is now driving a Grand Prix after his vinyl top blew off his Firebird.

Rick BAXTER is working on his Aero Master's at Cal Tech.

Brian H O R A I S was starting at Monterey in Aero in January. Mike and Maris also bought a copy of the Alumni Register and highly recommend it. Also after deciding the Physics isn't his bag, they're leaving Nuc School for an early '72 flight class.

Don GRAY reports that the forces in WESTPAC are thinning out as guys are starting to leave for flight classes. He talked to Don G U N T H E R during U N R E P with the GUADALUPE just before he left for Christmas at home with his wife. Don reports the same situation with John MORRIS in the A S H TABULA. Don says the weather on the gunline is great for sunning. Chris F U N K E , while continually covered with grease, has other things to think about as M P A . Don received a letter from John BALL in the WICHITA, and John's stateside now having left Tom O'BRIEN carrying the ball.

Don also reports that the guys with Air guarantees at Quantico are going to classes but enjoying it less. A few have taken to the Green and given up their Air guarantees, like John SATTLER, Steve BRIGHTON, and Dan NELSON. From the way Jim MENDLESON talks about shooting the weapons, he may join them soon.

Bob A N N I S and Joe WARGO are in the NoA out of Mayport (or they thought).

After three months in the Indian Ocean, they finally went back to Mayport on 3 December.

Kevin DOLAN, Brian H O R A I S , and Rick BAXTER have been checking out the snow in California's Big Bear Mountains on their free weekends.

Roger YOUNG writes from Athens: "It finally took BuPers to break up the U S N A circle down there. Each of them is going to a different home port. Steve Ayers got a sub out of New London ( U S S NARWHAL) ;

Jimmy Donlan Energy D. C.; out of

Ward is going to Vietnam; Bob is going to a shore based Atomic Commission billet in Washington, Larry Nolan is going to a destroyer Charleston; and Roger is going to

the U S S GRAHAM COUNTY, an L S T that is

now being converted into an ARL ( P G boat tender). After the conversion in the Philly yards, it will go over to Naples to be permanently welded to the pier. Mike Hecomovich will be on one of the PG boats that is under the wing of Roger's tender."

He reports that their last social event of the season was to welcome Steve D M E T R U K and his wife, Joyce. He is there from the P T staff at Annapolis and started classes 3 January.

I received an informative letter from Dick E N D E R L Y who is stationed aboard the USS

ROBERT A. O W E N S as 2nd

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Gunnery Assistant, Legal Officer, and Athletic Officer. The OWENS is currently deployed in the Med. He says it will be a long haul over there. Dick is also planning a 9 July wedding.

Dave LUENGEN and his wife Sue were in Norfolk for a four-week Gunnery School in Dam Neck, Va. Doug SMARTT was also down in Norfolk attending a 13-week Missile School at Dam Neck. Doug is stationed aboard the U S S J. S. MCCAIN on the west coast. Dave is aboard the U S S JOHNSTON out of Charleston. The four of them got together for a home-cooked steak dinner.

There's a good chance that John H O W ARD was married on 8 December. Former classmate Clint MILLER now works in the tower on the U S S J. F. KENNEDY which is deployed in the Med. Bing ALANO and his wife Manette are now living in the Philippines.

Dick sat behind Bow ROSE (2nd Lt.) and John SATTLER at the Army-Navy game. He saw John FLIZSAR and Jim SEARING at the Penn State game in September and they reported that they, as well as Carl I N S K E E P , Jerry HARRIS, and Terry S T E P H A N are all getting the hell run out of them at Quantico. Some of the other guys he has run into lately are Sanky BLANTON, who is aboard the USS VOGELGESANG, and Al K E M P in the LEARY. He also has seen John LONG in the USS BARNEY and Roger H O P E , who is in the HAWKINS, the ship that OWENS relieved in the Med. Mitch ROWLAND is also aboard the OWENS and will depart for flight school in April. He is presently Intelligence Officer.

John and Sandy E N D E R L E report that Chic BURLINGAME married the former

Punky Perfect in November. Jack BALCOM was married 18 December.

Vince ZABALA is aboard the USS TRUXTUN in W E S T P A C Also in WESTPAC is Fred

KLEIN, who is aboard the USS DAVIDSON as Navigation Officer. He saw Lee GRAEBER

who

is in USS

MCMORRIS.

During the holidays, I went down to Quantico to see Dan NELSON, who is recuperating from a knee operation there.

While there, I saw Mark BECK, Dave BLOOMER, and Joe BOTELER. We held a small 24th Company reunion at Emersons the Sunday before Christmas with Terry and Beck TONKIN, Wally W I N S L O W , and Chris and Jane MIDGETT. Thanks for keeping me posted on the latest news. Please keep those letters rolling in.

ALUMNI CHAPTER NEWS In the interest of timely chapter reporting, chapter secretaries are requested to forward their material with as little delay as possible. Copy received after the 15th of the month misses the issue then in preparation and may not reach the reader until two months or more later.

AKRON-CANTON Mr. E. L. Coen 1053 Rotch Ave., N.E. Massillon, OH 44646

ALBUQUERQUE Mr. Manuel P. Sanchez 1805 Lafayette Dr., N.E. Albuquerque, NM 87106

ATLANTA Capt. J. H. S. Johnson, USN (Ret.) 7382 Peachtree, Dunwoody Rd., N.E. Atlanta, GA 30328

ANNAPOLIS Lt. David C. Wynne, USN 4 C Sellers Rd., Arundel Estates Annapolis, MD 21402

At its monthly meeting held 13 January in the recently renovated Naval Academy Officers' and Faculty Club, the Annapolis chapter heard Associate Professor Charles L. Cochran of the Academy's Political Science Department explain the results of some of his recent research on a comparison of Service Academy plebes and entering freshmen at civilian colleges and universities. One of Professor Cochran's conclusions was that Service Academy midshipmen and cadets are, on the basis of their secondary school records, higher achievers and more strongly motivated for leadership and responsibility than their civilian college counterparts.

Prof. John R. Probert a n d C a p t . Ray E. Davis, p r e s i d e n t of the Annapolis chapter, welcome Associate Prof. Charles L. Cochran to the J a n u a r y meeting.

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In addition to Academy graduates, any commissioned officer (regular or reserve, active or retired) of the Armed Forces of the United States residing in the vicinity of Annapolis, and any member (active or retired) of the civilian faculty of the U. S. Naval Academy is eligible for associate membership in the chapter.

BALTIMORE Mr. W. Beverly Bristor 600 Hastings Rd. Towson, MD 21204

BOSTON Mr. G. Gilbert Tallau The Faulkner Hospital 1153 Centre St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

BREMERTON LCdr. Warren A. Chase, USN (Ret.) 553 Juniper Bremerton, WA 98310

BUFFALO Mr. William Ciesia 81 Hilton Dr. Kenmore, NY 14217

CARACAS Maj. Angelo Fernandez, USMC USNAVSEC, USMILGP c/o U. S. Embassy APO, New York 09893

The annual golf tournament was held by the Caracas chapter of the Alumni Association at the Caracas Country Club on 5 December 1971. The ships participating in Operation Unitas X I I were in port at the time, and so the occasion doubled as an opportunity to entertain the officers of the U. S. Navy units.

Participants were Cdr. Bill Garcia of the Naval Mission, as well as Lt. (jg) Roy Daily, and Mission Chief Captain Dick Johnston. The Naval Attache to Venezuela, Capt. Jim Parce, was on hand with LCdr. Bob Kane. Mr. Nat Heller '47 joined the after-match party at the palacious home of Mr. Henry Rodner '43, as did Ed Donaho of General Electric.

RAdm. Bob Adamson '44 headed the list of visiting officers, which included Capt.

George Church, Capt. Dave Emerson, Cdr.

Jim Bender, LCdr. Bob Pemberton, LCdr. Doug Sommer, LCdr. Joe McCarton, Chaplain (Lt.) Dave Ball, Cdr. Bill Rodriguez, and Lt. Rick Thompson '68.

Trophy winners for the day were George Church with low net/first flight, Roy Daily, low gross/first flight. Bob Rasmussen with low net/second flight, and Jim DeFrancis with low gross/second flight.

The affair was organized by Mr. Jim DeFrancia '63 and Maj. Angy Fernandez '59. The wives joined the party at Henry Rodner's home, and a buffet dinner was served alongside the pool to complete a great day.

The only other item of recent interest was the annual presentation by Mr. Henry Rodner, chapter president, of the chapter gift of a gold watch to that midshipman excelling in English at the Venezuelan Naval Academy. The presentation was made at graduation exercises in July of last year.

Alumni are invited to attend the monthly luncheons on the first Thursday of each month at the Club "200" in Edif. Luz Electrica, Ave. Urdaneta.

CENTRAL FLORIDA Mr. David N. Inbusch P. 0. Box 145 Cocoa Beach, FL 32931

CHARLESTON, S. C. Lt. C. G. Mendenhall, I I I , USN 21 Archdale St. Charleston, SC 29401

CHICAGO Mr. James W. Gillman 316 Sheridan St. Forest Park, IL 60466

CINCINNATI Mr. Robert E. Reld 102 Burns Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45215

CLEVELAND Mr. John E. Hollis 2396 Demington Dr. Cleveland Heights, OH 44106

COLORADO Mr. Ernest B. Granville 5245 E. Iliff Ave. Denver, CO 80222

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Pres. RAdm. Wm. L. Anderson, USN (Ret.) Rt. 1 , Box44C Chapin, SC 29036

COLUMBUS Lt. Derrell B. Hauser, USNR 1389 Crestwood Ave. Columbus, OH 43227

CONNECT/CUT Cdr. Lester B. Libbey, USN (Ret.) United Presbyterian Church Box 52 Waterford, CT 06385

CORONADO Mr. W i l l i a m H. Krumrei 5561 Fontaine St. San Diego, CA 92120

The annual election meeting of the San Diego/Coronado chapter of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association was held Thursday, 13 January at the North Island Officers' Club.

Elected to serve during 1972 were: president : VAdm. Luther C. Heinz, USN (Ret.); vice president: RAdm. Clifford S. Cooper, USN ( R e t . ) ; and secretary-treasurer: Mr. William H. Krumrei. Directors are Capt.

A. K. Cameron, USN (Ret.), LCol. E. J. Leavitt, USMCR, Capt E. P. Rankin, USN (Ret.), and Capt. E. H. C. Fredericks, U S N (Ret).

The guest speaker for the meeting was Adm. U. S. G. Sharp, USN (Ret.), who spoke on the air war in Vietnam.

Those in attendance at the meeting were: Boilen '26, Kable '40, Legro '59, Clark '39, Rumble '33, Garrett '22, Freeman '27, Ovrom '32, Brandley '29, Linaweaver '26, Asserson '26, Murphy '22, Haugen '25, Glaes '39, Becht '34, Callahan '38, Maginn '62, Fleming '64, Monroe '33, Price '30, Gillispie '12, Ross, Harris, Hurst '24, Connelly '23, House '30, Briggs '25, Lee '26, Smiley '23, Larsen '25, Behm '45, Stuart, Miller '33, Kerner '56, Bruning '33, Rogers '17, West '25, Foster '31, Long '25, Huffman '22, Sloat '30, Bond '07, Krumrei '58.

Future meeting dates for 1972: 13 April, 8 June, 14 September and 9 November.

DETROIT RAdm. L. J . Jacobi, USNR (Ret.) 729 Fisher Rd. Grosse Pointe, M l 48230

EUROPEAN Mr. Lawrence A. Novak Verson Europa, S.A. 5 1 , Ruede la V i d e t t e Charleroi, Belgium

HOUSTON Col. William E. Ford, USMC (Ret.) 3600 Montrose Blvd.

Houston, TX 77006 Capt. L. N. Smith, USN (Ret.) 6304 Briar Rose Drive Houston, TX 77006

HUNTSVILLE Cdr. Russell Croft, USN (Ret.) 8008 Allison Dr., S . E .

Huntsville, AL 35802

INDIANAPOLIS LCdr. C. W. Ullrich, USN (Ret.) 3314 Prague Rd. Indianapolis, IN 46227

JACKSONVILLE Mr. Richard K. Gaines, Jr. P. 0 . Box 2 1 , Ortega Station Jacksonville, FL 32210

KANSAS CITY Mr. R. Paul McNergney 3806 East 104th St. Kansas City, MO 64137

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Mr. J . W. Gallagher 294 Cherry Dr. Centerville, OH 45459

During the Christmas holidays the annual "Operation Information" luncheon was held at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Officers' Club. This year Midshipman Pat Nelson did an outstanding job of briefing the group on Annapolis Today.

Although most of us have forgotten the football season by now, this reporter felt it was worth mentioning some of the unusual activities which took place last year around Thanksgiving. Apparendy "Salty Sam" visited W P A F B the morning of the Army game. All of the West Point General Officers and a number of West Point Colonels woke up to find "Go Navy, Beat Army" posters in their front yards. Even though we lost the game, we won the pre-game festivities. Beat Army in '72!

The chapter has invited Dallas Cowboys' quarterback Roger Staubach and Capt. W. S. Busik, Executive Director, USNAAA, to be our guests. In addition we will host the annual tri-service "Ringknockers Ball" in June. Any alumnus moving into the Dayton area is most welcomed into the chapter.

To join just contact Jim Gallagher '57 at (513) 433-1977 (home) or (513) 255-4065 (office).

LOS ANGELES Cdr. Robert R. Neely, Jr. 5501 Shoreview Drive Palos Verdes, CA 90274

LOUISVILLE Mr. Floyd W. Rati iff Box 544, 2805 Lexington Rd. Louisville, KY 40206

MIAMI Cdr. E. C. Powell, USNR (Ret.) 11345 S.W. 108th Ct. Kendall Branch Miami, FL 33156

The 29 December meeting of the Miami Council of the Navy League was one you should have attended. We had a number of special dignataries present. Sen. Claude Pepper; Cong. McFall from California; RAdm. O. R. Smeder, USCG, Sixth District; Capt. Rae, Chief of Staff, Sixth District; Capt. Cal Buck, USN, CO, NRTC. A number of guests of the USNA Alumni Association Miami branch were invited: Capt. Alfred Mills, U S N A Blue and Gold Program; Capt. Sam Kosse and wife; Cdr. George Bole and wife; Richard Russell '59, treasurer; Ron Boschbom '66, coach at Miami Edison High School with two prospects ; and Edward Sullivan, coach at North Miami High School with his son, a prospect.

Also present were RAdm. Kirn with a prospect, RAdm. Poor, Capt. Crist, Cdr. Gallagher, LCdr. Walter Ginn, Cdr. Turk Powell.

A number of midshipmen attended who were home on Christmas leave: David Coleman 1/c, Mark Falkey 1/c, Walter Soha 1/c, Robert Brewer 4/c, and Roderick Soha 4/c.

There were also sea cadet prospects from the Miami Council.

Midshipman Nicholas Torelli 1/c, the speaker, was introduced by Sen. Pepper as he had appointed him four yeras ago to the Naval Academy. Turk Powell arranged to have Midn. Torelli speak on the ways, means, and qualifications for admittance to USNA. Torelli's sister, who expects to enter the naval service, was also there. A short film of June Week at Annapolis was shown.

MILWAUKEE LCdr. T. C. Cheney, Jr. USN 988 Chesterton Ct. Oconomowoc, W l 53006

NEW ORLEANS LCdr. L. I. Cole, USNR 01 NC, NWSED, NAS New Orleans, LA 70140

The New Orleans chapter met for luncheon and a business meeting at International House on Friday, 7 January. Officers for 1972 were elected as follows: president, Ralston Cole '62; vice president. Bill Russ '49; sec'y-treas., LCdr. L. I. Cole, USN '64; executive committee, RAdm. W. W. McCrory, USN (Ret.) '38, LCol. Rene Wogan, USMC (Ret.) '25, and Capt. H. O. Anson, Jr., USN '45 (immediate past president).

Tentative plans were made to hold the March meeting as a joint meeting with the other Federal Service Academy Alumni groups in the area.

NEWPORT Capt. P. C. Staley, USN (Ret.) 2 Kane Ave. Middletown, RI 02840

NEW YORK Mr. Anthony M. Marks Connecticut Mutual Life Ins. Co. 1001 Franklin Ave. Garden City, NY 11530

NORTH TEXAS LCdr. Alfred D. Holland, USN 6213 Walnut Hill Lane Dallas, TX 75230

OKLAHOMA CITY RAdm. Lewis E. Coley, USN (Ret.) 4212 N. Harvey Parkway Oklahoma City, OK 73118

ORLANDO Mr. John I. Cumberland, Jr. 358 Starling Rd. Winter Park, FL 32789

Continuation of the monthly luncheons after the warm-warm-warm holiday season resulted in an unusually large turnout for the January coed meeting (76 presentees who had overcome the shock of the ArmyNavy game). Two new members were introducedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Capt. J. L. Burkart '47, Chief Staff Officer, NTC, Orlando, FL 32813 and Capt. N. M. Head, USN (Ret.), 100 Via Benevento, New Smyrna Beach, F L 32069.

The guest speaker for the occasion, LCdr. W. P. Lane, USNR, made an excellent expose of the entire Blue and Gold Program.

This led to an animated discussion of all potential sources of appointments to the U. S. Naval Academy and the requirements that must be met. The competitive selection by our local Congressman, Lou Frey, and his interest in all three Academies were discussed by LCdr. George Darfus, USN (Ret.). The entire program was both entertaining and instructive.

Meetings are held the second Friday of the month at the Officers' Club, NTC, Orlando, Fl. Alumni members present included Harman Bell '25, J. L. Burkart '47, Bob Coleman '51, Dwight Cook '18, Dean Cooke '62, George Darfus '50, Pat Finnigan '35, John Gallaher '26, Howard Gamble '18, Slip Haizlip '47, Nelson Head '31, Richard Jack '35, George Kohr '29, Robert Manly '59, Jim Marks '38, Paul Martin '23, Don Neddo '40, William Nickelson '27, Swede Norgaard '28, Pete Petrie '35, Mel Powers '15, Edwin Pratt '49, Knight Pryor '29, Dave Rau '22, Herman Ray '29, Bob Rice '27, Robert F. 6S

Sellars '34, Bill Sims '45, Harry Smith '30, Gyro Sperry '23, Martin Stone '27, Horace Trainer '25, Fred Warder '25, Maxwell Wells '22, C. Wilkins '24, John Williams '40, B. B. Wilson '23, Dave Davenport '36, H. E. Bernstein '26, Claude Alexander '45, and Ed DiUard '56.

PENINSULA Cdr. Allen McDonald Dame, USN (Ret.) 387 South Gordon Way Los Altos, CA 94022

PHILADELPHIA Lt. John P. Santucci, USNR 112 Haines M i l l Rd. Delran, NJ 08075

PITTSBURGH Mr. Thomas E. Sollars 208 Clyde Dr. McKeesport, PA 15131

RICHMOND Mr. C. F. Wortham 3008 Seminary Ave. Richmond, VA 13127

ROCHESTER Mr. Robert J . Guyon 8 Waterworks Lane Fairport, NY 14526

ST. LOUIS LCdr. Robert F. Diebel, Jr., USN 8658 Old Towne Rd. St. Louis, MO 63132

ST. PETERSBURG RAdm. M. P. Russillo, USN (Ret.) 16016 4th St. E. St. Petersburg, FL 33708

SAN FRANCISCO Mr. Charles W. Butler 360 Marion Ave. M i l l Valley, CA 94941

The success of our first meeting of the new year, 5 January, at the FAdm. Nimitz Club, may be judged by the fact that we had one of our largest turnouts for a stag dinner meeting. This may be attributed to the spirit of good fellowship and the fact that we had another good guest speaker with an interesting subject.

Among those present were RAdm. Clyde Van Arsdall, USN '34, Commander Western Sea Frontier, and VAdm. Ruddock, USN (Ret.) '14. It was a big evening for new members as we had the pleasure of welcoming aboard Capt. Theodore (Ted) R. Pick, USN '45; Capt. G. Marshall Bates, USN '48; Capt. Wm. F. Kaufman, USN (Ret.), '36; and, as an Associate member, Peter Obninsky, Russian Naval Academy, class of '23. Among the visitors were Carlos Badger '22 from Modesto, Bill Dolan '26 from Las Vegas and Ed Walker '25 who is active in the New York group.

John Falge of '12 represented the senior class present and '48, the junior class, had five members present.

We were all saddened by the announcement of the passing of Cdr. Harold L. Fudge '22, USN (Ret.), on 3 January and stood in silence as his classmate, George Neely, gave a brief eulogy. Harold was elected a Trustee last June but had to resign in September because of health. He was secretary of his class in the Bay area.

Funeral service was held in Berkeley on

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the Sth and attended by members of the class of 1922 and the Alumni Association.

A card of condolence for Harold's son and daughter was passed around for signatures as well as a "get well card" for Harold Northcutt '23.

We received word that the Cadet-Midshipmen dance that was held during the holidays in the Garden Room of the Club was a huge success with over a hundred young men and their drags present. Of these 52 were Midshipmen. The dance included, as always, the Air Force and Coast Guard with the latter acting as host this year.

The last few months Heinie Armstrong '27 has been compiling a Log of the San Francisco chapter. There have been some gaps in the account, especially concerning the early years. The problem of putting together how it all got started was solved upon receipt of a letter from Russell C. Ryan '10, Maj(pr ( M C ) , USA ( R e t ) , who is now living in Carmel Valley. His letter was so full of interesting information and anecdotes that Jim Landon '44 (president) decided to^ read it to us. It was a real treat to listen to it. Many thanks, Russell.

Our speaker of the evening was Capt.

Clifford Cantlon, USN, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence Commander Western Sea Frontier, who spoke on the subject: "The Strategic and Tactical Position of the Republic of South Africa."

Cliff used 3S-mm. slides showing the strategic position of South Africa in relation to the rest of the world with special emphasis on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean. Other slides showed the time advantage possessed by the Soviets with air and naval bases, either projected or existent, on both coasts of Africa, in addition to their ever increasing strength in the Mediterranean.

It is common knowledge that the Soviets have moved into the Indian Ocean to fill the vacuum occasioned by the withdrawal of British units and are reported to have a force of 15 to 30 ships on station at all times.

Cliff's talk starkly outlined the problem with the closing of Suez Canal and the consequent build-up of huge world super-tanker fleet that must round the Cape to slake the thirst of Western Europe for oil. Thus, with the foreseen presence of more than 300 modern Soviet submarines to operate off Cape Hope, one cannot help viewing with dismay the prospects of the Free World to meet the problem of economic strangulation by this blockade.

The amount of traffic around the Cape seems appalling and Cliff pointed out that dry cargo ships, at least, are compelled to put into South African ports for fueling before they make the turn.

Our problem, as Cliff made clear, is not only compounded by the lack of bases in that part of Africa, but also by the political calamity of Apartheid, with our ships denied permission to enter South Africa ports except in an emergency. One cannot escape the thought of what a price the non-Soviet world is paying for the disintegration of the British Empire and the rise of a monstrous predatory threat.

Cliff used two movie projectors to show some startlingly beautiful views of animals

in the Veldt. The second projector showed some spectacular views of cities, industrial and agricultural areas, indicating the extent of the economic development of the Republic of South Africa.

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BARBARA

Capt. E. E. Roth, USN (Ret.) 424 Pimiento Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93103

SEATTLE Capt. John R. Middleton, Jr., USN (Ret.) 1637 77th Ave., N.E. Bellevue, WA 98004

Seattle held its first regular monthly meeting of 1972 at Pier 91 COM Open the evening of 5 January. The new 1972 officers assumed their respective duties: Rollo Ross '37, president; Dish Ashworth '33, vicepresident, and John Middleton '35, secretarytreasurer. The outgoing officers were awarded a healthy round of applause.

Hon. Bert L. Cole, Commissioner of Public Lands, State of Washington, addressed the meeting. He spoke extemporaneously and interestingly on the history, value and future of the State's Public Lands. Attending were Bledsoe '18, Brown '23, Downs '23, Borgen '24, Topper '24, Towner '24, Hammond '25, Elliott '26, Russell '26, Graybill '27, Homey '27, Walker '27, Browne '30, Foott '30, Stevens '30, Colley '32, Finney '32, Jaap '32, Langen '32, Lewis '32, Ashworth '33, Maynard '33, Middleton '35, Kramer '36, Miller '36, Ross '37, O'Neill '38, Armstead '42, Jones '44, Stephens '52, Keck '54, and Peresluka '57.

WASHINGTON,

D.C.

Capt. R. J . Badger, USN (Ret.) 926 S. 26th St. Arlington, VA 22202

The Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Vice Admiral James Calvert, class of '43, talked to the January meeting of the alumni for the third straight year. He spoke directly to the problems of the Naval Academy and what had been accomplished during his tenure. He was preceded by Admiral George Anderson, who gave a discussion of the various ways of contributing to the financial support of the Naval Academy with a plea that any one of the various programs be used. Since Admiral Anderson had covered the financial situation, Admiral Calvert avoided saying further on that subject. He did talk specifically about the need for a first-rate football team at the Academy, about women midshipmen (stating that this was in violation of the law), and a Navy Department problem and about blacks at the Academy voicing the opinion that the present 44 on board were equal to or above the Academy's average in scholastic and leadership ability.

We have all appreciated these frank talks by the Superintendent and hope that he will enjoy his new tour of duty as Commander First Fleet.

Class of '25 had the most members present, '05 was senior and '69 junior.

WILMINGTON Mr. Russell S. Davis, Jr. Box 27 D, R.D. * 2 Hockessin, DE 19707

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LAST GALL ARNOLD, BENJAMIN W I L L I A M , I I I <CAPT USNR '23), 1 S e p t e m b e r 1 9 7 1 , W a r w i c k , RI CHASE, HARRY TAYLOR (CAPT USN RET ' 2 3 ) , 3 1 December 1 9 7 1 , San D i e g o , CA COE, DOUGLAS WITMER (CAPT USN RET ' 1 7 ) , 13 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , A n n a p o l i s , M D C O W I N , STANLEY JOSEPH, JR. ' 4 3 , 8 December 1 9 7 1 , Westwood, MA ELSBERRY, J O H N GREGORY ( 2 / L T USMC ' 7 1 ) , 11 S e p t e m b e r 1 9 7 1 , M a r t i n s v i l l e , V A GEISENHOFF, ARTHUR COOPER (CAPT USNR RET ' 1 6 ) , 11 December 1 9 7 1 , San Jose, CA HELFRICH, HARRY DANIEL, JR. (CAPT USN RET ' 3 9 ) , 6 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , A n n a p o l i s , M D HOFFMAN, ROBERT DALE (CAPT USN ' 5 0 ) , 2 0 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , Bethesda, M D HOLLOWAY, W I L L I A M PONDER ' 3 2 , 2 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , Austin, TX J U N K I N , GEORGE BENN ' 1 3 , 18 December 1 9 7 1 , G l a d w y n e , PA LAMBRECHT, J O H N OSGOOD (CAPT USN RET '25), 9 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , H a r r i s b u r g , PA LEAVITT, R A Y M O N D BOOMER (CDR USN RET '23), 10 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , Ft. L a u d e r d a l e , FL LEWIS, ROY W O O D (CDR USN RET ' 1 1 ) , 4 January 1972, Wheeling, W V LEWIS, W I L L I A M DEAN ' 3 0 , 2 3 1971, Irontown, OH

November

M A N A H A N , STEWART ALLAN (COMO USN RET '09), 3 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , Kensington, M D SAUER, EDWARD PAUL (RADM USN RET ' 1 6 ) , 10 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , San D i e g o , CA SLEEPER, PAUL DE VOE ' 1 3 , 2 5 1 9 7 1 , W a s h i n g t o n , DC

December

STEIN, MAURICE HARRIS (CDR USN RET ' 1 9 ) , 18 December 1 9 7 1 , Winchester, V A STILLMAN, HENRY MACDONALD ' 2 8 , 15 J a n u a r y 1 9 7 2 , Sussex, W l

STEWART ALLAN M A N A H A N ' 0 9

Como. Stewart Allan Manahan, U S N (Ret.), died 3 January 1972 in the Kensington Gardens Nursing Home. Following services in the Ft. Myer Chapel he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

The Chicago native was a 1909 graduate of the Naval Academy. The first six years of his career were at sea. In October 1915 he was assigned to the Naval Radio Station, Radio, Va., and later served with Radio Superintendent, Charleston.

During W W I Como. Monahan first served as Aide and Division Radio Officer on the Staff of Commander Division 7, Atlantic Fleet. The remainder of the W a r he spent in

the

USS

LENAPE

and

USS

M A R C H ,

1 9 7 2

J O H N HARRISON COLHOUN ' 1 1

LCdr. John Harrison Colhoun, USN (Ret.), died 14 October 1971 in Calvert Nursing Home, Prince Frederick, Md. Funeral services were held at Christ Episcopal Church, West River, Md. Interment was private.

Born in Harwood, Md., he entered the Naval Academy with the class of 1911. He left in 1909 for physical reasons. From 1912 until his resignation (again for physical disability) in 1921 he was in the Supply Corps.

During W W I I Cdr. Colhoun served his country by driving for the A W V S and the Red Cross.

He is survived by a sister, Mrs. Edmonia Murray of Cumberstone, Md. RICHARD SWEARINGEN ROBERTSON ' 1 2

Capt. Richard S. Robertson, U S N (Ret.), died 7 October 1971 in Vallejo, Ca. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery.

Capt. Robertson was born in Austin, Tx. After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1912 he was ordered to the USS GAL-

VESTON on the China Station. He had a tour of duty at the Great Lakes Training Station before returning to the sea in the USS MiSSISSIPPL

returning to Algiers as Supply Officer. His last assignment was with the Liquidation Commission, London. His retirement was in June 1946.

He had been active in the San Francisco chapter of the Alumni Association, having been the senior member of that group for some time.

Among his survivors is his widow, Ethel, 1744 Tennessee St., Vallejo, CA 94590.

GEORGE BENN J U N K I N ' 1 3

Mr. George Benn Junkin died at his home in Gladwyne, Pa., on 18 December 1971.

Funeral services were held in the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church.

Born in Sterling, Ks., he was a 1913 graduate of the Naval Academy. In 1914 he saw action at Vera Cruz. During W W I he was mainly in the submarine service. He was attached to the U S S K-5 operating out of Ponta Delgada, Azores. Other submarine duty included the USS K-6, U S S L-4, U S S M-1, USS 0-7 and USS S-6.

Mr. Junkin's naval career also consisted of sea duty in the USS UTAH and USS

RICHMOND. He had boiler training at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. He resigiied from the Navy in 1924 with the rank of lieutenant commander.

From 1925 to 1928 he was president of Wolf Summit Coal Co. In 1929 he began a long association as president of Wilson Line, Inc., which operated ferry service on the Delaware River and excursion boats along the east coast.

Mr. Junkin was also president of the Delaware-New Jersey Ferry Co. and vice president of the Virginia Ferry Co. He served on the board of directors of several organizations including the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Co., Pennsylvania and Atlantic Railroad Co. and the Wellington Fund, Inc. He was a member of the Philadelphia Racquet Club and Rittenhouse Club. A loyal Naval Academy alumnus, he had served as Vice President (Eastern Area) and as a Trustee of the Alumni Association, of which he was a Life Member. He was one of the first managers of the Naval Academy Foundation.

Surviving is his widow, Ruth Rea Junkin, 100 Waverly Rd., Gladwyne, PA 19035.

PAUL DeVOE SLEEPER ' 1 3

DRAYTON.

Following brief duty in the U S S NEW YORK he was assigned as Aide and Fleet Radio Officer on the Staff of CINCPACFLT. From June 1921 to October 1923 he was on duty at the Bureau of Engineering. The next month he took command of the U S S PARROTT. TWO years later he became Asiatic Communication Officer at the Naval Radio Station, Los Banos, P.I. Como. Manahan returned to the Bureau of Engineering in 1927. From August 1929 to December 1930 he was CO, U S S HUMPHREYS. He then returned for a third tour at the Bureau of Engineering, this time as Head of the Radio Division. In November 1933 he returned to sea in the USS S A N FRANCISCO. The following November he transferred to command the USS MARBLEHEAD.

Temporary duty in the Office of the CNO preceded his assignment with the Naval Mission to Brazil. In December 1938 he assumed command of the U S S MEMPHIS. Como.

Manahan reported to the Office of the Governor, Panama Canal Zone, in June 1940. His assignment there was Marine Superintendent, Panama Canal Zone, throughout W W I I .

He received the Legion of Merit for his service there. He retired in November 1946.

After retirement he worked for a year with Inter-American Services, Inc., as the South American Representative.

Surviving are his widow, Alice, 2219 California St., N.W., Washington, DC 20008; and a daughter, Mrs. Alice Grinnell of Washington, D. C.

Richard Sweoringen Robertson '12

His next shore assignment was at the Bremerton, Wa., Navy Yard after which he went to the USS HOLLAND and then to the Algiers Naval Station, New Orleans, La. Before reporting to the Naval Academy to be in charge of the Midshipmen's Store, he had final sea duty in the U S S COLORADO. Capt. Robertson served as Supply Officer in the Canal Zone. He next became Disbursing Officer at Mare Island, Ca., before

Mr. Paul D. Sleeper died at his home in Washington, D. C , on Christmas day.

Funeral services were held in St. John's Episcopal Church, Chevy Chase, Md., on 29 December. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Born in Palmyra, N. J., he attended Philadelphia Business College from 1907-08 and Valparaiso University in Indiana the next year. He entered the Naval Academy with the class of 1913. As a midshipman he was manager of the gym and track teams and lightweight boxing champion. He developed a hearing impairment at the Academy and, therefore, resigned upon graduation in 1913.

For the next ten years Mr. Sleeper worked at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. In 1923 he joined the Atlantic Life Insurance Co. in Richmond. Three years later he transferred to Aetna Life Insurance Co. as a General Agent for D.C. and Virginia. He retired as General Agent Emeritus on 31 December 1956.

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1947 he served on the Staff of Western Sea Frontier. For the next two years he was in Newport as president of the General Court Martial. The remainder of his active duty was again on the Staff, Western Sea Frontier. He retired 1 August 1952.

Survivors include his daughter, Mrs. D. H. Lindsay, 1682 Mulberry Ln., San Jose, CA 95125.

WILLIAM HARNEY HOPKINS, JR. ' 1 8

Paul DeVoe Sleeper '13 Photo by Brooks

Mr. Sleeper had postgraduate insurance courses at New York University (1925), American College of Life Underwriters (1931—became C L U ) , and U. of Connecticut (1942).

He appeared in 1938-39 Who's Who in the Nation's Capital and the 1942-43 Who's Who in the East. He was a Life Member of the D. C. Life Insurance General Agents and Managers Assn.; Member of National Chartered Life Underwriters; and associate member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Mr. Sleeper was very active in civic affairs. His activities included president, D. C. T B Assn., member of the Board of Directors and Chairman, Christmas Seal Committee; Metropolitan chairman—D. C. Community Chest Campaign; president and vice president Crestwood Citizens Assn. and delegate to D. C. Federal Citizens Assn.; Chairman Special Gifts Fund Campaign of Metropolitan Police Boys Club of D. C.; Board of Trustees—D. C. Better Business Bureau; and Board of Directors, Washington Sanitary Housing Corp.

A strong supporter of the Naval Academy, he served terms as executive vice president, treasurer, and corresponding secretary of his class. He was a Life Member of the USNA Alumni Association and a Life Member of the Army and Navy Club of D.C. Among his survivors is his widow, Frances, 4545 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20008.

ARTHUR COOPER GEISENHOFF '16

Capt. Arthur C. Geisenhoff, USNR (Ret.), died 11 December 1971 in San Jose, Ca. A native of Utica, N. Y., he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1916. For the next four years he served in the USS ARKANSAS. He resigned his commission in August 1920 and joined the Naval Reserves.

From 1920 until 1940 Capt. Geisenhoff lived in California where he was a realtor and a rancher. In August 1940 he was recalled to active duty and assigned to the Mare Island Navy Yard as civilian personnel officer and senior member labor board.

In February 1943 he was put in command of a ferrying crew handling new ships for conversion to APAs. In December of that year he commissioned and assumed command of the USS CHILTON, training new crews out of Newport, R.I. Capt. Geisenhoff transferred to command of

the

newly-commissioned

USS

ONEIDA

in December 1944. Operating in the Pacific, she landed troops on Okinawa and evacuated wounded Marines from Iwo Jima and Magic Carpet after the War. From 1946 to 68

Former Lt. William H. Hopkins, Jr. (CC), USN, died of cancer 3 July 1971 at Pasadena, Ca. Funeral service was conducted at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pasadena, by Rev. Max M. Morrison. Burial was private attended by a few close friends.

He was born 30 September 1893 in Cincinnati, Oh.; entered the Naval Academy 9 May 1913 and was graduated 29 June 1917 with the class of 1918. All his commissioned service was in the vicinity of Boston, either in the Navy Yard at Charlestown or under instruction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

William Harney Hopkins '18

Mr. Hopkins resigned 14 April 1923 and eventually located in Pasadena doing engineering consulting work. In W W I I he served with the Kaiser Shipbuilding Company.

He was not survived by close relatives.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL KIDD '18

Former Lieutenant Alexander C. Kidd died 3 December 1971 at Orange Memorial Hospital, Orange, N. J. Funeral services were conducted at Our Lady of Sorrows Church, South Orange, on 7 Dec. Burial was at Long Island National Cemetery.

Mr. Kidd was born in Cleveland on 14 Dec. 1895. He attended public schools in Cleveland, prepared for entrance to the Academy at Bucks in Annapolis and entered with the class of 1918. He was graduated with that class and commissioned ensign, 29 June 1917.

His first service as an officer was in a transport, S.S. LUTETIA during W W I in which ship he became the senior naval officer. His next assignment was instructor at the Academy where he authored Naval Communications (the first textbook on the subject). Before resigning 15 Aug. 1927, he served on the staffs of VAdm. J. R. P. Pringle and RAdm. C. T. Vogelgesang.

Upon leaving the Navy he served with the Johns-Manville Corporation, becoming the manager of the Baltimore office with liaison in Washington. He remained with that organization for 22 years and then became general manager and vice president of H. W. Porter Co., Newark, N. J. In 1959 he became general manager and vice presi-

dent of Marryatt Lane & Co., Paterson, N. J., as Naval Engineer. He did not retire until age 73 in 1968.

In his several activities he resided in New York City, New Canaan, Ct., South Orange and East Orange, N. J. He received a Letter of Commendation from the French Navy for service in S.S. LUTETIA. He invented and patented several items now used internationally. He was co-inventor of the "Tred Chute" for USN, a combination between deck ladder and cargo chute. He was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.

Mr. Kidd is survived by his widow, Philomena, 157 S. Harrison St., E. Orange NJ 07018; by Mrs. John R. Seely of Great Barrington, Ma., a daughter of a former marriage; and by four other children, Alexander C. Kidd, Jr., of Homestead, Fl., Mrs. C. Thomas Truelson of Randolph, Ma., and Francis J. and Michael at home.

BENJAMIN W I L L I A M ARNOLD I I I ' 2 3

Capt. Benjamin William Arnold III, USNR (Ret.), died 1 September 1971 in Warwick, R. I. A private service was held for him at the Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island, N. Y., on 3 September.

A native of Virginia, he was a 1923 graduate of the Naval Academy. As a midshipman he was captain of the varsity wrestling team in his first class year. He served for a year in the USS COLORADO after graduation.

Resigning from the Navy in June 1924, he was in the banking and insurance businesses in North Carolina and Tennessee until the start of W W I I .

Volunteering for active duty, (Tapt.

Arnold entered the Navy again in May 1942 and served as the gunnery officer of the USS SUWANEE during the North African invasion. He was then the first lieutenant and damage control officer of the USS W A S P and, later, the executive officer of the USS MOUNT VERNON. After returning

to civilian life in February 1946, he was in the insurance business in Providence, R. I., until his death.

Capt. Arnold's survivors are his widow, Elizabeth, 44 Osceola Ave., Warwick, RI 02888; a son, Benjamin W. Arnold IV of Wilton, Ct.; and two grandchildren.

EDGAR TILGHMAN NEALE ' 2 4

Capt. Edgar T. Neale, USN (Ret.), died 11 December 1971 at the Keswick Home in Baltimore, Md. Funeral serevices were held in All Saints Church there.

A native of Baltimore, he attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before entering the Naval Academy. After graduation in 1924 he spent a year in the USS IDAHO and then had aviation training at Pensacola. He rejoined the IDAHO for three years. From June 1929 to May 1930 he was aboard the USS

ASHEVILLE.

Capt. Neale was designated a naval aviator in December 1930. For the next six years he was with Scouting Squadron 9 in the USS

CHESTER

and

at

NAS,

Anacostia,

D. C. In June 1936 he joined Bombing Squadron 3 and a year later transferred to Bombing Squadron 4.

From June 1939 to May 1941 he was on duty at the Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia. He then joined the USS LANGLEY. In November 1941 he assumed command of VP-102. Three months later he transferred to command VP-101. Until four days before the surrender of Corregidor in April 1942 he flew in supplies and flew out survivors, S H I P M A T E

including a large number of Army nurses.

For his wartime services he received the Silver Star Medal and a facsimile of and Ribbon for the Presidential Unit Citation awarded VP-102 and VP-101.

Capt. Neale next served as aviation officer on the Staff of Commander, Anzac Forces.

In May 1943 he assumed command of NAS, Squantum, Ma., and that September transferred to NAS, Jacksonville, as training officer of the Naval Air Operational Command.

After fitting out the USS SHIPLEY BAY he commanded her from her commissioning in March 1944. He received a Letter of Commendation for services in that command.

Duty followed at NAS, Bunker Hill, In., and NAS, Atlanta. In July 1948 he became CO, NOB, Trinidad.

Capt. Neale was assigned as CO, USS BATAAN in May 1950. For his services in

that command he was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat "V." From May 1951 to June 1954 he was in the Office of the CNO. He retired the following month.

Surviving are his widow, Sarah, 4108 Penhurst Ave., Baltimore, MD 21215; a son, Christopher T. Neale of Potomac, Md.; a sister, and a brother.

JOHN OSGOOD LAMBRECHT '25

Capt. John Osgood Lambrecht, USN (Ret.), died 9 January 1972 in Harrisburg, Pa. Memorial services were held in St. Stephen's Church in Harrisburg on 12 January. Burial with full military honors was in Arlington National Cemetery the following day.

Born in Rogers City, Mi., he was a 1925 graduate of the Naval Academy. After graduation he served in the USS PENNSYLVANIA for two years. Following duty in the U S S RizAL on the Asiatic Station, he transferred to the USS JOHN PAUL JONES.

Capt. Lambrecht began flight training in 1930. He returned to sea the following year in the

USS

SALT LAKE CITY. In

1935

he

was designated naval aviator. In 1937, while senior aviator in the USS COLORADO, he initiated the search for Amelia Earhart.

He later (1939 to 1941) served on another Asiatic tour.

At the beginning of W W I I he was XO of a patrol squadron at Ford Island. He was soon transferred to the Philippine Islands for neutrality patrols. In 1941 he was Operations Officer, NATC, Corpus Christi. Capt. Lambrecht went to the Staff of a Carrier Division Commander as Operations Officer in 1943. He then became CO, Manus Naval Air Base. He was serving as CO, USS

MAKASSAR STRAIT, at the end

of

the War. He attended National War College and in December 1949 was assigned Assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, C I N C L A N F L T . In 1951 he assumed command of the U S S ORISKANY. He was then assigned to the Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.

He retired in June 1955.

Among his awards were the Bronze Star Medal and the Yangtze Service Medal.

Capt. Lambrecht is survived by his widow, Elizabeth, Flemish Down, Rt. 1, Dauphin, PA 17018; a daughter, Mrs. Broadnax Cameron, Jr. of Bel Air, Md.; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Joseph Farley of Annapolis and Mrs. David Reynolds of Guilford, Ct.; a brother; and eight grandchildren.

CHARLES N E W T O N DAY ' 2 6

Capt. Charles Newton Day, USN (Ret.), died 7 November 1971 in Virginia Beach, Va. M A R C H ,

1 9 7 2

Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery.

A native of Washington, Pa., he was a 1926 graduate of the Naval Academy. Following two years at sea he had submarine instruction at New London. Capt. Day served in the USS R-17 and USS R-20 until May 1933. He then returned to the Naval Academy as an instructor.

Upon completion of postgraduate study at the U. of California at Berkeley in June 1936 he was assigned Division Engineer Officer of Submarine Division 11. In September 1937 he joined the USS

STINGRAY.

Two

years later he had shore duty at the Mare Island Navy Yard.

Capt. Day served with Submarine Division 203 in various capacities from June 1941 to January 1944. The next month he began duty in connection with fitting out the USS HOWARD W . GILMORE and

became her

XO

when she was commissioned.

In September 1944 Capt. Day took command of the USS PROTEUS. The following year he was ordered to the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Yard for three years. He returned to sea in July 1948 as CO, USS YANCEY.

After completing the National War College and the Armed Forces Staff College he joined the Staff of Commander, Amphibious Group 4. He then transferred to Commander Transport Division 32.

Capt. Day was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff, Joint Staff, Commander in Chief, Alaska, in February 1953. Two years later he took command of NAS, Green Cove Spring, Fl. He retired in July 1956.

Survivors include his widow, Eleanor, Pine Knob Way, Linlair, Virginia Beach, VA 23351.

J O H N H A M M O N D SIMPSON ' 2 6

Capt. John Hammond Simpson, U S N (Ret.), died 19 November 1971 in the Annapolis Naval Hospital. Graveside services were held in Arlington National Cemetery.

Born in Chattanooga, Tn., he was a 1926 graduate of the Naval Academy. His sea assignments included the USS BUSHNELL, USS MAURY, USS LUCE, USS PENNSYLVANIA and USS GEN. OMAR BUNDY.

During W W I I Capt. Simpson served on the staffs of Adm. Kirk and Adm. Wilkes.

He also served on the staff of Gen. Eisenhower during the invasion of Normandy.

He retired in July 1947.

After retirement he taught math at Villanova University.

He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Mayflower Descendants and the Pickering Hunt Club of Phoenixville, Pa. Survivors include his widow, Margaret, 830 Monroe St., Annapolis, MD 21401; a daughter, Mrs. James Marshall of Chester Springs, Pa.; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and a brother, Capt. E. H. Simpson, U S N (Ret.) '39.

W I L L I A M PONDER HOLLOWAY ' 3 2

Mr. William P. Holloway was stricken with a massive heart attack in October and died on 2 January 1972 in Brackenridge Hospital, Austin, Tx., without ever regaining consciousness. He was buried 4 January in the Live Oak Cemetery in Buda, Tx. Mr. Holloway was born in Texarkana, Tx., 13 October 1910; he attended Texarkana Junior College, East Texas State College, and was a graduate of Marion Institute, Al. He entered the Naval Academy in 1928 and remained with his class until the spring of 1932.

Williom Ponder Holloway '32

After leaving the Academy, he studied law at Texas University, and in 1937 he joined the Petty Geophysical Company, with whom he remained until 1944, including two years of oil exploration in Sumatra in 193840.

In 1944 Mr. Holloway joined Hall Level and Manufacturing Company in New Orleans, and in 1946 he reorganized it and moved it to Austin, Tx., where it became the base for his expanding business interest, as founder, owner, and president of the Pure Castings Company, the Holloway Oil Company, and the Pure Stone Company and Holloway Dynamics, Inc. Always a strong Navy supporter, he maintained a deep and life-long interest in his class and in the Naval Academy. He frequently attended reunions and homecomings, and he was a generous contributor to class and Alumni Association activities. He was a founder of the Austin U. S. Navy League.

He was an active Kiwanian and a pastchairman of the Central Texas Mfg. Association.

Surviving are his widow, Frances, R F D 1, Buda, TX 78610; a son, James M. Holloway, now in the U. S. Army in Germany; three daughters, Mrs. David Andrews of Abilene, and Mrs. John Herry and Miss Sara Holloway of Austin; 10 grandchildren; a brother, James A Holloway (USNA '24) ; and two adopted brothers, J. D. Williams of Texarkana and J. C. Williams ( U S N A '19), of Houston, Tx. RICHARD G O O D W I N COPELAND ' 3 3

RAdm. Richard G. Copeland, U S N (Ret.), died 3 September 1971 in the Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, Ca. Born in Wakefield, Ma., he was graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1928. At graduation from the Naval Academy in 1933 he was 7th Company Commander and received the DAR Sword for excellence in seamanship.

After graduation he served in the U S S WEST VIRGINIA for five years. For the next three years he served in the U S S DRAYTON and USS RICHMOND. In June 1941 he re-

ported to the Office of the CNO. From December 1943 to August 1944 Adm. Copeland commanded the U S S DEWEY. He received the Bronze Star Medal with Combat "V" for achievement in that command. After a period of hospitalization he joined the Staff of COMSERVFORLANT in July 1945.

In October 1947 he became Chief Staff Officer, Long Beach Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet. Following graduation from the Armed 69

Forces Staff College in June 1951, he became XO, U S S ROCHESTER.

Adm. Copeland became Plans and Operations Officer of the Navy Section, Joint U. S. Military Assistance Advisory Group, Greece, in September 1952. The next year he transferred to Assistant Chief of Staff on the Joint Staff of that group. In December 1954 he assumed command of the USS CALIENTE. In November 1955 Adm. Copeland began duty as Chief of Staff and Aide to COMSERV RON 3. He then reported to the Twelfth Naval District for temporary duty prior to becoming CO of the Administrative Command, Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, II. He retired in July 1959.

Among his survivors is his widow, Barbara, 1514 Parkhill Ln., Escondido, CA 92025.

RALPH KASPAR ROTTET ' 3 4

LGen. Ralph K. Rottet, USMC (Ret.), died 26 November 1971 in the Naval Hospital, Camp Lejeune, N. C. Born in Jaspar, In., he was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934. After Basic School he went to sea in the USS

Commander, 1st M A W ; a return assignment to MCAS, Cherry Point; and Director, MCEC, Quantico. His last tour was as Deputy of Operations, USMCHQTRS. He retired in September 1968.

He had the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and the Air Medal.

After retiring from active duty he joined the board of Carolina Telephone and Telegraph Co. Among his survivors is his widow, Adele Rt. 3, Box 236, New Bern, NC 28560.

HARRY DANIEL HELFRICH, JR. ' 3 9

Capt. Harry Daniel Helfrich, Jr., USN (Ret.), died suddenly 6 January 1972 in Annapolis, Md. Funeral serevices were held 10 January at the Fort Myer Chapel followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

SALT LAKE CITY. In 1935 he began flight

training in Pensacola.

From June 1937 to 1940 Gen. Rottet was assigned to NAS San Diego with VMF-2.

The next year he returned to Pensacola as an instructor with VT-3. In October 1941 he was ordered to the Bureau of Aeronautics. He next went to MCAS, Cherry Point, N. C , to commission, form and train MAG 31. He went with that group to Samoa, Funafuti, Tarawa and the Marshall Islands.

In December 1944 he returned to the United States to attend Army-Navy Staff College. While again on duty at MCAS, Cherry Point, Gen. Rottet was selected to assist in organizing and served on the staff of the Armed Forces Staff College.

V^

Ralph Kospar Rottet '34

Following staff duty with COMAIRPAC, he was again assigned to NAS San Diego. He was then ordered to the Marine Air Detachment at NAS Minneapolis. That was a brief tour as at the outbreak of the Korean hostilities he was transferred to USMC H Q T R S as Head of Operations and Training for Marine Aviation. In 1953 he went to Korea to command an attack group. He later commanded an all jet fighter group in Japan.

In 1954 Gen. Rottet reported to Quantico for duty with an advanced research group.

His later career included duty as Deputy 70

and Astronautics Programs, Bureau of Naval Weapons.

Upon retirement from the Navy in 1962, he joined Martin Co. and for three years was Director, Sales and Reqts. in the Corporate Offices at Friendship Airport. In 1965, he joined NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., where, at the time of his death, he was Head, Flight Program Office, Test and Evaluation Division.

Capt. Helfrich was very active with amateur radio societies. He was a Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, member of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assoc, life member of the A.R.R.L., and member of the Quarter Century Wireless Assoc. He was also member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, member of the National Space Club of Wash., D. C, and treasurer of AMSAT (Amateur Satellite Corp.)

He is survived by his widow, Diana Hope Helfrich, Hickory Ridge, Winchester-onSevern, Annapolis, MD 21401; a daughter, Hope (Mrs. Wm. Mallett) ; and three sons, David, Michael and Daniel.

STANLEY JOSEPH C O W I N , JR. ' 4 3

Mr. Stanley Joseph Cowin, Jr., died at his home in Westwood, Ma., on 8 December 1971 following a long illness.

Born in Orono, Me., he was graduated from the Naval Academy in the class of 1943. He served throughout W W I I in the submarines USS Harry Daniel Helfrich, Jr. '39

He was born in Hagerstown, Md., on 25 May 1916, and graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1939. After serving ten months as an EDO in USS TENNESSEE, he

joined the USS PC-449 in May 1940 and served as her XO until April 1941. He was then assigned to USS DICKERSON, a destroyer which at the outbreak of W W I I was engaged in anti-submarine patrol in the North Atlantic. He reported to NAS, Pensacola, for flight training in July 1942. Designated Naval Aviator on 12 March 1943, he completed advanced flight training at NAS, Jacksonville, in September of that year and in October reported as XO of VP-208, on anti-submarine patrol in the Caribbean Sea. In October 1944 he returned to Annapolis for instruction in Electronics at the Naval Postgraduate School. Awarded the degree of Master of Science in May 1947, he was designated AEDO. In June 1947 Capt. Helfrich reported to the Bureau of Ships, where he served as Assistant for Air, Electronics Division, and Liaison Officer between that Bureau and the Bureau of Aeronautics. In July 1948 he was ordered to the Bureau of Aeronautics, and from August, that year, to August 1951 he served as Electronics Branch Head. During the next three years he was Chief, Project Officer, Electronics Test Division, NATC, Patuxent River, Md. Capt. Helfrich had duty afloat from July 1954 until July 1957 as Avionics and Ordnance Officer on the Staff of Commander Naval Air Force, Pacific Fleet, and returned to duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics in August 1957. There he served as Assistant Director of the Avionics Division until 1960 when the Bureau was consolidated with the Bureau of Ordnance with the new designation of Bureau of Naval Weapons. From 1960 to 1962 he served as Director, Range

SAILFISH and

USS

CARP.

He was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and a Presidential Citation.

Mr. Cowin resigned from the Navy in October 1947. He was a lieutenant in the Naval Reserves.

After leaving the Navy he began a career in the paper industry with Scott Paper Co. He served as a paper mill engineer, maintenance superintendent, chief engineer, assistant plant manager, sales representative and finally territory sales manager. At the time of his death he was vice president in charge of manufacturing for the S. D. Warren Paper Co. of Boston.

Stanley Joseph Cowin, Jr. '43

Surviving are his widow, Ruth, 304 Dover Rd., Westwood, MA 02090; a son, John; a daughter, Mrs. John Osting; and a granddaughter, Melinda Osting.

JOSEPH SPENCE ZEIGLER ' 4 3

Cdr. Joseph Spence Zeigler, USN (Ret.), died of a heart attack on 26 October 197l in Selma, Al. A native of Talladega, Al., he attended Marion Institute before entering the Naval Academy. Upon graduation with the class S H I P M A T E

of 1943 he was ordered to the USS DALY.

J O H N GREGORY ELSBERRY ' 7 1

In September 1944 he began flight training 2/Lt. John Gregory Elsberry, USMC, was at Pensacola. killed in an automobile accident 11 SeptemFrom October 1945 to January 1946 Cdr. ber 1971 near Martinsville, Va. Memorial services, conducted by Senior Chaplain H. Zeigler served as a pilot with a Naval Air Bombing Training Unit. He was then an C. Duncan of the Naval Academy, were held aviation instructor for six months. In July 16 September in the chapel at Quantico, Va. Funeral services were held in the Westwood 1946 he was assigned as XO, VP-27.

Hills Christian Church, Los Altos, Ca. InIn April 1949 he was ordered to the Naval terment was in the VA Cemetery, W. Los Amphibious Training Unit, Pacific, as an Angeles, Ca. on 17 September. instructor in the Air Support School. From Lt. Elsberry was born in San Antonio, September 1951 to April 1952 he was an instructor at the Guided Missile School, Tx. In high school he participated in the school band and on the tennis team and Ft. Bliss, Tx. served as editor-in-chief of the school newsCdr. Zeigler spent the next two years at paper. He was elected to the National Honor Port Lyautey as assistant operations officer. Society. He was also an Eagle Scout, BSA Following a two-year tour at the Training and a member of the Christian Church.

Device Center he was ordered to HTG-1 At the Naval Academy he continued a as an instructor. well-rounded extra-curricular schedule as From December 1956 to December 1958 well as maintaining a high scholastic averhe was XO and later CO of H S - 1 . The age, which put him on the Superintendent's List three semesters. next year he was Operations Officer in the While serving on a Polaris patrol in 1970 USS BOXER. In January 1960 he was ashe qualified as diving officer in a fleet balsigned XO, F A E T U L A N T . He retired in listic missile submarine. In 1971 he received August 1962. a private pilot's license.

Survivors include his widow, Elizabeth, Upon graduation from the Naval Academy in 1971 he was commissioned in the Marine P. O. Box 432, Marion, AL 36756.

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Corps. At the time of his death he was a member of "A" Company at The Basic School, Quantico, Va. Lt. Elsberry is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Elsberry, 952 18th St, # 6 , Santa Monica, CA 90403; a brother, Bradley,' of the home address; a sister, Mrs. Janice Liegeois of Detroit; and his grandmother, Mrs. C. C. Elsberry of Fairfax, Ok.

John Gregory Elsberry '71

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