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Alumni to Visit England, Ireland in August England and Ireland will be the destinations of the alumni summer trip, departing August 11 via PanAm charter flight from Baltimore-Washington to London.

In England tour members will stay five days in London and two days in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Hotels are the Royal Lancaster, overlooking Hyde Park, and the Stratford Hilton, on the Avon River.

We will visit Windsor and Warwick Castles, Hampton Court, Oxford, Stonehenge, Bath, and the delightful Cotswolds, often called the "real England." There will also be sightseeing in London.

Tour members will fly from London to Dublin, where we will stay at the deluxe Gresham Hotel. Following two days in Dublin, we will head south via Tipperary to Cork. After kissing the Blarney Stone, we continue to Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland's most beautiful area. We will stay at the deluxe Hotel Europe on the magnificent Lake of Leane. The highlight of our three days in Killarney will be a day's drive around the famed Ring of Kerry, one of the most beautiful excursions in all of Europe.

Our third stop in Ireland will be at the Clare Inn in the heart of lovely Shannonside. Here there will be a special feature for the ladies—an exclusive presentation of Irish fashions, clothing and gifts, courtesy of famous Bunratty Cottage.

English or Irish breakfast is included each day of the trip.

Dinner is included nine evenings and there will be a cocktail party each night. Special features are a Scottish feast and "dine around" in London, Jury's famous cabaret dinner theatre in Dublin, and a banquet in a medieval castle near Shannon.

Ample time is set aside for shopping and independent wandering. The return flight from Shannon to BaltimoreWashington is August 25.

The cost of this exciting fortnight is $995 per person, based on double room occupancy. The single room supplement is $85.

Brochures and further details may be obtained from Matterhorn Travel Service, 1923 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401. Telephone (301) 268-7822.

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Shipmate April, 1975

Volume 38, Number 3 Executive Director W. S. BUSIK, '43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

FEATURES The Naval War College

by VAdm. Julien J. Lebourgeois USN

Treasurer and Director of Alumni Services JAMES D. OLIVER, "43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

Associate Members

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Naval Science

by RAdm. D. V. Gallery USN (Ret.)

Director of Development RICHARD A. TEEL, '36 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

Director of Publications ROY C. SMITH, III. '34 Captain, USNR (Retired)

Executive Secretary BARRIE DUREE

Editorial Assistant ARNETT CUSTER

Slate of Nominees

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Caracas and the Future

by RAdm. Max K. Morris USN Save the CONSTITUTION

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Fort Drum

by Capt. James E. Wise, Jr. USN 25 Navy Sailing

by Capt. Robert D. McWethy USN (Ret.)

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DEPARTMENTS Alumni Tour Dope 2 Contributors' Biographies Sea Breezes 5 The Mail Boat 6 All Hands 8 Officers and Trustees 13 A Few Inches from the Yard

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Opinions expressed in Shipmate are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect the opinions, policy or attitude of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, its officers or the editorial staff. All pictures are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise credited. Member, American Alumni Council

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Lucky Bag of Books 31 Capitol Hill 34 Navy Sports 37 Class News 40 Chapter News 76 Last Call 81 Classified Services 87

MGen. Benjamin Butler's 8th Massachusetts and 7th New York Militia landing at the Naval Academy on 21 April 1861, beginning an Army occupation that was to last throughout the Civil War. See the story on page 23.

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Contributors' Biographies REAR ADMIRAL MAX K. MORRIS USN Max Morris served in the Army's Mountain Artillery, Mule Corps prior to entering the Naval Academy, where he was a member of the 1947 National Championship crew and graduated in the Class of 1948-A. A naval aviator, he served with distinction in Korea and was an Exchange Pilot with the Royal Navy aboard HMS EAGLE and VICTORIOUS. In 1959-61 he earned a Master's degree in Political Science, then served as Aide and Flag Lt. to CinCUSNavEur. Two tours in OpNav and command of USS SuRiBACHi were followed by duty as Commandant of Midshipmen USNA 1971-73 and his present assignment to the JCS as Representative of Law of the Sea matters.

CAPTAIN JAMES E. WISE USN Capt. Wise, Northwestern '52, completed flight training and served with various patrol squadrons, as Aide to ComFairWingsLant and as Ass't. PNS, NROTC U. of Kansas. Completing Intelligence School in 1963 he was assigned to a PacFlt Air Intelligence Unit, as Intelligence Officer in USS AMERICA, as CO Intelligence Processing Training Facility at NAS Albany GA, and as CO Naval Investigative Service Office, Philippines. In 1972 he reported to Washington as Deputy, then Commander, TF 168, a fleet support element of the Naval Intelligence Command, and is now in the Office of the Director Central Intelligence.

He has been a frequent contributor of Navy related articles to both government and commercial periodicals.

CAPTAIN ROBERT D. McWETHY USN (RET.) Bob McWethy graduated from the Naval Academy in December 1941 with the Class of 1942. After wartime submarine duty, including command of USS R-10, he served as XO in an Arctic icebreaker and subsequently played an important role in developing our under-ice submarine capability. He later commanded USS PIPER (SS-409), USS VERMILLION (AKA-107), the Oceanographic System Atlantic, and the guided missile cruiser PROVIDENCE. Retired but not inactive, he is now Executive Secretary of the U.S. Naval Sailing Association and Executive Director of the U.S. Naval Sailing Foundation, headquartered at the Naval Station, Annapolis.

PAUL R. SCHRATZ Ph.D., retired USN '39 and Director of International Studies at U. of Missouri, now serving as senior staff officer of the joint White House/Congressional, bipartisan. Commission on the Organization of the Govemment for the Conduct of Foreign Policy. His naval service included policy and planning roles and attendance at the Naval and National War Colleges as both student and faculty member. He was the first naval officer to receive a Mershon doctoral fellowship at Ohio State and a Wilton Park fellowship from the British Foreign Office.

THOMAS F. BATES A 1960 graduate of Notre Dame, Tom Bates became Director of Public and Sports Information at Gannon College in Erie, Pa., in 1961, and also was publicity assistant for the All-American Bowl Football game at Buffalo in 1962-63. In 1967 he was appointed Director of Sports Information at Lafayette College, where his publications won honors for editorial excellence and his peers rewarded his with high offices in their professional associations. He joined Navy's staff in September 1973.

FRED W. LARDNER '22 "Fred Lardner '22, who writes our legislative reports, has been a newspaper reporter, business magazine writer and department store advertising manager in Chicago; a correspondent for newspapers, business and military magazines and a managing editor in Washington. He has done many things in the editorial field, except making money. About 35 years ago he received a Christmas card from a girl co-worker with the greeting, 'From one editorial bum to another.'

Believing that this girl would not push him too hard, he married her." FWL JAMES G. STAVRIDIS Midshipman James G. Stavridis '76 is an English major, planning to enter the Marine Corps or the Service Line on graduation. He is the Editor of The Log, has won an N* in Squash Racquets and plays varsity Tennis.

He also carries a 3.6 CPQR in his major. Jim hails from Pittsburgh, Penna.

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Paul Schratz '39

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventyfive; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year . . .

Well, we didn't remember, and for the Bicentennial anniversary we thought it necessary to check the record. The result is rather depressing. Longfellow was a great poet but he was no shakes as a historian. Richard O'Donnell of the Smithsonian Institution claims that Paul Revere didn't really ride through the streets of Lexington or Concord; he never saw the lanterns in the Old North Church—both the signals and the church were wrong— and what he actually found on his famous ride was three of his compatriots dallying with their girl friends.

But we're getting ahead of our story.

Revere was a goldsmith and a copper engraver; his Revere ware even then was well known in Beantown. On the eve of the Revolution, he was safely in Boston.

He had asked a friend to hang lanterns in the church—possibly Christ Church or North Square Church, not the Old North —to alert patriot soldiers across the river in Charlestown that the British were coming.

Hang a lantern aloft in the Belfry arch Of the North Church town as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea . . .

Just as the moon rose over the bay Where swinging wide at her moorings lay The Somerset, British man-of-war . . .

The British grenadiers took to the boats —and the two lantern signal went up— but they rowed only a short distance, then went ashore and proceeded on foot.

Revere, meanwhile, was already on his way with the misinformation that the enemy was coming by sea. // was one by the village clock.

When he galloped into Lexington . . .

It was two by the village clock When he came to the bridge in Concord town . . .

So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm . . .

But his haste that night was not to warn the Minutemen; this, he had done two nights earlier, on April sixteenth.

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spreading the word of British plans to attack Concord and asking the patriots to hide their ammunition and supplies. On the eighteenth, his purpose was to warn revolutionaries Sam Adams and John Hancock to get out of town and avoid arrest. Revere's arrival found Hancock dallying with the beautiful Dorothy Quincy. They all sat down for a midnight snack, after which patriot William Dawes joined Revere to ride to warn the citizens of Concord. Enroute they were joined also by Dr. Samuel Prescott, returning from a rendezvous with his girl friend.

Before reaching Concord they detoured to Lincoln and found one patriot awake, Nathaniel Baker—you guessed it—holding hands with still another fair maiden.

At 0230, the 800 Redcoats who had landed at Lechmere, meanwhile, commenced the march on Lexington. Aided possibly by the bad dope on the expected approach by sea, Hancock and Adams were caught and imprisoned. Revere, Prescott and Dawes, on return from Lincoln, were met by six British officers and they, too, were arrested. Dawes dashed away but fell off his horse; Prescott jumped a fence and it was he who actually got to Concord to alert the citizens. Revere was captured, threatened with a pistol and ordered to talk. Knowing nothing about "name, rank, and serial number," he told everything, giving a

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graphic account of his glorious gallop.

(Had Longfellow been present to take notes, he might have written a more accurate poem.) Revere's magnificent horse, borrowed from Deacon John Larkin of Charlestown, he gave to the British. The mare's name, Brown Beauty, was not even mentioned by Longfellow.

When the shooting broke out hours later, Revere and four others were released. They succeeded in helping Adams and Hancock escape, where they all joined the farmers in giving the redcoats . . . ball for ball From behind each fence and farmyard wall . . .

And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,— A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door; And a word that shall echo forevermore!

For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last.

In the hour of darkness and peril and need.

The people will waken and listen to hear The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed, And the midnight message of Paul Revere.

We don't mean to be irreverent in treating heroic episodes in our history.

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The Mail Boat In Defense of the Military Career

Action on Dual Compensation Laws

This letter was written by a recent graduate of the Naval Academy commenting on an article published in the Christian Science Monitor and is reprinted from a Naval Academy Bulletin. It should warm the hearts of many old grads.

It is in light of my very high regard for the Monitor that I was dismayed when your special section "Life-Styles" failed to consider the military as a viable career choice for today's students in college.

I gained some insight into the decision to exclude the military when I studied the life-style chart and saw what the broad, but accurate, characteristics of a military career are. Job prestige is ranked low, and our work labeled routine. It is also true that a military career demands a firm commitment and a large amount of "surface" conformity. A military career is hard on family life, and one always works under close supervision. Loyalty to superiors, whether one agrees or disagrees with their decisions, is an absolute necessity. Transfers are many, hours are long, and leave periods always seem to be too short.

In view of the above why do I still believe that my decision to go to the Naval Academy to be the best I have ever made?

It is because I truly believe in the importance of my part in the defense of this nation. It is because it has been my privilege to work with some of the finest men I have ever met, officers and enlisted. The armed forces today offer something that is absolutely intangible, fulfillment. As an ensign, my impact on the Navy is very small, but I do play an im portant part on my ship, and that knowledge, coupled with the knowledge of what my ship means to the Navy, and what my N a w means to the nation, yields an emotional return far in excess of any salary or material comfort I could envision.

Such a career is not for everyone, but should not be rejected out of hand by everyone.

Shipmate: Last weekend I saw Joe Taussig '41 at a party and asked him what campaign he was engaged in this year. I was delighted to leam that he has agreed to defend a retired officer being prosecuted by the federal government for violating the maze of dual compensation laws and rulings, but imder circumstances which make this case quite different from the many others Joe has handled: (1) the government's brief is so poor that Joe feels it likely that the defense will win, (2) the defendant's employer is willing to foot the costs so that it can go all the way, (3) a three judge panel will hear the case indicating that a preliminary judicial estimate is that the merits are sufficiently important to warrant this attention.

If won, this case could be a landmark decision for retired officers.

Bob McNitt '38 Shipmate is delighted to hear of this hopeful action that could mean so much to so many. We all owe Captain Taussig both thanks and support.

The "Horse Marines" This letter is reprinted with permission of the author to whom it was addressed as a most interesting comment on the "Horse Marines" of Peking.

Dear Colonel Epperson, It was with very great interest that I read your article on the famous Peking "Horse Marines" in the November 1974 issue of Shipmate.

It was as a young boy of fifteen that I first saw the Horse Marines in 1923 when I lived in Peking where my father was in business. This was about the time that you served in Tientsin as a young cavalry lieutenant, probably with the Fifteenth Infantry.

Many of the officers you cited I have served with, including Smedley Butler, Bill Lemly, Ed Ferguson, etc. Thomas Holcomb was my father's first cousin and we were born in Delaware.

I enlisted in the Corps in Peking in 1925 at the age of seventeen—no doubt the first one ever to do so on a first enlistment—in order to compete for an appointment to the Naval Academy from the ranks. I finally made it in 1927 and was graduated with the Class of 1931. As

a Second Lieutenant of Marines I was ordered back to China in 1932 where I served with the Fourth Marines until 1934 when I was ordered to the Embassy in Peking where I served as a Chinese language officer until 1937.1 had already learned a lot of the language as a school boy there!

During the period 1934 to 19371 took a number of motion pictures of Peking including a reel on the Marine Detachment and I have fine shots of the "Horse Marines" on parade both in dress blues and field uniform. The Historical Division of Headquarters Marine Corps heard I had these pictures several years ago and they asked me to lend them the original reels so that they could make copies for their records. This I did and they were apparently very pleased to have them. At the time I took the pictures, the then Captain Louis ("Chesty") Puller commanded the troop.

Your very interesting article certainly brought back old memories to me!

Very sincerely, s/ Bankson T. Holcomb '31 Brig. Gen. USMC (Ret.) A Few Inches From The Yard Shipmate: I suggest that a more appropriate title for the column, "A Few Inches From The Yard" in our alumni magazine might well be, "Give Us The Inch And We'll Take The Yard."

The attitude of Midshipman Jim Stavridis '76 and the current method of revising the USNA regulations described in the column in the January-February, 1975 issue, bode less than good for future discipline, morale and performance in the Navy.

J. H. Nevins, Jr., '25 Times change, and so do applications of proven principles, but Academy officials have assured us that there will be no let down in standards of discipline or performance. The letter from a recent graduate quoted above is good evidence that morale also continues high.

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The Naval War College A Rebuttal to Paul Schratz' "Sea Breezes" Vice Admiral Julien J. Lebourgeois, USN, President Naval War College

The following commentary on the Naval War College curriculum and philosophy today was written as a letter to "The Mail Boat," but we consider it important enough to warrant publication as a featured article.

Paul Schratz had occasion a few weeks ago to visit the Naval War College. At that time, we gave him a current overview of the curriculum and intellectual approach which guide our activities. Paul's comment was that he wished his article, appearing in the January-February 1975 issue of Shipmate, had not gone to press so that he might have revised it in light of what he had since learned. Having now read the article, I share Paul's view.

Let me say at the outset that I strongly support Vice Admiral Turner's efforts to sharpen the focus and pertinence of the curriculum, and to upgrade the intellectual quality and rigor of the program.

Indeed, if he had not undertaken an overhaul of the course, I most surely would have.

I am confident that the central thrust of our curriculum is sound but would agree with Paul that we must ensure high quality execution of the program—a process which requires further refinement and coordination of the curriculum, a continuing effort to ensure responsiveness to the needs of the Service, and a vigorous program to ensure a high quality faculty and student body. There remains much to be done; at the same time, I believe we all can take satisfaction in the results which have been achieved so far.

Now a few specific comments on Paul's article.

The Strategy and Policy curriculum does not stop at "the edge of World War II" and has not done so since the fall of 1972. Since that time, substantial emphasis has been given to nuclear deterrence, the Cold War, revolutionary warfare in Indochina, and the Cuban missile crisis. The class which arrives in August 1975 will have considerably more exposure to both Soviet and U.S. maritime strategy, modern alliance systems, great power involvement in small nation conflicts—with special reference to the Middle East—and a revised treatment of the phenomenon of wars of national liberation.

I believe Paul would agree that his comments with regard to the Defense Economics and Decision Making course do not reflect the facts of the current situation. This course, as its title suggests, addresses the complex issues of providing for the national defense within the constraints imposed by our economy. While the "budding Pentagon program sponsors" to whom Paul refers would no doubt benefit from taking the course, to imply that they are its sole object is seriously to understate both the scope of the course and the need of our mid-career oflBcers for awareness and sophistication in the realities of high level decision making— which is the real focus of the course.

To describe the course as "largely systems analysis" is simply inaccurate. Systems analysis is addressed as one topic among many. Failure to do so would represent a curious omission in a course which attempts to address the realities of contemporary defense decision making.

Beyond this, I believe the argument is not so much with analysis per se—it would be incomprehensible that we not analyze problems before arriving at decisions regarding them. The issue would seem to be the competence of analysts and the power they have to affect defense decisions, wherever these analysts are to be found in govemment.

Paul's reference to "administration/ management literature of the Pentagon of the '60s" reflects that he did not have an opportunity to examine the full scope of the required reading which deals mainly with contemporary defense realities. We

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do have some texts which are provided as background reading for the students—and we might debate as to whether such background is necessary.

We are continuing to intensify our attention to the Employment of Naval Forces—the course offered by our Naval Operations Department—in order that Naval War College graduates become more proficient in their understanding of how maritime forces are employed to support national objectives. We want them to have a better grasp of the tactically significant aspects of modern naval forces, our own and those of other nations —existing forces as well as those on the ways.

Through all of this we very much keep before us that this is the Naval War College—we must deal with maritime aspects of the subject matter addressed here— for if we don't, who will?

As a closing thought, I am in total accord with Paul when he says that "what is needed is not further radical surgery, but a period of post operations stability."

Even so, the Naval War College can't stand still—we live in a dynamic world and must function accordingly. Consequently, one change that will occur here is an increased emphasis on advanced research in the areas of strategic and tactical concepts for the employment of naval forces. This has been a function of the Naval War College down through the years; however, with a substantially new Navy in being or on the ways and with dramatic changes in weapons systems and sponsors, there is a need to intensify such research efforts. I assure you the Naval War College will do its best to contribute in this sphere.

All Hands Happy Birthday On 2 April 1975 our oldest living alumnus, Mr. William C. Parrish '99, celebrates his 95th birthday at his home in Colton, California. A distinguished engineer and inventor, he has been a steady supporter of the Naval Academy and the Alumni Association and is still an active correspondent. On behalf of the Association, Admiral Burke, the President, wrote him a letter of congratulations and best wishes, to which Shipmate adds its own "Congratulations, Mr. Parrish."

And A Note of Sadness

Shipmate has just received word, much belated, that our eleventh oldest alumnus, Captain Stephen Doherty USN (Ret.) '06, died at his home in Cape May NJ on 2 April 1972 of heart disease at the age of 89. He had retired on 1 July 1934 with over thirty years of service. Capt. Doherty is survived by his daughter, Stephanie D. Templeton, 235 Ringgold Street, PeekskUl NY 10566.

Robertson's is the newly promoted RAdm. William O. MUler (JAGC).

Flag Selections

Shipmate extends hearty congratulations to the 37 line captains and Capt.

Maxine Conder (NC) selected for promotion to flag rank. The line captains are: Stanley J. Anderson '51, Henry D. Arnold '50, John C. Barrow '49, Lee Baggett, Jr. '50, Edward S. Briggs '49, William M. Callaghan, Jr. '49, Robert M. Collins, Cabell S. Davis, Jr. '48, Paul H. Engel, Mark P. Frudden '50, Paul C. Gibbons, Jr., William A. Gureck, Allen E. Hill, William L. Hinkle '47, John V. Josephson '49, Bruce Keener III '48, Thomas J. Kilcline '49, Thomas L. Malone, Jr. '53, Francis F. Manganaro '48, Thomas W. McNamara, Wayne E. Meyer, James B. Morin, Robert E. Morris, William Nivison '47, Samuel H. Packer II, Thomas H. Replogle, William H. Rowden '52, James A. Sagerholm '52, Gordon J. Schuller '51, James H. Scott '49, Ernest R. Seymour '53, William R. Smedberg IV '51, Robert L. Walters '49, William B. Warwick, Edward F. Welch, Jr. '48, Ross N. Williams '51 and Charles J. Youngblade '49.

Section C. All the reports we saw were low key, simple and succinct, with nothing added to the information released by the Academy. This was in marked contrast to press reporting of the so-called cheating scandal on Navigation exams last year, and indicates that the Academy's complete honesty with the press during that affair has firmly established the credibility of its oflScials.

A "Well Done" to all concerned.

Midshipman of the Year

Mid. 1/c Timothy P. Biggs, of Park Forest IL, recently received the Greater Annapolis Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award, nicknamed "Midshipman of the Year." The award is given to that midshipman of the first class who has rendered outstanding service to the Annapolis community during his four years at the Academy. Mid. Biggs was so honored for his work in the Big Brother program, which he has headed within the Brigade this year.

Changes of Command Academy Discipline and the Press A new Chief of Naval Material, Chief of Naval Personnel and Judge Advocate General are or soon will be in office.

VAdm. Frederick H. Michaelis '40, presently ComNavAirLant, relieves Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, Jr. '42 as Chief of Naval Material with promotion to four stars.

RAdm. James D. Watkins '49, presently ComCruDesGru One, relieves VAdm. David H. Bagley '44 as Chief of Naval Personnel and DCNO (Manpower) with promotion to three stars. RAdm. Horace B. Robertson, Jr. (JAGC) '46, Deputy JAG, moves up to relieve the retiring RAdm. Merlin H. Staring as JAG. Adm. Kidd's and VAdm. Bagley's next assignments and the relief for RAdm. Watkins were not known at the time this was written. VAdm. Michaelis' relief is VAdm. Howard E. Greer '44 and RAdm.

An investigation conducted over several months by agents of the Naval Investigative Service resulted in the early morning search of a house in the Annapolis area on 2 February and charges against ten midshipmen for the use of marijuana. A group of midshipmen had rented the house, itself a violation of regulations, and a small quantity of the drug was found in it. Seven of the ten have submitted their resignations and administrative conduct hearings were being held for the other three at press time.

This time, however, the local and Eastern press made no effort to play up the story as a drug scandal; in fact, the Washington Post ran it on page 3 of

Tim Biggs congratulated by Capt. D. K. Forbes USN '50, Commandant of Midshipmen, and Lee Ellis, C-of-C Naval Affairs Chairman

The award, consisting of the original proclamation and an engraved silver tray, was presented at the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce. Mid. Biggs also received a certificate from Maryland's Governor Mandel designating him as an "Admiral of the Chesapeake Bay" and citations from both the Mayor of Annapolis and the Anne Arundel County Executive.

"Well done," Admiral Biggs!

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progress has been made, and "Old Ironsides" is now undergoing a complete overhaul to restore her to the original condition in which she was launched in 1797, much remains to be done to have the ship and the Museum ready for the Bi-centennial celebrations beginning later this year.

Consequently, a $1.75 million fundraising drive has been inaugurated to complete the USS CONSTITUTION Mu-

First Academic Dean Honored The Superintendent, VAdm. Mack, and Mrs. Drought unveiled a memorial portrait of the late Dr. A. Bernard Drought in ceremonies in the Annapolis Room of the new Nimitz Library last December. Dr. Drought served as the Academy's first Academic Dean from 1963 until his death in 1970 and played a major role in its curriculum changes during that period. The portrait was painted by the noted Navy artist George Sottung. Also participating were RAdm. Robert W. McNitt, USN (Ret.), Dean of Admissions, and Chaplain Raymond H. Dressier, Jr., USN.

Air Training. Originally established about ten years ago in small, temporary quarters, the Museum has steadily grown to its present status of pre-eminence in its field. Major support has come from the Naval Air Museum Association, Inc., a non-profit organization of naval air enthusiasts who raised the funds needed to construct the new building and whose members have contributed extensively to its display collections. The Museum contains various types of naval aircraft from the 1911 Curtiss A-1 Triad to the present, as well as static displays of the people and accomplishments that made naval aviation history. It is open to the public, admission free.

USS Constitution Museum

seum, to be located in the historic Alexander Parris building (1832) in the Boston Navy Yard Historic Site adjacent to the ship's berth. As Boston's most popular tourist attraction in recent years, it is estimated that "Old Ironsides" and the Museum will entertain about 1.5 million visitors annually during the Bi-centennial years, a great many of them being school children of impressionable age.

Plans call for five principal display galleries in the CONSTITUTION Museum:

(1) her planning and construction in the 1790's, (2) the Barbary Wars period of the early 1800's, (3) the War of 1812 where she won her nickname and her greatest fame, (4) subsequent years and the struggles for her preservation, and (5) life aboard a wooden sailing frigate of her time. Facilities will also be available for discussion groups, especially of school children.

This is a project all true Navymen should support. Those interested may write to RAdm. J. C. Wylie, Jr., USN (Ret.), 627 Black Point Lane, Portsmouth RI 02871.

Academic Honors Professor Earl R. Pinkston of the Naval Academy's Physics Faculty received the George B. Pegram Award of the American Physical Society in Atlanta last December. The Pegram Award was established by the Society to recognize excellence and outstanding accomplishment in teaching physics at the college or university level.

Professor Pinkston has been a faculty member at the Academy since 1942 and served as Chairman of the Physics Department in 1959-67, the period of the greatest curriculum changes in the history of the Academy.

Congratulations!

Naval Air Museum The new Naval Air Museum will be officially dedicated in its new, permanent building at NAS Pensacola on 13 April, under the auspices of the Chief of Naval April, 1975

Under the leadership of RAdm. J. C. Wylie, Jr., USN '32, then ComOne, the USS CONSTITUTION Museum Foundation was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1972 as a non-profit educational organization dedicated to preserving the historic frigate, and the history and traditions she represents. Although much

NHF Manuscript Collections

The Naval Historical Foundation has published a register of the latest additions to its manuscript collections held in the Library of Congress, where they are

Planning the USS CoNSTTruTiON Museum Drive (1. to r.) Mr. Wilham D. Taylor, Publisher of the Boston Globe; Mr. Charles F. Adams, Chairman of Raytheon; and RAdm. J. C. Wylie USN (Ret.)

10 available for reference and research to students, historians and biographers in the field of naval history. The new register describes the personal papers of Admiral David G. Farragut (1801-1870), Captain John Gwinn (1791-1849), Rear Admiral John Lowe (1838-1930), Captain David Porter (1780-1843) and his son, Admiral David D. Porter (18131891).

spring and will become the first carrier to join the ranks of Navy ships maintained as memorial museums. The annual reunion of the USS YORKTOWN Association, scheduled for Charleston on 13 October 1975, will then offer the opportunity to revisit the old ship.

For further details, contact James T. Bryan, Jr., c/o Frank B. Hall & Co., 88 Pine Street, New York NY 10005.

Ship Reunions

Naval Academy Debate Tournament

USS Washington (BB-56)—\JSS WASHINGTON Reunion Group announces its twelfth reunion in Seattle, Washington, on 14-17 July 1975. For further details contact John A. Brown, Executive Director, Box 27035, Columbus OH 43227.

USS Flasher (SS-249)—First USS FLASHER Reunion is to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, on 6-10 August 1975 in conjunction with the 21st National Convention of the U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II. For further details contact A. J. LaPelosa, CSC (SS) USN (Ret.), P.O. Box 121, 112 Main Street Rear, Bloomingdale NJ 07043.

The Academy's 17th Annual Debate Tournament was held on 13-15 February, hosted by the English and History Department, with teams from over 60 colleges and universities competing. As host, the Naval Academy team was not a competitor but it is invited to similar tournaments elsewhere. Shown here are Lt. James P. O'Brien '68, Director of the USNA Forensics Association; Ens. Martha Rigby, Debate Coach and History Instructor; and Mid. Joe Bouchard, Assistant Director of the Tournament.

Congressman Changes Silver to Brass

Rep. Lester Wolff (D.-NY) is not an alchemist but he did recently change a procurement order from silver to brass.

Discovering that the Navy was about to provide 99.9% pure silver to the successful bidder on an order for 2,460 boatswain's pipes, he asked why they had to be fashioned from silver. The answer was not that there was a difference in musical tone, as most of us had always believed, but simply that it had always been so since time immemorial. Result—boatswain's pipes from now on will be made of nickel-plated brass and the shipboard word may be passed to a different tune.

USS Yorktown, A Museum Reunion

A imique reunion is being planned for former crew members of USS YORKTOWN (CV-10). The ship has been donated by the Navy to the State of South Carolina to become the principal feature of the Patriots Point Museum of American naval history being developed in Charleston. She is to be towed there this

Planning Navy's Debate Tournament

Canada Reverts

Ten years ago, after a long and bitter fight that cost the services of some of Canada's top oflScers, then Defense Minister Paul Hellyer succeeded in effecting a unification of the three branches of the Armed Forces into a single entity. But, as many predicted then, unification was by no means a complete success and Canada has now returned to the three service concept.

In January Defense Minister James Richardson announced that "Once again the Canadian Armed Forces will have three distinct commands—the sea, the land and the air," each under its own three star commander. He also stated that the object of the new policy is "to achieve service identification of the Army, the Navy and the Air Forces."

Those in this country who still argue for a single service and a single General

Staff will do well to consider Mr. Richardson's rationale for the decision to revert to individual services. He said: The Chief of the Defense Staff and I have come to the conclusion that it is of the greatest importance for the sailor, the soldier and the airman, while still being part of a unified force, to remain within and to progress within specific service channels in their chosen field of endeavor.

Cost Reductions vs. Savings

The Navy Department recently announced, in preparation for 1976 budget hearings, that actions instituted over the past few years had resulted in a $1.3 billion reduction in costs and requirements in FY 75. The major cost reductions were in four program areas: —Conversion in lieu of procurement, which enabled the Navy to maintain aircraft force levels by extending the service life of some existing planes as much as 50%.

—Reduction of non-combat ordnance expenditures by cutting back on training expenditure rates, combining training with weapons testing, reducing testing to minimum necessity levels and devising new means for recovery of expended training weapons.

—Reduction of fleet staffs, completing action begun in 1974 which eliminated over 55 staff organizations in the Fleet.

—Reduction of students and support staff in naval training from 30,865 to 25,518 billets, partly resulting from the use of advanced instruction techniques.

While some of these cost reductions are commendable savings, others appear to be a chopping of muscle rather than fat.

But, with defense funding where it is these days, such reductions may well be an increasing necessity to preserve even more vital functions.

A New Head for OCS

For the first time in its quarter-century history, the Officer Candidate School will be headed by a woman. The new skipper is Cdr. Lucille R. Kuhn USN, who will take over on 1 July and be promoted to Captain on that date.

Cdr. Kuhn, a veteran of 26 years service, entered the Navy as an enlisted radio specialist and later earned an AB in Psychology at George Washington University. ^

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Associate Members A Proposal to Reinstate This Category of Membership Reprinted from the February 1975 mailing to all members

1. BACKGROUND At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, 7 November 1947, approval of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, Inc. was granted and the By-laws approved. Under Article I of the By-laws entitled MEMBERSHIP, paragraph 2 read as follows: "2. In addition to those eligible for Regular Membership, as above provided, any commissioned officer of the regular Naval Service of the United States, shall be eligible for Associate Membership in this Association upon the recommendation of the Board, or such appropriate committee as may be appointed by the Board for such purposes."

During the period from 1947 to October 1949, 65 Associate Members were approved by the Board under the above wording. On 22 May 1950, the following change to the By-laws was approved by the Board: Article I, para. 2 "2. In addition to those eligible to regular membership as above provided: (a) Any commissioned officer of the regular Naval Service of the United States (b) Any member of the faculty of the U.S. Naval Academy while so serving, and (c) Anyone who has served on the faculty of the USNA for ten years, who has become and is sincerely interested in the purposes of this Association and desires to Associate himself with the regular members thereof in the achievement of said purposes, shall be eligible for Associate membership in the Association upon the recommendation of the Board, or such appropriate committee as may be appointed by the Board for such purpose."

On 18 May 1951 the Board was informed of a petition signed by 50 members of the Association requesting that the matter of Associate Membership be referred to a vote of the entire membership, and this was referred to the By-laws Committee for action.

At the 4 October 1951 meeting the By-laws Committee expressed their opinion that there were "so few Associate Members of the Association that it is not worthwhile referring a matter of such minor importance to the membership at April, 1975

large for their vote." They further stated "that it was a very unfortunate thing that the word regular was written into this by-law thereby excluding from Associate Membership some very fine and eligible officers, who because they are not officers of the regular service are excluded from membership as Associate Members."

The Board approved a motion to strike out Article I, paragraph 2 and to accept no additional Associate Members of the National Association under the By-laws previously existing after 4 October 1951.

2. Since that date the matter of reinstating the Associate Membership category has been studied numerous times by committees set up by the Board. A review of the minutes and reports indicates the following more important pros and cons brought out by those studies: PROS (a) Bring into closer contact and communications special Naval Academy supporters such as faculty. Blue and Gold officers. Senior Naval Officers and others. (b) Provide a means of recognizing supporters who are not eligible for Honorary Membership. (c) Increase availability of professional advice and enlarge the sphere of influence for Naval Academy and Association support. (d) Enlarge potential financial support through donations and dues. (e) Most other Institutions have the category and many of our Chapters have them now. (f) Would be so few in number that they would change no basic parts of the Association such as administration, business or Shipmate magazine, especially since they could not vote or hold oflice.

CONS (a) Non-alumni do not share the common experience of having attended the Naval Academy. (b) The name "Alumni" Association indicates only alumni should be members. (c) Non-Alumni represent a source of

different backgrounds which may produce interests at variance with those of Alumni. (d) Might change the format of Shipmate magazine. (e) See no need for the category, especially since some chapters have them now. (f) Too difficult to select from so many possibilities.

3. The Board at the Fall 1974 meeting approved a motion to consider a change to the By-laws as shown in enclosure (1) and to put it to a vote of all the membership at the annual elections in April of 1975, with a full explanation as to the pros and cons; and to indicate prerequisites and procedures that would be adopted if the membership chooses to reinstate the category of Associate Members.

Therefore, the following prerequisites and administrative procedures are outlined for your information prior to voting.

4. PREREQUISITES (a) The proposition must be put to a vote of the membership and approved before the category is reinstated. (b) Should it be reinstated, the total number of Associate Members cannot exceed 10% of the total membership of the National Association. (c) A Candidate must be nominated, seconded and approved by the Board before he is invited to be an Associate Member. (d) Only regular members can vote or hold office. (e) Only regular members will count on Chapter membership rofls for the purpose of determining local chapter representation on the Board of Trustees (National).

5. Administrative procedures in the event the category is reinstated: (a) Nomination. Any regular member of the Association may nominate a person for Associate Membership; such nomination to be accompanied by a seconding motion from another member and at least one supporting recommendation.

Nominations must be submitted in writing to the Executive Director, accompanied by a summary of the Can-

12 didate's personal and professional background, including specific instances of demonstrated support of the Naval Academy and/or the Association. (b) Screening. The Executive Director will review and summarize all nominations as required for presentation to the Board. The Board will vote on acceptance of individual candidates. (c) Invitation. Those approved by the Board for Associate Membership will receive an invitation signed by the President of the Association or his designated official. (d) Acceptance. Upon receipt of written acceptance by the nominee and payment of the prescribed dues, he will become an Associate member and be so recorded by the Executive Director.

6. Proposed Change to the By-Laws.

Enclosure (1) represents changes recommended by the Board to the membership in the event the category of Associate Member is reinstated. Although there are some changes of a "cleaning up" nature which do not change the present meaning of the By-laws, the underlined portions are the changes as worded to reinstate the Associate Member category.

NOTE: This proposition was mailed to all regular members three months in advance of the date by which all votes must be received in accordance with the Bylaws. You will receive voting material on this proposition along with the ballot to be mailed in April, 1975. Votes for the ballot and the proposition must be in hand at Headquarters by 15 May 1975.

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MU/^^c^l W. S. BUSIK Captain, USN (Ret.) Executive Director

Enclosure (1) Amendment Proposal USNA Alumni Association By-Laws

of the same dues and fees. No dues or fees shall attach to an honorary membership. (Formerly Para. 3.)

ARTICLE I

5. Regular and Associate members, or persons eligible or invited for such memberships, may become life members by the payment of a fee in such manner and in such amount as may be prescribed by the Board. Life membership fees will be segregated, and suitably invested at the Board's discretion, the income therefrom used by the Association from year to year, provided however, that upon termination of a life member's membership, the amount paid by him for said life membership may be released from the life membership fund and used for general purposes. (Formerly Para. 2 of Article VIII.)

Membership 1. Upon the graduation of the last class with which he was officially affiliated, any person who has been sworn in as a Cadet or Midshipman U.S. Navy for the full and regular course prescribed by the Academic Board for his class at the Naval Academy and whose service has not been terminated under other than honorable conditions shall be eligible for regular membership in the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, hereafter referred to as the Association.

2. Individuals who have rendered outstanding and conspicuous service to the naval service, not to exceed twenty (20) in number, shall be eligible for honorary membership, upon the recommendation of the Board.

6. Any member may resign from the Association by delivering or mailing his resignation in writing directed to the President at the Annapolis office of the Association. (Formerly Para. 5 of Article

3. In addition to those eligible for regular membership as provided above, a person having demonstrated active support of the Naval Academy or the Naval Academy Alumni Association may be invited to apply for Associate Membership. Approval of issuance of such invitations will be considered on an individual basis by the Board of Trustees. The number of Associate Members shall not exceed ten percent of the number of regular members, and Associate Members shall not be eligible to vote or hold office in the Association. (This is a new paragraph.)

7. Any member of the Association (1) whose connection with the Naval, Military, or other government service of the United States is terminated under conditions other than honorable or (2) who is convicted by a final judgment in a court of law for an infamous offense, is automatically dropped from membership in the Association and the Executive Director shall so indicate on the records of membership. (Formerly Para. 5 of Article VIIL)

4. Unless the Board in its discretion declines to accept him, an eligible person may become a regular member by payment of dues and fees prescribed by the Board; and an invited person may become an Associate Member by payment

vm.)

ARTICLE VIII Contributions 1. The Board is authorized to accept contributions, donations and bequests to the Association from appropriate sources.

Monies so received shaU be placed in such fund or funds as prescribed by the Board. (Formeriy Para. 3 of Article VIII.)

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USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President— A D M . ARLEIGH A. BURKE, USN (Ret.) '23,

Bethesda, Md. Vice President (Eastern Area)— V A D M . JAMES F . CALVERT, U S N (Ret.) '43,

Darien, Conn.

Vice President (Central

Area)—

M R . DAVID B . BENHAM ' 4 1 ,

Oklahoma City, Okla.

Vice President (Western

Area)—

V A D M . P. D . STROOP, USN (Ret.) '26,

San Diego, Cal. Executive

Director—

CAPT. W . S. BUSIK, USN (Ret.) '43,

Annapolis, Md. Treasurer— Capt. J. D. Oliver, Jr., USN (Ret.) '43, Annapolis, Md.

TRUSTEES Past President— A D M . GEORGE W . ANDERSON, JR., U S N ( R e t . ) ,

'27, McLean, Va. Superintendent's

Representative—

CAPT. W . C . HASKELL, U S N '49,

USNA, Annapolis, Md.

At Large (To serve through Spring Meeting 1975) M R . WILLIAM A. ANDERS '55 CAPT. CHARLES E . GURNEY, III, U S N '52 V A D M . PAUL D . STROOP, USN (Ret.) '26 LCDR. WOODROW W . VAUGHAN, JR., (SC)

USN '64 (To serve through Spring Meeting 1976) R A D M . N E W T O N P. Foss, USN '44 CDR. FRANK N . HANNEGAN, USN '52 LCDR. HARLAN K . U L L M A N , USN '63 CAPT. AVERY K . LOPOSER, USN '52

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1977) A D M . WILLIAM F . BRINGLE, USN (Ret.) '37 LCDR. WILLIAM P. DONNELLY, ( C E C ) USN '65 R A D M . SHELDON H . K I N N E Y , USN (Ret.) '41 CAPT. EDWARD H . MARTIN, USN '54

From Local Chapters M R . L . PARKER FAIRLAMB '27, Annapolis M R . O W E N F . KEELER, JR. '43, Detroit CDR. RALPH A. SENTMAN, U S N (Ret.) '25,

Philadelphia CAPT. JACK M . SEYMOUR, U S N (Ret.) '35,

Connecticut M R . W . J. TONER '43, Boston CAPT. LAWRENCE N . SMH-H, U S N (Ret.) '45,

Houston R A D M . BERNARD H . BIERI, JR., U S N (Ret.) '37,

Coronado/San Diego M R . W . PINKNEY JONES '54, Peninsula, Cal. M A J . ANTHONY MARKS, U S M C R '59, New York M R . STEPHEN S . M C D O N A L D '65, Southeast

Florida M G E N . ARTHUR F . BINNEY, U S M C (Ret.) '28,

Washington, D C M R . FRANK A. LIBERATO ' 5 1 , North Texas

April, 1975

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RAdm. D. V. Gallery, USN (Ret.) Back in 1936, we crossed the equator in the USS LANGLEY. AS we neared the line, the following memo was circulated to the ship's company and the embarked aviators: TO: All Hands It is a well known fact that cyclones and whirlpools turn counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. This is due to the rotation of the earth.

For many years some scientists have claimed that a small squirted stream of water behaves the same way, namely that it twists counter clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. Other equally competent scientists dispute this theory.

The coming crossing of the equator provides us with an opportunity to settle the debate which has been raging over this question for some years.

It is requested that all hands take personal observations both north and south of the equator to determine which way their stream twists and if there is a reversal of twist upon crossing the equator.

This memo created wide interest throughout the ship and generated many heated discussions. While still three or four days north of the line, all hands determined that the direction of twist was counter clockwise. As we neared the line, many reported that the twist disappeared.

On the day we crossed the line, everybody made several trips to the head to take observations. However, little of

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scientific value resulted from this for two reasons: 1) We only dipped a few miles below the line and turned back north, and, 2) All hands seemed to take a frivolous attitude toward the investigation and most of the reports were such things as, —"Depends on direction of rifling of bore."

—"Smooth bore—no twist."

—"Can control direction of twist by twisting the instrument."

Alas for scientific investigation, i^

^avalJload&mi/ (BrasiiSnioodlQpoini^Xii Here is an original handscreened design of the Academy seal to be worked in the traditional Navy blue and gold. It will make a thoughtful gift for that special alumnus to display in his home or office.

The kit includes design on 12 mesh mono canvas, needlepoint yarns to work seal and background, needle and instructions. Finished size is approximately ISVi x 17>/2. The cost of the complete kit is $29.95.

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Slate of Nominees FOR PRESroENT (1975-77)

FOR VICE PRESroENT CENTRAL AREA (1975-77)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

David B. Benham '41

RAdm. Convin G. Mendenhall, Jr. USN (Ret.) '39

Major Richard C. Abington USMCR '59

Following graduation in 1941, Dave Benham attended PG School in Annapolis and received a Certificate of Naval Architecture in 1942. His wartime service was in BuShips in development design of aircraft carriers, where he earned a SecNav Citation and Commendation Ribbon, ending in 1945 as Hull Technical Officer for SupShips at Newport News, Virginia.

After resigning in lanuary 1946, Mr. Benham joined Benham Engineering Co., consulting engineers in Oklahoma City.

He is currently Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of BenhamBlair & Affiliates, Oklahoma City, with ten divisional offices located throughout the United States. He serves in the same capacity for Technology Research and Development, Inc., is a director of Academy Computing Corporation and of the Oklahoma City Fidelity Bank.

Mr. Benham, a registered professional engineer in 23 states and the District of Columbia, is Past Chairman of the Oklahoma State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers. Ever interested in naval affairs, he is Past National Director and State President of the Navy League of the United States and is presently a trustee of the U.S. Naval Academy Foundation. In 1973 he was inducted into the Engineering Hall of Fame at Oklahoma State University and in 1974 was elected

Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1939, Admiral Mendenhall served in a variety of submarine, destroyer and ordnance billets. For two years prior to retirement in 1959, he served as Director of Test Operations, HQ Field Command, DASA, Sandia Base, New Mexico, where he was responsible for planning and execution of all DoD tests of atomic weapons.

Subsequently, he has had twelve years experience in top level industrial positions as manager of a line department in one of the major growth electronic companies; as chief executive officer of a company producing circuit protection devices; as government programs manager for a manufacturer of industrial process control systems; as general manager of a telephone utility and as a management consultant.

Admiral Mendenhall was thrice awarded the Silver Star Medal. In addition to a BS degree from the Naval Academy, he holds a BS in Naval Engineering; a MS in Industrial Engineering; and is a Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration.

Married with three children, he resides in Dallas TX and is a Life Member of the Alumni Association. ^

A 1959 graduate of the Naval Academy, Major Abington served as a jet attack and fighter pilot and was an astronaut selectee in NASA's Gemini Project while serving on active duty. Major Abington later received his degree from Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration. Since that time he has been active in a variety of roles in the aerospace industry. He was a flight crew member for TWA, Assistant to the President of a small airline and was with Rohr Industries of Chula Vista CA before joining United Aircraft Corporation as Vice President (planning) of the Sikorsky Aircraft Division.

Major Abington lives in Newtown, Conn. He is a Life Member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. ^

a Fellow in the American Consulting Engineers Council.

A resident of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and a Life Member of the Alumni Association, Mr. Benham is completing his present two year term as Vice President, Central Area of the Association. ^^ Shipmate

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For 1975 Election FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

Hon. William A. Anders '55

Mr. David A. Chain '60

LCdr. Jacob Edge, II USN '63

On graduation Mr. Anders was commissioned in the Air Force. He received a Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1962, was assigned to the Air Force Weapons Laboratory as a nuclear engineer and instructor pilot and, in 1963, was selected by NASA for the initial astronaut program.

He served as backup pilot for the Gemini 11 mission and was lunar module pilot for Apollo 8, the first manned lunar orbit flight. LCol. Anders was separated from the Air Force in 1969 to become the Executive Secretary of NASA for the next five years. He is now a commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission.

He has received the National Geographic Society's Samuel Hubbard Medal for Exploration, the American Astronautical Society's Flight Achievement Award, the Collier and Harmon Trophies, the General Thomas D. White USAF Space Trophy and the Robert H. Goddard Trophy. He has also received NASA's Distinguished Service Award, its highest honor, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal and numerous other awards including several honorary degrees.

Mr. Anders is a Life Member of the Alumni Association and is completing a three year term as Trustee-At-Large. This year he is also Chairman of the Association's Membership Committee. ^

Mr. Chain attended Penn State University for a year before entering the Naval Academy. Upon graduation in 1960, he went to Flight Training and received his wings in December 1961. He flew the P3A Orion in VP-44, NAS Patuxent River until his resignation from the Navy in June of 1965. He went to work for E. I. DuPont in Richmond VA as a construction engineer until March 1967 when he started his own business, a heating and air conditioning company specializing in service and negotiated commercial installations. In the fall of 1972 he started another company, Sun Chek, Inc., distributing a new type of solar screen. In March of 1974 the company went nationwide and is in the process of building a sales force across the nation.

Since graduation from the Academy in 1963, Lieutenant Commander Edge has served as CIC and Operations Officer in USS CAMP ( D E R - 2 5 1 ), taking part in two Market Time patrols after changing homeports from Newport to Pearl Harbor. Returning to Pearl Harbor after graduation from Destroyer School, he served as Operations Officer, USS RENSHAw (DD-499), then as Executive Officer, USS CHARLES BERRY (DE-1035).

He next spent a year as a student at the Naval Postgraduate School, graduating in 1971 with a Master's Degree in Financial Management. He then attended the Armed Forces Staff College, followed by a tour as a staff officer in the Logistics Directorate, USMACV in Saigon. During the latter part of this tour, Lieutenant Commander Edge served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Four Party Joint Military Commission. His next assignment was a Executive Officer, USS PATTERSON (DE-1061).

April, 1975

Mr. Chain has served as president of the Richmond Chapter of the Alumni Association for two years. He has encouraged membership growth by having speakers from the Naval Academy and this year instituted the first Midshipman Dad's and Candidates Night in the area to interest top flight candidates in the Academy.

Rusty resides in Chester, a suburb of Richmond. He is presently serving as a deacon for the Church of Christ, and on the board of directors of a Children's Home in northern Virginia. He is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. ^

He is currently serving in the office of the Comptroller, Naval Telecommunications Command in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. ^

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Slate of Nominees FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

Capt. James R. Hogg USN '56

RAdm. John E. Kirkpatrick USNR (Ret.) '31

Mr. Carl S. Kolon '63

Captain Hogg's early sea duty tours included Gunnery Officer, Communications Officer, and Navigator of USS UNION (AKA-106), Executive Officer

Rear Admiral Kirkpatrick graduated in 1931 and served four years before resigning in 1935 with a Naval Reserve commission. Recalled to active duty in February 1941, he was ordered to the USS NORTH CAROLINA. After nearly nine years of sea duty, he was released from active duty and returned to his home in Oklahoma City, where he commanded the Naval Reserve Unit for six years. He is a former President of the Reserve Officers Association.

Admiral Kirkpatrick, one of Oklahoma City's most prominent citizens, is President of the Kirkpatrick Oil Company and is either a partner or member of the Board of a dozen other corporate interests. Extremely active in civic and philanthropic affairs, Admiral Kirkpatrick has served as President or as a member of executive committees of many civic, social, health and religious organizations.

His contributions have been widely recognized in his receipt of many awards and honors, the most recent being the Award of Merit from the Oklahoma Hospital Association presented in November, 1974.

Admiral Kirkpatrick served on the Board of Trustees in 1966-71, two of those years as Vice-President Central Area. He resides in Oklahoma City and is a Life Member of the Association. J>

A graduate of the Class of 1963, Mr. Kolon reported to the USS FORREST SHERMAN (DD-931) as the Second Division Officer. As an ensign he attended the U.S. Naval Destroyer School, Newport RI, and after graduation in 1965, he served aboard the USS INGRAHAM ( D D 694) as Operations Officer. While serving in the INGRAHAM, Carl was "spot" promoted to Lieutenant one year early and received a CinCPacFlt Commendation for Vietnam Service. After resigning his commission in 1967, he joined First National City Bank, New York, as a management trainee. He has held numerous management assignments and is currently a Vice President with responsibility for marketing corporate services worldwide. Carl received his MBA from New York University in 1974, and is residing with his family in Wilton CT. He is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. ^

and Navigator of USS FEARLESS ( M S O -

442). From 1961 to 1963 he served as Aide and Flag Lieutenant to ComPhibPac, followed by a tour as Operations Officer of USS ROBISON ( D D G - 1 2 ) . In 1965 he reported to the OpNav for duty as Assistant Secretary to CNO for JCS Matters. After graduation in 1967 from the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Air Force Base he returned to San Diego as Executive Officer of USS KiNG(DLG-lO).

In 1969 he served as Operations Officer on the staff of ComCruDesFlot Nine, and in 1970 he reported to ComCruDesPac for duty initially as Assistant Training and Readiness Officer and ultimately as Long Range Planning and Net Assessments Officer. He served as Commanding Officer, USS ENGLAND (DLG-22) from October 1972 until October 1974 with additional duty as ComDesRon ThirtyOne from April to June 1974. Capt. Hogg is now on duty in the office of the Chief of Naval Personnel.

He resides in Alexandria VA and is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. ^

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For 1975 Election FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

FOR TRUSTEE-AT-LARGE (1975-78)

Capt. John F. Laboon, Jr. CHC USN'44

Mr. Bruce J. Oliver '47

Mr. James M. Ravenel '45

On graduation in 1943 Captain Laboon attended Submarine School at New London, then made five war patrols in USS PETO (SS-265) from 1944-46. For his rescue of a naval aviator off Japan in 1945 he was awarded the Silver Star. He resigned as a lieutenant in October 1946 to enter the Jesuit Seminary on 1 November and studied for three years at Wernersville, Pa. In June 1949 he transferred to Woodstock College in Maryland, where he ultimately received a BA, and MA and a Ph.L. in Philosophy. After teaching for a year at St. Joseph's Prep in Philadelphia he entered the School of Theology at Woodstock in 1953, was ordained a Jesuit priest in June 1956 and completed his theology course the following year. After further study in Pastoral Theology, during which he was commissioned Lt(jg) USNR, he received permission to re-enter the Navy in the summer of 1958. Following Chaplain's School in Newport, he served at NAS Patuxent River, on the staffs of ComSubLant and ComServRon 3, at the Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, NavSta Kodiak and the Naval Academy, with the 3rd Marine Division in Vietnam where he was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat "V," and at NAS Saufley Field, Pensacola. In February 1966 he augmented into the Regular Navy.

Mr. Oliver graduated with the Class of 1947 in June of 1946 and served in destroyers for five years. His other duties were as Technical Assistant to the Judge Advocate General Court Martial Board in COM 11. After serving in destroyers in Korea, he left active duty in 1953. Since that time he participated in the growth of Everpure, Inc., Oakbrook IL leading up to its merger into Culligan International Company in 1967. He served as President of this fast growing subsidiary over the past five years. Mr. Oliver has many outside business activities, and has served on numerous company boards in the Chicago area. Recently the Culligan International Company announced his selection to be President of Culligan Overseas Company. After a period in training for this assignment, he and his family will move to Brussels in August and take over the presidency 1 December 1975. In addition he was named Chairman of the Board of Everpure, Inc., effective 1 December 1974.

Mr. Oliver has been a long standing member of the Alumni Association and over the last decade has been active in the affairs of the Chicago Chapter, including being its President for the past two years. ^

Mr. Ravenel graduated with the Class of 1945 in June of 1944. After serving two years in destroyers, he returned to civilian life and was in various engineering, sales and marketing positions before founding The Ravenel Company, Inc., in 1962. Before entering the Naval Academy, Mr. Ravenel attended the University of South Carolina for two years. He served a two year term, 1972-73, as a member of their Alumni Council. He is currently President of the Atlanta Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. He is a member of the Atlanta Board of Realtors, Georgia Association of Realtors, National Association of Realtors, Atlanta Mortgage Bankers Association, Georgia Mortgage Bankers Association, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and other similar organizations.

He is presently serving a three-year term on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Mortgage Bankers Association. Mr. Ravenel is active in city and church activities. He resides in Atlanta GA and is a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association. /K

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Captain Laboon is now the Force and Fleet Chaplain for ComServPac and CinCPacFlt, resident in Honolulu. He is a Life Member of the Alumni Association and the present Secretary of the Honolulu Chapter. +

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Caracas and the Future The United Nations Law of the Sea Conference Rear Admiral Max K. Morris, USN

In commenting on the work of the Caracas Session of the Third United Nations Conference on Law of the Sea to Naval Academy Alumni readers, two general areas which merit evaluation come immediately to mind. The first concerns what happened at the 1974 session and what lies ahead in 1975 at Geneva; the second concerns the participation of naval, air force and other military delegates in the Conference sessions thus far.

Since the second is by far the easiest to describe, we will take it up ahead of the first and more abstruse subject.

Unlike previous sessions of the Conference and its parent, the UN Seabeds Committee, there was considerable military interest in the Caracas negotiations.

This is manifested by the fact that over 60 delegations had one or more military members. The Soviet Union was again represented strongly and adroitly by General Barabolya, who serves in their Naval Infantry as well as a Professor of Law betimes; in support, he had two captains and several other personnel with him. The United Kingdom was very well represented by three Royal Navy captains of top-notch ability while France posted Rear Admiral Henri LaBrousse, former commander in Djibouti and a recognized expert on the Red Sea, as their military representative along with two very knowledgeable officer assistants.

This pattern of ability was consistent, whether one looked at the delegations of one geographic group or another. First rate young lieutenants, for example, made superlative representatives for TrinidadTobago, for Tanzania and for Ethiopia.

In the Asian group. Air Marshal Soedarmono of Indonesia was an outstanding participant. In singling out individuals one is not in any way indicating that others not mentioned were not equally important and impressive. Indeed, all of the military representatives seemed to us to be excellent proponents of their nations' positions.

Most certainly the armed forces of the April, 1975

host nation, Venezuela, made great contributions to the success of the session.

The Venezuelan Navy was in overall charge of on-time completion of both the Conference site and of the integral living quarters in the vast and impressive Parque Central complex of offices and apartments. In particular, Rear Admiral Manuel Diaz Ugueto of Venezuela was personally responsible for all facets of the Conference facilities, and did a magnificent job of insuring completion by the day of the opening session. It was a herculean task, and all delegations were impressed by the efficiency and ability manifested by the Venezuelan Navy in the brief time allotted after the change of locale from Santiago to Caracas. The Venezuelan Navy, in addition to their vital function in construction coordination, planning, administration and scheduling prior to the convening of the session also proved to be the most gracious of hosts after the session was underway.

Most noteworthy in this regard was a review and reception held at the new and impressive Venezuelan Naval Academy on the occasion of their annual Navy Day. The Academy is both functional and beautiful, sited above the sea at Catia la Mar. It was conceived and constructed largely under the guidance of Admiral Jose Seijas (USNA '47), a former Venezuelan CNO and now Inspector General of their entire armed forces.

President Carlo Andres Perez was the speaker at the review and the military delegates were privileged to meet him at the post-review reception. This review and reception served as a trend setter for the spirit of cooperation and mutual professional respect amongst the various military delegates which prevailed throughout the conference.

From all accounts, the military representation of various delegations will be equally broad or perhaps more so at Geneva. None of this is to suggest that the security tail is wagging the dog of other interests. Quite the opposite is true;

most delegations, including that of the United States, seek a balanced and realistic treaty package that recognizes legitimate interests in resources, in environmental needs, in encouragement of scientific research, and other areas of oceans' legal regimes as well as the requirements for acceptable security regimes. A look at the status of these various issues and others will show how viable a balance is emerging.

Impatience with the pace of progress is an American trait. We expect to do things fast and easily, no matter how complex they may be. It is this trait which caused most media observers from the United States to report "no progress" last summer at the Caracas session of the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference. In fact, there was meaningful and substantial progress but little of it was visible and none was sexy enough to make reporters' pens smoke with stories of breakthrough or final agreements.

The Caracas session of the Conference completed its work on August 29 and was in fact the first truly substantive session. There had been a short organizing session in New York in late 1973 but only committee membership and conference leadership questions were settled at that time. The Caracas session accomplished just about what was expected by informed observers of the Law of the Sea scene and, moreover, there is now a reasonable chance that a successful treaty can be achieved by the end of 1975, as is called for by the United Nations timetable. No one following past action in the Law of the Sea arena really had reasonable expectations of a draft treaty emerging from the Caracas Session, nor did they expect that the publication of open, clear documents delineating widely agreed positions would immediately follow the closing plenary. The session was a positioning and exploratory meeting with the three major committees working to produce a series of main-trend papers around which negotiations later could commence.

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Readers familiar with the 1958 Geneva conference will recall that delegates then had the benefit of an International Law Commission draft around which to negotiate. The Caracas main-trend papers will, at least in part, serve in similar fashion at Geneva. The real action at Caracas, however, took place in bilateral, behindthe-scenes corridor and lounge meetings, and the nascent agreements and tentative solutions developed therein are precisely what cannot and should not appear in media if a successful treaty package is to be ultimately achieved.

Most of the movement at Caracas occurred in Committee II, which was charged with examining and developing the traditionaflaw of the sea concerning navigation, overflight and limits of jurisdiction. At neither the 1958 nor the 1960 Law of the Sea Conferences could agreement be reached on this question of limits of jurisdiction; i.e., the breadth of the territorial seas. As of now many coastal states of the world claim 12 miles or more. The United States and a number of other maritime states, however, recognize only a 3 mile limit.

Expansion from a 3 mile sea to a 12 mile sea would convert about 116 international straits now having a high seas corridor through them into territorial seas. Under the navigational regime of territorial seas (innocent passage) there is no right of overflight nor of submerged movement of submarines. Moreover, the "innocence" of innocent passage has become exceedingly subjective. A coastal state can suspend such passage for any reason which it deems prejudicial to its peace, good order, and "security." The term "security" is open to wide and subjective definition. It can be arbitrarily applied as well as capriciously delineated in ways that selectively deny passage to certain states' private and public vessels.

Three Presidents of the United States have indicated clearly that we cannot, and will not, become a party to a treaty that does not accommodate our fundamental security interests; i.e., unimpeded transit of international straits and continued right of innocent passage in all other areas that may be territorial seas. Further, the oceans beyond territorial seas must be open for all high seas uses other than those pertaining to resources.

This position was clearly recognized by the Conference leadership. In his final statement, the admired and respected chairman. Ambassador Aguilar of Venezuela, stated:

The idea of a territorial sea of 12 miles and an exclusive economic zone beyond the territorial sea up to a total maximum distance of 200 miles is, at least at this time, the keystone of the compromise solution favored by the majority of the states participating in the conference, as is apparent from the general debate in the plenary meetings and the discussions held in our committee.

Acceptance of this idea is, of course, dependent on the satisfactory solution of other issues, especially the issue of passage through straits used for international navigation, the outermost limit of the continental shelf and the actual retention of this concept, and, last but not least, the aspirations of the landlocked countries and of other countries which, for one reason or another, consider themselves geographically disadvantaged.

As mentioned above, part of the compromise package emerging is a 200-mile economic zone. This idea recognized the basic resource thrust of coastal states that propelled the UN General Assembly to establish the Seabeds Committee and, eventually, the new Conference itself.

By compromise on a 12-mile territorial sea, paired with the international community granting coastal states an additional 188-mile belt where they would have rights over resources, living and non-living, it appears that a fundamental and reasonable accommodation of differing interests has been achieved. As always, this accommodation is not divisible nor acceptable in isolation; it necessarily must be part of an overall treaty package that includes unimpeded transit of straits, plus reasonable solutions to other vexing problems, particularly the regime for deep seabed mining.

To promote this compromise, the United States submitted draft treaty articles at Caracas proposing establishment of such a zone. As the head of our delegation, Ambassador John R. Stevenson, stated in his recent report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, there would be "a maximum limit of 12 miles for the territorial sea and of 200 miles for the economic zone . . . conditional on a satisfactory overall treaty package and, more specifically, on provisions for unimpeded transit of international straits and a balance between coastal states rights and duties within the economic zone."

Many delegations spoke favorably of the articles submitted by the United States and they clearly follow a mainstream trend of the Conference, as evidenced by the records in Committee II and by private negotiations with many delegations. Thus, the basic framework for an expanded territorial sea and an

adjacent resource or economic zone seems reasonably under way.

It must be noted, however, that a few countries actively sought greater degrees of control of other activities besides resource development in the proposed zone.

This usually took the form of plenary jurisdiction not only over resources per se but over scientific research and marine pollution as well, this without the international standards which the U.S. deems so essential in the case of vessel-source pollution. At the same time, the territorialists, such as Peru and Ecuador, continued to press openly and through more subtle portions for a full territorial sea of 200 miles—which would, of course, lead to fully 30% of the oceans being abstracted from the seas which have been declared the "common heritage of mankind" by the UN Resolution of 1970.

The territorialist group actually received little support as evidenced by the many speeches, including Ambassador Aguilar's summing up statement quoted earlier. The other, less extreme and less overt claims for such things as full coastal state environmental jurisdiction; i.e., standard setting, in the economic/resource zone will require careful and patient work and honest negotiation by both sides. One can easily see the inherent danger in having 120 coastal states each setting their own environmental standards. It would be like requiring that a house being shipped by rail from New York to California conform to the building codes of each city, town and county through which the train takes it. The potential for chaos as well as for discrimination is patent.

Our position on requiring adherence to internationally agreed pollution control standards, which could be worked out by IMCO's Marine Environment Protection Committee for port state and flag state enforcement, clearly is the most feasible and practical solution to meet legitimate coastal state concerns as well as to satisfy the navigational concerns of maritime states. Our delegation has worked hard and traveled far to explain that the excessive and variable restraints on the movement of ships and airplanes that would be possible and, indeed, probable if coastal states each had powers to set standards, hiu-t all countries, not just those with large merchant fleets and blue-water navies. It has become more and more apparent that many states are beginning to understand the need for uniform, internationally agreed standards. This is a heartening and encouraging development.

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Before the end of the Caracas session of the Conference, real negotiations began quietly and behind-the-scenes on how to solve these differences in a manner that could satisfy both sides. Again, quoting Ambassador Stevenson, The differences between what we call regulation and what others call control may be narrowed if we can agree on the conditions of exploitation, including measures to insure that exploitation on a nondiscriminatory basis will take place, and if agreement can be reached on protecting relevant interests in the decisionmaking process.

The work of Committee III (Protection of the Marine Environment and Oceans Scientific Research) was steady and unspectacular. It is manifest to knowledgeable observers that these two items are closely tied to the Committee II issues on boundaries and regimes, rights and duties in an economic zone, and other traditional questions of jurisdictional content.

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Earlier comment has been made on the basic political issues of coastal state standard setting for vessel-source pollution versus internationally agreed standards. Parallel issues also remain outstanding regarding scientific research in the economic zone. As Ambassador Stevenson has stated on environmental issues, Basic political issues remain to be resolved on the jurisdiction of port and coastal states with respect to vessel-source pollution.

At the same time he stated, Some states advocated a regime requiring coastal state consent for all research.

Others supported a modified consent regime. The United States supported a regime which places obligations on the state conducting the research to notify the coastal state, provide for its participation, and insure sharing of the data and assistance in interpreting such data. Other states proposed complete freedom of scientific research.

We were encouraged by the fact that for the first time states appeared to be moving toward serious negotiations on this subject, including serious consideration of our proposal.

Without question the larger part of Committee III issues will fall into place once the fundamental accommodation is reached on jurisdictional content and boundaries in the Second Committee.

The final area of special interest for naval officers and others who follow the sea is that of the interpretation and application of provisions of the just and reasonable treaty we hope to achieve. This is a crucial matter for the United States since a treaty without a fixed and agreed system of compulsory dispute settlement to judge alleged treaty violations or to correct misinterpretations would be seriously weakened.

Our willingness to agree to a new balance of rights and duties of states, and of any international resource authority that may be established for deep-ocean seabeds development, is based upon reasonable assurance that this balance will be fairly and predictably maintained. One very heartening development at Caracas was the establishment by the United States and many other delegations of an ad hoc committee, jointly chaired by Ambassadors Galindo Pohl of El Salvador and Ralph Harry of Australia, to draft articles covering a dispute settlement system. This committee made excellent progress.

No doubt a proper question at this point is "just where do we stand today?" in terms of gaining a treaty in 1975 as laid down in the United Nations resolution timetable. Such a query reflects not

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just our national trait of impatience, it also is an earnest of the very real desire that all of us have to understand the probable results of negotiations which affect our uses of 70% of the earth's surface.

Any American who is not concerned, should be, since our stakes in terms of prices of commodities, availability of strategic mineral supplies, cost of seafood and development of undersea petroleum are of immediate significance—and our stakes in terms of national security uses of the oceans and superadjacent airspaces are incalculable.

Our delegation is convinced that there is a strong momentum toward completion of an early comprehensive and equitable treaty. Such a treaty certainly is obtainable within a matter of months, given both the open and the behind-the-scenes movement observed in New York, in Caracas, and in the bilateral talks that are now under way intersessionally on all continents. Such a treaty must and will contain acceptable articles insuring the unimpeded transit of straits for all ships and aircraft without discrimination in form or in fact. Without such assurance, the United States and many other nations would not be able to accept the treaty and would continue their oceans activities under existing customary law. This fact, fortunately, is well known and the preponderance of states which, like ourselves, realize the need for a treaty to avoid chaos and counterclaim, are ready to negotiate in the true sense of that overworked verb and to reach agreement.

As an example, at Caracas for the first time, more delegations made speeches in favor of unimpeded transit of straits than made speeches opposing such navigational freedom; i.e., speeches calling for only innocent passage in straits. This is a dramatic change from the previous sessions of the Conference and its preceding UN Seabeds Committee. In our intersessional travels we see similar growth of understanding and of willingness to accommodate our expressed needs in return for our complementary understanding and support on issues of equally fundamental importance to non-maritime states.

Thus, the basic framework of a treaty is now well understood and generally accepted; what is left to be done is to proceed to fill in the matrix of the treaty with detailed articles that balance the rights and duties of coastal states, landlocked states and of the international maritime community in the various regimes of the oceans. Hopefully, within the near term, there will be a new, realistic, and widely agreed Law of the Sea upon which we can structure our professional activities on, under and over the oceans. ,^

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Save the Constitution The Army Occupation of Annapolis, April 1861 Hal Burdett, reprinted from the Annapolis Evening Capitol On April 19, 1861, the Sixth Massachusetts Militia, traveling south on its way to fight in the Civil War, encountered an angry mob of 8,000 to 10,000 secessionists in Baltimore.

Stones and missiles were hurled into the last two cars of the troop train. Several of the soldiers suffered cuts and contusions, eight were seriously wounded and three were killed. Many of the militiamen fired back, killing several Baltimoreans.

The news of the Baltimore riot reached Gen. Benjamin Butler who was in Philadelphia with his Eighth Massachusetts Militia. Meanwhile communications between Washington and Philadelphia had been cut off; Butler was determined to take his troops to the nation's capital, fearing that Confederates had crossed the Potomac and invaded the city.

Deciding to bypass Baltimore, Butler took his 700 men by rail to Perryville, Md., on the northern bank of the Susquehanna River. He then commandeered the MARYLAND, a steam ferryboat that had been used to transfer passengers across the river, and proceeded to Armapolis.

Butler left Philadelphia on April 20, and anchored two miles off Annapolis at around midnight to find the Naval Academy lighted up. Officials at the Academy had heard humors that southern sympathizers planned to take a boat from Baltimore, sail to Annapolis and seize the Naval Academy.

These fears were compounded by rockets flaring across the skies from the direction of Baltimore and the sudden appearance of the ferryboat. At the same time, Butler believed that the academy had been captured by secessionists.

Capt. Blake, the superintendent of the Naval Academy, had been ordered by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to defend the school ship CONSTITUTION "at all hazards" and to destroy the vessel if she could not be defended.

With the appearance of the MARYLAND, general quarters were sounded on the CONSTITUTION and the four 32-pounders on board were run out at her stern.

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call: "Ship ahoy! What ship is that?"

"Ship ahoy!" replied a voice aboard the MARYLAND. "Keep off, or I will sink you."

But from Butler's boat came a voice that was recognized aboard the academy's ship, saying: "For God's sake, don't fire; we are friends." It was the academy chaplain who had been on leave and was returning with the militiamen.

Within a short while, Lt. Mathews, an aide to the academy superintendent, boarded the MARYLAND with a message from Maryland Gov. Thomas Hicks advising against landing troops in Annapolis.

"The excitement is very great, and I think it prudent that you should take your men elsewhere," wrote Hicks. "I have declared to the Secretary of War advising against your landing your men here."

Butler sent his aide, Capt. Peter Haggerty, to accompany Lt. Mathews and to attempt to persuade the governor that it was necessary for the troops to land in Annapolis. The general sent his brother, Andrew Jackson Butler, a member of his

staff, ashore in civilian clothes to make a reconnaissance of the town.

The next morning, Blake boarded Butler's vessel and pleaded with the general to "save the CONSTITUTION." Unaware that Blake was referring to the ship, not the document, Butler's answer was: "Yes, that is just what I am here for!"

Later Butler learned of Capt. Blake's concern about the ship, which was aground at her moorings and did not have an ample crew to sail out of the harbor.

Apprised of the situation, the general said he had "plenty of sailor men from the town of Marblehead, where their fathers built the CONSTITUTION." He was evidently unaware that the CONSTITUTION was actually built in Boston.

Despite Gov. Hicks' protests, Butler's only recourse was to land his troops in Annapolis; the undisciplined militiamen under his command had already consumed their three days' rations before reaching Perryville, and they did not have enough water to last through the day.

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men and to allow them passage through the state "on my way to Washington, respecting private property, and paying for what I receive, and outraging the rights of none . . . " Butler added that he believed it "entirely proper" to disembark his troops at the Naval Academy. However, the note requesting permission to land was not delivered until both the Eighth Massachusetts and the Seventh New York Militia, under Col. Marshall Lefferts, had already been put ashore at the academy wharf.

Midshipmen from the CoNSTrruTioN were landed under arms; they were stationed at the academy gate all day long to protect the disembarkation and to prevent any assault on the academy by Confederate partisans.

A line in the rear of the midshipmen's quarters was formed by the soldiers who stacked arms and posted sentries. Although neither side fired a shot, there was a considerable amount of tension; southern sympathizers tossed stones over the Academy wall and the soldiers pitched them back. Meanwhile, the magazines of the CONSTITUTION had been mined and the ship would have been blown up rather than surrender to the rebels.

Gen. Butler was invited to the superintendent's quarters for breakfast, and it was there that he came face to face with Gov. Hicks and Annapolis Mayor John R. Magruder. Hicks said the State of Maryland would not interfere with the landing of the remaining troops, but that they must encamp three or four miles outside the city. Magruder urged Butler to march his men out of town immediately.

Butler asked if he could be furnished with supplies for his men. Hicks and Magruder not only refused but also told him he could not purchase anything in Annapolis. Butler then asked if he could be furnished transportation to Washington. He was told there were not five horses remaining in town and that the Annapolis and Elkridge Railroad had taken up its tracks.

Contending that his men could not possibly march without supplies, the general warned that while Annapolis authorities apparently were unable to control a mob from forming in town and attacking his men, the troops were "also very much excited because of the murder of their brothers in Baltimore."

He made it abundantly clear that he would remain in Annapolis as long as it suited his purposes and that he would march only when he was good and ready.

"If we are attacked," Butler said, "we

will repel the attack, and there are none that we shall be more happy to see than a representation of the murderers of Baltimore whenever and wherever they visit us. While we stay in Annapolis, if the citizens choose not to have any collision with us, there must be on their part neither stray bricks nor fugitive shots, thrown at us."

A short while later, Butler discovered that some railroad tracks outside of Annapolis had been torn up and rendered impassable. He sent some troops to repair the tracks along with others to guard them during the reconstruction.

The general also found a rusty, partly dismantled locomotive locked in a building and he asked if any of his men knew anything about trains. One of his soldiers, Charles Homans, said that particular locomotive was built in the shop where he worked as a civilian and that he could repair it.

While repairs were under way, Butler requisitioned locomotives and cars from Philadelphia. And since freight boats were bringing more troops into Annapolis, he had an auxiliary track built from the Naval Academy dock across town to the railroad track.

Once the tracks and trains were ready, the general sent the Seventh New York and the Eighth Massachusetts militias on to Washington; he remained behind to command the movement of troops arriving in Annapolis.

On April 23, Hicks wrote Butler that he had been informed that the general had taken military possession of the Annapolis and Elkridge Railroad. The governor said: "I deem it my duty to protest against this step—because without at present assigning any other reason, I am informed that such occupation of said railroad will prevent the members of the Legislature from reaching this city."

The general answered that it was true his men had taken the railroad, but he also distinctly recalled the governor telling him that he should not land troops in Annapolis because the rails had been taken up and he could not use the railroad.

Butler also told the governor of his intention "to save and not to destroy" and that he did not want to be "under the painful necessity of encumbering your beautiful city while the Legislature is in session."

While preparing to join his troops in Washington, Butler received formal orders from Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott on

April 25, to command the "Department of Annapolis." His main duty was to keep rail communications open between the nation's capital and Annapolis.

In addition. President Abraham Lincoln issued orders to defend Annapolis in the event the Maryland General Assembly should choose the course of secession.

Lincoln ordered Butler to take prompt and efficient counter-measures "even if necessary to the bombardment of their cities and, in the extremest necessity, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus."

To avoid having the legislators feel their decision was being made under duress, Gov. Hicks had the General , Assembly convene in Frederick instead of Annapolis. But Butler issued the governor a firm warning that he would not tolerate any talk of secession; Hicks reassiued him that Maryland would remain within the Union.

Hicks also conveyed to Butler his fear that the appearance of Union forces in Maryland would lead to a revolt of slaves in the state. In a letter to the governor, Butler pledged his cooperation in the suppression of such an uprising. Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts reprimanded Butler for this statement, but the general explained his position: I had promised to put down a white mob and to preserve and enforce the laws against that. Ought 1 to allow a black one any preference in the breach of the laws? . . . The question seemed to me to be neither military nor political, and was not to be so treated. It was simply a question of good faith and honesty of purpose.

The benign effect of my course was instantly seen. The good but timid people of Annapolis, who had fled from their houses at our approach, immediately returned; business resumed its accustomed channels; quiet and order prevailed in the city; confidence took the place of distmst, friendship of enmity, brotherly kindness of sectional hate, and I believe today there is no city in the Union more loyal than the city of Annapolis.

The general remained in command at Annapolis until the middle of May. The city was used during the Civil War as a mobilization point for Union expeditions against Port Royal and Roanoke Island; it was also utilized as a hospital center for wounded federal troops who occupied buildings at the Naval Academy and St. John's College, and as a reception facility for exchanged prisoners. But throughout the war, Annapolis never again experienced anything remotely resembling the excitement that was brought by Gen. Butler landing and seizing the city from under the nose of a frightened and frantic governor. ^ Shipmate

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Fort Drum Manila Bay's Concrete Battleship Captain James E. Wise, Jr., USN Although a quarter of a century has passed since the end of World War II, reminders of that terrible conflict can still be found in the far reaches of the modem world. Vine covered and battered fortifications, rusting hulks of drowned ships and endless fields of white crosses bear witness to the heavy toll paid by many nations.

One of the most unique relics of the war exists in the Philippines. Fort Drum, a water bound fortress positioned astride the approaches to Manila Bay, sm^ived the war despite intense bombardment by both Japanese and American forces.

Dubbed the "concrete battleship" because of its ship-Uke silhouette, the fort was one of numerous defense installations constructed by the United States in newly acquired insular possessions and the Panama Canal following the war with Spain. Thirty years ago this month, we recaptured it from the Japanese.

The site of the fort was originally a small rock-studded island called El Fraile.

The island was one of three in the South Channel of Manila Bay which were used as defense sites by the United States and, ultimately, Japan, during the Pacific war.

El Fraile was too small to house conventional gun emplacements, so the United States turned for the first time to the use of armored turrets, a mode of construction long used by other nations but avoided by U.S. military planners because of high cost factors.

In late 1909, a crew of U.S. Army engineers landed on El Fraile to begin work on the fort. For the next few years the crew drilled and blasted rock until the entire top of the island was below the surface of the water. Construction of a reinforced concrete structure was then commenced, but it was not until 1919 that work was finally completed on the fort. The finished site measured some 350 feet long and 144 feet wide with the top deck extending 40 feet above mean low water. The exterior walls of the fort were approximately 20 feet thick while the decks and overhead thickness measured 18 feet.

April, 1975

El Fraile Island in 1909

Building Fort Drum 1914

The turret deck from above, 1927

WW II, under Japanese occupation

All photographs courtesy of the author, except that of the turret deck which is from the Editor's scrapbook.

The interior of the fort consisted of several compartments, constructed on various levels. The lower level, located six feet below the water's surface, was the engine room. Above this was the main internal deck or Typhoon Deck" which housed most of the crew. Other compartments included powder and projectile rooms, a plotting room, storage facilities, fuel tank areas, and kitchen and mess hall spaces.

Access to the fort was by means of a sallyport toward the stem which ran entirely across the ship. The cover for the sallyport and entrance to the "Typhoon Deck" required an additional 20 feet of concrete which was added to the fort for protective purposes at a later date.

The primary armament of the fort consisted of four 14-inch Naval rifles in two-gim turrets. Though the turrets were of Navy style, they were designed by Army engineers and manufactured at Newport News, Virginia. The two turrets were mounted on the two levels of the top deck, the after one 9 feet above the forward so that both could fire ahead simultaneously. The forward turret was limited in traverse to 230 degrees, while the rear turret had a 360 degree traverse.

The elevation of the guns was 15 degrees, which limited the range of the guns to approximately 19,200 yards.

The faces of the turrets were 18-inch armor plate while the sides and rear were 6 inches thick. The interior of each turret was divided into two compartments, one for each gun. In the rear of each turret, sealed off completely, was a turret captain's booth. Observation from the turrets was accomplished by the use of 3-inch periscopes; one for each gun and one for the turret captain's booth. Since the turrets were completely electrically controlled, it was almost impossible to operate them without power. Traversing the turrets just 180 degrees by hand took six hours or more. Ammunition hoists brought projectiles and powder from below. Loading was accomplished by electric rammers and the guns were blown with compressed air.

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The secondary armament of Fort Drum consisted of four 6-inch Naval rifles, two each in two separate casemates, located on the port and starboard sides. The guns on the port side were called Battery Roberts while those on the starboard or North side were known as Battery McCrea, named in honor of Army Brigadier Generals Tully B. McCrea and Benjamin K. Roberts. The casemate blisters were constructed of 6-inch armor plate, recessed about six feet into the side of the concrete hull. The field of fire for both batteries was limited to approximately 120 degrees of traverse. Eleva-

tion of the guns was set at 12 degrees, allowing a range of 11,400 yards.

But a dead spot existed in defending the fort, the area directly astern. An enemy could approach from the rear and not come under fire; the upper turret's firing arc had become limited by a cagemast erected later to house a radio aerial, three 60-inch searchlights and a platform for the fort commander. After the Japanese occupied Manila and the southern shorehne of the bay in January of 1942, this dead space became an immediate problem because the Japanese had seized a number of useable harbor craft and knew of that defensive weakness. To remedy the situation, a model 1906 3-inch seacoast gun, with pedestal mount, was shipped to the fort. A concrete base was poured and the gun mounted on 12 January 1942. The following day the Japanese attempted to approach from astern in a double deck vessel of the interisland type, probably carrying an official party from General Homma's headquarters for a sightseeing cruise or a test of the enemy's alertness. Unaware of the new 3-inch gun, the craft bore down on the fort, keeping the cagemast between her and the 14-inch turret. Fire was opened at 9000 yards and the surprise aboard the enemy vessel was evident as personnel scurried about the decks and the craft commenced an immediate retreat. Before the Japanese pulled out of range, they took a direct hit aft on the lower deck. This incident was their first and last attempt to approach Fort Drum from the rear. It also marked the first battery of Coast Artillery to open fire on the enemy in World War II. Other late additions to Fort Driun's armament consisted of two 3-inch antiaircraft artillery jacked down on spider mounts on the deck. Protection for beach defense and low flying planes was provided for by thirteen 3 O-caliber, Ml water-cooled machine guns with infantry mounts and four 50-caliber, water-cooled, antiaircraft machine guns. Small arms in the way of Thompson machine guns, Springfield rifles and pump shotguns were also available.

Communication between Fort Drum and other harbor fortifications was via submarine telephone cables. A short wave radio set was also available; however, the set was seldom used. Blinker signal was perhaps the most frequently used means of communication, especially during the Japanese attack on the fort.

To prevent detection by the enemy at night, the lamps were placed in the

breeches of one of the 6-inch rifles. The rifle was then laid at the proper azimuth and elevation to be aimed at a friendly receiving station.

The approximate personnel strength of Fort Drum just prior to the Japanese attack on the American fortification in Manila Bay was approximately 240 officers and men. Units represented included the U.S. Army's 59th and 60th Coast Artillery, the 4th Marine Regiment, a few Philippine Scouts and several civilian ordnance machinists. Later the fort was reinforced by 20 men from a tank battalion who had escaped capture following the fall of Bataan.

In the years between the completion of the fort and the fateful months of attack and capture in early 1942, the installation saw little activity. In fact there was a period during the Harding Administration when the fort was more or less "moth-balled" because of severe military budget cuts.

Upon notification of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Fort Drum, like other U.S. installations in the Philippines, made ready for combat. On December 29, 1941, Corregidor came under enemy air attack for the first time by Japanese twin-engine bombers and dive bombers, including several old fashioned biplanes.

These attacks continued for a week, with no attention paid to Fort Drimi.

After the fall of Manila in January of 1942, Fort Drum began to receive 105mm howitzer artillery fire from enemy positions along the southern shoreline of the bay. For the next month both sides fired daily at each other incurring little damage. On 17 March 1942, the Japanese commenced a heavy bombardment of the fort with newly emplaced 240mm howitzers. Directing their fire at the two turrets and the port casemate, the Japanese knocked out the No. 1 gun on the upper turret and caused severe damage to the 6-inch casemate. Projectiles striking the 6-inch casemate caused flashes of fire to appear inside the fort clear to the "Typhoon Deck." It was not uncommon for fire calls to sound at least once every five minutes. Steps were taken to throw everything which was inflammable and not absolutely necessary for action over the side. During the day's action, the fort's two 3-inch antiaircraft guns were also destroyed.

From early February 1942 until its surrender, Fort Drum came under almost daily air attack. Although the defenders scored numerous hits with 50-caliber machine gun fire, it wasn't until May 6th Shipmate

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and 30 minutes before the fort was to be surrendered that an enemy dive bomber was downed. However, this lone kill can be attributed mostly to enemy caution and their respect for 50-caliber fire. In their effort to avoid such fire, enemy pilots scored just five hits on the fort during the entire period, causing no damage.

After the destruction of the two 3-inch antiaircraft guns, numerous high altitude attacks were made on the fort. However, once again little success was realized by enemy airmen.

On the night of 5 May 1942, the Japanese began amphibious operations against Corregidor. Assembling at Cabcaben on the Southern tip of Bataan peninsula, enemy troops boarded assault boats destined for various landing sectors on the island. Early on the 6th observers on Corregidor spotted the enemy foray from Cabcaben and ordered Drum to bring them under fire. After pouring almost 100 rounds into the Cabcaben area, the 14-inch turrets shifted their fire to the enemy barges approaching Corregidor via the North Channel of the bay. In their attempt to take the barges under fire the Fort Dram commander reported to Corregidor that he could not see the barges for the dense cloud of dust and smoke arising from the island. Corregidor immediately replied, "Just fire anywhere in that smoke, anywhere between you and Cabcaben and you can't miss them." On Fort Drum an order was issued for "Turret Commander's Action" and the targets were taken under fire. The observers on Corregidor reported that the barges were being hit and to keep up the fire. Firing from Drum continued at intervals all morning until 1140 hours when the order was given to destroy the guns and prepare for surrender. In accordance with a prearranged plan all guns were destroyed, communications equipment was rendered inoperable and all small arms, ammunition and records were thrown over the side. All this was done in just twenty minutes.

During the entire siege. Fort Dnrni suffered no fatalities and just 5 injured.

Following their capture, the fort's crew was taken to a point south of Manila where they were eventually imprisoned with other island defenders.

The Japanese placed a small garrison aboard Fort Drum shortly after its capture and American prisoners were used to repair the installation. Although the fort was eventually put back in service, the four 14-inch guns and four 6-inch April, 1975

Preparing for demolition, April 1945

Pulling away, fuses lit

casemate guns were never repaired.

The existence of a Japanese garrison aboard Fort Dram was not known until returning American forces moved against Manila in February of 1945. On the 15th of that month, an Allied Naval PT boat landed a party on the fort, thinking it was abandoned. The 70 Japanese defenders, who were survivors from the sunken superbattleship MUSASHI, hid below decks while the Allied party made their way into a sallyport and through various corridors. A sudden burst of machine gun fire killed one American Naval officer and wounded another. The landing party quickly withdrew and it wasn't until the second week in April that an attempt was made to clear the fort.

Following the recapture of Corregidor in March of 1945, there remained only the clearing of the three small islands between Corregidor and the southern shore; namely, Caballo, Carabao and Fort Dram. Since the small Japanese garrisons on each of the islands posed no threat to Allied shipping, operations against the sites were not mounted until the U.S. Army could spare the troops.

Caballo was finally retaken later that

month but only after some 200 enemy defenders were burned out of mortar pits and tunnels on the southern edge of the island. Fort Drum came next and it posed a similar problem. However, the 38th Division, responsible for retaking the fort, devised a plan which paralleled the Caballo undertaking. On 13 April, an LSM drew alongside the battered fort and dropped a drawbridge onto the lower level of the upper deck just abeam of the lower 14-inch turret. Infantrymen and engineers quickly scrambled down the wooden trestle amidst light small arms fire by the Japanese below. As the infantrymen covered the various openings of the fort, engineers lowered some 600 pounds of TNT into the after starboard stairwell. An LCM was then brought alongside and a hose hauled onto the fort and inserted in the after port stairwell.

Gasoline and fuel were pumped into the fort and a 30-minute fuse was lit. All hands quickly retired to the LSM. However, rough seas broke the hose minutes later and a small party returned to the fort to repair the hose after cutting the fuse. After transferring the hose to a ventilator shaft they once again lit the fuse

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The end of Japanese occupation and returned to the LSM which then withdrew. The LCM pumped 3000 gallons of fuel into the fort and departed. An initial weak explosion sounded at 1035 hours, then a deafening roar 10 minutes later when burning oil reached the fort's magazine. Huge steel plates and chunks of concrete were hurled hundreds of feet into the air and flame and smoke shot out from every opening in the fort. Dmm continued to burn through the day and it wasn't until three days later that infantry patrols were able to reconnoiter the fort.

Sixty-eight enemy dead were found on the 2nd and 3rd decks. Despite the force of the explosions and the ensuing fire, the turrets and casemates remained intact.

Today, almost thirty years after its recapture. Fort Dram looks much the same. Its turrets and casemates have rusted and the concrete hull has become scarred and weather worn. It is, however, remarkably well preserved considering its age and battle history.

Dram stands somewhat majestic in its old age; a symbol of man's engineering ingenuity and a grim reminder of a fierce war which at one time engulfed most of the nations of the world. ^

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A Few Inches From the Yard Jim Stavridis '76

Spring comes, grandly rolling around the grey buildings of the Yard, resplendent in huge gusts of wind and sunshine, a long-awaited and most welcome relief from the dark ages of a Naval Academy winter. The fancies of midshipmen, much as the fancies of young men everywhere, turn inevitably to love—for most of them.

Art Nails doesn't quite fill that bill.

As some of our readers may remember. Art is the second classman who put Annapolis back on the map with his worldbreaking ride on a 5" bicycle, equipped with all the features of its larger sisters plus an out-size clown's horn. Since Art and this reporter have been rooming pretty close through these three years, it was simple enough to sit down with him and open up his life a little. The results, hopefully, will give the readers an interesting look at a real "easy rider," Artie Nails.

Not to say that he has painted the Mona Lisa or invented the lightning rod, but he has developed a reputation as a designer and inventor that far outstrips his age as a college junior. Even at 20, the patterns of development can be traced from Art's childhood.

At 12 years old, when most children are playing dolls or doctor, Art asked for and received the present of an air compressor for Christmas. It led to a profitable business of body work, automotive repair, antique car dealing, custom painting and mechanics.

"My first project was painting an old truck of my uncle's.

It looked terrible, but we began to learn," explains Art. He went on to describe working on a mail truck, painting it with Jim Stavridis, Columnist and Editor, The Log

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The world record bike

house paint that the chiseling owner had purchased, knowing that, "It was going to be shiny for about 20 minutes."

Gradually, however, things began to improve, and at 16 he bought a 1931 Plymouth for $15. "We got it running the first day, which was amazing since only about Vi the engine was there," he said. On this blackboard of a car. Art began to draw and learn. He welded, painted, worked and drove it as he received his first driver's license.

As a junior in high school in Alexandria, Virginia, he purchased a 1939 Ford pickup truck for $200. After having the engine rebuilt and customizing the entire auto with new paint, tire work, body reconstruction and painstaking interior design, he feels certain of selling the hulk for close to $3000.

The interest in bicycles fell out pretty naturally from Art's participation in the Hell's Angels of the MiniBike set. "Soon I had built a 12" bike, a custom minibike and bikes for a clowns group I was in." A glance at the Guiness Book of World Records propelled Art to begin work on an even smaller bicycle, a 5" rideable version that is the current world record holder.

One of the highlights of Art's work with the bike was his discussion with the publishers of the Guiness Book in London.

On a summer cruise from the Naval Academy, Art walked into the offices of the publisher and promptly pulled out his 5" bike from an AWOL bag, plunked it down on the plush shag carpet and to the amazement of a growing crowd of executives and secretaries, rode it to the end of the hall.

Over a beer in the publisher's oflic, the deal with closed, and Art now appears in all the world-wide versions of the Guiness Book. This appearance in the Guiness Book has led already to two television shows, one with David Frost and a guest appearance on the game show, "To Tell The Truth," and numerous interviews with many papers and news stations.

Art plans for a career in the Navy after graduation but, meanwhile continues to build and to tinker. It will surprise no one who knows him if he comes up one day with a car that runs on air or a perpetual motion machine. Who knows, he may even become another Bradley Fiske. ^ Shipmate

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Lucky Bag of Books Admiral William Veazie Pratt U.S. Navy

by Gerald E. Wheeler. Naval History Division, 1974. 456 pages. Illustrated, $8.30.

Unlucky is he, having given his life to the profession of arms in preparation for emergency, who never confronts some special circumstance worthy of his steel.

History tells us of the lucky ones: the Eisenhowers, Nimitzes, Pershings, Deweys, Farraguts, Decaturs, John Paul Joneses and George Washingtons—to go backward in time in our country only.

In a particular sense the success of these was through no special merit of their own. The nation needed them (badly) , and they were ready. That was all, and it was enough. Since in a great emergency there can, by definition, be no prediction as to time (although, hopefully, there may be some as to its shape), the duty of the professional warrior has always been to be prepared for the call that may never come. If the call does not come on his watch, he can only know that if it had, his success or failure might have weighed heavily in the scales by which the destiny of our country is determined. If he is conscientious, he will be ready.

Be it said at the outset that no military man worthy of his salt, in this country at least, has ever wished for a war so that he could secure his fame. But such a one, watching his allotted years drawing to a close, can be forgiven for reflecting upon the fates which provided him with the tools, but no use for them. What about the hundreds of Deweys, Halseys, Spruances, Sampsons—nameless today— who trod the decks of U.S. men-of-war, served their country to the fullest of their very considerable abilities, and then moved into obscurity with their job done, their contribution passed over, their potential never tried?

That we have had these men, and women too, is unassailable. They have appeared from the wing in every act of the drama of our national life. It follows that they were also there at other times, rehearsed but not called, and by being there provided the intuitive assurance that made the risk acceptable, the policy viable. If some, stubborn in the learned familiarity of their own space and time, perhaps insisted too long on the continued vitality of the systems they had April, 1975

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practiced—well, the wheel must turn, and this is part of the price.

Others in the same situation, more realistic, could adjust to the sweep of new ideas, even stay ahead of rapidly changing times regardless of the increasingly obvious fact that there were no longer any prospects, in the newer circumstances, for themselves. Such a man, and in such a time, was William Veazie Pratt, who entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1885, made his name as Administrative Aide to the newly established Chief of Naval Operations during World War I, was Commander-in-Chief U.S. Fleet (CINCUS) during the late 1920's, became CNO himself in 1930, and retired from active duty in 1933.

But it is not solely because Pratt reached the pinnacle of a naval career that Professor Wheeler became his biographer. Wheeler became fascinated with Pratt because he was one of the architects of our World War II Navy, worked mightily to remedy its deficiencies and prepare it for a conflict he foresaw more and more clearly, predicted technological developments that were still in the future, participated whole-heartedly, at the request of the President, in negotiations for the

limitation of navies—and lived on until 1957, writing and lecturing on the evolution of the Navy he had so greatly helped to build.

No one can say, of course, what Pratt's role would have been had World War II come ten years earlier. He might have been a failure as a wartime leader, although this reviewer's guess is to the contrary; for Gerald Wheeler portrays him as innovative, morally courageous, a thoughtful planner, a leader concerned with substance above the appearance, an operational commander with a sure hand on the helm. I can remember hours of stimulating discussion with Gerry Wheeler, while we were both on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College, during which he described his delight over the discovery of the Pratt papers, mostly comprising correspondence between him and his wife (which began, in fact, long before they were married). As a result of Wheeler's enthusiasm, Pratt became a man alive to me.

Wheeler is a man of insight as well as a first class naval historian. He notes that "of those who advanced to command of the Battle Fleet, or CINCUS, or CNO, during the inter-war period, (it can be observed) that their 'contributions' were generally modest. . . there (were) few dramatic changes or unusual circumstances, like a war, which would permit individual distinction as in previous (or later) decades On the other hand, when each is viewed from the perspective of his own times, and an attempt is made to see what was contributed to the Navy that was important when they were in high conrunand, then it is possible to recognize that Admiral Pratt and the rest have good reason to be remembered." It is this which is significant to Wheeler's biography of William V. Pratt; for the perspectives of later years can never be the same as those at the time.

Wheeler goes on to say: Those who knew Admiral Pratt during his years in flag rank undoubtedly were aware of the ambivalent attitude he had toward war and the use of naval power.

He was, in many ways, a nineteenthcentury military man. He accepted balance-of-power politics and the use of warfare to maintain relationships among nations. Yet he felt, perhaps instinctively from his New England heritage, that wars were enormously wasteful of a

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country's population and resources. As an Anglophile, and one who sincerely believed that Anglo-Saxon institutions were superior to those of other cultures, he consistently promoted the idea of alliance with Great Britain. . . . At the end of the World War, when it appeared that America might join the League of Nations, Pratt helped design a League Navy to be based on Anglo-American sea power. He was willing to plan toward the day when national armaments could be gradually reduced behind a shield of League military and Naval protection.

But in these early years of the 1920's he was in no sense one who believed in unilateral disarmament; nor was he willing "to set an example" by having America reduce its Navy with the expectation that others would follow in her wake.

Bill Pratt, the nineteenth-century military man, was in his element in the twentieth century. And yet, through a combination of factors, he missed practically all the fighting during his nearly fifty years of U.S. Naval Service. Except for a few desultory shots exchanged between his ship and Morro Castle during the Spanish-American War, and a few escapades in the Philippines afterward, he never heard a shot fired in anger. Before World War I he was one of Admiral William S. Sims' "Band of (Simian) Brothers"—as some of Sims' detractors loved to render the title Sims took from Horatio Nelson. Pratt was Chief of Staff for Sims, proving himself as competent at this chore as he was at navigating a ship or training sailors to shoot straight, and the association thus developed was to last the rest of his career, albeit with a few rocks and shoals along the way. During World War I, Pratt was the consummately efficient administrator who never left Washington. Later, as CINCUS and CNO himself, Pratt prepared the Navy for its Armageddon in World War II. No part in that conflict came his way, except for a short term advisory job in Washington, but he would have felt right at home as a Bureau Chief, fleet commander or CNO any time after 1945.

Our Navy has gone through many more peacetime than wartime years in its history. It has been its good fortune, and very much to its credit, as author Wheeler makes clear, that it had its Billy Pratts many times over, so that when an Ernie King, a Chester Nimitz or a Raymond Spruance was called for, he would be there.

Wheeler describes his biography of Pratt as a "labor of love" for the U.S. Navy. It is far more than only that; it is many cuts above the pedestrian compendiums of ships, promotions and foreign ports with which too many of our naval biographies, and autobiographies too, seem to concern themselves. The story of Pratt has epitomized the rise of our Navy from the simple chauvinism of the SpanAnril

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ish-American War time to the dedicated professionalism which sustained us during the early days of World War II— when, despite everything crashing around us and the nation's major war effort going in the other direction, we reversed the tide of Pacific conquest in only six months. Pratt was certainly not the only architect of our Navy in 1941, but he was one of them. This is real history, written by a master of his craft, for the student of detail and the scholar of the broad general sweep alike.

The biography is enhanced by an excellent Introduction by Vice Admiral Edwin B. Hooper, Director of Naval History, under whose auspices it was published as the latest (and the best, so far) in the series of important naval officers' lives with which the Naval History Division has been engaged for a number of years. Indeed, the volume is neatly bracketed by Hooper's Introduction and Wheeler's Epilogue, both of which are essays on Pratt's impact on our Navy and its thinking. Admiral Hooper hits it pretty closely: "It would be hard to find a more exciting time to start a naval career.

When Pratt became a midshipman in 1885, the United States was launching a new construction program, the result of which would be transformation to a modern Navy of steel ships. . . . The phenomenal industrial growth of the United States and a rapidly expanding trade were generating new requirements for worldwide naval presence. . . . The story of Pratt's service . . . reveals the extensive nature of the changes then in progress."

The inspired efforts of all these dedicated men, of whom Pratt, and Sims, and Bradley Fiske were among the foremost, bore fruit in 1942-45. We were lucky to have them when we did.

And the wheel is still turning.

Edward L. Beach '39 This book is available from the Superintendent of Documents, Government . .

Printing Office, Washington DC 20402, Stock No. 0846-00069.

Battle for the Bundu

by Charles Miller, Macmillan, New York 1974. 353 pages, Illustrated, $9.95.

Intrepid and resourceful best describe the German military and naval leaders in East Africa in World War I. In this little-known and far-off portion of "the war to end all wars" one figure stands out especially in the German field commander, Col. Paul Emil von LettowVorbeck. Von Lettow is flanked by a number of other Army types as well as Cdr. Max Looff, Commanding Officer of the cruiser KONIGSBERG, who literally became a "Horse Marine." After his ship was destroyed by the British he took the remnants of the crew and the ship's

weapons ashore to assist von Lettow in a four year harassment of Allied troops and the wide-spread defense of German East Africa (now Tanzania).

From the snows of Kihmanjaro to the Indian Ocean, and to the shores of the vast inland seas, Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika and Nyasa, von Lettow fought off the troops of Britain, Portugal and Belgium with his German trained and led Schutztruppe. It was he who saw the conflict coming, and it was he who had the foresight to have a trained army in the field in August 1914 when war came. In the end he still controlled a part of the German colony and was able to move about relatively freely through quite a vast area even though nominally occupied by Allied forces.

Mr. Miller describes the whys and wherefores of German colonial enterprises in the area, the forming of the Shutztruppe, the victories and set-backs of the four year war in good detail and in an almost novel-like style. His tendency to play up the good points and down the mistakes of the Germans and to do the opposite with the British at times is a bit too strong but, on the whole, it is an excellent tale mighty well told.

Of considerable interest to naval readers should be the exploits, detection and final destruction of the KONIGSBERG tucked away in her riverine sanctuary, the action of little navies upon the Lakes, the amphibious operations against the ports and the almost miraculous resupply of the German forces. The reader will be surprised to learn of the use of aircraft for surveillance and fire control spotting by the British in those early days of flight. The naval part of that far-off war makes a fine story, recorded clearly and in good detail.

I could hardly put the book down once I had started it, and I believe other readers may well feel the same way.

Schuyler Pyne '25

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Capitol Hill Fred Lardner '22

Hardware and the Budget

There is some argument on Capitol Hill as to which will be hit hardest in the fiscal 1976 budget—people or hardware.

This assumes that the 1976 budget will be hit hard; whether it deserves to be is beside the point. There is a lot of publicity concerning the fact that the 1976 defense budget is about $8 billion more than in 1975. Exact totals vary, but there is the estimate of one authority—$92.8 billion for 1976 and $84.8 billion for 1975.

Many members of Congress can not understand, or so they say, why the budget should be larger this year.

People should be sacrificed, says one; they are getting to cost too much. There is too much hardware, too many ships and planes, says another; we're giving it away.

The Navy spends much more on hardware than on people. It can not operate without very costly instruments of war.

The budget calls for an apropriation of $5.45 billion for ships, $3.08 billion for planes, $1.72 billion for new weapons, $1.98 billion for other procurement, and $3.47 billion for research, development, and evaluation—a total of $15.7 biflion as compared to personnel costs of $5.78 billion.

One factor that gripes some legislators is that shipbuilding in 1976 calls for $5.45 billion, as compared with $3.06 billion in 1975. In preparing the 1976 budget, the Defense Department took into consideration probable increases in inflation and other costs, so that the difference between the 1976 and the 1975 costs for shipbuilding and conversion does not involve much more in actual production.

The budget seeks funds to build 23 new ships, while 25 ships of the current fleet will be retired. The present level of ships, 502, will decrease to about 490 by June 30, 1976. It is probably not exact to forecast the number of ships on active duty June 30, 1976, for some of the ships requested cannot be completed within a year. The number of carriers will decrease from 15 to 13 with the retirement

of two, and the number of nuclear attack submarines will increase from 64 to 68, with the construction of five and the retirement of one. Amphibious assault ships will decrease from 64 to 63, with two new ships and the retirement of three.

The proposed building program is: —One Trident Submarine, to have a nine year operating cycle between overhaul and refueling and an operational life of over 20 years, carrying 24 longrange strategic ballistic missiles.

—Two Nuclear Attack Submarines of 6,400 tons, 360 feet long, crew of 102, carrying Mk 48 torpedoes.

—One DLGN of the DLGN-38 class, of 11,000 tons equipped for ASW and AAW. —Two Patrol Hydrofoil MissUe Ships, 150' length and 214 tons, propelled by gas turbine-powered waterjet pumps, carrying four Harpoon missiles and a 76mm RF dual purpose gun, crew of 21.

—^Ten Patrol Frigates of 3,500 tons each, 440' length, crew of 185, powered by two gas turbines with a single, reversible pitch propellor.

—-Two Destroyer Tenders of 23,000 tons and 18 knot speed, crew of 1,595.

—Two Fleet Oilers of 587' length and 20 knot speed, crew of 143.

Three Fleet Ocean Tugs, diesel powered to 15 knots, complements to include four man communications teams and 20 salvage-diving personnel.

Effects on Personnel

The budget seeks $5.78 billion for personnel, compared with the $5.68 billion approved in fiscal 1975. On June 30, 1976, the Navy expects to have 528,651 people, about 1500 fewer officers and 6000 fewer enlisted than at the end of this year.

More people will be serving at sea in fiscal 1976 even though the number of ships will be the smallest since before the Korean war. The new ships and equipment coming into the Navy will demand higher complements in spite of increased automation.

The promotion flow will be about the same in fiscal 1976 as it has been recently, both in time and opportunity.

Of the $5.78 billion sought by the Navy for personnel, $4.26 is earmarked for pay, $1 billion for entitlements and incentives, and $97 million for travel costs on temporary duty. $222 million is earmarked for transportation of property, not people, and $95 million for transportation for temporary duty and short-term training. Most of the moving money is earmarked for bringing new people into the Navy and returning others to civiUan life.

In fiscal 1976 the Navy will seek 81,000 new male recruits, 5,000 women and 15,000 Reservists to be brought on active duty. However, drill pay strength in the Naval Reserve will drop from the present 112,790 to 92,000 at end year '76—a big cut.

Money for Navy moves, under the budget, is less this year than in 1975.

Recent cuts in Navy travel money for 1975 give an idea of what might come in 1976. The Secretary's Retired Advisory Panel had to cancel its annual conference, assignment to fleet schools have been reduced and comparatively few attended the annual meeting of the Master Chiefs of major commands, who serve as the CNOs' enlisted advisory board.

Bonuses have had an important effect in retaining a satisfactory level of Navy enlistees. In fiscal 1976 27,000 people will draw Special Re-Enlistment Bonuses of $50.5 million and 12,000 people will draw about $14 million in regular reenlistment bonuses, but the pro-pay program is dropping to $18.4 million in 1976, from $35 million in 1975 and $37 million in 1974. Only $3.6 million is allocated for first enlistment bonuses.

Hazardous-duty incentive pay is retained in the fiscal 1976 budget. 20,263 officers will draw $43.8 million in flight pay, 2,603 submarine officers will draw $5.5 million, and about $1.3 million in jump pay, demolition pay, flight deck pay, and high-low pressure chamber pay is earmarked for 734 officers.

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Planes and Missiles

The Navy wants $599 million to purchase 36 F-14A fighters, a much publicized plane, and $482.9 million for 41 S-3A Vikings. These would be the big purchases in airplanes.

In missiles, $234.9 million is needed to buy a number of Trident I; $142.8 million for 270 Harpoons; $140.9 million for 980 Sparrows; $107.3 miUion for 2,310 Sidewinders; and $96.7 million for 340 Phoenix missiles.

reacted to pressure from congressmen and the military community. They now say the "decision" to eliminate commissary subsidies was actually a proposal, and that the final action will be taken by the Congress. A t least one bill has been introduced in the House to maintain the status quo, and a House Concurrent Resolution has been offered to put the Congress on record as being opposed to any change in the present method of funding commissaries, but no action has been taken on either at this time.

Lesser Pay Increases

Conunissary Threat Plans to lessen the government's cost of operating military commissaries and store exchanges would not wipe out all the savings the service member makes by trading in these stores. Commissary prices would increase 5 or 6 percent in October of this year, and another 5 or 6 percent in October 1976. According to a survey made by the Navy Resale System Office, trading in these stores throughout the country has meant savings averaging 23 percent as compared with shopping in commercial retail stores, including supermarkets.

In addition to the proposed increases in prices, the government's intent to lessen military store costs is seen in the decision of Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger to deny the services about S424 million of the funds needed for store operations in the two years beginning October 1975. The primary method of saving would be to increase income (prices) so that the cost of all employees, civilian and military, could be paid out of store receipts. Military employees would still have their regular pay from their services. Actually, judging by private business standards, the stores would not be self-supporting for they would pay no rent, no maintenance costs, and no management costs.

Here are some of the percentage savings reported under the existing system: Domestics and dry goods—39.5; men's accessories—37.3; infants' and children's wear—35.2; jewelry—34.1; women's accessories—33.6; periodicals—33.0; luggage and leather goods—30.5.

Ed. Note—Since this column was set in type, adtninistration spokesmen have April, 1975

President Ford has announced that he will name a panel of pay experts to study government civilian and military pay and recommend changes in establishing pay levels that will hold down Federal expenditures but still observe the principle of comparability with industrial pay.

The President has set a limit of five percent on the next Federal pay raise, expected in October, which otherwise is estimated to go as high as nine percent.

AH these moves by the Administration to hold down government expenditures must be contained in the fiscal 1976 budget, and therefore subject to the approval of Congress.

"Federal employees generally enjoy greater job security than the average worker under current economic conditions," the President said, in a report to Congress. "I believe that most Federal employees will understand that some restraint on their pay increases is appropriate now to help provide benefits and increased job opportunities for those who are unemployed."

Restrictions On Retirees

Retired Navy Captain Henry C. Field.

Jr., vice president of a small Norfolk shipping firm, is testing in court his right to contract with the Navy to do repairs and overhauls on small Navy craft. Field aims at the constitutionality of Section 281, which prohibits a retired Regular from selling to the Navy, and Form 1357, which requires retired Regulars to answer various questions about their work.

RAdm. H. B. Robertson, Deputy JAG,

told Field that his work was in violation of Section 281. Apprehensive about loss of his job and a possible court martial.

Field seeks a court judgment declaring Section 281 unconstitutional. He questions whether Congress intended to put restrictions on retired Regulars to prevent them from selling to their services, and questions the constitutionality of such a restriction even if Congress intended it.

He also adds that the Navy and various of its officials have sought repeal of Section 281.

Field's lawyer, also a retired Regular Navy officer, has tried 200 cases involving retired Regular officers and Navy regulations. This is only the second court case involving Section 281; the first was inconclusive. The U.S. Attorney for Northern Virginia has said he will take no action against Field but, nevertheless, he has decided to proceed with his test against this regulation. ^

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Navy Sailing Captain Robert D. McWethy, USN (Ret.)

Undoubtedly every alumnus reading this page was, at minimum, exposed to sailing Plebe year—and pretty much takes for granted that the Naval Academy has a sailing program. Over the years, this sail training has been considered important enough to warrant support with appropriated funds. However, since WWII a vast majority of our officers have come from sources other than the USNA. The OCS, NROTC and other officer inputs have not had the advantage of exposure to sailing, nor have our enlisted recruits.

Many alumni probably are unaware that a concerted effort has been underway for some years to correct this inequity.

It started to come together in 1962 when the late Capt. Jake Vandergrift '39 took the lead in organizing the Norfolk Naval Sailing Association (NNSA), patterned after the British Royal Naval Sailing Association which was then 25 years of age. In the years that followed, sailing clubs were established in Key West, Washington and London. RAdm. "Cy" Rotrige (ChC), a charter member of the NNSA, led the next step in 1966—putting together a national organization, the U.S. Naval Sailing Association (USNSA), consisting of branches or affiliated local clubs and individual members and, in essence, devoted to encouraging sailing in the Navy. The late VAdm. John McN. Taylor '26 was elected the first Commodore.

As Executive Secretary "Cy" Rotrige ran the fledgling organization from his office; first in the Bureau of Personnel, then on ComServPac Staff. The USNSA grew slowly but steadily as sailing Navy people took advantage of an improving climate to organize ^branches here and there around the world.

In 1971 RAdm. Sheldon Kinney '41, then Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel (and Vice Commodore of the USNSA) was instrumental in chartering a Navy Sailing Advisory Committee (NSAC) of prominent civilian yachtsmen. Now seventeen strong, these men have been most helpful, consulting with local programs in their home areas all around the United States and advising the Chief of Naval Personnel on sailing matters.

RAdm. Bob McNitt (Ret.) '38 became Commodore in 1973 and led the USNSA through a critical two years during which

MITSCHER'S branch of the USNSA gets underway in the Med.

a headquarters office was established at Naval Station, Annapolis. The Association now has 35 branches sponsored by ships and stations, some 6000 branch members who are organized to provide volunteer assistance in operations of approximately 500 Special Services sailing craft, and over a thousand individual members who receive the quarterly USNSA Newsletter with information on Navy-wide sailing activity and the annual Yearbook. VAdm. Bill Behrens (Ret.) "44 is Commodore in 1975 as the USNSA is increasingly recognized nationally and internationally. Vice Commodore LCdr. Al Swinger '66 is in the Pacific Fleet destroyer JOSEPH STRAUSS. The Rear Commodores are Capt. Bill Burns (CEC) in Guam, LCdr. John Bonds in Newport, Lt. Brian Buzzell in an Atlantic Fleet Helo squadron and Chief Petty Officer Lloyd Stagg in Jacksonville.

Despite all this activity and growth, sailing is still out of reach and notice of a majority of Navy people who should have this experience and skill. To fill the gap, the NSAC in 1974 sponsored yet a third organization to help Navy sailing, the U.S. Naval Sailing Foundation (USNSF). Incorporated for world-wide operation, the USNSF has worked out procedures with the Navy (BuPers), is acceptable to the Internal Revenue Service, and stands ready to receive dona-

tions for the benefit of Navy sailing, particularly larger sailing craft beyond the means of recreation funds. As proved by foundations supporting specific institutions (Naval Academy, Postgraduate School, Naval War College), this approach facilitates acceptance of gifts which can be transferred to the Navy in due course according to statutory procedures. Such gifts, if the Navy desires, can also be returned to the Foundation for disposal (with proceeds available to benefit Navy sailing). Working together, the USNSA, NSAC, and USNSF are pointed toward a goal approved by the Chief of Naval Personnel in 1973—to qualify at least 80% of junior line officers and 50% of deck enlisted personnel in basic sailing—for the enhancement of seamanship skills, wholesome recreation, and the Navy's image as a seagoing outfit. .J>

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Navy Sports Tom Bates, Sports Information Director, Naval Academy Athletic Association

Navy Outdoes Army With Wins In Six of Nine Winter Engagements

Navy's nine winter athletic teams used the traditional birthday of the nation's first Commander-in-Chief, George Washington, to achieve victory in six sports over Army. It was the second straight year that the Midshipmen winter squad had been able to emerge with six triumphs and moved Navy into an 8-5 lead over the Cadets in varsity sports competition this year. Five sports will be contested in the spring.

The day's accomplishments were keynoted by the 72-61 come-from-behind victory of the basketball team and the 40-2 rout by the wrestling team. The other wins were in indoor track (69-49), fencing (15-12), rifle (2814-2762) and squash (7-2). Losses were in swimming (68-45), gymnastics (198.80 to 185.70) and pistol (7832-7778).

The basketball win was Navy's second in a row over Army and third in the past four years. It also was the Mids' 10th triiunph of the year against 12 losses and still kept them in the miming for a .500 season—home games with Moravian and St. Francis (N.Y.) remained as Shipmate went to press.

Navy gave the crowd of nearly 5,000 a good scare as it fell behind, 17-4, in the early going. But Coach Dave Smalley went to a full court press earlier than usual "to get better movement out there." With guards Mickey Hampton and Jerry Liscomb providing the pressure, the Mids slowly worked their way back.

Senior forward Bill Montgomery hit for some key baskets and then, with Navy trailing 23-20, plebe forward Hank Kuzma went on a seven-point outburst that shot the Mids in front, 27-23. Army came back to tie the score but Hampton dropped a basket through just before the halftime buzzer.

At the start of the second half. Navy, which had managed a mediocre 29 percent from the floor in the initial 20 minutes, reversed itself and connected on its first six shots, three apiece by Montgomery and Hampton. They outscored the visiting Cadets 12-2 in the first three April, 1975

minutes and enjoyed a 41-29 lead. Army got no closer than five points.

Montgomery and Kuzma each finished with 20 points while Hampton, being recognized more and more for his allaround ability, had 19. He hit on seven of his 11 floor shots and had eight assists.

The Mids have been playing excellent basketball in recent weeks, gaining four wins in their last five starts, including back-to-back triumphs over Penn State and American University. Senior center Bob Bums keyed the overtime win over AU, tallying 10 of his 17 points in the extra period.

The wrestling win over Army was Navy's 10th in a row over the Cadets and the thirteenth straight year Army has failed to beat Navy in the sport. It also was the 20th win in 21 starts in the winningest wrestling season in Naval Academy history. Next comes defense of Navy's Eastern Intercollegiate title 28 Feb.-l March.

Navy did not lose a bout in the wrestling; Army's only points achieved when Jim Carafano drew with Mid. Bob Keimy at 167 pounds. The match featm-ed pins

by Navy's Mike Beck at 126, Jeff Steiner at 150 and John Althans at 158. Dan Muthler, who finished the season with a 16-2 record and nine pins at 150, will drop back to 142 in an attempt to defend his Eastern title. Navy's other defending Eastern champ, Jeff Simons, had a 13-0-1 record at 190 this year, although wrestling several matches at heavyweight.

Navy's depth proved to be the margin in the track win, each team taking seven first places. The Cadets had two double winners in Dennis Tmjillo (mile and two mile runs) and Love Collins (triple and long jumps). Navy finished its dual season with a 3-3-1 record and next was headed for the Heptagonal championships, which it captured the past two years.

Second classmen Nick Karangelen and Bob Treitz led the fencing win over Army, the former going 3-0 in sabre and the latter 2-0 in foil. It was Navy's seventh win in eight meets this winter with only a date against New York University remaining on the schedule before the Easterns and Nationals.

The 7-2 squash decision was Navy's sixth straight over Army and capped off

another excellent season for Coach Art Potter's squad. It had a 12-3 record and eight shutouts.

Jim Rennie and Dave Chiquelin both fired a 566 in Navy's rifle win, its first over the Cadets since 1969. LCdr. Web Wright's charges now have a 6-2 record.

The loss to Army in pistol dropped the record to 3-2 for the season, but youngster Brad Tilgner continues to rank among the best in the country, fking an 817 against the Cadets.

Army's win in swimming was probably the biggest surprise of the day. Navy has been rolling along quite successfully under second-year coach Lee Lawrence but the Cadets set five West Point pool records in the meet. Youngster Joe Kernan did take a first in both the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events against the Black Knights. The Mids are 6-4 this year and still have to swim the University of Pernisylvania.

Navy showed some strong individual efforts but Army's overall team depth prevailed in gymnastics as the Cadets had a better team total in all six events. The loss put the Mid record at 4-5 with a visit to Cornell closing out the dual season.

Navy Completes 1975 Football Slate With Decision to Play Air Force In Washington

Navy completed its 1975 football schedule with the announcement by Academy Director of Athletics }.. O. Coppedge that the Midshipmen would play service rival Air Force in Washmgton, D . C , this fall.

The game between the Falcons and Mids is the eighth in the series and will be played at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium on Oct. 4. It marks the second time R.F.K. has been the site for a battle between the two—Air Force won 26-3 in 1970.

"We are extremely pleased that arrangements have been made for Navy to meet Air Force m Washington," Coppedge noted at a press conference. "The officials of both academies have been aware for some time of the great number of fans both have in the Capital area.

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But, even more important, we believe that a game between two service academies, with its attendant color and pageantry, should be brought to Washington on the eve of the nation's Bicentennial."

With its 16-13 win last fall at Colorado Springs, Colo., Air Force has moved ahead in its series with Navy, four wins to three for the Mids.

The complete 1975 schedule follows: Sept. 13 At Virginia Sept. 20 Connecticut, home Sept. 27 At U. of Washington Oct. 4 Air Force at Wash. DC Oct. 11 Syracuse (Homecoming) Oct. 25 At Pittsburgh Nov. 1 At Notre Dame Nov. 7 At Miami, Florida (Night) Nov. 15 At Georgia Tech Nov. 29 ARMY at Philadelphia

Welsh Sets Priorities for Navy Spring Football Drills

Although he started Navy's 1975 spring football drills on St. Patrick's Day, George Welsh really wasn't looking for any Irish luck charms this year. Instead, he was setting about to prepare the Mids for his third year as coach. His priorities dealt with the offense, in particular the offensive line and the passing game.

"Those are the areas we intend to concentrate on during our spring sessions," he said. "We are much further ahead with developing the offensive line than a year ago. We have more experienced people and we have bigger people. But, I'm also concerned that we develop a sound passing game. We can't go through another year of relying on the defense as we did in 1974. You must have balance, particularly against the type of schedule we play."

Welsh will have 29 returning lettermen, eight of whom were starters on defense last year. And he expects some help from a host of promising youngsters, especially several sizeable ones who could bulk up the offensive line.

The defense still appears to be strong with rover Chet Moeller, called the best defensive back in the East in 1974, tackle Dave Papak and linebacker Andy Bushak all returning. In addition to Moeller, the secondary also returns Len Mokan, John Sturges, Gene Ford and Ed Jeter, all of whom were starters last year. The defensive line has experienced performers in lettermen ends Mark Thorpe and Ron Duplessis, tackle Ken Trass and middle guards Jeff Sapp and Jeff Hoobler too.

Hoobler may be tried at linebacker this spring where he'll join returning lettermen Tom Gardner, J. J. Scott and Randy Hutcherson.

The defensive picture is also filled with the likes of youngsters John Foy (245), Jeff Smart (245) and Charles Davidson (212), all interior linemen, and the Caulk brothers, Bob, a defensive tackle, and Pete, a defensive end-linebacker. They, along with defensive back Mike Galpin, a plebe, all just missed earning letters last fall.

Welsh will start his 1975 offensive planning with two experienced quarterbacks on hand, a marked contrast to last year when he had only one signal-calling prospect of limited experience reporting.

One is Mike Roban, the 201-pound youngster who started the final two games of last fall. The other is Phil Poirier, a first classman. Another youngster, John Kurowski, is also considered a fine prospect at the position.

One problem Welsh encounters in structuring the passing game is finding capable receivers. Robin Ameen, last year's top receiver (26 catches, 403 yards), has left school, leaving Ike Owens and Mike Yeager the only lettermen returning at wide receiver. Letterman Kevin Sullivan faces a challenge from sophomore Dick Cellon at tight-end.

Offsetting the loss of all-time running great, Cleveland Cooper (2,582 yards), is the return of two excellent fullbacks.

Bob Jackson and Gerry Goodwin, plus Cooper's understudy the past two seasons, speedster Ed Gilmore.

Experience on the offensive line will come from first classmen Steve Barilich (248) and Dick Feckler (240), along with youngster Mark Poston (245), all lettermen. Mike Hansell (248) and Bill Driscoll (214) are lettermen at guard and Jim Lippard (246) and Dana Liller (235) are considered fine prospects.

Mike Grimes, a youngster, played in several varsity games as a plebe.

Replacements must be found at center and for punter John Stufflebeem but placekicker Steve Dykes, the team's top scorer in 1974, is on hand for his second class year.

Academy Honors Swim Star

On 1 Febmary, prior to defeating Yale in a regular meet, the Naval Academy dedicated a new electrical timing device for swimming meets in the Norman Scott Natatorium as a memorial to the late Lt. Michael R. Collins, USN '64, Captain of Navy's 1964 swimming team.

Collins held the Academy records for the 50 and 100-yard freestyle and was selected to the All-America teams of 1963 and 1964. On his third tour of duty in S.E. Asia he was awarded the

The Collins Memorial dedication plaque

Silver Star for action in Vietnam in January 1971, and was killed in action two months later while leading his Seal Team behind enemy lines.

The timer was presented in Collins' name from contributions by his family, classmates, friends of Navy swimming, the Naval Academy Junior Swim Club and the Naval Academy Athletic Association.

Navy Sports Briefs

Frank Spaziani, head coach at Raritan High School in New Jersey, has been named an assistant coach on George Welsh's football staff. A defensive end on two Penn State bowl teams in the late 1960's, Spaziani fills a vacancy created when Terry Lewis resigned to accept a position at Western Michigan University.

Spaziani is expected to work with the Midshipmen offense. He previously coached at Hempstead High School on Long Island and at Carteret High School in New Jersey before becoming head coach at Raritan High in 1974 where his team finished 5-4. * * * LCdr. Peter Blair, USN '55, has been selected to the Citizens Savings Hall (formerly Helms Athletic Foundation) Amateur Wrestling Hall of Fame. Blair, from Mission Viejo, Calif., was a twotime NCAA champion at the Academy and won an AAU championship in 1956.

He was a member of the U.S. Olympic freestyle team in 1956, placing third at Melbourne, Australia at 191 pounds. * * * Navy's defensive end and football cocaptain of last fall, Tim Harden, has been Shipmate

39 named to the second 1974 Football Academic All-America team. Earlier in the school year. Harden was selected as a scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame and as an alternate for an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. * * * A Plebe on Navy's rifle team, James Rennie of Wilmington, Del., has set the national collegiate air rifle record. He fired a 374 to break the old mark of 367 set a year ago by Osarew Gee of Baltimore, Md. Reimie has been a regular member of Navy's varsity rifle team this year. His older brother, Chris, is an AllAmerica performer for East Tennessee State.

Navy's Winter Sports Results Since Last Shipmate Basketball: Fordham, 60-71; George Washington, 58-80; Rutgers, 70-75; Johns Hopkins, 82-53; Penn State, 66-64; American U., 77-72; Manhattan, 62-63; Army, 72-61.

Fencing: Pennsylvania, 10-17; Columbia, 14-13; Penn State, 14-13; Army, 15-12.

Gymnastics: Slippery Rock State, 192.45180.25; Springfield College, 192.10199.10; Pittsburgh, 205.15-198.00; Massachusetts, 193.68-204.10; Army, 185.70198.80.

Pistol: Army, 7778-7832.

Rifle: Murray State, 2787-2784; Penn State, 2806-2630; E. Tennessee State, 2814-2826; West Virginia, 2993-2997; Army, 2814-2762.

Squash: Stony Brook, 9-0; Harvard, 1-8; Pennsylvania, 3-6; Franklin & Marshall, 9-0; Army, 7-2.

Swimming: Cornell, 46-67; Yale, 71-46; Princeton, 35-78; Army, 45-68.

Track: Princeton, 55-63; Penn State, 49-69; Manhattan, 59-59; Army, 69-49.

Wrestling: North Carolina, 37-7; Lehigh, 14-18; Penn State, 19-16; West Chester State, 33-6; Army, 40-2.

Navy's Remaining Spring Schedules

Baseball: April 2, at Maryland; 9, Villanova, home; 11, at Brown; 12, at Yale (2); 15, at George Washington; 17, Catholic U., home; 19, Princeton, home ( 2 ) ; 22, at Georgetown; 25, Pennsylvania, home; 26, Columbia, home (2); 28, U. of Pittsburgh (Johnstown Campus), April, 1975

Jeff Steiner gets two points against Penn State, later pinning this opponent

home; May 2, at Army; 3, at Cornell (2); 5, Towson State, home; 8, BALTIMORE ORIOLES, home (exhibition); 9, Dartmouth, home; 10, Harvard, home (2); 12, George Mason, home; 17, Delaware, home (2); 26, at Penn State ( 2 ) ; 31, at Army.

Heavyweight Crew: April 5, at San Diego Crew Classic; 12, at Princeton; 19, Coast Guard, home; 26, Cornell and Syracuse at Syracuse (Goes Trophy); May 3, Harvard and Penn at Philadelphia (Adams Cup); 11, EARC Championships at Princeton.

Lightweight Crew: April 12, at Princeton; 19, Coast Guard, home; 26, Harvard, home; May 3, Penn and MIT, home (Callow Cup); 11, EARC Championships at Princeton.

Golf: April 5, Penn State and Indiana U. of Pennsylvania, home; 10, Penn, home; 12, Villanova, West Chester and St. John's, home; 17, at Columbia; 19, Johns Hopkins, home; 26, at Princeton; May 3-4, Eastern Intercollegiates at Yale; 10, Troy State, home; 31, at Army.

Lacrosse: April 5, Cornell, home; 12, at Princeton; 16, at Rutgers; 19, Hofstra,

home; 26, Maryland, home; May 3, at Virginia; 10, at Johns Hopkins; 17, Severna Park Lacrosse Club, home (exhibition) ; June 1, Army, home.

Tennis: April 2, at Maryland; 5, at Georgetown; 11, at Brown; 12, at Yale; 16, Washington & Lee, home; 17, Richmond, home; 19, Princeton, home; 22, at George Washington; 25, Penn, home; 26, Columbia, home; 28, at Swarthmore; May 3, at Cornell; 6, Johns Hopkins, home; 10, at Harvard; 11, Dartmouth at Princeton, N.J.; 26, at Penn State; 31, at Army.

Track: April 5, Manhattan, home; 12, Maryland, home; 25-26, at Penn Relays; May 10, Heptagonals at Army; 23-24, IC4A championships at William & Mary; 31, Army, home.

Sailing: April 5-6, Service Academy Yawl Championship; 5-6, Owen Trophy for Dinghy; 5-6, Sloop Eliminations # 2 for Shields; 5-6, Monotype Eliminations for Dinghy; 12-13, Kennedy Cup Regatta for Yawls; 19-20, Monotype Championships for Dinghy; 19-20, Sloop Eliminations # 3 for Shields; 26-27, Service Academy Dinghy Championship; May 3-4, America Trophy for Dinghy; 10-11 Sloop Championships for Shields.

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Class News DEADLINE: For June—10 April; for July-August—10 May

03 A letter from Mrs. John Zantzinger, daughter of RAdm. Thomas H. Taylor USN (Ret.), our ninth oldest alumnus, tells us that he flew from Texas to New York last October to attend the wedding of her son and thoroughly enjoyed himself.

The bride was the granddaughter of the late RAdm. Robert C. Lee USN (Ret.) '10, and the two young people cut the wedding cake using both grandfathers' swords.

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05 On 11 January Alice and Arthur Nagle entertained at a delightful luncheon in their charming home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, honoring the 90th birthday of Alice's mother, Louise Ingersoll. Present at the luncheon, in addition to the honored guest, were Honorable John Burch McMorran and Mrs. McMorran of Troy, New York; Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll '05; Jane and James O. Gawne '05; Lula and Wm. Rea Furlong '05; Vice Admiral Walter S. Delany '12 and Mrs. Delany; Captain Robert A. Lavender '12 and Mrs. Lavender.

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"Mrs. Haller passed away in '65. We had become members of the Hermitage Methodist Home for retired folks, and I am very happy and comfortably settled nearby to my daughter and her husband (Capt. Sam Moncure USN (Ret.) '33) and am with them for a wonderful home cooked supper quite frequently. My very first supper here in the Dining Room for 300 retirees reminded me quite vividly of my first dinner as a plebe at the Academy—now, I could not be more content."

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Sec'y, Capt. Clyde R. Robinson, USN (Ret.) 107 ScoU Dr.. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 60 Eleanor Brooks Almy, widow of Capt.

Edmund D. Almy USN (Ret.), died of a heart attack on 29 January at her home in Annapolis, where she had lived since 1945.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Channing, Jr., of Annapolis; her son, Capt. Charles B. Almy USN (Ret.), of Cleveland OH; and six grandchildren.

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Sec'y, Cdr. Allan G. Olson, USN (Ret.) El Miradero, P.O. Box 131, Bonita, CA 92002 Percent Members: 67 A recent letter from Haller Belt was most welcome, especially his comment that he has "just decided to re-subscribe to Shipmate after a lapse of many, many years."

That is the best way to keep in touch with old friends and classmates. He says:

Sec'y and Treas., RAdm. Frank A. Braisted, USN (Ret.), 3104 Cleveland Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Percent Members: 59 I regret to report the death of Commodore H. H. J. Benson USN (Ret.) on 28 January 1975 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery on 3 February following services in Fort Myer Chapel.

On a more cheerful note, Mrs. W. W. Smith (Betty), Poco's widow, became a great-grandmother when twin daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Juhnke of Arlington, Va. Mrs. Junhke (Beejee) is Poco's and Betty's granddaughter.

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Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas 725 West Blvd., Kokomo, IN 46901 Percent Members: 79 Anna Louise (Mrs. Charles J.) Moore now resides at Vinson Hall. Her address is: 6251 Old Dominion Drive, Apt. 333, McLean VA 22101. She has had a pretty rough time since Charlie's death. Word in any form from old friends would do much to cheer her up.

Omissions from the "Round Up" in the last issue include: A very nice letter from Margie Flanigan who is still at Le Prieure, 1197 Prangins Vaud, Switzerland. Has been exploring Iran, and finds that the Shah has done wonders with that country—with our money!

And a noteworthy honor that was omitted last month: Dr. Russell Ryan, after retirement from active practice in 1960, was elected a member of the Royal Society of Medicine of London, his sponsor being Sir Hedley Atkins, who was President of that Society. And he wears a necktie clip from AMA attesting his service of over 50 years as a physician.

And a very nice letter from Elizabeth (Mrs. "Gus") Gray. It enclosed another tribute to "Skate" Luckel. She says Gus still goes to parties, although he has his

problems with the epidemic of cataracts that has hit most of us. My cards to Sallie Gibson, Nan Reinicke, Elizabeth LaRoche, Marian Steinwachs, and Billy Wills were returned undelivered. I suppose the new Register will have their correct addresses.

See also the news of '03.

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Sec'y, Capt. W. D. Chandler, USN (Ret.) Chevy Chase Club Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Percent Members: 74 A little news from the West Coast this month, again thanks to George McMillin.

Phil Baker says he is feeling pretty good for his age, still taking a lot of medication and going to the doctors frequently. Matte Lee Mack reports she expects Hazel Godwin Home to visit her in the near future and that Hazel attended Homecoming last fall.

George calls attention to The Annapolis Story and in particular to the list of Naval Academy recipients of the Medal of Honor.

It lists Supe Badger, Dan Callaghan, Paul Foster, George Lowry, and Norm Scott.

No other class has that many, the nearest are 1902 and 1907 with four each. The complete list may be found in the Register of Alumni, by name but not tabulated by class.

Pede Cygon (Major J. R., USA Retired) and Mary have left their residence in the District of Columbia and are now residing at the Carnegie Gardens Home on Hickory Street, Melbourne FL 32901.

In the recent poll of those graduate members of the class for which we have good mail addresses, the proposals and ballot cards were sent to twenty-two members.

Ballots were returned by eighteen, with unanimous approval. In accordance therewith the Executive Committee Class of 1911 USNA has been formed: Bob Griffin, Chairman; Dwight Chandler, Secretary; and Ben Butler, Member. The agreement with the USNA Alumni Association has been completed.

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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, DC 20008 Percent Members: 81 June Bennet spent the Christmas Holidays in the Washington area, some of her time was as guest at Vinson Hall.

January 1975 brought a great-granddaughter to Lulette Thompson—Kathleen Ann Seymour. She is the daughter of Cdr. Shipmate

41 and Mrs. Harry Seymour, Jr. in Annapolis and the granddaughter of Capt. Harry Seymour and Jean Thompson Seymour.

Chaplain Anderson, USA, the son of Andy and Miriam has returned from duty in Germany and is now stationed at Walter Reed Hospital.

Dot Richards (Jack's widow) spent the Holidays with her son, John, and his family in Potomac MD. She has had visits with the opthamologist and consultations with other doctors and all is fine.

A letter from Hans Ertz tells that he was going bowling and wrenched his right foot and now "my activities are limited to gardening where I have 45 rose bushes and quite a few other shrubs. There are no classmates in the area so I don't see anyone.

Say hello to mutual friends."

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Pres., VAdm. Glenn B. Davis, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., MGen. C. G. Helmick, USA (Ret.) 4784 Old Dominion Dr., Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 76 I regret to report that Miss Muriel Wood, sister of our late classmate Valentine Wood, died in Washington, DC on 31 January.

Services were held 3 February in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle, and she was intered in the U.S. Naval Academy Cemetery with graveside service, 4 February.

Frances Sleeper and Gardiner Helmick represented the class at the church service and a check in her memory was sent to the American Cancer Society. Our condolances go to her family.

We have started the year badly with our combined Army-Navy 1913 class luncheons.

The first Wednesday of January was New Year's Day, and our first Wednesday of February was visited with a snowstorm which forced cancellation.

Babs and Theb Thebaud had a party at the Washington Army and Navy Club on 15 February celebrating Theb's 85th birthday. Hearty congratulations to the "Ancient Mariner."

We were delighted to receive a letter from Francine Jupp's daughter, Mrs. Audrey Van Home, of 1114 E. Shelby St., Seattle WA 98102, to let us know that Francine is in good health. Her memory is not too good (and who of us are not troubled in that line?), but she is in a comfortable "villa" where this is not too important. She is visited once or more a week, sometimes Audrey goes there, and sometimes she goes to Audrey's, or they go out to eat.

She has a pleasant room and some of her own things there.

The Gardiner Helmicks have shoved off for Florida, where Gardiner puts to some use the seamanship vaguely remembered from some 65 years in the past.

Shipmate has furnished the address of George Greene—a Christmas card was returned "Moved, no forwarding address."

The new address is: 9907 NE 124th St., Kirkland WA 98033. Roy Newell's new address: 2121 Dalis Dr., Concord CA 94520.

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Pres., RAdm. H. A. Spanagel, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Mr. Russell E. Perry 3325 Kaywood Dr. Falls Church, VA 22041 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Charles D. Swain, USN (Ret.) 4130 Hurley Dr., La Mesa, CA 92041 Percent Members: 83 It is our sad duty to announce the death of our classmate Charles Franklin Martin 19 January in Columbia, South Carolina.

He died of bronchial pneumonia after a very brief illness. He is survived by his widow Margaret of 3219 Heyward St., Columbia SC; two sons, the Rev. Franklin Martin of St. Andrews, Tenn., and John G. Martin of Columbia; a sister Mrs. Daniel Stoudenmire of Blackville SC; several grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Our deep sympathy goes to his widow and family.

"Savvy" was one of the best known of our classmates, conscientious, congenial, esteemed by all and outstanding as an officer and a gentleman. He did a superb job as Editor-in-Chief of our Lucky Bag and during the past few years he has been a member of our Class Memorial Committee.

An obituary will be printed in an early issue of Shipmate.

Just as we were finishing these notes we received the sad news that our classmate Albert Gleaves Berry, Jr., died of heart trouble 4 February in the San Diego Naval Hospital. We have no further details other than that he is survived by his widow Estelle and a son. Al was the youngest surviving member of our class and would have been 81 on the 23rd of March. He was a former shipmate of your secretary and an usher at the Perrys' wedding in 1916. His widow and family have our deep sympathy.

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Chairman Class Comm. and Sec'y, Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Percent Members: 87 John McCrea has written asking if we are going to have a sixtieth Reunion in May at Annapolis. The answer is no, unless more interest is generated soon.

Word from Margaret and Hoke Smith is that they are embarked on their annual trip to Southern California in search of golf and sunshine. They had the dubious distinction of being in the Imperial Valley when the earthquake hit Brawley. Margaret said it went up and down and round and round— shades of Long Beach in 1933. They are going to spend February in La Jolla and I hope will glean some news in that area for us.

The Washington contingent has pretty well holed up for the winter. Helena and Bill Granat may get out to California a little later on.

Leon Scott will continue to live at 1545 18 St., N.W., Washington DC 20036 since losing Ros. He may make a trip to Hono-

lulu to see his daughter Jean in the spring.

Patsy Small joined Jack in Arlington in January at a small family ceremony.

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Pres., VAdm. Bertram Rodgers, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. George P. Brewster, USN (Ret.), 611 West 40th St., Baltimore, MD 21211 West Coast Reporter, Capt. George FChapline, USNR (Ret.), 1327 Inspiration Dr., La Jolla, CA 92037 Percent Members: 86 A note from Harris Lyle informs us that he has a new home address different from the one recently reported in Shipmate. The address is: 10832 Santa Rosa Road, Camarillo CA 93010. Harris notes: "We now have a little over one acre in the middle of an orange grove where there is room for seven horses belonging to my son-in-law and daughter. This I never thought was possible—no boats, not even a sight of the ocean—and horses yet!" If Harris gets along with the horses as well as he did with the yachting people, through the many past years, he will do O.K. Harris will continue his law practice but only part time in Northridge CA. In the April 1974 copy of our notes in Shipmate we reported that Doanda and Julian Wheeler enjoyed a visit with their daughter, Jackie, and her husband Dr. R. G. Little Ph.D. and their two teenage daughters in Morgantown, W.V. 14 Oct. 1973.

Just a year later, 9 Oct. 1974 Jackie was instantly killed in an automobile accident there in Morgantown. We all join in extending our deepest sympathy to both families in this tragic loss. It is with regret that we report the death on 10 Jan. of our popular classmate and friend Jack Terhune, after a long illness, in the Naval Hospital in San Diego. Jack had retired in 1947 after a long and outstanding career in the Navy mostly as a communications expert.

After retirement he and his family settled in San Diego where Jack joined the staff of the college there as an able instructor in physics for many years. Jack is survived by his widow, Gilda, and a son John W. Terhune of San Diego. Gilda's address is: Mrs. John A. Terhune, 1250 Santa Barbara St., San Diego 92107. See West Coast News and Last Call for more details of this sad event.

WEST COAST NEWS Soon after noon on Thursday the 16th, 24 gathered in the Destroyer Room of the Admiral Kidd Officers' Club at the Naval Training Center on Pt. Loma for the January joint luncheon of 1916-17-18. The excellent menu and all arrangements were handled by Amos Root The usual gay spirits of these meetings were somewhat subdued for this one since many of us had earlier that morning attended the last rites for Jack Terhune who died, after a long illness, on last Friday the 10th. On the other hand there was cause for some cheer as we gaily greeted Consuelo and Tony Ziroli who are spending a few months in our area from their home in

42 Siena, Italy. Because of the rare treat of having them with us we had our ladies join us at our normally stag table, which helped the enjoyment and decoration at our luncheon. Before taking seats a moment of silent prayer was observed in memorium to Bill Bacon and to Jack Terhune.

Tony gave us an interesting brief talk during which he conveyed "greetings" to all from Bill Schott who came from Germany to wish the Z's "Bon Voyage." Tony reported that Bill looks as young and spirited as ever.

Ing Kiland reviewed and submitted the Committee's plans for the Valentine Party for discussion and approval.

Present as regular members were: 1916 —Walter Webb, Root, Rodgers, McGinnis, Carrington, Jenkins, Chapline and Ziroli; 1917—Wainwright, Richards, Rogers, Bennett and Kiland; 1918—Curtis, Gibb, Nichols and Price (South from Pasadena).

Ladies present with us were: Consuelo Ziroli, Marie Rodgers, Ann Webb and Bert Rodgers' sister, Clara McGreevy. Other guests were: Cdr. Folsom Jenkins, Jr. '53, Exec of the Naval Training Center; Cdr. (Ret.) Jim Rodgers '53, Bert and Marie's son; and Cdr. (Ret.) Bob Gorton '46, Ike Bennett's son-in-law.

TTie services earlier this morning (11:00) for Jack Terhune were held at the Greenwood Memorial Park Chapel in San Diego.

The services were very impressive being conducted by Navy Chaplain Jordon aided by a Marine Honor Guard including a bugler and appropriate organ music. The American Legion Post, to which Jack had belonged for years, also participated in the chapel services and during entombment in the Greenwood Mausoleum with the Post's streamers being prominently displayed.

Among the floral pieces were the 1916 Class wreath with ribbon and a wreath with ribbon from the 1916-17-18 Classes Group.

Before his long illness Jack was always present and active at the monthly luncheons, as well as all other Class Gatherings.

His beloved Gilda was also a faithful joiner of the wives at the time of the luncheons or other gatherings. Dolly and Joe Loventbal accompanied Gilda and the bereaved son John W. throughout the morning.

Among those present at the services in addition to the Loventhals were Marie and Bert Rodgers, Consuelo and Tony Ziroli, Ann and Walter Webb, Jenkins, McGinnis, Root, Carrington and Chapline. "Ing" Ki. land, from 1917, was also noted.

Messages were received from several who were unable to make the luncheon including. Possum Webb and George Price who sent greetings to all.

Trudy and Chuck Emerson entertained at home on Christmas for some friends including Consuelo and Tony and Esther and Hook Jenkins.

Word has it that Lucia and Max Cole will be wintering in Carmel with Lucia's mother and hope to make it south to greet the San Diego group. The Coles live in New Hampshire. They are the newest bride and groom in the Class.

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Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 79 We are sorry to report that our Class President, Walt Calhoun, died on 12 February in the Bethesda Naval Hospital without regaining consciousness since the eruption of a brain tumor on 4 December. Our deepest sympathy goes to Louise and to her sons.

Ward Davis was around Crabtown during the football season. He is now visiting his daughter, Dorothea, in Atlanta but expects to be back in the spring. Adelaide Fuller is in Tempe, Arizona, for the winter while Florida and Jake Davis occupy her house in Annapolis. Nino Gregory is progressing well enough to return home except that the stairs are too difficult.

Connie Forshew, who made a pre-Christmas visit to Annapolis to see Nino, Chuck Kelly and your reporter, sends additional news. Marian and Pie Park spent New Year's in Los Angeles and took in the Rose Bowl game for luck. They are presumably on their way east and should be home in time for the spring planting. E. Brady had a bad fall and went back to Bethesda for a while but Peg is the same old Rock of Gibraltar. Jack Jenkins, Frank Hanafee and Connie are holding down the fort in Washington and all in reasonably good health.

He was sorry to miss Isabel and Ing Kiland when they were around but expects a visit from Eleanor and Merrill Comstock, who may come around through the Canal in the ROTTERDAM in April.

Connie also wonders why Ward Davis has hidden his daughter for so long and comments, "When she's around the sun comes out in all its glory."

Our binnacle list is too long for both our boys and gals. We wish them all speedy recoveries.

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Pres., Capt. W. J. Malone, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Perry R. Taylor, USNR (Ret.) 1211 South 25th St., Arlington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 90 To those interested in maritime affairs and naval history in particular a visit to Venice can be a very rewarding experience, for, in addition to its many attractions as a cultural center today, one can reflect that that city was in bygone days "Queen of the Seas" among Europen nations, serving as one of the staging areas and ports of embarkation for the Crusades. Much later, in 1571, a date proudly remembered by Italians, the Venetians fought and won the Battle of Lepanto, defeating, with help from Spain, the Turk which had become the terror of Europe. In this terrific fight over 80,000 men under Christian leadership faced about the same number of Moslems with

over 200 galleys engaged on each side.

Reminiscent of this historic naval encounter are exhibits in the Italian Museum (not far from St. Marks Square) where Elmer Duval! saw a handsome mahogany model of a Venetian trireme which showed oarsmen 3 abreast in one bank, 25 banks to a side making a total of 150 men at oars; alongside this model lay a sample oar which, when stepped off, measured about 36 feet (and correspondingly heavier than those tree-like oars we rowed with as midshipmen in company cutters). This hard-fought battle was a classic of its time where galleys of both forces faced each other line abreast, bow guns firing (boarding parties of men in armor) ramming and crashing alongside each other. Some of the larger craft, the galleasses in the front lines, wore sail but the majority were oar-driven and the battle of Lepanto, the last great battle of medieval navies, closed the long history of this type of warfare giving away to sail an example being the great Spanish Armada in 1588 seventeen years later.

Bob Parker resurrected the picture of candidates in front of Miss Taylor's house on Prince George St. Perhaps someone can recognize the tall man on the left. We believe the others are: Jo Jo Anderson, Wilkinson, Gibb, Smith, Alvis, Blank, Conroy, Iverson, Lyttle. The man on each end and the one wearing a cap did not enter the Academy with us.

After his return from Europe, Ed Price visited the Coast in Oct. where he celebrated old Navy days with Florence and Mac Bledsoe, both of whom were in excellent health. Mac was still banging out tunes of 1919 on his piano. Ed also visited San Francisco and talked to Proc Thornton, but because of a conflict of engagements they did not meet. Proc claimed to be in very good health and enjoying life. You can be sure that night life did not catch Ed sleeping much in San Francisco. He found an old shipmate who served with him as a JG and who is now Cdr. USNR (Wave and good looking). We have no further information to report from San Francisco.

In December Ed boarded the ROYAL VIKING SEA at New Orleans and cruised south as far as Nicaragua then to Virgin Islands and Bahamas.

Thad Hoppe reported on 19 Jan. that Emily and he are comfortable, in reasonably good health (considering their ages) and happy, for all of which they are very grateful.

Oliver F. Marston, Col. USA (Ret.) died in the Veterans Hospital, Hampton, Va. on 27 Dec. '74. Oliver preferred Army service over Navy and departed his association with us before graduation. The class extends its sympathy to Mary, his widow, and to his son, Gardner.

Irma and Bert Rogers enjoyed an unforgettable family Christmas in Waverly, Pa., a small town near Scranton. They were entertained at the comfortable and roomy home of their eldest grandson, Randy Lore and his wife, Diana. Participating in the observance was the Rogers' daughter, Mrs.

Many alumni have provided biographies for their records here. Those who have not are urged to do so; it is important that our records be complete.

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43 become guaranteed realities. Tom Wynkoop has now fully retired from his second career with RCA, having spent twenty-six years with that corporation following thirty-four years in the Navy. "One of the greatest satisfactions I had in all those sixty years," adds Tom, "was to know and become associated with so many wonderful people."

With spring bursting out all over this month let's hope that sufficient energy will return to permit many of us, including those now handicapped by ailments, to make the annual Class get-together at Annapolis on 10 May.

20 Candidates for 1918 H. E. Lore of Champaign, 111., two other grandsons, a granddaughter with her husband and a great-grandchild, age IVi months.

It was a grand Christmas with the weather cooperating and never a dull moment. One of the interesting events was Christmas Eve diiuier at the home of Randy's in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Warsky, As part of their religious custom, no meat was served at that dinner, but there eight different kinds of fish served along with other delicious dishes.

Fresh trout was on the menu which had been caught that day in the Warsky's own lake adjacent to their home.

Any report on a Rogers' trip is not complete without mention of possible problems of air travel. This time no real trouble developed. However, the flight going was delayed three hours by fog—return flight quite ordinary.

Your attention is invited to the obimary of Bob Mitten in Last Call. The account of him in this column must await the next Shipmate.

As usual this the April issue of Shipmate carries information about the class fund.

The 1 Feb. '74 balance was $1,541.88; the balance 31 Jan. '75 was $2,942.31. The increase resulted from Bert Rogers' successful effort during 1974 to seek donations from classmates, widows and other friends. A copy of the annual report can be obtained from Bert at 3512 Albermarle St., N.W., Washington DC 20008.

No class luncheon was held on 1 Jan. '75 for obvious reasons. A severe snow storm blowing in on 4 Feb. discouraged meeting the day following, which was unfortunate as all six classmates were planning to attend that day.

EMERITUS CLASSMATES Another classmate to be welcomed onto the Emeritus Classmate list is: Col. Graham W. Lester, USA (Ret.), I Apr. '95, The Park Lane, Apt. 332, 200 Glenwood Circle, Monterey CA 93940.

BIRTHDAYS IN APRIL AND MAY As we go to press we send best wishes to Graham Lester and Ion Pursell, 4 / 1 ; Bob Parker, 4 / 5 ; Don Curtis, 4/14; Tommy Tomlinson, 4/28; Corbeau Corbett, 5/3; Gin Styer, 5/5; Red Baldwin, 5/6; Hayden Smith, 5/20; and Walter Warwick, 5/25.

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Class Chairman RAdm. C. Carter Anderson, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. P. Martin, USN (Ret.) 2 St. Mary's St., Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 78

Grateful news—Old friends of the Forrestels report that Savvy is making steady progress toward recovery.

Pres., VAdm. George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.) Marge Tumey writes on 10 January: "I Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. M. Callaghan, USN (Ret.) returned from Land O'Lakes, Florida on 1110 Randolph Rd., McLean, VA 22101 27 December. I drove down to be with one Percent Members: 86 of my granddaughters while she was having her first b a b y ^ a n d my first great-grandchild Comment in last month's issue concerning Madeleine Murray's reported progress in re- —who was three weeks late—Wow! what covering from several operations proved to a beautiful, healthy blonde gal! Her name is Mary Nicole Tarkington and I hated to be tragically too optimistic. Madeleine died suddenly in the hospital at Santa Barbara on have to leave her and come home as she completely won my heart." We believe you.

19 January. Memorial services were held in Marge. the church at Momtecito on 23 January and Madeleine was laid to rest in Arlington on Before leaving for a winter vacation in 28 January. Our deepest sympathy to SunMexico, the Eagletons—actually Mary LouShine; son, Stuart; daughter, Suzanne and ise—wrote that their son Bill, Jr. who had other surviving members of the families. represented the U.S. in Algiers for five Worn out from the strain of Madeleine's years was now at the State Dept. "He is long illness Sunshine had to enter Bethesda Director of Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and for some tests and rest after the funeral. As Malta and is supposed to be in Cyprus today these notes were prepared (early Feb.) he (late Jan.) just when there's more unrest. . . " was expected to be released shortly and On Friday, 31 Jan. nine from D. C , Jim planned to spend some time visiting Suzanne Plaskitt from Upperville VA and Daggett and Stuart before returning to California. and Martin from Annapolis gathered at the Bayard Colyear's son, a junior and physi- A&N Club for the first luncheon of '75. A total of 12 showed up. For a time it looked cian living in San Francisco, reports that his mother had to be placed in a nursing as if we would fail to reach our minimum quota of 12 so Pope Daggett and Fran Marhome following another stroke suffered in early September at which time she also tin were asked to join. Present: Anderson, broke her hip for the second time. "Physi- Christmas, Collins, Crowe, Cunningham, cally," reports Bayard Jr., "she is doing fine Daggett, Harrison, Holsinger, Martin, Nibecker, Pearson and Plaskitt. Four more but mentally is quite disoriented and often hopefuls were coming—Ed Wilson was going does not recognize me." Marjorie is now in residence at the Manzanita Manor, 300 to drive and bring the Bassets and Becks, Cherry Creek Rd., Cloverdale CA 95425. but Ed fell at the last moment and broke a Phyllis Tarbutton became another victim bone in his heel. Dudley Page phoned, as he was about to start, to say that a snow storm of a broken hip suffered from a fall in was making up in Frederick. Meantime we early January. She is now out of Bethesda and progressing satisfactorily. Bill is carry- had an enjoyable lunch. Ed Wilson expects ing on with the help of his sister as assistant to dispense with his crutches in a weeks cook, maid, etc. until Phyllis again is ready time—about mid February. His son and a to take over wifely chores. Because of the neighbor and meals-on-wheels are looking lack of facilities for continuing infirmary after him. care at Vinson Hall, Evelyn Brooks had to Regretfully, now, the sad news—two of us move Win to the Iliff Nursing Home at were added to the mounting number of our 8000 Iliff Drive, Dun Loring VA. Win dead, making 276—they were Bernard J. is suffering from Parkinson's disease and Kelley on 20 January who died at his home now must have regular nursing care. A sad in Philadelphia and Richard R. Hartung commentary on the promise that once was who died in Newport, R. I. on 29 January. the hope of all who looked forward to life- Our deep sympathy to Bernard's widow, time care as occupants of Vinson Hall. Let Agnes, and to both families. Harris Aller us hope that the status of funds eventually represented us at Bernard's funeral and Ken will enable those facilities and services to Reed at Dick Hartung's in Newport. Bernard

44 had made a name for himself as a Judge of the court of Common Pleas. He leaves three sons—John Patrick, Bernard J., Jr. and Thomas; two daughters, Mrs. Regina Flanagan and Mrs. Kathleen Davis. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on 30 January at the church of St. Therese of the Child Jesus. Burial was the following day in Mount Olivet Cemetery after Mass at St. Cecilia's Church, Exeter. Bernard remained in the Naval Reserve after he resigned from the USN in 1923 and he was RAdm. USNR (Ret.).

Harris Aller writes: "The last time I saw him I took Agnes and Bernard to lunch at the Del Fahrneys' in Chadd's Ford. He had not been out since then. Packy Graff and I were at the swearing in ceremonies in 1959."

Agnes' address is 610 Vernon Rd., Philadelphia PA 19119.

Ken Reed phoned me that he would be a pallbearer for Dick Hartung's funeral and that he would arrange for flowers from the Class. Since then, Ken does not answer his phone and unfortunately no details are at present available for these notes.

An unclaimed copy of the Class Lucky Bag is available by writing or phoning your secretary.

On the tenth of February we received last minute news—sadly, that Edward Everett Pare died in Norfolk but happily of the forthcoming marriage of Ken Reed to Margaret Bonney, Carroll's widow.

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Pres., Mr. Homer O. Eimers Sec'y, RAdm. William B. Fletcher, USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 44 Blue Ridge Summit, PA 17214 Sec'y West Coast (SF Bay Area): Capt. C. W. Roland, USN (Ret.) 131 Font Blvd.

San Francisco, CA 94132 Percent Members: 81 It is with deep regret that we report the death of Capt. Robert Strite, USNR (Ret.) at his home in Chambersburg PA on 25 January 1975. Bob was one of the savoirs of our class and one of the youngest, graduating at the age of eighteen. The class extends deepest sympathy to his widow, son and daughter.

Polly and Fred Boone at this writing are established in Coronado for the winter.

George Russell will travel to Italy in April to visit his daughter Anne (Mrs. M. C. Sednaoni—he is foreign service).

The monthly luncheon of the WashingtonAnnapolis group was held at the Officers' Club at Bethesda on 28 January with the following in attendance: Justine Abercrombie, Aleck Alexander, Wop Barbaro, Eleanor and Cat Brown, Nina and Heber Brumbaugh, Kitty and Os Colclough, Dee deRivera, Raye and Dick Dickins, Margaret and Jim Dudley, Homer Eimers, Gerry and Bill Fletcher, Carol and Ed Fullinwider, Margaret and Don Giles, Vera and Harold Houser, Lucile Kelley, Betty Lamdin, Mary C. and Legs Leggett, Blackie Loker, Peg and Mac McCollum, George Russell, John Waters, Margaret Swigart and Faye Willkie.

Jimmy Robertson has been released from the hospital after a three week sojourn and is now convalescing at home (676 Bourne Place, Augusta GA 30904) with nurses around the clock. Belle, my first cousin, and Jimmy have spent ten of the past eleven Homecomings with us and we regretted that his illness made it impossible for them to be with us last October.

Also on the binnacle list are Hook Butterfield, Bill Juvenal, Judge Hailey and Bascomb Jones, all from the San Diego Area.

Our best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery for all are extended.

The class secretary acknowledges with thanks and great happiness the receipt of up-to-date addresses from the Bay Area and San Diego for classmates and widows residing in those areas.

SAN DIEGO GROUP The San Diego Group held their monthly luncheon at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on 21 January with the following in attendance: Paul Abernethy, Jesse Carter, Abie Cook, T. O. CuUins, Syd Dodds, Hod Gorry, Ajax Gray, Bud Hall, Bris McHugh, Logan McKee, Ivan Miller, Tim O'Brien, Gordie Parks, Stogi Roberts, Sabe Sabin, Eppie Schell, Don Smith, Leo Stafford, Rex Tallman, Ray Tarbuck, Herb Tellman and Bunny Wray. The group was most pleased to welcome Bris McHugh's son-in-law. Vice Admiral David Richardson '36, as a guest.

Tim O'Brien gave late news of friends in the Seattle area. Ray Tarbuck reported on recent activities and friends in the Washington-Annapolis area. Don Smith presented each one present with a souvenir from Mexico.

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA NEWS As of today, 31 January, the weather tape is playing "Stormy Weather"—a finale to a month of generally fine weather ushering in the first rain of the season. Rain is welcome to the sinking California water table and cheered by hundreds of ski enthusiasts who look forward to more and deeper powder.

None of the local '21ers has time for broken bones and all are content to take their brandy and coffee by the fire.

The Carlisles and Rolands had the pleasure of sharing family Christmas dinner with the Coulters. The light of the Coulters' life is their grandchild, Diane Beard, who was absent at a ski meet in Vail, Colo. According to Gypsy, Diane has won many skiing honors, the most recent being that she placed second in ski competition held at Stowe, Vt. "Why grandmothers turn grey," says Gypsy.

On 4 January Pat and AB Carlisle entertained 16 classmates and wives with a twelve-boy curry dinner at their home, "Deer Hill," in Los Altos. The house was still decorated inside and out as it had been for the large Carlisle family Christmas party which had taken place a week earlier. The view from their picture window framing a vista of the south end of San Francisco Bay is always an inspiration but was particularly pretty with the family Christmas tree in the foreground. Slats Moore was persuaded to come and be with old friends. He drove down from The City with Frank Talbot and John Madden as passengers. He was gratified to learn, while at the party, that the Naval Officers' Wives' Club of Treasure

Island had honored Kay's memory with a donation to the San Francisco Ballet. Kay, a longtime member of the club, had generously befriended the group.

John Ames joined a Christmas tour group made up of former colleagues from the College of San Mateo. They spent Christmas Eve in Lima, Peru, which he liked fairly well; then on to Rio de Janeiro for New Year's Eve, which city he found to be "wonderful." Most members of the group were of the younger generation and John complained that he found himself getting "too old for tours and was finding it difficult to keep up with the young folks." However, it was a lifesaver from the loneliness of Christmas at home without his beloved Eleanor.

A Tarjeta Postal mailed from Mexico City brought news from Eleanor and Norman McKee, who were members of an American Express tour party. Billeted at the Holiday Inn, they had taken in the usual sights on this, their first trip to Mexico, by visiting the Shrine of Maria Guadalupe, the Pyramids and seeing the Ballet Folklorico.

They were headed for Puebla, Cholula and other Mexican points of interest. Up to the time of posting their card, they had been fortunate in having good weather, although they didn't mention the January cold snap suffered by Mexico City. Montezuma was still beaming on them and we hope he continued to smile.

On 28 January twenty-three classmates assembled in warm response to an "all hands" bulletin. Classmates, wives and widows turned out to greet Slats Moore, the new President of the group, at the initial 1975 luncheon which was held in The Patio Room of the Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island. Present were: Ames, Arkush, Carlisle, Conlan, Connolly, Coulter, Craig, R. K. Davis, Eddie Duncan ('23), Doc Harris, Howard, Howell, Johns, Madden, McQueen Slats Moore, Roland, Schwien, Talbot M. E. Thomas, True, van Deurs, Woodson.

The Sec'y-Treasurer reported a healthy "State of the Treasury" as a result of a sales promotion letter for the new Bay Area Class Directory which resulted in replies from several members of the group who customarily had been in absentia but who, on this occasion, sent in contributions to help defray publication costs. Much as the contributions were appreciated, we would have preferred to have seen them in person. Those who could not attend but sent in donations by way of support were: A. G. Cook, Louie Entwistle, D. A. (Jack) Frost, Jimmy Harris, Fred MacGurn, Al Main, Tom Murrell, Waif red (Swede) Nyquist, and Chariie Wheelock. We realize that, for various reasons many of these people cannot attend meetings regularly. We do, however, thank them for taking an interest in the class activities.

Hazel Carison, Dodie Miller and Lil Hunt also sent in donations showing that they are loyal to the clan and cause. It can be said that the sales promotion letter beats holding a rummage sale.

The wives and widows met separately on the same day in the lounge followed by luncheon in the main dining room. Sixteen were present and the interchange at the meeting of T h e Ladies Auxiliary' brought forth a few news bulletins: Mary Howard, Shipmate

45 growing hourly more apprehensive at the weather reports, was anxious to get started back to their mountain home "before the snow flies." Out of the hospital only three weeks, Mary was confronted with the problem of feeding and sleeping some 22 vigorous snowbirds during part of Christmas week . . . grandchildren are said to be the compensation for growing old, even when they arrive with all their hungry friends in tow.

Martha and Paul Howell came to the luncheon from their home in Sonoma and brought Dorothy Cloughley with them.

Dorothy said that Sterling remains a patient at London House in Sonoma and that his condition is about the same.

Margo Main regretted that Al could not attend the luncheon due to the very cold temperature on that particular day. He didn't want to risk upsetting his "no colds" record of the winter.

Lee Davis is packing for another Caribbean cruise.

Lil Hunt has moved from Parkmerced and is comfortably settled in her new apartment in St. Paul's Towers in Oakland where she will be a permanent resident.

Anna Harriet Thayer is away in Atlanta.

We hope that she will bring news of Betty and Bob Lewis.

News of the Murrells was gleaned from the Jim Harrises who visited them in Pebble Beach while on a trip to the Monterey Peninsula recently. Jim said that Tom looked well and, although he has given up golf, he has taken up bridge and gets his exercise by doing much of his own gardening. The Murrell garden shows the results of his care and interest. Tom reports through Slats Moore that he would be happy to welcome any of our classmates who might be passing through the Carmel-Monterey area.

Bess and Piggey Schwien, home from Christmas spent on Hawaii where they were guests of their grandchildren in government quarters, vow that they have made their last trip to the Islands. Difficulties in obtaining passage to and from Honolulu, smog, the over-crowded conditions in the Waikiki area which made driving impossible and shopping difficult, have caused them to say their last "alohas."

For the benefit of classmates who expect to visit in the Bay Area or who are traveling through San Francisco, the '21 group holds their bimonthly luncheons at the Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island the last Tuesday of every odd numbered month except July. Classmates and their wives, or widows of classmates, are welcome to attend.

22 Pres., Capt. A. R. Sanborn, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. D. H. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 3928 N. 36th St. Ariington, VA 22207 Columnist, RAdm. J. L. Pratt, USN (Ret.) 4000 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. .Washington. DC 20016 Percent Members: 68 The picture, taken at the dedication of the McCandless Room in the newly completed Midshipman Activity Center at the Naval Academy, shows some of those who parApril, 1975

Dedication of the McCandless Room ticipated. On the left is Frank Hanafee '17, whose wife Rosa years ago painted the superb portrait of "Venus" McCandless that now hangs in the room (Rosa was there too but the photographer missed her). Next from the left: Doc Pratt, Sally Jerome, Superintendent Mack, Class President Zeke Sanborn and Marjorie. The room is a handsomely furnished extra sitting room donated

by Mrs. McCandless in her will. AU of us remember Venus for so many affectionate reasons, in addition to his plunging ability— on the swimming team.

The Activity Center is, of course, our old Dahlgren Hall. It still retains the name, the facade, and the memories of days gone by when we twirled our girls around the floor, or drilled with rifles on rainy days. But now, gone are the rifle racks, gone are the wooden blocks with which it was once paved, and the classrooms where we labored over exams in ordnance and gunnery. All is changed— but the girls will still be taken care of. Two very attractive lounges large enough for hundreds of midshipmen and their dates seated at tables for anything from a hamburger out of the spotless galley nearby to ice cream sodas, cokes—you name it. The upper balcony has been extended from the entrance to accommodate another lounge with deep, comfortable upholstered chairs here and there—(some looked capable of holding two). But topping everything is the fine ice skating and hockey rink on the ground deck. About 40 midshipmen were skating to band music, as a demonstration, during the ceremonies. The ice rink is convertible to a dance floor. Some of the plaques still hang there. One, in memory of Eaton Booth—killed when his plane crashed on Point Loma in the competition to be first to Hawaii; and one placed in memory of Jerry Olmstead by his classmates. A third is new, in memory of Venus McCandless.

And, harking back to the memory of Jerry, we met the current Regimental Commander, who is now Six Striper Midn.

Robert Kevin Miller, a handsome young man and indeed a credit to the system, and Ed. note—For those readers who were curious about the "unaltered" gentleman at '21's Drake party as reported in the Jan.-Feb. Shipmate, our printer inadvertently moved the letter "t" three spaces to the left and none of the proofreading caught the error.

The word was written "unalerted."

to the Naval Academy with, among other things, an academic average of 3.6.

This enthusiastic description of the Activities Center should not be ended without the information that the renovation of Dahlgren Hall for the purpose was made possible through the donations to the Naval Academy Memorial Fund, directly and through the Alumni Association. AU those who contributed should be pleased with the results of their generosity—and the Center is only one of the many things being done with the Fund.

We take this opportunity to correct some erroneous reporting about the famous sons of Francis Ripley in an item about two of them in a recent issue: our information about George having the Medal of Honor was erroneous (although he should have, in our opinion, been so decorated). The same source promoted John to Colonel too early and put him in command of the NROTC Unit at Oregon State University whereas he is Number Two. However it goes to show, even with errors, how damn proud we are of the contributions of Francis and Vema Ripley to the Marine Corps. The word "contributions" isn't adequate but those famUiar with the story of the family know what we mean.

Streuby Drumm was one of those entertaining Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia (who is now a candidate for the Presidency), at a small luncheon in New Orleans at the Phmsoll Club. Streuby, Jimmy (Class of '47 USNA), and Alden Laborde '38 held an informal alumni meeting after lunch. Streuby says that Candidate Carter favors a strong Naval defense force.

Murph has sent us a letter from Frank Watkins for the general interest contained in one of the paragraphs: "Peg and I are beginning to get cabin fever from the constant drizzle at this time of the year so we are heading out 'til it dries up a bit. To Guantanamo to visit our son Tom and our daughter-in-law, then a week in Jamaica with Howard and Betty Orem, a week on Annabella Island with Durward and Mary C. Leggett (Sec'y Note—Frank and Bayliss Akers are at Sanibel Island nearby), a week in Palm Desert, then Smdio City with my brother, and a week or two in Palo Alto with our son Jack and his 5 teenagers. By then I'd say the place here should be dried out and the fairways in excellent shape!"

(But how about you. Frank?)

46 Lastly we sadly report the loss of four of our friends and classmates: Jean Lambert, on 29 December a few days after he and Gail had spent the evening with Clarence Atkinson; Bill Hunter on New Year's Day; John Harper on 7 January; and Harry Butler on 13 January. More information will appear in "Last Call" from time to time.

We regretfully use the expression "from time to time," and only do so because it is frequently difficult to obtain other than brief information at the time; too brief for Shipmate, the Class Columnist or the Secretary to assemble a proper obituary when there is nothing on file at either the Alumni Association or with the Class Secretary, or in the Navy Department for that matter. The latter may be a surprise but it is true. The biographical files at ChinFo have been closed and their future location is presently in limbo—according to a recent phone conversation with that office—which has been verified by other offices queried. The only official source of biographical data available now is the Office of Naval Records in St. Louis, Mo. Upon authoritative request they will summarize the chronology of an officer's fitness reports—a time-consuming and unsatisfactory process for the purpose because the result will consist of little more than a bare statistical list of service assignments and dates up until the time of retirement. Of course that doesn't obtain data in the cases of those who do not have a jacket in St. Louis. There are bits and pieces in the Class Roll Calls and, for those who responded, partial biographies in Forty Years Later.

Newspaper clippings come in some of the time, and the widows, if they find sufficient data in the home files, send the information —a difficult chore at a trying time. But, by and large the job falls to others. It is frustrating and frequently, for lack of information, inadequate. It need not be. We all take particular care in keeping our will up-to-date.

A proper record of our lives is in the same category—so let's sit down and write one now. A lot of people will appreciate it.

Your Class Secretary Don Johnston and/or the Alumni Association will be happy to file it. In fact there is a supersition that if one is prepared for something it may never happen!

Ed. note—Several classes have made a concerted effort to have their members file a biography with the Alumni Association, and we urge that all hands do so. They are not only invaluable in preparing obituaries but also in maintaining files on the careers and accomplishments of our alumni, both in and out of service.

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Pres., Adm. Arieigh Burke, USN (Ret.) Class Reporter: LCdr. James R. Cutting, USNR (Ret.) 12 Southgate Avenue Annapolis, MD 21401 Sec'y, RAdm. Elliott Strauss, USN (Ret.) 2945 Garfield Terrace Washington, DC 20008 Percent Members: 78 April birthday greetings to the following: Daisley, Morris, H. N. Williams, W. S. Taylor, McDowell, Baskett, Dennison, Dehlen-

dorf, L. T. Burke, McLellan, J. W. Price, Krick, Monagin, O'Regan, Rebbeck, and R. W. Haase.

Fred Trapnall died in San Diego CA on the 30th of January. As one of the best pilots the Navy ever had, Fred achieved considerable fame. The class extends its deepest sympathy to June. Her address is 401 1st St., Coronado CA 92118. We also regret to report the death of Cy Latimer the 28th of January in Albuquerque NM. He suffered a long illness contracted originally during World War II in the SW Pacific.

To Gigi and the rest of his family the class extends its deepest sympathy. Obituaries for both Fred and Cy will appear later in "Last Call."

Karl Hensel has been working on Arleigh Burke's list of "the 1923 missing men," and has come up with Miles W. Pennybacker who writes, "I am alive and hopefully well.

After dropping out before graduation, I took my degrees at M.I.T." Penny's current address is: 5 Bluewater Hill South, Westport CT 06880. We shall look forward to seeing him at the 55th.

The San Francisco Bay Area 1923 Group gathered the 23 rd of January, the first of three luncheons to be held in 1975. The roll call is impressive: Clipper and Frances Bowers, Dune and Suzy Duncan, Cabell and Marian Gwathmey, Savvy Northcutt, Mick and Louise O'Regan, Henry and Alice Schade, Eddie and Esther Stock, Ike and Adelaide Teuscher, Bill Thayer, Charlie and Ruth Walker; and two honorary '23ers in the Bay Area: Peter and Betty Obninsky (Class of 1923 Russian Naval Academy) and Lloyd Shone, Captain, USN (MC) Ret. The Teuschers will host the next luncheon at Santa Rosa in May. AU classmates visiting in the area are cordially invited to come to any and all of these luncheons.

The Naval Academy has put out two new sound and color films, "Sounds of Annapolis" and "Annapolis—the First Year."

These are exceptionally well done, and give the viewer a fine picture of the Academy today. If interested in having these films for a class luncheon sometime, someplace write to: The Director of Educational Resources Center, USNA, Annapolis MD 21402.

The Redfields write from their Sanibel retreat in Florida that they regret so many of their shivering classmates are not there to join them. Red spends most of his day stretched out in his hammock beside a swimming pool and enjoying the warm and friendly sun. A tough life!

Bill Franke, our honorary classmate, wrote Arleigh Burke in January that he faced surgery at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. Word has since come that he has had the operation and all is well. We all look forward to seeing Bill at the 55th! And speaking of the Burkes, they are on the move as usual, this time to Charleston, S.C. for the commissioning of

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Randy Owsley, our Class President Plebe year, died suddenly of a heart attack February 8th in St. Petersburg, Fla. The memori»l service was held in St. Petersburg 12 February. Hensel, Hasbrouck, Fuqua, and Maher were there to represent the Class. The Class sends its deepest sympathy to Alice and her family. Instead of flowers the family hoped that a contribution would be sent to the 1923 Scholarship Fund and send this to U.S. Naval Academy Foundation, Inc., 48 Maryland Ave., Annapolis MD 21401. An obituary will appear for Randy in a later issue of Shipmate.

24 Pres., RAdm. Howard L. Collins, 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: 81 At their 22 January (4th Wednesday) Luncheon, our Washington group welcomed out-of-towners Kay and Ev Burroughs, Helen Louise and Raoul Waller, Dottie and Tich Tichenor and Joe Wright. Others attending were the Bradleys, Collinses, Craigs, Duvalls, Dyers, Dot Hartwig, Herrings, Dick Johnsons, Kalisches, Dot Keliher, Petersens, Robinsons, Edith Sisson, Sutliffs, Swarts and Martha Wilson. The Dyer Orchidarium came through with 8 corsages, which were appreciated by the recipients. The February Luncheon was scheduled at O'Donnell's Restaurant in Bethesda.

Joe Callaghan reports the Philadelphia Group continues to "bring in the faithful."

Present at the 29 January Luncheon meeting were Buxton, Callaghan, Fleming, Lazell. Rode, Stott, Tumey, Waller, G. A. Williams and Witmer. The Lazells are back from a month in Mississippi, and the Wallers off on Alumni Cruise.

On the re-organization of our Class Association, an election will be held by mail later this year. President Howie Collins has appointed a Committee on Elections consisting of Fred Bell, Armand Morgan and Wallis Petersen. This Board will compile a list of nominees to serve as Directors of the Association. The Directors will be selfperpetuating, selecting replacements as necessary, and thus avoiding any future elections.

We have seen the Annual Report of the Church of the Epiphany in Trumansburg, N.Y. and are impressed with the prominence therein of the work of Mickie and Noble Abrahams. We quote one paragraph Noble Abrahams and protege, now Mid. Adam Sutliffe '78

MENDEL RIVERS.

Morris Smellow has been compiling class statistics, and here is an interesting one: The average age of the 720 entering Plebe summer was slightly over 181/2 years. The groups were as follows: (53) 16 years, (160) 17 years, (244) 18 years, (209) 19 years, (51) 20 years, (3) 21 years. The last (3) were either turnbacks or readmitted.

Shipmate

47 of the Pastor's report: "We had a 'Noble Abrahams Day" last February. We told him how we love him and how deeply we appreciate all he does; and it only made him work harder!—not only scrubbing pews at floor level and scaling ladders at tree-top level (both these projects no doubt made him feel he was back in Midshipman days) —but also all those little acts of kindness that are noticeable only to those people who receive the kindness from him. We note especially all the letters he writes, thanking people. This personal touch in his writing is a God-given gift which we hope and pray Noble may long continue to exercise for our great blessing."

We are all saddened by the untimely deaths of Martha and Wallace Beakley in mid-January. Our Washington-area Classmates were very helpful to the surviving relatives. At the funeral services at Fort Myer, Fred Bell officiated with the family Minister. Many Classmates and their wives were in attendance at the Services; and the pallbearers were Collins, Swart, Bob's son R. L. Swart. Jr., Morgan, Rawlins, Duvall, Sutliff and Herring.

From Mrs. Helen J. Ray we learn with regret of the death of Mrs. Lucille Donnels, wife of Cdr. Albert T. Donnels, USNR (Ret.) at Nevade City. Cal. Most of us remember Al, who left us at USNA prior to our graduation.

From Hans Baldwin we learn of the University of Alabama announcement of the Third Annual General Wilburt S. Brown Memorial History Conference in February.

It is the first we knew of the annual Conference, which honors Wilburt.

As for Hans Baldwin, he reports "I have been doing very little recently, except tending the home fires and finishing some odd chores in connection with my (last?) book: The Crucial Years,' a narrative history of WWII, which is scheduled to be published in late summer."

Joe Farrell, our Vallejo Correspondent reports: "The Homer Wheelers are still in Phoenix, due to return in April. Monty Berthold took a swing around old haunts in Utah, Missouri and Arizona. The Bertschys are off to the Far East to visit in Tapei, and return home via San Francisco. We will miss them, as we go south to San Diego and Palm Springs from 20 Feb. to 10 March.

We will also miss the Class Luncheon on 14 February being hosted by the CoUinsLandstreets. Too bad, but I'll pick up some dope on our Classmates down there. The Howie Collinses came through Vallejo after their trip to Palm Springs, and we had a small gathering for them, with the Richters, Farrells and Montgomerys, hosted by the Lawrences. . . . The Frank MacDonalds closed their Gourmet Restaurant Clsle of Skye) and moved it to Sonora CA 95370.

They will continue the gourmet seasoning business by mail."

Can you help George King locate and buy a miniature of our Class Ring? George needs it for Gerry, his wife, and it could be we can locate one and contact George.

He also reports a visit with Monty Berthold, and then a telephone visit with Tom Huckins—both of them had been in Kirkwood, Mo. at the same time, but not seeing each other there.

April, 1975

On the subject of Class Rings, Joe Callaghan writes that he made inquiry at B. B. & B. about our Class Ring, and learned they can still supply them. We were especially interested in learning also that George Meell has only recently turned over his department in the firm to a successor—and we'll all agree that George must be at retirement age.

We saw a letter written by Doc Dewolf (long time no see!) to Noble, and it indicates he and Marian are well settled over there in France. Doc is particularly interested in news of our 50-year Anniversary, and suggests that Noble "write it up."

John Caples is in the news with a new book; or rather, a 4th edition of his Tested Advertising Methods, first published in 1932. That sounds like success (reminds us of "They laughed when I sat down at the piano!"). Published by Prentice-Hall, the book has gone through 19 printings of the three earlier editions.

Some of us think Joe Herlihy has the right kind of a life, making long interesting cruises in commercial ships as a Bridge Instructor. He writes: "I gave up the Mediterranean Cruise, and am now going on a North Cape Cruise, sailing 3 June. In August we make an Alaskan Cruise, and then go on an 18-day trip to the Hawaiian Islands . . . you can see how old I'm getting, by favoring these short Cruises!" Joe also submits an interesting article on "The Search for the Wayward Bones of J. P. Jones." And Joe endorses the recent idea of us writing an autobiography and filing it with the Alumni Association. What do you think?

(Ed. note—We urge all hands to do so.

Such records are invaluable to us.)

Among our travelers, the Raoul Wallers are making that February Alumni Assn.

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Prisciila and Brownie Temple drove down from Palm Beach to see them off. The Wallers are looking forward to seeing the Bertholds, Red Williams, Parrels and others in San Francisco; the Pinky Hopkinses in Pebble Beach; the Burroughses and others in Coronado. Honor and Savy Crampton are making the April Alumni Cruise to Italy.

Perhaps other Classmates will be on both of these Cruises. If so, please report, Raoul and Savy!

Howie Collins confirms Joe Farrell's report on the Collins visit in San Francisco, and adds: "In Palm Springs we visited the Yeomans at Palm Desert, in their lovely home . . . the 18th green is located in front of Bud and Helen's front door."

Dorothy Tardy Perry is with the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM 87501; and she is planning a Memorial Service for Roger at Annapolis in June.

She writes: "I go to my 50th Reunion at Vassar the end of May, and then will visit family and friends all down the Coast.

What really will determine the June date for Services will be when my younger son Walter can leave San Francisco, to come."

We are impressed by, and want to make known the establishment of the Connecticut "Chowder and Marching Club" by Ed Woodyard and Jenks Longfellow, both of whom are listed as "President." We do not have space here for all the By-Laws, but

note that a Member in Good Standing is "the last Member standing good at a meeting." Drinking is permitted only when the sun is over the yard-arm (which is equipped with a universal joint). The Club drink is the Martini, and Club flower the olive. As for dues: "A Member who has lived this long has got his dues!" "Any '24ers coming into Connecticut are asked to contact Jenks or Ed, who will 'convene a Meeting on the instant.' " Classmates in the State who are surely eligible are Hans Baldwin, Ralph Baldwin, Brereton. Furth, Scheibeler and Shannon. Your Reporter is anticipating getting to a Meeting!

Bob Keyer has renewed his contract with a German firm that he has long represented as a food additives consultant. Bob mentions he has ten hours' weekly activity (no pay) helping a friend conduct a hearing-aid agency. Bob, you must know, carries on a terrific correspondence with Classmates, serves this column regularly, and always has great stories which we wish we could repeat here. And Bob continues to do a great job in trying to locate the missing. He has recently been searching for word on Dickie (R. M.) Sinionton, one of your Reporter's Mid Roommates. We would be glad to learn if anyone has news concerning Dick, who seems to have "disappeared."

We've seen a letter from Lou Gwinn to Noble (our most steadfast letter-writter) in which Lou reviews the history of the "Phantom Cup" that went to the Classmate having the youngest offspring after 1951.

Lou was impressed by the receipt of a menu from our Reunion Dinner, signed by Classmates, and says that if any signer did not get a card of appreciation from him it is because the signature was not legible. The Abrahams' daughter, Jennifer Cushman, and her husband are settling in Australia, we learn.

Savy Crampton has an idea: "Why not make available an Alumni Association Calendar, using those beautiful Shipmate covers, one for each month? It would be inexpensive to mail"; but. Savy, how about the cost of compiling?

Ralph Mills reports from Charleston: "Beth and I have seen Irene and BIy Bliesener now and then—we are the only '24 people around here now. Jim's (his son's) book. The Just Man, was published today, and is in some stores."

Ev Burroughs gives us the last line: "A Bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen!"

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Pres., RAdm. Schuyler N. Pyne. USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. F. Kent Loomis, USN (Ret.) 3055 Foxhall Rd., N.W. Washington, DC 20016 Percent Members: 80 You have undoubtedly noted that the plans for the Reunion are well-past formulation and now in the implementation phase.

When you read this you may have already received your tickets, roster of attendees and parking permit. If not. you will receive them soon—if you have applied and have sent in your check. If you haven't put in

48 yet, let's get going. In any case please let us know your intentions; we would like to hear from all hands just for the hearing but we also want to know that our correspondence is being received. Our deadline was 15 March but, being pragmatic, we know that some people, often for good reason, do not always make deadlines.

Now a word about your little yellow booklet of events and notes covering the reunion. If you are coming to that gala affair, bring it along with you for quick reference; it was put in pocket-size just for that purpose. Dates, times and places listed are firm, except that the movie on Friday evening and the class meeting on Saturday morning will be held in Room 117 Michelson Hall instead of Room 113.

As we write this (10 Feb.) reservations are really pouring in and we are grateful for the response. We thank all hands, and especially those who could give a little extra, because we kept our prices pretty close to actual costs so that those who could not give too much might be able to attend.

Again, we can report steady progress on the Golden Quiver and we hope that we shall meet the target date of mailing the books, about the middle of April. So far, we have received a total of about $6000 to cover subscriptions for books and donations to the project; and our estimate is that somewhere in the vicinity of $500 is still to come in. Here again it looks as though we're going to hit target. The Class Executive Committee and the Golden Quiver staff are grateful for the generous financial support and all-around cooperation we've received from classmates near and far.

It is also with great pleasure that your Secretary can now get back into the job of formulating this Shipmate column. For some time it has been produced by a "Troika."

He, Schuyler Pyne and Bob Cronin are the editorial board that have made it possible, especially when one or two are so busy as the Washington "duo" has been recently with the Quiver, or when someone is away or ill. Now, as far as the Quiver is concerned, we feel that the work is essentially behind us. Your scribe and the angel of our Golden Quiver, Pat McFarlane, in February took our proofed galleys to our publisher.

But, more than the galleys (which Bob and Kent had proofed), Pat produced her arrangement of the text, her selection of illustrative material, her montages, etc. As we finished our meeting Mr. Voight, the President of our publishing firm, paid a special tribute to Pat that we think should be recorded. "Mrs. McFarlane, the work you have done on this is something that could not be done for money—only for love." While certain classmates will be named on the title page, it is really Pat McFarlane who has done the most in the final arrangement of the book.

One of the really pleasurable dividends that have accrued to those working on the reunion and the Golden Quiver is the opportunity we have had to communicate with so many classmates. Messages on returned forms and personal notes have given us a more current view of the "state of the Class" than it's possible to receive at any other time. We greatly appreciate the words of encouragement and the warm, friendly

greetings from so many fine classmates.

Ed Swinburne checked in by telephone from Clearwater FL. He and Gladys are well, and eagerly looking forward to the Fiftieth.

Neil and K. C. Hurd returned the middle of January from a pleasant cruise in the Caribbean. K. C. contracted a bad cold, but is now back to battery and immersed in the numerous activities of a conscientious and able class treasurer—Reunion, Golden Quiver, general fund, class-luncheon financial director, etc.

It's always of interest to hear from Bill Turney. Alice has had some rough times, health-wise, recently, and we send them both our best wishes. Bill continues to be a consistent and generous supporter of Class projects.

From one of his always informative missives, we leam that Von von Kleeck froze his feet at the Army-Navy game. Class seats are still on the 30-yard line, and Stroke Blackwell from Norfolk also attended. We are grateful for Von's several suggestions re Class organization and activities. We've had several communications from Hook Wilson recently. He's in fine fettle, and is looking forward to the big gettogether in May. Charley Butler tells us that he and Dorothy spent a day recently with Margaret Lyon, who. he reports, is adjusting quite well. In fact, Charley hopes she will be able to attend the Reunion.

Lee Sugnet writes from San Diego, where he reports playing golf with Marvin West.

He also sees Cameron Briggs and Larry Haugen occassionally. "All well, and looking fine!" Lee will head back north in April.

Benny Wright suggests that, at the Reunion, those who served in that great old battlewagon, PENNSYLVANIA, get together and drink one for her and for the fond memories we all have of that wonderful carefree year as JO's. It's a great idea, Benny. Besides yourself we hope to have from the old "Pennsy" JO mess: Jack Charlson, Bob Cronin, Jack Griffin, K. C. Hurd, Tony Rorschach, George Purmont, and Frank Timberlake.

John Hammock reports that he has an extra copy of our Lucky Bag which someone may want. His address is: Capt. John C. Hammock, USN (Ret.), 506 South Pecan, Dermott AR 71638.

Here is a picture of Mary and Mac MacKinnon hoisting one on their porch. This was their Christmas card and surely one to inspire cheer and good will toward mankind.

Mary and Mac MacKinnon

A note from Mose Moseley's wife Marian says Mose is in a nursing home and that they will not be able to make the Reunion.

Nevertheless, Marian sent in a nice check to help on expenses, for which we thank her.

We shall miss the Moseleys and hope that Mose is getting better. Marian gave us a new address: 81 East Pattagansett Rd., Apt. 15, Niantic CT 06357.

John Crudup sent in his regrets and included a nice note of greeting to the Class.

In accepting the invitation to take part in the Class Memorial Service on Sunday, 25 May, Bill Hanner writes in part: 'This year we have simply come to the Gulf Coast where we have an apartment on Biloxi Bay. We came down at Thanksgiving and will get home about Easter. The only unusual thing that has happened is that I found a poor sick little flock of about twenty churchmen over at Keesler Field and have taken them under my wing tiU the end of February. They are glad to have a shepherd and I am glad to have a flock and an altar. It is a pretty rudimentary operation but none the less satisfying. I do all the supply work my ancient ticker will stand for and seek not to get into excitement. My dear good bishop in Chicago is making me an honorary canon of his cathedral along with some other septuagenarians. I have also helped out at the little church in Ocean Springs MS so the poor rector could get a breather. This parish dates from 1856 and the church from 1890."

Joe Stryker reports that Fae Duraell is the first of his "Chicks" to report that she is a great-grandmother. He asks if any others have that honor.

Dick Nellis brings his history up to date.

He retired about eight years ago, found life too boring, so started a new business to keep active. The new business grew from a small one-man affair to one with six executives and office staff plus 25 carpenters and helpers. He is now dissolving it. However, his wife, Sally, owns a road-building and earth-moving business in which he finds himself getting more and more active—so he is sure that he won't find retirement a bore this time. He has been doing a lot of traveling, the most recent being last summer when they visited Denmark and Norway.

Among those who fled the ravages of the cold and snow this winter were: Rose and Bill Hanner (see above) to Ocean Springs MS; Bill Watson to Cuernavaca, Mexico; Jo and Holf Hoffner to Florida.

It is with great regret that we announce the death of John H. (Steve) Stillman under tragic circumstances. Ray Rahiser, who has been in touch with Steve over the years, reported. He had been living alone for the past few years, and conducting a coin business from his home in San Diego for the past 5 or 6 years. He was shot to death on the night of 5 January and robbed of over $100,000 worth of gold coins. Between the data Ray and Vic Long have furnished, clippings and other info, we have seen here is the story of Steve from graduation until his violent death although we had not heard from him for many years. We know that he went into the Marines and served in many capacities. For reasons unknown to us he was retired in the rank of Captain, although he had active combat duty in WWII. Later he became a collector and dealer in Shipmate

49 gold coins after he had done a stretch with the Riverside County (Calif.) government.

Apparently, Steve kept many tens of thousands worth of gold coins in his apartment and when his body was found on 6 January these were missing. He had been shot through the head. Several suspects, who had known of the collection and its whereabouts, have been rounded up and others are being sought. Steve is survived by two daughters; a sister, and four grandchildren. He was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery following services at the San Diego Marine Corps Chapel. Our profound sympathy to all the family.

A few more contributions to the class funds have been received, these from Bill Sihler, Dave Tyree, and Rollo Vannasse, and second ones from Bill Turney and Charlie Silsbee (both very generous).

Thanks, all you great guys! So far about 100 people (classmates and widows) have sent in about $5000 in response to the December '73 appeal.

We are very sad to announce the death of Betty Chase (Mrs. Rex S.) Caldwell in the Naval Hospital, Annapolis. She died 18 January 1975 after a long illness. She was the mother of Rex Smith Caldwell and Michael E. Caldwell of Annapolis, Cdr. James F. Caldwell, USN of CT, Mrs. Valentine Chase Tyler of Great Falls VA, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Thunman of Guam; sister of Mary Chase Roberts of Coronado, and Capt. Jay V. Chase of Annapolis. Surviving are 16 grandchildren. Services and interment were at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 January 1975. Betty will be remembered fondly by many of us, who as ensigns on ships under overhaul at Bremerton courted her. Her father. Rear Admiral Jehu V. Chase was the Commandant of the Yard.

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Pres., RAdm. Kenneth Craig, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg III, USN (Ret.), "Secure," Box 178, Crystal River, FL 32629 Percent Members: 85 Two more classmates have left us, both in the month of December. News of their deaths was very late reaching the CS. From Stan Nichols came a clipping announcing the death of Lt. Commander Albert Edward Bemet, USNR on 18 December 1974, in Dallas, Texas, apparently of a heart attack. A resident of Dallas since 1929, he was a co-founder and chairman of the board of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman Co., and past committee chairman of the National Association of Security Dealers. He is survived by his wife. Vera, three sons, 14 grandchildren, two sisters and two brothers.

The Class extends deepest sympathy to his family.

From Kenny Craig came the news of the passing of Rear Admiral J. Elliott Cooper, USN (Ret.) on 23 December 1974 in the Army Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia. He had been living in Albany, Georgia, where his wife, Leiia is still living. He is also survived by their daughter, three grandchildren and a sister. The Class extends deepest sympathy to his family also. "Jock" was one of our most decorated classmates, having been April, 1975

awarded three Navy Crosses, two Silver Stars, and a Bronze Star. He also had the rather unusual experience of teaching in the NROTC Units at Tulane and Georgia Tech, and having been the Professor of Naval Science at both Rice Institute and the University of North Carolina, later.

Jack Greenslade has reported contributions to the Class Fund for the new year, 1975, from the following: Buchanan, Katz, Greenslade, McGregor, Wyckoff, and Kay Abele. He has also asked that the following notice be brought to Class attention: "Our FIFTIETH Reunion is just over a year away and it is time that we start thinking about where we will swing our hammocks in Annapolis in May, 1976. The Annapolis Hilton Inn has guaranteed 50 rooms for us, provided they are spoken for by 30 April 1976. The same guarantee holds for ten rooms each at Holiday Inn, Maryland Inn, Charter House and Howard Johnson. All will accept reservations AFTER 1 June 1975. Each of us is expected to make his own reservation. A detailed hotel sheet will be sent out with the Reunion packet a year from January; i.e., at the end of January, 1976. If you have any questions, contact Jack Greenslade, 5020 Millwood Lane, N.W., Washington, D.C. (Phone 202-EM35769)." Remember that, although the Reunion festivities start on Friday, those who will play in the 1926 Seniors Golf Championship on Thursday, should make reservations for Wednesday night, in order to be ready for play Thursday morning.

The Class Treasurer has also made his year-end financial report to the Class President and Vice President, Craig and Smedberg. Briefed, it shows net worth on 1 January 1974 of $5,668.87, gifts from Classmates, interest from savings account, etc., of $2,407.73, expenses of $1,210.00, for N.A. Foundation, 26th Co. Wardroom and administrative expense of $10, for a net worth of $6,866.60 on 31 December 1974; growth during the year having been a healthy $1,197.73.

Harry Johnston writes from San Francisco of the first 1975 gathering of Bay Area '26ers on 23 January at a luncheon at Mac's Tea Room in Los Altos, though no one was observed drinking tea. (This must also have been a "first"—meeting in a tea room. There have been pubs, bars, clubs and hotels. The tea room perhaps indicates something! CS) Present were: Armentrout, Cecil, Ellison, Frederick, French, Harold Jenkins (adopted classmate), Johnston, Kobey, Langley, Lowther, Rule, Vodila, Watson, Webster and Bill White, plus Bear Arnold '23, Cecil Gill '25, and Moon Mullen '28. The next meeting is scheduled to be in the Tower at Treasure Island in late April.

Sara LeHardy sent an interesting, long newspaper feature story headed, "Navy Family Has Snug Harbor on Lost Cove," about Lois and Wendell Klein who have been living for the past 25 years in the mountain village of Sewanee TN since they purchased the historic homestead of Brink Wood on Lost Cove; the house believed to have been built in the early 1870s. Brink Wood now consists of 43 acres. Along the drive to the house are a number of massive pine trees, planted there in 1907. The trees came from seedlings from the Black For-

est in Germany, brought by the German Ambassador to the U.S., who was the commencement speaker at The University of the South (Sewanee) in that year. According to the article, Wendell and Lois have adapted readily from the sea and are "active yardspeople, the Captain having a vegetable garden and maintaining the expansive grounds with the help of two tractors." A Christmas tree arbor fills one area of the farm. Lois kept up the inherited patterned garden for 25 years but, because of the hard work, has had to sod most of it over, leaving a few formal planting areas from which she fills the gracious old home.

"Bunny" Benjamin has been a member of the Information and Recruiting Committee of the Alumni Association for a considerable number of years, attended a meeting in Annapolis in early January, and gave us some interesting facets from that meeting. One is that the Naval Academy Alumni Association has the largest number of members of any Alumni Association of any college, university or Service Academy in the Country. We should all be proud of that but shouldn't cease our efforts to corral those members of '26 who are as yet, on the outside. He also learned that 17 of the entering midshipmen last year refused to take the initial oath, although six of them were finally persuaded to do so; a sign of the times, I guess. He also reported what the papers have since confirmed, that Navy and Penn State have mutually agreed to cancel our '75 and '76 football games. This was a good time to stop, after having pulled the biggest upset of the year this past fall. In the opinion of this corresponding secretary, we need to drop a couple more pro-football, preparatory colleges or universities!

Florida seems to have had the best January weather—2 days of rain (badly needed), 5 days with highs in 60s and remaining 24 days between 68 and 84 degrees. Mort Fleming reports weather too punk for even hardy golfers in Southern California; Jack Frost reports not very good golfing weather in Va. Beach; Jack Greenslade reports "mostly snow, wind, rain and cold," little golf in Washington; Kenny Craig wrote of cold, rainy weather at Maggie Valley.

Hence, there was little 1926 tournament play. No entrants from the West Coast; McKillip, Frost, Mumma and Smedberg from the East Coast. Frost won low gross with 85, Smedberg 87; low net, Mumma 77, McKillip didn't submit handicap; estimated 78. Jack played in Va. Beach, McKillip, Mumma and Smedberg in Florida.

Carmen and Al Mumma escaped the cold and snow of Short Hills, arriving in Crystal River on 22 January, and played seven consecutive days of golf in beautiful weather on three different golf courses; two in Crystal River and a perfectly gorgeous one at Mountain Lake, near Lake Wales, Florida, where they were hosts to the Smedbergs for three days. If Carmen had been playing in the '26 men's tournament she would have put us all to shame, as she averaged about a net 74. The Mummas visited friends and relatives for three weeks in Florida, before returning to Short Hills; including Al's playing in a tournament in Naples.

The accompanying snap on the patio at

50 gen just to keep going." His doctors have decided against open heart surgery, as being too dangerous to his life. (All your friends and classmates are pulling for you, Pete!)

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Pres., RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton, USN (Ret.) Exec. V.P., Adm. C. D. Griffin, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Wm. D. Irvin, USN (Ret.) 3011 Foxhall Rd., N.W. Washington, DC 20016 Percent Members: 80

The Mummas visit "Secure' "Secure" belies the more than 47 years of blissful Mumma matrimony. (They look so young!)

SHORT SPLICES Peg and Lou Mabley had bad bouts with pneumonia which cancelled out their dream trip to Scandinavia last spring, but Lou had a total hip replacement in November '74 which has been so successful that he has laid aside his crutches and cane and is now back on the golf course.

Here is a picture of Charlie Buchanan presenting the Class' yearly contribution toward the upkeep of the 26th Company Wardroom in Bancroft Hall; proof positive that some of your contributions are going to a good cause. The Midshipman company commander was reported as being most apreciative of the gift.

Charlie Buchanan presents the class check for $250 to the 26th Co. Wardroom Louise and Kenny Craig left Maggie Valley in January for a visit with her mother in Blakely, Georgia, where they hoped to get more golfing weather for a few weeks.

Red Ransom reports that he has personally attended 45 Army-Navy games, which must be some sort of a record for our class. He missed the game Plebe year, too, because of being restricted to the Yard at that time. —Says he will never forget Slade Cutter's field goal in the mud and rain which ended the long series of losses to Army. Every one of us who was at that game in Philly agrees that it is unforgettable, I'm sure.

Pete Wyckoff is staging a valiant battle and, as of mid-January, was still cheerful despite what he calls his diet of "nitroglycerine heart pills, tranquillizers, and oxy-

The Class of 1927 conducted its annual business meeting on 23 January 1975 at the 'O' Club, Bethesda following the bi-monthly luncheon of the Washington/Annapolis Group. Present were Barnes, Briggs, Brodie, Burner, Card, Caswell, Cooper, Fairlamb, Giambattista, Griffin, Habecker, Haley, Hazen, Henry, Hinners, Hubbard, Hunter, Irvin, Lange, Maginnis, Miles, Mitchell, Phillipps, Pryce, Quackenbush, Schumm, Snyder, Steiner, Sullivan, Tooke and Van Mater. The Executive Vice President stated that minutes of the meeting together with the reports of the Secretary and the Treasurer will be mailed out to all class members and to all widows in the near future. One item of action which will be of interest to all class members is listed below. The officers and members of committees nominated and elected for the next year were: President— Tom Hamilton; Exec VP & Chairman of the Executive Committee—Don Griffin; Secretary and Historian—-Bill Irvin; Treasurer— Bob Barnes; Members of the Resident Executive Committee—Bill Irvin, Bob Barnes, Bob Quackenbush, Miles Hubbard, Charlie Tooke and Parker Fairlamb; Absentee Members of the Executive Comittee, San Diego Area—^Jack Dalton, Los Angeles Area—Ed Eckelmeyer, San Francisco Area—Heinie Armstrong, Seattle Area—Ted Fauntz, Tidewater Virginia Area—Otie Gregg, Tampa/ St. Pete Area—Mike Russillo, Jacksonville Area—Tom Greene, Pensacola Area—Lonnie Pancoast, Southern Florida Area—Turk Powell, New England Area—Randy Randig and the NY, Penna & NJ Area—George Fraser.

We were shocked to hear at our last luncheon that Jack Bowling had been hospitalized in the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia last fall and underwent a very serious operation. Following it he suffered circulatory complications which in the end forced the amputation of his right leg below the knee to save his life. He is recovering slowly but has hopes for getting home in about a month. Everyone present wanted to be remembered to him, to express sympathy and to wish him well in his recovery.

Back when we wore cocked hats, epaulets and swords, the sailors flat hats and dress blues, for Saturday inspections, '27ers were getting their first taste of sea duty. Here are five aboard USS BRIDGE bound for Nicaragua—in the front row, left to right, Kent Averill, F. C. B. McCune, John Malley, next six unknown, Fred Agens and Francis R. Jones (picture courtesy Francis McCune).

Elsa and Ernie Sabol made some plans to do a tour of Europe last summer which

fizzled out because of price increases. The same thing happened with a tour set up for Scandinavia. So they took matters into their own hands and made all the arrangements on their own. They got two Eurail passes, space on a charter flight to Frankfurt, reservations for a flight from there to Prague, plus necessary visas and passports. Ernie took a quickie course for CSSR and Elsa brushed up on her Swedish, which she does speak fluently. "It was a challenge which confronted us when we landed in Frankfurt to clear customs and find our plane for Prague. There are advantages and disadvantages to going this way but the advantages and the freedom of choice were to our liking. We could stay as long as we wanted and we went where we wanted and chose the time." From Frankfurt to Prague, where they spent three days, then thru Czechoslavakia, Bratislava and on to Vienna for a full sightseeing stay. Next to Salzburg for two days, then by train to Copenhagen and on to Helsingborg and Halmstad, the native place of Elsa's family. Finally, nine days in Stockholm and environs, seeing old friends and places familiar. Even saw a McDonald's Hamburger joint newly opened in Stockholm's Oldam district. Back to Frankfurt for overnight and a flight back home. If you want a trip arranged call Ernie in Medina, Ohio!

Clarence Coffin wrote to say that their January Luncheon was arranged for the North San Diego sub group at Camp Pendleton by Toby Munn, their first visit away from the immediate San Diego vicinity. He says: "The San Diego County Chapter held their January lunch meeting at the Officers' Club, Marine Base, Camp Pendleton, on 28 January 1975. Fifty-five attended for the biggest and best lunch in years: the Anders, Buckleys, Buttreys, Coffins, Cliff Cooper, Chapter President Carl and Olive Dalton, Dawsons, Flynns, Gazzes, Hamiltons, Margaret Hines, Hummers, Ken Keepers, Manvilles, McCoys, Mac McGarry, Munns, Paiges, Walter Price, Paul Ramsey, Richardsons, Simpsons, Sutherlands, Traftons, Zemmers and Zondoraks. Amelie and John Clark, Bill Kern and Dutch Woelfel joined us from 'Up North.' Mayor Tilley and Mrs. Rene Hummer Tilley were guests of the Hummers. Toby Munn was complimented by all hands for a really super lunch."

Our President, Tom Hamilton with Emmie were in Annapolis for the fall meeting of the USNA Foundation visiting with the Habeckers. Here is a photo taken with their host during their visit.

Emmie and Tom Hamilton with Fritz Habecker Bunny and Don Griffin tripped to Florida recently to have a joint Don-Tom Jones ('28) birthday party. While in the South,

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Ship's Company, USS BRIDGE, 1927 Eunice and Bob Rice had a dinner party, including the Martin Stones. The OrlandoWinter Park area is great. However, 83 degrees and 33 the next is mgged, says Don. Maybe Washington isn't too bad.

Sally Johnston (widow of Don) wrote to send me a brochure she had received about Alston Ramsey and the great work he had done in promoting opera in Salisbury NC but regrettably the paper got lost in the mails. I'm still hoping to get it. Sally said she had the paper from Pat Pierrepont, widow of Jay '22. Jay's mother started an old tradition back in the days of ballroom dancing; before a ball she had dance instructors for the debutantes, who thought it such a good idea they began the Pierrepont Dance Club. It is still extant with Pat carrying on with great eclat. They meet 12 times a year at the Colony Club in New York.

We are sad to report that Ruth (Mrs. Frederick) Marggraff died in Annapolis on 6 July after a long illness. We extend our sympathy to her son, Mr. Frederick C. IVIarggraff, of Glen Burnie MD and to her daughter, Mrs. Robert Thomas of Morrisville PA. Mary and Firpo Hines have moved to 768D Fairview Ave., Annapolis 21403.

The Washington/Annapolis Group will hold their spring Co-Ed Luncheon at Alumni House in Annapolis at noon on Saturday, 24 May. Classmates, wives and widows, including those from far parts, are warmly invited to participate. Reservations may be made by sending a check for $5.00 per person to C. M. Tooke, Route 3, Box 90-A, Annapolis MD 21403.

Ruth and Dick Schumm, accompanied by Dick's son, Walter, joined the Tooke's and Chuck Mulls '50 in celebrating New Year at the Homecoming, Hot Springs, Va. Rebecca and Joe McClaughry ably represented our Class in arranging a most delightful Winter Mixer with the Class of '28 at Alumni House in Annapolis in early February. Attending from '27 in addition to the McClaughrys were Ellen and Herb Eckberg, Miml and Joe Hazen, Mary Hines, Gypsy and Charlie Melson, Virginia Milburn, Eleanor and Ray Mitchell, Helen and Phil Ross, Liney Rubins, Eleanore Saunders, Ruth and Dick Schumm, Francis and Carl Steiner and Ellen and Charlie Tooke.

Jack Holtwick said they can't believe that they hold the cup for being the first greatApril, 1975

grandparents of the Class. Said he recalls many others who raced out of graduation into the Chapel but that they were fully two years behind that time. We haven't had any challangers to the title so, until we do, you hold it. Jack. He also says that the Herrons have been the only recent '27 visitors they have seen in the 50th State, which has been a very rainy place in the past spell of weeks. He also notes with chagrin that only one class of the last 30 (1972) has an Alumni Association membership over 50%. 'Tis sad, indeed.

Dottie Seabring writes for the family, in addition to some little notes, that they are probably going South for six weeks this winter, providing her gasoline is not rationed by the time they are ready to depart.

And we had a nice Xmas note of some length on the coming and going of Mary and Bill Kern—but the important item is that age 70 they are hale and hearty in Corona Del Mar. Rosle Loud and Thurston Clark from the '27 contingent at Bethesda today. Rosie is in for what I have been given to understand will be some open heart surgery and Thurston is still under diagnosis. He has some chest or lung involvement but as yet they have not been able to pinpoint it.

Ed Eckelmeyer writes: "Our last luncheon at the 'O' Club in Long Beach on 28 January 1975 was attended by the smallest number we have had in many months, only six. They were: Tallman, Neuhaus, Mye, Scoles, Hamley and Eckelmeyer. Woelfel and Kern had prior commitments and, just before the meeting, John Clark called to say that since the weather was so beautiful he and Amelie would drive to Camp Pendleton to attend the San Diego Group's luncheon.

So the Clarks were not totally absent from class activities. However, we're still having trouble getting attendance from those who live far away, like Nation and Ewing in Bakersfield and Adams and Bernet in Palm Springs. So I guess we'll have to just get along with the 'old faithfuls.'

"At last report, Fred Leatherman is recovering slowly, except for his hearing, which was severely affected by his fall. Now his wife reports an accident to herself. She fell and fractured her right arm just below the shoulder. She is a hard working and capable girl and has done much to sustain Fred over the years of his severe asthma at-

tacks and his bad fall in November, and now misfortune has struck her. We can only hope that their bad luck of 1974 is past and that 1975 and future years will be kinder to them."

We want to take this opportunity to welcome Eddie to the Century Club of the Alumni Association. Hope you start the trend for a hundred more members.

Somebody in the Carl Steiner family is living right. Mrs. Marie M. Steiner, mother of Carl, reached the age of 100 on 9 October 1974. Among many others she received congratulatory cards from Betty and Gerry Ford. She is resident at a nursing home in Towson, Md. where a large party was held for her on her birthday, over 80 members of her family attending. She has 3 living children, 10 grandchildren and 22 greatgrandchildren. She is still alert and well.

Pete Ferrall wrote to tell me that Fritz Gleim has been moved from Bethesda to the University Nursing Home, 901 Areola Ave., Wheaton MD 20902. Drop in to see him.

And Bill Davies says that he and Evelyn are now at Apt. 439, 17117 Gulf Boulevard, North Redington Beach FL 33708.

Ruth and P. D. Miles were driving down the street to their home in Alexandria on Monday, 10 Febmary. Ruth, driving, noticed P. D. slumped forward in his seat and by the time she could get assistance he was dead of a heart attack. The Class extends deep sympathy to Ruth and their children.

We are saddened to report that Kathryn Tracy, wife of John S. Tracy, died in Laguna Hills, California, on 12 February 1975 following brief hospitalization. She was 59 years old. The class extends its deep sympathy to Jack and his son on their loss.

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Pres., Capt. Albert O. Momm, USN (Ret.) Eastern Corr., Cdr. John G. Urquhart, USN (Ret.) 117 Hesketh St., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Western Corr., BGen. Robert G. Ballance, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 585, Indian Springs, NV 89018 Percent Members: 72 Of great interest to the Class is the recent marriage on 12 January of our Classmate, Slim Quilter to Mrs. Phyllis Lichetti Blum.

She is a neighbor of Slim's in Portola Valley and lost her husband just ten days after Adrienne died. I couldn't get this item in the March copy of Shipmate, even though my West Coast spies had informed me it was imminent. I gather the youngish people will continue to live in that delightful place.

Congratulations, Slim! and we welcome you to the BLC, Phyllis.

At the monthly meeting of the D.C. Alumni Ass'n. we could muster only five to hear the President of the Navy League give a very informative talk about its place in getting the word to the public about our Navy. Present were Harry Sears, George Collins, just up from Abaco, Owsley Stanley, Jerry Gerin and your CS. On 3 Febmary the Annapolis contingent of the Class hosted a KT party at Alumni House, closing ranks with '27. Jimmy James, Jimmy

52 Boyd, Agnes and Jack Bowers, Margaret and Heebee Jones, Lucretia and John Zabilsky, Blair and Al Momm, your Pres. attended. Sorry to relate that no one from the WA area showed. It was a Monday night and this might have had something to do with the local group's poor showing.

The peripatetic Ed Dexter checked in on the phone with me recently to tell me that he had received word that Duke Merson was getting his Doctorate at Chapel Hill on 11 May and this must be some kind of a record. Ed didn't know in what! Ed was in town visiting his mother who expects to celebrate her 102nd birthday on the 24th of AprU. Ed said he expected to be around a long time. He is off on a flying trip to the Coast, Hawaii, Okinawa and "anywhere else I can get a ride with MAC or Navy Air." Must be a nice feeling to be footloose.

An interesting letter from Swede Norgaard telling me that Vertie and Luke White hosted a party at their home in Titusville (FL) in December. Besides Betty and Swede, our colorful Classmate, Jim Schuber was there. The occasion was the Royal Ark Golf Club Retired Men's Group. Swede did not give me any scores, being essentially, a modest gentleman.

Whites, Norgaards and Jim Schuber Limey Cockell writes from San Diego that his younger son, a LCol. in the Marines, and his family are off to Australia for a tour at the Aussie's Joint Service Staff College. Also Limey writes that Georgina and George King have been in the area for about a month, leaving at the end of February, and that Jessie and John Scott were coming out from Phoenix for a Class Luncheon on 19 Febmary (no details yet). "Bob Morris and 1 talked at length to Francois Jordan today (6 Feb.) over their Ham Radio Sets. Bob has terrific equipment. Excellent reception. Francois has 150 Orange trees in bloom—Valencias—sells them under the Sunkist label; had just picked a 200 lb. bag of olives; has a 2-3 acre estate and takes care of grooming Eleanor's horses; show animals too, to be seen at the Horse Show in Indio soon. Bill Schoech was supposed to be at Rancho but didn't make it.

He and Barbara are enjoying the good life nearby."

Perhaps Jimmy James' photo of Barbara and Bill Schoech in their own personal "jungle" at Escondido explains why he didn't get to Rancho. Bill looks better than he did when here in Washington, where his emphysema was getting him down. We sure miss him around here but, from the health standpoint, it looks to have been a good move.

Bob Watts had major surgery at NNMC on 5 February. He had an aneurysm removed in his aorta and was "out" for about

Dave Todd writes from the West Coast: "These last two years have been very full and emotional ones for me in San Francisco." The loss of Dave's wife Katherine and his brother Donald (Budge) in Seattle, both in 1973, changed his destiny and fortunes. In May of 1974 he was married to Helen Marsh, widow of Cdr. F. Grant Marsh, USN, a family friend of 32 years.

Dave's older son David III of the National Park Service stood for his father in a quiet ceremony in The Chapel of the Holy Dove in the Comomino National Forest, not far from the Grand Canyon. The Dave Todds are now sharing their happiness in their home at 66 Denslowe Drive in San Francisco 94132.

Bill and Barbara Schoech six hours. Expects to be in the hospital for two or three weeks. We pray for his complete recovery. Nancy and Bob live at 10212 Parkwood Drive, Kensington MD 20795. Drop him a line or a cheery card. He'd appreciate it. And from him, we appreciate this fine print of our Plebe soccer team. In the top row he identifies LCdr. "Mammy" Weems, Radon, Burzynski, Garton, Gordon, ( ), (B. H. or H. H.?) Bush, Donovan and Brett. Second row: Ass't. Coach ( ), ( ), ( ), Curtin, Searies, Watts and Coach Taylor. Bottom row: Walden, Ahroon, Ascherfeld, Flaherty, Hastings and Cole. Dan Wagner and Limey Cockell are in there somewhere, but he's not sure where.

Your CS will buy anyone a free drink at the 50th who can fill in one or more of the blanks.

Art Binney's mother died up in Michigan just after Xmas. He has been going back and forth and finally he and Jean were able to get away this week to go to Coral Gables (FL) to visit their daughter. We extend our deepest sympathy to them in the loss of his mother.

Ski Burzynski, from New Castle, N.H., tells us that he received from Paulette (Mrs. Jim) Landen the sad news of Jim's passing away at his home in Cheshire, Conn. Ski goes on to say: "We regret to report the death on 31 January of Col. William James Landen (Jim) USMC (Ret.) at his home in Cheshire, Connecticut. Jim was very much alive and active at the last Nutmegger gathering in Simsbury in July when George King hosted our New England group. A sudden, unexpected cancer complication was discovered only in recent weeks. We'll all miss this friendly outgoing personality, particularly the close-knit Nutmegger group.

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53 comes naturally, sales. Moved back north with son No. 2 to educate further with degees from University of Wisconsin in biology, after serving four years in USAF, one year in Vietnam. In closing . . . a slogan of my life has been 'Don't give up the ship!' Jake, AWOL '29." (Sec'y, note: Jake then ordered a copy of Muster Notes to look up address of Schmaltz Giese. Hope you contacted.) Jake's address is Rock Lake, Box 268, Treavor WI 53179.

He was always present, giving his warmth, sincerity, and wit and humor. Jim leaves behind his wife Paulette of Cheshire, one son W. James, and four daughters, Bette, Jean, Sherri and Renee."

Ski says that memorial services were held at St. Peters Episcopalian Church in Cheshire. Connecticut had the biggest blizzard of the year on that day, so attendance might have been limited. Ski says he is putting in a 6-day work week, and that Caroline is well and spending much time in outside activity, and that children are all well.

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Chairman, Executive Committee, RAdm. Bill Kabler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. C. B. Laning, USN (Ret.) 6404 Lakeview Dr., Falls Church, VA 22041 West Coast Sec'y, RAdm. T. W. Davison, USN (Ret.) 520 Crestwood Dr., Paradise, CA 95969 Florida Sec'y, Cdr. R. A. Hart, USNR (Ret.) 1700 Dana Blvd., Merritt Island, FL 32952 Percent Members: 73 Rags Parish says: "Soon after receiving Russ's letter (regarding a Florida class gettogether lunch) we shoved off for Columbus GA for a long visit with old friends at Georgia Tech, where I went for two years before entering the Academy, and with friends of Judy, with whom she grew up and attended Hollins College in Virginia.

We have done this almost every fall and it gets more extensive and enjoyable every year. The excuse for the visit is the NavyGeorgia Tech game in Atlanta, which we always attend. This year the game was lousy, neither team played well and there didn't seem to be too much enthusiasm on either team or in the stands. Very uninteresting but fun seeing old friends. Just hope the Army-Navy game will be better—but not by such a large margin. I'll never forget the 54-0 game with Michigan and the 10-0 upset the following year!"

The accompanying photo represents Rollo Brownlee and Kemp Tolley in San Francisco, September 1931 "just after having completed a cross-USA trip in three days and eighteen hours by the clock, which I (Kemp) suspect may have been a record for '29ers of that date. From Mississippi to Lake Tahoe, the roads were gravel. On arrival in San Francisco, the Ford convertible would not climb even a gentle slope; the exhaust valves were burned out. And so were we. . . . " Ladies section: Katherine Walker moved into her rebuilt home in Carmel Valley Village shortly before Christmas. Joann and Al Strahorn had to regret Katherine's traditional pre-holiday cocktail party due to thyroid surgery for Joann, who is now doing very nicely. Russ Hart reports that he and Sally "had the opportunity to have dinner with Connie Cone at the Patrick Air Force Base Club. Connie was visiting her daughter, son-in-law, and grandsons in Satellite Beach. I had never met Connie but received a note from her asking about 'Twentyniners' in this area. I called her at her daughter's home and told her she didn't have much of a choice but if she would join us for dinner we would be delighted.

April, 1975

Three days, eighteen hours We had a very pleasant evening. Connie still lives in Porterville CA, and says she sees Bill Darnell fairly frequently." Of the three gracious residences for the widows of retired officers, two, Vinson Hall (Navy) and Distaff Hall (Army) are in Washington. Only one. Air Force Village, is in the South, at San Antonio. Each has many advantages. The first of our class to move to any of them is Avis Ford, who writes, "I'm going to move to Air Force Village this month. I just couldn't leave Texas to go to Vinson, so San Antonio it is. I'll be the only widow there with Marine Corps credentials, so I'll take care of the 'spit and polish' to hold up the reputation of the Corps. How I'd love to see Henry's classmates around San Antonio after March 1st!" Avis' address will be AFV, 4917 Ravenswood Drive, San Antonio TX 78227.

Lost and Found. At last we've located Jake Atwood, and are close on the retreat of Ed Ashworth. Jake writes: "Thanks for yours of .the 10th. I do remember you as a member of the Eighth Company (Savvy Forest, Commander). Also Lt. Mason. I remember a Mr. F. X. Forest coming in after taps and taking me into the "shower" to pull me sat in math. My only excuse for going AWOL was my interest in sports.

Academic work was secondary to being a good football player (and basketball). I was on the plebe team until unsat—went on to play Eighth Company football and we won the regimental title. Unfortunately this was about the time that pro football was introduced to the public. I played some semi-pro football later, but didn't have the weight to make it go. Today I would qualify.

I do believe my plebe football position went to Charles Weakley, with whom I went to prep school in Columbia, Mo. Unfortunately I was in California when Army-Navy game was played on Soldier's field in Chicago— game ending in that 21-21 tie.

"Now for the lurid details of the past forty years. I have been a salesman all my life; am married 37 years; 2 sons, 3 grandchildren. In 1935, deciding that a withdrawal was better than an advance, I bought a farm in southwest Missouri and went into farming. After several years of experimenting with crop failures, govenment subsidies, etc., decided that I had better get with what

Financial Page: Pate Anderson has long been a director for Southern Railway; this year Southern is listed as one of the five best managed major corporations in the US. About ten years ago we asked Pate how come Southern continued to make a good profit while the other major roads were starting to show red every year. Pate said "We've plowed much of the profits back into roadbed and equipment. And we have been paying off the featherbedders right along, rather than fighting them. We operate more efficiently every year." Or words to that effect. So congrats to Pate.

Now that you are getting tired of loafing.

Pate, how about taking over Penn Central?

Food and cooking section: To those who have ordered copies of the Secty's cookbook to end all chauvinist cookbooks. Sex in the Kitchen, do not be impatient. The chapter on breads is undergoing revision. Due to hard times the author is now making his own yeast. We are now averaging four bakes of four loaves each of whole wheat on one quarter package of yeast for the lot. About the fifth baking it seems that the airborne wild yeast sneak in and we come out with wholewheat sourdough, probably for the first time since dangerous Dan McGrew.

Even at that we are saving six cents a loaf and with the savings will be able to revisit London soon.

30 Pres., RAdm. Wreford G. Chappie, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, RAdm. M. H. Simons, Jr., USN (Ret.), 5506 Cromwell Dr., Bethesda, MD 20016 Percent Members: 82 Saturday, 25 January 1975, found the Northern California Class of 1930 starting off the new year with a luncheon in the Trophy Room of the 'O' Club at NAS Alameda. Betty and Warren McClain were the arrangers and enticed a congenial group with the following verse on the announcement: "To really start this New Year right, Let's drink a toast and share a bite, Our friends and classmates warmly greeting.

For Auld Lang Syne we call this meeting."

In attendance were: Wilma and Joe Whitaker, with their guests Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gould, Billie and Roscoe Newman Genevieve Hilles, Dee and Abe Lincoln] Alice Corbus, Marge and Harry Stevenson!

Eleanor Winant, Gertmde and Doc Strohbehn, Betty and Bill Drane, Pat and Leo May, Bicky and Sam Randall, Anne Hawkins, Alice and Bill Stewart, Marge and

54 John Azer, Betty and Warren McClain with their guests, Betty and Peter Obninski and Betty and Elliott Pownall. Get well cards were sent to Hannah and Ed Carmick who were ill with colds and to Bunny Ashford.

Bill Stewart also reports that Mesdames Corbus, Hawkins and Winant will sponsor their next gathering in the San Francisco area the latter part of April 1975. The NorCal group sent greetings to the D.C. area group and hopes all is going well for the 45th Reunion.

Oscar Browne reports that Polly and Si Perkins journeyed to the Near East, a trip they had to put off last year on account of the 1973 war. They visited Egypt, Syria, Israel and Lebanon, where they found most of the natives friendly. They had a couple of close calls when rockets landed in places where they had been. With a little advance planning they were able to mail their Christmas cards from Bethlehem and spend Christmas in Tucson with son Jeff and wife.

Early in January, Towser Miller lunched with several classmates at the Lakes Club in Sun City, Arizona. It was the "First Samrday of the Month" luncheon meeting of the Phoenix Group. Towser was high in his praise of the pleasant surroundings and obvious enthusiasm of those present for the way of life in their part of the world. Also enjoying the luncheon were: John Dimmick, Marvin Gibson, Marvin Gluntz, Bob Jennings and Whitey Taylor. Not present were Walter Prien, on the binnacle list, and Mac Williams, visiting the West Coast.

Harv Burden, our correspondent in San Diego, reports that Claire and Rebel Lowrance were in town the week of 6 January visiting Marie Rutter. A stag luncheon was held for Rebel at the Hotel Del Coronado.

At the luncheon were Herb Andrews, Roy Newton, Eddie Sanders, Fog Hayes, DeMouy Lynch, John McKnight, Ed Price, Jack Moreno, Fred Bradman, Emmet O'Beime, Moon Chappie, Fred Lucas, and Harv Burden. Also at the luncheon were Burt Klakring, Spud Monahan, Hank Monroe and Jack Coye. It was a pleasant meeting and many there had not seen each other in years. Harv adds that Jay Bowen and Fred Bradman are both back to battery.

The San Diego group now has a monthly stag luncheon held the second Friday of the month at the Admiral Kidd Club.

The January luncheon meeting of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the Alumni Association was held in the Army and Navy Club on 15 January. The speaker was Mr. Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., President of the Navy League. Mr. Carrere thoroughly understands and appreciates the importance of sea power to our country's security. Bill Nelson, Buff Simons, Eddie Wagner and Glen Williams were present at this interesting and informative meeting.

Agnes and Jack Agnew drove to Florida the day after Christmas and retumed to Dover in mid-January.

Louise and Buff Simons spent ten delightful days after Christmas in the Blackburns' lovely home in Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C. During the visit it was most enjoyable to have cocktails with Peg and Tommy Booth ('31) who also live in Sea Pines. Marion and Brick were off on a trip to Japan, New Zealand and Australia.

They are now back in S.C. and report that they had a wonderful trip. On the way to S.C, Louise and Buff were able to get together with Mary Margaret and Wooftie Walter. The Walters' two book and gift stores, incidentally, are doing very well.

Dick Hunt has recovered his sea legs. He made the Christmas cruise in QUEEN ELIZABETH II.

Jack Moreno says that "After a four month excellent and Intensive training course, am now working for H & R Block.

It's very interesting work—my ninth profession—and one of the few areas in which age is no barrier."

If you've gone stale figuring income taxes, keeping track of investments, balancing books, etc., etc., take a new lease on life.

Get yourself a pocket size electronic calculator. With one of these to play with, life takes on new meaning. You'll soon wonder how you ever got along without it.

Bill Moore, according to Vivian, has had his usual bustling year. He completed six years on the Board of Planned Parenthood then decided to turn inventor and is now working on a patent. Shipmate already mentioned that he was featured in a picture story in September Better Homes and Gardens on his making of chutney. Viv continues to write a syndicated column Cooking Capers, a weekly column similar to Simmer 'n Serve which occupied her for eight years.

With all this they managed to attend a '30 party in Coronado, visit San Simeon, and attend a reunion of past commanding officers of NTS, Keyport—Bill's last command before retiring.

Lillian Craig spent Christmas with her children and grandchildren in Connecticut.

Thanks to Lil Nelson we received a copy of Southland Sunday magazine section of The Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram of 19 January 1975. One of the feature articles of this issue is titled Battle Cry of a Long Beach Admiral: "I want lots of trees and clean water and a better place to live, not people entombed in wall-to-wall high rises." It is interesting reading concluding with this statement by Councilwoman Renee Simon: "When Larry Ruff comes before the council, I always find myself so very impressed by that quiet, distinguished manner of his. He's always so well informed and unlike so many others who come before us rather hysterically, his view is always the balanced one. Though many of his thoughts are often contrary to what the council may already have established as law, his ideas are being borne out more and more by public opinion polls."

Vola and Carlton Adams recently returned from a trip to Hilton Head Island, S.C. and Florida, including a visit to Disney World.

May and Gene Sands spent a month recently traveling in the Republic of Ireland searching for villages and other places connected with the life of their forebears.

Gene Sands says his records, as of 10 February, show that the following plan to attend the 45th Reunion: Vola and Rolla Adams, Fritz and Catty Adkins, Agnes and Jack Agnew, Lois and Stan Alexander, Dottie and Ash Ashton, Constance and Monk Atkins, Martha and Fred Beans, Marian and Brick Blackburn, Dottie and Mike

Block, Marguerita and Aubrey Bourgeois, Adele and Al Boyd, Dottie and Rip Briner, Lucile and Harry Canaday, Hannah and Ed Carmick, Mary and Moon Chappie, Jane and Ed Colestock, Jean and Red Cook, St. Clair and Bob Craighill, Iris Cushing, Jim Davis, Dottie and Bob DeGraff, Helen and Tim Dorner, Ella May and Bill Doyle, BiUie Dodge, Betty and Bill Drane, Jo Ann and Wally Ebert, Betty and Bill Ellis, Dusty Farnham, Barbara and MuUie Foster, Athalie and Angel Grantham, Helen and Bumboat Haley, Leila and Chick Hayward, Kate and Dick Herms, Nick and Sandy Heyward, Nancy and Eph Holmes, Cici and Jim Howard, Chloe and Jack Howell, Myma and Jack Hulme, Dick Hunt, Bill Hyde, Bertha and Andy Jackson, Ann and Jenks Jenkins, Nina and Frank Johnson, Louise and Jack Jones, Betty and John Kinert, Audrey and Denys Knoll, Bemie and George Kosco, Kitty and Chick Lawver, Dee and Abe Lincoln, Fred Lucas, Louise and DeMouy Lynch, Betty and Charlie Martell, Charlotte and Chief Masterson, Betty and Warren McClain, Benny and Mac McCombs, Fay and Sandy McGregor, Madeleine and Bowen McLeon, Jean and Towser Miller, Viv and Bill Moore, Margaret and Charlie Mauro, Lil and Bill Nelson, Arm Peterson, Mary and Bill Post, Dee-Dee and Frank Reinecke, Mary Ann and Joe Robinson, Frances and Allan Roby, May and Gene Sands, Helene and George Seay, Bettie and Red Sharp, Louise and Buff Simons, Mary and Joe Synder, Skip and Spoof Spofford, Ev and Ted Stevens, Alice and Bill Stewart, Wilma and Frank Stich, Gloria and Red Stroh, Bill Tisdale, Van Van Metre, Anne and Eddie Wagner, Helen and Frank Wagner, Mary Margaret and Wooftie Walter, Jane and Fred Weiss, Fran and Don Weller, Margaret and Dave Whelchel, Vera and Glen Williams, Jo and Dutch Wilson, Eleanor Winant, Marian Woodard, Nancy and Kip Wright.

Anyone desiring information about the reunion should contact Gene Sands, 113 Fardale St., Vienna VA 22180—phone 703/ 560-1275. Here's hoping we have a good turnout.

Rachel Coe's daughter recently gave birth to twin grandsons, causing great excitement in the family.

The Blackbums report they were extended delightful hospitality one afternoon in Sydney, Australia by Betsy and Styx Phillips, who have a lovely house facing the harbor, with their own beach. They live at 23 Victoria, Watson's Bay, Sydney.

FLASH! Mary and Joe Synder have issued an invitation to the class to go to their home on the Eastern Shore after the brunch at Alumni House on Sunday, 18 May. They promise booze and oysters, but do request that people who can attend write a note to them so they can make preparations. They live about fifty miles from Annapolis at Bozman MD 21612. This is just a few miles from picturesque Easton and the magnificent Wye Oak. Their phone number is 301/745-2588.

Our photo this month shows the Naval Constructor graduates from M.I.T. in 1935: (1 to r.) Oscar Browne '30, Si Perkins '30, Jerry Heiser '30, Howard Garner '29 (deceased), Bob Sutherland '30, Phil Wakemen

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MIT Naval Constmction grads, 1935 '28, Harry Englund '30 (deceased), Les Richardson '29, Marv Gluntz '30 and Stan Alexander '30.

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Pres., RAdm. Raymond P. Hunter, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. John Crumpacker, USN (Ret.) 1000 Twinbrook Parkway Rockville, MD 20851 Percent Members: 74 Les Wood sends this picture taken after this year's Army-Navy game at Jerry Souths' where we had gathered with our wives plus Toby and Molly Hogle '29 to run the contest. As you can see our facial expressions show our approval of the outcome. We are working on a roster of the Virginia Beach classmates and will send it as soon as it is prepared.

Jerry South, Kirk Kirkpatrick, Les Wood and Bernie McMahon Andy Smith has been harboring a small but potentially deadly aortic aneurysm down in the kidney region for some years and, of course, with great care and frequent inspection: wouldn't you? Virginia tells us that there was evidence in January that the little weak spot had enlarged so Andy was immediately hospitalized at Lackland Air Force Base and on the 20th he was operated on successfully. This was an all-day operation and it will be many weeks before Andy is back to battery. Write to him at 107 Laural Lane, Universal City TX 78148.

Perhaps I wrote earlier about our Tidewater reporter being on extended leave.

Anyway Carol Moore who has kept us all current about '31 affairs in the NorfolkADril. 1975

Virginia Beach area has been in London with her daughter and son-in-law. Commander George T. Long, since late last summer. Vera and I have the letter quoted below from Carol and I'm sure she intended us to share it with all of you.

"Dear John and Vera—Living over here certatinly has its advantages. There are so many fascinating places to go and fun things to do it is hard to know where to start. We would like to take one trip a month, either here in Britain or on the continent, and have done very well so far. The rest of the time we spend our days exploring the charming little villages, looking at beautiful cathedrals and castles or trying our hands at brassrubbing. There is never a dull moment!

"Both of my grandchildren are in English schools so during the mid-term break we bundled them into the car and headed for the West Country. This was in October at the peak of the fall colors and the countryside was gorgeous. Our first stop was the lovely old cathedral City of Wells then six days in the Cotswolds, which I think is one of the most picturesque areas in Britain— just wish I had had my paints with me. We had a ball staying at the 'Olde Inns'— nothing newer than the 16th century whenever possible and the children were fascinated with the little narrow staircases, slanty floors, cracked windows and doors and very low ceilings with the exposed oak beams. Ashley can hardly wait until he is tall enough to bang his head on them!

"In November Cindy and I had four days in Vienna—if I could have gone to Vienna, say five years ago, I might have enjoyed it but everything is so outrageously high now it took all the pleasure out of the trip.

I really don't know how the Austrians can afford it—I guess the poor ones don't, at least, we didn't see any!!

"Our Christmas holidays were as hectic here as they are at home but great fun. I think the 'Dickens Christmas' is a figment of our imaginations when we think of Christmas in England—it doesn't exist, so we had a ball decorating the house in true American fashion. We had a hard time but finally found a lovely holly wreath for the door; would have liked to have had two more for the gates but couldn't find them and it's probably a very good thing—they don't put wreaths on the door—they take them to the cemetery! Oh well, these crazy Americans!!!

"This month, January, Cindy and I had

a week in Russia—Moscow and Leningrad.

It was a fascinating and very revealing experience—we just don't realize 'how good we got it!' In Moscow I enjoyed a troika ride, the ballet and seeing the Kremlin, in that order. And cold!! I have never been so cold in my life—the temperature was below zero with a strong wind blowing that must have brought the chill factor below —25°.

Leningrad is a beautiful city and seems to be a happier one than Moscow—people laugh and smile there and that is something we didn't see at all in Moscow. We enjoyed everything we saw in Leningrad—but above all the Hermitage—it is fabulous. The tourist hotels are excellent and altho they want your dollar you shop only in special shops.

We were watched and followed the whole time and I think I would have been disappointed if we hadn't been, after all I had heard. We had a real white-knuckle flight back on Aero-flot—for one thing, the plane leaked when we got in a rain storm!

"Next month Germany and Prague in March. Will send you another travelog soon.

Love to all, Carol."

Maybe Russian commercial aviation isn't all it's cracked up to be.

32 Pres., VAdm. Lloyd M. Mustin, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Francis D. Foley, USN (Ret.) 77 Shipwright St., Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 70 If this column appears to be somewhat abbreviated, it must be because all of you were either out of the country, working on your income tax, or observing the President's admonition to conserve your energy. Whatever the reason, it has caused a news crisis for your Secretary. Indeed the only stalwart who took pen in hand was Wiggle Wigelius who reminisced about his friendship with the late Fritz Gramlich and how the latter, together with Harry Reiter, pulled him sat after an 8-week bout in the hospital with scarlet fever. This avoided the ominous threat of being turned back. Wiggle sent along a personal letter from Jack Binns from which I quote the following: "At 66, I can't say I've mellowed a helluva lot, Wig. Had an extended run of glory during the 50's which I thoroughly enjoyed, but since then I've just been running out the clock.

Still can whip my weight in wildcats and belt the bejesus out of a golf ball despite several skirmishes at the VA hospital. Consequently, no complaints. I've stopped to smell many roses along the way." It's good to hear from you. Jack, even indirectly. All of us who know you fully discount the implication in "running out the clock" and attribute this solely to the use of football jargon.

In telephoning around for leads we learned quite by chance that our 21st Gray Eagle, Dick Matter, has been winged and is at Bethesda. We're glad to know you're doing O.K.. Dick, and hope you will be able to play golf again by the time this news is on the street.

Lest there be some who are still skeptical about the probabilities of a sizeable turnout for our 45th Class Reunion, here are some statistics compiled from the questionnaire returned last spring. Hesitation is felt in

56 quoting these now because, for any of us, they cannot be but educated guesses. However, recognizing that, "unless wind and tide abate," all of us may not make it through the Golden Gate, here is the breakdown of the 210 replies: expect to attend 144 (135 with wives); may attend 24 (20 with wives); will not attend 42 (no word from the wives!). You will recall that the vote in favor of San Francisco was roughly 8 to 1. In any case, Leon Kintberger did not have comparable statistics handy but recalled that there were about 200 total classmates, wives and widows who attended the main event of our 40th, the dinner-dance at Chauvenet Hall. As of now it appears likely that we will exceed that number at the 45th.

The Washington-Annapolis chapter abandoned its male chauvinist attitude, at least temporarily, in Febmary to invite their wives to join them at luncheon in the Navy Yard.

Although this column must be submitted before the event, attendance shapes up as follows: Toots Blaidsdell, Tony and Jack Catlett, Jim CoUett (Peggy could not make it), Gwen and Dimi Dimitrijevic, Ruth and Owen Fang, Clair and Francis Foley, Dora and Leon Kintberger, Teeny and Bob Leonard, Helena and John Lietwiler, Emmy Marshall, Emily and Lloyd Mustin, Jane and Sam Moncure, Erma and Al Slayden, Janet and Bill Stuart, Betty and Charlie Sugarman, Margaret and John Van Evera, Nona and Corky Ward, Muriel and Gus Wellings, Willie Williamson, and Marion and Mel Young. A repeat engagement with wives is scheduled in Annapolis rather than Washington in May. Inasmuch as your Secretary has to scratch around for news anywhere he can get it for this issue, he hopes you will forgive him for putting in a plug for his own family at this point. Some of this might also be of interest to the Class of '36. Our eldest son. Bill Vogel '62, after thirteen years in the Polaris program, is now Executive Officer of the nuclear attack submarine GRAYLING, homeported in Charleston, but currently deployed overseas; Tom Vogel, USMA '65, but now USN, is Operations Officer of the A-4 training squadron in Kingsville, Texas, following an extended tour in A-7's operating from the ENTERPRISE during which he garnered the DFC and a flock of Air Medals; Fred Vogel '65, after four combat tours in Marine Recon and Vietnamese Advisory roles, is back in SE Asia with our Embassy in Bangkok. As near as we can tell, Fred was decorated seven times. Not to be outdone by Tim, he has learned to fly, maintaining his proficiency in an ancient "Chipmunk" while in Thailand. Josephine is married to Kim Preston, an honor student in his second year at Washington and Lee Law School. Jo is the # 1 secretary in the Athletic Department at the University. Our youngest, Jamie, and her husband Poncho Fallon, live in Arlington, Va. where he is employed by Morrison-Knudsen as a Civil Engineer working on the Washington Metro.

Poncho became a U.S. citizen about a year ago and recently earned his Master's at George Washington University, attending classes at night to do so. Clair and I are proud of the whole bunch and are particularly happy with the six grandchildren they have thus far produced for us to enjoy.

By the way, three of the latter are also redheads. "Mother" Foley, whom many readers of Shipmate have known over the years, widow of Paul Foley '00, is now living close by in Annapolis where she first came as a Navy bride in 1907.

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Pres., VAdm. B. M. Strean, USN (Ret.) 5038 North 30th St., Ariington, VA 22207 Sec'y-Treas., Capt. D. R. McMullen, USN (Ret.) 8828 Burning Tree Rd., Bethesda, MD 20034 Percent Members: 69 The first guy who got on my back about that missing column from the January-February issue of Shipmate was Smoke Strean.

I know the column was received in Alumni House because it was in the same envelope as the note about the Maritime Museum in San Diego which included a picture (published) of the museum boosters among whom is Eddy Fredericks. I called Roy Smith in Annapolis and he doesn't know what could have happened to it but he did assure me that it was unlikely to show up and get printed six months late. So, from my own copy of the missing Class Notes I will repeat this month some of the lost material that is still of interest at this late date.

This paragraph is re-run material. Fiftyfour C/Ms and their wives participated in the Santa Barbara Weekend of 19-20 October. Baxter Russel sustained major surgery in the San Diego Naval Hospital but came home in mid-November. Susan Bellinger (Barney's widow) who now lives in Charleston, S.C., was hostess to Anne White (Dick's widow) in mid-October. Anne is active in the Episcopal Lay Ministry and was on an extensive speaking tour which had her in Charleston for a couple of days and will ultimately take her to Europe and Australia.

A letter from Wally Wendt last fall advised that since retiring in '71 he and Sunny have done a lot of traveling to revisit old haunts and to get acquainted with some new ones: England for a month or so. South and East Africa, Hawaii, U.S. western states, Canadian Rockies and some places in the Mid-West. When not traveling Wally is busy

with what he calls his "paid endeavors" but does not specify what these are. Until quite recently Sunny had been doing quite a bit of volunteer work as the psychologist at the Atlantic Mental Health and Retardation Service ran jointly by the state and city (Norfolk, Va.). In spite of a large Navy community in Virginia Tidewater there are relatively few '33ers and the only ones the Wendts have occasional contact with are the Christophers, Margaret Buie, and Freddy Wahlig (by phone).

Howie Kuehl (Camarillo, Calif.) wrote in with a couple of identifications for the group photo in the December issue and sent in a picture from his own archives (shown herewith). Howie's cast of characters from left to right are: Tom Long, Howie Kuehl, Jamie Jones, Fred Longshore, and Frank Iffrig; scenery is straight from the "Arkansas Traveler" by turret number 5 which incidentally earned an "E" in midshipman SRBP on that cruise (I ought to know; I was the second string-Youngster-trainer).

Last year the Kuehls, Jean and Howie, did a fair amount of traveling: in February they rode a 970' supertanker (SS SAN JUAN VENTURER) from Bellingham, Washington to San Nicolas in Peru. After a few days at the Marcona iron mines they flew home via Lima and Panama and a very touching reunion between Howie and Mamie Kelly at Mamie's Bar in old Panama City. Come summer, the Kuehls were in the Northwest (Expo '74) then the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper); in September they were down in the Yellowstone, the Tetons and Jackson Hole; and with the first show of frost in the Rockies they hied themselves down to Palm Springs for October and November. So, when does the guy ever stay home?

After retiring from Lockheed Mary and Barney Meyer moved about sixty miles out of Atlanta to Dawsonville where they are completely insulated from the Navy except for memories and the mail. There is a monthly Alumni luncheon in Atlanta which Barney used to attend and occasionally run into PeeDee Ellis and/or Henry Strozier.

Anyway, Barney is getting older like the rest of us and has his third grandchild; Mary sustained major surgery last year

Youngster cruise in the ARKANSAS

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In March Mary and Barney will be on a motor tour of the Balkans and Central Europe (Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria); in fact, while you are reading this, the wandering couple may be sipping slivovitz in a sidewalk cafe in Sofia.

I have a long letter from Bob Camera (Philadelphia) whose seats were next to mine at the Army-Navy game (March issue). Lee and Bob spent several days of the last Xmas season in Bermuda; Bob especially recommends golf at Castle Harbour if you can drive a straight ball in a northeaster and the O' Club at NAS where drinks go for 40<; vs. $1.50 in local pubs. Bob also related an absolutely incredible story about his class ring. "—Army-Navy Game—you will recaU it was a cold day and mostly on that account I lost my class ring and did not miss it until the next day. Sunday was rainy and stormy (how well I know—I drove back to Washington in it—McM.) and not being able to locate the ring in the house or the car I decided to return to the stadium on Monday for the clean-up. I arrived back at my game seat and found all of the trash had been cleared from the rows onto the stairs and was ready to be bagged. With the help of one of the clean-up crew I sorted through the stack of trash to no avail and was in my car about to leave very discouraged by it all when the sweeper, who had helped me, caught up with me. He pointed out one of the crew who had picked up something earlier in the area of my seats and believed it to be a ring with a red stone. Well, I talked to the fellow, identified the ring and for a modest reward to both recovered same." Bob has also given me a mn-down on his family. Lee is on the staff of Lankenau Hospital School of Nursing motivating young women in leadership and good nursing technique. Daughter # 1 , Carol, is married to a State Department type who has just been transferred from La Paz, Bolivia to Damascus, Syria (sounds like the Navy— being transferred from Ass't. Navigator of a CV to Engineering Officer of a D D ) .

Daughter # 2 , Candy, has a French husband who has just gotten his MBA at Wharton and is now with Burroughs in Detroit. Bob and Lee have three sons: son # 1 , Ken, graduated from Hobart (Economics) in '72 and is currendy Ass't. Treasurer of his alma mater; son # 2 , Richard, graduated from Penn State ('72) (Geography-Cartography) and is a bit of a wanderer from Bolivia to Oregon and down to Alabama; son # 3 , David, whom I met at the A-N game, is at The Citadel and hopes to transfer to USNA. I have had plenty of help since the December issue came out with the group picture of '33ers taken circa 1943. Unformnately most of the help has been redundant and has identified and reidentified the same characters. Clearly, the worst 'boo-boo' that I made was identifying Lee Kimball as Weaver Garnet but since neither of these guys objected why should the ten or so characters who wrote to me have been so incensed? Well, we have it straight now except for all of the ladies: men (1. to r.)

Koch, TAD Duncan, Stephan, Ogle. Cari Jones, Buck, McRae, Thorn, Rucker and seated Kimball and Tinker. So far I have April, 1975

only four of the ladies: Dick Stephan's wife, Hazel, next to Dick; Dinny Koch just in front of George; Dorothy Kimball just to the right of Lee; and Corinne Jones in the background with head just visible between Buck and McRae. For the first time in forty years I will admit that I need help with the ladies—I need six more identifications.

A letter from Don Harby (Honolulu) says Charlie Robbins passed through west bound for Singapore shortly after Xmas; Charlie was enroute to the Far East to close up his office in Singapore and then will return to his retirement home in Naples, Florida. Corinne and Carl Jones were in Hawaii for the holidays and Carmelita and Charlie Blick traveled out there all the way from Washington to see their son.

Bob Hird is now Vice President and manager of the San Diego Main Office of Security Pacific National Bank. Ray Thompson has retired from NASA as of 31 December. Audrey and Bob Bamum are in Florida (Boca Raton) in February and on their way down they stopped off at Whispering Pines to visit with Rufe Taylor and the several other C/Ms who are holed up down there for the duration. Before heading for Florida Bob Bamum had sponsored a Navy League dinner over on the Eastern Shore (Oxford) with Tom Moorer as speaker; there was a record turnout including a numbers of '33ers. Mary Alice and Bill Davis are on a cruise to the West Coast.

Last month I reported the passing of Bob Madden. I have had a note from Memsie telling how Bob fought it all the way and including information about his interment.

Bob's ashes were placed aboard the USS MCCARD on 19 January at Tampa; the MCCARD sailed on the 20th and last rites were held on the 22nd after she had reached the Atlantic.

Unhappily I have to report some other sad news. Our classmate Owen E. Sowerwine passed away on 24 January (heart) and is survived by his widow Alice at the home Route 2, Kalispell MT 59901. On 4 January John Shannon died but I regret I have no particulars; John had been living at 305 Manor Road, Ridgewood NJ 07450.

Mary and I are off to Europe in midApril and will not return until mid-July at the earliest. We may stay longer if we are still speaking to each other and are not broke or homesick. Anyone writing for publication should send his dope to Smoke Strean who has agreed to do the "notes" while I am away.

34 Pres., Capt. H. D. Fuller, USN (Ret.) Secy. Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.), 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 77 HERE AND THERE Charlie Stephan has a new job as Director of Cooperative Education for Florida Atlantic University. Eleanor is still active in clubs, hospital and community volunteer work. The welcome mat is always out in Boca Raton.

AU goes well with the old sailor Van Van

Arsdall and his gal, Polly, at the Naval Home up Philly way.

Allyn Cole has taken up gourmet cooking as a hobby, interspersed with golf three and four times a week. Helen keeps busy with historic preservation and museum activities in Aloha country.

The Carl Coens are grandparents once again; a boy, John Aaron, 9 lbs., 6 oz., on 21 November.

Esther and Larry Becht are still enjoying retirement with much travel.

Betty and Frank Tharin teamed up with Ruie and Russ Maynard on a grand tour of the Northwest, including the fair in Spokane.

Stu Miller sends: "Here is a small contribution to the Class Fund along with a 'Well Done' for your continuing contribution to Thirty-Four. One bit of news—effective 31 December 1974 I retired after AOVz years with E. I du Pont de Nemours Company. Miriam and I plan to remain in Wilmington. Our latch string is always out to any classmate passing near Wilmington.

4607 Beechwold is just off 1-95 and only four miles from the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Our phone number is 302/7623398."

Roger S. Ahlbrandt, chairman and chief executive officer of Allegheny Ludlum Industries, Inc., has been named 1975 Pittsburgh metropolitan chairman of the National Alliance of Businessmen. The National Alliance of Businessmen, now in its eighth year of operation, is a partnership of American business, govemment and labor. Its objective is to place disadvantaged citizens in entry-level jobs in the private sector under a concept of hire, train and retain.

Long active in educational and civic affairs, Roger is a charter tmstee of the University of Pittsburgh and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the U.S. Naval Academy. He is a director of the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Conference Board, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, the Pennsylvania Ecoomy League, Pittsburgh Regional Planning Association, Pittsburgh Blind Association and the Regional Industrial Development Corp., and Shadyside Hospital. He is a director of Mellon Bank, Hammermill Paper Corporation, Equitable Gas Company and a number of other companies. In 1972, he headed the annual Fund Campaign of the United Fund of Allegheny County, and in 1974 he became president of the successor organization. The United Way of Allegheny County.

Roger Ahlbrandt

58 Sports Illustrated recently published a letter from Ed Batcheller. In commenting on a previous issue featuring the new fashions in well-filled bathing "suits" he wrote, "With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, the bathing suit she wore was nothing much before, and rather less than 'alf of that behind."

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Pres., Capt. Jefferson D. Parker, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. L. M. Detweiler, (SC) USN (Ret.), 6650 Van Winkle Dr., Falls Church, VA 22044 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W. H. Packard, USN (Ret.) 5600 Yorktown Blvd., Ariington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 66 Our 40th reunion rendezvous at Homecoming '75 is drawing rapidly closer, and Jeff Parker who is in charge of making arrangements, puts out the following info on same: "Any '35ers who haven't sent in their request forms for motel and/or the Saturday night dinner reservations (which were included in our Class Annual Report last June), should do so right away. (If you can't find this form, write your intentions and desires to Jeff at 6209 Loch Raven Drive, McLean VA 22101.) Reservation requests for motel accommodations already exceed the 50 rooms reserved at the Howard Johnson motel, but other arrangements will be made as necessary in other motels or in homes of classmates in the area. Those who have signed up as of late May/early June will be notified of advance deposits required for motel and Saturday night dinner.

"The program, combining Homecoming and '35 events (tentative but reasonably assured), includes: Fri., 10 Oct.—^Arrival and check-in at Alumni House Midn' parade for Alumni Alumni reception in Dahlgren Hall Alumni dinner in the Mess Hall Sat., 11 Oct.—Alumni Assembly for the latest word from Alumni Assoc. Pres., CNO and Comd't. USMC Tail-gate (bring your own) lunch in stadium parking lot at '35 flag Football game with Syracuse '35 Class dinner at Annapolis-Hilton ballroom Sun., 12 Oct.—Chapel/'35 Class Memorial service '35 Despedida lunch (being arranged) "Forms for requesting tickets for the Fri. night reception and dinner and for box lunches on Sat. will be mailed out by the Alumni Assoc, in the late summer, and tickets for the football game can be obtained individually direct from the Athletic Assoc.

"Midn. Store is expected to be open to Alumni on Fri. and Sat. (after check-in at Alumni House to obtain name tags used for I.D. at the store). The '35th Co. Wardroom which the Class supports is also expected to be open to '35ers and '35ettes on Sat. and Sun. mornings.

"Those who signed up to attend should watch their mail closely for additional information and particularly in late summer for the Alumni Association's mailing on Homecoming."

In addition to those listed in the December Shipmate, the following have also indicated their intention to attend our 40th: from Ariz.—the Cutters; from Cal.—the Bowkers, Hughes, Metcalfs, and Widemans; from Fla.—the Petries and Walkers; from Ga.—the Jim Eppes; from III.—Jim Baird and Jean Loomis; from N.H.—the Gages and Gimbers; from N.Y.—the Bridewells, Crosbys, Morrow Deckers, Fadems and Gambacortas; from Tenn.—Lamont Johnston; from Va.—Gay (Kimmel) Blair, the Beckers and Kirkpatricks; from the W. B. & A. area—the Badgers, Bischoffs, Claggetts, Detweilers, Gabberts, Keats, Winnie Lyndon, the Mills, Packards, Jeff Parkers, Schachts and Wolfes.

Lou Hird writes that he is changing from his full time administrative job as Director of Computer Services at St. Cloud State College in Minn, to a more time-off teaching job. He and his wife, Clark, are upgrading their lake cottage to a nearly yearround abode so that when he completenly retires, they can spend long summers there and go South to miss the worst of the winters.

Jack Seymour advises that Sib Ward stopped by for breakfast with him at Branford, Conn, after spending Christmas with his son. Sib III ('60) at Groton. Sib continues to run his own TV repair business in Little Rock, Ark. and is involved with several organizations in support of the Ark. "Razorbacks."

Other holiday travelers included: Amy and Frank Walker from Sarasota, Fla. to visit their daughter, Amy, and son-in-law (Capt. USA) in San Juan where their younger son, Mike, joined them; Sellen and Ed Keats with their daughter, Suzi, journeyed from Baltimore to New Orleans to spend Christmas with their other daughter, Ellen, and her husband.

The past year was a busy one for Jack Barleon. He visited the West Coast, Puerto Rico, and points between. Though a paraplegic in the Veterans Hospital at W. Roxbury, Mass., he doesn't let this curtail his activities associated with the Paralyzed Veterans of America or his eager interest in news about his classmates.

Sally and Cy Austin spent Feb. and Mar. at Cubi Pt. in the Philippines visiting their daughter and family. Cy reported that Fran and Slade Cutter stopped by in mid-Jan. for a one-night stand in Sepulveda, Cal. enroute to join up with others for a motorhome trip to Baja, Cal. Others touring the U.S. in mobil homes include Anita and Perry Mclntire who started out in Jan. from the Bay area in Cal., crossed the country to Florida and, by the time this hits the street, should be moving up the East Coast. Jay and Swede Westin also spent the winter in their trailer in Florida. On their way down from Vt. they stopped by to see Joe Pike in Concord, N.C. He found that Joe had retired from the drug store business about a year ago.

The Westins plan to move northwest with the spring to reach Baraboo, Wise, for the summer, where Jay's sister runs the "Out of This Worid Motel." Then they'U be back east for our 40th.

Ginny Hack also did some traveling in '74, spending two weeks in Mexico in May

and then taking the USAA tour to the Black Sea in June.

Fran and Tom Henry made a trip from San Francisco to Boston, Mass. in Sept. to see their daughter. Aim McDonald, and family (which includes their two grandsons). Tommy, Jr. visited his parents in San Francisco in Nov. coming from Malaysia via Europe and Boston. Fran and Tom would be so glad to see any classmates coming through San Francisco.

Monica and George Hutchinson were in D.C. from Hampton, Va. in mid-Dec. as George attended some business meetings.

They also came to the Alumni luncheon at the Army-Navy Club on 18 Dec. This was the annual meeting with wives attending and with drinks on the house to commemorate Navy's victory over Army.

Betty and Steve Gimber had their family all together in Nashua, N.H. for Christmas, young Steve flying in from Berkeley, Cal. where he is completing his last year in law school, and Diane from Philadelphia and her job with the Child Guidance Clinic.

Steve continues his part-time employment with Sanders Associates.

Bruce Hemphill from Huntington Beach, Cal. brings his record up to date: Following his USMC retirement on 31 Jan. 1960, he worked for a couple of years as Manager of Ordnance Development for the Budd Co. in Philadelphia. From 1962 to the present, he has been with the Douglas Aircraft/ McDonald Douglas Corp. in Weapons and Space System Analysis. Currently, he is in the Computer Div. He and Pat have one grandson.

Jim Eppes reports that he retired from Federal Civil Service on 31 Dec. 1974 after over 38 years, the last 25 with Rural Electrification Admin. He is now working with a small independent telephone company in Ga. His new address is Route 2, Elrod St., Cornelia GA 30531.

Frank Spencer advises he has made a shift in employment to the Chas. T. Main Co. in Boston, Mass. where he is Senior Power Planning Engineer with responsibUities for international work. He continues his address at Princeton, N.J. until his new situation shakes down a bit more.

Gene Fluckey from Portugal says he's serving as a farmer, builder, electronic consultant and selling voting machines. As of Jan. he wouldn't forecast the results of the March election in Portugal. (They hadn't yet bought any of his machines.)

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Pres., Capt. F. G. Law, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. W. M. Hanger, USN (Ret.) 4720 Sedgwick St., N.W., Washington, DC 20016 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) 4101 Downing St., Annandale, VA 22003 Percent Members: 65 Sorry, but we got caught flat-footed with all the news for the March Shipmate and forgot about an early Easter this year. So here's hoping you found time to visit with the grandchildren—or maybe even the grandchildren's children—who I hope still believe in the Easter bunny, Easter baskets, egg hunts, egg rollin' and all the rest of the Shipmate

59 things we used to enjoy when we were youngsters. But enough for nostalgia; we are sure you all had a very happy Easter, so on with the news.

The replies to Frank Law's annual "State of the Class" message—and incidentally, dues notice with "up-dates" to the Class Roster—have been most gratifying as well as appreciated. It is only with your prompt warm-hearted responses each year that '36 is able to continue with its Morale and Leadership Award at the Bainbridge Naval Academy Prep School, its support of the 36th Company Wardroom, and on occasion— thankfully, not too often—its flowers for those who have answered the "Last Call." If you haven't received Frank's letter yet— and there have been a number returned marked "Moved—No Forwarding Address" —let us know where you are and we'll get the letter and Roster to you promptly.

The 40th Reunion is rolling right along, and if all those who have signed up make it, we really should have a gala event. As of last Friday (7 February), over 70 couples had responded, not counting the local contingent. This has kept Frank and the Committee busy increasing the room reservations at Thr—rift Inn and scouting for other possibilities, all of which means there should be as large a group at Parole as there will be at the Maryland Inn headquarters. This is most gratifying to your Class Officers and the Committee for the 40th. It will be a big Homecoming—so let's make it '76 for '36!

Mary Moore Lacey—Jack Moore's widow —not only responded to Frank's letter, but also confirmed that she had sold the Lacey residence in Chevy Chase, as contemplated in our March column, and was moving downtown in Febmary to an apartment.

Said Mary: ". . . surely do appreciate the way you keep me in touch. It was especially good to find an address for Stan Trott after a long period of mystery. . . . Hope you have a space for me at the 40th; I'd like to be there. I could visit, but I think it would be better to be where the others are, at Maryland Inn or Thr—rift Inn." Thanks Mary for the news. There will always be space for you "at the inn" where '36 is concerned.

Thanks to our new '36 Sleuth, Gene Riewe, the "missing persons" department is dwindling. Gene has finally tracked down our number one candidate of long standing.

Bill Near. Gene reports: "Having found him through my brother in the Chicago area, called Bill Near tonight. He's been with Automatic Electric in Chicago since graduation except for the war years. He is married and has a son and daughter, both grown and long since gone from home. . . . Bill's address is: 1012 Dartmouth Drive. Wheaton IL 60187; phone—(312) 668-6970." Gene also called around and got the dope on some of the others we have recently reported as "missing," addresses as follows: Mark Hattan—707 Tularova Ave., Orange CA 92666; Harold L. Emmons, Jr.—66 Scott Dyer Road. Cape Elizabeth ME 04107; Dr. Glenn E. Seymour—1203 Valley Road. Albany GA 31707; Roscoe Nicholson—337 S. 3rd St., Rockport IN 47635; Jud Yoho's widow. Margaret Ellen—1814 N.E. 67th Ave.. Portland OR 97213; and Mary Margaret Hunter, now Mrs. Clark W. Coleman.

1700 W. Charles Blvd.. Las Vegas NV April, 1975

Al Fleming (30 Jan.): "The good Lord 89102. Our thanks to Gene for his excellent services as our "Tracker of Missing Persons." willing, Mac and I will join you for the 40th. . . . There's little news in this area We regret to say that news from the West except 'Mouse' and 'Shrimp' Link have Coast reports Gould Hunter as ailing but moved to La Jolla from Rancho Santa Fe. improving. We wish Gould a speedy re. . . 'Mouse' takes me fishing from time to covery and send best wishes from all in '36 time—keeps the larder stocked with Rainto him and Mary Louise. bow trout. . . . Life here in retirement conNow for some tidbits of news gleaned tinues to be most enjoyable. We do recomfrom the many responses to Frank's letter: mend it!"

Bon Anune (25 Jan.): "Can't see how the Jake Fyfe (3 Feb.): "I'm retired now.

Class can operate on only $3.00 dues.

After 16 years with Vitro, decided I wasn't Haven't our Classmates heard about inflagetting any younger and it was time to betion? We are all hurting, but some of us come a member of the leisure set and do all not so much. . . . Hope and I would like those things the leisure set is supposed to to come to the 40th . . . will do our damndo We'll be at the 40th." dest to get across the United States for the Hugh Garver (3 Feb.): ". . . still fastened occasion." to Ann Arbor in spite of the fact our two Harry Brent (31 Jan.): ". . . just completed work on our 75/76 budget for the hos- sons have moved their families to the Lake Michigan shore. . . . I continue active in pital and it makes me think that '76 is not building and real estate activities and plan too far off. It should be a great reunion." to continue, hoping to by-pass retiring. Work "Von" Burkart (29 Jan.): ". . . have no guarantee as of now regarding the 40th; is so invigorating, I'd hate to run away from it, especially with the falling local interest that's why I haven't committed myself. Am rates which will undoubtedly stimulate real hoping to make it if at all possible. Meanestate development." while, have been visiting with the girls and John Graham (27 Jan.): "Am presently the grandchildren and getting all involved with the State of California Department of with the red tape of settling Virginia's estate.

Transportation (formerly Division of HighMay get back East later in the year, and if ways) as a Project Engineer, traffic division, so will look forward to joining you all at a but plan to retire later this year after 28 Vinson Hall luncheon." years service. . . . Planning on the 40th . . .

Vince Combs (23 Jan.): "Howdy from haven't been to Annapolis in years, and so Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. We're still Gladys and I are looking forward to it." trailering and have just led a caravan of 14 Bill Groner (25 Jan.): "A special pleasure Airstreams to Guaymos, Alamos, Los Mochis, and Mazatlan. Had a grand time; hearing from you, Frank, and any of the hated to see it end, so now Bunny and the others in '36. I always look forward to Bill Ellis' column in Shipmate and only wish I ex-ComTrailerRon are presently deeper into could contribute a little more help to his Mexico. Gas prices are high, but don't column, but out here '36 is few and far think any worse than at home. . . . Spent 5 between, and so is the news of it. . . . Glad days in Guadalajara where Bunny spent a you finally caught up with my roommate, couple of pay checks wiping out the local Stan Trott; will drop him a line and maybe mercado, and then on into Tarascan Indian catch up a little. Regards to everybody." country with its facinating names: Jocotepec, Dick Hansen (30 Jan.): "Enclosed my Uruapan, Tuxacueca, Jiquilpan, Tlaquipaque, and now Patzcuaro at a coolish 7000 dues. The Naval Academy did a great deal for me in countless ways, and I think it is feet or so. . . . Bunny still 'potting' when an outstanding institiution that we were we are at home and has her own business, most privileged to attend. . . . If there's still selling through local art dealers . . . plans space at Thr—rift Inn, save a place for call for us to lead another caravan to the Nancy and me. I'm hoping I'll still be above ghost towns of Nevada during May, then ground and not pushing up poppies at that we'll head back to Brandon, Manitoba for time—besides the poppies are getting finicky the International Airstream Rally. In '76 and choosey now-a-days. We'll be seeing I'll be President of the Northern Califomia you."

Unit (700 trailers), but expect to get to the 40th on schedule as part of a combined trip Frank Hayler (29 Jan.): "Reporting my to the 1976 International Rally." new address—18171 Beneta Way, Tustin CA 92680. Regards to all."

Logan Cresap (24 Jan.): "There seems to be some accidental coincidence of math with Hoyt Mann (28 Jan.): "Put Mildred and respect to our 40th. If you add 200 to 1776 me on the list for the 40th. Seems a long it makes 1976, the 200th anniversary of the way off, but know how you have to get signing of the Declaration of Independence. plans underway early. . . . I'm just out of Now we are doing it in October because of the hospital after a bout with an 'old' heart football, which I tried valiantly, but only (by-pass surgery), but the doctors assure me made the 135 lb. wrestling team. . . . AnyI'll be back on the golf course in a month how, I'll make it a point to show up. I or so. Right now, I'm glad to be on my feet. got my "wings" at 59 and fly my own little . . . Our best to all." Good to hear you are plane now. They wouldn't let me into Pensarecovering, Hoyt. Am sure any day we'll cola on the medical at 21, but now if all read you have taken on Johnny MiUer and goes well, this 'old Ace' will make it in '76."

Arnie Palmer and beaten both. Best of luck to you and keep the faith.

Davy Davenport (25 Jan.): "We had a great holiday season here. It turned so Dan Martin (29 Jan.): "As previously rebalmy, the thermometer was hitting 80 every ported by Sherm Wright, the two of us have day. If you can't have a white Christmas, been close neighbors since '66. . . . Martha it's better this way. New Year's Eve we were Ann and I have a daughter also living in in the pool for awhile, though must admit, Orange Park and a son in Astor Park. Fla.— protected with a bit of anti-freeze. Regards two grandchildren: a six-year-old girl and to all." a two-week-old boy. . . . Looks like '75 will

60 make me a double retiree. In Febmary I'll get on the Navy retirement list and in lune I'll retire from Exxon after 36 years."

Bob Morton (30 Jan.): "Thanks for your fine efforts Frank—Ellis too!—from one of the idlers."

Del Quackenbush (29 Jan.): "Helen and I are planning to be at the 40th and will stay with friends near Annapolis. . . . I entered second retirement (from County service) last March and so now spend most of my time on music—currently play in four bands and have my own local group. To keep loose physically and mentally, I start the day with at least one hour of Yoga exercises. . . .

After such a long time, it will be great to see everyone at the 40th."

Sam Shilling (29 Jan.): "Helen and I have settled in New Mexico since I retired from teaching last year. . . . Since our children are scattered across the country, we find ourselves traveling a good portion of the year.

Bob, our oldest, lives in Glorieta, N. Mex. near Santa Fe; Sam Jr. is in Jacksonville, Fla. and Mary is in Memphis. . . . WhUe teaching in Oxnard, Calif., Helen and I took up 'backpacking' and in four seasons hiked the entire John Muir Trail. We've done some hiking in New Mexico and find it as challenging and spectacular as the High Sierras."

Frank Springer (11 Jan.): "Minta, Jim, our younger son, and I spent the week skiing at Mammouth in the Sierra Mountains. The snow conditions were good and the vista beautiful. . . . In April '74 I retired from Rockwell International after 10 years of fascinating aerospace work, and in May we took a two-week trip through the Southwest Indian country. It was a real eye-opener; almost like visiting a foreign country."

Dick Wallace (30 Jan.): "Correction please!! The Highlands, N.C. address in the '36 Roster is good for just the summer (May through September). The rest of the year we still live in Maitland, Florida."

Well, that's it for now. Sorry, but space limitations preclude sharing all the notes with you more fully. However, would like to acknowledge those also received from Gillette, Grider, Mart Hoffman, Humes, Ed and Tommy King, Lederer, McKellar, Odening, Chuck Phillips, PraU, Rice, Richardson, Shetenhelm, Small, and Whiting. The Valentine luncheon with the wives is next Wednesday after our deadline; will report on this next month. Meanwhile, have a happy day every day!

37 Sec'y-Treas., LCdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 2118 Bancroft PI., N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Wesley Steesy, USN(Ret.) 9127 Sligo Pkwy., Silver Spring, MD 20901 Percent Members: 65 I must begin this report with sadness. On 3 January, Madeleine Russel Miller lost her long fight against cancer. Tom sent me the N.Y. Times report from his home (3570 Matheson Ave., Coconut Grove FL 33133), and it is summarized here. Tom and Lynn were married in Louisville in October, 1939.

They moved from Stonington CT to Florida

The Millers at Ocho Rios, Jamaica in 1963. Besides Tom, three sons (Russel, Lloyd, and Bruce) and one daughter (Lindsay—Mrs. Edward Colson) survive, and three grandchildren. Interment was at Stonington.

The picture Tom sent was taken in Jamaica in November 1973. You mates who knew Tom and Lynn will surely want to write.

Many of us who attended the 35th Reunion recall that Tom and Lynn brought their boat FREEDOM into port just in time to join us at the Hubbard Hall banquet.

Nancy and Joe Dodson share a very nice Xmas Newsletter with their friends each year, from which I extract the facts most pertinent to the Class as follows: They spent their 3rd consecutive Christmas in Ft. Lauderdale, where they were joined by family members. Joe continues to head the Management and Professional Development Section of Con Edison, commuting to NYC, from Ridgefield CT. A spring business-and-pleasure trip took them to Boulder (spring-skiing).

Long Beach (where son Phil and Northwestern U team scored points in the NCAA swim meet), and to San Fran (business conference). A Thanksgiving house party included the Bells, Lancasters, and Messenheimers. If you could read the whole letter, what with the rest of their activities you'd think Joe and Nancy are growing younger, not older—and I'll bet they are!

Over three years ago, November 1971 to be exact, I took over the CS job from Hu Reece, who promptly disappeared shortly thereafter. The info at that time was that he went to South America as a shipyard consultant to the Brazilian government. In the February '73 Shipmate I appealed to him (and Lois) to give us a report. Still having heard nothing, now I appeal to any mate who has some info on them. While you're at it, tell me about some other mates, please?

Thanks for listening!

38 Pres., Col. J. A. Saxten, USMC (Ret.) Chm. Wash. Grp., LGen. H. M. Elwood, USMC (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN (Ret.) 4620 North Park Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Percent Members: 66 As we go to press here in Washington in early Febmary for this issue we have just received our "Notice to Lovers" announcing the annual Washington '38 Valentine's Dinner-Dance at the Army-Navy Country

Club. Gordon Smale adds on his flier that the West Point Class of '38 will be having a like get-together in the same room with us.

"Be prepared to repel boarders." Gordon also reminds us that the Annual Class Husbands and Wives Luncheon will be held on Thursday, 24 April at the Fort Myer Officers' Club.

Your duty scribe this month is Jack Raymer having picked up the traces from the capable pen of Bill Spears.

It is my sad duty to report the death of Alice Margaret McEntire, beloved wife of Fred McEntire, who was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, 13 January, following her death on 8 January. We join with Fred in his deep sorrow.

The Washington area '38 Wives had a large turnout for their luncheon in late January at the handsome home of Di McDowell with Marie Spears as her co-hostess.

Starting the year out in their good company were: Shirley Andres, Ro Brown, Mary Bullard, Ann Church, Harriet Elwood, Eleanore Fitzpatrick, Jo Fleps, Fran Hartigan, Jean Huston, Connie Jackson, Skippy Jakel, Jean Johnson, Margaret Jones, Betty Luby, Jeanne Mann, Marie Mansfield, Sandra McManus, Emilou Melvin, Kay Owen, Betty Raymer, Peggy Robinson, Jane Small, Dee Tucker, Muriel Wells, and guest Ann Strine.

The husbands did just as well the following day for their first luncheon of the New Year. Hugh Elwood held the gavel on a noisy gathering including: Andrews, Bidwell, Bland, Bogley, Don Brown, Al Church, Dick Church, Elwood, Ferriter, Fike, Fleps, Horton, Ingham, Jackson, Luby, Mann, McEntire, Melvin, Owen, Raymer, Hugh Robinson, Smale, Spears, Trickey and Tucker.

This was the first time we had seen Jim Horton in some time. He retired in December 1974 from his job as Division Director, Electro-Technology Laboratory, U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research & Development Center, Fort Belvoir VA. Jim had completed 28 years of civil service. We look forward to seeing a great deal more of Jim from the Fourth Batt and his Esther.

Last September we listed the Life Members of '38. Since that time the following have added their names to the honor roll: V. A. Dybdal, H. M. Elwood, D. P. Hall, H. S. Jackson, N. R. Nelson, C. M. Robertson, I. J. Superfine and J. R. Tucker. A finer group of comrads doesn't exist. To become a Life Member send your check to Don Brown. Make it out to "USNA—Class of 1938" and address it to : C. D. Brown, 6413 Lyric Lane, Falls Church VA 22044. We look forward to 100%.

Here's how you figure the amount to send.

Annual class dues were set at $10 commencing January 1971, and Life Membership at $75, a real bargain! As John Ferriter explained last spring—if you have paid any annual dues of $10 since that time, deduct them from the $75 and send the difference to Don. George Bourland, out in Guam, sent his second life membership in last month having been one of the first contributors.

Don has sent your check back George, but we appreciate your thought.

Attention Wives: This makes a splendid anniversary gift for your husband.

AROUND AND ABOUT Lt. John Ingles Bullard, USNR, son of our late classmate George Bullard, took as Shipmate

61 his Valentine Day Bride, Miss Sandra Cannon in Pensacola, Florida. His sister Laura was a bridesmaid; another sister, Anne arrived from Jamaica, B.W.I, where she is in the Peace Corps; and his proud mother, Mary Bullard, came from Arlington, Virginia. Congratulations to the newest bride and groom.

A sentimental reunion of old friends was held during the holidays when Margie and Lee Rogers came East from California to visit their family. Mrs. Rogers of Baltimore, Lee's mother, hosted the gathering which included, Betty and Cktrdon Smale and Gordon's mother, Mrs. Smale, also Margaret and Charlie Pond who arrived from Kilmarnock, Virginia.

We received a newsy letter from Ed Conrad up in Maine written to Jack Bogley in response to our plea for contributions from the field. These help to provide the cohesive cement for our column from near and far. From Ed: "I had occasion this past fall to visit Houston for a meeting there which had relevance to my job as academic dean of Maine Maritime Academy. Upon arrival in the evening, and after getting settled, I called my four-year roommate and good friend. Bill Glennon, who has been with Tenneco in Houston since his retirement in '68. We spoke briefly, mainly about me accepting Norma's hospitality the next evening, and said 'goodnight.' Fifteen minutes later I received a call with one word in his opening greeting, 'Captain.' There is no mistaking that New England drawl from western New Hampshire. I can recognize John Sweeney's words immediately. John had called Bill shortly after my call. He came for a meeting in connection with his position of Director of Aviation for the state of N.H. In any event John was up to my room shortly thereafter and we exchanged lies for a few hours.

John and I, along with Bill and Fitz, were four-man roommates during second class summer, and here we were in the same hotel during our first trips to Houston.

"We both visited Norma and Bill on the following evening for a great dinner served

by Norma in their beautiful condominium town house. The walls are covered by Norma's oil paintings, all of which amply show the artistic professionalism that Norma has developed as an artist. Her works are really something to see, and it is nice to observe Bill quietly smiling while musing to himself, 'Hmm, that's the talented gal whom I married.' Bill is busy with Tenneco, and I see from their publicity that they are in everything—from vegetables to shipbuilding, to energy, and you name it, they do it. Norma, meanwhile, also pursues an active role in Republican politics and has all sorts of interesting things to say about that.

"Getting back to my activities in Maine, the training vessel of the Academy made a trip to northern European waters last May and June including calls in Helsinki and Leningrad. I taught a course on the Soviet Union during the transit from Norfolk (where, incidentally I spent a delightful evening with Rosmond and Miles Refo) to Glasgow to Helsinki. The purpose was to prepare midshipmen for their visit to the USSR, and a fringe benefit for me was that it prepared me for my visit to the Soviet Union which included a trip from Moscow April, 1975

to Nakhodka (near Vladivostok which is closed to foreigners unless they are in President Ford's party) on the trans-Siberian railroad. I left our training vessel, STATE OF MAINE (formerly USNS UPSHUR), in Helsinki and set out by myself via rail to Leningrad and then to Moscow with about a day and a half in each of these cities—(now I'm an expert). The trans-Sib departs Moscow every morning at 1005 and the 9500-kilometer trip across takes seven days train time, but this was broken up in my case by stops in Irkutsk near Lake Baikal and in Khabarovsk on the Amur River in eastern Siberia.

"General impressions of the Soviet Union: Progress; hard work; discipline; no littering; beautiful countryside along the entire length of the trans-Sib; friendliness; adequate menus; poor service; many tourists from Europe, Japan and U.S.; Lenin everywhere; new multistory apartments; expanse of land; people walking; few private cars; small stocks in stores; increasing commercial ties with western countries and Japan; enthusiasm of youthful guides; tacit acceptance of the system by many; propaganda of Marxism-Leninism; quotations of growth statistics; desire for more of the amenities of life; etc.

"A restful two-day voyage in a Soviet passenger ship (40 passengers, capacity for 300) from Nakhodka to Yokohama was a welcome respite after the train trip. A fourday wait at Yakoda Air Base near Tokyo proved fruitless for space available to the States. I wasn't counting on it, but was hopeful. However, Northwest Orient is accommodating without wait, but their rates are different from those of the USAF. Finally arrived back in Castine to home and my Margot. It was good to be home again, appreciative of the many things which too often we take for granted and which were brought to my attention in a contrasting sense by my first visit to the USSR. We both got away later in the summer to Newfoundland for a two week VW camper trip with a side excursion to the French island, St. Pierre, off the south coast of Newfoundland.

Having visited Alaska by camper in the preceding summer we were stmck by several similarities between that state and Newfoundland, but found the former more beautifully awesome and inspiring.

"And so on with academic year 1974-75 at Maine Maritime Academy in our program of producing officers for the Merchant Marine with spin-offs of officers for the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps, as well as personnel for the maritime industry ashore, and, lest I forget, officers of the Imperial Iranian Navy. Best wishes to all, Ed." Many, many thanks, Ed. We are indebted to you for taking the time to pass along such interesting news.

Remember, Jack Bogley remains the contact point for news of '38—send all letters to him at: 4620 North Park Ave., Chevy Chase MD 20015. He, in turn, gives them promptly to us for including in this column.

In closing, an additional bit of information on our Reunion 38 for '38 in '76. It will be held during the fall's annual Homecoming celebration in Bicentennial '76. A dinner-dance back in Washington that night is part of the menu.

But Start Planning Now To Attend.

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Pres., Capt. C. R. Chandler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. F. P. Anderson, USN (Ret.) 2725 N. Wakefield St., Ariington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 64 In spite of a six inch snowfall, the Washington monthly luncheon on 5 Febmary (first Wednesday) proved to be one of our best in quite some time, with 27 of us braving the winter elements and the hazardous road conditions. Rhythm Moore presided in the absence of Charlie Chandler and did an outstanding job. We had three surprise visitors. All the way from Coronado was Doc Norton, who was here attending a quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Retired Officers Assoc. John Gore brought him over from ROA. Having recently been elected a member of this Board, he expected to see us again from time to time on occasions of future Directors' meetings. Another pleasant surprise was the appearance of Lou Roddis after many years away from the Washington scene.

Most of us had not seen or heard from him since his wife tragically passed away eleven years ago. Now after about sixteen years as an energy expert (Pres., Pa. Electric Co. and, more recently. Chairman of the Board of Con. Edison in N Y C ) , Lou is returning to the naval architecture and marine engineering field as Pres. and Chief Executive of John J. McMillan Associates in New York. He has remarried and will be living on the northern New Jersey coast.

It was also great to see Doc Abbot at our monthly gathering. He very cleverly had arranged delivery of his South Pole trip report to OpNav so that it coincided with our luncheon day. His December visit to the South Pole Station was successful and uneventful except that, being from Mobile, he had a little difficulty with the change in climate and actually caught pneumonia! On his way back, he stopped over in Manila and spent Christmas with his No. 2 son, Steve, who is out there flying A-7s. He gave me the above photo which depicts Doc with Susan and Ben Fischer on New Year's Day enjoying the tropical sunshine at the Fischer's lovely beach retreat on the west coast of Luzon about 35 mi. (as the crow flies) SW of Manila. I think they look wonderful in spite of the fact that they were nursing hangovers.

New Year's Day in the Philippines For the first time in many months, we were most fortunate to have also at the February luncheon, Ned Beach. Ned manages to keep himself quite involved in Congressional activities as Staff Director of the Senate Republican Conference and also of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

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John Chase departing MSC

Gulick's Grog and Grill, 1974 In his usual inimitable style, he enlightened us with several astute observations from his vantage point on the Hill concerning certain important matters facing Congress at this time.

REPEAT NOTICE. For those unable to attend the 35th reunion, Tom Weschler still has several of our very attractive souvenir ashtrays and mugs left over. He will be extremely happy to mail one or more of each to you at a price of $5.00 per, which covers his cost (tax included) plus postage.

Send your orders right away to Tom at Qtrs. M-1, Navy Yard, Washington D C 20374. They are beautiful!

Dan Carrison, Mae and John Coleman, and Nancy and Pat Patterson attended the commissioning of the USS SOUTH CAROLINA

(DLGN-37) on 25 January at NOB, Norfolk. While there, they had a most pleasant visit with Russ Buckley's son, Russell, Jr. (LCdr.-USNA '64), the ship's weapons officer.

A news item from California: Sam Caldwell had open heart surgery on 9 January for a transplant of some arteries from his legs to his heart. The operation was successful and Sam is now home under Gretchen's care. He is on a leave of absence from his professorship until he feels strong enough to resume his duties. I am sure he would appreciate cards during his convalescence. His home address is 1144 May Dr., Palm Springs CA 92262.

In the November 1974 issue, I reported to you on Sally and Bob Gulick's most successful "What About '39?" clambake (ninth annual) on 24 August at Gulick's Grog and Grill in Pacific Palisades, Cal. At that time, pictures of participants were not available for inclusion with the writeup. However, Sally sent me some negatives of Bob's photographic efforts which I have had developed for you. In the above composite, see how many of the following you can identify: Grant Rogers, Bob Dasteel, Johnny Weatherwax, Louise and Bob Wadsworth, Frank Ralston, Elaine and Hank Branting-

Art Esch was present, as Commandant, Naval District Washington, to guide Johnny past the Honor Guard . . . along with Ass't.

SecNav Bowers and Vice CNO Bagley. The ceremonies were held in Art's Navy Yard on board USNS KANE of MSC. After a brief leave John will report in to the Pentagon as ADCNO (Logistics).

Later in the month, on a soggy Friday, ham, Skeet Bemis, Tom Eddy, Bill Ringness, 31 January, Art Esch was relieved as ComVal Valentine, Wally Wallingford, and the mandant of the Washington Naval District hostess, Sally Gulick.

by RAdm Ralph Camahan '47. SecNav I didn't have much for you this time. Middendorf was present for Art's relief and Y'all send me some news! retirement, and to present him with another '40 may consider themselves 4.0 but a 3.9 star on his Legion of Merit medal. A special letter of appreciation was awarded to isn't bad!

Jo Esch for her many years of ". . . meritorious duty over and beyond. . . ." Jo and Art Esch have had a memorable 3Vi years at Tingey House in the Washington Naval Yard. Fortunately they will be with us Pres., RAdm. John Chase, USN for awhile yet at their home: 1915 North Sec'y, Cdr. Leigh Winters, USN (Ret.) Inglewood Street, Ariington VA 22205.

701 S. 23rd St., Arlington, VA 22202 Change of address: Gretchen and John Percent Members: 61 Howell have departed Arlington and moved on board their ketch NEREUS, moored a WASHINGTON REPORT few miles south of Annapolis: PO Box 50, The 2nd-Wednesday-of-the-Month Lunch Galesville MD 20765. John is anchored by Bunch convened 8 January at the Fort Myer a fractured ankle and is being kept on a VA O' Club. This was an open meeting. short chain by Gretchen until about now.

Everyone had something to sayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including Randy Prothro '45, who left with us some HOMECOMING 7 5 : FRIDAY, 10 OCTOblue fliers describing a Green Bowler Tour BER-SUNDAY, 12 OCTOBER of Great Britain in the spring (17-26 May)

By Febraary you should all have received being arranged by himself and Bill Sells '45. your latest USNA '40 roster with a HomeIt seems there is a Forty-Fiver in Scotland coming letter from Vince Healey on the who owns an Inn . . . Randy can be reached inside front cover. Vince would like to reat 703-527-3069. Luncheon attendees in- mind all of us to send in our $10 to Bill cluded : Jack Bowell, John Chase, Jack Clair, Scott for "working funds." And please check Art Esch, Mark Heath, Ted Hechler, Ed the back cover for information to send on Muhlenfeld, Ray Schneider, Harv Selm, to your historian, recorder and secretary.

John Sims, Ed Sledge, Tad Stanwick, Tom Taylor, Harvey Vogel, Bob White and Win- CASTINE CAPER: 30 JUNE-13 JULY ters. Ted Hechler reported for the Home1975 coming Committee that the Saturday PM After reading in the annual Admiral's dinner-dance would be held in Hubbard Log by Ted Rodgers that two sisters and Hall (the Boat House) vice Michelson another lady were enrolled at the Maine Hall. This will be a real gain. Also, the Maritime Academy, I inquired (with a leer) Alumni House has been firmed up for our whether a retired ol' salt could join the Sunday branch. Ed Sledge reported that the crew. Ted's dignified answer, in part: annual Castine vacation is on again for 30 ". . . we have no restrictions on age, marital June-13 July 1975. status or sex now, so if you want to relive On a breezy but sunny Thursday, 9 those student days in a mixed dorm, we'll January, our prez Johnny Chase was re- be glad to accommodate you. Only one lieved as Commander, Military Sealift Com- stipulationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there's one standard and no mand, by old friend and Arlington VA concessions to the aged, married folks or neighbor RAdm. Sam H. Moore. Classmate females. One of the sisters left at the end

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63 of the semester, but the other two gals are doing fine. Both right up top in their respective classes and are going to be dam good seamen (Oh, come on now. Bloody!).

It's a new world and it's interesting. . . ."

As promised by the administration—prices have gone up slightiy. But it's stiU the best vacation bargain on earth! Double Room (2 adults) $58/week or $9/day. Three meals per day at $6 each. Separate meals, space for children, children's rates, etc., available. Get your bookings in NOW to Len Tyler, Coordinator Summer Programs, Maine Maritime Academy, Castine ME 04421. Phone: (207) 326-4311; ext. 232.

NEWS FROM HERE AND THERE As a result of John Chase's new '40 roster we've been getting great response from all over CONUS. We're still waiting to hear from the colonies, however. Shall we start up in New England? From Madison and New Haven, Connecticut, Joe Synder, Housing, Parking and Communications Director at Old Eli, gives a capsule report on his 11 children—now aged 32 to 11 years: FSO, 2 nurses (one a nun), travel agent, clerk, lab technician, insurance mgt. trainee, TV engineer, high school footballer (good NA prospect), pretty high school freshman, and a very bright 11 year old girl bunny.

Our hat's off to Annette. And thanks to Joe for forwarding information on several missing classmates.

Vince Healey sent over an item from the 2 December 1974 issue of Electronic News: "NEW YORK—Deacon Fickenscher, production program director of Loral's tactical display system for Lockheed's Navy S-3A aircraft, . . . will head a central production programs management department which encompasses manufacture and testing of major electronic countermeasures, display, and avionic systems. . . ." Julia and the Deacon make their home in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. Bill Laffey, now Director of Industrial Relations for McCoy Electronics in Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., makes his home in nearby Boiling Springs. Just about everyone in Bill's family is a doctor: Mama Jane, a law Ph.D., helps guide the legal destinies of the Pennsylvania Legislative Assembly; son Steve is an M.D. at Hershey Medical Center; daughter Karen, a Yale Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry, is now pursuing her M.D. at Yale Medical School.

Heading southwards—Pat and Dick Champion, in Tate, Ga., indicate their intent to be with us for Homecoming '75.

Get their $10, Bill. Further south, in Sanford, Fla., Johnny Williams is ". . . doing great after major surgery for cancer. . . ."

He and Mary are enjoying life afloat (when not aground!) in their powerboat MANATEE. And they see the Dick Lanings frequendy, who ". . . look fine and love it in Florida."

Swinging west—a card from Puddy and Andy Anderson says that they are settled in Neosho MO . . . and loving life there.

They will be with us for Homecoming '75.

And over in Rockford, III. Dave King is the General Manager for the Weyerhaeuser Co. He and Helen have four sons—now all out of the nest; Dave Ir. in the Georgia Attorney General's office, Tom a ILt. USMC in helicopters, Michael NA '74 in Nuclear Power School, and Mark at Wake Forest U. April, 1975

Up in the Great Northwest—^loemne and Bob Harris are almost the only classmates who live in a floating house (Note the change of address for the Howells under "WASHINGTON REPORT"). Now we have sea-goin' classmates on both coasts.

Bob writes: ". . . Joanne and I live in a regular house that is built on a float . . . the only one with an elevator. Even in Seattle (some 500 floating homes) the elevator is unusual." And, thanks Bob for the new address for Frank Sturdevant; 1336 Lenore Drive, Tacoma WA 98406. Up Puget Sound a ways—Elaine and Herman Trum have retumed to Oak Harbor from a recent visit and new granddaughter, Nichola LeBosquet, in Nottingham, England. Nichola was bom on the 62nd anniversary of Herman's parents. Now—that's planning! At long last— old friend Bob Bogardus writes from the City of Roses—Portland, Oregon. Bob is a Trust Investment Officer with the U.S. National Bank of Oregon, and is slowly recovering (like the rest of us . . .) from putting 3 offspring through college, and one through law school. O carborundum!

THE SECRETARY'S CORNER Good grief—here we are at the end of our space, and all this news from Califomia to pass on. Oh, well . . . tune in next month, folks. Find out what Clancy, Caldwell, Kirkpatrick and Bundy were doing together. . . .

Check-in with Chick Obrist. Get those pungent words of wisdom from Dick Long. All this, and Sandy Saunders, Skip Appleton and Willie Trice, too, in the next issue of Shipmate. . . . * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0 * * *

Realtors. Fred is the Senior Real Estate Appraiser in the Fairfax County Office of Assessments.

Congratulations are certainly owed to Dave Benham on his nomination to become President of the Naval Academy Alunmi Association, succeeding Admiral Arleigh Burke. Dave is presently the Vice-President (Central Area) and has done great work for the Association. Good luck, Dave, and thanks for all that you have already done.

In reviewing a recent compilation of '41 addresses, I find that there are three classmates for whom neither the NAAA nor I have a correct current address so if anyone knows the whereabouts of any of the following, an address would be greatly appreciated: George E. Everly, William W. Neely and John W. Palm (missing for a long time). In this connection, Jim Thomson has recently compiled a splendid directory of '41 in the Washington Area which naturally includes outlying districts like Annapolis and Woodbridge. If you do not have but would like one, I am sure that a call to Jim (703) 356-3105 can produce one for you.

John Sweeney passed through Washington in February and reports that he is still deeply involved in NOW and also working at reform of deficient prison practices in Pennsylvania, especially in his area around Allentown.

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Pres., Capt. P. S. Smith, USN Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shirlington Station, Ariington, VA 22206 Percent Members: 63

Ned Hines is now with the State of Maryland Public School Constmction Program and has his office in the International Tower at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Ginny and Ned's son, Teddy (Lt., USNA '71) is engaged to Miss Jimmye France from Dallas, Texas. Ned says that Jimmye is a "red-headed architect working for the Navy in Norfolk." Teddy is presently stationed in Pensacola.

Burt Andrews is Assistant to the VicePresident, Bradford Computer & Systems, Inc., in their Rockville MD office. Eurith and Burt's daughter Virginia graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Psychology from Davidson College last June and married David Duggins of Tennessee last November. Both are in graduate school. Burt says that the idea of "hanging it all up and going fishing is increasingly attractive."

He has his eyes on Miami where their eldest daughter Lynne and her husband are now living.

Fred Wyse writes that his internship in appraising was completed during 1974 and his second career is now in high gear. Esther will be awarded her fourth membership in the "MUlion Dollar Sales Club" at the spring meeting of the Northern Virginia Board of

Greetings from the month of Lincoln, Washington and St. Valentine. To bend the deadline a bit, I'm going to try and fit our annual Sweetheart Luncheon on the 12th onto the end of this column. It's off and mnning, but want to be able to report on attendees and our honorary Sweetheart-ofthe-Year. More timely to the reader will be the announcement of our annual Koktl' Party with '42 West Point at Fort Myer on 12 April. If you're in town that weekend, come on along.

Recently, we've received some interesting photos from various gatherings which were a delight to the eye of the beholder, but just don't reproduce in black and white with the necessary clarity. I know most shoot color today and we do like to have the results, but shadows on the face or around the eyes in particular make many reproductions impossible.

A letter from Leo Culjat relayed through Swabbo Rawson indicates an early interest in the 1977 Sub Vets Convention scheduled for Seattle. This should suit Bruce Robb and George Folta, who are our submarinersin-residence up in that corner of the country. Leo still works for the State with no thought of retiring, even though it cuts into sailing time, and Margaret with the Adult Development Program, which allows time to visit their two married daughters in Los Angeles and to admire grandchild # 1 .

Peggy and Frank Tofalo checked in from

Chairman, Capt. James R. Thompson, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyle Rd., Bethesda, MD 20034 Percent Members: 60

64 Whitesboro, NY, to report daughter, Rosemary, will receive her doctorate this Jime, while son, Mike, is a Lt(jg) assigned to USS

HADDO

(SSN-604).

Anne

graduates

from LeMoyne in June and Joe from eighth grade, so Frank will have to take some time off from the bank to work in three graduations.

Nice letter with an update from Ole Railroad Graham in La Jolla where he and Marlene are comfortably situated enjoying quasi-retirement in a condominium. # 1 son.

Bill, is in his sixth year in the Marshall Islands, currently head of the "Bull" Depart- The Holmes visit Bob Mills in Hawaii ment and working out of Majuro. # 2 son, though the sunny skies and balmy weather Jim, is a bachelor lawyer practicing in Bel- of Hawaii seem to beckon more persuasively mont-San Carlos. # 3 son, David, is a Black when the winter winds blow on the mainBelt senior at Claremont Men's College. land, we have been getting a few visitors to Marlene's son, Roger, is into tropical agri- Aloha Land from time to time. Here is a culture at the University of Hawaii and picture of Bee and Don Holmes and me manages an estate on the north shore of during their recent visit.

Oahu. With the family dispersed, the latch"Jean and Bill Dozier, as the local natives, string is out for friends and way-farers. are the dependables at any of the class RXR suggests that Saturday, 19 April, is gatherings. Mark Woods, ComCruDesPac, is exactly 33 years and 4 months from gradu- a recurrent visitor and occasionally brings ation, or a third of a century, and what an Marge along with him. They both look excuse for a gathering of the clan. great. Bob Lim comes through occasionally, The 12 Febmary Sweetheart Luncheon and it's indeed a pleasure to visit him with was an eventful gathering in spite of an his fine family of nine children and an early morning ice storm. Attending were increasing number of grandchildren. Bill the Days, Prices, Rices, Pattersons, Grif- Houser stopped through en route to the Far fiths, Ruehrmund, Reeds, Coles, Childers, East recently, bringing the latest hot dope Welsh', Armstrongs, Kurtz', Rawsons, Boots from the Washington scene.

Jennings, PS Smiths, Riordans, Thompsons, "Histie Howard is in the islands for an Wileys, Clicks, and Ruth Westcott. This was extended period to do some special project the 17th Sweetheart Luncheon following the work for our Pacific Fleet activities, and pattern established by Jean Armstrong and Dorothy was able to join him for a short Ann Haffey at the Army-Navy Club in 1958. visit. Our peripatetic professor, Bill HeroneAt that time, the wives organization invited mus from the U. of Massachusetts, was a the men to join; now the pattern is reversed. most welcome but brief visitor as he passed As the wives have not been active for sev- through on his way back from Bangkok, eral years, Pat Rawson volunteered to get where he had been engaged in some of his the group together on 12 March to test the fascinating work on non-polluting energy level of interest. As is customary, last year's generation." honorary Class Sweetheart drew the name We said good-bye to a devoted classmate of this year's selectee and we honored Re and wonderful friend on 9 January, when Childers. Now, the question arises as to Gus Ehreke finally lost his long, bitter strughow Re can select next year's Sweetheart gle with cancer. He never lost his interest as she and Bob probably will be in Teheran. in his classmates or in class affairs and made Re and Bob leave on 14 March for Teheran where Bob will serve for at least one year as a Technical Advisor for the Facility Planning Process initiated by the Shah. In time, the Childers may sort the Bob Froudes and the Paul Smiths out of the nearly 5,000 Americans working in and around Teheran. Since Bob and Re had done so much for Class gatherings in Annapolis it is with reluctance that we bid them bon voyage, but certainly wish them a pleasant "tour" and a speedy return.

Charlie Bishop has just come back from a quick trip to Seattle where he reviewed the bidding with Arleen and George Folta and marveled at the growth of their young sons, now 5 and 7. George gives Leo Culjat credit as sparkplug of our '42 Seattle bunch.

That trip safely accomplished, AInora and Charlie joined Dottie and Ray Wiggins, Vannie and Ivan Sturgis, Charlotte and Bill McCaughey ('43) and Rose and Charlie Carr ('44) in helping Carmen and Ed Gallagher celebrate 30 married years. The Bishops son, Peter (Lt. USN '68) took command of PAIUTE ( A T F - 1 5 9 )

an appearance, even if briefly, until Homecoming this year. Ace King visited with him shortly before Christmas and although Gus found it difficult to talk, he avidly wrote notes so that Ace could bring him up to date on his classmates. Ginnie arranged a lovely memorial service at the Naval Academy Chapel on the evening of the 13th.

The next morning, my wife, Clara Lee, Re and Bob Childers, Murray Thompson, and Ann Beale (BUl's widow) joined Ginnie and the family and some 15 other friends and business associates on a bone-chilling voyage from the Naval Academy so that Gus' ashes could be returned to the waters he loved. The turnout of classmates and friends at the memorial service, in spite of an unpredictable snow storm, attests to the fact that Gus never really left the Navy he loved. A contribution on behalf of the Class was made to the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

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Pres., Capt. Robert Adrian, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, III, (SC) USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St., Kaliua, HI 96734 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Robert B. Greenwood, USN (Ret.), 2609 South June St. Ariington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 59 The Fourth Tuesday luncheon of the Washington '43 Chapter at Arlington Hall O' Club was a special occasion. Sixty-six classmates including Charlie Helme down from New York, Harry Amest up from Kinsale, Va. and a delegation from Annapolis met to honor the two '43 CNO's. After an appropriate period of drinks and backslapping, chapter prexy Dave Holmes passed the ball to Dick Phelps to introduce Bud Zumwalt and Jim HoUoway. Last year Dick had one CNO to handle; this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two; next year it will be up to Merrill Sappington or Jack Barrett to keep up the arithmetic progression.

in March, so

time marches on in many sectors.

Bob Mills sends word from Hawaii: "AlShipmate

65 Bud gave a short talk then yielded to Jim to let us in on his appraisal of the current world simation and the Navy's vital role. All hands agreed that the January luncheon put the class off to a flying start in '75. Plans were announced for the 14 Feb. Sweetheart Luncheon which promises to be a record mmout under Bob Beaver's direction.

The only other news came from Hope Strong via Fritz Hansen. It seems as though Hope III has now become a full partaer of a Winter Park law firm called Somebody, S., S. and Strong. As far as anybody seems to know, Hope is still reigning as a citms king in Fla.

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Pres., Capt. Henry Gorman, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Wynn.V. (Windy) Whidden, USN (Ret.), 6156 Loch Raven Dr., McLean, VA 22101 Annapolis Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Jack E. Godfrey USN (Ret.) 40 Franklin St., AnnapoUs MD 21401 Percent Members: 61 If my count is correct, the seventh and eighth Vice Admirals in '44 are VAdm. Howie Greer who put on his third star when he relieved VAdm. Mike Michaelis '40 as ComNavAirLant on 14 Febmary 1975 and VAdm. (to be) D. C. "Red Dog" Davis who will soon relieve VAdm. Tom Hayward '48 as Director of Program Planning in the Office of the CNO in Washington. "Red Dog" was relieved on 6 February 1975 by RAdm. Bob Coogan as Commander Attack Carriers Striking Fleet and Carrier Group Five in the Pacific Fleet.

The annual Sweetheart Luncheon sponsored by the '44 Washington chapter was held at the Washington Navy Yard O'Club on 13 Febraary. A grand group turned out and proved once again that '44 has moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; beauties, that is! A list of attendees is not available due to the editorial deadline for submissionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;my apologies.

VAdm. George Talley retired from active duty on 1 March when he was relieved by VAdm. Joe Moorer '45 as Deputy CNO for Plans and Policy. George and Elsie have been back in Washington for the past couple of years. As of 10 March they will be living at 617 Linkhom Drive, Virginia Beach VA 23451 where they intend to stay for at least the next year. Naturally, George intends to play more golf than ever!

Bill Kanewske has recently retumed to Washington after a long absence from the East Coast. He has been the S-3A aircraft program manager for Texas Instraments headquartered in Dallas but working with the repair depot at Lockheed Corporation in Northridge, Cal. While there he met and married his wife Viola on 21 November 1973.

She was a buyer for Camation Company and had lived in Northridge since 1947.

Viola and Bill attended the Sweetheart Luncheon and are now living at Horizon House, 1300 Army Navy Drive, Apt. 322 in Arlington, where I am sure they would be pleased to hear from old friends.

May I once again remind and urge you to keep feeding information, news and intelApril, 1975

ligence to your Washington correspondent who will try to report it accurately and with as much timeliness as the built-in delays to publication will allow.

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Pres., RAdm. Walter Dedrick, USN Sec'y, Cdr. Lee Bert Findly, USN (Ret.) 6009 Oakdale Rd., McLean, VA 22101 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dutch Schulz, USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St., N. Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 43 Well, we made it through another year of federal income tax, and for most of us, state income tax. Now that the daffodils, crocuses and forsythia are in bloom, we can all look ahead to a relaxing summer of sailing, golfing, camping, visiting, or just doing what comes naturally. We look to those who are still wearing the gold stripes to carry the spirit of '45 throughout that wonderful Navy we knew so well.

Ginger and Pud Puddicombe are finally settled in a new house in Santa Barbara where he is Public Works Director for the City of Santa Barbara. Pud has been elected President of the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Congratulations, now we can get some news in this column from Santa Barbara. Their address is: R. W. Puddicombe, 933 Arcady Road, Santa Barbara CA 93108.

Bert Findly reports that Thirty Year After books have been retumed from the following Class of '45 widows: Mrs. Clark L. Beck, Mrs. J. A. Reid, Mrs. Wm. C. Kistler, Mrs. J. K. McAdams, Mrs. W. J. MacGuire and Mrs. C. Ives. If anyone has a current name and address for any of them, please send Bert a postcard. Incidentally, Bert does have a few Thirty Year After books left which can be mailed to you or as a gift for only $13 postpaid.

Some of you who were Atlantic sailors during the years '64-'66 and had the good fortune to make St. Thomas VI a port of call may have had the pleasure of visiting Caroline and Les Buck at their mountaintop home overlooking Charlotte Amalie harbor. The post script in our Twenty Year After book under Les's picture stated, "July 1, 1964 will find the family and me permanently on St. Thomas VI with no visible means of support." So, after seeing Caroline and Les at Homecoming, I asked them to bring me up to date on their travels. He replied, "I retumed from my very 'broadening' experience in St. Thomas in 1966, setting up residence in Brownsville TX. After several odd jobs, I entered the brokerage business in 1968 and now wouldn't think of doing anything else (honestly, that's what Les said). Believe it or not, I live on the same street where I work and even occasionally walk the seven blocks to work.

In 1969, Caroline and I had the rare opportunity of "choosing" the cutest five day old female child you have ever seen. She is the light of our lives and satisfies my grandfather complex. My oldest. Linda, is an attorney with the Federal Energy Commission in Washington."

Carl Ferguson has presented the Class with a challenge! He writes, "For some time it has

stmck me as unusual that we should be the 'Look Alive' Class with all the spirit and yet lag classes before and after us in the percentage of members as listed in Shipmate. This suggests the need for some kind of '45 drive to sign up Alumni Association members." Here are the statistics from the J an/Feb issue: Class % members 1942 63 1943 59 1944 61 1945 46 1946 45 1947 44 Carl, the Class officers are working on this, but we need help from all Shipmate readers to sign up other classmates.

It seems like you can't keep Gloria and Ralph Lipfert away from Paris for very long.

They made their fourth visit to that city in November, staying for seven days in Paris and then touring Normandy. Good time to go, according to Gloria, for there were few American tourists.

Remember the song, "Slow Boat to China?" Well, Ski Dzikowski went back to sea on a slow boat to Alexandria, Egypt in November of last year. Ski, serving as project manager and engineer for his company. Oceans Systems, left Cameron LA on 15 November 1974 on board the oil drilling ship GLOMAR CORAL SEA and spent 30 days on course 081 at 10 knots! The diesel-electric ship, built by Global Marine, is under charter to Exxon for oil exploration in the Mediterranean and carries a crew of 30. Ski claims that he worked a 12 hour shift during the transit with contract personnel to get three pressure chambers and diving services ready to function when the ship reached the drill site. After arriving in Alexandria on 21 December, Ski had a two hour ride to Cairo to pick up a flight to London and then home for Christmas. The last time I saw Ski. he didn't look any worse for the long tour, but he explained that four meals are served each day on the ship. Unfortunately, there are no fotos of this epic voyage to Egypt because the Arabs would not permit any cameras ashore. Can anyone top this sea story in the last year? Maybe Joe Bonds will come through with one for I understand that he left his position as Master of a self-propelled dredge in Norway and is now back in the States. Joe, where are you?

Another one of our retired executives, Ed Hastings, has gone out and gotten himself a remunerative position of responsibility . . . although let me say that there are a few of us holding to the line, USN (R-Ret.), which means Really Retired. Ed is working as Director of Administration for the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf located in good ole Georgetown.

The nostalgic "Executive Notice, 7 June 1944," printed in the December 1974 issue of this column, has brought some reader response: George O'Shea, writing from his dental office in Fort Lauderdale, identifies the author as Rix Rixey who, "later authored the epic. 'Ballad of the Dirty Thirty,' the heroic saga of the Marines of '45 fighting the battle of Quantico back in 1944."

Rix's wife, Louise, has come through with a charming letter on the same subject. She writes. "Rix was greatly surprised and wryly amused to note in the December Shipmate

66 that someone had bothered to preserve his 'Executive Notice, 7 June 1944.' Naturally, his attention to writing doggerel instead of concentrating on academics and shaping up in general came close to being his undoing, yet I'm also sure it was his great sense of humor and uncanny ability to spoof the system which enabled him to survive those years at USNA in the first place. . . . Even after the traumas of Seamanship, Navigation, etc. were over, no Sayonara party at the end of a tour of duty was complete without Rixey's verse regaling the more ludicrous aspects of each particular situation. Unfortunately, most of those gems were discarded by him or lost by me, but one of my favorites had to do with the infighting that went on amongst Navy Department civilians over parking spaces at the old Tempo-E BuUding in D . C , not to mention that classic, the finale of the 'Dirty Thirty's' training and graduation from Quantico in December 1944, which Tut Vale mercifully saved and reread at a memorable reunion we had with some of the '45 Marines last year. 1 might add that the Rixey wit is alive and flourishing, despite evidence to the contrary in the uninspired one-liner he dashed off for the Thirty Year After book seconds before the mailing deadline. He has the kids at Admiral Farragut Academy snowed and following him Hke a Pied Piper, but he's basically against working and envisions the best of all possible worlds as being on the tennis courts half the day and reclining under a palm tree with a book and a Lowenbrau the other half, preferably in some warm spot less crowded than Sarasota is rapidly becoming." Let's hear from more of the '45 ladies!

The monthly Washington area class luncheons on the second Tuesday at Ft. Myer continue to draw 40-45 Classmates. Accommodations are always made for the out-oftowners who fly into Washington at the last minute.

Once again, the plea for news of you, your family or Classmates with pictures. If nothing else, tell me about your grandchildren in twenty-five words or less.

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Pres., Capt. George Pavis, USN Sec'y, Mr. C. W. Kennelly II 7911 Sleaford PI., Bethesda, MD 20014 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. C. V. Wilboit, Jr., USNR 4885 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., Apt. 504 San Diego, CA92117 Percent Members: 45 REMEMBER THE 30TH! May 31st in Washington, D.C. Alister C. Anderson, an Army Chaplain, has been assigned to duty at Walter Reed Army Hospital following an overseas tour.

Frances and Al give their new address as 6521 Wilmett Road, Bethesda MD 20034.

Larry Baldwn gives his new address as 13708 Leland Road, Centerville VA 22020.

Donald C. ("Foggy") Bayly is retired from the Navy and gives his current address as 2740 San Fernando Road, Jacksonville FL 32217. Don Blair has returned to the States after an extended overseas tour where he worked as an electrical engineer for Super-

visor of Shipbuilding, Bath, England. Shirley and Don give their new address as 4151 Continental Dr., Waukegan IL 60085.

Catherine and Mike Boyar now live at 257 Chapalita Dr., Encinitas CA 92024. Bob Boyle gives his new address as 77 Fairview Ave., Atherton CA 94025. L. O. B. Branch, Jr., motel owner, gives his address as Box 4646, Richmond VA 23229. How's that for a box number?

Reynolds Metals Co. has moved Nancy and Bill Campbell from Portland, Ore. to Corpus Christi, Texas where their address is 2 Lakeshore Dr. (78413). Mary and Cliff Clinton give their address as 901 Regents Dr. E. Mobile AL 36609. Emily and Harker Collins live at 1227 Vista Ct., Muscatine lA 52761 where Harker is President of Bandag, Inc. Recently read where Muscatine, with an unemployment rate of point six percent, is the workin'est town in the United States. Jeanne and Bob ("Ace") Crawford give their current address as 1414 Decatur Ave., Bremerton WA 98310. Beatrice and Frank Crozier live at Flying Point Rd., Freeport ME 04032.

Jim Cummings retired on 1 May 1974 and is working overseas. His address is Box R-54, APO New York 09205. Where are you, Jim? Frank Curren gives his address as 25 Sea View Ave., Cranston RI 02905. Gail and Russ Davis give their address as 7 Winding Way, GreenviUe DE 19807. Russ is General Sales Manager for NVF Company in Wilmington. Jinny and Jack DeMayo live at 5970 Queenston St., Springfield VA 22152.

Jack is on duty in OpNav, Op-82F. Jim Demming is an M.D. in Ormond Beach, Fla. living at 530 Riverside Dr. (32074). Bob Finlay is Chief of Staff to the Commander, Caribbean Sea Frontier FPO New York 09551.

Jeanette and Frede Froehlich still live at 9913 Evergreen Ave., Ellicott City MD 21046 where Frede works for Cortland Real Estate. Gil Gilliam gives his address as Box 2202, Frederiksted St. Croix 00840.

Jackie and Hank Glindeman give their current address as 8715 Prudence Dr., Annandale VA 22003 while Hank is on duty in OpNav as Director, Office of Program Appraisal. Bev and Gene Gralla live at 5850 Forestview Dr., Columbus OH 43213 where Gene is Senior Vice President of Columbia Gas System Distribution Companies. Bernie Heesacker reports in from 1201 N. Halifax Ave., Daytona Beach FL 32018.

Ed Holt, long a resident of New London, where he worked for General Dynamics Electric Boat Division, has moved to 342 Mill Pond Rd., Aurora OH 44202. Jim Houston gives his address as The Village, West Market St., Apt. 121E, Greensboro NC 27409. Jim is a marketing executive for the Fibers Div. of Allied Chemical Co. Connie and Bill Huddleston give their address as 377C Circuit Ln., Newport News VA 23602.

Jim Hugus continues his residence at 2060 Gill Pat Lane, Walnut Creek CA 94598 while he is on duty at Military Sealift Command, Pacific in Oakland. Jack Jones gives his present address as 640 11th St. # G , Imperial Beach CA 92032. Art Kinneberg, who is a smelter engineer for Phelps Dodge Corp., gives his current address as Drawer M, Tyrone NM 88065.

retirement in Omaha. Ray indicates that Dick Knight gives a new address as Qtrs.

Y, U.S. Naval Base, PhUadelphia PA 19112.

Betty and Fred Koch give their current address as 4118 Fort Worth Place, Alexandria VA 22304, while Fred is on duty in OpNav as Director, Air Warfare Division. Ted Lonnquest gives a new address as Qtrs. W, NAS Patuxent River MD 20670. Ted is on duty in the Naval Material Command as Project Manager, Ship and Air Systems Integration Project.

Sumner Long gives his current address as 375 Park Ave., New York 10022. Happened to be just glancing at a San Francisco newspaper some time ago and my eye caught an article about Bud Lonergan's brother, John. "In 1958, Lonergan and his brother began manufacmring mobile homes. Ten years later they sold out and retired." Bud now lives at 6160 Camino de la Costa, La Jolla CA 92037. Kirk Miller is back on duty at Naval Telecommunications Command Hq. and again gives his address as 3413 Springlake Terrace, Fairfax VA 22030. He was formerly CO of the Naval Communications Station in Stockton, Calif.

Ken Morse gives his current address as Qtrs. C, U.S. Naval Support Activity, Brooklyn NY 11251. Jack Murray gives his new address as Holy Cross College, Worcester MA 01610. Mary and Bob Newbem give their address as 123 Adams Dr., Portsmouth RI 02871. Ed Olson gives his address as 727 Hickory Lot Rd., Towson MD 21204. Ed works for Bethlehem Steel Corp. as Ass't.

General Manager of the Sparrow's Point plant. Josie and Bill Quisenberry now live at 4900 Casimir St., Annandale VA 22003.

Bill is on duty with Defense Intelligence Agency.

Ted Saunders gives his current address as 942 Walnut Ave., Qtrs. H, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, where Ted is Public Works Officer. Patsy and "Skid" Skidmore give their current address as 1211 So. 26th Rd., Ariington VA 22202. "Skid" is on duty in NavMatCom. Jo and Wally Schirra live at 4225 S. Forest Circle, Englewood CO 80110. Anne and Tom Watt give their current address as 7511 Lanfair Dr., Louisville KY 40222. Tom is an M.D. who formerly was a professor at Baylor Medical School in Houston. E. P. Young is still a Chevrolet dealer in Hope, Ariz, and gives his current address as 220 N. Washington (71801). Don't Forget the 30th!

"Daisy"

47 Pres., RAdm. S. J. Evans (SC) USN 8437 Toll House Rd., Annandale, VA 22003 Sec'y, Capt. J. L. Moss, USN (Ret.) 21 Alpine Dr., Latham, NY 12110 Percent Members: 44 The egg-on-my-face department is a good place to start. Ray Davis has advised that the Ray Davis who retired in Omaha is a brand X and not the real '47 variety, as he is still on active duty as Commander, U.S. Military Group, Santiago, Chile, and Chief, Navy Section, Valparaiso. Ray's report on on his two year tour in Chile, commencing before the overthrow of the AUende government, sounds far more interesting than Shipmate

67 retirement in Omaha. Ray indicates that many of the severe conditions which preceded the overthrow have now been corrected and "peace and order have remmed, people are working, the garbage is being collected and even the badly organized public transportation is functioning, but only painfully as the economy is being brought to reality." Ray concludes his most interesting letter with the comment "any classmates who are in need of an interesting and challenging place to invest capital, are cordially invited." Ray also encouraged any world travelers to get in touch, but you had better hurry, since Ray expects to leave Chile in the summer (unless DoD runs out of travel funds).

Thanks for the word, Ray, and sorry about the incorrect report. (I suppose 7,000 miles is too far for me to claim Valparaiso is a southern suburb of Omaha.)

Jim Stockdale reports on the gathering of the San Diego class membership at North Island Officers' Club on the evening of 26 Jan. Cal and Bruce Smith were visiting from Philadelphia and provided a good excuse for the party. So you won't have to guess who was there, here is a run-down of names and faces: (left to right) Vicky Rogers (Haley was on a trip to Washington), Bill Harris (Jean still in Washington, the family to move to Alameda soon), Sally Working (Widow of P a t ) , Brace Smith, Cal Smith, Dick Biven, Swoose Snead, Lil Cummings (Widow of Ward), Betty Snead, Sybil Stockdale, Matty Matthews, Rosemary Matthews, John Shelton (Mary home with the flu), Dorothy Williams, Joan Biven, Jack Williams and Jim Stockdale. More on Haley Rogers; he and Vicky are now in San Diego where Haley has become Deputy Corn-

off the press; copies may be obtained from relationships that has occurred in the Navy.

Stu Evans provided a report on the most the USNA Alumni Association for $12.50 successful Washington luncheon in recent per copy. Please keep the news flowing. years, when Worth Bagley spoke to a gathering of 53 classmatees on the conditions facing the Navy worldwide together with his assessment of budgetary problems the Navy will face over the next few years. It was Sec'y, Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) a serious and profitable presentation and dis- 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302 cussion period, much enjoyed by all those Percent Members: 36 present. It wasn't completely serious, though, On 14 January at a regularly scheduled for one attendee signed in as Raquel Welch though sparsely attended class luncheon held (naw, it couldn't be)!

Fran and Jack Stevens took a stateside in the ever-genial though long-suffering leave to see children and grandchildren in O'Donnell's Sea Grill, there was an election of local officers for the Washington San Diego and to visit other relatives in Area '48ers. In accordance with a rale, imTexas. Jack reports lots of opprtunities to written but solidly backed by tradition, travel from Naples including trips to Turkey and Norway as well as visits from Janet and which requires at least 2 % of the area classmates to be present for an election, the Bo Eagle, Althea and Doug Rumble. Stu also reports that the 30th reunion commit- following slate was unanimously brought in tee is still at work planning for that big by the seven attendees: Gene Spalding, President; Hal Deeley, VP; Wally Holton, event.

Secretary, and commencing what really Lou Romatowski has orders from JUS- amounts to a third term, Bob Ghormley as MAG Korea to be Chief of Staff to the Treasurer. Those at the luncheeon in addiCommandant, Eighth Naval District. tion to your Scribe were Ball (outgoing presA press release from Tracor, Inc., indi- ident). Knock, Jochum, Holton, Ghormley, cates that Bill Thompson has been promoted Abeam. The new slate was swept in on a to Division Vice President of System Tech- platform promising an effective call list for nology at Rockville, Maryland. Tracor is an the local chapter to permit more people to international technological products and get the word about luncheons. services company with headquarters in AusDick Hoffman reported in from the tin, Texas, and operations in ten states and Rocky Mountains in December, and here is six foreign locations. Bill left the Navy in 1967 and has been with Tracor since then, his dope: "I retired on 1 June after a most most recently as director of Air and Sur- enjoyable three years in Hawaii and a tour face Systems in the System Technology Di- as Commander Oceanographic Systems, Pac. Spent a week unwinding on Waikiki and then vision. Our congratulations to Bill. by plane and Volkswagen Mary Lou and Under the heading of bad news and good the three youngest pressed on to Denver news, both Frank Korb and Jim Wilson where we had already purchased a house suffered heart attacks in the Washington area and I had obtained a position with Martin/ Marietta Aerospace. Settled in quickly and I started work on 14 June as Senior Staff Engineer—Navy Programs. I haven't been able to convince them to start building seaplanes again yet, but I am working on it!

"Although we arrived here with only three children, we are back up to five (plus grandchild) and should have all six on board for the holidays (Christmas). Oldest, Rick, is with us while finishing up school here in Colorado Aero Tech, Janice is visiting with grandson, Richie, while her husband, Pat Watts '71 is deployed with VP-44 in the Med. # 3 , Roger, is in his third year at Kings Point and has been sailing in the SS

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SANTA MERCEDES on a circumnavigation of

South America. He has already toured the Far East and I think he has already seen as '47 San Diego contingent many ports as his father. Katherine is at Arapahoe Junior College and Robert and mander of Naval Surface Forces, Pacific. in early January. The good news is that Jeannie are in Junior High and Grammar School respectively.

Bill Harris has reported in to Alameda as both are recovering after swift action by Fairfax Hospital in Frank's case and Be"I attended the National Security IndusCommander Carrier Group 7. thesda for Jim. I know all classmates are trial Assn. meeting in San Diego 2-5 Dec. 'Ere we leave the west coast, I'll mention a newspaper article from the San Diego happy to hear they are recovering. It is also Took Mary Lou along—we met there at the paper liberally quoting Swoose Snead in his a reminder for all of us, as we enter our Amphib Base Club, had our first date at sixth decade, that the time has come to be the Hotel Del Coronado—so the nostalgia efforts to control noise pollution caused by kind to our hearts, our livers and our wives, was heavy! naval aircraft at Miramar Naval Air Station.

"Saw Nan and Fred Baughman—as you One quote attributed to Swoose "the old since we really need them for the years ahead. know, Fred is Force Material Officer Airbit about our being here first just does not Jeep Donaldson reports a visit to D. C. Pac. We had a nice visit from them in June do anymore. We have a moral obligation to the people affected by our flights." State- by Don Skinner who is now Director of En- while we were at the Halekulani. Also saw ments like this should help some of the gineering, Superior Engineering Company, Mike Ames, now with MacDonald-Douglas Los Angeles. Jeep says Don is the youngest in St. Louis; and Walt Spangenberg, now civilian classmates who have been out of looking member of the class. with General Dynamics, San Diego. All look the service for many years to realize the The Register of Alumni 1845-1975 is hot well and prosperous." change in the sensitivity to military-civilian April, 1975

68 The Fleet Home Town News Center is still at work with a nice pic of Bob McClinton receiving the Legion of Merit for outstanding performance of duty as CO Recruiting Area 8, San Francisco Bay area.

He and Gunvor are now back in the Washington area.

Phil Vladessa

The Postgrad School, Monterey, informs me that Dean Taylor, having done his masters in Chemistry there in '56, is back as Chief of Staff of the school. Dean receieved his doctoral degree from Case Institute in '60. He and Barbara reside, naturally, on the NPS campus.

The Dark Ages are upon this scribe at this writing—deep into February. Things will brighten up soon with spring's arrival, and some more letters from the field!!

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Pres., Ens. John E. Benoit, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Col. Eugene O. Speckart, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 2741 Arlington VA 22202 Percent Members: 38 General: Now that the crisis is over we are happy to report that Charlie Bauman is back on the job after a very serious throat operation.

Some of you may have noticed that Marie and Charlie missed the reunion. At that time Charlie was in Bethesda recovering from surgery. Since then his recovery has been steady and he is now back at his desk in the Pentagon.

Receieved a letter from Dave Gates advising that Herb Kindl has been promoted to General Manager of the Aerospace Electronic Systems Department of General Electric in Utica, N. Y. Herb's appointment was effective last January 13. He, Louise, and their five children are living in Essex Junction, N. Y. Phil Vladessa has also received a promotion. Last January Phil was appointed Accounts Supervisor for the International Marine Sales Department of Texaco, Inc. Phil will continue to work out of New York City in his new position.

Received a note from Bill Finlay. He and Betty Jean are comfortably settled in in Newark, Del. Bill is with DuPont and claims that he is getting in plenty of golf.

Jim Watkins has been nominated for a third star. He is scheduled to become Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Manpower) and Chief of Naval Personnel this month.

One last note on the election. If you haven't mailed your ballot, get it in the mail now. If you haven't received a ballot drop me a line and we will get one to you.

Remember, if you don't vote you can't complain.

Washington Area: The monthly luncheon group met at the Orleans House on the second Tuesday of February. Those in atendance were Swanson, Messere, Egan, Mickey McDonald, Roberts, Bodager, Lawrence, Guiming, Bartholomew, Magee, Reiher, Killeen, Hoppe, Hammer, and Benoit. Other than the monthly command decision on the lunch menu the major business consisted of putting out the word on the upcoming Darke Ages party. Early returns indicate that this will be one of the biggest. Will report on the results next month.

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Pres., Capt. D. G. Fraasa, USN Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W. L. Jensen, USN 413 Powhatan, Norfolk, VA 23511 Percent Members: 42 Since the first Wednesday in January came on New Year's day everyone figured that the Washington Pentagon luncheon would pass without notice—not so. The habit is so firmly established in a few that they applied good judgment and showed up on the 8th. Bill Demers calls to say that in attendance in addition to himself were: Ward Lasley, Roddy Radcliffe and Frank O'Connor. Subsequent to what I had reported last month about luncheon plan changes, it was announced that Tom Ross and Frank Roth were going to conduct a massive phone campaign to get classmates to a luncheon at the Cinders Steak House on the 14th of January. They did well and 24 classmates appeared: Sylvester Foley (OP 60B), Frank O'Connor, Jim Kennedy (QRC, Inc.), Lee Bendel (Camp Pendleton CA), Joe McLernan (HQ USMC), Wayne Smith (on his way to Service Test at Pax River), Ted Speaker (DIA), Dick Sheridan (Transportation planner for the D. C. coun-

cil of governments), Tom Bulger ( O N R ) , Tom Ross, Roy Highberg, Tom Anderson, Don StuU, Jay Hanks, Frank Roth, Duff Arnold, Law Kivlen, Eari Halpern, Phil Conley, Kelly Carr, Ward Lasley, Tom Halstad, Caryll Whipple and Roddy Radcliffe. The group collectively agreed that it was a great place to have a luncheon and henceforth would meet at the Cinders the first Tuesday of each month. So—^Washington area veterans, mark your May calendar for the first Tuesday and come out— it is between the Pentagon and Crystal City between the 1400 and 1600 block on South Joyce St. with plenty of parking. A few of us old-timers will probably still gravitate to the Pentagon on the first Wednesday and that is still OK—they won't ran us away.

I have even heard from a few asking where the old Hogates is located! Habits are difficult to break.

Dave Taylor calls from Andrews to announce that Pierce Hodnette has pinned on his second star. John Coughlin has sent me word that Daryle Tripp is on the latest AF Brigadier list. I know I speak for the entire class when I send congramlations and wishes for continued early promotion for our flag rank officers.

By this time all classmates should have received in the mail the questionnaire regarding the 25th reunion. In fact you should have retumed it to Don Fraasa or Wayne Smith and I hope to be able to publish the results in next month's column. The form is self-explanatory, however, if you didn't receive one and are planning to be at Homecoming 1975 then give Don Fraasa a call at Autovon 222-8826.

Bill Diehl is the CO at NAD Earie NJ and passes the word that he doesn't see how he can miss a Washington area assignment this summer. Charlie Mull has moved from NAVSEC at Hyattsville to NAVSEASYSCOM Headquarters.

Monty Frazier writes from Cleveland voicing his concem for room reservations for the 25th. He said that good ole organized Skip Orem and A. O. Rule had been bugging him. Again, I hope the questionnaires have reached all by now. Monty's address is c/o TRW Inc., 23555 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland OH 44117.

Bob Ringhausen checks in from Stuttgart, Germany where he is on staff duty. He points out that he and King Pfeiffer are the two class of '50 gents who keep HQ European Command honest. King is 13 (operations) and deeply involved in NATO training. Bob is J4 (logistics) as the Joint Petroleum Officer. With the Oct. '73 Yom Kippur War, the Arab Oil Embargo, the energy crisis and the Cypras flare-ups Bob's job has become highly visible and anything but dull. King and Bob live in an Army environment at Patch Barracks i.e. in "stairwells" where everything is regulated and regimented. Bob is now Senior Occupant Building (SOB) and as such has the responsibility to assure that pets do not relieve themselves within 50 feet of any building. Bob and Yvonne are nevertheless enjoying the tour which will end in late '75.

Their address: HQ USEUCOM J-4 (JPO), APO New York 09128.

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along pictures of his two sons, Michael (2nd year at USAF Academy) and John (U.S. Army in Hawaii). Thanks Andy, and I know it takes many of us back to Plebe summer because both sons look like the Andy we used to know. Andy and Willie live just off the San Diego Freeway at El Toro with their two daughters who they hope to send to USNA one day. Andy's company is ENDEVCO and he calls home: 24042 Alderglen, El Toro CA. Dave Emerson was in Norfolk from his job as COMSOLANT in late January to debrief CINCLANTFLT on UNFTAS XV operation he conducted in South America and stopped by to say hello. Dave has an eleven year old at home—who enjoys Puerto Rico —one in college in Charleston and one a senior at Furman. Dave points out that his staff is lean and mean and he enjoys his work to the fullest. According to Dave, if your staff is small enough, they will have so much work to do that they won't try to make your decisions for you.

Isham Williams sends class dues to John Brick (Qtrs. 45, NAS Pensacola FL 32508) and gives his address as 4 Roads End Lane, Richmond VA 23233. Willy Ayres writes from Exmouth, Western Australia to say that the folks are friendly down there but there are not many of them. Willy is the CO of the Naval Communications Station, FPO San Francisco, 96680. From WrightPatterson AFB we hear from Tom Saltsman. We have five from '50 stationed or retired in that area. Jack Barry is retired and works with the flight dynamics lab as a civil servant. Jim Hall is a Colonel, lives on base and is the Chief of Air Systems Development. Lee Morgan and Tom work for the Foreign Technology Division as civil servants. Tom points out that he has to return Vi of his retired pay but he stiU enjoys the job. Tom resides at 1337 Walnut Bend Ct., Fairbom OH 45325.

As of this writing we have 167 classmates who are currently on active duty in the Navy or 24% of the 692 who graduated in June of 1950 or 15% of the 1080 we had huddled together in June of 1946. We have 55 who have died since graduation.

Frank Roth calls to announce that Sharon Simons really took hold of the Washington area group for the Febmary first Tuesday luncheon at the Cinders (location indicated above) and got husbands and wives together. It shows that the Cinders site is working. Couples in attendance were Kivlen, Hardy, Highberg, Keimedy, Lasley, Terrell, Coughlin, Simons, Demers, Tripp, Minnis, Carr, Roth, Gmnwald, Mull and Taylor. Wives present with husbands out of town were: Mary Smith, Shel Taylor and Kathy lessen. Husbands whose wives were April, 1975

otherwise engaged were Bob Foley, John Niesse and Ed Speaker. A lot of good information was exchanged and all agreed to get together more often.

Don Sattler calls from his job as COMTACGRU TWO in Norfolk to say that he is getting a bit tired commuting from Washington to Norfolk. Don has been in that business for almost a year now. Ron Hayes at the commissary in Norfolk was heard to remark, "Have to stock the shelves with staples before Congress gets to us again."

Having reported that Frank Roth produced and directed the CNO Update # 1 0 movie on major project management, Frank calls to say that "No, I only starred in it along with three or four others out of '50."

Send your information to me or CcJl me at Autovon 690-2350.

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Pres., Capt. W. W. DeGroot, III, (CEC) USN Sec'y, Cdr. Bruce I. Meader, USN (Ret.) 5609 South 5th St., Ariington, VA 22204 Percent Members: 45 We are in the midst of the busiest season of the year for the Class of '51—the Winter Dance was held on 1 March, the Ladies Day luncheon on 1 April, and the Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, 3 May at the Ft. McNair Club, beginning at 6:00 P.M. Tom Hutchins sent me a very interesting letter in which he brought to light some information about our class ring manufacturer that could be good news for quite a few of us; he writes: "Recently I learned of a benefit we, as a class, obtained when we contracted with Josten's for our class ring.

Having become afflicted with 'fat fingers' in recent years, I wrote Josten's to determine what it would cost to enlarge my ring. I received a card saying the correction would be made without charge. . . . Apparently, the original contract entitled us to lifetime corrections at no additional cost. My ring was returned in about three weeks having been enlarged, re-burnished and polished, and the engraving inside restored." Sounds almost too good to be tme, but it is!

Difficult to identify behind a faceful of whiskers at the Febraary luncheon in Washington was Dr. Bill Foster. Bill is now on the R & D technical staff of Electrospace Systems, Inc., and does a little moonlighting on the campus at Maryland U. He spoke of a then-recent visit to San Diego where he saw Roland "Dee" Desrosiers, who is now teaching junior high school there.

That same week Pete O'Kane did a little gun running from the G.E. plant in Burlington, Vt. to Washington when he hauled a 300 plus pound Navy gatling gun in the trunk of his car to the Navy League's SeaAir-Space Symposium. The nineteenth century piece of seagoing weaponry was to my mind the most aesthetically pleasing item in the show. Also at the show was Howie Ruggles, representing Hughes and putting on a multi-media production that was traly firstclass.

As noted in the last issue, John McGrew was in town in January. Arriving just a day too late for that column was John's very newsy letter, which I will quote in part, "I thought I would report on a few of the

Christmas type contacts: Dick Childs is doing a great job Ln retirement as CO of the NIROTC unit in Montrose, Colorado.

Norm Busse is still a federal attomey in San Francisco. Jack Kendrick is still in L.A. Bob MUler is now a stock broker in Lewisburg, Pa., and Col. R. W. Smith is on duty in Okinawa. Phil Pahl (Col. USAF) is stationed in the Boston area, and Chuck Larson is now retired and living in Newport Beach, Calif." Great reporting!

Sam Ginder is making a fervent but dignified plea to classmates who may be interested in joining the Army-Navy Club (that's the town club) in Washington. For a short while, the regular initiation fee of $250 is being reduced to $125. If you want more info, drop me a line.

Lowell Stockdale sent me a clipping in which it was noted that Admiral Mack had commended Capt. Paul Olson for his work in raising funds for the Naval Academy's new activity center (site of the new ice rink).

And Walt Boyes sent in an item telling of Goddard Space Flight Center employee Joseph Corrigan receiving an exceptional performance award for ". . . management of eighteen major experiments for the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS-6). . ."

Two weeks from the date of this writing, a meeting will be held with Vic Benjovsky to firm up plans for our 25 year book— that's next year in case the years slipped up on you unnoticed. So now's the last opportunity you may have to put in your two bits on what you'd like the book to be like.

See you at the Annual Meeting.

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Pres., Cdr. R. R. Zastrow, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. D. M. Jackson, USN 1719 Melbourne Drive McLean, VA 22101 Percent Members: 38 The selection of 37 new Rear Admirals of the unrestricted and restricted line was approved by President Ford 13 Feb. Two members of the class running with year group '51 were selected; Jim Sagerholm, presently C O . of Naval Intelligence Support Center, Suitland with plenty of past experience in OpNav, SSN/SSBN submarines and destroyers, was joined by BUI Rowden, presently with the Surface Warfare part of OpNav, a craiser/destroyer driver by trade with long tours in the missile acquisition business in old NavOrd. Congratulations to two very able officers and their families. . . . Hopefully, in my next column, I will be able to add some names of Supply and CEC Corps selectees, which have yet to be announced.

Thanks to Jack Sheehan of the Federal Reserve Board, I have been 'informed that Bill Pike has recently been named Chairman of the Credit Pohcy Committee of the Morgan Guarantee Bank. For those not famUiar with commercial banking, this promotion is a tmly distinguished one. In effect, BUI is now the chief lending officer of probably the leading bank in the United States. BUI and family reside in New Canaan, Conn. Congratulations to a fellow with a big smile from Ft. CoUins, Colo.

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Bill Rowden BuPers that he needs an injection of salt water and that five years in Washington is too long. Larry will relieve classmate Dave Altwegg as CO USS HORNE (DLG-30) in July out of San Diego.

Fred ("Fox Charlie") Johnson will be relinquishing his command of DesRon 21 to join the brown shoe navy as Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander Carrier Group 5/ Commander Attack Carrier Strike Force 7th Fleet in the Far East. Before Fox gets through his tour I know the staff will have had a thorough education on ASW, Tin Can navy, knot tying and small boat sailing.

Jim Patterson had the proud honor of swearing in his daughter Jeanne for a four year hitch this past January. Jim is a supervisor at the Gambrinus mill of the Timken Co., Canton, Ohio. Jeanne speaks Swedish, Japanese and Chinese. I wonder what rate she will receive training in at Orlando?

Jim is active in the reserves as a member of a Military Sealift Company in Akron, Ohio.

Patterson swearing in ceremony

William Kelly (now president of Audiencescan, Box 76, Stanton, N.J., a market consulting and research firm) has joined the Alumni assoc. Bill tried USAF, then Harvard Business School, before going into business for himself. BUI and his son have an interesting sideline of building scale miniature ship models which he exhibits and also sells for more than $4,000 apiece.

In January the column received what I consider to be an outstanding letter from a classmate for two reasons; it was short and informal and it contained news of a classmate not heard from in a while. I wish for ten such inputs a month! I quote the letter from Len Gonsalves: "Look what I found in Brazil, a lost classmate! Luiz Fernando Poggi De Aran jo, AV Gen. San Martin 240 Apt. 201, LeBlon, Rio de Janeiro, BrazU. This Oct. ('74) I went on an engineering tour to Rio with my wife, Bea. Naturally we looked Poggi up and were fortunate to have located him. He is now a retired Capt. from the Brazilian Navy and is leading "the good life," as perhaps only a "Carioca" can.

We spent a day and two evenings with him.

The Brazilian hospitality rivals any!" Len goes on to say he lives in North Dartmouth, Mass., is listed in the book and would be happy to see classmates passing through.

It is with sadness and the deepest sympathy to Richard Case and his family to note the passing of his wife, Marjorie on 6 Feb. after a long bout with cancer. Members of the class and other friends paid their last respects at the graveside ceremony conducted at Arlington National Cemetery.

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Pres., Capt. Russ Harney, USN Sec'y, Mr. C. E. Mumford, GRI 1303 Towleston Road Vienna, VA 22180 (703) 759-3115 Percent Members: 31 The Washington Area luncheon went drag for the February gathering at Ft. McNair Officers' Club. Some 55 brave souls took up the challenge to fight the snow and showed up for the social event. A complete revision of the Washington area classmate roster is being promulgated locally.

Here and There January 29â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coast Guard Lieutenant (junior grade) Donald G. Baker of 3800 Cheraz, Albuquerque, N.M., reported for duty at the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve Training Center, Yorktown, Virginia.

Jack Hoch is ordered as CO USS MississiNEWA (AO-144). Trianne and Ralph Freese have opened up their second card and party shop in Northern Virginia. The "Gazabo" is located at Baileys Crossroads and the new shop is "Seven Corners Card and Party Shop" at Seven Corners.

John Furgerson has another eighteen months to go at Virginia Theological Seminary. They have six USNA graduates there now, five students and John Rogers '54 on the staff. It won't be long before they have VTS students organized and marching to class.

Clarence Kunstmann is now retired and working for Cerberonics. Betty and Clarence

live at 9813 Hampton Lane, Fairfax VA 22030.

Will Lent was passing through the Washington, D.C. area and gave the following information. Will is now in Bremerton, Washington, along with Bobby Bell, Tug McCarty, and Clay Studebaker. Other classmates in that area include Al Johnson, Hal Lewis, Ken Salzman, Ed Lenihan, Tom Kent, Frank Strohecker, George Knighton, Dean Abrahamson and Wimpy Chase.

Sounds like a big enough group to have a get-together.

Bill Monroe is now retired and working for TRW in McLean, Virginia.

Joe Bomstein is President of Taco Bueno, Inc. with three Mexican restaurants in Northern Virginia.

Jan and Leo Brachtenback, now retired, are relocating from Northern Virginia and after 1 June '75 their address will be c/o General Delivery, Iowa City lA 52240.

Bruce Borthwick, now retired, is working for Presearch, Inc., along with Tom Burt.

Jacklyn and Bruce now reside at 3815 South Ft. Worth Ave., Alexandria VA 22304.

Elinor and Jack Paulk have departed the Washington area for Chicago area where John is associated with Fermi Acceleration Labs.

Orders Noted Henry and Daniel W. Rice now reside at 3223 Magnola Ave., FaUs Church VA 22041. Dan has just changed from NavMatCom to OpNav. Sandy Levey is reporting in to ASW Proj Off Wash D.C. after having command of USS SIMON LAKE ( A S - 3 3 ) .

Jack Frost has orders from NavSeaSysComHq to command of USS Worden (DLG18).

In Memoriam It is with deep regret that I report the death of Captain Robert Cecil Blanchard on 30 January 1975 at the Navy Regional Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia. Prior to admittance to the hospital Captain Blanchard was Plans and Contingency Plans Officer for ComSubLant. He is survived by his widow Edith Anne, 407 Hariton Court, Norfolk VA 23505; three daughters, Suzanne (20), Mary Beth (18), and Robin Anne (11).

The Chief of Naval Operations has announced that facilities will be named in honor of the each of the three CEC officers murdered last spring at the Subic Bay Naval Station in the Philippines. The Captain Thomas J. Mitchell Community Center, a social and recreational center near the 350unit Navy Family Housing Project at Mustin Field in Philadelphia is scheduled for dedication later this year.

In closing please note the copy deadlines in the front of Class News section. In short, I need input before the 10th of the month and it will get in the issue 60 days later.

Let's hear from you live bodies in Newport, Norfolk, San Diego, etc. so the Washington Area news does not dominate this column.

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Pres., LCol. Clyde D. Dean, USMC Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. R. M. Olsen, USN 14 Fisk Circle, Annapolis, MD 21401 AUTOVONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;297-5623, HOME (301) 263-3994 Percent Members: 33

It's a dismal weekend in early Febmary and the dark ages have descended upon us with a vengeance. For those of us blessed with the wonderful opportunity to commute to the Washington area on a daily basis it's week after week of departing prior to sunrise and arriving back home long after sunset. We recently had our first significant snow of the season and as usual it threw the entire area into a tizzy. With the IVz hour ride home still fresh in my mind from that storm the forecast of more snow today is no cause for celebration.

The following was received from John Pustay: "For those classmates who were fortunate enough to attend the festivities associated with our 20th Reunion, the pleasant burden of this letter will be clear. To those who were unable to attend, there is a requirement that they know what a successful program we enjoyed.

"The amount of planning and hard work in organizing and implementing the ambitious program developed for that weekend was indeed prodigious. The people most responsible for this great event in our class history are to be commended. All devoted large amounts of free time and talent in making our 20th Reunion a most memorable event. Special thanks are in order for Fitz Woodrow who was the spark plug, quarterback and task master who put it all together and insured that the grand scheme was flawlessly carried out."

A few more Homecoming notes. At the business meeting the class voted to sponsor the 14th company wardroom for the coming year. The Class of 1914 were the original sponsors but for a variety of reasons they requested to be relieved of that obligation. The initial outlay was $370 which will be spent for a general spruce-up and for drapes. The annual cost to maintain the wardroom will run about $200. We have received a letter from the 14th Company Commander thanking us for our participation and of course for our check.

Stan Michael writes from Taiwan: "Just a short note to let you know what a great idea it was to send all of us non-joiners the free copy of the September Shipmate. It shamed me into rejoining the Association after an absence of more years than I care to count. I hope it worked on many others.

I have been out here in WestPac since mid1972 and have almost forgotten what stateside duty is like. I am now the Senior Advisor to the Chinese Marine Corps located in Tsoying about 230 road miles south of Taipei. Our American community is small and getting smaller. The welcome mat is out for anyone who gets out this way and I really mean it. I should be here until August of this year."

Since late last year the attendance at our monthly luncheon at the Cinders Restaurant had really taken a nosedive. For a long April, 1975

time we could count on from 40-50 attendees; however, recently the number has been much closer to 20. One of the most frequent complaints was that the meal was just too heavy for a luncheon. As a result of these comments Fitz has had the menu changed to soup and sandwiches which is not only easier on our waistlines but also on our wallets. The March and April dates are the 12th and 9th respectively. Hope to see you there.

WHO TO WHERE Dick Murphy and Buck McClellan both back to OpNav. Bob

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Pres., Cdr. OUo A. Zipf, USN Sec'y, LCol. A. J. Chiota, USAF 7708 Jaffrey Rd., Oxon HiU, MD 20022 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. John W. Renard, USN Superintendent's Staff, USNA Annapolis, MD 21402 Chairman, 20th Homecoming Cdr. C. M. Plumly, USN 4503 Sonata Ct. Fairfax, VA 22030 Percent Members: 26

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hosted by Marie and John Shields in the Crystal Towers party room. The view from thirteen floors up overlooking the Potomac and our nation's capitol in itself was worth going for; however, approximately 30 couples gathered to swap sea stories and renew old friendships. Just a note of encouragement for those of you who are anticipating duty in Washington but dreading the thought of fighting the traffic, the housing hunt and the high cost of buying a house. John and Marie have the ideal solution. Join them! John walks across the street to his office in Crystal City while Marie walks to the Pentagon. They have three school age children, Sheral, John and Sara, all of whom love the recreational facilities. And I was impressed that it costs considerably less than my house payments!

If I were coming to D.C. for a tour I'd look into it. Imagine not fighting the traffic every morning and evening.

HERE & THERE Larry Vogt assumed command of the USS TECUMSEH (SSBN-628), homeported in Charleston, S.C. Cdr. John Dipalo, Venezuelan Navy, is back in our country attending the Naval War College in Newport, R.I. Joe King is the XO of the newest nuclear powered surface ship to join the U.S. Fleet.

The USS SOUTH CAROLINA was commissioned

at the Norfolk Naval Station on 25 January. Joe and his family are living in Hampton, Va. and expect to be homeported in Norfolk for the next two years.

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Pres., Maj. Fritz Warren, USMC Sec'y, Mr. Frank Barnes 7705 Falstaff Rd., McLean, VA 22107 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. D. M. Collins, USN P.O. Box 7539, Ben Franklin Station Washington, DC 20044 Percent Members: 32

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Pres., Cdr. John Poindexter, USN Sec'y, Cdr. Ernest C. Luders, USN Aerospace Engineering Dept., USNA Annapolis, MD 21402 Tel.: (301) 267-3285 Autovon: 281-3285 Percent Members: 32

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Chmn. Exec. Com., Cdr. Edward B. Baker, USN Sec'y, LCdr. Lloyd Adams, USN 7869 Godolphin Dr. Springfield, VA 22153 or, P.O. Box 1692, Annapolis, MD 21404 Percent Members: 29 WASHINGTON AREAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;59eTs from the Washington area gathered the last weekend in January for an informal Dark Ages party

Joe King Norm Mayo is headed for Washington and duty in OSD. Don Raunig has orders to Antartic DEVRON 6 and Russ Whipps is on his way to VA-115. Several Civil Engineers also are moving; John Gunther from USNA to Public Works Center, Subic Bay; Bob Booth from Glynco, Ga. to MCAS Kaneoke Bay HI; Jerry Horecek from HQ to CinCEastLant Staff. Ray Art finishes at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, England and goes to USS LITTLE ROCK this summer; Jack Austin has orders to VS-28 and should be moving soon.

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Pres., Mr. Henry A. Lawinski Sec'y, Dr. Jose Chavez P.O. Box 184, GreeleyviUe, SC 29056 Percent Members: 33

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Pres., LCdr. John Hewitt, USN Sec'y, LCdr. Howard Pinskey, (SC) USNR-R Captain's Enterprises 2521 Riva Road Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 34 Springtime rolls around again and most of us east of the Mississippi emerge from snow into the bright sunshine. It's also an excellent time to sit down and tell your classmates about yourself and your family.

As evidenced by the scarcity of news this month, your input would be greatly appreciated.

Received a letter this month from Don Howd, a loyal Alumni Association member who left us before graduation. He is now completing his tenth year with the Postal Inspection Service and is currently working at 90 Church Street in New York City. His assignments have been quite varied, including internal theft, bomb investigation speciahst, major crimes and burglary coordinator. Don and wife Jean have a family of two boys and two girls. He invites any classmate passing through New York to drop in at Room 519 at 90 Church Street. Coffee is always on.

This is a good time to remind everyone to be sure to renew his Alumni membership when it comes due. Also ask a friend or company mate who does not belong to join up. You can tell who is a member by looking on the '62 Gouge. If the last letter on the first line is an "M," he is a member.

We need your support in increasing our class membership in the Association. Thanks for your help.

Please remember our MIAs including Brad and Smokey in your prayers. We demand to know their status from the NVM.

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Pres., Kent A. Maxfield Sec'y, MUie Shelley 7096 Leewood Forest Drive Springfield, VA 22151 Percent Members: 32 As I promised last month, here is most of Win Orgera's report on activities on the West Coast: "Beat Army really took on the blue and gold look in Southern California this No-

vember as 12 of us with our ladies gathered at the Orgera house to enjoy a little friendship and memories. Alice and Mike Cronin drove up from Solana Beach. Mike is Ops Officer of VF-126 at Miramar. Alice is expecting their first child any day now. Karen and Steve Hoy came from Long Beach, where he is now entrenched with the commercial real estate firm of Coldwell Banker.

He has lost quite a bit of weight and looks more like a successful businessman than a jock from Navy. Nancy and Hank Kahrs live in Huntington Beach. Hank is Navy Deputy Program Manager for Test and Evaluation for the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. He is one of two Naval Officers stationed at the USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization in El Segundo.

They have one son, "JJ," who is a year old.

Nancy is from Baton Rouge, as is my wife, and went to school with Clay Dugas. Diana and Gary Smith live in Westminister. Gary is booming along as Sales Manager for TRW Power Semiconductor. Emily and Donn McCrory brought their two children and spent the night with us. Donn is the Fighter Projects Officer at VX-4 in Point Mugu. Jim Thornton and his fiancee, Jan stopped in from Pasadena. Jim is a manager with New York Life and should be opening his own office soon. June and Chuck Stone live right down the street from us.

Chuck is a Pork Chop at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. He expects to be heading for the University of Michigan in August to work on his MBA. John Pfeiffer drove up from San Diego with his fiancee, Pam. John is XO of USS LOCKWOOD (DE-1064), but has orders to Norfolk as Aide to Deputy CINCLANT/CINCLANTFLT. Jean and Mike Whitmore live in Huntington Beach also. Mike is an Assistant Manager and salesman with Connecticut Mutual Life.

Helen and Dick Anderson are Mike's neighbors in Huntington Beach. Dick is at Long Beach Naval Shipyard, involved in Salvage and other things that were over my head.

Barbara and Glenn Takabayashi came over from Santa Ana. He is a Second Officer/ Flight Engineer with me at Western Airlines.

"There are quite a few other classmates in the area who were unable to be at the gathering. Pete White is in LA with LA Water and Power. Chuck Frazer is teaching school and coaching football in Yorba Linda. Dick Brown is living in Costa Mesa and was on his way to England for a little vacation. Dave Nelson is in San Diego and is the Manager of Marketing Research for Gulf Atomic Power. Hank Dalton is in San Diego as XO of the LANG. Charlie Helsper, Dave Riley, Al Sherman, Ray Theep, Fish Almond, and Lee Tillotson are also in San Diego. Pete Nomura is a dentist up in Oxnard! Rich Rogers is in LA, and Ross Anderson is in Marketing with Northrop working on the YF-I7. Steve Longo is flying for Continental and living in Laguna Beach.

Kathy and Flak Logan live in San Diego, where Flak is trying to pi4t some of his expertise from PG school to use for the Navy and is finding that Civil Service is even bigger than the Navy.

"On 14 December Sally and I drove to San Diego for the wedding of John Pfeiffer and Pam Bohling. No one could believe it,

but it really did happen. Holding swords for John and his bride were Dick McKenna and Phil Marsden, among others. Dick is XO, USS KIRK, and Phil is Ops Boss on an LPD. John was, of course, very happy. He couldn't believe that he can now go to dinner and bring his own friend. Pam has a three-year-old son named, appropriately, "JJ" and from the way John acts you would think he had been a daddy all his life.

Pam and John Pfeiffer's wedding "Sally and I are looking forward to our new house, now nearing completion in Laguna Beach. Our address as of Febmary will be 3220 Bem Court, Laguna Beach CA 92651. I am still flying with Western Airlines, and have a bid on the DC-10 for this summer."

To top off this incredibly good letter. Win sent along three photos. The first was taken at Pam and John Pfeiffer's wedding. The others are from the Beat Army party.

Kneeling, left to right, in the second photo are Whitmores and Hoys. Standing are Jim Thornton and fiancee, Cronins, Smiths, and Kahrs. Kneeling in the third photo are Takabayashis and Stones. Standing are McCrory s. Win Orgera, Pfeiffers, and Andersons.

The first meeting of the Trustees of the Class of 1963 Foundation was held at Alumni House in Annapolis on 21 January.

On hand were Sonny Glassner, Satch Baumgart, Lee Cargill, Al Griggs, Stu Settle, and Bob Forster. Jim Ring and Kent Maxfield attended as observers. The Trustees elected Sonny as Foundation President and Stu as Secretary. Although not a Trustee, Jim Ring will continue to serve as Foundation Treasurer. Two standing committees. Finance and Administration, were established, to be headed by Lee Cargill and Bob Forster, respectively. Several aspects of organization and finance were discussed. The next meeting of the Trustees will be held this spring.

John P. Bums has become a partner in the Reston, Virginia, law firm of Magoffin, Maguire and Burns. After leaving the Navy in September of 1967, John attended Tulane Law School for a year and a half. He then accepted a fellowship for MBA study at Stanford, receiving that degree in 1972. He joined General Electric as a management consultant in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He left GE to teach marketing at Georgetown University, during which time he completed his Juris Doctorate requirements. John was admitted to the Virginia Bar in October and expects to join the D.C. Bar in May. John R. Boley has been promoted to the position of Superintendent of Surgical Adhesives Equipment Control in the Johnson & Johnson Company's Midwestern Surgical Shipmate

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Beat Army party at the Orgeras' Dressings Plant in Chicago. John has been with the company since he left the Navy in 1969, holding down several engineering and maintenance positions in its Southwestern Surgical Dressings plant in Sherman, Texas. He joined the Chicago operations of the firm last summer. John, Margarette, and their two children live at 6739 Briargate Drive, Downers Grove IL 60515.

How long has it been since you sent some news along for use in the Shipmate column?

Most of us never have. Why not break with tradition and write me a letter this month?

Our Marine Corps classmates are out there somewhere; somebody please tell me where and who.

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Pres., Lt. Thomas J. Swartz, USN Sec'y, LCdr. James Baumstark, USN USS G. P. LISCOMB ( S S N - 6 8 5 ) ,

FPO NY 09501 Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. Robert Joyce, USN Candidate Guidance Div. USNA, Annapolis, MD 21402 Percent Members: 34 As I begin my first column as Corresponding Secretary for '64, 1 have to convey thanks and best wishes from all of us to my predecessor. Grant Fulkerson, who did such a fine job for the past three years.

Grant is on the West Coast going through a few schools prior to taking over as Weapons Boss in BAINBRIDGE

John Boley Mario Fiori has received orders from OP96 to duty as XO, USS G. W. CARVER

(SSBN-656) (Blue), homeported in New London. This will be Mario's first SSBN duty. Fred Davis has been transferred from the Deep Submergence Office in OpNav and is now Supply Officer for ComSubPac in Pearl Harbor. Dave Riley is attending the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk.

Chuck Fishbum is at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Travis Beard has finished his studies in the Nuclear Engineering Department of Texas A & M University and has accepted a position in Idaho. (Doing what, Travis?)

The response to our call for help in locating "missing" classmates has been good so far. We have even heard from two alumni fathers about the whereabouts of their '63 sons. Here is this month's installment of names: Rod Hopkinson, Larry Doll, Mike Dickerson, Brian Campbell, Pat Enright, Bill Karpinski, Clete Campbell, Bob Nobbs, Noel Bing, Bruce Gunkle, Derek Simmons, Mark Crane, Bill Kennedy, Joe Piper, Randy Smith, George Mullen, Dick Sidford, Earl Buck. If you have any information about any of these men, please send it to me.

April, 1975

uating. One of our jobs is directing the efforts of Blue and Gold Officers across the country. For those of you unfamiliar with it, the Blue and Gold Program is charged with seeking out and counseling young men of exceptional potential to prepare for careers in the Naval Service through the Naval Academy. (Do you remember when you had all that potential?) It is a great way for those no longer on active duty to be of service to USNA. Several classmates are very active in the program including Jim Hubbard in Wilmington, Delaware; Mike Foley in Houston; John Kendall in Philadelphia; Al Coulson in Ventura, California; Ron Moser in Lexington, Kentucky; and Dick Merritt in Long Beach, New York. Any of you who may be interested in learning more about the program, please contact me at the above address and I'll be happy to fill you in.

So much for this month. Please keep the mail coming my way and we might make this column a little longer. If nothing else, a current address would be most helpful.

(DLGN-25).

I know the class joins me in wishing both Ann and Grant a fine tour of duty.

Though I will write it, this is your column, so please let me know you're alive, where you are and what you're doing so I can tell the world.

Congratulations are in order for Tom Baer, who has been named Vice President of Manufacturing and Production of Protective Packaging, Inc., a subsidiary of Nuclear Engineering Company, Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky. Tom was formerly with Metropolitan Edison of Reading, Pennsylvania.

Dave Kanning writes that he has left Australia after a two year exchange tour with the RAAF. (Why doesn't my detailer ever mention duty like that to me?) Dave is now Officer Programs Officer for COMNAVCRUITAREA FOUR in Columbus, Ohio.

Dave Wynne reports a three way shift of '64 in the AEDO community. Dave relieved Bart Strong as Management Services Officer and Comptroller at NARF Pensacola. Bart took over Jack Costello's job as Helo Class Desk Officer on COMNAVAIRLANT's staff and Jack is now at Test Pilot School at Pax River.

I am presently assigned to the Candidate Guidance Oflice at the Academy, an office that came into existence as we were grad-

Pres., LCdr. Sam Dutrow, Jr., USN Sec'y, Lt. Rick Brush, Jr., USN 7436 Bovet Way San Diego, CA 92122 Percent Members: 28 The mailbag was rather light this month— a lone letter from Arnie McKechnie who checked in from Sasebo, Japan. Arnie passed on that Doug Norton assumed command of USS RECLAIMER (ARS-32) on 20 Jan. '75

in Singapore. Doug had just completed a super tour as DCA aboard CORAL SEA. Carol and Arnie happily announce the birth of a baby boy Jack, on 1 Nov. '74— 7 lbs. 13 oz. Baby Jack joins their two other boys, Scott and Steven, to load the bases, but Arnie says the team stops there! The family certainly enjoys the Oriental atmosphere of Sasebo, but all are anxiously looking forward to rotation this June—destination now unknown.

Frank Wilson called and reports that all is well aboard USS SCHNECTADY and Les Heselton reports the same from Fleet Combat Systems Training Command, Pacific, alias "Fiddle Sticks." Terry Smith happily took custody of 15 grand from the local DK and promptly went to work last January as a Production Engineer for a San Diego based petroleum company. Dave Anderson (OPS) and J. J. Carter (ENG) are both doing well in USS HALSEY (DLG-23), but I'm sure both had second thoughts about entering Phase I of RefTra here in San Diego.

Just for info I'm checking into the mechanics of Steve McDonald's newsletter.

I know only that no contact was made for insertion into our column. Nonetheless, for those who didn't receive Steve's letter, it concerned our Super 10th Reunion and that Doug Katz needs a thumbnail sketch of our activities since '65 for a new Class Directory.

Doug's address is 105 Bark Court, Arnold MD 21012. Any recommendations on the reunion itself should be sent to Steve McDonald, Box 593003, Miami FL 33159.

That's about it for now—take care, write soon and hope to see you in May.

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Pres., Capt. Robert L. Spooner, USMC Sec'y, Mr. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. 4430 Jewell, Apt. 316 San Diego, CA 92109 Percent Members: 27 Denny Doyle completed PG School at Monterey with an MS in Mechanical Engr. and is reporting to USS LEAHY

(DLG-16)

as Engineering OflBcer. Denny says he'll miss the Califomia sun, but is looking forward to sea duty again! Now that's something!

In the way of class news, the portrait of Fleet Admiral Nimitz should be complete and will be hung in the new library with an appropriate inscription in the name of our class. In connection with this, I need our class treasurer, Al Sears, to come out of hiding, and get in touch with me. If anyone sees him, have him get in touch with me as soon as possible.

Paul Donaldson writes from Monterey that he graduated from PG school and is headed to Cruiser Destroyer Development Group, Charleston. He and his wife, Carol, join Joan and Tom Huffman. Paul and Tom will be working jointly on ASW systems.

Within a year, they will both be transferred to Norfolk to work for the Surface Force Atlantic Fleet Group.

Some of the December 1974 graduates from Monterey include: Harriet and Don Colley, USS

BENJAMIN

STODDERT

(DLG-

22), as Chief Engineer; Ann and Otis Cole, USS MOUNT VERNON (LSD-39); Lynn and

Ace Sarich, Naval Coastal Systems Lab, Panama City, Fla.; Harriet and Hank Strickland, USS COCHRANE (DDG-21); Marcia and John Sulfaro, VA-35 NAS Oceana; and Mary and Denny Zveare, Office of Naval Research, Wash., D.C. Barbara and Jim Galvin planned a "Beat Army" party which was held at the Monterey O' Club. They concluded that the sipping and singing around the fireplace must have done the Big Blue some good!

Some of the new arrivals at PG school include the Jim Haleys, coming from the stress and strain of recruiting duty in San Antonio, Texas and now studying Arabic at the Defense Language Institute; the Don Berkebiles, finally out of the Bureau, and into management curriculum; Dana and Don Kern, from Pax River and now studying aero engineering; Candy and Bob Ellis; Jerry and Andy Beck, and the Peter Wrights.

Lynn and Ace Sarich welcomed a baby girl. Holly, in November, and Barbara and Jim Galvin became the proud parents of a boy, James J. Jr. Joe Mobley graduated from Monterey in March. He packed his gear, loaded his Corvette, and was off to an attack squadron at NAS Whidbey Island.

Jane and Joe Felty also graduated from Monterey recently, and are now in San Diego.

Waves of nostalgia brought Steve Berg back into the fold, and he dropped us a line recently to check into the class news.

He and Pam are up in Twin Falls, Idaho, where Steve is ranning his own insurance agency. They miss the year round climate, but love the summers and autumns so much that they have settled there permanently.

Some of the old gang got off the beaten track and stopped in to say hello. Barb and Tom Mintun stopped on their way from San Francisco to Idaho Falls, where Tom is in training with Westinghouse. (If old man George only knew what we really learned in Sampson Hall!)

Steve is the 1975 Twin Falls County Crusade Chairman for the American Cancer Society. He adds that if anyone would like to contribute to the society through his branch they can contact him at Box 305, Twin Falls ID 83301. His intention is to make a donation to the society in the name of the class.

Judy and Bo Wiley were in California in January. Bo is out of law school and will be joining the law firm of Westover, Curry, and Mattson in Newport Beach, Cal. in June. Bo and Judy are expecting their second any day. Bo has his own plane now so that he can avoid the annoyance of commercial airlines to Las Vegas, and he can be in action at a minute's notice. How sweet it is!

Sam Lincoln is up in San Francisco and is contemplating going with McDonald's hamburger chain after he leaves the Navy.

He and Liz have a new addition to the family that should be nearly a year old now. I think it is a girl, but that's purely hearsay.

That's all for this time. Keep the letters coming in.

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Pres., Lt. Dave Materna, USN Sec'y, Capt. Edward H. Mills, USMC TSTD, MCTSSA Camp Pendleton, CA 92055 Percent Members: 29 Both contractors are now eight months late on a fifteen month delivery schedule for PLRS, so I have been extended in MCTSSA until November in hopes that the Marine Corps will eventually receive a system to test. All my attempts to get orders back to flying by this summer were unsuccessful.

Arlene and Al Thornton hosted a dinner party for several classmates in their Sevema Park, Md., home after the last Homecoming game. From left to right, the Thorntons, Bill and Sally Gibson, Joe and Kathy Bezdek, Rich and Sharon Olson, Rudy and Diane DeAtley. Joe is attending the

Georgetown University School of Dentistry, the other four gents are working for Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. Rudy and BiU are in the Quality Assurance Department, while Rich and Al are working in Engineering.

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Pres., Lt. Dennis E. Blair, USN Sec'y, Lt. R. Mitchell Brown, III, USN 332 Lynbrooke Road Springfield, PA 19064 Percent Members: 27 As this issue of the class news goes to print, we have an input from far-flung shores to report. Cindy and Jim Cookingham write from Madrid, where they are pursuing their alternative to becoming Engineer on a Nuc. By way of an update, following NPS and Sub School, Jim reported aboard USS SEADRAGON ( S S N - 5 8 4 ) in Peari

Harbor during November 1969. He stayed aboard until his resignation in June 1973, making an eight-month WestPac cruise and a trip north under the ice in the spring of '73. Back in November 1972 he married Cindy McCammon in Hanalei, Hawaii.

After leaving the Navy in '73, they invested in a VW camper in Honolulu and embarked on an extended camping trip until October 1974 (I guess they liked it . . . ?!). Having crossed the United States, in January 1974 they carried their travels to Europe, camping in virtually every country north of the Med, and even got as far north as one can go in Europe, about 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle. In October the Work Ethic got the best of them, and they are now in Spain working for Westinghouse Nuclear Europe out of Brussels. As they expect to remain in Madrid for about a year, Jim and Cindy would love to see any classmates coming through the area. Their address is: Generalisimo 52-3, Madrid 16, Spain (Telephone 259-2793). Now that's what I call an alternative!

Moving closer to home, Nancy and Dave Lee are rejoicing in the birth of their second son, Bryan Bradford, who arrived 2 Jan. in Annapolis (Dave is a Weapons Prof.).

Also in the news from Crabtown, Rick Buchanan writes that Jan and John Knapp and their two-year-old son Johnny recently arrived to become to 33rd Company Officer at USNA. Rick sent along an article about another classmate, Chet Wright, who is now a Pentecostal minister in Annapolis.

Thornton's Homecoming party

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75 Following graduation Chet went to Pensacola for flight training, only to have his career in Navy Air nipped in the bud by a shoulder accident. Not one to be daunted in the face of adversity, Chet pursued studies to become a minister, with the support of his wife, Alice. After extensive evangelical work throughout the country and Canada, the Wrights have settled in to build a church, and are doing extremely well. Their congregation has grown from 3 to 295 in the last three years, and plans are now underway for a permanent church buUding. Chet, Alice and their three-yearold son currently live in Eastport.

The third installment in our travel report comes from Steve Erb in the ENTERPRISE in the Indian Ocean. Following PG school in November 1969 Steve reported to Pensacola with Pete Peterson for flight training. The two went through the training command together and Pete went to Norfolk for E-2's while Steve reported to Whidbey. There he decided that flying was not his bag, and spent about fifteen months as the Assistant EA-6B Maintenance/Engineering Officer with COMMATVAQWINGPAC staff. Steve enjoyed it and is now a maintenance-type with VAQ-137, the new expanded capability EA-6B Prowler aircraft (Double Uglies). They are currendy hanging on scuttlebutt about returning to Alameda via the Atlantic and South Pacific. Back home Judy is minding their three sons, Scott, Glenn and Grey. Scott arrived in Meridian, and Glenn and Greg were surprise twins, born 30 October 1973. Steve and Judy were informed that they would have twins eighteen hours before delivery!

Mary and Pete Peterson just reported to USNA from VAW-124, after trips to SE Asia and the Med aboard AMERICA. Hopefully the Electrical Engineering Department won't be deploying soon, and Robbie and Erica will get to see more of their dad over the next few years. One note of correction to a previous column, Steve reports that Kevin Dwyer is flying F-14's for VF-1, vice VF-2, both being on the Big "E." Wrapping up the news, I have one more "biggie" for you. After years of reporting on other people's good news, I am pleased to announce that, God willing, Sandy and I hope to join that elite group known as parents in August. No predictions yet, and we haven't any particular preference, but you may rest assured that we'll keep you posted. Yea us! Keep that mail coming (that way you won't have to read too much Brown baby talk in the column!).

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Pres., Lt. William H. Newton, III, USN Sec'y Mr. Marshall E. Rachmiel 451 NE 91st St. Miami Shores. FL 33138 Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Lanny Hunt, USN Math Dept.

USNA. Annapolis, MD 21402 Percent Members: 27 GREETINGS CLASSMATES! Once again, the untimely death of another classmate saddens this article. Lt. Steven Charles Epperson USN was killed 28 September April, 1975

1974. I have only scanty details but it is my understanding that Steve was fatally injured in an aircraft accident while attached to VS-29 at North Island. Bob MuUins has queried the NAAA about obtaining a seat in Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Steve's memory. To Steve's survivors, the Class extends its deepest sympathy.

Bob "Woody" Wood reports to us again from the USS MIDWAY while docked in Subic Bay. John Scrapper, flying A-6s off USS CORAL SEA, is nearly qualified as LSO while attached to VA-95. John's wife Julie will finish her Veterinary degree from Texas A&M in about a year. More Intruders: Tony Fortino has departed the RAG to join John in VA-95 while Mel Etheridge recently reported aboard VA-128 for training.

Kathleen and Steve McHenry are living in Pacific Beach CA where they have found time to rear a boy and girl while Steve is aboard USS VANCOUVER (LPD-2). Tom Tonden has resigned from nuclear power to become an engineer in Connecticut. Rich Puckett is safely aboard USS OKINAWA (LPH-3) while his wife continues to collect royalties from the TV commercial she was featured in over a year ago. It seems this very lucky incident has blossomed from a $3500 adventure into a $9000 money maker. Let's see, "two all beef patties, special sauce, . , ," Jim Moses wrote a nice letter from Warwick RI where he is pursuing a Master of Marine Affairs degree. Since leaving the Navy in July 1974, Bonnie and Jim have seen few classmates due to the Fleet's departure from Rhode Island. Jim was the OOD in USS Fox (DD-829) the morning of the mining of Haiphong Harbor and would like any classmates that may have photos of the ship to contact him at 28 Cedar Pond Dr., Warwick RI 02886. Jim also reports that Larry Hagel has recently married and that Jim Gierucki left the Navy on a physical disability as his football damaged knee just wouldn't heal. He's working with his father's company in Chicago.

Glenn Whaley was married 22 Febraary to the former Susan Adams of Lexington MA. The Class wishes only the best to you and your new bride, Glenn! I recently received a Fleet news release on Chuck Carroll who piloted the ship's helo in rescuing an overboard seaman from the USS W. S. SIMS. Robin and Tom Butler are departing VP-6 in Barbers Point for tour at VP-31 at Moffett Field.

ANNAPOLIS NEWS! Denny Glass has message orders to Crabtown as does Jim Dolan. Bernadette and Jim have already bought a home nearby and he is looking forward to his stint with Seamanship and Tactics. Departing as Weapons Boss aboard USS W M . R . RUSH, Jim passes along a little info on the 35th Company crowd. Jerry Kislia is an apprentice bank manager in Miami. Suzanne and Fred Posey are in San Antonio TX where Fred is employed by a drag firm. Denny Colin is in the Washington area with IBM selling sonar systems to the Navy. Anita and Bob Maclver are living in Dallas where Bob is doing well, and finally Steve Kuppe is an instructor at the Surface Warfare Officers School in Newport and loving it.

Remember that old pap. Public Display of Affection? Well spring is nearly here and it is stUl being publicly displayed. May the Dark Ages go in hibernation another year. BEAT Army.

Lanny

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Pres., Lt. Jeff Schott, USN Sec'y, Lt. Fred Hall, USN 5384 Coachway Drive Norfolk, VA 23502 Percent Members: 25

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Pres., Lt. (jg) Michael E. McCuddin, USN Acting Corr. Sec'y. I Lt. Dan Nelson, USMC 8810 Enfield Court Laurel, MD 20811 Percent Members: 22 Sad news has arrived all too frequently this past month as I have received word that three members of the class have recently died. Craig McFarlane was killed in an aircraft accident in Lemoore, Califomia on 6 November. He is survived by his wife, Nancy. Deck Pullen died on 8 January when the Marine CH-53 which he was flying out of New River crashed near Salisbury, Maryland. He is survi\'ed by his wife, Janice, and a son. Finally, Rick Hormel was kUled when his A-7 went down near Lemoore on 12 February. 1 am sure that each of us was friends with at least one of these men and not much more can be said except that they will be missed.

The Naval Academy Memorial Fund has received a donation from the employees of the Blake Construction Co., Inc., of Washington DC in memory of Lt.(jg) Richard Hormel, to be used to further the recreational program of the Brigade of Midshipmen.

In some cheerier happenings, Marty Speer was married to Gwen Shafer in Annapolis on 15 Febraary. Participating in the ceremony were Bow Rose, Scott McKenzie, and Dan Nelson. Brad Closson and his wife also came down from Washington where Brad is aide to the admiral in charge of the Washington Naval District. Ginny and John Sattler and Candy and Os Fretz also attended.

Pam and Mike McNallen have just returned from Subic Bay for duty at the Academy. Pam and Tom Galloway are also in Annapolis where Tom is teaching YP's or some such thing.

B. J. Horais was married in November to Cathy Harmen who is a Navy nurse.

B. J. just received his wings and is anticipating orders for Norfolk. Steve Riggs is XO of the Marine Detachment in the ENTERPRISE in Alameda. His wife Kathy wrote a nice letter while trying to use up some of Steve's time at sea. The Riggs now have two sons, ages 3 and Vi. Kathy reported that Alan Schaffter was married last August while Gail and Doc Ruddock have reported in for instructor duty at Bainbridge. Kate and Kevin Green and their two boys are in Monterey while Kevin attends PG School along with Tom Musso.

76 Joyce and Brett Waterman are the new parents of a son and are stationed in New River for those periods of time when Brett is not in the Med. Lynne and Hank Turowski are at Guantanamo Bay where Hank is a CEC officer assigned to Public Works. Lynne says that the liberty is not so hot but that the weather is great. She and Hank have two young sons with the youngest being b o m this past December. On their last trip to the States the Turowskis saw John Rosinski, who was discharged from the Navy for medical reasons a couple of years ago. John is presently living in Nashville and doing well writing country music under the name of Josh Whitmore.

Marsha and Jim Brick wrote in with news from Charleston where Jim is Damage Control Officer in the DANIEL BOONE (Blue).

They live in Foxborough which is reportedly overran with USNA grads of all ages.

In the same neighborhood are Barb and Pete Flannery and their daughter, Mary Jane and Jim Metzger and their daughter, and Shelly and Tom Hutson. Pete is in the

all of the unaccounted 27th Company personnel have gone. They are interested in having a company reunion and ask that those proud members of 27 who can read write them at 103 Hampton Court, Goose Creek SC 29445.

Finally, as the attached photo attests, country boys can make good, as Charlie Wood recently did while making his 100th

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Pres., Ens. Steve Ingram, USN Sec'y, Ens. Dean R. Brown, USN BOQ, Kingsville NAS Kingsville, TX 78363 Percent Members: 49

jet landing on the USS MIDWAY.

That's about it for this month. Keep those letters and wireless messages coming in and have an enjoyable spring.

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Pres., Ens. George Yacus, USN Sec'y, Ens. Mike Chaplain, USN USS ROBERT E . PEARY ( D E 1073)

FPO San Francisco, CA 96601 Percent Members: 41

SAND LANCE, Jim is in the GEORGE BANCROFT, and Tom is attached to the HENRY

L. STIMSON. Jenny and Steve Spancake recently left Charleston for Windsor CT. Susie and Jeff Loustaunau and Susie and Pete Charlie Wood's 100th deVos are all living in Norfolk where Jeff and Pete are attached to the SPADEFISH. Michele and Dana Roberts are enjoying shore duty at Bainbridge. David Lee is the XO of a minesweeper in Jacksonville. Betsy Pres., 1st Lt. Joe Glover, USMC and Ted Fischer are in the THOMAS EDISON Sec'y, 1st Lt. Frank L. Gibson, USMC which is in the yard in Vallejo and Tina Marine Barracks and Finley Foster are in Eliot ME while U.S. Naval Base Subic, Box 56 Finley's boat, the TREPANG is in the yard. FPO, San Francisco, CA 96651 Finally, the Bricks would like to know where Percent Members: 54

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Shipmate has received the following letter from Ens. WUliam D. Bruen, Jr., Vice President of the Class of 1974: "In an effort to present a realistic view of various types of surface line duty to the Class of '76 prior to their service selection, we are trying to compile a portfolio of letters and information from 'surface liners' in the class. If interested in writing something about your duties, experiences, impressions, etc., write to: Ens. William D. Bruen, Jr., USN, USS BIGELOW (DD-942), FPO New York NY 09501 for further details. Any and all contributions to this effort will Ije greatly appreciated."

Since service selections are made around mid-November, Shipmate suggests that those interested start submitting their material now, so that it can be compiled in time to be effective.

Chapter News ALBUQUERQUE

BALTIMORE

CLEVELAND

Mr. Donald G. Baker Albuquerque Chapter, USNAAA Box 5631 Kirtland AFB, NM 87115

Cdr. Robert R. Goll, USNR 808 Chumleigh Rd. Baltimore, MD 21212

LCdr. Richard Antolini, SC, USN 4567 Ashbury Park N. N. Olmsted, OH 44070

BOSTON

ANNAPOLIS Lt. D. R. Ellison, USN 715 Fairway Drive Annapolis, MD 21401

ATLANTA Capt. J. Hatch, USN (Ret.) 4770 Tall Pines Dr., N.W. Atlanta, GA 30327

CHAPTER

SECRETARIES

Please note the deadlines printed in Class News heading.

Mr. G. Gilbert Tallau 50 Lucas Dr. Haverhill, MA 01830 Noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;2nd Tuesday Charlestown O'Club

CHATTANOOGA Michael Easley Lundy 8th Floor, Blue Cross BIdg. 801 Pine St. Chattanooga, TN 37402

CHICAGO Mr. James N. Gillman 37 Graymoor Lane Olympia Fields, IL 60461 1900â&#x20AC;&#x201D;1st Friday

Under the leadership of Chapter President, BUI Myers '38, and Executive Board members, Joe Callahan '46 (Treasurer), A. O. Rule '50, Tony Celebrezze '63, Ralph Murphy '49, Fred Schnurr '44, Dave Weidenkopf '51, Bill McCafferty '52 (Vice President), and Dick Antolini '60 (Secretary), a very successful 1974 was concluded as area alumni hosted thirty-one USNA Midshipmen on leave at a Christmas Luncheon held 30 December 1974. Seventy-six alumni, Midshipmen and guests, and friends of the Navy attended the annual get-together at the U. S. Coast Guard Officers' Club in downtown Cleveland.

A highlight of the year occurred on 11 December 1974 as the Chapter hosted Alumni President, Admiral Arleigh Burke, USN (Ret.), at 1 Bratenahl Place. Twenty-seven shipmates, including Dave Ackerman '41, Ed Bailey '60, Hugh Burkens '62, Bob Crouch Shipmate

77 '57, Don Gairing '49, Tom Glew '60, Kermit Greeneisen '57, Don Haeske '49, Ray Herzberger '42, Bob Hexter '46, Rick Moore •46, Ned Oldham '58, Ted Smith '50, Harian Twible '46, Rich Wallace '61, Henry Wilson '48A, Charley Briggs '64, and Chapter officers were given the opportunity of hearing about and discussing global and naval affairs with Admiral Burke. The visit concluded with a tour of the Navy Finance Center's new Admiral Isaac Kidd Computer Center.

Captain Ralph Murphy '49, Commanding Officer of the Navy Finance Center, and a team of his officers briefed the Admiral and Alumni on the sophisticated data processing systems in operation there.

In addition to periodic Chapter luncheons, other notable events during 1974 included a night at the theater on 3 May featuring "lACQUES BREL," a spring dinner-dance on 1 June and a 28 September trek to Ann Arbor for the Navy-Michigan game.

Since early April 1974, Chapter growth has been vigorous. Membership stands at thirty-three with at least ten more Alumni expected to join as this is submitted. The schedule for 1975 promises to be even better.

For plaiming purposes, here's the partial 1975 schedule.

22 Jan.—Luncheon meeting, Hofbrau Haus 1 Mar.—"IRENE" starring Jane Powell Mar.—Luncheon meeting Apr./May—Spring outing Tentative plans call for summer golf, Pitt or Notre Dame in the fall. Midshipman '75 Dance and Breakfast or Luncheon and a number of other events. Since schedules are sent only to members. Alumni in the area are invited to call BUI Myers, 781-9212, or Dick Antolini, 522-5751, for more information. Membership is ten dollars; checks should be made out to Cleveland Chapter, USNA Alumni Association, and mailed to Captain R. F. Murphy, Jr., SC, USN, Navy Finance Center, Cleveland OH 44199.

As a final note, congratulations are in order to Tony Celebrezze '63. Tony launched a successful bid for the 25th Ohio Senate District seat this past November and will be dividing his time between Columbus and Cleveland the next four years.

COLORADO Mr. Arthur G. Stiles 4581 Allison St. Wheat Ridge, CO 80033

COLUMBUS Mr. L. Deke Lang 358 W. Cassady Ave. Columbus, OH 43209

CONNECTICUT Lt. WilUam S. Boykin, Jr., USN Box 700 Code 24 NavSubSchol Groton, CT 06340 Quarterly Varies in different parts of the state

DETROIT Mr. James W. Fleming 2662 Willow Dearborn, MI 48124 April, 1975

EUROPEAN Mr. Jacques-P. Haumont, Galeries Stephanie, 79 Avenue Louise Brassels 1000, Belgium

FLORIDA SPACE COAST Maj. Wayne Oldfield USAF 941 Flotilla Club Drive Indian Harbor Beach FL 32937 At its January meeting, the Florida Space Coast Chapter elected new officers for the coming year: President, Russ Hart '29; Vice President, Red Orbeton '45; Secretary-Treasurer, Wayne Oldfield '57; and Board of Governors, Court Norton '40, Bob Brown '52, Gene Branson '46, Sam Watson '43 and Fred Schoenberger '55.

The next meeting was scheduled as a joint cocktail party with the Navy League at Patrick AFB O Club on 27 Febraary.

HONOLULU Capt. J. F. Laboon, CHC, USN 99-680 Halawa Dr. Aiea, HI 96701 The first meeting of the Honolulu Chapter for the new year 1975 was held at the "O" Club, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Wednesday evening 15 January. There were 50 in attendance including the guest speaker and several guests of members.

Our President, Adm. "Chick" Clarey '34, chaired the meeting in his very effective style. During the business part of the meeting, suggestions for several community projects were raised. The suggestion to obtain yearly subscriptions to the periodical, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings for the local high school libraries was floored and discussed. Groundwork for a decision to be made at the next meeting was accomplished.

A suggestion to write letters about the proposed increase of prices in the military commissaries was also raised. If the suggested price increase goes into effect, the new price rise would seriously effect military families, resulting in a severe loss of pay.

This thought-provoking item drew much support from the assembly.

The guest speaker for the occasion was Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis, Director of the Intemational Tsunami Information Center located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The noted Doctor spoke on "The Tsunami," followed by a film clip of damage caused by tsunamis of the past. The film also presented a brief but interesting analysis of the cause and effect of such a phenomenon. For the uninitiated, a tsunami is a great sea wave caused by underwater earth movement or volcanic action.

The meeting concluded with the singing of "Navy Blue and Gold" led by our treasurer Ed Keliikoa '60.

The following Alumni and guests were in attendance at the meeting; Domer '18 (guest from Sarasota F L ) ; Persons '29; Corey, Farrington '30; Harby, Jones '33; Clarey, Latham '34; Rynd '38; Vasey '39; Hamilton, O'Neill, Dozier '42; Laboon '44; King '45; Althoff, Renn, Robeson '46; Bromley, Child, Bowen '47; Arnold '48; Benson, CulweU, Wynne '49; Paddock, Sears, Tomb '51; Piatt Gray '52; Ascherfeld, Gibson '54; Keliikoa, Rohr, Eberlein, Lees, Lavely '60; Kuhns '61;

Adams, Fields '63; Stein '65; Zins '70; Zurfluh '71; Adams 7 2 . Felty, Latham, Butts were guests. Frank Embree, an Associate Member, also was present. Mike Harris of the Royal Navy was a guest also. Bill Butts mentioned above was the guest of Chariey CulweU. Bill is Chariey's brotherin-law, visiting the Culwells on a vacation.

HUNTSVILLE Cdr. Richard S. Sullivan, USNR 402 Homewood Dr. HuntsvUle, AL 35801

INDIANAPOLIS Mr. Brian Walker 7801 Rooker Road Indianapolis, IN 46250 The 1974-75 season of the Indianapolis Chapter of the USNA Alumni was off to a fantastic start with Bill and Sheila Ward's '38 annual com roast at their home. The gathering was enjoyed by: Byron and Arme Bettis '47, John and Lilyan Carlson '38, Fritz and Bee Graf '26, Bob and Joyce Johnstone '66, Elton and Vera Knapp '38, Joe and Mary Lehman '58, Bill and Dottie Ullrich '44, Brian and Flo Walker '56, and Ron and Mary Ann Waugh '48.

A joint Army-Navy cocktail party and lunch was held at the Heslar Naval Armory Wardroom to watch the game. The Sony regional distributor used a 3'x4' projector TV to present the "deluge of the doughboys." AU hands enjoyed the heckling and cheering of our favorite adversary.

Pictured at the victory celebration are Guy and Bebe Buck '48, John and Lilyan Carlson '38, Dave and Cynthia Heerwagen '50, Joyce Johnstone '66, Elton and Vera Knapp '38, Bill Morrison '35, Joe and Marcia Paull '58, Rawly and Pat Rawls '45, Larry and Barbara Sarno '60, Brian and Flo Walker '56, Bill and Sheila Ward '35, and Ron and Mary Ann Waugh '48.

Christmas in Indianapolis was highlighted by a dinner party at the quarters of Dave and Cynthia Heerwagen '50. All Midshipmen from the area were invited to join alumni for the festivities. Discussions with the Midshipmen brought back many almost forgotten stories and memories of Naval Academy days. Midshipmen 1/c Bob Bush with fiancee Denise Marquette, 3/c Mike Sturm and drag, 4/c Bill Jordon and drag were joined by alumni: John and LUyan Carlson '38, Dave and Cynthia Heerwagen '50, Mike and Diane Fitzgerald '68, Bob and Joyce Johnstone '66, Elton and Vera Knapp '38, Joe and Mary Lehman '58, Bob and Betty McMurray '22, Ed Patrick '60, Joe and Marcia Paull '58, Ed Shock '40, BiU and Dotie Ullrich '44, Joe and Teresa Viemann '47, Brian and Flo Walker '56, Ron and Mary Ann Waugh '48.

The New Year began in Indianapolis on 19 January at a dinner hosted by Elton and Vera Knapp '38 at the Heslar Armory Wardroom. They were joined by: John and Lilyan Carlson '38, Fritz and Bee Graf '26, Dave and Cynthia Heerwagen '50, Bob and Joyce Johnstone '66, Joe and Mary Lehman '58 Bob and Betty McMurray '22, Larry and Barbara Samo '60, Bill and Dotie Ullrich '44, Brian and Flo Walker '56, Bill and Sheila Ward '35, and Ron and Mary Ann Waugh '48.

78 The idea of creating car pools to attend the main Chapter meetings was kicked around and it seems that this could overcome the space and time problems of getting down to Long Beach, Los Alamitos and other "remote" sites for the meetings.

Attendees in order of Salinity were: Jack and Millie Edwards '30, Jack and Billie Roudebush '31, Soupy and Madeline Campbell '35, Jack and Ruth Whistler '37, BiU and Mary Lee Morgan '42, R. D. Farley '46, Phil Suhr '49, Don and Maureen Osborn '51, Pat and Joyce Flynn '53, Russ Simsarian '57, Jim and Barbara Roberts '59, and Mike Omuhundro '66 was the "plebe."

LOUISVILLE Mr. Walter W. Lamb 1911 Warrington Way Louisville KY 40222

Army-Navy game, Indianapolis Dave Heerwagen addressed the Navy's role in the American Bicentennial Celebration and Joe Lehman discussed how to assist interested young men to seek appointments.

JACKSONVILLE Mr. J. W. Moore 221 Margaret St. Neptune Beach, FL 32233 1 St Thursday, Sept.-June

KANSAS CITY LCdr. John Owen, USNR-R 821 W. 54th Terrace Kansas City, MO 64112

KITTYHAWK (Dayton, Ohio) Mr. J. M. Gallagher 294 Cherry Dr. Centerville, OH 45459 Monthly, days vary O Club, Wright-Patterson

LOS ANGELES Mr. James R. Simsarian USNA Alumni Association Los Angeles 333 South Flower St. Los Angeles CA 90017 At the 22 January meeting held at the Los Alamitos NAS Officers' Club, the Los Angeles Chapter installed its slate of officers for 1975. Outgoing President Phil Suhr '49 introduced new President Bob Cunningham '59, who presented VicePresident Tom State '55, Secretary Russ Simsarian '57, and Treasurer Greg Mather '62. Suhr announced the establishment of a permanent Chapter Office in the new Los Angeles Worid Trade Center, 333 South Flower Street, Los Angeles 90017, Telephone 213/628-3157. Cunningham expressed as goals for the coming year the growth of section activities and the initiation of Navy football radio broadcasts. Featured speaker of the evening was Capt. Blake V. Blakey, USNR, Blue and Gold Zone Coordinator who discussed the midshipman recmiting program and presented the award-winning film "Annapolis: The First Year." A lively question and answer session included a brief exchange about the restrictions on women

midshipmen. Senior graduate present was Phil Creasor '25, and youngest was Jim Maginn '64. Best represented class was '59 with 4 members. Captain Jack Blackwood '52 was the senior active-duty graduate present. Attendees included: Phil Creasor '25, Guy Gariand '29, Ray Bass '31, R. E. Stanley '33, Al Furer '36, Hal Felix '39, Stan Zipser '46, BUI Johnston '47, and Phil Suhr '49. Art Builta, Hal Frasier and Doug Michie of '50; Bob Zastrow and Jack Blackwood of '52; Dave Grover and Dean Strong of '53; Bill Slattery and Tom State of '55; Russ Simsarian '57; George Bethel, Bob Cunningham, John Kanuch, and Jerry Peterson '59; Dan Musselman '60, Don Grodon and Greg Mather of '62, Jim Thornton '63, and Jim Maginn '64.

The Northern Section of the Los Angeles Chapter, under leadership of Jack Whistler '37, met on 4 Febmary at The Guv'nor's in La Crescenta to introduce Bob Cunningham, the new Chapter President, to those who were unable to attend the main chapter meeting in Los Angeles in January. He stressed the need to familiarize ourselves with the Alumni mission, pointing out that the Blue and Gold program and the presentation of alumni swords to the outstanding NROTC midshipmen at UCLA and USC were examples of action being taken to attract good men to the naval service.

Phil Suhr, the outgoing Chapter President, attended and offered his property in the mountains for an outing or a camp-out if the section desired to take advantage of the offer. Russ Simsarian, the new Chapter Secretary, was also on hand. He will also serve as Central Section Leader.

One question from the floor dealt with the fact that Navy has not played on the West Coast in several years, and that it increased the difficulty of recmiting good football players and prospective Naval Officers when he did not "show the flag" in the hinterlands of Califomia, etc. Bob explained that the answer to this one was that schedules are made up many years in advance, so, if you were not always an outstanding team, the local interest in seeing you play was difficult to arouse, hence the desire to schedule your team was reduced.

Bob also pointed out that this year we nearly were eliminated from the "Boob Tube" for the Army-Navy Game!

MEMPHIS Mr. Henry A. Booth, Jr. 2570 Tigrett Cove Germantown TN 38038

MILWAUKEE Mr. Win Williams The Williams Agency 312 E. Wisconsin St. Milwaukee, WI 53202 Third Thursday, University Club, 1200 The Milwaukee Chapter had another usual busy month of activities during November.

The 21st saw several alumni turn out for the regular Third Thursday luncheon at the University Club: Bill Hanson '46, Win Williams '46, Bud Lockwood '50, Jim Arnold '56 and Ted Cheney '58. Highlight of the meeting was a discussion led by President Lockwood concerning two topics of key interest to everyone: (1) The real and important role of the Navy during the recent crisis on Cypras and; (2) The comparative strength today of our Navy and that of the Soviet Union.

Viewing the Army-Navy game took place at Ted Cheney's home with the following enthusiastic attendees and their wives: Bob Anderson '33; Barney Thielges '43, Jim Wish '44, Win Williams '46, John Camp '49, Bud Lockwood '50, Bob Davis '52 and Ted Cheney '58. A catered luncheon was served at half-time.

At the January luncheon, President Bud Lockwood announced a new format for our meetings, on the third Thursday of each month in the University Club (parking is free), at noon, with adjournment not later than 1330. All alumni in or passing through the area are cordially invited to attend.

The speaker was Harry Brockel, former Port Director of Milwaukee. He gave an extremely interesting talk about shipping in the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway, the ever increasing size of merchant ships and the importance of keeping all sea lanes open for commercial and naval traffic.

He commented on the effects of closing the Suez Canal and on the importance of the Panama Canal, dramatically pointing out the potentially disastrous effect of the current negotiations for return of the canal to Panama. He urged us all to be alert to Shipmate

79 the terms of the treaty now being written, and to demand that our national interests be protected.

Alumni attending were: Barney Thielges '43, Bill Hanson '46, Win Williams '46, John Camp '49, Bud Lockwood '50, Jim Arnold '56, Ted Cheney '58 and Terry Manson '70. Terry is newly assigned to the Milwaukee Recmiting District—we heartily welcome him aboard!

MISSISSIPPI Mr. Edward L. Walsh USNA Alumni Association P.O. Box 665 Jackson MS 39209 4th Friday, Noon (8 a year) Capital City-Petroleum Club

NAPLES Capt. Jack M. Stevens USN HQ AF South (Box 132) FPO New York NY 09524

NEW ORLEANS LCol. Rene S. Wogan, USAF (Ret.) 4702 Pitt St. New Orieans, LA 70115 First Friday—1145 Intemational House

NEWPORT Capt. P. C. Staley, USN (Ret.) 2 Kane Ave. Middletown, RI 02840 1830—last Tuesday, Sept.-June OClub

NEW YORK Mr. Albert W. Crowell 3 Charbeth Lane Westport, CT 06880 Noon—3rd Tuesday NYU Club/Williams Club This year, on Friday, 18 April, we are celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the NAANY and we hope to make it the best Annual Dinner we've ever had. We have selected Claude C. Vickrey '15 as our Man of the Year. He was the leading light and founder of our chapter.

At our January meeting our guest speaker was Frank O. Braynard, the General Manager of Operation Sail 1976. He outlined the ambitious plans for Operation Sail for our Bicentennial in 1976. He mentioned that plans include receptions, a program to house visiting naval cadets in individual homes, tours of the visiting sailing ships, and many other events. He mentioned also that the International Naval Review may also be held in New York at the same time. The chapter is now considering how we, and perhaps the National Association, may participate in these programs.

OMAHA

PENSACOLA

Mr. Rowin Floth 12606 Arbor St. Omaha, NB 68114 1130 Third Tuesday

Cdr. H. J. McRoberts, USN (Ret.) 2371 Bayou Blvd.

Pensacola, FL 32503 Noon—4th Friday Mustin Beach O Club

The "Provisional" Greater Omaha Chapter held its third organizational meeting at the Offutt AFB O Club on 17 December with 18 members present. Under Acting Chairman BGen. Bob Herres USAF '54, various working committees were organized to get the chapter off to a nmning start and the decision was made to set regular meetings for the third Tuesday each month.

The Greater Omaha Chapter met at the Fireside Restaurant in Omaha on 21 January with 27 members present. Following luncheon a slide and lecture program on the Missouri Riverfront Development Program being undertaken by Omaha and neighboring communities was presented by a representative of the city of Omaha. Yes, Omaha is a river port; it does have navigable waters and even has a genuine U.S. Navy minesweeper and a submarine.

Selected as first officers of the new chapter were: President—Mr. Joe Malec, Jr. '55, owner and manager of Peony Park, Omaha's largest amusement center; Vice President— BGen. Robert Herres USAF '54, Command Post Director of the Strategic Air Command; Secretary-Tresurer—Mr. Rowin Floth '64, associated with CBS Real Estate Co. of Omaha.

Attendance at meetings and replies to correspondence indicate that the chapter has 52 interested alumni, of whom 34 are active duty officers at Offutt AFB (13 Navy and 21 Air Force), ten are civUians, five are retired Naval Officers and three are active duty Naval Officers in billets other than at Offutt. With more than half of this potential in attendance at the January meeting, it appears that we have a firm foundation on which to build.

ORLANDO Mr. James R. Forte P.O. Box 503 Clermont, FL 32711 1130—2nd Friday, Sept.-June NTC O Club

PENINSULA Mr. Raymond T. Burkley 671 Erie Drive Sunnyvale, CA 94087 Third Wednesday, O Club, Moffett Field January's scheduled meeting of the Peninsula Chapter was cancelled for lack of enough prospective attendees to justify the effort and cost. At present the Chapter is engaged in a recmiting and re-organization drive and extends a hearty invitation to all alumni in the area to join us. Most of the activities are conducted in the O Club at Moffett Field, with luncheons on the third Wednesday of each month.

NORTH TEXAS

PANAMA ISTHMUS

Mr. Ray Garfield, President 307 Carillon Tower West Dallas, Texas 75240

Mr. Diego Porras Apartado 5253 Panama 5, Republic of Panama

April, 1975

The Pensacola Chapter meeting on 17 January was highlighted by the attendance of two classmates (1924) and neighbors, VAdm. Bob Goldthwaite and RAdm. Dale Harris USN (Ret.), each of whom has served several tours of duty at Pensacola and settled here after retirement. It was reported by a flight student of the time that both were very tough and exacting flight instructors and check pilots back in 1930-31, but relatively easy to handle on the tennis court.

Classmates Goldthwaite and Harris

PHILADELPHIA Capt. Walter T. Jenkins, USN (Ret.) P.O.Box 191 Radnor, PA 19087 1130—3rd Wednesday O Club, NavBase, Philadelphia

PITTSBURGH Lt. Wallace R. Utley, USNR 1100 Penn Central Blvd., # 1 0 5 Pittsburgh, PA 15235 Noon—1st Friday Hospitality Motor Inn The 1974 annual Army-Navy game party was held in a private suite at the Hospitality Motor Inn in suburban Pittsburgh. The festive occasion was attended by 26 alumni and their wives. The normally large Woo Poo contingent was absent this year due to the uncertainty regarding the telecast of the game. Many of the U.S.M.A. alumni and their wives who normally attend traveled to Philadelphia to see the game live. The following alumni and wives were present to see Navy roll over Army 19-0: Jim Cavanaugh '61, Joe Epstein '62, John French '61, George Huber '63, BUI Richradson '42, Dave Shapland '66, Alan Toppelberg '67, Dave Woodward '60, Jim Phelan '60, Ray Coble '52, Don Latta '66, Jeff Davis '44, Larry Nahlen '62 U.S.M.A. and Col. Wesley Posvar, USA (Ret.) '46 U.S.M.A., Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh.

The scheduled Chapter activities for 1975 include: July 19—FamUy Picnic September 6—Bam Dance October 25—Navy-Pittsburgh FootbaU— Branch & Game November 29—BEAT Army Party (tentative)

80 Any alumni residing in the Pittsburgh area who are not currently on our mailing list, but are interested in attending the various activities planned this year should contact Wally Utley '65—(412)-373-4912 (W) or (412)-824-7160 ( H ) .

RICHMOND LCdr. Nicholas J. Nerangis, USNR (Ret.) 2110ChartweU Mechanicsville, VA 23111 The Richmond Chapter held its annual "Dad's Night" on 10 February hosting prospective midshipmen, their fathers and the fathers of current midshipmen. Guests of honor were Capt. D. K. Forbes, Commandant of Midshipmen; Dr. Bmce Davidson, Academic Dean; Capt. Bo Coppedge, Director of Athletics; and Capt. Ron Campbell, Director of Candidate Guidance, from the Naval Academy.

Each gave a short talk on his field of operations, which added up to a fine overall view of the Academy today. It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening, in which we feel that a great deal was accomplished to further the cause of the Naval Academy here in Central Virginia.

SACRAMENTO Mr. Richard K. Bishop 4640 Chicago Ave. Fair Oaks, CA 95628

ST. LOUIS LCdr. Robert F. Diebel, Jr., USN 13437 Manorlac Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141 Quarterly Varies

Salzer USN, Commander Surface Forces, Pacific. His subject was: Surface Forces, Pacific. It was a, most interesting and illuminating address.

Vice Admiral Salzer is a graduate of Yale University, rather than of the Naval Academy; however, in recognition of his many contributions to the San Diego-Coronado chapter of the Alumni Association, the local Board of Directors decided to make him an Associate Member of the local chapter.

Accordingly, that evening, foUowing his address. Vice Admiral Salzer was presented with a beautiful plaque, suitably engraved to signify his designation as an Associate Member. This was the first time that the local chapter has bestowed an Associate Membership to honor such a distinguished officer and non-alumnus.

SAN FRANCISCO LCdr. J. P. Vaughan, Jr., USNR (Ret.) 1132 Peari Street Alameda, CA 94501 1815—1st Wednesday Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club The February meeting of the San Francisco Chapter was held at the Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club with 50 members and guests in attendance. Mr. John A. Sproul, Vice President of the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. spoke on a timely subject, "The Energy Squeeze."

John Falge '12 and Deac Hans '14 were the senior members present while Wayne Mosher '63 and Steve Brown '65 were the juniors.

SANTA BARBARA Capt. H. Hart Kait, USN (Ret.) 877 La Milpita Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105

SAN DIEGO/CORONADO RAdm. Gill Richardson, USN (Ret.) 862 San Antonio Place San Diego, CA 92106 On 13 January the San Diego/Coronado Chapter convened for its monthly dinner meeting at the North Island Officers' Club.

Fifty-four alumni were present, including two Ensigns in the class of 1973. VAdm. Paul Ramsey '27, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, announced the selections of his committee: President: Rear Admiral Henry (Hank) S. Monroe USN (Ret.) '33 1st V.P.: Rear Admiral Bemhard (Bernie) H. Bieri (SC) USN (Ret.) '37 2nd V.P.: Rear Admiral Fillmore (FUl) B. GUkeson USN '37, Comdt. 11th Naval District Secty. & Treas.: Rear Admiral Gill Richardson USN (Ret.) '27 Directors (for 3 years): Captain Robert W. Clark USN (Ret.) '39; Captain Edward H. C. Fredericks USN (Ret.) '33; Rear Admiral Aaron P. Storrs III USN (Ret.) '23; Rear Admiral John G. WUliams USN '47 (ComSubPac Representative, West Coast) A unanimous vote was recorded for the above; same for an expression of trust and confidence in President Hank Monroe as he assumed his second year of presidency.

The speaker was Vice Admiral Robert S.

SEATTLE Cdr. Stephen A. Hammond, USNR (Ret.) 9323 SE 43rd St. Mercer Island, WA 98040 1830—1st Wednesday, Sept.-June COM Sand Pt.—Pier 91 Alternate months O Club The meeting was held on Wednesday, 8 January 1975 at COM (O) Pier 91.

President Bob Schelling regretfully reported the death of a member of the Seatde Chapter of the USNA Alumni Association—Commander Jean A. Lambert USN (Ret.) '22.

Jim McCallum gave a concise, comprehensive report on a Trustees meeting of the National Alumni Association held on 24 October 1974.

President Bob then presented Earl P. Finney, Jr. '32 and Paul Van Leunen '34, recently elected President and Vice President, respectively, passing the gavel to Earl who presided during the remainder of the meeting.

President Earl then introduced our guest of honor and principal speaker. Captain Paul A. Yost, U.S. Coast Guard, the new Captain of the Port, Seattle. Captain Yost, who served recently as a member of the United States delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference at Caracas, Venezuela, gave us an excellent summary of the conference

proceedings mentioning particularly the freedom of the sea doctrine, changes that have developed in this doctrine, the sea bed committee, 90 nations—some with very large delegations—on the committee. Captain Yost proved to be an unusually able public speaker and thoroughly deserving of the round of applause he received from members attending for his presentation of a complex subject.

Those attending were: Bertrand B. Cassels '22, Robert R. Fox, Jr. '22, Alex Hammond '25, Theodore C. Fauntz '27, M. W. GraybiU '27, Harry R. Horney '27, Norman E. Walker '27, Wells Thompson '28, C. B. Stevens '30, Oscar Browne '30, Earl Finney '32, Harry Maynard '33, Brace McNaughton '34, Paul Van Leunen '34, Jim McCallum '35, John R. Middleton '35, Phillip H. Fox '36, Martin Miller '36, Rollo Ross '37, WiU H. Cranford '38, R. K. Irvine '38, John R. MacLachlan '38, Robert O'Neill '38, Bob Schelling '38, Jack Smith '47 and Stan Keck '54.

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA Cdr. E. C. Powell, USNR (Ret.) 11345S.W. 108th Ct. Kendall Branch, Miami, FL 33156 The Southeast Florida Chapter, the Miami Council of the Navy League and the Seventh Coast Guard District held a joint Christmas meeting on 27 December 1974 at the Miami Marina Restaurant with a total attendance of 86. Included were eighteen midshipmen, of whom eight were Plebes, and five Coast Guard Academy cadets.

The speaker was Rep. Claude Pepper (D.-Fla.), whose brief remarks were expanded when he fielded questions from the floor. One, from John Wulff '31, involved the lack of success in efforts by area schools to establish JNROTC units, to which Mr. Pepper replied that he would help if contacted.

The first photograph shows Congressman Pepper at the podium flanked by Walter Cronise, Navy League Council President; Capt. M. W. Flesh USCG, Seventh District; and Cdr. E. C. Powell USNR (Ret.), Chapter President. The second includes (1. to r.)

Southeast Florida's Christmas meeting

Shipmate

81 Mid. Keith Fetzer, Bill Saywer '48, Mid. Craig Cowen, Sheila Sawyer, RAdm. John Wulff USN (Ret.) '31 and Mid. John Kurowski, quarterback of last fall's plebe team.

A small committee under Turk Powell '27 is working on plans to invite the Academy's Glee Club and Dram and Bugle Corps to Miami for appearance during the weekend of the Navy-Miami football game on 7 November. We hope this can be arranged.

TEXAS GULF COAST Capt. Pat Payne, USNR (Ret.) 10615 Brentway Drive Houston, TX 77070 1130—1st Friday Houston Club At our "Kick-Off 1975" luncheon in January were these Texas Gulf Coast Area Alumni: Blackie Blackledge '20, Hap Goodall '24, Bev Wilson '26, Eari Weaver '35, Tom McWhorter '41, Phil Koelsch '43, Cliff Bermann '45, Frank Clifford '45, Drex Martin '45, Larry Smith '45, Dick HoUyer '47, Ralph Vander Naillen '51, Al Brooks '52, Pat Payne '52, Ned Snyder '53, Ralph Luyader '55, Frank Radik '63, President Austin Seay '63, and lohn Aymond '64.

Activities at January luncheon centered around new Chapter Director, Al Brooks '52, was "roasted" (a la Dean Martin Show) by compatriots before annointing him "Shipmate of the Month." Al is Manager, Corporate Security, for Shell Oil. He had a tough time getting out from under some of his closet's skeletons we dumped on him; however, as with all "roastees," his extemporaneous rebuttals did him proud.

The Febraary luncheon was primarUy a business meeting at which incoming Chapter President, Austin Seay '63, laid on the Plan of the Year for 1975. We have several special occasions and activities coming up—the first being our annual Luncheon for Wives, scheduled for first Friday in May (the 2nd).

Back with us for the Febraary luncheon was "Rip" Taylor '53, recent PNS at Prairie View A & M , more recently taking on the title of Captain USN Retired, and accepting a position at Houston's Shell Oil home office.

Other February luncheoneers: Hap GoodaU '24, Tom McWTiorter '41, Rod Bowman '44, Cliff Bermann '45, Frank Clifford '45, Larry Smith '45, Dan Summitt '48, Ralph Vander NaiUen '51, Al Brooks "52, Pat Payne '52, Al Personette '53, Ralph Luzader '55, Bob Sherwood '55 (a newcomer), Jerry Blesch '62 (another newcomer), Frank Radik '63, Bob Giddens '63, Bob Granger '59 (visiting, from Dallas), President Austin Seay '63, and Paul Marsh '69, yet another new Houston shipmate.

TULSA Mr. William H. Everett, m 2608 East 58th St. Tulsa, OK 74105 Nineteen Tulsa area members met at the Tulsa Club for luncheon on 17 January.

The guest of honor and speaker was VAdm. Pierre Charbonnet ('41), Chief of Naval Reserve, who arrived from his headquarters in New Orleans with his Chief of PubUc Information, Cdr. Jim Eaves. Guests

from the Oklahoma City chapter were Bmce Lenz ('63) (President of that august group) and Dave Benham ('41) (sole nominee for President of the national Alumni Association). Dick Pierce ('42) was elected Vice President to fUl that newly-created office and Bill Everett ('59) was officiaUy elected to his unofficial post of Secretary-Treasurer.

VAdm. Charbonnet eiUightened the membership as to the increased responsibilities the Reserve has assumed from the regular operating forces. In addition, as a recent operational commander in the Mediterranean, he answered several questions on the Greek-Turkish conffict over Cypms.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Col. James B. Glennon, Jr., USMC (Ret.) 4856 Yorktown Blvd.

Ariington, VA 22207 Noon—3rd Wed., Sept.-May Army-Navy Club On Wednesday, 15 January 1975, the Washington, D.C. Chapter met in the Sky Room of the Army and Navy Club.

After a refreshing social hour and Itmcheon, we enjoyed a vigorous and informative discussion by Ernest A. Carrere, President of the Navy League, of the importance of sea power to our national security.

Among the 85 members and guests at the meeting, the senior class represented was again '05, the junior class '71, and '33 provided the most attendees.

Last Call "They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them nor the years condemn; At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them . .."

Tomb of the Scottish Unknown Soldier, Edinburgh ASHLEY, GORDON SHAW '27 (CDR USNR RET), 13 November 1974, Pensacola FL BEAKLEY, WALLACE MORRIS '24 (VADM USN RET), 16 January 1975, Alexandria VA BELEW, DAVID HALLIBURTON '67 a T USN), 24 October 1974, Honga MD BENSON, HOWARD HARTWELL JAMES '09 (COMMO USN RET), 28 January 1975, Delray Beach FL BERNET, ALBERT EDWARD, JR. 1 6 , 18 December 1974, Dallas TX BLANCHARD, ROBERT CECIL '53 (CAPT USN RET), 30 January 1975, Portsmouth VA BOWDEY, GEORGE HALL '07 (COMMO USN RET), 16 January 1975, Newport RI BUTLER, HARRY ST. JOHN '22 (CAPT USN RET), 13 January 1975, Bethesda MD CALHOUN, WALTER CARSON '17 (RADM USN RET), 11 Febraary 1975, Bethesda MD April, 1975

DAVIS, JAMES HENRY '31 (CAPT USN RET), 17 Febraary 1975, Fairfax VA DOHERTY, STEPHEN '06 (CAPT USN RET), 2 April 1972, Cape May NJ EHREKE, GUSTAVE WILLIAM, JR. '42 (LCDR USNR RET), 9 January 1975, Baltimore MD HARRISON, LOUIS ALBERT, JR. '29 (CDR USN RET), 1 September 1974, Bay Pines FL HARTUNG, RICHARD RENWICK '20 (RADM USN RET), 29 January 1975, Newport RI HORMEL, RICHARD CHARLES '71 (LTjg USN), 12 Febraary 1975, Long Pine CA KELLEY, BERNARD JOSEPH '20 (RADM USNR RET), 20 January 1975, Philadelphia PA LANDEN, WILLIAM JAMES '28 (COL USMC RET), 31 January 1975, Cheshire CT LUCIER, JAMES ALOYSIUS '27, 20 December 1974, Trenton MI

MADDEN, ROBERT BOWMAN '33 (CAPT USN RET), 9 January 1975, Lakeland FL MARTIN, CHARLES FRANKLIN '14 (RADM USN RET), 19 January 1975, Columbia SC MASON, MATTHEW THOMAS m '72 (LT USMC), 7 Febmary 1975, Kingsville TX McGUIRE, GORDON '26, 15 August 1974, White Plains NY McSHEEHY, EDWARD L L O H ) 'OS (LCDR USN RET), 10 December 1974, Coronado CA MILES, PAUL DOMBEY "27 (CAPT USN RET), 10 Febmary 1975, Alexandria VA MILLER, HAROLD CRENSHAW '39 (CAPT USN RET), 23 November 1974, Mobile AL MITTEN, ROBERT LIVINGSTON '18 (CDR USN RET), 2 Febmary 1975, Bethesda MD (Continued on next page)

82 OWSLEY, RANDOLPH GIBSON '23 (LCDR USNR RET), 8 February 1975, St. Petersburg F L PARE, EDWARD EVERETT '20 (RADM USN RET), 10 Febraary 1975, Norfolk VA PATTERSON, RALPH EDWARD '26 (CDR USN RET), 30 September 1974, Miami FL PULLEN, GRANVILLE DEXTER '71 (LT USMC), 8 January 1975, Salisbury MD SOWERWINE, OWEN EVANS '33 (CAPT USNR RET), 24 January 1975, Kalispell MT STILLMAN, JOHN HILLIARD '25 (CAPT USMC RET), 5 January 1975, San Diego CA STRITE, ROBERT '21 (CAPT USNR RET), 25 January 1975, Chambersburg PA TERHUNE, JOHN ALEXANDER '16 (CDR USN RET), 10 January 1975, San Diego CA TRAPNELL, FREDERICK MACKAY '23 (VADM USN RET), 30 January 1975, San Diego CA EDWARD LLOYD McSHEEHY '05 LCdr. Edward Lloyd McSheehy USN (Ret.), our seventh oldest alumnus, died at the age of 92 at his home in Coronado, Cal., on 10 December 1974. Memorial services were held at Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado and his ashes were scattered at sea off Point Loma on 17 January from USS LEONARD F . MASON.

A native of Logansport, Indiana, his early love for boating culminated in building and sailing a canoe from the headwaters of the Kankakee River to St. Louis and into the Missouri River. Entering the Naval Academy in 1901, his summer cruises were in saU in USS CHEASPEAKE. After graduation in 1905 he served as a line officer in the Philippines, sailed in the Great White Fleet, was a turret officer in USS TEXAS and served in the Caribbean. During World War I LCdr. McSheehy commanded Boston's Commonwealth Pier Recruit Receiving Station and served on Atlantic convoy duty. After the war he became Executive Officer to the Naval Govemor of Samoa, where he was retired in 1922 because of physical disability.

In 1926 he moved into a new home in Coronado, where he lived for the next 48 years as a businessman, following the stock market and playing chess into his last days.

His wife, Louise, predeceased him by three years. He is survived by two daughters. Miss Jeanne L. McSheehy, 530 " B " Avenue, Coronado CA 92118, and Mrs. PhiUp H. Ashworth, also of Coronado.

Steam Engineering was followed by outfitting steam fishing boats as patrol craft in the Boston Navy Yard, then reporting to Commander US Patrol Squadrons in France.

There he served as Aide to Commanders of Squadrons Three and Four, commanded four patrol craft and had duty in USS SiGOURNEY. In 1919 he fitted out and took command of USS BUCHANAN, a year later shifting to USS YARNALL and then to USS HOWARD.

In following years he had duty as instractor and later Head of Navigation at the Naval Academy, in the Hydrographic Office and in USS TENNESSEE, commanded two more destroyers and attended the Naval War College. In 1933 he was ordered as XO of TENNESSEE; a year later he assumed her command when the captain was hospitalized off Colon. He retained command through fleet maneuvers and exercises culminating with the Presidential Review in New York in 1934. He then attended the Army War College, served in the Navy Department and commanded USS HOLLAND before being

tirement. He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Quindicim, a men's club, and as Chairman of the House and Grounds Committee of the Newport Art Association.

His decorations include the Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Commendation Medal and Honorary Commander of the British Empire.

Surviving are his widow, Caroline, 54 Kay St., Newport RI 02840; a sister Mrs. Richard Wick; two daughters, Mrs. Helena Curtis and Mrs. William S. Rogers; and five grandchildren.

WILLIAM PALMER BACON '16 Cdr. WUliam Palmer Bacon, USN (Ret.) died 17 November in Lakewood, Ohio. Memorial services were conducted at Ft. Myer Chapel, followed by interment in Arlington National Cemetery with simple military honors.

ordered to command USS REINA MERCEDES.

During this tour he was extremely active in promoting yacht racing among officers and midshipmen and had considerable success himself as skipper of the Academy's VAMARIE in Chesapeake Bay races.

Commo. Benson reported to Philadelphia in AprU 1941 to fit out and command USS WASMNGTON, in which he served in the North Atlantic and with the British Home Fleet in protection of Arctic convoys. Detached in July 1942 he became Chief of Staff Seventh Naval District in Miami and also, in 1944, of the Gulf Sea Frontier, where he served through the rest of WWII. He retired in 1946.

His decorations include the Navy Cross, Legion of Merit and two foreign awards.

Commo. Benson is survived by his widow, Clarinda, 2701 S. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach FL 33444; a son, Howard H. J., Jr. of Silver Spring MD; a daughter, Mrs. Allan Hudson of Mountain View CA; a sister and sixteen grandchUdren.

William Palmer Bacon '16

Born in Tiffin, Ohio, Cdr. Bacon graduated from the Naval Academy in 1916. In 1918, as Ordnance Officer, USS AROOSTOCK, he participated in the laying of the North Sea mine barrage from the Orkney Islands to the Norwegian three-mile limit. From 1920 to 1922 he served as Navigator in USS BRIDGEPORT. After two years as Resident Assistant Inspector Engineering Material, Buffalo, New York, Cdr. Bacon was assigned to the USS COGHLAN in the Scouting Fleet, serving in her for three years, the last as Executive Officer and Navigator. From 1927 MARK LESLIE HERSEY, JR. '09 to 1929 he was assistant to the Inspector of Commo. Mark Leslie Hersey, Jr., USN Naval Material, Pittsburgh, Bistrict, Carnegie (Ret.), a tme destroyerman, died at his home Steel Corp., Munhall PA. in Newport RI on 3 December. Interment Cdr. Bacon next served as commanding was in Arlington National Cemetery. officer, USS HELENA, Yangtze Patrol and Commo. Hersey was born in Whipple South China Patrol, US Asiatic Fleet. This Barracks AZ. He graduated from the Naval was followed by an assignment as ComAcademy in 1909. As a junior officer he manding Officer and Captain of the Yard, served in various types of ships, including US Naval Station Olongapo, P. I. From three years in the Asiatic Fleet in USS BAIN1932 to 1934 he was 0-in-C of the Naval BRIDGE (DD-1). During WWI he commanded Recmiting Station at Buffalo N Y and InUSS SAMPSON. Between wars he comspector-Instructor, Fleet Naval Reserve DiHOWARD HARTWELL JAMES manded USS BROWNE, SMITH-THOMPSON, visions Erie PA and Dunkirk NY. He reBENSON '09 HARDING, ALLEN, ABEL P. UPSHim and tired in 1937 after serving three years in Commo. Howard Hartwell James Benson RALEIGH and served in shore duty assign- USS CHICAGO as Engineer Officer but was USN (Ret.) died 28 January 1975 in Del- ments at Naval Training Station, Newport; recalled in WWII as Resident Inspector of ray Beach, Fla. A funeral mass was held in Naval Proving Ground, Dahlgren and at Naval Material, Cleveland, Ohio. He retired Northwestern University. the Fort Myer Chapel followed by burial again in 1945. He was a successful indewith full honors in Arlington National During WWII Commo. Hersey com- pendent gas and oU producer until his death.

Cemetery. manded the Naval Powder Factory, Indian He is survived by his widow, Helen, 1033 The Baltimore native was the son of Adm. Head until 1944 when he became Island Parkside Drive, Lakewood OH 44107; a Commander Guadalcanal and Solomons Sub William S. Benson, the first Chief of Naval daughter, Barbara Anne Bacon; and a son, Operations. On graduating in 1909 he Area. Prior to retiring in 1946 he served as WUliam Robert Bacon.

Commander Naval Operating Bases, Subic, served in USS VERMONT and then in USS CASTINE, where he qualified in submarines Manila and Cavite. He was instrumental in and was ordered to fit out and command reactivating the Army-Navy Club of Manila. OLIVER FERGUSON MARSTON '18 USS H-2 in 1913. Duty in the Bureau of He lived in Newport RI during his reCol. Oliver Ferguson Marston, USA (Ret.) Shipmate

83 died 27 December at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Hampton VA. A memorial service was held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Richmond VA. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery.

A native of Pensacola, Col. Marston was a non-graduate of the Naval Academy Class of 1918. After leaving the Academy, he entered the U.S. Army in 1917 and served as a lieutenant in France during WWI. During WWII he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for service in Italy. He retired from the Army in 1946 and became manager of the Hamess and Saddlery Division of the Benjamin T. Cramp Co. He retired from that firm as Vice-President.

He is survived by his widow, Mary Leigh, 7205 Pinetree Road, Richmond VA 23229; and a son, Gardner F., of La Jolla CA. ROBERT LIVINGSTON MFTTEN '18 Cdr. Robert Livingston Mitten USN (Ret.) died at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, on 2 February. A graveside commitment service was held at Arlington Cemetery, conducted with simple military honors.

Classmates Duvall, McDowell, Riggs, Rogers, Smith and Taylor were among those attending.

and Damage Control Officer and remained on board until retirement in 1939.

Hardly had Cdr. Mitten retired when he was recaUed to active duty in the Shore Establishment Division, Navy Department.

When war came, he requested sea duty and was so ordered in May '42, subsequently serving as Vice Commodore of six and Commodore of five convoys. Prior to the end of WWII he remmed to the Department in connection with the ship de-activation program and remained there imtU released from active duty 30 June '46. For the next ten years he sold real estate in Alexandria, Va., and in 1970 moved into Vinson Hall.

In addition to a letter of commendation from the Chief of BuShips, Cdr. Mitten held the Victory Medal wiUi Armed Guard Clasp, the Worid War II Victory Medal and the Yangtze Service Medal.

He is survived by his widow, Emeline, at Vinson Hall, Apt. 220, 6251 Old Dominion Dr., McLean VA 22101, and a sister, Mrs. Walter E. Andrews of Napa, Calif.

EDWARD EVERETT P A R ÂŁ '20 RAdm. Edward Everett Pare USN (Ret.) died on 10 Febmary 1975 at his home in Norfolk VA. The funeral mass was conducted by Bishop I. Flaherty at the Blessed Sacrament Church in Norfolk and interment was in Arlington with full military honors.

A native of Lowell, Mass., where he completed high school, he was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1919 with the Class of 1920. Subsequently he served in ships of both the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, including USS DOWNS, MEDUSA and CADMUS. He

Robert Livingston Mitten '18 Bom in Seattle 30 October 1895, Cdr. Mitten attended public schools there and also St. Luke's School at Wayne, Pa. He spent a year at Racine College in Wisconsin before entering the Academy in 1914 with the class of 1918. Following graduation he was commissioned Ensign and served for a year as Signal Officer in the USS LOUISIANA, after which he took command of the armed guard in the SS SOBRAL (an ex-Hamburg-South American passenger liner) until the end of WWI. After fitting out two ships near San Francisco he served in China and the PhUippines, retuming to the West Coast in 1922 for duty in USS RAMAPO and a subsequent tour in USS PENNSYLVANIA. He had China duty again from 1931-34, serving in the USS

was a student and lecturer at the Naval War College and was also a graduate of Columbia University with a Master of Science degree. In World War II he was awarded the Legion of Merit as a logistics task group commander in the Fifth Fleet during the Marshall and Marianas campaigns, and took command of USS MACON upon her commissioning in August 1945. His last tour of duty was as Director of Logistics at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, where he retired in July 1949.

Following retirement he became Professor of Physics at Old Dominion University in Norfolk and also attended the University of Virginia, where he received a second Master's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1953. He retired from the University in 1958 but remained an active member of the Ryan Club and continued his participation in civic affairs.

RAdm. Pare is survived by his widow, Mary, 1064 Cambridge Crest, Norfolk VA 23508; a daughter, Mary A. Catalano of Burlington MA; a son, Ambrose B. of Montgomery PA; a sister, Mrs. Josephine Hoag of Oak Ridge TN; a brother, Albert G. Pare of Farmington CT; and seven grandchildren.

Oscar Arthur WeUer '20 Bom in Beeville, Texas, and raised in Brownsville, "Tex" was educated at schools there, at the West Texas MUitary Academy in San Antonio and at the Swavely School in Washington, D.C. After graduation from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1920, he served in USS HURON on the Asiatic Station until ordered to ffight training at Pensacola in 1922-23. Subsequent assignments included fighter, observation and patrol squadrons, USS ARKANSAS, NEVADA and W E S T VIRGINLA. In 1926 he took

the

Army Air Corps Pursuit Course at Kelly Field, Texas, and the Naval Postgraduate School course in 1927-30.

RAdm. Weller's command tours included Fighter Squadrons USS LEXINGTON, Air Group USS RANGER, NAS Coco Solo, NAS Quonset Point, Fleet Air Wing 9 1942-43, USS WHTTE PLAINS 1943-44, and USS WASP

1944-45. Post-war service was as Head of Plans Division, BuOrd and BuAir General Representative, Western District, from where he retired in 1949 for physical disability.

His decorations included the Navy Cross, Gold Star in lieu of the second Navy Cross and the Navy Unit Commendation.

RAdm. Weller is survived by his son, Arthur Reilly Weller, 1319 Pinerock, Houston TX 77024, and three grandchildren. His wife, Maxine, had died in 1970 and his son, Franklin, was killed in action with the Marines in Korea in 1950.

LUTHER A D O L P H U S BROWN '21 Col. Luther Adolphus Brown, USMC (Ret.), died 27 December at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

A native of Pennsylvania, Col. Brown graduated from the Naval Academy in 1921.

He was the author of Marines' Handbook prior to WWII. He was in command of the Marine Detachment, American Legation Guard, Tientsin, China at the outbreak of WWII and was a POW in China and Japan for the duration of the war. Col. Brown was awarded the Legion of Merit for sei^'ices whUe a POW. In addition to Tientsin, he served overPAUL JONES and in command of USS seas in St. Croix, Virgin Islands; in NicaMONOCACY. ragua with the 5th Regiment and in ShangIn 1923-25 he taught at the Academy hai with the 4th Regiment. He served three and again from 1928-31, including one separate tours of duty at Marine Headsummer on a midshipman cmise. In the OSCAR ARTHUR WELLER '20 RAdm. Oscar Arthur Weller USN (Ret.) quarters and one at the Navy Department. mid-thirties Cdr. Mitten took the junior War College course, again taught at the Acad- died on 25 November 1974 in Coronado, At the time of his retirement in 1953, he emy and also studied at the Army's Chemi- Cal. Services were held at the Sacred Heart was attached to the offices of the Joint cal Warfare School. He next proceeded to Church in Coronado, followed by interment Chiefs of Staff. After his retirement he beNewport News for duty fitting out the USS in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery be- came a philatelic importer and exporter. side his wife and son.

YORKTOWN. He became her First Lieutenant Col. Brown is survived by his wife, Jane April, 1975

84 C , 6099 WUson Blvd., Ariington VA 22205; a son, Luther A., Jr.; a stepdaughter, Elisabeth C. Ledman; and two grandchildren.

HARRY ST. JOHN BUTLER '22 Capt. Harry St. John Butier, USN (Ret.) died 13 January at the Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Bom in South Carolina, Capt. Butier joined the Navy in 1918 and, after duty at sea in WWI, was appointed to the Naval Academy from which he graduated in 1922.

In 1927 he was in the USS MEMpms when she brought the late Charles Lindbergh and his "Spirit of St. Louis" back from Europe after his trans-Atiantic flight. In 1931 he was in the USS CONSTITUTION when she

visited 45 US ports. Then, as CO USS GREBE, he towed the historic ship from the West Coast to Boston. He went back to sea as XO of the USS SIMPSON before a hearing problem forced him to retire in 1936.

He then attended Georgetown Law School, graduating in 1939. He was admitted to the D.C. Bar the same day he was recalled to active duty in the Bureau of Ordnance. After Germany surrendered in 1945, Capt. Butier was assigned to the Navy Sub Commission, Allied Control Commission, with headquarters in Rome. Later he was District Legal Officer in New Orleans.

Upon retuming to inactive duty in 1946, he again attended Georgetown University, where he received his Master of Laws degree in 1948. At that time, he founded the firm of Butler and McKinney and practiced law in Washington untU retiring in 1970.

Capt. Butler held the Legion of Merit and the Order, Crown of Italy.

He is survived by his widow, Cheny, and a stepson, Orlando Arroba, of the home, 1701 Foxhall Road, NW, Washington D C 20007.

JEAN ARTHUR LAMBERT '22 BGen. Perry Kenneth Smith, USMC (Ret.) died 29 December at his home in Seattie WA. Private funeral services were held at the Bleitz Funeral Home in Seattle followed by cremation.

Born in Muncey IN, Cdr. Lambert resigned on graduation from the Naval Academy in 1922. He went into education in September 1922, first teaching in Indiana.

He received his Master's degree in education from Indiana University. He served as a school superintendent in Montana and as a high-school principal in Oregon before joining the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1930. He served as Head of the Mathematics Department and as Assistant Headmaster of the school until his retirement in 1966.

In 1958 he received a year's fellowship at Stanford University where he eamed his Master's degree in mathematics.

During WWII, Cdr. Lambert served as head of the Naval Radio School at Texas A & M University.

He is survived by his widow, Gail, 17291 15th Street, NW, Seattle WA 98177; a daughter, Mary Lee Carson; a son, John; and two sisters.

PERRY KENNETH SMTFH '24 BGen. Perry Kenneth Smith, USMC, (Ret.)

died in Laguna Beach CA on 9 January 1974. Interment was in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.

A native of New York, BGen. Smith was graduated from the Naval Academy in the Class of 1924 and took his commission in the Marine Corps. He was designated a naval aviator in 1927 and much of his subsequent service was in connection with Marine aviation. He retired on 1 June 1954 as a brigadier general and settied in Laguna Beach where he became a successful real estate broker.

Among his decorations and awards were the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star and Air Medals.

He is survived by his widow Ida, 1134 La Mirada, Laguna Beach CA 92651; a daughter, Shirley Minihan of New Milford CT; four grandsons, two great-grandsons and a great-granddaughter.

HARRY LEE FERGUSON, JR. '25 Capt. Harry Lee Ferguson, Jr., USN (Ret.) died 6 November in Jacksonville FL. Private funeral services were held in the Chapel of Giddens-Griffith Funeral Home, Jacksonville.

Bom in Greenville MS, Capt. Ferguson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1925.

After a year in a battleship and another in a cruiser, he was assigned to Submarine School. On completing the course, he was assigned to the S-15 based in Colon CZ. In 1932 he began the first of two tours of duty at the Naval Academy as a Spanish instmctor. Between these tours he was Engineer Officer of the HANNIBAL and a mrret officer in the ARKANSAS.

During WWII he was Commtmications Officer of the NASHVILLE. In 1944, after an assignment to the Operational Training Command, San Diego, he began a three year tour as Captain of the Port, Balboa CZ. Following a cmise in command of the CONSOLATION, Capt. Ferguson was assigned as Commander, Sub Group FIVE, Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. His last assignment was in Roosevelt Roads PR. His decorations include the Legion of Merit; the Second Nicaraguan, American, European and Pacific Area Campaign Medals; American Defense and World War II Victory Medal.

Capt. Ferguson is survived by his widow, Edna, 3450 Townsend Boulevard, JacksonvUle FL 32211; two sons, Harry Lee III, of Jacksonville and James of Silver Spring MD; a sister, Mrs. Kirby Kaker of Coronado CA; and three grandchildren.

JACOB ELLIOT COOPER '26 RAdm. Jacob Elliot Cooper, USN (Ret.), died 23 December at Martin Army General Hospital at Fort Benning. The funeral service and interment with mUitary honors were conducted in Oakview Cemetery, Albany GA. A native of Bristol FL, RAdm. Cooper graduated from the Naval Academy in 1926.

Prior to WWII he served in battleships, craisers and auxiliaries, and taught at the NROTC units at Tulane and Georgia Tech.

During WWII he served in command of various destroyers; on the Staff of Com-

mander, Fleet Operational Command, Pacific; Executive Officer of the USS MISSOURI upon commissioning; and on the Staff of ComBatRon One, Gunfire and Support Force, Pacific.

After WWII, RAdm. Cooper served as Professor of Naval Science and Tactics at Rice Institute and at the University of North Carolina. He retired in 1952.

RAdm. Cooper's decorations include the Navy Cross witii Gold Star, the Silver Medal with Gold Star, the Bronze Star Medal and the Netherlands Order of the Bronze Lion.

Survivors include his widow, Leila, 804 7th Avenue, Albany GA 31705; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas K. Whitesel of Springfield VA; a sister, Mrs. Heath Cooper Rigdon, of Columbus GA; and three grandchildren.

RALPH EDWARD PATTERSON '26 Cdr. Ralph Edward Patterson, USN (Ret.) died 30 September of a heart attack in Miami, Florida. Memorial services were conducted at St. Brendans CathoUc Church with interment in Woodlawn Memorial South.

Bora in Atiantic, Iowa, Cdr. Patterson graduated from the Naval Academy in 1926.

Prior to WWII, he followed the usual rotation of sea and shore duties, serving at sea in practically all classes of ships from an ocean tug to battieships and aircraft carriers.

During WWII, Cdr. Patterson saw considerable enemy action. He was Assistant 1st Lieutenant in YORKTOWN ( C V - 5 ) when

she was sunk at Midway in 1942. Later he was navigator in BELLEAU WOOD ( C V L - 2 4 )

in the Pacific.

After retiring in 1947 he returned to school, getting his teaching credentials from New York University in 1949. He taught mathematics at the Miami Military Academy until 1973.

Cdr. Patterson's decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Commendation Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation.

He is survived by his widow, Lillian, 9320 SW 15th Street, Miami FL 33144; two sons, James and Joseph Bums; three daughters, Marguerite Laboranti, Virginia Bentivoglio and Anne Diehl.

GORDON SHAW ASHLEY '27 Cdr. Gordon Shaw Ashley, USNR (Ret.) died of a heart attack on 13 November 1974 in Pensacola, Fla. Services were held in the NAS Holy Trinity Chapel, followed by burial with full military honors in the Barrancas National Cemetery.

A native of Ouray, Colo., Cdr. Ashley graduated from the Naval Academy in 1927 and resigned from the Navy in 1929. He returned to active service during WWII in the Naval Reserve, and again during the Korean War, when he commanded the Military Sea Transportation Office in Manila. Following release from active duty he remained active in the Reserve until retirement in 1957.

He was active in church affairs, having served as Vestryman and Treasurer, and was a member of the Navy League, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce, Preservation Society, Seville Square Settiers, Krewe of Lafitte and the Greater Pensacola Golf Association.

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85 Cdr. Ashley is survived by his widow, Jane, 204 E. Church Street, Pensacola F L 32501; two sons, Gordon D. of Damascus MD and Douglas S. of Pensacola; a brother, a sister and two grandchildren.

JAMES ALOYSIUS LUCIER '27 Mr. James Aloysius Lucier died on 20 December 1974 in Trenton, Mich., the victim of a heart attack. Following cremation, there was a memorial service at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Trenton and his ashes were subsequently scattered over Northampton, Mass., his birthplace.

Entering the Naval Academy from Massachusetts, he was graduated in the Class of 1927. While a midshipman, Lucier was a starting member of the National Championship '26 football team. In addition, he was an A squad member of both the lacrosse team and the basketball team. Following graduation he was married to Louise DeRose (who died in 1952). He served on foreign station aboard the USS RALEIGH and, on 1 November 1929, resigned his commission to accept a position with Wyandotte Chemical Corp, Wyandotte, Mich. After several years in the Engineering Department he rose to become Operations Manager for the Wyandotte Transportation Co., a subsidiary with a fleet of Lake carriers. Prior to retirement in 1970, he was President of the Wyandotte Terminal Railroad Company.

After WWII he served as CEC Planning Officer and Director of CEC Military Personnel Division, BuPers; twice as a District Public Works Officer, and as Commander, Naval Constmction Battalion Center, Port Hueneme. He retired in 1956.

Capt. Ransford's decorations include the Bronze Star Medal and the Commendation Medal.

He is survived by his widow, Eileen, 300 N. Sumeric Way, Palm Springs CA 92263; a daughter, Barbara L. Dye; four grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters.

ROBERT BOWMAN MADDEN '33 Capt. Robert Bowman Madden, USN (Ret.), died on 9 January in Lakeland FL after a long fight with cancer.

April. 1975

OWEN EVANS SOWERWINE '33 Capt. Owen Evans Sowerwine, USNR (Ret.), died on 24 January in KaUspell, Montana.

He was bom in Anaconda, Montana and later moved with his family to Westfield, New Jersey. He attended Princeton University for one year and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933. Resigning in 1934, Capt. Sowerwine was employed by the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company at Hastings, N.Y. until 1941 at which time he returned to active duty. He served during World War II aboard the USS SUWANNEE

Robert Bowman Madden '33

Born in Sharon PA, Capt. Madden graduated in the class of 1933 and served as a junior officer in USS PORTLAND and USS N E W ORLEANS. From 1935-1938 he attended M.I.T., where he received a degree of Master of Science in Naval Construction and was elected to Sigma Xi, the honorary scientific research fraternity, then went to the Norfolk Navy Yard as Assistant Shop Superintendent, Docking Officer and Assistant Planning Officer. On the outbreak of WWII, he became Hull Material Officer on the Staff of ComDesLant and was awarded a Letter of Commendation by SecNav. In 1943 he was transferred to BuShips and assigned Hull HOWARD FRANKLIN RANSFORD '28 Type Desk Officer for destroyers and deCapt. Howard Franklin Ransford, (CEC) USN (Ret.), died 1 November in Indio stroyer escorts and was awarded a second Letter of Commendation. In 1947 Capt.

CA following a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held in St. Theresa Catholic Madden attended Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, followed by Church, Palm Springs. duty at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard as A native of Louisiana, he graduated Industrial Engineering and Industrial Relafrom the Naval Academy in 1928. At gradtions Officer. From 1950 until 1954 he was uation he received the Sword for Athletic in BuShips where he was, successively. AsExcellence, having won All-America honors sistant Director of Planning for Budget, Asin lacrosse and been a member of the 1926 sistant Head of Hull Design, and Special National Championship football team. He Assistant to the Chief of the Bureau. From later was made a charter member of the 1954 until 1957 he was Head of the Dept.

Football Hall of Fame. of Marine Engineering at USNA, then beIn 1933 Capt. Ransford was transferred came Director of Ship Design at BuShips. to the Civil Engineer Corps after having In 1959 he went to Charleston SC as Shipreceived CE and MCE degrees at Renselear yard Commander.

Polytechnic Institute. Until WWII he served After retiring from the Navy in 1961 he in Public Works Officer billets at Bremerton became Vice President for Engineering and Navy Yard, NAS Pensacola, Guam and San a member of the Board of American PresiDiego. In 1942 he commenced a series of assignments with the Seabees. He was Sea- dent Lines. Since 1963 he had been assobee Training Officer and Regimental Com- ciated with Pan American at the Keimedy mander of the Naval Constmction Training Space Center, where his last assignment was Center, Camp Allen-Bradford, Norfolk VA. Project Manager, Engineering Support ServHe next served as Executive Officer of the ices.

Capt. Madden was a member of the SoSecond Naval Constmction Brigade and ciety of Naval Engineers, for which he was Deputy Officer in Charge of the Hawaiian Area Constmction Brigades, and Deputy Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and Editor of Officer in Charge of Constmction Troops, their joumal from 1951-1959, and was a PhiUppine Sea Frontier and Seventh Fleet. member of the Board of Control of the He was a member of the Wyandotte Rotary Club, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, and for several years was an active volunteer executive of the Downriver Branch of the Boy Scouts of America.

He is survived by his widow, Beatrice, 2155 Fourth St., Trenton MI 48183; his daughter, Mrs. Robert (Martha) Boughner, Kalamazoo MI; a brother, G. Robert Lucier, and a sister, Mrs. Joseph Millette, both of Northampton, Mass., and four grandchildren.

Naval Instimte, 1954-1959. He was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the Harvard Business School Assoc, and a registered engineer in the District of Columbia.

He is survived by his widow, Memsie, 14 Loma Linda, Casa Loma, Lakeland F L 33803; a son Robert H.; a daughter Nancy M. Simmons, a brother and sister and three grandchildren.

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"Jocko" Clark's Communications Officer.

After his release he moved to Kalispell, where he was in business until his retirement in 1964. He was active in Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce; helped found Glacier College and later the Flathead Valley Community College; was a member of the Montana Board of Natural Resources and Conservation, Flathead Wildlife Association, Flathead County Parks Board, Flathead County Economic Development Committee, and past member of several state educational committees; was director of the Flathead Health Center; past chairman of the Flathead High School Board; director and founder of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association; and was influential in the founding of the Unitarian Fellowship of Kalispell. He was also a Life Member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

Capt. Sowerwine is survived by his widow, Alice, 1710 Highway 2 West, KalispeU MT 59901; his parents, three brothers, four children, and five grandchildren.

ALFRED HENRY HIGGS '39 Capt. Alfred Henry Higgs, USN (Ret.), died 29 November 1974 at his home in Rockville MD from a heart attack. Funeral services were held at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Bethesda MD with interment at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, San Diego.

He was bom in East Paterson N I and graduated from the Naval Academy in June 1939. After serving in USS NORTHAMPTON, he attended Submarine School at New London, Conn. Capt. Higgs saw combat duty in the

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TAUTOG in the Atiantic and Pacific during Worid War II. In 1948, he took command of the submarine REDFISH. He later attended the Naval Postgraduate Engineering School and then the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a Master's Degree in Bioradiology.

Capt. Higgs, who also was a graduate of the Naval War College, participated in nuclear testing operations at the Nevada and Pacific test grounds as Deputy Director of the Test Division, Weapons Effects Test,

86 Field Command, Armed Forces Special Weapons Project in Albuquerque. In the early 1960s, he was Head of the Plans Branch in AEC's Division of Military AppUcations in Washington.

He served a tour as Executive Officer of USS NEREUS (AS-17), followed by command of Submarine Division 31 at San Diego. He commanded the amphibious attack transport, USS NOBLE during the Cuban missile crisis and later was ComPhibRon 12 of the Atlantic Fleet. His last tour of duty before retirement in 1967 was as manager of the Naval Maintenance and Material Management Systems in Wash., D.C. His many decorations for World War II service include the Silver Star, Bronze Star and Commendation Medal. After retiring from the Navy, Capt. Higgs joined the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., as a principal engineer.

A member of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, he was a former president of the Men's Council, an Elder and past president of the Board of Trustees. He also was secretary-treasurer of the Australasia Foundation for Education, Inc., of the church.

Survivors include his widow, Arline (Mickey), 11508 Hitching Post Lane, Rockville MD 20852; a son, Alfred Henry, Jr. of New York City; a daughter, Hollace Higgs Swanson of Gaithersburg MD; and one grandchild.

HAROLD CRENSHAW MILLER '39 Capt. Harold Crenshaw Miller, USN (Ret.), died 23 November 1974 in Mobile AL from a heart attack. Funeral services were held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Mobile followed by interment locally.

He was born in Leslie, Ark., grew up in Mobile and graduated from the Naval Academy on 1 June 1939. After two years of sea duty in USS BOISE and in USS RATHBURNE

Norfolk Naval Hospital and physical retirement on 1 July 1960.

At the time of his death, he was President, Consolidated Water Treatment Co. in Mobile and also was involved in the seafood business, owning his own shrimp trawler. He was very active in business, social and community affairs. He was Senior Warden of All Saints Episcopal and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University Military School in Mobile.

Survivors include his widow, Marian (Bash) Miller, of 169 Hannon Ave., Mobile AL 36604; five children: Harold Jr., William, David and Kate, all of Mobile, and Shannon (Mrs. Lord) of Atlanta; and three grandchildren.

GUSTAVE WILLIAM EHREKE, JR. '42 LCdr. Gustave William Ehreke, Jr., USNR (Ret.), died 9 January at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Memorial services were held in the Naval Academy Chapel.

His ashes were scattered at sea.

Born in Kansas City MO, LCdr. Ehreke studied Chemical Engineering at Kansas City Junior College before entering the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in December 1941 with the class of 1942.

During WWII he served in the USS IDAHO and INDIANA. In 1946 he took flight training at Pensacola and subsequently served as a Navy pilot with VP-2 in San Diego and Alaska. He resigned in late 1949 and went to work for Westinghouse.

At Westinghouse he started as an engineer in Marketing for the Air Arm Division when the Aero Space Program was a one room operation at Friendship Airport.

As the program grew he became Project Section Manager in Marketing in 1953 and in 1968 became Management Training Director.

LCdr. Ehreke was a member of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Naval Engineers Society, Air Force Association, Rotary Intemational, Naval Academy Alumni Ass'n., Naval Academy Athletic Ass'n., Annapolis Touchdown Club, Annapolis Yacht Club and the Glen Burnie Rotary Club, which he served as Vice President.

He is survived by his widow, Virginia, 4304 Mountain Road. Pasadena MD 21122; a daughter, Pamela Galloway whose husband, Thomas '71, is an instmctor at the Naval Academy; a son, Scott L. of Woodbridge VA; a brother, Robert, of Kansas City; and a granddaughter.

(DE)-113), he reported to the Naval Air Station, Pensacola for flight training. Designated Naval Aviator in March 1942, he first joined a seaplane squadron, VP-81, in the Caribbean and then was ordered to VP-201 in Bermuda. In June 1943, he was transferred to VB-111 flying Liberators from bases in England and Africa. In March 1944, he went to shore duty at NAS Pensacola, where he served first as a Training Squadron Commander and then as Asst. Sup't. of Aviation Training.

Capt. Miller's next assignment was in April 1946 as CO of VP-73 at Norfolk.

Following a tour in USS SAIPAN, he went WAYNE PICKERING RAMAY '44 back to Pensacola on the staff of Chief of Cdr. Wayne Pickering Ramay, USN (Ret.), Naval Air Basic Training. From September died on 12 October at his home in Millbrae, 1949 to luly 1952, he served with the MiH- California. tary Air Transport Service in Honolulu, first A native of Oklahoma, Cdr. Ramay was in VR-8 and then on the staff of the Pa- graduated from the Naval Academy in the cific Division Commander. After attending Class of 1944. His naval career was prithe Armed Forces Staff College, he re- marily in submarines but also included a turned to Pensacola in early 1953 as NAS PG degree in Personnel Administration and Training Officer. From 1954 to 1956, he Training. Following retirement in August served in USS TICONDEROGA as Operations 1963 he established the Northwest Golf Officer, Executive Officer and briefly as Supply Co. in Millbrae and operated it, toCommanding Officer. This was foUowed by gether with his wife, imtil the time of his a two-year tour as Operations Officer, Com- death.

NavAirLant Staff in Norfolk. An annual Cdr. Ramay held the Bronze Star and physical exam enroute to Naval War Col- Commendation Medals and various service lege resulted in a 13 month siege in the awards.

He is survived by his widow, Becky, 1328 Encina Drive, Millbrae CA 94030 and tiiree children.

JACK DANIEL TROMBLA '46 Mr. Jack Daniel Trombla died 25 September in Lincoln N E as a result of amyotrohpic lateral sclerosis.

Bom in Lincoln NE, Mr. Trombla graduated from the Naval Academy in 1945 with the Class of 1946, having previously attended Northfield College, University of Nebraska and Nebreska Wesleyan University for one year each. He resigned from the Navy in 1948 and joined the Naval Reserve.

Mr. Trombla served on active duty 19511953 during the Korean Conflict and was released from the Naval Reserve in 1959.

His active duty in the Navy was mostly in submarines, where he earned the Commendation Medal.

As a civilian, he became President of the Standard Reliance Insurance Co. in Lincoln. He was active in fraternal and civic organizations serving on the Board of Directors of both the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the Governing Body, Conference of Mutual Companies.

He is survived by his widow, Vecelia, 5248 Goldenrod Circle, Lincoln N E 68512; two daughters, Lynn and Julianne J.; and a son, Daniel B., who is presentiy serving in USS W I L L ROGERS.

ROBERT McQUEEN BALLINGER '55 Cdr. Robert McQueen Ballinger, USN, died on 20 November 1974 in an explosion in the Korean Demilitarized Zone while inspecting a secret tunnel with the United Nations investigating team.

Robert McQueen Ballinger '55 He was born in San Diego, the son of RAdm. and Mrs. Richard R. Ballinger, USN (Ret.) '29, and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1955. Early duty in USS SiGOURNEY and ROCHESTER was followed by assignment in 1959 to the Joint Mission to Turkey as Ordnance and Destroyer Advisor. Two years later he went to USS ToLOVANA as Engineer Officer, and in 1964 to Vietnam as Advisor to the Viemamese 21st River Assault Group. He then served as XO in USS PROCYON until ordered to the Naval Advisory Group Korea in December 1966. From 1968-70 he was in Op-Nav, then served as XO USS NIAGARA FALLS and

Chief of Staff to ComServRon 7. In August 1973 he retumed to Korea as International Shipmate

87 Affairs Officer of the U.N. Command/U.S. Forces and was so serving at the time of his unfortunate death.

Cdr. Ballinger held the Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat "V," Combat Action Ribbon, four Vietnamese decorations and seven campaign medals.

He is survived by his widow, Michi, whose present address is not available as this is written, and his father, whose address is 22 Captain Landing, Tiburon CA 94920.

DWIGHT IRVING WORRELL '57 LCdr. Dwight Irving Worrell, USN, died 9 July in an airplane crash on a farm six mUes from Naples, Italy. Services were held at Laufersweiler Funeral Home, Fort Dodge LA, followed by interment with military honors in St. Olaf Cemetery.

LCdr. Worrell, a native of Iowa, was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1957.

A Naval Aviator, he was killed, along with seven other Navy men, when their TA3B Skywarrior crashed after take-off from

Dwight Irving Worrell '57 Naples' Capodichino Airport on its way back to Rota, Spain. All were attached to Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 based at Rota.

He is survived by his widow, Mona Gay, c/o Mr. Donald Thompson, RR., Moorland lA 50566; a son and a daughter.

FREDERICK JOSEPH BALL '74 2Lt. Frederick Joseph Ball, USMC, died 5 October in an apartment house fire at his Occoquan VA residence. Memorial services were held at the Sommers Funeral Home, Telford PA, with interment in Whitemarsh Memorial Cemetery.

A native of Pennsylvania, Lt. Ball graduated from the Naval Academy in 1974.

At the time of his death he was attending Basic School at Quantico.

2Lt. Ball was the only person killed by the fire which started shortly before 4 a.m.

Fourteen persons including his wife, Susan, were injured. He reportedly reentered the building to alert neighbors and collapsed on a stairwell from smoke inhalation.

Surviving are his wife, Susan, 531 Main St., Harleysville PA 19438; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Ball of Telford PA; and a brother Jeffrey.

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