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Shiptnate Volume 40, Number 6 Executive Director W. S. B U S I K , '43 Captain, U . S. N a v y (Retired)

July-August 1977

FEATURES Estate Planning '77

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Board of Trustees Meeting Treasurer and Director of Alumni J A M E S D. O L I V E R , '43 Captain, U . S. N a v y (Retired)

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Director of Development R I C H A R D A. T E E L , "36 Captain. U . S. N a v y (Retired)

Director of PuMications and Editor R O Y C. S M I T H . I I I . '34 Captain. U S N R (Retired)

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J A M E S J. M C D O N A L D

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NAFAC 1977

by Prof. Rocco M. Paone 12 Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

by Capt. Edgar K. Thompson USN (Ret.) Carrier Admiral

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Missiles Are Changing Sea Warfare

by Capt. William T. Ruhe USN (Ret.)

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The Night STRONG Was Sunk

by RAdm. Joseph H. Wellings USN (Ret.)

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Dumbo Duty, Greenland 1924

by Capt. Stewart Lindsay USN (Ret.)

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A China Tour

by VAdm. Allan E. Smith USN (Ret.)

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A Unique Youngster Cruise

by Cdr. Philip M. Erickson USNR (Ret.) Executive Secretary BARRIE DUREE

Editorial Assistant CORDELIA RICHARDS

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DEPARTMENTS Contributors' Biographies 2 Sea Breezes 3 The Mail Boat 4 Officers and Trustees 9 All Hands 15 A Few Inches From The Yard Lucky Bag of Books 39

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Navy Sports 40 Capitol Hill 43 Class News 46 Chapter News 92 Last Call 96 Classified Services 104

COVER The new Color Company takes over the color guard, one of June Week's traditional ceremonies. See the report beginning on page 36.

Photograph by USNA Photo Laboratory

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Contributors' Biographies CAPTAIN WILLUM J. RUHE USN (RET.) Bill Ruhe '39, a submariner during World War II and eventually the ship driver of a guided missile cruiser during the Vietnam War, has seen the character of naval warfare gradually changingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with new technology bringing the nuclear submarine and guided missile to a prominent position. His strategic planning and wargaming expertise, gained in the Pentagon during the MacNamara regime, serve him well in his present job with General Dynamics, Washington, where he guides the corporation's energy programs and develops concepts for missile use.

REAR ADMIRAL JOSEPH H. WELLINGS USN (RET.) Joe Wellings '25 served primarily in battleships until ordered as Naval Observer to the RN, where he served as Operations Officer in HMS RODNEY during the sinking of the BISMARCK. A short tour in OpNav was followed by command of USS STRONG (DD-467), the subject of this article. After recuperation from wounds, he commanded DesDiv 120 and DesRon 2 in the Pacific and finished the war in BuPers. He then graduated from the National War College, served on its staff and that of CinCPacFlt, and commanded USS COLUMBUS. His flag duties included ComNavBase Newport, Navy Deputy to ComJTF 7 at Eniwetok, ACNO (Plans and Policy) and ComONE, from where he retired in 1963.

COMMANDER STEWART LINDSAY USN (RET.) Stewart Lindsay '23 spent a year as Radioman USN before being appointed to the Academy in 1919. After graduation he served 38 months in USS COGHLAN (DD-326), then took two years PG in Radio Engineering with a Harvard degree. He resigned in 1933 and entered prep school teaching of Math and Science. In 1942 he was commissioned LCdr. USNR and served in communications billets through WW II, including a tour as Comm. Officer for Adm. Radford's Carrier Task Group. Post-war he commanded Naval Reserve units in Baltimore until 1957 and continued teaching until retirement in 1960.

VICE ADMIRAL ALLAN E. SMITH USN (RET.) "Hoke" Smith '15 served in USS NEW YORK during WWI and as Exec, of USS ViLLALOBOS on the Yangtze in the mid-20s. After WW II service on Admiral King's staff, described in the June Shipmate, he commanded USS SOUTH DAKOTA in the Pacific and, later, CruDiv 5 during the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and the surrender in Tokyo Bay. He has been admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia and the U.S. Supreme Court, is the co-author of Mighty Mo, the biography of USS MISSOURI, and has published several short stories in addition to anecdotes for Shipmate.

COMMANDER PHILIP M. ERICKSON USNR (RET.) Phil Erickson '45 enlisted in the Connecticut Naval Militia in '39 and had duty in Eagle Boats and USS WILLIAMSON (DD-108) prior to the USNA. After graduation he served in USS PHOENIX in the 7th Fleet, received his Navy wings in 1947 and served a tour as an ASW pilot, then attended the Chinese language school and served on ComNavFE staff and in NSA Plans. He took an MA at Georgetown in International Relations and Asian Political Geography and then joined the State Department, serving in embassies in Stockholm and sub-Saharan countries. He retired in 1972.

PAUL R. SCHRATZ '39 Ph.D., Capt. USN (Ret.) and former Director of International Studies at U. of Missouri, Paul has completed service as senior staff officer of the joint White House/ Congressional Commission on the Organization of the Government for the Conduct of Foreign Policy and as a Guest Scholar of the Brookings Institute.

His naval service included policy and planning roles, student and faculty member at the Naval and National War Colleges.

He was the first naval officer to be awarded a Mershon doctoral fellowship at Ohio State and a Wilton Park fellowship from the British Foreign Office.

FREDERICK W. LARDNER '22 Fred Lardner '22 has been writing our legislative news since March of 1946, a longevity record approached by only one other participant in or contributor to the magazine. After leaving the Naval Academy his career includes service as a newspaper reporter, business magazine writer, department store advertising manager, correspondent for newspapers, business and military magazines, and as a managing editor in Washington where he has lived and worked for many years.

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 him with high offices in their professional associations. He joined Navy's staff in September 1973.

BRADFORD N. McDONALD '77 Brad McDonald, son of Mickey McDonald '49, came to the Academy after four years of Army JROTC in Washington. A Mechanical Engineering major with a 3.5 QPR, he is scheduled for duty in PINTADO (SS-672) until entering Nuclear Power School in February 1978.

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Paul Schratz '39

The President Promises Plains-Speaking Regulations When the Carter Administration came pay somebody else to prepare the form, to Washington, people claimed some of to voluntarily tax themselves in a ritual the staff knew so little about the city they beyond their own ability to understand. thought Rock Creek Park was a South The inability to write a clear directive is Korean accused of bribing Congressmen. not limited to Washington. A pet peeve Others thought his promised onslaught on for years is the near universal Navy regupaperwork displayed equal innocence. lation that an innocent seaman (or officer) Nevertheless, the Presidential directive reporting aboard a ship must certify that all Cabinet members within a year within 24 or 48 hours that, on pain of getrewrite their agency directives into simple ting fried at Captain's Mast, he has read English may bring pain to many but only and is familiar with the Ship's Orders and praise from this comer. We assume it is Regulations—a book several inches thick merely his Navy and Rickover training and out of date one year per inch. If it showing through, but Navy directives are ever came to a court case on ignorance of rarely an improvement on the average in- the law, the C O . would lose every time. spissated bureaucratic jargon. As someWhen my chance came as C O . of a body expressed it, "You can't fake it. vessel fitting out in a shipyard, I insisted Bad writing is a gift." If the Greeks had a on the simplest, clearest organization word for it, Washington needs several possible no matter what the Great White hundred, and Xerxes may have been a Father prescribed. The most oafish lookGreek but Xerox sure isn't. ing seaman was picked from the reporting The latest and greatest coverup in gov- crew; he "volunteered" to be Captain's yeoman while the Exec and I worked out ernment has two victims, the taxpayer the Ship's Orders and Regs. Every word and the English language. The whole function of words today is to mystify triv- of more than one syllable was tested on the yeoman. If his limited grasp indicated ial things by putting them into quasinon-comprehension, we redrafted. The technical language. James Thurber once wrote, "The brain of our species is, as we result was not legalese designed as a potential defence in court but a model of know, made up largely of potassium, forthright prose written for the people phosphorus, propaganda and politics, with the result that how not to understand who must understand to carry out the what should be clearer is becoming easier provisions. Try it; you'll like it. But it violates Bureau policy on standard ships orand easier for all of u s . " But maybe his ganizations, naturally. dog was barking up the wrong tree. Talleyrand was on safer ground in maintainOne of the great tragedies of the curing that language exists to conceal true rent era, certainly, is the exposure to the thought. Revered in a small way is the world of the Watergate tapes and the priobscure engineer at the Naval Aircraft vate conversations of our national leadFactory in Philadelphia a few years ago ers. Coverup of criminal activities by pubwho claimed that "the system is so lic office holders is bad enough but the inscrewed up with cliches that we're going sidious assault on the English language is to destroy our national security if we're potentially worse. Semanticists throughnot careful." out the nation turn blue on reading the likes of the following. Under circumPresident Carter's goal of cleaning out stances where the President wanted the paperwork jungle in Washington incites in the bureaucrat's heart equal parts counsel as to whether to tell the truth or of sympathy and skepticism. Maybe even temporize, this ensued: Pres: Well, what about the hangout Jimmy Carter does not fully comprehend thing? . . Uh, is it too late to, to, frankly the staggering size of the twin problems of putrefaction in prose and the constipa- go the hangout road? Yes, it is . .

Haldeman: It's a limited hangout. tion of time, useless effort and money. It Dean: It's a limited hangout. has been estimated—not by me—that a $100 billion yeariy is spent by individuals Erlichman: It's a modified limited and businesses merely filling out and hangout. complying with federal forms. The cost in Pres: Well, it's only the question of the man-hours just to prepare income tax re- thing hanging out publicly or privately. turns exceeds $21 billion each year. The One can only wonder, as Haldeman, double tragedy is that too many people Dean and Erlichman left the Oval Office July-August, 1977

following such discussions, whether each was clear in his own mind and understood fully what had been decided, and about what.

The language has become less an instrument for forming and expressing thought than for confusing, concealing and suppressing ideas. When such language permeates official national policies, as in the recent Pentagon favorite of "routine, limited duration, reinforced, protective reaction air strikes," the result is not necessarily the best descriptive means to achieve full understanding and compliance by a field commander or pilot in the front seat.

President Carter's noble start will be bucked by the bureaucracy every word of the way. To help him grasp the extent of the problem, consider that last year the Federal Register contained 57,000 pages of notices and regulations issued by government agencies. The Commission on Federal Paperwork (Yes, there is one) estimates that federal reporting requirements alone cost $40 billion a year. With paper shufflers accumulating a million cubic feet of paper each year, disposal by burning one government record every second would take 2,000 years to clear out the documents now in the filing cabinets.

If letters were concise and free of gobbledygook, the annual government savings could reach a quarter billion. But gobbledygook is a disease to which bureaucrats are particularly sensitive. The symptoms are a swelling of the vocabulary and a dulling of the senses, and the contagion has spread throughout all levels of government. The Army took a small step for mankind in a staff officers guide to Pentagonese, the Kiss principle, for "keep it simple, stupid". Unfortunately, Xerox got there first and, who knows, even a kiss can lead to reproduction.

The Mail Boat Oil On Troubled Waters Shipmate: While I agree with Paul Schratz that "an intelligent and disciplined national energy policy" is urgently needed, 1 must take issue with certain details in his column ("Sea Breezes", March 1977).

Large tankers represent the most modem technology in marine transportation today, and their superior safety record reflects the fact that they are well-founded ships. Design and construction of these vessels utilized many new techniques, including computer stress analysis of the entire hull, full scale testing to confirm stresses caused by waves and other loads, and improved quality control in fabrication and welding. Similar advanced techniques have been used to increase the reliability of the propulsion machinery and the cargo pumping system. There is no discemible difference in reliability between single-screw, single-rudder and twin-screw, twin-mdder vessels.

Considerable model testing and subsequent vessel operation have confirmed that VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) are, in some respects, easier to handle than smaller tankers. Safe maneuvering can be accomplished with proper navigation planning and action. Sophisticated simulators have been developed and are in widespread use for training officers assigned to these vessels.

All tankers are built to similar classification specifications based on a life expectancy of about 20 years; and this has not, as the author implies, been reduced to 8-10 years for large tankers.

Schratz's statement that "(shipowners) have lobbied extensively and effectively to avoid financial liability" is simply not true. Voluntary industry compensation plans for oil spill cleanup and damage have been in effect for seven years, cover almost 100 percent of the world tanker fleet, and have compensated injured parties in practically all cases. For several years, many in the industry have urged governments, including the United States, to ratify intemational agreements adopted by the United Nations which would provide uniform international standards of compensation for oil spill cleanup and damage. The passage of "Superfund" legislation now pending before Congress would provide compensation for cleanup and damage from oil spills from all sources in U.S. waters.

More detail on these topics can be

found in a 24-page publication titled "Very Large Cmde Carriers (VLCCs)"; which I will be glad to supply to interested readers.

Paul T. Gorman '54 1251 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Shipmate: In the March Shipmate Captain Schratz states categorically that nuclear power is not the answer. My question is, the answer to what? Captain Schratz starts an article about the problems of major oil spills then mysteriously injects the issue of American dependence on foreign oil into the article.

If Captain Schratz is talking about America's energy shortage, he is correct in stating that nuclear power is not the answer. However, he gives the impression that nuclear power has no role in the answer to America's energy problems. As part of his case he states that the United States produces more energy from burning firewood than from nuclear fission.

After an extensive search, I have not been able to verify this contention, and I request that Captain Schratz state the source of this "fact."

Nuclear power is a proven, viable energy source which America and especially our alumnus Jimmy Carter is apparently choosing not to cash in on. Using nuclear power certainly will not end America's dependence on foreign oil sources, but it will provide an important step in that direction.

Since Captain Schratz is also apparently concemed about a clean atmosphere, he must surely recognize that nuclear power is vastly superior to oil or any other fossil fuel in the area of atmospheric emissions.

Reduction of waste may be a wiser alternative, but nuclear power is a surer one.

Michael P. Morrell '71 Shipmate: I am writing in reference to Dr. Paul Schratz's excellent "Sea Breezes" column of March 1977. I understand that there have been some occupationally anonymous challenges as to his data. I may have contributed to the problem, if there be one.

Concerning the remark that more energy is produced from buming firewood than from nuclear fission—Hammond, Metz, and Maugh of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in

their book Energy and the Future (1973) bring out this dismal statistic for the years 1970 through 1972 (pages 5 and 148). Because a number of reactors have come on line since that time it is possible that uranium may now produce as much energy in this country as firewood—or at least almost—or even somewhat more.

In any case, even though the Edison Institute reportedly now estimates that about 10% of the electricity in the country is produced from nuclear power, the fact remains (see The Wall Street Journal of May 5, 1977-p.l.) that the "age of wood" is not necessarily behind us. The biomass concept (wood is a renewable energy resource if handled properly, and it has a somewhat lower radioactivity level than Plutonium) will probably make a significant energy contribution in the years ahead. It will not be "competitive" with nuclear power per se; we are too disparate in our energy needs and supply capabilities in this huge and complex country. Conservation of energy notwithstanding, as I attempt to bring out in Energy Policy and Naval Strategy (Sage Publications, 1975), we are going to have to develop every energy resource we can lay our hands on (there goes grandmother's antique desk!) while saving "premium" fuels (perhaps including uranium) for the absolutely essential tasks in which other fuels cannot serve at the present state of our technology. I believe that President Carter will (eventually) vigorously support all forms of energy resource development in response to our needs and within economic, security, and basic safety constraints. In these latter two categories, with reference to nuclear power, the utilities, aided by better nuclear engineering, will probably have to develop a more rational and standardized approach than shown in the past.

Howard Bucknell III '45 Captain Schratz replies: Shipmate: Reader Gorman, from EXXON, tasks me for lack of sympathy for supertankers; reader Morrell, in reactor containment at the Clinch River Breeder Reactor in New Jersey, tasks me for lack of sympathy for nuclear power. Yet on information available to me from the Department of Commerce, the Maritime Transportation Research Board, the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Merchant Marine Safety, the American Institute of Merchant Shipping and, incidentally, EXShipmate

XON. I will stand by all statements as published. There is room for a wide range of opinion, however, and I welcome the discussion. The U.S. energy problem and its oil, nuclear, coal, solar, and even firewood special interests, each with unique political, economic and environmental overlays, offers plenty of toeholds for argument.

On specific points raised: —Nuclear power is a proven, viable energy source but superiority over oil in atmospheric emissions must be qualified by a very high price to be paid in disposing of wastes and correcting the thermal effects of cooling w ater on the environment. These problems can be handled, but they involve major tradeoffs in energy cost, and for 15 years or more our future must be tied to oil.

—On the question of energy from fission versus firewood, the Energy Outlook. 1976-1990 published by EXXON states that 3% of the U.S. energy supply in 1976 came from nuclear fission, rising to 5<^c by 1980 and 16% by 1990. In the absence of a National Academy of Firewood, estimates of energy fi"om buming firewood may not be mathematically precise but survivors of the w inter of •76-"77 estimate freely that far more than 3% of the national energy output came from direct combustion of wood and oxygen. See a thesis also by Captain H. Bucknell USN (Ret.). Energy Policy and Naval Strategy, .Athens. Ga.. 1 October 1974. on file with the Federal Energy Agency.

—With respect to supertanker operations. I would certainly expect sophisticated simulators to be in widespread use to train officers assigned to these enormous ships. Nevertheless. 80% of tanker accidents internationally are caused by human error. Only one intemational agreement relates to personnel qualification: this, a 14 year old law (46 US Code 224a). establishes no minimum standards for experience nor for the content of the necessary examination. Although the principal maritime nations have established such standards, many nations do not meet minimal requirements. For further discussion, see Hearings. HR Committee on Commerce. 11-12 January 1977. Part I Section 95-4. pages 335-411.

—My statements from Noel Mostert's Supership that oil residues can corrode tanker skins halfway through in ten years, and that the superships are built to pay for themselves in 8-10 years, are not inconsistent with a life expectancy of twenty years. If they had only an 8-10 year life, they would hardly be salable after that period. These statements, however, do not necessarily apply to the U.S. tanker fleet whose average age of 21.6 years is oldest of the maritime nations, nor necessarily to that of Liberia whose average age is only 10.1 years.

—The statement on lobbying is attributable to Richard Sullivan, chief July-August. 1977

counsel. HR Committee on Public Works. "".Arguing strenuously against liability [by shipow ners] for removal costs of spilled oil," the lobbyist is doing only what he is paid and registered with the U.S. Govemment to do in representing a client's interests. It is tme that the large oil companies have been quite responsible in compensating injured parties for cleanup and damage; but they lobby to limit their legal responsibilities within reasonable limits if only to prevent tankers from becoming uninsurable.

We must not overlook the extent to w hich special interests hamper the overall energy problem. While traveling in the Republic of South Africa, for example. I noticed numerous electrical generator plants throughout the country mounted directly over coal mines where the coal never sees the light of day. making possible a highly efficient, decentralized electrical power network. In the U.S. I see costly, noisy and wasteful shipments of coal by rail to far distant power plants— partly because environmentalists will not accept minor local emissions even at the low price of far greater net gain in efficiency and cost as well as the environment.

I can attest to the excellence of the EXXON pamphlet on the Very Large Cmde Carriers. My copy was given to the Naval Academy Library so as to reach additional readers. Perhaps reader Gorman would consider sending copies to the Naval War College—in fact, all the service colleges—where much research is being done on energy problems.

Don't mistake me; I am far from unenthusiastic about supertankers. I spent considerable time, effort and out of pocket expenses to arrange a sea voyage in a VLCC as part of a major research effort. My plans aborted only because of what appeared to be administrative roadblocks by the EXXON office in New York City. But my heart is in the right place.

Paul Schratz '39 Rebel of '33 Shipmate: The story of Frank (Salty) Tinker in your March issue brought back memories of our 1930 ""Middy" cmise to Germany. Salty and I took several days leave to visit the countryside around Kiel, during the course of which we fell in w ith a small circus troup. Despite the language barrier, we were accepted warmly, almost as their American cousins. The idyll came to an abmpt end one night when we were banished for chasing the lady acrobats around a village inn.

Salty, with typical Cajun foresight, was wearing a celluloid collar, which saved him the trouble of carrying several changes. Each moming. after bmshing his teeth, he would tum the toothbmsh on his collar, removing the previous day's

Days off Yore Frank Worth "37 recently sent in two pictures found some time ago in a rented house in Arlington, but could not recall any such event at the Academy in his time. We publish them here for nostalgia among "25 and senior classes.

Ring baptism, circa 1923

l! 1 ^ •fh»-m.^v*jt--§ In their days one of the highlights of June Week w as the baptism of the new class rings—by being chucked off the seawall of Dewey Basin just below the old First Batt w ing where the half-raters were moored. It was a raucous occasion with great fun for all hands—or most hands, perhaps—until June Week of 1924. when John T. Smith "25 hit his head on a boat hull and drowned before anyone realized what had happened. The ring baptism ritual was forthwith abolished and replaced for all future years by the Ring Dance ceremonial of today.

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smudges. I mention this only because it was a circumstance that later became the cause of near-tragic consequences.

On our retum to Kiel we visited several bars, testing the local absinthe, after which we settled down in a beer garden near the boat landing. Salty suggested we have a contest to see who could put away the most beer in the shortest time. The waiter obligingly lined up five mugs in front of each of us. Salty won going away, but the sleepless nights and the absinthe caught up with him. His head dropped into a large ashtray filled with

smoldering cigarettes. There was a brilliant flash of fire, and when Salty raised his head all that remained of the collar was a black ring around his neck and the charred remnants of his necktie.

No one but I knew for sure why Salty was permitted to wear a scarf around his neck for the rest of the cmise.

Jim Jordan '33 More of the Carney Story Shipmate: Having been publicly called to task in Shipmate by my distinguished father-in-law. Admiral Mick Carney, for spreading canards about his conduct record as a midshipman, I hasten to explain my problem.

Since 1 first started to woo his lovely daughter forty years ago, Admiral Mick and 1 have exchanged correspondence but twice. In 1942 I addressed a tmly superb letter to him, begging for his daughter's hand in marriage. In due course from the South Pacific, I received the following reply: "My dear Lieutenant Taussig: If my daughter's hand is all you are interested in, perhaps we should review the entire courtship.

Regards, Mick" As the President of the Naval Institute in 1953, the Admiral initiated the second and last of our correspondence. During my absence as the Secretary-Treasurer of the Institute, a letter from the Admiral making a routine enquiry about some membership statistics, had been answered by my secretary, who signed my name and her initials.

On my retum, she burst into tears as she showed me a letter from the President reminding the Secretary-Treasurer that, when addressing a reply to a Presidential enquiry, the letter should be read and signed by the Secretary-Treasurer.

The letter, of course, was signed by the Admiral's secretary.

I immediately dictated a letter of apology, assuring the President that the error would not be repeated. The second paragraph read: "A student at the Severn School (my son—his grandson) was terribly disappointed that you did not personally sign your letter. He had been promised the autograph of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force in exchange for four autographs of the Chief of Naval Operations. He already had three from prior letters of reprimand you had addressed to him concerning incidences of gross misconduct which, when they occurred, I had attributed to the skipped-generation syndrome."

I have no illusions that 1 will ever achieve the fame of my distinguished father-in-law, but I'll be damned if I'm going to take a back seat in competing with him for the infamous title.

Joe Taussig '41

A Correction

Unilateral Disarmament

Shipmate: Cdr. Falge's article, "Long and Arduous Duty", suffers from typos or inaccuracy. If my recollection serves me correcfly, J.K. Taussig was Westem High, D . C '98, which would make him USNA vintage circa '02, not '12. I also was raised in the school that held him to say on reporting, "I shall be ready when fueled," not, "1 am ready now." Not as romanfic but surely more pragmatic.

Shack Moore '43

Shipmate: It would be hard to deny that two vital elements of our national security—Intelligence and Military— have both been seriously crippled.

Intelligence—economic, political and military—are impotent. Covert, even overt intelligence of the most innocuous, is investigated, "overseen", apologized for, and advertised by our Congress and our press. The intelligence tools are denied, and our agents now are subjected to disgrace for things they were in the past justly honored for.

Militarily we can no longer raise an armed force by draft in an emergency.

This has always been necessary. Now eligibles know that they can thumb their noses. Discipline is not possible when desertion is of minor importance and less than honorable discharges can most probably be upgraded by initiation of an invited free telephone call. Under these circumstances we no longer have an effective military.

The Soviets have certainly not taken similar actions. This is by far the most serious form of unilateral disarmament.

E. M. Block, '30

We're both wrong. Admiral Taussig graduated from the USNA in the Class of 1899. His reply to Admiral Bayly has been quoted many times in different versions, but all include the need for fuel either directly or as an afterthought.

Energy Conservation Shipmate: The ad you have been mnning for the Liquid Crystal Digital Display Thermometer has disturbed me since I first saw it. The ad shows the temperature at 74°, full 6° above the temperature we are urged to maintain in our buildings.

Reading further, I find that the temperature range is 66° to 84° F. The thermometer may be "a unique memento of Annapolis" but it doesn't encourage conservation. I feel we should do everything we can to encourage Americans to be energy conscious. Possibly the thermometer's range should be changed, but certainly the display in the ad should be changed to 68°.

Frank Young '59 In July and August?

Major Andre's Revenge Shipmate: The enclosed clipping just recently came to my notice. It's too good to miss.

"It was reveille at West Point on 4 July last year and LCol. Bradley, in charge of bicentennial activities, was preoccupied.

He had noticed that a flag was flying over Fort Putnam, the ancient redoubt high above the Plains.

"Bradley had been in charge of restoring Fort Putnam as the Academy's 200th birthday present to the Nation, but it had not yet been formally opened. A look through field glasses only added to the puzzle; the flag was a Union Jack.

"It seemed that the British Army liaison officer had scaled the sloping stone walls during the night and raised his country's flag, leaving a note at the base of the flagpole: 'Happy birthday, America. The British were here!' " Major Andre was revenged!

John E. Curry '23

The '37 Inaugural Parade Shipmate: In "The First January Inauguration", author Wadleigh '37 brought back aching shoulders from a long day of 100-pound, waterlogged overcoats and fixed bayonets on rifles—the heavies he and his buglers didn't carry.

To dry out afterwards I was lucky to have a friend whose heavyweight father lent me clothes while mine steamed by the furnace. Later I was lucky to see "Yeoman of the Guard" . . . so the music of Gilbert and Sullivan lingers to lighten the memories, as do many songs of Navy years, heavy at the time.

Jim Fair (J.S. Farrior) '40 Fast Promotions Shipmate: Here is a sidelight that was left out of my article on the Youngster Cmise of '45. One of those who made the SOUTH DAKOTA'S shakedown cmise was Paul Shulman. In the late 40s or early 50s, after graduating from the Navy's PG course in Communications, he resigned and went to Israel—at the Israeli's request. Shortly afterwards he became CNO of the Israeli Navy, replacing the former "gravel cmnchers" who thought they knew how to mn ships. While USN classmates were lieutenants, he was an admiral. His flagship, as I recall, was a frigate and, whenever she ventured into a NATO port, Paul would always hoist a signal looking for any '45s to join him for lunch or dinner on board.

Phil Erickson '45

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Estate Planning '77 A Message from Your Alumni

In three previous articles written prior to the '76 Tax Reform Act, emphasis was placed on the importance of planning for the conservation and distribution of your estate, establishing a proper and reasonable value for all assets in your estate, and having your attorney draw a current will. If the Tax Reform Act did nothing else, it added a high degree of urgency for each of us to carry out these three steps.

Basically, the Act was designed to relieve small and moderate-sized estates from the burden of Federal estate and gift taxation; to eliminate or curtail tax avoidance devices favoring wealthy individuals; and to alleviate liquidity problems faced by those administering the estates of farmers and closely-held business owners. To a degree these objectives were met by eliminating the exposure of a number of estates to filing and payment of tax (by 1981 married individuals with estates of $425,000 or less may be able to escape estate taxation); by eliminating many of the advantages of lifetime gifting over bequests by will; by imposing future capital gains taxes which had previously escaped taxation forever at the death of the estate owner; and, by providing tax payment extensions and special valuation methods to reduce the severity of liquidity demands on the estates of farmers and business owners.

Despite substantial revisions of the Internal Revenue Code, the rules regarding the estate tax treatment of charitable gifts remains basically the same. When a person dies, his estate must pay a Federal estate tax if the total value of his assets and certain other property subject to tax exceeds the allowable deductions and credits. One of the deductions is "the amount of all bequests, legacies, devices, or transfers to a corporation organized and operated for scientific, literary, or educational purposes" or to a trustee therefor. The Naval Academy Memorials and Gifts Advisory Board has designated the Alumni Association as the point of contact for bequests and wills, as well as corporate matching gifts.

Association

The complexity of the new tax law precludes more than a cursory review of pertinent provisions. Nevertheless, each of us must be aware that many of the benefits provided by the Act can be obtained only if we have a valid will, and that a will drawn prior to October 4th, 1976 may well be out of date and in urgent need of revision.

If your estate plan is based on a combination of lifetime gifts and bequests by will, you may want to reevaluate your plan. The separate exemptions for gift and estate taxes have been replaced with a single tax credit, based on all transfers.

Gifts made within three years of the giver's death are now unconditionally included in the gross estate. Gifts of present interest up to a value of $3,000 ($6,000, if your spouse joins in) still may be given annually to as many individuals as desired without incurring a gift tax.

Generation-skipping trusts, prior to the Reform Act, were in vogue as a device whereby a grandparent might provide income to a spouse and to their children with the principal eventually going to the grandchildren. A tax was imposed on the death of the person creating the trust.

Now a second tax will be imposed at the time of the transfer to the grandchildren.

An estate tax deduction is allowed for amounts which pass to a child of the decedent if the child is under 21 years of age and there is no surviving spouse (or known surviving parent) of the decedent.

The maximum deduction is $5,000 for each year the child is under age 21. The deduction applies to each child of the decedent, including an adopted child. The importance of having this provision in your will, even if your estate is considered modest, might be demonstrated as follows. Suppose a young officer and his wife were killed in an accident, leaving one-year old twins. Accidental death benefits and subsequent litigation result in an additional $700,000 being paid to their estate. The $200,000 orphan's deduction could save the suddenly inflated estate nearly $80,000 in Federal estate taxes; BUT, only if their wills included this provision.

If your will was drawn prior to October 1976, it may have contained a formula to maximize the marital deduction. Under the Act, the maximum allowable marital deduction is the greater of $250,000 or one-half of the adjusted gross estate. To take advantage of these new limits, you should consult with your attorney immediately, for the old formula still may apply adversely to those dying during 1977 and 1978.

With the new marital deduction limits and the unified credit against estate and gift taxes (which will level off at $47,000 in 1981, equivalent to a personal exemption of $175,625 rather than the familiar $60,000 prior to the Act), many do-ityourself estate planners may conclude that they no longer have to be concemed about the Federal estate tax if their estate is under $500,000. Unfortunately for them, such is definitely not the case. The Act merely dropped collection of a relatively small tax on the death of the first spouse in order to be able to collect a very large tax when the surviving spouse dies. For example, no tax would be paid on an estate of $430,000 after applying the marital deduction and unified credit on the death of the first spouse; but, $77,600 would be paid on the death of the second spouse. On a $500,000 estate. $7,800 might be paid on the first death. $105,800 on the second death.

The use of a marital deduction formula clause in your new will should be discussed with your legal advisor and accountant. Where the adjusted gross estate of the first spouse is less than $500,000, a marital deduction clause which calls for the executor to obtain the maximum deduction may actually result in underutilization of the unified credit. For example, if the adjusted gross estate is $400,000, the use of the $250,000 limit would result in an $8,200 under-utilization of the $47,000 credit (1981 and after) which could not be recovered. This may be avoided by will language which links the amount of the marital deduction in the formula clause to the amount of the

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maximum unified credit available. The re- new. but Tax Reform has added a new sult will be a lower estate tax for the esdimension. Since the securities no longer tates of both spouses, since the maximum take a stepped-up basis at death, there unified credit will be fully utilized in each will be a capital gain when they are sold estate. following death. Thus, the sales proceeds In previous articles, we have stressed are depleted by an income tax liability bethe desirability of using a family trust, or fore they are available to pay the regular B-Trust. Tax savings may be realized estate costs. Most financial advisors now under the new Act, as before, and a trust agree that life insurance may hold the key does provide professional management, to prompt settlement of estate transfer conservation of assets, income for the costs particularly on the death of the secsurviving spouse and distribution of the ond spouse. The proceeds are imtrust assets as directed by the trustor. mediately available at full value. They are The tax savings can be significant. In the not subject to the stepped-up basis and estate of S430.000 noted above, the saving ownership can be arranged so that the would be $55,520; at $500,000. the savproceeds are not included in the estate of ings is S70.800. the decedent.

The bugaboo of joint ownership is still The 1976 Tax Reform Act is now the with us. While the new tax laws make it law under which your estate will be setpossible for the surviving spouse's intertled. You have an obligation to sit down est in joint tenancies created after 1 Januwith your legal advisor, your accountant, ar>- 1977 to be excluded from the estate of your tmst officer and your life insurance the first to die. the full value of the jointly agent, as your estate dictates, and estabowned estate is taxed again in the estate lish a plan to ensure that you pay your of the second to die. As most real propproper share for the transfer costs that inerty is jointly owned, treatment of this evitably w ill arise on your death and that property should be discussed thoroughly of your spouse; but, no more than the with your legal advisor. This is particuproper share! It is a subject that most larly important when considering the use families refuse to deal with until it is too of a family trust. late, but the results can be tragic and the Space does not permit discussion of the losses in family assets can run into thousands and tens of thousands of dolfull impact of the Tax Reform Act on lars. It may be much later than you think! business interests nor the treatment of capital gains, although the latter may ulWhile your Alumni Association cannot timately create more problems for the provide legal advice, we welcome the opexecutor than previously believed. If you portunity to discuss bequests for the are holding highly appreciated securities Naval Academy or the opportunity to eswhich you intend to leave to a young heir, tablish a Charitable Remainder Trust. you may want to consider selling them Remember that the Naval Academy now and leaving some other asset, or Alumni Association is the designated transfer them to a charitable remainder coordinator for all the Academy's suptrust from which you or your spouse or a porting organizations: the Alumni Associfavorite heir might derive a life income. ation. Athletic Association, Naval Academy Memorial Fund, Naval Finally, we might briefly consider the Academy Foundation and the Naval need to ensure that the dollars (liquidity) Academy Sailing Foundation. We will be are available to settle with IRS nine happy to send on request the Gift and months after the date of death when the Memorials Opportunity pamphlet describestate tax retum amd full payment are reing the work of these organizations with quired. Prior to the Tax Reform Act. securities often were counted on to pay the an enclosure listing the approved Naval tax. in addition to cash and life insurance. Academy projects requiring private funding.

But. securities can present a problem, Your action now can be of great mutual since their value cannot be guaranteed. If the market is down, sufficient dollars may benefit to you and your family as well as to the Naval Academy. not be available; while, if the market is up. they may push the estate into a much •Xhigher tax bracket. This problem is not

USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President

(and V.P. Western

Area)

V A D M . P . D . STROOP, U S N (Ret) '26

San Diego, CA Vice President

(Eastern

Area)-

V A D M . CHARLES S . M I N T E R . U S N (Ret.) "37

Annapolis. M D Vice President

(Central

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CDR. THCMAS O . MCWHORTER. U S N R (Ret.) •41. H o u s t o n . T X Executive

Director—

C A P T . W . S . BUSIK. U S N (Ret.) ' 4 3 ,

Annapolis. M D TreastirerC A P T . J. D. OLIVER. J R . . U S N (Ret.) "43.

Annapolis. M D

TRUSTEES Past

President—

M R . DAVID B . BENHAM '41

Oklahoma. City. O K Superintendent's

Representative—

C A P T . W . C . HASKELL. U S N •49,

U S N A . Annapolis. M D

At Large (To sene

through

Spring Meeting

1978)

T H E H O N . WILLIAM A. ANDERS "55 C A P T . JAMES R . H O G G . U S N '56 R A D M . JOHN E . KIRKPATRICK. U S N R (Ret.) '31 C A P T . JOHN F . LABOON. C H C . U S N '44

(To serve through Spring Meeting

1979)

M A J . RICHARD C . ABINGTON. U S M C R '59 L G E N . H U G H M . E L W O O D . U S M C (Ret.) '38 L C D R . PAUL GALANTI. U S N "62 M R . O W E N F . K E E L E R . J R . "43

(To serve through

Spring Meeting

1980)

C A P T . JAMES W . BLANCHARD. J R . . U S N '56 L G E N . HENRY W . B U S E . U S M C (Ret.) '34 L C D R . W I L U A M P. DONNELLY. C E C . U S N "65 C A P T . FRANK A. LIBERATO. U S N (Ret.) "51

From Local Chapters ADM. A . G . WARD. USN (Ret.) "32. Annapolis M R . WALTER J . T O N E R , J R . "43, B o s t o n C A P T . H . E . M I L L E R , U S N (Ret.) ' 3 8 ,

Connecticut C D R . H . K N O X PERRILL. U S N (Ret.) "26.

Los Angeles R A D M . L . R . N E V I L L E . U S N (Ret.) "33,

New York M R . IRA W . K A N E . "53. Peninsula LT.

R . J . C H U D A Y . U S A F R "54. Philadelphia

R A D M . B . H . BIERI. J R . . U S N (Ret.) "37.

San Diego Coronado CDR. E . C . POWELL. U S N R (Ret.) "27, Southeast Florida (Miami)

Remember Homecoming 2 1 - 2 2 - 2 3 October

C A P T . G . PATRICK P A Y N E . U S N R "52

Texas Gulf Coast (Houston) ADM. ROY L . JOHNSON. USN (Ret.) "29.

Tidewater (VA) C A P T . RODNEY J. BADGER, U S N (Ret.) "35

Washington. DC

July-August. 1977

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Board of Trustees Meeting Alumni H o u s e , 2 J u n e 1 9 7 7

Election of Officers and Trustees Election of the new President, Vice President Central Area and four Trustees-at-Large was certified to and accepted by the Board. The new officers and trustees are: President (1977-1979) VAdm. P.D. Stroop USN (Ret.) '26 Vice President Central (1977-1979) Cdr. Thomas O. McWhorter USNR (Ret.) '41 Trustees-at-Large (1977-1980) Capt. James W. Blanchard USN '56 LGen. Henry W. Buse, Jr. USMC (Ret.) '34 LCdr. William P. Donnelly (CEC) USN '65 Capt. Frank A. Liberato USNR (Ret.) '51 Executive Director's Report

changes in our staff organization, for which we are already making preparations.

For the '77 membership campaign, the most successful in our history, we are again indebted to Professor Karel Montor and to his strong right arm, Tom Lindner '77.

Group Insurance and Investment Programs—Although the formal announcement of the new Group Term Life Insurance program was not made until late March, 533 alumni had enrolled by 26 May for a total insurance volume of $15,746,000. Our Administrator commented, "The initial response is encouraging."

The Group Investment program has also been successful, with over $100,000 of individual investments by February and the original sales charge of 8'/^% now reduced to 3%.

These two programs combine with life membership as a very attractive package for midshipmen, who can now enroll for both membership and insurance as underclassmen and use group investment for their graduation balances. Also, midshipmen enrollees who do not graduate have the option of continuing their payments to retain the benefits of those programs until becoming alumni on the graduation of their class. This should increase membership among non-graduates in future years.

Annual Fund—In the last six years the Annual Fund has grown from $78,000 in FY 71 to $215,000 in FY 76, exclusive of bequests and other special gifts, and the amount of money thereby channeled into the Naval Academy increased from $17,000 to $103,000. In the last three years matching gifts from industry rose from $3,400 to $8,600, which is in addition to the annual giving total above. The Class Agent system, adopted in October 1972, to implement the annual fund drive, has now reached a total of 341 Class CoChairmen and some 1,900 Class Agents —a most impressive, most necessary, and highly successful volunteer effort.

Growth of the Association—As of 27 April we had 19,632 members, 55% of the 35,841 alumni for whom we have known addresses. This is far better than any other dues-paying alumni association, but that percentage is well below what we should and can reach. The addition of 956 new members from the Class of 1977 (96.4% of the graduates, and 393 as Life Members) puts us over the long-sought goal of 20,000 members, but there is still a great need for increased membership in the classes since 1934. For example, the last ten classes contain 13,537 alumni but only 4,697 members—an average of only 34.6% membership.

Our chapters are continuing to grow and to take on more projects. Only a few years ajgo a chapter with 100 members of the national association was assured of one of the twelve chapter members of the Board of Trustees; this year the twelfth local trusteeship went to Annapolis with 171 national members and the next five below all had over 100.

Since we are an association of alumni, rather than graduates only, we average an addition to our rolls of over 1,300 new alumni each year, many of whose future records will be kept only by the Alumni Association. The first year success of FY 1978 Budget combining Group Insurance and Investment programs with life membership on The Board approved the proposed FY graduation, as shown by '77, indicates 1978 budget with a total income of that we will continue to add large num$767,578 and expenditures of $713,933 for bers of new members each year, many of a net income of $38,645 after allowing them Life Members, and that the average $15,000 for depreciation. age of the membership will steadily deThe major income items are $187,278 cline. That will require corresponding from dues and $240,000 from annual giv-

ing, which clearly indicates the need for continuing to expand our membership and for the annual fund drive. Major expenditures include $240,882 for operational expenses of the Alumni Association and its real property (33.6% of the total), $198,006 for publications (partially offset by $68,500 in advertising and sales), $131,125 to build up the endowment fund (largely from life membership fees, interest and dividends earned by the fund), and direct gifts of $68,500 to the Naval Academy.

Endowment Fund The Board heard a report by Mr. Larry Bishop of the Bessemer Trust on the management of the endowment fund. Its two objectives are to maintain a retum in growth and income of at least 50% above the rate of inflation, and to maximize the income retum to the Association while minimizing risk. Over the nine months of Bessemer's responsibility, income has increased by about $10,000 and the portfolio division between stocks and bonds has been shifted from 65-35% to 40-60%. On the overall portfolio, growth has averaged 6.1% and income 5.2% for a total net retum of 11.3%. All income returns have been reinvested in the endowment fund.

Franklin Mint Plate No. 2 Because the first, bicentennial memorial plate offering provided nearly $60,000 to the Naval Academy, the Board approved a second Franklin Mint project to commemorate the 30th anniversary of incorporation of the USNA Alumni Association. This plate will feature the Naval Academy crest as its center design and will be of the same high quality as the first. Details of this offering will be published when available.

Eligibility for Group Insurance Program In order to clarify the status of midshipmen, who do not become alumni until after graduation, and to provide for future expansion of program eligibility as proposed by the Naval Institute, the Board adopted the following resolution: Resolved, that the Naval Academy Alumni Association Group Insurance Trust, Family Protection Program be extended to include midshipmen enrolled in the Naval Shipmate

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.Academy, and NROTC Program. e.\midshipmen enrolled in the Alumni Association Life Membership Program. Associate Members and members of the Naval Institute, who qualify under terms of the Trust .â&#x20AC;˘\greement.

Except for midshipmen and Associate Members, the present trust agreement would have to be modified to include the added categories. The resolution makes it possible to pursue the idea of expansion into these areas in the future if we \\ ish to do so.

Fall Meeting The date of the Fall Meeting of the Board was set as 20 October 1977, the day before commencement of Homecoming weekend.

Presentations

Honorary and Associate Memberships The Board approved Honorary Membership for Professor Donald C. Gilley. who retired in 1972 after nearly thirty years as Director of Musical Activities at the Naval Academy. He relieved our late Honorary Member. Professor Joseph Crosley. in 1944 and became noted for the national appearances, on tour and on television, of the USNA Choir and Glee Club.

The Board also approved invitations to seven non-alumni, outstanding in their support for the Naval .Academy, to become Associate Members.

-Admiral Burke meets his scholars

Just before the luncheon break. Capt.

C.R. Chandler USN (Ret.). President of the Class of 1939, presented a gavel made from original wood of USS CONSTITUTION to the Class of 1977. It was accepted for the class by Mid. Tom Lindner, who had done so much in the '77 Alumni Association membership drive.

As always, the Superintendent. Commandant, staff and faculty members, and midshipmen class officers were invited to join the Board for lunch. An innovation this year was to invite the nine Burke Scholars of "77 to meet Admiral Burke on his last Board attendance as Past President.

On assuming the office of President.

Admiral Stroop's first act was to present a gavel to outgoing President Dave Benham and to congratulate him on the outstanding job he had done in the past two years.

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1977

Register of Alumni The 1977 edition of the Register of Alumni is now available, with data corrected through 9 N o v e m b e r 1976 and including some 30,000 corrections since the 1976 edition. It includes every man who took the oath as a midshipman from the founding of the Naval Academy in 1845 through the Class of 1976. with current status, address and much other personal data. It lists all alumni Medal of H o n o r winners, former Superintendents and former Presidents of the Alumni Association. It includes a geographical locator listing all living alumni by zip code areas, a great asset to alumni traveling on business or pleasure. This is an invaluable reference book no alumnus should be without. D o n ' t say, " I wonder where Joe Gish is n o w , " but look up his address in your own copy of the Register.

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NAFAC 1977 I/.S. Foreign Policy Directions

in a Changing

World

R o c c o M. P a o n e , P h . D . , Professor and NAFAC Chairman

Some 200 student delegates from 135 colleges located in all sections of the United States attended the 17th annual Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference from 18-21 April. The topic of the meeting was U.S. FOREIGN POLICY DIRECTIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD. Judging from the comments, oral and written, from observers, senior participants, and student delegates, the Conference was one of our more successful ones. The civilian students stated that they had never realized that midshipmen, specializing in their naval profession, could be so well versed in various aspects of economics, political science, and linguistics.

Heading the NAFAC staff as Midshipman Director was Patrick Walsh. Under him were the Deputy Director, Deputy for Operations and Deputy for Administration: Midshipmen Tom Arminio, Carl Fisher and John Polcari respectively.

Within the Operations and Administration staffs were some six second classmen, one of whom (Joseph Schmitz) will be the Midshipman Director next year, and three of whom will be Deputy Director, Deputy for Operations and Deputy for Administration.

Midshipman Walsh and his deputies organized the full complement composing the NAFAC staff into Administration, Transportation, Housing, Messing, Reception, Escorting, and Pre-Event committees. Representing the Academy on each of the ten round table discussion groups were two midshipmen and one midshipman host-recorder. It is difficult to describe the lessons of naval leadership that were experienced and acquired by the Midshipmen Directors and Chairmen.

As in NAFAC '76, these young men wrote the Operations Plan, as well as the Operations Order and the General Orders for the Conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a valuable experience for them. Just as important they learned how to implement their orders by initiating a necessary follow-up mechanism. Thus, NAFAC '77, like its predecessors, afforded the midshipmen a command responsibility experience and, I might add, an appreciation of the value of communications.

Now, what of the Conference itself?

There were six plenary and five round

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table sessions. The panel session of 18 April entitled "Future Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy" was composed of Dr. Chester I. Cooper, Director, Washington Office, Institute for Energy Analysis; Dr. Vincent Ferraro, Academic Consultant to the UN Association of the USA; Capt. James M. Patton, USN, Policy Planning S/P, Department of State; and Prof. Richard Falk from the Center for International Studies, Princeton University. Judging from delegate reaction, all presentations were excellent, with that of Dr. Ferraro probably being the most effective. The some 400 people in attendance were appreciative of Dr. Falk's role of "devil's advocate" and his suspicious judgment of President Carter's heavy stress on human rights as a practical issue in some areas of U.S. foreign policy.

The Keynote Speaker was Senator Edmund Muskie, who stressed the importance of human rights as an essential ingredient of U.S. foreign policy. He was enthusiastically acclaimed in three standing ovations during his address by the packed Mitscher Hall Auditorium attendees. Naturally, student delegates asked questions in a stirring period following the address.

The Banquet Speaker was Mr. Harlan Cleveland, Director of the Aspen Program in International Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO. He emphasized the role of the U.S. in future and the "third try at world order." This presentation provoked much thought in the round table sessions the next moming.

To give the Conference somewhat of an internationalist flavor and also an insight as to how foreign diplomats perceive U.S. foreign policy, the Ambassadors from Iran, Tanzania, and the German Democratic Republic were invited to make presentations. These foreign representatives spoke clearly and drew many questions, mainly because they presented issues related to U.S. foreign policy in their sections of the world. The student delegates at times disagreed with some points in the ambassadors' addresses. Ambassador Zahedi of Iran really was the "hit" of the Tuesday morning presentations and at the luncheon for the diplomats hosted by the Superintendent.

Admiral Arleigh Burke, a true friend and supporter of NAFAC, spent three full days at the meeting, observing the round table groups, discussing issues with student delegates, and assisting in enriching the thoughtful interchanges among the delegates. The Admiral seemed to be well known among the delegates and his ideas were much appreciated by them. Afterwards, he informed both the Superintendent and me of how proud he was of the midshipmen, because the Conference was run smoothly and they knew as much as, and at times more than, the civilian conferees, many of whom intend to make a career in political and diplomatic affairs.

In addition, he knew that our students were much better qualified in the requirements involved in preparing for a naval career.

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Tanzanian Ambassador Bomani

Superintendent and a strong supporter of our aims in sponsoring NAFAC, also spent three and one-half days at the Conference. Like Admiral Burke, he was resplendent in praising the management of the Conference by the midshipmen and their academic contributions to the various interchanges.

The last session of the Conference, entitled the Round-up, was chaired by Midshipman Walsh. In this meeting representatives of the ten round tables were afforded the opportunity to read the findings of their groups. Here are some of them: The round table on The Human Dimension, chaired by Bob Bender, Political Science, and Mike Halbig, AreaLanguage Studies, both USNA faculty, and Moncrieff Spear, Department of State, found that when dealing when human rights as they relate to the formation of U.S. foreign policy, a basic question arises: How can the U.S., founded upon human rights, morally justify their abandonment in the intemational sphere?

Can America create a foreign policy that is not minimally cloaked within a policy of human rights? The methods of implementation that the U.S. has used have been (1) direct diplomacy, which can create public interest in human rights, but which mns the risk of embarrassing countries when it moves beyond the specific, and (2) indirect, or quiet diplomacy, which decreases the risk of embarrassment, but which also does not permit the public to realize the actions its government is taking. In some cases, because of economic and strategic interests, the U.S. has chosen a policy of ignoring human rights violations in favor of maintaining its influence in the area.

The round table on Food and Population , chaired by Professor Arthur Ashbrook, Economics Department, USNA, and Dr. Dave Kennedy, Department of Agriculture, concluded that the United States is being forced into the July-August, 1977

Iranian Ambassador Zahedi addresses a panel group

driver's seat, not so much because of its past leadership record, but rather because of its productive capability. Today we control over 50% of the intemational grain market. Since the failing of the Bretton-Woods Monetary System, the United States has assumed a food policy to gain economic and political leverage.

Policy makers have often envisioned a cartel of food exporters similar to that of OPEC, but the long run effect of using food for power will be the further destruction of American prestige rather than reestablishing it. Playing geopolitical games with people's lives could never be the basis for admiration, but only deep set resentment.

Government leaders throughout the world must recognize that, in the long run, poor countries must feed their own people from their own land, with their own labor, and with their own resources.

America's response should be to all developing countries that are making constructive attempts to alleviate human suffering and deprivation. However, the realization of food independence will call for a massive transfer of technology and capital from rich to poor nations.

The round table on Use of Force, with Professor Louis Rene Beres, Purdue University, and Commander Joe Jockel, OP-61, as chairmen, asserted that nuclear proliferation has upset the balance of deterrence. Due to the awesome destructive capabilities of this tool, the United States is not willing to use it as more than a deterrent in foreign policy.

Covert action was the second tool of force discussed. Covert action is an institutionalized instrument of American foreign policy where no general rules can be applied. The group came to the conclusion that each use of covert action should be assessed individually, with respect to cost benefits as well as moral implications.

The round table discussing Arms Control, with Lieutenant Commander Harlan

Ullman and Dr. Edward Ifft as chairmen, took a western view of deterrence, with which the Soviets would probably disagree. Given that each nation must guarantee its own security, the concept of deterrence was applied to nuclear weaponry.

Deterrence is a fairly simple calculation with complex ramifications. Nation " X " must present Nation " Y " with a prospect of costs or risks that exceed any potential benefits Nation " Y " might achieve from a nuclear strike. Mutual invulnerability of counterattack forces must be preserved in any arms control negotiation for deterrence to continue to keep the probability of war low.

This group also discussed the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks and found that each side has different goals, including but not limited to reducing the probability of war, decreasing the potential destruction of a conflict, and cutting the economic costs of national armaments. Both countries do share common motives. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are both very clear in their desire to avoid war. Both nations face domestic competition for scarce resources. Asymmetries complicate the negotiations. Differences in targetry, strategic doctrine, force levels, and force structures have led each nation to offer different proposals.

The group agreed that the Societ rejection of the recent Carter proposals was not unexpected, as Secretary Vance's offer called for major concession by the Soviets without comparable concessions in return. The group conducted a simulation of the SALT talks that demonstrated the possibilities of agreement. Each side was satisfied at the end of negotiation.

Most importantly we agreed that as long as each side is unwilling to compromise its particular advantages and refuses to accept limits in areas which it is behind, effective arms control will be impossible.

The round table on Normalization of East-West Relations, chaired by Dr. Vojtech Mastny, University of Illinois, and

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Dr. Dale Herspring, Department of State, believed that stress on human rights must be delinked from other East-West issues.

In general, it should prove easier for the Soviet Union to accomplish such a separation because of its greater control over information in its own system, while in the U.S. public opinion prevails. Depending on Soviet behavior, the U.S. may not always find complete delinkage desirable or possible.

Among the principal actors, the following factors can be seen as problems. Between Russia and China, long standing territorial disputes and racial conflicts have been recently exacerbated by ideological and power disputes. Between the U.S. and China, the status of Taiwan was seen as the principal barrier to diplomatic normalization, though the potential for Chinese support to third world revolution also stands as a long range bar-

A panel session, Mid. Dranchak moderating

rier to normalization of relations between the countries. Between the U.S. and USSR, Soviet perceptions of U.S. moralizing may impede rapprochement.

East-West tensions will probably be heightened by the North-South conflict

with the nations of the third world playing off the superpowers, and the polycentric nature of the UN will inhibit its functioning as an effective forum for promoting East-West relations.

In essence this is the saga of NAFAC '77. The USNA Alumni Association has had an important part in making this major endeavor such a successful venture. Much thanks must go to Academy alumni individually, i.e.. Admirals Arleigh Burke, Thomas Moorer, Richard Diehl, and Weston Burnett, for their advice and assistance in acquiring funds (NAFAC is financed strictly from nonappropriated funds) and to the Alumni Association. The congenial Bill Busik has always been supportive and helpful in the implementation and financial administration of this successful Academy operation.

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi An Early Problem

in International

Relations

Captain Edgar K. T h o m p s o n USN ( R e t )

Our patronizing attitude towards the chronic turmoil of Latin American politics has, on occasions, created paradoxical and awkward situations. In 1911, the Department of State extended diplomatic recognition to a tenuous govemment in Central America whose president was unde"r criminal indictment in the U.S. District Court of Louisiana.

In January 1907, General Manuel Bonilla was completing his first term as President of Honduras. His re-election to this high office seemed so certain that supporters of rival candidates as well as some of his own disaffected adherents, intrigued for his overthrow. These machinations soon ignited a revolution which terminated on 11 April 1907 when Bonilla surrendered his troops at Amapala and sought refuge on board USS CHICAGO.

On his arrival in the United States, Bonilla soon made the acquaintance of Lee Christmas, a color-blind former railroad engineer and soldier of fortune, and together they recruited a small force of political exiles and adventurers. The yacht HORNET was purchased, armed and

fitted out to eventually transport the expedition to Honduras. Preparations required some years but, at midnight on Christmas Eve 1910, the small force sailed from Pass Christian and four days later landed on the island of Roatan, their advance base.

Federal authorities had failed in their efforts to prevent the departure of the expedition but they obtained indictments in the United States District Court, New Orleans, Louisiana, charging Bonilla, Christmas and others with fitting out an armed expedition in the United States to overthrow the govemment of a friendly nation.

The invasion of Bonilla and Christmas precipitated the early resignation of both the President and Vice President and the total collapse of the Govemment of Honduras. The Congress hastily elected as first designate, a Dr. Bertrand and, on 25 March 1911, he made his triumphal entry into Tegucigalpa, the capital, astride a white mule, escorted by the Diplomatic and Consular Corps on muleback and on foot.

The forces of General Bonilla and Lee

Christmas continued to gain momentum and adherents and eventually forced the interim government to schedule national elections with this happy result; American Legation Tegucigalpa, Honduras 1 November 1911 Sir: I have the honor to report that the national elections were held in this country on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, the 29th to 3Ist ultimo, inclusive. General Manuel Bonilla and Dr. Francisco Bogran are declared to have been chosen President and Vice President, respectively.

Hon P.C. Knox Charles D. White Secretary of State Minister Washington.

Diplomatic recognition was quickly extended to the new govemment and, as soon as matters could be decently arranged, the criminal indictment against General Manuel Bonilla, President of the Republic of Honduras, was quietly nolle prossed in the United States District Court.

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AH Hands

Sixty Years Ago This photograph of the graduation of the Class of 1918, taken on 28 June 1917, depicts probably the smallest graduation ceremony ever held in Dahlgren Hall.

Because of World War I. the Class of 1917 had been graduated early, on 29 March, leaving only three classes in residence. Three months later the 199 graduates of 1918 were seated for their own graduation with the two junior classes drawn up in support.

Another point of interest is the then parquet flooring of Dahlgren Hall, later replaced by a mastic suitable for drill, basketball and dancing and. only recently, by the new ice rink.

How times do change.

The graduation of 1918 in June 1917

Services Ripe for Unions Conditions that led to unionization of police and firemen in recent years are present in the armed forces today, according to a report by the Third Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, which is to be reviewed by President Carter's soon-to-be-appointed Blue Ribbon Commission.

The Review panel studied the growth of unions among public service employees because their organizations were similar to the military in the nature of their duties, their discipline and their limitations on length of service. It found that the principal factors involved in the rise of fire and police unions are: —Income did not keep pace with the increasing cost of living.

—Benefits that once were reasonably generous became only average as benefit levels of other groups grew rapidly.

—These changes in relative compensation levels were perceived as a loss of public status and prestige.

—Govemments and the public resisted unionization, job actions, strikes, and slowdowns by public safety employees.

—Public management seemed unwilling or unable to solve employees' problems, and employees wanted some voice in the decisions that affected their well-being.

The report pointed out that these factors are present in the armed forces today in both the areas of erosion of benefits and of unionization. While stating that union bargaining or job acfions are cleady July-August, 1977

incompatible with military discipline and combat effectiveness, the report added that the roots of both issues are more a question of morale than money and must be treated as communications and leadership issues by the top leadership of the Govemment.

The President and the DoD should recognize, the report said, that these are symptomatic areas of a serious problem of declining morale in the military and take corrective action accordingly. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have made specific recommendations along that line to which it appears that the SecDef is listening.

Dual Compensation Law Challenged Maj. Vincent Puglisi USAF (Ret.) and about 800 other retired regular officers have filed suit in the U.S. Court of Claims challenging the dual compensation Act of 1964 as unconstitutional on the grounds that it discriminates against retired regular officers.

Acting Chief Judge Oscar H. Davis said that the case depends on whether Congress had a rational basis for the distinction between regular and reserve officers in wrifing the law. At that time the Civil Service Commission had proposed that both groups be included under the act, but Congress chose to eliminate the reserve officers. The fact that a large

number of its members were Reserve officers, most then in active status, may have had some bearing on the congressional decision.

The suit asks for back pay to cover the forfeiture of retired pay under the law, but other laws limit the recovery period to only the last six years.

Officers Sue for Rights Three cases, one filed by Capt. Henry C. Field, Jr. '42, one by Cdr. James G. Little '50, and one by Capt. Joseph E. Hoker '41 in the name of all retired regular officers, are currently under consideration before the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The status of the Field case, initiated in 1974, was reported in "All Hands" in the January-February issue of Shipmate and the filing of the Little case in the May issue.

All three cases allege that DD Form 1357, Statement of Employment (Retired Regular Officers), is unconstitutional as being coercively self-incriminating as well as being a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974. In addition. Field, who filed his case in October 1974, is attacking the criminal statute, 18 U.S.C. 281, as being unconsitutional while Little, who filed his case on 31 March 1977, is attacking 37 U.S.C. 801c as being unconstitufional.

16 Since both of these statutes are still in litigation, Hoker has attacked only the DD Form 1357 as a class action. He filed his case on 29 April 1977 when the DoD lawyers, in arguing a preliminary motion in the Little case, claimed that the findings of the Court in the Field case—that the Form was, in fact, self-incriminating and was, in fact, a violation of the Privacy Act—only applied to Captain Field.

The Government did not appeal either ruling.

This litigation is being supported by the Officers Rights Court Fund, set up in 1962 to provide, through voluntary contributions, a source of funds to defend retired regular officers who became embroiled in problems relating to their postretirement activities. The Fund has handled all of its cases for retired officers without fee to its Counsel, Capt. Joe Taussig '41, devoting its contributed funds to the extensive other costs of litigation against the Govemment. For those who wish to contribute, the Fund's address is: c/o Capt. Frederick A.F. Cooke (CEC) USN (Ret.), #906 1625 Eye Street NW, Washington DC 20006.

jects are: S.W. Petrie—Fuel Delivery Systems for NAHBE-Class Heat Balanced Engines, G.C. Kolodziejcak— Radiation Effects in Neutron Dosimeter Materials, S.M. Hopkins—Initial Conditions for Orbital Resonance in a Satellite System, D.M. Pricolo—Naval Presence and Cold War Foreign Policy: A Study of the Decision to Station the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, 1945-1948, E.D. Kee—Microprocessor-based Digital Control of Environmental Systems, and S.L. Stafford—Model Compounds for Studying a Mechanism for the Photo-chemistry of Explosives.

Thirteen first classmen have been designated as participants in the Postgraduate Preparatory Study Program, in which they will take elective courses over and above the normal curriculum for credit against later Postgraduate School requirements. They are: J.F. Bland, D.W. Bruce, S.B. Latta, M.W. McNair, S.A. Miller, K.P. O'Keefe, B. Richter, J.L. Rogitz, J.E. Schmitz, J.T. Stanik, J.E. Will, C.S. Willson and A.L. Winns.

Congratulations and sincere best wishes to all in both programs.

Ned Potter and former students

over the past three decades, climaxed by his recent biography of Fleet Admiral Nimitz, which was the main selection of the Military Book Club last December and is now in its second printing.

Following the Naval Institute award presentation in Norfolk, Professor Potter toured USS NIMITZ and had a reunion

with four of his former students. Shown with him in the Captain's cabin are Capt.

Richard T. Gaskill '54, LCdr. Neal Quinn '66, Lt. Kenneth Marks '71 and Lt. Thomas Sauntry '69.

A Special Reunion Trident Scholar Honored One of the 1976-77 Trident Scholars, Mid. Timothy Whited. won second place at the Mid-Atlantic Student Conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in April for his report on his work on the Naval Academy Heat Balanced Engine (NAHBE) project. This engine, as reported in "All Hands" of the May Shipmate, runs efficiently with a reduction of over 25% in fuel consumption, a reduction of over 90% in pollutants without any emission control equipment, and significantly lowers cylinder pressures and temperatures. In addition, it will run on almost any fuel, even peanut oil.

Whited's paper detailed his efforts to measure the interior workings of the NAHBE. Using a glass model with a specially constructed square cylinder and piston, designed to permit high speed photography without the distortion found in round surfaces, he developed visual verification of the theory behind the process. His work has already indicated several modifications to the shape of the pressure cap which promise further increases in overall efficiency.

Navy's 1952 heavyweight crew, still regarded by some aficionados of the sport as the best ever to sit in a shell, held a The Naval Academy Chapter of Pi special 25th reunion in April at the Kappa Phi, a nation-wide honor society Academy. This was the Navy crew that of scholars and academicians, was forwon every race during the regular season, mally established on 9 May with eleven won the I.R.A. Regatta at Syracuse and charter members from the USNA Facthe Olympics at Helsinki. ulty. They are: Professors Peter F. WigBack in the shell again we see (from gins, Ralph A. Goodwin and John P. Ulbottom to top) Capt. Charles Manring drick; Assistant Professors Clyde C. USN '52, Lt. Edward Stevens USN Richard, Thomas H. Reif, Richard L. (Ret.) '54, Col. Wayne Frye USAF (Ret.) Martin, Peter A. McCoy, Michael C. '54, LCol. Henry Proctor USAF '54, Col Halbig, James M. D'Archangelo and Robert Detweiler USAF '53, LCdr. Dennis F. Hasson; and Lt. Henry E. Edward Worth USN '53, Col. James R. Montgomery USN. Dunbar USAF '55. Cdr. William Fields One of the first items of business was the initiation of 32 midshipmen as " n e w " USN '54, and Mr. Franklin Shakespeare '53. members, 24 first classmen who rank in the top five percent of their class and The '52 crew rows again eight second classmen standing in the top one percent of 1978.

The minutes of the meeting noted special recognition of academic achievement by two plebes, Elizabeth A. Belzer and Gregory J. Pieper, who tied for the top place in their class during the first semester of the academic year.

Pi Kappa Phi at the Naval Academy

Two Awards for Professor Potter Trident and Postgraduate Prep Scholars Six first classmen have been approved as Trident Scholars for the Academic Year 1977-78, working on individual advanced research projects with the help of faculty advisers. The six and their pro-

On 15 April the CNO, as President of the U.S. Naval Institute, awarded to Professor E.B. Potter, of the Naval Academy faculty, the Institute's annual Author of Merit Award. On 20 April the Navy League honored him with its Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for literary achievement. Both awards cited Professor Potter's writings on naval history Shipmate

17 Three Generations of Graduates Graduation Day 1977 marked a special anniversary occasion for three members of the Branson family, comparing their class rings after the ceremonies. Here we have LCdr. John Joseph (Jerry) Branson USN (Ret.) '27. Ens. John Joseph (John) Branson III USN "77 and Cdr. John Joseph (Jack) Branson USN (Ret.) '50.

Three generations of graduates

The Medical Officer Dilemma

from serving overseas or on board ship, thus placing an additional hardship on the American doctors and further lowering their morale and retention rate.

Their average age is 28 years. "Well done, thou good and faithful servants."

More Charges by Les Aspin Rep. Les Aspin (D.-Wis.) charged in a floor speech in the House of Representatives that "a small clique of congressmen and carrier admirals is seeking to subvert the will of Congress" to build smaller, conventionally powered carriers.

He said that the House Armed Services Committee has long favored supercarriers but the House and later the Senate had rejected a fourth NIMITZ class ship and endorsed a switch to the smaller type.

The Pentagon promptly notified the two Armed Services Committees that it would transfer S6 million to a program to design a new midicarrier. But. he said, the HASC killed the reprogramming by a voice vote and thereby ended the design work for this year.

Similariy. Aspin stated, the HASC had denied 90% of the funds the Navy had requested for development of VSTOL aircraft to outfit the smaller carriers. He added, "If the Committee can reduce the program to a pittance, there won't be any VSTOLS. and. without VSTOLS, it can argue that small carriers won't be worth much." In addition, he noted, the Senate Armed Services Committee, while voting funds for the smaller carrier, also approved standby money for a fourth NIMITZ. thereby giving the Navy every incentive to continue with supercarriers in spite of the congressional decision.

However. Rep. Charles E. Bennett (D-Fla.). acting Chairman of the HASC was quoted as saying. ""Mr. Aspin may have information I don't have. It would seem if admirals wanted the Committee to do something they'd come to the Chairman of the Seapower Subcommittee, which I am. They haven't come to me.

He's making a great big thing out of something in which there's not much substance or fact."

The three Surgeons General have told the Congress that there will be drastic reductions in health care in service hospitals for active duty dependents, retirees and their dependents, unless the military doctor shortage is solved.

The Army was authorized 4.473 doctors, cut to 4,200 because there was no hope of reaching the higher number, and expects to fall short of the reduced figure by about 157 doctors. The Navy was short 217 doctors last year and needs to recmit 300 this year, but so far has obtained only 83. The Air Force is "barely getting along" by using some 700 specially trained enlisted aides to help offset the lack of doctors. The Air Force Surgeon General said that the loss of 205 doctors over the past five years caused $100 million to be spent on CHAMPUS claims.

The former Navy Surgeon General.

VAdm. Donald L. Custis. now serving with the Veterans Administration, told an HASC subcommittee that the HEW medical scholarship program offers so much more than the DoD program that there is Fleet Strength to Bottom Out in '78 no reason for a student to serve his payback time in the military. The HEW The Navy has projected that the declinstipend is three times that of the DoD ing number of ships in the Fleet will hit program, the payback is not comparable, bottom in FY 1978 and start upward again and almost five times as many billets are in 1979, with a predicted low point of 462 available under the HEW program. ships in "78 and 474 in "79. In FY 1978. 27 ships will be stricken for disposal and 20 Congressman Robin Beard (R.-Tenn.). just back from two weeks active duty for new ones will join the Fleet. training with the Marines, cited the The ships designated for striking are example of the 2nd MAW at Cherry AR GRAND CANYON: D D S BASILONE. Point. Of the 27 flight surgeons called for. SARSFIELD. BAUSELL. HAWKINS. WILonly seven are on board. The one orLIAM R. RUSH and POWER (the last two thopedic surgeon works seven days a NRF ships); SSs SAILFISH. SALMON and week. Many of the other physicians at the DARTER; PGS READY. ANTELOPE and base are aliens who are prohibited by law GRAND RAPIDS; A R S S ESCAPE. GRAPPLE July-August. 1977

and GRASP; A T F S CREE. MATACO. ABNAKl, CHOWANOC, COCOPA, HITCHITI, MOLALA, TAWAKONI, NIPMUC and SALINAN.

USS EDSON to Naval Reserve Force The Naval Reserve Force's newest ship. USS EDSON (DD-946). is now operating out of Newport. R.I., as a unit of DesRon 28. She is the first ship of the FORREST SHERMAN class to be assigned to Naval Reserve training but she will also have a second function as a training support platform for the Surface Officer Warfare School at Newport.

EDSON will have a nucleus crew of approximately twelve officers and 196 men. supplemented by a Selected Reserve crew of seven officers and 90 enlisted.

Federal Paperwork Reduction President Carter has repeatedly said that one of his major objectives is to reduce the unconscionable burden of paperwork required by the Government. Of course, many people before have had the same ambition, such as Admiral King's edicts in eariy 1942. but one hopes that the President may be more successful.

We use the word "hopes" rather than something more positive because we have just seen a copy of SecNavNote 5305, promulgated by AlNav 007/77. Let's quote two extracts from the two page AlNav: " 1. Nominations are invited for the thirteenth annual Federal Records Management Awards (formeriy Federal Paperwork Management Awards) for outstanding leadership in promoting effective records management in the Federal Govemment. . . .

"4. Nominations in original and six copies will be made on a prescribed format, available to field activities from Incentives Awards Office of Headquarters Commands. . . . " "Nuffsed! ^â&#x20AC;˘

USS WALLER (DD-466) WWII Crew Member Reunion September 2, 3, & 4, 1977 NEW ORLEANS HILTON Make resen ations through your closest HILTON HOTEL or with Robert D. Sandefur, O.D. P. O. Box 978 Ruston, Louisiana 71270

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Carrier Admiral Admiral Joseph

A tribute to "Jocko" death, 13 July 1971.

James Clark USN *18, July 13,

Clark on the sixth anniversary of his

In his old navy uniform that had seen the times of war The Admiral was buried.

As he was laid for the reception in the sad house for the dead.

His sister, hurriedly, had tinctured with some ink the seams Of his wom-out jacket.

His face with eagle-like profile was proud and serene, He never was afraid of death, and endured suffering Uncomplainingly.

He was a brave man, stoic, loyal, true to his Indian lineage.

The many generations of the first Americans Who never bent their honor.

The Cherokees, his tribe, endowed him with a certain magic— "A cowboy from Oklahoma," as he often called himself, And a no-nonsense man, he nevertheless admitted having heard "The drums over the hill . . ."

His frankness and sincerity inspired such confidence Men followed him into danger willingly.

His simple faith in God was perhaps the secret Of his strength.

A strict disciplinarian, beginning with himself.

Used to command and being obeyed, Yet quick to acknowledge and reward.

He was lordly.

His warmth of heart, coupled with a rich sense of humor, and Outstanding generosity, were most endearing, especially since He remained his unassuming modest self As the truly great one can be.

When in the hospital his eyes were closed His corpsman who attended him at his nadir Of human fraility Approached me sobbingly, "Your husband was the giant of a man.

The likes of him we shall not see again."

So came the day he was no more.

I pressed my face into the dent left on the pillow by his head.

Strangely, I did not cry.

The sky was clear when from the chapel in Arlington We came to the cemetery.

It was a lovely day, though the sun-rays, tinted with sorrow.

Seemed to reflect a deathly pallor— Falling into nothingness.

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The narrow cart brought from the chapel a simple military coffin Covered with the U.S. flag.

I believe on top was a large cross 1 sent Of orchids and pale roses.

Six pairs of horses drove the coffin Up the hilly road.

Perhaps there was a military band— One's memory gets blurted.

The cannons roared—great many times—in a salute To the four-star Admiral, The hero referred to as the fightingest.

The leader known to have taken awesome risks To save the fliers' lives.

To put into his coffin I had brought a gift: A silver anchor with the inscription, "Happy Landings," But the aides, whisperingly, had begged it off for a museum, Same as his Navy hat.

No one knew that in his pocket went a small old picture Of the face remembered.

A long, long time ago, in Europe, at a reception, We had very nearly met.

Fate had denied us then the introduction.

Until years later. Many years . . .

As the large crowd stood in silence, the mountain of wreaths Was pushed aside. The flag was taken off the coffin and Folded reverently. One of his foremost fliers presented it To me with a kind smile.

The Taps!

Clutching the flag to my breast 1 thought of the Fighting Lady, The beloved carrier, USS YORKTOWN, he led into a legend— If the great ship could fly.

She would have sailed across the air To pay him homage, at the open grave.

The gigantic shadow seemed to be hovering above As I stood praying the Almighty for a miracle: To lend my humble hands the strength To hold on to that vision.

So that the Admiral could get on board.

To roam, as it befitted him, the oceans— Into the mists of time.

He was The Cartier Admiral.

Olga Clark

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Missiles are Changing S e a Warfare Captain WUliam J. Ruhe USN (Ret.)

The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 showed that missiles used in the ground battles created a profound effect on the conduct of land warfare. Similarly, the use of missiles in sea engagements between the small, missile-armed patrol craft of the Syrians and the Israelis indicated major changes in coastal war. But this experience, like that of other recent Third Power missile battles, has not translated well to lessons for large scale sea wars.

The naval battles of the past decade have been waged close to the coast between small missile-armed craft (which tend to be unreliable on the high seas), and involved missiles of less than 25 miles range. Still there are lessons from both the ground and sea battles of the Yom Kippur War and previous wars which seem to be transferable to the environment of missile warfare between major seapowers.

There are additional clues as to how a leading missile-power might conduct a seawar with the U.S. These can be gleaned from Soviet naval writings, their major exercises at sea, and the character of their weapon systems. By using such clues in addition to the missile experience of recent Third Power wars, a few plausible generalizations as to how naval warfare is changing, can be suggested.

A first sobering generalization about missile warfare becomes; a crippling of an enemy's offensive seapower at the start of a big seawar is even more likely than in the past.

The antiship missile (or cruise missile) is mainly carried on the decks of warships, or in submarines, continuously ready for launching. Large numbers of them are readily fired at enemy targets, in rapid salvos, and at a moment's notice with little or no warning. The continuing close proximity of Soviet missile ships to U.S. warships has become an accepted fact of the cold war, so that in a matter of seconds missiles could hit U.S. ships.

July-August, 1977

The Soviets have demonstrated in their the designated enemy contact with unerrtwo major fleet exercises. Okean '70 and ing accuracy. What this means to naval '75. that they are training to initiate a sea warfare is that hitting targets no longer conflict with near-simultaneous, surprise, depends on ships or aircraft being relatively close to their weapon-targets. massive missile attacks against major Today a ship on the oceans, if once logroupings of the enemy on a virtually cated geographically by any source (satelworldwide basis. All U.S. fleets and lite, aircraft, fishing boat, etc.), can then forces whether deployed overseas or be taken under fire by a missile-carrying close to the United States could then be platform which has no actual self consimultaneously put in jeopardy by such tained sensor contact with the target. All actionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with several Pearl Harbors created in the opening moments of a war! that the missile-platform needs in order to The character of an ensuing sea war is fire its long range missile, is its own geothus likely to be changed by the effect of graphic position as well as the geographic location of the target. Thus, geographic missiles in the opening moments of conpositioning and geographic referencing flict as well as by their impact on the now make long range missile-fire feasiconduct of ongoing sea war.

Since U.S. forces today depend primar- ble, and satellite navigation systems are ily on manned tactical aircraft rather than making this possible on a global basisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; anywhere at sea. missiles for offensive power at sea, the Hitting of targets which the platform following indicated changes to traditional can't " s e e " (i.e. detect with its sensors) concepts for naval warfare should also is like the modem use of artillery in land serve to highlight the compensating actions which the U.S. should tend towards warfare. The locating, spotting and fire control functions are normally carried out in order to maintain a dominant position by an extemal. offset source. Similar to on the oceans. the missile artillery used in the Yom KipThe long range antiship missile is greatly increasing the possible area of sea pur landwar, antiship missiles should tend to hit virtually every time, unless properly battle over that of the past. Instead of large-scale enemy attack originating from countered. This is unlike the past when artillery normally missed far more often a specific direction (a threat axis from which the enemy can project his offensive than it hit. power, as shown in the diagram) the This use of the broad oceans as a grid enemy's numerous missile-armed forces for target location and long range will now tend to launch their weapons weapons fire is similar to the way coastal from diverse positions and from any point defense has been carried out in the past. of the compass. Since many antiship mis- In similar fashion, the sea areas covered siles with big conventional warheads can by coastal missile defenses are now extravel today 500 miles or more, there ap- panding far to seaward. Mobile shorepears to be an order of magnitude type of based missile batteries, missile-armed expansion of the possible battle area. For warships and possibly missile-armed conexample, the Soviet's Shaddock missile, ventional submarines can now respond to which is carried by more than 40 of their firing directions from shore-based radars submarines and a score of surface ships, and other spotting means. Thus, the area can fly several hundreds of miles, then of the oceans which is considered as search for a target which has been previ- coastal waters has increased well beyond ously located (probably by an aircraft) continental shelves. This area has been and, near the end of its flight, home on pushed out more than 100 miles from the

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shore and provides a new dimension of the oceans for the safe inshore routing of merchant ships as well as a haven for large surface warships, which are felt to be far more vulnerable in the missile warfare environment.

The inflight reliability and hit probability of the long range cruise missile is extremely high, as demonstrated by several of the coastal sea battles of recent years. In the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, when the Indians used old, Soviet-made Styx missiles against the Pakistanis in sea actions off Karachi, all thirteen missiles fired were believed to have hit some target!

The immensity of missile battle areas is made possible not only by the long range of cruise missiles but also by the greatly increased capability for broad ocean surveillance. Satellites and high flying aircraft now have a high probability of finding and keeping track of major targets on all of the surface of the world's oceans.

Deep water sound detection systems are also providing a long range ocean surveillance capability against submarines for much of the oceans. Thus, present technology can be credited with being able to project the human senses over far greater distances than in the last major U.S. naval war, Worid War II. The great expansion in likely battle area and its 360째 nature places a need for far greater numbers of picket forces in order to provide early warning and dilution of attack. This new extended geometry for battle also levies a requirement for long range standoff weapons to provide coverage of likely battle areas.

Similarly, the sanitizing or eliminating of potential missile-firers from a sea area tends to become impractical. In land warfare it has been shown that the cleaning out of corridors for advancing ground forces was of little value when enemy counterfire with long range missiles was encountered from outside the corridor. At sea, moving sonobuoy barriers for sanitizing an area ahead and around a transiting convoy of potential missile or torpedo firing submarines now places an astronomical demand on ASW aircraft and the numbers of sonobuoys they would have to use to do this sort of job.

The threat of missiles now provides an air threat of high order, wherever. Nuclear missile-carrying submarines with their unlimited ranges, endurance, and high level of striking power are operable anywhere in the world's oceans. This high air threat is increased when enemy missile-cartying aircraft can also provide an additional threat. With land based aviation capable of operating several

thousand miles out over the oceans, the added air threat of such long range aircraft with stand-off cruise missiles makes possible the Soviet missile-strike strategy which they seem to believe will give them an offensive advantage over U.S. carrier strike forces.

The Soviet character and use of offensive missile forces will tend to be different than naval forces dependent upon manned tactical aircraft. In war the Soviets optimize their offensive strategy by using missile-carrying submarines and land based aircraft. In peacetime they rely mainly on surface ships for their edge-of-war gunboat diplomacy. The U.S. mainly relies on surface ships for their offensive power in peace or war. This difference stems from the fact that offensive missile power is best vested in a large number and variety of platforms, unlike the U.S. carrier-oriented Navy whose offensive power is constrained to only a few similar-type platforms. Antiship missiles can be readily installed on the topsides of all sorts of warships, for the total weight of a missile battery tends to be low, the mechanisms for launching the missile are quite crude, and the fire control for missile use is so simple as to put little demand on the crews of missile ships. Thus, a missile-armed fleet will probably consist of many more critical targets in any ocean battle. Each antiship missile platform is likely to have such a high level of weapon power as virtually to require its destruction if the opponent is to gain a victory.

The precise, likely-to-hit, long range antiship missile is fundamentally a round of artillery. It not only creates a new level of threat in peacetime gunboat diplomacy, but also makes decisive actions highly possible. As indicated by Soviet writings and their major fleet exercises, they see their long range missiles as reserved for engagements which will have a decisive impact on shore related activities. As noted in the Soviets' Okean exercises, major enemy forces at sea (whether high value convoys, carrier task forces or large amphibious groups) appear to be regarded as missile targets for such decisive action.

The high cost of cruise missiles and their relatively limited quantities seem to require a husbanding of this offensive asset until the opportune moment when their use can gain a distinct advantage over the enemy. Other weapons, such as torpedoes, are expected to capitalize on this advantage by providing further mop-up action.

The act of husbanding implies passive operations for missile-armed offensive forces on the high seas. Instead of roam-

ing the oceans or patrolling a station to improve the chances of contacting the enemy, a missile warship will thus tend to operate covertly and evasively. The surveillance of a third party is expected to provide target information. Similarly, as a form of artillery, the missile-armed warship will tend to be given its target designation and fire control by a central coordinating command, (probably operating from a shore based facility). Even the missile warship operating in remote ocean areas is likely to function as artillery for an external, remote airborne spotting source. The logic of the Soviets' use of the aircraft carrier KIEV for offensive operations seems to be as a launching platform for long range missiles, with VSTOL aircraft providing the target location and call-fire function.

Important large groups of ships should be readily located on the high seas mainly by airborne means (satellites or reconnaisance aircraft). Reliable worldwide communications are a further advance in technology which makes the cruise missile viable. Opportunities for missile attack can thus be quickly capitalized on by a central command. Today, high speed communications are created by satellite relay as well as through a redundant network of traditional systems including very low frequency radio broadcasts.

Missiles should be used with a high element of surprise to maximize their chances for penetrating enemy defenses.

Hence, a massive missile attack will tend to be laid on when environmental conditions can make an important assist in ensuring surprise attack. Thus it is likely that a missile attack against a major group of enemy ships would be in bad weather or fog, or some other environmental condition inimical to ship defense. The environment for surprise missile attack may also be generated by goal-oriented actions which assist in ensuring the element of surprise. Deceptive actions, like false communications which would lull an enemy into inaction, might be used, or electronic warfare actions such as jamming of the enemy's communications may do the job. In any case, given an assured knowledge of where the enemy targets are and the moment of opportunity, then, with swiftness in moving missile platforms to firing positions and with rapid decision-making (facilitated by computer aids), a closely coordinated attack can be initiated. Such a decision to employ a large number of missiles requires a total commitment to a single all-out attack.

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The old "Threat .A,xis"" is no longer the basic factor in formation defense

and missile trajectories tend best to dilute the enemy's defensive efforts, the missile platforms will tend to close their targets randoinly. Attack is then initiated so that the missiles should all arrive on target at about the designated time. This produces a near simultaneous arrival of weapons against an enemy force, with any single hit starting a process of breakdown in defenses. Slightly delayed missiles then become somewhat harder to defend against.

The weapon effect thus produced against an entire force is expected to be so concentrated in a very short period of time as to produce instantaneous decisive action—an all or nothing kind of result.

This sort of attack—with many cruise missiles—is a one-time form of attack as against the spaced-out sequential attacks against important groupings of ships in the past. U.S. convoys in WWII, for example, were subjected to attacks by enemy submarines over a period of many days, as they transited the oceans. Today missile armed submarines and aircraft will tend to initiate a single missile attack against a high value convoy. This attack would be designed to destroy the convoy's protective organization and facilitate mop-up operations with torpedoes. It would be like putting to rout an enemy army with the real decisiveness being achieved by the killing or taking prisoner of large numbers of troops fleeing from the battle area.

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The probability of attack with a high element of surprise, which is inherent to the character of long range cmise missiles, means that there is an increasing and initial importance to diverting or destroying the missile in its trajectory— rather than placing the major effort into destroying the weapon platform. Sinking Japanese carriers or the destmction of their aircraft before they could launch their weapons was the primary goal of US offensive forces—in World War II—not the diverting or destroying of bombs or torpedoes once they were launched at US warships. Emphasis on neutralizing the weapon first, can even be carried over to torpedoes in today's warfare. The torpedo's greatly increased hitting range makes this philosophy similarly desirable.

Riding out a weapon attack—keeping forces virtually intact—while striking back heavily at the enemy, seems to be the essence of success in missile warfare.

In the Yom Kippur War the Israelis, by using decoys, gunfire and jamming of the missiles' homing guidance, were able to make all 55 of the Arab missiles fired, miss—then, with counter missile-fire, sank five Arab missile boats.

Significantly, the importance of platform maneuver during battle is decreasing in the environment of the missile. The long stand-off delivery ranges of missiles place little premium on platform maneuverability for weapon launching. At the

same time, the speed of attacking weapons so far exceeds the speeds of weapon platforms as to make platform maneuvers of little value in making the missile miss.

Platform maneuver may be of some value in assisting diversion devices to decoy away incoming missiles. But the larger the missile target the less effect its movement will have on preventing an attacking missile from hitting.

The striking power and surprise which can be attained with missiles, even by small navies, emphasizes the need to prevent a missile-armed enemy from developing an attack with considerable numbers of missiles. Covert and deceptive operations of ships on the oceans is now far more necessary than in the past. If a degree of uncertainty can be instilled in the mind of the missile coordinator as to the identity of major missile targets in any grouping of ships, then his decision to use costly weapons massively becomes almost impossible to make. Thus, a carrier task force by operating without identifying electronic emissions should create a high level of doubt and require better verification before missiles are risked. Similarly another ship in a carrier task force which is made to resemble a carrier in size and electronic emissions might also tend to make the massive use of enemy missiles tentative.

Missiles are affecting traditional concepts of sea control to an extent worth noting. Because of the high mobility of missile forces—for the Soviets, the nuclear submarine and land based aircraft—control of ocean areas is likely to be of only short duration, and the area of control relatively small. Command of the seas in the traditional sense; i.e.. the control of a major ocean area by the presence somewhere of a superior fleet, seems no longer valid. The massing of missile-power in overwhelming strength in an area of the oceans can be a momentary thing and not easily denied. As interpreted by the Soviets, the gaining of sea control with missile forces is likely to precede or be coincident with the carrying out of a naval mission. Thus, in order to interdict enemy shipping and a convoy in particular, such a naval mission would call for missile forces ensuring a measure of sea control by striking the convoy's protective forces either before or simultaneously with attack on high value ships.

The probably short duration of control over a sea area also indicates that naval missions today must be accomplished in more limited periods of time.

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factor in the outcome. In fact, a lesson leamed from the Yom Kippur War was that the use of manned aircraft, in the hostile environment of antiair missiles, is discouraged. Even with control of the air, the Israelis found that trying to provide close support for their ground battle meant the rapid loss of close to 100 planesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in great part to small missiles launched from the shoulders of Arab infantrymen. Deck launched surface to air missiles are now of such considerable range as to tend to force enemy aircraft into long range stand-off delivery of their weapons. The impact of the aircraft on a battle area thus appears to decrease as missile hitting ranges are increased, and the geometry of a probable battle area is so great that either interceptors or missiles can't effectively deny the area to intruding missile cartying aircraft.

The effect of missiles on the safe passage of shipping has many implications.

Shipping protection is likely to require a greatly increased coverage of the oceans.

The close-in perimeter type of protection against torpedo attack and the moving sonobuoy barrier tactic to sweep a corridor ahead of a moving group of ships, appear to be inadequate for defense against missile firers. Protection by area sanitization seems to suffer the similar fate of insufficiency of protective forces and equipment for the expanded geometry of possible battle area.

The vulnerabUity of surface escorts appears higher with the addition of the long range missile to sea warfare. Extended picket forces can be readily identified and overwhelmed by directed missile fire. Escorts of shipping, even if kept close to a body of ships, would have to be used on the perimeter to provide missile and ASW defense and would therefore tend to bear the bmnt of massive missile attack against the entire ship-movement organization.

Supporting ASW aircraft will inhibit defense against missiles because of the necessary "guns free" kind of escort readiness required in order to react to missile attack with litfle warning.

The greater the density of shipping the greater should be the effect of bunching of missiles on perimeter ships. This indicates a desirability of sailing the highest value ships deepest in a grouping of ships.

Seek out and destroy operations against potential missile-firers are likely to be a best means for preventing massive missile attack, or at least to reduce the volume of attacking missiles.

High speed independent shipping enjoys less security than when sailed with groups of ships. High speed identifies a

ship as high value, and ship speed is of little value in reducing the hitting probability of long range missiles.

High value ships in remote areas of the oceans, if attacked by missile fire, give little clue as to the possible location of the attacker. This can make a guerrilla type of selective anti-shipping campaign difficult to combat.

In missile attacks against shipping, supporting enemy aircraft can operate much closer to shipping targets and hence supply more useful midcourse guidance to the missiles.

Missile cartying aircraft when used against high value shipping should be prevented from identifying their ship targets visually. To this end the defensive employment of simple antiair missiles, such as used by infantrymen in the ArabIsraeli War of 1973, could serve to force aircraft into standoff ranges sufficient to

inhibit the use of the relatively high cost antiship missile.

In effect then, because of the missile, Pearl Harbors at the outset of a naval war are more likely, with serious reductions in naval offensive power to start a war at sea. The expanded geometry of battle areas places a requirement for greater numbers of forces or a greater extension of stand-off weapon power to compensate. With the area of coastal waters greatly increased to seaward, and weapons like the Soviets' SS-N-I3 ballistic antiship missile a possibility from coastal installations, much of high seas war may be affected by coastal weapon power and the activity which would be generated by this new level of protection.

In simplest terms, missiles cause sea battles to be extended in space and compressed in time.

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The Night Strong Was Sunk 4-5 July 1943, in Kula Gulf Rear Admiral Joseph H. Wellings USN (Ret.)

I was the first and only captain of the United States destroyer STRONG (DD467). The STRONG was the sixth ship of the new 2100-ton class of destroyers, built by the famous Bath Iron Works of Bath, Maine.

What a thrill for a Boston English High School boy who entered Annapolis in 1921 and returned to his home town Navy Yard as a Lieutenant Commander 21 years later, on 7 August 1942. to commission and to be the first commanding officer of Uncle Sam's newest destroyer.

The STRONG'S crew consisted of 16 officers and 306 enlisted men, all of whom were extremely loyal and superb in every respect. Five of the officers were regular U.S. Navy officers and eleven were Naval Reserves.

One of the Reserve officers was Lt.(jg) Hugh Barr Miller, from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Hugh Barr was a former quarterback on the University of Alabama football team. The way he trained and drilled our 20 mm. guncrews, one would think he was still calling signals for his beloved Alabama football team in a bowl game against the University of Oklahoma.

The STRONG'S armament consisted of five dual purpose 5" guns, ten torpedoes arranged in two above-water mounts, 40 depth charges, four 40 mm. anti-aircraft guns, and sixteen 20 mm. anti-aircraft guns. All the guns were remotely controlled by the gunnery officer from his fire control station located just above the navigation bridge.

The STRONG was one of the very first of our Navy ships to be equipped with the new famous SG surface radar, manufactured by the Raytheon Company of Lexington, Mass. In addition to the new SG surface radar, which revolutionized naval warfare, the STRONG was equipped with the latest type of air search and fire control radars.

As soon as our wartime stores were aboard, including general supplies, spare parts, ammunition, torpedoes, and depth July-August, 1977

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charges, the STRONG began an intensive four weeks of day and night operations in the Gulf of Maine to insure that our crew, including myself, were proficient in the operation and maintenance of our new and complicated equipment. I should amplify that statement by saying that all of our officers and leading enlisted petty officers reported to the Bath Iron Works about two months before the ship was commissioned. We all participated in the final installation and testing of our equipment.

When this shakedown training period was completed, the STRONG was assigned to convoy escort duty in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and then participated in the Casablanca operation, marking the initial invasion of Northwest Africa by the Allies on 8 November 1942.

Our last convoy escort duty from Casablanca ended in New York in midDecember. About ten days later, Christmas moming 1942 to be precise, the

STRONG sailed from New York and I became the escort commander for a large troop convoy bound for Brisbane, Australia, via the Panama Canal and Bora Bora in the Society Islands. That convoy escort duty ended about fifty miles outside of Brisbane, when the locally based destroyers rendezvoused with the convoy and assumed the responsibility for escorting it into Brisbane.

I regret to say the STRONG'S crew never did get to see Australia, for we were ordered to proceed to Espiritu Santo Island in the New Hebrides Group, about 560 miles southeast of Guadalcanal. Upon our arrival at Espiritu Santo, the STRONG joined other destroyers of DesRon 21 as the anti-submarine and anti-aircraft escorts for RAdm. Walden L. Ainsworth's division of old six-inch cmisers, composed of the HONOLULU, HELENA and ST.

LOUIS.

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steaming in column formation at 25 knots, Marines in the general Guadalcanal area, surrounded by the four destroyers because we operated almost exclusively STRONG, NICHOLAS, O ' B A N N O N , and at night. We were under the immediate CHEVALIER, formed in a circular antitactical command of Admiral Ainsworth submarine screen. As usual, Admiral who in tum was under the overall comAinsworth was the Officer-in-Tactical mand of Admiral Halsey, Commander of Command. the Navy's South Pacific Force.

We assisted the Marines in gaining conWe had two missions that night. The trol of Guadalcanal by escorting supply primary mission was to act as a Covering ships, troop ships, ammunition ships and Force and a Bombardment Force for 2600 tankers into the island.

Marines under Col. Harry Liversedge, who were following us in seven destroyer After the Japanese evacuated Guadaltransports. The Marines were to capture canal on 7 Febmary 1943, we began to edge our way ever so slowly northward in Rice Anchorage, located on the western the Solomon Islands. We conducted raids side of New Georgia Island, about twoand other small operations, while waiting thirds of the distance into Kula Gulf, as a for a sufficient number of additional ships prelude to our later capture of the Japanese Munda Airfield, situated on the and aircraft to arrive in our area which southwest end of New Georgia Island. would permit us to mount a major offensive in the Bismarck Archipelago. Our After capturing Rice Anchorage, the major objectives were the city of Buin on Marines were to force their way souththe southem end of the island of ward through the jungles and swamps of Bougainville and Rabaul on the island of New Georgia Island, and block Japanese New Britain. land and water reinforcements from reaching the Munda Airfield from the Vila At that time we were sadly lacking in ships and aircraft. Our shortage of aircraft Airfield and Vila Plantation, located on the southeastern end of Kolombangara Iswas so great that we frequently lacked land. control of the air in the immediate Guadalcanal area, and never had control Our secondary mission was to prevent, of the air north of Guadalcanal. This was if practicable, the landing of the first the reason why we operated almost exechelon of 4000 Japanese reinforcements clusively at night, north of Guadalcanal. due to land on Kolombangara Island the Our Night Raiders usually arrived in same night from Japanese destroyer the general Guadalcanal area from Estransports. piritu Santo about sunset. We then proThe night of 4 July was dark, the sea ceeded to steam up the so called "Slot" calm with a moderate southwest wind and between New Georgia and Santa Isabel occasional rain squalls, as we began our Islands, for raids along the New Georgia final approach towards Kula Gulf at 2323. coast, and frequently we continued All ships reduced speed to 20 knots. Our steaming northwest beyond New Georgia radars indicated no ships inside Kula Island for various operations inside of Gulf. Upon entering the Gulf, Admiral Kula Gulf. All our navigation was conAinsworth was careful to avoid the ducted by ranges and bearings from our minefields the mine layers of our Task SG surface radars.

Group had laid along the east coast of Kolombangara Island on a previous visit Kula Gulf is situated about 180 miles into the Gulf. northwest of Guadalcanal between New Georgia and Kolombangara Islands. The Twenty-six minutes past midnight on 5 Gulf is about twenty-five miles long in July, all ships began a bombardment of about 3000 shells into the Vila Airfield roughly a north to south direction, and and Vila Plantation on the southeastern varies in width from about twenty miles part of Kolombangara Island, at targets at the northem end to about ten to fifteen indicated from photographs taken by our miles at the southern end. Our operations reconnaissance aircraft. harassed the Japanese and provided excellent intelligence information, including Thirty-four minutes past midnight all contacts with the Australian and New ships changed course to the left from 190째 Zealand coast watchers stationed in these true to 090째 tme and shifted fire to Bairoko Harbor, the New Georgia areas.

About six months after the STRONG ar- terminus of the Japanese ferry line from the Vila Airfield and Plantation to the rived in Espiritu Santo, on the night of 4 Munda Airfield.

July 1943, the Night Raiders began another small but important operation in Forty minutes past midnight we ceased our determination to edge our way firing and changed course to the left to northward in the Solomon Islands. The course due north to check the progress of the Marines landing at Rice Anchorage. If Raiders that night consisted of the cmisall was well and no Japanese ships were ers HONOLULU, HELENA, and ST. LOUIS

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headed toward Kula Gulf we would clear the Gulf and retum to Guadalcanal to await orders from Admiral Halsey.

Less than one and a half minutes after the STRONG had completed the change of

course to due north, my gunnery officer, Lt. James A. Curran '41, saw a bubbling torpedo wake close aboard on our port bow headed direcfly for the STRONG. Before Lieutenant Curtan could notify me, as I was standing on the open part of the navigation bridge just ten feet below him, a terrific explosion on the port side at number one fireroom knocked me down to my knees.

The explosion completely destroyed number one fireroom and the adjacent number one engineroom, killing nearly all hands on watch in those two major compartments of the ship. The cries and moans of my men, for a split second or two before their almost instant death, haunted me for years. A large hole was torn in the portside of the ship and also in the main deck above number one fireroom. The bulkhead between number one engine room and number two fireroom was cracked, allowing considerable water to enter number two fireroom.

Our damage control parties went into action immediately but they were handicapped by the ship taking an immediate list to starboard of fifteen to twenty degrees which rapidly increased to thirty degrees. Emergency power from our two diesel generators was automatically available for our guns and steering engine.

My two reliable and most efficient communication officers, Lt. (jg) B. F. Jetton and his assistant Ens. W. F. Hedrick, both Naval Reserve officers, came immediately to the bridge. I instmcted them to destroy the coding machine and our classified files as quickly as possible.

The port motor whaleboat was destroyed by the explosion but the captain's gig secured at the starboard boat davit was undamaged.

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When the damage control parties reported that the water in number two fireroom was just above the floor plates, and the water depth increasing regardless of our continued efforts to control it, number two fireroom was secured and the personnel evacuated.

When the list of the ship increased to about forty to forty-five degrees, I gave the order to prepare to abandon ship, because I was certain that the ship's back had been broken and that despite all our efforts the ship would sink in about twenty to forty-five minutes, even though number two engineroom was not yet flooded.

When I gave the order to prepare to abandon ship I also instmcted my officers not to permit anyone to actually abandon ship until I specifically gave the order to abandon.

My reasons for this latter decision were fundamental. First, I did not wish to have my crew scattered all over Kula Gulf if it could be avoided. Second, by keeping the crew together, rescue operations would be expedited. Last, and most important, I felt certain my friend, good old Admiral "Pug" Ainsworth would send a destroyer alongside to rescue my crew.

Tme to his promise to come to the assistance of our destroyers if we ever got into trouble. Admiral Ainsworth immediately ordered the destroyers O ' B A N NON and CHEVALIER to our rescue. They began counter firing at the Japanese shore batteries at Bairoko Harbor and adjacent Enogai Inlet because these shore batteries opened fire against the STRONG with their 150 mm. guns after we were torpedoed.

I was horrified but still most thankful at thirteen minutes past one, to see the destroyer CHEVALIER appear out of the darkness steaming at about ten knots and crash into our port side at an angle of about thirty degrees. I thought the STRONG would roll over from the crash.

Fortunately, the ship did not roll over but the list to starboard increased to about fifty degrees. The CHEVALIER stopped with her bow just forward of our bridge.

The CHEVALIER had cargo nets and mooring lines over her starboard side. As soon as she stopped, I gave the order to abandon ship. My crew began jumping into the water and climbing up the cargo nets to the deck of the CHEVALIER. They also began climbing aboard CHEVALIER from the STRONG'S forecastle.

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While I assisted the abandon ship operations amidships, I sent my most capable Executive Officer, Lt. Frederick W. Purdy '33, to take charge of the abandon ship operations on the forecastle. As Fred started down the inclined ladder from the bridge leading to the forecastle, I said "Fred, be sure to get aboard CHEVALIER yourself before she casts off from alongside." Fred looked at me, smiled and said "Don't worty about me. Captain."

All the time the CHEVALIER was alongside, the Bairoko Harbor and Enogai Inlet shore batteries continued to shell the STRONG and the CHEVALIER. A few shell fragments stmck my right wrist and lower right leg with only minor injuries. In addition to the shelling by the shore batteries, two or three bombs fell just astern of the CHEVALIER.

When the CHEVALIER came alongside, my gig was lowered into the water from the starboard boat davits with considerable difficulty due to the list of the ship plus the fact that the ship's starboard side plating opposite number one fireroom had buckled outboard from the side of the ship.

Lt. Donald A. Regan USNR, who had previously entered the forward engineroom and rescued a wounded man, acted as Captain of the gig and eventually rescued seventeen men from the water.

The gig and her survivors were later taken aboard a destroyer at the northern entrance of Kula Gulf.

After the CHEVALIER had been alongside about nine minutes. Commander Eph McLean '24, her Commanding Officer, shouted over to me and said "Gus, I think everyone who was topside is either aboard, or in the water alongside. I better cast off and get out of here in a minute or two, before 1 am hit and crippled with all your men on board." I reluctantly agreed with the fervent hope and prayer that none of my men would still be in the water when the CHEVALIER cast off.

CHEVALIER rescue operations were outstanding when one considers that she rescued 234 enlisted men and seven officers in about ten to twelve minutes.

Once again my sincere thanks to Admiral Eph McLean and Captain George Wilson '32, the Commanding Officer and Executive Officer of the CHEVALIER. As soon as CHEVALIER began to cast off from the STRONG, I took a quick look fore and aft from both the starboard and port wings of the bridge. All personnel were clear of the topside of the ship, including the personnel on the forecastle.

The water was now almost up to the

bridge level on the starboardside. I decided to take a last quick look along the main deck amidships but I was blocked by water as I started down the inclined ladder leading to the main deck.

I quickly returned to the bridge and was shocked to see my leading quartermaster sitting in the chart house. I said "Rodriques, why didn't you go to the forecasfle and get aboard CHEVALIER with the rest of the bridge personnel?"

He replied "I am not leaving the ship until you do, Captain."

A last quick glance outside the bridge area convinced me the ship was about to roll over to starboard. I then said, "There's no one topside and no one alive below decks. Let's get off right now before we're trapped inside when she rolls over."

We both then stepped on top of the bridge wind screen, outboard of the starboard torpedo director. He stepped into the water, and I followed right after my loyal quartermaster.

The time was now twenty-four minutes past one. Fortunately we were both wearing kapok lifejackets.

As soon as we were in the water we both rolled over on our backs, just in time to see my beloved STRONG break into two pieces, with the after end twisting to starboard about forty degrees, as she sank below the calm waters of Kula Gulf.

A few seconds later I was knocked unconscious when one or more of my starboard 300-pound depth charges, which were forced off "safe" by the torpedo explosion, exploded as the ship settled toward the bottom of the Gulf. The water from the explosion bubbled up all around us, but thanks to the kapok lifejackets, plus being on our backs, we both survived the explosion but we were severely injured.

When I regained consciousness some minutes later, I was being helped into an empty STRONG floater net by my loyal and most efficient quartermaster. The net had floated off the ship as she sank just as intended. As soon as we were in the floater net, we began signalling with the quartermaster's watertight flashlight "Help, STRONG survivors."

My stomach and back pains were so severe I was of very little assistance to Rodriques as we tried to paddle the floater net toward what we believed to be Rice Anchorage. We made little or no headway but were most fortunate to rescue one STRONG officer and two enlisted men from the water.

About three hours and forty-five minutes later, 1 had lapsed into a semiconscious condition. I wondered how my

26 lovely devoted wife and five-year-old daughter were in Dedham, Mass. 1 knew that our respective families would assist them in every way possible if I were killed by the Japanese, or captured and became a prisoner of war. Frankly, I had just about given up all hope of being rescued because I knew our ships would be clearing the Gulf at maximum sustained speed to set course for Guadalcanal, it then being less than an hour before dawn.

Just then the good Lord interceded in our favor and, in my judgement, performed a miracle for us.

The destroyer GWIN, the last ship remaining in the lower part of Kula Gulf, was executing her change of course to clear the Gulf when her lookouts faintly saw our flashlight call for help.

As Cdr. John B. Fellows '31, Commanding Officer of the GWIN, quickly maneuvered her alongside our floater net, all her personnel on deck were shouting "Turn off that flashlight before we are hit by the shore batteries—we'll pick you up."

We were all hauled aboard the GWIN via cargo nets and, as soon as we were on deck. Commander Fellows ordered flank speed ahead, and then quickly increased

speed to her maximum sustained speed for the passage to Guadalcanal. The time was now 0510.

Commander Fellows and Capt. John M. Higgins '22, the Squadron Commander aboard GWIN were most kind to us, as were the GWIN'S doctors and pharmacist mates.

We were all given physical examinations, but there was nothing they could do for our internal injuries except to give us morphine and blood plasma, and hope we would stay alive at least until we artived at Guadalcanal.

We were all given dry clothes, placed in officers' bunks, and received constant checking by the doctors and the pharmacist mates during the high speed run to Guadalcanal. When the GWIN arrived off Lunga Point, Guadalcanal, we were all transferted via stretchers into two amphibious personnel boats and taken to the mobile hospital on Guadalcanal.

The Marines captured Rice Anchorage.

The Japanese did not land their reinforcements on Kolombangara Island. The United States captured the Munda airfield on 5 August 1943.

As for myself, after additional hospitalization at Noumea in New Caldonia,

at Bethesda, Maryland, and Chelsea, Massachusetts, plus recuperation leave, 1 finally received a clean bill of health from the doctors.

I was then offered a fine assignment by Adm. William D. Leahy to once again be his Aide and Flag Secretary. Admiral Leahy at that time was Chief of Staff to President Roosevelt in Washington.

However, because of the war situation 1 preferred to retum to sea duty, and Admiral Leahy graciously accepted my decision. Instead of a desk assignment at the White House, 1 retumed to the Pacific in the Summer of 1944 as the Division Commander of the first division of 2200ton destroyers. Before the war ended I also served as Commander Destroyer Squadron Two in the Pacific.

I regret to say that the Navy lost fortysix gallant and efficient destroyer men and their families suffered great sadness as a result of the STRONG settling beneath the waters of Kula Gulf early the moming of 5 July 1943. Our casualties included the loss of my outstanding Executive Officer, Fred Purdy, who did not get aboard the CHEVALIER before she cast off from the STRONG.

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Dumbo Duty, Greenland 1924 The End of the Army*s Round-the-World

Flight

Captain Stewart Lindsay USN (Ret.)

In July 1924 the USS COGHLAN (DD326) arrived at Newport with the expectations of a usual summer, at sea during the week, in port for the weekends, the bachelors enjoying the Saturday night dances at the Jamestown Casino, and the married officers a weekend with their families.

The COGHLAN and the HOPKINS

abruptly received orders to procede to Halifax. Nova Scotia, to provision and fuel and thence to Indian Harbor, Labrador, firom where they were to patrol in the area between Labrador and Greenland as plane guards for the U.S. Army Around-the-World Flight. Since the operation looked as though it would take about two weeks, or at most three, it was received with some enthusiasm. It would be a pleasant break in routine and a chance to see something of the then rather unknown north. Two reserves, Lt. Moyer from Allentown, Penn.. and Lt. B.B. Lanier (19) reported on board for training duty just before we sailed and were delighted at the prospect of the cmise, as were the officers of the COGHLAN for the additions to the watch list.

We arrived in Halifax without incident and fueled and provisioned to capacity.

From then on things happened. Just before getting underway a shore boat came along side with an International-Hearst photographer whose only baggage was a toothbrush and a camera. It seemed he was on an assignment to New York when he received orders to catch the next train to Boston and Halifax and get pictures of the fliers making their first landing back in North America. We assigned the wardroom transom as a bunk and got underway for Labrador. We arrived late in the afternoon and anchored in a protected spot to await word that the fliers, now in Reykjavik, Iceland, were taking off for Ivigtut, Greenland. I might mention here that while we could, with some difficulty, read the broadcast from NAA, later known as the Sails Schedule, our one July-August, 1977

K.W. spark transmitter, maximum range 200 miles, was useless. We were also one of the few navy ships of that era without a gyro compass. The next moming we heard mutterings that the sun rose in the south and to seaward there were several islands which hadn't been there the night before. This was the most perfect mirage that I had ever seen. After we had been in Indian Harbor a few days with no word of the departure of the fliers, our Captain, LCdr. J.M.B. Smith '11, began to wonder how long we would be on this assignment. As the only settlement in Indian Harbor was a Grenfeld Mission, there was no chance of getting additional stores but he did manage to buy a few cartons of cigarettes. The next day we got word from NAA to take station and, since we were to patrol the Greenland side of the strait, we crossed and commenced our watch quite close to the Greenland shore.

We were now some two weeks out of Halifax and food was running low. Fuel was no problem, for our steaming had been limited except on the run from Halifax. Cigarettes had run out except for the Captain's supply. He rationed them out at three a day for each officer. Moyer, who had a large contracting business and was about to start on a new project, had expected to be back in time to get it going and was now in a dither. Marsden, the photographer, sat in the shower in his shirt and underclothes every night hoping they would dry before moming. We still had no word that the flight had left Iceland.

There were many large icebergs and we were not too happy about that. We steamed back and forth at about six knots. I was in the wardroom playing bridge when we heard the annunciators go mad (the chains on the annunciators came through the wardroom overhead en route to the engine room). It could only be "Full Astern". I still have a scar on my shin where I hit the coaming on my way out. As we made the well deck we saw we were sliding by a berg close

enough to spit on and higher than our foremast. Fortunately there were no underwater projections on the side we scraped by, but from then on we hove to at sunset in a position as far as possible from bergs, figuring that they would drift at about the same speed as we and so we shouldn't mn afoul of any of them.

Our stores were now down to potatoes and beans. Still no word of the flight.

When were in Indian Harbor some of the crew had gone fishing and bought some gigs, the best way to catch cod. We now hove to every morning and lowered the whale boat with the fishing party. They usually retumed with a mess of cod. Our menu now consisted of fried cod for breakfast, boiled cod for lunch, baked cod for dinner plus potatoes. During this period I had the forenoon watch and was waiting for my relief when I saw a flock of ducks land on the water quite near us.

For some reason which escapes me now, we kept a rifle on the bridge. I picked it up and took a shot at one. I lived in a duck hunting area and realized how unsporting this was, but I was thinking of duck for dinner. I winged it and it stayed on the water. I called down the voice tube to the Captain who said, "Call away the whaleboat. Chase him." So, 1 believe, this was the only time in the history of the U.S. Navy that a destroyer was manoeuvering to catch a wounded duck.

However just as I was almost alongside he dove and never came up again. No duck for dinner.

In the meantime we had contacted a Marconi Radio Station somewhere in Labrador trying to get word to Washington to send a relief or at least some supplies, for Moyer to get word to his company, and the married officers to their wives who were no doubt out of funds. The operator refused to take any of our messages because we weren't a Marconi station and how did he know who would pay? The fliers were still in Iceland.

At this point Captain Smith had had it.

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Maintenance between flight legs

An eskimo comes alongside We had only a very small scale chart of Greenland but it did show a narrow fiord going on to Ivigtut. It also said it was a closed harbor but we went in anyhow.

The navigator wrote out a protest saying he was against it and wanted no responsibility if we went aground. We made it successfully and anchored near a small pier. The Executive Officer went ashore to request permission to stay until the flight left Iceland and to see if any provisions were available. Permission to stay was granted by the Govemment Comissioner on condition that we have no contact with the Eskimoes, who were already paddling about the ship in kayaks and umiacks. As to provisions—no dice.

Ivigtut proved to be a very small settlement with a cryolite mine, its only reason for existence. There were several hundred miners on contract to work for two years and then retum to Denmark.

Besides the Govemment Commissioner there was a doctor, a chief and an assistant engineer and one or two other executives. They lived in very adequate houses, all nicely fumished, and seemed to be a part of Denmark. The next day the Captain made his official call, and much to our surprise, was greeted on the dock

by the Commissioner, Doctor, and Chief Engineer all in top hats and cutaways. It was just the way it would have been done in Denmark.

We still lived on cod and potatoes, for there was nothing ashore to spare. Ivigtut at that time was closed from September to June by ice. Although during the Summer several ships would come in to load cryolite, the supplies that they brought were all needed for the long Winter. We still could get no dispatches out but could occasionally copy NAA and find out that the flyers were still in Iceland. About this time an Italian aviator was attempting to make an East-West trans-Atlantic flight and was lost somewhere en route. I often remember B.B. Lanier composing a poem, his poetic instincts no doubt coming from his illustrious ancestors, which began "Where art thou oh Locatelli, Hast thou food to fill thy belly?"

I wish I could remember the rest of it.

While we were still standing by, a merchant ship came in for a load of cryolite.

Moyer and Lanier immediately went to see where she was bound (Philadelphia) and if they could take passage. The captain said that if they could play bridge he would take them for a dollar apiece. They left with all kinds of remarks that they would see us in December, etc. As a matter of fact the COGHLAN got to Newport the day before they arrived in Philadelphia.

We went ashore to hunt ptarmigan (with rifles) but had no luck. Climbed a mountain or two getting a glimpse of a glacier, but mostly we just sat. Finally one moming we saw the USS DETROIT standing in. 1 have never seen our boat crews so on the ball in getting alongside.

Food and cigarettes were never more welcome.

Two days later the flight started and landed at Ivigtut. The crew of the COGHLAN was not overly enthusiastic.

There were no incidents on their flight to Indian Harbor as far as we were concerned. Our Hearst-International photographer had no luck. He got ashore, judged the wind, and set up for his picture only

The Army planes at Ivigtut to have ninety degree shift in wind and so got nothing.

We guarded the flight to the Bay of Isles, Newfoundland, and then went to Pictou, Nova Scotia, to leave two spare props which we were carrying. Heading back to Newport, our skipper was not inclined to delay. We made all speed possible on two boilers, about twenty-two knots. Going through the Gut of Canso we evidently washed out a few docks and overturned some dories which later caused considerable correspondence between COGHLAN and CNO. The final incident of the cruise occurred as we were passing Pollack Rip Light ship. Our alert OOD noticed that her ensign was flying upside down. It took us a mile or two to slow and retum.

We hailed and found out that the skipper had had a slight heart attack. We immediately offered to take him to Newport. After some consultation below decks the answer came back. "No thanks, he seen you going by. Just let them know in Newport." So ended an interesting but somewhat trying five weeks.

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A China Tour Vice Admiral Allan E. S m i t h U S N (Ret.)

On 5 July 1924 the USS CHAUMONT. a Navy cargo and passenger ship, sailed from New York for Shanghai with stops at Norfolk, Virginia. Panama City. Honolulu, Manila. In addition to the cargo. 26 lieutenants were aboard to be assigned to ships on the China Station. Six of the lieutenants were married and had their wives and children aboard. The other twenty lieutenants were bachelors. I was one of the latter.

There was one unattached woman aboard, Mrs. Earl Winfield Spencer (nee Wallis Warfield). wife of Commander Spencer, attached to a ship in the South China Patrol operating out of Hong Kong and Canton.

It was a two and a half month cmise to Shanghai and one gets to understand the personalities and characteristics of that small number of passengers in such a time.

With twenty bachelors aboard Mrs. Spencer (we called her Wally) had all the attention she could need and use. Wally liked clothes and knew how best to display them on her slim but not thin figure.

Well-groomed, smartly dressed. Wally made the most of her limited budget. 1 never saw her when she was not meticuously attired from her coiffure to her shoes.

Not beautiful and with no particular sparkle in her eyes, still her features were clear and distinctive.

When we reached Southem Latitudes, the ship set up a large canvas swimming pool and Wally was able to splash her three-quarter, "get-out-of-my-way" breast stroke.

On the dance floor Wally did not float in your arms around the ballroom, but she was fair to good. Some of the wives were better.

Wally gave the impression of being on the quiet side, a normal conversationalist, not especially witty, but always wellmannered. There were some very nice children aboard, but I never saw Wally speak to or look at a child.

Nevertheless, Wally was obvious.

The day before we arrived in Honolulu, four of us lieutenants were playing bridge (our ship duties were light). Just as the bidding started. Wally eased up to the table and said, "What will a poor woman do all by herself in Honolulu?" At that July-August. 1977

point, the next bidder, later to become Chief of Naval Operations, answered in a very loud voice, "Pass!"

Going ashore, however, to the Royal Hawaiian in Honolulu, a night club in Panama, or the Manila Hotel in Manila.

Wally was always along with the group of bachelors.

In that era, the Navy was an elite organization of 8.000 officers with high standards of duty and conduct, and a divorce usually indicated the beginning of the end of that officer's career.

A girl marrying a naval officer had to adjust to a new life, to follow her husband to the next port, if possible; to set up a temporary home, to assume an education for the children despite frequent changes of schools: and to remain within the budget. She had to keep up with her husband in national and intemational affairs.

She had to be bright, and rely on her own resources when her husband was away.

The Navy wife, however, had exceptional opportunities for meeting talented and intelligent people of various types.

All these requirements made love for her husband and his for her fundamental. Her reward and his were the many happy reunions.

Wally didn't fit that picture.

ArLfter twoarrived and a half months, the in Shanghai and I was CHAUMONT

ordered as Executive Officer of the USS ViLLALOBOS, a gunboat stationed at Changsha, China.

Where is Changsha?

The City of Changsha, reaching toward a million Chinese, is located on the Siang River midway between Canton and Hankow. There is a long sandy island across from the city; and Changsha means "The City of the Long Sands". The foreigners had their homes on the island: British.

French. Germans. Belgians, Russians.

Americans. There was a small club with two tennis courts. There were no Chinese members.

The ViLLALOBOS was stationed at Changsha because the surrounding area contained 200 missionaires, the Standard Oil Co., the American Tobacco Co.. and other American interests.

The ship had only three officers, the Captain, the Executive Officer and the

Doctor. The Executive Officer had a multiplicity of duties: Paymaster. Chief Engineer, Gunnery Officer. Supply Officer and everything else. I would go ashore to the Standard Oil Company office with a piece of paper and in retum receive two wooden boxes containing 3000 Chinese silver dollars to pay the crew. Sometimes a sailor would not draw his pay for a few months, then he would line up with a metal bucket to receive a bucket of silver dollars.

In the winter, when the water level dropped, the Siang River shrank to a width of 300 yards of shallow water abreast the City. An old Spanish gunboat, captured in that war, the VILLALOBOS drew nine feet of water, and down the river there were several shoals of three and four feet. We swung around the anchor until the spring rains once more raised the water level.

My first summer in Changsha, the temperature went to 112 degrees and stayed there. Even shallow draft vessels could not reach us. and we began rationing food as our stocks diminished. There were cracks in the earth and the Govemor issued a ban on killing beef or poultry.

There were several torchlight parades by the Chinese to make it rain but to no avail. Finally, in September, the Governor declared seven of his sins, and the next day it rained.

One day as I was walking on the Island toward the club, a Chinese woman with a dirty little girl baby blocked my way, pointed toward the baby and held up one finger and pushed the baby toward me. I backed away and finally understood she would sell the baby to me for one dollar. I gave her a dollar and side stepped as I continued on my wayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;without the baby.

The ViLLALOBOS was a coal burner and when we had Chinese junks laden with coal alongside to fuel us. the women in the junks would shovel the coal into wicker baskets for the men to carry aboard and dump the coal chute to the fireroom. The Doctor and 1 were always curious about the Chinese women with their bound feet. During a coaling, I indicated to one woman that I would give her a dollar if she would show us her feet.

The offer was too much and she unwound the long bandage from one foot and exposed a foreshortened squashed foot with

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the toes mashed into the underside of the soft cushion. Atrophied! The Chinese woman gave us a thankful smile as she accepted the dollar and rebound her foot.

The ViLLALOBOS was ordered to Hankow to reinforce the defense of the foreign concession in the aftermath of a riot there in which several foreigners and Chinese were killed. After three days we were relieved and then, up the Yangtze, across Tung Ting Lake and the reach on the Siang River to Changsha. It was a different Changsha.

On the first night of our anchorage, I was sleeping on a cot on the afterdeck, when I half consciously heard the splashing and creaking of oars. Looking over the stem, in the moonlight, I could make out a row boat and two figures manning the oars and making little headway against the current.

The quartermaster on watch and I bent a light manila line to a circular life float and let it out to the rowboat. With both ends heaving, the two men were soon aboard.

They were from Yale Compound, several miles down the river, and wanted help to have intmding soldiers ejected from the compound before some anticipated shooting and damage occurred. The Yale Compound was a large educational and medical group of buildings with half of the personnel fumished and supported by Yale University.

In this era of China's history, each province was mled by its own Govemor, who had his own Army to impose his decrees. In Hankow we had heard rumors that a General Chiang Kai Shek was on his way up the Siang Valley from Canton.

I broke out the motor sampan crew and with the rowboat in tow, the three of us ran down the river abreast the Yale Compound. When we stepped ashore another Yalie greeted us in the moonlight and escorted us to a nearby hut where several Chinese Army officers in various types of uniform were arguing. I was informed by the Yale man that the provincial soldiers were willing to surrender without a battle if the price was right.

After another half hour of talk, I took out my pocket notebook and wrote down the terms of surrender. Each local provincial soldier was to give up his rifle and ammunition and in return would receive free passage to his home and one silver dollar. Both the Provincial Colonel and Chiang Kai Shek's Colonel signed with their chops.

That was the end of that confrontation and I returned to the ship as dawn was breaking; but it was the beginning of a Communist takeover of Changsha with all its turmoil and chaos.

Chiang Kai Shek, after being trained in Moscow, had returned to Canton to head the Whampoa Academy in Canton, which also made him the Chief of the Revolutionary Army. The Academy had Russian Communist military instructors. Chou En Lai was on the Academy staff.

Chiang Kai Shek, with Russian equipment, then started up the Siang Valley with his military objectives, Changsha, Hankow, Nanking and Shanghai. With his Army was a Russian General Galen; with Chiang was a Russian advisor for civil affairs, a diplomat named Michael Borodin.

What we did not know at the time was that Mao Tze Tung was a native of Changsha and was busily engaged in organizing the peasants for revolt and revolution.

So, when Chiang Kai Shek's main army reached Changsha a typical Communist takeover occurred with very little shooting. There were riots, strikes, threats to foreigners, demands of every kind, wrecking of shops, respected medical and educational leaders marched through the streets with a rope around the neck and a placard over the chest proclaiming their sins.

The Custom Commissioner, a Frenchman by the name de Jaurios was abducted by the strikers of the Customs. Fortunately he got word to one of his loyal servants where the abductors were hauling him. This information was passed to the young American Consul who happened to be with me at the time. He decided to try to find the Commissioner and I went along through the rainy, narrow, muddied and black-dark streets to the compound thought to be the right one. We entered and were among a hundred dark menacing Chinese with a single electric globe above the steps at the far end of the compound.

The young Consul began talking Chinese to the group and especially to one Chinese who appeared to be the leader. All the time, I kept my hand in my raincoat pocket, so it bulged out. It was a flashlight, but they may have thought it a gun. At the end of a half hour talk, the Commissioner, bedraggled and exhausted, was brought out of the house by three escorting Chinese and turned over to us. We left. The Commissioner said that they were tying cords to his thumbs preparatory to stringing him up when he decided to sign their exorbitant demands, but he added that he had written " V . C . " after his signature explaining that it meant 'under duress' in Latin.

This was the beginning of the end of extraterritoriality for foreigners in China and the end of the missionary effort to change the religion of the Chinese, the beginning of strangling boycotts of everything foreign, goods and people. To save their lives, all the missionaries and other foreigners had to be evacuated to Hankow and Shanghai. In this task the VIL-

LALOBOS, her Captain and crew was a lifesaver. It was clear that the missionaries had failed to make an imprint or change in the Chinese Society. They tried to teach American culture in place of Chinese culture; they lived above the masses and the masses felt they were not treated as equals.

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.y relief as the Executive Officer of the ViLLALOBOS arrived in Febmary of 1927 and I was ordered to the Navy Department in Washington. The river steamer from Hankow to Shanghai stopped several hours in Nanking and I went ashore and talked with the American Consul, waming him of the conditions and the situation he could expect when Chiang Kai Shek's Army reached Nanking. No matter. The result was the rape of Nanking in which six foreigners were killed before the remainder, with numerous injured, escaped over the walls under cover of a barrage by two U.S. destroyers and a British cmiser.

On arrival in Shanghai, I was informed that the next sailing of a Dollar Line Ship was a week away. I registered at the Palace Hotel and an extraordinary thing happened to me in that week.

For two winters in Changsha, I had known the sister of the young American Consul, as she was his hostess for their entertaining. With the rest of the evacuees, she had come down the river on the same river steamer as I. We saw each other several times during the week.

I was scheduled to sail Sunday noon on the SS PRESIDENT MCKINLEY for Seattle, on my way to Washington.

Saturday noon would be a farewell for both of us, but we couldn't say it. so we went to the American Consulate and found Judge Purdy, who had come from the Ninth U.S. District in San Francisco to sit on several cases involving U.S. citizens. We requested that he marry us. He agreed and asked my bride whether she would take it with her hat on or off. She had some kind of fur cap, and took it off.

Judge Purdy asked me for the ring; I did not have one, but I took off my heavy class ring and handed it to him. We were married. My bride remarked that her brother had asked me to look after her but he had not meant that I take him so seriously. When we left the Consulate, the Consul General who had served as a witness handed me a receipt for the small fee required by the State Department and informed that we would receive a proper marriage certificate when we reached Washington.

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A Unique Youngster Cruise The Shakedown

of USS SOUTH DAKOTA

C o m m a n d e r Philip M. Erickson USNR (Ret.)

Early July 1942. Was it the Mate of the Deck making his rounds and passing the word? Was it an announcement on the Bulletin Board? The purport of the announcement, as we recollect, concemed any of the new Youngster Class—would they be willing to give up some of their first Summer leave to join the USS SOUTH DAKOTA on her shakedown

cmise? Transportation to Norfolk would be provided by our ever faithful YPs. where we would board this newest battlewagon of the fleet. That was the challenge. World War II was a fact of life and death in July 1942.

Some scuttlebutt had it the cruise would be just an exercise in Chesapeake Bay. Nonetheless, some 35 venturesome '45 Youngsters agreed to participate. Little did we know then, we would soon leam the full meaning of "Man your battle stations," "Set condition Zed," and "Sally Ship!" This latter term was not in the "41 edition of Reef Points, nor was it in the '37 edition of Knight's Seamanship—our surrogate Bibles.

9Jidy 1942. Mid. 3/c Howie Bucknell received orders from the Commandant to take charge of some 35 Classmates and to proceed to Norfolk, via the YPs. We were to report to LCdr. H. H. Jalbert.

According to paragraph 4 of these orders, we were advised: Uniform will be working Dress A. Each member of the party will take a sea bag with a blanket, sufficient white working uniforms, personal effects. Working Dress J, Seamanship notebook, and Watch Officers Guide.

The heavy sweater (part of Working Dress J) and the blanket should have provided a clue as to where we might be going but, somehow or other, these subtle hints floated by our enthusiasm. July on the Chesapeake is hardly heavy sweater or blanket weather! Just to make sure these new Youngsters were further prepared, we were enjoined: July-August, 1977

On Monday, 13 July midshipmen listed above will draw khaki from the Contract Tailor Shop if it is available, draw leave money, and fill out two leave address cards in the Third Battalion Office. Upon reporting aboard ship they should deposit their leave money with the ship's paymaster for safekeeping.

There would be no monetary hankeypankey on this cruise!

14 July 1942. At 0745 the "SOUTH DAKOTA group" embarked aboard its assigned YPs in Annapolis and proceeded to Norfolk. Thanks to the vigilance of the officers and enlisted men attached, we arrived safely in Norfolk. All were granted liberty that evening, but two of our classmates unfortunately became confused in the bustling city and failed to make Taps check. And now we were 33 Youngsters on the "Look Alive" shakedown. The big day had arrived! We scuttled from our YP's and proceeded to the SOUTH DAKOTA, with all of our prescribed gear. And who were the venturesome ones—those volunteer Youngsters?

They were Bedsley, Bock, Bonnelli, Cucknell, Conklin, Curtis, Erickson, Farrel, Foster, Fick, Gore, Hall, Johnson, Johnston, Julian, Knudsen, Lawson, Lynch, McGuire. Moore, A.C., Moore, C.K., Morrison, Neale, Petrat, Redden, Schulman, Schulz, Shafer, Shaffer, Sobel. Swallow and Ward.

15-17 July 1942. Apparently Captain Gatch took pity on us "Yippee" cruisers, or we looked as if we might need a bit more shore leave. And this he made possible. But first, we had to get squared away in our quarters aboard ship. On the afternoon of the 15th, we were assigned to Compartment AH-219-L which had been designated for the exclusive use of boarded Flag enlisted personnel. As I remember, these seemed sumptuous compared with our quarters on the YPs! Here. 1 will not take a single word from " C m m p " Farrell's recollections.

We had a night off prior to putting to sea; a bunch of us were over on Virginia Beach in the evening, when the blackout was sounded. I ducked into the nearest building, not sure what was going on. Some authoritative lady insisted I had to go into another building and said if I didn't go, I would be arrested (she said she was the Air Raid Warden, or something similar). Once in this designated building (she was the one who owned the building and was also the Air Raid Warden), she insisted I buy a drink. I think I wound up buying a small coke or something. [I] was not too impressed with the locals. On this same night Jack and I went to see the signs in the local park reading "Dogs and Sailors Not Allowed." Big deal; they came down (the rest of them) [sic] shortly after World War II. 16 July 1942. What would be our duties? Our group was divided into three sections and we were all given watch stations commencing at 1200 on 16 July.

These six hour watches-in-three were in conformity with the ship's practice. To insure complete orientation, duties were rotated so that at the end of the cruise, all of the mids had stood a 24-hour watch in each of the important stations throughout the ship.

Duties included Assistant to the OOD, JOOW, Signal Bridge, Assistant to the Navigator, Plot, Broadside Battery Director. Damage Control. Security, Engine Room, Evaps, Distribution Board, Assistant to the E x e c , Assistant to the First Lieutenant, Mate of the Deck. The titles sounded a bit impressive to us, but as fledgling officers, I'm sure in my own mind we knew little or less what they really meant or entailed. We soon learned! This does not belie our Plebe training. It just acknowledges our naivete.

The world was new for us and we needed a starting point. This was all for our future Naval careers. No duty was too great, nor was any too small. We scurried from the topmast to the shaft alleys and leamed our way.

During those days we manned everything from the 16" main batteries and 1.1's topside to below decks, where we

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'45 Youngsters aboard SOUTH DAKOTA

became acquainted with the most magnificent engineering plant afloat. We became as much a part of the SOUTH DAKOTA as we might. Further. Captain Gatch became as much a part of our lives in those days, as later he was to become one of the great naval heroes in the Pacific. We found ourselves completely involved in his ship's training program that just a few months later, in the South Pacific, made it possible for the SOUTH DAKOTA to knock down 26 Japanese planes in one engagement. Where did this training start?

Ask a few of the '45s who were on the cmise. We weren't but a few hours out of Norfolk when the helium balloons started to fly from the port and starboard sides of the bridge. Who released them? The Captain, of course! If one balloon got by the l.l's, the Oerlikons and the 5/38's—then all hell was to break loose with the gun crews. While we may not have manned these guns, we all learned a lesson which would stand us in great stead when our time came to command.

Despite the earlier jibes or some of our classmates, the SOUTH DAKOTA did not do figure-eights up and down the Chesapeake, but set a base course of 087° from the Norfolk Roads. Naturally, we Youngsters were delighted—this was going to be far better than a 'Yippee' cruise.

19 July 1942. Shaft revolutions were 118 RPM, and with four destroyer escorts we were heading for the blue waters at better than 20 knots. Again, AA drills became a part of all our waking hours. Was this a premonition on the skipper's part?

Ah yes, in looking back, the whole complement of the ship was to be exercised on this shakedown, even the ship's medics. Shortly after departure, the Navy decided all of the embarked Midshipmen needed a cowpox shot. What

for? We will probably never know, for smallpox is hard to contract in midAtlantic. Some arms were a bit sore, but we did perform our duties. And speaking of arms, we were all a bit disconcerted to see some two hundred enlisted members of the crew wearing red armbands.

"Chan" Swallow recollects these red armband wearers had somehow or other contracted VD and, as a warning to the crew, they were obliged to wear those armbands until such time as the Doc had cleared them. As 'Chan' commented, it was clearly a shade of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter!

Continuing on our course of 087° we were outward bound and the seas were beginning to build. This was a shakedown and the ship and the crew had to be proven. The operational plans called for high speed runs and tactical exercises, despite the fact it was Sunday. Between 0400 and 0800 additional boilers were lighted off and by 1100 we had 172 RPMs on all four shafts. The maneuvers, sea state and speed seemed to be a bit too much for our escorts and they broke off to rendezvous later. The SOUTH DAKOTA was on her own for these high speed runs.

As we recall, our wake was about the same height as our fantail. We next commenced zig-zagging on this speed run, and then suddenly, we became a member of the "whale-bangers" club. Unfortunately, a large sized whale made the mistake to cross our bow and we caught this mammal amidships. The whale was impaled and we carried it for several miles.

The sea in our wake became red, and only after we slowed, did the whale fall to the bottom of the sea. Fortunately, our DD escorts then returned, for German subs were then in their heyday in the Western Atlantic.

"Whale-banging," speed runs and high speed trials were not the only part of the

day. The rigging, streaming and retrieving of the ship's paravanes at various speeds were also a part of the regimen.

While practical training exercises were a part of daily life, so also was the academic classroom side of our cruise.

Each weekday at 1000, professional lectures were given to our entire group. The lectures, delivered by ship's junior officers who had volunteered their services, were many and varied. Each of these volunteers had received special training in his field. Lectures were all held in the Flag Office. Subjects covered included fire control, radar, damage control, BB observation planes, 20 mm. machine guns, paravanes, communications, and security of information. Speaking of radar, then in its infancy, Alex Julian remembered wandering about, high in the superstructure, and finding a small compartment guarded by a Marine! Inside were those magic and secret radar boxes.

The one time I visited the radar shack, the radarman on duty was a young Oklahoman. Based on some brief conversations I had, I came away with the distinct impression he had never had a pair of shoes of his own prior to receiving his initial boot issue.

This busy 19 July progressed until 2200, when our course was changed to 015°T. The speed runs, the AA drills, the ships casualty drills were all a part of our new life, but this course change was to bring us into one of the most unusual events and exercises of our cruise.

20 July 1942. Lt C.C. Mann was the OOD on the 04-08 watch that Monday morning. In his somewhat prosaic language, his log read as follows: 0400-0800. Steaming as before. 0405 held general quarters for dawn alert. 0410, Lighted fires under boilers #1, #3. #5 and #8. Secured fires on the following boilers at the times indicated: 0432-#8. 0435-#5.

0437-#l, 0440-#3. 0449 set material condition Yoke. 0505 Secured from general quarters. Set condition of readiness three. 0605 Sighted unidentified man-of-war one point on port bow hull down. 0623 went to general quarters. 0630 man-of-war identified as U.S. Ship. 0634 secured from general quarters.

Set condition of readiness three and material condition Yoke. 0634 commenced steering control casualty drills. 0750 secured from steering drills, /s/ C.C. Mann. Lieut.

Rather than recount from the Deck Log of the USS WASHINGTON (BB-56), let's make a comparison of the significant portions of the two ships' logs, as they relate to this unscheduled encounter. This can only be taken in perspective, if we recall the Ship's Movement Report System was just developing, radar was a new toy, recognition signals were notably Shipmate

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ineffective—and most important, the Nazi battle cruisers GNEISENAU and SCHARNHORST were alledgedly prowling the North .Atlantic. And this was where the SOUTH DAKOTA was!

SoL'TH DAKOTA

(zone description plus 4) 0605—sighted UI man-of-war hull down on port bow 0623—went to general quarters 0630—man-of-war identified as U.S. ship 0634—securedfiDmG.Q. WASHINGTON

(zone description plus 3) 0712—sighted one ship 4 destroyers bearing 153" T distant 14 miles 0715—lifted safety valves by hand on boilers #2 and #6.

Track chart of the SoirtH DAKOTA cruise

0730—ships sighted were determined to be USS SOLTH DAKOT.A. EBERLE. ERICCSON. NICHOI^ON and ROE.

Not ver\- flamboyant, but many of the "Look .Olivers" recall where they were during this rather hectic thirty minutes and how they reacted. We are not going to a judicial trial, despite the fact that the official "War Diary" stated: 0615—Sighted USS WASHINGTON and

escort—distance 15 miles Was there an error in time or an ex post facto correction? The words of L.D. McCormick, who submitted this War Diar\- on 9 September 1943. over a year after the event (and whose name did not appear in the SOUTH DAKOTA Log. which listed all officers on board at the time), might be discounted.

Better yet. let the •45s who were aboard describe what they saw and felt.

This recount is a composite. On the cmise. when the moming GQ went, we all reported to our respective battle stations. Each moming we visited a different station. On this second GQ. some of us were in the lower handling room of # 2 turret. Normally, each moming. we broke out the exercise powder bags. However, just about the time the exercise bags would be passed, the word came down, "this is no drill." Next, came the order to pass up the live ammo bags. The telephone talker was getting all the official messages, plus the background chatter.

We were kept informed—we heard every mmor—and also that the recognition signals were fouled up. Captain Gatch sent one of the tin cans to investigate. About halfway to the "enemy", the OOD on the tin can obtained a positive visual July-August, 1977

identification—good 20-20 vision combined with Captain Catch's steel nerves.

In his report of July 27, 1942, LCdr. Jalbert reported this event and those before and after in this fashion: The Midshipmen had the opportunity to participate in several authentic [sic!] submarine alerts when the units of the screen dropped depth charges. Moreover, they took part in a call to general quarters that was so realistic that some of the 16" turrets had live ammunition up to the guns. It occurred shortly after sunrise when about six hundred miles out at sea. The general alarm was sounded when Sky Forward sighted the fighting top of a man-of-war distance 38.000 yards, bearing on the port bow. Tension existed until the vessel was identified as the WASHINGTON. Her presence in these waters had not previously been fumished the SOUTH DAKOTA.

He forgot to mention this was probably the only wartime Midshipmen cmise since the War Between the States!

Fortunately, we did not sink the USS WASHINGTON, and she was saved from sinking the USS SOUTH DAKOTA. The US

Navy was at peace again!

During the next fifteen hours, after this rather traumatic experience, we were under submarine alert and attack. These were all survived, and our goal, according to the Ops Plan, was Base Sail. We soon were to leam this was just another place called Casco Bay. Maine. The log of the SOUTH DAKOTA recalls we had to set special watches in the eyes of the ship because of the greatly decreased visibility.

We finally made our way to our assigned place in the Bay. on mooring V-4.

The next two and a half days were spent getting underway at some unholy hours in the moming for high speed trials.

paravane rigging and firing of the main battery. One of these main battery exercises included firing all 16" guns simultaneously. Ed Beasley recalls this most emphatically.

I'll never forget when she fired all nine 16" guns at once . . . I was high up in sky forward at the time with plenty of cotton in my ears . . . the whole ship recoiled several inches. The acoustic shock was a bit much.

1 couldn't find the cotton which seemed to have become dislodged. Back in Bancroft Hall a few months later. 1 started getting some flack about my ears needing to get the (stuff) out. SO I reported to Sick Bay where they removed 2 nice waxy plugs of cotton from deep in the ear canals.

Berth V-4 at Casco Bay was about 45 minutes via open liberty boat to the shore landing, and those of us who chose a bit of liberty, when proffered, discovered the Maine waters were mighty cold, even in July. Those heavy issue sweaters did not quite keep the Maine bone-chillers away!

24-25 July 1942. We were outward bound and the Maine coastline was fading fast. On the early hours of the 25th. we had passed the George's Bank off of Cape Cod. Twenty minutes after midnight we were again under submarine attack. Our ever faithful escorts dropped charges, as the whole group increased speed. Less than three hours later the group w as again under attack from the U-boats. At 0800. we changed course and were now heading to the presumed sanctuary of Delaware Bay. Little did we know that within the next few hours our group would be under submarine attack two more times, with our 'cans' dropping their full load of depth charges. Cape Henlopen was almost in sight, only 20 miles away. But

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this was 1942. Throughout the day, the S O U T H D A K O T A had been trying to im-

prove further the efficiency of the AA batteries. Delaware Bay was close at hand. T h e shakedown cruise was almost over and the ship's crew was looking forward to what might be its last liberty in the States.

The first dog watch on Saturday, the 25th of July, turned out to be a momentous and most memorable one. T h e log entry read: Steaming as before on various courses and speeds conforming to channel approaching anchorage. Captain and Navigator on the bridge. 1732 anchored in Delaware Bay in seven fathoms of water with 105 fathoms of chain to starboard anchor . . . the following bearings Bank Light 349'4° (T): Light Bell Buoy 041° (T). Ship swinging to starboard.

Anchor windlass connected up ready to heave in to 45 fathoms of chain. Draft forward 33"7", draft aft 35 feet 6 inches. 1736 lost suction on main condensor to such an extent that the engines became inoperative.

Lost power throughout the ship. 1740 Rested against mud bank to starboard. Chart indicates 44 feet water and hard sand bottom. Samples of bottom indicates blue mud which was probably dumped by dredges.

Making preparation for getting underway to shift berth.

Whether "resting on a mud b a n k " or not, we were aground!

The entry for the second dog merely stated, " A s before." By 2146, according to the log entry that d a y . the S O U T H

D A K O T A was finally again underway.

One of the " L o o k Alivers." " C m m p " Farrell again recollects these events in a bit more vivid fashion. The following are his highlights.

I was on the bridge (actually going between the bridge, chart room, and talkers associated with the events). Gatch had ordered a flying moor. The Navigator indicated Gatch wanted to exercise the anchor team, also he had to kill an hour prior to proceeding to the Philly Navy Yard. The usual stations were taken by the OOD, Navigator, First Lt.. etc. It was the first time the "team" would have done this type of exercise. The leadsman gave the proper calls; the bottom was coming up smartly.

The Navigator informed the powers that be that the bottom would be reached in two minutes. There was a cleariy marked sand bar; additionally the charts of that region clearly show 'shifting sand'.

It was damned apparent to me that the ship was going to intersect with the bottom . . . there was some discussion as to whether the first anchor would damage the bottom of the ship (and I'm not sure the second anchor was let go).

The ship cleanly hit bottom. The leadsman indicated it was sand and mud.

The engine room called up that the condensers were filling up with mud. and the engine rooms were going to be abandoned in three to five minutes.

At this time. Gatch quietly began relieving

the people on the bridge. The first to go was the quartermaster and his log entries were not made . . . the Navigator was relieved next, by Gatch; then the other bridge personnel in a very specific order; last to go as 1 recall was the OOD. This left only Gatch and me on the bridge. Then I was asked to leave. When 1 reached the main deck, as you remember, all the personnel from below decks were topside; the plant was shut down.

evolution, seen the finest of seamanship, weaponry, engineering plants. We believed we had become a part of a team.

From the air raid alert in Virginia Beach just prior to the cruise—to the U-boat a t t a c k s — t o the Sally Ship—it had been a memorable experience. And now, looking back, I believe some of us could even see a bit of salt water tarnish on the gold straps of Midshipmen caps.

" C h a n " Swallow had the following additions to the above: This article could not have been written without the help of my Classmates, who provided me with their first-hand experiences and their very special "look alive" remembrances.

Special thanks are for 'Dutch' Schulz who kindly provided the photo of the "cruise gang"; for Professor Bill Jeffries, Archivist at the Academy, who provided LCdr. Jalbert's report; the National Archives for providing the concerned Ship's Logs and Deck Logs; It was then that the crew was advised and to Dr. Allard of the Naval History we would be going through the Sally Ship Division, who was of great help in reexercise. When the O O D noted in his log creating these official records. that the ship was making preparations to get underway to shift berths, was he rePhil Erickson ferring to this? To the call of the bosun's pipe, the entire crew on the main deck trotted from port to starboard and back again.

Eventually, the tide came in and the I was a Midshipman J.O. on the bridge and can remember the amazement of all around when the leasdman called up "By the Mark 5" and one of the officers said something like "Egad! we draw 31 feet". About this time, the power went out as mud was sucked up into the condensors. A small YP was circling the ship at the time with a flag hoist flying. When we decoded the signal, it was asking if she could be of any help.

S O U T H D A K O T A w a s afloat again.

" C r u m p " further recollected that the Engineering Officer was quite clear as to how much water he wanted under the condenser intakes prior to lighting off the plant. The engineer wanted 6 to 8 inches for sure!

One interesting tidbit comes up at this point in our Sally Ship adventure. " C r u m p " recalls that "Sally S h i p " had been entered by someone as a " s h i p ' s drill" in the log. Copies of the original logs, which I obtained from the National Archives, do not show this entry. Perhaps a bit more perplexing—the date at the top of the Log page for all of these entries reads United States Ship South Dakota, Sunday 26th July 1942. This date had been scratched out by a single sweep of a pen or pencil. Quite clearly, these events took place on the 25th of July 1942.

26 July 1942. The SOUTH DAKOTA moored in the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

The cruise was completed. We had gotten a litfle salt water in our veins, had learned to appreciate the might of the 16" guns, the power of the new 5/38s, and wondered with Howie Bucknell as to why the U.S.-made l . l s were forever jamming, while the Swiss Oerlikons did a magnificent j o b . Incidentally, these l . l s were later replaced by 40 MM quad mounts.

A China Tour continued from page 30

In the same week, in Washington, the French Foreign Secretary and the U . S .

Secretary of State, Honorable Frank Kellogg, agreed and later signed a treaty to ouflaw war as a National Policy. This was the conclusion of a five year effort on the part of Mr. Kellogg. In the next two years after France signed this Peace Pact as it was known, 24 other nations hurried to Washington to sign Peace Pacts to outlaw war as a National Policy.

When we arrived in Washington, in the mail for us was a beautiful sheepskin marriage certificate, with a big red-starred seal and flowing red streamers. Most important, the certificate was signed by the same Secretary of State, Frank B . Kellogg.

The total result of this great progress for the world w a s that of the 25 Peace Pacts signed at that time, ours is the only one that has not been broken.

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June Week 1977 USNAAA Outstanding Midshipman Award The Association's sixth annual award of $L000 "'to that midshipman of the graduating class who best combines outstanding leadership and professionalism, academic distinction and athletic achievement" was presented to Mid. Dirk J. Debbink, of Oconomowoc, Wise, by VAdm. Charles S. Minter, Jr. USN (Ret.), Vice President East, during the Prizes and Awards ceremony on 7 June.

Dirk came to the Academy direct from high school, where he was active in varsity tennis, music, honor societies and student govemment as well as the Boy Scouts and sailing. For his interest in and acceptance by the Academy, he gives his Blue and Gold Officer, LCdr. Ted Cheney USNR '58, full credit.

At the Academy he maintained a steady 4.0 academic average until his last semester, when he skidded to a 3.9 but still graduated first in his class. As a youngster he won the Carl Vinson leadership award and was selected to be six striper for the first half of second class year.

Winning the Vinson award again, he became Brigade Commander for the first set of first class year and led the USNA contingent in President Carter's Inaugural Parade. During first class year Dick was a Trident Scholar working on A Study to Determine an Optimal Control Strategy for a Marine Vehicle Subjected to Random Disturbances and arrived at what he called "some very conclusive results."

For the first three years Dick played in the Pep Band, ending as Co-Director, and in company fieldball. For the last three years his primary activity was sailing, where he won the varsity N twice in dinghies, once in Shields class sloops, and skippered the ocean racer SYREN in offshore cruising.

Following graduation. Dirk has TAD orders to skipper Syren through her summer offshore sailing program, then to Surface Officer Warfare and other schools and, ulfimately, to USS FANNING (FF-1076) at San Diego. We are sure this outstanding young man will be a welcome addition to her wardroom.

Graduation Honors The Honor Set Brigade Command was awarded to Mid. Samuel J. Locklear 111, of Greer, S . C , as Brigade Commander

Hochevar, Debbink and Adsit

and Mid. Albert R. Hochevar, of Joliet, 111., as Deputy. Both had served in the same billets for the second half of the year, and Locklear as Regimental Commander for the first half of 1980's Plebe Summer. Hochevar spent last summer's leave as an intern at the Joint Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, working with scientists on collection and evaluation of data from the Mars Landers. Locklear, an Operations Analysis major, will serve in surface warfare and Hochevar, an Oceanography major, in nuclear submarines.

The top three graduates were Dirk J. Debbink, winner of the Outstanding Midshipman Award; William S. Adsit, of Baldwinsville, N.Y.; and Albert R. Hochevar. Debbink, a Systems Engineering Major, has chosen surface line and Adsit, a bioscience major, will enter the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of the City University of New York in the fall.

Only a few days before June Week, Debbink and Adsit demonstrated ability of a different kind when they participated in the rescue of a motorboat and its crew, foundering in heavy seas, by the Academy's ocean racer SYREN in Delaware Bay. The entire operation was performed under sail in 35-40 knot winds.

The Class of 1897 Sword and Cup for "the greatest contribution through leadership ability and positive character to the development of esprit de corps and loyalty within the Brigade" was awarded to

Samuel J. Locklear III, the Honor Set Brigade Commander.

In addition to Debbink, Locklear, Hochevar and Adsit, nineteen other members of 1977 received letters of commendation from the Superintendent for having contributed most by their officerlike qualities and positive characters to the development of naval spirit and loyalty within the Brigade.

The Admiral Louis E. Denfeld Award of the Naval Academy Foundation went to Mid. Edward L. Abner, of Newfoundland, Pa., an Oceanography major and an outstanding baseball player. The Denfeld Award, an engraved wristwatch, is presented each year to "that member of the graduating class, sponsored by the Foundation, who has best displayed the traits of leadership, demonstrated academic proficiency and participated extensively in extra-curricular activities."

The fun and emoluments, if not the honor and glory, of being the anchor man accrued to Mid. Michael L. Scullin, of El Paso, Texas.

Faculty Honors and Retirements The 1977 Dedication Parade honored eight retiring faculty members, five others who had reached twenty years of service and six Professors Emeriti.

The retirees were Professor Neville T. Kirk and Elmer B. Potter (History); Associate Professors Haney H. Bell, Kendall E. Lappin and H. Alan Wycherley (English); Associate Professor John W. Neil (Weapons and Systems Engineering); Associate Professor Arthur M. Potter (Physical Education); and Associate Professor Mahlon F. Stilwell (Mathematics).

Twenty year pins, provided by the Alumni Association, were presented to Professors William M. Belote and John W. Huston (History); Associate Professor Carvel S. Wolfe (Mathematics); and Associate Professors William E. Fasnacht and Joseph F. Hollywood, Jr. (Physics).

The six Professors Emeriti joining the official party were Professors R.P. Bailey, J.R. Redland, D.G. Howard, L. Kells and H.B. Winchell and Associate Professor W.F. Eckley '25.

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Transferring the Brigade colors

The Herndon Monument Climb

The Naval Review

'80 had much more trouble with mud, grease and epoxy than recent classes, needing 2 hours. 33 minutes to remove the cap from the Herndon Monument, but Kenneth N. Flack of Johnstown, Pa., finally succeeded. The only other plebe who came close was a classmate who reached the top, but with a failing grip, and tried to snatch the cap off with his teeth before tumbling down. Flack was congratulated by the Superintendent and, to his surprise, was crowned by Admiral McKee's uniform cap.

Every type of craft used in midshipmen training—YPs, Minesweeping Launches and some 50 sailing boats—took part in the second annual Naval Review on 6 June. The YPs and MSLs put on fine demonstrations of tactical maneuvering in close formation and of underway replenishment, climaxed by a "Pass in Review" before the Superintendent in his barge.

The sailing contingent comprised successive groups of singlehanded lasers, doublehanded 420 dinghies, knockabouts, Luders yawls and the ocean racers demonstrating racing tactics, also followed by passing in review. One highlight was formation sailing by four of the yawls just as was done during the Tall Ships review of OpSail '76 in New York Harbor last summer. Another was the simultaneous capsizing of the entire laser group just off the Robert Crown Sailing Center— deliberately done in order to show, also simultaneously, how simple it is to right that class of boat.

The annual Naval Review is more than just a thrilling event for spectators, it gives the midshipmen an opportunity to demonstrate the seamanship and tactics they have worked on all year in their professional courses and extracurricular activities. They did themselves proud.

Unfortunately, the scheduled exhibition by the Blue Angels had to be cancelled at the last minute because of incipient thunderstorms and low visibility.

Color Girl The Colors Competition was won this year by the 13th Company, commanded during June Week by Mid. Bruce Scott of Lancaster. S . C a Mechanical Engineering major who will enter the nuclear power program. For Color Girl, he selected Miss Kay Yarborough, a most attractive Clemson College junior from Ft. Mill. S.C. They met while both were in high school, when she was scouting the girl's basketball team in Lancaster, and have dated steadily since then.

RAdm. James Winnefeld, Commandant of Midshipmen and one of the parade's reviewing officals, must have been taken back in memory. He commanded the Color Company during June Week of 1951, and married his Color Girl.

Take That, Mr. Guinness An unusual June Week event this year was an assault on the world record for the 100-mile mass relay, organized by Mid. Charles Wright '79, of Cheney, Wash., and Dave Raunig "77 of Williamsburg, Va. After checking the mile run records of the midshipmen, they selected the 100 fastest runners, each to run one mile of the 100-mile relay, and all hands accepted the challenge. Beginning at 0800 on 2 June, the mids maintained a good average time through a total of 8 hours 2 minutes and 54 seconds, when Wright completed the 100th mile. That is a new world's record, which has been submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records.

July-August, 1977

Graduation and the Graduates 944 graduates of the Class of 1977 heard Vice President Mondale deliver the graduation address before receiving their B.S. degrees. 97 graduated "with distinction" and 258 received designated degrees in specific engineering fields.

After the award of degrees, 939 of the graduates were commissioned ensign or second lieutenant, 827 sworn into the Navy by the CNO, Admiral James L. Holloway III, and 117 into the Marine Corps by BGen Stephen Olmstead USMC. The foreign national graduates return to the service of their own countries: Panama, the Philippines and Venezuela.

Part of the sailing fleet

Service distribution of the new ensigns assigned 230 to surface line, 331 to naval aviation, 205 to nuclear power programs, 9 to submarine strategic weapons, 14 to medical training (the last graduates of that program), 5 to Engineering Duty only and 28 to staff and restricted line.

Six graduates will commence immediate postgraduate courses: Daniel R. Sigg of Abington, Pa., and Timothy S. Jenks of San Diego, in Nuclear Engineering at M.I.T.; Michael L. Scott of Lawrenceville, Ga., Jeffrey P. CaulfieldJames of Lancaster, Pa., and James L. Warren of La Mesa, Cal., in Nuclear Engineering at U. of Virginia; and Walter H. Yourstone of Bayville, N.J., in Ocean Engineering at U. of Washington.

Nine graduates were selected for Burke scholarships, promoting advanced studies in the fields of science, engineering and, in some cases, political science, leading to an M.S. degree. Those demonstrating superior academic ability and potential may be authorized additional education towards attaining a Ph.D. Their orders to PG institutions, however, will follow some two years of active service. The Navy scholars are Dirk J. Debbink, Albert R. Hochevar, Charles J. Tuozzolo, of Bloomfield, N.J., David L. Comis of Thousand Oaks, Cal., and Alfred E. Stuart of Staten Island, N.Y. The Marine selectees are Heinz M. McArthur of Red Springs, N.C., Christopher M. O'Connor, of Dunedin, Fla. (also nominated for an Olmsted Scholarship), Peter Varvaris of Madonna, Md., and Samuel D. McVey of Spanish Fork, Utah.

Four graduates were nominated for Olmsted Scholarships, which offer annual educational grants for study abroad to two outstanding young officers but with final selection to be made after two to six years of active service.

Less than two hours after graduation, the first of thirty June Week weddings was performed in the Naval Academy Chapel. Seven of the wedding receptions were held in Alumni House and its garden. +

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A Few Inches From The Yard Midshipman Bradford N. McDonald '77

Now that Summer is almost upon us, the Yard will soon take on its June ghost-town appearance. The tourists will be disappointed as they search for their boys (and girls) in blue, for they will find only a few khaki-clad summer school attendees at whom to click their camera shutters. But then, there's always the happy thought that it will just a few short weeks until the Class of 1981 arrives, eager to liven things up with the "Hup, two!" of Plebe Summer. In fact they should be here by the time this is printed.

For the people who count, the three upper classes, the main summer activity will be, as it has been since Day One, summer cruise for '78, '79 and '80. As always, the basic purpose of the cruises is to give the midshipman exposure to the various types of ships and equipment serving the Fleet today, as well as to furnish some basis on which the mid can make his service selection during First Class Year.

The first cruise that we all "experience" and certainly the one we shall remember forever is Youngster Cruise. Stories from this excursion seem to grow more weird as time goes by and they come to rank second only to Plebe Year stories. I've yet to meet an alumnus who could not give me a day-by-day account of his Youngster Cruise, including chipping paint off the bottom of the Number One Boiler that had been purposely left untouched since last the Midshipmen were aboard so they could continue their handiwork of last year, plus of course a complete scouring of the bilges and, needless to say, painting of the shaft alley, or as we might say, "Today 1 drew the shaft." The stories are still current and valid today. A Youngster on cruise finds himself ranking with but below the new Seaman Apprentice. After a few weeks of "touch up," anatomizing pre-Worid War II paint, staring at the empty horizon and checking for "the green flash," or standing a cold, cold mid-watch after having forgotten to bring up foul weather gear, the Third Classman may begin to wonder "Is this what it's really all about, this being a Navy officer? Maybe 1 should reconsider!" It seems that on this first cruise, we mids learn that fifty percent of shipboard manhours is spent just waiting for something to go wrong.

But there really is a purpose to it all. Exposure to the enlisted man's viewpoint in the Navy is invaluable for any pro-

spective officer, and Youngster Cruise will be the best opportunity for '80 to get this exposure.

The Second Class, '79, will be getting small doses of each of the major branches of the Navy-Marine Corps team. A week in Pensacola will give the future pilot a chance to flap his wings in several trainer aircraft. For some, too many barrel rolls in a jet trainer will result in a visit with the Ralph bag and a definite commitment to remain attached to the ground. For others, the thrill of being in command of the sky will promise the Navy one more future airdale.

Heading North to Quantico and the Marine Corps Basic School, each Second Classman is going to eat a little mud with his C-rations as he waits in his foxhole, M-16 at hand, for his Classmates to begin their "attack." Although most mids tend to go to Quantico anticipating a rather boring week, most come away with a deep appreciation and respect for the Marines and their mission. Of course a few 2/c will lose their brains in the grime and decide that they actually want to be wearers of The Green.

A stop in New London will provide will provide a two-day ride aboard a Poseidon or fast attack submarine. For those who develop a quick claustrophobia, some of that good sub chow along with a periscope liberty should be a sufficient pacifier.

The last stop for the 2/c will be Newport and a taste of the backbone of the Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;greyhounds and surface line. All in all, '79 will be afforded some excellent perspecfives on which to base service selections.

As First Classmen, '78 will get their first real shot at riding like officers. For 1/c Cruise mids are provided a wide choice of ship types, liberty ports and operating schedules. This last cruise as a midshipman will enable some 1/c the chance to serve as division officers, JOODs, and inport duty officers.

Summer Cruise will not be a totally rewarding or educational experience for all; for some it will be no more than a six-week wait until leave begins. But the opportunities to leam will be there and, hopefully, in September, '78, '79 and '80 will retum a little more salty and seaworthy than when they left.

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by Ken Booth. Crane Russak, New York: 1977 240 pages, $16.00 As the sea becomes increasingly important in intemational politics, naval power becomes more and more the prime instmment of foreign policy. The functions of navies, in author Ken Booth's excellent account, are conceived as a means to further a trinity of uses of the seas: for passage of goods and people; for the projection of military force for diplomatic purposes, including use against land and sea targets; and for the exploitation of resources in or under the sea. Having studied the various ways in which navies can be instmments of or influences on foreign policy, the major, permanently operating factors affecting the character of naval policies are then examined.

In a discussion of naval capabilities, the author is able to get away from the usual numbers game evaluation of the U . S . Soviet balance, in favor of a much more sophisticated and utilitarian approach based on missions, geography, economics, and politics. Both domestic sources of policy and the external, intemational variables which affect the roles and usability of warships in support of policy goals are examined in a highly workmanlike manner. Although claiming to seek only a comprehensive framework within which a more coherent discussion of the utility of naval forces can take place, much more is actually achieved.

Significant, perhaps, is the fact that the author is a foreigner, one of the increasingly prominent young scholars abroad who write of naval strategyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;primarily American naval strategyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with a skill which one finds largely unmatched in this country. Although Navies and Foreign Policy is sponsored by the Center for Advanced Research at the Naval War College, the fact emphasizes once again the low state to which the study of strategy

by Americans has fallen. This is particularly t m e in the U . S . N a v y , suffering the impact of a full generation of the Rickover influence and its insidious stress on technology at the expense of the proper

study of war. American naval thinkers lack a proper stimulus to reexamine the elements of their profession. They see a blue ocean strategy dominated by blue ocean thinking almost wholly in terms of a fleet action against the Soviet navy, or of a control of the seas strategy largely in Mahanist terms long obsolete. Never mind that the Soviet strategy is bascially different; we will tout publicist Admiral Gorshkov as a control of the seas strategist and sanctify him as a twentieth century Mahanist to do so.

Where in the U . S . can one find truly constmctive, analytical thought on the uses of m o d e m navies in their primary function as an instrument of foreign policy? Only one university-based institute of maritime study can be recalled within our shores. What do we have to offer in the quality of analytical studies, primarily by young scholars, to compare with the

Royal United Services Institute, the Institute of Strategic Studies, Dalhousie in Canada or Aberystwych in Wales? The U . S . Naval Institute could potentially fulfill a role in maritime strategy equivalent to that of the Council on Foreign Relations in foreign policy, but construes far too narrowly its mission in " t h e advancement of professional, literary and scientific knowledge in the naval and maritime s e r v i c e s . " The Naval War College Center for Advanced Research has made important contributions in stimulating studies such as this. N o truer words does Ken Booth utter than his statement that " W e live in more complicated times: they demand more complicated thinki n g . " But where are the young American scholars to match the talent now emerging abroad?

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Navy Wins Spring Sports from Army, Captures Overall Title for Sixth Year With resounding triumphs in baseball, lacrosse and tennis, Navy won the spring sports competition from Army for 1977 and completed the capture of the varsity head-to-head competition for the 1976-77 academic year.

The three spring sports victories gave the Midshipmen a total of eleven for the year in varsity competition with the Cadets, to six wins for Army and one tie.

This marks the sixth straight year that Navy has won the annual sports rivalry between the two academies outright.

The Mids scored an 11-1 baseball win, were triumphant in tennis by a 7-2 margin and had a l4-7 lacrosse victory. Army had won the track and field meet by a narrow, 83-80, in mid-May and then won the golf during June Week, 377-385.

In beating the Cadets in baseball, 11-1, Navy lashed out four home mns to cap off an 18-10-2 season. That finish is more significant in light of the fact that the Mids at one stage of the season were 5-6-2. But veteran Coach Joe Duff had predicted before the campaign that he believed this was a team that would improve as the season went along.

One of the keys to the late-season success was improved hitting, much of that coming from the bats of a trio of plebes: shortstop Mark Mullikin, second baseman Rich Seiler and first baseman-designated hitter John Ziccardi. Mullikin, from near-by Easton, Md., was the team's leading hitter for the year with a .354 batting average, one of eight Mids to bat over .300. He also drove in 16 mns and did a highly commendable job on defense.

Seiler, brought up in midseason, batted .333 for the final 12 games and had 13 RBIs. Eight of his 15 hits went for extra bases, and one of those was a home mn on the first pitch of the game against Army. Ziccardi, who also played only half the season, hit only .250 but his clutch hitting was attested by his 14 RBI on 14 hits. In a late-season game against George Mason, the Mids trailed 8-6 going into the bottom of the ninth. Ziccardi drove in two mns with a bases-loaded single and then Mullikin followed with a single to tally the winning run.

Bruce Buck, the team captain and third baseman, was the team's next top hitter with a .342 average and a team-leading 25

RBIs. He also had five home runs for the year. Others over the .300 mark for the year were outfielder Ed Abner, .338; outfielder Tim Benson and designated hitter Matt Pasztalaniec each at .323; designated hitter-first baseman Prentiss Hall, .329; and outfielder-designated hitter Warren Lewis, .316.

Abner, after a horrible start early in the season, came roaring back to earn his healthy batting average and topped off the recovery with a pair of two-run homers against Army. The other homer was a solo blast by catcher Bill Miles.

For the year. Navy had a team batting average of .292.

Rich Seiler fouls off a pitch

The bulk of the pitching strength stood with seniors Scott Thomas and Ron Rodgers. Thomas earned the win over Army and was 7-2 for the season with an ERA of 2.78. Rodgers was 4-2 with a 2.17 ERA. Buck and Abner are the only first classmen among the regular fielders but Duff must come up with pitching capability, for both Thomas and Rodgers will graduate, as will Jeff Holloway, the number three pitcher.

The lacrosse victory over the Cadets was keynoted by the brilliant performance of seniors Jeff Long, Bob Holman and Skip Miller. It gave Coach Dick Szlasa a 10-5 record for the season, his fifth at Navy, and also earned him his fifth straight win over Army.

Long, a first team All-America selection this year, had one goal and six assists against Army, and ended the season with 22 goals and 53 assists for a team-high 77 points. For his four years at Navy, Long scored 84 goals and had 149 assists for 233 points, making him the Academy's career scoring leader in this sport. Holman had four goals and Miller three against the Cadets.

The Mids, despite some late-season

losses, still finished fourth in the national rankings in lacrosse and were selected to the NCAA playoffs for the seventh straight year.

Following losses to Maryland and Johns Hopkins, it appeared Navy might be seeded fourth in the playoff stmcture, but a loss in the last game of the regular season to Penn, 19-12, knocked the Mids down to fifth place. That defeat, the first ever to the Quakers in 27 games dating back to 1914, meant Navy had to retum to Philadelphia to meet Penn again, this time in the first round of the NCAA tourney. Then Navy upended the Quakers, 14-12, as plebe Brendan Schneck had four goals and three assists and Holman rammed in four goals.

But then Navy had to travel to meet number one Comell, undefeated in two years and the defending NCAA champions. The Big Red jumped off to an 8-0 lead in the first quarter and it was 9:15 before the Mids had a goal. Comell went on to a 22-6 win and then thumped Johns Hopkins, 16-8, for its second straight NCAA tifle and 29th straight win.

In addition to Long, Miller, a midfielder, was selected to the third All-America team while Holman, Bill Claridge and Mike Chanenchuk were honorable mention. All are first classmen except Chanenchuk, a youngster.

Long, Miller and defenseman Tom McKee were selected to play in the annual North-South All-Star Game.

Navy's 7-2 victory over Army in tennis was the eighth straight for the Mids over the West Pointers. Navy won the first five singles matches, with youngster Bob Detrich leading the way at number one with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win over Army's Dan Hammond. He then teamed with first classman Steve Merchant for a 6-4, 6-3 win over Zach Smith and Brian Smith at number one doubles.

Overall, Navy finished 15-6 in tennis this spring, with Jim Brady at number five singles having the team's best individual mark, 17-4. Detrich, who alternated at number one with graduating Mark Jee, finished 15-6 while Jee was 13-8.

The loss to Army in golf took the edge off an excellent season by the Mid linksmen. A fairly balanced team led by Captain Dave Ziemba, the Mids had a 7-2 mark before the Army match but, more importantly, had been second in the Eastern Intercollegiate Golf Association tourney at West Point in eariy May, finishing eight strokes ahead of the Shipmate

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Cadets. In the EIGA, the Mids lost out by just one stroke when Delaware's Shaun Prendergast sunk a 15-foot birdie putt on the final hole to give the Blue Hens the team title.

Against Army, youngster Joe Welch had medalist honors with a 72 but Army's balance eamed the win on the windswept course. The score was 377-385.

The win by Army in track and field broke a five-year Navy win string and was highlighted by a double win from Cadet distance ace Curtis Alitz. He won both the 5000-meter run and the 3000meter steeplechase, winning the latter in a Thompson field and meet record time of 9:03.5.

Army built up an early lead in the meet, leading by as many as 26 points. The Cadets were helped immensely with a win in the 400-meter relay as the Mids dropped the baton on the third leg. Navy made a comeback late in the meet, actually going ahead, 67-64, but Army ran one-two in the 400-intermediate hurdles and won the 200-meters before Alitz sealed the meet with the win in the 5000meters.

Navy track and field performers had some noteworthy individual achievements during the season. A youngster, James (Mark) Stevenson, won the Penn Relays Marathon with a course and meet record time of two hours, 21 minutes and 13 seconds.

In the Heptagonals Games Association championships. Navy's Daryl Anderson won the 400-meters and Tony Campbell won the 110-meter hurdles as the Mids finished fourth in the team standings.

Navy's heavyweight crew varsity eight was third in the Petite Finals (consolation race) at the Eastem Sprints championships in early May. The Midshipmen second varsity was fourth in the Grand Finals. The Navy lightweight varsity was second in the Grand Finals and second varsity was sixth.

In the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta in Syracuse in early June, the varsity heavyweight eight was 13th while the second varsity finished in third place. The varsity four with coxwain finished third in the championship race.

Navy Sailors Continue Winning Ways Navy won the Service Academy Dinghy Championship, sailed at the (i^oast Guard Academy on 23-24 April, taking first and second places in the A Division, first and third in B. On the same weekend, at Princeton, Kathy Karison won the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA) Women Sailors Singlehanded Championship with an individual record of nine firsts, two seconds and one third.

Overcoming a fourteenth place finish in one race when his boom broke. Navy's July-August, 1977

Paul Van Cleve went on to win the MAISA Singlehanded Championship, sailed in Lasers at the Merchant Marine Academy 30 April-1 May. Chris Diller trailed his teammate by only three points for second, both qualifying for the national championships in June. Navy's Shields sailors placed third in the Cornelius Shields Trophy, sailed at New York Maritime, when Webb Institute was awarded second place on a tiebreaker.

Navy's women dinghy sailors, with a second in A and a fourth in B Divisions could do no better than third place in the MAISA Women Sailors District Championship, also sailed at New York Maritime.

On 7-8 May Navy hosted the MAISA Freshmen Championship, sailed in 420 dinghies, but finished second to New York Maritime by five points in a nine team regatta. But, sailing at New York Maritime, the varsity dinghy sailors won the America Trophy for the MAISA Doublehanded Championship. It was the 18th time Navy has won that trophy since its establishment in 1941, and qualified Navy for the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Union's Doublehanded Championships in June.

Over the following weekend, at home, the varsity dinghy sailors won the MAISA Team Racing Championship with a three boat team entry in a round robin of twelve races. That qualified them for the ICRU's North American Team Racing Championship to be sailed in late June. At the same time, in its own Yawl Invitational Regatta, Navy placed first and third among the five boats entered.

Navy Pistol Team National Champions, Gain Four All-America Selections Navy's pistol team again stands atop the collegiate pistol world, having captured the national title on both conventional and international courses of fire for the second straight year, setting a national record in the process and earning four first team All-America selections.

The team, under the coaching of GMSC Henry Holder, was notified of its accomplishments in a recent release from the National Rifle Association. It was the second straight year of winning the national championship on the conventional course of fire but the third consecutive year the Midshipmen shooters have been the international target champions.

Named to the All-America first team were: Alan Hammond '78, from Watertown, N.Y.; Brent Obenour '78, from Kenton, O.; Bradley Tilgner '77, from Dallas, Ore.; and Mark Willis '79, from Quantico, Va. This is the third consecutive year for Tilgner on the AllAmerica first team and the second year Willis has earned the distinction. Named

Three-time All-America Brad Tilgner and Coach Henry Holder

as an honorable mention All-America was Jack Richardson '78, from King of Prussia, Pa. Tilgner is the individual champion on the international course of fire, having posted an 820 out of a possible 900.

In addition, he along with Willis and Obenour comprised the Naval Academy team which set a national record on the international standard pistol course of fire with its 1680 out of 1800.

The team finished with a 12-0 record during the winter and won the Northeast Intercollegiate Pistol League for the second straight year.

Two other Navy shooters, both members of the rifle team, second classmen James Rennie of Wilmington, Del., and Thomas Rentz of Chicago, 111., were named to the second All-America rifle team.

Sapp, Anderson Capture Navy's Top Athletic Awards Jeffrey K. Sapp, a football middle guard from Colorado Springs, Colo., and Daryl E. Anderson, a recordholding quartermiler from Milwaukee, Wis., were the 1977 recipients of the U. S. Naval Academy's top two athletic awards.

Sapp, a third team All-America, received the Thompson Trophy Cup awarded to the midshipman "who has done the most during the current year for the promotion of athletics at the Naval Academy." Anderson, the best quartermile runner ever at Navy, is the winner of the Naval Academy Athletic Association Sword given annually since 1893 "to the midshipman of the graduating class considered by the Athletic Council to have personally excelled in athletics during his years of varsity competition."

Noted Navy football coach George Welsh, "I said before last season that there wasn't a better defensive middle guard in the country than Jeff, and what

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he did last fall for us further emphasized my belief. He played a key role in keeping us together during our problems early in the season, yet his performance on the field never suffered. If we had finished with a better record, he probably would have received more recognition."

Sapp, one of the team co-captains, had a team-leading 143 tackles in 1976, 16 of which resulted in lost yardage. He was selected to the third All-America team by both the Associated Press and Football News and was a first team All-East selection. He also played for the East squad in the Japan Bowl.

In reflecting on Daryl Anderson's four years at Navy, the Academy's veteran track coach Jim Gehrdes said, "He is the toughest competitor I've ever seen here.

He has done everything we've ever asked of him and done it better than anyone else."

Anderson holds three individual school records and is a member of five recordsetting relay teams. His individual marks include the 400 meters, the 440-yard dash and the indoor 600-yard run. He is a member of the school record 1600-meter relay, spring medley relay and 800-meter relay outdoors and the indoor mile relay and distance medley relay units.

Anderson won the Heptagonals Games Association Track and Field championships 400-meters dash in both 1976 and 1977 and tied for first in the 440-yard run at the IC4A Indoor championships in 1976. He won six letters at Navy and was captain of the 1976-77 indoor track team.

Steckel Joins Navy Football Staff Les Steckel, an assistant coach at the University of Colorado for the past five years, has been appointed to the Naval Academy football staff.

Steckel, who will handle the tight-ends and offensive tackles, replaces Gary Tranquill who resigned early in the spring to join the Ohio State staff.

Steckel is a native of Whitehall, Pa., and won eight letters in three sports at Whitehall High School. He then went on to the University of Kansas where he earned a letter as a running back for the Jayhawks. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in political science, human relations and social work from Kansas in 1968.

From 1969 to 1972, Steckel was in the Marine Corps, playing with the Quantico Marines in 1971 and 1972 where a teammate was former Academy standout Terry Murray. He attained the rank of captain and is currently in the Marine Corps Reserve. He also served in Vietnam with the Marines.

Steckel joined the Colorado staff in 1972 and seven of his pupils from that school have been drafted by the pros.

Spring Sports Results Since Last Issue: BASEBALL (Final Record—Won 18, Lost 10, Tied 2): Georgetown, 9-0; Catholic U., 7-9; Princeton, 7-6; Princeton, 12-2; Penn State, 8-14; Harvard, 6-3; Dartmouth, 3-0, 7-0; Pitt-Johnstown, 15-3; Cornell, 6-8; Army, 7-0; 16-8; Towson State, 9-1; Delaware, 3-5, 3-0; George Mason, 9-8; Army, 11-1.

The top athletic awards

Navy Athletic Shorts Captains for the 1977-78 season in nine winter sports at Navy were announced by the Academy's Director of Athletics, J. O. Coppedge. Named were: Hank Kuzma, from Hershey, Pa., basketball; Thomas Manobianco, from Franklin Lakes, N.J., fencing; Jeff Cover, from Newtown, Pa., gymnastics; James Cheever, from Oklahoma City, Okla., indoor track; Alan Hammond, from Watertown, N.Y., pistol; James Rennie, from Wilmington, Del., rifle; Steve Howell, from San Mateo, Calif., squash; Thomas McElwee, from Broomall, Pa., and William Throne, from Palos Verdes Peninsula, Calif., swimming co-captains; and Jack Hanson, from Racine, Wis., and Dan Holoubek, from Plattsmouth, Neb., wrestling co-captains. ^ ^ ^ Mark Heinrich '79 has been selected for the United States swimming team which will be competing in the Maccabiah Games in Tel Aviv, Israel, from July 6-22.

Heinrich has been a member of the Naval Academy varsity team for the past two seasons, and holds two school records in addition to being a member of a record-holding relay unit. Heinrich is from LaJolla, Calif.

Heavyweight Crew: Vs. Yale and Coast Guard—Varsity, third; Second varsity, first; Plebes, third. Goes Trophy vs. Cornell and Syracuse—Varsity, third; Second varsity, first; Plebes, third. Adams Cup vs. Penn and Harvard—Varsity, Second varsity, Plebes, all third. Eastern Sprints—Varsity, third in Petite Finals; Second varsity, fourth in Grand Finals; Plebes, sixth in the Petite Finals. IRA— Varsity, third in third level; Second Varsity—third in Grand Finals; Plebe— fifth in second level; Varsity four—third in Grand Finals; Plebe four—fourth in Petite.

Lightweight Crew; Vs. Coast Guard— Varsity, first; Second varsity and Plebes, both second. Haines Cup vs. Harvard— Varsity, Second varsity and Plebes, all second. Callow Cup vs. Penn and MIT—Varsity, second varsity and Plebes, all second. Eastern Sprints— Varsity, second in Grand Finals; Second varsity, sixth in Grand Finals; Plebes, fourth in Petite Finals.

Go//(Final Record—Won 7, Lost 3): Maryland, 376-369; Penn, 376-394; American, 376-400; Columbia, 396-418; Columbia, 376-381; Maryland Intercollegiates. Navy second; Eastem Intercollegiate Golf Association, Navy second; Penn State, 387-386; Army, 385-377.

Lacrosse (Final Record—Won 10, Lost 5): Maryland, 13-16; Virginia, 12-8; Johns Hopkins, 11-17; Penn, 12-19; Penn (NCAA Quarteri'inals), 14-12; Comell (NCAA Semifinals), 6-22; Army, 14-7).

Tennis (Finals Record—Won 15, Lost 6): Swarthmore, 7-2; Georgetown, 8-1; Princeton, 2-7; Virginia, 4-5; Comell, 9-0; Washington & Lee, 8-1; Penn State, 4-5; Army, 7-2.

Track & Field (Final Record—Won 0, Lost 2): Heptagonals—Navy, 4th; Army, 80-83. ^

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The Budget Committees at Work The House and Senate Budget Committees' defense budget, meant as only a guide to the final, binding budget for fiscal year 1978 (beginning October 1, 1977) to be fixed by action in Armed Services and Appropriations committees and on the Senate and House floors during the summer months, is $118.5 billion. This is about $5 billion less than the final budget sought by President Carter. The President's original budget was $120.1 billion, but on May 10 he asked for an increase to $123.4 billion, the increase to be financed by larger sales of U. S. arms.

Action on the budget process in the House was long and bitter. Rep. Robert N. Giaimo (D-Conn.). Chairman of the House Budget Committee, with liberals on this committee and elsewhere in the House, fought desperately to keep the budget sum as low as they could, asking why give so much to defense when human needs, as education, employment, welfare, etc., weren't getting enough. Yet the budget approved includes $238.4 billion for such programs, compared to $118.5 for defense!

This is the first time in many years that the House has reduced the money recommendations of its House Armed Services Committee.

The Senate had approved a Budget Committee recommendation of $120.3 billion for defense but the House wouldn't go higher than $117.1 billion. The Senate had to decrease, and the House had to increase, to reach a compromise on $118.5 billion.

The $118.5 billion figure is not binding.

It can be adjusted up or down before the end of September, when a final budget must be approved. The action of the House, and the attitude of a majority of its members, excluding many Republicans, poses a threat to coming attempts to increase the defense budget. As matters now stand, this attitude, fiercely fought for, might well continue to influence Defense Department budgets in future years.

The attitude of the House Republicans is largely based on the fact that comparatively few of them have voted for recommendations of the House Budget Committee. Republicans didn't like the idea of letting a budget committee have anything to do with budget making. In the first place, they have not liked the number of far liberals appointed to the committee.

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Even before they were appointed. Republicans knew these liberals' attitude toward the military and their constant efforts, when other agencies wanted more money, to take it from the defense budget.

this type of less cosfly ship can answer the need to disperse at sea a larger number of aviation platforms. To this end, the committee has added $13.5 million for design of a VSTOL aviation ship.

More Aviation Platforms At Sea

Ship Vulnerability

The Senate Armed Services Committee, in its report on H. R. 5970, the Defense Department procurement authorization bill, asked the DoD to "conduct a compromise evaluation of the costs and effectiveness of sea-based aircraft platforms for both the short and long term.

This evaluation shall include, but not be limited to, CVN nuclear carriers, new design medium aircraft carriers (CVV), refit of existing aircraft carriers (MIDWAY and other classes), and various types of VSTOL aviation ships (including VSS).

This evaluation shall also consider the costs and effectiveness of changing the composition of existing and planned conventional aircraft forces by including available, planned and technologically feasible VSTOL aircraft and helicopters.

The Department of Defense is asked to submit this study to the Committee on Armed Services by Febmary 1, 1978."

The Senate Committee included in its budget $81.6 million for procurement of long-lead items for an additional NiMlTZ carrier, to permit the consideration of the authorization of a NiMiTZ-class carrier in fiscal year 1979, just as the R&D funding for the proposed CVV and that added by the Committee for a VSTOL aviation ships will do for those ships next year.

The Committee is neutral about another NIMITZ class carrier.

Conceming the request for an interim program of two medium-size conventional carriers (CVV), the committee leamed there has been no development design effort on the CVV and the proposed cost of $2.5 billion is a "ballpark" estimate. Any commitment at this time would be premature, the committee said.

An alternative to the interim CVV program, constmction of a fourth NIMITZ carrier and refit of a MIDWAY class, would provide two carriers at about the same cost as the CVV program, and would result in greater aircraft numbers and greater capability.

A further altemative would be a program emphasizing small carriers designed exclusively for VSTOL aircraft. It appears that only a program incorporating

The House Armed Services Committee is concemed that post-World War II naval ships have not been designed with sufficient emphasis on survivability. The committee believes that the Navy is designing and building peacetime ships that may not be capable of surviving the present day threat should they be required to "go in harm's way."

"Ship survivability requires the ability to (1) avoid weapons' effects, (2) resist weapons' effects, and (3) recover from weapons' effects. The Committee believes that the Navy has given insufficient attention to the first two of these survivability elements.

"Should a ship sustain a hit, it must have an ability to survive and continue to do battle. Such a resistance capability can be provided in a number of ways. Critical ship components and ordnance can be placed within the ship's hull; redundant systems separated by significant distances can be employed, and armor or other protective material can be used to shield magazines and essential topside components.

"Modern ships have litfle redundancy, have critical components placed top side, and use little or no armor. The committee realizes that while the batfleship era may be over, the ability of our ships to withstand a hit can be enhanced by providing for a redundancy and separation in the ship's critical systems, and by using selective shielding of critical components with lightweight armor or glass reinforced plastics."

The Committee says its concern on ship vulnerability has been echoed by many, including Robert Panoff, Chairman of the Laboratory Advisory Board for Naval Ships of the Naval Research Advisory Committee. After visiting a recenfly commissioned ship in mid-1976, Panoff wrote the following letter to the Advisory Committee: "It has been quite difficult in the preparation of this report to reflect adequately the concern and frustration the Board members had after going to sea in one of the Navy's most modem combatant

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ships, especially for those of us who had been associated with naval ship design and construction activities for many years, or with the operation of naval ships. Our concern mainly is with the lack of thought by the designers that has apparenfly gone into the ship design to take care of the inevitable batfle-damage situations that would occur in a shooting war.

The high degree of automation with little or no local control and backup, the consolidation of the computers and communication transmitters into single spaces with little or no protection from ship stmcture, the lack of weapons, especially defensive weapons, raises many questions regarding the viability of these ships in combat.

"The Navy had better get started to figure out what must be done to make these ships real warships. Further, the Navy should take action to insure that their basic shortcomings are all properly identified, and not repeated in future new construction, especially the DDG-47 and the FFGs where applicable."

A Choke of Ship Types In fiscal year 1973 the design-to-cost goal of the construction of 50 Guided Missile Frigates (FFG-7) was $50 million per unit. This program was approved to replace World War II destroyers. This was a "design-to-cost" program and therefore was to be cost effective. By 31 December 1975, the unit cost was estimated to be $168.7 million. In 1976 the House Armed Service Committee said the program was perhaps the least cost effective of the Navy's shipbuilding programs.

At the time 10 of these ships had been approved for constmction.

Eight more of these ships were approved for FY 1977 construction. It would appear that eight more will be approved for FY 1978. The House Armed Services Committee tried to reduce the number approved for FY 1977, but did not get any support in this effort. For FY 1978, it approved an additional 8 ships, as did the Senate Armed Services Committee.

So 26 of the 50 Frigates are now guaranteed. The unit cost now is apparenfly $132.3 million, since that is the amount the Senate Armed Services Committee deducted from its ship constmction fund when it reduced the number of FFGs rom 9 to 8 for FY 1978.

In its report on the Defense Department procurement authorization bill for FY 1977, the House Armed Services Committee said, "The Department of Defense has compromised away most of the military characteristics which a warship should possess. The single attribute claimed for this class of ship is a good air defense system. On the other hand, these ships are lacking in size and capacity.

permitting no growth and possibly no mid-life modernization. They also lack fire power, sensors and redundancy of systems necessary to operate in a high threat area. The Committee believes we should build more capable and survivable ships."

In its report on the fiscal 1978 DoD procurement bill, the House Committee says these ships (the FFGs) are designed to provide protection in low threat areas for military and mercantile convoys, underway replenishment groups and amphibious task groups against subsurface, air and surface threats.

The Committee is not in favor of these ships, and is merely going along with the crowd. The Committee's critisicm is as follows: a. The escalation of unit costs to $168 million for a "low mix" ship. b. The numbers of these relatively ineffective ships in the procurement plan. c. The number of "fixes" and additions required to enable these ships to perform their missions, and the costs thereof. d. The risk that an insufficient amount of space and weight reserved for future weapons system growth and modernization may well reduce the lifetime costeffectiveness of these ships through early retirement and obsolesence.

When preparing its version of the DoD procurement bill for FY 1977, the House Committee substituted four DD-963s for four FFG-7s, commenting that the DD963s are twice as large, can mount either 5" or 8" guns, have excellent ASW capabilities and the most modern air defense missiles. The report repeated the Committee's belief that continuation of the DD-963 program is most costeffective, stating that it had received information from the Deputy SecDef that the unit cost of future DD-963s would range between $229 and $241 million. The unit cost of those now under construction is reported to be $123.1 million.

In its report on 1978 procurement, the HASC reluctantly accepted the FFG-7 program submitted, noting that these ships are designed to provide protection for convoys, underway replenishment and amphibious task groups against surface, air and submarine threats—but, in low threat areas. However, the Committee does not favor the FFG-7 as our primary destroyer program for several reasons: —The tremendous escalation of unit cost for a "low mix" ship.

—The large number of "low mix" ships in the overall procurement plan.

—The number of "fixes" and additions required, and their cost, to keep them abreast of weapons systems development.

—The risk that they may not have sufficient space and weight compensation capability to accomodate future weapons systems, and thereby become obsolescent at too early an age.

House Appropriations Committee Action The House Subcommittee on DoD Appropriations has considered amended budget requests totalling $113.9 billion in new budget authority. The Committee approved appropriations of $111.2 billion, a cut of $2.7 billion and a reduction of $7.3 billion from the compromise figure set by the Senate and House Budget Committees.

The Committee approved $193.8 million for a nuclear-powered. Aegisequipped, VIRGINIA class cruiser and $44 million to fund a Naval Reserve strength of 93,600. It approved all funds requested for major weapons systems, such as the Army's UH-60 UTTAS helicopter.

Stinger, Dragon and Pershing missiles; the Navy's F-14 and F-18 aircraft. Trident, Sparrow, Phoenix, SLCM and Standard missiles, Mk-48 torpedoes and Mk-15 Close-in Weapon system, eighteen new ships including two Trident and one SSN-688 submarines, one DDG-47 Aegis and nine FFG guided missile destroyers; the Air Force B-1, A-10, F15, F-16 and E-3A AWACS aircraft, and M-X, Sparrow, Sidewinder and Shrike missiles.

It must be recognized that these figures have only been approved by the House Committee on Appropriations, not yet by the full House or the Senate. It is very likely that the Senate will come in with a higher amount and that the eventual compromise will be somewhere in the middle.

However, this committee action is clearly indicative of the mood of the House and it is unlikely that the ultimate appropriations for defense in FY 1978 will even reach the $118.5 billion set by the two Budget Committees, let alone the $123.4 billion requested by the President.

Coming . . . Less Money For Defense!

Secretary of Defense Harold Brown has notified the military services that they should be able to reduce defense spending by $15 billion to $30 billion over the next five years. Brown was referring to a cumulative total of savings over five years rather than to any set saving per year. A Defense official said that the saving probably will be closer to $15 billion than to $30 billion. A spending reduction of about $4 billion a year might be the answer.

Military-Civilian Retirees Lose Income At 62 This year a concerted attempt will be made to stop the government's practice of reducing the retirement income of military personnel who have been employed Shipmate

45 by civilian agencies of Federal government and retire under a single, combined civil service annuity.

Senator Strom Thurmand (D.-S.C.) almost tells the whole story of this situation in describing his bill. S.245, designed to put an end to this practice.

"This measure will correct an inequity in the current law for a relatively small number of military retirees. A retiree who subsequently cams and elects a civil service retirement annuity due to being employed by the federal government for five or more years is penalized under current Social Security laws. The present law is punitive for a military retiree because he was required to contribute to his Social Security, beginning in 1956.

"Section 8332 (J) of Title 5. United States code, provides that a retiree's annuity must be recomputed when he becomes eligible for Social Security benefits. In this recomputation, his years of military service performed after December 1956 are excluded from the computation of his civil service annuity. This results in a severely reduced annuity at age 62 when it is needed the most, since the Social Security falls far short in most cases of offsetting the loss of the excluded military service credit. In some cases, this loss is about $332 a month, even when combined with the Social Security annuity.

"My bill would allow a retiree's civil service annuity to be reduced only by the amount equal to that which he will receive from Social Security."

Combined service retirees under a single annuity have suffered an average loss of 17 percent of their retirement incomes when they were 62. Captains and colonels have had their incomes reduced by as much as $500 a month. The amount of loss depends on the statistics of each individual case.

In the House, Rep. Charles Bennett (D.-Fla.) has a similar bill, H.R. 767, pending before the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee.

This issue is being pressed by various organizations, particularly The Retired Officers Association and the National Association for Uniformed Services.

Help For Junior Marrieds?

The Administration has recommended to Congress that a $30 monthly Family Separation Allowance be legalized for each of the married families in grades E-1, E-2, E-3, and E-4 with four years' or less service.

The current law "discriminates against the families of lower grade members who are serving unaccompanied tours in

overseas locations in compliance with military orders by denying them a $30 per month separation allowance," letters to the House and the Senate said.

Rep. William A. Steiger (R.-Wisc.) has introduced a bill providing that the above classes of enlisted men can move their families and household goods at government expense when they're transferred.

Rep. Lee Aspin (D.-Wisc.) introduced a similar bill earlier this year. In March the bill was barely defeated, by an 8 to 7 vote, in the House Armed Services Committee, with 25 members absent.

Of his bill. Rep. Steiger says: "It's an effort to provide some degree of equality for both the lower-ranking and the upper-ranking individuals in the armed forces."

"More married people are entering the services," he said, "and when a family is separated because the govemment will not ship them together, that causes a strain. This hurts the performance of the individual and it just continues the myth that you're not supposed to get married unless your service tells you it's all right."

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Class News DEADLINE: For October—10 August; for November—10 September

03 VAdm. Walter S. Anderson USN (Ret), the second oldest graduate of the Naval Academy, has changed his residence from New York City to Washington (DC). Courtesy of the Military Academy, he was picked up by ambulance on 20 April and taken to the Air Force base near Newburgh, New York, for air evacuation to Andrews Air Force Base near Washington.

Here he was transferred to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for a checkup, then will move into the Wisconsin Ave. Nursing Home, 3333 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., in the District. A bow from the waist is rendered to both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force for their consideration and kindness in helping this 95-year-old gentleman be closer to his family.

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The editors of Shipmate are in receipt of a letter which reads as follows: "Dear Sirs (and Roy too!)—With respect to the item under the Class of 1907 in the May edition of Shipmate wherein it is claimed that there is but one officer remaining who made the Cruise with the Great White Fleet, there is an obvious mistake.

Please be advised that my father, Capt. Louis P. Davis USN (Ret.), Class of 1905, is still getting around and did make the Cruise. Correctly and happily yours, George J. Davis, Capt.

USN (Ret.) '43."

07 We are happy to add another officer's name to that of Capt. WiUiam F. Amsden USN (Ret.) of Jamestown, Rhode Island, in the listing of survivors of the cruise of the Great White Fleet, 1907-09. The May issue of Shipmate indicated that Capt. Amsden was the only officer still alive who had participated in that historic event, but Capt. Clyde R. Robinson USN (Ret.) of Annapolis, Maryland, also a member of the Class of 1907, has written to tell us that he too participated in that cruise over 70 years ago. It is indeed a pleasure to know that we still have with us these brave and hardy members of the Class of 1907. (Also, see Class of 1905 news.)

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and prior send directly to Shipmate Percent Members: 71

11 Sec'y, RAdm. G. J. McMiUin, USN (Ret.) 4242 Linden Ave., Long Beach CA 90807 Percent Members: 80

It is with deep regret that we have leamed of the death of LCdr. Carl A. Schipfer USNR on 19 January 1977 in San Jose, California. The information had been forwarded during your correspondent's absence on a round-the-world cruise. Carl was an attorney in Cleveland for many years. He had taken his law degree after resigning from the service in 1912, but served again during Worid War I. He moved to San Jose about 15 years ago to be near his son, a doctor in that area. Mrs. Schipfer's address: Mrs. C. A. Schipfer. ViUa Fontana, 555 Prospect Road, San Jose CA 95129.

It is with a great deal of personal regret that the staff of Shipmate has leamed of the death of Capt. WiUiam D. Chandler USN (Ret.) on 25 May 1977 in Arlington, Virginia. Capt. Chandler has been Class Correspondent for the Class of 1911 for over ten years and had been of utmost assistance during all these years in keeping his Classmates up-to-date on Class activities. Please see his obituary in "Last Call."

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Sec'y. Como. Ralph S. Wentworth, USN (Ret.) 1922 Carrollton Rd., Pendennis Mt. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 83

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

10 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas 725 West Blvd., Kokomo IN 46901 Percent Members: 86 It is with sincere regret that we leam of the death of Dr. Russell C. Ryan on April 16, 1977, at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco. His was a most unusual career, and a very distinguished one. He was a member of the Class of 1910 only a few months, when by special arrangement he was permitted to resign to enter the Medical School of the University of California. He graduated with honors in time to join the Navy Medical Corps during WWI. He resigned after the war, and after a tour of duty in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery he entered private practice. Then in WW II he was commissioned a Major in the Army Medical Corps, from which he was retired, and again entered private practice. He was a member of many Medical Societies—his proudest being election to the a Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons—the highest British recognition—FRCS. Our sympathy is extended to Mrs. Ramona Anita Ryan, and to their three children and two grandchildren. Russell's career in the Medical Worid was as truly distinguished one. And he never lost his pride in the fact that he was once a Midshipman, USNA, Class of 1910. Your reporter has had most interesting correspondence with Russell during recent years.

(Also, see "Last Call.")

12 Memories of "Savvy" Saunders! I recently heard of a distinguished violinist, a brilliant man who began to play on a miniature violin at the age of four and was performing in public by age six, bom with a God-given ability. You will recall Savvy and his great intellectual capacity.

And now we have another brilliant Midshipwoman in the present Plebe Class where she stands "Number One." If she continues to stand out as the years go along, especially when the sea-going subjects are studies, will the Superintendent appoint her Brigade Commander when she becomes a First Classman?

It will not seem strange because all of us have been trained by our mothers and guided by our wives for fifty years!

The Class will be grieved to hear that Mary C. Bischoff passed away during the month of May in Colorado Springs. She was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery among her old friends.

I have been corresponding with Jasper Grow during the past month. He had several repair operations about ten years ago, but is now in good shape. He lives at 902 Firway Drive, Pensacola FL 32507, has two boys, one in Califomia and the other at Yale, two grandchildren, and he lost a boy in the war.

I have just had a letter from Ruth Ertz Rossell (Mrs. W. T. Rossell, 656 Park Lane, Altamonte Springs FL 32701). She has been out to visit Hans Ertz in Santa Barbara, Califomia, and I am glad to report that he is very well.

Ruth's husband, a member of the Class of 1935, is retired and in real estate. They have two sons and a daughter who is finishing college this year.

Speaking of college, the last of my grandchildren graduated from San Diego State a few days ago, the finalist of all five to have graduated from college.

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13 Pres.. V.\dm. Glenn B. Davis. USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas. MGen. C. G. Helmick, US.A (Ret.) 4784 Old Dominion Dr., Ariington VA 22207 Percent Members: 81 We were distressed to receive, belatedly, an announcement of the death of our Classmate John Brownell (Cdr. USNR Ret.) at the Camelot Convalescent Home. New London.

Connecticut, on 9 .April. 1977. after an illness of several months. Services were held in New London, but the final resting place has not been decided. The Class sends deepest sympathy to .Amanda, and their son in their loss, and we shall miss his lighthearted verse which touched on the day to day activities. (Also, see •Last Call.")

The May 1913 Class luncheon was an allNavy affair, as our .\Tmy confrere was absent in Florida. Jimmy Hall, Glemi Davis and Gardiner Helmick held down the senior comer of the Bull Pen of the .Army and Navy Club, with lively discussion of events, past and present.

Mac Miller, in Pensacola. is editing a column in a local paper, and is engaged in writing a science fiction novel. He has long been interested in astronomy and cosmology, and is making good use of his studies as a background for his work.

The Glenn Davises spent the Decoration Day week end with the Glenn Davises. Jr. in the Pittsburg area.

Hugh White reports that Billie spent several weeks with her aunt on the West Coast, and that they are enjoying week ends on the Keys.

The cold Winter heavily damaged his mango trees, and the commercial crop is almost wiped out.

14 Secy, Mr. Russell E. Perry 3325 Kaywood Drive Falls Church VA 22041 Percent Members: 83 The Navy has lost one of its great heroes and we have lost a beloved Classmate. Rosie Rosendahl (VAdm. Charles E. Rosendahl USN Ret.) died in the Philadelphia Hospital 14 May 1977. after a brief illness. He is survived by his widow Jean. Rosie may be best known for his survival experiences in the airship Shenandoah crash. 3 September 1925. but his contributions to naval airship development and to aviation in general are legion. He continued to work on aviation problems long after he retired in 1946.

Further information about our Classmate will be found in "Last Call."

And just as we were going to press we leamed that Dutch Spanagel, our Class President, died on 19 May in Norristown. Pennsylvania. He was buried Tuesday. 24 May. in the Naval Academy Cemetery. Further information will appear in the September Shipmate.

Mable and -Don Royce were in Annapolis in April to visit their daughter Phoebe, wife of Maryland State Senator Charles W. Gilchrist.

Don took his grandchildren on a tour of the Naval Academy and of course they had a drink July-August. 1977

at the class memorial fountain. The Royces also visited Washington and one day were the luncheon guests of our Classmate John Hale.

It is with deep regret that we heard of the death 20 April 1977 of Helen M. Austin, widow of our late Classmate Turkey (Capt. William De Wayne Austin, USN Ret.). Helen died in her home 35 Ovington Avenue. Brooklyn. NY. 11209. after a losing battle with lupus disease, and was buried in Brooklyn alongside her husband. She is survived by her sister Eugenia who lived with her.

We have leamed that Kelly Beard had a bad fall in the Spring and suffered a broken hip. He spent some time in the hospital and retumed home for recuperation. We understand he is recovering nicely from the accident. We are indebted to Eleanor Quaries for this information. She wrote that she had visited in Pensacola and had talked with Dessa Board.

Eleanor lives in Selma. Alabama.

15 Chairman and Class Comm. and Sec'y, Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St.. Chevy Chase MD 20015 Asst.-Sec'y-Treas.

LGen. Pedro del VaUe USMC (Ret.) 41 Comhill St.. Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 91 It is with great sorrow that we have leamed of the death of Mrs. Vincent H. Godfrey, widow of Capt. Vincent H. Godfrey USN. in the Pan American plane crash in the Canary Islands on 27 March 1977. She died on her 79th birthday; Capt. Godfrey died in 1975 in San Diego.

Emilie was bom at The Presidio in San Francisco, the member of a prominent early Califomia family. Her grandfather was a leading attomey and transportation expert in the Bay area and he linked Alameda. Oakland, and San Francisco with railroad lines and built the first ferry line to cross San Francisco Bay. During World War II she christened a U.S. combatant ship built in Montreal. Canada, and became a member of the Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. She was a member of Christ Church in Coronado where a Memorial Service was held on 2 April, and she was laid to rest alongside her husband in Arlington National Cemetery. She is survived by her daughter Sibyl, wife of RAdm. Robert K. Geiger USN "48 of Washington. D . C . and several grandchildren.

Cdr. and Mrs. Glenn Easton of Sandpiper Towers. Satellite Beach, were pleasandy surprised when their three children gathered from various parts of the country to honor them with a 60th wedding anniversary celebration held in the Patrick Air Force Base Officers" Club Atlantic Room overlooking the ocean.

Cdr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Easton Jr. arrived from Westchester County. New York and Mrs. Valnessa Ulrich. their daughter, flew in from Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Conant Easton drove over from their home in Orlando to celebrate the occasion.

Among the 20 guests who sipped champagne and helped Commander and Mrs. Easton celebrate 60 years of marriage were friends and neighbors from Satellite Beach: Col. and Mrs. Martin U.S.A. (Ret.). Col. Betty Roach USAF (Ret.), and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Steriing. Mr. Henry Bready. Mrs. Millicent Anderson, Mrs.

Martha Verge. Mrs. Peachy Pierce, and Mrs. Connie Marshall. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nelson, an Annapolis Classmate, and Mrs. Doris Clark. Mrs. Roberta Easton's Mother.

Congratulatory telegrams and letters were received from many friends and relatives including VAdm. Allan Smith, Cdr. Easton's Roommate for four years at the Naval Academy and another Classmate. Adm. Arthur D. Struble.

The height of the celebration w as the presentation of a giant anniversary card emblazoned with sixty shining dollars in a unique nautical theme designed by Mrs. Roberta Easton. Following the presentation, members of the family and guests honored the couple with remarks about highlights and memories in their many years together.

Glenn adds in a letter—Hoke's typically amusing remark was. ""I am pleased that your offspring didn't forget Comella—as she is the one who should receive the diamonds." I assume that Hoke wanted to add ""for living with you for sixty years!" I agree with Hoke! As you know, he roomed with me all four years, so he knows.

The only Classmate nearby was Ralph Nelson. We were pleased that Ralph and Nan drove down here from Daytona Beach to attend the dinner and spent the night here. We also had a nice letter from Helena Granat.

16 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 F. Chapline, USNR (Ret.), 1327 Inspiration Dr., La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 88 East Coast News It Is with a very deep sense of personal loss that we report the passing of one of our best known and beloved Classmates. Jim Steele, after a long illness, died in his home in Washington. D.C.. on 14 May. With him at the time of his death were his beloved wife Erma and his son George. The latter arrived at his father's bedside just In time to see him alive for the last time. What a blessing for Erma that her son was there to help comfort her at the time of critical need!

Services for Jim were held in the New Memorial Chapel In Arlington National Cemetery on 18 May. He was laid to rest there with Military Honors in the presence of his family and of many friends in and out of the Navy.

Mick Carney served as an honorary pallbearer and also represented our Class at these services. A Class wreath expressed our love of this good friend and our sincere sympathy to his family for their loss—and ours. Besides Erma and George (VAdm. George P. Steele II USN Ret. "45). Jim Is survived by a daughter, Lola Shepherd of Coronado. Califomia.

Please refer to "Last Call" for further details of the life and service of this fine Officer and Gentleman—Captain James M. Steele U.S. Navy. May he rest in peace!

Sincere and cordial notes were received from Jean Carlson and Janet Carlson Holley.

Swede's wife and daughter: the latter the wife of a professor at Duke University in Durham,

48 North Carolina. These notes expressed their thanks and appreciation for words of sympathy and the Class wreath present at the last rites held for Swede in his hometown Chapel.

Congratulations are due Midshipman William H. Millward who graduated with the Class of 1977 from the Naval Academy. Bill was this year's graduate who was sponsored by our Class fund through the U.S.N.A. Foundation.

We always feel proud when one of our boys makes It. West Coast News The 1916-17-18 Classes April Lunch was held in the Destroyer Room of the Admiral KIdd Officers' Club, Naval Training Center, on Thursday the 14th. Amos Root handled all the fine arrangements. Present were; 1916Carrlngton, Herndon, Jenkins, "Possum" Webb, McGinnis, Rodgers, Chapline, Root; 1917-Comstock; 1918-Curtis. GIbb, and Tomlinson. enroute back to Seattle after wintering in Yuma. Arizona (but also south In Coronado to attend the West Coast Mini-Reunion of "The Golden Eagles"). As Gail GIbb was the only lady accompanying her husband on this occasion, she joined the men for the luncheon, which we all appreciated.

On Monday, April 11th, at the Balboa (San Diego) Naval Hospital a Massive Stroke claimed Walter Webb. Walter, a resident of La Jolla, had been ill and handicapped for an extended period, due basically to previous minor strokes, so he and Ann had been highly rescricted In their social and other activities. Our deep, heartfelt sympathies go to his widow Ann; In September they would have been married in companionable happiness for 55 years, a great loss for Ann. An Impressive personalized Memorial Service was held for Walter In the North Chapel, Naval Training Center, on Monday, April the 18th, where joining Ann and Walter's cousin, Helen Cummings with her family, there were among the mourners; from 1916—Gilda Terhune and her son John, Marie and Bert Rodgers, Jenkins, FIske, Root, "Possum" Webb, McGinnis, Hemdon, Carrington, Chapline; 1918—Don Curtis.

On April 15th and 16th In the Sky room of the Officers' Club, Naval Air Station North Island.

"The Golden Eagles" (Eariy and Pioneer and Naval Aviators) held their West Coast MiniReunion, which was very well attended, and many old friends gathered to chat over the real early days of Aviation on North Island. Among those attending from 1916 was Chapline and from 1918 Tomlinson.

Ethel and Duke Carrington are away on another exciting travel sojoum which Includes picturesque Canada and Interesting, developing Alaska.

17 Pres., Capt. John H. Jenkins USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. J. G. M. Stone, USNR (Ret.) 248 King George St., Annapolis MD 21401 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. John H. Forshew USNR (Ret.), 2022 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington DC 20009 Percent Members: 79 Marion and Pie Park, Adelaide Fullinwinder and Ward Davis are all home from Hawaii. A good time was had by all. I do not know how many fi-iends they saw in Los Angeles, but Pie mentioned Tex Harper. They stopped off in Tucson to see Emily Richmond and Emily

Jenckes (Rorschach). Have not heard from Ward, but he should be checking in soon.

Frank Hanafee has had both cataracts removed from his eyes. The last on April 28th.

He had no trouble, was home the next day feeling fine. Rosa is feeling fine also.

Floyd Wesley Bennett, Col. USMC (Ret.) died in Coronado on April 1st. The 16-17-18 luncheon group, Ike was always one of them, all attended the church service, which was beautiful. Ike spent 30 years in the Marine Corps, fought in WW 1 and WW II. He was a Mason and a Shriner. He was forever loyal to the Class of 1917. He will be greatly missed.

(Also, see "Last Call.")

Have just received notice of the death of Adm. Harold Bushnell Sallada, who died on April 25, 1977, in Arlington, Virginia. None of the Class knew that he had moved to Arlington; we all thought he was still In Dallas.

Private services and interment were held In Arlington National Cemetery. Slats had a long distinguished career in both the Navy and industry. (Also, see "Last Call.")

Notices were also received of the passing of Cdr. James F. Kennedy USNR (Ret.), Washington, D. C , on October 1, 1976 and William Davis Jones, Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 9, 1977. Although they did not graduate with us, they maintained their Interest in the Navy throughout the years. Notices are being included in "Last Call."

1 am sorry I cannot give any more information about Gale Poindexter's passing. Pointer was one of my best friends. My wife and 1 visited Pointer and his wife in Spokane, and they In tum visited us here In Washington. I telephoned and wrote the Trust Company looking out for his affairs as soon as I received notice of his death from Homer Wallin about January 15th, 1977. He had been ill for a long time, but had written that he was on the mend. He died of pneumonia on December 24, 1976. The memorial service was held in the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home. W. 1124 Riverside. Rev. Richard Coombs officiated. Pointer and I were together In submarines for about two years In New London. He was a wonderful person, an excellent naval officer, somwhat of a hellraiser, and always fun to be with. Incidentally, the Navy called me on April 15th asking me about Pointer. They had never received any Information about his death from anyone but me.

Homer Wallin expects to leave Seattle in late June for Philadelphia via New Orieans. He has also made reservations at Hale Koa, Hawaii, for January 15, 1978.

As a final billet-doux for this article, Elinor and Merrill Comstock have moved to La Jolla.

Their address, 444 Ravlna Street, Zip Code 92037, Telephone No. 714-454-0508. They are In Washington now May 1977 for their annual pilgrimage and the sponsors' luncheon.

18 Pres., Capt. W. J. Malone, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Perry R. Taylor, USNR (Ret.) 1211 South 25th St., Ariington VA 22202 Percent Members: 81 Sixty Years Ago As we went to press, the 60th reunion had just started with a cocktail and light snack party hosted by Phyllis and Jerry Wright at the Alibi Club in Washington on 19 May. The following day, 57 including sons, daughters and adult grandchildren celebrated with a dinner at the Alumni House in Annapolis. The next issue of Shipmate will carry a picture of the group and a report on the affair, and for a picture of the graduating Class, please check the "All Hands" section of this Issue of Shipmate.

Tommy Tomlinson reported a good family birthday party on Thursday, 28 April, and on the 30th another with three retired Navy couples, old trailerite pals still in their early 70s. Survived both in good shape.

Ross Whitemarsh regretted at not being able to celebrate our 60th with us, but did report a piece of pleasant news. He became a greatgrandfather In January. The baby's name Is George Arthur Herbert, III, whose father is a lieutenant (jg). Congratulations, Ross.

Geraldine, wife of Red Lockhart, had a hip replacement operation (reported In March Issue). At this writing (15 May), Gerry has been walking with little help, and does a bit of driving. Good luck from now on. Lockharts.

Ruth, sister of Ed Price, died 18 March at Elmhurst Hospital, New Jersey. It had been her plan to accompany Ed to the reunion parties and to visit Irma and Bert Rogers in Washington. The Immediate cause of death was pneumonia following a serious operation. Ruth had just passed her 69th birthday. The sympathy of the Class is extended to Ed. In the December "72 class news you read of a novel way to steer an aircraft carrier—by sail. The INTREPID In command of Tommy Sprague had her rudder jammed and the steering engines destroyed with flooding aft.

Tommy had sail-rigged to assist in steering the ship on its way to Pearl. But this is not the only recorded use of sail on a propeller driven man-of-war. _ In 1921. the USS R-14 was about three hundred miles from Pearl (and a hundred from Hilo) when the last bit of diesel fuel drained out into the sea through a leak (found at overhaul). Unable to reach help by radio our Classmate. Roy Gallemore, Executive Officer, stimulated the men to use their wit and efforts to make up and rig sail from every available fabric on board. The plan of action was successful. The R-14 made port using no normal power, except at the Hilo Harbor reef. In danger from stern winds, sails were cut down and motors used to enter Hilo Bay to make port.

In your May News, first mention of Roy's death was made. It is with sadness that we now refer again to his passing on 26 February and offer additional Information about that distinguished and extremely likable Officer.

Although Roy was bom In Missouri, his family moved to Bartow. Florida, in 1911 where his father bought and published a weekly newspaper. The Polk County Record. Hence he completed his secondary education there and entered the Academy with us In 1914.

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49 After graduation, he was assigned to DES MOINES, making continuous convoy trips escorting transport and supply ships across the Adantic. In 1919, he navigated the DES MOINES Into the Arctic and to Archangel for the purpose of covering the evacuation of Allied Armies. He transferred to submarine duty in 1920 and remained a submariner for several years during which he was skipper of the R-15 for two years. It was his father's death In 1924 that prompted him to resign.

He and Virginia retumed to Bartow with their two baby boys (a daughter was bom later) where the publication of his father's newspaper was an excellent outlet for his energy and conscientious disposition. This gave him the opportunity to expand the scope of the newspaper, upgrading It to a dally, which weathered the depression of the 30s. He entered WWII in 1940 as a lieutenant commander. USNR. serving at the Naval Training Station, Norfolk. In 1944-5 with CUB 15 and LION 8. readying in California for Invasions, he deployed to Okinawa with that Unit as V-J Day arrived.

Following Navy retirement in 1954 he became a consulting engineer In a temporary post for the Tri-City Port Authority. New York. His Navy experience in Okinawa, followed by Leland Stanford special training in Island Govemment. with duty on Guam, when Navy was administrator for the Tmsteeship. made his service attractive to the Interior Department in Its taking over the management of the U. S. Tmst Territory of Pacific Islands. From 1955 to 1965 he served as District Administrator, in tum. for the Districts of Tmk. Yap and the Marianas. His age proved an asset In areas where decisions hinge on the opinion of the oldest man or woman In a group; and where no man Is tmsted with the building of an oceangoing canoe till he is forty.

The duties of District Administrators were varied and by no means simple. Some military security was necessary. Landings by former Japanese residents had to be thwarted as well as infiltration by young Americans from U. S. flag ships. More than once Roy had displayed fearlessness in dealing with this problem. His duties required him to deal with many visitors, officials of the Interior Department, the High Commissioner and writers and photographers from the U. S. The destruction by typhoons had to be dealt with. Roy by necessity became acquainted with the different languages, origins and cultures within each of his three Districts.

Having reached the seventy-year retirement limit, he and Virginia retumed to Bartow and lived agcun In their home which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (See '18 News, April, '76) In the remaining years of his life he devoted his affable manner and alert energy to church and civic activities, helping numerous service and other volunteer organizations. He was a director of both the Peace River Valley Historical Society and of the Polk County Historical Association. He continued membership in the Masons and American Legion, of which he had been an early Commander. Twice honored with military membership, he was again serving in active capacity with the Kiwanis Club, in its Intemational, Historical and Youth Services. He was again a member of the Chamber of Commerce. In health matters, he served on both the Polk County Nursing Council and the Mid-State Lung Association; and in conservation he was a member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, Audubon Society and Defenders of Crooked Lake. For these and for his July-August, 1977

military services to his country, he was awarded the first Medal of Honor In this area given by the National Society of the Daughters of American Revolution.

Roy's many friends remember him as a gentleman in every sense of the word. His qualities of tolerance, kindness, understanding, enthusiasm and humility were exceptional. The Class misses this very fine person and is grieved over his passing.

When he left this earth for lands reserved for the noblest of people, he was survived by his devoted wife, Virginia; his sons. Capt. Roy Holland (USNA "43), Capt. James Gilbert (USNA '45), and his daughter, Virginia Fran.

Address Mrs. Roy T. Gallemore, 590 E. Stanford St.. Bartow FL 33830.

Irma and Bert Rogers departed from Dulles Airport, 19 April, bound for Champaign, Illinois. They visited their daughter, Mrs. Harry E. Lore. While there they saw their granddaughter and great-granddaughter. The trip took about three weeks; they retumed home 10 May. While in Champaign, Mrs. Lore drove them to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, their childhood town, for several days where the Rogers saw Bert's two sisters. While in Mt. Pleasant they missed a fierce tornado which destroyed a house 6 blocks from where they stayed, but did no damage to the house next door to the one demolished. And during their visit to Iowa, a tornado stmck a building near that of their granddaughter In Champaign. During the trip Irma and Bert enjoyed good weather and many friendly greetings. We here in Washington were glad they made it back without harm.

Birthdays in July and August We are happy to send birthday greetings to: Dink Stover, 7/7; Joe Fowler, 7/9; Nick Nichols, 7/17; Vaughn Bailey, 7/20; Sully Sullivan, 8/11; Howard Gamble, 8/12; Red Lockhart, 8/19; Scoop Denny, 8/21; Ted Gibb, 8/27; Mac Bledsoe, 8/28.

19 Pres., VAdm. George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. M. Callaghan, USN (Ret.) 2700 Virginia Ave., N.W., Apt. 811 Washington DC 20037 Percent Members: 88 A fairly good representation of the Class Including wives, widows, a son and a daughter attended the Annual Class Get-together at Annapolis on 7 May. Present were the Ansels, Callaghans, DeKays, Dyers, Finks, Nettings, Rochesters, Schlldhauers, Tarbuttons, Wicklers, Miles DuVal, Marshall Greer and Laurence Schetky with daughter Nancy Patterson. Widows attending were Evelyn Brooks, Miriam Bryant, Maude Crichton with son Bob, Virginia Kincaid, Henriette King, Sallye Lamb and Nell Stevens. Regretfully missing were two usual attendee couples, the Settles and Wynkoops. Fay and Tex were off to Italy for a month's visit with son Tom and daughter-in-law In Florence and the Wynkoops were in Philadelphia to witness the marriage of Kathryn Goodwin's granddaughter. Herb Scull had planned to be with us but had to cancel out at the last moment. Following the luncheon at Alumni House a business meeting was held at which plans In general were discussed for the 60th Class Reunion In 1978. Details as to date and events were left for further resolution and

decision by the Execufive Committee. This will be the last Reunion for the Class except for the possible continuance of the less formal Annual Get-togethers so when the date and schedule for the 60th are announced, make your own plans accordingly.

Lolan and Ross Winckler hosted a delightful KT party In the late aftemoon at the Maryland Inn for those present on 7 May. Ross had thoughtfully provided for a TV set to be wheeled In during the party so that none who might be Interested In the Kentucky Derby would miss the excitement of that classic.

Miriam Bryant and Midshipmen Two of the midshipmen shown In the photograph with Miriam Bryant were participants this past Spring In the Creative Arts Program established by her In Eliot's memory. The feature of the program this year was a lecture and exhibit of travel photography by Carl F^ircell of the Smithsonian Institution. Midshipmen were encouraged to submit their own entries in a competitive participation. Midshipman Jacobsen (with headgear inscribed A S P ) won two first prizes. At Miriam's left Is former Midshipman Tom Blery '77 then President of the Camera Club. On Miriam's Immediate right Is Midshipman H. Lowe Pruitt '78 whom she sponsored for a scholarship. Pmitt Is a member of the Midshipmen's Sailing Squadron and took part in Operation Sail during the Centennial Observance and is a crew member of the Academy's ocean racing entry this summer.

Many who wrote about their inability to attend this year's Get-together mentioned physical ailments as impediments to travel. Let's hope Improved health will enable a big tumout for the 60th and final Reunion next year.

20 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: 81 The Martins had a happy trip to Paris, Rheims and Chartres with the Alumni group.

Frances saw that her old studio in the rue du Dragon was still In business. She and a friend had gone to Le Bourget 50 years ago to see Lindbergh land.

Consuelo Crowe recently retumed from a pleasant trip to the Hawaiian Island which she shares with us In her letter. She went without Jim: â&#x20AC;&#x201D; "I went on the two weeks Armed Forces Travel Tour from Washington (Dulles Airport). Their travel office is at 1750 New York Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20006 (202/ 223-8092). The Hale Koa Hotel is a lovely place situated right in old Fort de Russy on the

50 ocean. They have activities for those who want them and desks to help plan trips to the other islands.

"I went to Maul and Hawaii on an ovemight trip, staying at the luxurious Kona Inn on the latter Island. I was picked up at the hotel and retumed there. All the tours were excellent and well run. I rode all over Honolulu and the Island of Oahu on the Bus for 25 cents. The meals were excellent at the Hale Koa at very reasonable prices. I had a beautiful room facing the ocean. I saw our old home on Piloki St. where we lived when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

"Saw the Bill Fletchers '21 at the Hale Koa and the von Dreeles '23 on their round the world cruise ship ROTTERDAM—a beautiful ship. Your baggage is taken care of at Dulles and you don't see It until they bring it to your room after you arrive in Honolulu. You are taken back and forth to the plane and don't have to hunt for cabs or buses. The meals were good on the plane, both ways, the seats were comfortable with plenty of room. You can't beat the Armed Forces Travel price of $545.

My best to you and Frances. Consuelo."— Thank you Consuelo!

On Friday, April 29, we had a fine tumout of 36 for our Class luncheon at the USNA Officers' and Faculty Club. Unfortunately Viola Anderson had had a fall at home with two ribs broken—both she and Andy had been expected—Present: 2 Becks, 2 Christmases, 2 Crowes, Fred Cunningham, 2 Daggetts, Nancy Gearing, 2 Greers, 2 Haffs, 2 Harrisons, 2 Heinemans, 2 Lees, 2 Martins, Mary Jo Miller, Happy Osbom, 2 Pages from Frederick, 2 Pearsons, 2 Sextons, Fran Sickel, Ellen Skinner, Eddie Smith, Adelaide Stoddert, Harriet Taylor, and Marion Wooldridge. Virginia and C.V. Lee are especially thanked for bringing their earful of ladies down from Vinson HaJl. As of this writing (20 May) Viola is much better.

On April 30 Felicia Johnson West, Felix and Fay's daughter, wrote to alert the Class that her father would be 80 on July 15 and hoped that he would receive many good wishes from our Class. 1 shall do my best to spread the word but this present Issue of Shipmate won't arrive until August. She writes: "'My dad, your Classmate, Felix Johnson, will be 80 years old the 15th July and I am writing to ask If you could put a little notice In the June issue of Shipmate so that Classmates, friends and old shipmates who might want to, could send him a note or a card. It would mean so much to him to hear from some of them and make him very happy. I am living here with him and my mom, Fay, and feel very fortunate to be where I want to be, doing what I want to be doing. They are both In pretty good shape, all things considered, but they need me and It's most gratifying to be able to be of some help. . . . Sincerely, Felicia West." Many thanks, Felicia.

On 12 May I received a letter from Talbot Smith, USNA '21A, Senior U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court, 220 East Huron St., Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 who inquires about our late Classmate John Warren Higley who died in Bethesda in 1942. The Register carries no widow and Talbot remembers his daughter.

He writes: "I am, really, extremely curious to know more about (Higley's) life and his family and what happened to all of them. The purpose of this letter is really to ask if you know of anyone In your Class to whom I might write.

Of course there may be no one, but on the other hand I might get lucky and get the name

of someone who knows all about him and his family. . ."

In our Lucky Bag John Warren Higley and Augustus Hoke Donaldson are on the same page, presumably roommates. Higley died in '42 and Gus In '69. I have written Gus' widow on the slim chance that she might know about the Higleys. If any information crops up please drop a line to me or to Judge Talbot Smith.

The sad news of Anne Brittain's death (Tom's widow) was received about April 23.

Our deep sympathy to her family. She had lived In her own house In Daytona Beach, Florida, and with Tom Brittain for the latter years of his life. Tom's daughter Mary Brittain, lives there still. Anne died of a heart attack on retuming from taking a friend to the airport.

Harvey Wilson died on Saturday, 14 May, of a heart attack, in North Palm Beach, Florida.

He was rushed to the hospital but to no avail.

He had seemingly been in good health and had celebrated his 80th birthday on March 5. He had made the remark in one of the recent Class Notes—"Of course we cannot go on forever!"

He leaves his widow, Bright, his devoted wife of 13 years to whom we send our affectionate and deep sympathy. Harvey had resigned from the Navy in 1923 and had been with Babcock & Wilcox for forty years. He was a loyal and generous member of 1920, of late often contributing news, photos and checks. Bright's address Is Mrs. Harvey Wilson, 20 Yacht Club Drive, Apt. 405B, North Palm Beach FL 33408.

After cremation, his funeral services were held at Hamm and Price Funeral Home, North Palm Beach. The Class has sent flowers and now adds Its sympathy and sorrow.

Chick Hartman tells me that he and Chub Wheyland, representing 1920, assisted in organizing JUNE WEEK WEST, a reunion which took place June 17, 18 and 19 on board the QUEEN MARY tied up at Long Beach. They expected a tumout of 1900 people. Chick also reports that Ebner Stoker and Dutch Christoph are both "hanging on"—and not in a hospital.

On local news we are happy to report that Clemena Swanson is home from the hospital.

Slicker Bassett says he is fine; we hope he is.

Marion reports that Johnny Greer Is doing pretty well. Carter Anderson was 80 on 24 May and Felix, as we have said, on 15 July. Many happy retums to them and also to 75 of us bom In 1897 who will join the club this year. Compton Mackenzie says it is entering the ninth decade—Finally. Ted Haff has a great-nephew graduating this June, viz. Lawrence Porter Bmndage.

21 Pres., Mr. Homer O. Elmers Sec'y, Capt. Heber B. Brumbaugh USN (Ret.), 3722 Manor Road, Apt. 2 Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Sec'y West Coast (SF Bay Area): Mr. Norman C. McKee 19 Blue Ridge Lane Woodside CA 94062 Sec'y LA Area: RAdm. Robert W. Berry USN (Ret.) 2253 B Via Puerta Laguna Hills CA 92653 Sec'y., San Diego Area: RAdm. Logan McKee USN (Ret.) 738 Glorietta Blvd.

Coronado CA 92118 Percent Members: 84 It was raining as we drove home to Chevy Chase from Dulles Airport about 2200 Thursday night, 28 April. Just outside the Washington beltway a helicopter hovered low, pointing a powerful searchlight straight down. It was over McLean, Virginia, we figured. Why? At home we heard the news by TV: a small plane which had taken off from National Airport and climbed to 9,500 feet with no hint of trouble had suddenly blown apart, dropping fragments over a 60-acre area, and killing its four occupants. Later we leamed that one of those killed was William G. Lalor, Jr. '49, son of our Classmate Bill Lalor and his wife Frances, a sister of our late Classmate Red Condon. We wrote Bill and Frances a letter of sympathy on behalf of our Class, and said that we would mention their son's untimely death in the JulyAugust issue of Shipmate. Bill answered with a note of thanks and asked that the Class be told that Frances and he deeply appreciate the sympathy of all '2Iers and their families. A memorial service was held at the Navy Chapel on Nebraska Avenue on 11 May. Frances was there, but Bill was unable to attend. Later he sent a message of appreciation to the members of '21 and their families who had attended.

A letter of 26 April from Beth Moore, Slats' widow, enclosed a tape of the memorial service for him held 3 April in the Lakeside Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, and gave more Information on her injuries. She was trying to leam to walk after surgery 4 April on a badly fractured femur, "now healing nicely."

She had a fractured back too. but "the real burden" was a badly smashed right foot, in which the x-rays showed at least 12 fractures.

Four surgeons were conferring on just how to repair this foot In an operation planned for 27 April. We hope and pray that she will recover rapidly.

Letters of thanks for flowers sent in memory of their husbands have been received from Edwina Emory and from Sylvia Davis, Alan's widow.

When we wrote the news for the June issue we had little information about the career of our Classmate Alan P. Davis. A second letter from Sylvia reads in part as follows: "The wreath from the Class of 1921 was a beautiful tribute to Alan, whose love for the Navy and his friends was an integral part of life. You already know how deeply I and the family appreciate this evidence of the timelessness of old and Important ties. . . .

"After Alan retired from Burroughs Corporation at the age of 65 he became President of the Rochester Historical Society, a position for Shipmate

51 which he was very well fitted, being a native Rochesterian, his family having been here for generations. . . . He gave this up after a few years owing to ill health. . . . He had become active in art circles too, mostly through my active professional involvement, but very much as his own man. He expertly made frames for paintings, stretched canvases, and made stands for sculptures . . . His memberships give some Idea of the support he gave to local institutions, . . . the Landmark Society of Rochester, the Museum of Arts and Sciences, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, the Rochester Branch of the English Speaking Union, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

"Alan's lung and heart troubles date back some years, and we had to cut down on travel and other activities, but he was able to continue to Hve a pleasant life . . . However this harsh Winter took its toll . . . He went Into the hospital on March Ilth . . . After "Intensive Care" . . . he seemed to be improving . . . he was to retum home on April 6th. He died in his sleep early in the moming of April 5th.

"We had a beautiful service . . . concluding with the recording of the Midshipmen singing the Navy Hymn. The family received friends at the church, standing by the class wreath. He will be sorely missed.

"I am glad we were able to attend the 50th reunion."

Friends of Polly and Fred Boone would want to know that Polly's sister, Elizabeth Wilcox, who had been iU for a long time, died 18 April 1977 In Albion, New York.

Correction: A few months ago we reported that Tim O'Brien, bom 22 Febmary 1897, was the oldest surviving member of our class. Our apologies to Robert E. Canty, bom 23 June 1896. and to Albert B. Cook, bom 4 July 1896!

Congratulations to them! The number reaching the age of 80 is now growing rapidly!

The Washington-Annapolis Group Miss Dorothy Yaksich has been a helpful friend to the Class of 1921. A longtime civil service employee in BuPers, In recent years she has Informed us of the deaths of retired Navy Classmates and has helped with funeral arrangements when a Classmate or a Classmate's wife or widow was to be buried in Arlington, or nearby. After World War II she had worked for our Joe Bolger when he was Deputy Chief, BuPers. During WW II she worked in the BuPers ""deatll office" under our Charlie Wellborn. At that time she worked closely with a pretty "Wave" officer named Dorothy Foster, now wife of our George Russell. Dorothy Yaksich Is not only efficient, meficulous and helpful, she is gentle and considerate: a lady admired by aU. This lady was guest of honor at the luncheon of the Washington-Annapolis group at the Officers' Club, Bethesda Naval Hospital, on 26 April. Others who attended were Justine Abercrombie and her niece Jean Wilson, Aleck Alexander, Wop Barbaro, the Boones, the Cat Browns, the Bmmbaughs, Dee DeRivera, the Dudleys, the Elmers, the Fletchers, the Fullinwiders, Alwilda Ferris, Don Giles, the Housers, Peg McCoUum, Dot McQuiston, the Russells, Sherwood Smith, Margaret Swigart, Charlie Wellborn and Faye Wilkie.

Justine Abercrombie came despite a broken collarbone and painful bmises suffered in a freak accident on her farm. Alone, and standing beside her tractor, with which she was not July-August, 1977

familiar, she started the motor to charge the battery. She did not know that her part-time hired man had left the gear shift In "high." The tractor surged ahead and pinned her against a farm building, knocking her out. When she came to she had a terrible time releasing herself and getting help. It could have been much worse!

We toasted Harold Houser, who had just celebrated his 80th birthday, the first In our luncheon group to become an octagenarian.

Jim Dudley gave an interesting report on the trip he and Margaret had recently made to Hawaii and Califomia. He visited or saw a number of Classmates, and talked with Slats Moore just before Slats left on the fateful trip which ended so tragically at Tenerife, Canary Islands.

There were reports on John Waters and Blackie Loker, both recovering slowly from fractured hips and hoping to rejoin us soon at our monthly luncheons. . . . Some good stories were told by Wop Barbaro and George Russell. . . . The Bmmbaughs were planning a trip to Europe in late June, and Bill Fletcher agreed to send in the next Class News.

San Diego Group Logan McKee writes that the San Diego Chapter of '21 had its monthly luncheon at the MCRD on Tuesday, 26 April. Attending were Jim Baker, Nick Carter, Able Cook, Sydney Dodds, Hod Gorry, Bob HIckey, Bristol McHugh, Logan McKee, Ivan Miller, Gordle Parks, George Peet, Stogi Roberts, Sabe Sabin, Leo Stafford, Ray Tarbuck, Herb Tellman and Bunny Wray.

Leo Stafford cultivates orchids as a hobby and brought a flower arrangement of them.

This was given as a prize, awarded by lot, but to whom Logan did not say—maybe he took them home to ""Miss Elizabeth"?

Bris McHugh and Logan McKee read Interesting letters from several Classmates living in other areas, answering their letters in support of the annual Alumni Fund.

Information was presented on JUNE WEEK WEST, which was to be held on board QUEEN MARY at Long Beach, Califomia 18-19 June.

Several of those present expressed interest In attending.

San Francisco Bay Mlldren and Kirby Kirby-Smith decided to tour some of Califomia's northwest coastal areas. Kirby is a member of '"Sirs" (Sons in Retirement) and this organization chartered a bus for the trip. They visited the various wineries along the way and enjoyed much good food. Their main objecfive was to ride the "skunk." The skunk (small steam train) travels from Fort Breigg at an elevation of 80 feet, to Willlts, 1365 feet. The scenic 40-mlle trip passes through redwood groves and crosses and recrosses the Noyo River. Mildred and Kirby also took in the beautiful Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens.

After retuming from their trip Mildred and Kirby reported the following news: Mrs. A. E. (Tiny) Kirk, widow of our Classmate, Addison Erwin Kirk, came west from her home in Stonlngton, Connecticut, to visit her sister-inlaw, Mrs. Lawrence Davidson (nee Mary Kirk). En route Tiny visited her sister In Phoenix, Arizona. Her sister, Carol, is married to Alvin I. (Buddy) Malstrom. Rear Admiral USN (Ret.), Class of 1922.

Bess and Piggie Schwien had a few days' visit from Bess' daughter and son-in-law from

Texas who were in route to Honolulu to visit their son, LCdr. James A. Boorman 111. He Is legal officer on CInCPac staff. Bess' son-in-law is Cdr. James A. Boorman, Jr. USN (Ret.), Class of 1938.

On 1 May Marian and Cabell Gwathmey, Class of '23, celebrated the opening of the sailing season for the Belvedere Lagoons. This is an annual affair. It included many members of the Class of '21 which has "adopted" the Gwathmeys. It Included also members of their own Class. The luncheon was held in the garden which showed no effects of the strict water rationing now taking place In Marin County.

Among other things there was an unusual display of large rhododendrons in full bloom. A light but welcome rain blanketed the Bay Area but held off In the Belvedere section during the party. The Lagoon was alive with all manner of small craft, and even a few swimmers. The Gwathmeys will be leaving the end of May for a long summer stay at their home near Annapolis. Incidentally, Cabell has engaged In architectural work for many years. He Is consultant with the firm which designed the Bart stations.

Classmate Dan Gallery's recent death brings to mind an Interesting episode (fistic) that occurred during midshipman days. Dan, as we all remember, was intercollegiate featherweight wrestling champion and had developed one particular hold to perfection with which he threw all his opponents. However, he was never thought of as a boxer. Scrappy Irish Dan became involved with another midshipman, a considerably heavier man, who challenged Dan to combat. In the ensuing scrap Dan proved too fast and too lethal for the other man and administered a good thrashing. According to the story, the Commandant got wind of the fight, had Dan report and describe the action.

Dan received no demerits.

A message to Classmates In the San Diego Area: In recent days some of us in San Mateo County (Peninsula) have been privileged to meet and hear your mayor, Pete Wilson, of San Diego, speak. We congratulate you for helping to produce a man of his caliber with his breadth of vision and his ability to articulate more clearly many concerned citizens' thoughts. On a previous trip he spoke before a packed audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He Is top flight future govemor material. His thoughtful message should be acceptable to people in all walks of life; to minority groups, to capital and labor, and to thoughtful people of all political persuasions.

Los Angeles—Orange County Raleigh Hales reports that he and Gwen arrived home at the end of April after a most delightful eleven-day Mexican cmise on board PACIFIC PRINCESS. They Indicate that she is an elegant ship with British officers and a British and Italian crew. The chefs and waiters are Italian and the food and service superb. Loads of activities and interesting shore tours were enjoyed In the perfect weather with visits to Puerto Vallarta, Manzanillo, Acapulco, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. Saw a spectacular show In Acapulco—""The Flying Aztec." And the two most beautiful and exotic hotels were Las Hadas In Manzanillo and Princess In Acapulco. The bridge on PACIFIC PRINCESS IS

absolutely the ""last word"—nothing left to be desired.

The Bob Berrys went by air to Alexandria.

Virginia, to visit his daughter Emily and her

52 husband, MGen. John C. Raaen USA (USMA '43), who is Commander, Defense Fuel Supply Center of DLA. Many old and new friends greeted the visitors including Nina and Heber Brumbaugh and Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer USA (Ret.) (USMA '18) and Mrs. Wedemeyer. The Berrys visited Annapolis and Bob called at the Alumni House to see how Capt. Roy C. Smith, Editor, does with Shipmate magazine and he reports, even in a brief visit, that everything Is under control. Old scenes were revisited in the District when the Bmmbaughs entertained the Berrys and the Raaens at a luncheon In the Army-Navy Club. The second half of the touring visit in eariy May was spent with the Wedemeyers at their 1180-acre farm called ""Friends Advice" near Boyds, Maryland.

More interesting guests were present at a large luncheon honoring the visitors, including Mrs. L. A. (Justine) Abercrombie, Gen. and Mrs. S. K. Hu from the Chinese Embassy, Col. Frank Mason, formerly Special Assistant to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and Capt. R. N. McFariane USN (Ret.) (USNA '25). The travellers were given a farewell "Goodbye" at Dulles airport by Col. (USMA Ret.) and Mrs. John H. Dillon, close friends from the KnoxForrestal public relations days.

22 Pres., Capt. A.R. Sanbom USN (Ret.) Sec'y., Capt. D. H. Johnston USN (Ret.) 3928 N. 36th St. Ariington VA 22207 Corr. Sec'y., RAdm. Harvey T. Walsh USN (Ret.) 12106 CalladoRd. San Diego CA 92128 Percent Members: 72

George Bauernschmidt, Chairman of the 55th Reunion for the Class of 1922, will be sending the Third Bulletin about the Reunion only to those who have indicated an interest in the get-together or a desire to attend.

Since Harry Pierce's report on our USNA Memorial Scholarship Fund has already reached you, I shall review only a few highlights. Net Income paid USNA Foundation in 1976 was $4,772.12 and the total to date is $34,162.71. Harry notes that Inflation erodes the value of the income available so that we must count upon future contributions to maintain our support level. He adds: "As the Inevitable day approaches each of us might well give a thought to a generous bequest in a will.

The good it will do will live long after we are gone!"

The total number assisted by the foundation In 1976 was 70 and the average board scores were even higher than last year's record: verbal 579 and math 651. Two female candidates were sponsored last year and both were offered appointments. When our agreement was drawn up In 1967, George Bauernschmidt, of the first Donors' Committee, had the foresight to suggest that our scholarships were solely to assist "'young students" because who could foretell what the future might bring?

L. to r.: Carl Espe, Don Johnston and Oliver Walker, and Doc Pratt My report on the Washington group's April meeting omitted Don Johnston from the list of "faithfuls." Now Zeke has sent some pictures which include Don and Oliver Walker as well as Carl Espe and Doc Pratt. The one of Owen Comp and Omer Kneeland was too faint for reproduction and Zeke did not use a "relief photographer for himself.

Segundos Holystoning In case a picture of "hard-working" second classmen in USS CONNECTICUT reproduces, they are, background, Jack Tenbrook and Whitey Thomson while 1. to r. in the front rank of ""holy stoners" are Walsh, J.C. Young, Harry WInkelman (1 believe), Eddie Woods, J.B. (Buck) Weaver and Carl WIemm. Being an "old salt", Whitey was undoubtedly manning the hose.

Carl Wierum sent some news of Fran and his recent four weeks vacation in Hawaii, Including golf on Hawaii and Maul as well as Oahu.

They had a fine visit with Harriet and Ed Solomons at their lovely home In Honolulu. Carl remarked upon Eddie's 22 years In Hawaii, the first six of which were while on active duty, but this is only a dog watch to Jasper Holmes' 40 plus. Carl and Eddie were shipmates In BARRY and took their jg exams together In 1925 in Pearl Harbor. Carl says that Fran and he are trying to persuade Harriet and Eddie to make our 55th. So say we all.

Bayliss and Frank Akers could not resist the South Seas Lure and extended their Hawaiian vacation Into mid-May when they will return to Washington where they really do have a home.

Nina and I decided to try this traveling bit with a trip to Japan and Korea. A primary purpose was to visit Nina's grandnephew and family, Terl and Michael O'Connor and daughter, Kelly. My only previous visit to Japan was In June, 1930 and Nina's In October, 1934 so we noticed many changes, especially in transportation and commercial buildings and activities.

We enjoyed a tour to NIkko and Lake ChuzenjI where the scenery, temples and shrines were magnificent. We also tried on our ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;aided by maps and friendly Japanese who spoke Englishâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a ride on the "bullet train" at 120 mph and a mountain-climbing train to Gora near Mt. Fuji. The USA has much to learn In handling mass transportation; the system around Tokyo Is superb.

We also spent a week in Korea which was highlighted by a conducted tour to Panmunjom and the Joint Security Area In the DMZ. We

Armistice Commission at Panmunjom

particularly noted a plaque at the Officers' Club at Camp Kitty Hawk commemorating the early negotiations with the North Koreans In which Admirals Arleigh Burke and Tumer Joy had major roles. We walked around the table currently used by the Military Armistice Commission of the United Nations and the North Koreans and the Republic of China representatives. A postcard depleting such a meeting shows the boundary wire down the center with the flag of North Korea at one end and that of the United Nations at the other. When we were there both were at the far end of the table, the North Korean staff being VA" higher.

The only North Korean I saw was an officer standing in the doorway of their Administrative HQ as we observed each other through binoculars.

Seoul is a large, bustling city and the Walker-Hill Hotel dinner floor show rivals those in Las Vegas (I'm told). The Seoul taxi drivers dart madly through heavy traffic but are still second to those In Tokyo. We closed our eyes and hoped for the best. However, In our four weeks we saw only one pair of cars off the road "discussing fender cmnching."

We returned on a Korean Air Lines 747 with a fueling stop at Honolulu.

Westward bound our plane stopped at SeaTac before heading non-stop for Japan and I managed a call to the Watkins domicile. Frank was out but Peg reported that all was well with them and other '22 In the great Northwest.

Homeward bound I managed a call to Batt Cruise who reported that while Inez and he were in good shape they had not yet setded upon making our 55th. He said that the Jasper Holmeses and Eddie Solomons planned to make It. Zeke sent news of the Annapolis area. He had missed the May meeting in Washington and my dependable Don ""let me down" for the first time so I have no news on that meeting.

Zeke had visited Polly Jordan in Hilton Head and all was well '"way down South". He reported that all Classmates there are healthy and that George Bauernschmidt Is putting out another Reunion bulletin. I am refraining from "confusing repetition." Zeke said that the Otto Von Schraders will visit them in late May. Lydia Whitgrove Edwards Is making a large gift to the Athletic Association in memory of Leland. More details later. Natalie Severn sent In a check for $100 to be used for our 55th. Our ladles continue active and Interested.

The San Deigo group held Its May meedng at the Admiral Kidd Club. Present were Vic Ellis, Mike Malanaphy, Murph Murphy, Miller Redfield, Bill Riggs, Fish Whaley and Mllo Williams. Libs was Indisposed with a bad cold and Walsh was "gallivanting" In East Asia. Their better halves, Georgia Ellis, Ruth Murphy and Shipmate

53 Genevieve Williams held forth nearby. There was some discussion of the West Coast JUNE WEEK WEST In QUEEN MARY at Long Beach on 18 June. To date, '22 attendees are the Ellises. Murphys, Harry Stevens and Walshes.

Bill Sebald sent some news from Naples, Florida. Fortunately Edith and he have recovered from their respective troubles and hope to keep the situation that way for the indefinite future. They celebrated their 50th Anniversary on 14 May and among the guests at a dinner at the Naples Yacht Club were Bill Morris and his lovely wife. Virginia, who had celebrated their 50th on 19 February. Bill adds: "As I look back over the past 50 years, I am reminded that It was a long and tortuous road which has ended in this fine little city of Naples on the southwest coast of Florida. It took three careers—Navy, law and Foreign Service—to bring us here, but we made It and I think our experiences were interesting and rewarding and well worth the time and effort involved.

"I am indeed sorry that health problems will prevent us from attending the 55th Class ReUnion, but we send our warmest regards to all and may the occasion be successful in every respect."

I shall not repeat the fine summary of Bill's career in our 40 Years Later book. 1 am sure that many other '22ers join me In regretting particularly that Edith and Bill do not plan on attending our 55th. Hopefully they might still make It. I was an early admirer of Bill when he was our featherweight boxing champion who was not only a clever boxer but a fighter as well. Those qualities have stayed with him throughout his three careers—and retirement period.

And right "next door" in our^^O Years Later book Is Curtis Shears, another USNA champion, this time In the foils. Curtis has continued his fencing activities and Is now the '"Over 75" champion of England. Curtis remembered his promise to Ward Harrigan to write me regarding his recent activities which Ward had touched upon. (April issue). Curtis, formally known as Prof. C. Curtis Shears, B.Sc, PhD., is Director of London's Nutritional Science Research Institute and most recently completed a series of lectures in Australia. Curtis wams against the five "killers" in our diet, i.e., salt, sugar, pasteurized milk, canned food and overcooking. He says that 80% of our ""Insurmountable" health problems are created by junk food and drink today. Instead we need to Identify far more accurately than has been done up to now the pattern of susceptibilities and natural body resistances that are unique to each Individual—his or her metabolic profile. Inquiries regarding his books on the subject should be made to Nutritional Science Research Institute, Mulberry Tree Hall, Brookthorpe, Gloucester, G.L.4-0UU. England. Curtis sent in a new home home address effective 3/4/77, at 298 N.E. 6th St., Boca Raton FL 33432.

Curtis did not so Indicate In his 15 May letter, but with his new address Elizabeth and he will probably attend our 55th.

Alvan Fisher wrote that Flo and he plan to attend our 55th and that he will bring along and donate to the Class archives a picture of a group at a 5th Reunion. 1 probably have some others to bring—If I can find them.

Beatrice MIchaux wrote a very fine note of appreciation of Zeke for the flowers sent for Vaughan's burial services at St. Mary's Chapel and at Arlington. She expressed the hope that July-August, 1977

any of us coming to Northern Neck, Virginia, would come by and see her.

1 note that the April Issue had a "typo" error, somewhere between the printer and me.

In which It came out Lyman "Stone" Instead of Lyman Stohr. My apologies, Lyman.

Henri Harold Smith-Hutton died on 4 April and '22 lost a fine Classmate and shipmate.

Henri's obituary In "Last Call" last month covers his outstanding career which was unique In his specialities of international relations. Intelligence and foreign languages during his thirty years of active duty. The past few years were not easy ones for Henri who wrote me In August '75 telling of Aria and Pete Cogswell's Golden Wedding Anniversary reception and Included two pictures. He added that he was "not In good shape and survived by breathing extra oxygen from a tank and staying Indoors most of the time."

Henri's widow, Jane, wrote a touching and fitting eulogy, parts of which 1 quote: " A Prince once said of a King struck down—"Taller he seems in death' and the word holds good for now, as then. It Is after death that we measure men.

"Henri was a great student of history—and he made some of it too. He was clear In his convictions, unfaltering in his purposes, and fearless In the advocacy of his opinions. His mind was broad, his Ideals elevated and his views on public Issues cosmopolitan In scope.

"Now it is as when a lordly cedar, a giant with age goes down and—what Is left—Is a lonesome place against the sky."

A Memorial Service was held at Moffett Field at which the pallbearers were Pete Cogswell, George Neely, Harry Stevens, Shad Miller, Dave Studabaker and Henry MacComsey. Interment was In Arlington on 25 April with Carl Espe, Harold Baker, Zeke Sanborn, George Bauernschmidt, Doc Pratt, Omer Kneeland. Bev Carter and Don Johnston serving as pallbearers.

Our deepest sympathies are extended to Jane, their two daughters, his sister and two grandchildren. Jane had requested that all Memorials to Henri be made to the USNA Foundation, Class of 1922 Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Frank Whitaker sent a A'. Y. Times clipping regarding the death of Locke Mackenzie In Veterans Hospital on 10 May 1977, after a long Illness. Our deepest sympathies are extended to his widow, Gladys FItzpatrick, their three sons and four grandchildren. His obituary Is Included In "'Last Call."

Shipmate staff Informed me of the death of Charles McWillie on 29 March 1977. Our deepest sympathies are extended to his brother-in-law, William T. Priestly, of Lake Forest, Illinois. His obituary Is Included in "'Last Call."

Shipmate also Informed me of the death of Charles Wolford Cristal on 25 Nov 1976. 1 do not have sufficient information for an obituary but our deepest sympathies are extended to his widow, Eleanor Stine, their two sons and five grandchildren.

See you at our 55th.

23 Pres., Adm. Arieigh Burke, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Elliott Strauss, USN (Ret.) 2945 Garfield Terrace Washington, DC 20008 East Coast Reporter Lt. W. P. E. Wadbrook USN (Ret.) 2911 Newark St., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008 West Coast Reporter Capt. H. H. Connelley USN (Ret.) 544 Sllvergate Avenue San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 78 Washington Environs Chapter Our May luncheon was held on the 4th at the Officers' Club, Annapolis. A fine tumout of 72 was In evidence, with the following husbands, wives, widows and widowers present: Keat and Pablo Barrett, Maurine and Bob Cofer, Winnie and Jim Cutting, Kate and Ralph Dombey, Sally and George Dussault, Lydia and Fred Edwards, Janet and Wink Folk, Anne and Mel Grosvenor, Evelyn and Merle Huebl, Nell and Jo Johannesen, Margaret and Henry Johnson, Roz and Don Kelsey, Katie and John King, Margaret Bennett, Sybil Bernard, Sybil Cook, Donna Cutts, Alice Day, Dorothy Dillon (Moss), Pearl Evans, Evelyn Gordon (Jean Beaumont's sister), Hazel Keith, Kitty Kem, Ann and Ray Lewis, Betty and Stu Lindsay, "Bill" and Pete McDowell, Sally and Bill Mendenhall, Bunny and Al Murdaugh, May and Frank Rigler, Mary and Brick Roberts, Min and Morris Smellow, Bea and Elliott Strauss, Ruth and Tommy Tucker, Dot and Fred Walton, Louise and Fred Withlngton, LIbby and Jem Wood, Dondo Nicholson (Haas Daughter), Lil Ralph, Mary Wenger, Nell Dietrich, Pat Moran, Bob Morris, Val Potde, Emmett Spmng, Red Stephens, and Bill Wadbrook.

We were Indeed happy to have Mary and Brick Roberts with us again. (More power to you, Brick.) This luncheon was blessed with lovely ladies, happy reunions, beautifully decorated tables, fine menu, and even cool weather. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and unanimously agreed that our May Co-Ed Luncheons are the most enjoyable of the year.

All present rose to express their appreciation for the thoughtfulness and effort put into the luncheon by: Dot Walton, for the beautiful floral centerpieces; and Tommy Tucker for taking charge of reservations and all arrangements with the Officers' Club. Especially welcome were Kate and Ralph Dombey from Lake wood, Ohio; Roz and Don Kelsey from Milton. Massachusetts; and Janet and Wink Folk from Old Lyme, Connecticut.

I wish also to express my appreciation for the unselfish and efficient help rendered by my daughter, Clare, who types these monthly bulletins from very poorly prepared notes.

Pat, as President of the Washington Chapter, very graciously thanked the distaff members for attending and lending so much color and charm to our normally routine luncheons.

The following is quoted from the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsvllle, Kentucky, dated 17 March 1977: "Madlsonville, Ky. (AP)— Former Madlsonville Mayor David A. Parish, who held the office 28 years, filed today for another term. Parish served seven terms as

54 mayor from 1946 to 1974 when he lost to Curtis McCoy Jr. Parish became the second to enter the May primary, joining retired Army officer Leroy Osbom in the race. McCoy has announced he will not seek re-election." Hopkinsvllle Is the home town of both Neil Dietrich and MacFarland Wood, who sent the clipping about our Classmate Dave to Neil.

At our April luncheon, Emmett Sprung generously provided a private bar with free drinks for All Hands. This altmistic gesture of Emmett's might be interpreted as a celebration of the anniversary of his entry into the Navy as a "bluejacket" on 16 April 1917, when he was just seventeen. Thereby lies his claim to be the earliest In naval service in the Class.

As of the first of April, Morris reports the data on prospective attendance for the 55th Reunion as:

Graduates Non-Graduates Widows

Hope to Total Attend May Can't Letters 73 34 31 190 6 3 13 45 15 12 31 \Vl Total 352

Bill Wadbrook, Ruth and Tommy Tucker, Evelyn Gordon, Evelyn Heubl, and Jim Cutting's back

Vernon and Mimi Rigler, Ralph and Katherine Dombey, Kitty Kem, Pearl Evans, Emmett Sprung

We were happy that Sybil Bernard was able to attend our luncheon—but Pierre, unfortunately for us, was not able to attend, because of a series of tests at the hospital. (Hope they were satisfactory!)

Pearl Evans (from Baltimore) told us that she had received a letter from "Val" Morrow in St. Petersburg wishing she could be with us at the May luncheon, and concluding with "Best to all."

Nell Dietrich and Morris Smellow, Cochairmen of our 55th reunion, outlined their fine program for our enjoyment. Friday, 26 May thm Sunday, 28 May. We understand that the first ladles' lunch of the fall season will be on 28 September, place not yet decided.

"All Hands" stood and sang with gusto "Happy birthday to you" in honor of our President Pat Moran, when they leamed that Is was Pat's 78th birthday. (May he live to be a hundred!)

Your treasurer, and also your reporter, were highly pleased by additional gifts to the Chapter made at the luncheon by two lovely ladies, AHce Day and Lily Ralph.

Ralph Dombey also made us happy with a generous contribution. (He is now on our mailing list for bulletins).

Next bulletin—early September. Also look for Washington Chapter news in the September issues of Shipmate, and don't forget the next luncheon on 7 September.

West Coast News Emmy and Louie Brendel dropped us a note with the latest news of the Fabians, the Chapmans and of themselves. Louie gave an excellent talk before the CVA club in Rancho Bernardo. He showed some of his stained glass handiwork and a part of his fabulous collection of antique tools. Louie had labeled some of his tools with humorous titles and his talk was received with enthusiasm by the group.

Madge says that Joe Chapman Is doing his best to adjust to the Hlllcrest rest home in National City, but of course he would much prefer to be at home where pretty Madge would always be available to bring him something to eat or drink or help pass the time.

Lou Fabian said Tessie fell and broke her arm early In April and at that writing (13 April) was in some pain but was progressing.

On behalf of Joe Jessop, we asked Arleigh to come to San Diego for next year's "Crew Classic" where Navy will be a competitor the first week in April. Arleigh has not promised, but there is a possibility he may be able to work It into his trip to Colorado to visit the Burke School in Boulder and to see his family.

We certainly hope he and Bobbie can be with us for the "Crew Classic" as well as our class luncheon.

By the way, Ex-Sec-Nav MIttendorf told us at this year's "Crew Classic" that he had composed a march and entitled It "The Arleigh Burke March." Congratulations to our president—Arleigh.

Duke Chandler reported he and Louise enjoyed their long visit to Florida very much Indeed—and were glad to receive our bulletin and roster there, too.

Stu Lindsay reports that as of 14 April he and Betty moved to: 759C Fairview Ave., Annapolis MD 21403. Stu also sent us a clipping about his son from the Farmington Valley Herald, of 10 March 1977, which we quote from: "Stew Lindsay Inducted Into Lacrosse Shrine—The Lacrosse Foundation, Inc. has announced the Induction of five new members to the Lacrosse Hall of Fame in Baltimore.

Announcement comes from Sterling H. Chadwick, executive director of the Foundation that Stewart Lindsay, Jr. of Avon has been chosen as one of the five inductees. Lindsay has been associated with the game of lacrosse for over 30 years. His total of 100 goals In 29 games for Phillips Exeter still stands as the all-time mark for New England high schools. He scored 49 goals his senior year and four times during his days at Phillips Exeter he scored eight goals In one game. He also holds the all-time scoring mark at Syracuse University with 119 goals In 32 career games and authored an eight goal game in college competition. . . . [He was] a first team All-American as a senior. An eightyear veteran of Conn. Valley Lacrosse Club play, Lindsay scored nearly 300 goals in just over 100 games being named MVP of the league In 1968 and 1972. . . . Stew is currently a member of several committees of the United

States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and the U.S. Lacrosse Coaches Assn. A former captain of the USS P.T. 812, he was recently transferred to the U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired) as Lieut. Commander in 1974. Married since June of 1956 to Mary Desborough of Chester, Nova Scotia, Stew is the proud father of five daughters." [Golly, what a scoring record! Stu, himself, was a great defense man as "'cover point" on our Class Lacrosse Team from 1920 to 1923, and was later lacrosse coach at St. Paul's School In Baltimore. He sure taught his son how to get by the defense!]

Reported by Classmates: Bill Von Drele, "Have just retumed from a world trip and found it Is still round and there are many people on it—mostly In front of me when I want to get somewhere! Sorry I can't make It." Mike Connelley, "Thank you for your cordial letter and also for the very full and interesting Washington Bulletin. We all leam a lot through your Bulletin. And I hope to 'spread the word' to the Class of what is going on out here as far as I can obtain the news.

Glad you like the 'Red Book.' There are errors and omissions, which I will correct in an errata sheet some day—if only people will write and tell me. Have already received 9 notices but surely there are more. Do so hope Reed Roberts snaps back soon and comes out better than ever. Many thanks again for your letters.

I am writing 14 letters today and yesterday to classmates and widows in response to their fine letters. Long one from Arleigh about Shipmate, etc. Best to you and all." Al Murdaugh: ""This is to let you know we are back in town and to express regret that I was unable to vote, at the April meeting, for your continuance in office. Our trip started auspiciously enough, but in London, two days before scheduled flight to Athens to start our cmise, we both came down with a 'bug.' Thinking sun and sea air would cure it, we decided to go ahead. It didn't quite work that way, but we were able to get in some memorable sightseeing, both in the Jemsalem and Galilee areas of Israel, and at Ephesus, in spite of our poor condition. By the time we got back to London, Bunny was quite sick, so we cancelled remaining plans and flew back after a couple of days rest. I am happy to report we are both O.K. now. As a footnote, in the Cairo Museum, we found ourselves viewing the same exhibit In one of the King Tut rooms as the Nelson Rockefellers. They were most affable and gracious in exchanging brief pleasantries. Hope to see you in Annapolis in May." Mac McLellan, "Thank you very much for the 6 April 77 edition of the Wash. Environs Chapter. The news Is always welcome and I regret that distance prevents attendance. Ednah and I have been very busy with plans to move to smaller quarters, after 30 years at 2206. Disposing of a large household of accumulations is not easy. Effective on, or about, 21 April 77, our new address will be: 4540—8th Ave., N.E., #1206, Seattle WA 98105. Our 2 bedroom condominium will have a view of South-West Seattle. Our new phone number will be 206/633-5310. Warm regards to all hands and best wishes for the May luncheon meeting at Annapolis." Paul Jackson, "Now good news for me at least. The plastic lens which was Inserted in my eye works fine.

Bremerton operated on 3/22 and I could see the next day. The possibility of being unable to drive had me scared. On Inquiring if other parts of my anatomy could be replaced with plasfic, the answer was no." Wendell Taylor, "I have no typewriter here and will do my best Shipmate

55 with my shaky hand. I appreciated your newsy letter about the Chapter so very much. I am enclosing a check for postage. I have wanted to write you many times. I don't know how many limes I have thought about the days in Bancroft Hall when you lived across the corridor from me. Best regards.'" Phil Ryan. "Enclosed Is a bit for the kitty. I fear fm somewhat overdue. I would like to add my thanks for sending the bulletin. I enjoy it very much.

You"re doing a mighty fine job. Again, many thanks. Cheers."" Frank Lamson-Scribner.

"You are doing a hell uva good job keeping us outlanders informed. Thanks.""

Thoughtful and generous contributions were made to the Washington Chapter during the month of .April by: Stu Lindsay. Jack McCutchen. Peggy Hudson. Janice Perry.

Wendell Taylor, Phil Ryan, and Frank Lamson-Scribner. Our thanks to them and the many other Classmates and widows who have kept us financially afloat during the past nine-month "Bulletin Year."" .And I am Indeed grateful for the continuous flow of letters from Classmates, wives and widows. Your letters have made our Bulletins tmly Interesting.

Two much appreciated letters have been received, one from Jim Cutting, one from Dutch Will telling of the high tradition sdll being maintained at The Old School. The first, from Jim to Dutch actually, copy to your scribe, reads as follows: ""Dear Dutch—Your grandnewphew—Johnathan Will—was one of six Second Classmen selected yesterday to represent USN.A in the Rhodes Scholarship competition. I was one of the five on the selection committee, so had a splendid chance to interview the lad. What a fine boy he Is, and what a great job he Is doing at USNA: standing first in his Class this year, a candidate for big stripes next year, and obviously a person with many attractive qualities. I thought his greatuncle (have I this correct?) would be interested in what he achieved yesterday. Seeing the Rhodes Scholarships are among the world's most prestigious and difficult to obtain, young Johnathan is now going to be In competition with the finest young men in the nation. Good luck to him and congratulations to his greatuncle! Sincerely. Jim Cutting.""

"Dear Bill—Thought this might be of Interest. Jonathan is the son of my brother. Otto W. WiU Jr. Now

CO.

of USS

CONCORD ( A F S - 5 )

in the Med. My own son. Capt. John W. Jr. USN,

is now skipper of USS CANOPUS ( A S - 3 4 )

at Rota. Spain—one of Rickover" s ex-nuclear submarine skippers. ""You and your daughter Clare are doing a great job for all of us loafers. Here's a bit for the Kitty. Best. Dutch."

We regret to have leamed that Evelyn Lee Doe. beloved wife for 51 years of our Classmate. Cdr. Harold Doe. China. Maine 04926. passed away on 28 March. She had had no recent illness. She is survived by Harold, two sons, a daughter, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Our sympathies are extended to the family.

A late report from Bob Cofer (9 May): "Maurine and Bob Cofer had a happy recent visit with their son Bob III, wife Becky, and their three young ones: Bobby (14 and over 6 ft. and a basketball star). Robin (12 and a ballerina), and David (9 and full of vim and vigor), and a big time was had by all. Young Bob is an electronics engineer with IBM. often involved in projects for the Navy. They live in Ithaca, New "York.

"We enjoyed the recent luncheon in AnJuly-August. 1977

napolis very much and will be looking forward to seeing you again In the Fall."

(More notes on May luncheon: Particularly welcome was our good and beautiful correspondent, Margaret Bennett, from Wayne, Pennsylvania.)

Mary Dugan Is happy that Spring has finally showed up in Missouri and Is glad to receive the bulletin and appreciates the roster very much. too.

Don Felt and Kathryn were headed for Japan (late May) and various places. But the big drawing card for them Is to see Linn and his family as well as Linn's big MIDWAY. What a thrill for all the Felts. Don reported also that the Storrs were In town (25 April) and were hosts to a group of friends Including the Felts and the Higgins. Mariorie and Ronald Higgins expected to be at the 55th.

Steamboat Fulton reported he was In charge of everything at home. Including the dog, while Mrs. was visiting relatives In Califomia (5 April). Thanks. Steamboat, for your letter and kind words.

Johnny Goodnough reported he and Millie were on the verge of moving into summer quarters—their trailer—and would be drifting around the great Northwest and Canada until November. Have fun and come see us when you retum. Johnny.

Phone disconnected and mail was retumed addressed to Bill Graham. Bill and Anna Belle must be on a long trip—wonder where. Last forwarding address known as Bremerton, Washington. Where are you Bill?

Marion and Cabell Gwathmey were hosts at a big celebration and aquatic parade held on their lagoon in Belvedere on 1 May. We were urged to go and we wanted to, but couldn't make the move. Am sure all of "23 In that area enjoyed the day. Grog and holidays rations were issued to all hands at high noon.

We all enjoyed having the Gwathmeys with us for our luncheon meeting in March. It was a one-day jaunt for them and we appreciated their making the effort. We have to give up the Gwathmeys to Maryland for June, July, August and September. That is too long Cabell.

Jack Shaw died on the early moming of 14 April at the Seattle Public Health Service Hospital, as the result of a heart attack. Funeral services were held on the 19th at the Sunset Hills Chapel in Bellevue. Burial was in a family plot at Pasadena, Califomia. His Classmates extend their deepest sympathy to his wife, Evelyn, and daughter. Sue Shaw Latourell.

Both Paul Jackson and Mac McLellan Informed us of Jack's death.

McLellan's letter of 14 April: "Just a bit of sad news to tell you we have lost a fine classmate—Jack Shaw. He had just retumed from Hawaii on April 1st. He bounced back into playing golf prior to Easter Sunday when he had another heart attack eariy Sunday A.M. Medic One took him to Overlake Hospital In a coma. Later, he was taken to the Seatde Public Health Hospital where his records were from previous visits. This moming John Brown called to tell me Jack died early this A.M. He was still In a coma. Yesterday Ednah talked with Evelyn—she had been to the hospital but Jack didn't recognize her. There will be a service on next Monday or Tuesday and burial will be In a family plot at Pasadena. I note that you did not have Jack's address In the recent Roster—so here It is in the event anyone desires to write Evy: Mrs. John D. Shaw. 906 Belfair Rd.. Bellevue WA 98004; (206) GL42954. So, we have lost Jack, a wonderful guy.

with a hearty laugh, and a warm heart."

Reported by Classmates to Morris: Frank Good, "As a matter of passing Interest, Jess served as an 'extra' during the filming of The Midshipman as did some of the other Academy Regulars who happened to be in Annapolis at that time. As I remember, she got $5/day and her lunch." Sam Fuqua, "Greetings and God bless—hope this finds you and your family enjoying the best of everything. Same here, and we are VERY happy and comfortable In our new quarters in Atlanta. Have a bit of news for Shipmate—don't know to whom to write, so shall tell you: Had a wonderful time at the President's Inauguration. Our daughter. Pat Nagle, had worked hard for JImmIe Carter, and was thrilled to get to go along. She has made a leap Into politics, was elected (Primary Ballot) the Democratic District Chairperson from the 47th DIst. of the 'Gret Stet of Jawga.' Edna and I are happy to hear Mike Connelley Is doing well—please remember us to anyone who Inquires—hope to attend the 55th In "78. Missed our 50th—had to officiate at #1 grandson's graduation. We attended the Adanta Alumni Assn Party at Bob Cousins and had a good time.

Very best wishes from both of us."

Quoting from Jack McCutchen: "I am all apologies for not having put pen to paper long alo BUT: we hit the U.S. just in time for the freeze; we both caught colds that approached pneumonia as a limit; 1 spent ten days In the Navy Medical Center just in time to leave to Carvel the move from the Navy Lodge to here, and our few goods and chattels were a month behind schedule in arrival with us on tenterhooks (whatever they may be) daily waiting for them. Neither of us was in the mood for much of anything. We are now settled in in a most attractive and comfortable apartment, Algonquin House, not too far from NOB. We have a fine view over a creek and trees, a balcony large enough for a table and chairs and us and a small but more than adequate kitchen.

Our Immediate concern Is the affair between a large white Peking duck and a mallard drake half her size. Can Pekey make the flight north with Sir Francis or will he stay here with her?

Is LOVE greater than the call of the wild? See the next week showing of Elizabeth River on the channel! Betty's father died last week and J3 went to the funeral, of course, so he may not be able to get away again so soon. He. J3.

Is to graduate from Law School at Catholic U. on May fifth and we are all hoping we can prevail on Betty to come up for the big day, even to the extent of kidnappery. (Be there such a word?) (It sounds to me like diaper changing.)

It is wonderful to be back. (As the skipper wired, 'It Is wonderful any place.') But I must admit that 1 miss a few of the things in FIrenze and many of the people. Too bad we can't have everything. (This Is not all my fault, the bell on this typewriter doesn"t ring and I am not good enough to watch the paper and type.) All our best to you both.""

From and about the "distaff side:'" Janice Perry writes: "Enclosed Is a small donation to help with stamps, etc., for your wonderful newsletter you send all of us. I speak as one of the widows; It Is so nice to be remembered and be Included In all the social affairs. Sorry I won't be at the luncheon in Annapolis next month as 1 will be In Europe. My best regards to you and all the members."" Inez Price—she is the one In Cape Coral—widow of Fritz who had an Interesting career. She expected 3 grandchildren for Easter vacation. She Is a nice gal with Interests and a social conscience—and

56 close to 78. She at this point is planning to get away for June-Aug.—visiting friends In NY City and old haunts In Michigan and S. Dak. Karl Hensel says the tarpon hunters were out in full force (29 April) down in their comer of the USA. He and Wynne were to leave 7 May on a 2-week trip to Greece, the Islands and Egypt. Said he had Wynne had Frank Lamson-Scribner over for supper and had fun.

Both Paul Jackson and Hubert McLellan promptly reported the death of our good friend and Classmate Jack Shaw In Bellevue, Washington, on 13 April. Paul said he was writing an obituary for "Last Call" in Shipmate. Our deepest sympathy goes to Evelyn and the family. Paul reported a very large group of friends were present at the memorial services 19 April, with the entire police force of Bellevue acting as escorts. Jack was buried In Altadena 22 April.

Card from Duhie Jecklln saying she was planning on a trip In July to Norway, Sweden and Denmark. A friend of nearly 40 years will meet her In Oslo and help entertain her there.

Sounds like they will have a lot of catchlng-up to do—not having seen each other for about 37 years or so. After the card, Duhie came over to San Diego from her home in Mesa, Arizona, and we had the fun of seeing her for a too short visit.

Cordial letter from Frank Lamson-Scribner reported visiting his son, Denis, in Guatemala in February and enjoying the beautiful countryside. He also reported his son Frank was in Bucharest when the big earthquake there caused a beam to fall onto the bed next to the one Frank was on while reading In bed—close call!

Bill McCafferty sent his thanks and many kind words. He reported he had cleaned out the rain gutters but that he was now through with ladders forever. A good resolution, I say.

Bunny and Al Murdaugh have been trying to pin down their geologist son to some location long enough to go visit him for many months now. Every time they think they have him located they hear he has just been transferred to Diego Garcia, or some strange sea, or Sydney or some other place. They hope to see him in Washington this Summer. That is a lot easier, Al. Thanks for your good letters.

We are saddened over the death of our dear Mary Moses who died 27 April 1977 In Oceanside, Califomia. Mary was buried In Oceanslde on 29 April. Attending the services In addition to relatives and a large number of civilian friends were the following Classmates of Ken: Peggy and Mike Connelley, Billie and Stan Leith, Marge and Ken Walker, Ralph Woods.

Many other Classmates were unable to attend because of family sickness, being out of town, or because of other emergencies. Mary was most beloved by all who knew her and our deepest sympathy Is expressed to our good friend and Classmate, Ken Moses and his family.

Jack Pearson has promised he will be down in San Diego to see us soon. Always so glad to see him.

Iris Rassieur suffered a severe bum from an accident In her kitchen (17 April). Bill rushed her to the hospital for emergency treatment and has seen to It that she has had the best of care. She is home and progressing very well toward her complete recovery. Bill is a good nurse. And we all wish a rapid recovery for Iris.

Ike Teuscher, ably assisted by Adelaide, was host at the San Francisco Bay Area group at

their luncheon meeting on 21 May at the Oakmont Inn in Oakmont.

Bill Wadbrook keeps us informed of the East Coast doings with his good bulletin as well as his personal letters which are very warm and cordial. Good work, Bill.

Dutch Will sent a snapshot of his handsome self, his card with telephone number and a cordial request for any of '23 to use It when In New York. He also wrote us a very cherry and cordial letter with many generous words for which we thank him.

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 Columnist, RAdm. John D. Hayes, USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 2667, Texas City TX 77590 Percent Members: 86 Passings Olivia Fines sent the following note to John D. Hayes, dated Friday, May 20: "To tell you that Joe died Tuesday (17th) at Bethesda. He had been there for two months. Graveside services were held yesterday In the cemetery of the Naval Academy. I came back to Alabama yesterday afternoon. Olivia."

Murray Tichenor also sent the following: "Clifford A. Fines (Joe) was buried In the U.S.N.A. cemetery with simple honors In a quiet graveside ceremony, Thursday moming.

Classmates present were Reed Adams, Patterson, Tichenor and Worthlngton."

Joe and I were more than Classmates. We were shipmates on several cruises and longtime good friends. Nellie and 1 stopped with Joe and Olivia on our return to Texas from the North last October. I plan to see Olivia when I drive North In June.

Spike McPeake We are indebted to Hap Goodall for finding In an obscure magazine entlded Yankee, published in Dublin, New Hampshire, an article that recalls the bravery of our Classmate Lawrence J. McPeake. Spike was lost in action In the Battle of the Java Sea in the early months of World War 11 with the sinking of the tanker PECOS of which he was executive officer. PECOS, it will be remembered, was the tanker attached to the Asiatic Fleet in those days. The article Is entitled "Java Crapshoot" and tells mostly the story of the carrier LANGLEY and her two escorting destroyers WHIPPLE and

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The author, a New Englander, writes of another New Englander. "As the lead plane screamed down In Its dive, my eyes were drawn to a lone figure standing on the after deck house behind the starboard Lewis gun. It was Lawrence McPeake, the PECOS executive officer, firing short accurate bursts at the approaching plane. While 1 watched, a piece of engine cowling fell from the aircraft and a long stream of black smoke began trailing from the engine

"Shortly afterwards we were all jarred by a heavy concussion as a bomb hit the stmggling vessel squarely amidships. She lurched heavily to port and slid slowly under, leaving the ocean suddenly very empty. The last thing we saw as her stern disappeared from sight was the gallant McPeake coolly firing at an approaching plane."

After Spike's passing, his widow Eleanor went back to teaching, from which she Is now retired. Her address is 5 Lewis Road, Winchester, MA 01890. If I remember correcfly, they had two daughters.

Class Gatherings At the November 1976 luncheon of the Washington group. Bill Bullis was accompanied by his son-in-law, Regan Phillips from the Class of 1959. Others In attendance were Berliner, Collins, Craig, Dyer, Herring, Peterson, Rawllngs and Wilson.

The January Co-ed luncheon of the Washington group was held at Rossmoor Leisure World under the sponsorship of Martha and Rollo Wilson. Although bad weather kept a number away, the following did show up to take part in a very enjoyable gathering: Bo and Malin Craig, Mid and Hank Duvall, Edith and Tommy Dyer, Dot Hartwig, Adele and Lee Herring, Bert Kalisch, Virginia Leach and Frank Kehr, Marian and Wally Petersen, Ed Rawlins, Jean and Hunter Robinson, Mary and Bob Sutllff, Harriet Sweeney, Helen Louise and Raoul Waller. The Wallers are again off on an extensive Egyptian trip.

The April Co-ed lunch of the Washington group was held at Vinson Hall with the following In attendance: Helen and Mike Bradley, Lois and Bill Bullis just back from three months in Spain, Lou Barchet, Joe Cabanillas, Winnie and Howie Collins, Mid and Hank Duvall, Edith and Tommy Dyer, Dot Hartwig, Marian and Wally Petersen, Ed Rawlins, Jean and Hunter Robinson, Edith Sisson, Eleanor and Bob Swart, Mary and Bob Sutllff, Harriet Sweeney, Dottle and Tich Tichenor and Martha and Rollo Wilson.

Three Century Classmates?

The April 1977 Class Column contained the note: "Red Ruhsenberger wants to start a Three Century Club for our Class made up of those who were born in the 19th Century and Intend to make It to the 21st." Red now gives further details on how this came up. Three Florida cracker retirees, sitting around a bourbon scuttlebutt, were discussing old age and the subject of who among us were bom in the 19th Century came up, that is during the years 1899 and 1900. Research by Red has disclosed that in all there are thirty-eight now living, namely: W.N. Mansfield, J. R. Ruhsenberger, H.B. Wheeler, D.D. Cameron, W.N. Gamet, H.E. Richter, G.C. Montgomery, W.V. Deuterman, L.H. Thomas, C M . Evans, C E .

Carroll, L.H. Gwinn, A.H. Oswald, F.C. Layne, P.W. Siegrist, Max Schreiner. D.D. Wight, A.G. Bliesener, H. Armor (bom 1899), J.B. Hogle, F.H. Ball, W.A. Evans, F.R. Davis, C E . McDonald, H.W. Goodall, J.R. Topper, L.P. Frank, H.W. Hall, L.E. Coley (born 1899), J.C. Daniel (born 1899), R.D. McAfee, J.J. Woodward, R.S. Bertschy, G.C. King, J.R. Caples, C.N. Hubbard, A.B. Dickie and N.W. Abrahams.

Bill Mansfield is the youngest of this group (b. 25 December 1900) and Lew Coley the oldest (b. 2 October 1899).

As Red puts it, "If any of these live to see Shipmate

57 daylight, 1 January 2001. they will have lived in three centuries. This is no mean achievement." To give incentive some sort of award might be offered. But what? Only a hearty meal, hopefully, and some bourbon, of course, could be enjoyed by any of us still around then.

Red's trouble is that a Sikh fortune teller In Shanghai, back In December 1926, told him that he would tum in his suit in the late Spring of 1982. Red had a hard time not believing this since everything else this gentleman told him has come true Including the date he was ordered to aviation duty. 1 January 1930.

and fulfillment of pledges and intenfions on the first anniversary of the initiation of the plan.

We are too fine a Class not to get this program consummated now. Let's Go, '25!

The April class luncheon at the A-N Club was attended by fifteen, mostly the "old gang," but a couple of less familiar faces showed up. Among those present were: Toon Benson, John Brown, Cash, Elliott, Ford, Goetz. Griffin, Bill Marshall, McFariane, Naquin, O'Keefe, Pyne, Rice, Slaven, and Stryker. All seemed to be In good spirits and in generally good health. At the meeting several had reports of their Classmates as follows; John Brown told us that he had seen Alex News of Gtz Tracy Sledge at the latter"s home in Highland Park, Bob Keyer has provided Interesting news New Jersey. Alex had a serious operation last about Otz Tracy who has completed two sucWinter but seemed In reasonably good condicessful careers in the business world, one with tion although he has to use a pad and pencil ESSO. the foremnner of Exxon, the second (which he does with utmost speed) to comwith Grace. municate. Cordelia Is In good shape and both Bob sent two pages of the Baton Rouge sent best wishes to all.

Record, a company paper published in that Herb Rice and Charlie Goetz have retired city, the directing seat of much of Exxon's infrom their careers. Herb from teaching and dustrial activities.

Charlie from the law. Charlie has accepted the I hope that I have my facts straight about job as Class Treasurer, taking over from K. C. Otz. He resigned as an ensign in January 1925 Hurd who has served us so faithfully and well and went to M.I.T.. where he took a degree in for these last 16 years. chemical engineering. In 1930 he went to work Bob McFariane and Toon Benson saw Gus for Esso Standard Oil Company and in 1960 re- Wellings at Bethesda where the latter was untired as Its president. He then went to work for dergoing some treatment. Gus seems fine as Grace, retiring again in 1967 but continuing on does Dotty, and both brought good reports of as a director and consultant for the company. the Martin Drurys and Harry Henebergers who Otz now lives on Kahdena Road. Morristown, live up Rhode Island way too.

NJ 07960. He Is reportedly a millionaire, the Jack Griffin proposed that the Class erect a only one from all evidence In the Class. suitable plaque In Dahlgren Hall to our ClassThe way Otz tells It. however. Is that the day mates who were killed in action In WW II. in 1960 when Esso and Humble mergered to Several other Classes have done this. The form Exxon and his retirement was anExecutive Committee, after a positive vote by nounced, the stock went up $3.00 on the exthose present, agreed to refer the matter to the change.

Finance Committee, who, if it further agrees, will circularize the Class through the area reps.

E. J. Taylor has forwarded a charming letter Incidentally, we do have a plaque at Dahlgren from Jan Sessions. She and her husband live at Hall to Eva Brant, who was lost at sea in 1929.

525 Bovell St.. Crowley TX 76036. a small and as well as that, a complete listing of all town about 12 miles south of Forth Worth.

Classmates KIA is on the honor roll In Mem "Dad thought a great deal of you," she wrote.

Hall.

Dick Carlson reports that Roy (Red) WilAt the luncheon it was agreed that, due to liam's health Is much improved and he drives the small tumouts in July and August, there around Kentfield. Califomia, a small town would be no class luncheons In these months. north of Mill Valley In Marin County.

The September one will be "Coed" at a place Kay and Joe Worthlngton live quietly on to be announced, probably at Jim McNally's In Gibson Island MD 21056 and travel only as far Potomac, Maryland, Thursday, 29 September. as the W.B. & A. cities. He Is working on a biography of the late Adm. Royal E. Ingersoll Our travelers, Kay and Kent Loomis, made a USN '05, one of the Navy's greats but by naTurkish and Greek island cmise In late April ture so modest that he is today virtually unand early May. They don't miss a chance! known. He was C-in-C Atlantic In World War From our mid-west group come a few Items II; he died In Bethesda 20 May 1976. of interest. Gene Paro briefly outlines his "somewhat exciting" career since retirement which Included a stint in heavy constmction work, building a fertilizer plant In South Korea; a New York showing of his paintings; painting a mural for the local post office; and seven years of art Instmctlon for local talent.

Pres., RAdm. Walter C.Ford USN (Ret.) He Is approaching his fiftieth wedding anniverSec'y, RAdm. F. Kent Loomis, USN (Ret.) sary and is a gentleman farmer on the family 3055 Foxhall Rd., N.W. estate. All sounds very exciting to us, Gene.

Washington, D.C.20016 Dundas Tucker Is back to normal after a Columnist: RAdm. Schuyler Pyne USN (Ret.) Christmas-New Years siege In the hospital fol259 Providence Road, Annapolis MD 21401 lowing an operafion.

Percent Members: 83 Our worthy book publishing Classmate, Ed Triebe, after his retirement from Kingsport As usual these notes are a mixture of good and bad news. We like the good news, and, of Press, volunteered to do consulting work In developing countries. Including four months In course, dislike the bad, but we have to report Ethiopia just before the lid blew off there. He on both nevertheless. We shall start with the is involved In local problems in Tennessee to better news. some degree. In January he was In Florida and The Scholarship Fund grows slowly and visited Fred Warder and dropped In on Terry again we must Invite the attention of all hands Cowie's widow, Marjorie. to its existence and the need for contributions

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July-August. 1977

It was very pleasing to hear from Doc Bradbury, up Kennett Square (PA) way. Doc and his wife, who were present at our 50th Reunion, are in good shape and spend life in a quiet way. Last Winter they had several weeks looking for better weather In the Carollnas, Virginia, Georgia and Florida. The weather was hard to find, and even the absentee utility bills were horrendous. Now with Summer at home, he says, without any Increase in acreage, his lawn grows bigger each year.

Hardly an issue goes by without items supplied by Red Eye Coleman and Butch Parker, and this one Is no exception. Red Eye says that Tink Bell, Trainer and he were present at the April Oriando alumni meeting. He also indicates that he had heard from Max Bailey who told him that he (Max) had run across a New Testament of Red Eye's that Max had had in his possession since ensign days in ARKANSAS. Max was contrite and suggested that Red Eye read Matthew 18, verses 21 and 22. We hope also that all hands in '25 noted the article written by Red Eye about Admiral Felix Xerxes Gygax In the '07 class notes for the March issue of Shipmate. Unfortunately, Admiral Gygax died In late February, just a few days before the March Issue hit the streets.

As for Butch Parker, he Is, like the Major General In Pirates of Penzance, "teeming with a lot o' news," telling us about how B. B. Loomis is doing after an operation, about the plans for Flo and Dave Hull's 50th anniversary which was held on 7 May, and attended, not only by the Pompano Beach-Lighthouse Point class contingent, but by others from further away, such as the Bob Gibbs and the Charlie McKinneys, and about Zelda and Lew Parks, who had a party at which Ruth and Monty Eggers were also present. On the way back from their Norfolk trip reported in the June Issue as on the fire, Betty and Butch plan to visit the Gibbs In North Carolina. Ed Beck reported to Butch that the Gus Wellings did make it to Florida after all this Winter (see the June Shipmate). We also have leamed that Muir and Ed Walker had a couple of months In St. Pete, Florida, this past Winter.

Red Slaven had a nice letter from Chase Wanglin congratulating Red on the write-up on him and his family In the April Shipmate and giving us a little news of his trips and trials as well as a word or two about a few Classmates.

The Wanglins keep themselves busy with his business and their family, and they try to take a trip abroad every year. From what we have heard, they have pretty well covered the globe.

They also had lunch with Ruth and Larry Hausen recently, and Chase referred affectionately to a visit to the Red Days in Beriln some years ago and with the John Murphys in Naples a piece back.

After a bit of rest or respite, Woolsey Johnson has started winning In swimming meets again, taking three gold medals In the A.A.U. Masters Annual East Coast Swim Meet on 30 April and 1 May, and two silver medals too. In the 70-74 age group.

Joe Stryker adds a note that Tin! and he visited Wilmington, North Carolina, where his old BB of WWII, NORTH CAROLINA, IS moored as

a memorial. He, with several other veteran officers and men, narrated part of a history of that ship to be made into a 28!^ minute TV movie. This will augment a light-and-sound show given each summer evening aboard the ship and will be shown also at N . C schools, other local outlets, and by Public Broadcast

58 Stations. The State loves the ship and puts up large sums of money to publicize it. Joe has worked with this project for some ten years.

Bill Gallery's every-Friday recmit graduation moves on apace. Bill supplies the guest-ofhonor for the luncheon and graduation exercises. In late April he had a hemia operation on a Tuesday and yet made the Friday show, looking great. Bill says that bringing Dorothy Benham, Miss America 1977, to a recent graduation has made it difficult to sell the Captains of Govemment and Industry that he usually produces.

A fine letter from Horace Blakeslee with a substanfial check for the Class funds came in the other day. Thanks a lot! Contributions to our Class funds are most welcome at any time. .4'

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In the May Shipmate we reported on Louise and Frank Kershner's Golden Wedding Anniversary, but no picture; now we have a snap of the happy couple cutting the cake.

After several tries, we finally persuaded Bill Agnew to drop us a line. Bill says Celia has been quite ill for the past year, but, after serious and extensive surgery in January, is making a slow recovery. Their eldest daughter was married in April with a church wedding and a home reception, thus putting some strain on them both as Bill too has been a bit knocked out by a vims. Now, on the hopeful side, they

Midn. 1/c Bill Agnew are looking forward to the West Coast June Week in QUEEN MARY, which they hoped to

attend. Bill does a bit of real-estate brokerage, specializing in restaurant and motel sites and leases, thus, as he says, keeping away from the "Honey-Do Club." He was In contact with Red Markham recently at Red's new address In Mountain View, Califomia. The Markhams are fine. Red playing much golf as usual.

We have not heard from Pete Petross for years, but now we have a nice note from him.

Kay and he have been living for 14 years in the delightful little Arizona town of Mesa, which is not very far from Phoenix. They have a oneacre ranch, flowers and shmbs being the main growth. Their daughter was recently married and their son Is with the First National Bank of New York and spends most of his time In Brazil. Good to hear from you, Pete, and our best wishes to all of you.

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From New York City comes word from Red Millott who In June went up to Canada for four months after spending March in Florida with his son Dan. He has a large number of grandchildren and is expecting to be a double greatgrandfather in September. Red's pet recreation is fishing, and we see him here with a prize catch in his hand. All in all, he enjoys himself by getting around, doing some creative writing, and generally keeping interested in life In these autumn years, as he puts it.

And from Bill Watson we leam that Irma and he have retumed from their 13th Winter In Cuemavaca, Mexico. They visited friends in Arizona and Califomia on their way home to Indiana.

As has been our wont in the past year, and thanks to the good offices of Frank Munroe compiling the list, we send Happy Birthday wishes to all those who had a natal day In the second quarter of 1977, and special mention of our diamond-jubilee boys. Including: Corsley, Cash, Parks, Mann, RItter, Laffan, Rice, NIckerson, Tucker, Stone, Ryan, Atkins, McFariane, McKinney, Carrington, B. B. Loomis, Marrison, and W. L. Benson. Many happy returns, one and all.

Unfortunately we have some very sad news too, namely the death of three Classmates: Hap Gill died on 19 April of a heart attack following surgery at Balboa Naval Hospital, San Diego. A memorial service was held at St. James-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in LaJolla.

Cam Briggs reports that nine Classmates and several wives were present. Hap's ashes were scattered at sea. Of the people we know who have nicknames, Hap's fitted him perfectly—a happy, easygoing and delightful fellow, a good worker and companion, a perfect gentlemen from Tennessee. We shall miss him. Our deepest sympathy to Bunny and the family.

Al Jarrell passed on at his home In Sedona, Arizona, on 23 April and was buried at La Grange, Georgia, on 27 April, of which he was a native. Al had retired from the Navy as a vice admiral In October 1959. He had notable war records in World War II and the Korean

War. A very much beloved Classmate, we find his sudden death to be not only a shock but a painful experience. Our most profound condolences to Ann and the whole family. (Also, see "Last Call.")

Clay Latrobe was found dead of a heart attack in his apartment in Pompano Beach, Florida, on 2 May. As he had been seen the day before, he must have just quietly passed away sometime during the night of 1-2 May. Several local Classmates attended his Funeral Mass on 6 May. On 10 May he was buried with full military honors at Arlington with a number of Classmates present. Clay was a specialist in petroleum and an EDO in that field. He was a great boating enthusiast, even when on active duty, keeping a craft in the Potomac during his long tours In Washington. We who served with him there will always remember the fine class parties we had at his big house in Chevy Chase years ago. He had no Immediate family but we wish his relatives our sympathy and ask the Good Lord to be gracious unto him.

A further note on Jesse Sowell. He was very active In the local Retired Officers Association and, through that outfit, with the Junior Naval Reserve Officers Training unit at Ft. Lauderdale High School. The JNROTC put on a military funeral for Jesse and at a parade on 23 April, dedicated a tree to him in front of their headquarters. A plaque, suitably inscribed.

Identifies Jesse as the one to whom the tree is dedicated. Louise Sowell and some Classmates were present.

26 Pres., RAdm. Kenneth Craig, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W.R. Smedberg HI, USN (Ret.), "Secure," Box 178, Crystal River, FL 32629 Percent Members: 89 There were two class gatherings in the month of April; one in Washington on the 25th and the other at Rancho Bemardo in Southem Califomia on the 26th.

The Washington luncheon was a joint USNA-West Point '26 stag affair. Present for Navy were: Altkens, Barker, Bmton, Buchanan, Cavenagh, Dolan, Greenacre, Greenslade, Grenfell, Katz, Lovett, Morrison, McKee, Stiegler, Strain, Sweeney(DJ), Sylvester, and Ford Taylor, plus RAdm. W.R. Smedberg, IV as a guest. Bill Romoser, Jr., had also been invited but must have gotten entangled, as he did not show. Bill Smedberg is on duty In Washington, wearing two hats; as Assistant Deputy CNO (Manpower Plans and Programs) and Assistant Chief of Naval Personnel (Personnel Planning and Programs). Our Army Classmates were: Col. W.J. Baird, BGen. S.P. Collins and his son, LCol. Collins, Jr., Gen. Leon Johnson USAF and his son-in-law, MGen. Hoyt (Sandy) Vandenbergh, Jr. USAF. BGen. Frederick Munson, MGen. M.R. Nelson, BGen. T.A. Sims USAF, MGen. C Rodman Smith (Class President) and Col. Walter Stanton.

The Washington Navy group is now back in the pattem of having luncheons on the 4th Tuesday of each month, except for June, July, August and September. A May 24th luncheon with wives, daughters, sons, sons-anddaughters-in-law was planned.

My most valued West Coast (SoCal) correspondent, "PD" Stroop reported one of the best gatherings In recent years at Rancho Bernardo, with Pauline and Sock DeWolfe being Shipmate

59 hosts. Present were: The Assersons, Boileau, Callahans, Campbells, Flemings, Floyds, Fielder Joneses. FItz Lee. Leslie. Lineweavers.

Niekum. Oberholtzers, Potdes, Stelters, Sulllvans. Youngs. Stroop. Helen Nelson and Matthews, who has settled in Fallbrook. about half way between San Diego and L.A. The Group was looking forward to the JUNE WEEK WEST meeting on 18 June on board QUEEN MARY.

Ben Katz reports contributions to the Class Fund from Bmton. Morrison. Groff. Callahan.

Winfrey. Nichols and Vodilla: also that he had advanced $500 to the Class Historian in order to meet expenses which are already being Incurred. All hands for whom we have addresses, including widows, should have received In mid-May a questionnaire with an addressed, stamped retum envelope from Benjamin, together with a letter from the Corresponding Secretary (CS), asking for material for the History and for some volunteers to help In Its preparation, or progress; I.e.. prodders to those Inevitable procrastinators. forgetters or put-er-off-ers in each of several areas.

Incidentally. Ben Katz's Survivor book has sold several thousands of copies, apparently having been so well received In one part of the South that It resulted In his being appointed a Kentucky Colonel by the Govemor.

There are two notes of sadness this month.

John S. Littig died in April after a long illness.

I have no details or date. RAdm. Walter W. Honaker (SC) USN died on January 17. 1977. after a number of years of Illness. In accord with his wishes there was direct cremation and no service. The Class extends sympathy to Marie Honaker and to Gladys Littig.

Bob Pine has taken the C/S to task for forgetting that his grandson. Jeffrey Robert Abel, is a midshipman at the Academy, Class of "80; Sandra"s son. Bob adds that "he Is six feet six inches tall and Is hard to miss in a crowd." Bob and Bobbie spent most of May in the Washington-Annapolis and East Coast areas but expected to be back at Debay Dunes.

Florida, in early June.

Incidentally, Kenny has asked Ben Katz to represent the Class at the Alumni Association meeting In Annapolis in May, when our " P D " assumes the Presidency. I predict that the Alumni Association will continue to take significant strides under the dynamic leadership of Paul D. Strrop during the next two years.

The C/S and wife made a fast trip to Washington in early May, the occasion being the 98th birthday of his mother. While there we

Cecil Bumside and Claudia Smedberg saw several Classmates, including Cecil Bumside whose picture, with Claudia Smedberg, shows that she Is still her magnificent and Indomitable self. We were happy, also, to help Kack and Charlie Buchanan celebrate Christina Buchanan's becoming a U.S. Citizen on May 11th, along with Gerry and John Sylvester for supper at the Chevy Chase Club. Christina, who was bom in the Argentine, had flown from Portugal, where "young Buck" Is on duty with the State Department, to Washington for her final exam and the swearing-in ceremony.

Charlie and Kack were flying to Portugal In early June and then taking Buck and Christina to Scotland for some golf at, for openers, St. Andrews and Glen Eagles. Saw Jack Greenslade, also, on the golf course at Chevy Chase.

27 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: 84

Craig. Dudley and Eskilson A note from Swede Eskilson tell of attending a National Dairy Council Meeting in Orlando, Florida, in April and then stopping in Pensacola to visit his former roommate, Pablo Dudley, there with Polly. He and Helen were delighted to find Louise and Kenny Craig also there. The accompanying photograph shows the gathering on the Navy (A.C Read) golf course of three very healthy looking gendemen; Kenny"s prowess with his 7-iron and putter being too much for the others.

Notes from Louise and Kenny in mid-May indicate that golf is again great m Maggie Valley: Louise confiding that Kenny had just had a 79 that day. They have asked the Smedbergs up for some golf In mid-July. Sounds like a pigeon shoot!

July-August, 1977

It's hard to realize that the 50th Reunion has come and is gone and we are left with pleasant memories of the wonderful time we had during It. For the three days of activities scheduled over the period of 27-29 May, 186 Classmates and their wives, and some with children, plus some 22 widows, gathered in Annapolis to relive our happy and poignant days of the past 50, or rather 54 years In the pattem of our lives, In all a group of 398.

Present from the San Diego area were: Cliff Cooper, Olive and Cari Dalton, Harry Day, Sally and Dutch Deutermann. Dale and Tom Flynn, Em and Tom Hamilton. Jimmy and Mary Jane Hogg. Madeline and Harry Hummer, Emily and Mike Hunte. Ken Keepers.

Dick Levin. Czar McCoy, Harriet and Doc McKechnie, Ben Alice and Toby Munn, Mary Lou and Hank Paige. Nadine and Roble Robinson. Patsy and GUI Richardson, Pat and Ole Sharp, Anne and Alan Sutheriand. Lucie and Bus Trafton. Alice and Winn Johnson, and Walter Winn.

The Los Angeles contingent consisted of GInny and Walt Bayler. Karen and Ed Eckelmeyer, Elizabeth and Gardner Grout, Bill Kern. Florence and Les Mye, Ceclle and Lefty Nation, Clara and Bill Nation, Alice and Bill Organ, Katy and Dick Ross, Irene and Red Scoles. and Dutch Woelfel.

From the SF Bay area and Northem California: Betty and Heinle Armstrong, Lorene and Charlie Beasley, Rosie Boyd, Phyllis and Lucius Chappell, Tiny and Count Dekay, Paula and Chris Duborg, Bea and Joe Eamshaw, Edith and Bob Ford, Rosie and Frenchle Goyette, Johnita and Will Heald, Sunny and Frank June. Caroline and Marty Lawrence.

Helen and Jim McKinstry, and Marshall Smith.

A large group from Florida were: Johnnie and Bob Allen, Dorothy and Joe Boulware.

Bill Brockman. Dorothea and Howard Caldwell, Delta and Alan Cross, Evelyn and Bill Davies, Ruth and Jack DImon, Margaret and Ray Harrell, Tom Greene, Velma and Ken Knowles, Toofie and Harry Mcllhenny, Phyllis and Jack Monroe, Emily and Granville Moore, Ben Moore, Helen and Bill Nickelson. Jane and Lannle Pancoast, Bettie and Lee Parke, Turk Powell, Eunice and Bob Rice, Chris and Mike RusslUo, Betty and E.J. Sullivan, Kay and Frank Virden, Billy and Biscuit Wev, and Ethel and Cliff Wickman.

From the South came: Jim Hager, Willana and Bill Mallett, Red Stillman, Sybil and Dan Latimore, Mariorie and George Hansen, Mary Ruth and Mike Coleman, Alice and Jerry Devlin, Gordon Everett, Lll and Harold Hamly, And from Texas were: Mary and George Coale, Jim Holloway, ML and Tex Mewhinney, Althea and Ted Schirmeyer.

From Tidewater Virginia came: Betty and John Atkeson, Bettie and Pierce Chilton, Bob Dixon, Pauline and Harrison Ethridge, Doris and Otie Gregg, Lucy and Spike Hottel, Margaret and FCB McCune. Dottle and RW Ricketts, Dottle and Stick Sutherland. And from Carolina: Bettie and Bill Ashford, and Bethea and Alex Patterson.

Coming from New England were: Paul Card.

Phil and AJ Coleman, Frances and George Fraser, Maehelen and Frank Gllday, Norma and Mike Honsinger. Petey and Andy Johnston, Knick Knickerbocker, Katharine and Roble Palmer. Marion and Wes Randig, Minnie and Eddy Rickabaugh, Dot and Sammy Seabring, Louise and John Slayden, Edythe and Bill Stewart and Phil Tankard. From the Midwest, Far and Southwest came: Polly and Oscar Dodson, Lois and Harry England.

Rovena and Adam Jordan. Betty and Joe Jelley, Eisa and Ernie Sabol. Paul Drouilhet. Dorian and Jim Cohn, Naomi and Bill Williamson.

Pennsylvania and New Jersey attendees were: Evelyn and Jack Bowling, Elizabeth and Snowy Hansen, Jean and Mitch Matthews.

Mildred and Phil Olln. Bob Olson. Martha and Bob Speck, Laura and Dick Wllkenson.

From the Northwest came: Mariorie and Clayton Dudley, Janet and Ted Fauntz. Helen and Pete Ferrall. Harry Homey. Helen and Carroll Johnson, Eleanor and Henry Marshall.

The Washington/Annapolis group Included: Sinbad Addison. Mary Lee and George Anderson, H.B. Atwood. Betty and Bob Barnes.

Virginia and John Bays. Jim Bradshaw. Helen and Hank Briggs. Ruth and Bev Bristor. M and Frank Bmner, Mari and Gordon Caswell. Rena and Josh Cooper. Sally and Smut Cortner.

Louise and Donk Donaho. Alice and Tim Donohue, Ellen and Herb Eckberg. Elizabeth

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Our President Presides at the Banquet and John Faigle, Barbara and Parker Falrlamb, Dot and Del Fitzgerald, Eleanor and Al FItzwIlllam, Louise and Bob Foley, Olive and Frank Glambattista, Marion and Don Griffin, Fritz Habecker, Mimi and Joe Hazen, Sue and Pat Henry, Marie and Ed Herron, Mary and FIrpo Hines, Virginia and Bob HInners, Tayo and Miles Hubbard, Carolyn and Bill Irvin, Hazel and Francis Kirk, Elizabeth and Bill Leahy, Vera and Wayne Loud, Ruth and Joe Maher, Rebecca and Joe McClaughry, Eleanor and Ray Mitchell, Vivian and Tom Neblett, Alice and Dick Phillips, Isabel and Rollo Pryce, Bert and Bob Quackenbush, Cassandra and Jim Roberts, Helen and Phil Ross, Marian and Bob Sands, Ruth and Brooke Schumm, Gene and Lorrie Shook, Randy Smith, Mary Lou and Phil Snyder, Frances and Carl Stelner, Mildred and George Sullivan, Ellen and Charlie Tooke, Rita and Bllnn Van Mater, Peg and Herb Zitzewitz and all the way from Madrid, Spain—Janet and Hank Jarrell.

Our widows came from the North, South, East and West. Present were: (Name of widow followed by name of her husband.) Louise Bennett-Rawson Bennett, Kay Bergln-Charile Bergin, Alice Crelghton-Llles Crelghton, Vivian Densford-Bob Densford, Helen DysonHowell Dyson, Peg Edsall-Warner Edsall, Mildred Garcia-Ed Garcia, Magnhild Gllbertson-George Gllbertson, Dorcas HickoxRalph HIckox, Maenette Jeanes-Perry Jeanes, Mosle Johnston-Paul Johnston, Billie KnlghtLevi Knight, Dorothy Koonce-Henry Koonce, Medora Marks-Sadie Marks, Virginia Mllburn-John Mllburn, Mary Miller-Shirley Miller, Eleanore Saunders-BIll Saunders, Harriet Scott-Roger Scott, Dorothy Scott-Roy Scott, Enid Thorpe-Harlan Thorpe, Kay van Doom-Bill van Doom, Barbara WlckhorstFrank Wickhorst, and Betty Zahm-John Zahm.

The fesfivltles opened with an outstanding Cocktail party and Reception with a fine buffet in the Armory (Dahlgren Hall). As our guests were the Superintendent and Mrs. McKee, the Commandant of Midshipmen and Mrs. Winnefield, the Academic Dean, Dr. and Mrs. Davidson and a number of others especially invited to join with us. Following the KT party there was a special showing of the 1926 movie—The Midshipman—starring Ramon Navarro, In which we had participated while here at Annapolis. A very mellow crowd went off to bed Friday evening after many happy mini-reunions had been conducted.

Saturday morning the final groups arrived and got checked in at Alumni House. Delivered to individuals as they checked In was, In addition to all their dope sheets, a handsome embossed plate commemorating the 50th Reunion of the Class.

At 10:00 a.m. the Class met for the Annual Class Business Meeting. Members and a goodly number of wives and widows were present. Opened by and presided over by our President, Tom Hamilton, the meeting moved thru a good agenda. One of the first Items was the receipt of the Frank Wickhorst sword from Barbara Wickhorst. A sword from Dick Wagner forwarded by his widow had previously been received. These two swords will be presented to the two Honor scholars, I.e., the Wickhorst sword to the Frank Wickhorst Honor Scholar and the Wagner sword to the 1927 Honor Scholar when they become First Class Men for use during their First Class Year. The swords were turned over to RAdm. Elliot Laughlin, Executive Director of the USNA Foundation for custody and Issue.

Next, Capt. Wm. Busik, the Executive Director of the USNA Alumni Association, presented in the name of the Superintendent of the Naval Academy and of the President of the Alumni Association, testimonials on the Golden Anniversary of the Class, to each of the living members of the Class. Those present received their copies and the copies for those not present for the Reunion will be mailed to them.

The President called for the annual reports of the Treasurer, the Secretary and the Executive Vice President. The reports from each having been received, the President directed that they be made a part of the Annual Report which will be compiled and mailed out to all Class members and to our widows. The Executive Vice President announced that the Executive Committee will take action to set up essentials for a 55th Reunion and would entertain overtures for the reunion to be held on the West Coast. (By evening, loud action was being voiced by separate groups to have the reunion scheduled In San Francisco or San Diego.)

By a vote called for by the President, the Class voted unanimously for the re-election of the current composition of the Executive Committee to serve for another year.

The Class moved out to the Bay Ridge Inn on Chesapeake Bay for a delightful luncheon.

Regrettably, the luncheon had been oversubscribed and to accommodate the numbers, the hard working Reunion Committee had to be "dislnvlted!" It was, however, a beautiful party and the high measure of conviviality which had begun the night before continued to prevail.

Saturday evening at the Hilton Hotel the Class met again for a gala banquet, preceded by a great cocktail party. Again, unfortunately the event was oversubscribed and attendance was limited to 395 participants. The dinner was a delicious feast. During the course of it the President took the occasion to express the thanks of the Class to the Class Officers for their work thm the year, the Committee of three Bobs for their highly successful endeavor In producing the Beacon, and to the 50th Reunion Committee for the wonderful job they had done in carrying out the whole Reunion. In the name of the Class, each of the aforementioned was given a handsome present. The highlight of this period was a presentation made by the President to Barbara Falriamb, the Assistant to the Chairman and Secretary of the 50th Reunion Committee, who In the words of the President "was the kingpin of the organization and the driving force behind all the Committee's actions." He also noted that she had been not only the real workhorse thruout the four years of preparatory work which led

Barbara Fairlamb Receives the Class's Acclaim

up to this highly successful Reunion but she had been a hard worker on the Class's fortieth and its forty-fifth Reunions as well. In the name of the Class she was presented with a lovely gift from the Class In expression of Its appreciation. Following the dinner, there was some fine singing led ably by Herb Eckberg and then dancing with Count Dekay and Cliff Cooper being the able experts. They retained all the graces they had leamed during those Plebe Year dancing classes so ably conducted by the assistant Wrestling Coach. Everyone complained that the bar closed too early but most groups adjoumed to rooms and activities continued long into the night.

And one more acknowledgement that must be made (although there are probably others that we will get to later). Thanks, Ray Mitchell, for arranging for the tennis and golf facilities for the more agile ones. Much appreciated.

Sunday moming the whole Class attended Chapel and following the regular service, there was a special service, an Ecumenical Memorial, conducted in the Chapel—a most stirring experience. Detail of this will be carried in the next issue of Shipmate.

Following this service and led by kilted bagpipers, the Class moved on to Alumni House for its Despedlta-Farewell Luncheon. Once again there were sad partings as members moved out to return home or to complete trips about the East and North.

It was the biggest reunion Annapolis has ever seen and again to '27 It was the best—till next time.

Sadly our joy at the Reunion was darkened by some items which must be reported. Just before the Reunion, George Adam Lange succumbed to cancer at the Naval Hospital, Bethesda 22 May 1977. He was buried in Arlington Cemetery on 26 May 1977. To Estelle, the Class extends Its deep sympathy. (Also, see "Last Call.")

We were unhappy to hear of the passing of Nina Drouilhet on 19 April 1977 at her home In Geary, Oklahoma. To her daughter and to Paul we extend heartfelt sympathy.

Mary A.P. Martin, the wife of Farar B.C. Martin, died In Norfolk on 17 May 1977. The Class sends its deep sympathy to Farar.

Marian and Harry Day were planning to come to the Reunion. She fell 111 and was forced to drop out but she insisted that Harry come on. While here he learned that she had had a bad tum and had entered the hospital.

He rushed home. She fell victim to cancer and died 28 May 1977. To Susan Stanley, her daughter, and to Harry we send our warm best wishes and deep sympathy.

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61 Classmates who have not received their Testimonial or other Items by the time they receive this issue of Shipmate should write the Secretary for follow-up. We will track them down and advise you at the earliest. For an additional copy of the Beacon write to Bob Barnes. A few copies are still available. More details on the Reunion will be carried in the next issue of Shipmate.

28 Pres.. Cdr. John Urquhart, USN (Ret.) Corr. Secy, RAdm. H. B. Jones USN (Ret.) Ferry Farms. .Annapolis MD 21402 Westem Corr., BGen. Robert G. Ballance, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 585. Indian Springs, NV 89018 Contrib. WesCoast Cort.. RAdm. W. A. CockeU, USN (Ret.) Percent Members: 76 News From Here and There Betty and Swede Norgaard paid a short visit to Annapolis in May. Several Classmates got together during their stay, including the Jameses. Joneses. Archers, and Momms.

Bypass Beyerly and wife had a visit to Taiwan.

Since their retum they have had several bouts with major hospitalization. Seem to be OK now. And Harry Sears had a recent stay In the hospitcd for minor surgery on his foot, but seems to be getting along fine.

Al Momm has been pinch hitting for your C.S. the last few months and has done a fine job. He will take over again In the Fall during my absence.

The Jameses. Bert Kent, and Joneses in Florida The Jameses, Kents, Joneses and Fays attended a cocktail party in Lauderdale given by Ruth Renard. TTie evening was enjoyed by all attendees. GInny and Al Fay report that they are enjoying a cmise In the Med and Into the Black Sea. We are receiving many reports from our Classmates' widows who hope to attend the 50th. Among them: Elizabeth Hampton (Jess Underhlll), Betty Sack (Max Catterton), and Alice Prestridgs (Clovis Coffman). Martha Strange (Bob Strange), and Abby Alderman (John Alderman). Reunion plans seem to be shaping up. Get In your writeups to Phil Wakeman at Scientists Cliffs, Port Republic MD 20676. He has a September deadline to meet.

And a final note, a happy one. Bob Watts and Mrs. Helen Lewis were quietly married at the Naval Academy Chapel on 1 June. Bob and Helen are living at 11014 Stillwater Ave.. Kensington MD 20795. Welcome, Helen, to the BLC! July-August. 1977

29 Pres.. RAdm. Bill Kabler USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Cal Laning USN (Ret.) Corr. Secretaries: So. Cal., Cdr. BiU Darnell USN (Ret.) 2003-224 Bayview Hts. Dr.. San Diego CA 92105 No. Cal., RAdm. Al White USN (Ret.) 2121 Sacramento St., San Francisco CA 94109 Florida, Cdr. Russ Hart USNR (Ret.) 1700 Dana Blvd., Menitt Island FL 32952 Percent Members: 81 April 1977 marked the Twenfieth Anniversary of one of the nation's largest Interstatelocal government groups, that of the Council of Govemments. incorporating officials of Washington and the nearby counties of Virginia and Maryland. In 1957, at the Invitation of the then-president of the Board of District Commissioners. Robert E. McLaughlin, some 40 officials gathered on the fifth floor of the District Building to hear a proposal by Bob. It was a somewhat non-mlsclble group of standoffish strangers, and (quoting the Washington Post) ""Commissioner McLaughlin looked around and began. "Perhaps to break the Ice, It would be well for all of us to know who the other people are. . . . Would you rise and state your name and connection?" " The COG, twenty years later, has become a vital and respected example of cooperation between massive adjacent communities. Many thanks to Bob. (What are you doing up In the boondocks of Maine?)

Your office received in the mail a program of the May 8 Sunday service of the Trinity Church of Newport, and was baffled, until we discovered a clue after the singing of Hymn 282. The sermon was to be by BGen. Samuel B. Griffith. II USMC (Ret.). Sam should have felt right at home In the pulpit, for facing him for the congregation was the entire Company of the Newport Artillery, in uniform, with Chaplain-Canon Zimmerman maintaining discipline. Apropos, yoiir column book reviewer has at last finished reading Sam's last book. In Defense of the Public Liberty. We can understand Its delay In going to press after following the immense range of new background information on the rise and flow of our Independence stmggle. For instance, we learned that the sailing of the Hessian division of troops from England to join the army of Burgoyne was delayed weeks until the British responded to the sensible Dutch demand for "'a copious supply of beer."

Your eastem representative missed the annual migrant labor trek to the Tolley ranch for the asparagus harvest. The adjacent photo Is Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

indicative of the activities which went on meanwhile at the ranch. In white, is Neena, the daughter of Vlada and Kemp Tolley, being given away by Kemp, In regimentals. In this same period, Kemp, who Is in demand as a speaker, took in the West Coast and Two North Carollnas, one a famous ship. Concerning the latter we quote from Kemp: "That trip to the old saoth—Wilmington, NoCar, was to play a small role in the professional documentary on the USS NORTH CAROLINA, sitting

majestically In a small estuary off the river. On flinging open the motel curtains, 8th deck, the morning after a late arrival. I could have been no more astounded than if a 759-foot nude Sophia Loren had been laid out flat In the distant foreground. It was, of course, the mighty NoCar, and as I found out on closer Inspection, in perfect shape for admiral's Inspection.

They have done wonders with that project.

The 28-mlnute film Is supposed to be ready in a month for wide distribution." {We believe that an interesting article on the project is to appear in this mag soon. Secy.) Further from Kemp, who might as well be secy for this column this month: "Last week I hit the Naval Academy for a day. Including chow In the mess hall ('scuse me! Midshipmen's Wardroom) and for taping a TV interview on China with a Midshipman history major. The studio would do credit to NBC, and although the interlocutor might not have been up to David Frost, he was far hotter than I remember to be par for a 1929 model. (Kemp, you never heard Henry Ford interview. But he couldn't he published in those days. Ski Berkley, Trident Ed, can attest.

Secy.) Also, it was interesting to observe sprinkled amongst the Mids ambling to class some samples of the new look—female Mids.

Other than those funny hats they looked just like any other plebes—scared. Of course, their chests stuck out a little farther."

In case you are wondering why so many battleship OKLAHOMA stories have hit this column lately, there are two reasons. One: you guys have not been sending In any dope, and two: your secy, attended an OKEY reunion in Annapolis. The reunion was an emotional lift for your '29 JO Mess member for three years. The three-day rally, divided between the Hilton, the Fleet Reserve Club, and a grand dinner at the "O Club", was marvelously prepared by a staff of all former EMs (plenty affluence showing) and brought together some sixty old timers, ranging from three men from the 1917-18 veterans of the British North Sea Fleet, to two men who were cut out of the inverted OKEY hull two days after she was sunk. The exhibit room contained photo albums arranged for each year—two for 1929 when twelve us reported aboard at Philly Yard. I was disappointed not to see any of them there, though some of the former whitehats and CPOs remembered us well. But 1 did see a '29er whom I did not know to have been in the OKEY—Bill Kabler In a beautiful red formal jacket for the final dinner. I forgot to bring a tie. After exchanging sea stories all afternoon with my disreputable EM friends, one a top guy in the LAPD. I was called to the rostmm at the dinner to tell another. When 1 got there, I realized that 1 didn't know any fit stories to recite before the many lovely wives in the audience (and one daughter, a lady Air Force Captain in the handsome AF evening dress). I looked appeallngly at Bill Kabler. who buried himself In his steak. Is that Class loyalty? My clean story didn't go over so good.

Spud Marcy is back from his world cmise.

62 but still has not sent in his report. He did not come back to the WB&A area, but Is summering in Oregon. Frank Novak, still in process of setding in the States after many years of residence in Europe, Is horror stricken at the institution of heavy state income taxes which has grown up since he left.

The Executive Committee announces that the retums from the election are in and the slate as proposed by the nominating committee is elected. Pres. Bill Kabler Is pleased to observe that along with the votes, a larger percentage than usual sent in their miniscule dues.

No need to raise the ante, and enough in the bank to start the Reunion preparations and composition of Muster Notes next year. If you don't remember sending in your vote, do remember that you can still send In your five buck support.

Charlie Weakley's memory as "Mister ASW" continues to be honored at the annual dinner of the National Security Industrial Association. The "Charles E. Weakley Award" was again presented by guest-of-honor Jerry Weakley. At the main table, Jerry noted one of the top officials removing a small flask from one pocket and a bottle of coke from another to pour a drink for Jerry. She asked, "What's that all about—I just ordered a rum-andcoke?" The official said, "Didn't you know? I have been delegated for the last five years to bring a mm-and-coke to the annual dinner. In case the dining room cannot furnish Mrs. Weakley's unique order!"

30 Pres., RAdm. Wreford G. Chappie, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Herbert H. Marable, USN (Ret.) 100 Askewton Rd., Round Bay, Sevema Park MD 21146 Percent Members: 85 The Washington Area Group of the Class of 1930 held a luncheon at Ft. Myer Officers' Club on 14 April 1977. Attending the luncheon were; Carlton Adams, Bob CraighlU, Tim Domer, T. W. Enis, Jimmie Howard, Bill Kirvan, Chief Masterson, Sandy McGregor, Bill Nelson, Artie Owen, Gene Sands, Buff Simons, Bill Snead, Waddy Wadsworth, Don Weller, Glen Williams, and Freddie Weis. Following the luncheon a business meeting was held when the Group elected Tim Domer, Don Weller, and Dave Welchel to serve as Class Officers for the coming year, beginning after the Spring Luncheon in Annapolis on 22 May 1977. Freddie Beans and Jack Jones were elected as altemates. Glen Williams to continue as Treasurer, and Herb Marable as Secretary.

Tim Domer got back from a cmise to South America and motoring trip in Mexico just in time to get elected as reported above. Report of trip follows; "Helen and Tim Domer spent last Winter taking a cmise to South America and traveling by car in Mexico. Enroute to New Orleans to board the Russian cmise ship M/V KAZAKHSTAN they visited Ella May and Bill Doyle In Cocoa Beach, Florida, and Louise and Harold Yokes in Winter Park. In New Orleans they had a 3-day get-together with Jane and Dick Cass, who were visiting the city.

While in Mexico they spent most of the time in Oaxaca, Queretaro, Tehuacan, and San Miguel

de AUende." (Secy's note: That must have been quite a cruise—"spent last Winter").

A long letter from Jack Moreno brings news both good and sad. The sad news is that Bill Moore died in Santa Barbara on April 13. Bill had been suffering from cancer for the past several years but had a massive heart attack followed by another massive attack which was fatal. Private services were held at Santa Barbara on Friday, 15 April. Contributions in his name may be made to Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Inc., 322 Palm Avenue, Santa Barbara CA 93105. Now for the news on a more pleasant vein.

Anne and Eddie Wagner were out for a few days in April, looking for a new retirement site. They found one at Rancho Bemardo and their new address, as of 1 June 1977, will be, 17890 Plaza Valdivia, San Diego CA 92128. As Eddie said, "We should have done this years ago!" And your secretary says, "Everybody doesn't agree with him, which is what makes the world go round!"

Jack reports that their next semi-annual Class party Is scheduled for 20 May, at the Admiral Kidd Club. At that time there will be ratification of the choices of the Nominating Committee for the new Class Officers for this area. Fred Bradman will continue as President, Emmett Obieme will be Vice-President, and Johnnie Kinert will be Secretary. (Secy's note: Johnnie has a big job to equal Jack's score.)

Jack reports that he is finally hanging up his business hat as tax consultant with H & R Block. Attending the luncheon were Herb Andrews, Fred Bradman, Ed Bmmby, Moon Chappie, Willie Coates, Bob DeGraff, Frank Johnson, Johnnie Kinert, Fred Lucas, Roland McKnight, Jack Moreno, Roy Newton, Pie Pieczentkowski, Eddie Price, with guests; Peter Bramsen, of Copenhagen, bro-in-law of Else Bradman, Peter Tmman, of Berkeley, grandson of Bert and Kaye Hindrelet, and Bunny Schoepper, Class of 1937.

Dick Hunt reports that he was instmmental in getting a musical service by the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen's Choir at St. John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C. on Sunday, 17 April 1977. St. John's Church, known as the "Church of the Presidents," dates from 1815, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and is the oldest building on Lafayatte Square next after the White House. A focal center of our national Govemment and of tourist interest in our Capital, it plays an important role in the religious affairs of our nadon. St. John's has a long record of association with the Navy. Three former Rectors were Naval Chaplains and the present Rector was a line officer in the U.S. Navy during Worid War II. 30—30—30—30—30—30—30

31 Pres., RAdm. Raymond P. Hunter, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. John Crumpacker, USN (Ret.) 3717 N. Nelson St. Ariington VA 22207 WesCoast Corr., RAdm. Andrew J. Hill USN (Ret.) 1295 Bangor Sreet San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 84 Marge and Al Reed had an interesting trip recendy, and here Is their report of it: "Marge and I spent the month of April on what has become virtually our yearly visit to the West Coast. The big drawing card is, of course, our daughter Marcia and her three children in Tiburon, Califomia, but other kinfolks and friends contribute to what is always a delightful vacadon.

"Starting in Coronado on April 1st, we had pleasant interiudes with Jean and Andy Hill, Hazel and Rivets Rivero, Red Adair (Betty was off at the opera), and Marge Ashworth. Andy reported that a committee is funcdoning and plans are well underway for our 'mini-reunion' In October 1978, with indications for a large tumout. (Andy's first mailout was awaiting us when we got home.) Hazel and Riv were about to leave on what sounded like a 'super' trip to Europe. Red Adair we hadn't seen for many years. He was an usher in our wedding in 1933, and looked just as debonair as he did then.

Marge is, of course, the widow of my Academy roommate Tommy Ashworth; she has two fine sons of whom she is justly proud.

We talked by phone with Kay Roeder, who was off for her desert place in Borrego Springs, and we tried to call Ernie Ellsworth, but I guess he was out sailing.

"No trip to Southem Califomia for us would be complete without a visit to Margo and Bob Hudson at their delightful home in Vista. They put us up for the night and we sat late talking over old times and present lives. Bob Is doing well with his physical therapy at the Camp Pendleton hospital and takes a lively interest in the management of his beautiful garden (even talking now and then to the fmit trees, which seem to respond with incredible bounty).

"After leaving Bob and Margo and looking over Carlsbad, Oceanslde, Camp Pendleton and Fallbrook, the next stop was Idyllwild for a visit with Peg and Jim Smith. (Jim was another Academy roommate.) They showed us around that 'idyllic" spot and we enjoyed dinner and lots of good talk in their unique cabin.

Jim and Peg are active in community and cultural affairs in Idyllwild; we warned Jim that he might be drafted for mayor!

"On up to the Bay area for ten days with Marcia and the grandchildren. The water shortage in Marin county is really severe, and we leamed at their house how to make every drop count. Requires a radicad readjustment of lifelong, taken-for-granted pattems. People who exceed the 40 gal. per day per person ration are charged 40 times the regular rate for the excess, and are warned that continued overuse will result in cutoff. The population supports the rationing and responds well.

"We drove down to Hillsborough one moming for a couple of hours with Fanny and Dick Andrews. It had been about six weeks since Dick's prolonged and complicated triple heart by-pass operation. He looked and felt well, and Shipmate

63 though thinking longingly of ski slopes and tennis courts, was pmdently taking things very easy and regaining his strength one day at a time. The Andrews' home in Hillsborough is a lovely one, high on a hillside, and filled with plants and flowers.

"A week in Honolulu was next—our first visit there in twenty years. We stayed at the Hale Koa military hotel at Fort DeRussy (we recommend it) and visited all the houses and places we had known in two tours of duty there, plus a good many new ones. Saw no Classmates, but did talk by phone with Dot and Alvey Wright, who cordially invited us to stop by their beachfront home In Lanikai— regretfully we couldn't make It. "Three days In Seattle visitng Marge's sisters, nephews and nieces wound up our trip.

Daughter Marcia left the children in Tiburon and joined us in Seattle to become reacquainted with aunts, uncles, and cousins. We had a drink one aftemoon with Carolyn Todd, Budge Todd's widow. She had recently retumed from touring Europe with a young grandson.

"We are planning our next westward hegira for the Fall of 1978—this one to be by car. starting in Seattle, destination the Hotel del Coronado and the 47VSth!" Many Classmates have already replied to the Coronado Interim Reunion Committee's first questionnaire and in doing so have sent in some interesting news items to the chairman, Andy Hill. The following "personals" were forwarded to me by Andy. Ed Quilter says his latest achievement was getting his Sea Room Handbook on the market. This purports to optimize the ancient mles of the road to the point where collision avoidance could be automated.

The manual has been reviewed in three languages very favorably. The Seagoing Bookstore in San Pedro charges 10% above the list price so someone must be stopping in to buy it.

It has even been shoplifted.

Ed"s further claim to fame is that he has five unmarried daughters and he says that's more than anyone else as he asks if there are any takers.

Ev Burt states that he is glad to see a change in location for the reunion because Annapolis does not have sufficient facilities. (That's a polite way to talk about that arrogant hotel.)

Please correct your directories to show that Ev's son Heiu^ is now married and has two daughters.

Phil Mothersill lives in Carmel Valley and is still practicing as a marriage and family counselor.

Sine Wright has retired from teaching at Pacific Grove HS. Charlie Jett moved to Rossmore, Walnut Creek. I'll get you his new address soon.

Bob Beebe says that his wife, Linford, will have a ""one man" show next October and is already feeling the pressure. Hal Payson will be busy in Rhode Island all Summer preparing for and defending the America's Cup. Ruth and Sherry Belts have been on an extended trip to Malta where they have visited their son Roger, and then to Florence, Devon and Comwall. While in England they were house guests of Frances and Ray Hunter's daughter.

Elynor and Elliot Brown were touring in Tennessee and Louisiana during May. They will be In England and Scotland in August.

Gene Tatom is doing volunteer work in guiding classes thm Audubon sanctuaries and in environmental awareness work in the ConnecJuly-August, 1977

either because they were unknown to us or unlisted—if yours Is missing and you want It listed, please sock It to us. We will circulate an addendum In due course, but please keep the Secretary Informed whenever you change addresses, telephone numbers, wives, names, or whatnot. We promise not to publish the whatnot. We dropped several names from our listing because the individuals concemed have not communicated with us in years, mail to them being retumed "address unknown," etc. The FBI already has enough trouble without looking for those guys and the Social Security authorities claim that It would be an Invasion of privacy to disclose an address. If you know the whereabouts of anyone In the Class not listed In the Directory, please write to him and tell him all Is forgiven, just tell us where he hid the plow.

In the early tune-ups for the 45th In Coronado, the Washington-Annapolis chapter held its May luncheon gathering at the Annapolis Yacht Club, our third annual husband-wife affair In that setting. There were several sotto voce complaints because we failed to have Maryland crab cakes as the piece de resistance, but most of the Chesapeake Bay crabs had gone south for the winter and failed to retum in time, probably sensing what '32 had in mind as a welcome! In attendance were Dorothy and Barry Atkins, Frances and Wllleye Bull, Tony and Jack Catlett, Peggy and Jim CoUett, Gwen and Dimi Dimltrijevic (the latter only recendy discharged after a month In Bethesda where he underwent removal of a kidney with attendant complications, but is now steadily getting back to battery), Allison and Wu Fang, Kitty and Emerson Fawkes, Clair and Francis Foley, Josle and Casey Holt, Deb Humes (who again made the trek down from York, Pennsylvania, for the occasion).

Dottle and Buck James, Wes and Ralph Johnson, Dora and Leon Kintberger, Clare and Pres., VAdm. Lloyd M. Mustin, USN (Ret.) Klink Klinkslek, Bobby and Jack Lamade, Sec'y, RAdm. Francis D. Foley, USN (Ret.) Teeny and Bob Leonard, Emmy Marshall, 77 Shipwright St., Annapohs, MD Betsey and Dick Matter, Jane and Sam Mon21401 cure, Emily and Lloyd Mustin, Mike O'ConPercent Members: 81 nor, Nancy and Charlie Odend'hal, Mary and Here and There with '32 George Pierce, Babs and Count Ruckner, Bo Once again we have some good news and and Jack Seager (accompanied by their some bad news for you. First the good, as . houseguests, two exceptionally enterprising those of you who attended the 45th reunion al- young brothers from Hong Kong, Ka Tsun and ready know, is that the new Class Directory Is Tony Kwang, the latter having just retumed in hand. Now the bad, as also already known from Norway where he had flown the helicopto those in Coronado, a copy Is going to cost ter airlift for the successul capping operation of you $2.00. This is made necessary by the fact the mnaway oil spill in the North Sea), Polly that the low bid for printing was $500 and the and Ski SosnoskI, Janet and Bill Stuart, MarClass exchequer couldn't absorb a whack like garet and Van Van Evera with their daughter, that without Sam Moncure losing his cool. The Lauri (a lovely practicing Washington attorClass Council therefore decided that we had to ney), Nona and Corky Ward, Willie Williamfork over the two bucks per copy to defray the son (who couldn't decide which one of his cost of printing, shipping to the West Coast, dates to bring along), and—last but not and mailing to those not at the reunion. least—Marion and Mel Young. We had also Everyone, widows Included, will receive a expected Jack Bandy, Betty Sugarman, and copy. Those to whom they are mailed will be Anne and Ted White, and were disappointed tmsted to send in a check for $2.00 as per In- they didn't make It. Dory and Tommy Hopkins were In Annapolis stmctions enclosed with the Directory. Please comply, unless you need the money more than recently, but on a sad mission indeed, the we do. which is to say, desperately. Leon death of his Mother. Lila T. Hopkins, who Kintberger and your Secretary labored over graced the local social and cultural scene for 96 this project to eliminate as many errors as pos- years. "Miss Lila," as many of us were sible, but have since leamed that we goofed on privileged to know her as midshipmen, was a several counts such as listing Kitty and Emer- bundle of energy, participating actively in garson Fawkes In New York instead of at their den clubs, the United Daughters of the Connew address in the local area. Please look over federacy, Anne Amndel General Hospital, the the new Directory as soon as you receive your Chase Home, the Hammond-Harwood House, copy, check the data pertaining to you. and let and Historic Annapolis. Tommy, we will rethe Secretary know of any corrections needed. member your Mother with affection.

We omitted phone numbers in many cases.

George Rogers writes to say that Ruthanne ticut State program. Anne is teaching in Bridgeport. Their oldest grandson is a new Marine and the next one has choosen to go the medical route. The Tatom's oldest son is now a law prof in Boulder. Colorado.

Audrey and Easy Stewart are making plans for the 47'/i reunion that will take them to Coronado via Moscow, Idaho, to see their son Norman.

Ethel and Al Butterfield celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary In June. Their son, John, Is in the Air Force. Their other son, David, got his MBA from the Harvard Business School this June.

Evelyn and Gov Ritchie were recently in Bermuda where Gov had an Investment conference. Perhaps he picked up some good dope on silver and gold speculation.

Al Jones, who lives in the San Francisco area, says he is staying home this Summer and hopes to find some water for his garden.

Directory changes: Burns, E.S. new address, 178 H Ave, Coronado CA 92118; Gimber, H.M.S., new, Rt. 1, Box 124, Golf Course Rd.. Bayslde CA 95524; McDonald, E.A. new, 134 Pocket Rd., P.O. Box 108, East Orleans MA 02643; Quilter, E.S. new, 5182 Maple St.. Irvine CA 92715.

The Schlumberger Foundation, for whom Cliff Iverson worked for many years as the Executive Secretary, has given the Naval Academy Foundation a large Memorial Scholarship in Cliffs honor.

I am sorry to tell you that Jim Grant died early in May of a heart attack. His ashes were scattered at sea. A full account appears in ""Last CaU."

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64 and he enjoyed a visit by Marie and Mike Shea who live in FayetteviUe, some 25 miles south of the Rogers' Rogers, Arkansas. (Have you got that straight. Nemo? If so, just answer "Roger, out" and let It go at that, O.K.?) In any case, Mike unfortunately suffers from glaucoma and something akin to arthritis which requires him to use a cane. However, thus far he's not complaining about anything except my alleged humor, so please write him an encouraging note and tell him he won't have to put up with it very much longer as time is running out on the Incumbent Class Officers. You may recall that Growler Grouleff and Bill Short visited the Sheas during a recent Invasion of the Indian Territory and haven't been heard from since. Where in hell did all those damn Indians come from, anyway?

A welcome letter from Lou Kirn reports that Ray and he are well, active, and looking forward to the 45th. They are stopping in New Orleans to visit her family for a few days enroute and plan to linger in Coronado and Los Angeles after the reunion before retuming to Coral Gables where Lou will resume work on the "honey d o " list which Ray supplies now that he's retired.

Don Thomas has faithfully kept us supplied with blow-by-blow news of preparations for the 45th, most of which we have relayed to you in this column. Recent bulletins will have been overtaken by events, so we will forego those, except to say that as of now (20 May) things have shaped up well—only a few cancellations for some health reasons, but with some surprise additions. Garry Jewett Is on the fence at the moment because of having been scheduled for by-pass surgery on 9 May to correct a heart condition. Allowing 10 days for recovery and 10 days for recharging his batteries, he thinks he can make the reunion, minus the golf. We will all be cheering for you Garry! Hope to see Alleen and you in Coronado.

You never know what the Air Force is up to, so don't look now, but Rollins Mayer has written a book. Gentleman by an Act of Congress, dedicated to the Class of 1932 on the occasion of its 45th reunion. The book will be on sale to each member at half-price, $7.50, at the Hotel del Coronado desk while we are there. Wiggle Wigelius has been threatening to burst into print too, so let the competition beware.

To bring you up to date on the Jukes' award, the midshipmen of the 32nd Company have designed and procured a handsome plaque which will be displayed in their Wardroom. A presentation will be made and the winner's name for 1977 inscribed thereon during June week at a ceremony attended by one or more representatives of the Class. Midshipmen John Wilson 1/C and Michael Kalnoske 2/C, present and prospective Wardroom Presidents, met with several of us from time to time to settie on the design and Inscription. The memorial trophy Is a polished shield upon whch is mounted a Naval Academy crest, flanked by stars and the numerals " 3 " and " 2 " on either side, and bearing an inscription engraved as follows: "The United States Naval Academy Class of 1932, in memory of Herbert LoUis Jukes, Class of 1932, hereby recognizes that member of the graduating class in the 32nd Company who, as determined by his Classmates, has exemplified the highest qualities of leadership and professionalism at the Naval Academy." Below this will be space for many annual award winners on individual name plates. We will have a picture of the trophy and first ceremony for

you in due course. I'm sure you will be proud, Dickie, just as we all are.

Along the same line, we were happy to leam at the Yacht Club luncheon that Deb Humes has commissioned a recognized marine artist to execute a nautical painting which she will donate to the Naval Academy as a memorial to Ralph. That's very touching. Deb, and we will all be looking forward to seeing this tribute to yet another of our esteemed Classmates.

Tony and Jack Catlett are hosting their annual co-ed get-together on their farm near Warrenton, Virginia, once again this year so that all those within reach can get together and swap gossip gleaned at the 45th. This will replace the July luncheon and will be on the same day. I.e., the second Thursday, 14 July. If you live some distance away and have let this prevent your attendance In the past, take heart, because Tony has graciously offered to put up four couples and perhaps even five, providing that they are friendly types who don't mind sharing certain essential facilities.

Attendance by those in the WashingtonAnnapolis area will be ascertained by our usual caller system—those further away who plan to be there should let the Catletts know direct by phone at 703/347-7157 as soon as possible.

You may recall that we asked in the May issue who else were denizens of the J.O. jungle in the LOUISVILLE other than Jack Counihan and Bruce McCandless? Comes a letter from George Pierce shedding some light on this portentlous matter, to wit: "About two weeks after the '32 ensigns reported aboard, three staterooms and part of the Wardroom Country passageway were whomped up into a bunkroom. Bmce McCandless, Jig Jig McCormick, Charlie Weschler, Phil Cann, Last Boat Counihan, George Blair, Doc (R.M.) Wilson and I moved in . . . our C O . , Captain Herbert Fairfax Leary (an old Navy type with, among many other distinctions, an active destroyer named after each of his names!) Invited the skipper of the SALT LAKE CITY over to see the

new bunkroom about a week after we moved in. The first attraction noted was Bmce, flaked out In mid-aftemoon in dirty dungarees, and all the rest of us asleep and snoring up a storm.

Needless to say, in no uncertain terms our Skipper established a new set of house rules on the spot. Bmce, Jig Jig, and Charlie have all gone to that Big J.O. Bunkroom in the Sky. When the rest of us report in, we'll probably find, again, that they have the best bunks."

Parenthetically, I might add that yours tmly served with Captain Leary when he was later the Chief of Staff to ComDesBatFor. As registered publications officer in thefiagshipDETROIT It was my unenviable task to keep all such pubs corrected. When I approached Captain Leary, with some trepidation to be sure, to correct his copy of the General Signal Book, he would say: "Sit down, young man, give me the page number and signal and I'll make the corrections myself—read off the first one!" I served with him again In Task Force SIXTYFIVE when he was a Vice Admiral and scaring the hell out of the Japanese as well as he did us. It's small wonder he made three stars. No one can say '32 wasn't well-indoctrinated by some real pros.

33 Pres., VAdm. B. M. Strean, USN (Ret.) 5038 North 30th St., Ariington, VA 22207 Sec'y-Treas., Capt. D. R. McMuUen, USN (Ret.) 8828 Burning Tree Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 75 Since last column the Washington/Annapolis group have had two luncheons. On 12 April Champ Blouin, Bill Mott and Ray Thompson sponsored the group at the Chevy Chase Country Club—23 attendees. On 10 May Tumer (TAD) Duncan sponsored the annual co-ed affair at the Annapolis Yacht Club; this had big attendance with 48 people: Audrey and Bob Barnum, Hal Bowen, Bobby and Swifty Caldwell, Bob Camera (from Philadelphia), Bill Dawson, Mary Alice and Bill Davis, Charlotte and TAD Duncan, Chick King, Kip and George Laird (Harrisburg, Pa.), Maqorie and Elliott Loughlln, Betty and Bill Macdonald, Jo Cobb, Helen and Dale Mayberry, MIckie and Hugh McKibbIn, Mary and Dillon McMullen, George Miller, Betty and Jimmy Ogden, Dottie and Willie Rakow, Frances and Ralph Shifley, Sarah and Frank Sinclair, Janet and Smoke Strean, Esther and Charlie Travis, Terry and Jack Walsh (Philadelphia), Del and Archie Wright, Ruth and Joe Costello (Hampton, Virginia), Dora Lee Rowe. Ben Dotson (Honolulu), and Jay V. ("Chevy Chase") Chase.

Ray Thompson was down in Fort Lauderdale In a swimming meet and doubtless winning more gold. Champ Blouin, another reliable, was on the West Coast with Rosalie. Carmelita and Charlie Blick were just out of town and missed a good one.

Ray Thompson would like to "crew" a yacht back from Florida to the north and alerted Lem Stevens (Yacht Broker) to keep a lookout for a berth for him. Lem didn't sound too encouraging but said he would plug Ray's cause for him. Lem mentions that Dick Kibbe and Bill Dawson made quick trips through Fort Lauderdale. Carmelita and Charlie Blick are looking for a new retirement home outside of Washington; the San Francisco Bay Area seems to be favored at the moment. Edy and Bill Mott have already sold their home in Bethesda and Edy Is in Charlottesville supervising the constmction of their new home.

Smoke Strean says he and Janet are considering the possibility of a move and right now they tilt towards Annapolis.

I have a lot of little bitsy news about some of our West Coast Classmates, which I will pass along. Dick Bird is involved as Chairman of a recent West Coast organization of retired admirals and captains who have experience in business and industry known as "Admirals and Captains Associated (ADCAP)". Jack Coye is a retired "commodore" of the Coronado Yacht Club, has his own Cal-25 which he races against Dave Lambert who also has a Cal-25.

Mary Louise and Glover Ferguson who moved to Coronado from Honolulu three or four years ago are happy with the change but spend much of their time traveling: Mexico, Carib, Alaska.

As of March. Lib Fortune was recuperating from surgery and Bill was busy with a medical development firm working on an enzemite process of converting wastes to fertilizer and fuel.

Maudie and E^die Fredericks are busier now than they have ever been; Eddie is active in Alumni and Navy League activity (Navy League Representative and Curator of the Shipmate

65 Naval Area of the Maritime Museum of San Diego) and In the business community he is an independent real-estate appraiser and broker and is a director and stockholder in two wholesale floor covering companies; Maudie is active with the San Diego Symphony. Globe Theater, Freedoms Foundation, Committee of 100. Athenaeum and a new granddaughter and in her spare time acts as Class Secretary for "33 West. Joe Williams says his golf handicap is 18 and rising and should you not already know it Joe has been active in Scouting and has received national recognition for his work in this endeavor. Maggie and Al Pelling play a lot of golf; Maggie is active In the Red Cross at the Naval Hospital and Al mns the drydock for the Port of San Diego.

Meanwhile, preparations for our 45th Reunion(s) are moving along. The Reunion in Annapolis is scheduled for 12-14 May (Friday.

Saturday and Sunday) 1978 so mark up your calendars and start making your plans. Sometime about October the Reunion Committee will mail to all Classmates the program for the event and application cards for reservations at the Annapolis Hilton (incidentally the management has Increased the number of rooms being made available to us from 75 to 90). In general, the program that is being worked up for this event will follow pretty closely the pattem of the 40th. When you get the mailing this Fall be sure to give it real and immediate attention. If anyone has any ideas he would like to see developed, write to me when conveniendy possible. In the Fall of next year. 12-15 October (Thursday thm Sunday) there wiU be a Reunion West at San Diego with the Hotel del Coronado being Reunion Headquarters. Pickles Heinz is the honcho for the West Coast affair and the tentative program that he has developed looks great. So, there's another date to mark on your 1978 calendar and you wiU note that these two events are non-interfering: both leave you with our Summer free and that the West Coast gathering will be the week end following the Navy-Air Force Academy football game at Colorado Springs.

And now the bad news. Our Classmate Norm Gambling passed away in Sacramento.

Califomia. on 1 April after a long period of pain and incapacity; Norm Is survived by his widow. Laurette, 1957 Seventh Ave., Sacramento CA 95818. Ross Linson who used to work so hard on Alumni matters and almost single handed organized the West Coast 40th Reunion in San Francisco died in the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital after a long losing bout with cancer; Ross died on 15 May and his next of kin Is a nephew, Cdr. H. L. Holthaus '58.

And the many Classmates and wives who knew Lisa Sublette will be saddened to know that she too has passed on after a long tough fight with cancer; Lisa Is survived by Bill Sublette, 305 N. Clinton Ave., Wenonah, NJ 08090.

Some of the Southem Califomia Contingent of the Class of '34

34 Pres., VAdm. Arthur R. Gralla USN (Ret.) Secy, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.), 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 82 Press Release The Douglas County Herald reports that the Ava Airport will be known as "Bill Martin Memorial Airport." That was the unanimous decision of the Ava City Council on 7 May 1977. Bill was bom In Ava, Missouri, on 5 May 1910.

On 28 April the W.B. & A. contingent of '34 held its annual luncheon at the Belle Haven Country Club, Alexandria—host Fid Murray.

Art Gralla was duly elected Chairman of the Association of the Class of 1934. Ed Batcheller, Emie Christensen, Doug Fuller, Fid Murray, Paul Savldge, Roy Smith and George Wells played on the links following the lunch.

Nobody reported any scores, but It was generally agreed that Ernie Lawson's record from last year was In no danger. One sea lawyer in the group criticized Emie for having retired after nine holes with his 72. On the other hand a majority admired Ernie's discretion, bringing to mind the old adage that it is a fine line of distinction between initiative and unwarranted assumption.

From the desk of Larry Becht: "Well, the Southem Califomia contingent of '34 did It again! First, Nels Johnson hosted one of his fine golfing toumaments on 29 April at the Cot-

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tonwood Country Club—then, on 30 April, we had one of our frequent great buffet-cocktail parties at the lovely Oakwood Clubhouse in Coronado.

"First, about the golf—after all the flailing and alibiing was over, Frank Tharin came out in front with a net 58 (Including a 30 handicap)!! Other close finishers were Claude Bailey with a net 65 and John Geist with a net 67. That will just give you an Idea of the class (?) of talent that the rest of us have to put up with. Now—as to the party, please see the accompanying photos. We didn't Identify the players In the latter since we thought you might enjoy trying to pick out your own favorites. The smiley guy with the portable topper looks suspiciously like someone I know. Fiftyfive Classmates, wives, guests and widows put on a terrific show—if you like to keep score.

To help you pick out your favorites attendees Included: Claude Bailey, Kay and Red Baumberger (Red has fully recovered from a tricky heart problem), Esther and Larry Becht, Lucy and Denny Biwerse, Juana and Butch Brockett, Helen and Jim Davis, Alice and Tom DuBois, Jane and Leo Flynn, Pop Gunn, Ruth and John Geist, Frank Johnson (with three guests), Dottie and Nels Johnson, Amy and Bmte Kmlak, Gladys and Bob Leeman, Jan and Hugh Maples, Helen and Gorm Merrick, Louise and Hnky Nelson, Rosebel and Bob Ovrom, Rita and Jack Phelps, Dottie and Butch Robblns, Orllee and Bill Robblns, Catherine and Don Scherer, Betty and Frank Tharin, Marian and Vic Smith, Virginia and Frank Upham, Ela and Bev Van Buskirk, Eleanor and Marshall White, Peggy Antoniak, Joy Daunis and Jean Hampton. Many of the above had to journey quite some distances to be with us—from places like Vista, Rancho Bemardo, Loma Santa Fe, Laguna Beach, Whittier, Los Angeles, Hollywood and—the real tigers—from Tucson (the Van Busklrks).

We also have some half dozen very attractive widows who usually join us—those wonderful gals really dress up the joint like caviar and similar accouterments. We must give a tip of our hat to Bob Leeman and Gorm Merrick for their stellar backup efforts re the Fiesta. Good work, men. On to JUNE WEEK WEST in Long Beach!"

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35 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: 72 Don Clay sends in a correction to the address which appeared in the March Shipmate for him. He is moving about and should be contacted through his business address which is still P.O. Box 2223, Albuquerque NM 87103.

He has not moved his residence from Albuquerque.

Again, attention is regretfully called to the "Last Call" section where Sammy Sampson was listed in June. He died suddenly on the moming of 20 April 1977 while driving from his home at Lake Califomia to his office In Anderson, Califomia. His car carried him off the road and into a ravine not far from his home but out of sight of sheriff and police road patrols along that road. The Lake Califomia Volunteer Fire Department continued their search throughout that night and finally located him on the aftemoon of the 21st. In recognition of this group's unrelenting efforts, Helen requested that the Class donation be sent to them in Sammy's memory. Services were held at McDonald's Chapel in Anderson and interment was at Golden (3ate National Cemetery, San Bmno, on 26 April. Representatives of '35 attending the latter included: Sally and Frank Hess, Dixie Farrell, Stan Ruehlow, Bill Sullivan, Frank Wheeler, and Pete Boyle's wife, Elsie. The condolences of the Class have been expressed to Helen and family by Jeff Parker.

Frank Hess reports from Piedmont, California, that he hung up his working clothes at the end of 1976 and broke out his golfing togs. His employment since retiring from the Navy had been as Highway Administrative Officer for the Califomia Highway Division.

A note from French Wampler advises that he and Bette are enjoying Long Beach very much.

They moved there In early 1976 from Alexandria, Virginia, where he had worked in the Property Standards Division of the Alexandria Public Health Department. His current address: 5110 Atherton St. #60, Long Beach CA 90815.

Sally and Cy Austin spent about four weeks in Hawaii, early this year, baby-sitting their daughter Susie's children while she visited her husband on deployment in Subic Bay. After her retum, they took a cottage In Bellows Field for a few days rest before retuming home in Sepulveda, Califomia. Cy also reported Don Van Ness In the process of moving his permanent address from Mundelein, Illinois, to Rancho Bemardo in San Diego.

Bob Burdick, as of the end of April, advised that he was about to retire from the University of Wyoming faculty but might or might not continue in a small educational computer business which he and the ex-Head of the University Computer Center had set up about three years ago. Bob claims a possible record for the Class of 1935. He became a great-grandfather on 26 December 1976. Can any '35er claim an earlier date for attaining this venerable status?

Gilly Gilmore in Kansas City, Missouri, reports his retirement as Senior Vice President of Kansas City Life Insurance Co. effective 30 April. He retains his officer/director associa-

tion with various Missouri banks and civic organizations and expects to resume on a low-key basis his former activity as a practicing attorney.

In September, Jack Seymour joins the Yale faculty as a Visiting Lecturer to teach a Fall semester seminar on maritime affairs. Using the early history of the Port of New Haven, as a starting point, the effects of ocean trade on a port's economy will be discussed, and the most advantageous uses to which the waters and shoreline should be put will be explored. Tours of the harbor and visits to shipping terminals, marinas, oyster docks and yacht clubs will be made to see how the port has developed and what its future prospects are for both commerce and recreation. Student research will include the establishment of the colony as a theocratic-economic unity, trade routes to support it, the Colonial Navy, New Haven's South Seas Fleet and China trade, advent of the steamship and the fabulous New York night boat, commercial and naval shipbuilding, and the transition into today's petroleum port.

Jack expects to continue for a while as Executive Director of the Women's Seamen's Friend Society, its principle function now being a scholarship program for Connecticut students at Maritime Colleges or those majoring In marine science.

The annual Class of '35 award of a sword to the outstanding Midn. 1/c in the 35th Company was made on 15 April to John S. Gardner ('77) In the 35th Company Wardroom of Bancroft Hall. Steve Sherwood donated his sword for this year's ceremony. Red McDonald arranged for its refurbishment and suitable inscription, and Jeff Parker, as Chairman of the '35 Class Council, made the presentation. Midn. Gardner, selected by the 35th Company Officer, LCdr. P. F. Schlssler, Jr. USN '67, was chosen from several strong contenders "because of his ability, integrity and competitiveness."

He was 35th Company Commander for the first semester, was President of the USNA Glee Club, and participated in Company sports competition. He is going to nuclear power school enroute to a career in the nuclear surface fleet. In addition to Jeff and Red, the following '35ers attended the presentation after enjoying an evening meal and conversations with the midshipmen of the 35th Company: Rod Badger, Lou Detweiler, Tom Glllmer, Dermott HIckey, Pete Islev-Peterson, Fletcher Lamkin, Wy Packard, and Kagey Schacht. Incidentally, the redecorated 35th Company Wardroom, which the Class helped to fund, is a big improvement both functionally and in appearance. Those attending Homecoming this year should make a special effort to get up to see it.

The Class of '35 Annual Report will have been received before this column hits the street and will contain these recent address changes (as well as those mentioned earlier), but they are repeated herewith for those in other classes who may be interested: Woody Woodward's widow, Barbara Garside, P.O. Box 507, Delray Beach FL 33444; Brooke Atkins moved from Chevy Chase, Maryland, to 7945 St. Louis Terr., La Jolla CA 92037, effective 30 June.

36 Pres., Capt. F. G. Law, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. W. M. Hanger, USN (Ret.) 4720 Sedgwick Street., N.W., Washington, DC 20016 Conr. Sec'y, Capt. Wm. A. EUis, USN (Ret.) 4101 Downing St., Annandale, VA 22003 Percent Members: 76 Well, here It is another Summer and '77 half gone, so we presume all of you are either on vacation or about to begin one. At this point in time (May), ASNE Day '77 having come and gone, we are looking forward to two weeks at Nags Head again. We decided against the usual month because while we are away things just get out of hand at home and we never do get caught up on all the yard work that accumulates. So maybe with only two weeks this year we'll be able to keep things shipshape and get back in time to prevent the tomatoes and shmbs from buming up and going to pot. But enough of this; let's get on with the little bit of news we have to share with you.

The 13 April luncheon at Vinson Hall with Its usual gathering of old faithfuls was enjoyed by all. Present were: Blanche and Jack Baumeister; Dick Bradley—we missed Pat and her witty stories; Dorothy and "Mac" Buder; Ede and Bill Ellis—Ede with the help of the Butlers and her cmtches; Rosa and Frank Law; Margo and John Oseth; Kathleen and Jack Ryder; and Don Willman. There wasn't much business transacted, but Frank Law reported on the possibilities of a June '81 reunion on the west coast—Frank Springer is already working on this for a gathering in San Diego— followed by the regular reunion in Annapolis at Homecoming. Jack Baumeister came up with the idea: Why not Las Vegas? Where else can you see shows and play "sports" than on the Vegas strip? Jack had a good idea, but probably a little too rich for the blood of most '36ers. So Coronado, Los Angeles, or San Francisco, here we come—that is, if Eill the plans being made materialize.

Speaking of Coronado, we had a phone call from Ginny and Harry Stark back In April just after they arrived home from Hong Kong. Both said they had a ball and that Hong Kong is still the same gay place but "the prices are fantastic!" Shortly after returning home Harry played golf with Charlie Holcombe to be sure he had his feet back on the ground. Soon thereafter Kay and Charlie took off for Hawaii, headed for the golf toumament at Mona Kea. They also reported Jane Parham was recovering from her broken hip suffered in a fall at home. We all wish Jane the very best.

News tidbits gleaned from notes received are shared with you from: John Boland (10 May): " . . . Put us down for a room in 1981—45th Reunion. Might even be interested in west coast June '81 Reunion—or both . . . Hope to get up to see you all shortly. . . . Mary Julia and 'Moose' Brown presently off to Austria.

Amanda joins in all the best to all."

Al Furer (9 April): " . . . Appreciated your last 'Memorandum.' I know everyone appreciates all the work you put in on the 40th even though we couldn't get to it. I think the idea of a formal reunion In June on the west coast In '81 is a good idea. . . . Recently had a nice note form Hugh Caldwell in Pasadena gently urging me to come across with a contribution to the Alumni Fund. Said he was a Class Agent' helping his 'Chairman' Bill Shipmate

67 Groner . . . also had a letter from Emily Seaman. She and Dave have apparently been preoccupied with children and a grandchild as well as with plans to enlarge and remodel their house on San Juan Island. . . . Keep up the good work and best personal regards to all."

Bill Near (6 April): "It has taken me a long time to answer your January memorandum, but better late than never. . . . Since the 40th, our daughter was married and Phyllis and I acquired an 'instant' 6-year old grandchild. It is the first for us and needless to say we are enjoying it immensely. . . . I am retiring in December from GTE Automatic Electric after 41 years with the same company. Phyllis and I are looking forward to the new fi-eedom that retirement will bring. It will give us a chance to travel much more than we could in the past as well as enjoying our 8 acres on a northem Wisconsin lake without having to hurry home every Sunday night. . . . We're still telling everyone about the wonderful time we had at the 40th. Everybody was so hospitable and friendly, and it seemed like graduation was only yesterday. You can put us both down for the 45th in October '81. Wouldn't miss it for anything." Good to hear from you Bill. We'll be looking forward to seeing you again. Why not make it sooner? Say, at Homecoming '77, and this time we'll make it a promise that Navy will win.

Rich Myers (12 May): " . . . Sorry to be so late, but we've had constant visitors (snowbirds) since Homecoming. Had visits from Bula and Ekl King and Madeleine and Jean Moreau. In addition, 1 had to undergo surgery in December. . . . Want to thank you again for the wonderful "40th' and the tremendous job you and all the people around the AnnapolisWashington area did. Golda and 1 will always remember that wonderful week end . . . We're planning a visit to the west coast, probably in August, and hope to see or visit with some of our Classmates. Might even fly on over to Hawaii. We have a lot of friends on the coast and in the islands, especially since 1 put in my last four years in San Diego and had a lot of west coast duty. Will give you little report jtfter the trip on who we saw. . . . Wish we could attend all the home games in Annapolis as we used to do when we lived in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but commuting from Florida is a little tougher. . . . Give our best regards to all Classmates attending your meetings, and holler over a 'Hello' to Bill Ellis if he's still with you at ASNE." Thanks for the dope, Rich. Yes, we're still at it at ASNE but wiU soon have to start thinking about re-retirement before the Social Security people catch up with us this year. Sorry to leam about the surgery. We all tmst you are fully recovered by the time you read this and that you had a glorious time in Hawaii.

Anita Schwaner (10 May; Nice, France): "Just back from my home town. It was beautiful, with lots of people there now. Am afraid the food is too good and out of this world, and my pounds are adding. I do walk with the hope of losing some! . . . Am waiting for a visit from my 19-year old grandson, Henry, on 3 June.

He will stay for a month, and I hope to take him to Italy and Switzerland. I am driving a French car, 'al poor me.' If by any chance you are coming this way, let me know: 8 AVE des Vignettes Mourillon, Toulon 83 . . . Love to all." Sorry you missed the 40th Anita, but glad to hear from you and to leam you are enjoying your stay in France. Have a good time and a safe joumey with Henry. The picture on your July-August, 1977

card brought back fond memories of the trip Ede and I made to Nice, back in '58, with Its view of La Promenade des Anglais.

Had a "quickie" note from Spike Snyder In early May saying all is well on the west coast but that he'd like to have a 40th Reunion '36 WIndbreaker. Said he had a nice visit with the Chenaults during the West Coast Alumni gettogether on the QUEEN MARY. Have passed along his note to Randy Meade for action and am sure that by now he has his wIndbreaker.

How about a longer note with all the news.

Spike? It is always good to hear from old friends and Classmates; without such news there would be no '36 column.

Sorry to report that two of our Classmates, Jim Gray and Don Willman, were both hospitalized at Bethesda in late April for surgery.

Talk about togetherness! Out of that great big hospital, guess who wound up being roommates? It could only happen once in a million times. As of this writing, both are now at home convalescing. They have both asked that we express their deepest appreciation to all for the many good wishes they received by cards and phone calls. Our best wishes go to Jim and Don. We also regret reporting that Kathleen Ryder was back in Bethesda In May for another operation on her eyes. As of Frank Law's visit with her last week she was coming along fine, but the doctors were having a bit of difficulty with one of Kathleen's eyes responding to their treatment. Nevertheless, Kathleen was hopefully looking forward to getting home by the end of the week. Am sure a card or cheery note would do much toward brightening up Kathleen's day and that she'd welcome a word from all of you. In case your Roster Isn't handy, the address is: 2237 N. Trenton St., Arlington VA 22207. Meanwhile, we all wish Kathleen the very best and that by now she has fully recovered from her operation.

Having mentioned earlier that my Ede got to the Easter Luncheon on 13 April with the able assistance of Dorothy and "Mac" Butler and the help of her cmtches, we find we neglected to reportâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;probably because it was in the family and close to home, not because it was a lack of concernâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that Ede was hospitalized back in March for surgery on her right foot. As of this writing, am happy to say that the surgery was a success and that except for some discomfort and the fmstrations with cmtches, she is doing nicely. Her only concern at the moment is that she will not be fully recovered and on her own two feet again so that she can enjoy our two weeks at Nags Head, especially the enjoyment of a daily dip in the ocean. She too says thanks to aU for the many "Get Well" cards and phone calls received.

FOUND: One medallion off a '36 Navy Bill/40th Reunion Key Chain. Did you lose yours? Thanks to Col. D.W. Tardif ('48) of Springfield, Virginia, we have same. It was found by Capt. F.J. Linehan (MC) USN, near his home in the Byeford Section of Kensington, Maryland. Both kind gentlemen thought someone might regret having lost this memento of the Class Reunion. If it is yours, drop us a line, and It will be retumed to you post haste. Our thanks to both Col. Tardif and Dr. Linehan for being so thoughtful.

That's It for now. Scribble a wee note or drop us a card from wherever you are during the Summer. In the meantime, drive safely and have a good vacation.

37 Chm. Wash. Grp., RAdm. Paul Hartmann USN (Ret.), 1701 N. Albermarle St. McLean VA 22101.

Sec'y-Treas., LCdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 2118 Bancroft PI., N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Con-. Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. P. Mack USN (Ret.) 1109 Galllard St., Alexandria VA 22304 Percent Members: 76 The sign-up forms for the fortieth reunion continue to bring In a wealth of hot dope.

On the plus side we are all glad to hear that Hank Rowe is continuing to recover from a recent hospitalization. Jack Slaughter Is carrying on in spite of impaired vision In one eye. Dotty Schmidt is waging a winning fight against cancer and is looking forward to Spring on the golf course. Sneed Schmidt Is still with Electric Boat, but finds time for his gardening chores.

Barbara and Bud Hall have "tentatively" decided to attend the fortieth via a newly purchased motor home. They are completely retired In Califomia and spend their time checking up on their children and grandchildren.

John Hess works with Sneed at Electric Boat. Mariie and John hope to make the fortieth.

Ann and Fog Blasdel recently visited the West Coast on a combined work-pleasure trip and ended up at the Army's new WaikikI hotel "Hale Koa." Fog says It was great.

Dorothy and Ralph Benson won't make the fortieth but report that they have re-retired after 15 years of school teaching.

The Washington group conducted its annual drag luncheon In March. Twenty-nine persons enjoyed beef Stroganoff on the Army-Navy Club sun porch.

June and Justin IVIiller Jr. now live at 606 Silvershlre Drive, Pensacola. Justin reports that he still flies privately and enjoys swimming, golf, surfing, water skiing and drinking.

Justin has been active In TV and Radio in Florida. He is a former President of the Florida Association of Broadcasters and has been a director and owner of several radio stations.

Al Gerken sends the following newsflash: "The Class of '37 held its first ever class reunion at Satellite Beach and Melboume Beach, Florida, the week of 7 March 1977. It might be called a preview of the fortieth with Oweeta and Hank Burfiend, Mary and Walt Barry, Al Gerken, and Dorothy and Harmon Rimmer, '40, brother of Hugh Rimmer.

Jean and Swampy Lajaunie visited relatives In Maryland last Chrsitmas and stopped by Annapolis before retuming to Florida.

Dave Bell recendy wrote, "My primary activities outside of my family are doing volunteer work and of these I'd say the one I enjoy most Is being President of Submarine Force (Atlantic) Library and Museum Association which was started in 1972 to support and facilitate activities of the Submarine Force Library and Museum and Is administered under SECNAV. It keeps me in touch with those currently on active duty and also In touch with many of those who survived World War II and now are ready to turn over to someone some of their pictures and memorabilia. If anyone has such things they'd like to dispose of to a museum, please contact either me or the museum. My Classmate contacts are still with Joe Dodson, Sneed Schmidt, and Johnny Hess

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Janet Madison wrote to say that Bob Is very ill at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. They will both miss seeing Classmates at the fortieth.

Bunny Shupper says he and Barbara have moved to a Coronado Shores Condominium where the Gilkesons are neighbors. Bunny plays golf as his joints permit (don't we all).

Well, boys and girls, start saving your pennies for the fortieth. All sorts of good things are planned. One Is a large tent to house a super tailgate party in the Stadium parking lot.

You can be rolled to the game if necessary.

Charlie Minter and Bill Mack have been watching spring football practice. We've got a great team coming up. Twenty-two of 24 of last year's group that rolled over Army and did so well In the last four games are all back except for Dave King. Several good plebes will enter in July and all in all we should have a good and winning team. Charlie and Bill predict a winner on homecoming day and a smasher of a fortieth. See you there.

38 Chm. Wash. Grp., Capt. S.S. Mann USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN (Ret.) 4620 North Park Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Percent Members: 71 The Annual Wives-Husbands Luncheon was held at Ft. Myer on 28 April. Out-of-towners included Peggy Washington, the Ells, Conrads and Berthrongs. All told, a gay group of 60.

The Smalls are off to Florida again—what a life! And the Melvins are en route to the West Coast to see Classmates and their children.

Both couples were honored by Marie and Bill Spears with a sumptuous farewell dinner party In late April.

Jean Johnson Is making a trip to the West Coast and a well-earned vacation.

A note from Frank Zimanski indicates a gathering of '38 at the Amphibian Base Officer's Club In Coronado on II June '77. Frank, please give Jack Bogley a report on this affair.

Big Jim Stilwell Is In the news again. Running for the high office of Mayor of Annapolis.

All readers of this column who reside In Annapolis were invited to vote for Jim, but we regret that it just was not in the cards. Maybe you will be Govemor some day, 'Sir' Jim.

39 Pres., Capt. C R. Chandler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. F. P. Anderson, USN (Ret.) 2725 N. Wakefield St., Ariington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 72 Our Washington luncheon on 4 May produced not only an excellent tumout (27) but also the unexpected (but most welcome) appearance of two out-of-towners, Tom Weschler from Newport and Fred Clarke from Coronado. Tom announced that he has changed positions at the Naval War College, moving from DIr. of the Center for Continuing Education to Head of the Naval Operations Dept., one of the three main divisions of the regular NWC curriculum. Fred brought us up to date on the Coronado/SD group admitting however that he really didn't have very much new to tell us due to the outstanding reporting (in this column) by Bob (R.W.) Clark. Fred said he's completely retired now and really enjoying it. Tom Bell told us that he, his wife, and two daughters were planning to visit London this Spring to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Queen's reign. Also, by the time you read this, Eleanor and Paul Adams should be back home in Arlington from a most Interesting trek/safari to Zanzibar, Tanzania, Africa and a visit with son, Tom, who is the U.S. Vice-Consul there. Our own energy expert, Bing Gillette, managed to make the luncheon in spite of his exceedingly pressing duties with the Fed. Energy Admin. However, I am sorry to report that we were unable to pin him down on anything for the record regarding a prognosis on the current situation. Pete Powell was back with us after a rather lengthy absence.

Noble Harris said he hasn't yet completed rehabilitating his 1936 Cord, still having a few mechanical problems.

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Lunch Bunch James J. Stilwell with wife Edna According to Navy Times, our last Classmate on active duty, Blackie Weinel, Is finally due to retire 1 August from his prestigious four-star NATO post In Bmssels after 38 years of distinguished commissioned service. Unofficial sources report that he Is completely ready to prop his feet up somewhere far away from the hustle and busde of urban living for a secluded rest most richly deserved. (On behalf of your loyal Classmates scattered world-wide, I hereby extend our heartiest congratulations, Blackie, not only for your superlative career but especially for outlasting the rest of us!

Please let us know where you finally decide to drop anchor.)

Last month I mentioned briefly the death of Tom Bennett's widow, Nookie. I now have additional information courtesy of Chuck Jenkins in Los Altos, Califomia. She died in Letterman

Hospital, The Presidio, S.F., having been visiting her daughter, Joanne (Mrs. Ralph K. Stark), of 1320 Poplar, Pacifica, Califomia. She had been living in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Many of you should remember her father. Prof. J. M. Purdie of the Department of Languages.

This column's April account of recent accomplishments of Carol and Bill Ruhe's daughter, Melody, prompted my enlightenment conceming two other talented and successful '39 offspring, both actresses on television. First, Bob Stuart wrote that their daughter, Anna, currenUy plays the part of Gena Dante in General Hospital, an ABC-TV soap opera filmed in Hollywood. (As Bob said—move over, Bill.)

He further reported that all is well in the W. VA. hills (Bluefield) in spite of losing one of his bakeries In the flood at Williamson in early April—so anyone passing that way still has a perpetual welcome.

Second, Grant Rogers informed me that their daughter, Julie, is under contract with Universal Studios in Hollywood and most recendy appeared in Dark Victory, a three-hour special on NBC. A few of the shows in which she has been seen are the Mary Tyler Moore show. The Waltons, Cannon, Banacek, and The Streets of San Francisco.

The Representative District seat in the R.I. State Legislature vacated by the death of Classmate Steve O'Rourke has been filled by none other than his widow, Jeanne. In a special election held 3 May, she easily defeated her Republican opponent, Mrs. Phyllis Vlasaty.

The following letter was received from Macgregor Kilpatrick in Branford, CT (law office at 175 Montowese St. 06405): "I write to inform you, for the Shipmate column, that Ruthle died at home on April 26 after a nine-month bout with cancer.

"She was buried here in Branford on a beautiful Spring day with our three daughters, four grandchildren and a sizeable part of the community present, perhaps in recognition of her active participation In civic and charitable affairs, but more likely out of pure affection.

"At least for the present I plan to continue my law practice here. As soon as 1 can get a few business matters cleared up I plan to throw my clubs in the family airplane and visit the West Coast contingent as Ruthie and I had planned for this Spring."

Above is a melange of some excellent candid shots taken by Stan Kerkering at our Febmary luncheon in Wash: top 1. to r., Duncan, Bennett, Shiriey, Wallace, Patterson; bottom 1. to r. Bell, Hooper, Falrchild, Claypoole, Adams, Anderson. (Remember: every first Wednesday at Ft. Myer O'Club!)

For the east coasters, don't forget our tailgate parties before each Navy home game, along North fence in west parking. Take the second parking lot entrance after turning right at first traffic light coming in from route 50.

Watch for sign.

Three quickies: Harold Egger has a son at West Point, Class of '80; Chariie Bounds retired last Fall from CIA; Ginny and Bob Lawrence continue their traveling, saw Bud Cooper in Honolulu (April) while boarding his hydrofoil SEAFLIGHT for ride to the Big Island.

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40 Pres.. RAdm. John Chase. USN Secy. Cdr. Leigh Winters, USN (Ret.) 701 S. 23rd St., Ariington. VA 22202 Percent Members: 68 Washington Report Forty and two of 40"s Classmates and wives gathered for a sociable cocktail or two at 1800 on Thursday. 12 April, in Fort Myer's Patton Hall 0"Club: Jonnle and Art Bemdtson. Betty and Jack Bowell, Betty and Julian Burke, Elouise and John Chase, Lu and Paul Desmond, Suzie and Frank Frankenberger. Jo and Oz Gray. Loretta and Ted Hechler. Mary and John Montgomery. Marge and Ed Muhlenfeld.

Vi and Bob Quinn. Betty and Harv Seim. Margaret and Ray Schneider. Thelma and Bill Scott. Mary and Ed Sledge. Wick and Tad Stanwick. Betty Ann and Tom Taylor. Betty and Stan Wagenhals. Bee and Bob Wann, Claudia and Bob White, and Dee and Early Winters.

Among those unable to muster for good and sufficient reasons: the Bartons—off to a son's wedding In Norfolk; Bill Carpenter on a business trip In Germany: Tab Collins on a new job assignment in Nigeria; Joe D'Arezzo—business in Europe: Phil Eckert—mustering the MD air raid wardens for WWlll; Stan Ellison minding wife. Jo. through an operation; the Eschs, In Illinois, with our deepest sympathy, for the funeral of Jo"s Mother; the Hanleys In London; the Kaufmans getting a daughter graduated from college in Wilkes-Barre(?); BiU Keating seeing his brother through an operation; the Lees out of town to a son"s graduation: Larry Lockett in Phoenix to see his daughter eam her law degree from Tempe U; Mike Miehaelis caught up in the Navy/Washington MerryGo-Round (and after he paid, too!); the Webers In Califomia and the Wolfes off to a Pennsylvania wedding . . . And you thought that Big Brother lived only in Orwell" s book . . .

Tom Taylor, our indestmctlble Squire of Virginia, is already planning, together with his wonderful Betty Ann. the "40 picnic in August at their mountainside home and farm. He is up and around again after what he terms "'. . . another simple little operation . . . sort of a rear guard action. . ." We have all gotten Into the habit of 'dropping In' on these two (one hour NW of D.C.) on week ends at their Taylorville/Point O'Rock domain. The Welcome Mat Is always out . . .

Marie will be joining Tab Collins in Nigeria later this year after he gets established there with his communications company T-CAS. Congratulations to Mr. Miller! Our Mary Antle of Rockville, Maryland, is now Mary Antle Miller.

News from Here and There It would not be nice to suggest that this Is anything but a coincidence:—while democrat Jimmy is celebrating his first 100 days in the White House, republican Cary Hall Is slowly and delicately recuperating from the effects of some sort of ". . . rear guard action. . ." (see Tom Taylor item above) back in the wonderful state of Georgia.

Cary writes: "'. . . My daughter has been accepted at Emory Medical . . . and God help the sick . . . My two sons are practicing law . . . in Greenville, South Carolina, and . . . Moultrie, Georgia . . . Mary Williams . . . bearing up July-August, 1977

wonderfully under the loss of John. We have talked to her several times by phone since my decrepit condition . . . prevented going on down to Sanford, Florida. Jimmy Elkins has recovered fully from his open heart surgery and is now ready to play pro football . . . Dick Champion has had major surgery and is being operated on again (In April) . . . at an Army Hospital In San Antonio . . . In time he will retum to Tate, Georgia, and recuperate . . .

Bill Lanier came through on his annual visit, giving those of us In Hampton, Georgia, a taste of New York Sophistication. He and Martha are disposing of their Sarasota house and looking for another place . . . In the South." Cary Is still president of Engineering Evaluation in Hampton; providing Inspection services for purchasers of real property, site and constmction advice, and court testimony when required.

down with old friends In Scottsdale, Arizona, and put in calls to the local '40 mates. Missed Abe Lincoln (Tempe) and Virgil Hancock (Tucson) but contacted Bob Wooding In Phoenix to learn that he Is now an associate professor in construction engineering for Arizona State U.

Dee Winters with Margo and Lon Wellman in Carmel In Monterey the Steuckerts were off on a trip to Mexico, leaving son Tom to mind house and family shop, ""Ocean Data. Inc."" A few miles further south down the coastline Kirk Kirkpatrick and Shirley were off on a month "s trip through Phoenix (we just missed them), the Grand Canyon, etc. . . But we did get a photo of Margo and Don Wellman in front of their exquisite Carmel home—^just a few blocks from the Pactlfic.

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BeUy and Pat Clancy, Dee and Early Winters in Los Altos

Swinging NW to Columbia, Ohio—Ed Mason, onetime Asst. Director at FBI Headquarters, author of biographies of Signers of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution, and of The Presidents and Chief Justices of the United States, and now Public Service Director of The Columbus Dispatch since 1965—has been portraying patriot Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, about the country during this Bicentennial Decade. His performances (a la Harry Truman by James Whitmore) have drawn rave notices and standing ovations from Greenwich.

Connecticut, to Phoenix, Arizona.

Now—to the Windy City . . . Did you ever try to stop TV's Johnny Carson from telling the world "How co-old was It?" Well, Hank Vaughan unwinds this answer from the past frigid winter in the Chicago area: "". . . It got so cold here that Crystal Lake froze Into one solid chunk of ice which I broke up Into ice cubes and put Into my giant martini with which I celebrated Navy's football victory over Army. I used the city water tank for a glass. The Army Corps of Engineers and the city fathers are now trying to decide what to do with four tons of frozen fish and fifty-two acres of frozen mud which Is expected to thaw out in mid-July. In the meantime the State of Illinois has removed the lake from Its official state map, and has written to Billy Carter to urge him to buy the land for a peanut farm . . . " During April Dee and I took off for a fortnight to visit # 3 daughter, Dana—married to Lt. Al Olsen USN '72, now attending the Monterey PG. Enroute Califomia we touched

Enroute SF via rented car with Dana (Al joined us at the end of the school week) we stopped ovemight with old Navy friends in Fremont, visited Betty and Pat Clancy in their spanking new home on a Palo Alto hillside (the view from the Captain's Bridge is terrific!), and checked in with Ed Gillette (SF) and Johnny Sims (Hayward) by phone while taking in the sights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Along the way someone told us that Bob Weatherup Is now In St Louis, Missouri, Dave Lewis is with BECHTEL In Orinda, California, and that CIs and Cliff Bundy are Into Research at Stanford U??

The Secretary's Comer Upon our retum to Alexandria a note arrived from Cliff Bundy with an enclosed Item from the Palo Alto Times reporting the death of Jack Brenner, a judge in the Santa Clara County Superior Court for the past seven years. After service In WWII Jack retumed to Stanford and received his law degree In 1947, after establishing one of the best academic records In the law school's history. He Is survived by his wife, Lois, of Palo Alto CA. Jack had been one of our "missing' Classmates for the past several years. Still he has been prominent in the Palo Alto/Los Altos area for the past half-century!

Please help us round up all our missing Classmates, grads and non-grads . . . so we can show them the good work our Alumni Association Is doing . . . Look through your local telephone books—you know the names. I'll appreciate any clues at all. Thanks. * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * *

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41 Chairman, Capt. Frank M. Sanger Jr. USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyle Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 70 From Florida comes word that Jeanne and Jack Beardall took time off from Jack's banking to enjoy a holiday in and around the Bahamas. They first gave the casinos a going over on dry land and then embarked on a barquentine for a one-week trip around the islands. I hope to have a picture for you next month!

June and Cliff Lenz sent a warm and welcome aloha from Hawaii and wrote: "June and I have been here nearly three weeks, and though WaikikI Is an abominable tourist trap, nature still provides balmy tropical breezes, beautiful sunsets and a therapeutic ocean."

The April luncheon attracted twenty good Classmates Including, all the way from California as promised, Charlie Carr who gave us an interesting mndown on our Classmates and his neighbors in California. Charlie had some warm thoughts on a reunion In Califomia one of these years but I must admit that it was disappointing of Charlie to remove his magnificent beard which was so sensational at homecoming. He really did look like Santa Claus!

One other development from the April luncheon was the word that the class finances are In good shape. Of course, any contributions will be gratefully received. In other words, Jack Hadler is doing a great job as the volunteer Class Treasurer!

In addition to doing so well in our behalf, and so faithfully. Jack has been busy at other things including participation in the 16th Meeting of the American Towing Tank Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil. But that Is not the only trip Jack has taken. Last Summer, Caryl and Jack went to Tanzania and Kenya where they visited their oldest son, Jack, Jr., his wife, Susan, and their two grandchildren, Jacques Chedago and Sarah. Jack, Jr., is teaching theology in Swahlll at St. Phillips Theological Seminary, Kongwa, Tanzania. Caryl and Jack leamed that their grandchildren can strike a hard bargain for sugar cane sticks in the tribal Chagogo language and served as interpreters while in Kongwa.

They traveled extensively throughout southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They spent a glorious week on the Kenya sea coast sunning and swimming on one of the most beautiful and uncrowded beaches in the world, according to Jack, and exploring decaying old Arab seacoast towns. This was followed by a week in the big city, Nairobi, where they were exposed to such cultural experiences as attending a Harlem-based play in which the Kenyan actors spoke Harlemese with a clipped British accent. The journey south from Nairobi to Kongwa provided the opportunity to fulfill two other Hadler family ambitions: safariing in game parks and climbing Kilimanjaro. Visits were made to Amboseli, Ngorongoro Crater and Lake Manyara where they were charged by a rhinoceros. They observed many species of wild life in their native habitat Including mating lions and also lions who take their kill up into the trees. (/ hope I got that right!) As a climax. Jack, Jack, Jr., and Susan spent five days climbing Kilimanjaro, the highest moun-

tain in Africa, while Caryl took care of the grandchildren at the base hotel in Maranga.

Jack says it was a tremendous experience walking (?) about 10 to 12 miles and climbing about 3,500 feet each day. The scenery changed from a tropical rain forest at the base to a cold, barren plateau before the final assault on the volcanic peak. After a short stay in Kongwa, Jack retumed to Washington via Dar es Salam and Zanzibar. Caryl stayed on in Kongwa for another month and then made a month-long side trip to Kuwait, Arabia, to visit the parents of Kuwaiti students who had lived with them. On her return, Caryl stopped off In Oslo, Norway, to visit the family of their first foreign student. If all goes as planned, Caryl and Jack are going back to Africa this Summer.

Rendezvous in Williamsburg Meantime, back at the ranch, the Delanos stopped off at Williamsburg for a short visit with Dana and Bill Maddocks In their lovely and spacious home. The house is only a couple of minutes off the Richmond-Norfolk Interstate but their delightful garden and the abundance of trees makes It seem miles from anything.

The accompanying picture shows, left to right, Dana, Jackie Delano and Bill Maddocks. We are looking forward to hearing about the Maddocks' forthcoming trip to Greece this Summer.

Peg and George Ball's daughter, Tina, leaves in October to spend a four-months school term In Moscow studying Russian history and language.

Hope all of you are having a good Summer and please do not forget to tell me about It.

42 Pres., Capt. William R. Kurtz USN (Ret.) Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shirilngton Station, Ariington, VA 22206 Percent Members: 69 Mid-summer doldmms came a bit early this year, or at least that Is what my mall bag shows. Of course, after the Winter we all shared, we should be accustomed to these changes in the weather calendar. Perhaps there will be enough fuel available (at a price) to enable a few of the Class to travel and report back.

One Classmate started his travels In May, however, and we hope to have him as a permanent Washington resident for some time.

Bob Connor, formerly president of the Borough of Staten Island, is now the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Reserve Affairs. As a retired Naval Reserve Captain, Bob was also serving as Commander of the New York State Naval Militia when he received his new appointment.

Bob joined us at the May Class luncheon, for which 22 of us gathered around a square table.

Jim Conger was making one of his periodic northern swings from his Winter Springs, Florida, headquarters to visit his mother, son and daughter, and not only joined us for lunch, but brought Tex Winslow out of "retirement" to become a regular member. Willy Kurtz was off looking over his Grecian "holdings" but returned in time to get out a flyer on our annual Father's Day picnicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this time at Walt Price's Gunston Hall.

The day before our Class meeting, Jean Armstrong provided a number of the wives a chance to make their own chefs salad at their Navy Yard quarters. Thoroughly enjoying the challenge were Lucy Adams, Emily Alexander, Peggy Bergin, Clara Lee Day, Rene Griffith, Betty Lou Houser, Mary Lee Lowe, Pat Rawson, Marcelle Ruehrmund, Betty Shear, Dorothy Smith, Harriet Stegemerten, Betty Welsh and Jeannette WerthmuUer. Parker's mother was visiting from Califomia, where she lives with Parker's brother. Col. Dave Armstrong, a West Point grad.

Jean and Parker have purchased a large piece of land on the Little Magothy River just west of the western approach to the Chesapeake Bay bridge. They have the house rented, hopefully until Parker finishes his present tour of duty next year, and will dispose of their other property in Rehoboth and Falls Church. Grif Scarborough is also reducing his holdings in Moorestown and Atlantic City in favor of a new retirement home In New Smyrna Beach, Florida, which he and Isobel will occupy next February.

Art Rawson Swears in Daughter Trissie as Pat Looks on Swabbo Rawson, with Pat looking on, had the pleasure of swearing in daughter, Trissy Rawson, as an Ensign USNR at the completion of her OCS training on April 1st. Trissy is now on duty with Training Squadron 21 in Kingsvllle, Texas.

John Drew reports from Rancho Bemardo, Califomia, that he has found something to lure him away from the golf courseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ocasslonally.

John is a newly elected trustee of the Poway Unified School District Board. John ran second In a field of 17, with three tmstees being elected.

On 15 April, we gathered at Ariington Cemetery to pay our last respects to Mariorie Jullien, Lou's gracious wife. She had developed gall bladder trouble in Saudi Arabia, where Shipmate

71 Lou had been working, and they retumed to home town for surgery. She succumbed to an embolism on 11 April. Lou does not plan to retum to the Middle East.

Big plans are afoot for Homecoming again this year. While this is merely a chance to discuss, and warmup for. our 40th. we expect a good tumout to watch Navy take William and Mary into camp. We still have a modest inventory of Class ties and bracelets from our 35th, so don't hesitate to order one or more.

Our congratulations to Jim Conger on his election as President of the Oriando Alumni Chapter—an event which was destined to occur while he was attending our May luncheon.

43 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 Soudi June St. Ariington. VA 22202 Percent Members: 67 George Cornelius was in town in March and gave his address as: Villa BianchI Verghia par Coti Chiavari. 20138 Corsica. France. George claims to be Fashion Fotografing for Fun and Profit.

It shoidd be hindsight by the time this edition hits the streets, but the FLA "43ers were planning a regional bash in Jax for 17-19 June.

Germination of the scheme occurred at Frank Omohundro's house where the Zechellas, Swains, Joneses and McConnells boozed up the idea. A week end of swimming, golf, dining and Thirty-Flftying was envisioned. Bernard Bennett, who Is a recent wetback from Old Mejico to FLA. cut us in on the reunion news.

Bemie was a delegate to the Navy League's Diamond Jubilee Convention in Washington in April and expressed regrets that he didn't have the opportunity to see more Classmates. Bennett's address: 660 Via Lugano, Winter Park FL 32789.

Clipping service note: John W. Sedwick has joined the sales staff of Chas. H. Steffey, Inc.'s Edgewater Office. (Real Estate we presume.)

From John Becker, "—moved to Huntsville, Alabama, In January to help set up a new subsidiary of United Technologies which will work on the assembly and disassembly of the rocket Forty-three Gathers at Little Creek

July-August, 1977

boosters for the space shuttle. The new company is called United Space Boosters Inc. It's a real challenge.—Jack" What's the address?

Loyal Barney Rapp came in with the full Norfolk report: "1 am pleased to be able to report some news on '43ers here In Tidewater and enclose some fotos of the event.—Maxine and Bert Thompson were here to see their brand new grandson which daughter Cindy presented to them and while here Initiated an Impromptu get-together for all the '43ers they could contact. The date was 9 March, and we gathered at the 0-Club at Little Creek for a libation and talk. Cindy and George were also present (probably some new supersophisticated means of developingbrainwashing a candidate for USNA). We then journeyed to a nearby restaurant for dinner.

Lib and Jack Logan wheeled In with their big R.V. today, and we had a full aftemoon of catching up on the Washington news.—We spend each Summer in Maine so get to see Paul Copeland In Bmnswick where he and I attend Rotary meetings. He looks great. Please say hi to all the gang up there, Bamey."

Reproduced herewith are the pictures that Barney sent, suitably identified. Top row: Max Thompson, Gal Galvani, Cathy Rapp, and Harry Clark. And holding up the group, 1. to r.; Waco Walker, Gal once again (smiling this time), Helen Galvani, Barney Rapp, Su Clark, Clyde Anderson, and Maggie Anderson.

44 Pres., RAdm. D. Vance Cox 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., Annapolis MD 21401 (301) 268-6474 Percent Members: 64 Our treasurer, Charlie Miller, reported that the traditional '44 Washington, D. C Chapter spring dinner dance, which was held at Boiling AFB O'Club this year on 13 May, was a howling success attended by 56 Classmates and wives from the D. C/Baltimore/Annapolis area.

Both "Doc" Livingston and "Hoot" Gibson passed on some news of Classmate activities.

One article from the Maritime Reporter of 1

May announced that Bob Apple, who is chairman of the Los Angeles section of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, has been appointed president of the Stanwick Company, a Stanwick Corporation division located In Norfolk, Virginia. Bob has over 25years experience in the maritime Industry, including positions such as chairman of the board of the Hydrofoil Corporation of America, president of Harbor Marine Industries, and vice president of Advanced Projects for Litton Ship Systems. As project director.

Bob led the Litton team in winning the billion-dollar competition for the Navy General Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship (LHA.). His new business address Is Robert E. Apple, president. The Stanwick Company, 3661 East Virginia Beach Blvd., Norfolk VA 23502.

In Newsgram Notes from the Navy Ship Research and Development Center It was reported that Mrs. Robert L. J. (Sarah) Long was ship's sponsor at the recent launching of the submarine tender EMORY S. LAND (AS-39) at Seattle, Washington. Bob Long, who is DCNO (Submarine Warfare), was the principal speaker at the launching of this new tender which will support the Los ANOELES-class attack submarines and which is named in honor of the late VAdm. Emory S. Land, Constmction Corps, USN '02, who made major contributions in design, constmction, modification, and maintenance of submarines.

Richard K. McKibben of Modem Plastics Company was found listed as a Westem Representative to the National Board in a program announcement of the 34th Annual Westem Section Conference of the Society of The Plastics Industry. There was no more news of him, but obviously Dick Is doing O.K. A nice letter arrived from Gordon Willis in which he repeats his open invitation to Classmates for wining, dining, and golfing in Roanoke, Virginia. Doug Aldrich recently did stop in on Gordon, who helped put Doug's son in touch with V.P.I, authorities to obtain a full baseball scholarship to college at V.P.I. Betty and Charlie Miller have finally given up apartment living and moved from the Crystal House in Arlington, Virginia, over to their brand-new house in Annapolis. They moved into their lovely new home on about 1 May. They live on the North side of the Sevem In a wooded area beyond the Naval Station and only two doors away from Marge and Charlie Becker. They want to pass on their new address to all of you—1741 Long Green Dr., Annapolis MD 21401.

I regret to report that Vance Wanner died suddenly on 12 May and was buried In Arlington National Cemetery on 16 May. Please refer to "Last CaU" for his obituary.

This will be a good year to plan on seeing some Navy home football at Annapolis and "tallgating" with old friends. There are six home games this year! Get your order in for tickets from the USNA Athletic Association and plan to cheer more with '44!

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45 Pres.. MGen. Charles MIze USMC (Ret.) Sec'y., Capt. Homer Adrianse USN (Ret.) 4448 Fairiand Ct. Sevema Park MD 21146 Corr. Secy. Capt. Dutch Schulz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N.. Ariington VA 22207 (703) 536-7156 Percent Members: 50 It's all over! In a bloodless coup, engineered

by Jack Barron and his Liberal Dessert Party, the 1977-78 Officers of the Association of the Class of 1945 were unanimously elected at the 10 May luncheon. In addition to the new President, Charley Mize, and the Secretary, Homer Adrianse, who both are listed In the masthead above, Ed White will serve as Vice President and Phil Erickson as Treasurer. Installation of the new officers took place at the 14th June luncheon.

Highlights of the May luncheon attended by 41 Classmates: Ed Beasley, Head of the Department of Physics at Gallaudet College In DC, gave us a fascinating backgrounder on this unique school for the deaf. You may remember seeing the Mike Wallace 60 Minutes documentary on this school which Is the only accredited liberal arts college for the deaf in the world . . .

President Barnes reported that the Alumni Association had donated 300 copies of the April Shipmate to the Class and would mail them to our non-member Classmates for whom they hold addresses, all at no charge to the Class . . . Charley MIze apd Johnny Johnson announced that the Fifth Annual Spring Golf Outing would be held at the Army-Navy Country Club on 18 May followed by cocktails and dinner (don't miss the next issue of this column for the lurid details of this bash) . . . Bob Hayes has a 1945 Lucky Bag for anyone who wants It. Write him at 8013 Lynnfield Dr., Alexandria VA 22306 . . . Out-of-towners present were Bill Ferguson from Seal Beach, California, and Bill Steuteville of Wyncote, Pennsylvania. . .

Not seen in a long time were Jim Wiggins and Jack Knudsen . . . Bill Bames stated that the

By Laws of the Association of the Class of 1945 had been updated by Cal Cobb and had been approved by the Class Officers. For the record and lest we forget, the purposes of the Association are: "To further the advancement, growth and development of the Naval Academy and the Naval service, and to help maintain the long and cherished camaraderie of members of the Class of 1945." Anyone who would like a copy of the new By Laws should write Secretary Homer Adrianse at the address on the top of this column . . . Phil Erickson Is busy trying to establish the tax exemption status of the Association.

How many of you have ever been hard aground on a BB In wartime? Don't miss the SOUTH DAKOTA Cmise story by Phil Erickson In this issue of Shipmatel It was only natural that It should fall to the Class of 1945 to participate In the first wartime midshipman cruise since the Civil War. It is with a deep sadness that I must report the deaths of Don Richards on 2 April, Bob Delaney on 6 April and Karl Munniger on 5 May. Letters and/or flowers were sent In the name of the Class and obituaries can be found In the "Last Call" section of this Issue.

The Class also extends Its sympathy to Pete Petersen and his family for the loss on 8 May of his wife, June, at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Funeral services were held at the new Fort Myer Chapel on 11 May followed by interment in the Arlington National Cemetery. The Class sent flowers and many Classmates and wives attended the beautiful and moving services presided over by the Chief of Navy Chaplains.

June Is survived by her husband, VAdm. Forrest S. Petersen III USN of 6215 Nethercombe Court. McLean VA 22101; a daughter Lynn; two sons, Forrest and Midn. Nels Petersen.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Outgoing Treasurer. Pete Perkins, has this report: "The '45 Treasury is in good shape.

The last year we put $3500 of Class funds In the basketball scoreboard as a starter, received several hundred In dues and Included the Annapolis funds In the Class central accounts. No long-range projects requiring Class funds are currently planned, however, good suggestions are solicited."

The Fortsons, Cogswells and Fergusons at Atlantic Beach, Florida Polly and Bill Ferguson continue their cmise of the US in their 25-foot motor home and this Spring visited Kelly and Larry Smith in Houston, Audrey and Tom Utegaard In Orlando.

Gladys and Bobo Cogswell and Kathryn and Mai Fortson at Atlantic Beach, Florida, and up to Maryland to visit Jean and Tut Vale in Silver Spring. Bill gave me this foto at the May luncheon: He Is looking for a Class of '45 Crest lapel button. You can drop him a note at 1101 Catalina Ave., Seal Beach CA 90740.

Wantedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Senior executive, low handicap, attractive wife, bon vivant, entrepreneur, raconteur . . . experienced blue water navigator, airdale of yoreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to manage 27-acre plantation with main house of 34 rooms. 12 bedrooms. 8 baths, 9 staircases, game room and six-hole golf course. Who else but Charlotte and Bob Leavitt at Wye House, Queen Anne County, Eastern Shore Maryland . . . which was the setting for the Second Annual Wye Island International Open on 23 April, attended

by Martha and Charlie MIze, Kathy and Ralph Stell, Nancy and Doc Prothro, Mary and Bones Thomas, Kay and Dick Wilson and Janle and Dutch Schulz. In spite of the presence of such sensational golfers as Arnold Thomas and Jack MIze, a realtlve unknown survived a tough competition from the first Mulligan to the 6th hole In front of an enthusiastic "Go for Dutch" gallery to beat defending champion and course record holder.

Ralph Stell. Those that made It back to Washington after a delicious barbecue chicken dinner were just plain lucky, or had good-driver wives.

Bob Hogsed, taking some time off from his busy schedule with Frank Rawlings' BDM office in Norfolk, notes that there are about 30 Classmates left in that area for whom he is

preparing a new roster. He writes, " . . . Joe Bonds Is doing his best to keep his Liberian tankers afloat. Gene Hunter and George Hecker are teaching. Dr. Carvel Blair has just published his book. Seamanship, A Handbook for Oceanographers.

He teaches a navigation course at Old Dominion University. Lorie and Fred Gore frequent our area often as Fred Is rapidly concluding his pursuit of a law degree at William and Mary. Beth and Herb Poorman moved south to Cocoa Beach last Fall. The next Norfolk affair will probably be an Army-Navy game gathering."

Walt Rose, a faithful reader of this column, went to Dubuque to verify the account of Pat and Jim O'Brien's hideaway In Bequla, 9 miles south of St. Vincent. As Walt says," . . . but when they described the best way to get there, I decided to postpone my departure until my bid on the SEQUOIA IS accepted. You need an elaborate Itinerary of island ferry, local airline and burro . . . as they say, it's off the beaten path. See Bob McCarthy (of El Conquistador fame) regularly at Chicago Alumni meetings.

Next month. Dr. Roe Johnston, minister of the La Grange Presbyterian Church speaks on the Presidential Pardon . . . should be a sellout crowd." Walt enclosed a clipping from the Chicago Tribune on Hank Searls' latest novel, Overboard. The Trib's six-column spread including foto of Bunny and Hank Searls describes their three-year cmise alone on a 40foot ketch which Hank turned Into a best selling novel. As the Tribune reports, "The finale Is an unexpected shocker; the whole package should make the best summer reading since Jaws. It already has appeared on best seller lists, the movies are nibbling, it's the selection of six book clubs and the Literary Guild and the paperback rights have sold for $250,000."

That's the way to cruise. Hank.

Puffs from the cigarette deck: Charlotte and Bill Flynn's daughter Harriett Anne was married on 2 April at the Naval Academy Chapel to Mr. John R. Crelghton. The couple will live In Ocean City, Maryland . . . Edie and Chan Swallow announce the forthcoming marriage of daughter # 1 , Anne, to Mr. John Beaudoln on 13 August in New Haven, Connecticut. Daughter Wendy will be finishing a tour with Vista in October, son Peter Is sailing his way home from Tahiti, or is It to New Zealand, and daughter. Penny, recently spent six weeks in England . . . Dottle B. (Mullins) Winblad sent the Class a postcard from Japan where she was making a six-week tour for the U.S. Army Special Services as a judge for the 4 May Festival of Performing Arts. U.S. Army Japan, Korea and the Far East . . . The current Phantom search is paying off! Mrs. Gamett Shutt, mother of Phil Shutt, was reading her son Richard's (Class of '41) April Shipmate when she read our Phantom inquiry, so she sent Phillip R. Shutt's address: RED Whitney Road, Harvard MA 01451. She writes, "After leaving the Navy, Phil returned for graduate study at Harvard and now Is at Raytheon Research Lab at Wayland, Massachusetts . . ." Charlotte and Ben Leavitt sold their Challenger 50 ketch AARDVARK . . . Have you ordered your 1977 edition of the Register of Alumni"! To show you how valuable mine is, I was able to look up the home address of a Dutch Schulz '44 (Robert Henry) for his old roommate who saw my name and fone number In a recent Shipmate. (See elsewhere In this issue for an order blank) . . . O.K.. get out your magnifying glass and look at the bottom row of the SOUTH DAKOTA cruise group foto. Who are the ClassShipmate

73 mates between Willie P. Shuman on the left and E.T. Redden (number 8 in that row)? R.H. Curtis may be number two with Bill Shafer number five. Drop me a line If you can Identify them . . . Dr. Bitsy Jarvis (Charles W.) Is now on the road under the management of CMI Inc. (Celebrity Management Inc.) of Nashville. He is billed as the "Finest Paln-Killer on the American Platform"" and Is listed by the Associated Clubs Inc. the Executive Dinner Clubs and the Knife and Fork Clubs of America as "America's Number One Humorous Speaker." We who were at the 25th. or was It the 20th Homecoming, can heartily agree with Bltsy"s advance billing. Maybe he will be available for the 35th? . . . Betty and Beede Forbes have moved Into their new home in ""Bay Cliff."" Virginia Beach. Beetle"s retirement on 1 March marked the end of an era as he was the last member of the Class on active duty in the NorVa area . . . Bill Hayler. of the Califomia Maritime Academy. Vallejo CA 94590. responds to Bud Bowler's motorcycle commuting. He writes. "Bill Hayler Is happy to note that Bud Bowler also rides a motorcycle to work. Bill has wom out one small Suzuki commuting and on cmise and is now on his second. The highlight of the 50th reunion will be a Hayler-Bowler motorcycle race around Church Circle. (Heaven forbid . . .) Bill is confident of the result because of his experience with left-hand drive In Trinidad and New Zealand."" Bud. let"s you and I challenge Bill to a screwdriver drinking match at the Officers" and Faculty Club. (Less pollution . . .)

Since most of you will be going on some sort of exotic vacations this Summer, how about dropping me or Homer a card from wherever you end up . . . or better yet. take along a supply of nine cent postcards with my address already written . . . I am already visualizing those piles of cards from fantastic places (like Cedar Rapids. Iowa) and I thank you in advance.

46 Pres.. RAdm. John M. TIemey USN (Ret.) Sec'y. Mr. C W. Kennelly II 7911 Sleaford PI.. Bethesda. MD 20014 Corr. Secy. Capt. C. V. Wilhoit Jr, USNR (Ret.) P.O. Box 17386. San Diego. CA 92117 Percent Members: 49 What"s with Lin Ashley? At our January luncheon, we said that the Febmary luncheon would be our traditional sweetheart Valentine luncheon, but that the March luncheon this year would not be the usual Secretaries Luncheon. Crazy, mixed-up Ash comes alone in Febmary and with his secretary In March.

Those of you who know him can appreciate his vigorous approach to problems.

And speaking of the March luncheon, we had quite a tumout. In addition to Ash and his—friend, there were Al Bowen, Jim Burrill (passing thm on his way to Teheran), Chris Christensen, Denny Downey (recently retired Vice Admiral), John Dugger (long time no see), George Ellis, Tom Faulders (also, long time), Ed Goloway, Hal Hamberg, Swede Hansen, Church Hansmann, Dale Harris (even longer time). Tuck Huey, Leroy Jackson, Dick Lyons, Mac McHenry, Kirk Miller, Buzz Pearson, Ben Sherman (getting to be a regular), Perry Taylor (used to be a regular), Bob Wertheim, and Whizzer White.

July-August, 1977

While talking to Denny at the lunch, he said that Gloria was still putting up with him and that they are living at 7004 Girard. McLean VA 22101. He Is a consultant with KETRON. Got a letter from the Daisy Hill Farm in Ocala. Florida. Thought It was an ad to buy property or an invite to a health spa. Almost threw It out but luckily I didn"t. It was from John Weber. Don't know why he was so formal but it went: ""Dear Mr. Kennelly, About the time you took over the '46 column. I dropped a note to "Daisy" for the first time In years to see If 1 could reestablish some contact with a few long lost Classmates.

•"My name didn't get into print so I assume I was lost In the transition and decided to try agin. My home Is now—Daisy Hill Farm.

Route 10, Box 50, Ocala, FL 32670, and I am busily engaged In breeding, raising, racing, selling and buying and trading thoroughbred race horses.

"I have been dabbling with thoroughbreds for the past fifteen years and decided to get into the business full time about two years ago.

Regards."" Very short after so many years, John, but at least vou wrote. Thanks.

license, as the back-up pilot for the company aircraft.

After Pern George spent four years in the Marcona head office in San Francisco ore sales and ocean shipping activities. He met and married Leah Thorpe Daine, a widow with a 3-year old son, Scott. Lisa and Guy were born later, and as a family of 5 George moved them to Tokyo to open a Far East office for Marcona; two and one-half years later he moved to London to open a European office. Since retuming to San Francisco In 1968, the Tarletons have made their home In Hillsborough. Currently Scott is completing his second year at Stanford. Lisa Is a freshman in high school, and Guy Is in the 7th grade.

George managed to complete more than 20 years naval service through active participation in naval programs in both Tokyo and London.

He retired as a commander In the Reserves.

As Marketing V.P. for Utah International, George Is responsible for mineral sales world-wide, with duties Including supervision of areas offices in Tokyo, London and liaison with the company's mining activities In Brazil and Australia.

Al Whittle, who is Chief of Staff SACLant, writes: ""Got your card yesterday—had received your letter a couple of weeks ago but put it on the back burner—to be answered when "I had time.'

"Will send you a picture Inscribed to the 6th Co. mids.

"To bring you up to date on the Whittles— Phyllis and 1 are coming up on our 30th wedding anniversary In June. We have two sons—A.J. Ill, USNA "71. a lieutenant and engineer officer of USS NITRO (AE-23) right now. He is engaged to Cindy Hoffman of Arnold. Maryland, and they Intend to get married in October. Jeff, our younger son Is a math major at Emory U. in Atlanta. He graduates June 12 and is going to work for E.D.S., which 1 believe is mn by a rather famous USNA graduate. Ross Perot. ""No, I have never met President Carter.

George Tarleton However, I was commissioning engineer of Heard some good news about George Tarle- K-3 and Jack Lindsay ('46) was commissioning ton back In Febmary but held off until I could engineer of K-2 at the same time the President write and get him to send me a picture. He was filling the same job on K-1. and we exhasn"t changed much has he? Anyway. George changed Info on common problems by mail. was elected Vice President of Utah Intema- When the ex-K-1 was decommissioned, I was tional. Inc. on 29 December 1976. Here Is the ComSubGm 6 and sent pictures and the comletter that accompanied the picture. "1 am missioning flag to then Govemor Carter. All complying with your request for a picture as a the best." Al's address Is 405 Dillingham way of saying 'thank you' for your time and Blvd.. Norfolk, VA 23511. effort In writing the "46 column for Shipmate.

Daisy mailed me a few things the other day I'm sure It takes a lot of work, and the reward that had been sent to him. Here's one from Is seldom forthcoming in the way of thanks Tom Mouton who writes from 13151 Courbet from your Classmates.

Lane, Granada Hills CA 91344. "Dear Daisy: ""It would be nice to join you and others In The reason I write today Instead of tomorrow some kind of a reunion in Washington. If 1 get is that It is a bit of a respite from the roar of the back there I will give you a call and would ask maddened crowd. Joining Lynn and me for you and any other Classmates coming through Christmas dinner tonight are my oldest. Leslie, here to do the same. With best regards." Here with husband and child—we're expecting No. Is the resume—which Is really Interesting: 2 grandchild in a couple of months.

After nine years on active duty George re""Number two, Mike, has a bachelor pad signed his commission in 1954 to enter Stan- nearby, works at Lockheed, and came over for ford Graduate School of Business Administra- the day with siblings, Kent, next oldest. Is also tion. As a member of a reserve squadron he married. lives nearby, and came over with wife continued flying at Alameda Naval Air Station and Siamese, who Is visiting with our Siamese while attending Stanford. With an MBA from and Verified Stray cats. Mike spent a year in Stanford he joined San Francisco-based Mar- Vista after college working with the Fulton cona Corporation and was sent as a trainee In County (Atlanta. Georgia) probation departtheir Pemvian Iron ore mining operation. Fre- ment and then came back to look for a job. quent reunions In Lima with Alberto and Zoyla Kent Is a second-year law student at UCLA Jimenez during his year and a half In Peru were after screaming through there in three years. much enjoyed. George continued flying In summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa—I'm Pern, after obtaining his Peruvian commercial bragging, since he makes up for me—and the

74 onliest one left with us is Quiet Moose (Brad), first year In college here In the San Femando Valley. " I ' m now just Into my 8th year at Lockheed-California Co., where I started in the S-3A computer software department, went into deputy engineer to the boss of the S-3A avionics division, and then moved over into the product support arena four years ago. I'm the Director of S-3A Support, which is a challenging job, but fortunately working for and with some purely outstanding people. ""With all but one of the kids gone, Lynn decided that it wasn't much fun, and there was not a whole lot of effort In mnning a much smaller zoo, so she has gone back to college and is working part time at a local department store. I say this keeps her off the street, but she doesn't like my phraseology for some reason.

"At any rate. It's nice to pick up that magazine and read something about the Class now that you have started writing again. Keep it up!! Yours, Ted." Chic Bowling, who gives his address as 4045 San Juan Road, San Diego CA 92103, says, "Dear Daisy, Once again I am glad to oblige by sending you some information. On 6 December I successfully passed my comprehensive examinations for the PhD. in History.

That is, I am now classified as a doctoral candidate with all of the requirements for the degree fulfilled except the dissertation (i.e., all but dissertation or ABD). That means that all of the dmdgery of course work, papers and exams are behind. Now I can get on with the writing of maritime and naval history.

"About the end of January 1 plan to go to England where I'll do research in the British archives on the subject of convoy in both World Wars I and II as well as the controversy that raged over its efficacy against submarines.

Then about late April or early May I'll be In the D.C. area for research on the same subject on the American side at the National Archives and the Naval Historical Center. I'll give you a call and we might be able to get together to hoist a few for old times. Sincerely."

Joan Muncle tells us that Ruth and Doc Johnson are living at 9120 River Crescent, Crittenden Station, Suffolk VA 23433. Babs and Glyde Hannah have moved to 1313 Home wood Lane, Annapolis MD 21401. He Is a Systems Analyst for the Public School System of Anne Amndel County.

Our Spring Get-Together this year was a Bmnch on 22 May at the Fort Myer Officers' Club. Those couples attending were: Baylls, Bowen, Christensen, Downey, Hamberg, Hansen, Hazelton, Herzog, Jordan, Kennelly, Lyons, Maginnes, McHenry, Pavis, Rhoades, Tierney, Turley, Wertheim, and White. Also there were Emie Lowen and Joe Meyer, and Leroy Jackson brought Sally and her mother.

While at the Bmnch, George Pavis handed me this note for Shipmate. "Our son, Paul, was married on Easter Sunday to Cheryl Teague, daughter of LCol. and Mrs. Charles Teague of Fairfax, Virginia. Paul Is currently on the faculty of Lansing Community College in Michigan where he is teaching scene design and art history, and assisting In their theatrical productions."

And while on this subject, Jim Faust told me that his son, Terry, "71, will marry Mary Ellen Imperato of Norwalk, Connecticut, on 29 May at the Chapel by the Sea at Newport, R.l.

They will honeymoon in Bermuda. Terry, former USNA wrestler like his dad, has just

finished Surface Warfare School, and will report as Operations Officer In USS ROBISON (DDG-12) operating out of San Diego.

Diego. Take you and yours out some night and listen to some good piano.

Be sure to read the article in March Shipmate on p. 29 about Frede Froehlich and his long lost class ring.

Have you any Idea how many members of the Class of '46 are listed in the current edition of WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA? You can probably start with Lou Aronson, Oscar Carr, Ben Martin, Wally Schirra, Bill Slesnick and Dan Walker . . . and from there . . .?

47 Pres.. RAdm. S. J. Evans (SC) USN Sec'y, Capt. J. L. Moss, USN (Ret.) 21 Alpine Dr., Latham, NY 12110 Percent Members: 51

Don Iselin On 27 May, Don Iselin became Chief of Civil Engineers and Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, in a Change of Command and Retirement Ceremony. The ceremony took place at Admiral Leutze Park, Washington Navy Yard. Many of the Class were there to congratulate Don. This is the Number One Navy position for Civil Engineers. We all knew that Don, who finished first In our Class, would get to be Number One In his chosen field. Again, Congrats, Don. A couple of sad notes to report. Roy Weaver sent me a letter about his former roomie at the Academy, Luther (Luke) Hamilton. Luke died of a brain tumor on 30 December 1976 after a brief hospitalization. Roy says, "1 had the pleasure of rooming with Luke for three years and must add my personal note to attest to his helpful, loyal friendship, dependability, and popularity." Additional information on Luke appears In "Last Call." Also, Norma Babbitt, beloved wife of Frank Babbitt, entered the hospital one evening after a couple of days of running a temperature, and died quite suddenly the following moming. May 11. Our deepest sympathies go to Sarah Hamilton and to you, Frank.

In my April column I asked if anyone could substantiate my mmor about Robe Pennington being murdered. Unfortunately, it Is tme. A young couple picked him up in Florida and took him into Georgia where they put a bullet In his head. The motive was apparently robbery. The man has been tried, convicted and sentenced to life plus ten years. The woman has yet to come to trial. This information and that appearing in "Last Call" were forwarded

by Robe's wife Martha. Our deepest sympathy to you too, Martha, on this tragic event.

Tidbits: Swede Hansen recently left Reynolds and Is now investment manager of the Pension and Retirement Program for the National Red Cross. He assures me the program Is funded by the employees and not thm your donations.

Ernie Lowen's new address: 9201 St. Mark's Place, Fairfax VA. 2203.

Lt. Sue Stevens has not tried to feminize our 6th company Wardroom. Really didn't think she would. Noticed In the May Shipmate that '44 invited Sue to their February luncheon to talk on the women midshipmen program at the academy. Too bad the picture Is out of focus.

She is a nice addition to our Wardroom.

A.P. Hall, P.O. Box 595, Poway CA 92064, plays the piano at various locations around San

The happy spring luncheon at the Naval Academy in April brought a big tumout of more than 100 to Hubbard Hall, followed by a visit to the Midshipman Store and watching the P-rade. There were still 25 with the energy to pay a visit to the 7th Company Wardroom, which is sponsored by the Class of '47. Out of towners included Pat and Chet Shaddeau, up from Ecuador, and Jack Stephens in from LItde Rock. Also In attendance was Vem Weaver, recently arrived to the Washington scene. The Annapolis team of George Brungot, Robbie Brady, and Dick Yeatman came through again in putting together a splendid event.

The otherwise delightful day had a sad ending as word was received of the death of Jack Doheny due to a heart attack while In his office at NSA Fort Meade. Carol and Jack have been active in class affairs in the Washington area.

Including a lot of work in the hospitality center during the 30th reunion. Seven Classmates, Bo Helnlnger, Bob Marmet, Chan Von Schrader, Dick Gardiner (In from California). Bill Sweetman (Massachusetts) Mike Leddick (from Minnesota) and Jeep Donaldson served as pall bearers as many Classmates and wives attended the prayer services, and the funeral services at Arlington, the following day. Carol plans to continue to live in their home in Silver Spring, Maryland.

A memorial fund has been established in Jack's name at the Naval Academy. Anyone wishing to make a contribution should mail a check to Naval Academy Alumni Association (John F. Doheny Memorial Library Fund) in care of the Alumni Association, Annapolis MD 21402.

Our thanks to Betty Helnlnger for writing about all the events in Washington.

The newest arrivals are Joyce and Vera Weaver. Vem has been appointed AdminlsA. Vernon Weaver

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75 trator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and immediately started to make field trips to look into SB A operations. Vem had been a long-time small businessman having been Involved with the Southern Venetian Blind Company, in Miami; President of Lanotan, a small suntan lotion firm, also in Miami; and an investment banking firm and an industrial supplies firm before he became President of the Union Management Corporation. He subsequently became Vice President of Union Life Insurance Company of Little Rock and, in 1972 became President of Union Life. Joyce and Vem have two married daughters and a third who Is attending the University of Pennsylvania. Not withstanding the heavy demands of his new position. Joyce and Vem hope to be active in class activities in the capital area.

Meanwhile Pat and Jeep Donaldson are leaving the Washington area to live so far south in Texas that San Antonio is considered to be up "Nawrth". They have owned a grapefmit farm for several years and have decided to become full time growers of grapefriiit and avocados In the Rio Grande Valley. Their new address will be 603 West I2th St.. Weslaco. TX 78596. Jeep assures us there really are twelve streets In Weslaco and that Texas grapefmit picking beats Washington doorkicklng. We wish Pat and Jeep the very best of luck on their venture and will add them to the list of Classmates to go visit in January and Febmary. "Smug" Winans is down In Brownsville, so the south Texas Classmates can start having luncheons.

Tidewater Ted Davis submitted two letters and pictures about the trip Len and Ted took to Charleston and Orlando as well as doings in the Norfolk area.

Virginia Bailey was honored at Norfolk recently. Guests included neighbors, friends and Classmates. Out-of-towners. including Classmates and others were. Nancy and Chan Von Schrader. Mairanna and Tom Williams. Peggy and Sam Packer, and Alex and Chuck Fellows.

Barbara and Lou Larcombe hosted a beautiful bmnch the following day. A good picture of Dan and Lou but no picture of Virginia; however, daughter Cassle is pictured with her godfathers. Sam Packer and Lou. A lovely occasion, and Virginia. I'm not going to spoil it by telling which birthday it was. Ted sent in pictures of their visit with Page and Slip Haizlip and Melody and Jerry Nuss In Charleston. He also reported a happy get-together with Marilyn and Pete Burkhart in Orlando. Lou Larcombe Is recovering from a difficult operation involving removal of a malignancy from his bladder. Send him a card at 4609 McGregor Dr.. Virginia Beach VA 23455.

Betty and Swoose Snead were back from London to visit Califomia, pin some Naval aviator wings on son Alex in Pensacola, visit daughter Michael In DC; and give a party at NAS Oceana for son Jim and a large group of Tidewater friends.

A real moment of nostalgia occurted for Ted Davis when he stopped In Wilmington, North Carolina, and visited USS NORTH CAROLINA

Len Davis and Friends Smile for the Camera

July-August, 1977

(BB-55) exactly 36 years to the day since he and George Strott reported aboard for duty In the Brooklyn Navy "Yard.

Dee Anne and Stu Evans took the auto train to Sanford and stayed ovemight at NTC Orlando, to be greeted by the sign "NTC Welcomes RAdm. G. P. March." Pat was In town as reviewing officer for a recmit graduating class.

Page Haizlip also reported in for the Charleston group and told about a recent trip to Jamaica, Haiti, and Nassau, with Dick Amme"s sister and one other galloping gal. Page and Skip also had a visit with Marge and Dick Amme on St. Simon's Island.

Caroline and Andy Dowd are on the move again, leaving West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Their new address will be 7930 E. Arlington Rd. #4, Scottsdale AZ 85253. Caroline will be going to school at Arizona State, working on an MBA while Andy Is taking his consulting business with him. Incidentally, Andy Jr. has been a lieutenant commander since 1975. (How old does that make you feel?)

Tom Pownall, executive V.P. of Martin Marietta, recently received the Air Force Association's Theodore von Karman Award for his outstanding achievements in science and engineering. He has also been named National Chairman of the National Explorer President's Congress. Exploring is one of the major programs of the Boy Scouts of America in which 400,000 young adults between 15 and 20 participate in career-oriented and high adventure programs. Marilyn and Tom "live in Potomac, Maryland.

Joe McPartland has been active In St. Pascal Bayton Parish in St. Albans, New York. A recent project, which they hope will spread to other churches, involved collecting more than 400 Mass cards for a special "prayers for the President" mass.

Peter J. Romatowski, son of Joanne and Lou Romatowski will marry Alexandria Bonner in August. Pete is a graduate of Harvard and Georgetown Law School. Our Best Wishes to this fine young couple.

Quote of the month: VAdm. Bill St. George, Commander of 161 warships In the Pacific. Is quoted as saying that the thought of females and males sharing watches and coffee on the bridge ""wakes me up nights." Aw, Bill, what's wrong with having a litde sugar with your coffee?

Marianne and Jim DeSanto are moving from Dallas to Santa Monica, Califomia, where Jim will be the Vice President for Sales of the Max Factor Company, working out of their Hollywood headquarters, which are right across the street from the Chinese Theatre. He welcomes Classmates to their new address: Apt. 609B, 201 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica CA 90402.

Jim Collier sent in a clipping printed in the Lawrence, Kansas, Journal World, on what must have been a slow news day. by an AP reporter whose only wisdom was In remaining nameless. The reporter had made a feeble and

inaccurate attempt to prove that the Class of '47 was just an ""average" class, chiding us for our ""Forty-Seven. Best on the Sevem" slogan, and for our "biggest and best reunion" claims.

Since the number of flag officers was listed as 26. Instead of the correct 34, the article is about what one would expect from a "nocount" reporter. What does It tell you when reporters start trying to prove we're only average?

The Classes of '47 and "50 were also the subjects of a study by the Center of Naval Analyses on the Correlation of Retention and Promotion for USNA Graduates, and their results were of some Interest. A very brief summary of some of their findings was that officers graduating In the fourth quartlle were least likely to stay In the Navy for 10 years, and the ones graduating In the top quartlle were most likely to stay In. The ones In the top quartlle are also most likely to be selected for Captain.

Also, there were no differences between unrestricted line, restricted line and staff officers In promotion and retention beyond ten years. A few statistics: of 728 who served in the Navy all or part of the first 3 years. 353 made lieutenant commander, 270 commander, and 185 captain. Our thanks to Sam Klelnman at the Center of Naval Analyses for providing a copy of the study.

Thanks also to all of those who took time to bring us up to date on themselves and other Classmates by sending in letters and pictures.

Have a nice Summer.

48 Secy. Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr.. Alexandria. VA 22302 Percent Members: 41 Well, the 48s around Washington finally got organized thanks to Jack McCord. who decided we needed a coxswain and set up the great evening at Frank Matthews' "Hayloft Dinner Theater"" in Manassas (you know. Bull Run!). Frank was featuring / Do. I Do with a great professional cast, and his Incredible buffet spread brought out 42 Classmates, with better than 84 people, because of some extra guests. The show was great, and Frank, the impresario, gave the Class all sorts of honorable mention in his pre-show warmup. Those who had not been out to Hayloft before were most impressed, and the returnees were delighted as usual. The turnout on a Thursday night (April 14) shows that with a little communications people 11'/// gather. All of the following attended with spouses, and Paclulli and Sprince had "guests"": Dick Adams. Ahem.

Bill Amold. Ball. Bartow. Jack Bell. Bmnson, Carlqulst. Cuddy. DIttmar. Tony Duncan.

Dyer. Goldman. Harkins. Harvey. Hathaway, Holsteln. Hurt. Kern. Knock. Bill Lewis.

Lyle. Manganaro. Matthews. McCord. McCallum. Mercer. Meriwether. S.K. Moore. Max Morris. Munly. Ortland. Ed Rogers. Sisson.

R.P. Smith. Gene Spalding. Sutter. Villarreal.

Ed Ward, and Floyd Young.

We are beginning to hear from the Boonles. as the following letter from Bob Slater indicates—his "first In 30 years"": "1 married the former Miss Moose (Claire Manganaro) 18 Oct "47; we have been busy since then raising and educating our two sons and two daughters.

The last—our youngest daughter—was married 30 April to a member of MIDWAY air group, so the nest Is empty, and with luck it

76 will stay that way. Since July '74 I have been the 7th Fleet Maintenance Officer, attached to the CTF 73 staff. We were nearly two years In Sasebo before changing home port to SubIc Bay in early '76. We really enjoyed Sasebo. and would have stayed there forever. We had the only car in town with a '48 Is Great sticker, which didn't somehow come across the same In kongi: Claire did her best to improve the local economy and we made some really permanent friends among the Japanese. Subic Is sort of "garrison living." There are lots of rules (restrictions, really) and security against theft Is a constant problem. This is a real tropical paradise: last Winter, while you were suffering In the US, one day It got so cold here the max temperature was only 87! We do have some problems that go with being so comfortably warm, like cobras, and we also share our yard with about 40 or 50 monkeys who are not at all tame. But they are domesticated enough to eat anything we are growing in our garden, and the fruit from our guava. mango, papaya, and avocado trees. ""I expect to be relieved in August by Pete Kjeldgaard ("50). 1 have no orders yet. but suspect we will be going back to Washington to NAVSEA. 1 see very few Classmates In this part of the world . . . maybe that Is because there are not too many of us still on active duty, and this Is not a tourist Mecca. Tom Hayward was my boss for awhile, but he has moved to CINCPACFLT; 1 saw Will Scoggins (COMNAVFOR JAPAN stafO fleetingly here a few months back; Bill Bacon was CO SRF Yokosuka when 1 first came out here, but he has since gone back to Pearl and then retired.

In all these years we have never made it to a Homecoming, but will try this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it almost coincides with our 30th wedding anniversary.

In any event, while not enchanted with going back to Washington, we are looking forward to seeing old friends again.""

And still another 30-year gap has been bridged by the following from the Dean of the U. of Illinois College of Medicine. Dan Bloomfield, MD. "I have been Dean of a new medical school at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the U. of Illinois since 1970. 1 married Frances Aub in 1955, and we have three childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Louis. 20. a sophomore at Amherst; Ruth, 18. a freshman at Brown; and Anne. 14, is still with us and Is In high school. Academic life is remarkably similar to military life, a thought which horrifies my more studious colleagues, but which nevertheless is true. 1 have taken up flying here, and was even once forced to land In Mollne. Illinois, where I could not find Bob Doxey. However. 1 have seen Jim Strong, who lives In Urbana and whose daughter, Madelyn, is a close friend of my Anne"s. They sure giggle when they review the Lucky Bag pictures.'"

As 1 mentioned in an earlier column. Paul Early retired and ran off to New York, as the following terse resume recounts: ""Power Authority of the State of New York, 2nd largest electric generating utility in NY State, a creature of the State Legislature. Operates hydroelectric at Niagara and at St. Lawrence.

Operates hydro-pumped storage. Operates 2 nuclear-powered plants and 1 oil-fired plant.

Total capacity about 6000 megawatts. Office at 10 Columbus Circle. My position Assistant Chief Engineer. Projects: I am working on the licensing of the 2 nuclear plants and the engineering and design and licensing to build a 1200-megawatt nuclear plant on the Hudson, a 1000-megawatt hydro pumped storage plant, a 700-megawatt coal and refuse fired plant on

Staten Island, a 765-KV transmission line from Canada to Utica to Import power to NYC . . . a fascinating and productive position. New home: 10 Hawthorne Place, Manhasset NY 11030.""

Herewith some news from Annapolis way.

Betty and Don Hall, who noted with pleasure an earlier column which mentioned, courtesy of the Alumni Association clipping service, the marriage of their oldest. Don, jr., and felt moved to add more: "Since we have son #2.

USNA '75, who was married this past December 30th In the USNA Chapel, perhaps we should give Doug equal billing. He won his wings on December 28th, flew to Annapolis on the 29th, and made it to the church on time.

Doug married Jane Schmeltzer, whose dad.

Lou. was Class of "45 (and a good friend and neighbor of your Scribe). His widow, Betty lives here in town. We not only love Jane, but the entire family, too. Doug is now In VF-121.

Miramar. and is enjoying F-4s, marriage, and San Diego. I"m not sure of the priority rating, though! Don, Sr., has moved his engineering company Logistics Management Engineering, to Forest Drive in Annapolis, having outgrown offices in Severna Park. He and his partner.

Jim Strickland '47, now employ 21 engineers.

We've just had a lovely reception In the new offices to entertain clients and friends. Third son, Stuart, graduates next week from Frostburg State College, double majoring in Chemistry and Biology. So there Is Interesting news from the Halls."

There was a class luncheon chez O'Donnell on the 10th of May. and. with a call out to bring some girls, we fielded 29 people. Your Scribe, unfortunately, had a rare conflict, and did not make It. These lively ones did make It: Marie and Ed Ward. Barbara and. Warren Ortland. Harriet and Buck Struyk. Jean and Charlie Mertz. Peggy and Bill Bartow. Sibyl and Bob Geiger. and the bachelors Spalding. R.P. Smith. Frank Snyder. Tony Duncan, Dorris.

Knock. Jack Bell. Grechanlk. McCallum.

Jochum. Keenan. Ken Wilson. Edelson.

Carlqulst. Hamlin. Dick Adams, Graham. 11 was decided that in view of vacations and other oddities we would not hold a July luncheon, but Carolyn and George Ball have offered their pool for a smash-splash the second Sunday of July.

Well, as you have witnessed, some of our Classmates can Indeed write, and do still exist somewhere. We all would like to know some dope on you too out there!

49 Pres.. RAdm. Luclen Capone Jr. USN Sec'y, Col. Eugene O. Speckart, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 2741 Arlington VA 22202 Percent Members: 40 General With the arrival of Summer comes the usual number of changes of station and some noteworthy promotions as well this year. Ken Carr has picked up a third star and has assumed duties as Commander Submarine Force.

U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Bill Read has also been promoted to vice admiral to become Commander Naval Surface Force. U. S. Atlantic Fleet. Congratulations Ken and Bill. Ed Briggs has departed Cruiser Destroyer Group THREE and Is now Commander, Navy Recruiting

Command. Tom Ringwood Is back in the Washington area to assume duties as a member of the Physical Disability Evaluation Board at Bethesda. Tex Lawrence is departing Washington for GItmo. Ed Messere has moved from PHIBRON 8 to SERVGRU 1. Paul E. Smith has left NAD, McAlester, to become Navy Plant Rep. Nav Pro Pomona.

From what we read these days Ed Kocher Is making his presence felt at NAVRESO. According to an article In the Navy Times there will be no more adult reading material displayed on magazine racks In Navy Exchanges, and offensive books and magazines will not be sold at all. Way to go. Ed. Dan Kahn is the latest '49er to take a bride.

Dan was married to the former Carolyn Gottfried on April 1 and the happy couple Is living In New York.

We again have some sad news this month.

Bill Lalor was killed in an airplane crash In McLean. Virginia on April 28. Jim McVoy. Don Florance, and Ham Perkins represented the Class at the funeral In Birmingham. The Class also held a memorial service In Washington on May 11. (Also, see ""Last Call.")

Washington Area Things were rather lively around Washington the past few months. GInny and Tex Lauderdale flew in from Dallas during April and hosted a very enjoyable cocktail party at the Shoreham West. The food and drinks were absolutely outstanding as was the entire evening for all of those attending. Those who enjoyed the Lauderdale's hospitality were the Stileses, Benolts. Ekelunds. Grabowskys. Cobb and his guest. Goldmans. Micky McDonalds. Boyklns, Speckarts. and John Walkers. Micky McDonald did the Pooley Wood bit for this one as he arrived with his ankle In a cast as the result of a "'tennis accident.""

Warren Parr dropped In the following week on his way back to Oklahoma City from his annual two weeks active duty period. The Benolts gave a party to allow all the male members of the Hamilton. Grabowsky. Swanson, and Speckart families to attempt to insult Parr while all of the ladies defended him. Somehow Warren came out slightly ahead and managed to award Fred a dunce hat and stool for the evening. However, as a result of his success at the Benolts. Warren was forced to attend on Executive Committee meeting at the Beckwiths the following night. In addition to the Beckwiths other members of the Committee and their wives attending were Albers.

Bauman. Capone. Hammer, and Thomson, with the Benolts and the Barrows present as knowledgeable advisors. Things will probably never be the same for Warren since he found out how the Executive Committee operates. In spite of a lot of shenanigans It was a very successful meeting as details for this year's homecoming were finalized and preliminary plans for the '78 homecoming and the 30th reunion In "79 were made. Details for this year"s homecoming will be provided In the next Issue.

The montly luncheons seem to be getting more attractive every month as more and more Classmates are finally realizing that an occasional short gathering with old friends Is good for the soul. Those attending in April were Thomson, Vosseler, Goldman, Ripley, Whiteside, Gussow, Wamsley, Benolt, Barrow. Anonymous (the handball courts were closed). Hamilton, Relgert. Hammer. John Walker, RIgsbee. McVoy, Bauman, Neely.

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77 The May attendance w as e\ en better and Included long absent Don Wittschiebe and an almost fully recovered Pooley Wood. Don filled us In on what he has been doing lately while Pooley attempted to avoid questions on skiing.

In addition to Don and Pooley. those on hand were Hammer. Benolt. Lawrence. Hamilton.

Anonymous. Goldman. Benas. Gunning.

Roberts. Bartholomew. Jim Wilson. McVoy. Neely. Ekelund. Dorenkamp. Rigsbee. Dralm.

John Walker, Capone. Wamsley. Kraus.

Thomson. Ghormley. and me. .As a final note, we regret to learn that the daughter of John « . Hemann, Mrs. Maria Cecilia Chapman, died early In May In Farmville. Virginia. She is survived by her parents, her husband, and two sons. John may be contacted at P.O. Box 163. Harrlsvllle NH 03450.

50 Pres.. Capt. D. G. Fraasa. USN Corr. Secv. Capt. W. L. Jensen, USN 499 SkyhlU Ct. Chula Vista CA 92010 Autovon: 951-6823 Commercial: (714) 437-6814 Percent Members: 45 Sylvester Foley has commented, again, that the only way he can keep in touch with John Coughlin Is through this column—so—not to disappoint him—Dorothy and your C.S. made a trip up the West Coast during May and spent a couple of days with John and Mary—by way of Monterey. The golf courses on the peninsula (Pebble Beach. Cypms. Spy Glass and Country Club) are brown except for tees and greens.

We found two kinds of water—reclaimed and potable—and friendly hosts asked us please not to bathe and to use the chemical John a block away whenever it wasn"t inconvenient.

Such is the plight of parts of Southem California during the extended water crisis. With Its self supply of water from its own wells. Carmel Valley golf course at Rancho Canada was in top shape and even encouraged the duffer to play over his head—not to mention the joy of a hot shower—about which we told nobody In Monterey. By taking back roads from Monterey to San Francisco one can enjoy some beautiful scenery and If one makes enough winery stops the IV2 hour trip can take all day.

One winery on Hecker Pass stands out for Its beautiful Pitet Syrah.

The John Coughlin, Nimitz House, on Yerba Buena Island Is a complete delight. When John reports to OpNav in July It may stay empty or perhaps become a museum—the decision hasn't been made. At any rate we considered ourselves very fortunate to have had the chance to stay there so we can say, ""We remember when." Going north from San Francisco you mn Into the Mother Lode of the wine country in Napa. Sonoma and Mendocino. It can take many days to get to a destination of Bend. Oregon, which is breathtaking In the Spring. There Is a Black Butte Ranch 35 miles west of Bend with a regulation par 72 golf course that poses a challenge to the best of golfers. Classmates going through Oregon should take a day and try It. We went north through the redwood empire and came south through San Joaquin Valley—because President Carter had just called It a disaster area.

What we found was the most productive agricultural area we had ever seen. Interstate 5 July-August, 1977

doesn't have many places to stop as you head toward San Diego from Sacramento so we had to detour 13 miles to Coallnga to find a night's lodging. They raise a lot of oil near Coallnga and it was worth the exit just to see the Imagination they use to disguise the pumping operation. During the trip we toured the Berkeley campus with son Mark, a senior there, and. as a consultant for the U.S. Navy, were admitted to the Jet Propulsion Lab In Pasadena to visit with son Stephen, who Is doing physics research at that institution. We recommend the wineries but also the fruit and vegetable stands along the way—Corning. California. Is unbelievable for olives (prepared 100 different ways) and almonds—Castrovllle for artichokes (some places advertised 50 for a dollar): Escondldo for avocados and anyplace In California during May and June for strawberries.

Bob Fahey resigned from the USAF In 1953 and went Into the Insurance business. Now after all these years we have located him when he appeared at a ""Million Dollar Sales Seminar"" in Montpeller. Vermont. Bob is a Chartered Life Underwriter and general agent In Buffalo. New York, for National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont. He Is active in estate planning and tax-favored retirement plans.

Classmates in upstate New York take note.

Bob White has been awarded the second Robert W. Smith memorial sabbatical by the Minneapolis daily newspapers. He will spend six months studying the Implications of the rising demand In poorer countries for a ""new economic order."" Bob will visit Mexico. Venezuela and Pern and then go to the Middle East and study at the American University in Cairo.

Bob has been with the Minneapolis Tribune editorial staff since 1967 specializing in international, economic, military and political subjects.

The Norfolk faithful met for luncheon at Breezy Pt. on the first Wednesday In May and had 12 attendees—present were Cliff Church, Jim DInardo. Flora and Don Dunham. Fred Edwards. Bill Grigg (has a son, Jon, at U. Va. In a Navy medical program and Bill had the pleasure of swearing him In). Tom King, Ron Kelly. Don Sattler. Hal Vincent. Corky Angleman and Cliff Hopkins. We all owe a debt of thanks to Corky for keeping the Norfolk group active over the years. As previously reported he Is headed for Chicago and a job as PNS at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His relief and the new Norfolk area coordinator for "50 matters is Cliff Hopkins who can be reached at 690-6280.

John Brick called from Pensacola to say that he had to make a trip to Washington, wanting to see Classmates. John was back in May for an education conference and came across Bud Knapp attending the same. Bud is the Personnel Officer at McChord AFB in Washington.

When asked what was new Bud replied. "Oh nothing really, except 1 have started a second family and now have a four-month old at home." John had lunch with Josh Dorsey, packed up and flew back to Pensacola.

Bill Demers reports he did get Barbara out to Hawaii for their 25th anniversary and they had superb time. While there—in addition to the many other attractions—they played golf at the Navy/Marine course with Terri and John Malloy. TerrI Is a tremendous golfer and soundly beat Bill and John. John Is coming to San Diego to be the C/S for Com 11. Bill reports 29 in attendance at the Navy Flagship may gettogether In D.C. Attendees were: John McNally, Tom Ross (Ann and Tom took a three-

week trip to England, Scotland and Ireland later In the Summer to track down long lost relatives). Josh Dorsey. Phil Conley. Stu Hughes, Sam Powell (Sam and Jody now reside at 8110 KIngspoInt Ct.. Springfield VA 22153), Walt Flint (contact Walt for a special tour of the space museum—a lot of interest here with over 7 million visitors In 10 months).

Bob Oliver, Roy Highberg, Frank Roth. Pete Wood. Dick Duggan, Milt Schultz (Milt and Mary Jane had just become grandparents of a baby boy for the first time), Larry Hawkins (Larry Is a beltway bandit. I.e., Industrial consultant, and made his first attendance at a luncheon in twelve years), Jerry Coleman (Jerry Is prime mover for the class effort for Homecoming 1977. Current plans are to use the Ramada Inn in Alexandria for the Saturday night banquet. Jerry's address for Ideas/ comments Is 3227 N. Vernon. Ariington VA 22207. Telephone, business 370-8707, residence 536-6524), Arnie Austin (enjoying his first year in retirement In Falls Church and with wife, Jackie, took a four-month vacation In Nebraska, Minnesota, and abroad in France.

Arnie is now a management consultant for Harbridge House), Ed Gmnwald (In a new job as Director Field Support Activities in Anacostia), Dick Powell. Dave Heerwagen, Deke Forbes (with Reynolds Securities as an account executive. He and Roz are also new grandparents). Jim Kennedy. Bill Martin. Ted De Backer, Gene Morin, Eari Halpern, Don Jarrell, Bill Kiehl, Jim Lisanby and Bill Simons. Word had been received from Phil Ryan that he had provided suitable memorabilia from HANCOCK to National Air and Space Museum.

Bob Wise had called in from Fullerton, California, where he is with autonetlcs, to say it is a kind of a relief from his skiing, surfing, and golfing to do a little work once in a while.

Twenty-three USNA Class of "77 reported to units of ASWWingPac upon graduation this year—en route to flight training eventually. It Is good for us. with the fleet, to observe their maturity and the results of their education at USNA. At the same time we are providing them with new insight as to career patterns, fleet concerns and problem areas. Our aim is to make one of the 23 CNO one day.

51 Pre., Mr. Lowell Stockdale Sec'y, Cdr. Bruce 1. Meader, USN (Ret.) 5609 South 5th St., Ariington, VA 22204 Percent Members: 46 On 7 May, the Association of the Class of 1951, USNA, Incorporated, held Its 21st annual meeting at St. Albans School. Washington, D.C. More than 60 Classmates and wives attended one of the more enjoyable meetings in some years. Three members of the board were elected to replace Jack Hamilton, Sam Ginder and Wes Seay, whose terms expired. Those elected (to two-year terms) were Mike lacona, Reese Belk, and Arch Thompson. Complete details of the meeting, including the financial statement, will be published eariy in the Fall.

A Texaco news release notes that "(Jordon Van Hook has been promoted from Superintendent Fleet Operations to Assistant Manager of the Texaco Marine Department U.S. Fleet at Port Arthur, Texas. In his new position, he will have cognizance over all domestic Texaco

78 marine activities, Including inland barging and ocean tanker operations."

And from the land of high finance comes word that Pete Hilgartner has been named vice president of Ferris & Company, stock brokers.

Congratulations to both Gordon and Pete.

On June 8, Grafton McFadden was scheduled to be ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church. The Bishop of West Virginia was to perform the ordination at the Lawrencefield Chapel in Wheeling. Our prayers and best wishes go with you, Grafton.

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the USNA Homecoming in order to ensure the availability of facilities, particularly hotels, and to give us plenty of time to revisit old friends.

Organizer Hy Gumey guarantees good weather with perfect temperature, not always a sure thing In October, and he has set up receptions, parties, sports, banquets and dances to ensure a truly memorable 25TH. Final details will be mailed to all those who have a good address with the Class or USNAAA. Early reservations are critical, not only to get a room at the Hilton, but to give the committee assurance that we have the class backing. Down payments for the full week end are $75.00 If you want to stay at the Annapolis Hilton or $50.00 if you prefer the Holiday Inn. The Hilton Is class headquarters and the location of most of the festivities. If you desire a harbor view, single, double or other special considerations.

Include that with your check to: CAPT C E. Gurney III USN 8829 Stark Road, Annandale VA 22003. And, remember to write to NAAA for tickets to the Navy-Citadel football game that week end.

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Plebe Presentation in Mem Hall Earlier, in May, Lowell Stockdale and a sizeable representation of the Class went to Annapolis to make the annual bond presentation to the Plebe Class. The presentation, normally conducted In the Midshipmen's Wardroom Mess, was moved to Memorial Hall where it was witnessed by a handful of the Class of 1980. Unfortunately, neither Kin McKee nor Sandy Winnefeld could make It. Make plans now to attend Homecoming— October 22. Navy plays William and Mary, and then '51 will gather at the Bay Ridge Inn as we have for some years now. Look for details In the mailout of the annual report.

Stop Press! At the annual Cadillac Ball sponsored by the Anne Amndel Association for Retarded Citizens, Carol and Walt Boyes were the winners of the Cadillac—and Lowell Stockdale sold them the winning ticket!

52 Pres., Cdr. R. R. Zastrow, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. R. E. Jacob USN 6752 Towne Lane Road McLean VA 22101 Percent Members: 42 Seismic vibrations still reverberate in the area from the strain of Navy shells receiving slightly older, but wizened, crews of old. To help set up a fund to honor the Academy's outstanding oarsman each year, as a memorial to Coach Rusty Callow, members of the historic 1952 Olympic crews worked or starved off the pounds and put on a demo that may have been more of memories past than capabilities present over the 22-23 April weekend. Eight-oared coxswain Dave Manring along with Demp Jackson and Lou McMillan of the four-man shell and manager Bill Hippie represented '52 at the event. No groans were heard the following day so their physical condition must have been pretty good.

25TH REUNION. To those who missed the March column, our big week end Is all set for 9-10-11 September. Mark those calendars right now. This week end was selected rather than

53 Pres., Capt. Lew Sykes, USN Secy, Mr. C. E. Mumford, GRI 1303 Towlston Road Vienna VA 22180 (703)759-3115 Percent Members: 38 Washington Area There were thirty-one Classmates at the monthly luncheon at Ft. McNaIr Officers" Club on the first Tuesday of the month. May the 2nd. Much to our surprise the Flag orientation group was also having lunch there and RAdm. Art Moreau managed to sneak In for a quick visit. Art is enroute to CinCPacFlt Stf In Hawaii. Walt Russell reported seeing Doc 'Stick' Barnes recently. 'Stick' has his Ph.D. and is living at 163 Brookslde Lane. FayetteviUe NY 13066. The 22nd Company recently had a reunion with eight members present— maybe we will have more details for the next column. Chuck Starnes now with California Microwave. 455 W. Maude Ave.. Sunnyvale CA 94086. Rumor has It that Jeb Herndon retired In April 1976. started his new job and moved Into his 125K home In California.

Within one week opportunity came knocking at his door In the form of an Individual who announced that he wanted to purchase his house.

When he said he would pay 225K for It, Jeb made the big decision and said "SOLD." Jeb paid off his new Mark V and has disappeared into Mississippi as he was heard stating that "Civilian life Is a piece of cake—If you have good management."

Over In Annapolis the members of the 1952 Olympic Crew recently had a reunion. "53 had four members present; Bob Detweiler, 3291 Juniper Lane, Falls Church VA 22044; Ed Worth, 29 Rogers Hill Rd., Waterford CT 06385; Jack Davis, 1718 VIsalia Row, Coronado CA 92118; and Frank Shakespeare.

1562 Putty Hill Ave., Towson MD 21204. You can imagine the ol" tales retold at that gettogether. Bob is still on active duty with the USAF and has been coaching the crew team al Jeb Stuart High School since 1971. Ed Is Chief Engineer with Electric Boat and Frank Is teaching high school math and physics.

Homecoming and Football It's that time of the year that serious thoughts turn Into action. With six home football games this year avid fans should take advantage of the season ticket plan which has to be submitted by I August 1977. Call (301) 2686060. Homecoming this year is the week end of October 22nd so plan to attend. A class flyer will be mailed out In August detailing plans and events.

Charleston During a recent trip to Charleston I managed to get-together with some of the Classmates In the area. Chuck Reed was on vacation In Florida; Lee Hebbard has retired and is now living In Bamwell. South Carolina (?); Tom Mayberry Is In the wool processing business and was on a trip to Europe; Hart Sebring, CO USS DALE, was In for overhaul though homeported In Mayport; Dick Curtis at the Supply Center; Fuzzie Knight at the Shipyard; Don Lovell, the manager of the TEGO BAY restaurant at 1429 Savannah Highway (Rt. 17) on the south side of Charleston (the crepes are great); and Vic Cricchi, who Is in the process of moving to his new residence at 9303 Christopher St.. Fairfax VA 22030. Three of us managed to break away for one evening starting at the 0"Club and then when the music got too loud we relocated to Don Lovelfs restaurant to hoist a few. It was Interesting to note that Don, Fuzzie. and Vic all lived In the same community, just a few blocks from each other.

Mail Bag—From Doric and Jim Throop, 607 Grant Ave.. Ft. Leavenworth KS 66027.

"Here we are in the great Midwest, far from 1-495. 1-95. Rt. 50 & Rt. 1, where all roads lead to the Pentagon. Jim, our two children and myself arrived here In Ft. Leavenworth on Easter week end. Ironically, the Cdr. who escorted us was Chuck Wright, USNA '53, and we've managed to catch up on 24 years. Jim Is Chief.

Navy Section. Command & Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, and at this point his biggest job Is getting people to understand the Navy rank structure!!—as they address him as Capt!! We were offered a choice of quarters—1 wanted the older one but Jim and the children chose this 'newer" one—built about 1898 while the older one was built in 1855. Outside of the two years at Perry Circle we"ve never had quarters.

It Is quite a "base"—excuse—"post"—with everything right here. The children think it is the best place yet. When the bugles play at 5 & 10:30—1 automatically shout "Beat Army!" and so does Alison (10 years old daughter) and I'm sure within a short time people will know we are the Navy family. Classmates are welcome to have a stopover point If passing thm. Phone: 913/684-2417. It is far from the pressures and problems of D.C. duty and it is a very pretty part of the country."

From Capt. J. G. Douglass, USN (Ret.)—"1 am finishing up a two-year job with Computer Sciences Corp. in Tehran. Iran, where I have been since 1 retired as a Captain In March 1975. My wife Jeanne and two of our five sons are with me here. The other three are In California, N. Carolina, or Florida, either working or attending college. We will be moving aboard our yacht, which Is lying in Palma de Mallorca, In late May. Our present plan Is to operate out of Palma for about a year so that the boys can attend the International School there. We will be doing a little charter work in the Balearic Islands and perhaps the east Spain coast. Anyone passing through Palma will be welcomed aboard. The yacht Is a 48-foot Shipmate

79 ketch-rigged motor sailer and will be berthed either along the Paseo Maritlmo or at the Club de Mar. She Is British Registry, hence we fly the Red Ensign vice the U.S. Yacht Ensign.

The people at Martin's N.O.B. will know our whereabouts If we are not In port. Our address will be: Yacht LADY DELFT, C/O Martln"s N.O.B.. 34 Paseo Maritlmo. Palma de Mallorca. Spain. One other Classmate has also been In Tehran for almost two years. Pooch Davies has been here working for Hughes .Aircraft and like me Is soon to depart. Pooch Is a retired Air Force Colonel."

GoMPERS in Yokosuka From Capt. Robert B. Hoffman. Commanding Officer. USS SAMUEL GOMPERS (AD-37).

FPO San Francisco 96601. "1 thought this photo might be of some interest for the column. It was taken in Yokosuka In March, the dav after Steve Hostettler took over command of USS HALSEY (CG-23). USS WORDEN (CG-

18) Is commanded by Jack Frost while USS SAMUEL GOMPERS (.'\D-37) is commanded by

yours tmly. "53 was much In evidence.""

NEWS RELEASES—Dayton. Ohio—Col. Charles VV. Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jay Andrew Stumb of 6008 Elizabethan Drive.

Nashville TN 37205. has been nominated for promotion to brigadier general In the U.S. Air Force. General officer promotions, upon approval by the Senate, become effective as vacancies occur. Col. Lamb is the deputy chief of staff for engineering and services at Air Force Logistics Command headquarters. WrightPatterson AFB. Ohio. Colonel Lamb holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to his assignment to Wright-Patterson, he served at Randolph AFB. Texas 106. Congratulations and welcome back from the lost squadron!

William A. Plummer, an account executive, for Trane Company sales office In Cincinnati, has been named a member of the 1976 Trane William A. Hummer

July-August, 1977

Top Ten Club. This annual recognition is limited to the top 10 percent of Trane's field sales force with over 600 graduate engineers.

Achievement is based on sales performance and customer service during the preceding year. This Is the fifth year Plummer has achieved membership. Before joining the Cincinnati Trane sales office In 1956, he completed six months of intensive training In air conditioning, heating and ventilating equipment and systems at Trane corporate headquarters In LaCrosse, Wisconsin. He then completed six months additional training in the Cincinnati Trane sales office. Plummer Is a member of the American Society of Heating. Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers and has been active In his church. The First Church of Christ Scientist of Wyoming. Ohio, and the Boy Scouts. He. his wife Marilyn, and six children reside at 5605 Meryton Place. Cincinnati. OH 45224. Orders Noted: RAdm. Logan Malone to Naples as ComSubGru 8. RAdm. selectee Dave Frost to Deputy Commander.

Plans. Policy and Systems Development.

Naval Supply Systems Command. Washington D . C ; Capt. Joe Muka to CO NAF Andrews AFB; Col. Jack Craig to MCDDC; Col. Tom Dumont to 1st MAW; Capt. Brad Mooney to Com NTC Orlando. Brad"s new address is Quarters A. Naval Training Center. Orlando FL 32813; Don CanneU to CS CarGru 8 in Norfolk, and Dick Albright to ServLant HQ in Norfolk.

See you all at the first football game on September 10th then again on the 17th. Remember to get there early (beat the traffic) tailgate in the same old place—nearest the Elks Lodge in the stadium parking lot.

54 Pres., LCol. F. M. W. Woodrow USMC Sec'y, Cdr. R. K. Sheehan USN Corr. Sec'y. Capt. Michael J. Stoffel USN Strategic Systems Project Office (SP-24) Washington DC 20376 (202) 697-0880 Percent Members: 38 Clear your calendar for Labor Day! Our Class has reserved the finest picnic facilities in the Washington area for a good old-fashioned get-together. The location is NAVCOMSTA Cheltenham, South of Andrews AFB, and detailed directions will be provided by separate flyer. Swimming, volleyball, softball, and all manner of playground equipment are available for all ages. The cost. Including beer and soft drinks will be minimal, so treat the entire family. Let's all join In to celebrate the end of Summer and beginning of football season.

As most of your know, we have shifted the location of our monthly Washington luncheon to the Party Room, Crystal House # 2 , 2000 South Eads Street. Ariington (Crystal City).

The move was made to provide a more convenient and private location. There is plenty of parking, and it's on the Metro. Furthermore, there Is no fixed procedure; set your own schedule and please make a short (or long) appearance anytime between 1130 to 1330.

Fitz again has made arrangements as follows: '"The annual "54 Father-Son/Daughter Day will be held Saturday, 20 August 1977.

Bring your son/daughter (and their friends) to Sampson Hall, repeat, Sampson Hall at 0900 (room G14). After coffee, the program will commence with a brief talk by personnel from

the Candidate Guidance Office followed by the latest recruiting movies for the Academy.

Handouts and answers to your questions will be provided. As was done last year, the latest football recmlting films will be shown. At 1030, and after a 10 minute break, the Blue and Gold tour guide will give us a tour of the 'New Yard' with ample time In Bancroft Hall (the fee for the tour Is 50« per Individual). We will observe noon meal formation at 1230 (standing by the Japanese Bell) and eat noon meal with the Midshipmen In the Wardroom. There will be a nominal charge per person to eat in the Wardroom. The rest of the time you're on your own.

Be at the Father-Son/Daughter Day at 0900 20 August and we'll have another successful outing!

"We will provide details on homecoming in the next two issues. We will continue our popular tailgate parties before every game, but because of congestion near the water tower, we have changed our rendezvous point to the West end of the West parking lot. Let's all look for one another, get there early, and have a good time!""

Jim Zimmerman sends: "Recently moved back to Philadelphia area with General Electric at Valley Forge after 6'/^ years at Daytona Beach, Florida. I'm working with Ed DeFede In program management of solar and wind alternate energy source development—exciting and rewarding! Kirby and the family hated to move from the land of sun and sand and I miss the excellent sailing. Daughters Kathy and Stephanie now are attending college in Florida and Brice Is at USNA, Class of "78. We therefore have good reason to visit Crabtown and relive old memories occasionally. The other four boys at home keep us attending almost every existing kind of school sporting event.

"This year's plans include participation in the local Philadelphia Alumni Association and renewing Air Force and Navy friendships prior to homecoming. Anybody In the area can easily reach us by air, rail or car—20 minutes from Philadelphia Airport, across the street from rail commuter line and 1 block from PA State Route 252 at 18 E. Possum Hollow Road, Walllngford PA 19086. Now that the giris have gone, we have an extra bedroom (fumished, but share the bath). Please give us a call while in the area—215/566-1320.

"Glad to see some familiar names popping up and in command of our correspondence.

Here's my belated check for dues. I get to Washington, occasionally and plan on joining the Washington Chapter for luncheon when possible. Will drag Ed DeFede along.""

A recent news Item of interest: FRANKLIN D .

ROOSEVELT (CV-42) retumed to her homeport, Mayport, Florida, completing her last Mediterranean cmise. President Jimmy Carter extended his personal congratulations to FDR In a letter to the Ship"s Commanding Officer, Captain Richard Bordone. "As one who has served as sea and who understands the relationship between a Navy man and his ship.""

President Carter said, "I realize that such an occasion may be sentimental—but let It not be sad. As each officer and man departs to his new duty, let him carry the spirit of the ROOSEVELT with him. In this way. the great traditions of the Navy may be enriched while new ships and squadrons are strengthened by good people looking to the future."" The ship also received congratulatory messages from Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor. Jr. and Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James L. Holloway III.

80 A final reminder that there are three big dates coming up: 20 August—Father and Son/Daughter Day at USNA! 5 September (Labor Day)—Class picnic at Cheltenham!

22 October—Homecoming!

Hope to see all of you at each of these functions.

Miscellany: Bill Daniels Is COMDESRON 34 In Charleston. South Carolina. His son. Bill graduated from USNA in June . . . Bob Sheehan, our Annapolis Watchdog, reports that the count of Classmates sending In advance dues stands at 233. Keep them coming . . . M. H. "Steve" Stephenson was discovered In West Covina. California, working for Honeywell . . .

Retirements: Chauncey Sweet 1 April now working for Advanced Logistics Management Corp. Harry Dunn I May to labor for Martin Mjuietta. Both remain in the Washington area . . . Lou Reasonover is retuming to Washington from Pt. Mugu.

55 Pres., Capt. John W. Renard USN Treas.. Col. Ernst Volgenau USAF (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Clif Shumaker 8800 Old Courthouse Road Vienna VA 22180 Percent Members: 34

Into the Hawaii Kai next month, it will be In my house. Such a deal after driving I'/i hours a day between Annapolis and Falls Church. Now I even have time to jog for an hour before breakfast, and to see my family before collapsing into bed at sundown. I particularly enjoy learning/selling the many packages available from Scientific Time Sharing Corporation. It's fun to work with the world's largest computer (Amdahl 470) In Bethesda, Maryland, through a local phone number here in Honolulu.

•'By the time this Is printed In Shipmate, we should be In residence at 691 Kalanipuu, Honolulu HI 96825. We would love to hear from all USNA friends. We are looking forward to the arrival of Estelle and Paul Slack sometime this Summer. Mahalo, Chuck."

56 Co-Chairmen, Executive Committee Capt. J. W. Blanchard Jr. USN LCol. R. H. Lyle USAF Sec'y, Capt. J. W. Blanchard Jr. USN Deputy Director of Athletics U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402 Chmn., 20th Homecoming LCol. R. H. Lyle USAF 8539 Forrester Blvd.

Springfield VA 22152 Percent Members: 32

I have some terrific words from Bob Francis.

He writes: "Hello again from the Francis household. There is some good news and some GREAT NEWS. First, the good news . . . I have finished Chemotherapy, and my hair is growing again. Now, the GREAT news . . . all reports are in and it looks like a clean bill-ofhealth. After a very extensive series of tests and a lengthy and I must say suspenseful period between each test—the last one, a restaging and sort of the proof-of-the pudding was finally completed. This latter test was a most interesting one for me, who while under command CAMDEN ( A O E - 2 ) homeported In local anesthetic, looked (along with seven medBremerton. Charlie expects to assume com- ical students, and one curious bystander) Into mand of SHENANDOAH (AD-26) after a stopover my stomach through a telescope-like arrangeat the Senior Officers' Engineering School. ment. The only apparent abnormality or variaFunny, SHENANDOAH was my first ship out of tion In my liver was a small scar which Is preSchool and I distinctly remember that the CO sumed to be from the original biopsy. I do have was a very very old man. Charlie doesn't seem an enlarged liver and spleen (so much better to that old to me now! vent) however, no problems anticipated. We I occasionally see Todd Meloy and Spider are, needless to say, elated and extremely Johnson at the local llttie league field. We are thankful for our blessings and for receiving the all enjoying our last fling at baseball as we see answer to our—and your—prayers. Clearly, our youngest sons through it. There are some there must be something more intended for me advantages to growing old and one of them has to do here. got to be no more litde league.

"We expect the Air Force to call me to San We had a good turnout at the April luncheon Antonio sometime around the month of here. In attendance were: Don Briggs, Skip November for an evaluation. The procedures Chase, Rog Coffey, Duke Durgin, Mick Flad- require me to be clear of malignancy and off ager, Mike Mudzo, Charlie Plumly, Jack Ren- Chemotherapy for a period of one-year before ard, Tom Stallman, Bud Summers, Bill being eligible for recall Into the Air Force. In Sympson and Eddie Tumer. The big push Is on the meantime, I am very busy In real estate. I again to get a class block of seats at the really wandered quite by accident Into real esAcademy's home games. Last year we had a tate, but have found another job that I tmly block of 60 or so, had a lot of fun, and hope to enjoy. At first, I was only looking for a job that repeat it this year.

I could do on an intermittent basis on those The following was received from Chuck days when I was feeling good—but still not a Gray; "We have moved to Hawaii to set up a job that demanded everyday participation— manufacturer's representatives business and which I obviously could not have given to any found that Roz and Mai MacKinnon are here. job at that time. It turned out to be a grand Mai is XO of the shipyard. choice however, for It served to keep my mind "1 am enjoying getting reacqualnted with occupied and I have thrived on It. So much so, Hawaii after 18 years in the DC area. My office that I have been made sales manager. The is a 13-minute walk away, and after we move market Is 'super' here in Albuquerque—with Summer comes and '55ers go on the move.

Ace Davis has relieved as ACQS Logistics & Maintenance, Staff COMSIXTHFLT. Ted Parker leaves the same staff and retums to OPNAV. Jack Renard has moved over to BuPERS from OASN. Eddie Turner is off to GItmo for a year of unaccompanied duty; he'll no doubt console himself with those oh-sogood mm drinks. Paul Slack is off to Hawaii.

Hugh Webster, Rog Coffey, Charlie Plumly, Guy Graflus and Don Martin have been screened for deep draft commands. Guy will

all the heat seekers' arriving from those less temperate climes.

"So all in all, the move to Albuquerque proved to be a good one for the Francises.

Larry continues in his Sophomore year at the University of Califomia—Davis campus. Golf remains his first love. Miller is working at Citizens Bank and plays tennis every free minute he has. He has joined a local indoor tennis club, so weather and night are not even delaying factors. He plans to start at the University of New Mexico In the Fall. Jamie likes New Mexico, because here at the age of 15 he has been able to complete driver's education and is now ready to go and get his driver's license!

Martha continues to hold our family intact and enjoys our new home. She has even quit smoking (but I must say she has become a little more short-tempered as a result!). That's about the extent of the update from The Land of Enchantment. Please come see us as you pass by on your appointed rounds.

"Finally, thanks to all of you for your many many kindnesses and prayers during this most Interesting period of life. We never will be able to adequately express our gratitude to our friends and to the Air Force—which of course Is only a mirror Image of Its people—for the competence, professionalism, care and concern that was shown and shared with us, by all of you".

Thanks for sharing with us. Bob. and all of us are delighted with your progress.

Here is a news release: "Naval Academy graduate John Egan, who received his BS In 1956. has joined Heldrick and Stmggles, an intemational management consulting firm, as an associate in their Houston office. Mr. Egan has been active in executive search counseling since 1965. working for firms In Houston since 1969. Most recendy he was senior partner of Egan Associates, Inc., a firm he established in 1971.

"Heldrick and Stmggles. which has eight domestic offices and five abroad, specializes in executive selection.""

Jan Prokop has had a book published by the U.S. Naval Institute. Tide: Computers in the Navy.

For long-range planning purposes. Howard Burdick Informs me that the first Washington area luncheon for next fall will be held at the Ft. McNair Officers Club on Wednesday, 21 September, at 1130.

The Washington April luncheon was well attended by: Bud Alexander, Audie .Audilet, Carol and Doc Blanchard. Jane and Howard Burdick, Walt Carison, Marge and Bob Craven, Bob Foster. Gerry Fulk. Mike Higgins, Hoppy Hohenstein. Buzz Husted, Guy Jarratt, Muriel and Rog Lyle, Paul Nelson, Pete Peterson, Don Sacarob, Bob Schatz. Ray Schriner, Ted Shultz, Donna and George Simpson, Jim Smith. John Sterling, Earleen and Larry White, and Pick Wright.

Al Barlow recently visited at the Naval Academy to show his wife Betty and 14-yearold son the sights. Al has been with Exxon in New Jersey for eleven years. He and Betty also have an 18-year-old daughter.

Ralph Swartz retired on 1 March and is working for Control Data Corporation in the Washington area. Jim Dickey, also retired, is the general agent for Westem Reserve Life Assurance Co. of Ohio and represents De Rand Investment Corporation of America at his place of business right here in Annapolis.

Perry Stone Is back In Washington working on the CNO's staff at OP-944.

Shipmate

81 Jack Shanley, the Public Works Officer at USNA. was the guest of honor at the Annapolis Seabee's 35th anniversary bash. Speaking first hand. Jack is doing a terrific job at USNA as I'm sure more of you who get a chance to visit will notice around the yard.

ORDERS: Ed Sechrest from Special Assistant to CNRC for Minority Affairs to Staff, COMSECONDFLT: Jack Wllbem from Staff, COMNAVAIRPAC to COMMAND AND CONTROL TECH CEN WASH.. D . C ; Dick Walsh from USS AMERICA to OPNAV: Ralph Bird from Senior Naval Asst. NAV REACTORS FAC Idaho to COFS/AIDE COMSUBPAC; Bob Schmitt from OPNAV to Staff.

CINCPACFLT; Hal Dolenga from SUPOFF USS Ni.AG.ARA F.ALLS to NSC OAKLAND; Ned Roberts from CO NAVCRUIT DIST CLEVE to Staff.

COMCRUDESGRU THREE; and Mai Macdonald from DUINS NATL DEF UNIV ICAF WASH to OFC of ASN (I & L) WASH.

57 Pres., LCol. Fritz Wan-en. USMC Sec'y. Mr. Frank Bames 5223 Crinnell St. Fairfax VA 22030 Corr. Secy. Cdr. W. H. Peerenboom USN Bureau of Naval Personnel Washington DC 20370 Percent members: 32 It Is with deepest regret that 1 report the death of our Classmate. LCol. Robert Mack Brown USAF. who was killed in action in North Vietnam. His widow, Eva M. Brown, resides at 1872 Renada Circle. N. Las Vegas NV 89030. The Class extends sincerest condolences to his family.

LCol. Joseph M. Samborsky USAF has joined the growing ranks of Classmates retired from the service. Joe retired In March at Andrews AFB, Maryland. In addition to his USNA sheepskin, Joe eamed his master"s degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Best wishes.

Wayne Fritz wrote a long letter In which he told of his doings over the past few years.

Wayne left active duty In 1969 and began working with GE's Electronics Systems DIvlson In Syracuse, New York, In marketing, principally In submarine sonar and torpedo acoustics programs. He was recently promoted and moved to Washington (a fate which seems to befall mostâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;victims of our own success), where he Is a representative for Navy programs with GE's Aerospace Group. Wayne's family will join him this Summer, and the Fritzes will take up residence In Annapolis, just down the street from Timm Anderson and his family. (I'm sure this Summer's move to Annapolis will be somewhat more pleasant than the one in '53.)

Among the other news, Wayne informs us that he's polishing his tennis game with Dick Scales and Sam Underbill, (a threesome!) and sees Classmates Bob Wellborn and Tom Sawyer at NAVSEA. In addition to his job, Wayne has stayed active In the reserve, and recently took command of a Submarine Support Group (in Syracuse) which supports an FBM Tender. A picture recording this event appears In the '55 column. As seen In that photo, Glenn Arthur ('55) represented Dan Cooper, COMSUBRON TEN at the ceremony when Wayne relieved John Ganey ('55).

Other mail received Included a letter from July-August, 1977

Tom Weissinger, 15th Company, who reports that he and Suzy and their two children, Tom II and Georglanna, have just moved to the Naval Academy from Iceland. Tom Is comptroller of the old school. Perhaps it will begin to tum a profit now. The Weissingers live at S-5 KIncard Road In the yard; they've enjoyed renewing friendship with Tom's ex-roomie Bob Morrow and his wife Kay, who live In Frederick, Maryland. Bob Is with ERDA at Germantown.

The Air Force has passed along the happy news that Col. Brad Parkinson USAF has been awarded the Defense Department Superior Service Medal for his work as program manager of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System. NAVSTAR is a navigational system of 24 Satellites currently being developed by the USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization In Los Angeles, Califomia. Deputy Secretary of Defense Clements presented the award to Brad, recognizing the unusual success of the program, at a ceremony In Washington. Congratulations!

Gene Durbin stopped by my office In BuPers recently on a business trip from Santa Monica, where he works for RAND. Gene is looking fit, prosperous and very successful. In addition to his work with RAND. Gen dabbles in the building business, producing fine homes In the Santa Monica area. We lunched at the BuPers cafeteria, one of Washington's really chic spots, where I have a permanent reservation.

Business News: Everybody should have received a flyer on the Homecoming. Planning is proceeding at flank speed. Here's an extract of the pertinent portions for those who may have been missed: We have blocks of rooms reserved at both the Annapolis Hilton (30 rooms) and the Annapolis THR-RIFT Inn (75 rooms). The Hilton Is downtown on the waterfront and the THRRIFT Inn Is on the west end of town nearer to the Bayridge Inn, where we will again have our Saturday evening dinner-dance. Please indicate your priority for rooms, and we will reserve them on a first come-first served basis as deposits are received. A fifty percent deposit Is required to hold a room.

Be sure to Indicate the Class of "57 on your Football ticket application. The Class will be seated together. The ticket price is expected to be $8 per seat.

We are planning a pre-game Tailgate Party near the stadium before the game. A light lunch (chicken), beer, and soft drinks will be served. The estimated cost is $5 per head.

We would like your firm commitments on Items listed on the Reservation Sheet no later than 1 July 1977. In order to make you commitments, please send a copy of the Reservation Sheet, detailing your desires, with your check (50% of estimate for room, Tailgate Party, and dinner-dance) by 1 July. The remainder of the cost will be required in September, and will be detailed at a later mailing. Address: Cdr. Dean H. Hines USN 7800 New London Drive Springfield, VA 22153 If you didn't get the letter write Dean for a copy.

58 Pres., Capt. John Poindexter, USN Sec'y, Cdr. H. W. Konkel USN Naval Electronics Systems Command Washington DC 20360 Con-. Sec'y, Cdr. D. W. Stubbs USN 5908 Parkridge Lane Alexandria VA 22310 Percent Members: 34 THE MAIL BAG Last year's great Valentine's Day Party was repeated this year thanks to Mary Lou and John Gentile who made their lovely home available to the "58ers in the Washington Area.

Tinker and Mel Runzo prepared the hams and roast beef for the heavy snacks while Carroll and Jack Pierce cooked the turkey. John Gentile even baked his famous sourdough bread again. Music for dancing and listening was provided by the three sons of Ginny and Ben Montoya. The other forty-nine Classmates and their lovely ladles attending Included the Aratas, Bauers, Bradleys, Bomans, Chevaliers, Edwards, Gibbons, Dosses, Evanses, FItzgeralds, Frustaces, Gersons, Greers, GIgllos, Haneys, Hanleys, Harringtons, Hutchinsons, Howards, Simmermans, Kesslers, Konkels, Lanigans, Lovejoys, Mackenzles, Mansfields, MIchels, Mitchells, Mooneys, Montoyas, Nicholases, Peters, Pierces, Peltiers, PInkhams, Runzoes. Lomssoes, Ryans, Schaafs, Stephensons, Thoreens, Toppings, Scotts, Shanes, Reeds, Van Nimans, Victors, Wattses, Westphals, WItherses, Wllllnghams, and Schneppers.

Pete Fnedman LCol. Peter G. Friedman USAF recently took command of the 16th Special Operations Squadron, becoming the first navigator to assume command here, and Is the second navigator-commander of a flying unit In Tactical Air Command. A master navigator, LCol. Friedman has served with the 16th Special Operations Squadron since 1975 as an Instructor, Electronic Warfare Officer, Training Officer, Assistant Operations Officer and Operations Officer. LCol. Friedman has a broad military background. A distinguished graduate of the U . S . Naval Academy, he served as an Aircraft Maintenance Officer at McCoy AFB, Florida, until I960 when he entered undergraduate navigator training. As a distinguished graduate of the Air Force Electronic Warfare course, he served as a Staff Electronic Warfare Officer until 1967. He eamed his master of arts degree in systems analysis In 1968 at the University of Maryland and the Institute for Defense Analysis In Washington. He served In Vietnam as an Electronic Warfare Intelligence Analyst and returned to Washington, where he became a Systems Analyst at Headquarters Air Force

82 until 1973. Just prior to coming to the 16th Special Operations Squadron, he served as a Systems Analysis Advisor and Electronic Warfare Advisor to the Ministry of National Defense, Republic of China. In this role, he prepared analytical studies of air defense and other areas for review at the highest levels of the Chinese Military.

From Jolly Old England comes a note by Stu Merriken, ComSubLantRep. He says, "Jerry Fraher and I roomed together for three years.

England is the first tour we have had In the same place since ensign days. The picture was taken over a year ago. Since that time. Bob

Stu and Anne Merriken. Jerry and Pat Fraher Caldwell, Kent Lawrence, Brent Taylor, Gene Lindsey and Jerry Larson have joined us in England. Most of them work in London, Brent and I work just outside London at Northwood, and Gene Is in Scotland. One of these days we might all get together for a group picture!"

Jim Adkins forwarded a NATHAN

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plaque to the 18th Company Collection. "It seems like I have been trying to get this off for three years and now with my Change of Command on 11 June almost here, I'm finally getting to it. I have had a very rewarding and fun command tour even though two years of It was spent in overhaul. There is simply no profession anywhere to equal a Navy command.

Rosemary and I, with our two children, Jimmy and Judy, will be moving to Guam later this month where I will be assigned to ComSubRon Fifteen Staff as Readiness and Training Officer."

Joe Kriner, Jim Kenny, and John Gentile have all expressed their willingness to help John Swope with the 20th reunion.

In Executive Committee Meeting, It was resolved that the 20th reunion class party be held in the Washington Area. Andrews AFB has been identified as the preferred location. If any of you have any ideas on what or how, please let John know.

'58 Is Great!

59 Pres., Cdr. Francis R. Donovan USN Sec'y, Cdr. Lloyd Adams, USN 7869 Godolphin Dr. Springfield, VA 22153 Percent Members: 30 Class Biz Frank Donovan graduated from National War College last month and Is leaving the area for duty on a CmDes Group Staff out of Norfolk. Consequendy, he has resigned from the Class Executive Committee. As I write this column, no one has yet been Identified to replace him on the committee; however that Is to be the first order of business at the next class

luncheon. To Frank, those of us on the Executive Committee and many other '59ers from all comers of the world wish to express our gratitude for all he has done these past three years for the class organization.

New Item: Inasmuch as we received very few responses to queries In this column about your desires for our 20th Graduation Anniversary Homecoming Activities and because there is some fairly strong sentiment by Classmates stationed In the Washington-Annapolis Area, we will be going out to each of you with a letter asking you to respond on this and several other items of class biz. If I could quickly review for you our 20th Homecoming options that will be coming to you: basically, we can have our 20th on the Alumni Homecoming weekend and base our operations at a large hotel in the Washington, D . C , Area or we can base ourselves in Annapolis on a home game football week end other than Homecoming Weekend. Please give this some thought and get the response back to us soon after you get the correspondence.

Here & There Note from Jeff Cant: "On a recent trip to Florida with my family, we visited Sally and Dick Russell In the Miami area. We spent a delightful day sailing on Biscayne Bay on AMISTAD, a 35-foot Ketch, flagship of the Russell flotilla. Their hospitality was superb and it was a great break after a tough northem Winter."

Next year you are going to have company on that trip, Jeff; thanks for the news.

Skip Gantt has been named Vice President and senior pension trust officer In charge of the Pension Trust Department of the First National Bank of South Carolina. After leaving active duty. Skip enrolled in law school at the University of North Carolina where he earned his L.L.B. and then joined the bank in 1969. The Gantts have called Columbia, South Carolina, home since.

Reminder If you live in or around the WashingtonBaltimore-Annapolis Area or can get to Washington for Labor Day Weekend, the '59ers annual family picnic will be held on Sunday aftemoon, 4 September, from noon 'til dark at the Family Recreation Area, U. S. Coast Guard Radio Station, on Telegraph Road in Alexandria, Virginia. Bring a picnic dinner, the whole family, and plan for a fun day of renewing old acquaintances, swapping sea stories and relaxing with friends. Beer, soft drinks, charcoal, chips and dip will be provided.

Games and prizes for the kids (and 40-year-old Kids!). Norm Bednarek Is heading up this effort with the help of Ing Kiland and BiU Clautice.

Plan to be there!

Movin' On Jack Battenburg leaves Pax River to take command of an ONR field activity In Pasadena, California. Fred March leaves Washington for NSC, Peari Harbor. Dave Bottorff moves from one side of town to the other—to BUPERS. Ray Art departs BIGELOW for OPNAV. Bill Boissenin Is moving from OPNAV to NAVAIRSYSCOM. Sam Sigmund leaves the Naval War College this Summer to retum to the Washington area for duty with NOAA. Rise and Shine with '59!

60 Pres., William R. Calvert Sec'y, Raymond T. Burkley Burkley Associates P.O. Box 496, Cupertino CA 95014 Percent Members: 37 We are still accepting Inputs for the update of the Class Directory! (If you hurry.)

Cdr. Joe F. Hoffman wrote from the Academy to let us know that he, Larry Barringer, Ken Clark, Ted McClanahan, Bill Medares. Bill Ross and Tom Solak have started preparations for this year's homecoming activities. Announcements will be out shortly.

We are very fortunate to have a good group of conscientious and hardworking Classmates at the Academy every year to plan and carry out the homecoming activities. Here's a 20% down on the Thanks for a job (to be) well done again this year to the homecoming committee.

Libby and LCdr. Frank T. Simpson wrote from Seoul, Korea, where Frank Is stationed with the MAAG. This is only Frank's second shore duty tour (RVN In 1971 was the other); his other assignments were USS FRANK KNOX (DDR-742), USS RONQUIL (SS-396), USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (SSBN-598), COM-

SUBRON 18 SSBN Support, USS GUAM (LPH-9) Interim Sea Control Ship and now as Electronic Systems Officer/JUSMAG. He sends along news of some other Classmates—Hugh Crow is with the same MAAG Group but stationed at Chinhae in southem Korea; Jack Lusignan is with COMNAVFOR in Seoul (thought you could slip out of San Diego in the fog, huh. Jack); Mickey Reeves was through on TDY from the States in December and Tom Paulsen pulled some liberty in Chinhae in April (but stayed out of trouble).

Frank sent word that Frank Munger retired from the Navy in December 1976—is that a first for the Class, and where was the party held? Libby and Frank's daughter graduated from high school in January and came back to the States and started college in March—Is that a first? Let's hear some answers! And Frank would like a nice Stateside shore duty assignment so whoever has the duty at the Pentagon kindly take care of that litde request.

Sharon and Jim Kinney, and their children Tim and Jill, are living at 22 W516 Tamarack, Glen EUyn IL 60137. Jim is Regional Director/ Information Systems Services for Cresap, McCormick and Paget, Inc., a management consulting firm. Jim pulled duty between '60 and '69 aboard USS SOMERS (DD-947), USS INGERSOLL ( D D - 6 5 2 ) , USS SCULPIN ( S S N - 5 9 9 )

and USS STIMSON ( S S B N - 6 5 5 G ) along with

Nuclear Power and Submarine Officer's Schools. He spent six years with IBM and obtained his masters degree (MBA) from Northwestern in 1973 before joining Cresap, McCormick and Paget, Inc. Jim would like to hear from the Classmates in the Chicago area in order to organize a Class Chapter—(312) 469-6942 home/263-7125 office. He sees Walt Land and Jim Baker at Reserves, but he is going to let them write and bring us up to date on their activities. George Makovic is in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and as soon as his fingers heal he will write too.

NIta and LCdr. Bob Rohr and daughters Cindy and Corky are settied In Califomia (Maryland that Is) after six years in Hawaii— VP-17 for 2 years and then 4 years wtih COMTHIRDFLT at Ford Is. Bob is stationed at Shipmate

83 Frances and Denny McCrary wrote from St. Simons Island, Georgia, where they are enjoying the leisure life with their son and two daughters. Denny spent four years in the Air Force (foreign service) and then eamed his MBA at Harvard Business School. The next nine years they lived on Hilton Head Is, South Carolina, while Denny spent six years as VP of Sea Pines Co. and three years as President of his own real-estate company. The past two BARRY ( D D - 9 3 3 ) . USS W.R. RUSH (DD-714), went to Destroyer School and obtained his years he has been VP Finance for Sea Island masters degree at RPI. Joe (312) 991-2697 Co. (So, if you want to get your battery home 982-4000 office and Jim Kinney will be charged, you can see either Jack or Denny.) organizing the Chicago Chapter, so call them if Sandra and Cdr. John Leahy III are currently you live in the area! living In Guam with their son. John went to The 'better half has been coming through in Submarine School after graduation, then to fine fashion—In fact. I am hereby making a SINS School and five years In USS GEORGE special appeal to all of the wives to write and WASHINGTON. After getting his MS Degree in let us know what has happened since gradua- computer science and a tour at COMSUBtion. Katy Chiles wrote to tell us that she and LANT, he converted over to Engineering Duty Cdr. Hank Chiles and their three boys are cur- and five years at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard rently living in Bremerton, Washington. Hank In various engineering management positions. is the CO of USS GURNARD, homeported in John Is currently serving as the Repair Officer San Diego but undergoing overhaul In Bremer- in USS PROTEUS (AS-19). ton. Hank has been on submarines since Laudra and Cdr. Richard Eber and their two 1%3_USS TECUMSEH. USS DOWN and USS boys are living In Makalapa, Hawaii. Dick TRITON, plus a tour as a CNO Scholar at Ox- went CEC, spent a year at Great Lakes, then ford, England, and as Squadron Engineer for eamed his BCE Degree at RPI. After tours at SUBRON 15 in Guam.

Port Hueneme, Califomia, Quonset Point, LCol. Frank T. Shotton USAF is currendy Rhode Island, and Bremerton, Washington, stationed in England, the Chief of Ophthalmol- (with appropriate deployments), Dick eamed ogy Service and Consultant with the Air Force. his MSCE Degree at Stanford University in 1969. Then on to tours at OPNAV, Davisville, (Rhode Island), Yokota, Japan, and his present tour at PACFLT HEDSUPPACT at Plans/Program Officer.

Lynda and Cdr. (MC) William (Dusty) Graver and their son have moved to La Mesa, Califomia, where Dusty is in residency in Anesthesia at NRMC, San Diego. After graduation, he had tours in destroyers and subs and then left the Navy and went to Medical School at University of Texas. Dusty retumed to the Navy in 1970, went through intemship and a tour in Sub and Diving Medicine and then spent the past three years in residency— Surgery and Family Practice—at NRMC, Camp Pendleton, Califomia.

Margarete and Dan Roth hosted the April meeting of the Northem Califomia Chapter at their home in Saratoga, Califomia. In addition Frank Shotton to the Roths the following were in attendance: Alice and Dan Affourtit, Patricia and Raymond We recently received a picture of Frank for the Burkley, Glenn Coleman (Hope was TAD in Wash.DC), Frank Hunt, Harriet and Patrick column, and are happy to reproduce it.

Sullivan, Jonnie and Dick Shawkey, Karen and Marianne Phelan wrote from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she, Jim and daughters Denny Vied, and mystery guest Ed Walker.

Beth and Katie live. Jim is with Westlnghouse, Frank Hunt is with the NROTC unit at UC Berkeley and has seen Jack Newman, H.O. assistant to the General Manager/Nuclear Services Division. Thanks Katy and Marianne for Wright, and Charlie Balou recendy. H O . Is at Alameda and Chariie is at Mare Island. Denny the assistance.

Vied has been recalled by TWA, bought a new Margaret and Cdr. Jim Eilertsen wrote from Oak Harbor, Washington, where Jim is CO of house at 1751 Cairo St., Livermore CA 94550, VAQ-134, and they are enjoying the Northwest and left Karen to move In while he went to Kansas City for three months of training. Mauwith their two boys. Brad and Dan, and daughreen and Mike Gavlak are living in Cupertino; ter Barbara. Jim just retumed from an 8-month Mike is stationed at Moffett but currendy on deployment aboard USS ENTERPRISE with stops in the Philippines, Hong Kong, etc. Mar- deployment with the squadron.

Mary Lee and Jim Ramsey wrote that they garet and Jim's phone number is (206) 675are living at 11252 Via Carroza, San Diego CA 5614—(hint for Katy and Hank Chiles).

Sara and Jack Herbein wrote from Wyomis- 92124, with their 3 children Paul, Kristin and slng, Pennsylvania, where they hve with their Courtney. Jim Is stationed at NAS Miramar son and daughter. Jack left the Navy in '67 and holding down jobs as the billeting officer and has been with the electric utility industry ever assistant administrative officer.

Joan and Harry Trulli and their three chilsince. I also have heard, from a good source, that on June 1st of this year, Jack will become dren live in Northem Colorado, at 1624 Indethe Vice President of Generation for the Met- pendence Court, Fort Collins CO 80521. Harty has had a long career with Kodak—he eamed ropolitan Edison Electric Co. of Pennsylvania. his degree (MS in Statistics) In Rochester and Congratulations Jack, keep up the good work!

NAS Patuxent River with VXN-8 flying P3s.

Bill Bringhurst, flying C-130s with VQ-4, is the only other Classmate stationed at PAX River.

Pam and Joe Wade wrote from Chicago where Joe is the Marketing Representative for E.l. duPont deNemours and Co., Plastic FNroducts and Resins Dept. They live with their two sons and daughter in Palatine, Illinois. Between '60 and '67 Joe served aboard USS

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then was transferred to the Eastman Kodak Colorado division. He Is currently Quality Systems Engineer for the Technical Services Division/Kodak. Harry Is curtently Education Chairman, Colorado Section, American Society for Quality Control.

61 Pres., Mr. James Traa Con-. Sec'y, Cdr. Kenneth G. Craig, USN 1033 Mountain Dr. Oak Harbor WA 98277 Percent Members: 33 Spring has brought quite an Increase In class mall, and with It news of the accomplishments of many of our members!

Our own Joe Bellino is one of 11 former college football stars to be named to the National Football Foundation's College Hall of Fame!

Induction will be at the Foundation's 20th awards dinner 6 December 1977.

Hal Spooner has joined Sprout-Waldron Operation, Koppers Co., Inc., Muncy, Pennsylvania, as manager of its Contracts and Systems Division. The division designs, engineers, constmcts and equips complete feed and grain facilities, material handling and storage installations and processing systems for the various industries with which it is involved. Headquarters are in Muncy, and offices are in Missouri, Georgia, England, and Taiwan.

Earl W. Dunsmoor was named Plant Manager of Container Corp. of America's Los Angeles Combination Paperboard mill. Earl and Barbara have two daughters and live at 1623 Gates Ave., Manhattan Beach CA 90266.

Chuck Metzler has assumed command of USS PHARRIS (FF-1094) based out of Norfolk.

Dean and Cliff Dunning have moved to the D.C. area for about a 3-year tour for Cliff at HDQTRS., M . C , In the CIvihan Education Branch. Their new address Is 2237 Chestertown Dr., Vienna VA 22180.

Have also received word of several of the distaff side who have "seen the world" as a result of our joining the Navy. Diane joined Bob Shere in Hong Kong during his deployment aboard USS ENTERPRISE. And Dean and the kids joined Cliff Dunning in Okinawa for 6 months and visited Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland Japan. Sandy joined your C.S. In the Philippines during VA-95's recent WESPAC deployment.

A welcome letter from Bert Cassels brought us up to date on his most recent activities. On 26 May 1976, he married Georgene ("GG"), and they spent a month honeymooning in New Zealand. They are presently living in Hawaii at 95-154 KuahelanI Ave., MllllanI Town HI 96789. Bert Is now CO of USS BADGER ( F F 1071). On 10 April, CNO, Adm. James Holloway, spent about 2 hours aboard BADGER where, in addition to making comments to the officers and men, he was given a demonstration of the NDS system and the ship's newly installed Harpoon Weapon Sys., only the second on the West Coast.

At this writing. Honey and Jim Traa are now living In Birmingham, Alabama. Jim is District Manager of General Electric's Power Systems Sales Operation and Is responsible for utilities In Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi.

The Traas' family has grown to three; Jimmy—12, Laura—4 and Michael—2 (look out for trailers!) and now resides at 3544 Spring

84 Valley Court, Birmingham 35223 (Phone: (205) 967-7204). They would like to hear from any Classmates In the area or traveling through.

Since the Naval Academy Alumni Association fund raising was formalized In the early 1970s, Jim has taken the lead In organizing the Fund Campaign with the very able help of a number of Classmates. As a Class, we have dramatically increased both the number and amount of contributions, but are still far below our capabilities and expectations.

The Alumni Association provides the organization through which many of our Class objectives can become reality. Not only are there a number of worthwhile activities such as midshipman facilities, memorials. Alumni functions, etc., which the Alumni Association supports, but there Is Shipmate which provides a valuable communication media for the Class.

Jim would like to encourage the Class to get behind the Alumni Fund Campaign and fully support this very worthwhile activity. Through participation, we cannot only have a voice in the affairs of the Association and the Academy, but can influence policy as well.

Class Steering Committee Report Last year's USNA Homecoming weekend was a memorable one In that It served to start the ball rolling toward developing a viable Class organization. As a starting point, a "Class Steering Committee" was organized from interested Classmates. Ted Fenno, Ben Gerson, Bob Hoag, Larty Lubbs, Bill Mackey, Bill Martin, Norm Pigeon and Jim Traa comprise the committee which held its initial meeting in November and embarked on a course of action directed toward developing an organization which would better serve the Class in the years ahead.

From the original class organization. Jim Traa, President, has been the only active elected class officer, concentrating primarily on the Alumni Fund Class Campaign. Dick Oldham. Vice President, has been totally absorbed in establishing himself In the medical profession. Ron Reimann, Treasurer, was forced to give up his responsibilities because of government commitments and Jack Prudhomme. Secretary, was killed in action over North Vietnam. Jim Traa assumed the responsibilities of Treasurer until such time as an appropriate organization is established.

After reviewing the many Class organizations now in effect, the Steering Committee decided that our organization should incorporate. Incorporation has the benefit of providing guidelines for establishing and running the organization as well as taking advantage of tax laws pertaining to non-profit organizations.

The management and control of Class activities and the expenditure of Class funds will be vested in elected officers and members of the Executive Committee who. while protected from personal liability, would be responsible as well as responsive to the Class as a whole.

The following Articles of Incorporation, presented for your ratification, underwent substantial review prior to being filed In the State of Maryland. We are sure you will agree that they provide the appropriate direction for the establishment of our Class organization.

ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF THE CLASS OF 1961 UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Incorporated

We, the undersigned natural persons acting as Incorporators, adopt the following Articles of Incorporation for forming a corporation under the General Laws of the State of Maryland: FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereafter called the "Corporation") is THE CLASS OF 1961, UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY, Incorporated.

SECOND: The purposes for which the Corporation is organized, and the business or objects to be carried on and promoted by It are as follows: 1. To conduct and carry on the work of the Corporation not for profit, but exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, and In such manner that no part of the net earnings shall Inure directly to the benefit of any member or Individual.

2. To accept by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, real and personal property of every kind and description whatsoever; and to purchase, hold, invest, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the principal and income of the funds and property of the Corporation of every kind and description; and to enter into, make, perform and carry out contracts of every kind or nature for any of the purposes of the Corporation without limit as to amount and to have one or more officers to carry on all or any of the operations, and to exercise any of the powers of the Corporation.

3. To provide opportunities for the exchange of experiences and opinions through discussion, study, and publications.

4. To provide for memorials and similar tokens of expression for deceased classmates and their families.

5. To provide suitable memorial gifts to the United States Naval Academy.

6. To hold meetings and conferences for the mutual Improvement and education of Its members.

7. To do all and everything necessary, suitable and proper for the attainment of any of the objects or the furtherance of any of the powers heretofore set forth, and to do, to the same extent as natural persons might or could do, every other act or acts Incidental to be connected with the aforesaid objects or purposes or any part or parts thereof.

THIRD: The Corporation may have members. Each member shall be entitied to vote as provided by and subject to the requirements set forth In the Constitution and Bylaws.

FOURTH: The Corporation may have officers. Each officer shall have qualifications and duties as set forth In the Constitution and Bylaws.

FIFTH: The Corporation may have an Executive Committee. The Executive Committee's qualifications and duties shall be set forth In the Constitution and Bylaws.

SIXTH: The following provisions are hereby adopted for the purpose of defining, limiting and regulating the powers of the Corporation and of the Executive Committee, officers and members.

1. The Executive Committee is hereby authorized to make, alter or repeal the Constitution and any Bylaws of the Corporation, but only by the vote of two-thirds of the responding membership of the Corporation for changes of the Constitution, and by the vote of twothirds of the whole membership of the Executive Committee for changes of the Bylaws.

2. The Executive Committee Is hereby empowered, In the exercise of their absolute discretion, to make any and all donations, gifts.

contributions and loans which the Corporation may make pursuant to these Articles of Incorporation, in such amounts and manner and through such agencies wherever situated as may be provided in the Bylaws of the Corporation, or in such resolution or resolutions as may be passed from time to time by a twothirds majority of the whole Executive Committee, and without responsibility or accountability to the members of the Corporation.

3. The Executive Committee is hereby empowered to sell, lease or exchange, or to mortgage or pledge all of the property of the Corporation, or any substantial part thereof upon such terms and conditions as the Executive Committee deems expedient, and for the best interests of the Corporation when and as authorized by the vote of a majority of the whole membership of the Executive Committee.

4. In the event of dissolution or termination of the Corporation, title to and possession of all the property of the Corporation shall pass forthwith to the Alumni Association of the United States Naval Academy to the use and benefits of the United States Naval Academy.

SEVENTH: The name and address of the Corporation's registered agent Is: William G. Martin, CDR, USN 49 Rodgers Road Annapolis, Maryland 21402 EIGHTH: The address of the Corporation's principal office Is: Class of 1961, USNA Alumni House King George Street Annapolis. Maryland 21402 NINTH: The name and address of each Incorporator and Director, each of which is eighteen years of age or older is: Ted P. Fenno 11512 Deborah Drive Potomac. Maryland 20854 Benno M. Gerson 4825â&#x20AC;&#x201D;45th Street N.W. Washington. D.C. 20016 Robert W. Hoag, II 4820 Birch Lane Alexandria, Virginia 22312 Larry L. Lubbs 1744 Pine Valley Drive Vienna, Virginia 22180 William F. Mackey 8800 Teresa Ann Court Alexandria. Virginia 22308 William G. Martin 49 Rodgers Road Annapolis, Maryland 21402 Norman B. Pigeon 12314 Dendron Place Oxon Hill, Maryland 20022 James R. Traa 3544 Spring Valley Court Birmingham, Alabama 35223 TENTH: The Incorporators and Directors shall serve as the Executive Committee of the Corporation until the first annual meeting and until their successors are elected and qualify.

ELEVENTH: The Corporation has no authority to Issue stock of any class.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have signed these Articles of Incorporation on March 22.

1977, and acknowledge these articles to be our act.

The next step in the process Is to obtain ratification by the Class. Normally, ten percent Shipmate

85 of the group membership is required for ratification and we propose that this be obtained by proxy vote with the formal ratification meeting taking place at this year's Homecoming.

The Steering Committee Is now drafting a Constitution and Bylaws, based upon the Articles of Incorporation, which will govern the management of the Corporation as well as the election of officers and the establishment of regional organizations. These should also be available for ratification by Homecoming weekend.

The Steering Committee believes that we have taken positive action In the best Interests of the Class and that we have made substantial progress foward our objective of developing a viable and dynamic Class organization. In this regard, we would appreciate and take into consideration any comments regarding our approach or the specifics of the documents involved. Please address all comments to: Jim Traa. P.O. Box 637. Birmingham AL 35201.

Those interested can also obtain copies of the proposed Constitution and Bylaws by writing to Jim. Get It done with "61!

62 Pres.. LCdr. John Hewitt. USN Secy, LCdr. Howard Pinskey SC USNR-R 1783 Regents Park Road CroftonMD 21114 Percent Members: 38 Classmates, we have passed another milestoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;our 15th Anniversary, which brings to my attention that as the sponsors of the 15th Company Wardroom at USNA. we are asking all the COs of ships, stations, facilities and squadrons to send a plaque to the 15th Company Wardroom President for display. We have also received a letter of appreciation and a request for continued financial support from the current Wardroom President, Midn. John A. Karels.

With the passing of our 15th year comes the 15th Reunion/Homecoming/Dinner-Dance on Saturday. 22 October 1977, at the Ramada Inn, Lanham. Maryland. This affair will be a coat and tie and cocktail dress affair with a sitdown buffet. The cash bar starts at 1830 (3 men have the watch), the buffet chugs Into sight at 2000, and this year (by popular demand) the entertainment starts to roll at 2100. It will be provided by a local Washington DJ from radio station WMOD who has a real bag of disco music we all remember from 1961-62- as well as the ever popular hits which have brought us to 1977. (Remember the Twist we could not do in Ward Hall?) The DJ will secure at 0100.

We will have a hospitality room available for changing, etc.. at the Ramada Inn which will be open from 1700 until 0100. For those who would like to make reservations, contact Mrs. Jon Smith. Ramada Inn, 5910 Princess Garden Pkwy., Lanham MD 20801, tel.: 301/459-1000.

If you would prefer to spend a week end with a Classmate in the DC area, write Joe Monroe, 16700 Geo. Washington Drive, Rockville MD 20853.

We are expecting 300-350 people at the Dinner-Dance so start sending In your reservations now to Walt Welham, 8811 Aunt Lilly Lane. Annandale VA 22003. or Wayne Hickam, 12004 Tweed Lane, Bowie MD 20715.

Make all checks payable to USNA 62 in the July-August. 1977

amount of $28.00. All reservations will be listed at the receptionist table In the ballroom.

This is the same room that we had In 1972 for our 10th Reunion and In 1973 for our Welcome Home POWs Dinner-Dance. It is planned to have a similar Dinner-Dance every five years.

Sunday morning at 1000 there will be a USNA 62 Class business meeting In the lobby of the Ramada Inn. All Classmates are encouraged to attend.

1 have received a note from Joe Wehner indicating that he has been elected Secretary/ Treasurer of the Cleveland (Ohio) Chapter of the Alumni Association. He had also seen Hugh Burkons and Carl Nardone during April.

Congratulations to Steve Garrison who has been appointed vice president and manager of the Dallas office of Heldrick and Struggles.

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By the time you read this JUNE WEEK WEST will have taken place In Califomia. Fred Badger was our 62 coordinator.

A very dedicated penpal has dropped another newsy letter my way. Arlene Beasley writes that Fran Beasley has deployed In INDEPENDENCE as Safety Department Head along with Dave Hoffman who Is on board in an F-14 squadron. Sharon and John Arthur are in Sicily with their three girls. John Is with VR-24.

Sandra and Earl Wheeler are in Hawaii In a prop pilot job. Leighton Smith is CO of VA-86 In Jacksonville. Florida. He and Dottie have a son and two daughters and they are expecting PCS In July. Jon Hickox Is at the shipyard in Bath. Maine. John Argo Is still a pilot with Delta Airlines in Miami. Dick Luker Is with Westem Airlines in San Francisco while Sandy and Dave Bourland are with Westem Airlines in Los Angeles and have two girls.

In the DC area. Jean and Mick Andrews reported to OPNAV in December. John Baker Is about to leave for sunny San Diego and NavAlrPac Public Affairs Office at North Island. Pete Glaiser has left for USS D. B. BEARY (FF-1085). Joanne and Nick Ferriter have joined Special Project 23 for fire control and guidance in NavMat. Ernie Lewis has reported to NavAlrSysComHq. Linn Shoup has reported to the Center of Naval Analysis. Jan and Bill Vincent have moved to Bmnswick.

Maine. Joe Brown left Diane In Califomia and has gone to Iran for a year.

Congratulations to Maureen and Steve Chadwick on their move to Norfolk. Steve has been selected as CO of the SPRUANCE-class DD-974, (COMPTE DE GRASSE). Pas mat.

Etienne! Nous les aurons!

The following Classmates are Lost or have moved without having left address, and neither 62 nor the Alumni Association has a clue.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of these miscreants Is requested to get in touch with Wayne HIckam. They are: Chariie Arnest. Al Barron, Tom Burke, Joe Clugston. Bob DItchey (In San Francisco). Cal Dunlop (Califomia), Steve Garmon (San Diego). Tom Gunlock (Springfield MA) John HIckox (Bath ME), J. J. Homer (New London), Denny Huff, TonI Maness (Hawaii), Ed Nair (Naples. Italy), Chariie NIcklas (San Diego), Dick Phoebus (Hawaii), Dick Szekely, Jim Thomas, Don Tobolsk! (Okinawa), and Bill Vincent (Bmnswick ME).

There was a DC luncheon on 8 June and another is scheduled for September. Contact Jim Whiteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;703/532/3221 and give him your reservation. And the DC Picnic was scheduled for 2 July at Carderock State Park.

63 LCdr. C S. Minter. Ill, USN Sec'y, Mike Shelley 7096 Leewood Forest Drive Springfield VA 22151 Percent Members: 34 1 find myself In the wholly unaccustomed position of writing this column with a wealth of material to draw upon. No fewer than five (Praise Allah!) letters. Incredible.

From BiU Hahn: "I'm now XO In USS DANIEL WEBSTER ( S S B N - 6 2 6 ) . trying earnestly

to finish an overhaul and conversion to Poseidon at Electric Boat at Groton, Connecticut. We should be getting out for sea trials the latter part of the Summer. I recently completed a tour at the Pentagon with OP-02. Barb and I have three children (Bill. Linda, and Douglas) with a fourth expected in September.

Maybe I'll finally be home for one. We hope to locate some of the Class living in the New London area and have a get-together soon."

From Jim WiUiamson: ""Your monthly plea for news was well-timed. I received Shipmate this very day and this moming I had breakfast with Dave Puckett, so I decided to forward a little news at least. Dave was In Denver for a one-day business meeting. I managed to squeeze a short breakfast out of his schedule and we had a good chat. I haven't seen him for about 10 years, but hope to see him more frequently as he will be coming to Denver periodically on business. Dave has recently been promoted to the position of Market Manager.

Power and Industrial Pipe. Special Products Operating Division of Owens/Corning Fiberglas. (In case you're wondering how I remembered all of that. I copied It from his fiberglas calling card.) It appears that Dave Is doing quite well In the corporate world, which, of course. Is no surprise. ""We talked of many Classmates, but neither of us had very up-to-date info on most of them with the exception of Charlie "Skipp" Lynch, my roommate for most of the years at the Boat School. I received a very newsy Christmas letter from Charlie this Winter. It indicated that Charlie is still making progress In his acting career. Apparently he is not leaving any stone untumed. In addition to the stage acting previously reported In Shipmate, he is also Involved in some movie work. TV (Kojak). commercials (Amtrak). and modeling. So keep your eyes open when the tube Is on and you may see him. I have great hopes that Charlie will make It big in acting some day, but whether he does or not. It's obvious that he's doing what he really wants to do. You can't beat that. ""As for myself. I have recendy changed jobs. 1 spent seven years In the building automation industry (temp controls, fire detection, security, etc.) and am now a Senior Engineer with Energy Management Consultants. Inc.. a division of Beckett. Harmon. Carrier, and Day. (I had to consult my conventional paper calling card for all of that.) The "Senior" just means that you"re over thirty. I think. It seems quite appropriate to be writing about my new career this evening, since President Carter just delivered his energy policy proposal to Congress. We are active in both new construction and existing building retrofit on a consulting engineering basis. At this time the demand for our type of service far exceeds the supply available, so It promises to be very challenging and Interesting."

86 From Ted Bowman: ""Some litde about the Bowmans since we left B-more In 1973, right before the 10th reunion. At that time I had just finished my first year In law school at night at the University of Maryland while working for Proctor and Gamble In the manufacturing plant. I accepted a position with Westlnghouse Nuclear Service Division In Pittsburgh. Since November 1975 I have been Manager, Repair Service, responsible for operating plant maintenance and repair service on large components of Westlnghouse nuclear steam supply systems. In June, 1976. 1 graduated from Duquesne University Law School with a J.D. and passed the Pennsylvania Bar in November of that year. My legal work so far has been limited to some volunteer work for local community groups, but I am looking for other avenues to explore in the law. Meanwhile. I have been active as Treasurer of the local PTA and am coaching a youth soccer team that our two sons Eric (10) and Scott (8) play with. Linn has been very active here In the Junior League, as a guide at a nearby community arts project, as an artist producing her own works, and even as a tennis pro at a youth summer camp last year.

You can see we do not look for things to do.

And since we moved Into an old farmhouse In January, 1976, we have plenty of room for visitors and would welcome some at any time.

"I'm enclosing a photo that was taken at our home during last year's Army-Navy game party for the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Alumni Association. I'm currently President of that organization and will be next year unless I can unload the job. The photo shows the '63ers who were In attendance. In the first row are Linn Bowman, Linda Spadafora, Diane McCabe, and John McCabe. Standing are myself, Charlie Spadafora, Christine Dean, Phil Dean, Micki Sollars, and Tom SoUars."

friends of ours. I was recendy re-elected for my third term as President of the Tulsa Chapter of the Alumni Association."

Stu Settie has sent a vivid report of the events surrounding the Spring Meeting of the Tmstees of the Class of 1963 Foundation: The meeting was held at the Boar's Head Inn, just west of Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, 30 April 1977, with social activities planned for the 29th, 30th and 1st of May, and was attended by members of the Board of Tmstees and Officers of the Class. This Is the first time we have held such a gathering in a resort setting and wives and children were also invited. Those who attended for all or part of the week end are as follows: Kent and Betty Maxfield, Jim Ring (one of '63's few remaining eligible bachelors). Sonny and Laurie Glassner, Al and Sally Griggs, Ben and Sue Cole, Nick Nerangis, Doug and Holly Davidson, Charlie and Carol Minter, Paul and Lynne Tobin and their girls, Elizabeth and Tricia, Dave and Judi Puckett and their four kids, Melissa, Melanle, Ashley and little David, this correspondent and wife Helene and our little Alex. In addition to the aforementioned '63 juniors, three others attended en ventre sa mere, Carol Minter. Holly Davidson and Helene Setde all appearing due about the time this letter goes to press in your column.

The Boar's Head Inn Is a sportman's paradise having available golf, tennis (Indoor and out), paddle tennis, squash (singles and doubles), swimming and riding, and on Friday aftemoon from the terrace, those of us who mainly derive our exercise from the bending of our elbows, were treated to an exhibition of golfmanship as Charlie Minter negotiated the water hazard on the first tee. Later, after exhausting his supply of golf balls, Charlie rejoined the more sedentary sportsmen on the terrace for a gin and tonic.

Saturday, after concluding a three-hour business meeting, our group set out for Scott Stadium at the University of Virginia, where Navy insured Itself a spot In the NCAA lacrosse toumament and all but eliminated the Cavaliers' lingering chances of securing a place In that tournament that would take place In their own stadium on 28 May. As of this writing. Navy ranks In fifth place nationally with an 8-2 record.

Sitting in the stands on a balmy April Saturday watching the Virginia undergraduates In various stages of undress bronzing their young bods In the golden rays of the mid-afternoon sun, girlfriends at the ready by their sides with '63 in Pittsburgh plenty of beer smuggled In beneath the uncaring noses of the ushers and ticket sellers, Jim Ring opined as how we all (Sonny Glassner excepted) had been deprived of certain Invaluable From Dave Reif: "Here's a note to bring you elements In our social development as underup-to-date on what's happened to the Reif fam- graduate naval officers. ily this past couple of years. In January of 1976 On Sunday, after getting the bad news from I moved to Blyth Eastman Dillon from Merrill the front desk and punching out on our AmeriLynch. At Blyth I have done quite well In can Express cards, the week end came sadly to spearheading a new team concept of the a close. Dave Puckett and Co., the Glassners brokerage business. In January, 1977, I was and Griggs paid their respects to Mr. Jefferson appointed a Vice President of the firm and my at Monticeilo, while those of us who have partner, Steve Ingle, was appointed an Assis- made that pilgrimage one or more times tant Vice President. I was also appointed a squeezed the last juices out of an idyllic week member of the President's Club, the highest end by getting in a final set of tennis, or In the recognition a person can receive at Blyth. case of Charlie Minter, hooking a few more "The best news that 1 can report is the birth shots into that water hazard on the first tee. of a daughter, Almee McClory Reif, to Sheila By the time you read this, the Summer will and me on 21 January 1977. We have a son, be more than half over, so make your plans John, who is nine. The only other '63er In the now to attend the 14th reunion of the Class at area Is Bruce Lenz, who lives in Oklahoma Homecoming in Annapolis. Our worthy oppoCity. Bmce and his wife, Sarah, are good nent on the gridiron that week end (22 Octo-

ber) will be William and Mary. You'll receive a letter with details and a reservation form sometime in September. Come to the party and help start things rolling for the gigantic 15th year extravaganza!

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64 Pres., LCdr. Thomas J. Swartz, USNR Sec'y, LCdr. James Baumstark, USN USS G. P. LIPSCOMB (SSN-685),

FPO NY 09501 Con-. Sec'y, LCdr. BiU Harris USN Naval Systems Engineering Dept.

USNA, Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 37 The Alumni House Is in receipt of a letter from a law firm in Washington, D . C , which states that the firm has in its possession an engagement ring inscribed with the Class of 1964 Insignia. The sizes of the ring is about 5\6. or 6 and it has no Identifying marks, but appears to have been manufactured by the Herff Jones Company of Indianapolis, Indiana. The circumstances and the date In which it came into the possession of the law firm are unknown, but the brief description of the ring indicates that it is rather an expensive one. If any member of the Class of 1964 knows to whom the ring belongs, it is requested that the Alumni Association be contacted for further information in order that the ring may be retumed to Its owner.

The winter freeze is really over and the letters have been pouring in with the improving weather. It really makes a corresponding secretary happy to see so much material. Maybe 1 should squirrel away one or two letters for next Febmary's Issue.

Alan Smith has written to me from Burke, Virginia, about a minor reunion he had with his old USNA roommate Gary Zech. Both are in reserve submarine support units in Washington, D . C , and they spent their two weeks active duty together in Norfolk In USS L.Y.SPEAR (AS-36) back In March. In addition to a deployment to Fort Lauderdale. Alan managed to see Linda and Dick Foley and daughter Tracee, one-year old. Dick Is an overworked Navy doctor at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital. Alan also enjoyed noon meal on USS FLYING FISH (SSN-673) as guest of the

XO, none other than Charley Moore.

During the other fifty weeks each year Gary Zech Is a project engineer with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He and Joyce live In Silver Spring, Maryland, with their two daughters. Alan also wrote that he had heard from Lucia and Eric Westberg. Eric Is now Into his fifth year as a Westlnghouse nuclear plant engineer at a construction site 20 miles south of Rio de Janeiro. They welcome any Classmates travelling by.

Tenth Company's Tom Murray has written a late night offering while on layover in Houston.

He's a 727 co-pilot for Eastem Airlines and claims at least 25 Classmates are flying for EAL; Mary Ellen and Tom, William 7 and Robb 2, live in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles north of Philadelphia. They have a small 48-acre farm and a beautiful 200year-old stone farm house. To quote Tom, "When I'm not flying, I'm usually working on a tractor, the bam, the house, or tending the crops (com, hay) and English Setters. It's quite a change from Navy life but we love it Shipmate

87 '81 has been piped aboard for duty; the Backfire and Tomahawk continue to dominate the spotlight at the SALT conference; the price of sending a letter Is mushrooming to sixteen cents; and at last check, the price of coffee had just left my chart. . . . but there is salvation In sight, for within a few months FY 78 will begin and hopefully it will usher in a nice, fat cost-ofnew XO in USS B.ATON ROUGE, a newly built living Increase for all military and federal emattack submarine. ployees.

This month"s longest (and most distant) letter came from Bruce Runberg out in .Atsugi.

As a follow-up to last month's business on Japan. Bmce is the Staff Civil Engineer for Class Elections. Sam Dutrow provided me with ComFalrWestPac at the Naval Air Facility some additional details as a result of a Class there. Cynthia and Bmce are living In quarters luncheon In Washington on 17 May 77. Our there and had their first child. Trevor, in May Bylaws require a class election in 1967 and of '76. Bmce travels a bit and has seen a few of every five years thereafter. A committee con'64's finest recently. CharUe Shields was at Atsisting of Cris Judd, Tom Morris and Skip sugi while TAD fi-om VP-17 at Cubi Point. He Moore has been set up to oversee the election is squadron maintenance officer. Bmce saw process. For those who would like to mn or Bart Corgnati and John Barsofsky, both in nominate an individual for office, please subVP-22 at Cubi Point during his travels. mit his name, address and phone number along with a petition signed by five Classmates (less A visitor to .Atsugi about a year ago was signatures required for sparcely populated Brent Bennitt, aide to Adm. M.F. Welsner areas). All nominees are to be contacted by the USN "41 (CinC-PacFlt). It was old times again nominator. Offices to be filled are President. remembering when the Bennitts and Runbergs Secretary and Treasurer; the mnner-up for were stationed in Scotland and England In President will be Vice President. All nomina1971. Bmce also keeps In touch with his plebe tions are to be submitted to Cris Judd no later summer roommate. Bob Lautrup. Bonnie and than 1 October 77 at the following address: Bob and three small ones are living in CharlesCris Judd. 2A12 Bechtel Power Corp.. 15740 ton. South Carolina, where he is XO of a nuShady Grove Road. Gaithersburg MD 20760. clear sub. Bmce is also a key man for the All nominees will be published in the DecemAlumni Association fiind raising effort (consider ber Shipmate. Voting will continue through this a commercial). He also got a very nice letand ending on midnight of 1 Febmary 78. The ter back from Mike Gustavson In Manchester. results will be published In the April 78 Issue of Washington. Mike is a civilian working at the Shipmate.

PER,\(CV) office at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. He is involved in the planning of airThe luncheon on the 17th of May in which craft carrier overhauls and travels to Washingall this superb organization took place, was ton. Norfolk and Philadelphia on occasion. also well attended. Included were: Denny While in Norfolk, he saw Tom Bamett, just Neutze. JAG at BUPERS; Wyman Howard. back from the Med as XO of USS P.AGE NAVSEA; Cris Judd. Bechtel Corp; Skip (FFG-5). Mike is in the Naval Reserve with Moore. NCR: Denny Spurgeon. ERDA: Frog Ron KreU at Keyport. Washington, and occaKristensen. BUPERS: Hugh Thompson. Nuc sionally talks to Marsh Bugge with Boeing in Reg Comm: Pete Gness. HEW: Paul Reason.

Seattle. Marsh has a great 36" sloop which President's Aide: Tom Barry. OP-90; Bill NewMike managed to get a cmise on awhile back. land. OP-96: Bob Norman. BUPERS; John Bishop; Sam Pace. Blue Cross; Dan Flanagan.

Living across from Lawrence Field, the S. Pac: and Sam Dutrow, SECNAV. Sam also baseball diamond, is great and I've tried to see passed on that for the second consecutive year at least an Inning or two of most Navy home It rained like pitchforks and sugarbables at the games. While at the exhibition game against Spring picnic on 7 May. but nonetheless It the Orioles. 1 was fortunate to see BiU CosteUo didn't seem to dampen the spirits of those who who is a fan also. Bill brought me up to date on attended which Included Norm Padgett. BUhis activities since leaving the Navy in 1969.

PERS: Pat Fitch. USNA; Tom Barry. OP-90; He studied finance at the business school at Jim Stark. OP-90; Mike Hester, presently at the University of Texas in Austin and worked Quantico but leaving for Okinawa very shortly; in financial management In Texas until 1976.

Cris Judd. Bechtel: Skip Moore. National Cash BIU is now a partner In Tmst Fund ConsulRegister: Len Campbell. USMC; John Grady. tants. Inc. In Washington, a management firm MD at Bethesda; Don Luther. IBM; Happ handling pension and profit sharing plans. Bill Hadd. HEW; Jim Stewart. SubPacStf. and Dorothy live In Potomac. Maryland.

Dalhgren; John Coleman, NAVAIR; Curt That"s It for another mont^. Help keep the Childknecht. Dept. Transportation; Brian column full by writing or calling me at 301Kenny. JCS: Lee Mager. Ft. Meade; and Sam 267-3872 during normal working hours.

Dutrow. Asst Director for Ships" Programs/ Asst. Secretary Navy for Manpower Reserve Affairs and Logistics.

Rounding out the activities in the Washington/Annapolis area was a tailgate party scheduled for the Army-Navy lacrosse Pres., LCdr. Sam Dutrow. Jr.. USN game on 4 June. Perhaps next month we"ll Secy LCdr. Rick Brush USNR have a photo and a few words on the action.

763 Bright Star Street Joe Kane cornered the news market this Thousand Oaks CA 91360 month from the Mid-West as he writes from Percent Members: 32 Columbus. Ohio. Last Febmary Joe was apDoes it seem possible that the dead of the pointed Asst. U.S. Attomey for the Southem Summer Is upon us once again? It seems as District of Ohio to be located In Columbus. though it were only yesterday when Ole Man After a five-year hitch. Joe left the Navy in 70 Winter was doing his jig across the U.S. of A. after serving as MPA. 1st LT. and Weps OffiBy now the Class of "77 has joined the Fleet; cer In USS BRISTER (DER-327) out of Peari and don't care If we ever move again." They would love to see any old friends who happen

by Quakertown. Pennsylvania.

Sharon and Jerry Negin are now in Norfolk while attending the Armed Forces Staff College. Pam and Dave Tuna are also on the way to Norfolk with their four children. Dave Is the

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Harbor and Tartar Battery Officer In USS ALBANY (CG-10). Post 1970. he attended business school at George Washington University for a year and then switched to GW"s law school (evenings) while working at the VA as a computer specialist. Joe began working for the Justice Department in 74. received his law degree in 75 and continued to work on the development of the Department"s Automated Legal Research System. (JURIS), for 214 years before his current assignment as Federal FYosecutor. Joe married the former Patricia Green in 1971 and now have a lovely daughter. Armanda (3). This Is their first time In Ohio and they have found that after an Initial frigid welcome from the elements, the Mid-Westerners are all very warm and friendly. Tom Seigel and possibly a few others live in Cincinnatiâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;two hours away. To write Pat and Joe address 1749 Willoway Circle. North. Columbus OH 43220.

I also received a nice letter from Dan Flanagan who recently moved from San Francisco to the Washington area, supervising the Washington Govemmental Affairs Office for the Southem Pacific Company. Dan plans to check in with all his old shipmates in the area and will continue to enjoy his activities In the political arena. He Is presendy serving on the Advisory Council of the Democratic National Campaign Committee and on the Democratic National Commlttee"s National Finance Council. Dan indicates there is a good chance that Adm. Elmo Zumwalt USN (Ret.) will again be campaigning for the U.S. Senate from Virginia, and he looks forward to assisting in this effort. Insofar as other Classmate new s from San Francisco . . . Carl Allen Is practicing law and Ron Slusser supervises marketing for one of the major architectural firms there. Dan's office address: 1620 Eye St.. NW, Washington DC 20006, tel. 202/293-1523.

Cheekie and Mike Dudine shared some very exciting new s as they announced the birth of a baby son. Michael Summerfield. bom at 2147 on 3 January 1977 . . . congratulations to the proud parents and for pairing up!

Last but not least are these orders which I extracted from various Issues of Navv Times: Doug Katz from NavWar College to USS MAHAN; George Hurley from Hel.AntiSubRon Two to NavAirSysCom; and finally. John Foard from OPTEVFORPAC to AFSC And that"s about It. Mates, for this special Summer Double Issue. A word In passing . . . let"s make this coming class election the best everâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;100% participation. Take care, write soon, and we"ll see you In September.

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Pres., LCdr. Scott Redd USN East Coast Corres.: LCdr. Tom Eubanks, USN 5600 Farmwood Court Alexandria VA 22310 West Coast Corres.: Mr. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. P.O. Box 1011 La Jolla CA 92038 Percent Members: 30 East Coast Area In the past three years, as the active duty contingent of the Class has descended upon this area en masse, the number of Classmates has grown from less than 40 to well over 100.

The quarterly luncheons at Fort Myer routinely draw a cross section, and there are always new faces, or rather faintiy recognizable old faces ("Didn't you used to be . . .???"). If you happen to be In the area and want to know when the next luncheon Is, just call me at BUPERS. The Washington Chapter of the Class Is holding elections for all posts of the class executive committee and the candidates are: Chairman-

Mike Kelly Hank Nothhaft Phil Norton Vice ChairmanDick MIchaux Jim Long SecretaryFred Moosally Carl Mccullough TreasurerRuss Hale The results will be In next month's column, although early retums show Russ with a substantial lead in the race for treasurer.

In the news arena, Lee Pitman is heading for CRUDESGRU 8 staff, currently deployed to the Med. Lee was at the Defense Intelligence Agency for nearly three years doing strange things, and was more than ready to return to sea duty. Dave Fitch has recently checked into the Center for Naval Analysis following a tour with VA-93.

Hank Nothhaft was married April 2nd to Randie Lynn Voris of Old Town, Alexandria, in the Naval Academy Chapel. Hugh Ronalds served as best man and in attendance were Tom Letter, Ted Smythe, Jim Persels, and Phil Norton. Following a honeymoon trip to Bermuda, the couple Is now residing at 250 S. Reynolds St., Alexandria VA 22304. Hank is a Regional Manager for Computer Automation, Inc., and would enjoy hearing from other '66ers in the area.

Joe Phelan was In town recendy to check on his real estate holdings. He's one of the lucky ones with an early Washington tour who bought in the pre-1974 market and owns a home worth twice what he paid for It. Joe Is now with VP-30 In Jacksonville and enjoying his new custom built home there Immensely.

Will Wood checked In with an update through Bob Emery and is now XO In PLUNGER (SSN-595) In San Diego following a tour at Michigan as an ROTC Instmctor. He reports other attack submariners still at It are Bob Holbrook, XO in SEAWOLF (SSN-575) in Vallejo, Rusty Rawson, pre-commissioning XO of WM. BATES (SSN-680) In New London, Tony Franzitta, now tactics instmctor at sub school in New London, and Greg WiUiams, now ops In PLUNGER with Will, but soon to be XO of SCAMP (SSN-588) In San Diego. Greg continues to stay In top shape by running 2000 miles a

year and recently finished 3rd in a major marathon mn. Will met his wife Cathy on a blind date In San Francisco and they were married in the SUBASE Chapel In Pearl Harbor in October 1972. Cathy and Will have a daughter Susie, now 2'/2, and the apple of her father's eye.

BiU Snyder reported In from the Indian Ocean in February where he was CAG-14 LSO In USS ENTERPRISE. Other '66ers on board were Bob Wittenberg, VA-196, Ken Rauch, VA-27, George Goryanec, VA-97, Mike Field, WiU Gabber, and J.O. Crelghton, all with VF-2. Buford Howell, a surface nuclear officer in ENTERPRISE'S engineering department, and Paul Buege, assistant navigator, were in ship's company.

Dick Barchi will be moving to Norfolk In the Fall where he'll be XO In SPRUANCE (DD-963).

Dick has been working part time In OP-96 while spending most of his time on the squash courts or In his backyard working in his garden. He particularly relishes the gentleman gardener role.

There's more, but we'll save it for next time.

Also, watch this space for Russ Hale's "real" financial statement.

last I heard they were trying to corner the market on tacos In Arkansas!

That's about It for now. Keep the letters coming, and have a great Summer. Don't forget that Summer means dues time, so get your checks over to the Alumni House and get the news. Remember to send all changes of address in at once.

67 Pres., LCdr. David A. Materna USN Sec'y, LCdr. Paul Schissler USN L-4 Phythlan Rd., USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 32

Homecoming Is not that far away now. I hope that you are all planning to be here In Annapolis for a really good tenth reunion. As of this writing in May, we have received a good response from our first mailing. A second was sent in June which will require some more definite commitments. Some things to be aware of are that you should order your own tickets for the football game and request seatWest Coast Area ing In the Class section. We plan to include an Last month we announced our new class application In our mailing. Also, please make president for a five year term. And just for that your own reservations for the Friday night 2% that didn't get the word, we congratulate cocktail party and dinner In the Midshipmen Scott Redd for winning the election. The Wash- Wardroom through the Alumni Association. ington chapter did a fine job In getting the bal- Remember 21, 22, 23 October 1977 is the date, lots out to everyone. Incidentally, there was a plan to be here now. fine turn out at the ballot box. A tribute to our Now for a little class news. A phone call feeling of concern In our old ages. from BiU Gaffney about homecoming also proA touch of nostalgia hit the west coast in vided the following information. He is working June at the JUNE WEEK WEST all-classes for the Defense Communications Agency in reunion In the SS QUEEN MARY moored In her D . C , managing autovon operations. He said it permanent pier in Long Beach. I shall have a Is a payback tour for his Communications full report for the column next month. This Management degree. He reported that Duke writing went to press before the reunion, but Ohman is a lawyer with the Commerce Dethe turnout was expected to be the largest over partment, Don FaUing Is employed by IBM in for this annual event. sales in Newport News, Virginia, and Dale George Conn is still In Coronado basking In Fink now works for Westlnghouse in the sunshine. He's with HS-2. He and Jacki Pittsburgh. have a boy seven and a girl five. George Is Dick Krapohl stopped here In Annapolis in safety officer for the squadron.

May enroute to command USS FIDELITY Virginia and Tony Rodriguez are In New Or- homeported In Panama City, Florida. He will leans trying to recover from the last MardI be relieving another Classmate, Chris Ott, in Gras. Tony is an attomey with a practice spe- mid-August. Dick just completed an exchange cializing In Admiralty Law. He occasionally tour with the Canadians at their ASW School. mns Into Ron Gurley who is also an attorney In Don Fraser wrote a nice letter last April New Orleans. Tony has two boys, ages nine which just missed the June article. He is still and two. with VT-86 In Pensacola. It's a fairly newsy letBill Ogden checked In with us from ter. He starts: "Pam and Ned Laskowski and Westfield, New Jersey, where he Is VP of the their 11-month-old son Christopher visited real-estate division of the Morgan Guaranty Pensacola In March. Ned Is employed by the Trust Co. of New York. He and Julie have a First National City Bank of New York and he boy and a girl and live at 532 Fairmont Ave. is attached to a reserve unit at Floyd Bennett 07090.

Field. His whole unit spent their two weeks acBob EUis dropped us a line from the shores tive training at Pensacola. Ned said he was of Virginia Beach. He received his masters thinking about a move to the West Coast. from Monterey in '74, and was recently finish"On a cross-country to Whidbey Island, ing up the F-4 RAG before reporting to Carrier Don saw Jay SandUn who Is now a lawyer In Air Wing aboard USS INDEPENDENCE as ops private practice. He is living In Renton, Washofficer. He and Candace have two boys and a ington, and consulting for some local school giri and live at 1117 Lee Rd. 23451. districts, and his wife Is doing her medical The word out of Rock Springs, Wyoming, is residency there. Jay said he was Interested in that It's standing room only at the only politics and may be mnning for Congress In McDonald's stand in town. And who else Is the 1978." owner but our seventh wing cronle, Sam The last letter this month is from Cary Cai"Lines" Lincoln. In fact business up there is so man. He and his wife Cathy have two good, (there's nothing else to do except watch daughters, Terriâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;9 and Bethâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;5. He Is Air them change tires at the filling station), he's Ops In GUADALCANAL and is living In Virginia going to open another before too long. Sam re- Beach, Virginia. They will be leaving for Texas cently returned from a trip to Razorback coun- in July where he will be XO of the recruiting try and seeing Bo Wiley in FayetteviUe. The district In San Antonio. Naturally he is Shipmate

89 overioyed to be retuming home to Texas. He gave a short summary of his last 10 years. He got his wings as a helo pilot in February 1969 and went almost directly to HAL-3 in Vietnam.

From there it was to HS-7 at Quonset Point.

He then retumed to Pensacola as a flight instmctor in HT-8 prior to reporting to GUADALC.WAL. On board ship with him him is Vern Wright who is Aircraft Handling Officer.

the final poll), but all the spring sports teams had successful seasons. So. till next time, please keep those cards and letters coming.

Rachmiel has threatened to break my legs If the column doesn"t become more ""relevant," whatever that means. Keep cool.

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Pres., Jeff Krstich Corr. Secy, Lt. Jon Jenson, USN, Candidate Guidance, USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 28

President and Acting Secy. Lt. Donald R. Hay USN Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.

USNA. .Annapolis MD 21402 or West Coast news to: Lt. Don HiU JAGC USN 13320 LIngre .Avenue Poway CA 92064 Percent Members: 30

The Treanor Clan

After receiving no letters last month. I have heard from seven Classmates for this column! I thank all of you for your letters . . . on with the news.

Brigid and Kit Ruland are now living In West Chester. Pennsylvania, and Kit is working for Lukens Steel Company. Kit and Bob Eaves are in the same reserve P-3 squadron at Willow Grove, and Bob is a pilot for American Airlines. Kit also ran into Rob Taylor. Rob is an instmctor at the RAG in Lemoore. The last good news from the Rulands is that they are expecting their third child In December.

Good news from Maggie and Ed Fischer now living in Norfolkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;their number one son, Paul Francis, arrived on March 5th. He was seven weeks early and weighed in at 3 lbs. 10 oz.

Paul is now 8 lbs. 2 oz. and doing beautifully.

Ed Is presently the Ops Officer In PLYMOUTH ROCK and will be heading for a Med cmise this fall. Maggie reports. "Since I left the Navy a year ago. I've tmly begun to admire Navy wives. They are a special breed! Motherhood Is a full time assignment!""

Angie and Ray WaUace wrote me a nice letter filling me in on the last nine years (hard to believe it"s been that long) of their lives. Ray went to NPS at Mare Island, then NPTU in Idaho after graduation and has served In TRUXTUN, NIMITZ. and

MITSCHER

(DDG-35)

where he was the Ops Boss. He is now teaching at the Prospective Engineer Officer Course in Idaho Falls and in about a year will probably go to Newport and teach the same course at the SWOS school. The Wallaces are now four In number with son. Andy, and daughter.

Stacy.

Lynn and Gary Francis are also In Idaho Falls with the Wallaces. Gary just finished a tour as engineer In TECUMSEH out of Charleston. He Is also busy as an instmctor and reports that one of his students Is Classmate L. D. AUey. After nine years of silence. Sue and Mark Treanor have turned up in Cockeysvllle, Maryland. After five years In the Corps, Mark entered the University of Maryland School of Law and graduated number one In his class In June of 1976. Since then he has been an associate with the Baltimore Law Firm of Miles and Stockbridge specializing in Civil Litigation. The Treanor clan is flourishing too, with Adam now five and Megan V/2. Sue and Mark live at 3 Gatespring Court. Cockeysvllle MD 21030. phone 301/628-2545 and would like to hear from some of you out there.

July-August, 1977

70 My last letter Is from Rosemary and Bob Munsey. They were married about a year ago, as I reported in an earlier column, and are now the only husband and wife team In the Navy to both hold a 1520 designator. Rosemary Is in Memphis at Aviation Maintenance Officer"s School and will be heading to VR-1 in Norfolk from there. Bob Is still the Maintenance Control Officer at AIMD, Cecil Field. In Jax. Bob Is very excited about his job and the man he is working with, but he doesn"t like being deployed to Jax with his better half In Memphis.

Good luck with your next orders. Bob! This wraps up the easiest column 1 have written In months. Keep that Info coming in. This also ends the school year here at USNA. We are in the middle of finals and June Week Is In the air. I will be heading out on the East Coast Midshipmen"s Summer Cmise out of Norfolk during July and August. I hope to see many of you and your families. Have a good Summer, everyone.

69 Pres.. Lt. William H. Newton. Ill, USN Sec"y. Mr. Marshall E. Rachmiel 13800 NE 12th Ave. N. Miami FL 33161 Corr. Secy. Lt. Jim Dolan, USN Seamanship & Tactics Dept. USNA Annapolis. MD 21402 Percent Members: 29 Greetings. Classmates! June Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ahh, the time of beautiful girls, parades, processions and parties is upon us. You can tell because all the grass has been painted. And so the Class of 1977 graduates, and we go over eight.

Haven"t had much correspondence lately (last two months) but luckily Dan George balled me out with a real newsy letter. Dan and his wife Mary recently had another boy to add to the family. Dan is stationed here In the EE Department (torture) but transfers In September to RANGER (CV-61) as the Assistant Catapault and Arresting Gear officer. His roomy at The School, John Mills, has left the Navy and now works at the Brown Ferry Nuclear Plant. John and his wife. Linda, have three children and all five reside In Decatur.

Alabama. Sandra and Mike Watson, presently attending PG School In Monterey, have had their first girl, for which we extend congratulations. And if anybody has any spare kopecks rattling around, get In touch with Keith Arneson in St. Paul where he and his wife Nancy are having a great time while Keith Is stockbroking.

Well we didn't win the Lax National Championships (as a matter of fact, we were 5th in

Another Class is getting ready to graduate and June Week will have passed by the time you read this column. I am beginning to feel a little old after observing 3 Classes graduate since my tour began here in '75.

I received some good news from Sandy and Charlie Carey in Newport; they are expecting a child. Chariie reports that Steve Coleman, Greg Ertel, Jim McClone, Jim Perry, and Stan Smith are also going through SWOSCOLCOM. John Rogers of 25th Company wrote a long letter from the JFK while deployed to the Med. He was aboard HIGBEE as ASW officer for 2 years following graduation. He transferred to Pensacola following that tour and received his wings as an NFO. John was then stashed with the CVW-14 staff which allowed him a chance to fly in the F-14 and the A-6. The staff made a West Pac and Indian Ocean deployment aboard ENTERPRISE. John is currently attached to VF-32 flying F-14s off the JFK; he is NFO NATOPS/ASST SAFETY OFFICER. John is married to the former Joan Austin of Pompano Beach, Florida. John has mn into "Doc" Collins who Is flying Lamps helos out of Norfolk.

Gary Knock, his old roommate, is working for Babcock and Wilcox In Lynchburg, Virginia.

John will be back from cmise by the time you read this and Invites anyone to drop in or call If you're in the Virginia Beach area: 904 Covert Court. Virginia Beach VA 23462.

71 Pres., Lt. Steve DiAntonio USN Sec'y, Capt. Charles E. Boyer USMC 103 Moran Circle Monterey CA 93940 Percent Members: 27 Bob Nelson writes us from Southem Lebanon this month where he is serving a one-year tour with the UN Peacekeeping Forces in the Middle East. Bob rotates his duty between the SInal Buffer Zone and Southem Lebanon. Life cannot be all that bad as Bob spends his time sightseeing, playing chess with his Russian counterpart, or having tea with the PLO Commander. Bob's previous tours were with UDT 12 and Seal Team 1, which qualified him as a Special Warfare Officer. During his travels.

Bob has met up with several of our old pals.

Among recent meetings were Al Schaufelberger, Jim Parks, Bill Shepherd, and Mac Clark. Al was just retuming from WestPac and was on his way to be an instmctor at the Basic Underwater Demolitions/Seal Training School.

Jim had temporarily hung up his fins to be the aide to the admiral at COMPHIBGRU TWO. Bill was at MIT under a Navy program to work on an advanced degree In marine engineering.

Alas, poor Mac has been slaving away on the

90 French Riviera as part of an exchange program between the U.S. and French UDT. Another bachelor is succumbing to the Idea of marriage. Al Whittle, who has hung in there for six years like a tme champion, is to be married In October to Miss Cynthia Hoffman of Amold, Maryland.

Bob Walters was here in Monterey recently for a business conference. Bob and his wife, Pam, currently live in Portland, Oregon, where Bob is a salesman with a major hospital supply firm. Pam and Bob are expecting their first child this Fall.

While Bob was In town. Perry Martini also paid us a visit. It took absolutely no effort to talk these two into joining some other '71s in a friendly game of chance. Dave Howe, Tom Dalton, Pat Doyle, WaUy Havenstein and I were excited to have these two patsies join us. Only problem was at the end of the night our guests had more money than we did.

72 Pres., 1st Lt. Joe Glover USMC Sec'y, 1st Lt. Frank L. Gibson, USMC Hqs. Co., H & S Batt. MCRD Parris Island SC 29905 Percent Members: 30 At long last, a little—very little—word for '72, coming with a yawn from the somnolent retirement village of beautiful Beaufort-onthe-Bay; and, of course, Parris Island, South Carolina, home of recmit training, sand fleas and, currently. Yours Tmly, Leo Accursi and Bill Knapp. On the air side, at MCAS Beaufort, can also be found one Randy Schultz, enjoying this temperate, verdant paradise at govemment expense.

Randy and Debbie just recently added a beautiful little girl to their family, and last November 30 my wife Amy presented us with Boy-Number-Two. Older class members such as Randy and I have to really push to keep ahead of the deterioration and senility of old age. Speaking of oldsters, how about a few lines to me from "Ole Pete" Peterson, DaUas Johnson and Tom Ruggles.

Cecily and Jeff Beard wrote from NacFac Brawdy in Wales requesting letters from friends to their address at: U . S . Naval Facility—Brawdy, FPO New York, NY 09519.

They're expecting their first child this Summer. A prompt reply is promised. Jolanda and Jim Patterson can also be reached in Brawdy.

Congratulations are in order for their daughter Jenifer, bom last April.

Jeff and Cecily are also proud and happy to announce the birth of their goddaughter, Jennifer Elizabeth, to Judy and Mike Stocks. Mike is in LONG BEACH out of San Diego.

Eva and Ron Newlan are alive and well in the D.C. area. Ron keeps busy at the Pentagon while Eva has her hands full with their new daughter Michelle.

Ron GuiUiams and Dave Carl are also in D.C. at the Marine Barracks there. Ron and Denise had their second little girl just recently, also.

Jeff Beard Is also putting out an all-pointsalert for Rick Baker, requesting confirmation or denial on mmors of his recent marriage. I think It's an affirm, Jeff.

Nancy and BiU Glass, Chuck Neihart, Sherry and WiUis Sheeley were all down from Charleston for my son's christening. It was really great to see them. Cindy and John Blosser also trekked down for an unsuccessful fishing

attempt—in the rain. 1 understand that Dick Swanson, Bill Kennedy, and wives are also In Charleston but haven't had a chance to see them yet.

1 wish to apologize to all these Classmates whose letters were not used during my fifthyear slump, a period reflecting total lack of motivation, indecision, and clearly inexcusable dereliction of duty.

Past my end-of-obligated-service, remotivated, and staring Senator Aspin and nineteen-and-six square in the eye—business as usual.

I entreat those optimists with a forgiving heart to write again.

73 Pres., Lt.(jg) Steve Ingram USN Sec'y, Lt.(jg) John F. Kennedy USN Pentagon OP-009R9 Washington DC 20301 Percent Members: 30

74 Pres., Lt. (jg) George Yacus USN Sec'y, Lt. (jg) Mike Chaplain USN USS ROBERT E . PEARY (DE

from Cathy (wife of Bruce) Tyler. Both mentioned several of the same folks so I'll condense them somewhat. Bart sent along that he is navigator In HERMITAGE (LSD-34). Also on board Is Steve George who is the A Gang officer. Bart married Shiela Warren last June and reports not seeing much of his new bride due to a hectic deployment schedule. (What I mean to say is that he did not see her very often . . .) Cathy Tyler sends along that Bmce is MPA In CHARLES F . ADAMS, but that he will

be leaving surface line for CEC. They are looking forward to a trip to Hawaii and then orders back to D.C. or Annapolis. Bart and Cathy reported that Mary and Bud Bamett have added a tax exemption with the birth of their daughter Elizabeth last January. Bud is in RICHMOND K .

TURNER out of Norfolk. Also heard that Myra and Robert Bruce have added one to their tribe. Theirs was a son, Reid Stuart, last June.

Bob is in LONG BEACH. Betsy and Mick KeviUe have joined the parents club also with the recent birth of Kelly Elizabeth. And, not to be outdone, Ruthie and Mike Phillips also have a young son. (Those 23rd Co. folks must be eating their greens, or something.) Mike is in PATTERSON. Joe Nadolski has not had any children that we know of, but he is in PENSACOLA and is the B Division Officer. Bart wants to know where Mike MiUer is. He is in VS-22 aboard SARATOGA, flying S-3s.

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I also got a long letter from Tony Marino. He wrote from the Med where he is aboard J. F. KENNEDY (CV-67). He reports that there are 13 '74ers aboard with more arriving all of the time. Tony is an NFO with VAW-125 flying the E-2C. He and Anita live in Virginia Beach.

Tony sends that Larry Goins and Al LerchHello again from the East Coast Corte- backer are ship's company in JFK. Larry is in spondent. After a lean month, the grist mill is the engineering department and Al is the Reback on the track (to coin a phrase). I have to pair Officer. Al and wife Debbie should have apologize to a couple of you who sent me let- just had a young 'un about the time this is writters last month. I got two the same aftemoon ten. Some of the other aviation types in JFK that I mailed the article in, so they had to wait are BiU Snook in VA-34, (Bill and Kathi live in for this time around. But, at least, we are still Oceana), Janet and Tom Nagelin (F-14 RIO In VF-14, expecting a baby In September), Doug tmckin' along.

Got a scrawled note from Jan and Stan Mil- DuPouy (F-14 RIO in VF-32), Kathy and Ted ler. He Is In BARBEY (FF-1088) out of San Di- Harwood (and daughter Danielle, F-14 RIO In ego. He says that Mike Solger is also in BAR- VF-14)—a lot of them, huh? And Andy Krug BEY as CIC officer. Mike and wife Helen have and Dave Pattillo who fly SH-3 helos and who a son, Mike Jr., who Stan says looks like live in Jacksonville with their wives (those Dwight Eisenhower. (Nice guy, that Stan.) Jim names were not sent along). Tony also sent Bullock and his wife . . . . (Stan has these mem- that he has run into several old faces in the ory lapses occasionally) are also in S. D. where ports In the Med. Some of these are Ann and Jim is in TOWERS (DDG-9). He also reports that Marty Jarosz and Steve Avery (who are old John Lund is stationed In RAMSEY ( F F G - 2 ) . companymates of Tony's), Chuck Fessler (who Stan saw Steve Brookman and Rich Bradley in flies P-3s out of Rota with VP-24), Rod GarGuam. He says they were flying pregnant P-3s field and Cosmo Karalis who are both NFOs (EP-3s?). Both of them are reportedly logging with VQ-2 In their EA-3s. Tony promises picmore scuba diving and Hoble cat sailing time tures for next time. than flight time.

Also got a late arrival from Dick Brooks. He I got an interesting letter this time. It did not sends that he and Joe (Cesar) Mastin decided have a return address on It, nor was It signed. over a few Coors to get some names out of the The postmark was San Francisco, so I'll as- old 19th Co. Joe and Deb and son Taylor are sume it's from Joe NuttaU, who flies P-3s out of flying S-3s out of North Island with VS-33.

Moffett Field. He reports that Jerry Sobeck Dick Is flying P-3s out of Barbers Point, and Ruth and Roy Leonard are in VP-48 with Hawaii, with VP-1. LuAnn and Mike Dow are him. He also sends along that Bert CaUand and also in Hawaii where Mike Is a P-3 Tocco with Chris Lambert (two of our SEALS) were seen VP-6. Here's one for the books: John (Skin at the National Rugby Championship Matches Man) Branchflower is an instmctor in VT-6 at at Pebble Beach, Califomia. Others that my Whiting Field, Florida! Can you imagine how mystery correspondent reports seeing are John the fledging aviators must feel the first time Hubitsky who Is in SAN JOSE (AFS-7), BiU they meet Branch? Tommy Lozier is still mnWalsh in GRAY (FF-1054), and Steve Shumaker ning amuck in Norfolk. He claims to be in the in LONG BEACH. He also reports corre- Supply Corps, but the only thing I've ever seen spondence with Leslie and Rick Kranz. Rick is him supply is empty beer cans for the recycling a P-3 NFO with VP-6 out of Hawaii. center. Dick sends that Ned Smith and wife I got two nice letters from the 23rd Co. gang. Judy are living In Seatde where Ned is in HIGOne was from Bart Whitman and the other BEE. Tim Rastok is a surface line type working FPO San Francisco CA 96601 East Coast Sec'y Lt. Gg) Brent S. James USN 404 Philbate Terrace Virginia Beach VA 23452 Percent Members: 44

Shipmate

91 out of San Diego. Mario Rivadineira is living In Peru where, at last word, he's seizing American fishing boats. Some others these two report on include Kyle Martin, who Is a RIO with VF-154, and Mike Holton who Is with VRC-50 at Cubi Point, Dick also wanted me to ask the Class if anyone knows the whereabouts of Rich Waalkes.

Also got a letter from one of our token gmnts. Doug Thrash wrote that he is a RIO with VMFA-314 at El Toro. He is living with Mike Welter who has just retumed from Iwakuni. Japan. Mike is now the 3rd MAW Budget Officer. Marty and Bob Foltyn. my old neighbors from KingsviUe. are living in Mission Viejo. Bob Is a pilot in VMFA-531. Lynn Champagne Is flying F-4s with the 1st Marine Brigade. Dan DriscoU is finished with the RAG in Yuma and will be heading for Hawaii. BiU Morris and Ross Schmidt are In beautiful Beaufort. South Carolina, as F-4 RIOs with Marine squadrons. Jack Hughes is in VMPF-3. an RF-4 ouffit. Greg King is at MCRD in San Diego. He recendy married 1/Tt. Erica Chancy who Is MAG 11 disbursing officer at El Toro.

Erica is a St. John"s graduate. Scott Stith is flying CH-46s at Santa Ana. Califomia. Henry Lane has just retumed from the Antarctica where he flies with VXE-6 out of Pt. Mugu.

Ray Craig is a TA-4 instmctor with VT-4 in Pensacola. Doug also sends that any trip to San Diego is not complete without a stop at the MCRD OClub.

And now we have a budding author in our midst, or at least on board USS ADAMS as Engineering Officer and formerly In our midst.

Bruce Tyler has had an article published in the April 1977 Naval Engineers Journal entitled "Development of an Oil Water Pollution Monitoring System."" (Wait for the movie.) Did you know that Bmce was bom In Dharan.

Saudi Arabia? No wonder he knows so much about the filthy stuff, probably has a couple of wells working out there. Incidentally his wife Cathy Is working at the Alumni House while Bmce Is deployed.

Once again I have the sad duty of reporting the death of one of our good friends. Tommy Evans. Tommy was killed In the crash of his AV-8 Harrier In Beaufort. Our deepest sympathy and sincere best wishes go out to Debbie and Tommy Jr. Entre El Mano de Dios . . .

75 Pres., Ens. Craig R. Quigley USN 1250 5th Ave., Apt. 505 Chula Vista CA 92011 Secy, Ens. Steve Hubbard USN USS EDWARD MCDONNELL (FF-1043)

FPO New York NY 09501 Percent Members: 45 Howdy from sunny Dam Neck once again, where we joyfully practice the minl-max method of study . . . minimum effort in the classroom, maximum effort on the beach.

Sharing in the fun-filled life of CICO Mod III. terminated on 27 May, are Paul Gregory (TRUETT) and Donn Northup (KOELSCH). Dave Shepherd (AYLWIN) attended the first week but exited quickly upon leaming that Uncle Sam Is going to send him to law school. Congrats are in order for Dave! Other notables In the course are Joe Sestak '74 and Dennis Hansell "72. A few doors away meets CICO Mod I wherein July-August, 1977

Charlie Lasko Is making ready for his tour on the KOELSCH. Not slated for the CICO job (belongs to Northup), It Is unknown where he will be assigned. Incidentally, the Ops officer on the KOELSCH IS none other than Lt. Bill McDow who some of you may remember as a NAV instmctor back at USNA. (And he told us he was getting out . . .)

Before leaving for the yards at Bath, BiU Daley showed me some of the hot spots of the Tidewater area. Actually, we did go to the drink-a . . . I mean singalong at Little Creek once. There we ran into BiU (Monk) Montgomery and "Bronco" Bannan. Also In the group was Joe Foy '76. When you're in the Norfolk area, drop In at the Llttie Creek O'Club on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays. Bob Bullock and Charlie Mahon (both in the yard at Portsmouth in VIRGINIA) have also been seen at the singalong and/or at Daley's apartment. Bill Is In DONALD B . BEARY. having relieved John Kucinski. John Is being sent to a carrier, a reward (?) for having shown professional excellence In earning his SWO qualification a few months ago. He's planning to be married soon to his Boston sweetheart. George Melnychenko is also in D. B. BEARY, reportedly attempting to change his designator to Intelligence. Good luck, George! With Dales in Bath, and myself In Boston (as soon as this stint at Dam Neck ends), he and I have decided to subject ourselves to that sort of torture only a distance mnner could love . . . We've decided to enter the Ocean State Marathon In Newport late in October. Any donations for shoes or packets of Gatorade will be appreciated . . .

While making one of my weekly treks to Jacksonville (week ends) I bumped into a couple of guys who should be remembered by my company mates. One was Kim McCauley "74 who is flying P-3s out of Jax, where he and his wife are soaking up that Florida sunshine.

The other was the one and only J. Wallace Berriman "72 who Is just finishing up at DesScol before reporting to a frigate in San Diego as Ops Boss. His first tour was at a university in Texas where he eamed his masters before going to sea on a can (forgive my memory on the school's and ship's names).

Another item before getting Into the mailbox . . . having seen Mark Tharp at lunch one day in Mayport this Spring, he Informed me that he is definitely not married as reported in this column In the past. My apologies to Mark, and let this set the record straight!

Luckily, I still have a few letters from March because April saw only one letter arrive in my lonely mall receptacle. C'mon guys and gals!

Don't let up after performing so well during the Winter! The March bag Included letters from Craig Quigley (with enclosures from Chuck Geyer and Dave Corley's mother), Sherre and BiU Sichko, and Barbara and Rich Lowell. April brought news from Mark Campagna.

Quigs reports that it's great to be back in the good ol" U.S. of A. after having spent eight months In WESTPAC. He's becoming reacqualnted with his wife again and says it's "kind of nice." He also heard from Tony Barbieri (Robinson) who eamed his SWO qualification In January. A hearty Bravo Zulu to Tony, whose ship is In the Long Beach Naval Shipyard at this time. Quigs says his ship (RAMSEY) was headed to the same yard In May. Chuck Geyer writes that he and Nancy (with dog In tow) are headed to Guam. He has just finished flight training at Little Rock AFB for the C-130 E aircraft. They'll be with VQ-3 In Agana for 30 months.

Mrs. Coriey gave us a short chronology of Dave's activities thus far. Having entered PG school of Monterey right after graduation from USNA. he received his master's In mechanical engineering In June 1976. He reported to Orlando (Nuc School) In July '76, graduating in December. In January '77 Dave started prototype at Windsor Lock. Connecticut, and should graduate this Summer. Apparently he is enjoying the Nuc program and Is looking forward to putting It all to work. Sounds like Dave . . . keep up the good work!

The Sichkos sent a copy of the 17th Company newsletter which they print and distribute. Anyone who didn't receive a copy who wants one should write to Bill at the following address: Cricklewood Hill Apartments. Apt. 1204. 700 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh PA 15219; or phone (412) 261-4249.

Bill works in the intemational department of Equibank In Pittsburgh, while Sherre is a receptionist in the career planning and placement office at Duquesne University. They are both attending night school, he in law and she In education. Such ambition is amazing! Some highlights from the newsletter, not previously reported, follow. Tom DiUon has been selected for UDT/SEAL training to begin September 1977 In Coronado. He Is currendy the First Division Officer in PENSACOLA. Congratulations to Lori and Neal Guernsey who recently tied the knot. John Arline is XO of a Marine Battery aboard DUBUQUE (memories of youngster cmise). Chris Foley spent Christmas in Iran aboard DUPONT. Bruce Buckiewicz is Embarkation Officer aboard EL PASO, somewhere In the Med? Jim McConneU Is still enjoying life in Rosey Roads. His address Is Box 21, FPO NY 09551. It seems though that Jim has convinced the CEC to send him back to school a la Pittsburgh, starting In July.

The LoweUs sent announcement of their daughter. Jacqueline Michelle, bom 12 March 1977 on the birthday of her maternal grandfather. Col. Joseph B. Conmy Jr. USMA '43.

Go Navy. Beat Army!

Mark Campagna wrote a note to report a few things about himself. He will be joining the fleet in May (by this time he presumably has) aboard LONG BEACH, out of San Diego. But,

setting his priorities straight (as we were all taught so well), he first took time on 7 May to wed Miss Linda Russo in Buffalo. New York.

And it so happens that John Ennis married Mark's sister Janet on 16 April In Horseheads, New York. Attendees included Dave Chatlos.

Tom Brasco, Bill Daley, Mike LIngerfelt (add JoAnn), Paul Sledsma and Paul Farrell. John is assigned to VIRGINIA.

That wraps up the mail. Many thanks to all whose faithful correspondence has been making this column possible. This page belongs to all of us and I surely could not do it without you!

Before leaving the sands of sunny Dam Neck, Mike Lord covertly slipped some gouge under my door for printing here. He and Shirley are now in San Diego aboard HEWITT. Mark Klett retumed to San Diego In December after a WESTPAC aboard FREDERICK COUNTY. Keith Oldemeyer has done a good deal of steaming aboard ENTERPRISE. Rich Luke has a sub out of Vallejo. Karen and Gary Powers are In San Diego, stationed on a sub. Hank Rohling is still in Little Creek with the SEALs. Claudia and Joe Sweeney had 19th Company's first baby. Joe IV. They are in Jax flying P-3s.

Ann and PhU English, Peggy and Jim Emery are somewhere in the NFO pipeline. Kathy

92 and Roger McFarland are at Georgia Tech where the CEC is sending Roger to school.

Melanle and Mike Hughes are in Long Beach where Mike's ship Is in the yard. Dan Wheeler's ship (PATTERSON) is in the yard In Philly. Mike Watson is in Yokosuka on a ship, and D.C. Ray is keeping a low profile wherever he is.

Write to Mike Lord in care of the USS HEWITT (DD-966) FPO San Francisco CA 96601. He hopes to get a company newsletter going.

On a personal note. I am happy to report that Margaret began student teaching last month and plans to graduate In August (hurtay!).

Everybody seems to like seeing their names in print, and the best way to accomplish this is through a company newsletter. I encourage all companies to do this, and to keep track of each member so we can keep our bonds of friendship as tight as possible. As the years go by. associations seem to drift farther apart before we realize what's happening. Keep in touch with each other . . . remembering the good times . . . and building new ones. (And even if you do have a newsletter, send me news to print here.) Remember this one . . . "75"s alive. 72 is through!"

Hang in there!

76 Pres.. Ens. M. B. Pearsall USN Sec'y, 2nd Lt. Joe Buranosky USMC 404 Gull Court North Palm Beach FL 33408 Percent Members: 59 This article marks the last In the cycle In our first year following graduation. News comes from Chip Campbell and BiU McMinn in Pensacola. Apparently the NFOs are going through some rigorous training these days.

Craig McDonald, Tom Bakke, John Virden, Ken SIchau. Keith Weaver. Gary Harrell.

Dave Coggan, Ralph Steinhaur, Skip Zobel.

Bob Peranich. Jim Hann, Roy Welsert, John Stahura, Dave Venlet, Fred Home, Mark Trenor, and Pete Harris are all looking to be qualified back seat drivers in the near future. The Marines are starting to make their presence felt In Pensacola—Pat Bole. Larty Piano, Mark Bircher, and Vic Thombs are among those beginning flight training.

Many of the Nukes are still hard at work at Nuke Power School in Oriando and at prototype in New York and Idaho. Among those still In Oriando are Bill Hawn, Floyd Searl.

Skip Chenault, Doug Guthe, and Ed Kilboume. Moving on to Idaho Falls are Bob Deal and Bates Estabrooks.

Ralph McKinney sends word from Yokosuka, Japan, where he is presently stationed aboard USS PARSONS along with Kent Kochmeier. Also in WesPac are Larry BeU aboard USS WHIPPLE and Joe Bouchard aboard USS LOCKWOOD. Last word from Dave Porter was that he was on his way to Subic Bay aboard USS TUSCALOOSA. T J Bonner is in San Francisco where his ship is undergoing work at Hunters Point. I finally got some word

about our Special Forces too—Bob Peterman completed UDT/SEAL training and is now with UDT-21 at Litde Creek, Virginia.

Phil Newman, WiUiam Brown, and I are finishing up at NSCS in Athens. Phil will be on his way to Iwakuni, Japan, and William and I are headed for Cherty Point. Stu Brock and Charlie Boyd have started COMM School at Quantico, and should be finishing up in July.

Stu will be going to Camp Lejeune and Charlie will be going to "The Rock." Phil Exner is presently at Beaufort, North Carolina. He has been selected for a pilot program of on-the-job training as an NFO. News of 16 comes from Jim Rubino at NPS Orlando; with him there are Dave Jourdan, Steve Wynn, Rob Pottle and Jerry Parker.

Randy Schmitt and wife Linda are In Hawaii where Randy Is the gunnery and missile officer aboard USS BADGER. Engaged to be married soon are Larry Muczynski, Steve Wynn, and Jim Rubino.

Finally, there Is more news of weddings and engagements. Keith Weaver recently was engaged to a Pensacola school teacher. Kevin McNamara was engaged to an Army 2ndLt and Tom Bosse, Bob Jackson, and Tom Wood recendy joined the ranks of Classmates in wedded bliss.

Let's get more news coming in. Until next time, best of luck for continued success.

77 Pres.. Ens. Tom Arminio USN Sec'y. 2nd Lt. James R. Rowan USMC 1606 St. Margarets Rd. Annapolis MD 21401

Chapter News DEADLINE: For October—10 August; for November—10 September ANNAPOLIS

LCdr. Ronald E. Ruys USN Naval Systems Engineering Dept.

U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402 The Annapolis Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association held its annual Spring Cocktail party on 11 May 1977 with a good turnout of old and new graduates. The newly elected Chapter officers for 1977-78 were announced at this time: president. Capt.

William W. Bennett (SC) USN "49; vice president, RAdm. Charles Becker (SC) USN (Ret.) "44; treasurer, Cdr. Robert B. Chllders USN (Ret.) '42; and secretary. LCdr. Ronald E. Ruys USN "67. Nominated to serve as Council Members for 1977-78 were: Capt. James S. Bmnson USN "48. Prof. J. R. Cutting "23.

Capt. John R. Wales USN "51, LCdr. George W. Ganett USN "67. and Cdr. James A. Kenney USN "58. The next meeting of the Chapter will be held In September; all alumni are welcome at these monthly meetings and information on them may be obtained by calling LCdr. Ruys at the Naval Academy (Naval Systems Engineering Dept.) or the Alumni House.

BALTIMORE J. A. Jennings 9106 E. Stayman Drive EllicottClty MD 21043 Capt. W. S. Busik USN (Ret.) '43, Executive Director of the Alumni Association, was the guest speaker at the 19 April 1977 meeting of the Baltimore Chapter of the Association.

The meeting was held at the Penn Hotel, Towson. Maryland, and wives were Included in the pleasant company that featured dinner as well as a social hour. Capt. Busik brought the group up to date on the latest developments at the Naval Academy and within the Alumni Association.

BOSTON

Capt. Tom Suddath USN (Ret.) 3 Spindrift Lane Cohasset MA 02025 Noon-2nd Tuesday Wardroom U.S. Coast Guard Support Station, Boston. Massachusetts

Kinnaird McKee. the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, was the guest speaker.

Adm. McKee gave a very forthright report on his responsibilities over the past two years as the Superintendent. After his report he opened the meeting up for questions which went on for about an hour. It was a very fitting and proper way to wind up the winter and spring meetings. Our next meeting will be In October 1977.

One very Important thought came to mind after Adm. McKee's presentation. It Is that the Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy leaves a legacy behind him different from most flag commands.

Among those present at the May meeting were: Hunsaker "08. Ingram "22, McCormick '23. Fisher "26. Randig "27. Gillette "31; Hull.

Rounds, and Simpson "32. Enright "33.

McClung "34. Street and Wescott "37. Millard and Suddath "38, Toner "43, Livingstone "44.

Trickey "47. Gulliver "48. Lawton. McCaffrey and McDonough '51.

The regular meetings will resume in October 1977 at the MIT Faculty Club.

The monthly meeting of the Naval Academy Alumni Association of Boston was held on 17 May 1977 at the MIT Faculty Club. RAdm. Shipmate

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CLEVELAND Lt. Jos. L. Wehner USN 24581 Ridgellne Dr. Bedford Hts. OH 44146 The newly elected officers of the Cleveland Chapter of the .Mumni .Association were announced recently. They are; president. Foster M. Lalor. Jr. "45; 1st vice president. David W. Weldenkopf "51; 2nd vice president. Edwin W. Oldham "58; secretary. Joe L. Wehner "62; and treasurer. John W. Morrow "59. Additional members comprising the Board of Directors are: Fred .A. Schnurr "44. Don C. Haeske "49.

Adrian O. Rule III "50. and Richard J. Wallace "61.

The past president of the Chapter. Bill Myers "38. is leaving Cleveland this Summer for .Albuquerque. New Mexico, where he will retire, and Ed Bailey "60, past secretary treasurer. Is being transferred to the Fleet Material Support Office. Mechanicsburg.

Pennsylvania, for duty.

The Chapter is starting a petition to have the Navy-Notre Dame game retumed to Cleveland in 1978.

JACKSONVILLE Cdr. Wdson Baldwin USN (Ret.) 4020 McGirts Blvd.

Jacksonville FL 32210 The May meeting of the Jacksonville Chapter featured a discussion by Capt. Paul B. Smith USN (Ret.) "42 on the Iranian Navy.

Capt. Smith had just retumed from a two year tour of duty In Iran where he assisted in setting up the equivalent of the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships. .\ slate of officers for the upcoming year was submitted by the nominating committee and consisted of the following: president. Charley Pittman "42: vice president. Pat Grosskopf "44: secretary. Wilson Baldwin "44; and treasurer.

Jim Williams "47. Nominees for the advisory council were; George Bains "25. Gray Stmm "41. Don Miller "44. Bill Carmichael "63. and Frank Omohundro '43.

For the June meeting a tour of the new Offshore Power Systems on Blount Island was scheduled with dinner to be served at the installation.

David E. Vanderburg "81, Dayton; John M. Wachter '81. Chilllcothe; Janice M. Wegenka "81. FIndlay; and Alfred L. Withrow Jr. "81.

MIddletown. .Alumni and their ladles attending the dinner were: RAdm. and Mrs. George A. Whiteside USN (Ret.) "38; Mr. and Mrs. Nick Davis "48; LCol. and Mrs. Edward Richter USAF "52: Col. and Mrs. John H. Axley USAF "53; Col. and Mrs. Walter C. Depplsh USAF '54; Col. and Mrs. Wesley A. Newsome Jr. USAF '54; Col. and Mrs. Richard W. Hillard USAF "55; LCol. and Mrs. Patrick J. O'Connor USAF "55; LCol. and Mrs. George Mushalko USAF "56; LCdr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Osgood USN (Ret.) "56; Mr. and Mrs. James M. Gallagher "57; Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Palmer "58: LCol. Lewis F. Todd USAF "58; Maj. and Mrs. Charies D. Jenkins USAF "60: Maj. (MD) and Mrs. Robert E. Fomal USAF "65; Capt. and Mrs. Marty Carpenter USMC "70. (Submitted

by LCol. Lewis F. Todd USAF "58.)

LOS ANGELES

Mr. James V. Cavanaugh, Sec.-Treas.

USNA Alumni Association. Los Angeles Worid Trade Center. Suite 370 350 S. FIgueroa St. Los Angeles CA 90071 1977 PROGRAM .August

20—BUCCANEER QUEEN Harbor

Cmise—Ports o" Call September 17—Varsity Night—Capt. Tom Hamilton. Airport Area October 19—Founders Day—Orange County November 18—Army-Navy Joint Meeting—Army Host December—Open All alumni In the Los Angeles Basin are cordially invited to attend all our functions.

JUNE WEEK WEST was a resounding success in mid-June. Capt. W. S. Busik USN (Ret.) "43 was among the guests at the reunion of thousands of Naval Academy graduates and their wives. More about this in our next report.

The 11 May meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter convened as guests of the Southem California Gas Company at Its Playa Del Ray facility for dinner and discussion of the role of natural gas In the modem world.

Plebe night was held on 25 May In the Mine Force Room of the Allen Center. Naval SupKUTYHAVVTC (Davton, Ohio) port Activity. Long Beach.

Mr. J. M. GaUagher A business luncheon was hosted by Bob 294 Chenv Dr. Zastrow "52 on 17 May. with an opportunity to Centerville. OH 45459 inspect one of Callfomia"s largest independent Monthly, days vary industrial garment suppliers. The Orange 0 Club! Wright-Patterson County Alumni Association Businessmen"s On 6 May 1977. the KIttyhawk Chapter held meeting had been held earlier at the Balboa Bay Club, hosted by George Bethel "59 and Its Second .Annual Reef Points dinner at the Wright-Patterson AFB Officers" Club to honor with Scott Hightower "51 president of the Bay Club, providing the setting for the get-together. the appointees for the Class of 1981 and their George, a patent attomey. discussed activities parents. Capt. William S. Busik USN (Ret.) and details of his profession, with a review of "43. Executive Director. U.S. Naval Academy the mles and regulations of the patent business .Alumni Association, was the guest speaker and presented a very Inspiring briefing on all the and a few examples. Attending the meeting aspects of present day Academy life and the were: Zug Zastrow "52. Al Enderle "52. Lefty progress; improvements/changes at the Naval Lavrakas "43. John 0"Brien "69. Dick BeauAcademy. An attentive audience watched a bien "47. Jim Cavanaugh "61. Jim Maginn "64.

Doug Michie "50. Del Calkins "58. Bud film covering the highlights of last year"s football season. Everyone is looking forward to Manazir "58, George Bethel "59. Scott High"51, Paul Maxwell "51 and VInce Hart Navy's 1977 football efforts with great en- tower thusiasm. George, since 1977 Is such an Impor- "54.

At the 17 May meeting of the Orange County tant football year for Navy, why don't we aU USNA Alumni Businessmen Bob Zastrow "52 Immediately start re-kindling the spirit of and was the host at the Irvine Plant of the Pmdenrededlcating ourselves to "A TEAM CALLED tial Overall Supply organization. Featured DESIRE." Beat Army!

Everyone was impressed with all of the speaker at the luncheon was Don Clark, presigroup of exceptionally fine appointees. We dent of POS and former line coach at the Naval wish them Godspeed and happy sailing on a Academy under Eddie Erdelatz. .Attending brilliant and successful career. Honored were: alumni Included Bob Cunningham '59. Leo InTed E. Dumbould "81. Troy: Steven M. Gotch nerbickler "50. Jon Bromberg "65. VInce Hart '81. Xenia: Nancy Hagedon "81. Cincinnati: '54. Del Calkins "58. Danny Musselman "60.

Craig A. Klein "81. Lima: Mark A. McCormick Dan Appleton "40. Jay Bridges "47. Lefty Lav"81. FIndlay; Susan Miller "81. Kettering; rakas "43. Al Enderie "52. Dick Beaublen "47.

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Jim Kirkpatrick '47, Doug MIchle '50. Paul Maxwell "51. Kim Bassett "53. Fay Round "57, George Bethel "59. and Zug Zastrow '52.

Bob Cunningham was scheduled to host the June Meeting.

MILWAUKEE Mr. Win WiUiams The Williams Agency 312 E. Wisconsin St. Milwaukee WI 53202 Third Thursday. University Club. 1200 A bleak picture relative to maritime strength was painted during the April luncheon of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Alumni Association

by Dr. Eric Schenker. Dean of the College of Business Administration at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. An economist and Internationally-known authority on ports and overseas shipping, he views the Soviets as in the process of actively establishing a monopolistic position In every maritime affair around the worid. Largely as the result of his studies, experience, and especially an extended visit to Russia last year w hile a member of a delegation sponsored by the Maritime Administration. Dr. Schenker stressed a strong need for a coherent maritime policy on the part of the United States—and that the U.S. must maintain a strong merchant marine to counter the dire economic threat posed by Russia. He pointed out that only 580 ships are registered under our flag—as contrasted with 2.050 for Japan and 2.004 for the U.S.S.R. He also stated that only 5.9% of all exports move on U.S. ships and that 'A of the ships coming to Milwaukee are Iron Curtain.

Attending the meeting at the University Club were: Henry Banzhaf "33. Gene Lawier "47.

Reuben Peterson "48. John Camp "49. Bud Lockwood "50. Tim Wood "54. Jim Amold "56, Sam Koutas "65 and Ted Cheney "58.

NEW YORK Cdr. T. O. Walker USN Navy Recmlting District Newark Gateway 1 Bldg.

Raymond PI. W. & Market St. Newark NJ 07102 Monthly Meetings—3rd Tuesday. 1200 hours Williams Club 24 West 39th Street New York NY 10018 The March meeting of the New York Chapter of the Alumni Association had an element of surprise as the original speaker had a worthy substitute in the presence of Col. Bill Jones USA (Class of 1950 USMA). currently assigned as U.S. representative to the Military Staff. United Nations, and a doctoral candidate in Intemational Affairs. American University.

He covered the history of Intemational involvement from military and diplomatic views and reviewed the pre-WWI leadership of Russia with emphasis on Nicholas 1 and Alexander II as prelude to the USSR in our contemporary world and international negotiations. The Colonel was a spellbinder and he was warmly received with a WELL DONE from RAdm. L. Neville USN (Ret.) "33.

As Is customary, our April meeting was held in the evening and the Annual Dinner Meeting had a brief business discussion and voting on the nominating committee"s slate of officers for the coming year. Larry Neville Introduced the slate for 1977-78 and the election was held with the following results: president. Richard Gllckman '49: vice president. James M. DeFrancia "63: treasurer. Joseph E. Armstrong.

"55; secretary. Thaddeus O. Walker "57; divisions 1 through 9 (the odd-numbered division have new officers) and they are: 1. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter "20; 3. Edwin B. Dexter "28; 5.

Eugene A. Hemley "40: 7. Perry W. Nelson '48: 9. Charies J. Bowne "58: and Liaison with Active Duty. T. O. Walker "57.

94 The honored guests for the evening were RAdm. Kinnaird R. McKee USN '51, Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, and this year's recipient of the Annual Award for Outstanding Service to the Naval Academy, Assoc. Prof.

Arthur M. Potter of the Physical Education Department who has been the Squash Coach for 27 years and will retire at year's end. He was accompanied by his lovely wife and the Chapter is indebted to them for taking time to be with us. We all wish them Smooth Sailing for years to come.

Adm. McKee had a most interesting and informative report to the chapter. He covered the time of his stewardship, the changes that have taken place, and discussed the role of a midshipman and a naval officer in the everchanging world as we move into the last quarter of the 20th Century.

Our May meeting had another admiral with another inspirational message, this one by VAdm. William F. Rea III USCG, Commander, Third Coast Guard District and Commander, Atlantic Area. Adm. Rea talked about the New York scene without Navy presence and his two roles in the Coast Guard. Of timely importance was the portion that covered the new 200-mlle limit and recent seizures of two USSR fishing trawlers.

Attending the meeting were: H. E. Aken '21, J. E. Armstrong '55, E. Amdt (assoc), T. Bmyere "56. W. Campbell '22, A. W. Crowell (assoc), E. Dexter '28. R. Flippin '26, W. Fredericks '49, R. Gllckman '49, E. Hemley '40, E. T. Hill '45, R. N. Hillenkoetter '20, A. T. Magnell '33, M. D. Matthews '27, L. Nebans '73, L. Neville '33, B. Patterson '63, R. Pearce '71, D. Royce '14, T. Scott '73, C. J. Swensen '44, G. Schlegel '31, A. Tolk '22, P. Vladessa '49, T. O. Walker '57, and F. H. Whitaker '22.

In addition to the Division Officers mentioned above, the Board of Tmstees has named two Members-at-Large of the Board—Christopher J. Swenson '44 and Philip Vladess '49—in recognition of their diligence in working for the Chapter's endeavors. Also, Division 10 has a new D.O., J. F. (Jack) Whelan '66 replacing Foldger Ericsson '63, who has been assigned overseas by his employer.

The June meeting was scheduled for 21 June with the film The Price of Peace and Freedom to be presented. (Submitted by A. W. Crowell, Associate Member Division.)

OMAHA

Mr. Omar C. KeUer 5003 Westem Dr., RED 4 Fremont NE 68025 1130 Third Tuesday The Omaha Chapter of the Alumni Association met for Its April meeting on the 19th at the Offutt Air Force Base Officers' Club. Present were: president, Frank Thurtell '47; vice president. Milt Forsyth '57; secretary-treasurer, Omar Keller '41; and Jim Gallager '47, Bob Slaven '58, Terence Keller '74, Bob Mathers '52, Bob Oliveri '59, Harry Brown '58, Jim Lay '52, and guests Bob Oliveri Jr. and LCdr. Curt Bartness. LCdr. Bartness, Executive Officer of the Omaha Recmlting District, showed a film on Aviation Cadet Training and led a discussion on the Navy's experience with the all-volunteer recmlting program.

A Spring party with wives and sweethearts was scheduled for the end of May. All present were reminded to encourage Alumni In the Omaha area to join the local Chapter and a drive for possible members will be made from addresses listed in the Register of Alumni.

ORLANDO Robert I. Coleman Jr. 2414 Geigel Ave. Oriando FL 32813 1130—2nd Friday, Sept.-June NTC O Club The Orlando Chapter of the Alumni Association met at the Naval Training Center Officers' Club on 11 March with a fine tumout of nearly forty members. President Tom Utegaard '45 read Jimmy Carter's letter to Bill Busik in appreciation of the Shipmate cover picture and secretary George Darfus "50 updated the group on the Congressional District USNA appointments.

Present were W. L. Taylor '18, W. N. Rodgers '21, Dave Rau '22, John Martin '23, Edwin Wilkinson '24, George Robillard '24, Tink Bell '25, Bob Ashton '25, Horace Trainer '25, Bob "Red Eye" Coleman '25 (snowbird guest from Connecticut), John Gallaher "26, Eari Piper '27, Bob Rice '27, L. E. White '28, Knight Pryor '29, G. L. Kohr '29, Harry Smith '30, Harold Yokes "30, Joe Robblns '30, Joe Flynn '31, Mike Sellars '34, Frank Cambacorta '35, Bill Rossell '35, Dick Wallace '36, Bill Fuller '39, Dick Laning '40, Gerty Ball '41, W. E. Underwood '42, Tom Nugent "48, George Ruos '50, Bob Coleman Jr. '51 (who submitted this report), Jim Forte '54 and the Illustrious and industrious treasurer, John Robbins '58.

Another good group made it to the Club on 8 April for the annual join meeting with Orlando area West Point Alumni and their ladles. Attending Navy-types were: W. L. Taylor '18, C. A. and Mrs. Nicholson '19, Lillian and Dave Rau '22, Lillian and Max Wells '22, Ellen and C. Wilkins '24, Mildred and Ed Wilkinson '24, "Red Eye" Coleman '25, Tink Bell '25, Louise and Horace Trainer '25, Josephine and C. C. Hoffner '25, Jean and John Gallaher '26.

Elizabeth and Earl Piper '27, Eunice and Bob Rice '27, Tonie and Martin Stone '27, Swede Norgaard '28, Vertle and L. E. White '28, Dorothy and Knight Pryor '29, Wally Ebert '30, Irene and Joe Flynn "31, Mary Agnes and Mike Sellars '34. Jeri and John Martin "34, Ruth and Bill Rossell '35, Jim Marks '38, Jim Conger '42, Capt. and Mrs. Frank G. Griffin '42, Anne and Bill Underwood '42, Bemard Bennett '43, Audrey and Tom Utegaard '45, Bill Sims '45, RAdm. and Mrs. George March '47, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Gardner '47, George Darfus '50, Bob Coleman '51, Dillard George '54, Bob Smith '55, J. H. Van de Car '55, and Ruth and John Robbins '58. Guests were Capt. and Mrs. Glen R. Cheek, Capt. and Mrs. J. E. Taylor, and Mrs. Eunice Petrie.

Naval Academy Information Program throughout 10 westem states. He is a member of our local chapter.

23 September—Special Friday night Wine and Dine Cmise from San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf to Jack London Square in Oakland (for dinner) and retum to San Francisco.

1 October—Special Saturday USNA Alumni Seminar at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, featuring advances in oceanography, world weather trends, the Institute for International Studies, an overview of P-G School activities and evening dinner at the O-Club.

5 October—Luncheon speaker to be announced.

29 October—Special Saturday "USNA Alumni Day at the Races" at Bay Meadows Racetrack.

We recently had a special dinner meeting at the Naval Postgraduate School 0-Club, Monterey, which was attended by 26—nearly half of them representing '48! Dean Taylor, Bob Schwoeffermann, Red Morrow, Ed Rudzis, Terry Ross and their wives. Also attending were Bill Perkins '46, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bullene '61 and George Reith '53 from the northem portion of the chapter, and the following alumni and their wives from the MontereyCarmel area: Bob Heilig '31, Dempsey Buder '49, Bob Altz "46, and Joe Tully '42. Midn.

Scott Van Buskirk '79 and his parents from Petaluma were with us, and Scott described some of the recent changes at USNA (including women!) from the Youngster's viewpoint as our speaker.

The annual banquet for incoming midshipmen was held on 21 May in the Moffett Field O'Club ballroom. Forty prospective midshipmen from Northem Califomia were treated to dinner and were awarded their certificates of appointment by RAdm. S.R. Foley USN '50, whose daughter Maureen has just gone through her Plebe Year with the Class of '80. As COMCARGRP Seven. RAdm. Foley had come ashore at Alameda from the Big " E ' s " latest cmise just in time to be present. President Paul Smith '51, aided by San Francisco Chapter President George Winfield Scott Jr. '39, presented Poseidon and Trident cufflinks and tiebar sets to each appointee along with encouragement and best wishes for success at the Naval Academy. This gala event was attended by some 250 enthusiastic alumni, and prospective midshipmen, families and friends.

Our chapter arranged the Alumni Assembly which was held as part of the June Week West celebration aboard QUEEN MARY at Long Beach on 18 June. A good representation of our members joined with the Los Angeles and San Diego chapters to celebrate this annual West Coast event.

PENINSULA Mr. Terry A. Ross 12456 Newport Court Saratoga CA 95070 1145_First Wednesday, O Club, Moffett Field NAS Our future events calendar includes the following: 30/31 July—Don't miss the U.S. Navy Blue Angels Free Air Show and Naval Aviation Open House, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Moffett Field NAS. Drop by the club for a Tall Cool One between 5 and 5:30 p.m. to meet fellow alumni.

3 August—Luncheon featuring Capt. John Dillon USN, OPTEVFOR, who will describe recent at-sea demonstrations of the new Outlaw Shark system with the Sixth Fleet, and other new Navy command, control and weapon systems.

7 September—Luncheon featuring Mr. Tom Teshara, Associate Member, who will give us an update briefing on the Naval Academy Information Program (Blue and Gold) and how our new midshipmen are doing after plebe summer. Tom is West Coast Representative for the Naval Academy and coordinates the

SAN DIEGO/CORONADO

Capt. Harry F. Fischer Jr. USN (Ret.) 1414 Fifth St. Coronado CA 92118

Expanding on the short report that we were able to insert in last month's Shipmate, a fine tumout of seventy-three alumni assembled at the Admiral Kidd Club on 21 April for a discussion of the SES (Surface Effect Ship) by RAdm. George G. Halvorson USN (Ret.) '42 of the Rohr Marine corporation in San Diego.

Classes from 1916 to 1972 were represented. A multi-million dollar contract has been won by Rohr Marine for the production of the SES. Admiral Halvorson presented films of some smaller prototypes and numerous slides showing details of constmction and engineering features of the projected ship. The 3000-ton SES will have a top speed of 89 knots and initially will be configured as an ASW platform with space reserved for AAW and other weapons.

The projected operational date is 1982. The excellent representation of alumni attested to the Interest In this revolutionary ship.

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SANTA BARBARA

Capt. H. Hart Kait USN (Ret.) 877 La Milpita Road Santa Barbara CA 93105 The Spring Dinner-Meeting of the Santa Barbara Chapter was held at the Monteclto Country Club on April 24th with 55 alumni, wives and guests attending. With Walt Christmas '55. our down-south board member, supplying an up-to-date list of alumni in the Mugu-Hueneme area, we were able to extend the invitation to many new names. As a result we welcomed for the first time Lou Reasonover "54 and Boots. Bill Armstrong '64 and Lynda. Jack Bundarin '59 and Kay, and Lloyd Hoover '49 with Betsy. Larry Birthisel "34 who had been going through extensive eye surgery brought his favorite surgeon. LCOI. John Klarich USAF. and Susan Klarich to the party.

There were no great speeches this time but we did pause in silence and sadness to remember the recent passing of Bill Moore "30 who with Vivian helped in chartering the chapter, and Harold (Red) Stoner "32 who with Helen always made the long trip to the meetings from Morro Bay. Roy Falconer "42. on business, passed through the town just in time to be the guest of his Classmate. Wes Gebert. And a nice couple.

Vem Hanna "58 and Fran, living right close by for a long time, leamed from a birdie that we had a local chapter and enjoyed their first visit with us.

Our president. Bob Swalley "52. drammed up a lot of interest for JUNE WEEK WEST aboard QUEEN M.ARY and It appears that we shall muster a good sized task force to invade Long Beach for the seagoing venture.

The next meeting will be the annual summer barbecue at Manning Park in Monteclto on Saturday. 30 July. Alumni whom we have not reached by newsletter are asked to communicate with the secy-treas.

SEATTLE

R. C. Armstead 9010 N.E. 28th St. BeUevue WA 98004 The April Meeting of the Seattle Chapter of the Alumni Association was held at COM (O).

Sand Point. It was voted on and agreed that In the future the meetings will altemate between Sand Point and Pier 91. Adm. James S. Russell USN (Ret.) "26 gave an excellent presentation on present and future Russian military capabilities. The program included a powerful film which should be seen by all American citizens to impress upon them the reality of the Soviet threat to peace and freedom, and the necessity for U.S. military strength second to none.

Present at the April meeting were: Alex and Kay Hammond "25, Adm. and Mrs. Jas. Russell "26, Pete and Mrs. Ferrall "27. Wells and Grace Thompson "28, Frank and Mrs. Schwartz "33. Paul and Jean Van Leunen "34.

Mac and Dorothy McCallum '35, John and Winifred Middleton "35. Philip and Carol Fox "36. Bill and Evelyn Kramer '36. Syd and Betty Miller "36. Monk and Mary Masterson '38, Harvey and Betty Lasell "39, Bob and Colleen Armstead "42, Dick and Mary Daly '46, Bob and Edie Yerbury "46. Stan Keck '54, and Mike and Sheila Bonsignore "63.

In June, Ladies Night was held, the last gettogether before the summer break. A discussion was held of the building, transport and operation of the huge cmde oil separator units installed at Pradhoe Bay in connection with the Alaska Pipeline project with a film produced

by ARCO. This program was the one that had been planned for May. but had to be postponed. In its place. Alex Hammond "25 presented an excellent. Illustrated talk on Ecuador where he served many years as the head of a Hydroelectric Survey Commission to the Ecuadorian govemment. Present were: John Brown "23, Harry Downs '23. Alex Hammond '25. W. E. Fen-all '27, Norm Walker '27, Eari Finney '32, Frank Schwartz '33, Bruce McNaughton '34, John Middleton "35, Bill Kramer '36, Will Cranford '38, Monk Masters '38, Harvey Lasell '39, Bob Armstead "42, Ced Bergqulst "42, Bob Yerbury "46, Jack Fisher "48, Stan Keck "54, and Dave Haan "62.

Newcomers to the Seattle area are encouraged to contact R. C. Armstead. 9010 N.E. 28th St.. Bellevue WA 98004 for further information.

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA Mr. Ken Duckworth 17001 SW 117th Court South Miami FL 33157

A busy social Summer is planned by the Southeast Florida Chapter of the Alumni Association. A picnic for one and all including the children was planned for 21 May at Crandon Park, Key Biscayne, and RAdm. William Brockman USN (Ret.) '27 arranged a Light House Point party for Saturday, 25 June 1977.

Further activities will be publicized as arranged.

There are now 206 members In the Chapter, the seventh largest In the country. Turk Powell '27, chapter president, attended the Alumni Association Meeting In Annapolis on 2 June as a Chapter Tmstee. Other officers of the Chapter are: vice presidents. Bill Brockman "27 (Boca Raton), Andy Offutt '26 (Ft. Lauderdale), Dick Poor '33 (Miami), H. W. Gehman "39 (Palm Beach), Stan Nichols "26 (Pompano Beach), and George Bold "54 (Tequesta). Secretary for the year Is Ken Duckworth '62 and treasurer, Daniel J. Condon III '62. with the board members made up of Hugh White '13, Flip Crist '20. VInce Gallagher '22, Pete Sawyer "48, and Frank Martin '59.

TEXAS GULF COAST

Frank M. Radik 4134 Willow Hill Dr. Seabrook TX 77586 1145â&#x20AC;&#x201D;First Friday, Houston Club The Texas Gulf Coast Chapter held its annual wives luncheon on 6 May. In addition to the delightful company of the ladles, we viewed the movie "Sounds of Annapolis."

Attending the luncheon were Gerry and George Schneider "21. Gene and 'Hap' Goodall "24 and guest Ann Hanes, Nellie Mae and John Hayes "24, Bob Foose '25, Rachel and Lew Smith "32, Paul Treitel "40, Ina and Tom McWhorter "41, Jack Keller "44, Rita and Cliff Bermann "45, Lacy and Frank Clifford '45, 'Ski" DzlkowskI "45. Drex Martin "45, Kelly and Larry Smith "45. Doris and Dick Hollyer "47, Beverly and Dan Mahoney '47, Lou Romatowsky '47, Bob Kenyon "48, Martha Jo and Al Brooks '52, Jane and Larry Hicks '52, Mary and Dave Pease '54, Lew Wood '54, 'Choppy' Cusachs '56, Darlene and Jerry McGaugh '57, Jack Ferguson '60, Nancy and John Bennett '61, Jennifer and Frank Radik '63, Sally and Tom Knudson '67. Sam Crimaldl '71, Vic Link "71. and Genevieve and John Aymond, associate member.

We bid farewell to Rita and Cliff Bermann. headed for the Annapolis area. By the time this appears In print Cliff will probably be sailing Chesapeake Bay once again. Rita and Cliff have been vital members of the community and this chapter and will certainly be missed.

Our annual awards have been presented to the outstanding members of the NROTC units In the Houston area. Swords are presented each year to the top midshipman in the units at Prairie View A & M. Rice, and Texas A & M Universities.

We'd like to invite any out-of-towners who may be In the Houston area to our meetings, and for those who may be newly arrived in Houston, please call for information.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Col. James B. Glennon, Jr., USMC (Ret.) 4856 Yorktown Blvd.

Ariington VA 22207 Noonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;3rd Wed., Sept.-May Army-Navy Club The Washington DC Chapter met In the Sky Room of the Army and Navy Club on Wednesday. 20 April for the regular monthly luncheon.

David Atlee Phillips, President of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and author of Night Watch-25 Years of Peculiar Service, provided us with a vivid picture of life on the operational side of the CIA, reinforcing our awareness of the need for supporting those who are daily risking their lives for their country on intelligence assignments.

The 90 chapter members on hand ranged from "05 to '62 and Included especially strong representation from '28 and '39.

The May meeting was the last until 21 September, when we will meet again at the Army and Navy Club.

The Alumni Association records are the only ones anywhere that cover the Academy, service and civilian careers of our alumni. It is therefore important for historical and biographical purposes that they be as complete as possible, and all alumni who have not done so recently are urged to provide an updated biography for our records.

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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 AHRENSDORF, LEROY WILLIAM '46, 30 December 1976, (Wauwatosa WI) BINNEY, ARTHUR FREMONT '28 (MGEN USMC RET), 31 May 1977, Washington DC BLACKFORD, CHESTER MILES '28, 27 January 1977, Baltimore MD BRENNER, JOHN MARSHALL '40 (JUDGE, SUPERIOR COURT), 11 April 1977, Palo Alto CA BURNS, OAKLEY WILLLVRD '27, 6 September 1975, Ft. Worth TX CHANDLER, WILLIAM DWIGHT '11 (CAPT USN RET), 25 May 1977, Ariington VA CLOUGHLEY, STERLING THOMAS '21 (LCDR USN RET), 25 May 1977, (Glen Ellen CA) COOK, JOHN HENRY JR. '31 (BGEN USMC RET), 12 May 1977, Biloxi MS CUMMINGS, DANIEL CRAIG '73, 6 November 1976 (Chamblee GA) DENHAM, WALTER SAM '29 (CAPT USN RET), 27 May 1977, San Jose CA DEVLIN, JEROME ORVIN '27, 6 June 1977, Memphis TN DOHENY, JOHN FRANCIS '47 (CDR USN RET), 27 April 1977, Ft. Meade MD EVANS, THOMAS JOSEPH '74 (1/LT USMC), 6 April 1977, Chen-y Point NC FINES, CLIFFORD ASHTON '24 (RADM USN RET), 17 May 1977, Bethesda MD FISHER, WILLIAM WALLACE '33, 25 May 1976, (Oklahoma City OK)

FROST, LAURENCE HUGH '26 (VADM USN RET), 23 May 1977, Portsmouth VA GAMBLING, NORMAN WILLIAM '33 (CAPT USN RET), 1 April 1977, Sacramento CA GRANT, JAMES DORR '31 (RADM USN RET), 4 May 1977, San Diego CA GREGORY, JOSEPH WESLEY '17 (RADM USN RET), 3 June 1977, Annapolis MD HATTON, JOHN JOSEPH, '67, 14 March 1976, (Battle Creek MI) HURST, BRIAN DWANE '71 (LT USN), 15 May 1977, at sea JONES, HARVEY LEON MCCOY '22, 20 De cember 1977, (Washington DC) LANGE, GEORGE ADAM '27 (RADM USN RET), 23 May 1977, Bethesda MD LATROBE, WILLIAM CLAIBORNE '25, 2 May 1977, Pompano Beach FL LINSON, ROSS GARNER '33 (CAPT SC USN RET), 15 May 1977, Oakland CA MACK, ROBERT ANDREW '17 (RADM USN RET), 10 June 1977, Stockbridge MA MACKENZIE, LOCKE LITTON '22 (CDR USNR RET), 10 May 1977, New York NY MADISON, JAMES JOBE '39 (CAPT USNR RET), 23 October 1976, Memphis TN MAIER, WILLIAM REINHART '41, 26 Febmary 1977 (New Hope PA) MCCOMBS, PAUL '34 (LCDR USNR), 7 May 1977, New York NY MUNNINGER, KARL OTTO '45, 5 May 1977, Albany NY

NEWTON, CHARLES MCCALL '27 (MAJ USAFR), 16 March 1977, Daytona Beach FL O'MALLEY, DENNIS PATRICK '72 (LT USN), 15 May 1977, at sea PAHL, JAMES ROBERT '24 (RADM USN RET), 8 March 1977, Pomona CA PENNINGTON, ROHE VESTER JR. '46, 18 September 1976, Brunswick GA RAKOW, WILLIAM MAGNUS '33 (RADM USN RET), 15 June 1977, Annapolis MD REITH, GEORGE '24 (RADM USNR), 14 May 1977, Pompano Beach FL RICHARDS, DONALD RODERICK '45 (CDR USN RET), 2 April 1977, Sunnyvale CA ROSENDAHL CHARLES EMERY '14 (VADM USN RET), 14 May 1977, Philadelphia PA RUDISILL, RUFUS CLARE '22 (CDR USNR), 10 December 1976, (Jenklntown PA) SPANAGEL, HERMAN ADOLPH '14 (RADM USN RET), 19 May 1977, Nonistown PA STEELE, JAMES MORTIMER '16 (CAPT USN RET), 14 May 1977, Washington DC TAYLOR, DONALD ALEXANDER '58 (LCDR USN), 20 May 1977, Memphis TN WANNER, VANCE ROBERT '44 (CDR USN RET), 12 May 1977, Ft. Belvoir VA WHITE, ROBERT ARNOLD '06 (CAPT USN RET), 10 May 1977. Los Altos CA WILSON, HARVEY '20, 14 May 1977, North Palm Beach FL WITT, JERRY '07, 26 September 1974, (Mt. Ida AR)

RUSSELL C. RYAN '10 Maj. Russell C. Ryan (MC) USA (Ret.) died on 16 April 1977 at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. Memorial services were held at the Halsted and Company funeral chapel with Interment at Cypress Lawn Cemetery.

Coming to the Naval Academy from California, he resigned during plebe year to enroll at the University of Califomia Medical School, receiving his degree In time to retum to naval service as a surgeon in World War I. At the end of the war he was released from active duty to retum to San Francisco and become the chief surgeon of the Railway Express Agency and director of St. Francis Memorial Hospital. Another period of military service followed In World War II when he was chief of abdominal surgery at Camp Roberts, California. He retired from active practice In 1960 after over 50 years of service as a physician.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgery (FRCS) of London in recognition of his professional eminence. He was a member of the Alumni Association and had been secretary of the San Francisco Chapter during the 1940s.

WILLIAM DWIGHT CHANDLER '11 Capt. William Dwight Chandler USN (Ret.) died on 25 May 1977 in Arlington, Virginia.

Memorial services were held on 27 May In Christ Episcopal Church in Georgetown with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

A native of Minnesota, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from New Hampshire and after graduation in 1911 reported for duty In UTAH. In March of 1912 he was commissioned ensign and had duty in various ships and participated In the Mexican campaign. He later served In the submarine K-1. then returned to the Naval Academy for a postgraduate course In engineering. At the beginning of World War I he was in MONAGHAN on escort duty, then became Commanding Officer of MACDONOUGH. He received the Navy Cross for this service.

He later had duty In the fitting out and commissioning of the destroyer CHANDLER, then reported to the Bureau of Navigation in Washington. Returning to sea, other commands included CoNYNGHAM and BARKER prior to returning to Washington at the Naval Observatory. He later was Navigator In FLORIDA, then joined the staff at the Naval Academy and later had duty at the Naval War College and then the Army War College. In 1937 he was designated the Navy Representative in setting up plans for a selective service system, then commanded the transport CHAUMONT before returning to duty In Washington. In 1941 he was Commanding Officer of NORTHAMPTON

and on 7 December was at sea with Adm. William Halsey in ENTERPRISE when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. The ship escaped damage and participated In search and bombardment missions for two years under his command. His last assignment from 1943 until his retirement In 1946 was secretary to the old General Board of the Department of the Navy.

He was a member of the Army-Navy and Chevy Chase Clubs and had served as a senior warden at Christ Episcopal Church In Georgetown.

He is survived by five children, Mrs. Victor H. Krulak, wife of LGen. Victor H. Kmlak USMC (Ret.) "34 of San Diego, Capt. Charies R. Chandler USN (Ret.) "39 of Alexandria, Virginia, Mrs. James R. Hester, wife of Col. James R. Hester USMC (Ret.) of Hartlson, Arkansas, Mrs. John M. Relgart of Charleston, William D. Chandler of Brussels; seventeen grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

He Is survived by his widow, Ramona, 150 Lombard St., San Francisco CA 94111; a son, two grandchildren, and two adopted children.

JOHN ANGELL BROWNELL '13 Cdr. John Angell Brownell USN (Ret.) died on 9 April 1977 in New London, Connecticut.

Memorial services were held at the AldersonPrentis Funeral Home in New London on 12 April.

A native of Rhode Island, he was graduated with the Class of 1913. Duty followed in FLORIDA off Vera Cmz and the mine-training ship DUBUQUE. Transferring to the submarine service, he attended the submarine school at Shipmate

97 New London, then had service in and commanded K-6, K-7. the ex-German submarine U-I17, and the R-10. He was awarded the Navy Cross during World War I. In 1921 he retumed to the Naval Academy as an instmctor. then had sea duty in command of the submarine S-20 as well as a submarine division before attending the Army Industrial College. His final duty was as Executive Officer of NITRO. but he resigned in 1929. being called back to active duty during World War II when he served from 1940 to 1945 at the Submarine Base in Groton. Connecticut. He was a member of the Thames Club of New London and the Sons of the American Revolution.

He is survived by his widow, Amanda, of 542 Montauk Avenue. New London CT 06320. a son, two granddaughters, and two sisters.

world and had earlier been skipper of the airship Los ANGELES. He also was aboard the German airship HINDENBURG during one of her 10 trans-Atlantic crossings to Lakehurst. As commanding officer at the Lakehurst Air Station on 6 May 1937, he watched as HINDENBURG burst into flames and cmmpled to the ground, signaling the decline of the giant airships that had been a wonder of the day. In 1938 he was assigned duty as Executive Officer of MILWAUKEE, then reported to Washington for duty in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy and later to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations in connection with lighterthan-air projects. After further duty In the Bureau of Aeronautics, he assumed command in 1942 of MINNEAPOLIS, flagship of a Task Force in command of the late VAdm. Carleton H. Wright USN '08. During the Battle of CHARLES EMERY ROSENDAHL '14 Guadalcanal, the bow of the ship was blown off by Japanese torpedoes, but Capt. RosenVAdm. Charles Emery Rosendahl USN dahl kept the ship's main batteries firing. The (Ret.) died on 14 May 1977 at the Philadelphia next moming he brought the ship Into Tulagi Naval Hospital, the day before his 85th birthday. His ashes were flowTi to sea on 22 May. Harbor under her own power and had his crew and a memorial service was held on 28 May In cut down palm trees to strenghten the bulkhead to enable the ship to retum for extensive the Cathedral of the Air. Naval Air Station, repairs at Mare Island. In 1943 he assumed Lakehurst, New Jersey. duty, in the rank of rear admiral, as Chief of Naval Airship Training at Lakehurst and In addition supervised the building of 168 airships that served as antisubmarine patrol ships along the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, later withdrawn in favor of the Distinguished Service Medal, for his service In establishing the airship training program. In addition he received the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism at the time of the destmction of SHENANDOAH, the Navy Cross for heroism while in MINNEAPOLIS, and the Mexican Service Medal and Victory Medal as well as World War II campaign decorations.

Transferted to the retired list in 1946. he was the author of two books. Up Ship, and What About the Airship? and was a frequent contributor to the Naval Institute Proceedings.

Charies Emery Rosendahl and he had been awarded an honorary doctor of science in aeronautics degree from Tampa Bom in Chicago, he was graduated with the University and an honorary doctor of Laws Class of 1914 and assigned to WEST VIRGINIA degree

by Rider College. upon graduation, escorting troop convoys In the North Atlantic during Worid War I. He He Is survived by his widow, Jean, of Flag commenced duty with destroyers in 1918, stayPoint, Toms River NJ 08753. Contributions in ing with this service for three years, then rehis memory may be made to the Airship Assoporting to the Naval Academy as an Instmctor. ciation, Box LTA. Lakehurst NJ 08733 for the It was while he was on this duty that he saw a preservation of his memorabilia. notice on a bulletin board calling for volunteers for the Navy"s new rigid airship program. He JAMES MORTIMER STEELE '16 volunteered for the duty on Friday, on Monday Capt. James Mortimer Steele USN (Ret.) had taken his flight physical, and, as he later recalled. "The first thing I knew I was up at died on 14 May 1977 at his residence in Washington, D.C. Services were held on 18 May at Lakehurst, New Jersey, for the first class." He later was assigned to the first rigid airship to be Ft. Myer Chapel with interment in Arlington designed and built by the U. S. Navy. National Cemetery.

SHENANDOAH, and was aboard her in September 1925 when the ship encountered bad weather while flying over Ohio and broke Into James Mortimer Steele three pieces. After remaining aloft In the stlllairbome section of the ship for more than an hour, he managed to land the forward portion of the airship. Fourteen of the crew members died, including the Commanding Officer, LCdr. Zachary Lansdowne USN '09.

(Then) Lt. Rosendahl made the round-theworid flight on the German ship GRAF ZEPPELIN in August 1929 as the official U. S. Navy observer. A staunch supporter of the airship. he felt that this accomplishment would restore public confidence In llghter-than-air vessels.

He also commanded AKRON when it was commissioned in 1931 as the largest airship in the July-August, 1977

A native of Colorado, he was graduated with the Class of 1916 and ordered to sea In SAN DIEGO In South American waters during World War I, later serving aboard PITTSBURGH before taking duty under Instmctlon In naval aviation at Pensacola. Physical problems terminated his flying and he thereupon served aboard KANSAS and FULTON. He completed submarine training later and commanded USS R-6, being given command of that submarine as she lay on the bottom of San Pedro harbor after sinking accidentally, and carried out orders to raise her, refit her in Mare Island, and sail her to join a submarine division In Pearl Harbor. He later commanded S-6 and served In the Bureau of Navigation, then was ordered to duty as Executive Officer of the destroyer TOUCEY, followed by service as Chief Engineer of the cmiser MARBLEHEAD. Shore duty as Executive Officer of the submarine base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, followed, whereupon he retumed to sea as Navigator of the batdeship NEVADA and then took command of the oiler BRAZOS. After completing the course of study at the Naval War College, he joined the staff for two additional years, then took command of UTAH in 1941. On 7 December 1941 the ship was moored at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. UTAH was punished unmercifully and tumed over and slid into the water. The Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, assigned Capt.

Steele the task of organizing and managing the salvage of the ships sunk by the Japanese and within four days under his direction three damaged battleships had been retumed to service and plans laid for the ultimate raising of the other sunken ships. Capt. Steele was awarded the Legion of Merit for his services as salvage superintendent. In April 1942 he joined the staff of the late FAdm. Chester W. Nimitz USN '05 as War Plans Officer to help organize the most effective and economical employment of the ever Increasing forces and the establishment of command relationships. He was awarded a second Legion of Merit for this service. In 1944 he commanded the batdeship INDIANA, then served on a Special Committee of the JCS for Reorganization of National Defense that examined the establishment of a Department of Defense. He retired from active duty in 1946 and moved to Washington where he worked with two firms In the metals Industry, then was a member of a Washington stock brokerage firm.

He is survived by his widow, Erma. of Chevy Chase House. Apt. 304. 5420 Connecticut Avenue. N.W.. Washington DC 20015: a son, VAdm. George P. Steele USN (Ret.) "45 of Philadelphia, and a daughter, Mrs. Lola Shepherd of Coronado. Califomia: four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

WILLLVM DAVIS JONES Jr. '17 Mr. William Davis Jones Jr. died on 9 April 1977 in Raleigh. North Carolina. Memorial services were held at St. Michaefs Episcopal Church in Raleigh on 12 April.

Entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1917, he left prior to graduation and entered govemment service, working with the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health. Education and Welfare for many years prior to retirement In 1961. He was a member of the Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow. Ruth. 2120 White Oak Road. Raleigh NC 27608; a son and a daughter, seven grandchildren and three sisters.

98 FLOYD WESLEY BENNETT '17 Col. Floyd Wesley Bennett USMC (Ret.) died on 1 April 1977 In San Diego, California.

Floyd Wesley Bennett Entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1917, he left In 1914 and enUsted In the Marine Corps. Continuous service for thirty years followed with participation in both World Wars and at many oversea stations. He retired in August of 1946 and settled In San Diego.

He Is survived by his widow, Mary, of 1615 Beryl St., San Diego CA 92109; a son, Walker G. Bennett, Class of 1945, of Schenectady, New York; a daughter, Mrs. Marigold B. Gorton, wife of LCdr. Robert J. Groton USN (Ret.) '46, of San Diego; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

JAMES FRANCIS KENNEDY '17 Cdr. James Francis Kennedy USNR (Ret.) died on 1 October 1917. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Mary's of the Mount Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 October with Interment in the Cathedral Cemetery of Scranton.

James Francis Kennedy A native of Pennsylvania, he entered the Naval Academy with the Class of 1917 but resigned prior to graduation and took employment as a draftsman in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He later retumed to Pittsburgh to work for the John L. Mullen Constmction Company, then became a design engineer for the Bureau of Engineering In that city. In 1928 he was appointed chief engineer for Cmcible Steel In Rttsburgh but, having always retained his love for the Navy, he applied for a commission in the Naval Reserve shortly after the opening of hostilities in World War II and was nominated to over forty advisory committees during the war period including the Army-Navy Munitions Board and the War Production Board. In July 1946 he was ordered to duty with the Office of the Supervising Inspector of Naval Material and was in charge of contract termination and property disposition. He later was acting Inspector of Naval Material, Pittsburgh, and Chairman of the Pittsburgh Sub-Council of

the Armed Forces Regional Council. He later served In Baltimore as Inspector of Naval Material, then retired from active duty in 1953 and served in a civilian capacity as District Representative and Contract Administrator of Naval Research In Pittsburgh. After twenty-six years of service, he retired at age 70, but continued to serve for two more years on appointment from the Office of Naval Research in Boston. He was a registered engineer of Pennsylvania, an alumnus of Duquesne University, and a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He Is survived by his widow, Marie, 6101 16th St., Washington DC 20011; a daughter and a son, a foster daughter, thirteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

HAROLD BUSHNELL SALLADA '17 Adm. Harold Bushnell Sallada USN (Ret.) died on 25 April 1977 in Arlington, Virginia, Private services and interment were held in Arlington National Cemetery.

Harold Bushnell Sallada Bom In Wllllamsport, Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1917 and joined VERMONT, operating with the Adantic Fleet during World War I. Other sea duty followed until he took flight training and was designated naval aviator in 1921. While serving in RICHMOND, he commanded the first sea-going aviation catapult unit and later he was commander of Scouting Squadron One in the Navy's first aircraft carrier, LANGLEY, then transferted to SARATOGA where he was Aide and Flag Secretary to the late Adm. Joseph Mason Reeves USN '94, Commander Aircraft, Battle Force. Duty at the Bureau of Aeronautics followed and then a retum to sea In WRIGHT and again in LANGLEY. After another assignment In Washington, he was nominated as the Executive Officer of the carrier WASP, then fitting out at the Bethlehem Steel Company In Quincy, Massachusetts, followed by command of the seaplane tender ALBEMARLE operating In the North Adantic and Iceland prior to and during the early months of World War II. In 1942 he was recalled to Washington with the Bureau of Aeronautics and then to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air), but after a year he retumed to sea to command the Pacific Fleet Amphibious Forces Support Aircraft to support Marine Corps landings. He next commanded Carrier Divisions 26 and 6 In the 1944 assault on the Marshall Islands and the capture of the Marianas. He was commander of tlie Marshall-Gilberts area until mid-1945 when he was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. In 1947 he was named Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, then had duty as Commander Air Force, Pacific Fleet, just prior to being transferted to the retired list. His many decorations included

three awards of the Legion of Merit and the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for the attempted rescue of occupants from a training plane which crashed at Pensacola. Admiral Sallada later joined the Falrchild Engine and Airplane Corp. as manager of the Chicago plant of the aircraft division. In 1952 he joined the Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc., where he was senior vice president and member of the board of directors when he retired for a second time eight years later.

He is survived by two sons, Capt. William F. Sallada USN '48 of Fairfax, Virginia, and Cdr. Robert F. Sallada USN of Washington, D . C , and two grandchildren.

STERLING THOMAS CLOUGHLEY '21 LCdr. Steriing Thomas Cloughley USN (Ret.) died on 25 May 1977.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of California, he was graduated on 3 June 1920 with the Class of 1921. During his Academy years he was the star catcher on the midshipman baseball team and he later returned to the Academy to coach the team. During his First Class year he was Company Commander of Sixteenth Company which won the Regimental Flag for excellence. After graduation he reported to ARIZONA and served in that ship for seven years. Most of his shore duty was at the Naval Academy and most of his sea duty In capital ships of the Batde Fleet.

In 1932 he was ordered to Guam and later he served in GOLD STAR, a cargo ship on the Asiatic Station whose crew, prior to World War II, was made up of Chamortos, natives of Guam. Later he joined the battleship PENNSYLVANIA, but he was transferted to the retired list in 1942. In civilian life he joined the Department of Public Works of the State of Califomia, retiring once again In 1959. He was a member of the Olympic Club and the Commonwealth Club In San Francisco.

He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, of Glen Ellen, Califomia, a daughter and four grandchildren.

LOCKE LITTON MACKENZIE '22 Cdr. Locke Litton Mackenzie USNR (Ret.) died on 10 May 1977 in New York City. Services and interment were private.

Entering the Naval Academy with the Class of 1922, he left prior to graduation and received his degree from Yale in 1923, later taking his medical studies at Columbia University where he was graduated In 1926. He joined the Naval Reserve at the beginning of World War II and served in the South Pacific where he was awarded the Purple Heart. After the war he retumed to his practice in New York City where, as a gynecologist and obstetrician, he helped Dr. G.N. Papanicolaou develop the Pap test for discovering cervical cancer. He also taught in the medical school of New York University and was an attending surgeon In the Women's Hospital of St. Luke's, and attending gynecologist and obstetrician to the University Hospital. In addition he was a noted amateur ornithologist, having written the book Birds of Guilford, Connecticut, and made many trips to Central America and the West Indies to observe the local species. He could recall from his war-service years the Invasion of Iwo Jima where, on D-Day, he watched with interest a solitary Wedge-tailed Shearwater, "gloomily circling our ship." Another facet of this many-sided man was found in the fact that for many years he was a consultant to the Whitney Shipmate

99 Stables, advising in the breeding of stock.

He Is survived by his widow. Gladys, 829 Park Ave.. New York NY 10021, three sons and four grandchildren.

CHARLES WTLLL^M McWILLIE, '22 Col. Charles William McWillie USMCR (Ret.), died on 29 March, 1977 at the St. Joseph's Hospital In Stamford. Connecticut.

Services were held at the St. Francis Episcopal Church on 2 April and interment was in the Long Ridge Union Cemetery. Stamford.

He entered the Naval Academy in 1918 from the State of Mississippi and was graduated with the Class of 1922. He resigned upon graduation and went Into the business of developing systems and campaigns for banks and other Institutions, the Christmas Club being an example. He became Vice President of Cliristmas Club, a Corporation, in New York City.

He was a member of the USMCR and was called to active duty In 1941. During the war he served In the Pacific where he received a Navy Commendation Ribbon from ComGen FMFPac. He was a member of the St. Francis Episcopal Church and was a former vestryman. He married Annola Priestly in 1926 who predeceased him In the early "60s. He Is survived by a brother-in-law. William T. Priestly, of Lake Forest. Illinois.

WALTER SCOTT GEVN '23 LCdr. Walter Scott Ginn USN (Ret.) died on 16 December 1976 in Coconut Grove, Florida.

Funeral services and interment took place at Arlington Cemetery on 21 December 1976.

Entering the Naval Academy from Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1923.

Early shipboard assignments were in LAMSON and PATOKA and shore duty included the Navy Yards at Pearl Harbor and Philadelphia. He was stationed on board OGLALA at Peari Harbor on 7 December 1941 when the ship was sunk in the Japanese attack, whereupon he became a liasion officer with the U. S. Army Forces in Hawaii until transferted to duty in the Seventh Naval District. He then was ordered to organize and command GroPac 9 In Febmary 1944 and later commanded the tanker MANILENO in the Central Pacific area until the end of hostilities. After the war he commanded NOXUBEE until transferted to the retired list In 1947. Upon his retirement he was active In real estate and insurance and as a sideline raised Black Angus cattle at Griffin, Georgia. Among his other activities he at one time aided Carlos He via, a graduate of the Class of 1920 and one-time President of Cuba, In the management of the Pan American Merchant Marine Academy in Miami, Florida.

He is survived by his widow, Elizabeth, 4121 LaPlaya, Coconut Grove FL 33133; a daughter, Rita, wife of Col. Erick G. Johnson Jr. USA, Falls Church, Virginia, and three grandchildren.

JOHN DRAKE SHAW '23 RAdm. John Drake Shaw USN (Ret.) died on 13 April 1977 in Seatde, Washington.

Memorial services were held on 19 April at Green's Sunset Hills Chapel in Bellevue, Washington, and graveside services took place on 22 April at the Mountain View Cemetery In Altadena, Califomia. Remarks at the memorial service were delivered by Capt. Harry C. Maynard USN (Ret.) '33, an old friend.

A native of Spokane, RAdm. Shaw saw duty in many parts of the world and had been decoJuly-August, 1977

rated by many foreign govemments. During his naval career he attended the postgraduate school and later he helped establish the Naval Reserve Midshipmen Schools at Northwestern University and at the University of Notre Dame, as well as the NROTC unit at Ohio State University. One of the highpolnts of his career was his major role In the landings at Normandy where he served as flotilla commander of LSTs In the Invasion here and in subsequent operations. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for this service. As expressed

by Capt. Maynard, his retirement from active duty merely gave him more opportunity to serveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Country, youth, and the community.

RAdm. Shaw received his masters degree from the University of Washington and thereupon taught evening classes there for four years.

Other activities in which he participated were the Greater Bellevue Chamber of Commerce of which he was the manager from 1960-64, presidency of his community club, member of the local theatrical board and of the local hospital board, and chairman of the City of Bellevue Civil Service Commission. An active golfer, he was co-chairman of the local municipal golf course and was helped supervise the planning and building of the course. In recent years he concentrated much of his efforts on youth programs, giving his time to bring local high school students into contact with Rotary, and thus helping to enrich the lives of both tlie students and the Rotarians.

He is survived by his widow, Evelyn, 906 Belfair Road, Bellevue WA 98004; a daughter, two grandsons, a sister and two brothers.

CLIFFORD ASHTON FINES '24 RAdm. Clifford Ashton Fines USN (Ret.) died on 17 May 1977 at Bethesda, Maryland.

Graveside services were held on 19 May at the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of New York, he was graduated with the Class of 1924. Sea duty followed and in 1931 he was ordered to Columbia University for a year of postgraduate study during which he received the master of science degree. In 1940 he put in commission and took command of the destroyer BENSON, proceeding to sea at once to provide escort for merchant convoys to Iceland, Britain, and North Africa. In 1943 he was named Operations Officer of the United States Naval Operating Base, Oran, Algeria, just prior to and during the amphibious landings at Sicily and the Italian mainland. He was awarded the Legion of Merit by President Roosevelt for this service, his citation reading, "Throughout this period, during which major offensive operations were planned and launched against the enemy, he carried out the directions of the authorities exercising operational control relative to shipping and convoys . . . thereby contributing materially to the effective employment of assault and subsequent shipping In support of the Invasion forces." He also was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Commendation Medal during his naval service. After his retirement In 1954 he joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was a registered engineer in the State of Alabama and a member of the American Association of University Professors and the American Society for Engineering Education.

He Is survived by his widow, Olivia, 3619 E. 13th St., Tuscaloosa AL 35401, and two daughters.

JOSEPH SNELL LILLARD '24 RAdm. Joseph Snell Lillard USN (Ret.) died on 14 March 1977 In San Diego, Califomia.

Services were held on 17 March at the North Island Naval Air Station Chapel with Interment In the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Missouri, he was graduated with the Class of 1924. His naval career included duty on battleships and as commander of Landing Ship Tank Group 9 In the Pacific during World War II. He was also a veteran of the Korean War. Shore duty included a tour as an Instmctor In the Department of Engineering at the Naval Academy and postgraduate school at Columbia University where he received a masters degree in science. In his final assignment, he was planning officer at Pearl Harbor, retiring in 1952. His decorations included the Legion of Merit. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and the San Pedro Lodge 332 F&AM. He Is survived by his widow, LaReah, 716 Tohta Ave., Coronado CA 92118, a daughter and three grandchildren.

GEORGE REITH '24 RAdm. George Reith USNR (Ret.) died on 14 May 1977 In Pompano Beach. Florida. Interment was In Arlington National Cemetery on 18 May. A native of New York State, he was graduated with the Class of 1924 and immediately joined RICHMOND when she was detailed for duty as a station ship along the route to Army planes making a round-the-world flight. He later resigned his commission and became head trader for the over-the-counter department of the B. H. Roth Company on the New York Stock Exchange. In 1940 he was recalled to active duty as an ensign in the Naval Reserve and early in 1942 he put in commission and took command of RHODOLITE, a station patrol ship which operated off Midway Island and later in Hawaiian waters. He later had command of LST 468 and participated in the Lae, Cape Cretin, and Cape Gloucester invasions. Subsequendy he took command of LST Group Eight and was awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat V for meritorious conduct In the Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, and Okinawa invasions. In 1945 during the occupation of Japan, he served as beachmaster on the staff of Commander Amphibious Group One. Other staff duty followed and in July 1950 he transferred to Amphibious Group Three to take part In the evacuation and re-entry of Inchon, Korea, for which he received the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V, the citation for this decoration stating, "his experience, profound knowledge of amphibious techniques, excellent planning and close supervision contributed materially to the success of the operation." He later served as a Member and Secretary of the Joint Amphibious Board at Litde Creek, then had duty on the staff of Commander Amphibious Force, Adantic Fleet. His final assignment was with the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, and In 1958 he was transferted to the Retired Reserve.

He is survived by his widow, Clarabelle, 4400 NW Ninth St., Pompano Beach FL 33066; a son, LCdr. George Reith Jr. USN (Ret.) '53 of Carmel, Califomia, and a daughter, Mrs. Sue B. Thie, four brothers and one sister and four grandchildren.

100 ALBERT EDMONDSON JARRELL '25 VAdm. Albert Edmondson Jarrell USN (Ret.) died on 23 April 1977 in Sedona, Arizona. Graveside services were held on 27 April in his hometown of La Grange, Georgia.

LAURENCE HUGH FROST '26 VAdm. Laurence Hugh Frost USN (Ret.) died on 23 May 1977 at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia.

A native of the State of Arkansas, he had attended the state university for a year prior to receiving his appointment to the Naval Academy. His first sea assignment after graduation was In MISSISSIPPI for nearly four years whereupon he Joined the destroyer ELLIOTT for three more years at sea before retuming to the Postgraduate School at Annapolis. In 1935 he was ordered to the flagship of Destroyer

West Princess Anne Rd., Norfolk VA 23507; a son, Laurence W., Class of 1955, also of Norfolk; a sister and four grandchildren.

HOWELL JESSE DYSON '27 RAdm. Howell Jesse Dyson USN (Ret.) died on 17 August 1976 in Oakland, Califomia. Services were held on 25 August at The Presidio with interment in The Presidio Cemetery.

Squadron One In DALLAS and in 1936 was

Albert Edmondson Jarrell Graduating with the Class of 1925, he was first assigned to TEXAS. Later duty was in MISSISSIPPI and the destroyers SUMNER and PRUITT

as well as OGLALA, flagship of Mine Division One, and LANGLEY, flagship of Carrier Division One. Postgraduate sctiool at Annapolis and the University of Califomia followed and he retumed to sea in 1933 as Engineering Officer in BUCHANAN, with similar duty In NASHVILLE when she was commissioned In 1937. He was named Commanding Officer of STURTEVANT when she was recommissioned in 1939, operating on the eastem seaboard in convoys and neutrality patrol. Duty in Brazil followed and he was later assigned to the Fleet Operational Command, Atlantic Fleet, In the training of destroyer escort crews, for which duty he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal. In 1944 he had duty as Commander Destroyer Division 42 in the Southwest Pacific Area for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit, and later as Commander Destroyer Squadron 55 he was also recognized for extraordinary heroism against Japanese forces on Okinawa and for the salvage operations of two destroyers damaged In aerial attack. He later was Naval Attache in Mexico and loved to relate his experience with the U.S. Military Attache when several West Point cadets were introduced to an admiring group at a horse show while the local band played "Anchors Aweigh"! During the Korean War he commanded several task groups Including the Inchon assault and redeployments from Wonsan and Hungnam for which he was awarded a second Legion of Merit. He later had duty as Chief of Staff to Commander Destroyer Force, Atlantic, then was Professor of Naval Science at Rice Institute in Houston. From 1955 until his retirement he served in the Pacific area, his final duty station being Commander Training Command, Pacific. His service during the Korean War also eamed the Navy Cross and a third Legion of Merit as well as the Korean Order of Taeguk. He also had received the Order of the Southem Cross from Brazil. After his retirement, he was active In civic affairs In Sedona, serving as president of the Taxpayers' Association, on the board of the Sedona Health Care Services, and in various capacities In the Republican party.

He is survived by his widow, Anna, P. O. Box 1236, Sedona AZ 86336, a daughter and two sons, two brothers and seven grandchildren.

transferred to INDIANAPOLIS and was aboard her when that cmiser took President Roosevelt on a Good Will tour to Argentina. He later had duty with ComCmDiv Four In NORTHAMPTON, then retumed for a tour at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. In August of 1941 he took command of the destroyer GREER which found herself involved in an incident which brought America's entry into the war nearer. Early In September the ship was carrying mail and passengers to Argentina when it received a message from a British aircraft that a German submarine was lying ahead. GREER began to track the submarine and two hours later her lookouts could see her pass about 100 yards abeam. The submarine fired a torpedo which passed astern, whereupon GREER charged In for attack. A second torpedo was fired and the destroyer laid down 19 depth charges; she had now become the first American ship In World War II to attack the Germans. President Roosevelt seized the occasion to make one of his famed fireside chats and declared that American naval vessels hereafter would strike first in their own defense. The period of "undeclared war" in the Atlantic had begun.

(Then) Cdr. Frost took command of the destroyer WALLER in October of 1942 and proceeded to the war In the Pacific, participating in action in the southern Solomons and In the New Georgia operations. He received the Silver Star, a Gold Star In lieu of a second Sliver Star, and the Bronze Star for this service. In October 1943 he reported to Commander Aircraft, Central Pacific Task Force, for duty as Communication Officer and eamed the Legion of Merit in this assignment. He later returned to Washington to serve in the Division of Naval Communications with the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, then was assigned to the Operational Intelligence Division of Naval Intelligence until 1948 when he was designated Commander Destroyer Squadron Six. Service once again with Naval Intelligence and then command of MANCHESTER In the Korean War followed and he was awarded a second Legion of Merit for the defense of the Westem islands of Korea.

In 1953 he was ordered to the National Security Agency Directorate and later became the Director of Naval Intelligence. He assumed command of NSA at Ft. Meade In 1960 for two years, then reported as Commandant of the Potomac Naval Command until relieved of active duty and transferred to the retired list In 1964. Other awards that he earned during his naval service included the Commendation Ribbon, the Navy Unit Commendation, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation, and the Military Order of Aviz (Grand Officer) granted by the Government of Portugal. After his retirement he served as administrative manager of the Navy-Marine Residence Foundation.

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Howell Jesse Dyson Entering the Naval Academy from the State of Louisiana, he was graduated in the Class of 1927. Duty on board WEST VIRGINIA followed whereupon he was ordered back to the Naval Academy for the Olympic tryouts in wresding.

He advanced to the semi-finals before being eliminated, after which he retumed to WEST VIRGINIA. Designated a naval aviator in 1930. he served in aviation commands during the rest of his career with the exception of duty on Admiral Nimitz" s staff, in the Department of the Navy, and In the Twelfth Naval District from which he retired in 1957. His first aviation assignment was in Scouting Squadron TWO in SARATOGA and his career included duty as Executive Officer of the carrier BUNKER HILL for which he was awarded the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart; the Distinguished Flying Cross was conferted while commanding a Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron in Guadalcanal, and the Bronze Star while on Admiral Nimitz's staff. In the Korean War he was awarded a gold star in lieu of the Second Bronze Star, and the Air Medal. Upon his retirement he joined Lockheed Missile and Space Systems in Sunnyvale, Califomia. from which he retired in 1969.

He is survived by his widow. Helen, of 998 St. Joseph Ave., Los Altos CA 94022, his son Blair and two grandchildren of Tortance, Califomia. three sisters and two brothers, one of whom is Capt. John C. Dyson USN (Ret.) '37, of Vienna, Virginia. Another brother, Capt. Gerald R. Dyson USN '27, was killed in an aircraft accident in 1952.

GEORGE ADAM LANGE '27 RAdm. George Adam Lange USN (Ret.) died on 23 May 1977 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Services were held at the Ft. Myer Chapel on 26 May with Interment in Arlington National Cemetery. He was a member of St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church In Bethesda.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Connecticut, he was graduated with the Class of 1927. He had attended Catholic University for one year prior to receiving his Academy appointment. Shortly after graduation he joined ROCHESTER, flagship of the Special Service Squadron based at the Canal Zone, and during the Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua Shipmate

101 was ordered to temporary duty ashore with the ship's landing force, attached to the Fifth Marine Regiment in Managua, to assist In the supervision of the Nicaraguan election of 1928.

Service in the battleships UTAH and ARIZONA

followed as well as two years in the oiler S.^LINAS before retuming to Annapolis for postgraduate school. Later duty was with the Marines at Quantico. then as Executive Officer of the destroyer BABBITT for which he was commended by the U.S. Army Chief of Staff.

Gen. Malin Craig. The cmiser RALEIGH was his next assignment, protecting the lives and property of American citizens during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 he was ordered to the Naval War College, but upon the declaration of National Emergency by President Franklin Roosevelt he reported to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for the fitting out of the destroyer ELLIS. He next was ordered as Executive Officer of the presidential yacht POTOMAC and inasmuch as there but two officers assigned to the ship, the duties of all departments of the ship were considered as belonging to the Executive Officer. Additional duty was as \V'hite House .Aide, and when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the President ordered the officers of POTOMAC to establish and organize the President's War Room. Upon completion of this assignment, the two officers requested permission to be transferted to combat duty and (then) LCdr. Lange was ordered to COLUMBI.A as Navigator. later fleeting up to Executive Officer and being awarded the Commendation Ribbon with Combat V and the Legion of Merit with Combat V during his three years on board. He participated in operations in the northem Solomon Islands area and in the invasion of Leyie during w hich the ship destroyed 27 aircraft and assisted in sinking 2 battleships, 2 cmisers. and 2 destroyers. After the war he served with the Office of Naval Intelligence, then retumed to the Pacific as Intelligence Officer on the staff of Commander United States Naval Forces Westem Pacific. Later duty included command of the hospital ship CONSOLATION, and service in Washington with the Chief of Naval Operations. His final sea duty was In command of the attack transport GLYNN and his last assignment was as head of the administrative branch of the Naval Communications Division with CNO. He was retired on 1 July 1955.

He is survived by his widow. Estelle. 5736 Bradley Blvd.. Bethesda MD 20014. and a sister, Julia Krieger. also of Bethesda.

He is survived by one son, Harvey, a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War residing in Daytona Beach, a brother and sister of Bennetts ville, and several nieces and nephews Including Paul A, Riley, USNA '48, of Miami,

Florida.

ARTHUR FREMONT BINNEY '28 MGen. Arthur Fremont BInney USMC (Ret.) died on 31 May 1977 at the Bethesda Naval Hospital. Memorial services were held at the St. Alban's Episcopal Church In Washington on 7 June and interment was private.

A native of Michigan, he was graduated with the Class of 1927 and ordered to duty at Quantico. later taking flight training and being designated for aviation duty. He later served with the Marines In Nicaragua. After retuming to the United States he had duty at the PostGraduate school at Annapolis, then at Harvard where he studied radio engineering. Further aviation duty followed including service during World War II with Marine Air Group 13 in the Pacific at Ewa. Oahu. Samoa. Funafuti, and Eniwetok and duty as air commander in the Ellice Islands during development of the Gilberts and Marshall Islands Campaign. In the last year of the war he was aviation personnel officer at Marine Corps headquarters In Washington, then was naval attache in Central America until 1948. Upon his retum to Washington he became electronics director In the Bureau of Aeronautics, and this duty was followed by a year at the Naval War College. In Korea. In 1952. he was Chief of Staff of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, and then Commanding Officer of Marine Aircraft Group 33.

He later commanded aircraft wings In Japan and at Cherry Point, then became Aviation Director at Marine Corps headquarters in Washington In 1960-61. His final assignment on active duty was as deputy commander. Fleet Marine Force Adantic. He had been awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat V and the Nicaraguan Cross of Valor while on active duty. After retirement he worked for a number of years at the Research Analysis Corporation In McLean. Virginia. Always interested In the Alumni Association, he was a tmstee In 1975 and had been secretary of his Class in 1969.

He Is survived by his widow. Jean. 2815 Cathedral Ave. N.W.. Washington DC 20008; a son. LCol. Douglas C. BInney USMC "53; a daughter. Elizabeth Hartley of Coral Gables.

Florida; and seven grandchildren.

JOHN PATRICK REMBERT Jr. '29 CHARLES MC CALL NEWTON '27 RAdm. John Patrick Rembert Jr. USN (Ret.) Maj. Charles McCall Newton USAFR died on 16 March 1977 In Daytona Beach. Florida. died on 21 October 1976 In Arlington. Virginia.

Funeral services were held in Daytona Beach Memorial services were private.

A native of Longview, Texas, he was with interment In the McCaU Cemetery, Bengraduated from the Naval Academy with the netts ville. South Carolina.

The youngest son of Confederate Cavalry- Class of 1929. On graduation he served at sea man H. H. Newton Sr. and Katie McCall New- in general service assignmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;battleships, ton, he entered the Naval Academy from destroyers and auxiliary shipsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;before qualifySouth Carolina. He was discharged from the ing as a naval aviator and assignment to a carAcademy at the end of his Third Class year for rier squadron. His World War II service Inphysical reasons, and he later joined the cluded duty as Commanding Officer of FightBankers Tmst Company in their Paris. France, ing Squadron 40 and Group Commander of Air office, leaving that area only when war became Group 40. These forces served in the Solomons Imminent in Europe. Enlisting in the Army Air and then as the Island Campaign progressed, Corps, he was assigned to Officer Candidate the Group saw service In New Georgia and the School at Miami Beach and commissioned, Green Islands. He was twice awarded the Disserving as a ground officer in New Guinea. tinguished Flying Cross and six times an Air After the war he resided In the Philadelphia Medal for this wartime service. After World area for a number of years, then moved per- War II his major command al sea was the carmanendy to Daytona Beach where he was en- rier TARAWA. Ashore he served as Aide to the Commandant NAS Pensacola. as Commanding gaged In several business enterprises.

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Officer of NAF Hololulu, and several times in the Department of the Navy, Washington. Just prior to his retirement In 1957 he was assigned to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. He is survived by his widow. Sarafan. 4259 Vacation Lane, Arlington VA 22207.

WILLUM BRIGHAM MOORE '30 Capt. William Brigham Moore USN (Ret.) died on 13 April 1977 at his home in Santa Barbara, Califomia.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Utah, he was graduated with the Class of

1930 and proceeded to sea in WEST VIR-

GINIA, then served In PANAY on the Yangtze patrol followed by a tour In ASHEVILLE. After having attended postgraduate school with a major in ordnance, he retumed to sea but was ordered to duty at the Bureau of Ordnance shortly after 7 December 1941. In 1944 he took command of the destroyer TERRY and participated In the invasion of Iwo Jima. The ship was damaged by enemy fire in this action.

After another tour of duty at BuOrd, he placed the troop transport MAGOFRN in commission and sailed for duty in the Korean War, conveying troops and cargo from CONUS to Japan and Korea. He later served In the Atomic Energy Division at the Pentagon, then had duty at Guantanamo before being transferted to the Naval Ammunition Depot In Bangor, Washington. Upon retirement In 1960 he joined the Defense Research Laboratory of General Motors in Santa Barbara. He was a noted chef and In 1964 was one of 25 finalists from more than 50,000 male contestants In the Kaiser Foil Cookout Chaunpionshlps in Honolulu and he had also won "Chef of the West" awards from Sunset magazine.

He is survived by his widow. Vivian. 978 Cheltenham Road. Santa Barbara CA 93105, and three sons.

JAMES DORR GRANT '31 RAdm. James Dort Grant USN (Ret.) died on 4 May 1977 in San Diego. Califomia. Services were held on 6 May in the Greenwood Mortuary, followed by cremation and the scattering of his ashes at sea.

James Dorr Grant A native of Garland. Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1931. While at the Naval Academy, he was very active in sports participating in boxing, football and lacrosse.

He proceeded to sea duty from the Academy and after having served on board ship for some time, transferted to the submarine service. As Commanding Officer of the subarmire TORO during World War II he had an encounter with an American destroyer off the Japanese Island of Shikoku when the ship fired fifty-two rounds

102 at the submarine. Fortunately the submarine escaped damage. He was Commanding Officer of the reserve fleet at Stockton, Califomia, when he retired in 1959. His World War II decorations included the Navy Cross, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star on three different occasions. He was a member of the Point Loma-Mission Bay Rotary Club and the Retired Submarine Officers Association.

He is survived by five daughters, two sisters, and seven grandchildren.

ROSS GARNER LINSON '33 Capt. Ross Gamer Linson (SC) USN (Ret.) died on 15 May 1977 at the Naval Regional Medical Center In Oakland, Califomia. At his request, cremation was to take place later.

Bom in Nebraska, he attended Northwestem University for a year prior to entering the Naval Academy where he was graduated with the Class of 1933. Accepting a commission in the Supply Corps, he served in NEVADA and UTAH immediately after graduation, then joined ISABEL operating off the China Coast and in the PhiHppines. Other service on the Asiatic Station followed, whereupon he retumed to the United States for duty at the Naval Training Station at Great Lakes. After the opening of hostilities In World War 11 he joined MISSISSIPPI in the Pacific and served in her until 1944 when he was ordered to Bayonne to organize and develop the staff for a Supply Corps School. He was next ordered to duty as Executive Officer of the Supply Center at Guam and was spot promoted to the rank of Captain, one of three members of his Class so recognized during the war. Other shore duty in the States followed and in 1950 he was sent to duty with the Naval Mission in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, and was awarded that country's Legion of Merit for this service. His final active duty was at Treasure Island, San Francisco, and he was transferred to the retired list in 1956. For a time he worked as a management consultant and also as a secondary school mathematics teacher, but in 1958 he was appointed purchasing agent for the Port of Oakland. He was a frequent contributor to Shipmate and an avid bridge player.

He is survived by three sons, Capt. Robert Linson USA of German, Lawrence Linson of Seattle, Lewis Linson of LaJolla, and one daughter Joann of Bakersfield, Califomia, and a nephew, Cdr. H. Lee Hohhaus USN '58, of Annapolis, Maryland.

PAUL McCOMBS '34 LCdr. Paul McCombs USNR died on 7 May 1977 in New York City. Services were held at the Moore Mortuary in Denver, Colorado, on 17 May 1977 with interment in Fairmount, Colorado.

Bom In Denver, he was graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1934. At that time he joined the Montgomery Ward Company in New York City and later he worked for the Sharpies Specialty Company in Chicago.

He was called to active duty prior to World War II and served as a Navy preflight instmctor prior to becoming Flag Secretary for the late VAdm. John F. Shafroth USN '08 when the latter was ComCruDIv THREE In the Pacific, the first group to bombard the Japanese mainland. LCdr. McCombs was hospitalized In 1947 and later transferted to the physically retired list. He had lived in New York City since that time.

He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary A. Meyer of Denver.

WILLIAM SPOOR SAMPSON '35 Capt. William Spoor Sampson USN (Ret.) died on 20 April 1977 in Lake Califomia, Califomia. Services were held in Anderson, Califomia. on 25 April with interment In the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bmno on 26 April.

William Spoor Sampson

CECIL VERNON JOHNSON '38 Capt. Cecil Vemon Johnson USN (Ret.) died on 16 November 1975 in Sarasota, Florida. Funeral services were held in the Fort Myer Chapel on 19 November with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

A native of Richton, Mississippi, he entered the Naval Academy with an at-large appointment and was graduated with the Class of 1938. His principal duty assignments were: WicnrrA, NAS Pensacola, Commanding Officer Bombing Squadron Four, Air Officer VALLEY FORGE, Commander Carrier Air Group Four (aboard VALLEY FORGE) in the Korean Conflict, Commanding Officer All Weather Fighter Squadron Three, Commanding Officer Naval Air Station, Cecil Field, Florida, and a member of the Plans Division, Officer of Manpower, Requirements and Utilization in the Office of tlie Secretary of Defense. He joined Bombing Squadron Four in May of 1941 and served most of World War II in this squadron, eventually becoming Commanding Officer. The Squadron was based In BUNKER HILL

and ESSEX, participating in the Invasion of North Africa, operations with the British Home Fleet off Norway (1943), and the liberation of the Philippines. He was awarded the following decorations during his naval service: Navy Cross, Legion of Merit with Combat " V " , Distinguished Flying Cross, and Air Medal with two Gold Stars. He was entitied as well to wear the Presidential Unit Citation with

After having graduated with the Class of 1925 he was assigned for two years to OKLAHOMA, then took flight training at Pensacola and was designated naval aviator. At the outbreak of World War 11 he was named Flag Lieutenant and Flag Pilot on the staff of Commander Air Force, South Pacific, and as such he was the first U.S. pilot to land on the cap- stars for service in BUNKER HILL and ESSEX. tured enemy airfield at Guadalcanal in 1942. Upon retirement he served In the employ of Later that year he reported to the Department R C A for a number of years. of the Navy to serve as Aide to the late Adm. He is survived by his widow, Betty. 1514 John S. McCain USN '06, Chief of the Bureau DeLeon Drive, Sarasota FL 33580. three sons of Aeronautics and the first Deputy Chief of and three daughters, one granddaughter, a Naval Operations (Air). In mid-1944 the (then) LCdr. Sampson retumed to the Pacific as brother, Capt. James E. Johnson USN (Ret.) Commanding Officer of Patrol Bombing '34 of McLean, Virginia, and four other Squadron 106, which patrolled from Tinian, brothers and two sisters.

Iwo Jima, and Palawan (P.I.). He was awarded JAMES JOBE MADISON '39 the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Capt. James Jobe Madison USNR died in Medal with two Gold Stars for heroism and extraordinary achievement during this period and the Baptist Hospital of Memphis, Tennessee, the Commendation Medal for service as Com- on 23 October 1976. He was a vestryman of the manding Officer. After the cessation of hos- Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion. tilities he served at NATTC in Norman, Okla- Services were held at the Memphis Funeral homa, then at Memphis, Tennessee, before re- Home Poplar Chapel with interment in Memoporting to the Armed Forces Staff College in rial Park.

A native of Mississippi, he was graduated Norfolk, Virginia. This was followed by duty In BOXER as Navigator and Air Officer, then by with the Class of 1939 and after training at assignment to the staff of Naval Air Advanced New London entered the submarine service Training Command in Corpus Christi as Di- just prior to World War II. He was awarded rector of Operations and Training. He next re- the Silver Star during this period. In 1946 he tumed to the Pacific to serve as Chief Staff Of- resigned his commission and entered the asficer to Commander Fleet Air Wing 14 during phalt paving business in Memphis; among the the Korean conflict and then on the staff of commissions that he undertook was the conCommander Air Force, Pacific Fleet, followed stmction of the mnway at the Naval Air Staby a tour at the Naval War College. Service tion, Memphis. Extremely active in the conwith the Intemational Affairs Team of the Joint stmction field and the social assistance area in Chiefs of Staff for two years followed by com- Memphis, he belonged to many activities inmand of Fleet Air Wing 14 were his next as- cluding the Tennessee Asphalt Pavement Assignments and in mid-1960 he became Deputy sociation, the Mid-South Municipal Chapter of Chief of Legislative Affairs in the Department Associated General Contractors, and was presof the Navy. In 1962 he was ordered as Officer ident of Lehman-Roberts Company, chairman in Charge, Naval Biological Laboratory, Naval of the board of Memphis Stone and Gravel Supply Center, Oakland, and he was trans- Company, and a director of the National Asferted to the retired list in 1%5. He was a real- sociated General Contractors. As a civic leader tor in California for eight years, first In he was a director of the Rotary Club, die Coronado and later in Cottonwood, and he was LeBonheur Children's Hospital, and Les Passalso a member of the Kiwanis Club and the ees Rehabilitation Center, and was on the local Chambers of Commerce as well as the executive board of the Boy Scouts, by whom Shasta County Board of Realtors. he had been awarded the Silver Beaver medal.

He is survived by his widow, Dorothy, 370 He is survived by his widow, Helen, of Cot- Greenway Rd., Memphis TN 38117; two sons, tonwood CA 96002, and two sons and a daugh- a daughter, a brother and sister, and five ter. grandchildren.

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103 JOHN MARSHALL BRENNER '40 Judge John Marshall Brenner, a member of the judiciary in the Santa Clara County Superior Court for the last seven years and a leading member of the Northem Califomia legal community for the last 30 years, died on 11 April 1977 at the Stanford University Hospital. Memorial services were private.

Bom in New York City, he was taken to Califomia as a child and he entered the Naval Academy from that State with the Class of 1940. He retumed to Califomia at the end of his Third Class Year and entered Stanford, from which he was graduated in 1940. At the opening of hostilities in World War II he retumed to naval service and served for two years in naval censorship duties, then was with the Armed Guard on board merchant ships and later with the amphibious forces In the Pacific.

After the war he retumed to Stanford to obtain his law degree In 1947. establishing one of the best academic records In the law school's history. In 1970 he was appointed to the Superior Court In Califomia and was active in his judicial duties until recendy. He served as a director of the Santa Clara County Bar Association and the Palo Alto Bar Association, and he always maintained his interest in sports.

He is survived by his widow. Lois, of Los Altos CA 94022. two daughters, a brother, and one granddaughter.

with Curtiss Wright, General Electric, AVCo, Entering the Naval Academy with the Class Nortronics and 15 years at Boeing. His last po- of 1946, he was graduated on 6 June 1945 and sition was as the Southwest Regional Manager proceeded to sea in destroyer duty. After two for computer services. A great lover of the years of sea duty he resigned and retumed to Pacific Northwest, he enjoyed camping, hiking the University of North Carolina where he reand sailing and was an accomplished pilot. ceived his law degree and subsequently passed He Is survived by four daughters, Mary. the bar examination and joined his father In the Teresa, Roberta and Moira; two sons, Edward practice of law In Morehead City. He also and Charles; a brother and his parents, RAdm. served as attomey for Carteret County and for and Mrs. H.R. Delaney of Alexandria, Vir- the Morehead City Police Department. ginia. The family may be contacted through He is survived by his widow, Sarah, of 2002 Miss Teresa Delaney of 16728 SE 12th St., Bel- Shepard St., Morehead City NC 28557; his levue WA 98008. mother and a sister.

KARL OTTO MUNNINGER '45 Mr. Karl Otto Munninger died on 5 May 1977 In Albany, New York. Funeral servives were held on 9 May at St. Catherine of Siena Church with burial In Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery, Glenmont. Flowers were sent in the name of the Class of 1945.

Bom in Neuburg, Germany, he entered the Academy in 1941 and was graduated on 7 June 1944 with the Class of 1945. Submarine school followed and he proceeded to duty in the newly commissioned CHIVO. operating out of Pearl Harbor. He next attended postgraduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he received his masters degree in civil engineering and transferted from submarine duty to the Civil Engineer Corps. After service at the Boston Navy Yard and in the Public VAT CE ROBERT WANNER '44 Works Office in Spokane, he was nominated to Cdr. Vance Robert Wanner USN (Ret.) died the Naval Advance Base in Bremerhaven. on 12 May 1977 at Ft. Belvoir. Virginia. Inter- Germany. In 1953 he resigned his commission ment was in .Ariington National Cemetery on and served as a licensed professional engineer for several constmction firms. He had de16 May. A native of Flushing. New York, he had at- signed the largest prestressed bridge in the tended Queens College before receiving an ap- Westem Hemisphere, the Oneida Lake bridge pointment to the Naval Academy. Graduating near Syracuse, New York. At the time of his on 9 June 1943 with the Class of 1944. he pro- death he was owner of the Karl O. Munninger ceeded to sea at once in MISSISSIPPI, participa- Consulting Engineering firm.

A Life Member of the Naval Academy ting in the bombardments of the Gilbert Islands, and in 1944. the Marshall Islands. Sub- Alumni Association. Karl's love and devotion sequendy he took submarine training at New to the Class of 1945 was demonstrated when he London and thereafter spent 17 years In that and his wife. Peg, assumed the task of edition service. In 1950 he was ordered to the Naval and publishing the Class of 1945 Thirry-YearAcademy as an instmctor in chemistry, then After-Book In 1974.

He Is survived by his widow. Peg, of One retumed to sea. commanding the submarines Webster Ave., Albany NY 12208, two sons, ARCHERFISH and PICUDA in the Adantic. then served at Golcuk. Turkey, as submarine ad- three daughters, his father and a sister. visor to the Turkish Navy. He was assigned to the Office of Naval Research In Washington DONALD RODERICK RICHARDS '45 when transferted to the retired list In 1962 and.

Cdr. Donald Roderick Richards, USN (Ret.) with a master of science degree from George Washington University, he thereupon became died on 2 April 1977 In Sunnyvale, Califomia.

Interment was at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery executive secretary of the Military Operations Research Society In Alexandria. Virginia. He in Sunnyvale.

A native of Tulare, Califomia, Don was apwas also self-employed and held the principal pointed to the Naval Academy from Califomia patent on a large scale data handling system.

He Is survived by his widow. Susie, of 8416 and was graduated in 1944 with the Class of 1945 as a member of the 16th Company where Tenley Dr., Alexandria VA 22308, two he was active In baseball. Following a period daughters and two sons, a brother and a sister. of sea duty, he entered flight training and was subsequently designated a naval aviator. DurROBERT JOSEPH DELANEY '45 ing his active career, he attended postgraduate Mr. Robert Joseph Delaney died on 6 April school, majoring In personnel administration, 1977 of respiratory failure at the Overlake and retired as a Commander.

Hospital in Bellevue, Washington. He was He is survived by his widow, Mary Louise, buried at the Sunset Park Cemetery, Bellevue, of 735 Calico Court, Sunnyvale CA 94086. on 9 April. Flowers were sent in the name of the Class of 1945.

A Navy junior. Bob was appointed to the LUTHER HAMILTON Jr. '46 Naval Academy from the State of Minnesota Mr. Luther Hamilton Jr. died on 30 Decemand graduated in 1944 with the Class of 1945 as ber 1976 In Morehead City, North Carolina, a member of the 1st Company. He served in the city of his birth. Memorial services were the Navy as a Naval aviator until his resig- conducted on 1 January In the First United nation in March 1952 as a lieutenant. Since Methodist Church with interment in Bay View leaving the Navy, he held engineering positions Cemetery.

July-August. 1977

ROHE VESTER PENNINGTON Jr. '46 Mr. Robe Vester Pennington Jr. died on or about 18 September 1976 near Bmnswick, Georgia; he had been missing since the night of 16 September. Two persons were apprehended and charged with his murder. Memorial services were held at the First Methodist Church of Femandlna Beach, Florida, and his ashes were scattered over the Adantic Ocean off the Florida Coast.

Rohe Vester Pennington Jr. Appointed to the Naval Academy by the Secretary of the Navy from the Fleet, he was graduated with the Class of 1946 on 6 June 1945. He had served in the fleet oiler SAPELO prior to reporting to the Academy. Sea duty followed graduation and he had duty in BOISE until the ship was decommissioned, whereupon he transferted to WILKES BARRE. He later at-

tended electronics school at Treasure Island, then resigned from active duty in 1949. During the Korean War he was recalled to duty for service in WREN. At the end of this conflict he retumed to civilian life to work as an engineer, primarily In the paper industry. The holder or co-holder of 12 United States patents, one of which is the Pennington Steam Distributor currendy used by major paper mills in the Southeast, he was employed by the National Container Corporation, Condi Engineering, Simons-Eastem, and shortly before his death he had accepted a position as vice president of Fabralloy, Inc. of Femandlna Beach. He was active in church and civic affairs and has served two terms as president of the Kraftsmans Club of Rome, Georgia, where he had been presented an honorary life membership. In a eulogy read at his memorial service, his daughter Judy wrote of him: "The family will remember him for his brilliance, his op*timism, his generosity, and above aU. his great love for them."

He is survived by his widow. Martha. 3240 S. Fletcher Ave., Femandlna Beach FL 32034. two sons and two daughters, and five brothers and four sisters.

104 WILLIAM GEORGE LALOR Jr. '49 Mr. William George Lalor died in the crash of a private aircraft in McLean, Virginia, shortly after takeoff from National Airport in Washington on 28 April 1977. Three other occupants of the aircraft died as well. A memorial service was held at the Navy Chapel in Washington on 11 May. An earlier service had been held in Birmingham, Alabama, at which flowers were presented In the name of the Class of 1949.

After graduation from the Naval Academy he joined the cmiser DES MOINES as fire control division officer, and after a year at sea was selected for submarine training at Groton, Connecticut. Duty in the submarines REMORA and HARDER followed whereupon he was assigned to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission at Schenectady, New York. Here he supervised the training of enlisted personnel assigned and taking courses at Union College and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. In 1955 he was assigned to the new atomic submarine SEAWOLF and was designated qualified to

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Admiral Lalor Is a member of the Class of 1921.

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