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Shipmate ISSN 0488-6720 Executive Director W. S. BUSIK, '43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

FEATURES A Service Wife is Mostly Girl

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First Annual Alumni Golf Tournament

Executive Secretary BARRIE ISLEV-PETERSEN

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

January-February 1979

Volume 42, Number 1

Salute to our Oldest Alumni Services

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

Director of Planned Giving LAMAR W. (MARK) TUZO, '52 Commander, U . S . Navy (Retired)

Director of Publications and Editor ROY C. SMITH, III, '34 Captain, U S N R (Retired)

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Further Travels with Modoc

by Capt. Morton Sunderland USN (Ret.) The First Carrier Pilot

by Capt. Frank V. Rigler USN (Ret.)

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A Wet Cat with Seven Lives

by Cdr. Ralph H. Millsap USNR (Ret.) Bear Baiting in the Black Sea

by Capt. Cary H. Hall USN (Ret.)

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Of Anchors and Title A-1

by Capt. Ralph S. Stevens, Jr. USN (Ret.) Our Man in Edzell

by Ann Donaldson

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Editorial Assistant CORDELIA RICHARDS

Contributors' Biographies Sea Breezes 3 The Mail Boat 5 All Hands 11 Alumni Tour Dope 14 Officers and Trustees 24 Lucky Bag of Books 31 A Few Inches from the Yard

Capitol Hill 35 Navy Sports 39 Alumni Merchandise Price List Class News 44 Chapter News 100 Last Call 103 Classified Services 107

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Contributors' Biographies CAPTAIN FRANK V. RIGLER USN (RET.) Frank Rigler '23 had a year at North Carolina before entering the Academy and went to the ARIZONA after graduation. His subsequent duties were diversified, including a tour on the Asiatic Station, earning an MS degree from Harvard and, during WW II, serving on the staff of ComNAW in the Med. Subsequent to retirement he taught mathematics at Washington and Lee and at Johns Hopkins, and served on the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins. He is a frequent contributor to Shipmate and other military periodicals, usually on lesser-known facets of naval history.

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COMMANDER RALPH H. MILLSAP USNR (RET.) Ralph, a 1930 Journalism graduate of Oregon, worked as a newspaperman, in advertising and public relations before entering the electric utility field in 1938. He retired in 1973 as senior VP of Portland General Electric. Enlisted in the pre-war Naval Communicafion Reserve, he was commissioned ensign in 1937 and ordered to active duty in April 1941 as a member of the first USNR Communications course at the USNA PG School. He then served in USS RICHMOND until April 1945, when he was assigned to the commissioning crew of USS MACON. Released from active duty in September 1945, he remained active in the Reserve and was the first CO of the Portland NR Public Relations Company.

CAPTAIN CARY H. HALL USN (RET.) Cary Hall '40 graduated in time to be sunk in CALIFORNIA at Pearl Harbor. He served in COLUMBIA in the South Pacific during WW II and FRED T . BERRY in Korea, later commanded two destroyers, a DesDiv and an oiler. He retired in 1963 to become Engineering Manager, then Engineering Vice President, of Southern States, a manufacturer of heavy electrical equipment. In 1969 he became Southeastern Regional Director of HEW, over eight states, but left after a year and a half for the private practice of engineering. In 1974-75 he served as a member of the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy.

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CAPTAIN RALPH S. STEVENS, JR. USN (RET.) Ralph Stevens '39 had two years enlisted service before entering the Academy, and later served in battleships, carriers, cruisers, destroyers, attack transport, minecraft and patrol craft with five sea commands. He had one tour with the U.S. Naval Group Turkey in intelligence work and his last tour ashore was as Professor of Naval Science at New York State Maritime College. After retiring in 1959 he worked at lumbering and apple raising, but is now fully retired. He writes occasionally for motor sport publications in England and the U.S., but this is his first article in Shipmate.

MISS ANN DONALDSON Ann is no stranger to the Naval Academy. Her father is John Donaldson '44, her brother-in-law Tom Shoger '72, and she was on the Shipmate staff for three years. A 1967 graduate of Florida in Journalism and Communications, she was news analyst at the Tobacco Institute in Washington before joining Shipmate in 1970. At present she is with the John D. Lucas Printing Co. in Baltimore. Ann's love of travel and her Scottish heritage have taken her to Great Britain several times. Her 1978 visit called for a stop at Edzell to investigate the retirement activity of a certain '45er, as reported herein.

PAUL R. SCHRATZ '39 Ph.D., Capt. USN (Ret.) and former Director of International Studies at U. of Missouri, Paul served on 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 Institution. He has been a faculty member of both the Naval and National War Colleges, 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. Now he is Professor of International Affairs at the Air War College.

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 I^ublic 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.

DAVID K. KNAB David Knab '79 has been active with varsity Lacrosse as a manager for the past two years at the Academy. Prior to the Academy, he attended high school in Potomac, Maryland at the Bullis School. As of now, he is unsure of his service selection but hopes to attend postgraduate school in an attempt to receive his Master of Science. He is presently a Physical Science major with interests in the fields of Oceanography and Biological sciences.

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Lieutenant C o m m a n d e r Kathleen Byerly U S N

We've Only Just Begun . . .

"Women aboard ship? Impossible!"

"The Navy has gone mad!" "It will never work!" Such were the laments of many past and present Navy members when they got the first inkling that, yes, the Navy was going through with its ridiculous plan to put women aboard ships.

Despite the hopes of many that the whole idea would never emerge from the "too tough" basket, the plan was implemented; women have been assigned to ships, and, guess what, the Navy is still afloat. How did such a thing happen, and what is to come of it?

President Kennedy said, "One man can make a difference, and every man should try." In the problem of assigning women to ships, a few enlightened men and women made the difference. They were determined that Navy women get the same opportunities as their male counterparts, and that the Navy is preparing to meet its needs for people in the next century. Many contributed to the plan from different perspectives. Some were gophers in the laborious underground of collecting and analyzing data; some made presentations to convince the Naval leadership of the urgency in making better use of womanpower; some, at personal risk to their careers, focused attention on the issues by outside organizations such as the Congress and the courts. Still others contributed indirectly by keeping the issues alive in the media.

Despite the persistence of all who tried, there were some who simply refused to let progress stand in the way of tradition and who seriously hampered the efforts.

Fortunately, logic appears to prevail at the moment as, slowly but surely, opportunities for women have increased, culminating in the scenes witnessed on 1 November 1978, the historic day when Navy women reported aboard Navy ships legally for the first time.

Will it all end here? Do Navy women now have all they want, and all to which they are entitled? No, this is only the beginning. Women are "aboard ship" but are really not "at sea". The present "one step at a time" approach will allow women to gain experience on sea duty, limited by the nature of the vessels to which they are currently assigned. The really historic day will come when women are assigned unlimited sea duty in combatant ships and aircraft, with all the risks that such assignments entail. That day Shipmate. January-February 1979

will surely come. If it does not come as a afloat will continue to appeal to young result of an evolutionary process, it will men and women, and will, in the end, surely result from a revolutionary one, serve both the Navy and the country probably as a result of a female sailor well. seeking legislative or judicial relief from an arbitrary decision that says she can be assigned to a destroyer tender which spends most of its time beside a pier, but not to a deploying destroyer.

Will there be a surge in women applying for sea duty? Probably not. There may be Just as many women as men who do not want to go to sea. For the women who do, opportunities will be unlimited.

Female pilots will deploy with their squadrons and not remain behind; female machinist mates will get a real ship underway and not a mockup in a classroom ashore; female engineers will serve in the nuclear power program aboard submarines rather than in repetitious instructor billets ashore; and female physicians and lawyers will administer to their patients and clients anywhere in the world.

Will complete sexual integration result Lieutenant Commander Kathleen D. Byerly in problems? Of course, but they will not was commissioned in June 1966 and holds sevbe insurmountable. Leaders with the right eral firsts in her career: the first woman officer attitudes will accept the problems as chal- to serve at the Navy Space Systems Activity, lenges. Contrast the attitude of the Capthe first woman officer to serve as an aide/flag tain who threatens to retire rather than secretary to a flag officer in an operational bilcommand a ship with an integrated crew, let (Pacific Training Command). She was onehalf of the first married couple to attend the with that of the Captain who volunteers Naval War College and is the first woman Exto serve his command tour aboard an inecutive Officer of Navy Recruiting District tegrated ship, because he wants to solve New York, her current assignment. Selected those problems and make quality work.

by Time Magazine as one of 12 "Women of the Those leaders exist today. They exist in Year" in January 1976 and an outspoken advothe Executive Officer of a DD-963 class cate of women's rights, she was one of six who stated that there was no single Job on Navy women who filed (and won) the recent his ship which a female could not do, and court decision declaring unconstitutional the that he would welcome aboard any perprohibition of women going to sea based on son qualified to assist in performing the their sex. mission of his ship and in operating its super-sophisticated technology. They exist in the female Lieutenant going to Paul Schratz repliesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; her first Department Head Job afloat as Operations Officer. They exist in the LCdr. Kathy Byerly is one of the few female midshipmen attending the Naval naval officers I think of first as charming.

Academy. All are ready to accept the She is also courageous, highly intelligent, challenges that go with their positions as dedicated to the Navy and obviously a leaders of people. If we are to sell the super acfivist. In the spirit of good clean Navy to young people, especially in the fun, she has been one of the strongest extremely competitive Job market of tocritics of views expressed herein on day, positive attitudes on the part of all women in the Navy, and for this reason Navy members must prevail. was given space for a rebuttal. But this was not meant to be a point-counterpoint Young women, as well as young men, discussion. Kathy makes a good case for respond to the current recruiting theme, "Navy. It's not just a Job, it's an adven- women in the Navy, so perhaps the time ture." The adventure of unlimited oppor- has come for me to get serious on the tunity even while accepting responsibility subject. for keeping the world's greatest Navy continued on next page

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A Service Wife Is Mostly Girl A service wife is mostly girl. But there are times, such as when her husband is away and she is mowing the lawn or fixing a flat tire on a youngster's bike, that she begins to suspect she is also boy.

She usually comes in three sizes: petite, plump, and pregnant. During the early years of her marriage, it is often hard to determine which size is her normal one.

She has babies all over the world and measures time in terms of places, as other women do in years.

"It was at Leavenworth that we all had the mumps—in Tokyo, Dan was promoted . . ."

At least one of her babies was born or a transfer was accomplished while she was alone. This causes her to suspect a secret pact between her husband and the service, providing for a man to be overseas or on temporary duty at times such as these.

A service wife is international. She may be an Iowa farm girl, a French mademoiselle, Japanese doll, or an exnurse. When discussing service problems, they all speak the same language.

She can be a great actress. To heartbroken children at transfer time, she gives an Academy Award performance ("Arizona is going to be such FUN! I hear they have Indian reservations . . . and tarantulas . . . and ratflesnakes"); but her heart is breaking with theirs. She wonders if this is worth sacrifice.

An ideal wife has the patience of an angel, the flexibility of putty, the wisdom of a scholar, and the stamina of a horse.

If she dislikes money, it helps.

She is sentimental, carrying her memories with her in an old foot-locker.

One might say she is a bigamist, sharing her husband with a demanding entity called "duty." When duty calls, she becomes No. 2 wife. Until she accepts this fact, her life can be miserable.

She is, above all, a woman who married a serviceman who offered her the permanency of a gypsy, the miseries of loneliness, the frustration of conformity, and the security of love.

Sitting among her packing boxes with squabbling children nearby, she is sometimes willing to chuck it all . . . until she hears the firm steps and cheerful voice of that lug who gave her all this. Then she is happy to be . . . his SERVICE WIFE. —Author unknown.

Courtesy of Fleet Reserve Association, West Coast branch, and VAdm. Hugh H. Goodwin USN (Ret.) '22.

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(continued) I think that, as a Commanding Officer, I could accept qualified female subordinates at sea, officer or enlisted. With less conviction, I think that I could, as a Junior officer, accept subordinate service under a qualified female officer. But I also believe, if complete equality of the sexes is desired, that it will take decades to work out the sociological problems.

The question whether equality is or is not in the best interests of the service has not really been faced.

The second argument, that women are necessary in the services to make up for lack of male volunteers, is specious. We are all deeply concerned over serious problems in recruiting those "few good men." One stopgap to find qualified personnel is the widespread practice of civilian contract services in both line and staff roles. Another is the recruiting of women.

Both produce highly qualified people with a questionable function in time of war.

The real manpower problem lies elsewhere. It too, has not really been faced.

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Shipmate, January-February 1979

The Mail Boat Is the Grass Always Greener?

The Retention of Naval Aviators Since publication of our editorial on this subject in the October issue of Shipmate we have received a number of letters from former naval aviators who have taken issue with the "facts" as stated in our quotation from Commander Tapley's paper. In the interest of objectivity we offer here two representative examples of those letters, hoping that their suggestions may lead to internal measures to alleviate at least some of the reasons for the problem.

Shipmate: Your editorial in October's Shipmate concerning retention of naval aviators suggests two solutions to the present exodus of my contemporaries from active service: improving the appeal of a naval career and exploding the "myth" of greener pastures on the other side of the fence. I wish to comment upon both, from my perspective as one who has chosen to "vote with my feet", in Cdr. Tapley's description.

Improving the desirability of a naval aviation career is a superb long term treatment for the problem. We all knew about family separations and long hours when we signed up. Our faith in the Justice of the system, however, was shaken badly when our squadron heroes were passed over in the infamous 1975 LCdr. selection. We also never expected to see fighter squadron CO's forced to check on haircuts, flight Jackets and such at the main gate. By the time Mr. Zwick and his "experts" started undermining our financial security, most of us found future possibilities radically altered.

Many of my friends and classmates now flying 727's were exceptional flight instructors in the Naval Air Training Command. Unfortunately, BuPers and other policy makers within naval aviation have fostered a traditional prejudice against the TraCom Lieutenant. These seasoned professionals, who work six and seven days a week to mold the new blood of naval aviation, are treated as secondclass citizens by detailers and selection boards. How can a sharp new instructor have hope for his career potential when he watches the number one Lt. in the TraWing draw the same set of orders as tail-end charlie?

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The leadership has heard gripes from this valuable segment of the naval aviation community for years, with no perceptible response. While serving as aide to CNaTra, I watched many careerminded officers change plans as a result of lost hope for ever getting back into their respective warfare specialties. Recent changes are being instituted, but how long will they last? Permanent improvements in policy and in attitudes are the only effective measures.

Much of the RAG and fleet squadron attrition may be considered an indirect result of the political preference for certain billets rather than for job performance. If the distasteful yet educational ship's company and TraCom tours could be served without suffering professional suicide, I believe that a significant portion of my fellow airline new hires would still be on active duty in the Navy.

Cdr. Tapley's analysis of the airline career is accurate in most respects, but it hardly depicts an undesirable lifestyle, as you infer. Competition for employment is indeed keen, but naval aviators seem to be highly preferred by most major carriers. The training program is very demanding and first year pay is low, but nobody said it was going to be easy. Advancement is slow, but at age 50 or 55, you are flying a widebody Jet instead of a wide desk. The major emphasis is upon flying the airplane well, not on the next paperwork drill or short-fused directive.

As for challenge, getting 126 trusting folks to their destination safely and in comfort may not be as exciting as blowing away a Mig, but it does feel good.

I note that by the twenty year point, about half of the typical USNA class has chosen to pursue a civilian lifestyle. For the airlines, the career entry is age 32 at the latest, unlike most other civilian fields. This factor, fortified by genuine uncertainty over virtually all aspects of a future in naval aviation, has influenced many of us to leave now while we can.

Perhaps a more visionary recommendation by the Air Board would be to increase Naval Reserve billets for aviators, thereby retaining a higher percentage of the departed talent as a hedge against reduced readiness for a national emergency.

After all, the Reserve Air Wings have always demonstrated performance and safety markedly superior to fleet squadrons. This is basically due to the experi-

ence advantage represented in a reserve squadron.

Despite our various reasons for Joining the airline industry, most of us remain as concerned about national security as our more senior alumni. When the need arises, we will be proud to lend our skills and training in the required roles.

K. William Chambers, Jr. '70 Shipmate: Your editorial supposedly objectively discussing the color of grass in the civilian world, namely the airlines, is so sprinkled with fallacious ideas that it demands a reply. I sympathize with the problems of retention in the Naval Aviation community. However, attacking one of the myriad of employment opportunities available to a Naval Aviator in the civilian world does nothing to alter the problems within the Navy that led to his loss.

I would like to respond with an open letter in the format of Cdr. Tapley's: Background: I have been an airline pilot for almost 9 years and a military pilot for over 13 years. I have spent over 6 years in the training department of the airline I work for.

Fact: Cdr. Tapley is correct in saying we have many highly qualified applicants attempting to obtain each job. Fear of competition would not seem to be a valid reason to retreat from a personal goal. If the job interests you, you don't have to have a flight engineer rating on the B-727 which we operate. Our classes have approximately even distribution between those with flight engineer fickets and those without tickets. It goes without saying that the ticket in question makes a given applicant more competitive.

As in any new Job, new hires are subject to observation (much as a new Ensign is) for the first year. Even if new hires were sent to our most Junior base (which is not true), these bases would compare favorably to Sigonella, Adak, or an aircraft carrier. Additionally, the opportunity constantly exists to move at the employee's desire and not a computer card in Washington. Yes the new hire is on straight salary the first year, but so is the Ensign.

Challenge: Any profession is what you make of it. Being a Second or First Officer on an airliner can be just as challenging as counting parachutes as Aviation Equipment Officer.

Opportunity: Cdr. Tapley's example of pilots employed in 1966 Just making Captain compares favorably with a Navy career. Reading the '66 column in this issue, we note numerous officers going to PXO School. Advancement speeds would seem to be comparable on this basis.

Naval Air Reserve Opportunities: The opportunities in the Naval Reserve are not really germane to an airline career.

General: I agree totally with Cdr. Tapley that the Navy needs to keep her experienced, highly trained aviators.

Personal Opinion: Naval Aviators are obviously the cream of a highly skilled profession. This is proven by the fact that many of them easily qualify for airline careers. If they have a gripe with the Naval Service, their gripes should not be shunted aside by their superiors because these complaints have always existed.

Why not advocate changes within the Naval Aviation community which would alter the reasons aviators leave that community? When Junior Officers complain about family separation, low pay, lack of flying billets, etc. and then vote with their feet, perhaps it's time to check these symptoms of their disease.

William F. Williams, Jr. '65 This letter was written to the Alumni Association and is reprinted here as one of general interest. We are happy to add that Ensign Baker is now a Life Member.

Dear sir: I am a member of the Alumni Association, of which I am very proud.

However, I took out my membership while I was a midshipman and made the mistake of only taking it for three years.

Now I realize that I should have taken the life membership. I am a member of the Class of 1977.

If possible I would like to correct my error. Therefore, if you will please send me the necessary information and forms, I will be glad to comply. Thank you very much for your patience and assistance.

Duane M. Baker, Jr. '77 More Sets of Three Midshipmen Brothers Shipmate: I must disagree with the item in the October Shipmate dealing with the three Reese brothers, mentioning that this was the first time three brothers have attended the Academy at the same time.

(Ed. note—We carefully qualified that statement as being "within the memory of the USNA Registrar." ) My former roommate, Mike Kranz was inducted in the Class of 1977 along with his brother Gary. At the same time, their older brother Rick was in the Class of 1974. Although Gary resigned after plebe year, Mike and Rick graduated and each is doing very well.

Jim Mclsaac '77 Shipmate: We three Bemet brothers were together at USNA for the academic year

1925-26; Ed '26, Howdy '29 and I '27.

We were last together in the service during WW II; Ed a LCdr. USNR, Howdy a Capt. USN and I a Cdr. (SC) USN (Ret.). We were together for the last time at Ed's memorial service in Dallas in 1974.

Best wishes to the Reese brothers and to all our classmates.

John Bernet '27 A Pearl Harbor Question Shipmate: On Sunday 7 December 1941 at about 0730 a newsboy on his regular rounds delivering the Washington Post to apartments in the Broadmoor, 3601 Connecticut Avenue, noticed something new: an armed U.S. Marine sentry stood in front of the apartment door of the Japanese Naval Attache.

My review of the muster rolls of the Marine units in Washington for December 1941 shows that no such assignment had routinely been made. Obviously it was an emergency special detail. Why? During the wee hours of 7 December Navy Secretary Knox, General George Marshall, Admiral Harold Stark and Harry Hopkins were closeted with the President, as revealed by Knox in midDecember 1941 to his long-time friend and fellow publisher James Stahlman, then a USNR commander on duty in Washington, and as passed on to me by Stahlman.

Knox had told Stahlman that they were awaiting the attack they were certain was coming that morning as a result of the intercepted 14-part message from Tokyo, which evidently set the time.

Nobody in the U.S. Marine Corps was a party to the very closely held "Ultra", the information derived from the broken Japanese code messages. The order to spot the Broadmoor Marine could have emanated only from central authority which expected an imminent attack, and one that would arouse violent public reaction. (Grave incidents in the Atlantic "undeclared war" had left the American people cold.) The Marine scarcely would have been put there to prevent the Japanese attache escaping; he was there to protect him.

Did FDR & Co. know about Pearl in advance? The circumstantial evidence is piling up piece by piece. Can anybody out there help?

(The newsboy menfioned above is now a highly responsible senior citizen.)

Kemp Tolley '29 A Venturesome Gal Shipmate: During a recent visit to Annapolis my wife and I rummaged through an antique shop on Maryland Avenue. At the bottom of a pile of old books we found a copy of the 1905 Lucky Bag, which we bought for the princely sum of

$5. I was quite pleased to learn that Admiral Nimitz was listed as a member of '05 and also to find the following letter that we'd like to share with alumni: Please, kind sirs, if there are two tickets for the Army-Navy game what ain't workin', will you send them to a little girl (of 19 or so, especially the "or so") what wants to go to that game awful bad?

Two former cadets at your Academy who sent me tickets year before last told me that Paines Celery Compound was good for the nerves. I took seven consecutive bottles before I could muster courage to write this.

But then, I says to myself, "Nothing venture, nothing have." Besides, I know that you are not so hard-hearted as to let a poor "orphan" weep real weeps just because she can't go to the game—especially as she is a "really and truly, black and bluely, lay me down and cut me in twoly. Navy girl."

With best wishes for my success in this venture, I am.

Yours for the Navy, (Miss) F.J.W. P.S. How's the goat?

Now that's what I call Navy spirit!

Gerry Motl '68

A Gushing Postscript Shipmate: I much enjoyed the "Albemarle" Gushing article in the October issue for I've always been a great admirer of his, considering his sinking of the ALBEMARLE right in the tradition of Nelson at St. Vincent, Decatur and the PHILADELPHIA, and Hobson and the MERRIMAC.

When I was on duty at the Academy in 1931 it fell to my fortunate lot one weekend to escort two elderly ladies through the Naval Academy Museum, then much crowded into part of the basement of Maury Hall. They were Cushing's daughters, or maybe granddaughters, but in any case very much part of the family and justly proud of him. We had a delightful visit. They had with them and showed me an officer's cap device which had been Cushing's. It was solid metal, very much like the miniatures we wore on "fore-and-aft" caps. I don't remember whether or not they intended to present it to the Museum—perhaps eventually, because I don't believe they could bear to part with it while they lived.

Jack Kennaday '24 Fleet Admiral Halsey Shipmate: The two articles about Fleet Admiral Halsey in the September issue prompt me to write of my close personal relationship with that great man. Admiral Halsey was bom in Elizabeth NJ, also my home town, and both of my parents' families knew his family well; in fact, my father was his third cousin. During my active career he and I kept popping up in the same places: in the WYOMING, at Annapolis, Bremerton, Guam, Washington and New York. He always seemed glad to see me and was extremely pleasant.

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While I had command of the New York Naval Shipyard prior to his death in August 1959, I saw the Admiral quite often both at the Yard and in New York and noted his declining health. I especially remember that he came to the christening of the INDEPENDENCE ( C V A - 6 2 ) in June '58 and enclose a picture of him taken on his arrival at the Yard for that event. It may be the last picture taken of him.

I shall always cherish my long association with Admiral Halsey, an American naval officer of inspiring stature.

Schuyler Pyne '25

Save the MISSOURI

Lucky Bags Available

Shipmate: Recenfly I received a letter from a member of the USS MISSOURI Association who had attended their 1978 reunion in Kansas City and also the 4 July 1976 reunion aboard the ship at Bremerton. After commenting on her deplorable condition today, he wrote: The Association is in the process of formulating plans to obtain the ship and have her moved to Patriot's Point at Charleston SC where she could be set up as a memorial for all to see. Patriot's Point is in the process of developing a superior naval museum, already having procured USS YORKTOWN, and they have expressed a very deep interest in adding the USS MISSOURI. In November all members of the Association are writing to their Representatives and Senators requesting that something be done to preserve the ship for future generations and suggesting that Patriot's Point would be an ideal spot to memorialize such an historical reminder of World War II. They've memorialized the USS ARIZONA as a reminder of the beginning, why not the MISSOURI as a reminder of our country's final victory.

Why not, indeed?

Allan E. Smith '15

Shipmate: I have three Lucky Bags, 1918, 1919 and 1927, that I would be very glad to give to anyone interested. My address is 15002 Eardley Court, Silver Spring MD 20906.

Clare E. (Mrs. Charles) Wootten Shipmate: Please advise alumni that one copy each of the Lucky Bag for '33, '34 and '35 are available for the asking.

Requested are copies of Registers of Midshipmen '32 through '37.

M.M. Nohrden '36, Col. USMC (Ret.) 7401 Eastmoreland Road Annandale VA 22003

First Annual Alumni Golf Tournament Planning is in its final stages and implementation will commence very shortly to provide a series of USNA Alumni Golf tournaments leading up to final championship matches to be conducted at the Naval Academy Golf Course on 20 and 21 September 1979 (just prior to Homecoming 1979).

Through the golf tournaments it is hoped to increase interest in the Alumni Association at the local level. Additionally, our objective is to raise funds which will be earmarked for support of the USNA golf teams so they may broaden the radius of their competition throughout the country.

The tournaments will be self supporting. Planning and conduct of tournaments will be decentralized, delegation of responsibility to the local association level

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being the key. Local associations have been grouped into seven geographical regional divisions: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest, South/Gulf and Central.

First, USNA Alumni Association Golf Tournaments will be held at the local association level. Winners and runners-up will progress to regional tournaments.

Regional winners and runners-up will then compete in the National finals at the Naval Academy Golf Course as part of Homecoming 1979. All tournaments will consist of thirty-six (36) holes of Medal Play, flighted by handicap with no handicaps within flights. Flight divisions by handicap will be made as follows: (0-6) (7-10) (11-14) (15-18) (19 and over). This will permit play at all levels of skillâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so we look forward to all of our "sweet swingers" becoming involved.

Letters are out to all local associations giving more details and encouraging participation. Local tournament directors and assisting committees will be required.

When local tournament directors have been named, a consolidated list of directors within each regional division will be published in order to permit coordination within regions and also to let all of you interested golfers know where you can sign up.

The entire tournament program will be coordinated at Association headquarters in Annapolis by Bill Morrow '42 as National Golf Tournament Director and Larry Ringer, USNA Golf Professional/ Golf Coach, as coordinating Golf Professional.

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Salute to Our Oldest Alumni At the beginning of the New Year, the Naval Academy Alumni Association takes great pleasure and pride in saluting the ten oldest living alumni.

According to Alumni House records, those "top ten" are: Name and address VAdm. Walter S. Anderson USN (Ret.) Wisconsin Avenue Nursing Home 3333 Wisconsin Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20016 Capt. Earl Roop Shipp USN (Ret.) The Sequoias, 1400 Geary Blvd., Apt. 810 San Francisco CA 94109 Mr. Edward Bragg Sherman Arnold Nursing Home 701 South 11th Street St. Joseph MO 64503 Capt. Leo Francis Welch USN (Ret.) Pen Craig Place & Harrison Ave. Newport RI 02840 LCdr. John W. DuBose USN (Ret.) 4500 Davenport St. N.W. Washington DC 20016 Capt. Clyde Russell Robinson USN (Ret.) 107 Scott Drive, Wardour Annapolis MD 21401 Mr. Lorenz William Carstensen Casa de Manana, 849 Coast Boulevard La Jolla CA 92037 Capt. Ralph Chandler Parker USN (Ret.) c/o Adm. R.C. Parker, Jr. USN (Ret.) 73 So. Main St., Pittsford NY 14534 LCdr. Charies Clifford Windsor USN (Ret.) 4201 Cathedral Ave. N.W. Washington DC 20016 Capt. William Faulkner Amsden USN (Ret.) Whittier Road Jamestown RI 02835

Class 1903

Hearty congratulations are also extended to the ten next oldest living alumni, who are:

Class

Name and address Cdr. John Campbell Latham USN (Ret.) 141 East 55th Street New York City NY 10022

1908 Born 4-22-1885

Born 10-4-1881 1905

1908

Maj. Walter Smith USA (Ret.) 90 Caledonia St. Santa Cruz CA 95062

Born 7-22-1885

Born 2-7-1883 1904

Born 11-12-1883 1906 Born 2-6-1884 1908 Born 2-11-1884 1907 Born 4-6-1884 1906 Born 5-14-1884 1907 Born 5-22-1884 1907 Born 5-31-1884 1907

RAdm. Abel T. Bidwell USN (Ret.) 116 Berkeley Square Suffern NY 10901 Capt. Charies M. James USN (Ret.) 11733 Ninth Avenue Seattle WA 98177 Mr. Haller Belt The Hermitage, 5000 Fairbanks Ave. Alexandria VA 22311

1908 Bom 9-19-1885 1908 Bom 10-24-1885 1908 Bom 11-26-1885 1909

Mr. Espy Stanton 3600 Fulton Street East Grand Rapids MI 49506

Born 2-4-1886 1909

Capt. Paul H. Rice USN (Ret.) 523 So. Hudson Street Pasadena CA 91106

Born 5-4-1886 1908

Cdr. Abner M. Steckel USN (Ret.) 4500 Lake Road, Bay Point Miami FL 33137 Capt. Laurence S. Stewart USN (Ret.) 595 Washington Road Rye NH 03870

Born 6-4-1886 1908 Born 6-17-1886 1909

Capt. Robert R. Paunack USN (Ret.) 6351 Judkins Drive Pensacola FL 32504

Born 7-4-1886

Born 9-8-1884

"There is a true honor and a true glory; the honor of integrity and the glory of duty done."

Robert E. Lee Shipmate, January-February 1979

Further Travels witli Modoc Captain Morton Sunderland U S N (Ret.)

India, Calcutta to Madras Getting a plane out of Hong Kong in tourist season after a typhoon is not easy, but British Air Lines took us to Calcutta with speed and style, what with wine stewards in crisp white jackets, and so on. Say goodbye to speed and style at Calcutta. The airport was hot and dirty, the taxi old and tired and minus all its instruments, the driver made numerous stops to buy two cigarettes or three matches and the hotel had been last spmced up for Rudyard Kipling in 1878!

Calcutta is everything you may have read about it: hot, humid, crowded, decaying, dirty, dusty, and generally unfit for human habitation. Of course the luxury hotels are excellent, as are the better stores and apartments. But for 90% of the people life is miserable. The decrepit old busses and trams stagger along with people hanging on all over the outside.

The sidewalks are broken, and so filled with humanity and stray sacred cows that progress was almost impossible.

A man lay dying on the sidewalk outside our hotel but the passing crowd paid no heed, merely dividing to avoid stepping on him. Presumably someone would remove the body when he finally died, which I would guess would be within a day. Of course he was old; at least fifty.

So, let's get out of here! The plan was a train to Puri, some 200 miles down the coast, so off to the booking office we went.

The booking office opened at 9, but by 8:30 the folding gates across the doors were plastered with people waving reservations, and struggling to get in. This horde baffled the few Europeans waiting, but a kind clerk took us into a private office and dealt quietly with us. Yes, there was a train to Puri; perhaps we could go at 8 that night, the fare would be Rupees 86.25. I had Rupees 87, but the change had to be exact, and the whole process ground to a halt for lack of a quarter rupee (about 4 cents U.S.). Finally a French backpacker lent me the money and a ticket was issued.

We spent the day in the stifling heat seeing some miserable slums, the muddy Hoogly river, and having an expensive Shipmate. January-February 1979

drink in a plush hotel. Then a taxi across the mighty Hoogly bridge at evening rush hour! Formidable and awe inspiring, an absolute chaos of people, tmcks, cars, bicycles, taxis, busses and cows Jammed curb to curb. Same at the station entrance, and a fierce stmggle to carry our own baggage. In the vast stafion hall, wall to wall people. Families camped there, apparently for weeks. People, bags, animals and children in more than oriental confusion.

Our train was a disaster. There was nothing first class about it; a noisy, dirty, dilapidated iron box with two narrow slippery plastic seats. There were holes in the ceiling, the fans didn't work, the windows rattled, there was no bedding or comfort of any kind. We survived the night.

Puri is a sacred Hindu city of 100,000 at the end of a branch line at the sea. Transport is by pedal rickshaw; a ten minute ride is 2 cents for a Hindu, 5 cents for a foreigner!

We chose the government Tourist Bungalow. A very plain room and bath overlooking the beach was a dollar per person, with meals separate in the rather simple restaurant. A simple breakfast was fifty cents, lunch a bit more, dinner a dollar.

The beach was clean white sand, 100 yards wide, 10 miles long, and deserted!

Nearby were mins of Victorian beach mansions, apparenfly built 75 years ago by the British, now abandoned and falling to pieces.

Having carefully avoided the Railroad Hotel, because it sounded so grim, we nevertheless walked over to see it. Surprise! It was a veritable jewel, a spic and span and polished jewel left over from the days of the Raj! Five course dinner, impeccably served, $2.50 per person!

Leaving, we took the tourist bus that visited numerous temples, a zoo, some mosques, and finally left us off in Burbaneshwar for the train south. Very elegant, in theory. But the bus was ancient; doors held closed by blocks of wood, wires draped everywhere and every inch crammed with large devout Hindus. We made every temple for miles, but we for-

eigners couldn't enter and were left outside at the mercy of the beggars. But the big temple at Konark was impressive (even if the erotic sculptures were not up to Playboy standards!).

Burbaneshwar was a surprise, quite a clean modern city contrasted to the squalor of Calcutta and the backwardness of Puri. And the rail clerk was understanding and booked us on the midnight express for Madras.

Ever try a retiring room? We had six hours to wait, but the station rented us a huge room and huge bath for $2. So we bathed and napped 'til train time in a very civilized manner indeed.

And the train was better; a decent first class compartment which we shared with two Hindu gentlemen, much to their constemation. Both were rail employees travelling on passes and rather confused to be thrust in with Europeans. But we got along fine, and they helped us to order food from the waiter who came by.

The food was ample but very spicy, brought to the compartment in a segmented tray. We ate what we could but later wished we hadn't after seeing the train kitchen. This was a huge, sooty car, with great kettles boiling over roaring wood fires, tended by many cooks, barefooted and stripped to the waist, who scurried around filling the trays, sweating and shouting.

Never arrive at Madras at 8 P.M. on a rainy evening! The tourist office is closed, the crowds are huge, the confusion overwhelming, the noise tremendous. Fortunately we found some German hikers who gave us a map, found a taxi (no windshield wipers, no instmments, windows gone) that took us to a fine modern hotel. They hardly looked askance at our bedraggled clothes and backpacks (hikers are everywhere nowadays) and the baths, beds, and other luxuries really were wonderful! But the price was also very modern, so next day we moved to a simpler but very good hotel at half the price.

Madras is a pleasant city, crowded of course, but more cheerful than Calcutta, more trees, good beaches, pleasant people.

Transport problems! The trains change

10 to narrow gage here for the southern 500 miles of India. The schedules to the south are inconvenient; we will fly to Sri Lanka. But Air Ceylon has collapsed and other flights are full. We finally book via Trivannum (where our baggage sits in the rain waiting a customs inspector who never came!), and so we leave India.

Sri Lanka, Singapore, Bali Fabled Ceylon is now Sri Lanka but the charm and beauty remain. The English have gone but their tea plantations and their customs linger, charmingly if diluted.

A new modern airport 20 miles from town, no public transport, taxis $5 and not available! But a traffic controller who is moonlighting (on company time?) takes us in for the same price.

Columbo is an old colonial city struggling to cope with population pressure and modern traffic. Our modest hotel has room and bath, plus balcony overlooking the ocean, for $12. Plain and a bit run down. Also overlooks the train tracks where commuter trains come in with humanity draped over every door and ledge.

Dinner at the Galle Face Hotel, a grand old relic of colonial days. Gardens with palms down to the sea, broad terraces with polished brass rails, vaulted ceilings and polished marble floors, barefoot waiters in turbans and cummerbunds. A fine dinner well served in charming ambiance for $5 (and well worth it).

No self drive cars for people over 65!

But when we saw the mad traffic, the narrow roads, the swarms of people and animals, we were Just as glad. A car and driver cost 1314 U.S. cents a mile (after some haggling) plus a dollar a day driver's lodging.

A beautiful island, green and lush.

Hordes of people on the flat lands, miles of tea plantations over the hills. The people are smiling and friendly, poor but have enough to eat. Many strange birds, and even some elephants moving logs at a saw mill.

Up the hills to Nurelia-eleya, a big tea plantation center. The rocky red-earthed hills are covered with row after row of tea bushes, with women in colorful rain capes (of plastic nowadays!) clipping off the leavesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the plantations were seized by the govemment some years ago and have local managers now. Some look well mn, others not.

But the rains came, and our planned hike in the cool hills became a soggy huddling under the balconies of a rundown crowded little country town. And the Grand Hotel was far from grand! I am sure it was once, a hundred years ago.

but little has been done since. It is large, gloomy, damp and cold, with the guests huddled around a couple of small fires.

Our room likewise, from rattling window to sagging wardrobe to ragged carpet.

Surprise! A good dinner at the Hill Club, former gathering place of the British tea planters that has passed down through good management to maintain its former standards. Drinks are at U.S. prices but the dinner is reasonable and excellent, the whole place clean, warm, and well run. Reluctantly we gird for the weather, only to find our driver has come for us! And so to a cold, clammy bed!

The rains and fog continue as we wend around the endless mountains toward Kandy. Tea, tea, tea everywhereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it's been a good year for tea, so everyone is happy! Roads in the hills narrow and winding, in the flats narrow and congested, with our driver nonchalantly doing 40 only inches away from men, women, children, dogs, donkeys and bullock carts! Fortunately, the horn works well, and we spill no blood.

Kandy is teeming, bursting, overflowing! It's the annual religious festival of Perahera and the town has swelled from 50,000 to 150,000. It's wall to wall people, and huge bleachers set up to see the spectacle. We buy tickets for $7 apiece; and are directed to a new and excellent motel on a hill outside town. A nice place, rooms increased for the festival to $20, but good meals and quiet as no place in town was.

The parade was two hours late starting.

Maybe the elephants were tired, this being the sixth day of it. But it was fabulous; torch bearers escorting the marchers tumblers, fire eaters, dancing groups, idols, bejewelled maharajas, 69 richly bedecked elephants with turbaned riders and holy relics in the howdahs. A spectacle of more than oriental splendor. And a huge crush walking home, during which some villain stole my glasses (may his eyes squint and hurt through all the 99 levels of purgatory!).

Trincomalee is not much since the British navy left. A sleepy little town, but we found a fine modern beach resort 10 miles out. Enjoyed warm water, white sands, palm trees, and topless bathers!

The ancient cities quite impressive, being the relics of a former great civilization. Climbed the great rock of Sigirya by somewhat shaky hand grips with 500 feet of empty air below. Also Polonnaruwa and Anuradhapura: vast fields of ruins of ancient cultures a thousand years ago.

Back to Columbo to find our onward tickets in disarray with no word on flights to Bali and Australia. Messages go by

way of Bangkok and vivid confusion sets in! Sent a personal cable to Singapore and left town for Negombo, a beach resort near the airport. Standard taxi fare $8, but haggling the day before will get you a taxi waiting for you for $4! That's probably a week's wages, anyhow.

Negombo is a quiet fishing village invaded by a half dozen modem hotels, and not quite adjusted to it all. Nice beach that is the village garbage heap, and also the rich foreigners' sunning place! The surf is marked as dangerous by many black flags but is very mild and would not be difficult for a ten year old. A pleasant place, though.

Ordered a special wedding anniversary dinner which arrived with lobster, flaming baked alaska, and a tall table decoration made of palm leaves! Also a rather monumental bill!

Singapore Air Lines fine and Singapore a splendid busy place, the cross-roads and financial center of southeast Asia.

Tremendous bustle, great clean modern public housing, busy traffic, 100 ships in harbor. And clean; $500 fine for littering, and enforced! All hotels full so we ended in a mn-down but well located place where the price was right, about one third that of the big fancy hotels along Orchard Road. City busses are fine and cheap.

Raffles Hotel still clings to its faded glory, but the dinner and folk dance show are not worth the price (atmosphere is expensive!).

Bali is beautiful and all that the travel folders promise! We stayed at Kuta Beach, a little village five miles from the airport, and loved the quiet informality of it. Our hotel was a gem with a fine garden full of orchids; our room with balcony decorated with copies of ancient sculptures, a nice pool, and the lobby in a huge thatched building. Price $18 for two, room and bath, no meals. We ate around the town, with the barefoot hippies, in the various little restaurants around. Safe food, but don't even think about drinking the water! There was a fine beach and lots of friendly vendors of food, batiks, carvings, massages, fruit, native hats, coconuts, and what have you! We were the only grey heads and the only people with shoes on, in the town! However, Denpassar, the provincial capital, is flat and dull and the big hotels at Sannar Beach are expensive and feature canned luxury.

Now we leave Asia for Australia, leave the ancient for the new, leave the crowded for the empty, leave the Orient for the western world. The contrast will be startling.

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All Hands

Annual Report Addendum To date, one error and four omissions have been discovered in the Annual Report for FY 1978. The four donors inadvertently omitted were: Capt. Philip R. Osbom USN (Ret.) '29 BGen. Walfried H. Fromhold USMC (Ret.) '30 RAdm. Charles C. Kirkpatrick USN (Ret.) '31 Cdr. A. Wayne Hickman USNR-R '62 We appreciate their support and are most happy to acknowledge it.

The error was in the listing of the top ten classes in terms of dollars contributed. The fourth entry should read "1940" vice "1941". Well done to the only 4.0 class.

Classes of '27 and '49 Dedicate Windows Those who have not visited Bancroft Hall in recent years may be surprised to leam that there are now two small prayer chapels for use by midshipmen. Located on the main deck behind the steps to Memorial Hall, Protestant Chapel to port and Catholic Chapel to starboard, the L-shaped rooms are furnished with altars and chairs. There are two three-by-five foot windows in each. These chapels, open at all times, are in constant use by midshipmen.

On its graduation the Class of 1977 presented a stained glass window to the Naval Academy for the Protestant Chapel in memory of a Classmate, Rodney A. Vessels, who had died while a midshipman. Noting this gift, three wives of 1927 who were serving on the Naval Academy Chapel Alter Guild suggested that the Class fill the remaining window with a suitable stained glass memorial. At the same time, others were preparing to do the same for the Catholic Chapel.

A committee headed by Parker Fairlamb '27, with members Ellen Eckberg, Rebecca McClaughy and Ellen Tooke, ably assisted by Barbara Fairlamb, undertook the project with the appoval of the Class Executive Committee, which approved untilizing funds remaining from the '27 50th reunion for this purpose.

On 14 October 1978 in Memorial Hall, the installed window was presented to Shipmate, January-February 1979

Rear Admiral William P. Lawrence, USN, Superintendent, by Admiral C D .

Griffin, USN (Ret.) '27 in the presence of many classmates and their wives. The impressive ceremony closed with a litany led by Captain R.W. Bedingfield, CHC, USN, senior Protestant Chaplain.

The 1927 Window

The 1949 Window

The theme of the window, selected by the committee, was inspired by the Gospel account of Jesus calming the waters (Mark 4:35-41), standing in the bow of the tiny fishing craft and facing the stormy seas. The inscription reads: "He Said Unto The Sea, Peace, Be Still." The dedication reads: "To all midshipmen, past, present, and future."

On 29 October 1978, a window in the Catholic Cahpel was dedicated to the memory of Cdr. Thomas J. Donoher, CHC, USN. Father Tom Donoher, a member of the Class of 1949, served in the Supply Corps for sixteen years before becoming a priest of the Catholic Church.

He then entered the Navy Chaplain Corps, serving his last four years at the Naval Academy, where he died in July 1977. His devotion to the Navy, to the Naval Academy, and to the Brigade of Midshipmen was evident throughout his life. Toward the end, despite ill health and constant suffering, he was on duty and ministered to the needs of Midshipmen at all hours.

At the request of RAdm. Lucien P. Capone, Jr., USN, President of the Class of 1949, RAdm. Ralph Murphy, SC, USN headed the memorial window project.

Members of the class contributed the necessary funds.

Father Donoher had a strong devotion to Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, whose two sons, William and Richard, served as

midshipmen in the U. S. Navy. It is most fitting, then, that the window depicts Mother Seton standing on Federal Hill overiooking Baltimore Harbor, looking out to sea, praying for her sons. The USS CYANE is also displayed prominently because both her sons served aboard that vessel. The dedication reads "In memory of Cdr. Thomas J. Donoher, CHC, USN; 1925-1977; Thou Art a Priest Forever; Gift of 1949 Classmates."

The window was presented to the Superintendent by RAdm. Capone, and was blessed by RAdm. John J. O'Connor, CHC, USN, Chief of Chaplains.

Both windows were designed by Gibbons of Baltimore and fabricated in Holland from hand-blown glass imported from France and Germany.

In each case the classes utilized the good offices of the Alumni Association to accomplish their goals. Many persons contributed to the success of these efforts, including members of the classes, two Superintendents, the Chaplains, Captain Bill Busik, and Commander Mark Tuzo, who coordinated the projects.

Arthur Stuart Pitt Shipmate regrets to announce the death of Professor Pitt on 20 November 1978 in Annapolis from a heart attack. A retired lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve, he was the first Chairman of the English Department under the Academy's revised academic structure.

Dr. Pitt received three degrees from Yale and taught at Lafayette before Joining the Academy faculty in 1941, then spent three years on active service in World War II. He was the author of the completely revised edition of Kendall Banning''s Annapolis Today and his scholarly articles on Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville and Civil War history were highly respected. For many years he was in charge of the Academy's cultural affairs program and also contributed musical criticism to the Annapolis Evening Capital.

We have lost a valued friend.

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Academy Cited for Computer Uses

John Paul Jones Honored in Scotland

Following a survey of 7,000 agencies and institutions by the Human Resource Research Organization, the Naval Academy has been selected as an "exemplary" facility in use of computers and listed among only 21 in the nation to serve as "case studies for academic computing."

The Academy was selected in five of six categories, including such areas as student and faculty use of computers, the variation of computer application, the volume of available data and others.

Since 1969 all midshipmen have been required to take courses in the use of computers. This year 100% of the mids and about 65% of the faculty are involved in computer-related instmction. Besides science and engineering, midshipmen use computers in such courses as ethics, policy, strategy, doctrine and tactics as well as in simulated war games.

In addition to academics, computers are being used more and more in administration. Student registration, for example, used to involve more than 75 staff and faculty members. Since 1975 the mids have punched in their own registrations twice each year in a process that takes ten minutes and involves only four staff.

In Dumfries, Scotland, not far from the Kirkudbright birthplace of John Paul Jones, is the County Hotel. It was established in 1804 by a Jones niece with $700 of the estate settlement finally made by the U. S. Govemment. Some time ago, at the suggestion of an alumnus who had visited there, the Alumni Association presented the hotel with a reproduction of the Cecilia Beaux portrait of John Paul Jones that hangs in Memorial Hall at the Academy. Mr. Donald MacLachlan, coproprietor, then located a print of the Montague Dawson painting, "Catch Me Who Can", depicting one of Jones' earlier bmshes with the Royal Navy.

The two reproductions now hang in one of the main lounges, redesignated as the John Paul Jones Room. The photograph shows various members of the press admiring the portrait at the reception that marked the room's dedication.

Energy Saving at the Academy An isolated computer room overlooking the chilled water plant is the nerve center of the Naval Academy's Energy Monitoring and Control System, a computercontrolled complex of pipes, blowers, fans and dials that has saved both fuel and dollars in the past two years.

Despite more air conditioned buildings, a hotter summer and increased fuel costs, the Academy spent $80,000 less on cooling in the summer of 1977 than the year before. Because of still higher fuel costs and a much colder winter, EMCS did not produce lower heating costs than in the 1976-77 period, but estimates are that those costs would have been $298,000 higher had EMCS not been on the line.

The operation involves two basic steps.

The first is monitoring energy use in line with established norms, which includes a continuous computer readout on system efficiency and alarms to indicate malfunctions. The second is control of consumption by various means such as automatic shutoff when buildings are unoccupied, regulating building temperatures and altemating the use of fans and air conditioners.

The savings of $378,000 resulted from an initial expenditure of $316,000. In the next three years EMCS will save enough for additional modifications and expansion of the system.

^SS HOlLAlvo

Lord Louis presenting the Battenberg Cup

various naval commands and then disappeared. In 1968, when Director of the Navy Memorial Museum in Washington, your Editor tracked the cup down to a back storeroom at NOB Norfolk and rescued it for display in the Museum.

Now it has been restored to competition, but not for cutter racing. Its award is now made to that ship of the Atlantic Fleet whose crew has most distinguished itself through outstanding performance in battle efficiency competition and other categories of operations, administration and leadership.

The first winner of the Battenberg Cup on the new basis was USS HOLLAND, the Holy Loch submarine tender. Most appropriately, it was presented by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Louis Mountbatten.

USNA Alumnus Heads U.S. Commission for Maritime History The Battenberg Cup Old-timers who remember the excitement of fleet cutter races for the Battenberg Cup in bygone years will be glad to hear that the old cup has been put back into competition.

The cup was presented to the enlisted men of the Atlantic Fleet in 1905 by RAdm. Prince Louis of Battenberg, father of Lord Loius Mountbatten, to express the Royal Navy's appreciation of the hospitality and friendship shown to the squadron he commanded on a goodwill visit to the East Coast that year. Since he requested that it be made a challenge cup, RAdm. Robley D. Evans, commanding the Atlantic Fleet, established the Battenberg Cup as the winning trophy for fleet cutter races. The Battenberg and later the Seattle Times Cup became two of the key factors in determining the winner of "The Iron Man," the fleet trophy for all-around athletic excellence.

The WEST VIRGINIA was the last winner of the Battenberg Cup, in 1940, for the races were abandoned with the outbreak of WW II. When she was decommissioned in 1947 the cup was displayed at

For many years the Intemational Commission for Military History has met every five years in association with the Intemational Congress of Historical Sciences, and frequently in between. It has included various European national commissions but there had been no organizational participation by America or Canada. At a meeting at Salem, Mass., in April 1977 a United States secretariat was organized, with the blessing of the International Commission, and officers were subsequently nominated. President is Capt. Paul B. Ryan USN (Ret.) '36, of the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford; Vice President is Benjamin Larabee, Director of the Munson Institute at Mystic, Conn.; and the Secretary is Harold Langley of the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology in Washington.

Proposals are invited for papers to be presented at the 1980 intemational conference in Bucharest, on the theme "The Seaman in Society: Social Environment of Seafaring, Afloat and Ashore". Those interested should contact one of the officers.

Shipmate, January-February 1979

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BUI XXI Safely Returned

Tingey House

SURCOUF and the Royal Navy

The Army did succeed in getting the Navy's goat when a cadet snatched our Bill off to a farm near Cooperstown NY, mn by a former Army sergeant whose fair daughter was dating the cadet. But all was discovered in good time, the cadet was duly restricted and Bill XXI brought home to the Academy all hot to trot for the Army game. Bill hasn't commented on his sojourn with the Army but, from the results of the game, it would seem that someone didn't appreciate it.

Meanwhile, the Mohair Council of America, in San Angelo TX, arranged to provide a replacement. Bill XXII was delivered to Dyess Air Force Base, picked up by a Marine transport flying to Cherry Point, and trucked from there to Crabtown. Seeing him off at Dyess were BGen. Dennis Sullivan USAF '50 and Col. Robert May, Jr. USAF '54, Commanders of the 12th Air Division and 96th Bomb Wing. That's real interservice cooperation.

Recently Tingey House, located in the Washington Navy Yard and the Commandant's quarters since 1804, was designated the official residence of the CNO. A group of concemed and interested civilians has been formed whose aim is, through donations, to fumish the public rooms of the house in the style of its period, making it a suitable and distinguished residence for our Chiefs of Naval Operations. "The Friends of Tingey House", chaired by Mrs. Jerauld Wright and Mrs. J.L. Holloway III has among its members Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. John Nicholas Brown, Mrs. Thomas Gates, Mrs. Thomas McClellan, the Hon. J. William Middendorf II and Mrs. J.M.P. Wright.

Any alumni interested in further information should contact one of the above or the office of the Director of Naval History, Building 200, Washington Navy Yard, Washington D.C. 20374.

Capt. Julius Grigore, Jr. USNR-R is writing a book on the history of the French submarine SURCOUF and its interface with the Royal Navy, which began with Britain's K-Class submarines in 1917 and ended with her loss with all hands in February 1942 in the Caribbean.

Captain Grigore urgently needs personal recollections and anecdotes from those who knew of or were associated with SURCOUF, particularly during her stay in the United States from August to November 1941 while undergoing overhaul at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

SuRCOUF, carrying 8" guns, was the world's largest submarine until the introduction of the Japanese 1-400 Class. We hope that readers will be able and willing to contribute, for which credits will be given. Captain Grigore's address is 425 Harbor Drive So., Venice FL 33595.

Farewell to BuPers

Identifications Wanted

At midnight of 31 October the Bureau of Naval Personnel disappeared, to be replaced by two new organizations: the DCNO for Manpower, Personnel and Training and the Naval Military Personnel Command. However, most of the BuPers people didn't change desks or telephones their offices continue for the time being with both their old Pers and new OpNav or NMPC numbers.

The DCNO (Manpower) was redesignated DCNO (Manpower, Personnel and Training)/Chief of Naval Personnel (Op01), the latter title being retained because it is specified in law. The Director, Naval Training and Education has been disestablished; his mission, functions and resources transferred to Op-01. The Office of Civilian Personnel has also been disestablished with its functions transferred to Op-01 and a new Deputy AstSecNav for Civilian Personnel.

Detailers, placement officers, order writers, promotion and advancement offices, and selection board services have been transferred to NMPC control.

This reorganization, which was mandated by the Congress, leaves only one Bureau still in existence, the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. What a far cry from the days when the Bureaus almost ran the whole Navy.

This photograph depicting admiral's inspection in USS LEXINGTON (CV-2) circa 1934 was recently given to the Naval Institute, but neither they nor we have been able to idenfify either the Admiral or the apparent ship's Commanding Officer behind him to the left. The problem is complicated by the picture we published some

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time ago of the flag officers of the U.S. Fleet, taken in early 1934, in which no vice admiral wore wings and the Commander Aircraft Battle Force was a rear admiral.

Can any of our readers identify these officers and provide an approximate date for the picture?

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Share of Federal Budget (Including Off-Budget Spending

Job Opportunity

The Big Lie

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Starting salary is $14,000 a year, plus liberal benefits.

Send resume to Cdr. J. Oesterle, SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx NY 10465.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Anyone who knows propaganda realizes that if a "big lie" is repeated often enough, people will believe it—no matter how blatant it gets. One of the biggest is that social spending in the United States is being severely limited by "record" defense spending budgets—an approach taken by much of the press, by many members of the Congress, and by too many ultra-liberal organizations.

The following tables compiled from the U. S. Budget for FY 1979 tell the story:

Ship Reunions USS Waller (DD-466)—Second biannual reunion, August 30 through September 2, 1979, at Denver, Colorado.

Write for details to Robert G. Howard, 4695 Ingalls Street, Wheatridge CO 80033 or Robert D. Sandefur, P.O. Box 978, Ruston LA 71270.

USS Maryland (BB-46)—Reunion to be held 26-29 July 1979 in Aflanta, Georgia.

Contact William S. Chick, Jr., 5709 No. Holly, Kansas City MO 64118; telephone (816) 454-6082.

Defense vs. Nondefense Spending, 1960-77 (In billions of constant I960 dollars) 1977

1960

Total federal outlays $92.2 $200.3 Defense 45.2 47.5 Nondefense 152.7 47.0 Social spending 26.5 111.9 Weapons and research 18.0 13.7

Percent change 117 5 225

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Which recalls the statement made by the late Senator Ashurst of Arizona: "It takes proper geese to appreciate propaganda.''

Reduction of Paper Work Admiral Hay ward, the new CNO, has done a lot of people—and the Navy—a great favor in ordering the cancellation of 94 recurring reports and in taking steps to cut back on another 76. The action stems from a review board's recommendation to eliminate 194 reports then required from the operating forces. That's a lot of man hours that can now be put to more productive—and interesting—work.

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Update on Alumni Tours for 1 9 7 9 For planning purposes, here is the revised tour program for this year. In recent years we have seen tour regulations change, scheduled airline fees adjusted, charter regulations modified, dollar fluctuations, etc. So, this year we have selected a variety of trips conducted by a variety of professional travel agents in order to gain a broader perspective on the effects of these changes. We have also tried to consider as many alumni requests as possible in this program.

February—Virgin Islands, 1 week, by Matterhom Travel.

June 8-17—Golf in Scotland, 9 days, 8 nights; playing St. Andrews, Gleneagles, Carnoustie, Muirfield, Troon, Prestwich, Tumberry and Bellisle—limit of 40 people.

Planned by Universal Classic Tours.

August 9-22 (Firm)—Danube Cmise and Istanbul Escape, 12 days—limit 160 people. Planned by Alumni Holidays Inc.

October—South Pacific Adventure, 18 days: Nandi, Fiji; Sydney, Australia; Christchurch, Queenstown, Lake Tekapo, Rotura and Auckland, N.Z.; Papeete, Tahiti. Planned by Conlin-Dodds Travel, Ltd. November—Orient Escape, 14 days: Manila, Singapore, Penang, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo. Planned by Conlin-Dodds Travel, Ltd. Plans for trips to the Alps in June and England, Scofland and Ireland in September have been cancelled but other possibilities are being considered.

Watch for more details on these tours through brochures to be mailed well in advance, and for notes in Shipmate.

As a matter of interest, the first Joint Service Academy Cmise in January was oversubscribed almost immediately and the Danube Cmise/Istanbul Escape is filling up rapidly.

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September- -Fiji/Tahiti Escape, planned by Universal Classic Tours.

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The First Carrier Pilot Captain Frank V. Rigler USN (Ret.)

With the commissioning of the USS DwiGHT D. EISENHOWER in 1977, the aircraft carrier reached its peak in size and ability to deliver awesome power to an enemy. Fifty-seven years had elapsed since 1920 when the ex-fleet collier JUPITER had been placed out of commission for conversion to an aircraft carrier and renamed LANGLEY. The first pilot to take off from her flight deck was Lt. Virgil C. Griffin USN, on 17 October 1922.

That the LANGLEY was the first aircraft carrier is widely accepted, and she was—with a slight reservation. Undoubtedly, she was the first heavier-than-air aircraft carrier. But Webster's Dictionary defines aircraft as, "Any weight carrying structure for navigation by the air designed to be supported by either the buoyancy of the structure, or by the dynamic action of air against its surfaces." In this context, the gun boat USS FANNY would appear to be a claimant to the title of "First Aircraft Carrier," attaining that distinction over a century ago in 1861. Her story is closely involved with a rugged, dedicated, and extremely capable gentleman named John La Mountain, whom fate did not treat too kindly.

La Mountain was bom in the 1830's in Wayne County, N.Y. Very little is known of his early life. One biographer notes, " . . . he seems to have been a sailor," and that, "he became interested in ballooning at an early age." In 1859, after making several ascensions, he became associated with another balloonist, O.A. Gager, and they, with veteran John Wise, cooperated in a proposal to Congress for construction of a balloon large enough to cross the Atlantic, carrying passengers and mail to Europe. A balloon, the ATLANTIC, was constructed for that purpose. It did make two trips, one from St. Louis hoping to reach New York City which ended at Henderson N.Y. after travelling over 1000 miles (850 in an air line). Another trip was made in 1859 from Watertown N.Y. to the wilderness in Canada at a point beyond Ottawa, the crew being eventually rescued by trappers.

suaged eventually, primarily because of a pressing need on the part of the Union forces for information concerning the strength and disposition of Confederate forces in the Hampton Roads area. These Confederate forces more or less surrounded the Union ones occupying Fortress Monroe, Fort Wool, Camp Hamilton, and Camp Butler. Confederate forces occupied the southern part of the Roads, including Pig Point, the former U.S. Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Sewell's Point and Norfolk.

The northern forces were commanded

by General Benjamin F. Butler, a controversial and independent commander who was subsequently well known for his harsh treatment of Southerners when he was Military Governor at New Orleans.

John LaMountain, balloonist On his own responsibility, he offered It is interesting to note that there have La Mountain the position as an aerial observer. been fifty-two attempts to cross the AtThe General's reason for grasping at an lantic by balloon since the first was made in 1873, three in the last two years. Only unproven vehicle is understandable. Butler had let it be known that he had indefione has been successful; on 17 August nite—but urgently needed—knowledge of 1978 three American balloonists, Maxie the enemy forces surrounding him, parAnderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman, landed in a wheat field just out- ticularly their disposition. La Mountain lost no time in accepting and immediately side of Paris after a six-day flight in the set in motion steps to get his balloons and DOUBLE EAGLE II of some 3,200 miles equipment to Fortress Monroe. With the from Presque Isle, Maine. We wonder help of much needed financial assistance whether they remembered La Mountain. from his friend, Gager, and eventually Shortly after the Civil War began, from Secretary Cameron after a personal La Mountain made application to the trip to Washington, he proceeded to Fort Secretary of War for service as a military Monroe by rail.

The balloons and their balloonist. His letter to the Secretary furaccessory equipment were put aboard a nished a record of his experiences and ship in New York, under the care of two abilities, which were attested by a assistants he had hired, for passage to number of prominent citizens. When Fortress Monroe. nothing came of this offer he persisted Arriving at the Fortress on 23 July with a second letter, even offering to pro1861, La Mountain got his equipment vide equipment he had invented which ready in short order after its arrival. On could, "manufacture gas for inflation 25 July he made his first ascension; not an from the decomposition of water at a auspicious one, because a strong wind rebarely nominal rate of expense," which stricted him to a low altitude with limited "with balloons and all apparatus necessary could be carried in a single wagon in observation. Poor weather conditions a train of the Army, and the balloon filled prevailed for six days, at the conclusion of which his balloon rose to 1,400 feet and in a few hours notice wherever there is he was able to observe the area in a 30 coke or charcoal and water . . .". The mile radius, furnishing valuable informaArmy authorities did not even reply to tion on strength and disposition of Conthis offer. federate forces. He subsequently made a La Mountain's disappointment was asShipmate, January-February 1979

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number of ascensions, adding to this information and spotting changes in movement and disposition of forces. F. Stansbury Hayden notes in Aeronautics in the Union and Confederate Armies that La Mountain's successful ascension on 31 July may be said to mark the first effective use of observation balloons in the American Army.

John La Mountain's name however should be especially remembered by the Navy. On 3 August 1861 he succeeded in making a balloon ascent from the deck of a small steam propelled, iron hulled vessel carrying one gun. She had been fitted with a windlass and was carrying one of La Mountain's balloons which had been inflated and, with suitable mooring lines, placed aboard prior to leaving the dock.

USS FANNY then proceeded toward Sewell's Point and La Mountain made an ascent of 2,000 feet, making possible some valuable observations. The FANNY then proceeded to Craney Island and Pig Point, where La Mountain again ascended in his balloon from the deck of the ship to make further observations of the enemy's positions. Seven days later he made a night ascension from the land. He also subsequently made ascensions from the tug ADRIATIC which were considered useful. General Butler accompanying him aboard the ship on one occasion.

It was not until November of the same year that La Mountain's rival, T.C.S. Lowe, made an ascension from the G.W.P. CusTis, an unarmed, wooden boat without motive power, which had been converted into a balloon barge capable of launchings after being towed to its desired position.

In the period following La Mountain's historic ascension from the FANNY* he made a few additional ascensions from land until 10 August, when his work in the Fortress Monroe ended. He continued to plan for extended and improved use of balloons in warfare. His plans included the possibility of employing balloons as offensive weapons, using them for bombing and burning of cities.

It would be pleasurable to recount that La Mountain's subsequent career was one of continued success and recognition, free of contention. Such was not the case.

His promotion of the balloon as a practical and effective instrument of war had * The importance of the role of the FANNY as the first aircraft carrier did not continue.

Two months subsequent to her accomplishing that distinction, she was captured by Confederate gunboats at Loggerhead Inlet. North Carolina, during Butler's amphibious expedition against the Confederates in the Hatteras area.

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USS FANNY, without LaMountain's balloon

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A E R U L SKETCH M A P OF SEWALL'S POINT, V A .

Drawn by John La Mountain from an elevation of 3,500 feet, A u g u s t 10, 1861

LaMountain observing Sewall's Point

been progressing just before the Civil War started. His principal rivals in this field were the aeronauts T.C.S. Lowe and John Wise. In the end the winner was Lowe, his final victory coming after a series of charges, countercharges, and maneuverings between Lowe and La Mountain. On 19 February 1861, General McClellan issued orders directing La Mountain's dismissal from the service (See Hayden's Aeronauts in the Union and Confederate Armies).

With his dismissal. La Mountain did not discontinue his career as an aeronaut,

Misc. File. " Balloon Corps." War Department Division, National Archive

continuing in that field until he died at the early age of 41 in South Bend, Indiana.

Hayden sums up his thoughts on La Mountain as follows, " . . . it may be said that John La Mountain was an able aeronaut, courageous and energetic in the prosecution of his duty. He accomplished results of importance, and was the first aeronaut to perform successful operations in the United States service. . . . In the main, it seems that he deserved a better reward than the curt dismissal that ended his Army career."

All photographs courtesy of the Casemate Museum, Fort Monroe, Virginia

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A Wet Cat with Seven Lives Commander Ralph H. Millsap USNR (Ret.)

If not already made knowledgeable by some prior voyaging over the earth's watered surface, anyone participating in an extensive search and rescue operation for the first time quickly becomes convinced of the ocean's vastness. Endeavoring to locate a relatively miniscule boat, raft or aircraft—and its occupants—on a large expanse of sea-water almost always represents a difficult detection problem for the searcher. And, not only is the problem increased in severity directly proportional to the size of the area that must be searched, but it can also be greatly complicated by lack of positional clues, storm conditions, poor visibility and other factors. By comparison, finding needles in haystacks can be simple and easy work.

On the other hand, the searchees—the unfortunate individuals finding themselves adrift—can be overwhelmed by the ocean's size and the great distances to land. For them especially, the ocean is indeed a large place, and likely to seem utterly empty as well of the means or possibility of succor.

Adding to their desperation and sense of hopelessness can be ignorance that a hunt is in progress, inability to communicate, extremes of hot or cold weather, storms, limited or no supplies of food and fresh water, and dependency on a means of flotation either frail enough or damaged to the extent of presenting the imminent prospect of disaster. Taken all together, the elements present a high potential for ultimate horror and tragedy. So much so that happy endings to past searches over wide ocean expanses have always seemed to have an aura of the miraculous.

A remembered example was the rescue of Captian Eddie Rickenbacher and his companions after many days afloat on a life raft in the South Pacific. This and other remarkable life-saving efforts of the United States Navy in particular received publicity at the time and afterward found their way into the history books. Others, because of security considerations at the time, passed without note and ultimately were forgotten in the plethora of wartime

events worthy of historical record and news media attention.

The "Case of the Wet Cat with Seven Lives" was one of these. Saving all seven of the lives was not the only achievement which made the search for them and the cat a remarkable one. The operation covered half a thousand miles of the ocean's expanse, in a singularly empty and lonely part of it. Further, it was an example of successfully solving not only the problem of the searcher—finding something quite small in a vast space—but also of an heroic and ingenious effort on the part of the seven castaways to succor themselves from a desperate situation. The search was the first extensive operation of its kind carried out by the Navy in the Pacific theater following the Pearl Harbor attack—the incident had its beginning only a month afterward, on January 9, 1942. And, it was the first occasion during the Pacific war wherein the responsible commander cast wartime military considerations aside in order to increase the chances of success.

It tells something about the special character of the American Navy and perhaps the morale of its officers and men to know that there have been occasions when the saving of lives has been given a higher priority than preserving in full the requirements of wartime military security. And there have been times when all of the available units in an area have been taken off their assigned military tasks to hunt for and rescue a relatively small number of personnel.

The most spectacular example, of course, was Admiral Marc Mitscher's illumination of his entire carrier task force after nightfall on the second day of the famous June, 1944 "turkey shoot" in the Philippine sea. Many of the returning aviators, most short of fuel and many with wounds and seriously damaged aircraft, were saved who otherwise would have lost their lives.

Finding the Cat and the seven lives of our story was less of a spectacle, but the operation did receive high priority and a disdain of military risk. Ships of the

searching force not only were illuminated, but radio silence was broken for prolonged periods on frequencies subjecting the ships to enemy RDF activity.

Plane 52-P-l 1, a Catalina patrol-bomber assigned to Patrol Wing TWO, based at Seymour Bay in the Galapagos group, was forced to land in rough sea conditions well westward of the islands and somewhat south of the equator, the result of a fuel system failure affecting both engines.

Pat Wing TWO had been hurriedly established just a few days after the Pearl Harbor attack. Mission of the wing was to patrol waters off the western entrance to the Panama canal, the approaches to which were considered vulnerable to Japanese submarine operations and also to raids of a German commerce raider operating between the Canal and the Antipodes.

The seven-man crew of Plane 52-P-ll found their plight almost immediately desperate. The slam of wave-tops against the bottom of the Catalina's hull when ditching had torn a large hole in the mechanic's compartment. The hole was too large to be plugged and the rapid inrush of seawater flooded the after portion of the hull, submerging the tail and giving a strong first impression that the plane was in danger of sinking.

To lighten the hull as much as possible.

Ens. W.T. Sutheriand, USN, the pilot in command, ordered loose gear to be jettisoned. All hands pitched in to throw overboard guns, ammunition, publications and miscellaneous equipments of all sorts, not excepting the navigator's sextant. Jettisoning the last was to be regretted later, as will be seen.

The crew soon determined, however, that the buoyancy of the Catalina's wing and the forward portion of the hull would keep her and her occupants afloat, although precariously. The wet Cat was indeed wet—and the seven lives with her almost as much so. They were forced to huddle forward uncomfortably, to contemplate their chances of rescue. Besides Ens. Sutherland these included Ens. W.J. Lahodney, USNR, second pilot; L.L. Weiss, RMlc, NAP, USN; J.P. Carison, Shipmate, January-February 1979

RM2c, USN; J.W. Miller, AMM2c, USN; W.D. Valyou, RM3c, USN, and H.C. Martin, Sealc, USN. All of the patrol bomber's radio equipment had been rendered useless by submergence and lack of electrical power, so there existed no means of immediately reporting position. But it could be assumed that other planes of PatWing TWO, seven in number, would be mounting an early attempt to search for the downed PBY and hopefully could achieve an early rescue. This was to be proven a vain hope. Other planes of the wing did indeed mount a thorough and prolonged search until it came to an end more than a week later, but at no time were the castaways sighted. These air searches, it was determined later, were too far to the southward, due to a rapid drift of the stricken PBY to the north and east. The drift averaged better than 50 miles a day, as later calculated.

Exact position of the aircraft when forced to ditch was uncertain, but believed to have been approximately at Lat.OrS, Long. 102°W. This estimated position would place the start of the Cat's long drift at a point in the empty equatorial doldrums some 400 miles west of her Galapagos base and about 60 miles south of the "line."

• The second effort of the unlucky seven to enhance their chances of survival, after the jettisoning of weighty gear, was rationing of the limited food and water supply they had on board. The rationing, ordered by Ens. Sutherland, conserved both in sufficient measure to last the seven occupants for the full eight days of their ordeal, albeit but barely. The rationing was severe, limited to small nibbles and sips, separated by intervals stretched to the limit of thirst and hunger pangs.

But it was the effort and expertise of the three radiomen on board—Weiss, Carison and Valyou—that provided the single element of self-help most responsible for the ultimate succor of the Catalina's crew.

As the hours, and then days passed without sign of any of the searching planes from their wing, the seven castaways' hope of rescue waned and the determination among them grew that, if they were to survive, some means of reactivating their radio equipment had to be found in order to report their plight and position.

Under the most trying of conditions Weiss, Carison and Valyou salvaged from under water, in the flooded portion of the Cat's hull, an emergency radio transceiver and a small hand-crank generator.

(Commander Southeast Pacific Force, in Shipmate, January-February 1979

Boat crew from RICHMOND rigging a lowline to the downed PBY

his later report of the search and rescue operation, described the generator as gasoline-driven, but this is not in accordance with the author's recollection.) The three radiomen, after bringing the equipment above water, proceeded with the help of other crew members to rehabilitate it. Both the radio and the generator had to be thoroughly cleaned and dried out. The job was completed five days after the Catalina's ditching on January 9.

An antenna was jury-rigged atop the plane's forward hull and the wing, and the equipment set up on top of the latter's center where it was safest from waveslosh.

With one of the radiomen turning the hand-crank generator and another operating the set, the PBY was able to send out a series of distress messages. And wonder of wonders: late on January 14 (local time) the distress message was intercepted and copied by a U.S. monitoring station located in Concordsville, Pa., more than 2,000 miles away!

The message reported the PBY and its crew in desperate condition and gave the plane's estimated position as "Lat. 00°70N (sic). Long. 102°W" perhaps a transmission garble, but certainly confusing.

Prompt relay of the intercepted message to naval headquarters in Washington resulted in an order from Comlnch, delivered by Fox broadcast, to ships of the Southeast Pacific Force and to Commander, Panama Naval Coastal Frontier

(as then designated) directing a search for the drifting aircraft and her crewmen.

The Southeast Pacific Force was not a large one. Initially, in the couple of months prior to the Pacific war's start, it consisted only of elderiy USS RICHMOND, an OMAHA-class light cruiser, and a pair of even older four-stack, World War I destroyers. At the moment, however, the force had just been strengthened by the arrival of the USS TRENTON, another OMAHA-class cruiser, enroute to Balboa, C.Z., from San Diego, Ca., when the first notification of the downed PBY had been received from Commander Panama Naval Coastal Frontier. The TRENTON wore the flag of Rear Admiral J.F. Shafroth, force commander.

As the RICHMOND was on patrol northwest of the Galapagos, Admiral Shafroth had his flagship proceed to a rendezvous with her and the destroyer BoRiE. In the early morning of the 15th the search force was at Lat. 04°-46' N, Long. 98°-33' W. Because it was assumed the lost PBY was to the southward on the basis of the first reported position, the force took a course south (180°). RICHMOND took a flank position to westward of the TRENTON and both ships launched aircraft to widen the breadth of the search.

Further transmissions were made by the Catalina crew during the morning.

While not picked up by the ships, the signals provided opportunity for taking radio direction finder bearings from the Toro Point, Canal Zone, station. The bearings

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were thought to be very good, and placed the probable position of the plane well to the north and west—about 450 miles from the first reported position. Calculations by the navigators of both cruisers of the plane's estimated drift rate based on the observed wind and weather conditions of the last several days also indicated a more northerly position than first assumed. Accordingly, Admiral Shafroth ordered his ships to reverse course to 310° at 1300.

Simultaneously he suggested to Commander Panama Naval Coastal Frontier that planes from the Galapagos base confine their search to the southerly area which the ships were leaving.

In mid-afternoon (1435) RICHMOND picked up very weak signals on 8530 kilocycles (the "Hertz" designation for frequency had not at this time come into use).

Two hours later, at 1632, both ships received strong signals on 8513 k . c , and TRENTON commenced communicating with the PBY. The latter, it was soon learned, could transmit only briefly because of the exertion required in turning the hand-crank generator at satisfactory speed. This difficulty was to a large extent overcome by setting up an on-the-hour, hourly schedule for ship-to-plane dispatches. A time tick synchronized the watches of plane personnel to ship's time.

TRENTON'S request for the plane's then position elicited the bad news that jettisoning the sextant had left the PBY's navigator with no means of obtaining an accurate fix. In the hope of obtaining some indication of the plane's bearing from the searching ships, RICHMOND set up an RDF watch utilizing the highfrequency loop on one of its scoutobservation aircraft while on the catapult.

Although considered unreliable taken in such a manner, bearings of a sort were obtained. An attempt to obtain a bearing from one of her planes while aloft at 1705 was not successful.

While the ship and plane were transmitting during the afternoon, Toro Point was able to take simultaneous bearings on both. The bearing on TRENTON placed her 180 miles north of her true position, but by shifting the reading on the plane an equal distance southward, what was believed to be a reasonably accurate bearing line to the Catalina was obtained. Again, all indications pointed to the northward as the plane's most probable position, and the ships worked northward during the night.

For the night, the plane was instructed to be on the lookout for the ships' searchlights, which Admiral Shafroth ordered to

be turned on vertically for five minutes at the commencement of each hour all night long. RICHMOND was ordered to take position 30 miles abeam of TRENTON to widen the night-time sweep. The PBY was also directed by radio to report time of moonset if visibility of the horizon permitted (it did not) and—most important—the time of sunrise of the ensuing morning, by observing the exact instant the sun's upper limb appeared above the horizon.

The searchlights were not spotted. But the next day dawned reasonably clear and a good observation of time of sunrise was made. It was the final clue leading to a successful rescue.

Sunrise for the drifting Catalina and her alert crew came a full eight minutes prior to the event as observed on board the TRENTON. Eight minutes of time converts to two degrees of longitude and, so near the equator, to more than 100 miles that the plane had to be eastward of the searching ships. Admiral Shafroth turned his ships due east at 08(X) on the 16th, and at 1141 veered a bit north, to 085°. Planes were sent aloft.

With the day waning, and the Catalina still not sighted. Admiral Shafroth at 1630 directed a TRENTON plane to fly ahead of the force in order to reach the PBY's longitude line as estimated from her sunrise report. It was feared still another night might have to pass without locating the disintegrating aircraft, which by now was reported to be riding perceptibly lower in the water than earlier in the day. Its worsening condition aroused fears among her crew that time was running out for a rescue, if one were to be made.

At 1712—at the extremity of the TRENTON plane's search leg and at the point when it would have to turn back to the ship for recovery—patrol plane 52-P-11 was sighted. As soon as they were notified of the sighting by TRENTON'S plane, the ships put on speed and headed on a southeasterly course toward the drifting hulk of the PBY and the, by now, greatly cheered but still anxious crew awaiting rescue. The BORIE reached them first and in the fast-thickening murk of dusk took all seven on board.

When TRENTON arrived at the scene the grateful survivors were transferred to her. The ship's surgeon found all to be in good condition despite the short rations of food and water endured for eight days.

TRENTON then steamed for Balboa, leaving RICHMOND and BORIE to attempt salvage of the PBY. Position of the Catalina when finally located was Lat. 06-48' N., Long. 98-31' W. She had drifted a bit more than 500

miles from the estimated point of her ditching.

The "Wet Cat's" fate was not to be so fortunate as that of her seven lives, now headed for dry land. She herself, apparenfly lacking the full nine customarily alloted to her kind, was destined to get even wetter.

The next morning first BORIE and then RICHMOND attempted to tow the Catalina back to Seymour bay, but it quickly became evident that the damaged PBY could not take the strain of the tow without disintegrating. After cutting the tow RICHMOND delivered a final coup de grace by ramming, and the plane sank.

What happened later to the Cat's rescued crew? The author wishes he knew, but does not. He has often thought, during the intervening three-dozen years, that their number—seven—was indeed an omen of good luck on their long drift over the wild, heartless sea. He has always hoped that the omen limited the number of later close calls in a long war, and was as indicative of an ending to any that did occur quite as happy as this one.

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Bear Baiting in the Black S e a Captain Cary H. Hall USN (Ret.)

We've all heard that story about the English sailor and the French sailor. The English sailor could keep his temper while the Frenchman questioned the Queen's morals and characterized all Englishmen as stupid, but "when he spit into our ocean, I cold-cocked him".

The United States had pretty much the same attitude about all the seas of the world at the end of the Fifties. Looking at the present Russian domination of so many ocean areas, with Russian warships cruising in close company in our exercise areas off Norfolk and Russian ships challenging us in the Med, it is difficult to bring back that "we control the seas" feeling we had in 1960 as those great years under Eisenhower came to an end.

In 1959 the Russians impacted their first long range missile tests in the midPacific. By all that's holy, in our Pacific!

We were shocked, horrified, and offended. The powers-that-be decided that we would show them a thing or two. We would send warships into their Black Sea where no U.S. warships had been since before 1920. This is the sort of action that has since earned the epithet "provocative" and just isn't done anymore. The Berlin Wall and the Bay of Pigs ended any tendency we have had to be overly bossy in international affairs. But it was good fun while it lasted!

I was a Destroyer Division Commander at the time, playing second fiddle (well muted) to Ed King who ran Squadron 22 in his usual forthright style. Sixth Fleet was George Anderson and of all the ComSixthFlt's I served under he was, in my opinion, the best. He is that rare breed, an aviator admiral who understands ships. I suspect that the Black Sea venture originated in his imaginative brain. In any case, since he was one of the unusual Sixth Fleet Commanders who knew and cared about destroyers, I was inclined to give him credit for all the good things and I don't know about any bad things.

Two of my ships, AULT (DD-698), Cdr. W. G. Chartier, and J. W. WEEKS ( D D -

701), Cdr. J. M. Tippey, were picked for the foray. And I was to get a chance to be a real honest-to-goodness unit commander on a real mission.

I decided on no electronic emissions of any sort during our run. This shook up some of the deck officers, brought up on radar station keeping. It was always difficult to convince young officers that there was a day before radar when we kept station at 500 yards in battleships that took a day and a half to answer a back bell. We laid out a track so that there was no need for signals at all, except flag hoists.

The Montreux Convention requires 24 hours notice to the signatories of any transit of the Bosporus by warships, so the Russians had one of their ubiquitous trawlers waiting for us as we entered the Black Sea. We only needed six knots to make Eregli, our first stop by next morning, so our initial position was two destroyers, loafing along through the afternoon, with a Russian trawler, a porcupine forest of antennas, keeping station three miles to port.

Eregli was a Turkish naval base and we were the first U.S. ships to enter. We had a bit of trouble coming alongside. Has there ever been a DivCom that didn't writhe as his skippers made landings? The Turks treated us wonderfully. Most of the Turkish officers had been trained in the U.S. and did at least some of that training at night, for their wives danced in an extremely lively manner that utteriy discredited the talk we had heard about Turkish wives being restricted from social contact with foreigners—like us.

On leaving Eregli the next day we formed up in column. Then the AULT, on the tick, took off at 27 knots, heading north towards the Crimea. The trawler made a futile course change to follow and gave up as we disappeared over the horizon.

We had a team of electronic experts on board, borrowed from some Sixth Fleet reservoir, and they kept track of the Russian search for this American destroyer speeding towards Sevastopol with who knows what evil intent. It took the Russians seven hours to find us, late in the afternoon. The electronics wizard warned us that one Russian plane had shifted from search to track (whatever that means) and sure enough in about fifteen minutes a Russian patrol plane zoomed over at 100 feet. "Welcome to the Black Sea!" We weren't the first Naval vessels in the Black Sea. A survey ship had gone up the west coast some months before on a technical rather than a political mission.

That wasn't the same thing as our jaunt into the Russian home waters.

We had long talks on what we would do if some Russian captain got excited and acted rough. We decided no shooting until we were actually hit but we didn't rule out ramming. Ramming always seems less belligerent than popping off five inch guns. And, it takes a certain amount of cooperation from one's opponent to manage a good ram. Any action by the Russians seemed farfetched, but this was before the PUEBLO incident (where evidently nobody took the trouble to at least consider the possibility of some reaction).

Destroyer division commanders are notoriously fifth wheels, dedicated to making life miserable for squadron staffs by nit-picking and heckling for lack of other useful activity. Ed King was always good at ignoring such triviality, leaving his staff unprotected from the joyful attacks my staff, Lt(jg). Robert Ailes, made on their infrequent boo-boos. Young Ailes—young, he's now a Captain commanding a cruiser!—was an ideal DivCom staff officer. Sharp as a tack to find those loopholes that gave us something to do and quietly tactful in pointing them out, he didn't gamer the usual basketful Shipmate, January-February 1979

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The U.S. delegation

The Ataturk Memorial in Samsun

of resentment thrown at staff officers with little to do but locate other people's errors. This trip gave us something better to do.

After the Russians located us and we neared their exercise area off Crimea our electronics people could observe their ships being cleared out ahead of us. It would have been about the same off Norfolk, with a horrified Sea Frontier Commander closing down that gunnery firing that had waited two weeks for good weather and the ships doing seamanship ordered to break off and get clear of the intruder's path. Pravda mentioned our excursion adversely in a brief comment, but we made the night interesting for the Russian duty officers.

We paralleled the Crimean coast about twenty miles off for three or four hours then, about midnight, headed south to join WEEKS and enter Samsun.

Samsun is a major seaport deep in the Black Sea. The quays were full of shipping, much of it for the low grade coal that comes from the Samsun area. There was a lot of wheelbarrow and shovel work in handling the coal by fellows who were big, muscular and very tough looking, some of them blonde and blue eyed.

Our feeling was that they would be very nasty in a close encounter. A British destroyer had been in a few weeks before us and had carried off some of their crew in stretchers through not fully comprehending the Turkish attitude of cheerful acceptance of violence.

The Turkish governor gave a reception for us, all male this time, none of those Shipmate, January-February 1979

liberated Navy wives. A tremendous Air Force electronic installation at Samsun was commanded by an Air Force colonel and the governor asked him to help out with the refreshments for the reception.

His command was catered by a German outfit trained in the European tradition of hors d'oeuvres. They brought in a half dozen big trays of stuff so beautiful that it seemed a crime to eat itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;until you tasted it, then it seemed a crime not to eat it.

With all my officers clustering around that delectable Air Force table I noted that the governor had assigned his staff to body block us back to the Turkish table.

The Turkish table was laid out with rice, boiled with pine seeds, and some dark looking meat that Ailes identified as aged goat. With true regard for international relations we ate their stuff, with longing looks at the German delicacies.

The Air Force Commanding Officer told me, "I've done it again! I should have figured that we would make him look bad. That's another month's restriction to base!" It seems the Turkish governor took full use of his privilege of advising the Air Force that town liberty would be inadvisable "due to local conditions". He was as free with restriction to base as any old line chief boatswain's mate. Looking at it realistically, it took a lot of searching to find any reason for making a liberty in Samsun. The Turks are apt to view even a glance at their women folk with the same excitable call to arms that my English ancestors used to try so unsuccessfully on the Vikings out for fun on the English coast.

The next day I laid the traditional wreath on Kemal Ataturk's monument.

He landed at Samsun in 1918 to start the triumphant progress that ended with his complete control of Turkey. I've always admired Kemal. His main and only hobby after the day's work of governing was done was chasing anything in skirts, and one has to admire a man with that kind of energy. He was also very short with back talk, more or less going by the credo that anybody who disagreed with him needed mental help and close confinement.

We had one major problem in making the wreath laying truly memorable. We had the landing force drilled to an unreasonable, almost a Marine, degree. We had a wreath, carried in the chill box from Istanbul. But we had in front a tone deaf Navy captain whose recognition of his own national anthem was shakily uncertain, much less the Turkish. Ailes was stationed in the right rear to call out "one" for hand salute, and " t w o " when the music shifted from anthems to something not salutable.

Unfortunately I made the mistake of anticipating and executed " t w o " at a pause in the Turkish anthem. It seems awfully unfair to place pauses in a national anthem that can give the impression the whole thing is over. Ailes gave a frantic whisper and I recovered in time to avoid an intemational incident, "National anthem, not saluting for."

When we left Samsun I took the other ship, the W E E K S , and we screamed past our trawler friend who had waited patiently at sea for us to leave Samsun. The

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USNA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS PresidentV A D M . P . D . STROOP U S N (Ret.) '26

San Diego CA Vice President

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C A P T . LAWRENCE N . SMITH U S N (Ret.) '45

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Annapolis M D TreasurerC A P T . J. D. OLIVER, J R . U S N (Ret.) '43

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Russians had figured one bold thrust was about it for us decadent Americans and we caught them again. Not as well as that first time, but it took a few hours for them to locate us and start tracking. Can you imagine the curses as they called in the off-duty section because those fool Americans might do something dumb?

We zipped past the Crimea, this time seeing a Panamanian ship making for the Bosporus and getting in a little friendly colors dipping with him.

The AULT and WEEKS rendezvoused at

(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 . J R . U S M C (Ret.) '34 L C D R . WILLIAM P. DONNELLY C E C U S N '65 C A P T . FRANK A . LIBERATO U S N (Ret.) '51

(To serve through Spring Meeting 1981) M R . JOHN E . BENOIT '49 CDR. ROLAND BRANDQUIST U S N '60 CDR. JOHN D . HOLLAND USN '58 V A D M . WILLIAM P. MACK USN (Ret.) '37

From Local Chapters R A D M . CHARLES BECKER SC U S N (Ret.) '44

Annapolis M R . WALTER J. TONER, J R . '43 Boston V A D M . JOHN A. TYREE, J R . USN (Ret.) '33

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the entrance to the Bosporus, the AULT bringing along our old friend the trawler.

She was getting pretty weary of us by this time. The signal bridges, having nothing better to do, had spent their time sending imaginative messages in international code, beginning with "What is your name?" and working up to "Have you a daughter about my age?" The trawler would occasionally answer one of these messages but was usually content with saying "I don't understand", this signal drawn from the same list as the ones we sent.

As the WEEKS headed into the Straits the trawler came charging in from our port side. Tip said, "We're going to hit!" with that rising inflection that one notes in skippers in imminent danger of collision. I said, "We have the right of way!

Hold your course and speed!" Our trawler friend must have been really good—or lucky. He backed full and came to a stop so that his bow cleared our port side by just four feet. As we passed, we gave him a snappy salute and I paid particular attention to the unhappy face on the bridge who rather grudgingly returned our salute. Sure, he was junior, but why miss an opportunity like that?

We transited the Straits, fueled from the TRUCKEE on our way through the Sea

of Marmora—that wild pass at the Crimea had brought both ships down pretty low—and waited for somebody to write up our adventure. Nobody did.

Until now.

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CDR. H . KNOX PERRILL U S N (Ret.) '26 Los Angeles R A D M . LAWRENCE R . NEVILLE USN (Ret.) '33

New York L C D R . DAVID L . CLAUDE U S N R '66

Peninsula (California) C A P T . HENRY E . SURFACE U S N (Ret.) '38

Philadelphia R A D M . ROBERT B . ERLY U S N (Ret.) '37

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Of Anchors and Title A-1 Capt. Ralph S. Stevens. Jr. USN (Ret.)

I was introduced to ground tackle in January of 1934. This traumatic episode, coupled as it was with precursory knowledge of right arm ratings, was portentous.

I was part of a draft to the Battle Force up from San Diego in MELVILLE; this, my first venture on blue water, was itself somewhat prejudicial to good order.

Shortly underway, a minor outbreak of measles was disclosed among ship's company. As a consequence of this contagious disorder I, with my fellow embryo sailors, as we reported on board TEXAS, was clapped into quarantine forthwith. It was pleasant to sleep in (and in a real bunk at that) for five days, after ten weeks of rousing out of a hammock at the end of the jimmylegs' night stick. But we missed long range battle practice. My initiation to gunnery was only the concussion, the clangor of the movie shack collapsing about the main mast, and the water erupting out of the water closets (this can be messy and embarrassing and one wishes to be at the other end of the salvo).

With the five days past, and a clean bill of health, I was assigned my billet. On the morning watch of the sixth day, at anchor, I reported topside to scrub down. It seemed appropriate to put on a pair of seaman's boots conveniently available from the division locker. This was a mistake. After picking myself off the deck it was explained to me by he who had put me there (in colorful and not-to-bemisunderstood language) that sea boots were for leading seamen, coxswains, boatswain's mates and division officers, and that such as I would go barefoot. I was also advised that seaman apprentices (or is it seamans apprentice) rated seven fathoms below the whale's belly. The term he used was not exactly belly, but you get (as I did) the idea. And so it was!

Later, in the forenoon, after we had secured from polishing brightwork, this same worthy, a BM2 name of Baskins, sent me forward to the bosn's locker for a swab comb. My itinerary forward was, as you might imagine, roundabout and tortuous. I knew very little about ships and Shipmate. January-February 1979

The author as a seaman apprentice

less about bosn's lockers. I arrived on the forecastle to see a group of white hats about the anchor windlass. A chief boatswain's mate was apparently giving the word on this and related subjects. As I came up he glared at me, told me to pipe down and pay attention. I did so and this was all very well but I had come for a swab comb. At the end of the lecture I was finally given the opportunity to explain myself. Thank Heaven for tolerant chief petty officers! This one led me back to the third division, accosted my section leader, and appraised him of what he might do with swab combs, sky hooks and checkered paint and the like. And that was that. Probably this initiation (I came to know later that not every one was so initiated) was a consequence of my ineptitude with footwear.

Subsequently I had my own boatswain's mates, and bosn's lockers and

ground tackle. One such occasion was ten years and six months later off Omaha Beach. I was CTU 125.4.3 comprising the twelve PCs of PC Squadron One that had served as primary control vessels for the assault and, later, as area screen for the Western Task Force. And, as do Captains " D " in the Royal Navy who command the destroyers that wear the broad pennant of their squadrons, I was in command of PC-1263.

June 1944 was an eventful month in the Seine Bay. My first home at sea, TEXAS, was there as part of Fire Support Group " O . " I was drawn back ten years in nostalgia remembering workouts on Trona Field with the first enlistment race boat crew; episodes ashore where the cry "Come awn, Texas!" brought reinforcements in barroom brawls. I remembered my division officer Lt (jg). John Baily, as fine a gentleman who ever sailed, coming on deck to fight a fire in the starboard life boat enroute Panama from Bremerton.

Probably my old mentor, Baskins, was long gone to his reward.

On the eighth, about 0200, we had come alongside destroyer MEREDITH, mined off Quineville and dead in the water, to assist in evacuation of the wounded and to accept custodianship of classified documents. On the ninth we had been close aboard the French cruisers MONTCALM and GEORGE LEYGUNES

and joined their vigorous fire against the unpleasantnesses of German aircraft.

Sinking floating mines with gunfire and conducting the burial service over those picked out of the water, while on patrol, had become commonplace. But our most memorable moments were yet to come.

And so dawned the 17th June, a Saturday. The storm of the 19th-22nd which was to devastate the artificial harbor off Omaha was brewing and we had orders to anchor at night. On the forenoon watch my first lieutenant, Lt(jg). MacNamara, conscious of the depth of water at our anchorage, had ordered an additional shot to be added to the port anchor cable; this was a prudent decision but not felicitous.

In addition, Mac had been conducting a

26 vigorous program of chain maintenance, de-rusting and painting, and interchanging shots to equalize wear on the links. We had two cables, the starboard of 80 fathom and the port of 95 fathomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both of % inch linksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and two Danforth patent anchors. In order to preserve the correct paint and wire identifications on the links outboard of the shackles, Mac had both cables out of the chain locker, and inserted the additional shot next to the bending shot. I had recenfly lost my CBM and his departure left me with a first class, young and eager, but of modest experience, all of it aft.

Later there were discussions on the bridge. In attendance were those deemed guilty of negligence and others who might profit from oversights. We devoted the better part of the next day dragging for the missing and errant ground tackle. It was fruitless. The first lieutenant supervised the marrying together of what remained of our anchor chain. There were no spare links or anchors on the far shore. CTG 125.4 was forgiving and understanding. His credulity and leniency were to be more grievously tested in later episodes of this libretto of unseamanlike conduct. It was not to be long delayed.

There was little enemy action now as That evening we came to anchor, all the beaches were cleared and the armies shipshape and confidence; after all, making rapid strides inland. The E boats hadn't we done this before? We had been sortied occasionally from the Channel Isassigned a berth south of the Dixie Line lands. We picked up and delivered mail in the area known as "Ohio," the depth was about ten fathoms, the wind from the and, on the 19th, watered and provisioned. On the 20th the gale became more NE. My BMl was at the windless brake turbulent, with a heavy swell and long prepared to do his duty. Up into the wind combers from the north east. PC-1263 we came. "Stand by," and a carrottopped seaman pulled the toggle from the was again at anchor, now in Position 6. I had turned in shortly before midnight. pelican hook. As all headway was lost Morpheus was into his act when I was and the bow began to fall off, "Let go," brought up all standing by a violent hand and Mac (a man of action) stmck the tongue of the pelican hook a mighty blow on my chest. "OOD says come to the bridge on the double," and the messenger with his maul. With 110 fathoms now to pulled me toward my cabin door. The the port anchor, 90 fathoms at the hawse ship was pitching violenfly, the anchor should have been the optimum scope for chain lifting clear for a long run as the security. The anchor struck the bottom bow came up, only to slam down on the and the BMl applied the brake to slow the chain. Alas, it was too late! There was forefoot. The officer of the deck pointed to starboard. There, off the bow, and not a sharp clatter, a rush of sparks and, in much more than a mile away, was a huge disquietude, I watched the end of the chain clear the chain pipe, whip along the ' tug, her array of navigational lights indicating a steam vessel towing. My OOD flash plates and slither out the hawse now drew my attention across the port pipe. There was silence on the forecastle. bow to a hulk, unlighted, but of a size to White faces looked up and aft in the intimidate. It had been identified as one gloom of double British Daylight Saving of the Phoenix caissons used in constructTime, seeking solace perhaps, or asking ing the breakwater for the Mulberry artiforgiveness, assuagement of guilt. Mac ficial harbors. Given this introduction to a shrugged his shoulders in the manner of schematic one might assume a long tow duration-of-the-war-only sailors. There line, submerged, and of substantial prowas nothing to say. We tumed to the portions. I had comfortless perceptions of south and, as the men forward rigged the rudders and sonar dome and propellers starboard anchor for lowering, moved swathed in cable, of being up-ended or closer inshore and, without further percast ashore. It was not as if we were beversity, came to anchor. I noticed that tween a rock and a hard place, as one of Mac was now at the windless brake and these elements is inappropriate, but the very conservative in the paying-out rate symbolism was apt. Our frenzied signals of the chain. had been misunderstood or ignored. The tug was inattentive and, perhaps, not aware his tow had been pushed by wind and current across our bows, by the vigor of the storm.

nearest the chain stopper was dismanfled, the stopper opened, and we slipped our cable. The engine room was manned, as it had been on anchoring, in expectation of steaming to the anchor, so it was no problem to clear the area. I hoped not to become shipmates with phantoms. "They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore." As Samuel Johnson advised Lord Chesterfield, "Being in a ship is being in jail, with the chance of being drowned." Our jail now appeared doomed to perpetual mobility.

As it developed my incarceration was of short duration, being summoned elsewhere to explain myself to the satisfaction of the screen commander. Reasonably enough he explored the premise that I might have known sooner of my dilema and gotten the anchor aboard before standing out of danger. I fear my response was inadequate.

All that followed was anti-climax. Several days later we escorted a convoy into Portland and Devonport, shipped new ground tackle and retumed to duty. On the first August I was relieved and reported to CTF 123 to organize and command a new task group, 123.4, to comprise the 40 escorts of the Twelfth Fleet: 18 PCs, 18 SCs, two DEs with two landing craft, control. I soon shucked off the DEs as there was conflict of seniority, and the LCCs as useless in escort of convoy and ASW. However, other tribulations surfaced.

Among my new shipmates there were quizzical and bantering asides about misuse of Tifle A-1. Captain John D. Shaw, one of my messmates, and commanding the LSTs, was inclined to decry indiscriminate "chucking anchors overboard."

I was finally liberated from a merited but melancholy reputation shortly before VE Day by orders that finally got me into the Tojo War. Unfortunately word of misfortune comes into the Lend-Lease pipeline.

For when I had reported with the remnants of TG 123.4 for Royal Navy operational control early in 1945, Captain Villiers asked if my ships had adequate spares in anchors. And there was a social event hosted by my boss, RAdm. R.J.R. Scott RN, where glasses were raised to toast post-war speculation in salvaging Yank anchors in the English Channel. All in good fun, I suppose.

There was no time to weigh altematives, not nearly sufficient time to weigh the anchor. Fortunately we had a watch on the forcastle and, as rapidly as hand and mind can function, the shackle Shipmate, January-February 1979

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Our Man in Edzell Ann Donaldson

Tucked away at the foot of the hauntingly beautiful Scottish highlands is the Httle town of Edzell. It is a small placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; its population numbers about 1,000 and the length of its High Street may be traversed on foot in about ten minutes.

But it is as lovely as it is small, having been named "Best Kept Village in Scotland" five of the past six years. It is typical of what one would imagine such a place to be: enchantingly small and peaceful, with game-filled forests, fishfilled streams and castle mins nearby, all surrounded with heather-clad hills. Edzell is an ideal retreat from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, whether on holiday or business. Despite its small size it is quite hospitable, with two seasonal and one year-round hotel. The latter, the Panmure Arms Hotel, is the most conspicuous in town, being of Tudor architecture. The only other such architecture in the town is a small building just across the street reportedly built as a bank by J.P. Morgan. The Panmure owners have gone to great length to make their guests, especially Americans, feel at home. They are well qualified: they are retired U.S. Navy Captain Sam Gorsline '45 and his wife, Ann. How on earth did a native of Battle Creek, Michigan, a naval aviator who spent most of his active duty career in the Pacific, end up in such a place as Edzell, Scotland?

T.

.he story begins with Ann. Ann is a native of Montrose, Scotland.

She grew up in the hotel business and went to Glasgow to obtain a degree in hotel management. She was working at the Hong Kong Hilton where Sam met, wooed and married herâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;taking her away from the hotel business.

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Just prior to his retirement on 1 January 1974, Sam and Ann were in Scotland on emergency leave due to the death of Ann's mother. Sam had begun to think about what to do after leaving the Navy.

His father-in-law casually suggested the hotel business. Ann's father is the only surviving grandparent of the two youngest Gorsline children, Carroll and Robbie, and Sam wanted them to be near him. He considered the hectic pace of a large American city and the easy-going pace of the Scots and decided to try the latter. On 5 January 1974 the Gorslines arrived in Edinburgh to begin a leisurely search for their hotel. Sam intended to take about a year and really take it easy and look for something sporadically. One night at a cocktail party someone approached him and told him that the Panmure Hotel in Edzell would be going on the market soon. On 4 April the Gorslines took over.

The Panmure Arms Hotel

One of the first things Sam did was write to Lord Dalhousie, the Earl of Dalhousie, for permission to use the coat of arms of the House of Panmure to add authenticity to the name, hence, the Panmure Arms. The present-day establishment is actually the third on the site.

The original Panmure Hotel, built in 1902, was rather the Gleneagles of Scotland, with 50 rooms and quite modem for its day. It burned almost completely in 1952.

The second hotel had 13 rooms and contained a small portion of the original building.

Sam and Ann have put much evident work into the current Panmure Arms.

There are now 17 rooms, 14 with private bath. Each room has a telephone and color TV. Obvious throughout is a comfortable blend of Scottish-AmericanNavy. There are plaques of clan crests and tartans on each of the doors and the proprietor is often seen decked in full Scottish attire of the Clan Farquharson.

Of special interest to Navy types is the

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(toasters) are sought after well in advance. The evening begins with the blessing and toasting of the haggis and is followed by a toast to Bums. Numerous other toasting (to lassies, lads, overseas Scots, etc.), as well as much straight whiskey, follows. There is quite a competition among the speakers as to who can give the best toast to Burns. One will not encounter this often in Scotland, but at the Panmure Arms there is a Fourth of July celebration, complete with free beer, hot dogs and cole slaw! (By the way, the hot dogs come from the supplier of same to the Hong Kong Hilton.) St. Andrews night is a Ceilidhâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a real Scottish fun night. It consists of tales, a sing-along, Scottish dancers, fiddlers and pipers.

Stovies and bannocks (explain them, ye Scots) are served.

lounge, which has been converted from the Clan Room to the Captain's Cabin.

The Navy motif is carried out in the blue and gold carpet. On either side of the fireplace are red and green running lights; a small cannon graces the center. On the walls are prints of naval ships and aircraft. In the place of honor over the bar hangs a print of Sam's last command, the USS CORAL SEA.

Speaking of the bar, a pet project of Sam's is displayed here. There are over 120 whiskey disfillers in Scofland. Over 80 of them offer malt whiskey. Sam has available 77 of the malts and wants to some day offer all of them. A map of the Scottish distilleries hangs conveniently at the end of the bar so one can identify the spot from which his brand comes.

There is more to this quaint-looking establishment than meets the eye. At the rear of the lounge are huge windows overlooking two squash courts with first class backboards. There is a solarium, sauna bath, plunge pool, and, by next Spring, the indoor/outdoor swimming pool will be completed. All these facilities are available to hotel residents. The squash courts have been a great success and the Panmure Arms Squash Club now has over 200 members.

Edzell has an excellent 18-hole golf course, said to be as fine as the one at Camoustie, but without the waiting. Also in the town are a bowling green and tennis courts. Grouse season opens 12 August, pheasantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1 October; Spring and Fall are best for salmon fishing (some of the best salmon fishing in the world is from the North Esk River, just behind the hotel), sea trout is available all year. Sam can arrange for equipment for all these sports in season.

The Aberdeen chef presents a fine and generous fare which has given the Panmure Arms a good reputation for cuisine.

It is listed in the Scottish Tourist Board's "Taste of Scotland" publication, a compilation of places offering traditional Scottish menus. Haggis is available upon request. At the same time, it is one of the very few places in Great Britain where such items as French toast with syrup, hot dogs, spaghetti, and iced tea are offered!

Very popular are the bar lunches, or quick, hot lunches. These are available in the lounge. From Easter 'til the first of October a cold buffet is offered on Sundays. The Panmure Arms Hotel is well known for its buffet as it offers "the works": beef, ham, salmon, crabs, lobster and all the trimmings. There is ample space at all meals, for the dining room seats 150.

Sam and the malt whiskey collection

The Gorsline Scots

The Lounge, where bar lunches are taken in a seagoing atmosphere

On Saturday nights there is a dinnerdance in the ball room. There is live entertainment in the lounge on Sunday evenings as well. The ball room, incidentally, can accommodate 200 guests and may be booked for wedding receptions or private parties.

Annual special events take place at the Panmure Arms. A Hogmanay (New Year's Eve) party always starts the cycle.

A big event is Burns' Nicht, celebrated 25 January, on the bard's birthday. This is a big do for Scots and the best speakers

Those of you on active duty will be happy to know that Edzell is three miles from the nearest naval installation. Incidentally, the first Navy guest at the Panmure Arms was recently retired CNO Admiral Jim Holloway, on leave before assuming that office. Sam has had many Navy guests because of his convenient location, not to mention excellent facilities and an innkeeper who "knows the ropes." He also has been host to many oil-related persons. Edzell is only 27 miles from Carnoustie and 38 from Aberdeen. It is 90 miles from Edinburgh, 105 from Glasgow and 496 from London.

Sam is flexible with the tariff. One may choose bed and breakfast, dinner, bed and breakfast, full board, or weekly rates.

He has special squash weekends and special rates for golfers. There is always a special rate for USNA alumni. There is no charge for children under 12 in the same room as their parents. (For complete details write him in care of the hotel, Edzell, Angus DD9 7TA.) So how did he end up in Edzell? You decide. The next time you are getting fmstrated in a rush-hour traffic jam, think of Sam. His silence is probably being broken by the baaing of a distant sheep or the rusfle of pheasants' feathers. And if you want to be better prepared to withstand that lovable rush-hour, go visit Sam and Ann for awhile. For you'll find that even in that tiny town, so far removed in distance and routine, "old tales are still retold." The chain is not broken, merely extended.

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by Robert Debs Heinl and Nancy Gordon Heinl. Houghton Mifflin Co.. Boston, 1978.

800 pages, illustrated. $21.95.

You would be hard put to find a better title. Written In Blood conveys the great reoccurring theme in Haitian history: —"Genocide . . . is the only word for what the Spaniards did."

—"Fifty-five thousand dead French soldiers and sailors (including eighteen generals) . . . (was) Bonaparte's final bill."

—"Upwards of 400 bodies lay heaped on one another . . . " —"Of the 22 rulers of Haiti between 1843-1915 only one served out his term . . . . During these same 72 years (1843-1915), Haiti had been wracked by at least 102 civil wars, insurrections, revolts, coups . . ."

In this splendid, new book the Heinls have written the definitive history of Haiti, and what an absorbing tale it is.

Colorful and plain spoken, the book brims with solid scholarship, choice anecdotes, and delightful tidbits of information and human insight.

Beginning with Columbus' landing at Mole Saint Nicolas in December 1492, it traces the Spanish exploration and early settlements, the importing of slaves and the virtual extinction of the native Tainos Indians. As the Spanish colonial enterprises shifted to the central and eastern portions of Hispaniola the French replaced them, and St. Dominique was bom in the western third of the island. By the end of the 17th century, it was well on its way to becoming France's greatest colony. By the end of the 18th century, stirred by the spirit of the French Revolution, its three quarters of a million slaves were well on their way to rebellion and independence. Toussaint, Christophe, and Dessalines were the giants of the time. But the time was short and the problems of self-government were legion.

Mob uprisings, assassinations, massacres, sieges, execufions, civil war and nearly every other known form of violence and disorder followed.

During the last half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, the U.S. Navy sent warships into Haitian waters on more than 25 separate occasions to protect lives and property of American citizens.

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In 1914 and 1915 they were there almost continuously. In 1915 Marines were landed, and Americans took charge of the Haitian custom houses. This was the beginning of the occupation that lasted until 1934, bringing both stability and unprecedented development to Haiti. When it ended, gradual regression followed. Suppressive leadership abused human rights and allowed the endemic problems of lack of education, unemployment and poverty on the one hand, cupidity and corruption among officials on the other, to proceed unchecked.

While it is a sad and discouraging story, the Heinls have told it with abundant skill; what is more, it is worth the telling.

Primarily a political history, an account of Haiti's rulers and systems of government, it incorporates many informative asides, not the least being excellent summaries of Haitian art and voodoo. Historic episodes and personalities are often encapsulated in pithy phrases or memorable sayings.

They become, in fact, a shorthand summarizing the essence of various segments of the country's past. It is lively, entertaining reading. But the final effect is to impart to the reader a case history of a people, to give him a new understanding against which he can measure what has and is happening in much of the world.

John E. Greenwood '50 Colonel USMC Editor's Note: Colonel Heinl USMC (Ret.) is the author of Soldiers of the Sea: The United States Marine Corps 1775-1965, Victory at High Tide: The Inchon-Seoul Campaign, and several reference and textbooks. His wife, Nancy, specializes in African history and black studies and is an authority on Voodoo. Both are nationally syndicated writers, the Colonel with a regular column of news commentary.

The background of this book came from their four years in Haiti. Colonel Heinl commanded the U.S. Naval Mission there until expelled by "Papa Doc" Duvalier in 1963.

Perhaps the House Investigating Committee should look into the late Papa Doc's claim that the assassination of President Kennedy was the result of his Voodoo death curse, one of the many fascinating tidbits in this book.

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Here is a book for all seagoing folk who want to find out what is happening to the U.S. Navy.

Keen-eyed readers of Shipmate (could there be any other kind) may have noted two grevious plaints of recent columns: in the first, a weathered seaman of some years indicated that during the June Week West festivities at Long Beach he had not bothered to tour the naval shipyard because: a) he had already seen a shipyard, and b) he "didn't know what the hell those ships were for anyway"; in the second situation, a naval person of retired persuasion, visiting in a Mediterranean port, happened upon an American naval small craft which, regrettably, was broken down. Upon making inquiry of the somewhat motley crew as to what ship they hailed from, "They identified the excresence (their ship) as a frigate." It may be best to pass over the scene as the ship's gig was towed back to its mother vessel by a "dirty Greek fishing boat."

Personal bonds between ship and the sailors that crew them have long been characteristic of seafaring men, and the epitaphs unlovingly assigned the floating "home and a feeder" in retrospect frequently become tales of adventures and comradeship after time has dimmed the hardships and discomforts that any naval ship has inherently built into it. It should be noted as well that there is an accelerated interest in recent years in small boating, a display of the romanticism of "getting underway" deeply ingrained throughout our country. To the old sea dog and the small boat "rag-waver" lying becalmed and wondering if a distress signal is really appropriate, it may be of interest to be able to identify a PEGASUS hydrofoil as it skims by at 40 knots with little if any wake.

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The purchase of a guide such as this with its subject the U.S. Fleet requires the author to be objective in his opinions, logical in his presentation, and knowledgeable of his facts. Norman Polmar is well qualified in all respects to edit an encyclopedic presentation of this nature.

Although the U.S. Navy may indeed have dropped to less than 500 active ships, these are ships of sophistication and complexity, possessing a strike power which can but amaze the World War II sailor; in fact, it is pointed out that the phrase "shipboard gun firepower" has a good deal less significance than it did a decade ago, and such power is unlikely to increase in the near future.

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A Few Inches From The Yard M i d s h i p m a n David K. Knab '79

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), 'Prayer'' (1934)

When you think about changes that are being made, what comes to mind first? Is it the newly paved road that was for many years dust and gravel, or the newly constructed apartment complex on the field where you once ran and played?

Although we have clung to many traditions here at the Academy, many changes have occurred in the past few years.

At times, changes occur so rapidly that it is difficult to tell the difference between up and down.

Capt. Darby, the Commandant of Midshipmen, has changed many of the facets of the "reaHsUc military environment" during his tour as Commandant. Earlier this year, Capt. Darby said that, since the Superintendent and the Dean both have honor lists of their own, the Commandant should have one also. So without haste, the 'Dant set forth to develop the Commandant's List. The first recipients of this award fulfilled the general requirements and represented a large number of Mids who have given 100% of their time in attempting to excel academically and professionally but were unable to attain the standards set by the Superintendent and the Dean for their lists.

In addition to being awarded the gold " E " for excellence, Capt. Darby has made policy that gives recipients extra privileges. Three striper liberty for the first class (liberty that begins after evening meal during the week) and automobile privileges for the second class are two of those received. The Commandant and company officers throughout the Brigade urge all Midshipmen to strive consistently to give an extra bit of effort in everything we do.

For the first class, "green alerts" at their respective company officer's homes provide a welcome break during the week. But by the time the firsties have gathered together, tramped to their cars, stopped by Weems Creek to pick up refreshments and munchies, and then driven out into the boonies to their final destination, half the night is already over.

As a result, the Commandant allows first class to gather, in civilian clothes, in Dahlgren Hall for "Monday Night Football". The Drydock is open during most of the game to supply

firsties with food and the restaurant's infamous beer. For the majority of Mids who are regular goers of Monday night football, and for those who occasionally drop by to see what's happening, the consensus of opinion points favorably to this as a reasonable substitute for green alerts, and besides, it saves gas.

For years, plebes have been restricted from drinking alcoholic beverages and dragging while at the Academy; but recently, many of these regulations have been changed. While Sunday afternoon mixers no longer exist in any shape or form of the past, plebes are given the chance to adjust socially to the big world. Be it a popular concert or a Masquerader's production, plebes on occasion can drag their O.A.O. Probably the biggest and most talked about change for the fourth class since the abolishment of mandatory mixers and the ruling that being restricted to walk the curved walkways in the Yard is P.I. was the change to USNAR 0403, "Alcoholic Beverages, use of." Today, any Midshipman, if he so desires and meets prescribed laws and regulations, may drink alcoholic beverages. Since drinking liquor is potentially dangerous if not controlled properly, there is a need for all officers to be educated and able to deal with alcohol related cases. For this and other related reasons, the change of drinking regulations has resulted in a Brigade that is more aware of today's alcohol related problems.

Meanwhile, as the youngsters stand poised and ready to take command of the Brigade on their duty weekend, coming off of plebe year on the right foot is more important than hastily taking advantage of any single privilege they have earned. While they, too, should strive to be placed on the Commandant's List in addition to the Superintendent's and Dean's Lists, the single diagonal stripe they now wear will mean more to them than any subsequent stripe they will earn while at the Academy.

Over the years, since I have been a part of the Brigade, there have been many changes both academically, with exams now coming prior to Christmas leave, and professionally, with the many regulations that are constantly being updated.

Changes to enhance the education and to better prepare Midshipmen have been made and will continue to be made for years to come, but certain traditions will always remain a part of the Academy.

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Capitol Hill Fred Lardner

The FY '79 Appropriations Bill S. 3486 was introduced to substitute for H.R. 10029, the Department of Defense appropriation bill for fiscal year 1979 that was vetoed by the President. S. 3486 was identical to H.R. 10029, except that the funds authorized in the original bill for construction of a nuclear aircraft carrier, totaling $1,930 million, were deleted. The only substantive amendment to S. 3486 added $209 million to the authorization amount approved for naval vessels for payment of settlements under Public Law 85-804 of ship claims disputes by Litton Industries and General Dynamics.

The authorization under S. 3486 totals $35,235,969,000. However, these official figures sometimes vary, and on the next page of the conference report by the Senate Armed Services Committee the total is listed as $35,387,300,000. Fred P. Wacker, Assistant Secretary of Defense, estimates this money will be expended by years, in millions, as follows: 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 and beyond

$ 9,900 12,100 7,000 2,600 1,500 2,287

While there were very few big changes in the House and Senate bills, the House-Senate Conference Committee had to compromise many minor differences.

Such changes, most of them affecting personnel, are considered here, followed by reports on bills and on Navy ships and operations.

Too Many Dependents Overseas?

While the Conference Committee (hereafter called conferees) agreed to provide funds to extend junior enlisted travel and allowances for dependents in overseas areas, they established the policy of placing a ceiling on the numbers of dependents of military personnel in overseas areas. By overseas, the conferees exclude Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. administered territories and special locations; they are concemed with the large number of civilian dependents in Europe.

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populations overseas, so that Congress can evaluate the extent to which military readiness and the safety of the dependent population are adversely affected by the presence of these dependents.

Senator John Stennis (D.-Miss.), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, insisted on a ceiling of military dependents resident in Europe and the conferees set a ceiling of 350,000. According to Defense Department officials, there are about 343,600 dependents in that area now but this number could increase by 9,300 as a result of authorizing extension of dependent travel benefits to the junior grades.

If the total number of dependents in Europe falls below 350,000 (some are always coming home), the priority for new travel benefits would be based on when a person was assigned overseas, not on rank.

Up-or-out Moratorium The conferees agreed to provide $34,600,000 as proposed by the Senate for their severance remuneration, and would not prohibit the involuntary separation of officers twice passed over for promotion.

The House would have prohibited it.

Professional Development and Education The conferees provided $277,400,000 as an aid in improving the management of Professional Development and Education in the Defense Department. They ordered a reduction of 15 percent in all graduate degree programs, pointing to the guidance in Appropriation Committee reports. No more than $200,0(K) shall be available for foreign travel by faculty and students (Army) for individual research and field studies.

Helicopter Pilot Training For some years efforts have been made to consolidate undergraduate helicopter pilot training. This year again the Senate directed that the Defense Department should not consolidate such training. In conference, the House sought approval of consolidation but was forced to recede owing to the "adamant refusal of the Senate to compromise." A provision to prohibit consolidation or realignment of advanced or undergraduate training was tried but halted by technical disagreement.

DoD And Postal Service The House in its bill deducted $21,000,000 for postal and related delivery services. The conferees restored the money, and told the Defense Department to use the United States Postal Service.

The number of military people doing postal work should be reduced. Overseas mail previously sorted by the postal service is again sorted by military personnel.

Shipment of Exchange Merchandise The conferees reduced the transportation subsidy provided the Military Exchange System by $9,000,000. The budget request included about $79,000,000 for space-required transportation of military exchange goods to, from, and between overseas locations. The reduction has been equally applied to the Army, Navy and Air Force. The conferees rejected a general provision which would have prohibited any subsidized transportation support for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy Resale System or the Marine Corps Exchange. The services are to attempt to recoup this reduction to the maximum possible through use of space available, as opposed to space required, on military aircraft and ships, including aircraft and ships under lease or charter to the U.S. Govemment.

Commissary Subsidies The conferees rejected the proposal to phase out appropriated fund subsidies to the DoD Commissary system as required by the Senate.

Abortion None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to perform abortion except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term; or except for such medical procedures necessary for the victims of rape or incest; or where severe and long-lasting physical health damage would result to the mother if the fetus were carried to term.

Transfer: Morale and Recreation To Combat The conferees voted to transfer 300 military people from recreation and morale to combat duty. The Senate had voted to transfer 1800. In this experiment, the General Accounting Office has been asked to study the impact of this transfer.

36 Congress And The Navy The Navy's active fleet at the end of FY 1978 totals 452 ships. An additional 57 ships are in the reserve fleet and 13 ships in direct support of the fleet are operated by the Navy Sealift Command. This compares to a fiscal year 1968 naval active and reserve fleet of 979 ships.

A total of 111 ships have now been approved but not delivered to the fleet. Delivery of these ships will result in a gradual increase in Navy fleet size to over 500 ships in the next several years.

The big majority of Congress believes that a detailed plan for ship construction should be made. The DoD Appropriations Act has provided $40,000,000 to be used for research and development relating to the CVV, VSS, and DD-963(H) ship development programs. None of the funds authorized by this title may be obligated or expended except for the purpose of conducting comprehensive evaluation studies of the costs and combat effectiveness of sea-based platforms for both the short- and long-term needs of the Navy.

Such studies shall include, but not be limited to, nuclear aircraft carriers, new design medium aircraft carriers (CVV), the refitting of existing aircraft carriers (MIDWAY and other classes), and various types of V/STOL aviation ships (including VAA). The Secretary of the Navy shall take such actions as are required to insure that such studies are sufficiently advanced with respect to a NiMiTZ-class aircraft carrier, a CVV, a V/STOL aviation ship, and a DD-963(H) so that any of such ships may be authorized in fiscal year 1979. This action shall not be constmed as constituting an authorization for a CVN, a CVV, or a VSS ship.

The Senate proposed $25,000,000 for V/STOL light carrier design. The conferees agreed to provide the $25,000,000 under Ship Development (Engineering).

These funds may be utilized for general ship design efforts on all types and classes of ships, including those ships in the Senate version of the bill.

Fiscal 1979 Vessels Final decisions on vessels in the fiscal 1979 legislation were (at least for fiscal 1979â&#x20AC;&#x201D;projects rejected for one year often come up the next) as follows: Trident Submarine System. Advanced procurementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;House offered $274,200,000, Senate $55,000,000. Conferees decided on $198,000,000.

CVN-71 Nuclear Carrier. Taken out of the bill.

CGN-42 Nuclear Cruiser. House offered $1,096 million for full funding of one Aegis-equipped nuclear cruiser, which

would probably be the best fighting ship in the worid if built. Senate finally relented, offering $369 million for advanced procurement only.

"There is an urgent need to get the Aegis anti-ship missile defense to sea," the conference committee said. "The Senate conference reluctantly authorized long-lead funding for a nuclear-powered cmiser Aegis cruiser, whether the vessel be a new one or a conversion of the VIR-

The House accepted a caveat that the components should be common to the conventionally-powered DDG-47 system, should it be necessary to interchange the equipment among these ships.

Amphibious Assault Ships. The Senate offered an amendment authorizing $45 million for conversion of one LPH amphibious assault ship to a light carrier.

The Navy wants more air-capable platforms for anti-submarine and mine warfare. The Senate also wants $70 million for advance procurement for a sixth LHA amphibious assault ship. The House had no objection, but the conferees deleted these projects. However, the Secretary will study these needs and report to the Armed Services Committee.

DDG-2. The House offered $151 million for the advance procurement for conversion of the DDG-2 guided missile destroyer. The Senate authorized $128 million. The House recedes and the project is approved.

T-Aegis Surface Ocean Surveillance Ships. The budget listed $98,000,000 for two of these ships. The conferees said $69,000,000. These funds will not be obligated until the Navy successfully completes a new technical and operational evaluation of the mission electronics equipment.

Nuclear Attack Submarines. Approval of the request is $433 million for one submarine and advance procurement for future submarines of this class was recommended. Thirty-two of the SSN-688 class of nuclear attack submarines have been previously approved. These submarines, when delivered, will fulfill the Navy's objective of an all-nuclear attack submarine force.

Guided Missile Frigate. The fiscal year 1979 request is for eight guided missile frigates at a cost of $1,581.7 million.

Twenty-six ships have been previously approved. The guided missile frigates will provide protection against air and submarine threat for underway replenishment groups, amphibious forces and military and mercantile convoys.

Submarine And Destroyer Tenders.

The conferees agreed that the Navy should reevaluate its future needs for submarine and destroyer tenders and submit the results of this study to Congress not later than April 15, 1979.

Navy Cuts "Lamps III' Costs. The House bill recommended deletion of the GINIA.

$124 million the Navy asked for the development of LAMPS III anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter system. The House conferees claimed the program has become too costly for expected performance, the cost being estimated at $15,000,000 per deployed helicopter. A Senate amendment would have decreased the Navy's asking price and reduced some of the LAMPS duties.

However, the Secretary of the Navy told the committees that the Navy had restmctured the LAMPS III program to effect savings of at least $400,000 million below the previously estimated cost of $3.9 billion. The conferees authorized $95 million, not to spend until savings are assured. Program is supposed to be operational in 1984.

Navy V/STOL Aircraft Study. The conferees agreed that the Navy's Sea Based Air Master Study Plan is fundamental to achieving a systematic evaluation of the pros and cons of V/STOL, the airplane that takes off and lands vertically. This type of airplane is used by Russia and other foreign nations. The U.S. Marines almost desperately want it because it wouldn't require an airfield and could be located almost beside them. It could add to the proposed program of locating more airpower at sea, because it would require a minimum of deck space.

The conferees agreed that it is premature for the Navy to commit to a V/STOL hardware development program to make a choice of starting a Type A or a Type B (supersonic) prototype until the cost effectiveness and the operational concepts of V/STOL, as compared to CTOL alternatives, have been thoroughly evaluated.

The conferees provided $7.5 million to support this study. Another $25 million was provided in several other program elements to support basic aircraft technology, not uniquely related to V/STOL. Surface Effect Ship. The Defense Department did not request any funds for development of the Surface Effect Ship in fiscal 1979. The House bill recommended an addition of $93 million to the Navy's budget request for continued research and development. The Senate amendment authorized $30 million for SES component development only.

The House conferees emphasized that the SES is the Navy's only hightechnology program that could provide a high speed deep water surface ship for the post-1980 period.

The conferees agreed to authorize $80 million for continued SES research, development, test and evaluation. They had been advised that that authorization is adequate to proceed with the development of the 3,000-ton prototype SES during fiscal year 1979.

Submarine Communication. The conferees approved $20,000,000 for RDT&E only, as proposed by the Senate, Shipmate, January-February 1979

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for the Navy's Extremely Low FreDon't Forget The SLCM! The Defense quency (ELF) communication system be- Department requested $215 million for tween the surface and submerged subcmise missiles in fiscal 1979, as follows: marines. The money may not be ex$40.1 million for long-lead items for the pended unless the President certifies to Ground Launched Cmise Missile the Congress that the use of funds for (GLCM) and $174.9 million for the Air such purpose is in the national interest, Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM). There that a site has been selected for deploywas no allotment for the Sea Launched ment of such a system, and in no event Cmise Missile (SLCM). may any of such funds be used for full The House bill provided full authorizascale development or construction of tion for the procurement of 36 ALCMs; another test-bed facility for an ELF no authority for the long lead procurecommunication system. ment of the GLCM; and $40 million to initiate long lead procurement of the SLCM. Champus Payments at 80 Percentile.

The Senate amendment authorized only While many people were hoping for and 24 ALCMs at $56.9 million; $20 million working for Champus payments at 90 percentile instead of the 75 percentile au- for the SLCM; and $40.1 million for the GLCM. thorized in the fiscal year 1978 DoD appropriations act, the Senate proposed The conferees agreed with the House Champus payments at 80 percentile. recommendation that greater emphasis When the percentile was 75 percent, it should be placed on procurement of the was reported that many doctors were SLCM in light of the Navy's urgent redropping out of the Champus program quirement for a long-range, anti-ship misbecause they could make no money at sile capability. Consequently the conthat level of prices in the area where they ferees authorized $30.1 million for the practiced. If the percentile were only 90, SLCM. The House conferees agreed with everything would be fine. The conferees the Senate position to provide long lead agreed to the Senate's 80 percentile and funding authorization peculiar to the said that reimbursement should cover cer- GLCM in the event this weapon is tified nurse-midwives, but not certified selected for use as a theatre tactical psychiatric-mental health nurse speweapon. The conferees recommended an cialists and other nurse specialists. authorization of $20.2 million for the

GLCM. The House agreed with the Senate on the $156.9 million for the ALCM.

Disability Retirement System Extended President Carter has extended the present disability retirement system until next September at least. It was possible that the system would have to be changed September 14 because the Defense Department's disability program was linked to the "national emergency" declared by President Tmman in 1950 and that emergency ended on September 14.

President Carter and the Congress acted in time to prolong the present system but, during the next year, must change the policy to make it permanent.

Under the present system, a disabled serviceman qualifies for retirement or separation, as long as he is entitled to basic pay and as long as the disability is not incurred during an unauthorized absence or because of willful neglect or intentional misconduct. Men with less than eight years' service would be entitled to disability or separation only if the disability was the "proximate result of performing active duty."

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Maryland residents please add 5% sales tax.

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Overseas Students Benefit The Defense Department is considering plans to make more equal the benefits of military kin living overseas and attending schools in the United States as compared to benefits of government-civilian kin doing the same thing.

Presently student dependents of military people overseas are authorized one round trip to school in the United States on a space-required basis with a baggage limit of 66 pounds. Student dependents of civil government personnel overseas are authorized one round trip to school in the United States each year on space required basis with a baggage limit of 350 pounds.

The Air Force Sergeants Association, writing to Secretary of Defense Harold Brown said the lower benefits for military people comprise "another inequity that discourages high quality men and women from remaining in the military services of our country."

DoD officials working on this project agree that travel benefits for civilian and military dependents should be equal. But there is much more to this subject than proposed, and it will be some time before such a proposal will be ready for Congress.

Military Union Law Public Law 95-610, the law banning military unions, makes it illegal: —For a service member to join a military union or ask others to join. A military union is defined as one that engages in, or attempts to engage in, acts such as negotiation, representation, or picketing to alter the terms or conditions of military service.

—For any person to try to enroll military people in such a union or negotiate on their behalf.

—For any military supervisor or commander to negotiate with a military union.

Persons accused of violating these provisions will be prosecuted by courtsmartial in the case of military people and in the federal courts in the case of civiUans.

The law does not prevent service people from being members of a union through their off-duty employment. It also does not ban membership in associations that lobby Congress for military benefits.

Survivor Benefit Plan While the new law on survivor benefits.

Public Law 95-397, offers definite improvement over previous law on this subject, it still does not include at least two provisions its House sponsors want.

These provisions were not included in the Senate's version of the bill, and renewed effort will be made to get the Senate to approve them in the 96th Congress.

The new law contains: —Provision for benefits to survivors of Reservists who have served enough time but haven't reached retirement age 60.

—A raise equal to the increase in the cost of living since 1972 (66 percent) for widows receiving benefits under the Retired Servicemen's Family Protection plan.

—A reinstatement of SBP benefits to widows who remarry after age 60 and thus lose their Dependency and Indemnity Compensation benefits.

—An elimination of the Social Security offset in SBP for widows who are working but not receiving Social Security benefits.

The House had included these provisions in H.R. 3702. It also included the following provisions, which the Senate did not approve: Cut in half the Social Security offset from the dead spouses' military service, and changed the method of recomputing SBP costs after retired pay increases. However, the Senate did not include these last two provisions in its version of the bill, and the House hopes to influence the Senate to pass these provisions in the 96th Congress.

Military associations investigating govemment handling of this program discovered that the govemment is making a substantial profit on it. The govemment is taking in a lot more than it is giving out.

Military retirees were paying a lot more for benefits than Civil Service retirees.

This makes the associations more determined to get more benefits, and they need them, for participation in the SBP program is decreasing.

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Controlled Carrier Bill The President has signed into law HR998, the Controlled Carrier Bill, which empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to require that vessels of state-owned fleets trading in the United States demonstrate that their rates are compensatory.

The law is clearly aimed at the Soviet Union's long-standing policy of operating its ships in our trade at rates so low that free nation lines cannot compete. While these unfair trade practices, designed to promote political rather than economic ends, are only a part of the general problems facing the U. S. and westem merchant marines, they do constitute a serious threat to the economies and security of nations outside the Soviet sphere.

Their eliminafion is a major step forward; one we hope will be followed by other free world govemments.

A Necessary Expenditure?

Here's a candidate for Senator Proxmire's "Golden Fleece Award," though we doubt that he'll pick it up.

The final marathon day of the 95th Congress required a record five volumes of the Congressional Record to print what happened, at an estimated cost of $354 per page. Fair enough for the official record, though any other publisher would go broke at half of that printing cost.

But, a sixth volume was printed, comprising 349 pages of material not spoken on the floor but "inserted for the record." It contains praise for colleagues, tributes to home town heroes, reprints of other speeches and articles, and a few remarks about legislation. It only cost a trifling $123,000!

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Navy Sports Tom B a t e s , Sports Information Director, Naval A c a d e m y Athletic A s s o c i a t i o n

Mids cap off Best Season in 15 Years with 28-0 Triumph over Army and head for First Bowl Appearance Smce 1963 It was beyond almost everyone's expectations. Navy beating Army 28-0 for the Mids' fifth win in six years that George Welsh has been their coach. Even Welsh had admitted during the days prior to the contest that he was "more worried about this Army-Navy game than any other since I've been coach."

It was definitely a fitting climax to one of the great years in the history of Navy football and also served to point out another characteristic of the 1978 squadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;its ability to come back after the adversity of three straight losses that had produced some doubts as to just how good this team really was.

The Mids had opened the year with seven straight wins, including a 21-11 triumph over Pitt that propelled them into 11th place in both wire service poll rankings, before the consecutive defeats to ragged North Dame (27-7), Syracuse (2017) and Florida State (38-6). Then, as Welsh pointed out in the post-Army game press conference: "A lot of credit has to go to this team for pulling itself together.

They did a good job of coming back after the three losses. But you probably have to cite co-captains Nick Mygas and Phil McConkey more than anyone for bringing the team back together."

Welsh did not mention the fact that the Mids had been physically beat up during the three game losing string and perhaps, even more importantly, were emotionally drained. This was one year he welcomed the two week respite before the Army game.

Never in Welsh's tenure had so many key people gone down at once. The casualty list included leading msher Steve Callahan, the youngster tailback from Groveton TX, who missed two games (Syracuse and Florida State) with a knee injury; McConkey, who suffered a knee injury during the Syracuse game, did not play against Florida State, and was able to make just a token appearance against the Cadets; fullback Larry Klawinski, a three-year regular, whose knee injury against Syracuse required surgery; and linebacker Nick Mygas, who missed the FSU game with a knee injury. Also not playing much in the Syracuse and FSU games was stellar youngster middle guard Terry Huxel. Additionally, Callahan's reShipmate, January-February 1979

gained three. Tolbert made first down on an eight-yard, third down draw play.

Then Callahan, displaying the form he had shown eariy in the year, sprinted six yards to the five. Two plays later, Leszcynski drove in from the two for a score.

Again, Ellis put the kickoff through the end zone. Again Army registered a minus four yards on three downs and punted to the Mid 44. It took Navy 10 plays again to score, with Leszczynski mixing in a couple of passes in the 56-yard thrust.

One was a 16-yarder to Gainer and the other a nine-yarder to Sherlock. Callahan burst through the middle from the one for the TD and Navy was up, 14-0, with 4:16 left in the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Leszczynski marched the Mids 48 yards for a score in Defensive award winner Thunder Thornton just nine plays with Sherlock accounting crashes in on Army's quarterback for 28 yards on four carries. Again it was Leszczynski who scored from the one Welsh received much credit in the and Navy enjoyed a 21-0 lead. press for his excellently-designed game Army then made its only serious threat plan and for his decision after winning the of the first half with a march to the Mid toss to elect to take the wind, instead of two, but on fourth-and-one Mulrane receiving. The game plan called for the elected to try for a touchdown instead of Mids to return to the things it had been doing to win the first seven, namely run- the first down and his pass fell incomplete in the end zone. ning the ball well and playing fine defense. It did both of these against Army, Navy's final touchdown will be one particularly since its physical and mental that will be talked about for a long time. health was the best it had been in a The Mids had taken over early in the month. Even Army's now departed coach third period on the Cadet 42 when defenHomer Smith admitted, "Navy taking the sive end Charlie (Thunder) Thomton, a wind proved to be a factor. It was a calcu- second classman, fell on a fumble. When lated risk," he said. "They rolled the dice the drive stalled at the 18, Welsh sent in and won. They capitalized on some things Bob Tata to try a field goal. The snap was we did and suddenly we were down, high and wide and Leszczynski, the 14-0." holder, had to scramble for it. He eluded one Army defender, got a tremendous The game's opening kickoff saw block from Tata on another, and found Navy's Roland Ellis sail it into the end Callahan standing all alone at the 18. The zone, and the Cadets started from their swift youngster made the catch and own 20. Three plays later, after dashed into the end zone, dragging the linebacker Tom Paulk had sacked Cadet signal-caller Earle Mulrane for an 11-yard last two defenders with him. loss, the Military Academy was punting Although some of the press smiled from its own 14. Ward Whyte's boot car- about it, Welsh claimed the Mids practice ried only to the Army 43 and from here such situations. the Mids methodically drove 43 yards in In the meantime, the Mids' defense was just 10 plays for a touchdown. doing its job. Welsh lined them up in a Quarterback Bob Leszczynski directed near-eight man line, daring Army to what Philadelphia Inquirer sportswriter throw. As a result, the Cadets had but 73 Bill Lyon called "a diversified, brilliantly yards mshing. Navy intercepted four of conceived ground game . . . using a their 43 pass attempts, and the Mids had tight-end in motion, digging at Army's four tackles resulting in 22 yards of middle with fullback Kevin Tolbert, and losses. Army managed to complete 17 slashing at the flanks with Callahan and passes for 197 yards.

Mike Sherlock."

The victory gave Navy its best record First, on this initial drive, Sherlock in 15 years, 8-3, since 1963 when the burst up the middle for 10, followed by a Mids, led by Roger Staubach, were tight-end reverse on which Curt Gainer ranked second in the country, finished 9-1 placement, youngster Mike Sherlock, was nursing a groin injury.

Fortunately, most were ready for the Army and McConkey, getting better each day, was a psychological factor that aided the Mids immensely.

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Callahan convoyed around end by half the team, including the quarterback

Leszcynski hands off to Kevin Tolbert Navy backs and linemen sweep out ahead of the ball carrier

and went to the Cotton Bowl. It also brought the Commander-in-Chiefs Trophy back to Navy after a year at Army.

Sherlock, who hails from Aldan, Pa., right outside Philadelphia, was voted the game's outstanding offensive player by both ABC Chevrolet and Mutual La-ZBoy Chairs after netting 105 yards on 23 carries, his career high at Navy. Callahan had 72 yards on 15 carries and Tolbert, a vasfly-improved performer making only his second start, added 50 yards on 12 mshes. The Mids rolled up 276 yards on the ground.

Leszczynski's TD toss off the missed field goal try was the 26th of his career at the Academy, eclipsing John Cartwright's (1965-67) old mark by one.

Defensively, Thornton walked away with both network's defensive honors after his 11 tackles, fumble recovery, two tackles for losses and pass interception.

Safety Fred Reitzel also had 11 tackles while Paulk had eight from his linebacking position and Chuck Zingler nine from his cornerback slot.

The shutout was Navy's fourth of the season, a feat last accomplished by a Mid team in 1955 when Welsh was the quarterback and a defensive halfback. "I never helped with the defensive end much, though," laughed Welsh.

As a team. Navy finished 13th in the country in team defense (249.9 avg.), 13th in mshing defense (120.1) and seventh in scoring defense.

Although Navy became known as a team without "superstars" throughout the season, individual honors did accrue to a number of Mid players as Shipmate was going to press.

Defensive back Gregg Milo, the rover in the Mids' defensive scheme, along with McConkey and Thornton were honorable mentions on the Associated Press AllAmerica team. Milo was a first team All-East selection by both AP and UPI while McConkey and Thornton were both selected to the AP All-East second team.

Four Midsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;McConkey, Milo, Thornton and defensive tackle John Merrillâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were named to the Eastem College Athletic Conference Division I-A All-East team for the year.

Here is a summary of games since the last issue of Shipmate: Navy 21, Pittsburgh 11 It appeared the nation as well as the record 32,909 Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium crowd found out Navy was for real as the Midshipmen topped the Panthers, 21-11, giving them their seventh straight victory of the 1978 season. It was the best start since 1960 when that squad won its first seven enroute to an Orange Bowl berth.

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much of the credit for the victoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it held Pitt to a minus 28 yards mshing. In the meantime, the offense did make some timely drives.

The Panthers threatened first, nosing into Navy territory four times in the first quarter, but failing to score while having the ball nine minutes of the period.

In the second quarter. Navy, now with the wind, went 68 yards with tailback Callahan mnning the final seven yards only to fumble at the goalline. But the alert McConkey fell on the ball for the six points. Midway through the same period, Pitt recovered a Navy fumble on the Mid 15, but the spirited defense allowed only a 28-yard field goal.

On their first possession of the second half, the Mids went 48-yards for their second touchdown with Klawinski bursting over from the three. That made the score 14-3. A key play in the drive was a 16-yard end run by Callahan.

Later in the third period, defensive tackle Steve Chambers grabbed a Pitt fumble on the Panther 21. A 14-yard reverse by tight-end Gainer edged the ball closer. And then Leszczynski, fumbling the snap, picked it up and tossed four yards to Gainer for a touchdown.

Pitt quarterback Rick Trocano attempted 51 passes in the game, completing 25 of them for 275 yards. But that coupled with the minus 28 yards mshing kept Navy first in team defense in the country.

Notre Dame 27, Navy 7 Notre Dame used a cmnching ground attack to splinter Navy's number-one ranked defense for 530 yards while dealing the Mids their first loss of the season, 27-7 at Cleveland, Ohio.

The Irish registered 375 yards on the ground alone, just 24 short of what Navy had allowed its previous seven opponents altogether.

The Mids didn't help themselves with two early mistakes that Notre Dame turned into 10 points. Callahan had opened the game with a 36-yard scamper on the first play from scrimmage but on the next play, Leszczynski fumbled when hit from behind. And the Irish quickly covered 46 yards in six plays with quarterback Joe Montana passing 20 yards to Kris Haines for the score. Another Mid fumble on the Navy 44 led to a 38-yard field goal for Notre Dame.

In the second period, the Irish first marched 80 yards in 11 plays with Jerome Heavens scoring from the three and then Vagas Ferguson, an Irish halfback, sprinted 80 yards for a touchdown.

Another field goal gave ND a 24-0 halftime lead.

The Mids avoided a shutout when quarterback Bob Powers hit McConkey with a 13-yard TD pass with 12 seconds remaining. Ferguson had a Notre Dame single game record 219 yards mshing on 18 carShipmate, January-February 1979

ries and Heavens added 100 yards on 21 carries.

Syracuse 20, Navy 17 In what was probably the most disappointing loss of the year, Syracuse used a 30-yard field goal by Dave Jacobs with 2:38 remaining to edge the Mids, 20-17, in the last game played at 71-year-old Archbold Stadium.

This was the game where injuries began to break up the Mid lineup. Callahan was out with a knee injury and both McConkey and Klawinski went down with knee injuries in the course of the game, Klawinski requiring surgery.

Despite the injuries and despite being down 14-0 at the end of the first period, the Mids nearly pulled it out. Quarterback Leszczynski, after Jacobs' field goal had shoved the Orange up, 20-17, passed the Mids to the Syracuse 22. His first three passes here failed. On fourth down, he threw towards wingback Sandy Jones in the end zone. But the ball was a bit behind the Mid senior and as he turned to reach for it, he was unable to hold on.

Navy, which had only a 27-yard Bob Tata field goal in the first half, had come back on Leszczynski's arm to gain a 17-17 tie early in the fourth period. But then came the play that may have stymied the Mid momentum. Faced with a fourth-and-eighth on its own 30, Syracuse sent Jim Goodwill into punt formation.

He elected to run instead, gaining a first down and keeping alive the drive that led to Jacobs' winning field goal.

Florida State 38, Navy 6 Florida State used the finely-honed passing of Jimmy Jordan plus some early third quarter mistakes by Navy to springboard from a 7-6 halftime lead to a 38-6 eventual triumph over the Mids. The loss was Navy's third in a row but the Mids had four key offensive people on the sidelines with injuries.

Playing before a regional television audience as well as 45,795 spectators, the Mid defense did an excellent first half job but the offense was inconsistent. It missed an early scoring opportunity with a fumble at the FSU six, but moments later got on the board with a 43-yard Bob Tata field goal.

In the second period, Jordan came roaring off the bench for starter Wally Woodham and took the Seminoles 60 yards in 12 plays for a TD. Tata connected on a 46-yard field goal with 2:28 left in the first half The second half was all Florida State.

It scored the first five times it touched the ball. The first followed an interception that was returned to the Mid 28 and resulted in a 38-yard field goal. The next came after a Navy fumble on the 11. And Jordan turned that into the first of his four second half scoring tosses, three of them to speedy Sam Piatt.

Despite the loss, the Mids were selected that afternoon for the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.

Brilliant Navy Comeback in Holiday Bowl "We said we wanted something to remember about this season," explained Navy co-captain Phil McConkey, his voice reaching a shrill as the heavy press corps mobbed him in the visiting team locker room of the San Diego Stadium after the Mids' brilliant comeback in the inaugural Holiday Bowl, a 23-16 win over Western Athletic Conference champion, Brigham Young.

Coach George Welsh admitted he was a bit worried when BYU scored on its first possession of the second half and advanced to a 16-3 lead. "We hadn't come back from behind to win all year and Brigham Young was playing well."

But the Mids, who had managed just 59 yards mshing in the first half and had failed to move the ball at the start of the third period, suddenly sprang to life behind Leszczynski, who swiftly took them on a 76-yard drive that featured a reverse

by McConkey for 16 yards. After three mns from the BYU 14 by tailback Mike Sherlock, sophomore fullback Kevin Tolbert busted up the middle from the four and the Mids had their first TD of the night.

The score also was a signal for the Navy defense to uphold its honorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the final 23 minutes of the game, it allowed the Cougars a total of 24 yards, while the Mids were rolling up 235 yards and 17 points.

On its next possession, again keyed by a 26-yard reverse by McConkey, the Mids moved to the 11 where Bob Tata hit on a 28-yard field goal, his second threepointer of the contest. Navy now trailed only 16-13 with 13:27 left in the game.

BYU, noted for its strong passing, again was halted by the Mid defense and punted to the Mid 35. On the first play following the punt, Leszczynski fired long up the far sideline to a streaking McConkey, who appeared to be well covered.

But the spunky split-end came back for the ball, leaped to catch it and still maintained his balance on the BYU 35. Moments later he was standing all alone in the end zone.

"That was one of the greatest grabs I've ever seen," said BYU coach La Veil Edwards. "He had to go up in the air, turn his body . . ."

McConkey's TD catch gave the Mids a 20-16 lead and the defense again shut down BYU, stopping a fourth down fake punt run a yard short of first down on the BYU 42. From here the Mids went to the 10 where Tata kicked a 27-yard field goal for the final margin, 23-16.

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Valuable Offensive Player and defensive honors went to BYU linebacker Tom Enlow. Overshadowed was Leszczynski, who completed seven of 13 passes for 123 yards and also did some nifty scrambling in the first half. Also deserving credit was the Mid defense, particularly ends Charlie Thomton and Mark Stephens, tackles John Merrill and Steve Chambers and middle guard A. B. Miller.

The win gave the Mids a 9-3 record for the year, earned them a ranking of 17th in the UPI final poll and won them recognition as the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I-A "Team of the Year." Well done!

Navy Lightweights Finish Second Navy's lightweight football team finished second in the Eastem Lightweight Football League (behind Cornell) with a 4-1 record, its only loss being to the Big Red by a 20-14 margin.

Seven Navy players were selected to the All-League team, including wide receiver Tom Brandl (7 catches 179 yards), tight-end John Byzewski, guard Gerry Dalo and center Jim Brownlee on offense; tackle Bill Weber, guard Jim Fawcett and back Francis Sablan on defense.

Navy's Cummins Wins Heptagonals Cross Country Championship Navy senior Tim Cummins of Detroit, Mich., won the individual title at the 40th Heptagonals Cross Country championships this year as the Mids finished second in the team standings behind Princeton.

Cummins was the first Mid mnner to win a Heptagonals cross country title since Buzz Lawlor did it in 1966. Cummins later placed sixth in the NCAA District II regional meet that qualified him for the NCAA championship race, but he did not place in that event.

Navy Women's Volleyball Team takes Third Straight State Title Navy's women's volleyball team won its second straight Maryland State Women's Division A Volleyball championship in early November and its third straight state title in as many years of participation in the sport.

The Mid women then went on to the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics For Women Regional College Division championships at Canisius College where they finished in a tie for fifth place.

In the state tourney, two Mid players.

Susan Stapler and Cathy Rayhill, both second classmen, were selected to the all-tourney team. Overall, the Mids finished 34-13-1 this year.

Soccer Team a 1-0 Loser to Army Navy's soccer team suffered a disappointing 1-0 loss to Army in its season finale, to end up with a 5-4-3 record.

The Cadets scored on a penalty kick with but 20 seconds remaining in the first half. The Mids came up with several scoring opportunities when they had the wind in the second half but were unable to connect.

Leading scorers for the Mids for the year were firstie Jeff Johnson with five goals and six assists and plebe Dan Humphrey with five goals and four assists.

Basketball Team Enjoys a 3-1 Start Navy's basketball team jumped off to wins in three of its first four games with senior captain Kevin Sinnett leading the attack.

The Mids bested Haverford 80-59 in the opener, then came back to topple American University, 89-78, behind Sinnett's 30 points and another 18 by junior guard Bmce Grooms before an 82-66 loss to Penn, the defending Ivy League champ.

In the latter game guard Chuck Greene, a sophomore, tossed in 24 points.

In its last outing, the Mids topped Lebanon Valley, 88-60, behind Sinnett's 22 points and 17 by Grooms and 16 by Greene.

Wrestlers Start Well Navy's wrestling team showed immediately it was not going to repeat its losing record of last year when it won the four-team Turkey Bowl Tournament at the Naval Academy in late November with five Mids taking championships. In addition, it scored a 34-6 win over Southem Illinois in its first dual meet.

Winning tournament titles for the Mids were youngster Doug Heimbach at 126, plebe Dave Halladay at 134, firsties Bob Trombadore at 142 and Larry Kihlstadius at 150, and segundo Paul Supchak at 158.

Heimbach and heavyweight Pat Brady, a youngster, both had pins in the win over Southern Illinois.

with a hard-won victory in the Timme Augsten Memorial Regatta on 24-26 November. Called the "Rose Bowl of Intercollegiate Sailing" by the Chicago Tribune, the regatta is sailed in Lehman 10 dinghies at the Chicago Yacht Club and serves as the doublehanded championship for midwest colleges. Other schools qualify in their own districts for invitations to the 18-team regatta.

After 14 races on Friday Navy led by 20 points but 16 more on Saturday, in very light air, left the Merchant Marine Academy ahead by 7. The first three races Sunday put Navy ahead again, by 2, but the next two gave Merchant Marine a 3 point edge. In the last race of the day, the 36th of the regatta. Navy finished four boats ahead of Merchant Marine and won the overall trophy by a single point. That win gives Navy a fine chance for first place nationally in the winter rankings.

Earlier in the month Texas nosed out Navy by four points to win the Intercollegiate Sloop Racing Championship, sailed on 3-5 November at the Academy.

Navy, the defending champion, altemated All-America skippers Paul Van Cleve and Gerard Coleman, backed by veteran crews Doug Keiler and Rich Fitzpatrick, but couldn't quite catch the Texans, who dropped below second only twice. The Texas skipper, last year's runner-up, is also an All-America, as were three others who finished behind Navy. However, a second in this event is 14 points toward the overall national championship (first place is 16).

On the same weekend Navy's plebes finished second to the Merchant Marine Academy in district eliminations to qualify for the Atlanfic Coast Freshmen Championship. On 11 November they again finished second to Merchant Marine in the finals.

Another mnner-up was Navy's Bill Cavitt in the Middle Atlantic Singlehanded championship, won by St. Mary's. Navy's other two boats placed seventh and ninth.

On 11-12 November Kathy Karlson and Kathy McGurk led the way to a Navy win in the Middle Atlantic Women's Sailing Championship, sailed in 420 dinghies at New York Maritime. At Annapolis the same weekend Navy placed third among 17 teams in the War Memorial Regatta, finishing behind the Merchant Marine Academy and St. Mary's College.

Navy placed third behind Merchant Marine and Yale in the Atlantic Coast Doublehanded Championship, sailed in 420 dinghies at New York Maritime on 18-19 November. "So near but yet so far"; there were only seven points difference from first to third among the 12 teams.

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Class News DEADLINE: For April—Classes prior to 1930—5 February; later Classes—12 February For May—Classes prior to 1930—2 March; later Classes—9 March

08 and prior send directly to Shipmate Percent Members: 71

09 Sec'y. and Treas., RAdm. Frank A. Braisted, USN (Ret.), 3104 Cleveland Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Percent Members: 53

11 Chairman Class Comm., RAdm. G. J. McMillin, USN (Ret.) 4242 Linden Ave., Long Beach CA 90807 Members Comm.

Cdr. William J. Butler USN (Ret.) 109 Oxford St., Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 86 The christening of the HARRY W . HILL

(DD-986) named for our distinguished Classmate, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 7 October 1978 was a heart-warming occasion for those It is with regret that we report the death of who attended.

The ceremony opened with the Presentation Elizabeth Swartzell Davis, widow of Cdr. Charles Covode Davis who died in 1959. Mrs. of Colors by the Naval Junior ROTC from the Davis died in the Anne Arundel General Hos- Pascagoula High School and the National Anpital in Annapolis on 7 November 1978. them by the Eighth Naval District Band. Mr. Memorial services were held at St. Anne's in Leonard Erb '42, the president of Ingalls ShipAnnapolis, with interment at Arlington Na- building Company, welcomed everyone and intional Cemetery. She is survived by a daugh- troduced the members of the Hill family prester, Mary Davis Miller of Annapolis, six ent. These totaled 22 persons: Harry Hill's sisgrandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. ter from California, all of Betty's children, son John C. Hill II with his wife Mary Helen, and Our sympathy is extended to the family. other family members from California, Texas and Pennsylvania. Son John was USNA '42.

Ralph Dennett was introduced as the Representative of the Naval Academy Class of 1911.

Ralph was accompanied by his son Armistead Corr. Sec'y, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas (USNA '42) and his grandson Peter.

725 West Blvd., Kokomo IN 46901 President Erb introduced daughter Betty as Percent Members: 75 the proxy sponsor for her mother who was at As this is read we are well into the year in her home in Annapolis. After the ceremony which the youngest member of the remaining had been completed, those present repaired to 1910ers becomes a Nonagenarian, "Wondering a delightful reception and luncheon hosted by as the years unfold, just how it feels when One the Ingalls Company. An open telephone line REALLY gets old!" was maintained to Annapolis in order that Quoting from a letter from Capt. Edgar M. Margaret could follow the entire procedure.

Williams (Buster) of just a week before this is Various family and friends spoke to her briefly written: "January 1978 my health report read from the luncheon. very much like yours, but in August underwent Following all the festivities a group including critical surgery. Operation was successful and Ralph Dennett took a tour of USS CONOLLY recovery progressing nicely until the situation (DD-979) which was about to be commisbecame complicated by influenza. If my usual sioned, a sister-ship of HARRY W . HILL. It is Christmas-time correspondents do not hear reported that Ralph made the entire tour, going from me, 1 hope they will consider the contents up and down ladders with the others, the hit of of this note and be patient. Margaret and I the tour! send greetings to you and to your daughter, Carlos Bailey, in his Vermont home, had a members of 1910, and particularly to widows visit from his son, Dr. Carlos Jr., and his wife of Classmates. This is the first and only at- Connie, in from California during the Summer tempt to write since being stricken. Sincerely, (September). His daughter Alice was with him 'Buster'." for sometime and will be there for Christmas.

And your reporter's Juniors are conspiring Carlos expects to be with Alice at her home in to prevent his usual Christmas Greetings, by Virginia for Thanksgiving. spending Thanksgiving with one, and ChristBirthday greetings to "Pede" Cygon on 29 mas with the other.

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12 Sec'y, Como. Ralph S. Wentworth, USN (Ret.) 1922 Carrollton Rd., Pendennis Mt. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 82 It is with regret that we have learned of the death of Rachel, widow of Adm. Louis E. Denfeld, who died in 1972. Louis, of course, had been Chief of Naval Operations in 1947 when he had the difficult task of keeping a peacetime Navy in being. He later ran for the position of governor of the State of Massachusetts but came in second; however, he was the president of the Naval Academy Alumni Association from 1951-53. After his death, Rachel stayed on in Weston, Massachusetts. They had no children, but our deepest sympathy is expressed to other members of the family.

13 Pres., VAdm. Glenn B. Davis, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas. MGen. C. G. Helmick, USA (Ret.) 4784 Old Dominion Dr., Arlington VA 22207 Percent Members: 83

14 Sec'y, RAdm. Donald Royce, USN (Ret.) 65 Meadow Road Riverside CT 06878 203/637-2773

Percent Members: 86 I received an invitation to the commissioning of the USS CONOLLY (DD-979) at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 14 October 1978. The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak, and I didn't go. It is a deserving tribute to the memory and brilliant service of '14's foremost combat officer in WWII, Admiral Richard L. Conolly, to have a modern powerful man-of-war named for him. Dick started WWII as ComDesDiv 7 and 6 serving as screen for Halsey's carriers. Quoting from Morison— "Admiral King had long had his eye on a destroyer squadron, Capt. R.L. Conolly. In Feb. '43 he had him promoted to flag rank and gave him the new command of Landing Craft and Bases North African Waters with training center at Arzeu, Algeria. There were no transports to lift the 3rd Infantry Division from Africa.

Could it make do with LSTs and the like?

Conolly was sure it could, and he showed such energy and skill in converting these beaching craft to troop-carrying purposes that at his urgent request Admiral Hewitt chose him to be Joss Force Cmdr-CTF 86. But Arzeu, Admiral Conolly felt, was too far from the future scene of operation, Sicily. Leaving a staff at Arzeu to train the beaching craft that were still coming over from America, Conolly moved into the Shipmate, January-February 1979

45 big French seaplane base at Bizerte whose harbor had been cleared by Commodore Wm. A. Sullivan. Here were big cranes and a ramp where 18 LSTs could be loaded simultaneously. The Luftwaffe observing the great concentration at Bizerte subjected that base to many night air raids, none very destructive.

Their lack of success is credited by Admiral Conolly to the British air defense which he persuaded the Coastal Command to retain at Bizerte when the rest of the British forces moved on to Tunis."

And so on 9 July 1943. Task Force 86 (Joss) under Admiral Conolly set out for Sicily, and despite adverse weather making it very difficult for the small ships, their objective were achieved, and the Italian city of Licata was completely in American hands by 11:30 on July 10. Morison concludes: "Altho Joss landings in Sicily can hardly compete with those on Tinian one year later for the title of the "perfect amphibious operation," as night landings they were very smooth and successful. Night landings by small craft on rough beaches were accomplished with slight delay and few casualties; the enemy was kept continually off balance; the troops captured all objectives ahead of schedule. Thus the left flank of the entire Allied assault was secured by a bold offensive, and an ample beachhead with a feeder port was obtained for the conquest of Western Sicily."

And I may add, Dick Connolly's place as an amphibious task force commander was established and secure. He took part in the Salerno and Anzio operations where he received the nickname "Close-In Conolly" from the soldiers and sailors for his readiness to take his combatant ships including his flagship in close to reply to enemy short batteries. Then near the end of the year he was ordered to the Pacific to command a new amphibious group which transported the 4th Marines from California to Roi and Namur in the Marshalls which were taken in February 1944 with the Marines enthusiastically confirming the nickname of "Close-in Conolly." From the Marshalls to the Mariannas and the capture of Guam, Tinian and Saipan from the Japanese is a long and interesting account in which Dick Conolly had a big part. Morison has a fine picture of Dick in his Vol. 8 and scattered comments as to his personality which must suffice here—"Robust and genial, thorough and methodical, he loved planning as well as fighting, and the cordial relations established at the planning stage at General Geiger's headquarters at Guadalcanal cemented the Naval and Marine Corps elements into a homogeneous team. Since his junior days Admiral Conolly had been noted for the enthusiasm with which he tackled every task." In three weeks after the landing the battle for Guam was won. Admiral Conolly hauled down his flag in APPALACHIAN and flew back to Pearl Harbor to plan the Palau operation. He next appears in the Southern Attack Group for the Leyte landings on 20 October; then at the Lingayen Gulf landings, II January 1945. Next on Guam, Wilkinson and Conolly began to plan the landings on Kyushu which were never needed. The war ended. Dick became Deputy CNO, Commander US Naval Forces Europe '46 to "50, then president Naval War College until retirement in November 1953. having gone the full course and achieved the four stars of admiral.

Dick became president of Long Island U. three days after he retired from the Navy and under his administration, LIU took over the ten-acre campus in downtown Brooklyn and established Shipmate, January-February 1979

a 126-acre suburban center Post College at Brookville, Long Island. He submitted his resignation to take effect in the Fall of 1962; the president of the Board of Trustees said, "We never dreamed that anyone could do so much in so short a time in building the university. He has had two great careers and he richly deserves the years of leisure that lie ahead."

Then came the tragic day; a jet liner carrying Admiral and Mrs. Conolly in early March 1962, shortly after takeoff from Idlewild, dove into Jamaica Bay taking both to their death. Thus ended the career of 1914's most distinguished member.

And now we are in 1979, 65 years since graduation, time for another five-year reunion—but we probably won't have one, following the pattern of other Classes getting along to this time. But suppose we have a write-in reunion—telling about the present state of affairs, some recollection of days gone by, a word of greeting. Especially directed to those we never or seldom hear from—the widows too. To Old Fourteen Once More!

A note from Lucy Virginia Ralston thanking for the flowers sent to her mother's funeral— "She would have been so happy to receive such a beautiful tribute from the Class of 1914."

15 Chairman and Class Comm. and Sec'y, Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 91 On a lovely fall day in October, Helena and Bill Granat gathered together a group of old Navy friends for luncheon at the Army-Navy Country Club. The occasion was the annual Founders" Day Luncheon the Club has every year on October llth. At the Granat's table, other Fifteeners were the Pret Marshalls and the Strubles. All hands had a good time and enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces.

16 Pres., VAdm. Bertram Rodgers, USN (Ret.) Sec'y-Treas., Capt. George P. Brewster, USN (Ret.), 611 W. 40th St., Baltimore MD 21211 West Coast Reporter, Capt. George F. Chapline, USNR (Ret.) 1327 Inspiration Dr. La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 83 A card dated around the middle of October was received from Red Ready from Siena, Italy, where he was visiting his dear friends Consuelo and Tony Ziroli. While Red gave no details as to what he was doing there or how the Z's were doing. But we were happy to hear they all were in good spirits'.

A nice note from Christopher J. Whalley.

Midn. 4/c USN, gave sincere thanks to the Class for making it possible for him to realize his long-time dream of attending "Annapolis.""

Chris was the recipient of the Honor Scholarship awarded by the N.A. Foundation in the name of the Class for this year. Chris writes that the Academy is all that he had hoped for; he is getting along quite well scholastically and otherwise. His athletic interest is sailing which has become a major sport at the Academy and a very successful one.

West Coast News The 1916-17-18 Classes Monthly Lunch was thoroughly enjoyed at the Admiral Kidd Officers" Club, Naval Training Center, Thursday, October 19th. A three-course menu featuring a very delicious veal entree, as well as all other arrangements, was handled by Amos Root. The lunch did not adjourn as early as usual due to our extremely interesting and enlightening general discussion somewhat monitored by Ed Price, on the Communists gains in the United States, as well as internationally, including the United States' fading stature abroad, especially in Westem Europe.

Present were: 1916—McGinnis, Herndon, Root, Chapline; 1917—Rogers, Comstock, Kiland; 1918—Nichols, Curtis, Price (south from Orange county). Any touring Classmate of these three Classes should remember it is the Thursday of any month nearest the 17th; come join us.

In the delightful "Sky Room," Officers" Club, Naval Air Station, North Island, the 1916-17-18 Class Members enjoyed their November lunch on the 16th.

Ing Kiland made all the colorful arrangements as well as selecting a very delicious three-course menu for the occasion. The preliminary honors were this month captured by La Jolla, McGinnis and Chapline. It certainly was fine to have Bert Rodgers, Hook Jenkins and Joe Loventhal back with us after having missed several lunches due to eye or health problems, which now are under good control.

Harris Lyie of Camarillo has contacted " S o c " McGinnis relative to the San Diego Holiday Bowl where the Midshipmen Football Team will have played long before you read this. All Academy retirees in Southern California are thrilled over the opportunity to see their Alma Mater perform in our area. Bill Livingstone ("20) was again the guest of Amos Root.

Present were: 1916—Herndon, Root, Jenkins, Rodgers, McGinnis, Loventhal, Chapline; 1917—Rogers, Kiland; 1918—Nichols, Curtis, Price (south from Orange County).

Marie Rodgers and Esther Jenkins, with her daughter-in-law, Cdr. Folsom Jenkin's ("53) wife, lunched in the main dining room.

A most impressive Memorial Service was held for Martha Joy, Tumer"s widow, in the large old St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church on Wednesday, October 25th. Mrs. Joy died Sunday, October 22nd, in the Scripps Memorial Hospital. Martha, who moved to La Jolla in 1954, after Turner"s retirement, had been an active, dedicated worker for this church and as a tribute, all four clergy on the staff of this church participated in the extremely fine services. Between 150 and 200 mourners, church workers. Navy and other friends, as well as relatives attended, including Martha's daughter, Mrs. Mollie Roll of Honolulu, and sons Capt. and Mrs. Turner Joy USN (Ret.) "47, of Mountain View, California, Col. and Mrs. David O. Joy USA (Ret.) of Alexandria, Virginia, two grandchildren and other relatives. Directly behind the pews for the immediate family was a pew for the U.S.N.A. Class of 1916. Mourners were Amos Root, "Lil"" Herndon, "Soc"" McGinnis, Blair and George Chapline. Only two floral arrangements graced the altar, one being the 1916 remembrance with the prominent wide blue ribbon showing Class 1916 in gold letters.

Final burial services were graveside on 31 October at the beautiful Naval Academy Cemetery where Turner has rested since 1956. He had served as Superintendent of the Academy

46 from 1952 to 1954. The Class was represented by the always faithful Grace and Mick Carney and by many members of the family and friends. A 1916 Class wreath was in evidence at these services, again expressing the feeling of loss of a grand lady from our ever shrinking roll. May she rest in peace.

"Home in time to enjoy the August heat wave."

We are indeed grateful to Jerry for the above account.

Irma and Bert Rogers celebrated their 60year wedding anniversary on 14 October. It was in the form of a delightful luncheon party at the Army-Navy Club in Washington. Nell and your scribe enjoyed the occasion where they were fortunate to meet some of the Rogers' interesting friends.

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. Secy, Capt. John H. Forshew USNR (Ret.), 2022 Columbia Rd., NW, Washington DC 20009 Percent Members: 78 Connie Forshew is in the Bethesda Naval Hospital where he has been a patient for over two weeks. While his further stay is indefinite, we are hoping of improvement and an early return home.

There were a few of us at the Duke game where Marian and Pi Park put on a nice tailgate party, and afterwards Adelaide Fullenwider had us over for a buffet. Ward Davis, Pi and I dropped in on the Stones. While more or less confined, his spirit is not and his interest in football and things navy is as active as ever.

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: 84 Jerry Wright has allowed the 1918 column to carry verbatim his account of the trip Phyllis and he took last Summer: "Commencing in late July, my wife Phyllis and I spent five very pleasant weeks in Europe. Our first stop was in London, where we were joined by our son, Bill, on vacation from the Washington Riggs Bank. London was very much the same as it was during our two years there as CinCNelm (now CinC N. S. Nav Europe) back in the early '50s, except the City is crowded with Arabs and tourists from the Continent and North America. There were at least 5,000 visitors daily at the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace and we never could get closer than three blocks. It's a beautiful ceremony and we never tired of watching it.

"Picadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square were buried under living bodies and Oxford Street was so crowded as to resemble the Philadelphia stadium after an A-N game. We saw two shows, one good and one awful. The military 'Tattoo' at Earl's Court was tops as always.

"Called on Admiral Mountbatten and saw many R. N. friends of Saclant days. London is a most hospitable city, but I would urge any visitor to steer clear of it during the tourist season.

"Went to France by boat principally for the cross-channel 'experience.' All our fellow passengers were a couple of thousand 'Back packers' seeing Europe on Eurail passes.

Many of them had been living on their backpacks for long periods of rain or shine.

"Paris, like London, was jammed with tourists and prices clean out of sight. A visit to the 'Crazy Horse' would involve an Arab-sized

Jerry at the birthplace of John Paul Jones, Kircudbrightshire, Scotland bank roll. The most popular American hangout is 'Le Drug Store' which is just that.

"I would urge an American tourist of limited means to travel the French countryside where there is ample to see and do at far less expense.

"From Paris we flew to London and from there by rail to Lockerbie, Scotland, for a very pleasant visit with a cousin. Here we were overwhelmed with that inimitable Scotch hospitality centered on haggis, Scotch whiskey and grouse.

"Later our host was Admiral Sir Nigel Henderson, recently the chief of the British Defense Mission in Washington. He lives in an old stone castle full of antiques and surrounded by 100-year-old trees. He and his wife run the whole show with only a single helper, but it seemed there were a dozen. Among the interesting men we met was Sir David HopeDunbar, living nearby. Sir David owns the only piece of silver remaining from the collection which John Paul Jones 'borrowed" from the Earl of Selkirk. All the rest were lost in a fire which destroyed the Selkirk home about 60 years ago. The remaining piece is a beautiful silver teapot in a mahogany case labled 'Teapot No. 14.'

"Sir Nigel took us to the birthplace of John Paul Jones in Kircudbrightshire on the northern shore of Sol way Firth. The birthplace is a very small stone house (two rooms) owned by a Mr. Beachie Blackett who lives nearby. Sir Nigel is keenly interested in restoring the house as a tourist attraction and J.P.J. Memorial and Mr. Blackett has donated the house and grounds to this purpose.

"I have enclosed a picture of the house. On the side almost obscured is a bronze plaque donated by the Naval Historical Foundation which I unveiled when I was CinCNelm in 1953. I am committed to work with Bill Middendorf to raise enough dollars to develop it as a tourist attraction. (Shipmate will hear more from me on this project when it gets under way.)

"Our next stop was Brora, Scotland, on the northeast coast north of Inverness. Salmon fishing excellent but the fish not hungry on the day I tried. Good golf, a tartan mill and plenty of 'Dugans Dew of Kirkentilloch.'

"Edinburgh next. Here I had the good fortune to see the famous Edinburgh Tattoo in the castle courtyard by moonlight. The best bagpipes, drums and bands in all Scofland all decked out in full regalia. A departure from tradition was a 24-girl silent marching team from New Zealand. Very short kilts and the best legs in Britain.

"Our final stop was at The Hague as guests of Phyllis' friend, a young woman totally blind but with all of Holland at her call. Many interesting meals and visits including two with Mr. Joseph Luns, the Secretary General of NATO.

Birthdays Thad Hoppe, 1/2; Sam Hurt, 2/7; Harry Leventen and Mac McDowell, 2/28; Sol Phillips and Arthur Craig, 3/11; Vic Barringer and Lloyd Clifford, 3/18.

We regret to report the death after a long illness of Charmian, widow of our Leon Lovette, who left us in 1967. She passed away after a long illness at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda early on 8 November following an operation for a blood clot in her left leg.

On 10 November Charmian's ashes were interred in Leon's grave in Arlington at a graveside service. Because of our late awareness of the service, only two Classmates were found able to attend: Elmer Duvall and John Sullivan. Many other close friends of the deceased were present at the grave including Capt. and Mrs. Robert W. Curtis, USNA "33, and Capt. and Mrs. Wendell F. Kline, USNA "26. Mrs. Kline is Leon's sister. Two nieces are the only other relatives surviving.

Since Leon's death Charmian lived in their home in Belle Haven, Alexandria, Virginia.

For eight years her sister, Mrs. Thelma B. Montague, lived with her until she died in 1975.

In the afternoon of 10 November, a memorial service for Charmian was conducted in the Clarendon Presbyterian Church.

The above was written by Louise and Bob Curtis, her closest friends and long admirers of the Lovettes, ever since the then Ensign Curtis reported to USS BARKER in the Asiatic Fleet in 1935.

19 Pres., VAdm. George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. M. Callaghan, USN (Ret.) 7108 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 80 Homecoming events see fewer and fewer of alumni around our time in attendance but '19 managed to muster for the 1978 dinner the Dyers, Wincklers, Larry Schetky, Helen McGurl, and Nell Stevens. They also were present at the game on the following day augmented by the Rochesters, Settles, Wynkoops and your recorder with Sarah. The victory over Pittsburgh was a delightful and thrilling occasion, giving rise to the expectation that dear old Navy was on the way to a ranking in the first ten and a possible Bowl bid. What happened thereafter is history already known to you since these notes must be in by midNovember for the Jan.-Feb. issue of Shipmate.

As reported in George Dyer's letter to all Nineteeners, contributions from Classmates and widows to the Naval Academy Foundation for the establishment of a perpetual Class Scholarship Fund are approaching the $15,000 figure. The target amount is $20,000. Classmate donors to the fund in 1978 as of November included Adams, Brown, Clark, Shipmate, January-February 1979

47 Crosley. DeKay, Dyer, Griggs, Holloway, Ihrig. Rend. Tarbutton, Troost, Whitehead and Winckler. Our wonderful widows were not to be outdone and included Florie Allen, Mary Lee Anderson, Eleanor Ansel, Sara Beltz, Miriam Bryant. Kathryn Goodwin, Marion Griffiths, Helen McGurl, Margeurite Muir, Lillian Redman, Doris Rule, Erica Samouce, Sue Talbot and Rody Von Heimburg. News bits from various sources including those from notes that accompanied checks for the Scholarship Fund: John Griggs slowly getting back to battery after a siege in the hospital from which he was released in late August. Frank Troost confesses that he and his wife are not in the best of health but were looking forward to spending the winter months at Fort Lauderdale where his brother resides. Wliitey Whitehead still bemoaning the fact that he had to miss the Sixtieth. Lillian's condition at that time, however, made it completely impracticable. She has shown remarkable improvement since last Summer, but is still unable to do any housework or cooking. As a result they have now entered a retirement home known as Cokesbury Village at Hockessin, DE 19707. Apt. B-06. It is a new establishment just opened last September. "So far," adds Whitey, "we are very pleased with the food and other services.

We have sold the island house in Maine and LilHan's niece is occupying the apartment in Beaufort, South Carolina.""

Sara Beltz returned in the Fall to the old home area in Pennsylvania for the wedding of a grandson. "A happy time and what a treat to see fall colors again for the first time in many years!" Lillian Redman finally out of the body cast after eleven months following back surgery. Feels twenty pounds lighter, but finds it takes quite a bit of doing to get used to the lack of support. The doctor is very pleased with the results of the operation and to hasten the recovery Lillian swims three times weekly at the Letterman Hospital pool. Margeurite Muir reports having had a much better Summer in '78 than the previous one, but finds the restricted activities prescribed by the doctor very frustrating. Rody Von Heimburg has had a siege with foot trouble following a fall. Made a trip to San Francisco and Eugene, Oregon, but had to cut the visit short because of the ailment mentioned. Missed so much the usual summer trip to and visit in Wisconsin and had a hard time surviving the heat of that period in Florida. Alleges that next year she will escape from another Florida Summer even if she has to go in a wheel chair.

I regret very much to report that our most conscientious, capable and effective Class Treasurer, Carl Fink, died in his sleep on 4 December 1978.

But I am happy to advise that the Class of 1919 Honorary Scholarship Fund has now reached its goal of $20,000 through most generous gifts of Mrs. Joy Bright Hancock Optie—and Miles DuVal and George Dyer say "Thanks a million."

Shipmate, January-February 1979

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: 82 Our Classmate Charles T. Wootten died on 3 October after a series of strokes on 3 October at Manor Care nursing home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He was 79. He retired from the Navy in 1936 as a lieutenant. He was bom in New Bern, North Carolina, and served as gunnery officer and is credited as an inventor of a gunsight for A/A fire. In the mid-thirties he was C O . of the Naval Home in Philadelphia.

Our deep sympathy to his widow, Clare Erly, of his home in Rossmoor Leisure World and his family: his two sons LCol. Angus E. Wootten USA (Ret.) of Jamestown, New York and Morgan B. of Hyattsville; two daughters, Clare Crawford-Mason of Washington and Helen Lee Wootten of Silver Spring; 13 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

Carter Anderson attended the funeral at Arlington on 6 October. As suggested by the family, the Class contributed to a scholarship in his memory at DeMatha High School.

Mary Gwynn Crocker had a stroke while in Charlottesville for the funeral of her brother and is still at the hospital there. Our sympathy and best wishes to her.

Charlotte Robinson, widow of our Robbie, died in Florida on 3 October and was buried in Arlington on 11 October, Carter being in attendance. Our sympathy to her family.

At our Class luncheon at the A-N Club on 27 October those present were: Anderson, Crowe, Daggett, Maichle, Martin, Harrison, Pearson, Mansfield and Hal Van Buren, who was down from the Cape on a visit to Andy.

For the Alumni dinner that night in the messhall we had Eddie Smith, Helen and Del Fahrney, Harry Corman and George Dana, the Haffs and Martin.

The Homecoming game came as a big surprise to Pittsburgh: Navy 21-Pitt 11. Our party after the game at Alumni House totalled 26: — two Andersons plus Guinevere and Jeanne, their adopted daughters, Mrs. Jo-Jo Anderson "19, Hal Van Buren, two Lees, the Becks, Nell Stevens "19 and Mr. Emil Nobs of Annapolis, two Fahmeys, Kitty DeWeese, two Haffs, their daughter Dutchie Koczak and granddaughter Alice, Marilyn Hepburn, Willie Korns, Mary Jo Miller, Wap and Frances and Chris Martin, and Happy Osbom.

On 3 November Emmy and Frank Maichle celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Congratulations and good wishes to them.

On 9 November 1 called Fred Cunningham at Bethesda. He is not quite out of intensive care there but doing well. He says "Thanks for the flowers.'" This I pass along to Mead.

From Chick Hartman, West Coast News— meantime we have seen the Fahmeys here at Homecoming.

"The Class of '20 is getting older—Helen Fahmey put on a great birthday party for Del on Sunday, October 22 (birthday the 23rd). Del is now 80. The party was at North Island Officers' Club with about 75 guests. The highlight of the entertainment was Del and his son singing—Del in good voice—'Old Man River.'

"Then Florence and I went to La Jolla to wish George Gregory a happy 80th. Greg is coming along but has to depend on oxygen

supplements. While there Jesse Goode dropped by. He is in good shape but he says his wife is 'not so good.' Jesse lives in Encinitas, nearby.

The Deckers are OK. 1 see them at church every Sunday. The Wheylands are still in Michigan but should be back shortly. 1 talked to Helen Christoph. Dutch is holding his own, but barely. Hal Fick phoned Greg, so I know he is OK. 1 haven't seen or heard from the rest of the Class. Warm regards to Frances and you."

21 Pres., Mr. Homer O. Elmers Secy, 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. Sydney B. Dobbs USN (Ret.) 1155 Star Park, W., Coronado CA 92118 Percent Members: 84 East Coast A small but enthusiastic contingent from the Class attended the cocktail party and homecoming dinner on 27 October. Those present included the Harold Akens from Rye, New York, Clarence Aldrich from Green Cove Spring, Florida, the "Cat" Browns from Washington, the Tommy Dells from Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, Dee deRivera from Annapolis, the Homer Elmers from Washington, the Bill Fletchers from Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, the Ed Klines from Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, the Don Smiths from Coronado, California, Fay Tabuck also from Coronado, and Belle Robertson, from Augusta, California. Blackie Loker from Washington and the Dolly Fitzgeralds from Annapolis signed up, but were unexpectedly diverted at the last minute.

The next day, the 28th, Navy, a 7-point underdog, took on Pittsburgh and after sputtering for the first quarter, tumed on the heat and won 21 to II. In addition to those mentioned above the following enjoyed the game: the Jim Dudleys from Leesburg, Virginia, the Barbaros from Washington, George (Pete) Young from Pittsburgh, with Mary C. Leggett from Washington, and the Boones and Harold Housers also from Washington. Dee de Rivera brought Margaret Swigart to the game.

A picture post card of the Snapper Inn "On the Connecticut River, Oakdale, Long Island, New York, from "Bud" Maher reported on the latest meeting of the Long Island "Chapter" of the Class (consisting of Joe Bolger and Bud): "Second irregular meeting was held here on 29 September. All hands (both) on deck. Subject: You All (pardon my Southem accent). Accomplishment: absolutely nothing, but the scallops were excellent. Keep the barnacles off the binnacle, Heber.""

And a letter from J. Paul Carney: "Just a line to inform what is happening to one of the sparks thrown off into the country by our Class. On the fifth of October I was installed as Master of Washington Lodge #5 FAAM, State of Rhode Island—this makes me probably the oldest presiding Master in the country. I know Clarence Aldrich, my roommate in UTAH, will

48 be interested as he has served in like capacity.

I'm still active socially, have an invention in the mill, and doing my civil duties. Best regards to everybody. May we all last for the 55th. Fratemally, Mick Camey."

Mick meant that he hoped that we would all last for the 60th. He lasted very well indeed for the 55th, bringing with him his bride of about a month! We congratulate him on his election as Master and are glad that he is so well and so full of energy.

Stogi Roberts, Sabe Sabin, Leo Stafford, Herb Tellman and Bunny Wray.

We were indebted to Rex Tallman, who is visiting in Washington, for sending us the newspaper obituary of our distinguished Classmate, George Russell. We were saddened by the news.

The Chairman presented a very interesting study of retired pay which was worked out by Ells Roth.

22

San Francisco Bay Area As reported briefly in December Shipmate, Pres., RAdm. Frank Akers USN (Ret.) Frank Talbot moved East to join his son, Capt.

Sec'y., Capt. D. H. Johnston USN (Ret.) Frank Talbot, Jr. and family at their home in 3928 N. 36th St., Arlington VA 22207 Virginia. Captain Talbot is on duty in Washington. Frank can now be reached at 4904 Kings- Corr. Sec'y., RAdm. J. L. Pratt USN (Ret.) ton Dr., Annandale VA 22003 . . . telephone 4000 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington DC 20016 Percent Members: 73 703/354-0536.

Anne Connolly, wife of RAdm. Joseph A. Lydia (Whitgrove) Edwards established the Connolly, USN (Ret.) '21, passed away quietly "Captain Leland D. Whitgrove Award for Exin her sleep on 15 October after a long illness. cellence in Naval Architecture" soon after LeServices were held on 19 October at the land's death, as a personal tribute to him. We Church of the Ascension, Saratoga, California. didn't know about this until now. Last June Several Classmates, including Ransom Davis, Lydia presented the award, an inscribed set of Charlie Woodson, Doc Cooke, Charlie Roland binoculars, to Midn. J. L. Butler who, incidenand Kirby-Smith attended the services. Joe tally, stood No. 2 in his Class. The ceremony plans to remain in his retirement home in was impressive and attended by all the recipiSaratoga but will visit his son's family during ent's family as well (including his fiancee). the holidays. Joe and his family wish to exA few weeks ago Bev Carter remarked that press their gratitude to the Class for the beauti- we hadn't heard from Hugh Goodwin for a long ful floral arrangement on that occasion and for time so we dropped him a card to that effect. the presence of Classmates from the Bay Area The result: a letter which should be included in at the services. its entirety, and here it is: "Nice to have your On 19 October Classmates and friends of card from Sea Island and know that you are Vera and Jim Harris and Evie Guthrie assem- still able to enjoy pastimes like golf and swimbled at the Presidio Officers' Club for cocktails ming. I thought that you, like Hugh Goodwin and dinner. The host and hostesses selected and other charter members of the 'Radiator the Portola Room, tastefully decorated for the Club,' had long since given up such violent occasion. The room was of sufficient size to forms of physical exertion. Actually I am not easily accommodate over 40 people and tables quite as lazy as that sounds for I ride my Exof 10 were conveniently arranged. The ercycle forty-five minutes every morning while bartender was uncommonly efficient and par- taking in the news on television. This tops off a ticularly pleasant, in keeping with the general morning walk with my little dog at 0500. I algood spirits. Among the guests of the host and ways loved the morning watch at sea and it has hostesses were Mr. Rae McLaren, Mr. Martin become a ritual with me for the past fifteen Kurtz, Mrs. Hans (Alice) Kramer, Mrs. J.W. years.

(Minerva) Ludwig, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis "Your request for news is a bit hard to fill.

McCarthy, Mrs. W.F. (Anice) Ramsey, Susie The Monterey Peninsula is the finest place I Duncan, Kay Calvert, whose husband was know to live, but not the most exciting for RAdm. Allen Calvert "24, Mr. and Mrs. people in our age bracket. Bets and Jee ForGwathmey (Marion and Cabell '23), Mr. and sythe are peripatetic travellers; they recently Mrs. Patterson (Lois and Pat), RAdm. E. P. made a trip into Montana, Idaho, and western Kranzfelder '20 and Mrs. Kranzfelder (Barbara Oregon, investigating some little known Misand Kranz), and Mr. Bill Bennett, who for sions in that area. I had always associated many years sailed San Francisco Bay and the 'Missions' with the outposts established by the coastal waters with Jim Reisinger.

Spaniards in our great Southwest, but Jess is a On 22 October, the date of their 40th wed- store of information on a number of subjects ding anniversary, the Norman McKees were and he tells me that the Missions he visited given a party by their son and daughter, Alice were set up by American priests of Northern and Allen, at their parents' Woodside home. It European extraction, starting out from St. was attended by close friends and relatives, Louis. Bets continues to be an ardent golfer some coming from different parts of the State, and is on the course three times a week, rain or and a few nearby Classmates. Alice and Allen, shine; more dependable than the postal service although living over 50 miles apart, were able in that regard. to plan and execute every detail without a "Louise and Squire Pullen are in fine fettle hitch, leaving nothing to the parents but the and despite occasional interest in a trip to fun and pleasure.

Europe, have stayed home for quite a while.

Louise has finished a thirteen-months commisSan Diego sion making stained glass windows for a comThe San Diego Chapter of the Class of 1921 pound in the Valley and now is taking a hardheld its regular monthly luncheon at the earned rest. Squire still keeps his hand in as an Marine Corps Recruit Depot on Tuesday, 24 educator by tutoring high school students in October. Present were the following: Paul mathematics. He keeps healthy and full of Abemethy, Jim Baker, Abie Cook, T.O. Cul- vigor walking his dogs and maintaining his lins, Tom Esling, Hod Gorry, Bris McHugh, rather large garden, although he does follow Logan McKee, Tim O'Brien, George Peet, the restriction against climbing trees, which

Louise placed on him some time ago.

"The most exciting thing that has happened in the Goodwin family is the discovery of the Cuisinart Food Processor. I don't think Eleanor has ever been more excited by a gift in our fifty-five years of wedded bliss. She uses any excuse to use the machine, constantly whipping up delicious goodies. I have been smart enough to decline her invitations to leam to use it, but from an engineering standpoint I am impressed with how easily it cleans and how much kitchen time is saved. Eleanor's outlet for her creative instinct is the preparation of beautiful and delicious food and the Cuisinart has made her even more adept. My principal diversion is interest in politics and writing letters to Senator Cranston and Congressman Leon Panetta giving them sage (?) advice on how to vote. I am not as effective as some of the lobbying machines in Washington.

"Several weeks ago Gibb Hatch, Class of '13, gave a stag luncheon at his beautiful home in Carmel Valley. There were six USNA graduates, one retired Navy MD, and one retired Army major general. Class of 1927 USMA. Six of us in our seventies and two in their eighties. It was one of the most enjoyable gatherings I have ever attended, with most of the conversations centered around 'characters' we had known and various campaigns of WW II. It is good to relive some of the days that were so important to our country and to the world and have a sense of having participated to some degree in vital areas of history. I was reminded of listening to groups of Confederate veterans when I was a boy in Louisiana. Their tales, even more than the history taught by a one-legged ex-Confederate captain, convinced me that the South did not really lose the Civil War: that did not come until Herman Kraft explained some of the facts of life during our plebe year.

"Doc, I like to send in items that can be used with little or no editing, but this rambling letter is going to challenge all your skill as a rewrite man.

"Eleanor joins in warm regards. Hugh."

Bob Morse writes from the Sandwich Islands: "The other day a man named Burke (LCdr. Ret.) asked me about the MONTEREY. I thought he meant the WW II MONTEREY but no, he

meant the old monitor which was a station ship here when you and I were pre-midshipmen. He remembered Bill Ault who was a sailor on that old bucket as she was towed back to Pearl from the Philippines.

"John Allison, ex-ambassador to Japan, known to many of our contemporaries, a widower, joined Arcadia (our retirement complex) but is now married and in a new apartment. He was in Tokyo with Bill Sebald.

"A friend, Mrs. Tom Abel, who lives here, has just returned from Alabama and reports that Charlie Cater is doing fine. Harriet Solomons, here, is also fine. The Cruises have had a pretty rough time with the doctors recently.

"I can't match Ducky Duckworth's golf handicap but play three times a week with a 23. Toni and I still swim in the ocean and are happy with our living arrangements. Best wishes to all. Bob.'" Bob included a note about Jasper Holme's Undersea Victory which will be reprinted in paperback in the Spring. Extracts from his new book Double Edged Secrets will be soon published by the Naval Institute Press and as "Pearl Harbor Aftermath"' in the December issue of the Proceedings.

Shipmate, January-February 1979

49 Howard Orem writes that he saw Frank Watkins and Bert Cassels in Seattle recently, both in fine fettle. Howard also commented that it was somewhat disconcerting to see, while visiting the Naval Academy, male and female midshipmen walking about hand in hand. [Could it be related to the old seagoing call "All Hands"?} There is the basis for a joke somewhere in that connection but ye editor would fain not amplify. If ye readers can, do write in. "A little nonsense now and then, etc."

We reported Charlie Dodge's death but, at the time, had erroneous information about his burial. Murph Murphy has found from his daughter Betty who lives at Rancho Santa Fe that Charlie was buried in Concord, New Hampshire.

Sue and Horace Butterfleld became greatgrandparents on October 14th by virtue of the arrival of Alex and Jill's seven-pound daughter, Claire Carter Butterfield. Horace says Sue has no trouble thinking of herself as a greatgrandmother but is taken aback when she realizes that her son Alex is a grandfather!

Horace and Sue made a sentimental journey to Duluth last June to their honeymoon resort of 53 years ago, a joumey which began inauspiciously when they rendezvoused at O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Sue waited two hours at the North Central ticket office while Horace waited at the embarkation area. The foregoing is reminiscent of the time Mary Pratt and I rendezvoused at the same airport many years ago. I was returning from 19 months in the Far East in 1942. I couldn't find Mary. She couldn"t find me. We were in adjoining telephone booths phoning my Chicago brother to find out if he had heard anything from either. I looked out of the booth. There was my brother convulsed in laughter by the situation.

Back to Horace: He commented about his golf: "I have swung and missed, I've gone from trap to trap, I've hit the top of the ball making it fly straight up in the air, I've hit the same tree twice in the same round; and yesterday I hit my golf cart. My golf score goes up, my bowling score down."

After 25 years as banker Horace is going to retire [so that he may work on the decline of his golf score which he may be able to do more about than the dollar]. He'll be given emeritus status at the Pacific First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

Harvey Walsh writes about a fantastic trip to Romania where incidentally they took the 12-day Gerovital H-3 treatment (to delay, ease, and prolong the normal aging process, with particular benefits to circulatory and arthritic conditions) at the clinic in the Hotel Flora in Bucharest.

"The entire clinic was female except for two ironfisted and marlin-spike fingered masseurs.

I was not subjected to their 3-minute massages but Nina was—and barely survived."

Once out of the clinic they thoroughly enjoyed the outside, the beautiful mountainous scenery and agrarian greenery; including, among others, Dracula's castle. And while Shipmate editors understandably encourage us to go easy on travelogues, many of Harvey's other comments are newsworthy. "There are a large number of urban apartments: some 'groups' with 60,000 units! . . . Education is free for all and compulsory for 10 grades.

Above that everything is based on merit; and all are guaranteed jobs. College graduates are assigned jobs in which they must remain for at least five years."

Shipmate, January-February 1979

East Coast: Peggy and Al Bruce were in Washington for a week of golf and socializing while enroute to their home in Sea Island, Georgia. Al's skill and the experience of almost daily playing for the past decade and more told on us—an understatement.

The 7 December Washington luncheon at the Army-Navy Club brought out the old guard: Frank Akers, Hal Baker, Bev Coleman, Owen Comp, Carl Espe, Johnny Johnson, Don Johnston, Omer Kneeland, Doc Pratt, and Oliver Walker. Frank and Baylis Akers go to their beloved Sanibel Island on November 28 via the Auto Train. Zeke and Maijorie Sanborn were in Hilton Head, South Carolina, visiting Polly Jordan. Howard Davison is interested in locating his plebe year roommate, RoUin Edw. Drake, Jr., who resigned in 1919 and is listed in the Alumni Register only as "Resigned."

Although the holidays will have gone by when you read this we add a bit of verse hoping it may help some in facing the holiday aftermath. " 'Tis the night before Christmas and all through the casa Not a creature is stirring. Caramba! Que pasa?

The stockings are hanging con mucho cuidado In the hopes that St. Nicholas will feel obligado To leave a few cosas aqui and alii For chico y chica (y something for me).

Los ninos are snuggled all safe in their camas (Some in vestidos and some in pajamas).

Their little cabezas all full of good things They're esperando que Santa will bring.

Santa estd at the corner saloon, May borracho since midafternoon.

Mama is sitting beside la ventana Shining her rolling pin para manana When Santa returns to his home zigazgueando, Lit up like the Star Spangled Banner, cantando.

And mama will send him to bed con a right.

Merry Christmas a todos, y a todos good night."

23 Pres., Adm. Arleigh Burke, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Elliott Strauss, USN (Ret.) 2945 Garfield Terrace Washington, DC 20008 East Coast Reporter Capt. F. A. Edwards Sr. USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 3343, AnnapoHs MD 21403 West Coast Reporter Capt. H. H. Connelley USN (Ret.) 544 Silvergate Avenue, San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 77 For the benefit of those who do not receive the Washington Environs Chapter Bulletin the following item is quoted from the November issue: "At the business meeting during the Fifty-Fifth Reunion, President Arleigh Burke appointed an ad hoc committee—Bernard, Daisley, Dietrich (Chairman), Lewis, Strauss, and Withington—to consider the suggestion of Tom Congdon that the Class present a plaque to the Naval Academy containing the names of its distinguished Classmates. The committee met at Alumni House, Annapolis, on 27 September.

"After due consideration of Tom's suggestion, various relevant letters, discussions with the director of the Alumni Association and others, the 1923 Memorial Gate at the Navy—Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, the large plaque in Memorial Hall which lists the names of Alumni killed in action from the Civil War to the Vietnam War (including six '23 men), and the 1923 Room in Alumni House, the committee voted unanimously that the Class not take the action suggested by Congdon.

"Arieigh Burke concurred in that recommendation, and on 16 October wrote Tom to that effect. Also, he thanked him for his thoughtful suggestion to honor our Class."

With regret, we have just learned of the death of Maxwell H. Mizell on 3 October in Los Angeles. Interment was to be in Ariington. Our thoughts are with his family.

East Coast News The Washington Environs Chapter's preChristmas joint luncheon at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, on 6 December was a delightful affair. Twenty-nine ladies and twenty-seven Classmates attended, with Bob Oakes (National Geographic) as Mel Grosvenor's guest. Anne Ammon and Louise Withington were the co-hostesses.

On 8 November Bill Wadbrook moved to 620 Americana Drive, Apt. 205, Annapolis, MD 21403. Leading the seasonal hegira to southem climes were the Smellows and Lewises.

Peirce Kingsley reported that his family is Blue and Gold, with Peirce ("23), his son Capt.

Stephen S. Kingsley, a grandson, Ens. Scott Kingsley in naval aviation, and another grandson in NROTC at the University of Colorado.

On 1 July John Will commenced a two-year term as Chairman of the National Maritime Historical Society, succeeding RAdm. Walter F. Schlech, Sr. USN (Ret.). John served as founding President of the New York State Maritime Museum, chairman of the Maritime Industry Committee of the National Society, and has been a longtime advisor to the South Street Seaport Museum in New York.

It is regretted that in the obituary of Edwin Robert Duncan published in the November Shipmate, the address of the surviving widow, Susan Jane Duncan, was omitted. The address is: 1421 Portola Dr., San Francisco CA 94127.

West Coast Cabell Gwathmey reports that he and Marion returned from Maryland in time to attend the luncheon held at NAS Alameda by the Bay Area Group, Esther and Bill Stock in charge.

Attending were: Bear and Alyce Arnold, Fran Bowers, Marie Northcutt, Marie Halland, Packy and Alice Schade, Bert and Marie Shone, Charley and Ruth Walker, and, of course, Cabell and Marion and Bill and Esther.

Packy Schade related some of his reactions to the 55th reunion. He was impressed, as were we all who attended.

While in the Annapolis area, Cabell had the opportunity to inspect the new fence at the Alumni House. He and Pierre Bernard think the fence has enhanced the property very much, and the picture in Shipmate certainly bears out that opinion. It is apparently a beautiful and well-done project.

Received a chatty card from Eleanor and Put Storrs, written while aboard the liner ENRICO " C " , travelling from Genoa to Naples. The postal service in Italy seems even worse that ours. The card was stamped in Naples

50 twice—once just exactly one month after the card was written. While in Naples, the Storrs stayed at the Britanique Hotel where Eleanor had lived for two years, 1951-53. The Storrs took a Rhine River trip and enjoyed a visit to Paris as well. While in Venice, they met Eleanor's sister, Ruth Murray, who was accompanied by her daughter and son-in-law, Isabella and Peter Dunn Jr. Claire Washburn reported struggling with unpacking after moving. She is now located at: Chateau LaJolla, 444 Ravina St. #I02R, LaJolla CA 92037.

Bill Wadbrook reports making progress with his project of the Class subscribing to Shipmate for all class widows—a worthy project.

Goat Dussault informed us that their daughter Nancy, of Broadway fame, did a two-week stint for BBC in London in August.

Karl Hensel wrote that the berries and grapes (and their products, we presume) are great around Eureka, Kansas, where he and Wynne spend their Summers. They even have mangoes—not even California can grow them.

Karl says.

Ken Moses again is our class representative for JUNE WEEK WEST, which is to be held in San Diego next year.

Billie and Jack Pearson were on a monthlong golfing tour in Canada in August. He reports a super trip—as it should be for a super couple.

Brick Roberts sent us an advertisement of a place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, which offered good food and drinks and great entertainment. The place has the very intriguing name of "The Oarhouse." Business was so good that they now have two places of business.

A welcome note has been received from James H. Pierson with the word that he would like to enter the 80th Birthday Sweepstakes.

As a matter of fact, he must be declared a strong contender in the Class of '23 because he reached that notable milestone on 18 June, just a touch ahead of Dave Nutter and Ray Lewis.

Who else do we have that may have been overlooked? Jim is up in Shelbume MA 01370 on Colrain Road. Please write again when you have a chance.

24 Pres. RAdm. Howard L. Collins, USN (Ret.) Sec'y and Columnist, Mr. Robert A. Keyer, Box 7234, Richmond VA 23221 E. Coast Sec'y, RAdm. H. B. Miller USN (Ret.) W. Coast Sec'y, Capt. J. A. FarreU USN (Ret.) Percent Members: 86 Evvie Burroughs in late October was still hobbling around on a sprained ankle. He said "Believe it or not, a golf cart ran into me and over me and thereby I found a new golfing hazard."

Bud Fisher, who moved from Pittsburgh to Norfolk, says he is enjoying his new home and the escape from the Pittsburgh Winters. In addition, the warmth of his friends and being near part of his family proved further excellent in-

ducements to the change. The Fishers in October celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

No doubt one of the reasons Bill Cole doesn't answer his mail or is not at home to accept phone calls, is because of a new avocation—long-distance swimming. It is reported thus far he has accomplished swims of five miles.

Page Smith also is lax in correspondence because he spends all of his time on the golf course; it is hoped he doesn't encounter the same hazaard as did Evvie Burroughs.

Gerry King, wrote us of the loss of George Carleton King in Sun City, Arizona on 23 October. Gerry further says: "George was most loyal to his Classmates and now he has joined those Classmates who preceded him. They all meant so much to him and he grieved over the loss of each one".

Old reliable Tommy Dyer has recovered from knee surgery for arthritis and still holds his perennial position as secretary of the Washington 1924 Group. He reports that at the October meeting of this group at O'Donnell's Restaurant, the following stalwart souls put in an appearance—Bell, Bullis (he is everywhere) Craig, Dyer, Herring, Peterson, Rawlins and Wilson. Collins made up for his absence by being at the Chowder Club on 3 November at the Army-Navy Country Club.

Nostalgia: W. L. Patten was the only Classmate on Asiatic Station in year of 1924. From June 1925 through July I, 1928, Noble Abrahams reports assignments in Destroyer Squadrons Asiatic Station which will be printed later.

Lucy Nuesse will serve in the coming Alumni Fund Drive as an agent for CoChairman Noble Abrahams. Lucy will be the first female Class Agent to serve in the Alumni Fund Drive.

Leo Bachman, Vienna, Virginia, makes one of his infrequent visits to our column. Leo tells us they still live on the land they bought in 1947, being wiser than they realized at the time. It was in the country then but a Washington suburb today Helen and Charlie Shepherd travelled back East in September. They visited her old home in Algona, Iowa, then on to Maine to see some of my old stamping grounds. They drove from Bar Harbor to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and then to Boston to fly home and to see the trees in all their fall glory. Helen had heard of the fall colors but they were more beautiful than she could have imagined.

"27 September was the 7th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood" reports Freddy Bell. The Navy tells him that he was the first line flag officer ever to be so ordained.

There have been two since his time. Leiia and he escaped the worst of last Winter by renting a condominium apartment owned by Jenks Longfellow, at Marco Island, Florida. They expect to go back there for February, March and April, 1979, God willing!

Joe Wright is not lost in the woods around Annapolis, though he is never seen. He has been ignoring advancing years for sometime and thought he had everyone hoodwinked into forgetting his birthday. St. Clair doesn't forget but ignores it. Joe never admits that he feels just fine because some oaf might want to put him to work.

Fom Greenwich, Connecticut, we hear that John Shannon in September was away in the early part of the month fishing and shooting in Scotland. "It was probabiz my swan-song trip to these activities as I find I don't get around like I used to. Don Walker still lives here

part-time but usually leaves about midSeptember for his winter home in St. Croix.

Don is very much interested in Boys' Clubs.

The Greenwich folks missed having lunch with Ed Woodyard and Hans Baldwin on the occasion of a visit from Fritz Furth, Savannah, Georgia. Evvie Burroughs is expected here shortly for a visit."

Celeste and Tom Kirkland say they had one bright spot in late Summer and it was a short visit from Dot and Murray Tichenor who drove to Coral Gables from Palm Beach to see them.

This Fall, Rose and Frank Falge celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their sons and families present. Their oldest son is a teacher and counsellor in Mill Valley, north of San Francisco, and is also a Chinese linguist.

Last year he took 18 young people to China for a month; this year 50 people—he says there is a great change in China this year over last.

Mid-October found Anna and "Bly" Bliesener, visiting one of their sons who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Joe Callaghan was born 4 September 1902, and was sworn in at the Academy on his birthday. On the form, under age, he put—18 years 0 months 0 days. The Lieutenant who reviewed the form, (name not recalled), said "Happy Birthday." Joe says to this very new plebe it meant much to him on that day.

Mid-November, Doris and Joe Cabanillas drove to North Carolina and spent the night with their youngest son, Franklin, and his family. Franklin is about to complete his doctorate in education. From North Carolina the Cabanillases went to Charieston for a few days. They hoped to see the Blieseners and Mills while in Charleston.

Let us close these comings and goings on a note from Felix "the Ferocious" Rowland: "Prior to Naval Academy days, I had a schoolmate whose father had a fumiture store, and the schoolmate had a name to rejoice the heart: Saul T. Fish."

25 Pres., RAdm. Walter C.Ford USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. F. Kent Loomis, USN (Ret.) 3055 Foxhall Rd., N.W. Washington, D.C.20016 Columnist: RAdm. Schuyler Pyne USN (Ret.) 259 Providence Road, Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 83 We have hardly got used to writing 1978 on our letters, checks and other papers but here we are faced with 1979 to get in the habit of using. The rotation and revolution of the Earth must be accelerating although the scientists insist they are not changing very much. But still the illusion persists. So again a Happy New Year to all Twenty-Fivers, their wives, widows and descendants.

To close out the old year, it is time for our quarterly greetings to our birthday boys of the fourth quarter 1978, with especial note of the diamond-anniversary ones. These latter are Criddle, Badger, Hammock, House, Moeller, Hull, Stubbs, Sears, Markham, H. F. Smith, Phillips, Quinn, Ford, Silsbee, O'Keefe, Standley, Steele, Murphy and Cronin. Happy Birthday to each and every Classmate whose Shipmate, January-February 1979

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A number of social events occurred in October in this past year which are very much worthy of note. On 3 October the Washington-Annapolis group held an excellent coed luncheon at the Officers" Club, Bethesda.

Thirty-one persons were present, including, couples: W. L. Benson, Filer, Ford, Hoffner, F. K. Loomis, Pyne, Robinson, Stryker and Turney. Jack Griffin and Oliver Naquin were there sansfemme; Red Slaven brought his nice daughter, Nancy Reams; Dick Elliott, Frank Kams and George O'Keefe, being widowers, came as singles; and ladies. Car Beecher, Marge Broadley, Jean Burrowes (with escort Bill Sullivan), Polly Farrell. Neil Hurd, Marg Pefley, and Anne Tonseth graced the party with their presence.

There were three football games in a row in Annapolis in October. Duke. William and Mary, and Pitt, at which we spotted quite a few local and nearly local Classmates and affiliates. The last game was part of the Homecoming week end at which we had a number of out-of-towners. At the reception and messhall dinner the night before the glorious triumph over Pitt we had a nice group of twenty-seven persons including Miriam and Ed Walker from the fastnesses of Glen Rock, New Jersey; Marge and Bill Tumey (quite regular attendees of area gatherings) from Media, Pennsylvania; Ruth and Jack Steele, whom we do not see too often, from Pensacola, Florida; Marion and Phil Creasor all the way from Santa Ana, California; and Jimmy Dowden from Laguna in the same state. Red Slaven and Marjorie McNally each had a daughter with them. We were also greatly pleased that for the second year in a row, Marg Lee brought her new husband, Don Anderson, with her. The rest of the crowd were such old stalwarts as the W. L. Bensons. Fords, Griffins, Pynes and Robinsons. At the game some of the Fridaynighters did not make it, but a batch came from the area and we saw Bob Gardner and Fae Durnell, Loomises, Strykers, Jean Burrowes and escort, Nevinses, T. W. Johnsons, Frank Kams, Barbara Delaney, and, if you will pardon our aging memory, maybe some others.

Anyway, it was a great week end and game.

Ring Baptism, May 1924 Some of our people travel a long way to see their friends and so it was with Betty and Bruce Kelley, who went in October from Tacoma, Washington, to Frogmore, South Carolina, to visit Fanny and Jimmy Hicks.

While there, Jimmy produced the picture of our ring baptism in May 1924, a tragic event in our class history, as Leicester Smith was drowned that day. For some reason, the halfraters had their sails up to dry and Leicester was trapped under one when a boat capsized from the weight of midshipmen hanging on it.

In the picture we think we recognize three of Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

the people there: far left, Vic Long, and the two in the middle are Dmty (C.H.) Moore and Butch Parker. We cannot see the face of the man with the camera and we do not recognize the stern sheets of the mid on the right.

Bruce goes on to tell us that before returning home they took a Mississippi River cruise.

Sounds as thought the Kelleys had a busy October.

We have new addresses for some of our widows, these data supplied by our "Chick Farmer,"" Joe Stryker. Tol Smith (Mrs. S. P.) and Car Beecher (Mrs. W. G.) have moved into Carl Vinson Hall, the address there being 6251 Old Dominion Drive, McLean VA 22101.

Ginnie Truesdelfs (Mrs. W. H.) new address is 4471 Ventura Canyon Ave., Apt. D-106, Sherman Oaks CA 91423, a long distance from her previous home in Key West. Sally Crommelin (Mrs. H.) has taken up a new residence at 2920 Jamestown Drive, Montgomery AL 36111.

And speaking of Joe Stryker, we recommend reading Joe's article in the November Shipmate entitled "Semper Aqua Anus"" and about his experience with amphibs. Like other articles by Twenty-Fivers in recent issues, it is good reading.

difficulties have broken out there. Says Lee, "Looks like Til have to go to Leon and settle the d mess again!""

Charlie Silsbee has finally broken down and traded his ten-year-old Dodge for a new Pontiac Phoenix, but he still has the same license number窶年A 1925.

Chan and Henry Ford with great-grandson Blair Webb III Thanksgiving is always a happy time for Chan and Henry Ford and it was especially so this year as the entire family gathered to celebrate not only the holiday, but Chan"s and Henry"s 53rd wedding anniversary and Henry's 75th birthday. Present were their daughters and families, including nine grandchildren, five in college and one great-grandchild whose picture is shown with our principals. Congrats all around!

Another long-range traveler. Cam Briggs, took Doris and went to the 31st annual reunion of the USS YORKTOWN Association in Charieston, South Carolina. The ship is a memorial at Patriots Point there and is a focal point for gatherings of other carrier organizations besides YORKTOWN. At the meeting Cam attended, former President Ford was present as guest of honor and he dedicated a room to MONTEREY in which he served as gunnery officer and assistant navigator in WWII. There were about 700 present for the dinner dance and 3500 persons attended the memorial services, all events being held aboard the ship.

Monty Eggers and His Catch While in Charleston, Cam called John Florance We have often heard about the big fish that and had a nice chat with him. got away, but not so with Monty Eggers, and The locale of the picture of "the bunch of we have a picture to prove it. On 10 July he the boys'" which appeared on page 55 in our caught a 23-pound Atlantic salmon in the October notes is under fire in that Art FarrelFs Sainte Marguerite River in Canada which al- widow, Polly, says it wasn"t Tijuana but at an most did the "got-away"" trick, but he landed it amusement pier in Long Beach and all of the after a one-hour struggle, and to show his background is a photographer's prop. prowess, on II July he took a 25-pounder suc- Nevertheless, she likes the picture and says cessfully. Our picture shows the proud angler that Art always claimed that the subjects were with his big catch. Congrats, Monty! He goes sober. Well, we won"t take sides on the place, on to say that Ruth and he went on a fishing but let "Fitz" Fitzgerald and Polly work that trip with Helen and Chuck Sigel up the out, but we like the picture too. By the way, Penobscot River in Maine in September, but you will note above that Polly was present at the results were somewhat disappointing. the 3 October class gathering and all were delighted to see her.

The last several weeks have been grim ones for our Class for we have lost five Classmates and two widows. On 4 September Ray Dyer died in Wiscosset, Maine, after a long bout with Parkinson"s disease. Ray left the Academy in 1923, ending up graduating in 1925 from Princeton. He became a lawyer and a naval reserve officer in WWII. Returning to the law, he served as counsel for several firms including United Air Lines. Recenfly, and in spite of his illness, he has kept in touch with Lee and Irene Weston Lee Weston has moved again, this time from the Class through correspondence with Red La Jolla to Solana Beach CA 92075 where their, Eye Coleman, so we have had the privilege of address is 736 Solana Circle, East. Lee says reporting on him occasionally. We are sure that he apparently did not do too good a job in that those who knew him remember him fondly Nicaragua in 1926 when he was put ashore as and we all send our most profound condo"mayor"" of Leon because 52 years later more lences to Jean and the family.

52 Johnny Johns died of a heart attack at his summer home on Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, on 1 October. He had been ill for a short time before his passing. Johnny served in submarines and surface vessels and spent quite a bit of shore duty in Washington. During WWII while in command of submarines and SubRon 3 he received two combat decorations.

After retirement he lived in the Washington area where he was a very active member of the Class, attended practically all luncheons and meetings and served on committees. His frank approach to class problems was an outstanding characteristic and caused the other members of the Class present to do a bit of thinking about the possible consequences of certain proposed actions. He was a well-liked and well-known Classmate. Johnny was buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery with a simple graveside service attended by Classmates and others.

Dot was accompanied by their daughter Pamela Leighton and by a grandchild. And so to Dot and Pamela and the grandchildren we send our deepest sympathy.

The unbelievably sudden death by a heart attack of Bill (Gobby) Goulett on 3 October at his summer home in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, shocked us all very much. To those who saw him at class gatherings he seemed the picture of health. He was one of those Classmates we remember best over all these years; a nice friendly fellow and a perfect gentleman. The way he and Elizabeth always seemed to be at a different place every Christmas and sent out wonderful warm notes every year which made everybody feel as though it were a personal letter to each recipient. A regular attendee at class functions when he was around, we shall surely miss him. With Elizabeth and all their numerous descendants we sympathize greatly. He was buried in Arlington with full military honors with Classmates Filer, Griffen, Loomis, Naquin, Slaven and Stryker as pallbearers.

Dundas Preble Tucker died on 8 October after a long illness. His home was in La Jolla at the time of his death, but his ashes were interred in the family plot in Portland, Maine.

Dundas was one of the real savants of the Class, an expert in electronics par excellence.

As a midshipman he had so much electronic gear in his room that it was hard to find your way around. The Navy, and the USA generally, owe him much gratitude for his work over the years in communication and detection systems. Although he never married, he was always squiring some very nice females around and was a fine addition at a party. Because of his professional and personal qualities he must go down as one of the most unusual persons of our time. He was a descendant of Commodore Edward Preble of Tripolitan War fame and it is too bad that he has no family to carry on for him.

On 30 October Carleton Hoflner died of a heart attack, although he had been ill with other complications. His death occurred at the Arlington (Virginia) Hospital. He had spent many years in the Arlington area, making his home there when he retired in 1955. A perennial winter visitor to Florida, he was wellknown by Classmates down there as well as in the Washington area. Always active in class matters, he attended class functions regularly, helped with various publications and contributed to this column, even to preparing a whole month"s notes at several times. His activities in the Masons and in many patriotic societies made him prominent in civilian and quasi-

military circles. He always had a good word and lots of common sense. All his Classmates and his numerous other friends will miss him greatly. He was buried with full military honors and Masonic rites in Ariington. A large number of his associates were present. Our heartfelt sympathy to Jo and to his son, Carieton Jr., Class of 1953, USNA. We also regret to report the death of Herb Rice's wife Gladys on 30 September. She had been ill for some time. Our most sincere sympathies to Herb.

In addition, we have also leamed that Bill Hank"s widow, Cal de TEtoile, has died after a long battle with emphysema. Bill and Cal's daughter, Mrs. Peter A. (Cary Webb Hank) Sears lives at 334 Lovala Lane, Wayne PA 19087. Our sympathy to her.

And to close our sorrowful listing, we must add the names of Edward A. "Preacher" McFall, who died on Thanksgiving Day in San Jose, California, and Clifford M. Akins who died on the first of the month in Wayzata, Minnesota. Clifford did not graduate with the Class, but was a staunch member of the Alumni Association. Our thoughts are with the families of all of these departed friends.

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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: 90 Happy New Year to all hands. May you all be blessed with good health and contentment!

It is hard to think about a new year, as the CS sits at his desk in Florida in 80 degree sunshine, knowing that this "copy" will be late for the deadline in Alumni House of 1 November, since it is already 30 October 1978. However, having just spent three-and-a-half delightful days in Annapolis, the Shipmate staff has been forewamed.

The outstanding highlight of the past few days was the superlative performance of Navy's football team in winning its seventh consecutive victory. Pitt had scored over 200 yards rushing in each of its previous games; Navy's defensive unit allowed a total of Minus 28 yards, in the most magnificent defensive performance against the rush that most of us had ever seen. So impressed was this scribe by that defense, the obviously pervasive team spirit, and the evidence of brilliant coaching by George Welsh and his staff, that he is willing to go way out on the limb and predict a secure spot among the top teams in the Nation at season's end, fully recognizing that this will be read in January. The game was played in perfect weather before the all-time record attendance of 32,909 people in Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

The living past-presidents of the Alumni Association had been invited to attend the fall meeting of the Board of Tmstees of that Association, two days before the Pitt-Navy game. We were very much impressed by the evidence of improved administrative procedures and the healthy growth and increase in membership. Particulariy impressive to the CS, who as Superintendent twenty years ago had not been able to interest many midshipmen in joining the Alumni Association upon graduation, was the new surge of interest by those young men and women in what the Alumni Association was doing for the Naval Academy

VAdm. Stroop Congratulates Top "Stripers" after Taking the Review. Radm. Lawrence in Background and for its graduates and other members, resulting in over 90% of the present first and second classes having signed up to join upon graduation.

In this connection, and of particular interest to '26ers, was the introduction to the Board of Tmstees of a midshipman first class, who had personally talked to every platoon of the new Plebe Class about the Association, with the phenomenal result that 99% of them had indicated an intention to join the Alumni Association as soon as eligible. That young man is the grandson of our Classmate, Loren H. Fryer, who left the Academy in our second class year but who had remained a loyal member of the Alumni Association until his death on 3 December 1977. Midn. Loren F. Reese, who intends to go into the Surface Line upon graduation, also has two brothers in the Plebe class: twins. Loren Fryer had been a faithful attendee at the luncheons of the '26 Washington group, and his daughter, Mrs. Robert B. Reese, lives in Washington.

Two USNA Stroopsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"PD" and Mike Of interest also, was the presentation at the Board of Trustees meeting, of a large oil portrait of RAdm. Alfred T. Mahan, to the Naval Academy by our RAdm. Ben Custer, who had commissioned a well-known portrait painter, Molly Guion, to do the portrait. The Superintendent, RAdm. W. P. Lawrence, accepted it for the Academy. Incidentally, our " P D " Stroop, the current president of the Alumni Association not only hosted a dinner for his predecessors, which included Admirals George Dyer, Fred Boone, George Anderson, Arleigh Burke and Mr. Dave Benham, '41, the immediate past president, but ran a taut Trustee meeting, on time, with elan and humor; altogether an educational and interesting experience for us "old-timers."

Before leaving the subject of the Naval Academy, the CS cannot refrain from offering several comments on the changes since he was "The Supe." Twenty years has made a vast difference, but once one has been able to relax and try to enjoy or at least understand those differences, it becomes convincingly evident Shipmate, January-February 1979

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27 Pres., RAdm. Thomas J. Hamilton, USN (Ret.) Exec. V.P.,Adm. C. D. Griffin, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. Brooke Schumm USN (Ret.) 784 Fairview Ave., Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 83

Radm. Ben Custer and "PD" Stroop after Presentation of Admiral Mahan Portrait that the Academy is still one of the great fundamental assets of this nation. The midshipmen, men and women, are as fine looking as ever, their appearance on the parade ground still makes one proud; the Academic courses are probably more carefully coordinated and interrelated than in any other institution of leaming, their classroom sections are still small and, in my view, far superior to those six and seven hundred student classes in one room, watching TV presentations by some famous scholar, as is the case in many of our universities today; athletic teams win more than they lose, despite the fact every player is a student with a full academic load. The Congress has made possible superb academic and athletic facilities, which has kept our Academy modern and vital. And, perhaps most important of all in these days, the new Superintendent, Rear Admiral William P. Lawrence, is an inspirational leader; proven outstanding in combat, courageous and steadfast during six years of enemy captivity, demonstrated brilliance, imagination and initiative in planning. As a midshipman he was a student, standing 7 in his class of 725; an excellent athlete; a leader, being class president and a top striper. I feel that the Academy has never been in more capable hands.

Ben Helmick and Charlie Carpenter

Grayce Fravel and Earl Ashton at the Dinner Alumni Homecoming, 27-29 October, attracted two tables of '26ers in the Midshipmen's Messhall on Friday night. The CS spotted Ashton, Benjamin. Custer, Greenacres, Helmick. Logan. Perrills. Pohls, Piries, Shipmate, January-February 1979

And here are Bobbie and Bob Pirie Romosers, Smedbergs and Stroop, plus Cecil Bumside, Elizabeth Eakens, Grayce Fravel, Harriet Gano and her grandson Roy. Marge Lyman, and Helen Nelson. Ruth and Jim Morrison had signed up but we heard that Jim had just suffered a slight heart attack and was in the hospital. The CS has had no further word, which we hope is very good news.

Margaret and Jack Pohl's son-in-law, Joseph B. Wilkinson, Jr., was selected for rear admiral this past February, by the board which also selected Marsh Gurney's son, as earlier reported in this column.

"Sparky" Scrymgeour finally broke down and wrote a long letter to the CS, telling of their travels during the previous twelve months, during which he was elected commander of the American Legion post in Mazatlan, Mexico, and organized and ran the American Legion convention for the Department of Mexico, in addition to keeping his duplicate bridge club going. He and Phyllis are now spending most of their time at either San Onofre or Doheny Beach. When they are due to head for Mexico for their winter sojourn this year he did not say.

Capt. Jim Rodgers and Family The accompanying picture of Jim Rodgers, his daughter Louise, and his sons, Johnny, Eddie and Jimmy was taken on July 23, 1978, on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Jim and Eleanor are living in South Lake Tahoe, California, where his four children, three from the East Coast, got together for the first time since Johnny (the bearded one who looks older than his Dad) was three years old, for this celebration. Son Jimmy is a Navy captain on duty in the CNO"s office in Washington, after a three-year tour in the Argentine. Eleanore and Jim have six children, eighteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Bill Sprenger reports from 4410 S. Rozalee Way, Yakima WA 98901, the loss of his wife, Sally, on 7 October 1978. She had been in good health, after recovering from surgery last year, but was suddenly stricken two days before she died. The Class extends deepest sympathy to Bill and his children.

Red Scoles, subbing for Ed Eckelmeyer, reports that the L.A. Group met for its monthly lunch at the Long Beach " O " Club on 29 September. Present were Hamley, Kern, Leatherman, Scoles and Woelfel. Ed was away on a trip and Johnny Clark and Les Mye were ill.

Ed returned from his East Coast trip on 3 October and had the sad news for us that both Herb Neuhaus and Les Mye had passed away.

Herb in Escondido and Les in L.A. (see December "Last Call"). We also have learned of the death of Leslie Arnold Martin in Charleston, West Virginia. He graduated with our Class but resigned upon graduation. The Class extends its sincerest sympathy to all their friends and loved ones.

Ed reported a large turnout at Les Mye's funeral: Bill and Lefty Nation, Dutch Woelfel, Harry Tallman, Johnny Clark, Bill Kern, Gardner Grout, Fred Leatherman and Ed E. Many wives and widows were also in attendance: Clara Nation, Cecil Nation, Karin E., Amalie Clark, Agnes Leatherman, Thelma Weigle and Billie Knight.

Ed also said that he wanted to see Al Dunning while he was in the East, but was simply too busy to do so. He reported that the LA Group had its last regular meeting at the " O " Club in Long Beach on 27 October. Only a few regulars were present, and Dutch Woelfel is on a prolonged spell of jury duty and consequently will miss a lot of the meetings.

Our San Diego Group had its luncheon at the Adm. Kidd Club on 26 September with 44 present; it was a big one. Attending were Ceese Caufield, Clarence Coffin, Cliff Cooper, Olive and Carl Dalton, Sally and Dutch Deutermann, Dale and Tom Flynn, Tom Hamilton, Mary Jane and Jimmy Hogg, Madeline and Harry Hummer, with guests Captain (MC) and Mrs. Holmes, Ken Keepers, Erika and Meade Kitchen, Dick Levin, Mims and Mac McKinney, Gladys and Hank Paige, Walter Price, Nadine and Robby Robinson, Pat and Oley Sharp, Anne and Alan Sutherland, Jimmy Thatch, Lucie and Bus Trafton, Jane and Wash Wilcox, Theresa and Zondo Zondorak, Corra Bess Hammitt, Alice Manville, Bobby McCann, and Barbara and Ray Curtis, West Point "27.

Jimmy Hogg reports that Skiv Chamberlin is home again, not very mobile, but has a good appetite. Oley Sharp's new book Strategy for Defeat has just been published and Jimmy states that he thinks it should be required reading. Your Sec'y concurs, Jimmy.

Oley has written me a letter wherein he says he will be in Annapolis on November 9 and will be happy to see any of his friends and Classmates and to autograph his book for any of those who so desire. Oley said he would like to see as many people as possible, with or without the book, and your scribe notified his friends in Annapolis.

Dutch Deutermann writes on 5 October; "In three days I'll be 75, and four days after that Sally and 1 are taking off for a trip of six weeks to Athens, a couple of weeks cmising the Med, then to Gib. and back across the Atlantic via

54 Funchal, then to Ft. Lauderdale and in time to see the Navy-Florida State game in Tallahassee, 18 November. It should be fun, but for us old and delinquent citizens, it's a lot of fuss getting ready.

"To our scheduled events, we always invite West Point '27 members in the area, it's been fun. I am enclosing a clip from their September Assembly."

Your Sec"y quotes in part from the clip: "Ray Curtis wrote in of the interesting pleasant class relationship with USNA "27 in San Diego, whom they join with wives on the 4th Tuesday of each month for a 'get-together' luncheon. That association has now, in effect, been moved forward to 1982, when the USNA Class plans to hold its 55th Reunion at Coronado, for our '27 bunch has been included in a proposed eventful cocktail party on one of the five days tentatively planned for the gathering. It certainly sounds like a fine friendship between two Classes."

Heinie Armstrong writes in for the Northern California Clan: "Greetings and hope all goes well over there in Crabtown. (Things were going fine until the N.D. game, Heinie. They just outmuscled us.) Caroline and Marty Lawrence pulled out of Vallejo in a hurry. Guess someone was after them. We would have loved to have given them a going-away party. The Lawrences" new address is Vinson Hall, 6251 Old Dominion Drive, McLean VA 22102; 703/ 536-4344.

"We have some Classmates out here that we never hear from, let alone see. I am dropping them from our mailing list. Among these are Frank Johnson, Ross Kellerman, Marshall Smith and the Carmel gang, except for Tiny and Count DeKay. " T h e National Defense-Navy League luncheon for 'Red Dog' Davis, CinC Pac Fit, was a great success.""

Barbara Wickhorst has been traveling in Italy, where she had an audience with Pope John Paul I, and then on to Ireland and England.

Heinie checked in with VAdm. F.C. Denebrink ("17) and was informed of Dennie"s visit with Isabel and Howie Adams in Palm Springs.

Lately, Howie has undergone cateract operations.

Recently Heinie was visiting the Navy Regional Medical Center, Oakland. As he started to get in his car, he noticed an envelope on the ground beside the car, addressed to RAdm. Wilton Heald. On further checking he found that Wilt had been operated on to close a slit in a blood vessel, been in intensive care and then in a ward to recover. Wilt is reported as coming along O.K. Lorene and Charlie Beasley are off to Chicago, New York, Rome, Athens, Egypt, and back to Naples where they will visit son Capt. Charles Jahns B. USN ("57).

Rosie and Frenchie Goyette stopped off to see Buck Ewing at Bakersfield on their way back from watching the balloons at Albuquerque. They found him hale and hearty, with Janet off visiting in the East. Buck is doing nothing and loving it.

Your scribe has received an interesting letter from Bob Hinners, which I quote: "Cdr. William E. Chick RN (Ret.) was credited with sav-

became closely acquainted with Bill when the ship was subsequently brought to the U. S. for major battle damage repairs. This friendship proved to be a lasting one, even to the extent of later exchanges of visits with Bill and his lovely wife Vonda, now living in Darlington in the Yorkshire country.

"As a further across-the-seas gesture, a copy of the 50th Beacon was sent to Cdr. Chick earlier this year. I believe your readers may be interested in having these comments from his somewhat different vantage point. I quote from his letter to me and Virginia: 'What a marvelous contribution the Class of '27 made to victory. They were bom at the moment of destiny and were in full stature of mind and body when their talents were needed, and it is so certain that they played their parts well. The Beacon is a worthy record and so wellpresented. I really enjoyed my first reading and since then have dipped into it many times with a feeling of being personally involved." "" Dot and Dellie Fitzgerald sent in a couple of cards from the SS ROTTERDAM in which they have been cruising the West Indies.

Charlie Tooke reports that arrangements have been finalized for the annual "27 class luncheon in Annapolis next Spring. Please remember the date and place: 19 May 1979 at the Officers" and Faculty Club at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Seen at the Navy-Pittsburgh game were Virginia and Bill Brockman, back from their European honeymoon trip. They were guests of the Tookes for the Homecoming weekend.

Ellen and Eck Eckberg hosted a KT party for the Annapolis '27ers in honor of their house guests for the Navy-William and Mary game, Rena and Josh Cooper.

The following '27ers were signed up for Homecoming in October, but there were probably a few "no-shows" and some others who were there, but did not sign up: The Jack Bowlings, Brockmans, Tim Donahues, Harrison Ethridge, A.E. Fitzwilliam, Fairiambs, George Hansen, R.A. Olson, Schumms, Cari Stillman, and the Tookes.

In September Bob Rice celebrated his 75th birthday at a party given for him with several friends at his home in Winter Park, Florida.

Eunice, of course, was the hostess, and the highlight of the affair was a poem written and read by Knight Pryor ("29), which I reproduce below.

ing tprpedoed HMS NIGERIA in WW II, by vir-

Sub duty completed with style and with elegance.

He desisted from further annoying the "yellow gents, To bolster the Office of Naval Intelligence, Which needed U sadly.

He acquired a wife and commanded a cruiser; He sired three daughters and one bearded bruiser.

tue of his outstanding performance as the ship's damage control officer. His role in this action was recognized by the award of the DSC by the British sovereign. I was one of several '27 Classmates or near Classmates who

For Robert Henry Rice's 75th Birthday On request of his wife that I take on the job Of rhyming some natal day greetings for Bob, I hadn't the ghost of idea in my knob As to what course to steer.

Biographical sketches seemed not loo absurd: And so to the book "Submarine" I referred, And embellished with bits I had seen or had heard Of his checkered career.

His wartime excursions offshore from old Nippon Consisted of most systematically strippin' The Japs of a sizeable chunk of their shippin', From tankers to barges.

At periscope depth and ensconced in the saddle Of U.S.S. Drum (somewhat later of Paddle'), He'd hit with his fish and then promptly skedaddle.

Midst rain of depth charges.

He never-well hardly-was known as a loser; He didn't do badly.

Today he's retired-contented and snug.

With three stars on the snout of his Volkswagen bug.

And healthy despite an occasional tug Of pain in the'bursa.

He answers the telephone tersely with "Rice."

His duties well done and his attitude nice Have well-earned the title of Admiral-Vice.

Or is it vice versa?

You all may observe him, if you've got the mind, At work in the yard which he custom-designed, With nary a bulge on his front or behind, And walking unaided.

And now in two days he'll be seventy-five.

Did you think. Bob, this birthday would ever arrive, And find you so hearty-nay-even alive?

We're happy you made it.

In addition to all the tail-gating and luncheon parties going on at our Alma Mater during the three weekends of football at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Eleanor and Ray Mitchell gave a post-Duke Game KT party at their home in Annapolis for the '27ers in the Annapolis area. Alice and Tim Donohue and Carolyn and Bill Irvin also were guests at this happy affair.

For an account of the dedication of the '27 class window in the Protestant chapel in Bancroft Hall, see "All Hands."

Betty Zahm reports that Kay Van Doom passed away on 6 August 1978 at her home in Palm Coast, Florida. She was the widow of Wilhelm Van Doom, who was a Dutch citizen but graduated with our Class and was later commissioned a lieutenant commander in the USNR. Jimmy Hogg has informed me that Ann (Mrs. Agnes Taylor) McGarry, widow of Mac McGarry of our Class, died on 24 October in Bremerton, Washington, while visiting her son.

Services were held at 1100 Friday, 27 October in Christ Episcopal Church in Coronado.

Again the Class wishes to extend sympathy to relatives and friends of the lost ones.

28 Pres., Cdr. John G. Urquhart, USN (Ret.) V. Pres., Western area, VAdm. Taylor Keith USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Albert O. Monun, USN (Ret.) 121 Glen Oban Dr., Arnold MD 21012 Florida Corr., RAdm. R. N. Norgaard, USN (Ret.) 121 N. Phelps Ave., Winter Park FL 32789 WesCoast Corr., RAdm. W. A. CockeU USN (Ret.) 3222 Browning St., San Diego CA 92106 N. Eastern Corr., Capt. R. O. Bruzynski USN (Ret.) Box 145, New Castle NH 03854 Percent Members: 75 For the BLC, the annual get-together at Homecoming was an active one, with 20 participants. Attending the reception and dinner were: Elsie and Bob Archer, Carolyn and Ski Burzynski, Ed Dexter, Louise (Mrs. Phil) Gallery, Margaret and Heebee Jones, Georgina and George King, Helen and George Moffett, Blair and Al Momm, Mary and Zeke Peden, Helen and Harry Sears, Mary Tyler and John Urquhart.

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

55 After the thrilling experience of witnessing Navy defeat Pitt on Saturday, the BLC held a no-host dinner at the Fleet Reserve Club in downtown Annapolis. This permitted Cornelia and Jim Bierer, Jerry Gerin and son John, Helen and Bob Watts, Ginny and Jimmy James with son Richard and family, as well as the George Hansens, '27 and the Bernard Freunds, '32, to join the group for another pleasant gettogether.

Missed from the homecoming activities were the Petey Andersons, the Bob Morrises, and Callie and Owsley Stanley, who had been active participants in the past. We sadly report the passing away of Callie, who was ill at the time of our 50th Reunion.

Our class president, John Urquhart, received this interesting letter from Betty (Catterton) Sack: "I have just returned from six weeks in England and Scotland and found your nice letter upon my arrival home. I certainly approve of your decision regarding my contribution in memory of Max, and am happy to be a part, along with Kay (Mrs. John) Quinn. of helping to renovate the wardroom of the 28th Company. I know Max would approve.

Max Catterton's son, Rick, and Rick's mother, Betty Catterton Sack "We shall miss Homecoming this year, as a previous engagement here in Baltimore precludes our attending. So sorry, as I always look forward to seeing old friends. Charlie and I often talk of the reunion in May—it was great fun.

"I enjoyed my visit with Rick (Max and Betty's son) in London. He is very happy there and doing quite a bit of traveling, with a trip to Peking planned for December."

In consequence of Betty's and Kay Quinn's generous gifts, the class president received the following letter of thanks from Midn. l/c George R. Adams, 28th Co. wardroom president. "On behalf of the 28th Company I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the generous gift of $450 from the Class of 1928.

Through your contribution, the company was able to buy the paneling and supplies for remodeling the wardroom. The constmction was done by members of those classes that the wardroom is open to. Since we repaneled the wardroom, its appearance has improved I00%!

"I would like to invite you and your Classmates to visit our company wardroom anytime you are in Annapolis in order that you might inspect the accomplishments made through your generosity. . . .

"We have planned for the renovation to be completed by the end of September. Other projects to improve the atmosphere and condition of the wardroom are being contemplated at this time. Any assistance that you can provide will be greatly appreciated by the 28th company.'" (C/S note: Your CIS did visit the wardroom at the time of Homecoming, as Midn. Adams suggested, and found the remodeling a professional job well done.)

Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

Homecoming Aftermath—"Half of" Sears at Halloween Party!!

Elliott Loughlin, Executive Director of the Naval Academy Foundation, informed Harry Sears that Midshipman Clement M. Fetters has been selected as the Class of 1928 Memorial Honor Scholar for this year. Clement is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fetters of Dade City, Florida.

He graduated from Jesuit High School, Tampa, with a class rank of 23 out of 140 students. Participated in track and cross country and was president of the band, editor of the school newspaper and member of the student council.

Attended Louisiana State University where he did very well in an engineering course, attaining all As and Bs. Details in connection with this selection are always included in the Foundation's Annual Newsletter. Adm. Loughlin adds: "Please accept my sincere appreciation for the support of your class in the Foundation's Honor Scholar Program which is enabling us to maintain a significant input to the Naval Academy of fine young men and women who otherwise would not have the opportunity to qualify for admittance.'"

Also reported in this Newsletter is that the W.L. Lyons Browm Memorial Honor Scholar (a scholarship created by the W.L. Lyons Brown Foundation), is Clinton J. Knudson.

Clinton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Knudson of Bloomfield, Nebraska. Graduated from Bloomfield High School with a class standing of 4 out of 46 students. Lettered in track and basketball and was active in 4H Club and a member of the National Honor Society. Attended the University of Nebraska where he demonstrated his capability to do well in an engineering course.

Shortly after Homecoming 1978 several of the BLC headed south for warmer climes. But John Kent reports: "We came down here (to Delray Beach, Florida), shortly afterward, and find it too hot. Next year we plan to leave much later in November. Had a nice visit with George Collins day before we left and found him in good spirits, although very ill. Ski and Carolyn were in the area a few days ago, and paid us a visit, and we all enjoyed a Happy Hour." After visiting daughter Marya in Columbia, South Carolina, on the way home after Homecoming, Carolyn and Ski Burzynski report: "We visited the capitol building in Columbia. It is stunning; also the Robert Miller House. He designed the Mellon Gallery. We were in St. Augustine one hour; next Winter Park, saw Swede (Norgaard) and Tom Jones; (Tom) Roberts was out of town. Visited Rose Christina (your CIS' daughter), liked Tampa University. Did St. Pete"s, loved Sarasota, on to Venice, Sanibel. Leaving this motel (Days Inn, Naples) tonite to spend two days with Jim Schuber; we spent last evening with him." (C/S note: All this on one day-gram! Is it possible that New Castle, New Hampshire, will soon lose two important citizens?)

Several letters were received expressing appreciation and admiration for the Golden Reunion bracelets for the ladies of the BLC. Letters were from the Freiburghouses, Ellice (Mrs. Tom) Simmonds. Helen (Mrs. Milton) Johnson, and the Ralph Richardsons, amongst others.

Helen wrote: "Finding that beautiful bracelet waiting for me when I returned from Canada made it a very happy homecoming.

Since then I have worn it several times with much pride and many compliments from friends. It was a disappointment to have missed the reunion. Eleanor and Francois (Jordan) have impressed upon me several times since that it was a very festive occasion, a real highlight, in their lives. Having the bracelet helps to compensate for the pleasures I was denied when I had to stay home."

And from Ellice Simmonds: "My bracelet came as a surprise, and indeed I shall wear it with pride and envy. . . . Missing reunion still makes me sad . . . Tom thought more and more of his Classmates those last shut-in years. 1 know he would have liked me to go.

We still hope the comea transplant was a success. Sutures were cut last week and vision already improving. Waiting a year for that has been an exercise in patience. I've managed a pretty normal life with lots of bridge and friends; I'm just restricted in my ability to drive and travel.""

In re Bettye's bracelet, Freeby Freiburghouse wrote: ". . . 'beautiful' is the word. I was amused at your superfluous note on the box: 'Hope she will enjoy it.' She was delighted! Within an hour after the postman's visit she was all gussied up and out visiting her pals to show off her prize. . . . Have followed the enthusiastic Shipmate accounts and get a good concept of the fun and close comradeship I regretfully had to miss." In addition to expressing appreciation for the splendid job by the committee, Freeby added: "Elsie and Phil Wakeman's Golden Year Book is a treasured masterpiece.'' Bettye added a few lines expressing her appreciation, adding: "It was truly a keen disappointment to us in not being able to make the reunion. Freeby's doctor had not given his approval for the long drive and gala week end, but we were going anyway and take the week end carefully. Then when the blood clot developed in a deep vein on the week end prior to our leaving we knew that he had to have bed rest at home. We followed you through the various events each day—how much we wished we could be with you and enjoy seeing Classmates.

"If all goes well, we will spend Thanksgiving with our Joan"s family in Nebraska, and Freeby will call on the (Tom) Donovans while there.""

Ralph Richardson writes from Pittsburgh: "As a mie, it almost takes an earthquake to make me write a letter. However, Nellie and I enjoyed our 50th Reunion so much that we are still talking about it. Nellie was so pleased with her bracelet. . . .

"We are looking forward to attending the West Coast get-together in 1980. The years are moving faster now—at least it seems so, and we should take every advantage of making the most of them. The Class prayer (forwarded to all who were at the 50th) was greatly appreciated. Harking back to old times. Holy Joe (our chaplain, you remember) was a fine, spiritual man and very impressive, even if he did lisp a little.

"Well, as life slackens down, we slacken down with it. The Lord willing, from now on

56 we will spend 7 months in Florida and 5 months in Pittsburgh. Should possibly go to Florida and live there all the year-around, but we were both born and lived in Pittsburgh our entire lives, and it's difficuU to leave it altogether. Our Florida address is Apt. 2006, Vista del Lago, 1225 N.W. 21st Street, Stuart FL 33494. We expect to be there by 15 November and stay until 15 June. Will enjoy having any of our Classmates visit us if they are in the vicinity."

Jim Schuber writes from Bathsheba, St. Joseph, Barbados, West Indies: "Spending a few weeks here, and it's the only place I've been to that looks like the travel posters. All well. . . ."

Limey CockeU writes in late October: "Just retumed a few moments ago from Barbara (Mrs. Bill) Schoech's funeral at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. Bill still has a male nurse with him most of the time, and has quite retumed to battery. Several Classmates were at the service, along with wives of some, including Ambmster, Armbrust, CockeU, Garton, Hornby, Huff, Keith, Monahan, Smith, and Spilker."

Carolyn (Mrs. Ski) Burzynzki writes from New Castle, New Hampshire: "We went to Andover twice . . . and visited Hobby Horse Farm (Vince Treanor's home). Four cars there, but dead as a doornail! I left iris the first time; just our regrets the second time. Fm sure Dotty is in Costa Rice selling her dearly-loved house. To part with it is to lose another part of Vince.

"Ski is setting up wood and tool shed for Phip in Barrington. Steve is best everâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;helping Ski pound nails. Carolyn is still attacking her garden: the last skirmish is today, with the emptying of the earthworks in the window boxes."'

Moon Mullen sent in a news clipping from the Palo Alto (Califomia) Times reporting the tragic loss of a second son to D.K. Smith in the last year. Quoting from the Times: "Lt.(jg) Ernest Arthur Smith, known to his friends as Ernie, took off in a P-3B Orion (in midSeptember) from Brunswick, Maine, headquarters of the Navy's Aflantic fleet of the subhunting aircraft. No one knows what happened, but suddenly there was an explosion, a 'huge ball of fire' at 12,000 feet. The wreckage crashed in a hilly, rocky area, showering debris near a house and a trailer home near West Poland, Maine. All eight crew members were killed. Ernie Smith leaves behind a griefstricken family. His father and mother, D.K. and Lee Smith, moved to Tubac, Arizona, (in August) after 25 years in Los Altos Hills.

"Emie Smith also had a brother, Richard K. Smith. 'Dick was his idol all through life," their father said. 'He wanted to follow in Dick"s footsteps, that was his ambition." Richard had also flown P-3 Orions on A/S patrol, had spent two tours of duty assigned to Moffett Field NAS, and then left the service to fly for Air Southwest and then Westem Airiines. But his career was cut short. He died last November at Stanford University Hospital, a victim of Hodgkins disease at the age of 37.""

Moon continues: "Ernie was the younger of the two, born to DK and Lee. Dick was a half-brother, having been born of DK"s first marriage, and was a roommate of Roger Staubach at the Academy.

"I am sure glad that DK made the 50th back there, since he had looked forward to it, I know, for a long time. He was a close neighbor of mine here until two months ago when he and

Lee moved to Arizona. We expect to visit them there about Thanksgiving time.

"You certainly managed an eminently successful 50th from all accounts! At the time, we did not think it wise to travel so far away from home base here . . . Maybe the 55th will mature for us! Incidentally, DK's new address is P.O. Box 1969, Tubac AZ 85640, phone 602/ 398 2110."

Asked for an obituary of David Todd, who passed away July 16th, Dave's widow, Helen, wrote to John Urquhart: "Please forgive me for not having written to you ere this. Life is not the sameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;my heart is in pieces. It comes to us all sooner or later but our beautiful marriage, I had hoped, would have more time.

David was a grand person and a gentleman among gentlemen; to know him was to love him. I thank God every day that he was able to attend the 50th Reunion. Litfle did he know that he was saying his last goodbyes to you and all his Classmates." fC/5 note: Dave's obituary is in the November Shipmate, so Helen's moving biography of Dave will be included in this column in the next issue.)

Due to the limited facilities in the Annapolis area, arrangements for class reunions must be made years ahead of time. So, based on the excellent results of the 50th Reunion, Harry Sears has made advance arrangements with the Annapolis Hilton Inn for the 55th Reunion from Friday to Sunday, 20-22 May 1983. These include Hospitality through Sunday noon, two sections of the ballroom for reception/dinner dance Saturday evening, and Sunday noon bmncheon in the patio (weather permitting) or two sections of the ballroom.

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, Capt. Rags Parish USN (Ret.) Box 152, Neptune Beach FL 32233 Percent Members: 83 Project Dartmouth Maybe a good vacation in Europe has become prohibitively expensive for us "naval pensioners."" And, equally so for the "elderly naval men of England" to see a part of America with only a quid or two in pocket.

Maybe not, if Project DARTMOUTH goes down the quays and floats. Here are the plans now in the graving loft: (1) With the prompting of the WB&A Three Martini Lunch Group, your Secty initiated correspondence with a friend in the Royal Navy, to the end that one or more members of the Class of '29 USNA will host an appropriate couple from the Class of '29 Royal Navy Dartmouth, and will in turn receive invitation for an equivalent stay in the home in England of their guests. (2) Our Dartmouth contact writes that he is now contracting leading members of Dartmouth "29 to determine their response. He has the more difficult task, for there were three graduating groups each year at Dartmouth. Also, their grads have no organization such as our Alumni Association, no class reunions, and no magazine such as Shipmate. Nevertheless, our man

in England has written that initial response over there is promising. (3) The stmcture of such visits would be like that described by Gus Johansen for his exchange of visits last year. A few days visit in the home, followed by several days touring the countryside together. Emphasis on economy. (4) Will those of you interested contact your Secty, address above?

Disinterred! Did you know that in the Mississippi Delta area they bury them above ground? Fortunately so. Jim Lake, after years of silent decay in New Orieans, has returned to us. The letter of Charlton Rogers in the October Shipmate, lamenting the disappearance of Jim "and his beautiful sister, Meredith," was relayed to Jim "by a common friend of Bob Heinlein." Jim says, "I am still around with a law office at the letterhead address (Suite 909, International Trade Mart, New Orleans 70130).

I am impressed by all you admirals, the rank that is. The professions that I belong to are now less than generally admired, and by a laity that is rather parlous itself Ah well, the next time around I'll stick to psychiatry, philosophy, and revolutions. I am intending to attend the 50th at Annapolis just to see if I am the only thing unchanged by the passage of time.

With no graduates around I remain forever unsure." Welcome back, Jim! For the Northern California gang, Al White is plaintively pleading for a relief as its secty.

Ben Coe has been nominated to nominate a new corresponding secty, but Al says that the responsibility apparently has caused Ben to miss several lunches. Al speaks of "only II at the October lunch." That figure is really high for any noon formation, in our opinion, and should furnish a relief secty for long-laboring Al. Attending were the Ballingers, Johnsons, Welshes, McCauleys, Whites, and Mouse Martin. The Foleys were in Florida visiting the family of their oldest daughter, and then embarking on a cruise through the Canal. Otto is back in the hospital for more chemotherapy, then to return home where he is visited by his daughter from Spain. (Al, is the Temple Bar Tea Room best bar in SF still there? I left something there. Secty.)

We think that Sockeye Roughton visited Phil Osborn in Annapolis for one of the winning games, but can't confirm. Phil advises that Jim Hughes has sent in the earliest regrets for the Fiftieth, because of his wife's continuing illness. Reunion will not be the same without Jim napping in the center of activities.

One if by land, two if by sea. Dick Ballinger has left his vineyard and moved across some water to a more leisurely address. After arranging for the Belevedere Sailing Society's lighter to transport the HHE across the 500-foot channel by his grapes, he was faced with sea pay for the movers. So he arid Ginny went by prosaic truck to the new address at 25 Teal Road, Belvedere CA 94920. Dick wrote on the stationery of "USS GAMBIER BAY (CVE-73) and AIR GROUP VC-IO Association."

Dale Miller, who closely resembles his Dad, Clair, flew East last month to visit the Horans in Washington Grove, Maryland. While there Sylvia, Meredith and Dale drove to Annapolis for a tour of the Academy with Bill Kabler.

Highlights of the tour were the Class of 1929 memorial window in the Chapel, the spot in Dahlgren Hall that has been set aside for our new 1929 memorial which is now in process, and the scroll honoring all Naval Academy graduates who were KIA in WW II which has just been replaced in typewritten form in Memorial Hall, and, best of all, the pictures in Shipmate, January-February 1979

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30 Pres., RAdm. Wreford G. Chappie, USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Herbert H. Marable, USN (Ret.) 100 Askewton Rd., Round Bay, Severna Park MD 21146 Percent Members: 85

Ed Stephan and Carl Johnson the old gym of the Championship Academy teams in football, basketball, and lacrosse from 1925-29. Clair was a member of all of these teams, captain of the basketball team, and winner of three N stars. To top off a nostalgic day. Dale and Meredith, who are both great sailors alternated at the helm of the HAPPY DAZE II for a great sail on the bay. (Bill adds that he hopes that Bill Darnell's correction of the mispelling of one Classmate's name will be corrected on the new scroll in Mem Hall.)

Lamar Curry is in winter quarters in Lexington. Virginia. By a strange coincidence, Lamar is related by marriage to an old USS OKLAHOMA '29 shipmate, "Soldier" Letcher resident also in Lexington. We have received a newsy letter from Lamar, which we will publish next issue after a forthcoming reunion of some OKEY sailors in Lexington.

Reunion Fifty Dope Dates 19-21 October 1979. To answer the San Diego question, "Why not at Homecoming week end?"" There are zero housing and ballroom facilities during that gigantic gathering of all Classes. Our date gives us special considerations from hotel and Academy. Johnny Davidson advises that plans are progressing smoothly. We have rooms reserved at the Annapolis Hilton, close together. The requests for reservations will go out to you about 1 April.

Recommend arrival Friday morning 19th— Midshipman"s Store will be opened for sales to '29! Plans include dedication of plaque in Dahlgren Hall for our Classmates lost in WWII at a reception and dinner in honor of the Superintendent and Commandant and their ladies. Full Class meeting Saturday; much business has been deferred until you are there.

Next, luncheon and the Navy-Virginia Game.

Formal dinner dance in Hilton ballroom, convenient to rooms. Sunday morning chapel service for our Classmates" memorial, followed by coffee with the Supe and Mrs. Lawrence at their quarters. Despedida in afternoon at Alumni House. Possible best of all are visiting between rooms and table hopping at breakfasts. Johnny D. is shaping up some other real specials, like Johnny Mack Brown in AnnapoUs, made June Week 1928. Remember?

Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

Your secretary reports with regret the deaths of the following fellow-classmates: T. W. Enis in Washington, D . C , funeral services held at the Colonial Mortuary, Leesburg Pike, Virginia, on 13 November; VAdm. Charles Martell USN (Ret.) in Augusta, Georgia with memorial services at Arlington National Cemetery on the 14th; RAdm. Lawrence E. Ruff USN (Ret.), in Long Beach, California, on 20 October.

Jane Weiss wishes to acknowledge with deep appreciation the class expression of sympathy to her and the family at the death of Fred.

Jane Colestock wishes to express her deep appreciation for the class contribution in memory of Ed (to the Samuel Orton Society for Medical Research into causes for learning disabilities). A small memorial service was held for Ed on a cliff in Laguna Beach, California, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, on 9 June 1978.

His ashes were scattered at sea over the Pacific.

A long 'chronicle' has been received from "Red" Earle covering a trip he and Helen made with a retired USAF group to the Southwest Pacific—49-typewritten pages, single-spaced, covering their departure from Los Angeles, hence to Honolulu, Guam and adjacent Islands. Taiwan, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Manila, Bali, Sydney, Auckland, Tahiti.

Bora Bora, Los Angeles and then home over a period of about one month. Needless to say. trying to condense this into the allowable Shipmate space without losing any of its flavor was an impossible task—therefore I am forced to return it to "Red" suggesting that he bring it along with him to the 50th.

All hands PLEASE NOTE—If by now you have not received MEMO NUMBER ONE relating to the 50th REUNION, write post haste to Mullie Foster, 766A Fairview Avenue, Annapolis MD 21403. If you have received it.

PLEASE RETURN THE QUESTIONNAIRE. Bill Snead announces the following change of address: to 1445 Woodacre Drive, McLean VA 22101, tel. 703/534-5076.

Buff Simons reports his new address as: RAdm. M. H. Simons Jr. USN (Ret.), (Buff and Kay), 5801 Massachutts Avenue, Bethesda MD 20016, tel. 202/229-1523.

The Wash Area Group, Class of 1930, held a co-ed luncheon at the Commissioned Officers" Club, Ft. Myer, on 5 October 1978. Attending: Martha and Fred Beans, St. Clair and Bob Craighill, Tim Dorner, Barbara and Mullie Foster, Joe Hindman (welcome from Pennsylvania; we had not seen him for a long time), CiCi and Jim Howard, Dick Hunt, Louise and Jack Jones, Virginia and Herb Marable, Charlotte and Chief Masterson, Jean and Towser Miller, Lil and Bill Nelson, Madeleine and Art Owens, Gene Sands. Kay and Buff Simons, Patty and Bill Snead. and daughter, Lillian and Waddy Wadsworth, Vera and Glen Williams. Peg Hanson, Helen McCullough, Marion Lord and Ev Stevens. A very merry get-together.

Among the various reports the most interesting

was by Bill Snead on the current status of candidates selected by the USNA Foundation for the USNA, for the year 1978-1979, (Class of '82). The profiles of this year's sponsored candidates read as follows; "The Class of 1930 Honor Scholar, scholarship created by the Class of 1930, is James V. Hardy. James is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy of Simi, Cal. Graduated Chaminade College Prep School Canoga Park, Cal., with a class rank of 9 out of a class of 130 students.

Lettered in track and cross-country and was a member of Sierra and Spanish Clubs and student government representative. Attended the Bullis School where he worked hard to prepare for the Naval Academy, stood #3 in the postgraduate group; improved scholastically in all respects with a resultant very fine candidate multiple.""

"The Rear Admiral Joseph C. (Jumpin'Joe) Clifton Memorial Honor Scholar, scholarship created by Admiral Clifton"s many friends and admirers, is James C. Garman. James is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Garman of Clinton, Iowa.

Graduated from Marshall (Minnesota) High School where his class standing was 21 out of 251 and was captain of the football, wrestling, and track teams. Attended Marine Military Academy, standing #1 in the postgraduate course and excelled in football and track. Is 6'-3, 240 lbs. and should play for Navy in football."

"The Brigadier General Russell (Whitey) Lloyd Class of 1930 Honor Scholar, scholarship created by his widow, Mrs. Gay B. Lloyd, is William B. Bingham. William is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bingham of Pitman, New Jersey. He graduated from Pitman High School with a class rank of 41 out of 144 students. Excelled in athletics, winning letters in basketball (3) and was captain; baseball (2), and football (I). Participated in many other extra-curricular activities. Attended Marine Military Academy where again he excelled in football and basketball, and performed extremely well scholastically and increased his board scores greatly."

"The David A. Stretch Class of 1930 Memorial Honor Scholar, scholarship created by Texas Industries, Inc., is Michael W. O'Toole.

Michael is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O'Toole of Larkspur, California. Michael graduated from Redwood High School with a class standing well within the top 40% of the class. Extracurricular activities included soccer, track, vice-president junior class, Boys State, debating team, church clubs, and a member of the school band. Attended Northwestern Preparatory School where he did very well scholastically and made significant improvement in his board scores."

All four of these young men are presently midshipmen 4/c and are giving every indication of making their class a topflight group. Your secretary thought that you ought to know.

On Wednesday, II October, the USNA Class of 1930 of Northern California held a co-ed luncheon at the Fleet. Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island hosted by Anne Hawkins, attending: Mary and John Azer, Adriene Clark. Hannah and Ed Carmick, Margery Hanlin, Jean and Al Kohlas, Pat and Leo May, Billie and Roscoe Newman, Ray Sellers, Bill Stewart, Eleanor Winant, and Betty and Warren McClain from down south. No specific details about the affair.

The Class of 1930, Southwest Area, gathered for stag luncheon at the Windsong Restaurant on 13 October and at the same time their ladies were attending a "Ladies" luncheon. Attend-

58 ing the men's affair were: Harvey Burden, Moon Chappie, Mush Domin, John Gragg, Ned Harrell, George Heap, Frank Johnson, Fred Lucas, Roland McKnight, Bill Sanders, John Seargeant, Bob Trower and Harry Verhoye and George Ashford ('29). The ladies" group included: Dorothy Boyle, Evelyn Burden, Mary Chappie, Clare Gragg, Fran Harrell, Betty Kinert, Patti Trower, Marion Woodward and Bunny Ashford.

Your secretary should like to correct an item in his report of the co-ed luncheon at Alumni House on 21 May. Included in the list of those attending was "Midn. 4/c Peter Reister, grandson of Admiral Stump."' This should have readâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Midn. 4/c Peter Reister, grandson of Ted Stevens.

Your secretary wishes to take this opportunity to acknowledge with thanks Cdr. James H. Davis USN (Ret), of Norman, Oklahoma, Class of 1943, for his letter concerning the story of the dial safe. Unfortunately space allowed prevents it being printed here.

31 Pres., RAdm. Raymond P. Hunter, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, RAdm. John Crumpacker, USN (Ret.) 1101 S. Ariington Ridge Rd., #402 Ariington VA 22202 West Coast Corr., RAdm. Andrew J. Hill USN (Ret.) 1295 Bangor Sreet, San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 83 The final notice about the San Diego reunion in February 1979 went out on 4 October. It is still not to late to sign up and join the large group that will be there at the famous old Del Coronado Hotel. Our diligent reunion committee, (thanks to them, one and all), sends me the following lines of logic and persuasion by the hand of the hard working chairman, Andy Hill. 1) You may be someplace else for the 50th.

2) If you don't show up people will think you are busted and they will talk about you. 3) See for yourself if Ray Hunter actually gets there through the Straits of Magellan. 4) See if John Crumpacker, Johnny Webster and Jack Parham show up at all. 5) You can impress your wife by introducing her to Ambassadore Rivero. 6) See how old Andy Hill really looks. 7) See if the weather in San Diego in February is any better than it was at Annapolis in June of 1976.

8) Add up the excess pounds the class jocks are carrying around. 9) It will be the worid's best reunion and you better see for yourself 10) Find out what Jack Wulff thinks of it. 11) Visit Mexico and finally, 12) Make up your own reason.

practically nothing at all." Robb says he saw Mike Myers just before he died and even though he was quite ill, he still had the special qualities that made him our "five striper" Plebe Summer. Please correct your directories to show Robb's wife's name as Joan and their address as 1780 Glen Oaks Dr., Santa Barbara CA 93108, phone 805/969-1862. For good measure Robb's 28th novel will be published next year.

Twenty Classmates and wives attended the Homecoming. Also on hand for the football game and other events were Lucy Hammond, east to visit her son and his family, and Kathy Geyer, whose first husband was our cm William H. Johnsen.

Harris and Peggy Child have finally tired of the cold northern winters and have moved to 3423 Boca Ciega Dr., Lakewood, Naples FL 33942. They intend to spend their summers back in New Jersey near their grandchildren.

They say they will see us all in Coronado in Febuary.

I have a clipping forwarded to me by the Shipmate staff from the mag ON THE SURFACE. It quotes MMCS Danny Bagby in writing of his WW II experiences in the destroyer USS LAFFEY as follows, "Incredibly, LAFFEY

was still afloat and capable of fighting after 79 minutes of concentrated air attack." She had fought off 22 Japanese planes, downing eleven of them. Bagby continued to say that the ship rallied to her captain's cry, "I will not abandon ship while a gun will fire." That skipper was our Classmate Julie Becton.

I regret to inform you that Jack Stauffer died of a heart attack on November 9th at Lutherville Maryland. Write to Ervina at 1021 Adcock Rd., Baltimore MD 21204. His obituary will be found in "Last Call."

Two interesting autobiographies follow. I will try to have a couple of these for you each month from now on.

Frank Peters After retiring in 1961 Page and I decided to take it easy and do a lot of travelling in the U. S. A. Except for the East and West Coasts we had seen so little of the country during our active duty years. We had built a house in Falls Church, Virginia, just three years before retiring and thought we would just stay here and enjoy the good life. We first travelled throughout the Southeast including Florida and the Keys, some of our favorite spots. We always travel by car; in motoring we feel we can see more of the country and can stop and stay any place we particularly like.

Next we took an extensive motor trip to Mexico. Our daughter Ginny was living there at the time, and we spent three months touring Bob Beebe says that his wife, Linford, had a the entire country. We still felt the best places " o n e m a n " show in Salt Lake City in were Mexico City, Taxco and Aculpuico, alNovember and that he is doing the chores. The though the entire country was very scenic and Beebes took off later in November for a living most reasonable. (This was 1962.) month, going as far as Florida. Bob's daughter I have always been interested in investments lives there. In Late September Bob spent two and the stock market and joined the Financial weeks in San Diego attending the launching of Analysts, American Economic and American one of his designs, a 50-footer that is able to go Financial Associations: also took an advanced in the French canals. Says Bob, "She floated course in income tax but only pursued these in OK and that is always a gratifying thing to a small way, so as not to interfere with seeing see." the U. S. A. We make motor trips every year, Robb White wrote me for a new directory one time to the Westem Parks, then several to and added that he had recently had a fine visit the Middle West, then to Maine and the with Chick and Margaret Chandler after a lapse Northeast. Several trips through the South and of 47 years. He says the Chandlers are very Southwest (Grand Canyon) and to the far busy. " J u s t the list of their worthy West. We've been to all the states at least endeavors," he says, "made me ashamed of once. This Winter we plan a Southem trip and my daily nap and weekly accomplishment of next Summer north to the Pacific Northwest.

Our only daughter spent a lot of time in Europe before she was married eight years ago, which meant Page and I had to go to New York many times for farewell and welcome home parties on board ship. Ginny and her husband now live in Southern Maryland on the water, have a boat and he commutes to Bethesda where he is an engineer with A.E.C. (He was a lieutenant commander in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps at one time.)

Other than the above we haven't led very exciting lives. We spend two or three months of each year at our favorite place in Ocean City, Maryland. Page and I enjoy reasonably good health, although I do have to take 9 pills a day for high blood pressure and lost a kidney five years ago.

Walter J. Stewart Since leaving the service in the early fifties we have lived in the Washington, D.C. area.

The time since, now twenty-five years, has been reasonably successful and enjoyable, with the exception of a family tragedy. Our oldest son, Jay, Class of '55 a Captain USAF, was lost in 1963 in a cargo-plane accident in the Atlantic. He left five splendid grandchildren whom we enjoy so much. Our second son, Norman, is a graduate of Lynchburg College with graduate work at the University of Idaho at Moscow. He is now back in this area and it is with keen interest that we follow his path as he heads for the future.

Audrey, Easy and Norman Stewart After leaving the service I aided my "conversion"" with an MBA from American University. Major imployment included GSA and the last ten years, until "73, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Audrey is active with the local womens club and is also not adverse to delegating some of her household responsibilities to the retired member.

Hobbies include first hundred years in stamps (inactive); photography including a dark room now; and amateur radio.

32 Pres., RAdm. Francis D. Foley USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. Terrell A. Nisewaner USN (Ret.) 7121 Helmsdale Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 82 Here and There With '32 Occasionally one has a terrible time trying to locate a Classmate but, then when you do succeed, it is well worth it. Such is the case with our temporarily lost Juan Domenech. Juan reports that he is sorry to have missed seeing Dimi Dimitrijevic and Bill Short but that the Domenechs are now Hving in the lovely municipality of Guaynabo just outside the San Shipmate, January-February 1979

59 Juan city limits. The exact address is: 701 Garden Hills Tower, Garden Court, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00657. The phone: 809/782-8944.

Juan reports that they moved to Florida in 1974, planning to settle later in the pretty town of Benidorm. near Alicante. Spain, where Marina has many relatives. However, they missed their son Carlos, and politics took a turn for the better with the upset victory of the statehood faction, so they elected to return to Puerto Rico and work for statehood. Accordingly they moved back near their son, their old church and their old club, and just 200 yards distant from their former home in Suchville.

Juan added that he and Marina have been visiting the Alicante area in Spain every two years for some time now and may yet get to see the Counihans in Tangiers. It certainly isn't far away. In the interim they go north occasionally, mostly to see football, but partially to see old friends and readily admiKto a little homesickness for that fine Navy of ours. He adds that they will always welcome and be glad to see their Classmates in that still manana land of Puerto Rico.

In the last issue we had the sad duty of reporting the untimely loss of our super special Classmate, Nemo Howe. Now a marvelous "Report to the Readers"' by public editor, Richard J. Gonder, of the Virginia-Pilot brings forth a few more worthy comments about our erstwhile Classmate. Editor Gonder readily admits that he will miss Captain Howe but also, unknowingly, will dozens of reporters and editors for these newspapers who from time to time he called to task for some literary carelessness, or grammatical miscue, or just plain lack of knowledge. Nemo expressed himself to them through Editor Gonder, although seldom was Captain Howe identified.

According to Editor Gonder's article titled "His Was a Dry Wit in a Sea of Words," Nemo Howe was hardest in criticism when reporters failed to correctly use the language of the sea. He reasoned, logically, that Norfolk was a navy town and the Navy deserved some understanding in the newsrooms. Editor Gonder also reported that Nemo had fun being their closest outside critic. But his was a good natured comment and he made them laugh as often as he made them blush.

He added that after a couple of months they began to warm to each other and began to use first names. Then Nemo enclosed a clipping from the Pilot and inquired: "How does one go about 'wrecking havoc," please tell me?" The thick pile of his correspondence grew and Editor Ponder just wishes now that there had been some way to preserve his comments by phone and the messages he left on the telephone recorder. Even his secretary began to fret when they went long periods without hearing from Nemo.

Eariier this year, Capt. Howe's letters and calls stopped and Richard Ponder wrote to him. A reply was received the next day with, "The reason you haven't heard from me is that you people cleaned up your act and I haven't had anything to bitch about." Ponder commented that he should have known that Nemo was ill then, else he would have something current to goad them with. There was one final letter in May and then silence. With that, and with enormous regret, we close the file marked "Capt. F. N. Howe."

The October 12th luncheon at the Channel Inn on one of the most beautiful Indian Summer days imaginable saw 51 of the Class assemble for a rousing inauguration of our first Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

Washington-based coed luncheon. These luncheons are now to be semi-annual . . . May in Annapolis and October in Washington. Almost all the normal Washington-Annapolis contingent was out in force except that this time all were paired off with a running mate.

Ann Born, bubbling over with information about her recent trip to Europe, was squired

by Jack Bandy and Kitty and Emerson Fawkes very nicely brought Helena Lietwiler.

The surprise of the day was the appearance of Charlotte and John Spangler from Pebble Beach, who beautifully timed their trip East and a visit with Erma and Al Slayden to take in the luncheon and see old friends in the area.

This was one of those periodic trips East for the Spanglers who visit their daughter Helen in York, Pennsylvania, where this time they also saw Debbie Humes and had a nice visit with Anne and Ted White. This year it was on to Williamsburg for a weekend with daughter Helen and then home via Tucson, Arizona, and a visit with son John who is affiliated with IBM in that city. They report that the entire trip was a lot of fun from seeing old friends to enjoying the "green" of the East Coast.

Future Class of'% Nathan Bryan A delightful letter from Betty Bryan enclosed a fine picture of young Nathan Bryan, Ginny and Lou's only grandson. Betty comments that he strides along like Lou, is a real charmer, always busy and hopefully someday will carry on the Lou Bryan tradition at the Naval Academy. Look out, Class of '96, here is a future candidate.

From our inimitable Wiggie Wigelius, who apparently is never at a loss for words of wisdom, comes another plea to try those puzzle and product promotion sweepstakes. He attached a couple of letters to prove a point. In capsulized form the first letter said, "Dear Mrs. Wigelius, Your 'Go Italian Sweepstakes" second prize check for $1,000.00 is enclosed.

Thanks for entering our Pillsbury and '21' Brands product Sweepstakes."' The second letter said, "Dear Mrs. Wigelius, as a second prize winner in the Clorox Bleach-Safe Sweepstakes you will receive the following prizes: A General Electric matching washerdryer, a bleach-safe fashion collection consisting of five pairs of men's tailored slacks, $100 worth of Springmaid sheets and pillow cases, and five Excello Silken Touch dress shirts.""

Now that is what I call making contests work for you, but how come Wiggie gets in on the prizes when she does all the work of entering and winning?

Wiggie commented that for his bride, Mary Evelyn, whom he first met in the old balloon

Mary Evelyn Wigehus "Our Contest Winner" hangar at a Navy Relief Show at the NAS. Pensacola, when she was just 17 and then reigning Miss Pensacola, it was love at first sight, but he waited until October 1935 when he had won his golden wings along with Joe Jaap and other sterling Classmates before tying the knot. He hasn't regretted a day since and "she" keeps on winning those great contests and teaching BUNKA. the Japanese embroidery art. Anyone who has withstood that many years with Wiggie has to be good. Wiggie also noted another error in this column. He retired on a physical disability in 1947 . . . not resigned.

The latest in a continuing correspondence with Magruder Tuttle revealed that the last week in September Dot and he had had a most pleasant few days with Ray and Lou Kirn, who stopped by for a visit on their way to visit Ray's family in New Orleans, and then on up to see Lou's mother in Wisconsin.

While in Pensacola Lou had his routine annual physical during which an aneurysm in his aorta was discovered. Although being in the early stages, being the trooper that he is, Lou did not hesitate to call ahead and, with the help of Ray"s family, arranged for a date with Dr. Oschner at the famous New Orleans clinic for an immediate operation. According to Tut, Lou"s attitude toward this most serious operation was like most of us would consider a tonsillectomy. From all reports the operation was quite successful and by the time this Shipmate goes to press he will no doubt be out and charging like nothing had ever happened.

Emerson Fawkes forwarded a colorful little news item that may be of interest to the Classes of '12, '32, '45, and '66. The occasion was the 63rd wedding anniversary of Kitty's parents, VADM and Mrs. Walter S. Delany, on 2 October. He was USNA "12 and she was Bryn Mawr "12. Their son. Dr. Walter S. Delany, Jr., Captain USN (Ret.) "45 had recenfly become president of the Community College in Danville, Virginia, so all hands agreed that the 63rd anniversary would be a fine time to drive down to Danville for a visit with Walt and Anne, inspect the president's new home, tour the college and take a look around.

According to Emerson, the six could not have found a more enjoyable way to celebrate a 63rd anniversary. Unfortunately for Kitty and Emerson their son, Delany Fawkes '66 and his wife Barbara could not take the long week end, but the three generations of Annapolis graduates do get together quite often. Emerson commented that while Admiral DeLany served in destroyers, cruisers and battleships, Walt Jr. in submarines, and himself in aviation, that when they do get together they agree on almost everything. Sounds like nice family unity.

60 An exchange of letters with Paul Harrington brought forth the fact that several Classmates in the "general" area live so far away that he doesn't get any news from them . . . namely, Chuck Gold in Bellingham, Red Greene in the wilds near Bremerton, and Norm Sampson and Roland Stieler in Gig Harbor. However, five now live in the greater Seattle area and he sees Earl Finney fairly often as well as Joe Jaap.

The previous month Fran and Joe had a lovely dinner party to which Dee and Paul were invited, but no other Classmates were encountered.

Paul commented that they and the Jaaps were very good friends of Marty and Nemo Howe and were shocked and saddened to hear that Nemo had passed away. All four were also sorry that they were so far away that they couldn't attend the funeral at Arlington.

A nice note from Pat and Bud Willard laments the fact that they were off on a trip away from home and called Marty on their return to find out how Nemo was doing, only to discover that that distinguished Classmate had left us on his final cruise 10 days before. As a small remembrance of the wonderful times the four of them had had together they enclosed a check to the Naval Academy Foundation to be added to the Class Memorial Scholarship Fund in Nemo's memory. Many thanks, you two, for the fine tribute.

Bud added that he and Pat go quietly along in their own pleasant rut with quite good health as their greatest asset and with one daughter, son-in-law and four granddaughters as special fringe benefits only a mile away. What more could anyone ask?

From the southem exposure of Cocoa Beach comes word from Dorothy and Harry Reiter that the last of September hailed their return from a 40-day trip to Europe which included a 25-day bus tour of Central Europe and USSR. They had two-day stops in Prague, Budapest, Moscow and Leningrad with one-day visits to Uzhgorod, Luov, Kiev, Orel, Smolensk, Minsk, Warsaw, Poznan, Berlin, Hanover, Vienna and Brussels plus a few other unpronounceable cities. No troubles, but the border crossings into and out of East Germany and East Berlin brought the most uneasy feelings.

Harry was glad that he required incognito during the entire trip.

Harry reported that the highlights of the trip were; Hotel Russia is Moscow—2500 rooms; the Metro in Moscow—immaculate, unbelievable marble palaces; the Kremlin; the ballet in the Kremlin theater—6000 seats; the Heritage Museum in Leningrad; the Red Square; and Lenin's tomb. But this is just one of the many trips that this well traveled pair have made. If they don't take first prize for most miles covered since retirement, it would take a real wandering pair of gypsies to ease them out.

From the Reverend John S. Horner, our retired ecclesiastical Classmate in Ironwood, Michigan, comes word that in August they held the First Annual North Country Reunion of the Class of '32. Present were Annemarie and Tommy Thomas and the children, Alice and Doc Stannard and Jane and Jack Horner. Jeane McComock is only 85 miles away, but was unable to come at that time.

The drawing card to get Annemarie and Tommy up there was the Paavo Nurmi Marathon in nearby Huriey. Doc, Alice and Jack drove the 26-mile race in a VW bus complete with cooler for the beer (strictly my type of marathon) and then Jack ran the last 365 yards with Tommy and Annemarie. Although

Annamarie and Tommy Thomas. . .

Start of Paavo Nurmi Marathon among the last to finish. Tommy placed 4th in the 60 and over class. He said, "I run to live, not to break records."

Five years ago Tommy went in for a physical exam after having angina pains. Tests showed extensive clogging of the coronary arteries and the doctor advised against an operation. With his family history the future didn't look bright.

Then he read a booklet, "Angina Sufferers Do Not Have to Have Heart Attacks." He joined a clinic conducting tests on a group of patients the result of exercise on heart patients. Later, while visiting in Hawaii, he met a group of mnners called the Honolulu Marathon Clinic.

He caught the " b u g " and ran his first marathon in 1977. The Nurmi was his ninth.

And he is still going strong.

As a special inducement for future visitors, John stated that we are offering free lodging (including breakfast and dinner), free hook-ups if you have a motorhome, and unexcelled scenery. "Also our limousine will pick up at the airport, if you fly."

If one looked quickly about the middle of October around the estate of Bobby and Jack Lamade they would have spotted our Swiss expatriates, Polly and Ski Sosnoski. That remarkable duo, both looking in bubbling good health, made a quick trip over to visit her relatives in Moline, Polly's brother in Belvedere, Califomia, daughter Sharon in Coronado, and then back to visit daughter Susie, son Buzz and his wife and the grandchildren in Bethesda. Unfortunately he was too busy visiting the grandchildren to take in the William and Mary game with a bit more exposure to Classmates.

Gave credit to a wrong person in the October issue. The "Tailgate Luncheon" picture was taken by Boots Ellison. Her husband Tex was the 6th man in the snap.

33 Pres., VAdm. B. M. Strean, USN (Ret.) 5038 North 30th St., Ariington, VA 22207 Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Archie T. Wright, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4829 Ft. Sumner Dr. Washington, DC 20016 Percent Members: 74 This episode in the continuing saga of the life and times of the USNA Class of 1933—A, B, C, & X, has all but written itself; however it stubbornly refuses to conform to chronological, geographical, or topical organization, so dear reader, be patient, keep reading, and you'll surely see your name, picture, or at least that of a friend, by the time (if) you get to the end of the column.

In the W/A area we've had two fine luncheons and one glorious Homecoming since our last report and the S/D group has had two luncheons and the wives got together in October for a concurrent happening (those gals are liberated), besides having had the pleasure of hearing from a lot of folks not in the tightly defined enclaves mentioned above, so despite the fact that the joys of the holiday season are behind us and the 'blahs' of Winter in the East have set in, pull up your chair to the fire, lean back, and enjoy among other things some fine photography by Gus Kiergan at the 45th West.

The October luncheon of the W/A contingent was at the Ft. McNair O'Club on NAVY DAY with 16 C/Ms in attendance and more topics of conversation then we could adequately cover in the IVi hours we spent in company. Our Coast Guard compatriot and C/M John Oren kicked off the festivities by proposing a toast to the good health and long life of the Navy from our sister service and we all raised our glasses, after which we enjoyed a good lunch, talked football, had a report from Smoke on current affairs and events inlcuding a rundown of the 45th West, and firmed up plans for Homecoming. The November luncheon was held in the Pentagon in the Army Flag Mess on 16 November with USNA "33 hosts to USMA '33. The Army had 16 stalwart representatives there with 21 for the Navy made up of: Blick*, Blouin, Bowen*, Cobb*, Erck, King*, Laird, Lane*, Loughlin, MacDonald, Mayberry*, Mott, O'Brien*, Ogden*, Oren*, Slayton*, Strean*, Sublette, Thompson*, Travis*, and Wright*. Pratt and McKibbin made the October luncheon in addition to those * above.

After some entertaining remarks by the two Class Presidents, Smoke Strean and Abe Lincoln, the foremost ex-footballers of the protagonists took the floor with predictions of things to come on 2 December—Leo Erck for Navy—after which the Treasurer took custody of a $39 Trust Fund to be awarded to the Class Fund of '33 USNA or USMA, depending upon the final score. It was great fun and we are grateful to our West Point friends of '33 for keeping our unique relationship alive in the Capitol area.

In S/D 13 C/Ms attended the October luncheon at the Adm. Kidd O'Club and 8 ladies met for a concurrent luncheon at the same place. The attendees were: Gibbons, Gamon, Rumble, Stuart, Elliott, Bird, Bruning, Hanson, Monroe, Coye, Heinz, Miller, and Fredericks; and at the "33 Wives luncheon were: Maggie Felling, Lee Riddell, Ruth Jordan, Ruth Beyer Podlewski, Elsa Bird, Karen Monroe, Helen Gamon, and Maudie Fredericks. In November, four of the faithful, i.e., Monroe, Rumble, Russell, and Fredericks, gathered at Casa de Loma for a Mexican Fiesta in lieu of the 0"Club which was closed for Veteran's Day, incredible?

Now Hear This Dee and Pickles Heinz recently completed a trip up the California coast including Solvang and Monterey. Ernie and Ed Grimm are about to take off on a cruise thru the Canal and down to Rio, from where they will fly home. Marge Ogle reports that Peggy and Lem Stevens and Libby and Bill Fortune honored her with their presence at dinner in her home in San Juan Capistrano on 19 September. How nice to see old friends again.

Bemiece and Gary Coleman hosted a despedida luncheon at their lovely home in Rancho Santa Fe for lingerers from the 45th West Shipmate, January-February 1979

61 on 3 October and among their guests were Margaret Dodson (Honolulu), Kay Zimmerman (Texas), Adelle Wright and your C/S. They have designed, built, and furnished with mementos collected over the years, a beautiful retirement home, perfect for entertaining in a lovely natural setting—now if Gary can get some shore duty to enjoy it!

Ren Hayden, now residing at Rancho Bernardo, has a new novel to his credit. Ruth and Jim Jordan have volunteered to chair a Spring Class Party at the Adm. Kidd O'Club with a tentative date of 24 February, '79. A local mailing will go out but out-of-towners who are interested should contact Eddie Fredericks, 5844 Malvern Court, San Diego CA 92120 for info and reservations.

Ruth Costello had Alice Sowerwine as her guest for a short visit at her home in Hampton, Virginia, during October. Ruth is gradually reorganizing her life without Joe and derives help and strength from her family and from friends, like Alice, who knows from experience what she faces. Alice meanwhile was hurrying home from her travels to Kalispoll. Montana, hoping to get there before the winter snows set in.

Frank Schwartz sent 25 beautiful slides of groups taken at the 45th East and West for use in Shipmate (my cup runneth over!). And somehow we've got to share them with you— keep watching. The travelling that Grace and Frank do, you wouldn't believe. The only reason I know they were at home in November was because Frank sent the slides from Bellevue, Washington. Minnie and Bob Keating have sold their condo in Oklahoma and are moving permanently to Hawaii; new address: 117 Palapu, Kailua HI 96734.

George Laird has recovered from his triple bypass open heart surgery (initially reported to be a double bypass) and after 12 days in the hospital made it to the Navy-Duke game on 14 October and he looked good at the A/N luncheon on 16 November. George says "Thanks" for the get-well cards and letters, you-all. And sadly we must report the passing of our Classmate Cdr. Karl Neupert USNR (Ret), and we have received a letter from Howard Duff of Edmonds, Washington, dated 3 November, which says it all and we'd like to quote it in part: "On 26 October 1978, our Class lost its #1 man, my roommate, Karl F. Neupert. I attended his memorial services in Portland, Oregon, on Monday, 30 October. . . . Karl was more than a 'brain.' who beat out Bob Madden for the # I ranking in the Class. Of impeccable moral character, Karl had a passion for excellence that was transmitted, not only to me, but to his many associates in the Navy and in the business world. Duty well done was to him not only a thing of beauty but indispensable to a sense of well being. I urge all C/Ms to read the book Brave Ship, Brave Men, the story of the AARON WARD. Kal

pathy to Eleanor, her children and grandchildren. Howard made a generous contribution to the Class Fund in Earl's name and included other news for which your C/S is grateful. Additionally, we had a letter from Pete Galantin in which he noted that during Kari's later years he had a hard struggle with multiple myeloma, which he finally lost. Pete reports that all is well with him and Ginny in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Had a nice letter from Lew Davis, 2850 S. Ocean Blvd., Apt. 204, Palm Beach FL 33480, bringing us up-to-date and I'll quote it in part: "Right after Janet and Smoke Strean paid us an unexpected and most welcome visit at 'Topgallant,' our home in St. Lucia last January, Margaret and I found a buyer for our house and land there. It has taken us until mid-October to settle the formalities, but we are now full-time Palm Beachers after 10 years in the islands. It was a great 10 years, but great to be back, too. That gave me a total of 16 years in the Caribbean—3 during WWII in San Juan and 3 more in the early '50s at Gtmo which lured me back for the St. Lucia bit.

Sorry to be away from the '33 and other USNA activities for so long, but at least son Rick takes grandson Michael to the Homecomings as proxies for me." Lew looks forward to better mail service now that he's back with us—Keep in touch. Lew. Your C/S got a six-page letter from Al Edwards now living in Sanibel, Florida (get out your Rand McNally Road Atlas) and just reading his letter caused the 50 intervening years since we met as roommates at the Academy to fall away as tho they hadn't been. He sent along the picture of 5 plebes who had just received their first blue uniforms at the end of plebe summer and I'm sure C/Ms will have no difficulty recognizing the four on the left (so little change) as: Joe Enright, Larry Neville, Al Edwards, and Tom Long, with Robert P. Criswell (finished with '34) on the right. Al recalls the continuous bridge game that he, Rufe Taylor, Sam Pattie and George Balterman had from 1930 to 1933 and how, when Al was hospitalized during the Spring of "33, George and Sam managed to get tumed-in too but Rufe had to come over during visiting hours to keep the game going because he couldn"t convince the doctors that he was sick. (Sadly we count the missing at our reunions.) Al says they bought their lot on Sanibel (have you found it yet?) before there was a causeway to the island in 1962. built their home on their V/z acres after he retired from North American Rockwell in 1973, and moved there in 1974; now they"re fighting the growth problem. He and Dorothy are well, as anyone who saw them at the 45th could testify, they love their home and have tried to keep the property just like nature created it; their children and grandchildren are spread from Texas to Annapolis to New York; and what Al does in the Gulf Stream, he didn't say. And thanks for the very generous donation to the Class Fund, Al.

was the XO when it took half dozen kamikazes in a single attack off Okinawa. The author credits Karl with the thoroughness of the trainFive Plebes ing and preparation that permitted the ship to survive. The author reports that there was not a dry eye on the ship when Karl left to take f^a, over command of his own DD. Besides his wife, Eleanor, Kari leaves four sons and two daughters, and numerous grandchildren, a handsome group that has every right to be very proud of their Dad and Granddad. It was a privilege to have been close to him." The Class sent a memorial wreath to the service and joins Howard in extending deepest symShipmate, January-February 1979

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R & R, Second Batt

Smoke Strean got a letter from Blish Hills (Troy, Kansas) which is quoted in part; "Not much Class activity in NE Kansas, but a few drop by via plane and car as did the Coyes and Santmyers, plus the Chick Clareys (34) and Herb Andrews (30). Sorry to have missed the 45th but we will certainly schedule for the 50th soon enough to make it. Dotty and I have been escaping the fog, ice, and snow by wintering in the Phoenix, Arizona, area but plan to try the Florida circuit this year. All those fine golf courses down there are enticing."' And Blish sent along the picture of R & R 2nd Batt, June Week "33, identified as follows: (L to R) Bob Leach, Chariie Moore (hidden) (D), Hank Monroe, Blish Hills, Chariie Henderson (34), John Horton (34), Dummay Gorham (35-D), Bob Hird and Tom Ward (D).

Eddie Fredericks, our W/C V.P., sends in the following account of the Fredericks" recent travels: "Maudie and I just completed a trip to Charleston, South Carolina, for the YoRKTOWN-MONTEREY reunion. Besides having the pleasure of renewing old friendships with former shipmates, including the former assistant

navigator

of the MONTEREY, ex-

President Gerald Ford, we had the pleasure of dining with Susan Bellinger and Ellie and Mike Hunt. Susan not only extended the hospitality of her beautiful old historic home in downtown Charleston, but also provided us with specially selected guide service to enable us to see the rest of historic Charleston and its environs.

Mike and Ellie showed us how the 'Countryfolk" live on the Isle of Palms in a little notso-old two story brick house on a beautiful inlet just off the Inland Waterway complete with private pier and dock, loaded crab traps, private oysterbed, not to mention a Chris Craft Cmiser and a little ol" utility boat. We sampled a few of 'them-there" crabs along with a libation or two. Mike has a marker on the Waterway to divert cmising Classmates to his dock . . . On the way home we stopped briefly in Pensacola to visit friends and check out the new Aviation Museum. Was able to visit briefly with Jake Jacoby and see his interesting and beautiful studio near Bayou Grands. Jake has had a little heart problem, but is recovering beautifully and is out on the golf course whenever he can make it.""

Between the luncheon get-togethers in the W/A area we had a wonderful day for Homecoming in Annapolis. From our seat in the stands we could see and hear the victory cheers of the Curtises, Tyrees (Connecticut).

Thompsons, 0"Briens, Blicks, Al Crogan, Bill Dawson, Jay Chase, Larry Neville (New York), Hal Bowen, Champ Blouin. et cetera.

Needless to say we thoroughly enjoyed the Navy Victory and hurried out to 'Off Soundings" on the South River overiooking Church Creek to enjoy Bill Dawson" s hospitality and

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savor the fruits of the victory. There, in addition to most of the above, we found, among others: the Travises, Loughlins, Ogdens, Streans, Pratts, Cameras (Philly), MacDonalds, Jim Reedy, Chick King, Morgan Slayton, TAD Duncan, Sue Morton, Dora-Le Rowe, and Bill Porter (all the way from Rome).

While watching the after glow of the sunset reflected in the placid and darkling waters of Church Creek, we listened to Bill Porter tell how he rides his motor bike down the Via Appia to board meetings in Rome dealing with the international market, and to a participant in 'the largest KT Party on the East Coast" describe how Charlie Travis held the '33 contingent spellbound for hours the previous evening with his continuous repartee of jokes 'that really should be produced in book form," and reflected on what it means to come to the end of a Navy Day in such company, such reveries ultimately leading us to recall those singing and marching exercises that were scheduled for us in front of Bancraft Hall during Plebe Summer when, under the leadership of our own Henry Hahn, we marched to the fore singing "StoutHearted Men" and first leamed the words to "Navy Blue and Gold."

We've been given a fine story for our column that illustrates the fraternal nature of the Naval Service and the community of spirit that prevades the lives of those who have become a part of the family, i.e., The Case Of The Lost Ring A Naval Academy miniature ring was found this spring in downtown Augusta, Georgia, and given to Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor, Jr., by a personal friend. The search for the owner of the mysterious ring began.

Secretary Claytor's office determined from the inscription inside the ring that it had belonged to the widow of Reginald M. Raymond, Naval Academy Class of 1933. Reggie Raymond was killed in action aboard the submarine USS SCORPION in 1943. Efforts to locate Mrs. Raymond were initially without result, but with the added assistance of Roy Smith of the Naval Academy Alumni Association the Secretary's office learned that Mrs. Raymond is now married to another Naval Academy graduate, W.R. DeLoach, Jr., (Class of '39). Marjorie and Ralph DeLoach live in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After the Secretary had returned the ring to Mrs. DeLoach and leamed more about its history from her, he sent the following letter to the person who had found the ring:

Your C/S had a call from Midn. 3/c Michael Doland of the 33rd Co reminding him of the missed opportunity of visiting the WR of the 33rd Co during Homecoming. We'll try to do better next time—You-all hear?

And now the piece de-resistance, a sample of Gus Kiergan's superb photography of the 45th West in September:

3. The Chow Line—Kick-off KT Party: Otto Spahr, the Schades, Bill Sublette and Loretta Gambling, the Heinzs, the Duncans.

THE SECRETARY OF T H E NAVY WASHINGTON

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I978 4. At The Bar—(L) Med MacPherson, Clayton Miller, Bob MacPherson, Joe Koenig, Champ Blouin, the rest you pick out!

Belvin

1111 Milledge Road Augusta, (jeojTgia 30904 Dear P e t e : You may recall that last spring, when I was in Augusta for the Oiamber of C3cmnerce breakfast, you gave me a minature Naval Acadetny class ring that you had found, and asked me to locate the owner. I just -vvanted to bring you up to date on the results of your thoughtful action.

As I wTote you earlier, the ring belonged to the v/idCTV of Reginald M. Raymond, Naval Acadany Class of 1933.

He was killed in action aboard a subnarine in 1943. ilrs. Raymond is now married to another Naval Acadeny graduate, a retired Navy (Captain W. R. DeLoach, and they live at Virginia Beach, Viii;inia. Mrs. DeLoach gave the ring to her mother-in-law after Raymond's death aboard USS S<X)RPI(»I. Raymond's mother is now well into her 90's, and ?.5rs. DeLoach is not sure how the ring came to be in Augusta, but she has assured me that she will make contact with the Raymond family to tell them of its recovery. I have retumed the ring to her and thought you might be interested in the result.

5. Near The Bar—(L) Willie Seipt, Chas Keyser, Hank Rumble, —, Bal Cheatam.

With best wishes.

Sincerely, 6. Reminiscing—(L) Dottie Kiergan, Betty and Jim Hartman.

W. Graham Claytor, J r .

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34 Pres., VAdm. Arthur R. Gralla USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.), 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 83

7. A Quiet Corner—(L) Charlie Fielder, Dave Lambert, Ralph and Dorrie Pray, Bill Sublette and Loretta Gambling (background).

8. Smile—Dickie Bird, Smoke Strean, Elsa Bird, Connie Bowen, Carl Jones.

9. Smile No 2—(L) Tony Gallaher, Loretta Gambling, Becky Schade, Mary Gallaher, Amie Schade (on right)

10. Looking On—(L) Murray Hanson, Margo Hanson (seated), Joe Williams.

This episode is beginning to resemble, in quanity, not quality, Thomas Wolfe's MS for Of Time and the River with the Editor's voice rising with each shout of 'Cut', 'Cut', 'Cut" . . . So if you"re still with us, remember " . . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door . . . O lost!"?

See you next time . . .

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From the desk of West Coast correspondent Larry Becht: "The Southem California contingent of the Class of '34 held a pre-Halloween party on 21 October at the Oakwood Gardens Clubhouse in Coronado. The noisy attendees at this cyclonic affair included: Red and Kay Baumberger, Larry and Esther Becht, Butch and Juana Brockett, Tom and Alice DuBois, Leo and Jane Flynn, Pop Gunn, John and Ruth Geist, Frank Johnson (with a lovely date), Gorm and Helen Merrick, Bob and Rosebell Ovrom, Jack and Rita Phelps, Ed and Mary Powell, Randolph (Bill) and Noni Peeler (way down from Tahoe area), Bill and Orilee Robbins (from Suburban Los Angeles), Victor and Marian Smith, Tommy (the 'hustler') and Pauline South, Bev and Eleanor Van Buskirk (all the way from Arizona, how about that!), and Marshall and Eleanor White. Additionally, we were honored by our '34 cheerleaders—a bevy of gorgeous "34 widows: Peggy Antoniak, Marie Davis, Dottie Chandler, Jean Gardner and Jean Hampton.

"There was the usual round of ribald stories that had some of the less knowledgeable spinning around like chickens in a rotisserie. Gorm Merrick did some fancy piano playing, aided (?) by some harmonious songsters with a few songs of the Semper Fidelis category—which is about two octaves below the Poet and the Peasant rating. Helen Merrick decorated the environment with a beautiful display of flowers flown in from Hawaii. See, nothing is too good for our aficionados!

Homecoming 1978 Chez the Roy Smiths

"Incidentally, these brahoos don"t 'just happen.' So—credit should go where credit is due.

Ed Powell handles all of the financial matters; Leo Flynn mails out the notices, and with Tommy DuBois, ramrods the liquor concession; Gorm Merrick oversees the food items, and a few of the others pitch in wherever needed.

Not a bad arrangement, eh? If any of our Classmates ever get out this way, you might make a point to attend one of these rodeos.

Here is truly a chance to bellow among some rather choleric bellwethers.

"An item of sad information—Francis Boyle left us Sunday 22 October and is surely headed for one of those 'many mansions' in the heavens. His wife Marjorie's address is 8 Windsor Rise, Monterey CA 93940. We will miss Francis' cheery face and friendly fellowship." (See "Last Call.")

Homecoming 1978 produced a good representation of '34 Classmates, mostly local, except the following: Jim Bentley (Napa, California), Betty and Ed Dissette (Largo, Florida), Dorothy and Dick Kane (St. Louis, Missouri) and Al Schnable (York, Maine). The Pitt game on Saturday brought out another baker's dozen of local Classmates and after the game all adjourned to an Open House chez the Roy Smiths. The sampling of the work of our official photographer, Ed Batcheller, illustrates the conviviality of the affair and all again extend to Ann and Roy their sincere thanks.

Bob Townsend conducted the November luncheon which had a record turnout of 34 Classmates, some that had not been seen for ages. This congregation consisted of Wendell Bailey, Batcheller, Bengston, Bradley, George Bullen, Bunevich, Christensen, Cooper from the Eastern Shore, Fairweather, Farwell, Fleck, Fuller, Gralla, Green, Harbold, Harllee, Hoffman, Hommel, Hyde, Jim Johnson, Keller, Klunk from Hanover, Pennsylvania, Lawson, Bill Martin, McCormick, Moore also from Eastern Shore, Nielsen, Mullan, Presler, Sample, Shaw, Bernie Smith, Les Stone also down

64 from Pennsylvania, and the host Bob Townsend.

The Potomac Gallery of Old Towne presented a preview and reception of recent works

by Bob's daughter, Teryl Townsend Speers, in Alexandria 3 December 1978.

45th Anniversary Reunion This is a review of the present plans for the 45th Reunion. All Classmates and widows should have received the announcement that was mailed earlier, but not as early as previously announced.

Monday 21 May 1979 Registration Annapolis Hilton Inn. Guest room reservation request cards were enclosed in the announcement mailing mentioned above.

1800-2200 Kick-off KT/Buffet Hubbard Hall (Boat House) USNA Tuesday 22 May 1979 1100 Memorial Service USNA Chapel 1300 Luncheon Officer and Faculty Club USNA Wednesday 23 May 1979 Tours and Golf Outing (1100) 1800-2400 Reception and Dinner/Dance Annapolis Hilton Thursday 24 May 1979 1200 Check-out time Hilton

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: 73 Homecoming '78, though not one of the big reunion years for '35, still brought out a relatively sizable representation. With the perfect fall weather, a full calendar of events, the rejuvenation of camaraderie, and favorable results at the football game, it was a most satisfying week end for those who had the good fortune to attend. At the reception and dinner on Friday night were: Marge and Dick Babb, Phyllis and Rod Badger, Slim Barham and his brother Allen, Fran and Slade Cutter, Ida Mary and Lou Detweiler, Jane and Ned Dougherty, Lib and Jim Eppes, Dorothee and Henry Eppes, Fran and John Gabbert, Gwen and Jesse Gay, Hersch Goldberg, Sellen and Ed Keats, Jane and Red McDonald, Margaret and Wy Packard, Louisa and Jeff Parker, Jackie and Eli Reich, Betty and Kagey Schacht, Millie and Hank Shonerd, and Ruth and Art Tarantino. In addition, at the Navy-Pitt game were: Brooke Atkins, Margarette and Bob Black, Clag Claggett, Dodie and Bing Crosby, Bob Cushman, Dermott Hickey, Ethel and Fletcher Lamkin, Joe LyIe, Winnie Lyndon, Jack Mann, Helen Metcalf, Tony Parry, Penny and Bud Paret, Spurge Sharrocks, and Earl Sneeringer. Hersch Goldberg gets the honorable mention for having come the furthest, with Millie and Hank Shonerd a close second. Fran and Slade Cutter had been cmising the East in their Winnebago; they are enjoying their new situation in San Antonio where they are near their daughter. Brooke Atkins from La Jolla was in the Washington area on business. The Crosbys from up-state New York were making their annual visit to the Claggetts. The Bob Blacks had been on an extended visit with their

son and had also attended the Duke game the previous week. Helen Metcalf was East visiting their daughter and family, the Jr. Jack Seymours, and came to the game with the Parets; Ralph had remained at Saratoga, California, having just started a third career as a stock broker.

One sad note, Frank Spencer was on the list of those planning to attend the reception and dinner, but he died on 14 October, as noted in the "Last Call" last month. Lou, Jeff and your Corr. Sec'y represented the Class at his services at Arlington and expressed condolences to his family. A donation has been made to Navy Relief in Frank's memory.

Ed Pennebaker advises that his beloved wife, Ellie, died peacefully in her sleep at home on 11 November 1978 after an extended bout with cancer. Memorial services were held at the Marine Corps Recmit Depot Chapel at San Diego on 17 November, and her ashes were scattered at sea. Besides Ed, she is survived by their daughter, Nancy Carpenter of San Diego, and two grandsons, Erik and Chad. Ed's address: 9100 Single Oak Dr. #34, Lakeside CA 92040. Condolences of the Class have been expressed to Ed, and flowers were sent to the memorial services.

Ozzie Osborn sent his Class dues for the next ten years and reported the death of his wife, Betty, in December 1977, also by cancer. He says he has recovered fairly well from the shock but is grateful for the memories of their almost 40 years together. A donation has been made by the Class to Navy Relief in Betty's memory.

Mac Wordell wrote in after his trip to New England (reported in the December 5/iipma/e).

He still serves the city of La Mesa, California, on the board of adjustment and also keeps involved with La Mesa Beautiful, an activity which Ruth and he started for the purpose of making their city more attractive by setting out native, drought-resistant plants in public areas.

They have "a hardy band of slighfly senior volunteers pushing the young people on this work." Mac also reported on the weekly class luncheons on Wednesdays at the Adm. Kidd Club in San Diego, started and administered by Lew Schock (mentioned in the November Shipmate). Fairly regular attendees (when not traveling) include: Warren Armstrong, Brooke Atkins, Roy Barnes, Lou Bauer, Billy Guest, Charlie Harris, Bill Hazzard, Doyen Klein, Harry Lloyd, Jack McCormick, Bruce Ross, Skip Sellers, Wally Walseth, Bill Wideman and, of course, Lew and Mac. Mac apologizes if he has forgotten anyone.

John Miller retired on 29 September 1978 after 27 years in the purchasing department of Aircraft Marine Products, Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was given a farewell luncheon attended by about 75 fellow employees.

Gene Shellworth reports he is an independent (but not very active) agent for the Continental Life and Accident Insurance Co. of Boise, Idaho, and works part time for the Security Police Co. He advises that he and Marty are enjoying "disgustingly excellent health and are getting younger every day."" They belong to the Bogus Basin Recreation Association, a Boise ski area.

A note from Nev Shaffer in Santa Fe advises that he and Fran are now spending about half their time at 965 Prospect St. #610, Honolulu HI 96800.

Word has been received that Bob Kelly, after over a year of battling cancer, has been ad-

vised by his medics that he has won. In July and August 1977, he underwent two abdominal operations, the last one being at the National Institute of Health where he had been transferred because of their interest in his case. He was initially in their terminal ward from which few depart under their own power, but Bob did. A radiation therapy program followed and a regular check-up schedule continues to insure against further problems. His weight dropped from 185 to approximately 135. His face was so sunken that he grew a beard to cover it up, and he doesn't intend to shave it off until he has regained his normal weight.

This may occur by the time this is read, for, as of mid-October, he was back up in the 170s, as well as back to work with the State of Maryland, Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. It is hoped that this good news of Bob's remarkable recovery will bring a ray of hope to any who may in the future face similar medical combat situations.

Arky Laster's son Jim finished his fellowship at Harvard in June and went into private medical practice in Virginia Beach on 1 September.

As of 5 October, Jan and Arky left Los Angeles for a visit with him.

Em Stanley made contact with Jack Barleon when Em was visiting his daughter and son-inlaw in Boston. Jack came to Washington on business in early November and stopped briefly to see his sister and brother-in-law. Bill Keller ('33) in Alexandria, Virginia.

Helen and Bill Jackson also passed through Washington in mid-November enroute from their Encino, California, home to visit with their daughter Jerri and family in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Bill mentioneduhat Ruth and Chet Briggs, in their West Coast travels from Dallas, dropped by for Bloody Marys and lunch at the Jacksons'. Sally and Cy Austin as well as Madelaine and Soupy Campbell joined in the festivities.

Chic Murphy advises that he and Louise have taken up temporary residence at 4216 6th St., East Beach, St. Simons Island GA 31522, until 1 April 1979. Apparently, they see no reason to take the Winter in St. Louis, if they don't have to.

Some more changes in our Class address list; Groome Marcus' widow, Susan, receives mail through PO Box 459, Jamestown CA 95327; Harvey Walseth has moved from Rancho Santa Fe to 5348 Chelsea St., La Jolla CA 92037; Bob Bassett's widow, Doris Hagberg, has moved from Albuquerque to 1235 Meadow Lake Rd., Virginia Beach VA 23454.

The Class Council meets the first Wednesday of each month at 1130 at the Fort Myer Officers' Club for an informal luncheon.

Classmates in or visiting the area are encouraged to join us. Just let Lou Detweiler know at least a day ahead. His phone: 703/ 534-8551.

36 Pres., Capt. F. G. Law, USN (Ret.) Sec'y., Capt. W. M. Hanger, USN (Ret.) 4201 Cathedral Ave., N.W., Apt. 1417 East, Washington, DC 20016 Corr. Sec'y., Capt. Wm. A. Ellis, USN (Ret.) 4101 Downing St., Annandale, VA 22003 Percent Members: 77 A Happy New Year to you all! Now that the "Tailgating '78" and the holiday seasons are over, we can all settle down and count our blessings of the past year as we begin to look Shipmate, January-February 1979

65 forward to the future. May the years to come bring you all nothing but good cheer, much happiness, and continuing good health. May God bless all and make His light to shine upon you.

The '78 "Tailgating" at the Academy home games was by far the best in many years.

Blessed by good weather for all three games, the attendance by '36ers at all events was perhaps the largest since the 40th Reunion in '76. Prior to the Duke game on 14 October, the EUises had the pleasure of being the guests of Elena and Jim Gray for a most delightful pregame "Brunch" in the reserved parking area.

Seated at a specially-built, folding table with four seats attached, we lacked only the candelabmm and flowers to provide the formal touch as we enjoyed the gourmet food and imported wine served by our Hosts. It was really a bmnch to end all brunches; one that was so unusual for "Tailgating"" that even the TV Reporter couldn't resist putting our group on tape for Sunday's Channel 2 Navy broadcast. Pulling up alongside or later joining the fun were Pat and Dick Bradley with their guests, the Divines; Dorothy and "Mac" Butler; Dottie and Dan Entler; Rosa and Frank Law; and Audrey and Randy Meade. Also spotted in the '36 Section cheering the Big Blue Team on to its wonderful 31-8 victory were: Gordy Fowler; "Dixie" and Tom King from Coronado; Nancy and Tom Kimmel; Madeleine and Jean Moreau; Barbara and Wally Schlech; and Sue and Alec Tyree.

As previously reported, the anticipated visit of Georgia and "Pony" Shetenhelm took place on schedule and they arrived in time to make a week end trip to the Richmond area to see daughter Maria prior to joining us for the William & Mary Game on 21 October. Neither had ever "tailgated" beofre, and it was quite an experience for both, especially Georgia who spotted many former friends who had been students at the PG School in Monterey when she was librarian and with whom she managed to have a short chat. "Pony" on the other hand had a ball reminiscing with Classmates and in particular with Wally Schlech as they recalled the Plebe Year days in which they both played a part in '33s FIRST Batt mail system; Wally as the "Air Mail Pilot" and "Pony" as—you guessed it—the "Pony Express Rider." For this game, the "Regulars" were joined by Ann and Dick Teel and Golda and Dick Myers, the latter having come up from Florida for a trip north to attend their daughter's wedding and also Homecoming week end.

Homecoming week end was the finale to the '78 "Tailgating" season. This was shared by a brief visit to Downing Street by Bula and Ed King who arrived after attending a conference in Williamsburg and a stopover with daughter Robbye and the grandchildren in Charlottesville. Ed has retired again, this time from Gulf Oil Distributors, and now spends most of his time "showing"" his horse—a winner of many ribbons—as well as getting in " . . . SOME golf, fishing, and hunting."" Bula and he made a cross-country trip by bus earlier in the year, getting off each night to rest and to enjoy the scenery and a bit of sightseeing. On the West Coast they spent most of their stay in the San Diego and San Francisco areas where they enjoyed visits with Classmates and former Shipmates prior to flying back to Shelbyville.

We were sorry to learn during this visit that Bula"s father, Dr. Robert Greene Lee, had passed away during July. Those of you who live in the Memphis area will remember Dr. Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

Lee who was a very prominent Memphis minister and very active in the Southem Baptist Convention. Though belated, our deepest sympathy is expressed to Bula and the members of her family.

Friday night's Homecoming party in Dahlgren Hall attracted the largest crowd we have ever seen. In fact, it was so crowded, that it was difficult to see where one Class began or ended and to get around to do much visiting with old friends. Needless to say, the decibels were high, and it was a welcome relief when we were all called to the Midshipmen's Wardroom for dinner. '36 was fairly well represented and managed to muster up better than two tables, but again we were disappointed that there was not the usual merriment and "carrying on" nor the participation by the Midshipmen as in past years when this festive event was first initiated. However, this year there was a brief pre-game rally in the old FOURTH Batt area proclaiming a victory over Pitt.

"Tailgating" on Saturday was quite different from previous games in that we found ourselves on the east side of the Stadium completely surrounded by Pitt fans predicting how Stairway for the Stars the Panther was going to skin the Navy Goat. for their festive decorating of the Club in a We had our revenge! Seated on the 50-yard Holloween motif including the pumpkin with a line right next to the Pitt rooters, we had the '36 face. Well done! You can rest assured that pleasure of seeing their high hopes go down the all who were in attendance had a most enjoydrain as Navy put on steam and clobbered the able evening bringing the Homecoming week Panther—a long-awaited pleasure after looking end to a most joyful conclusion. back on what happened in '34 in old Thompson Aside from the many humorous current Stadium. jokes going around, news tidbits picked up at To celebrate this victory, we were hosted by the Homecoming party were that Kathleen and the '36 Annapolis contingent at the Providence Jack Ryder had just returned from a trip to Club across the Severn and overlooking Santa Fe where they attended the celebration Chesapeake Bay. It was a beautiful evening of Kathleen's mother's 83rd birthday, and that with a bright autumn moon casting a silvery Emily and Paul Stimson had visited with Sue glow across the water. Only Saturday's Ban- and Alec Tyree in Maine in September on their quet at the 40th Reunion could rival the way up to Nova Scotia. Also, Pat and Dick attendance—perhaps the largest "36 get- Bradley, while on one of their trips up north, together we"ve had in a long time. Present visited with Jane and Charles J. Andres ('37) at were: Blanche and Jack Baumeister; Pat and their home in North Berwick, Maine. Many of Dick Bradley; Dorothy and "Mac" Butler; you will remember Charles as the cartoonist Dell and Hollis Cooley; Mimi and John Court; for the Log during Midshipman days and later Lil and Tom Dabney; Ede and Bill Ellis; Dottie as a contributing artist for the Naval Academy and Dan Entler; Elaine and Gordy Fowler; and Shipmate. Since then he has produced Norm Gillette with guests; Nancy and Tom many commissions for various organizations Kimmel; Bula and Ed King; Rosa and Frank throughout the nation, but is perhaps best Law; Audrey and Randy Meade; Madeleine known for that which he produced as Head of and Jean Moreau; Golda and Dick Myers; the Art Department for the commemoration of Claudiana and Joe Rice with Joe"s sister Sara the 175th Anniversary of Berwick Academy, Watson as guest; " M a r j o " and Ben incorporated in 1791 and the oldest institution Robertshaw; Kathleen and Jack Ryder; Bar- of its kind in Maine. bara and Wally Schlech; Emily and Paul StimOther news comes from letters and notes reson; Ann and Dick Teel; and Sue and Alec ceived from: Tyree. We are all duly grateful to the ProviRegis Bonin (9 Oct.): ". . . This past Sumdence Group—Nancy and Tom, Audrey and mer has been a series of traumatic events! At Randy, and Barbara and Wally—who were in present 1 am 'winding' down at my daughter's charge of arrangements and really made home in Chariottesville, Virginia, and absorbHomecoming a "real homecoming."" To ing the great feeling of once again 'belonging."

Nancy, Audrey, and Barabara go our especial All combined efforts—Earl Hinman's as well kudos for providing the "royal feast"'—served as yours, Jake Fyfe, and others, have brought from the biggest Wok we've ever seen—and it all together for me! 1 am indeed most grate'36 Celebrating Navy's Victory over Pitt at the Homecoming Party, Providence Club

66 ful; so proud to belong in every sense of the word and to be overwhelmed by so many busy people taking time and making the effort involved to welcome me aboard. My very best wishes to all."

Otis Cole (7 Nov.): " . . . I note from the September 1978 Class Roster that Phyllis and Dick Rothwell are listed at the Andover, Massachusetts, address which was correct for September. However, they have sold their home in Andover and have moved to Southern California; present temporary address Apt. D-308, Oakwood Garden Apartments, 1515 Second St., Coronado CA 92118. I say temporary because they have bought a condominium in San Diego and when it is completed will move in—when, only the building contractor knows."

Charles Hutchins (29 Oct.); " . . . In October Shipmate you requested an update. Please delete my Terre Haute address from the Roster; have now made Florida my home base. . . . On 9 October, Margie Fee, widow of Jack Fee ('35), and I were married. I picked up quite a family in the process: Margie's son Jerry ('60) and his wife Nancy—Sue and Alec Tyree's daughter—plus their two boys. I'm one lucky fellow! . . . This past Spring and Summer we took our boat DRY MARTINI on a 5,000 mile jaunt up to Ottawa and back through Lake Champlain and on to Naples, Florida. Saw some of the most beautiful country, particularly in the Rideau system in Ontario. Stopped coming and going to see Dottie and 'Scrapple' Crawford and while in Annapolis area had dinner with Bettsy and Harry Mason. . . . Have now mn out of news. Our best to all." Good to hear from you "Hutch" and our very best wishes to you and Margie and congratulations on your marriage. We see Jerry Fee here frequently at ASNE since he is a very active member and also on oiu" National Council.

Tom King (2 Nov.): " . . . Dixie and I enjoyed the Navy-Duke Game and seeing many old friends. We had a taste of the strength of the Navy team at the Virginia game which we also attended. During our recent trip east, we bought a town house in McLean, Virginia: 6630 McLean Court, zip code 22101. We intend to keep our place in Coronado but make McLean our primary residence. Will be leaving here 29 December and be driving east via New Orleans, Florida, and Sea Island, Georgia.

Should arrive in the DC area prior to the end of January. We expect to be there at least through July and look forward to seeing Classmates and other friends in the East. . . . We have a happy time here in Coronado in the continuously perfect weather. Dixie and I play tennis regularly with Suzy and Ed Hoffman, and I play golf periodically with Bill Thomas. We also see many others in the Class at occasional parties and games of chance." Sorry we missed talking to you at the Duke Game Tommy, but good to hear from you and to leam we'll be seeing more of you and Dixie in the WB&A area.

Bill Lewis (II Nov.); " . . . Enjoy reading your reports on life on the Outer Banks. Milly and I share your love for that area although we are more partial to the Southem Shores area of Kitty Hawk. . . . If our health continues to be good, we hope to make both Reunions in '81. . . . Best wishes to all." Keep the news coming in Bill, and perhaps next year we can arrange to meet for a little fishing on the Outer Banks. Unlike you, we had a sad experience on our rental at Southem Shores, and so we're partial to the Nags Head area. But anyway,

37 Chm. Wash. Grp., RAdm. Paul Hartmann USN (Ret.), 1701 N. Albemarie St. McLean VA 22101.

Sec'y-Treas., LCdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 2118 Bancroft PL, N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. P. Mack USN (Ret.) 3067 Rundelac Rd., Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 78

August Reunion in Maine—Charles and Jane Andres and Dick and Pat Bradley let's get together. Will be looking for you both at the 45th East and West.

Randy Meade managed to track down another of our much sought Classmates, James M. Washington, with whom he roomed Plebe Year. While visiting "Polly" and "Bud" Masters earlier in the year, Randy met a Dr. Harold Gordon, an Episcopalian minister, and inquired whether he knew of the whereabouts of one James Washington who he understood was an Episcopalian minister now, having graduated from Episcopal Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Gordon didn't know at the time, but through his denominational computer sources quickly found an address for the Rev. James M. Washington, pastor at St. Paul's of the Plains in Lubbock, Texas. Since James has family residing in Alexandria, an exchange of letters between Randy and him soon brought forth a meeting for luncheon in Annapolis on 22 October and a great reunion of two former roommates. We are happy to add James' address to our Roster: P.O. Box 2686, Lubbock, TX 79408, and will now keep him informed on '36 and our various meeting places. Thanks for the dope, Randy. It is always good to get word of a Classmate who for some unknown reason got lost in the shuffle of the years.

Once more we regret closing on a sad note, but it is with deep regret that we report the deaths of Mr. Rolland Marshall Teel, Dick's father, on 9 October, and that of Minta Springer on 7 November. Those of the Class who attended "Prep School" at Sevem will long remember Mr. Teel as their mentor and as a friend encouraging them in their entrance exams as well as wishing them success in a naval career on graduation in '36. Without his help and trust, many in '36 would not have crossed those many "rivers" we had to cross to reach our goal. We regret we do not have any details at this time, regarding the sudden passing of Minta Springer, but through Bob Odening we learned that memorial services were held in Long Beach on 10 November. To Ann and Dick and to Frank and to members of their respective families we extend our deepest sympathy. Classmates and friends may send personal condolences to Ann and Dick at the Sevema Park address and to Frank at the home address in Long Beach, both of which are listed in the '36 Roster for September 1978 and the 197S Alumni Register.

That's the news for now. Our very best wishes to all for a happy 1979.

Peggy and Paul Hartmann recently returned from a two-week visit to England. They enjoyed visiting their daughter and son-in-law, a British Naval Officer, and family, and then rented a car and toured Southern England.

Paul is active in the Washington chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and is hard at work scheduling a series of-interesting speakers.

Marian and Fred Schneider's son, Fred Jr., is an up and coming young Marine aviator, having qualified in F-4s, C-130s, and several other Marine aircraft and helicopters. Marian is increasingly active in medical pursuits in the Washington area.

Ed Finney is still active with the administration of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.

Larry Brantley is recovering from a spinal disc problem. Bea keeps him exercising and eventual recovery is predicted.

Donnie and Bush Bringle have moved to Coronado from London after a long residence there.

'37 has had several losses lately. Those in Washington who end up making the arrangements for those to be buried in the area would be helped if Classmates and their wives would get together on funeral arrangements in advance of the event. It seems that "pre-event" arrangements change and "post-event" desires leave those in charge either guessing or making many changes. It is later than you think. Spend an evening or two making some decisions and recording them.

On the more cheerful side, by the time you read this the football season will be history, and we will know how it came out, but as after the Pitt game and Homecoming it is a great season. Those lucky enough to live near here have seen three great home wins.

Mary and Charlie Minter attended the Retired Officers Association Convention (Charlie is a tmstee) in St. Louis 5-7 October. Don Dean also attended.

Speed Carrie's son, LCdr. Mike Currie, was given the "Intruder of the Year" award which is given each year to a member of the A-6 community who, through excellence of leadership and performance, significantly enhances the operational readiness of East Coast A-6s.

Congratulations, Curries.

Homecoming was somewhat of a letdown after the fortieth. We all seem to be coasting awaiting the forty-fifth. Dahlgren Hall was more mobbed than usual, but the game was fantastic, and the weather likewise. The Alumni Association listed the following as present: the Barrys, Brantleys, Burfiends, Davies, Deans, Dentons, Dodds, Farringtons, Garvins, Gilkesons, Johnstons, Reids, Schofields, Sipples, P.K. Taylors, Wescotts, and Worths. However, this seemed to be an inaccurate list as many on it weren't seen and others were. Nevertheless, it was a good week end.

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Chm. Wash. Grp., Capt. A.J. Church, Jr. USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John A. Bogley, USN (Ret.) 4620 North Park Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Percent Members: 73 Having held our big reunion in 1976 as "38 for '38 in the Bicentennial Year," the Class of 1938 voted to treat our 40th anniversary just like any other year but somehow Homecoming '78 tumed out to be one of the best that any of us could remember. The weather was great for the whole week end. The 30 couples from '38 who attended the Friday night reception in Dahlgren Hall and dinner in the Mess Hall had a good time and enjoyed meeting old friends from other Classes. Saturday, however, was just about perfect. After a successful tailgate party in which about a hundred of us participated and a thrilling upset victory over Pitt, the '38 cocktail party at Hubbard Hall was a very happy affair, the " N " Room was beautifully set up and the food provided by our caterer, Mrs. Brown, was tmly delicious. We would like to thank Ed Luby, Mike Rindskopf and Joe Blandin for their help in making the party at Hubbard Hall a great success.

Another factor which prevented the 40th anniversary from being like just any year was the surprising number of Classmates who came to Homecoming '78 from as far away as the West Coast. We have been able to count 141 Classmates, wives and widows who attended all or part of the homecoming activities. Those attending were the Adairs, Andrews, Arthurs, Bagbys, Barretts, Beckers, Beshanys, Blandins. Booths, Bowers, Bettingers, Don Browns, Jack Bogley, Burkhardts, Burills, Benges, Berthrongs, Cardes, Clarks, Cowards, Calhouns, Al Churches, Daltons, DeCamps, Denekas, Dubois, Dwyers, Elas, El woods, Bob Fletcher, Fryers, Grells, Halls, Hestons, Hinmans, Hurleys, Fran Hartigan, Irvines, Jacksons, Jones, Kreamers, Longs, Lubys, McGiverns, McNitts, Manns, McFarlands, McDowells, Melvins, Middletons, Nelsons, Paynes, Ranters, Raymers, Rindskopfs, Hugh Robinsons, K. G. Robinsons, Reeds, Schroeders, Smales, Marge Smith and her sons Richard and Robert, Spears, Tuckers, Vinocks, Peggy Washington, Weymouths, Muriel Wells, C. T. West, and the Williamses.

In a poll conducted last Spring, the Class voted to donate $5000 from the class memorial fund to the Naval Academy Memorial Fund in connection with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of our graduation. A check for this amount was presented to the Memorial Fund via the Naval Academy Alumni Association on 30 October. In his letter of transmittal, the Chairman Washington Group noted that while we would like to make this an unrestricted gift so that it could be applied where the needs of the Academy and the Brigade were the greatest, we would appreciate the Naval Academy letting us know to what project the donation was eventually applied.

The Washington Group luncheon for November was held at Fort Myer on the 16th and 27 Classmates showed up to talk over our accomplishments of the past and our plans for the coming year. By the time this news appears in print we should be holding our Febmary St. Valentine's party at the Army-Navy Country Club.

Pres., Capt. C. R. Chandler, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. F. P. Anderson, USN (Ret.) 2725 N. Wakefield St., Ariington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 73

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

Our much anticipated celebration of the 39th anniversary of the graduation of the Class of '39 is now history. The many Classmates who were fortunate enough to be able to attend last October's Homecoming witnessed and participated in a truly emotional experience during that wonderful week end, something that will stay with us and inspire us for a long, long time. Our 39th reunion has been acclaimed by all to have been a tremendous success with several remarking that, although they came expecting a big and ambitious program, they were most pleasantly amazed at the effectiveness and efficiency with which the week end"s full and tight schedule was carried out. The reunion committee under the capable leadership of Frank Vannoy is, of course, due the usual accolades for pulling it off. However, it would never have been as great an achievement without the large turnout of 460 total (almost 600 originally showed intentions to attend), particularly the 150 Classmates, almost all with wives, who came from outside of the Washington/ Annapolis area (44 from the West Coast!).

You-all with your enthusiasm (and, sometimes, patience) put the icing on the cake, so to speak, and made all the hard work worthwhile.

Space precludes listing a lot of names, but we believe that special recognition should be given to the 10 class widows who joined us, illustrating that they are definitely an integral part of this Class, knowing that they will always be welcome wherever and whenever we gather: Fran Alford, Elizabeth Bonner, Rosemary Denton, Tibbie Kline Dorsey, Di Helfrich, Mickey Higgs, Danny Howland, Lucy Huizenga, Betty Siegmund Madden, and Margaret Magee. Scheduled but unable to attend were Betty Bonvillian and Jeanne O'Rourke.

Thanks for coming, gals. We were deeply honored by your presence.

Happy Moment During Reunion!

All of the week end's events were meaningful and enjoyable. However, the most significant occasion was, obviously, the formal ceremony on Saturday moming in the Rotunda of Bancroft Hall. Here Charlie Chandler, Class President, with some excellent and appropriate remarks officially presented to the midshipmen and faculty of the Naval Academy the final portion of our Class Memorial, i.e., the bronze sculpture prominently displayed at one side of the Rotunda with its digital readout of cesium beam atomic time from the "clock" located in the lower lobby of Michelson Hall (presented last May 31st) and its inspiring inscription devoted to the theme of READINESS:

"What is time?

The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, Summer and Winter, months, years, centuries.

These are but the arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time itself.

Time is the life of the soul, the readiness of heart, of mind, of spirit."

The Commandant of Midshipmen, Capt. Jack N. Darby USN, accepted the completed (and, believe it or not, operating) memorial for the Naval Academy. Frank Vannoy and Paul Schratz assisted in the ceremony, Frank with his opening remarks to the assembled crowd as reunion chairman and Paul in a most fitting role of helping Capt. Darby pull off' the covering shroud, thereby finally providing, after many, many months of laborious negotiating efforts (mostly by Paul), an ultra-accurate time display for the occupants of Bancroft Hall (see photo). This joyous event was enthusiastically cheered and applauded, not only by those of us there as donors but also by grateful midshipmen passing through on their way to noon meal in the messhall. (If you haven't looked at it lately, please read again Rhythm Moore's outstanding dissertation on the Memorial as the frontispiece to our i 9 / o r '39 class book.)

Naturally we can't record here everything else that happened during that week end.

However here are some vignettes which easily stand out as most unforgettable: First, the overflowing but happy bedlam in the hospitality suite at the Hilton during checkin time on Friday with George Duncan peddling his scarves, souvenir plates and name tags, John Gore handing out his 39 for '39 books, Ernie Schwab frantically trying to collect ahead of time for his class picture, Casey Cliilders trying to drum up more $39 contributions for Rhythm, a mini NA-10 in one corner (Rhythm on drums, Johnny Cease with his sax, and Jaime Trauger, guitar) winning the battle of the decibels, Carolyn Anderson in the hall outside interviewing on tape as many people as she could as part of a proposed taped record of the week end and, in the midst of all this confusion, the incoming Classmates themselves seeing one another for the first time in many years, trying to converse above the clamor, while at the same time doing their best to consume as much as possible of the courtesy libations (a definite encounter of the thirty-ninth kind!); Second, the Alumni Friday night reception in Dahlgren Hall with its noisy, tightly-packed mass of humanity making it next to impossible to find acquaintances (or the reverse, extremely easy for couples to get separated) and the ensuing dinner in the messhall with its 4000 cheering grads led by the NA Pep Band and where we found that no longer can the tables be lifted up as in the past (they are now made of heavy thick formica with steel legs!); Third, the almost tear-jerker during taking of our class picture on Saturday moming (menonly version) caused by our wives on the sidelines singing, " L e t Me Call You Sweetheart"'; Fourth, the pre-game tailgate luncheon at the stadium in and around the immense (40x80) blue tent well identified as beglonging to '39 and completely dominating the west parking area (Carolyn A. and Mary Schumann were the

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Bugling and Roasting parking attendants) replete with a blue "Johnny-on-the-Spot" provided by the Washington wives (specifically arranged for by Elizabeth Bonner) and the almost 500 convivial souls milling around hoping to see someone they hadn't greeted yet and at the same time taking advantage of the bar and the delicious catered barbequed beef.

Fifth, the stadium during the football game with our winning team being urged to "charge" even more by Mickey Higgs' bugle (see photo); Sixth, the dinner-dance Saturday night in Mitscher Hall with its delightful full course sitdown meal, dancing to wonderful music of the '30s by the 17-piece band 'til well past one a.m., and Bill Ruhe aided by Paul Loustaunau, our adopted Classmate Roy Benson, and Dick Pratt (see photo) leading us in spirited renditions of his two original compositions, "What About '39?" (30th reunion) and "Thirty-Nine" (for this one); Last but not least, the Sunday brunch at the Hilton with the customary popularity of Bloody Marys, our talented Stan Kerkering handing out originals of his ingenious class book caricatures, Di Helfrich selling autographed copies of Ned Beach's new book Cold as the Sea, and Danny Weitzenfeld (photo) with his capable assistants conducting a quasi-roast of several of our more notorious Classmates, followed by our final event consisting of many mutual farewells and sad departures for home, telling each other, "We'll see you at the 45th or sooner!"

Adele and Pete Shumway sent us a note from Skaneateles, New York, "What a week end!

Never attended anything else to compare with it. . . . Weather, football game, food, and mostly old and dear friends, made it all perfect!"

George Netts wrote from Bowling Green, Kentucky, "What a wonderful time we had— how good to see old friends and Classmates again—such perfect weather—and even a win over Pitt! Somebody up there was surely watching over "39 for the 39th. . . . For the record I mailed off another check for $39 today. Flip, please tell the other two hundred or so Classmates to stand up and be counted.

Looking forward to the next big anniversary."

Songfest

Well, there it is, a modest attempt to describe our 39th anniversary reunion. The written word can never do justice to an event of this kind. For those who were not there, it would be almost impossible to grasp the fervor of the week end and to sense the unprecedented spirit and pride which this Class has developed over the past 43 years. The cassette taping (by Carolyn) mentioned earlier was our effort to capture some of this class exuberance and comradeship so evident at the reunion.

Copies of this tape, which will include Frank's and Charlie's remarks at the dedication, will be available soon at a very low price, details in the next (March) issue.

For those who didn't get a. 39 for '39 book or who would like another one, John Gore has some extras left over. If interested, write to John at 2021 Rhode Island Ave., McLean VA 22101. Those who already purchased a book can have a second for the nominal fee of only $6.00, prepaid.

George Duncan also has remaining some of his beautiful '39 scarves and the reunioninscribed name tags (see photos). Five dollars mailed to me (Flip A.) will get you a pair, one each—scarf and name tag.

Emie Schwab has some more class pictures.

Three dollars will get you a set of two (with and without wives). Ernie's address: 10344 Democracy Lane, Potomac MD 20854.

Here are a few addresses from Stan Claypoole's reunion records to update your copy of John Gore's book: Fran Alford, 21 Sherwood Rd., Middletown RI 02840; Betty Bonvillian, 165 Signal Hill, No. Wilton CT 06897; Bill Brehm, 1516 Hayes Ave., Fremont OH 43420; John Cease, 1345 High Chaparral Dr., Reno NV 89511; E.D. Challis, Box 290, Harveys Lake PA 18618; C.W. Cushman, c/o Bureau/Beaver, 9501 W. Devon Ave., Rosemont IL 60018; Tibbie Kline Dorsey, 4539 Country Club Rd., Jacksonville FL 32210; Andy Drea, 3909 Chevy Chase Lake Dr., Chevy Chase MD 20015; Jim Glendenning, 221 King Geo. St., Annapolis MD 21401; Danny Howland, 7934 Camino Tranquillo, San Diego CA 92122; J.C. Lawrence, Box 24, Sunderland MD 20689; Margaret Magee, 2400 Liberty Rd., Sykesville MD 21784; John McCarthy, 77 Croaton Rd., Newport News VA 23606; Mendy Mendenhall, 5750 Sul-Ross, Beaumont TX 77706; Ed O'Herron, 3141 Sharon Rd., Charlotte NC 28211; Malcolm Radel, 3026 Club Villas, Amelia Is. Plantation, Amelia Is. FL 32034; Paul Schratz, 1207 Ski Lodge, Montgomery AL 36117; Jim Smith, 1800 Old Meadow Rd. #604, McLean VA 22102; John Sullivan, 2601 Richardson Dr., Chariotte NC 28211.

The Jim Glendennings of Annapolis have announced the engagement of their daughter, Anne, to Ens. Christopher Powers USN of Seattle. The bride-to-be is a student at Towson State University. The groom, USNA '78, is stationed at NAS Patuxent.

1 have one sad note: Dustin Adams died 9 October 1978 at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, after a short illness. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to his widow, Ruth, of 2713 Silverside Rd., Wilmington DE 19810. (See "Last Call.")

And, finally, here's an update on our memorial fund from Rhythm:

'39 Fund Report The shouting has died, the Captains and Kings have departed, and another (euphoric) chapter, in the saga of "What about '39?" is almost over Why "almost?" Why isn't it coriiplete?

Well . . . It hasn't quite been paid for.

Here's how the Fund stands as of 1 November 1978.

Donations $45,836 Disbursements 47,259 Balance Obligations Rambusch Assoc Unbilled site Preparation (est.)

Deficit (to Alumni Association) To Go

(1,423) 6,025 850 1,423 $ 8,298

A couple of facts, again as of 1 November, may be of interest: There are 483 currenfly identifiable living graduates and non-graduates of 1939 (Alumni Association records). There are 353 individual donors to the fund, including seven widows, six other close relatives, and one anonymous gift.

It is now time for '39 to pay up its obligations. I address particularly to Classmates who have not made a donation, and to those who want to bring their gift to the "sat" quotient of $156. Get on board; the ladder's going up!

As to the rest of the Class, you've done nobly (as the nearly $16,000 collected to date signifies). Of course, another $39.00 will help.

If anyone has lost track of his donation status, the Alumni Association records are now computerized for ready (individual) retrieval back to when we started the Fund (January 1975), or drop a line or call: Rhythm Moore, 605 Timber Br. Pkway, Alexandria VA 22303 tel: 703/549-1022.

40 Pres., RAdm. John Chase, USN Sec'y, Cdr. Leigh Winters, USN (Ret.) 701 S. 23rd St., Ariington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 66 Washington Report Two years ago at this time we extended " . . . our prayers and best wishes for a very successful cruise . . ." to the new President of the United States. Now we are at the half-way mark of his term in office. It's time to evaluate.

What are your own thoughts concerning Jimmy Carter's fitness report? What is your judgement of the performance of duty by our first Naval Academy candidate? Let's hear it from YOU. There's no doubt about it—the performance by the Navy football team versus Pitt for the 28 October 1978 Homecoming game was one of the outstanding of many years; 7 wins in a row . . . a total to date of 179 points scored against the opposition's 35 . . . the #1 DE-fense in the nation! Over half a hundred of the NA'40 family, including Classmates, wives, children and friends, enjoyed the euphoria of Homecoming week end at one or more of the planned events: tailgate lunch, THE GAME, chez Hechlers (after the game), or the Friday PM Alumni cocktail party, etc. Here's the roster: Kay and Ace Barton, Betty and Jack Bowell, Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

69 Maxine Pole and Dick Brown, Mary and Bill Carpenter, Elouise and John Chase, Helen and Joe D'Arezzo, Mary Anne and Phil Eckert, Suzanne and Norm Frankenberger, Chris and Mike Hanley (back from London) with daughter Michelle and friend Karl Gmtter, Loretta and Ted Hechler (hosting Saturday evening), Ginny and Ted Hill, Goodie and Bill Keating, Maureen and Bill Lamb, Charlotte and Gene Lamiman. Adele Bronston with Mike Libbey (in from New York City), Marge and Ed Muhlenfeld, SaraLee and Pete Peters (up from Florida), John Refo (from the Virginia Tidelands), Florence and Bill Roseborough, Ruth and Bud Schafer (New Jersey), Ed Sledge, Dee and John Sullivan (up from Norfolk) with friends Marian and Stan Stansell, Betty Ann and Tom Taylor (our Leesburg, Virginia, Squire). Penny and Hugh Vickery, Bee and Bob Wann and daughter Susan, our doctoral pair—Virginia Trimble and Joe Weber and the Winters. Dee and Early.

As we type this, Notre Dame is mopping up on Navy—5 November—and the crimson autumn leaves have tumed a bloody red. From here on in this pseudo-Irishman will be chanting "Beat ND!"" after the anthems.

The 2nd-Wednesday-of-the-Month Lunch Bunch met at the same old Fort Myer Patton Hall 0"Club stand on 8 November 1978. The group is starting to get that haunted, worried and concemed look that goes with the realization that they are now becoming the legal and responsible representatives for all those Classmates OUT THERE. . . It was strictly a business session; much discussion and planning for coming events—Homecomings, fund drives, class projects, etc. Ted Hechler reported the Sunday 29 October visit to the 4th Company Wardroom by Ruth and Bud Schafer—representing the sponsoring Class of "40. Treasurer Ray Schneider had just remitted $600 to the 4th Company of Midshipmen to cover maintenance for the past six years (at $IOO/year). This was to help defray the cost of replacing worn carpeting and a defunct refrigerator. Bud noted that the walls of the wardroom could stand some new panelling, and is attempting to send the material gratis from his plant in Manasquan, New Jersey. He was most impressed by the effective and courteous manner in which LCdr. Jim Porter, the 4th Company Officer, and the Midshipmen of the 4th Company had gathered together with their ladies to greet and make welcome all Homecoming week-end visitors of the Class of "40.

Ruth and Bud's concem was not surprising.

These young people of the Naval Academy are the finest. And their 4th Company Wardroom is one of our links with the future. Wouldn't it be grand if we started filling it with worthwhile reflections of our own abilities; our books, paintings, awards . . . ?? Remember, YOU may be visiting the ladies and gentlemen of the 4th Company during your next Homecoming holiday. Should the urge hit you drop a line to the very able LCdr. James R. Porter USN, 4th Co. Officer, Executive Dept.. USNA, Annapolis MD 21402 . . . or to the 4th Co. Wardroom President, Mid'n l/c Walter E. Owen USN. WE ALL ARE THE SPONSORS—so, let's sponse.

News From Here and There Clare and Ed Hayes are following the 'game plan' they laid down in the last few days preceeding their departure on a trip to Europe: " . . . there will be no schedules! . . . no plans Shipmate. January-February 1979

at all. Wherever we are, if we like it, we'll stay as long as we want . . . We plan on seeing as much of Spain as is possible while the money holds out. . . . " A late October pc carries the full flavor of Spain with place-names like Rota, Jerez, Arcol de la Frontera, Cadiz, Torrejon, Barcelona, Mora de Ebro, Madrid, Toledo, Avila, Salamanca and Segovia.

Thanks to Bex Trunble another 'lost' Classmate has been found: C. J. Atkins, 1275 Fox Chapel Rd., Piftsburgh PA 15238.

How True. How True!

Bill Benbow is up and around Virginia Beach, Virginia, after last year's heart attack.

He writes " . . . while I still have to have fairiy frequent checkups, I can do just about as I did before. The only difference is that I am about 25 pounds lighter and probably in better health than before . . ."" Bill explains the enclosed photo; " . . . Before a visit to two of my grandchildren, I had T shirts made for them with 'Forty is 4.0' on them. Some other proud grandfathers might want to do it too. . ." Bill further reports that he has ". . . recently read a very interesting book, Silent Missions, by General Vernon Walters, in which he writes in more than just a mentioning manner about two of our Classmates. He was most complimentary about Fritz Freund when he visited his command in Viet Nam. And he wrote about his contacts with Pat Gray during their trials and tribulations with the Watergate affair. He described Pat as a fine and decent man, which of course all of us knew already . . ."'

Another Classmate rediscovered—thanks to Bud Newhall. While driving through Arizona Bud " . . . Found Abe Lincoln at 2030 East Bishop Drive, Tempe AZ 85282 . . . " Bud carries his WWII call sign with his car CB— "Jelly Bean."

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Sign of the Times Out West, Betty and Pat Clancy have found the town that your sec was named after . . .

But, let Pat tell it; ". . . Betty and 1 visited our eldest son. Mike, in Brewster, Washington this Summer ('78). We were going up the Methow

River when I spotted the enclosed sign . . . " Pat further reports on the Bushes; " . . . they now live in Reno where Bill is a travelhng 'Judge"—hearing workmen's compensation cases . . ."

The L. Patrick Gray Defense Fund Since this drive began you have sent in contributions just $50 short of an even $10,000— $9,950! Of this total $7,750 has been turned over to The Special Agents Legal Fund in Washington, D . C ; the other $2,200 has been forwarded to: PAT GRAY LEGAL DEFENSE FUND (PGLDF), PO BOX 481, WATERFORD CT 06385. That's the collection point nearest to Pat that is being captained by good friend Capt. O.B. Nelson USN (Ret.). Please send your future contributions to that address.

And keep them coming! Pat's first trial date in D.C. is now set for 16 January 1979. Please let your representatives know how you feel about this miscarriage of justice.

The Secretary's Corner By mid-November more than 150 ballots have been counted and, unofficially, it looks as though you have endorsed the slate of officers overwhelmingly. There are some doubts and questions concerning the Class Project, but it still seems to have the support of the Class.

We will try to get the answers to your questions in the next issue. And there are the usual half dozen or more envelopes returned "address unknown." So far we're missing: Ed Kimball, EM Glenn, HA Hill, HW Sadler, Jr., CA Skinner, OV Wallgren, Jr., and Emmett Wood. Scarce Farrior, who as "Jim Fair . . . political gadfly . . . Nation"s #1 Dissident . . . and legendary corraption fighter . . . , " ' has problems enough with the State of Florida, has joined the ranks of early contributors to the Class Project by endorsing his Alumni Fund Drive check to "Class of '40 Project." Scarce sent his check in the thought-provoking amount of $40.40 with a promise of ". . . several more to follow . . . " On the last Indian Summer day of October several local Classmates and wives gathered together with Doug Clark, his sister, Shiriey Hodges and daughter, Frances Ring, for the Arlington graveside service bidding Godspeed to Doug's wife, Susan. After Cdr. (ChC) Hathaway completed the sorrowful ceremony, Doug departed for his home at 711 NE 32nd Street, Boca Raton FL 33431. A card from his Classmates and friends will reach him there.

We have already received a letter from Doug . . . thanking the Class for being with him at Arlington Cemetery . . . and for our flowers.

And Susan King, calling a few days later from her navy quarters on Yuerba Buena Island, SF CA, sends the Class her love. * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * *

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41 Chairman, Capt. Joseph K. Taussig, Jr. USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyle Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 68 Our Annapolis Homecoming in October was a success of the highest order. Those of us who shared in the enjoyment owe much gratitude to the event's chairman, Ken Tebo, and those two Annapolis stalwarts, Winnie and Jack Rogers, who made the arrangements for our Saturday night dinner in Mahan Hall. It was such a smashing week end that your reporter cannot find the many notes he took, so most of what you are about to read is from an unusual memory. Friday night was the usual bedlam in Dahlgren Hall followed by a tasty roast beef dinner in the Mess Hall where '41 filled four tables and hopped to many more. Saturday was a beautiful day for winning a football game which indeed we did, although there were moments of worry. The weather was also magnificent for tailgating and the accompanying picture shows some '41ers doing a thorough job, smack-dab up against the stadium.

After the winners left the field, the scene shifted to the Hart Room in Mahan Hall. The Hart Room used to be the library on the second floor over the entrance to Mahan Hall. It was a super location and perfect size for the 62 Classmates and wives who also brought 6 guests to share the delightful evening. A piano was centrally positioned and other instruments appeared here and there, now and then. Those attending from out of the area, in a roughly north to south, east to west listing were: Mary and Tom Hennessey, Dedham, Massachusetts; Marie and Dick Pierce and guests, Narberth, Pennsylvania; Bill Maddocks, Williamsburg, Virginia; Jack Conger and guests, Norfolk, Virginia; Mary and Bill Owen, Dothan, Alabama; Betty and Stu Sterling and Francis and Pete Vail, Jacksonville, Florida; Dave Benham, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Joe Spitler, t l Paso, Texas; Chuck Merdinger with his navy daughter, LaJolla, California; Hutch Cooper, San Diego, Califomia; and finally our very own Wright Brothers; Chan from Walnut Creek, California and Dick from Alaska or somewhere. The dinner was ample and excellent. Jack Rogers earnesfly passed the word to me that "we fellows in Washington" must '41 Tailgaters

Homecoming in the Hart Room, Mahan Hall give the Annapolis group more time to prepare for this sort of thing. Be that as it may, the evening"s location, dinner and entertainment could not have been better and we can certainly thank Winnie and Jack. It even left the Emperor speechless. Or maybe I left too soon.

Joe did tickle the ivories for a while. Your determined paparazzo did not get a picture of the piano player in action but he did get the accompanying shots of all hands enjoying cocktails, dinner and company.

The Thursday before Homecoming, we had our monthly class luncheon at Blackie" s attended by seventeen. After lunch we were treated to a talk by Mac Nicholson about his recent trip to Korea and Japan with his impressions of both countries. How about $4 for a cup of coffee in Japan? On the business side, we unanimously elected Dick Foster as class treasurer in place of Jack Hadler who has been appointed director of the Center for Maritime Studies at the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. Jack will direct the research activities of Webb Institute. This comes after 31 years at the David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center where he conducted and directed research in the fields of ship resistance, propulsion, marine propellers, vibrations, seakeeping, maneuvering and conceptual

ship design. Jack is also the author of numerous technical reports and papers published by The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Naval Hydrodynamics Proceedings, International Towing Tank Conference, American Towing Tank Conference, and the Royal Institute of Naval Architects.

You may have heard that Wally Richardson was hospitalized in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, last Fall. It is thus a pleasure to quote the following first-hand account from Wally: "Thanks so much to my Classmates for their very thoughtful card and other expressions of concern over what I hope I may refer to as my recent illness. I had a mild stroke which occurred in Winchester, Virginia, as Caroline and I were traveling to the Greenbrier for a combined vacation-conference. The first day or so I was an emotional and psychological mess. All those good qualities of courage, optimism and faith seemed conspicuously absent. However, as time went on I started to recover, and am now much better than any of the doctors expected. I had no damage to my speech, vision, memory or whatever intellectual capacity I have. My left side was quite weak, but is now in amazingly good shape. I am typing this myself, and expect to be playing golf next Spring.

So the word is all good.

"I am still teaching at Lehigh, doing some consulting and lecturing, and playing golf I don't see many of my Classmates, although Paul Backus was kind enough to stop by when his son looked at Lehigh, and of course 1 enjoyed the visit. 1 guess my big personal news is that my partner and I produced a training film, How to Make a Cost-Reduction Program Pay Off, which has won an award and hopefully will be a bulwark against inflation for the Richardsons. I also have a new book which seems to be going well. But I did miss coming to Homecoming (Ed. note: And you were missed).

"Again, thanks to those who were so thoughtful. I appreciate it very much. And I look forward to next year, or sooner, if anyone is coming near here." Delighted to hear of the progress, Wally, and you just might have some golf visitors when the snow gets off the ground.

Speaking of other good news, it is nice to be able to report that young Tom Blount is, acShipmate, January-February 1979

71 cording to my usually reliable source, the first son of a '41er to make commander. Doesn't that make you feel ancient? Young Tom is presently the executive officer of the new destroyer, COMTE DE GRASSE. At Homecoming, Jack Conger was anxious to stake out his position as the oldest man in the Class. I am not sure I understand the importance of this status but he sure did not act like the oldest!

Joe Spitler came in from Texas for Homecoming and particularly the football game. Charlotte and Joe live in El Paso and had hopes of a Navy appearance in the Fiesta Bowl. Joe has gotten the degree of CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter). He is the president of the El Paso Chapter of the National Association of the Estate Planning Council. Their son, James David, hopes to enter the Naval Academy with the Class of '85 and Joe was checking to be sure it's ready!

Dick Hancock called in from New Jersey with some news. Dick is a vice president of Foster-Wheeler in the field of sales of oil refineries and chemical plants which puts him into competition with Al Curran of C.F. Braun. Dick has been with Foster Wheeler for 32 years and sounded great. He reports seeing Harold Lockhart in church every Sunday. He also wanted to remind us that Gov. Jerry Brown's opponent in the 1978 gubernatorial election in Califomia was a former "41er, Evelle Younger! There just were not enough Classmates out there to vote for him.

On the old Navy Day, 27 October 1978. William Joseph Hines, son of Ginny and Ned Hines, married Deborah Gard, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Theodore T. Gard. The ceremony took place in St. Patrick's Church, Norbeck, Maryland, with Monsignor George R. Ellis, a former military chaplain stationed with the Navy, witnessing the mutual commitment.

The reception for about 200 relatives and friends was a most memorable celebration.

Deborah and Joe live in Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg, Maryland. Joe's brothers, Teddy (E. C. Ill) USNA "71 from Chula Vista, California, and Pete from Gainesville, Florida, as well as sister Christy Hagan from Norfolk, Virginia, joined Michael, Jim, Amy and Steve of Rockville for the rare reunion of Ned"s family. Three of 5 grandchildren also made it!

Now that the football season is over, it is pleasant to reflect during this cold Winter that it was better than most and fun while it lasted.

For those of us who drive down to Annapolis on Saturdays for the ups and downs of the past, it has always been interesting. For all of us, I highly commend a short trip to your library to read "The Navy Way" by Pete Axthelm in the 13 November 1978 issue of Newsweek and reprinted last month in Shipmate.

Finally, and on a note of particular class pride, did you notice that 1941 was the fourth highest among ALL Classes in dollar donations in the 1978 Annual Fund Drive by the Alumni Association? Next year, if everyone gives something, we can be Number One where we belong!

West Coast Flash In case you westerners have not received other notice or if any others are planning to be in the Southern California area, the annual Southern California/Arizona/New Mexico (nobody lives in Nevada) party will be held Saturday, 3 February 1979. A committee consisting of Hutch Cooper, Bill Jones, Jack Bennett and Archie Kelley is arranging the provision of liqShipmate, January-Febmary 1979

uid and solid stores and the location. The first flyer went out in November and a final flyer is due to hit the street around 15 January with confirmation of the location. If you need more information or want to be included in the gathering, please contact Willie DeVenter, 370 Cottonpatch Way, El Cajon CA 92020; phone 714/442-1508.

42 Pres.. Capt. William R. Kurtz USN (Ret.) Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shiriington Station, Ariington, VA 22206 Percent Members: 70 Warmest wishes for 1979 from Washington!

But, as this is being written in the midst of one of the balmier Autumns we have experienced and between Homecoming and our annual Christmas dinner-dance (also on Clara Lee's and my 30th anniversary), won't try to predict what the New Year will bring. If Homecoming "78 and the expected response to our December 9th gathering with "39, '40, "41 and '43 are a proper gauge, 1979 could be a fine year.

Over the three-day Homecoming celebration, about 125 Classmates and wives turned up. Some were at the Alumni festivities on Friday night, some at the football game, and 105 at Lucie and Buck Adams' for our annual dinner. At the risk of missing some, talked with Allen, Carter, Easton, Neff, Vose, Welsh, Richardson and Clarke on Friday or Saturday, although they were unable to make the Adamses'. When our hard-working Annapolis classmates agreed to host these annual buffets, we had been enjoying the company of 65-75 for several years. In view of this year's turn-out, it was a happy coincidence that we had started with the Adamses and had a lovely warm evening. With a little shoe-horning, these sat down to dinner: Days, Schoenfelds, Thompsons, Morrows, Kurtz, Rosenbergs, Childers, Gommengengers, Rawsons, Robies, Ann Beal, Connor, Armstrongs, Kings, Coles, Duncans, Greers, Palmers. Tom Smiths, Reillys, Jennings, Curtis, Herndons, Wilhites, Werthmullers, Woods, Dunhams, Griffiths, Housers, Martins, Betzels, Wallaces, Kellys, Areys, Minners, Dottie Wiggins, Lowes, McWethys, Wileys, Francis Binion, Andrews, Nashes, Robisons. Hills, Divines, Spegels, Sims, Higgins (honorary). Winner, Schmutz and Lucie and Buck. We also enjoyed the company of a number of non-class guests, as we do each year, so the numbers really do add up.

Doris and Frank Dunham have sold their interest in the Esso marina at Coinjock, North Carolina, and are at home at 2410 Ketch Court.

Virginia Beach 23451, Bev and Jerry Clarke have opted for a bucolic life and have put down roots at Rt. I, Box 116, Middletown VA 22645. Fred Laing owns the Hobby Horse Stock Farm in Albany MN 56307, raising Arabian horses and Chianina cattle. Dottie Wiggins was in the midst of her eastern swing to visit the Childers, Rosenbergs and Betzels with the twins. Deedee spent the Homecoming week end with them before flying back to California. Four Wiggins at once can be lovely and exciting company.

Mary Helen and Jack Hill came to Homecoming from a trip to Pascagoula and the christening of the Spmance Class destroyer named for his father, the HARRY W . HILL

(DD-986). Jack's sister, Betty (Ms. James B.

Drake), was the proxy sponsor and Mary Helen was her Matron of Honor. Jack's mother was the actual sponsor, but health did not permit her attendance. She was able to join in a conference call during the lunch that followed. Len Erb, president of Ingalls Shipbuilding was host and joined Jack, Army Dennett and Charley Payne as the "42 reps. Army"s father. Cdr. Ralph Dennett ' 11 came from Kittery, Maine, as his Class rep and not only took all of the ceremonies in full stride, but amazed everyone by enthusiastically climbing from engine control to the bridge of USS CONOLLY, a sistership of HILL. TO unwind from the excitement of a reunion of 22 family members, Mary Helen and Jack drove through Alabama and Tennessee to check on some of her ancestry and to see the brilliant fall leaves in the Great Smoky National Park. Now, it's back to Washington, North Carolina, where Jack is area distributor for Aloe Vera Products (and still gives a mean facial) and a sometimes yachtsman.

Anne and Bill Underwood bounced back into Orlando just before Homecoming after spending the Summer at "Duffwood", their cottage on Avery Point, Ontario. This year their northbound trip took them to Charleston to see son, Jeff, a navy lieutenant; to Washington for dinner with the Kurtzes and PS Smiths; then along the coast to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and finally back to Montreal and Ottawa. Anne is the Homeowners" Association secretary and got tapped to run the July 1st Regatta Day and the September 1st corn and weiner roastâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;each attracting over 200. Having had full measure of bounteous crops of strawberries, beans, tomatoes, corn and peaches, they headed south through Detroit; Memphis, where Bill, Jr. and family now live; and Marion, Alabama, Bill's hometown, to visit his parents and brother. Chief Tofalo and Mike paid them a brief visit before their trip and the Scarboroughs had driven over from the East Coast. Any Classmates visiting Disney World are most welcome.

Also from Florida comes word of the marriage of Tom Coppedge to Evelyn O'Brien on 7 October. Tom will be living at 2020 Chippewa Trail, Maitland FL 32751.

Grif Scarborough rounds out my Florida correspondence. He is hard at work with his Blue and Gold interviews and seminars, but perhaps of equal importance has convinced Isobel to join with him as a full-fledged affiliate. As they have been working as a team heretofore in New Jersey and Florida, we can expect big things with both representing the information service.

Almost had Ray Herzberger back for Homecoming, but he and Peg found they had to host out-of-town house guests instead.

Knowing that Shipmate now reaches 70% of the Class, it was concluded at the November Class luncheon to respond to numerous requests as to the status of the Class dues by advising that as of I January 1979, dues in the amount of $10 are in effect. With the anticipated revenue, we can continue to support the 8th Company wardroom and supplement their bootstrap rebuilding project, ensure appropriate memorials for deceased Classmates, and build up a modest sum on which we can draw for support of class projects such as the gift of a crystal chandelier for the bride's room in the Academy chapel. This informafion reemphasizes the message included with Bill Houser's letter urging completion of our Foundation pledge.

72 On 17 November, Jane Newton, Larry's lovely wife, was laid to rest at Ariington. She had been stricken with cancer and earlier this year they decided to leave their home in the Canary Islands and return to Rehoboth where she died. Larry plans to retum to the Islands and resume his successful venture into raising crops on Spanish soil.

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, Cdr. Perry Hall USN (Ret.) 18913 Muncaster Rd., Derwood MD 20855 Percent Members: 68 Another New Year! And another chance for '43- to excel during the coming year. Two very important resolutions come to mind. First, increase the class percentage of USNA Alumni membership above the present 68%. And second, continue the outstanding response to the USNA Alumni Annual Fund.

Homecoming 1978 was an outstanding occasion. The weather for the week end was perfect. The football team performed superbly for a win over PITT and the Cocktail-Dinner party at the Galleon Restaurant was well attended.

Over a hundred Classmates and wives were present, and rather than use up space in alphabetical listing of names, we have included a number of photos of the event.

Hazel and Jigger Nolan were responsible for the arrangements for the Saturday night party.

Thank you for a gala evening.

It is with sincere regret to report the death of another Classmate during the year. Jack Hudson died on 6 October 1978. Details are in this issue's "Last Call."

Homecoming Scenes, 1943 in 1978

44 Pres., Capt. William L. Bennett, USN (Ret.) 6613 Baytree Lane Falls Church, VA 22041 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: 66 The 35th Homecoming for '44 was, to put it mildly, magnificent! The usual congenial bedlam at the Friday night Alumni reception in Dahlgren Hall on Friday evening was augmented by the clamour or more than 300 Classmates and wives who later repaired together to the mess hall for a sumptuous fare of roast beef and ice cream cake, punctuated by cheering and song sessions to the accompaniment of a perambulating midshipman pep band.

Tailgating in the stadium parking lot began about 1100 on Saturday moming under a bright blue sky in crisp autumn air. A crescendo of spirit built steadily under the impetus of backslapping, toasting, and tailgate dining for which we American sports fans and Alumni are renowned. Charlie Miller passed out blue caps emblazoned with a gold "44"". and, excepting the wrinkles, paunches, and baldpates, we could have been mistaken for happy midshipmates with their "drags." In the packed (34,000) Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium we joined heartily with the mighty throng of Alumni to cheer our gallant team on to a 21-11 victory over Pitt.

After more tailgate celebration of the great event, the happy gang flushed with victory, slowly dispersed to the many inns, homes, and hotels about Annapolis to gear up for the reunion party at the O'Club.

At the Club, the party committee provided commemorative reprints of our original graduation invitation and class crest stickpins as favors for the ladies. The party was served by multiple bars and a lavishly laid buffet of canapes, hors d'oeuvres, meats, seafoods, cheeses, and other goodies. A band playing old favorites and new tunes enticed many old "swing" specialists on to the dance floor. It was a night to be rememberedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;much nostalgia and old comradery was reawakened to bloom again in the shadow of Bancroft Hall.

Ralph ("Snuffy") Jackson, in a letter of 2 November, summed up our collective feelings very well. He said, "Last week my wife (Jodie) and I attended the USNA Homecoming for the second time since graduation in 1943.

Whatever doubts that I may have had about a great time were dispelled by all the warm renewals of friendship which I experienced with Classmates of '44. I am now hooked and will return as often as possible. I extend my sincere thanks to all of the Washington and Annapolis crowd who made our 35th a great success."

The "crowd" to whom Snuffy sends thanks was headed by Jack Godfrey, the 35th Anniversary chairman, who performed 75% of the work of preparation ably assisted by his good wife Helen, Betty and Charlie Miller, Mary and Paul Crutchfield, Nancy and Hank Barbour, Phyllis and Ken Gummerson, Marge and Randy King, and Marge and Charlie Becker.

We all give them a tremendous ovation and well done!

It is impractical to use all the space it would require to list here all the names of those who attended Homecoming. Those many of you who did attend, please do not take offense if we mention only a few who, we believe, came the longest distances: Aggie and Tom Walsh from Rome, Italy; Elaine and Pete Cassidy from Montreal; Lois and Blackie Blackburn, Romona and Ray Bruk, and Betty and Jim Judy from California; Strat Wentworth and Elaine and Don ("Red Dog") Davis from Hawaii.

Just before Homecoming a newsy letter arrived from Jack ("Jig Jig'") Bailey (he and Lolly were at Homecoming) about the Chicago area group. He enclosed a snapshot taken at "Bailey's Bar"" which includes from left to right standing and sitting, Orrie Crepeau, Jack Bailey, Jack Martin, Roy Sandquist, Paul Weirich, Lolly Bailey, Claire Martin, Sally Sandquist, and Ginny Weirich.

"Bailey's Bar"

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73 Orrie Crepeau is now assistant to the President of Inland Steel Co.; Sandy Sandquist is an Illinois representative in the house of the state legislature as well as a lawyer in a top Chicago firm; Jack Martin is general superintendent of product control of the Electromotive Division of General Motors in La Grange, Illinois; Paul Weirich is now sales manager for a publishing company in Grand Rapids, Michigan; and "Jig Jig"' is still in the printing business and golfs regularly.

A note also came from "Rusty" King in Santa Paula, California, saying he was sorry he would not make Homecoming this year and enclosing a copy of a pamphlet he has authored entitled "Tax-ache-tion With Misrepresentation." Rusty has his own law practice in Santa Paula and still flies about the country in his own plane.

"Bird Dog"—Spirit of '44 Hopefully, pictures taken at the 35th will be floating in to me and we can print them with some news of their subjects in the coming 1979 issues of Shipmate. If you made photos, send me a good print or two (no slides please)— black and white or color—and pertinent information on yourself, the subjects, or other Classmates. One homecoming photo arrived in time for this issue from Ann Karangelen—a shot of Scott "Bird Dog" Palmer as the Spirit of '44 standing beside his USNA crested sport car. The "tailgaters" are in the background.

By the way, in his letter, Snuffy Jackson says for those who chided him about his current title, he repeats that he is executive officer. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Space Sciences Building, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853. Wow! Have a good year in 1979 and don't forget to keep us posted with ever more of '44—WVW.

45 Pres., Capt. Warren Taylor USN (Ret.) Sec'y., Mr. Phil Erickson 6313 Golf Course Square Alexandria VA 22307 (703) 765-6193 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dutch Schuiz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N., Ariington VA 22207 (703) 536-7156 Percent Members: 59 Were you there in '78? Will you be there in '79? Where? At Homecoming, of course! So break out your brand new 1979 planning calendar and put a red circle around 21-23 September for our 35th Homecoming at Annapolis!

Your 35th Homecoming Chairman. Cliff Bermann, assisted by Ed Roeder and the Class Officers have a portfolio of Homecoming ideas and tentative plans for a truly sensational weekend. As the plans become firm, they will be reported in this column. So, "Look Alive for Thirty-Five."

And now for some highlights of our 34th Homecoming on a perfectly glorious 27-29 October week end which saw a 23-11 Navy vicShipmate, January-February 1979

tory over Pitt in a soldout Memorial Stadium containing over 32,000 screaming fans: To begin with, one can not fail to get a feeling of nostalgia as he steps into the Alumni House to register on a Homecoming weekend, for the place is packed with old grads milling about trying to register. But not so at the '45 table with our own Kelly Girl handing out the Homecoming packets. Then off to the Hilton to register, stow the clothes and take off again for the Friday aftemoon dress P-rade on Worden Field which was an impressive performance by the Brigade of 4,300 Midshipmen, now divided into 36 Companies. For the last two annual Homecoming P-rades, it has been the sandblowers who have attracted the most attention—the female midshipmen. An added attraction during the event was the precision formation sailing by six of the Naval Academy yawls in the Severn just opposite the spectator bleachers. Walking back through the Yard from the parade was a pleasant experience of seeing the old familiar buildings and the newer ones on the Severn side of the Yard ending with a fiercely painted Tecumseh gazing at the "Beat Pitt" banners hanging from the fifth deck of Bancroft Hall. (I guess the plebes must go through a lot of bedsheets in their first football season.) After evening meal formation it was back to the Hilton via a half-dozen clams and oysters on the half shell at the Town Wharf Market. The Homecoming Reception at Dahlgren Hall, often billed as the world's largest cocktail party, is indeed a sight to behold—and hear—from the balcony about an hour after the start, as the roar of conversation approaches that of Niagra Falls in intensity.

The '45 green-flashing model of the Trident Light was most evident in the far left balcony over the spot where the Class gathered. At 2030 the lights flashed and the tedious process of moving 4,000 people into the Midshipman's Wardroom (Mess Hall) began; where, once we found our tables, we were treated to a dinner of roast beef with all the trimmings. Here and there could be seen an old grad showing his Shipmate how he used to "shove out." For those of great stamina, there was an informal dance in Dahlgren following the dinner, but many leisurely trekked back to the Hilton, possibly via the Tap Room at Alumni House.

Saturday moming was a race to get breakfast and get over to the Midshipman"s Store which was open to the hordes of Alumni who bought everything and anything with an Academy seal on it. Some attended the Alumni Assembly at Mahan Hall at 1015, others visited the 5th Company Wardroom, while the remainder enjoyed the plebe soccer game or made preparations to establish the "45 tailgating enclave at the Stadium. Unfortunately, the designated location for the "45 tailgating had not been staked out on Friday and was in the possession of another Class, so the early arrivals had to "Circle the wagons" in an adjacent spot. Once formed up, the pre-game ceremonies proceeded with lavish food and drinks appearing spontaneously from the raised trunks of the assembled cars. Sooner or later, everyone climbed into the top west side of the Stadium in Section 103 (on the 25-yard line) and wondered why the Class of "45 had received such a poor seating assignment. (The Class Officers are currently insuring that we will have preferential seating for the 35th.) The march-on of the Brigade, the game with all of the thrills of a big win. the half-time show and the post-game gathering of the tailgaters added up to a big afternoon. Then back to the Hilton to get

dressed for the "45 banquet attended by 78 Classmates and spouses in the Hilton Ballroom which we shared with 52 of the Class of '46.

Must have been the excitement of the day, or maybe we just don't have that stamina of yore, but the ballroom was empty before midnight!

Sunday found some visiting the 5th Company Wardroom to meet Jack Kasiski, the Wardroom President, and Lt. Steve Willats USN '72 the 5th Co. officer. Beetle Forbes and WaU Dedrick's plaques, as well as others, were mounted on the bulkheads, but there is still plenty of room for more. Coffee and cake were served, courtesy of the 5th Co. Chapel services were available to all denominations during the moming, but no longer are the midshipmen required to attend Chapel services, so there is no Chapel formation and "march-on." One cannot hear the two Midshipmen choirs sing, "Eternal Father," and not feel a twinge of emotion. Following Chapel, the Alumni had the chance to visit midshipmen's rooms, which haven't changed in size but the furnishings have been modernized—a built-in strongbox, for example. It seems that each room has a stereo sound system of the latest design. Imagine what could result if each unit was tumed to the same frequency and the volume tumed to max! Noon meal formation ended the week end for most Alumni who departed the Yard with a new awareness for their Alma Mater and those young men and women who are carrying on the traditions of old into the future of our Navy.

So, for those of you who are coming to the 35th, you have an unforgettable week end in store!

Bob Williams Also at Homecoming were Bob Williams and his bride of five weeks, Vanessa. Bob has been elected the 50th President of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, a national professional organization for insurance persons who hold the CLU designation. Being named to the presidency of the American Society is considered the highest professional honor in the Life Insurance Industry. Bob has offices in Menio Park, California, and London, England.

Jane and LyIe Cox of 569 Escondido Circle, Livermore CA 94550 report that their son.

LyIe Jr., received his Ph.D. in computing science from UC and will be serving on the academic staff at the Navy PG School in Monterey. Lyle is on the director's staff at California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. He adds: "We occasionally see a "45er. Kay and Phaon Derr stopped by as a fringe benefit to us on their trip from Florida to visit their son at Moffett Field. In August. VC-5. the Navy's

74 first atomic bomb squadron, held a 30-year reunion at North Island. Attendees included Speedy Lewis, who is still with North American in Ohio, Phaon Derr, and Californians Don Hill, Don Curran and Lyle Cox." He offers to share the fine Livermore Valley wines with anyone passing through.

Another faculty member of long tenure on the staff at Monterey is Sherm Blandin who was awarded a Ph.D. in business administration by the University of Santa Clara in August. Gini and Sherm, who spent several days in Washington immediately before Homecoming, have married off two daughters and one son in the space of less than 12 months! Susie and John Montgomery of Carmel were married on 16 October 1976, Jim and Sherry Smith of Lubbock, Texas, were married on 2 July 1977, and finally, Laurie was wed to John Giammanco of Monterey on 17 September 1977. All couples honeymooned in Hawaii and are now living in the Carmel/Monterey area. Youngest daughter, Sally, is attending the University of Utah.

Joe Bonds came through with a promise made at Homecoming to bring us up-to-date on their activities. In April, Marian and Joe visited son, Robert, in Japan, in September they were visited by Lacy and Frank Clifford and in October made a trip to Kalamazoo, Michigan, to visit son, Evan, the music librarian at Westem Michigan University. Having left the National Cargo Bureau, Joe goes to sea two or three weeks a quarter as Master of SS ADVANCE II, a research ship working for Cape Fear Technical Institute, Wilmington, North Carolina. Is Joe our only Classmate who regularly goes to sea?

Hill, Cliff and spouses . . . George Summers of 41 N. Evelyn Ave., Tucson AZ 85710 acknowledged receipt of the Thirty-Year-AfterBook. He said that he spent several evenings [after getting the book] in reading it from cover to cover . . . Jack Barron of Rockwell; in London for the Farnsborough Air Show, tracked Jim Bradley of Westinghouse to an Italian restaurant where they shared a botfle or so of Dos Exxes . . . We are happy to get Jay and Bob Schauffler's new address: 163 Otter Road, Hilton Head Isle SC 29928 . . . Dottie and Al Olsen flew down to Pascagoula in October to attend the commissioning ceremonies of the USS R.L. CONOLLY (DD-979) of which Lt. Al Olsen USN '72 is Ops Officer . . . Perry Ferryman lost his wallet to a pickpocket in New York City enroute Homecoming . . . Planning to attend the 35th are Maggie and Johnny Mullins, Kay and Bill Lewis, Dedee and Dave Paul.

Maybe we will get to hear Johnny sing? . . .

The Annual Golf Outings have been so successful that the sponsors have designated the Spring event for Annapolis and the Fall outing model of the USS DEHAVEN (DD-729) built to at Haymarket, Virginia . . . Austin and Ed a scale of 1:600 . . . Larry Wickham tripped Robeson of Chester, South Carolina, visited over a cannon at the seaward side of Dahlgren son, Ed "72, a USMC Exchange Officer with Hall on Friday night and broke a rib, but he the Royal Marines serving with the 45th Comand Marge made it to the game and the ban- mando Group. They also stopped in to see Ann quet . . . George Steele has been elected presi- and Sam Gorsline . . . Mary and Pat Hannifin dent of Interocean Management Corporation of will be moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Philadelphia, operators of the largest amount where Pat will enter the oil business . . . New of American Flag tanker tonnage of any "Lifers" in the Association of the Class of '45 operator, including the major oil companies. are Herb Poorman and Jim Hamburg (for $24 He and Betty plan to make it for the 35th . . . to Treasurer, Dick Fay, how can you go Bee Hodsdon sends in her new address, a new wrong?) . . . Bud Bowler had a November trip condominium in Annapolis with a spectacular to a publisher's meeting in Amsterdam . . . Did view of Annapolis and the Naval Academy you wonder why there was no Navy goat at from her 1000 square foot terrace: #201, Homecoming? A reliable source at Bancroft Severn One Hundred, 100 Severn Ave., An- Hall has it that he had been kidnapped by unnapolis 21403. Her son, Rick, and his family known parties. A retaliatory raid on the Army are living in Seattle, but she is able to get out mule resulted in the capture of commandos there on business several times a year . . . after they had gotten the mule out of an elecMaggie and Bob Hogsed hosted the Norfolk tronically guarded barn. But, Bill is back to Army-Navy Game bash attended by Betty and duty . . .

Beetle Forbes, Roie and Fred Gore, Maggie Next month, Homecoming fotosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I and Cliff Hunter, Marian and Joe Bonds, Dave and Pat Cullen . . . the Gores' daughter, Beth, hope . . .

Rememberâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"35 for Forty-Five" and, "Get will be married on 3 Febraary at Bruton Parish in Williamsburg to Calvin Craig McDowell . . . in Line for "79.""

Betty Schmeltzer will be one of the Class Agents for the '79 Alumni Fund Drive . . .

More Plaques are enroute the 5th Co. Wardroom from Dick Rumble who is finishing his Pres., Capt. Leroy Jackson USN (Ret.) tour as Chief of Staff to SacLant . . . Phil Sec"y, Mr. C. W. Kennelly II Erickson presented the Wardroom with a 7911 Sleaford PI., Bethesda, MD 20014 three-foot bronze eagle for over the door . . . Corr. Sec'y, Capt. C. V. WUhoit Jr, USNR Syd Wynne bailed out of Ohio in June, sum- (Ret.) mered all over the country and now has a new P.O. Box 17386, San Diego, CA 92117 address: 1308 63rd St. NW, Bradenton FL Percent Members: 57 33505 . . . Ellsworth Ostrom has joined the management consultant firm of Case and Co. Reluctantly saying Goodbye to Cleo and of Marina Del Rey, California . . . Taffy and John McKinney on 12 October (Columbus Sam Rorex's daughter, Diane, was married to Day), Tricia and I departed Vail, Colorado, Mr. Gary Thomas Adams on 14 October at the and "proceeded on duty assigned"! For the Navy Chapel on Nebraska Avenue . . . Edie next six nights we camped in our Eureka tent, Swallow sent a card from Hydra, Greece, then checked into the New Orleans Hilton for where she and Chan and another couple spent the Naval Reserve Association National Conten glorious days sailing the coast and islands ference. You can't get much more contrast in off the Peloponnesus in a 47-foot chartered your life than that! As usual, I was too imyawl . . . Buck Buchanan '46, a regular reader mersed in N.R.A. activities to permit our visitof this column, wrote in for a Sam Gorsline ing any of the Classmates in New Orleans, so Panmure Arms brochure in preparation for a we were on our way Monday morning, the May trip with Annette to England and Scotland 23rd, to attend Homecoming in Annapolis. We . . . Cliff Bermann reports that the Class was arrived late Thursday aftemoon to stay with well represented at the American Legion Mer- Sally and Leroy Jackson, 6542 Divine St., Mcchant Marine Guard of Honor Ball at Waldorf Lean VA 22101, and were immediately made Astoria on 21 October by George Steele, Ed to feel as if we were one of the family, seemingly a characteristic of '46ers everywhere we ing engagements as president of the CLU Association, and Al Georgis of National Shipbuilding of San Diego were the visiting Classmates. President Warren Taylor polled those present and it was the consensus to schedule the annual Valentine's Day party as an evening affair on Wednesday, 14 Febmary.

Tales from Tecumseh and Beyond: Early arrivals to Homecoming were Kelly and Larry Smith, arriving from Houston on Wednesday to attend an Alumni Association's Trustees meeting on Thursday. Larry, vice president of the Alumni Association (Central Area), owns a Mooney 201 single-engine land plane . . .

Another '45 Officer at Homecoming was Mike Marschall, vice president (Eastern Area) . . .

At Saturday's dinner in the Wardroom, Jack Barron initiated a successful fund drive for the refurbishment of the '45 "Burma Shave" signs to be in place along the highways leading to Annapolis for the 35th . . . Gus Swainson's "Gusmobile," a '52 Chevy, threw a clutch in Baltimore enroute Homecoming. Gus, an experienced ship-model craftsman had with him a

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Evans Paliku Kanaiaupuni King and Walt Rose Betty and Walt Rose's kids sent them on a 10-day vacation to Hawaii in November where Walt had lunch with Pali King at the Floating Restaurant in Honolulu. Walt, writing from 2615 Hartzell St., Evanston IL 60201, notes: "It was great seeing Pali after 20 years. He's in good shape and working as senior member agent with Manufactures Life Insurance Co." Monthly luncheon notes: The second Tuesday October luncheon at Ft. Myer, attended by 36 Classmates, heard Pat Vaughan speak on estate planning. Out-of-towners were Jim Bradley of Bonn, Germany, and Bill Steuteville of NADC Johnsville. Lt. Steve Willats of the 5th Co. was our guest. And at the November luncheon, 38 Classmates and guests listened to Pete Peterson, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command, speak on the new CNO's goals for improvement of the Navy under current fiscal and personnel constraints. Jack McGregor '44 USMA, guest of Jim Braun, was immediately tagged as an advance scout for the Army-Navy Game. Permanent class president Bob Williams, in town for one of his 24 speak-

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75 Joe Meyer, Mary and Frank Kelley, Ann and Clete Kennelly. Third Batt: Evelyn and Mac Snowden, Edith and Mel Rogers, Jack Exum, Sally and Leroy Jackson, Vera and Dick Lyons. Fourth Batt: Jerry and "Lucky" Jordan, Bea and George Pavis, Barbara and George Ellis, Bob Kephart and sister.

It is my understanding that next year the Class of '45 will not want to have a combined Homecoming party since it will be their 35th anniversary. 1980 will be our 35th and I hope a large number of our Classmates will be encouraged to gather somewhere in celebration. If you are interested in attending such an event, please let Leroy Jackson know about it and give him your own ideas as to what it should be like.

Saying "Goodbye" to Sally and Leroy Jackson on Sunday moming, 29 October Tricia and I set out on the return trip to San Diego.

But first we drove back to Annapolis to visit the Sixth Company wardroom, which we had not had sufficient time to visit earlier in the week end. My visit made me feel that the idea of a company wardroom is an excellent one and we owe a vote of thanks to those Classmates in the Washington Association who arranged for the Class of '46 to sponsor the Sixth Company wardroom. It was obviously being put to good use and we were impressed by the midshipmen we saw. I think it is extremely important that we maintain this wardroom in first-class condition and your continued contributions are vitally important to this end. Also, the midshipmen we met were impressed that we took the trouble to come up to inspect their wardroom, so perhaps more Classmates should make the effort.

On our way to Tennessee where we would spend some time visiting in my hometown of Maryville, we took the time to visit Fredricksburg and Williamsburg, Virginia, and then spent the night with Trish and Robbie Robertson at 5 Stoneridge Circle, Durham NC 27705. Robbie is very busy teaching law at Duke University and spends a great deal of time preparing legal articles for publication.

Trish takes courses at Duke and is very active in community projects, especially the blood bank and in child care centers. That night, Trish and Robbie and Tricia and I joined Reigh and Sam Ashton and Lois Ann and George Herbert at the local Country Club for dinner.

George is president and Sam is vice president of Research Triangle Institute in Durham. The Ashtons live at 3104 Buckingham Road, Durham 27707 and the Herberts live at 46 Beveriy Drive, Durham same zip. The next morning we continued on through western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee, enjoying the fall colors in the Great Smokies.

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Durham Group Fourth Batt have been, including Andrew (dog) and T.J. (cat), so we could feel total acceptance! We took in the parade on Friday afternoon (I find it much more thrilling and enjoyable to watch than I seem to remember in participating), the "World's Largest Cocktail Party and Dinner" Friday evening in Dahlgren Hall and in the messhall, the football game and Class Party Saturday.

As in several previous years, the combined '45-'46 party was held in the Annapolis Hilton and that committee is again to be congratulated Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

for the excellent arrangements. I attempted to get everyone to pose for group pictures by Battalions. See how many you can recognize.

First Batt: Tricia and "Daisy" Wilhoit, Dick Wilson, Gerry and Lee Zeni, Dee Dee and Jack Taylor, Marjorie and Harvey Lyon, June and Bill Simpson, Bobbe and Tom Faulders, Toby and "Whizzer" White, Mary and Stu Beyer, Ruth and Doc Johnson. Second Batt: Roz and "Dody" Sinclair, Rene and Al White, Pris and Jim Foust, Pat and " B u t c h " Hansmann, Winnie and Pete Haring, Pav and

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Dick and Addie Vaill Having spent more time in Maryville than we had originally planned to do we departed on Sunday moming, 12 November with a daily driving schedule which would put us back in San Diego in time to write this column for Shipmate. It was disappointing to have very little time for visiting Classmates; however, we did manage to have lunch with Addie and Dick Vaill in Oklahoma City and managed not to interrupt very much the work of OK Distributing Company (Thermador and Waste King).

Addie and Dick live at 1905 Mill Creek Rd., Edmond OK 73034 and are in the "negotiating" stages of building a new house in Oklahoma City.

past the discussion stage until just recently I received a check ($100) and note from Tex which said: "The idea of a WATS line for you for a couple of months is a great i d e a enclosed is my check to start a fund for this.

Even if we fail to tell you, many of our Classmates deeply appreciate your efforts!" All I can say is: "WOW." Thank you, Tex, and now I'll have to get to work to determine how best to spend that money to improve '46 communications and make these columns better and more informative. If anyone else is interested in this idea your contribution will be welcome and I assure you it will be put to good use. "Daisy"

47 Pres., VAdm. J. B. Stockdale, USN President's House, U.S. Naval War College Newport RI 02840 Sec'y, Cdr. H. G. Heininger, Jr. USN (Ret.) 5445 Lawnvale Dr., Gainesville VA 22065 Percent Members: 61 The '47 STEW

The Bonifaces Our last stop before San Diego was overnight in El Paso with Bee Gee Boniface. We had been there once before, you'll remember, but I had neglected to take my camera out of the car and so here is the picture I should have taken six months ago. In the frame between them is Jack's father's commission as a Captain of Cavalry, signed by Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft!

Floyd Avey, one of my First Company Classmates, wrote a letter, which finally caught up with me in Tennessee, carrying the sad news of Jean's death on 25 September.

"When I came home from work on the 25th I saw Jean in bed, apparently taking a nap; however, it was permanent. The cause of death was a massive myocardial infraction, which means instantaneous deathâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;no suffering." Jean was Editor of the Exchange News, a small biweekly ad paper with some local news and down through the years had been one of my most faithful correspondents. We'll miss Jean too, Floyd.

A note from Mary Fuller says: "Just a quick line to give you the names of two new Memphis residents. "Stormy" and Hank Glindeman, 2841 Treasure Island West, Memphis TN 38118. Bobby and Ed Cooke, 2571 Countrywood Parkway, Cordova TN 38018". As previously reported. Hank is general manager of "Mr. Quick Lube" and Ed is general manager, Coal Gasification, Agricultural Chemicals Group, W. R. Grace & Co. Noting Befty Hamberg's death, Mary said ". . . We went to high school together and she always made each day a litfle brighter."

Cliff Duncan, vice president of engineering, Polaroid Corp., has been elected to the Corporation of Boston's Museum of Science. Rosemary and Cliff live at 165 Cherry Brook Road, Weston MA 02193.

While visiting in San Antonio with Tex Corrigan last Febmary we were discussing the use of a WATS line for '46; however, it never went

I ended my December article by wishing fair winds and following seas to our departed classmate, Bill Powell. On 22 November I was notified that Bill Sweetman died at noon from a heart attack. '47 has lost one of our most stalwart, devoted, and "gung ho" members. Bill entered the Academy after three years in the Fleet. His performance on the flying rings as a member of the gymnastics team was a thing of beauty to watch. I was fortunate to be in the same company as Bill, and we lived in adjoining rooms during 1st class year. Bill and I never crossed paths after graduation until the Homecomings in the '60s. How many of you remember Bill passing the hat during the 20th reunion after the status of our class finances was discussed? Bill was always the one to set

Nat Heller, Jim Stockdale, and Bill Sweetman an exampleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether it was passing the hat at the 20th reunion, pumping up the tailgate party receipts, or establishing the '47 Scholarship fund with the Naval Academy Foundation. '47 will miss Bill Sweetman very much. We express our deepest sympathy to his widow, Betty.

1 am also very sorry to report the death of Kit McNatt on 13 November in Annapolis. We extend our sympathy to Bob, their two sons, Jim and Tobin, and two daughters, Laurie and Sallie.

Next to reporting on the deaths of Classmates and their wives, I hate to make mistakes in my column. Once I wrote "Janet" instead of "Jeanette" Doyle. I even used "Irv" instead of "Herb" Lundien. In the November issue I wrote "Ediie" instead of "Ellie" Tilles. I

called "Bill" Sweetman "Jim". The Carnahans and Linders are probably receiving each others' mail. Ralph's correct address is 1322 Cordelia Ct., McLean VA 22101. Sam Linder's correct address is 420 North St. Asaph St., Alexandria VA 22314. However, my worst mistake has been getting John "Nick" Nicholson, '47, mixed up with Dick Nicholson, '48.

In the June column I reported that Nick was taking over as Commander Norfolk Naval Base and Commandant 5th Naval District. At the Virginia-Navy football game I saw Dick Nicholson. After a short conversation I suddenly realized that I had played BUPERS with two Rear Admirals. I did send a correction to my December column where I listed the fifteen Classmates remaining on active duty. However, the correction did not arrive in time.

Nick is still assistant Chief of Staff, Plans and Policy, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.

My sincere apologies.

A few days after I mailed my October column I received a letter from Jim Dickson. He wrote, "I think I may be in the mnning for the 'Question for the month' in the July-August issue of Shipmate, ('Which Classmate is the father of the youngest child and will admit it?').

My wife, Nancy, gave birth to a 9 lb. II oz. boy this week (on 17 August). Robert Pickett Dickson is healthy and appears to be a good candidate for the Class of 2000! Currently I am the staff anesthesiologist for Mill view Hospital, a community hospital in southern New Jersey, about 45 miles south of Philadelphia. Looking forward to seeing any Classmates who'll be passing this way." (Jim, I did send in your reply to Shipmate, but it must have fallen through the cracks, and I did not know this until I received the November issue.)

Jim Gardner writes from Indianapolis, Indiana, where he is director of development at the Park-Tudor School. Park-Tudor is a private school which spans the range from kindergarten through college-prep. As part of the school's participation in the English-Speaking Union student exchange program, Nina and Jim had an 18-year-old Irish student, Peter Charles Allen, live in their home from January through July. Peter had been a varsity oarsman at Belfast College (the equivalent to ParkTudor) and is now studying law at Oxford University and rowing on the crew. The Gardners had Peter's parents and sister as their guests when they came over to accompany Peter home to Belfast. Jim tells of the comparison between Belfast as it is now versus how it was many years ago when he visited Londonderry.

Nina and Jim have joined the exalted ranks of proud grandparents. Nina will be flying to Beaumont, Texas, in January for the birth of Victoria"s second child. Daughter, Mary, is assistant manager at a boutique where Nina gives gourmet cooking lessons. Jim reports that his job is both challenging and rewarding. Their address is 815 E. 58th St., Indianapolis IN 46220.

Homecoming 1978 was a great week end for '47 even though it was not one of our major five year reunions. About 100 attended the various class activifies from Friday, 27 October, through Sunday, 29 October. Those from outside the Washington-Annapolis area that attended were: the Larry Bilders, Jean and Jim Chapman, Randy and Joe Cofer, Carolyn and Frank Deaton, Hilda Dent, Rosemary and Bob Enright, Rosemary and Herb Estelman, Al Frankel, Liz and Joe Flanagan, Jane and Larry Hess, Dar and Elmer Kiehl, Audrey and Al Maynard, Ellen and Lou Marckesuno, Betty Shipmate, January-February 1979

77 and Bruce Oliver. Terry and Bill Ridgeway, Mary and Harry Rodgers, Norma and Hank Ruppel. Althea and Doug Rumble with daughter Edie. Mary and Ruf Sadler, the Jim Staggs, Bill Sweetman, Ellie and Bud Tilles, Marnie and Don Welt. Margaret and Jim Burke came all the way from the State of Washington. They were here with their daughter, Midshipman 2/c Nancy Burke, who had successfully undergone surgery the previous week at Bethesda.

Jean Kirk writes that Norma and Hank Ruppel, Hilda Dent (George's widow), and Ely and she went from Homecoming week end to Lexington, Virginia, on Sunday, 29 October, to attend a memorial service for Bill Grimes. Bill was killed in a plane crash in March 1961.

Bill's family gave the Church of the Ascension in Lexington Park a painting by Charles Hewitt to be placed in the memorial frieze. The Church still uses the Chancel Prayer Book given by Bill's Test Pilot School Class at the time of his death. Janie, Bill's widow, now Mrs. Neil MacLenan, and the oldest son, Steve, were present. Janie now lives in Kingston, Ontario, and, according to Jean, looks great and is very interested in hearing news about Bill's friends and Classmates.

Jean and George Brungot are proud to announce the birth of their grandson, Erik Douglas Brungot, on Friday, 13 October. Eric is the son of Karl and his wife, Vay. Karl is the manager of the Officers' Club at the Naval Academy.

Bernice Lilly. Dick's wife, writes that she is "another '47 Real Estate Agent" and is associated with Shimer Realty, Inc. of Arnold, Maryland.

Joe Flanagan's law firm, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia, has opened an office in Washington. Many of our Classmates and their wives were invited to a "getacquainted" party at the Mayflower Hotel on 26 October.

Did you ever think that the '47 Plebe Cross Country Team would rate a full page article in the 23 October issue of Sports Illustrated—the one with the cover that featured the World Series? Members of that team which were discussed included Paul Beam, Jimmy Carter, Jake Finneran, Nat Heller, Andy Sansom, and Richard Yeatman.

Jim Moss, one of those super class secretaries that preceded me, was at our house for dinner on 23 October. Pat had been down earlier that week to move her mother and sister from their apartment in Chevy Chase to the Moss' new home in Troy, New York, and they had taken a plane. Jim drove down later and took charge of the moving of the fumiture. Their new address is Joseph St., Troy NY 12180. {No, I did not make another mistake. There is no house number.) They have all been very busy adding new rooms getting the house ready for the holidays when Pat, Steve, and their giris will arrive. Jim told us that Sunny Murray. Ken's widow, was being married to LCol. Robert Connor, U. S. Army (Ret.) on 18 November. Her son. Ken, a seminary student in Boston, and daughter, Leslie, were to participate. The grandson, Benje, was to be the ring bearer. Is this a first for '47? The Connors will reside at 1118 Palma Sola Boulevard, Bradenton FL 33505.

Jo and Vern Jennings told me that Jo's father, VAdm. Stuart H. Ingersoll, our former Commandant of Midshipmen, will be hospitalized for quite a while in the Naval Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island.

We express our sympathies to Shirley and Shipmate. January-Febraary 1979

Turner Joy on the death of Turner's mother, Martha C. Joy, 80. widow of Adm. C. Turner Joy, who died on 22 October.

Betty and Bruce Oliver gave me their new addresses during Homecoming. One is Box 15644. Las Vegas NV 89114. The other is 165 Spindrift Rd., Carmel Highlands CA 93923.

Who He?

Question for the month. Which Classmate is the father of the handsome young man in the above photo from the recent advertisement for Winston cigarettes?

The November question of the month was—"Who was the oldest Classmate to graduate?" Ace Gallup, born on 10 April 1921, 10 days after the deadline, says that he may be the oldest in years but not in looks or spirit.

Ace is a research engineer with the Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Cornelia and Ace still reside at 413 Arkansas St., Herndon VA 22070.

Before I close, I must report on the Manassas contingent of '47. Louise and Chuck Slonim have bought a beautiful new home in Manassas and plan on moving from their home in Falls Church in January. Their new address is 9616 Park St, Owen's Woods, Manassas VA 22110.

Betty and I will be moving to our new "House on the Hill"' near Manassas in February. However, our mailing address is Gainesville. The house is located just off Sudley Road, Route 234, eight miles north of Interstate 66, and I mile south of U. S. 15. Our new address, in case you did not catch it at the beginning of the article, is 5445 Lawnvale Dr., Gainesville VA 22065. We will have 3 acres of land, and, unlike my neighbor Ace Adams in Goldvein who mows his lawn with a push mower, I plan to buy a riding mower and check out Betty, Joanne, and eventually the grandchildren on how to use it. We will be about three miles south of Evergreen Estates and Country Club which has one of the finest 18-hole golf courses in Northern Virginia. So when you are in the vicinity, stop for a visit and bring your golf clubs. The Slonims and we are already starting to plan a big gala '47 party next summer.

So until next time, " '47, Best On the Severn."" Bo.

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Sec"y, Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302 Percent Members: 62 At Homecoming this year, there were more '48ers in Annapolis than had been there since 4 June 1948. No way to prove this, but I am sure it was so. The 30th rehash has come and gone, and those who attended had a great time wallowing in the past and revelling in the present, with absolutely no thought to the future whatever. The usual cacophonous KT party in Dahlgren skating rink saw many old friends shaking heads and hands in disbelief, not at the effects of time, but the degree of preservation evidence. The party arrangement calls for small class numbers around the balcony rail, visible from the floor, giving each Class an assembly point. "48 had a good spot at the seaward end of the hall. Dinner (chow) in the messhall gave everyone further chance to meet old friends from all Classes, although the usual clamor was not an aid to digestion.

After dinner, Marion and Don Buhrer opened their house, up the Severn at Arnold, to all "48ers for a post-party party, and some 265 took them up on the offer. They have a lovely place with nice grounds, a view of the river, a pool, and lots of charm. The food, drink, and companionship were extraordinary.

George Ball and his Hawaiian Band provided music and dancing girls which gave the party an especially nice touch. Carolyn Ball and Jean Mertz made their "48 Reunion Kits available at the front door as people came in. These were crocheted alumnium flashing (like the beer cans) hats, blue and gold, for girls and boys, jmbellished with "48s. A first-class garment district job, durable, and good for years to come . . . the product of a year of infinite patience plus hard needle and sheet metal work on the part of Jean and Carolyn. The money brought in by the sale missed covering their expenses by one dollar, indicating exquisite planning.

Warren Graham managed to get a marine tent set up in the parking lot before the football game, to enhance tailgating, after a word with Phil Shutler, our only surviving active duty Marine. We paid for the labor, of course, and Warren also arranged for a banner towing aircraft to circle the stadium during the game proclaiming our 30 great years to all hands. I might add that the expenses of these two items were covered by passing the hat at the Saturday night dinner dance.

The game was a winner—well-played and exciting—spiced up by "48"s own femme fatale cheergiris, who were down on the field on the '48 side (opposite the mids). The gals were as cute as could be with blue sweaters, gold 48 numerals, pleated white skirts, and of course saddle shoes. Leading this gutsy crew was Carolyn Rardin, and her associates were Carolyn Ball, Betty Moore, Edwina Lee, Jean Kelly, and Barbara Anne (Robbins) Lyons.

The Annapolis Homecoming Committee, sparked as usual by Jean and Ray Lochner, did their usual time-consuming and loyally dedicated job in arranging the Saturday night dinner dance at Chartwell Country Club, which had been lined up last year along with the excellent dance band. Paul Abel helped out with the mailing, menus, and backup. The 30-year coffee cups were obtained by Ray and are companion pieces to the 25th reunion cups. A

78 case was left over, and is now in the hands of Warren Graham in Washington for sale at $2 per, if you want one. The party was a real gas.

The inscratable map provided with the flier gave everyone the fringe benefit of a random scenic tour of the area enroute from Annapolis.

We fit rather nicely into the clubhouse, which is to say that it was a bit snug, but good friends, food, and fellowship—plus a lot of sauce—made it all come out even. During the evening, K.K. Larson with the help of Tom Dawson presented to Tom Hayward an artifact he had procured out in the Califomia desert—a fragment of a door, possessing a beautiful brass doorknob, and a brass plate engraved "He polished up the handle so carefully that now he is the ruler of Jimmy"s Navy," presented on behalf of his Classmates. Needless to say, the Hay wards were suitably touched and impressed. The CNO gave us a few good words, noting that he could see the need for a few haircuts in the crowd.

While credits are being parcelled out, we need to thank Gene Spalding for hanging in there on the procurement of such lodgings as could be had. Not an easy chore, that one. Bob Ghormley single-handedly tackled some inscrutable native and had some class crests woven in India to be attached to blazer pockets. These he distributed to those who ventured to give him orders at the Ball's splash party during the Summer. If he can get enough people interested he can float a new order.

Write Bob direct at 5408 Christy Drive, Washington DC 20016.

Now I would like to take some space to commend sincerely and mightily the Editor, copy-boy, printer's devil, advertising and circulation manager, etc., of the Thirty-Year Book, which came off the presses and was mailed in time for Homecoming. This oneman task force is, of course, Phil Rogers, who spent megahours over more than two years sweating the book into being. It is a beautiful book—It is handsome to look at, and it is laid out artistically. It is full of old and current shots of the Academy, and the Classmates who contributed did so with pizzazz. It is a firstclass job, and we all owe Phil an accolade we can't possibly deliver adequately. Those who joined in the effort and sent in material are jusfly rewarded, and those who were unable to overcome their inertia are the poorer for it. A great big " F o u r - N " is in order for Phil Rogers—and three big cheers for Patsy, who coaxed it along all the way.

Incidentally, Phil and I were able to get into see Tom Hayward in his Pentagon digs and present his book to him personally. We hope to have a picture of that event for the next column.

So you will all know who made the pilgrimage to the Severn, I have the list of attendees at the '48 dinner dance. There were others who made other events, I'm sure, and whose names I don't have, but this will give you an idea, if you weren't there, of who was present. Abel, Dick Adams, Ahern, George Allen, Andras, Amold, Ball, Barnes, Barton, Bartow, Bass, Greg Bell, Jack Bell, Bevis, Blakney, Bodmer, Bolger, Bowdre, Bradley, Bruner, Bryant, Guy Buck, Buhrer, Cammack, Carlquist, Carrington, Carruth, Bill Chandler, Chapline, Chipman, Stokes Clark, Clasgens, Clithero, Jim Crosby, Cullivan, Curi, Daley, Cab Davis, Dawson, Chili Dean, Doxey, Dick Duncan, Syd Dunn, Early, Edelson, Edmondson, Bill Fisher, Frothingham, Fry, Geiger, Gewin, Ghormley, Terry Ross, T.B. Wilson, Gleason,

Grechanik, Herb Green, Horvath, Norm Green, Don Hall, Hanby, Harkins, Hartshorn, Harvey, Hayward, Held, Heriihy, Holland, Holshouser, Holstein, Holt, Hurt, Hutchison, Jaccodine, Fred Jackson, Jansen, Jefferson, Hal Jesse, Jortberg, Jolliff, Keenan, Kelly, Kleinman, Krasnow, Lally, Lane, Lang, KK Larson, Willie Lee, Lochner, Lucy, McFarland, Markel, Martenson, McDermut, McDonald, McMahon, Mehagian, Mellencamp, Mencke, Meriwether, Mertz, Ben Moore, Sumner Moore, Morgan, Perry Nelson, Sam Newman, Nicholson, Nolen, Oberrieder, O'Keefe, Orfland, Shutler, Ortleib, Paciulli, Park, Patterson, George Parish, Van Kirk, Pennock, Ace Perkins, Pester, Prichard, Rardin, Rennacker, Resch, Spangenberg, Riley, Phil Rogers, Ryder, Gene Spalding, Sallada, Schenkel, Schultz, Schwoeffermann, Sharpe, Sheehan, Shockey, Shoemaker, Sibert, Frank Simpson, Deming Smith, Bob Smith, Frank Snyder, Clay Spalding, Springe, Tieraan, Stacy, Staples, Bill Wagner, Stringfellow, Lee Strong, Sutter, Tobin, Joe Wilson, Neely, Shorr, Bob Jones, Woods. Also . . .

Baughman, Bob Bryan, Clifford, Joe Curl, Graham, Hornsby, Ikard, McGinty, Max Morris, Murphree, Alt, Axtell, Bowers, Hebden, Crawford, Berggren. Not on this list, but seen at the ballgame, Harry Remsen. Also seen Friday night were Galbraith and Hanlon . . . among others, I'm sure.

I have a lot more information gleaned from the weekend, but, since I must limit the size of this column, I will hold it for the next issue of Shipmate.

49 Pres., RAdm. Lucien Capone Jr. USN Sec'y, Col. Eugene O. Speckart, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 2741, Ariington VA 22202 Percent Members: 63 General Since this is the start of the New Year, it would seem to be a good time to correct some of the mistakes of the old year. First of all we should like to apologize to Grace Hofford and promise her that this column has withdrawn completely and entirely from the marriage brokerage business. Last August we incorrectly reported that Grace had remarried. What we should have reported was that Grace's daughter Andrea was married to Dr. Gary Awkerman in Charleston, South Carolina, last April, and daughter Mari was married to Mr. Tom Hood last May. Normally one major blunder a year is par for the course. However, last year for a bonus we also victimized Bill "Hambone" Hamilton.

Last November we attempted to report on Bill receiving a Legion of Merit twenty years after his exceptionally meritorious conduct for which it was awarded. What it took the Navy twenty years to do we erased in one stroke of the pen. The Bob Hamilton to whom we referred last November was indeed Bill. Our sincerest apologies Bill and from now on, as Pooley Wood has suggested, we will have the martinis after we write the copy.

'49 Celebrates Homecoming

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79 Madelon and Micky McDonald's son Brad (Class of '77) was married on September 23 to Kim Anderson, the daughter of Captain (DC) and Mrs. John T. Anderson of Sedalia, Missouri. The wedding took place at the Naval Academy. Kim and Brad are living in Ballston Lake. New York, where Brad is in the second phase of his nuclear power training.

Ken McArthur retired on November 1. The ceremony was held at the Nuclear Weapons Training Group. NAS, North Island where Ken was C O . at the time of his retirement. He and Barbara are planning to remain in Coronado.

Received a note from John Heman after many, many years of silence. He and Marie are enjoying life in Ossipee, New Hampshire, where they are busy rehabilitating a very old and quite remote New England farm, and John is hard at work spoiling his three-year-old daughter Gussie and his grandsons Alexander and Peter. John says that even though we do not hear from him too often, he still keeps an eye on us through this column.

Dennis Stanfill, currently chairman of the board, president, and chief executive officer of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, has been elected to the board of tmstees of the Rand Corporation. The Rand Corporation is a private nonprofit institution engaged in research and analysis of problems in national security and domestic affairs, and. if memory is correct, was formerly a Federal Contract Research Center that was affiliated with the Air Force.

Had a nice letter from Bob Titus reporting on his two-week cruise on active duty out in Honolulu last August. Bob advised that he spent a very enjoyable and highly beneficial time working with the CINCPACFLT Meterologist and Oceanographer, John Dixon. He also managed to have lunch with John. Neal Clements, George Sumner, Chip Higgins, and Chuck Swanson while he was there. During September on a business trip to California Bob managed to stop by Watsonville where he had a nice visit with Gil Mello who is the director of the Santa Cruz County Fair. While in the vicinity he stopped for a short visit at the Naval Post Graduate School to see Dee Butler. Bob closed by noting that he, as well as most of the Classmates with whom he has spoken, is looking forward to a big 30th reunion get-together.

Also heard from Mac Adams. Mac is busy beating Classmates in the head in the Seattle area to get them to respond to the questionnaires for the 30th reunion and advises that he will be in attendance next October. Mac must hit pretty hard because we are getting quite a lot of mail from the Seattle area these days.

This year's Homecoming dinner dance was a huge success. Of course celebrating the drubbing we gave to the Pittsburgh football team contributed no little bit to the festivities. While he wasn't able to attend this year. Bob Ripley will be very happy to learn that we finally found someone who was able to wear out Carol Speckart on the dance floor. Mary Carey and Ed Carver brought their sons to Homecoming and the oldest boy managed to ouflast Carol. It was touch and go for quite a while but Carol finally had to retire. Once again we were happy to see some faces that had been missing for some time. The Bob Hieberts were there after an absence of many, many years, and Bette and Frank Sain managed to get away from Chicago to enjoy the week end with us. As usual, we filled the reception area between Michelson and Shipmate. January-Febraary 1979

Chauvenet Halls to near capacity and everyone enjoyed an excellent buffet dinner along with a very boisterous and congenial evening of cocktails and dancing. We had the same combo as last year and we are slowly but surely teaching those young men the proper music. In addition to the Carvers, Hieberts, and Sains, the group included the Riegerts, Horans, Hamiltons, Briggses, Annenburgs, Thomsons, Haskells. Benoits, Marie Bouman, Tolberts, Reids, Woods. Capones, Speckarts, Grace Hofford, Bennetts, Weavers with their guests the Hammels and the Stachs (Class of '58), Barrows (both John C. and John F.), Parsons, Metcalfs, Francises, Guthries, McVoy, Walterses, Bartholomews, Beckwiths, Boughtons, Hammers, Lindseys, Bob M. Browns, Bill Halls, Venables, Nelsons, Grabowskys, Sommervilles, and the DiBenedettos. I should also mention that we were happy to see the DiBenedettos down from New York.

Many of us were on hand Sunday morning at Memorial Hall for the dedication of the Thomas J. Donoher Memorial Window in the Catholic Chapel [that Tom established] in Bancroft Hall. This is the memorial that Ralph Murphy wrote to the Class about. During a brief but impressive ceremony Luke Capone made the formal presentation to the Superintendent. Monsignor John J. O'Connor, Chief of Navy Chaplains and Tom's brother, Father Ned Donoher, provided some fitting remarks and blessed the window. The chapel is off the rotunda below Memorial Hall should anyone wish to see the memorial on their next visit to the Academy.

Washington Area The Dark Ages are almost upon us again and that means party time. This year's Washington area Dark Ages party will again be held in the Pooley Wood's Annex, better known as the Riverview Room, of the Anacostia Naval Station Officers' Club. The date will be Saturday.

Febmary 10. Fliers will be sent to Washington area Classmates as usual. Anyone not receiving a flier can get all the details by writing to the class post office box.

The October luncheon was well-attended.

The business of the day consisted of a status report on the 30th reunion. Things are on track and progressing nicely. Will keep you advised as we go along. Those attending were Hammer, Speckart, Palazzolo, Tolbert. Ghormley, Bill Hall, John Walker. Roberts. Wamsley.

Benoit. Barrow, Draim, Vosseler, Albers, Benas. Wood, Black, and Capone.

We had an excellent turnout for the November Lunch. Tom Ringwood put in an appearance after considerable absence and no one could remember when, if ever. Bob Hiebert had last been in attendance. Even old Anonymous showed up for the first time in a number of months. Al Thonson brought us upto-date on projected attendance for the 30th reunion. As of the first of November approximately 250 Classmates had expressed their intentions of attending the reunion and Al said that number did not include some members who always attend the Homecoming but are always slow in answering their mail. For comparison we had about 250 Classmates at the 25th reunion. Other members of the Class who were present for lunch were Wood, Bartholomew. Speckart. Neely. Ripley. Kraus.

Albers. Vosseler. Noel. Clarke, Ghormley.

Reiher. Palazzolo, McCallem, Roberts, Francis, Guthrie. Coontz, John Walker. Bill Hall.

Beckwith. Barrow. Hammer, and Tolbert.

50 Pres., Capt. M. L. Minnis USN (Ret.) 14543 Braddock Rd., Centreville VA 22020 Sec'y., Capt. W. H. DeMers II USN 7100 Berkshire Dr., Camp Springs MD 20031 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. W. L. Jensen USN (Ret.) 499 Skyhill Ct., Chula Vista CA 92010 Commercial: 714/421-6756 Percent Members: 60

Perhaps on the East Coast, in the middle of the Dark Ages, interest had been lost in Navy football, but as of this writing the spirit on the West coast was very much alive. Our main concern was that the Big Blue team would win an excessive number of games and thus rule themselves out of the First Annual Holiday Bowl Game in San Deigo. While we on the Califomia scene continued to support their efforts, we remained in touch with the folks at Brigham Young University just in case it came to pass that such a match up between the WAC (Western Athletic Conference) and Navy should take place. It is true that only $250,000 per team was involved, but since Navy didn't have to share it with other conference members, they seemed a natural. And all of the Navy in San Diego gave them full support— including the sports writers. The general theme was one of "The war in Viet Nam is behind us—the Service Academies are now attractive—there are not as many football scholarships readily available—and perhaps a college education is more than football"—and so the San Diego Holiday Bowl was being billed as the "Smart Bowl." At any rate your C S . was smart enough to contact Dick Thurston (our class member who is now a professor at BYU and now a WARD BISHOP who agreed to provide two tickets to the game if 1 agreed to kiss his ring) because the game had been sold out since early October. 8,500 tickets had been reserved for each of Navy and BYU. We on the West Coast are looking forward to this as an annual event—and in a few years its recognition as a major-nae— premier—bowl game. The likes of Penn State, u s e , Oklahoma or Nebraska with all their recruiting don't excite.

In line with the above emphasis on the football bit (it still pays for most of the athletic efforts at USNA) the West Coast contingent got together as promised at the North Island Officers' Club on the 17th of November and even at that eariy date Charlie Cooper predicted that NAVY had the inside track to the Holiday Bowl and furthermore that the score would be 30 to 21 in Navy's favor. Carol said that she had learned over the years not to disagree with Charlie ever since he had come out of the Tulane game in 1948 with an ailment that could only be described as Notre Dame. It is, i.e., if you don't have any time-outs left: you do whatever is absolutely necessary. Stan Neander did a fine job in getting the West Coast contingent together and at the gathering on the 17th we had Chariie Cooper. Don Ellioft, Gene Wisen-Baker. John Malloy. Stan Neander.

Dick Martin. Wayne Jensen. Jim Davis, and Joe Howard. Dick Miller had planned to attend but a call from Washington took him away. A week eariier. Dick had the pleasure to address the Naval Helicopter Association at its quarteriy luncheon at the North Island O'Club.

80 game, Jim DiNardo held a "Homecoming" at home, inviting a number of local USNA Alumni. There were representatives from Classes of 1944, 1948, 1950 and 1952. '50 was represented by Flora and Don Dunham. Sue and Bill Grigg, Mary and Jim DiNardo, and Ulla and Cliff Hopkins. All at the party were USNA Alumni except for Jim"s father, who nonetheless, was as pleased with Navy's victory as the rest. He remarked that, "At the age of 86—'And 1 am only getting started' I like to see enthusiasm and that is what 1 see demonstrated by this Naval Academy outfit." Cliff adds that people in the Tidewater are already thinking ahead to next year and what they understand as a Navy-William and Mary meeting in the Oyster Bowl. It would seem—from Coast to Coast—a strong Navy football team is indicative of a strong Navy.

Dick Miller at NAA Luncheon (Picture enclosed of Dick as he warmed to his subject of 'The future of the officer today as he seeks to get ahead in the Modern post-grad educated Navy.') As an indication to the staying power of the members of the Class—it would probably be of interest to note that Dorothy and your C S . remained at the North Island Club until the last 'duck was hung,' but outlasting them were Charlie and Carol Cooper and Joe and Phyl Howard who went on to MEX PAC, i.e., the Mexican Village which used to be a watering hole for those local Coronado Belles looking for a Navy husband.

Joe admits that they 'closed' the Mexican Village and that the folks at the 'Village' could not believe that they actually had a Marine Major General in their grasp who had not been there before. We predict a great future for Charlie and Carol and are happy to report them in the very best of health for the long haul.

Concurrent with going to press time we had a call from John Brick in Pensacola to say that a number of the Class had gotten together in Tallahassee, Florida, to not enjoy the Florida State-Navy game. We explained to John that it was an overall grand plan to keep Navy on track to come to San Diego for its bowl effort and he said, "Well O.K." now that you explain it that way. From '50 at the Tallahassee gathering were: Carolyn and John Brick, Betsey and Phil Ryan, the Bob Harrises, Bruce Stones, and Helen and George Darfus.

Cliff Hopkins reports from Norfolk that he always has trouble getting the faithful together when the first Wednesday of a month happens to fall on the first day of that month. Nevertheless, on the November first Wednesday, the Norfolk group at Breezy Point had: Sam Doak, Don Dunham, Sam Preston, Don Sattler and Cliff. Ron Hays had planned to attend but business at LantFleet had precluded it. Ron has been fully occupied, as predicted, with appearances at such events as the Tidewater Officers Birthday Ball and Norfolk Chamber of Commerce events. After the Navy-Pitt football

If you're going to be the top analyst in the publishing field, as our own J. K. Noble of Paine Webber has been for seven consecutive years, you have to have well-developed peripheral vision. As we all have observed, the prospect of casino profits has propelled the stock of Playboy into one of the sharpest upward moves of the year (from $6 to $30 a share). And even though Ken says he "never made a formal recommendation of Playboy" because the issue is "too speculative," a number of happy clients say it was the best call of the year. Ken is still best known for his work in book publishing (The Years Between) and for his "encyclopedic" knowledge of overall industry fundamentals. His written work has tended toward the academic, but with such a solid foundation as USNA how could he be otherwise? Ken's fans swear by his stock-picking ability and his superb timing.

The Washington area remains the prime source of class news—as it should be. We are still waiting to see what new missiles our taxpaying dollars are going to buy. Bill DeMers continues to do a superb job in keeping the Class attuned to the business in our Nation's Capital. Homecoming was a great success particulariy with the win over Pitt and the really fine turnout for all the associated activities.

The tailgate and the evening and dinner party went off without any problems—even the Coughlins were there on time. At the Homecoming Dinner held at Stouffers, Crystal City Hotel, on 28 October were the following couples: Sue and Bill Ayres, Muriel and Roger Buck, Pat and Kelly Carr, Anita and John Cavanaugh, Molly and Jerry Coleman, Mary and John Coughlin, Barbara and Bill DeMers,

Homecoming Committee—Don Jarrell, Mary and Frank Carter, Lee Minnis

Frank Carter and son Kevin, Homecoming Jean and Dick Duggan, Connie and Dave Emmerson, Roz and Deke Forbes, Sue and Clint Frank, Judy and Mark Frudden, Joyce and Ed Golding, Betty and Chuck Greenwood, Cynthia and Dave Heerwagon, Shelly and John Henderson, Elaine and Stew Hughes, Violet and Don Jarrell, Cathy and George Jessen, Carol and Willy Kiehl, Nancy and Jim Lynn, Millicent and George Michie, Jo and Lee Minnis, Ann and Jim Morris, Sal and Chuck Mull, Ann and Leight Palmerton, Fran and Dick Powell, Bob and Nancy Pullar, Tom Rogers, Mary and A. O. Rule, Mary Jane and Milt Schultz, Margy and Bob Shultz, Bill Simons, Marion and John Sivright, Liz and Wayne Smith, Donna and Ted Speaker, Babs and Jack Spiller, Nancy and Fred Terrell, Dot and Marsh Treado and Madeleine and Pete Wood.

Mary Carter's sister, Faith, was also in attendance with the observation that, "The Class of '50 was probably a vintage year."

The Washington area '50 wives got together at Fran Powell's home on the 19th of October with Terry Kivlen assisting with the duties of

Tailgaters at Homecoming

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81 hostess. Enjoying the carefree gathering were: Mary Coughlin, Connie Emerson, Roz Forbes, Kathy Jessen, Mary Lasley. Jo Minnis, Judy Frudden. Char Monroe. Mary Satyre, Nancy Pullar, Margy Shultz, Jean Kennedy and Glady Thom.

The '50 luncheon for November met on schedule at the Flagship and as previously announced the elections for class treasurer and vice president were held. Bill Simons agreed to continue as treasurer and Deke Forbes was elected as the vice president. The motion was made to make the corresponding secretary position an elective office but somehow the motion was tabled and never surfaced to get a vote. At the Washington area luncheon were: Kelly Carr, Bill DeMers, John Cavanaugh, John Coughlin, Josh Dorsey, Dick Duggan, Deke Forbes. Chuck Greenwood, Larry Hawkins. Stew Hughes. Bill Kiehl. Ward Lasley, Jim Lynn. Gayle May, Lee Minnis, Tom Ross, Tom Rogers. Milt Schultz, Bill Simons. Bill Smoot, Casey Spayde and Ted Speaker. Dick Duggan had completed the Marine Marathon and was excited about finishing (before it finished him). Dick's time was surprisingly only a few hours time off the world record for the event. Until someone takes your C S . up on the offerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;please continue to write. Your letters are delightful and will be answered individually as indicated.

VAdm. Ronald J. Hays Classmate Ronald J. Hays, deputy Commander in Chief Atlantic Fleet, recently spoke in Norfolk, expressing the appreciation of the Navy for the hospitality displayed by the Chamber of Commerce. Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey, principal speaker, stressed the importance of maintaining a strong Navy, and to this we say Bravo!

51 Pres., Mr. Lowell Stockdale Sec'y, Cdr. Bruce I. Meader, USN (Ret.) 5609 South 5th St., Ariington, VA 22204 Percent Members: 68 Sadly, I must report the death of another Classmate. Bob Rosecrans died last October 14 in Virginia Beach. Many Classmates, including a solid contingent of Bob's fellow Marines, turned out for memorial services held in Washington. On behalf of all the Class, I extend our deepest sympathies to Cissy, who at this writing remains in Virginia Beach, and to son Bobby who lives in McLean.

Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

The Homecoming Dinner-Dance was the best attended since the 25th Reunion. Eighty guys and gals, wildly exuberant from watching Navy's best effort of the year (a solid victory over Pitt), found their way out to the Bay Ridge Inn and danced/etc. the night away.

Here is the guest list: Bev and Vince Baron, Linda and Reece Belk, Babs and Ben Benjovsky, Bev and Joe Bray, Al Corderman, Ann and Beau Dietrich, Dotty and Lou Dittmar, Mary Ann and Lee Doggett, Eileen and Fred Gambke, Mary and John Gilchrist, C.J. and Sam Ginder, Irma and Tom Hiers (our honorary members), Lee and Dave James, Janice and Bill Johnson, Gay and Sam Latimer, Dianne and Bill Lawrence, Martha and Ansel Braseth (guests of the Lawrences), Missy and Bill Lawton, Frank Liberato, Carol and Bruce Meader, Mary and Jim Mehl, Rosalie and Doug Mow, Libby and George Mueller, Boz and John Powell, Toddy and Al Raithel, Vivian and Ashby Reardon, Hanna and Ray Reig, Mary Ann and Tom Ruby (guests of the Reigs), Libra and Cliff Rigsbee, Sandy and Bill Rollins, Mary and Lou Sarosdy, Jane and Bill St. Lawrence, Marie and Guy Shaffer, Ruth and Bob Small, Pat and Lowell Stockdale, Bert and Wake Stornetta, Evelyn and Bob Swart, Bobbie and Bill Truesdell, Fredda and Jim Winnefeld, Joan and Jay Woodbury, and Jean and George Yeager.

Bobbie and Jack Laubach (Northbrook, Illinois), Jinny and Frank Conlon (Wilmington, North Carolina), Charlotte and Gene AUender (Virginia Beach), Becky and Ray Lessig (Dayton, Ohio), Bette and Robin McGlohn (Rome, Italy), Gen and Joe Meadow (Weslaco, Texas), and Jean and Bill Winberg (Virginia Beach), were among those sending their regrets.

John Wyman (Beckman Instmments) has returned from Scotland to join Beckman Displays in Scottsdale, Arizona. And Fresh and John Tillson proudly announced the marriage of their eldest son, Scott Elwood Tillson, to Patricia Muldoon at Philadelphia on 15 October 1978. Scott received his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in May, and Patricia graduated from the school of nursing of the same university. Second Lieutenant Tillson is now stationed with the Army in Germany.

Sometimes there's the hint of a good yarn or two to be found in the business cards one collects. Here's my latest pocketfull: Fred Gambke's card shows him to be the Virginia-North Carolina broker for Pleasant Valley Wine Company (Great Westem champagne, etc.) operating out of Richmond, Virginia. Bill Lawton is chief flight test engineer for Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

Howard Ruggles is manager, Major Aircraft Programs Marketing, Radar Systems Group, Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City, California. And Bill Marin is exeuctive director, al Dir'iyyah Institute of Geneva. Switzeriand, and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

George Patch "in (his) 51st month in Naval Administration" called for help, and advised of the following team roster for OPNAV: Stan Anderson in OP-008; Jim Baker, Stu Beck (civilian), Beau Dietrich and Bill Shaugnessey in OP-06; John Bres, Red Carter, Rich Fontaine and Tom Ward in OP-03; Al Burkhalter, OP009; Dick Hoover and Lee Kollmorgen in OP-96; Joe Jefferson Johnson in OP-04; Joe Metcalf, Bill Thompson and Jim Winnefeld OP-01; and Doug Mow and Arch Tompson (civilian) OP-05. A pair of free tickets to the first 300 Classmates who can correctly identify the

rear admirals in the above group. Enclose your $100 donation for the Chapel elevator and mail your entry to your Class Secretary right away!

In accordance with the bylaws of our Association, a committee has been appointed under the chairmanship of Jay Woodbury to nominate candidates for elections to be held at the annual meeting. The office of president must be filled this year, so a mail ballot will be provided. The other offices to be filled are three members of the board; they will be elected by a majority of the members in attendance at the annual meeting on May 5, 1979. Anyone wishing to suggest candidates to the nominating committee may do so. In addition, a Classmate's name may be placed in nomination by written petition of 25 members. In either case, your communication should reach the Secretary not later than 28 Febmary.

Can anyone help? The following Classmates' mail was returned for various postal-servicetype reasons: Sam Applegarth, Phil Arst, Bob Bregman, Dana Estes, Dean Franke, Dick Johnstone, Kevin O'Toole, Paul Pearson, John Colvin Peterson, John Edward Reeder, Doug Robertson, Jim Strohm, John Keith Thomas, Leonard Tucker, and Mrs. William Boyd Nelson.

52 Pres., Cdr. R. R. Zastrow, USN (Ret.) Sec'y, Capt. John D. Beecher, USN 7864 Midday Lane, Alexandria VA 22306 (703) 768-9408 Percent Members: 60 Thought 1 was being very efficient at the three home games this Fall . . . had my "wheel book" at the ready and wrote down the name of every Classmate in sight. One slight problem, haven't the slightest idea who was at which game . . . didn't date the pages.

It was "1 can't possibly be that old" time at the Duke game when we found ourselves on the fifty-yard line. Among those who might have been there were Martha and Toxey Califf (am sure of them, had some of Martha's deviled eggs), Eloise and Doug Payne, Ann and Harry Bixby, Mary Zobel and son Skip, Petey and Bis Wev. Fran and Ron Hattin, Jackie and Tom Meeks, Barbara and Pete Roane, Marianne and Bob Compton, Jane and Bill Carl, Lola and "P.K." German, Joan and Wayne Hughes, Peggy and Jim Keane and Helen and Lou McMillan.

As is our custom, we gathered in the southwest corner of the parking lot for tailgating before and after each game. At the William and Mary game, our Class Flag drew television coverage. It was spotted by a camera team from Baltimore's Channel 2, who got the flag along with interviews with Ron Hattin and Penny Vahsen on area T.V. Not sure I mentioned in an earlier column that our beautiful flag was donated by Pete Barry to be flown proudly on a portable pole created and provided by George Vahsen. Our thanks to them both. Joan and I were there along with some or all of the above and some or all of the following: Mary Ellen and Bull Bannister, Mariyn and Jack Blanding, Frieda and Mel Melchor, Ed Stolle, Pete Maloney, Mary Jane and Mark Tuzo, Nancy and Gene Avalone, Nancy and Tom Thawley and Ann and Gerry Thompson.

Our third game in a row. Homecoming against Pittsburgh, was the highlight of a great week end on Severn's shore. It all began on

82 Friday afternoon with the annual Class of 1952 golf tournament. Once again, George Vahsen was tournament director and once again, everyone finished! Jim Quinn is the new class champion, while Ross Sugg earned both low gross and closest to the pin. Pete Barry is the putter-of-the-year and Ron Hattin is back on the "leader board" as the Sand Champion.

Mike Sorrentino had the longest drive and Joe PIdkowicz set a new class record for high gross. After the world's noisiest cocktail party, we dined in the Midshipmen's Mess where there was additional evidence that we're getting old . . . Helen McMillan did not give the Supe a "wildman." What follows is the remainder of the names in my green book, whom I assure you were at one of the aforementioned events or at the '52 homecoming party at the Alumni House or all or some of those things: Fran and John Harren, Penny and George Vahsen, Nancy and Bill Maxson, Pat and Larry Skantze, Lois and Dick Smith, Dolly and Ed Leonard, John Inman, the Virgil Moores, Mariyn and Tom Tonseth, Betty and Lamar Dixon, Holly and Fox Charlie Johnson, Jeth and Corky Lenox, Doug Lockwood, Mary and Bill Zobel, Jane and John Mitchess, Ann and Chuck Pollak, Jan and Jerry Rapkin, Elaine and Bob Schuize, Liz and Ernie Schultz, Bob Lancaster, Carrol and Bob Bowser, Bruce Reichelderfer and Betty, Rosemary and Walt Locke, Jim Link, Jim Nunneley with a couple of beautiful daughters, Nancy and Jim Quinn, Jean and Leigh Ebbert, Marilyn and Jack Pohlman, Sheila and Pete Barry, Jerry and Jim Madigan, Tom Julian, P.D. Sierer, Mary-lin and Demp Jackson and Tom Gurney. (He joined us after every game, Ann and Hi, hope it was the company and not just the food.) The Tommy Hannegans and sons and daughters of Jackson, Califf, Payne, Wev, Roane and Zobel were other second generation Classmates who consorted with the old folks.

The following picture of Harry Bixby, Ron Hattin, Garnet Bailey, Bill Maxson and Bis Wev was taken after the Virginia game. It might be captioned: "Figuring out the Check" or "Grace before Meals" if I were nice. Actually, he was just resting.

Why Does that Man Have a Tie? Speaking of pictures, the October issue of Sea Power features a picture of our CNO and Agnes Mathis. He seems to be listening, and there's not an afghan hound in sight.

Clipping Service: The following news items about '52ers were provided by the Shipmate staff: Capt. William H. Reed USN (Ret.), has joined Raytheon Company as the area manager for the Company's international affairs subsidiary, Raytheon Overseas Limited, in Brussels, Belgium. Bill joined Raytheon after serv-

ing in the U.S. Navy for more than 30 years.

He and Martha reside on Avenue Winston Churchill, Brussels.

RAdm. Frederick C. Johnson has taken over as director of the command and control planning and programming division in OPNAV. Capt. Paul J. MuUoy took his command, PHIBRON 6, for an extended deployment in the Med. Mail Bag The following was received from Angela Driver: "Once again the Northwest '52ers met for a great evening at Chalys and Pete Stephens. Ten out of sixteen couples who live in the area

"In response to your charge, a nominating committee consisting of the undersigned as chairman and the following members: Col. H. L. Blanton USMC; MGen. W. B. Maxson USAF; Capt. L. K. McMillan USNR; and Mr. J. S. Troutman has met and selected three nominees for Class President 1979-1982. Each of the following three nominees has been contacted and agreed to serve if elected: Capt.

John D. Beecher USN; Mr. Ronald F. Hattin; and Capt. George M. Vahsen USN. "The nominating committee recommends that the ballot (or accompanying material) contain a short two-part biographical sketch to indicate for each nominee his (I) career highlights, and (2) class activities since graduation." Signed: Bill.

You are reminded again that nominations for others may be made by sending me a petition signed by fifteen members of the Association of the Class of 1952.

Mark Friday, 9 February '79, as the date of our next Washington area party. It's a Mardi Gras Ball at Fort Myer Officers' Club. Company of the month is the 14th (that's 14 out of 24 not 36). Keep those cards and letters coming . . . I need help to get through the dark ages.

53 Pres., Capt. Lew Sykes, USN Sec'y, Mr. C. E. Mumford, GRI 1303 Towlston Rd., Vienna VA 22180 (703)759-3115 Percent Members: 59

The Great Northwest were able to attend. They were: Pete and Chalys Stephens, Fred and Mary Jane Adair, Jack and June Alexander, Ron and Vera Campbell, Glenn and Angela Driver, Tom and Carta Dykers, Whit and Katie Hansen, Art and Pat Knowles, Chet and Marty McRorie, and Jim and Muffle Nunneley. We sang and talked a lot and are anxious for the next get-together at the Nunneleys' in Bremerton to celebrate the 'Dark Ages.' If anyone in the Class is in the area call and let us know. We'd all love to see you.""

From President Zug: "Just a note to tell you how much we appreciated being with all our Classmates at the Virginia game. It was gracious of Pete Stark to have the party at his home following the game. Junette and 1 really had a fine visit in the East.

"About two weeks ago Jim Lovell was out here from Houston and we had a nice visit. Jim was a guest speaker at Santa Ana College and Orange Coast College. Classmate Al Enderle extended a visit to Enderie Center and spent a day with Jim. I know Jim talked with Bill Knutson and other Classmates in the area.

"Thanks to Pete Barry for the Class of '52 Flag . . . Great job Pete! Hope to write more often.

"P.S. Forgot to mention that Al Enderle and I had a luncheon with Classmate Frank Hines and his wife here in September. They were visiting here and we had lunch and a nice visit with them."

With the time rapidly approaching when the ballots for the election of a new class president go into the mail, 1 share with you a letter from Bill Zobel to the Executive Committee:

Twenty-Fifth Reunion On Friday, 20 October 1978, about 500 Classmates, wives and families descended on Annapolis, the Naval Academy, the Hilton Inn and the Thr-Rift Inn to celebrate the Class of I953's Twenty-Fifth Reunion. Classmates came from as far away as Australia and as near as Annapolis. The checking-in process was easy with a package containing the schedule of events and a roster of attendees. Large lettering on the name tags saved many a hesitation in recognition throughout the week end. Friday morning at 1100, Frank Brady was OIC of the golf event with 28 participants. You know the old saying "Old golfers never dieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they just lose their way!" Well, one party was said to have lost at least two dozen balls during the course of events. One member gained the distinction of hitting one of the guy wires that crisscross the course. The winners of this event were: Low Gross-AI Somers (79), Low Net-Dave Wagner (71), and Kitty Somers (74), Longest Drive-Paul Dudley and Dudie Cuccias. Closest to pin-Bill Deale and Pat Miller, Low Putts-Hal Rumph (30) and Kitty Somers (32), Most-for-your-money Award-Jim Walker (144). Other participants included: Earl Paulsen, Darrell Dempster, Art Mercier, Frank Ostronic, Billy Clements, Tony Dowd, Scott Purvis, Tony Miller, Fred Jones, Leo Cuccias, Grace and Dan Hopkins, Pete Kucyk, Don Ammerman, Jean Wagner, Bill Ryan, Bill Dowe, Vaughn Wilson and Frank Brady. It should be duly noted that the OIC playing on his home course restrained himself and did not win one prize. Needless to say, a good time was had by all. Friday afternoon the Hilton Ballroom was the site of a class bridge tournament, the results of which are still in dispute and have been submitted to the class arbitraShipmate, January-February 1979

83 Saturday evening was the big event with a social hour on the Hilton Patio by the pool, followed by the sitdown dinner and dancing in the ballroom. Despite the close proximity of the pool to the bar area no one yielded to the temptation—that must be a sign of maturity— at last! Lew Sykes announced the results of the golf toumament and awarded the prizes. Lew did explain to everyone that we had picked this week end for the BIG 25 celebration because the weather was going to be so good. (// couldn't have been better—/ think John Furgerson did a good job with his higher connections.) Lew then recognized all those Classmates who took on specific tasks for the week-end events. VAdm. Carl Trost reflected a bit on how good the mids have it now (cars, liberty, alcoholic beverages, walking to class, etc.) compared to the good old days when it was really rough. The college board cut score for the entering midshipman is now about 1230 and that is in the top 15% of college entrants.

(Most of us would never make it using today's standards.) Carl then had an entry made to claim a record turnout of 15 to 39 graduates of the old 22nd Company present at this reunion.

Following much table-hopping, dancing and chit-chat the party die-hards ended up in Judy and Gus Hubal's room to sing "Amazing Grace" and other appropriate songs. The amazing thing was, no one complained about the noise.

Sunday morning many attended chapel services in the Main Chapel and then attended the excellent brunch at the Officers' Club. Overall it was a grand week end, with all events wellplanned and executed. Special thanks to Lew Sykes for his untold hours of coordinating and

Wining and Dining tion committee for a decision as to the winner(s). The Hospitality room at the Hilton opened at 1500, compliments of Frank Adorney. Then from 1900-2200 the Officers' Club was the scene of hors-d'oeuvres and drinks and lots of friends and old tales retold. It was interesting to note that the Club is now operating in the black again, thanks to the midshipmen memberships patronizing the basement bar. Want to feel old? Just go down there and take a look! This is the first time the club has been in the black since the slot machines were removed in the early '50s. Dinner arrangements after the club spread the Class all over town and the Hilton Bar was closed by '53 at about 2 AM. Saturday morning got off to a running start with Tom Southerland leading a contingent of four joggers over the Naval Academy grounds at 0800. The Midshipmen's Store was open to the Class and it was pleasant to be able to shop without the mass mob of Alumni invasion on regular Homecoming week end. It was interesting to note one conversation overheard between two mids. 1st Mid—"Who are all the old fuds?" and the 2nd Mid replied "They are Alumni!" and the 1st Mid answered "That just goes to show how old they are, they don't even know that Homecoming is next week end!" At about 1100 the tailgaters gathered under the large tent in the stadium parking lot for lunch and lots of beer and soft drinks. Next came the football game where Navy played flat and squeeked out a win over William and Mary and retained their unbeaten status. It was clear that the team was looking forward to the Pitt game the following week. Following the game more tailgating under the tent before retiring to the hotel room to rest up for the evening events.

Just a little nap to recharge the batteries.

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

Among the Notables Were.

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84 to his staff of Classmates who combined made this BIG 25 a success. The staff consisted of Frank Brady (Golf), Nancy Leavitt (Bridge), Chariie Baldwin (Friday night), Darrell Dempster (Midshipmen Store), Tom Southeriand (Jogging), Gus Hubal (Tailgate and Football Game), Brad Mooney (Social hour and Dinner), Tyke Furey (Music), Tom Warren (Chapel), Don McVay (Brunch), Frank Zimolzak (Registration), and Frank Adomey (Hospitality Room).

Classmates and family in attendance included: Eddie and Frank Adomey, Sue and Dick Albright, Mary and Fred Alden, Frieda and Dave Allen, Nancy and Bob Aller, Jo and Ed Alves, Anne and Don Ammerman, Barbara and Lyle Armel, Jane and Al Baciocco, Dolly and Jim Baldinger, Betsy and Charlie Baldwin, Cardie and Kim Bassett, Sage Bassett, Bob Bell, Bea and Eddie Best, Peggy and Bob Bicknell, Peg and Doug Binney, Nedra and Joe Bird, Marcy and Art Bivens, Hank and Pev Blundell, Irv Boeskool and daughters Gwynne and Jane, Gloria and Roger Booth, Lee and Joe Bomstein, Jackie and Bmce Borthwick, Helen and Rod Bomm, JoAnne and Walt Boyer, Libby and Frank Brady, Joan and Hawley Brooks, Phyllis and Tom Burt, Jeannie and Jack Cardweli, Donna and Curtis Carter, Ginny and Bob Chewning, Kay and E. J. Christensen, Verna and Ray Christensen, Anna and Bill Clements, Nancy and French Clements, Judy and Pete Conrad, Lou and Mike Corboy, Ruth and Jock Craig, Barbara and MacCramer, Chris and Ray Crater, Dudie and Leo Cuccias, Charlie Cole, Jean and John Cockey, Pat and Mick Daley, Rebecca and David Dally, Brenda and Dick Daly, Jackie and Mike Davis, Jane and Jack Davison, Bill Deale, Sally and Darrell Dempster, Pat and Golfers and Other Athletes

Bob Dettmer, Nancy and John Devereaux, Stevie and Chuck Diesel, Jean and Joe DiGiacomo, Edna DiNola, Anne and Osmund Dixon, Pat and Tony Dowd, Jackie and Bill Dowe, Linda and Edward Doyle, Joan and Paul Dudley, Marge and Tom Dumont, Kitty and Bob Donnelly, Vera and Robert Eddington, Alta and Denver Eddy, Janet and Doug Egan, Ginney and Don Fagan, Harvey Falk, Jinx and Harry Famsworth, Alix and Chuck Fellows, Marguerite and Linn Felt, Ann and Tom Fitzgerald, Rita and Connor Flahive, Nancy and Hank Fowler and daughter Allison, Ingrid and Charlie Fox, Rosemary and George Eraser, Trianne and Ralph Freese, Dolores and Dave Frost, Dave Fudge and daughter Diana, Tyke Furey and Pauline Dukkony, Alice and John Furgerson, Hugh Gallagher, Jane and Dick Gantt, Sheila and Joe Gildea, Nell and Art Gilmore, Pat and Roy Girod, Jean and Al Glazier, Jean and John Godek, Evelyn and Bob Goldner, Joyce and Bill Goodwin, Norma and Dave Go van, Dorothy and Bob Gradel, Kay and Fritz Graf, Audrey and Mike Greeley, Carol and Jim Green, Mary Lou and Earl Griggs, Maude and Dave Grover, Suzanne and Ron Gumsey, Pont and Bill Hall, Saida and Bob Hanmore and children Erol, Javid and Farida, Louise and Jim Harris, Connie and Bob Hayden, Will Hays, Pat and Cari Headland, Bev and Lee Hebbard, Louise and Bob Hempel, Linda and Al Higginbotham, Dotti and Jack Hoch, Jane and Jim Hocking and children Rachel and Douglas, Connie and Carl Hoffner, Margaret and Munroe Holley, Grace and Dan Hopkins, Barbara and Dave Howell, Judy and Gus Hubal, Ginnie and Hank Hukill, Marlene and Walt Hutchins, Mary and John Hyatt, Dot and Stan Jaksina, Sally and Dave Jones and daughter Midshipman Carey Jones,

Fred Jones, Orlene and Joe James, Ira Kane, Robbi and Bob Karcher, Bob Kassel, Mickey and Bud Kauderer, Ruth and Dudley Keimig, Rita and Don Killian, Lonnie and John King, Dee Kraynak, Audrey Kmse and son Midshipman Third Class David Kmse, Joan and Pete Kucyk, Pat and Frank Lammers, Claire and Howard Larson, Nancy and Horace Leavitt, Betty and Sandy Levey, Jeanne and Don Lovell, Joan and Bob Lowell, Chariotte and Bert Maas, Pat and Nick Malambri, Maureen and Joseph Malone, Nancy and Don Mang, Chris and Bob Manuel, Dottie and Maynard Marshall, Dolores and Bob Martin, Ruth and Max Matteson, Minnie and Tom Mayberry, Clayton May, Arch MacAllaster, Grace and Brian McCrane, Joyce and Don McVay, Flo and Art Mercier, Sarah and Don Metz with son Randy and guests Birdie and Kenneth Farmer, Kim Farmer, Bryan Farmer and Joan and Donald Potter, Pat and Tony Miller, Marty and Brad Mooney, Susan and Jim Morgan, Betsey and Jack Morrison, Lida and Jerry Muench, Glenda and Chuck Mumford, Angle and Moose Musorrafiti, Ginny and Merlin Norby, Mickey and Pat O'Connell, Diane and Bmce Ogden, Diane and John jt. Olson, Anne and John S. Olson, Midge and Arn Orr, Barbara and Bob Osbom, Judie and Frank Ostronic, Elinor and John Paulk, Jeanne and Earl Paulsen, Carol and Wally Perry, Carol and Ed Petersen and their guests Lynne and Bob Spiotto, Caroline and Johnny Phillips, Al Piatt and Judy Gendron, Carol and Chuck Prieb, Betty and Bull I*urdum, Lynne and Scott Purvis and children Ward, Blair and Heather, Jeanne and John Quirk, Norma and Bob Raffaele, Mollie and Randy Randall, Henry and Dan Rice, Nancy and Bill Ritchie, Midge and Fritz Ritz, Bob Ruckman and Gail, Norma and Hal Rumph, Raye and Bill Ryan, Martha and Hart Sebring, Ginny and Dick Seymour, Betty Call and Bob Shaidnagle, Lauree and R. Logan Sharrah, Anne and Bob Sheahan, Jo and John Sherlock, Christine and Alan Shore, Pat and Arlis Simmons, Margaret and Buck Simpson, Phyl and Joe Smith, Joan and Cub Snively, Betty and John Sokol, Kitty and Allen Somers, Margo and Tom Southerland and daughters Margie and Mibs, Madelene and Ed Spar, Dan Sperling, Martha and Bill Stames, Jill and Chuck Stames, Bev and Dick Steigerwald, Pete Stoffelen and Nancy Hughes, Dean Strong and Peggy Wikner, Barbara and Tom Sullivan, Mary and Lew Sykes, Ann and Frank Talbot,. Narie and Cliff Thomas, Irene and Tony Tortora, Carl Trost, Karen and Bill Tmeblood, Pat and Jack Tutfle, Pete and Don Upshaw, Dixie and Gus Viers, Jean and Dave Wagner, Stan Waid, Ginny and Jim Walker, Jane and Hal Walters, Jo and Tom Warrfen, Larry Watson, Joan and Jeff Wellings, Shelby and Otto Will, Ginny and Ed Willever, Gene and Jack Wilson, Pat and Vaughn Wilson, Charias and Peyton Wise, Ann and John Whhrow, Jane and Pat Wood worth, Dick Wright and Anne Pierson, Elva and Tak Yoshihara, Dave Young and Nancy Graham, Sara and Frank Zimolzak, Chris and Chris Zirps.

Homecoming 1978 Anticlimactic to the BIG 25 week end and included a few carryovers. Friday night's reception in Dahlgren Hall was as crowded as ever and the prime rib was better than ever.

This was the first time I have ever seen any left on the table with no further takers. Dean Strong even quit eating after thirds on the ice cream cake. The big objective of the reception Shipmate, January-February 1979

85 is to see friends in other Classes. Classmates in attendance included: Eddie and Frank Adorney. Cardie and Kim Bassett, Irv Boeskool, Libby and Frank Brady, Mrs. Robert C (Sue) Blanchard, James J. Connolly. Bill Deale, Bob Detweiller, Ginney and Don Fagan, Connie and Carl Hoffner, Judy and Gus Hubal, Bill Holland, Mickey and Bud Kauderer, Toni and Al Krochmal, Pete Lyons, Marty and Brad Mooney, Glenda and Chuck Mumford and Dean Strong.

Saturday's tailgating consisted of the usual local tailgating crowd and many more classmates at the best game the Navy team played all year. It was a rough physical game that Navy dominated Pittsburgh like never before and also accounts for the poor showing against Notre Dame the next week, etc. Following the game all '53 was invited to go to the Frank Adorneys' as no evening class function was formally planned.

Washington Area Class Wives Bridge group met in November and the hidden recorder picked up some juicy items. It's too bad they can't be published. We'll have more BIG 25 pictures in later issues. You be good now.

54 Pres., Col. F. M. W. Woodrow USMC Sec'y. Cdr. R. K. Sheehan USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y. Cdr. H. Jauncey Sweet USN (Ret.) 9108 Glenbrook Road Fairfax VA 22030 (703) 280-5594 Percent Members: 59 Class Businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;25th Reunion Tom Albee reports that after researching several prospective hotel locations for the 25th Reunion headquarters site, the committee has decided on the Sheraton National Motor Hotel, 900 Orme St., Arlington. For those who remember (or can't forget) the Washington scene, it is within a short distance of the Navy Annex and Henderson Hall. Plans are going forward for a full program of activities at the Sheraton that complement those taking place at USNA/Annapolis. Tentative plans include a Friday afternoon welcoming "get-together" . . . as well as an eariy Sunday aftemoon "farewell." To insure our timely and safe arrival at either end of the line, the committee assures us of rapid, efficient and frequent shuttle transportation between the Sheraton and USNA. Class News A belated congratulations goes to Pete Wells and Dottie Hamilton Wells, his bride. The marriage took place on the 26th of May. Jaunce Sweet stood up for Pete while Fitz Woodrow, Walt Schumann, and Denny West provided moral support. The couple honeymooned in the Caribbean on a cruise ship . . . can't ever keep sailors away from the sea! We all wish them the best of luck in the future.

Martha and Hal (Bendix Corp.) Wood report the graduation of their first daughter. Sherry, from Hollins College. She not only graduated Phi Beta Kappa, but is continuing her studies in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

John Furgerson. '53, was kind enough to send the following information from an Episcopal Church news release: "The new dean of Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

the Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, will be the Rev. John Rodgers. Dr. Rodgers is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. After serving for one year in the Marines he resigned to study for holy orders at Virginia Theological Seminary and obtained his S.T.D. in 1963 from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Before going to Trinity in 1976, he had been professor of systematic theology at Virginia Theological Seminary since 1963. In 1975-76 he was chaplain and associate dean of students at Virginia."

Frank Steele, the Class's only wandering, free-lance writer sends the following: "Since it's about twenty years elapsed time since my last letter to Shipmate, thought 1 might be due again. After five years divided between Germany and England, 1 retired in 1975. 1 had spent 1966-67 in Saigon with Seventh Fleet Det " C " . then got a PG master"s at Wisconsin (Journalism).

"After retirement I went back to dear old Deutschland and spent eight months studying German at various locations. Passed up the Heidelberg dueling scar and have spent the past two years traveling and breaking in as a free-lance journalist.

"I took the trans-Siberian train from east to west in 1976 and looked up Ron Kurth, who was naval attache in Moscow. Ron has a Ph.D. in intemational relations from Harvard and has mastered Russian. He and his great family were perfect hosts and a welcome sight.

"Last year I was concentrating on Africa.

South Africa, Rhodesia and Kenya. If anyone is looking for a beautiful spot to use some GI Bill, think about Capetown.

"So far this year, my major trip has been to the South Pacific with the Guadalcanal Campaign Veterans. This was a February/March Odyssey, including Tahiti, Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Solomons.

"I encountered no Classmates at Guadalcanal, but enroute down I stopped in L.A. and visited long time "no see" roommate Bob (R.W.) Rogers. Bob left the Air Force some time ago and is the sole proprietor of the Intercontinental Visa Service, at the World Trade Center in L.A. We got together with Marilyn and Pete Koonce. Pete is a stockbroker and they live in La Canada. We called Deke Jones in San Diego, but he couldn't come out and play.

"On my way back, though, we got a group together consisting of Bob and me, Pete and Marilyn, and the really long-lost Bill Glover.

After leaving the Air Force. Bill spent some time tramping the world, and now, working as a Sales Engineer, lives aboard a sailing boat with Ann, which they run to Catalina every week end. The Glovers talk very seriously of a lengthy tour around the worid by sea in the not too distant future. " '54 has a couple of Ph.D.'s in the academic world in California. Terry Ridgeway (Tootsie Rocket) is a math prof and Doral Sandlin holds forth in aeronautical engineering, but don't ask me to name the schools.

"1 talked with John Michaels last year in San Francisco. He is still with Pacific Gas and Electric. And I can't close without guaranteeing that a Classmate who is still in Washington gets mentioned in Shipmate, so . . . Ernie Lietzan!"

I hope we don't have to wait another twenty years for your next letter, Frank!

Mike Stoffel left the Strategic Systems Project Office and the Washington area at the end

of September. He has gone to Norfolk as the C O . of the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering Center.

For the last three years Mike has not only written the '54 column, but has, since we went to an informal arrangement, hosted the monthly class luncheons in the area. Both of these responsibilities required a considerable amount of time, effort and dedication. Mike did a great job and we all owe him our most sincere thanks! Good luck on your next tour . . . we'll miss you here in Washington!

Quickies Art Taylor retired in May and has joined Ted Gerst and Paul Happersett at Automation Industries, Inc. (VITRO) . . . The class Labor Day Picnic at Cheltenham was cancelled due to "lack of people"" . . . Father/Son-Daughter Day at the Academy was a great success . . .

Pete Roder, Seventh Fleet Staff, completed a two-month goodwill cruise in WESTPAC . . .

COME ON Y"ALL, WRITE COPIOUSLY . . . OR CALL!

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: 48 Homecoming was a great success this year, but Dahlgren Hall is no longer adequate to the purpose. Do you realize we have arrived at the point where more have graduated since we did than before we did? For the Ffiday night festivities 29 of us turned out with drags. Out-oftowners included Burt Munger from Eglin AFB, Gary Snyder from Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and Bill Lavalee from Pax River.

The Pat Taylors, Ted Parkers, and Fred Schoenbergers

And here we have Duke Durgin, Spud Flowers and Pat Taylor, as well as Stan Kuplinski, RAdm. Harry Schroder, Todd Meloy and Lena Kuplinski On Saturday night after a good win, Carol and Eddie Taylor hosted a class party for roughly 55 of us, plus drags. Somehow Carol maintained her sanity, but avoided Bill Sympson's camera.

While in Oriando for a seminar in midNovember I literally stumbled into Jim Cowart who I hadn"t seen since graduation. He has retired in the area and is with Telcom Systems, Inc. Of course I encountered Bruce Newell on the plane enroute there; Bmce seems to travel more than I do.

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And Eddie Turner with Todd Meloy Jack Renard, CO, USS RALEIGH (LPD-1) sends: "Just retumed from a real 'join the Navy and see the world' cmise. Following a month at sea landing marines, RALEIGH visited Bergen, Kiel, Copenhagen, Goteborg, Edinburgh and Amsterdam! Donna toured London for five days and then joined me in the last two ports. Almost had Phil Monahan aboard for the cruise as the embarked Marine battalion had been previously commanded by Melons until just before we sailed. Saw Bill Ball shortly upon return. He commands a Marine regiment at Camp Lejeune.

"I also want to report that my son did not destroy any cars while I was gone—first-year men at UVA are not allowed cars.

"On the 14th of November I had the honor of being present in Annapolis when the first annual RAdm J. C Renard boxing award was presented to the 4th Battalion for winning the intramural boxing competition. The award was established in memory of my father who had boxed intercollegiately as a midshipman.

"Talked with Charley Plumly and preparations for the 25th (UGH) Homecoming are going smoothly. I think I'll try to get a Norfolk luncheon program started. We may have up to 30 Classmates hiding in Tidewater—which by the way, from what I've enjoyed so far, doesn't make me miss Washington at all.

"Watched Navy destroy Army at Margo and Pete Blair's annual A/N game party. Joan and Dick Morgan drove south from LaPlata, Maryland, with Dick's home-stomped wine for the event. Others at the party who survived with minor bruises from Blair's genfle crush were: Milly and Don Aven; Gwen and Frank Farino; Betty and Tony Hastoglis; Karen and Pat Taylor; Dottie and Bernie White. Additional congratulations are due Margo for getting a two-page layout (88-89) into the December '78 issue of Better Homes and Gardens."

The December luncheon, coordinated by Bernie White, was a smash success with a turnout of 42. We enjoyed the presence of one of our AF brethren. Chuck Senn, a person we see too rarely at our class functions. Otto Zipf reported on the successful train trip to the Army-Navy Game with the Tom Benningtons and Denny SuUivans; they were met at the game by the Bob McDaniels. Paul Sutherland, Les Guille and Daryl Foley. All took a break from their prospective COs course for major shore commands to attend; all were in a daze over the intricacies of the civil service system they were trying to master.

I found out that Bill Smith had departed to become COMSUBRON 14, and Fred Tolleson had taken over as comptroller at Camp LeJeune. Al Dawson was a delighted attendee, having just returned from Iran. He didn't know

the status of Johnnie Richards and John Wildman who are there as civilians.

Red McDonnell took over as the first commander of the new Naval Oceanography Command in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He has field commands in Rota, Spain; Pearl Harbor; Norfolk, and Monterey. I think Dave MacKenzie is one of his COs for the Fleet Numerical Weather Center at Monterey.

I discovered from the Naval Institute Proceedings that Bill Manthorpe had retired this past Summer. Bill authored a book review for the November issue.

Jack Renard wasn't the only one enjoying a European cruise this Fall. Tom Emery, as COS CARRGRP TWO, was playing NATO in the Med in exercise "Display Determination."

Other early Christmas cards revealed that Betty and Gorden Bedford have settled in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Gordy is business manager for the Seven Hills Schools. You'll recall that Gordy retired out of Hong Kong to the Fiji Islands and then to Jax before finding his American dream in the Midwest. The Navy still has Cas Sojka on a string. This Summer Cas left Washington for Newport, Rhode Island, where he will be OIC of the NAVDAF there.

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 for Operations U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 54 Homecoming '78 was another great success.

The Friday night dinner in the Wardroom was attended by 16 Classmates and Nancy Henry representing Bill who was away on business.

Present were Flood, Wooten, Cannon, Loveday, Perry, Pete Peterson, Fellowes, Tarbuck, Levandowski, Stone, Shultz, Schmidt, Poppy Miller, Sacarob, Shanley and Blanchard.

There were many others who gathered for the tailgate party before and after the football game. Saturday night we did our annual dinner dance at Andrews. Jack Fellowes, ably assisted

by Ted Shultz, Gerry Fulk and Jim Johnson, organized the whole affair and it was super.

Well done, and thanks men. In attendance were: Armstrong, Audilet, Blanchard, Brockway, Don Brown, Buckley, Cannon, Carlson, Connolly, Craven, Cronin, Daus, Dunsavage, Fellowes, Fitzwilliam, Flatley, Flannery.

Flood, Fulk, Gillman, Bill Green, Gerry Green, Godstrey, Don Hanson, Mort Hanson, Hayman, Husted, Kinney, Kirkpatrick, LaMotte, Levandowski, McGarry, Alex Morris, Nicholson, Perry, Pete Peterson, Powell, Roper. Sackett, Schatz, Schoessel, Shigley.

Short, Shultz, Simpson, Smallman, Smiley, P.J. Smith, Jim Smith, Frank Smith, Steriing, Stone, Van Metre, Walsh, and Lyle.

As most of you know. Rog Lyle has run Homecoming for years, but this year could not because he is living in Korea. However, leave it to Rog to figure out a way to show up, which is exactly what he and Muriel did—all the way from Seoul. For that neat trick, we gave him an aerial photograph of the Naval Academy.

Also, to the best of my knowledge, this was the first Homecoming for Don Flood and Reb Wooten. Don came in from California and Reb

from Chariottesville, Virginia. It was also great to see Jim Gillman, who is a lawyer living in Chicago, after many years. The whole week end was great and I hope more of you, will plan to attend the 1979 Homecoming which will be held eariy—21-22 September with the Navy-U of Conn football game featured.

Jack Clay has returned from duty in Norway and is now attending Naval War College in Newport.

I have received official notification that "Choo" Levis' status has been changed from MIA to KIA. His wife Louann is living at 3912 Van Deman, Ft. Worth TX 76116.

1 received a nice note from Becky Lloyd Burkhalter that I'd like to share with the Class, "After reading this new issue of Shipmate, I thought the Class might enjoy some information about David Lloyd and his family. In addition to the chair donated by the Class of '56, there is an award given to the Submarine School called the David Lloyd Award for Excellence. It is a clock presented to the officer of each Class who shows the qualities admired most by and in David. There is also a marker in the Naval Academy Cemetery.

"David's fine children are growing. His son David is in his second year at St. John's College in Annapolis. Elizabeth (18) is a freshman at Mary Washington and dragging a mid! The others are still home!

"Both Al and I enjoy hearing from and about the Class of '56!"

Roy Collins hosted a gang of '56ers at his folks' home in Tallahassee after the Florida State game. Hopefully, 1 can get the names for the next issue.

Jim "Boom" Cannon retired on I September 1978 and is working for George G. Sharp, Inc. in Norfolk. Also retired recenfly are Al Henry, Con Stevenson, and Ted Fischer.

Jim Thomas reports from San Diego that Hal Lewis is really enjoying command of CHICAGO and that Dick Tarbuck is slated for command of HORNE.

Larry White, our class treasurer has written, "After seven years in one location Earlene and 1 had conveniently forgotten the trauma of moving—it's amazing how much junk a family of packrats can accumulate in that length of time—2500 lbs. overweight. The house we're building is still far from complete, and at the present time looks like a used furniture warehouse. With luck we'll get the windows in before the first snow.

"A brief biographical note—our oldest son.

Trey, is attending a marine engineering school in Baltimore and departs on cruise in November. David, our next oldest, is a freshman at VPI in an animal science program.

Daniel is a senior and Stephen a sophomore in high school—both active in marching band.

Brian is in the third grade and just active. We currently reside on 430± acres of mountain land in western Virginia and since retiring in January 1977 have been engaged in designing and building our home. Anyone interested in hunting or back-packing or just plain socializing is invited to get in touch—the martini flag is always 'two-blocked.' or is it 'closed-up.'

Our address and phone number are: Laurence A. and Eariene S. White, Jr., Route 2, Box 284, Covington VA 24426; 703/862-1300."

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57 Pres., LCol. Fritz Warren, USMC Sec'y, Mr. Frank Barnes 5223 Crinnel St., Fairfax VA 22030 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Frederic N. Howe, Jr. USN 10245 Brigade Drive Fairfax VA 22030 Percent members: 48 The Word My cup runneth over . . . this month, gang, we have some word.

polar expedition, we could ever wear? Newport, guys, Newport.

58 Pres., Capt. John Poindexter, USN Sec'y, LCol. Wm. D. Bauer USMC 726 Hunter Ct. S.W., Vienna VA 22180 Corr. Sec'y. Cdr. Frank Caldwell USN 10823 Colton Street, Fairfax VA 22030 Tel.: Hm. 703/591-6728; Of. 202/697-1965 Percent Members: 49 Well we had a big, successful reunion including Francis Hasagawa and his wife, who traveled all the way from Hawaii for Homecoming and to see their son, Ralph, who is a second classman. But time caught up with all the rest of the news, so just wait and see what we will have next time. In the meanwhile, don't forget the big St. Valentine's party— names will be taken—and don't be afraid to yield a little when the fund-raising news gets to you. It's a good cause!

JUNE WEEK WEST 1978

The hot PI from this annual event was kindly sent along to us by Bill Kronzer, together with a complete rundown on all the participants. Of the several pictures Bill sent, the ones with the girls, as luck would have it, turned out best.

Sitting around the table, left to right, are Mary and Pete Petro and Shirley and Floyd Stuart.

Sitting around Lynda Kronzer is Dick Chenault, leering on, Bruce Friederich.

The very next day there came a report from Howie Heiden, who is now operating under the alias of " C Howard" (you'll never get away with it, Howie). Seems that he and Red Leonard have been holding the fort at Hattiesburg for the last two-and-a-half years, both as faculty members at the University of Southern Mississippi. Rex has his Ph.D. from Northem Colorado and Howie is in the throes of finishing his at Ole Miss. According to his latest muster list, Howie says, he and Rex and "maybe one other" are the only '57ers in the state. (Our records show that ole Jim Woods is holed up over in Waynesboro, Howie.) Anyway, if you're traveling the Mississippi Gulf Coast and are within hollerin' distance of Hattiesburg you have a standing invitation (it says here) to holler up the guys at Southern. The big attraction is Rex's memorabilia—papered overhead. That Third Batt group always was a loose outfit.

From up on the Narragansett comes word that Grif Herring, Lee Hyatt, and George PhiUpps are all tucked in for the Winter at the Naval War College. You guys remember those blue sweaters we were issued Plebe Summer which we always wondered where, short of a Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

Correction Ken Felix writes that was not his mother-inlaw but his mother who sat behind us last year at the football game. Sorry, Mom. It was not intentional. Please don't let that prevent you from bringing more eats for us at these functions. Ken also writes that was not his wife but his mistress who was with him. (They said it couldn't be done, Ken, but you've won the award. She was a beauty, whoever she was. and the best football game backwarmer I could ever hope to get. Bring her again.)

Charlie and Paul Brooks learned they have a common bond. They met recently at the Dunbarton College of Holy Cross Reunion (College now defunct), the institute of higher leaming that their wives attended and learned that both gals are named Peg. Good name, Guys!

59 Pres., Cdr. William G. Clautice USN Sec'y, Cdr. Toby Warson USN 1400 S. Joyce St., Apt. B1502 Ariington VA 22202 Percent Members: 47 Having come out of the "no class participation" closet where I have been residing for the past 19 years, I now eagerly anticipate being inundated with mail from far and near. Take up your pens, pencils and/or crayons and drop me a line as to what you're up to. Remember, as we get closer to the 20th reunion you would do well to get your story told via this column so you can spend more time at homecoming taking care of more important matters.

Homecoming 1978 After making several orbits of the entire stadium parking lot and building up an almost unquenchable thirst in the process, the '59 tailgate party was finally located. Marilyn and Van Nield did an admirable job in making this function a total success. After the post-game tailgate party the group sloshed along to Mary and Patty Fords' for a "quiet" social evening of hymn singing, scripture quoting, and other

tranquil activities. A photograph of this pastoral group was planned but by the time the photographer arrived at the party, not even our most militant Marine, Joe Flynn, could organize the troops for a group picture. A good time was had by all thanks to the patience of our hosts and the assistance they received from Delores and Tom Lukish and Arlene and Ed Gibbons who assisted in the preparations for the prayer meeting.

Homecoming 1979 Next year is it! The big Twentieth! Preparations for this occasion have been entrusted to co-chairmen Ralph Christy and Frank Donovan. The final, final reorganization of the various committees is in progress and they should be funcfioning at peak efficiency by the time you read this. Firm arrangements with the Hilton Hotel in beautiful downtown Historical Annapolis have been made for the class banquet. Additionally, since the Hilton is only two blocks from the Field House, we will use this spot as our headquarters for the week end. A total of 60 rooms have been reserved here at an approximate cost of $50 (double) per night.

These rooms will go to the first 60 firm (cash) reservations received by the homecoming committee. There are blocks of rooms reserved at other hotels in the Annapolis area so that everyone who reserves in advance will end up with a bed. The reservation packages will be sent out shortly. A word of advice—the way we get our addresses is from the Alumni Association. If you know of one of our Classmates who is not presently a member, encourage him to join now so that he too will be kept up to speed on our plans.

Twentieth Anniversary Lucky Bag There is still time for those of you who have either misplaced or didn't receive the form sent out to get included in this effort. What is desired is the following: your name; wife's name; children (name and date of birth); mailing address; current or last military status, i.e., rank, position, service; current career area/position; higher education (subsequent to USNA) including institution, principal field, degree and year; career history/assignments; notable achievements/awards/commendations; any additional comments; two photographs—one of you alone and one of your wife and children. If you will forward the information and photos to me I will make sure you get included.

'59 at USNA Rod Tomlinson. who now cams his daily bread giving pop quizzes to midshipmen, sends along the following: "The largest contingent ever (I think) of '59ers now lurks here at USNA. Enclosed is a snapshot of Dan Branch (2nd Battalion Officer), John Butterfield (director, Division of USIS), Patty Ford (assistant to Academic Dean), Dan Tmax (associate chairman. Physics Department), Capt. Frank Donovan (deputy Commandant), and myself, an associate professor in the Political Science Department (which is under John).

88 "The occasion was the first of what we hope to be once-a-month luncheons to discuss class plans, and organize our efforts to support the 20th. Not too many years ago I was oftentimes the only '59er, but it looks like we are now infiltrating the influential posts. There just isn't anywhere one can't call now to discuss an errant student. As we get more established we should make good listening posts—I promise to take copious notes at the next meeting. The tidbits abound—for example. Bob Reifsnyder's son is here now, and apparently Bob is applying the pressure to ensure that his son does not follow in his academic footprints.

"Briefly, as to myself, I came here in 1972 after 9 years in surface warfare, 2 years in industry and 3 years in graduate school; much of it a coincidence finding and landing the job, but totally pleasurable. Have been active in sailing—the Luders Yawls particularly, and have been most impressed with the renaissance of Navy sailing under the late Capt. Alex Grosvenor '50 and now Capt. Ned Shuman '54."

From Panama the following news from Pete Crumpacker: "On 18 March 1978 the fantastic Sara Jane Snyder of Chappaqua, New York, and I were married. Sara teaches school in the Panama Canal Company school system. The ceremony, written by us, was attended by our immediate families. We invited friends to a reception in Panama City at the home of friends whose terrace overlooks the Pacific, the Bay and the city skyline.

"Sara and I will be retuming to Washington in July following change of command at U. S. Naval Communications Station, Balboa, where Buz Hoever (USNA '59) takes over the reins from me.

"Life begins at 40. Rise and shine with '59."

Lost and Found The Alumni Association needs addresses for the following: Harry Korrell, George Brainer, Wilton Clements, Dick Martin (R.L.), Leroy Bickley, and John Tumer. If any of you know a good address for any of the above, please forward to me and I'll make sure the Alumni Association gets it. However, the easiest way to give the Alumni Association your current address is to send them $12 for annual membership dues.

Remember the Class luncheons the second Tuesday of every month at Fort McNair.

There are several Classmates in the Washington area who have not shown up. We miss your smiling faces. For those of you outside the D.C. area, why not schedule your business trips to this fair city to coincide with one of the luncheon dates? Let us know you're coming!

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: 53 Class Fund Drive The Class Fund Drive is off to a good start with $325 contributed to date. Mary and Ed Viqje get the Promptness Award for being the

ENTERPRISE. Brenda and Dave send a warm invitation to anyone (Classmates) in or passing through the Islands to stop in and say hello.

On Friday, October 20, the Northern California Chapter of the Class of '60 (perhaps the only active, barely, class chapter) held a dinner meeting at the Velvet Turtle in Sunnyvale, California. In attendance were Alice Affourtit, Pat and Ray Burkley, Hope and Glenn Coleman, Dr. Denny Davidson, Margarete and Dan Roth, Barb and Bob Smith, Harriett and Pat Sullivan, Karen and Denny Vied and Fay, and Jim McConnell (did you notice that Dan Affourtit was missing—we did too.

So I asked Dan what was more important, the Alumni or the airiines? He said eating!) Denny Class News Vied got the bright idea while we were organizMary Lou Vinje wrote to let us know that ing the meeting to fly up to Lake Tahoe and they are still enjoying the cold winters in bring the McConnells down. So they would not Nashua, New Hampshire. Wayne is working at have time to think up an excuse, Denny called The Analytic Sciences Corp. in Reading, Mas- them 2 days before the dinner. Jim said it was sachusetts, when he is not traveling around the a pleasant flight in Denny's Cessna 172; Fay country. Mary Lou said Wayne promised to did not say anything until after her third double write, if the arthritis doesn't get to him first. Margarita so she must have really enjoyed the They are planning to make the '80 (20th re- flight. Jim is in the real-estate brokerage busiunion) Homecoming, and are interested in or- ness (past two years) and his recall by Pan ganizing the New England brigade for the trek American looks pretty eminent. Fay and Jim to Annapolis. If you live in New England and have lived in Incline Village for the past five plan to attend, let Ed and Mary Lou know. years, and send an open invitation to any Marilyn Jerding dropped a note with her Classmate in the Tahoe area. (Reasonable rate check to let us know the real scoop on Fred after the second night.) Pat Sullivan moved (can't mention it in this column). Other than from the University of Cal/Santa Cruz Chanthat, Fred is busy in the shipyard at Newport cellor position to SRI where he is a Sr. ManNews trying to overhaul the USS ULYSSES S. agement Consultant. They decided not to move GRANT. Mariene Gavlak sent a note with her so Pat has a lot of wind-up and wind-down check to let us know that Mike is staying out of time driving from Santa Craz to Palo Alto and trouble in Okinawa (or so he tells her) and is back every day. Pat recently received his pridue back around December lOth. After a vate pilot's license. Since Harriett likes to play change of command ceremony in January they the slots in Nevada, Pat is now flying her there will be heading for Washington, (DC) for a tour so she can lose her money faster. Pat and of duty (but more important, so they will be Glenn Coleman are still in the same reserve sure to make the 20th reunion). unit and before Jack Newman left the area (in a It is a good thing that Classmates come in hurry one night) the Class had 20% of the repairs, because if the ladies did not make their serve billets. Speaking of Jack, he is currenfly contributions (the news kind) we would proba- the owner-operator of the Island Boatworks in bly never hear from half of the people that we Kathlamet, Oregon. Dan Roth is still with IBM do hear from in this column. Thank you, in Palo Alto when he is not commuting to Atladies, and that is a personal invitation for all lanta, Georgia. Denny Davison is a cardiologist the wives to pick up a pen and tell us what at Stanford Medical School, both teaching and your macho (or not so macho) man has been doing research in exercise and rehabilitation of up to these past years. Miriam and Ron Over- patients after a heart attack. He did an strom are living in Las Vegas, Nevada, and around-the-world trip this Summer to visit and Ron says that he will buy a round at the 20th if to present medical papers in India and Japan. he hits the big jackpot at the casino. Brenda Denny lives in the foothills west of Palo Alto and Cdr. Dave Kalb wrote from Hawaii where (la Honda), has another 2-3 years at Stanford, they are well and enjoying the sunshine (ha! and will probably stay in the Bay area. Bob ha!). They left El Ferral, Spain, in July, 1977, Smith is still playing the role of gentleman pilot after Dave was relieved by Classmate Cdr. Bob during the week and Navy pilot on week ends.

Walters. They toured the U. S. A. and then Barb wants to know what this 'gentleman' stuff took a slow boat to Hawaii where Dave be- is, and the CNO wants to know why the Navy came asst. repair officer for surface ships at pilots are not gentlemen. (Let's see you talk Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. They have seen your way out of that one, Bob.) Bob is also in a number of Classmates during the past the insurance business in his "spare time." year—Buzz SoUberger CO USS SKATE is in the Glenn Coleman is surviving as a wild and crazy yard for an overhaul (the SKATE not Buzz). guy in the wilds of Silicon Valley as the local Cdr. Hank Rinnert showed up as resident civil marketing manager for GE Space Division in engineer for a tour of duty. Cdr. Hugh Crow moved to Hawaii this Summer after completing Sunnyvale. Glenn tells us that Cdr. Jim his tour in Korea, and according to Dave is McKinney recently assumed command of the "on the waterfront." You better write and ex- USS TULARE and is living on Yerba Buena Isplain that remark Hugh. Dave also saw Cdr. land. Bob Smith saw Jonnie and Cdr. Dick Ron Koontz at the O'Club; Ron is the Asst Ch Shawkey back in Washington, recenfly. Dick is of Staff for Comm in COMSUBPAC Cdr. Tom on the Joint Chief of Staff Policy Making McDonough completed his tour as NAV- Group (there's trouble) and Jonnie is doing reSEACENPAC eariier this year and headed medial counseling (practicing on Dick at night). back toward San Diego, but we are not sure They are living in Oakton, Virginia.

Keep the letters and class fund drive contriwhere, Tom is now. Where are you, Tom? He also talked briefly to Cdr. Paul Ilg, XO of USS butions coming!

first to get their donafion in to the kitty. The other early birds include Edwin and Donna Besch; CDR Fred and Marilyn Jerding; Ron and Miriam Overstrom; Cdr. Mike and Marlene Gavlak; Cdr. David and Brenda Kalb; Denny and Karen Vied; Glenn and Hope Coleman; Dan and Margarete Roth; Pat and Harriett Sullivan; Jim and Fay McConnell; Bob and Barbara Smith; and Ray and Pat Burkley. Keep the contributions coming so we can replenish the class treasury. As soon as you finish reading this column, put down Shipmate and send a check along with a note on what you have been up to recenfly (keep it clean) to me, and then finish reading Shipmate.

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Pres., Cdr. Norm Pigeon USN Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Duane Duff USN 6410 Glenbard Rd.. Burke VA 22015 Percent Members: 49

Pres., LCdr. John Hewitt USN Sec'y, Cdr. Howard Pinskey SC USNR-R 2200 Somerville Rd. Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 51

This is going to be a fairiy long column as it follows Homecoming with its gathering of the clan. The annual business meeting held in Sampson Hall was attended by Pigeon, Lubbs, Mackey, Duff, Gerson, Stevens, Hofford, McNicholas, Miller, Hoag, Dugan, Welch, St. Laurent, George, and Jerry Smith. The treasurer reported that we currently have $2,256.66 in our account thanks to the generous contributions from 161 of you. The executive vice president reported on our two social events last year which were both very successful. We plan to repeat the Valentine's Day lunch with our one and onlys, so all Washington/ Annapolis area guys and anyone planning on being in town, mark your calendar. All current officers were re-elected and Rich DeRose was elected to fill the vacant member-at-large slot.

One very important item of discussion centered around our specific objectives and goals.

Norm would like very much to hear from anyone who may have some good ideas. We discussed the idea of hats and buttons. The buttons Bill Mackey had, but we were not able to get any of the hats we wanted. Look for some more news on this subject in later columns.

The executive board met on 15 November and basically followed up on the annual meeting. One new item was the establishment of a semi-annual mailing which we will start next Summer about Labor Day. It will take that long for me to get everyone's address squared away. I would like to ask everyone to ensure I have your current address. Also, anytime you see a Classmate, ask if he is an Alumni Association member and do I have his current address. This is an all-hands effort if we want to make it work.

If any of you think you are a part of the over-the-hill gang, I'd like to point out that Rusty Lamade won the 40-49 age group and 22nd overall in the Third Annual Marine Corps Marathon Run in Washington on 5 November.

There were 5988 entries. Way to go, Rusty.

Along with their contributions came some nice notes from Sandy (Mrs. Ken) Craig, Ted Fenno (in Mayport as CO of SAMPSON), Bill Hartman, Frank Morrow, Tom Hodges, and Tom Hinton.

A couple of news releases of interest: from Middle South Services, Inc. comes word that Dr. D. Clark Gibbs has been named director of nuclear activities. Congratulations, Clark. The Home Town New Center notes that Richard Holly, CO of BRADLEY; Bob Sherer, reactor officer in ENTERPRISE and Ron McKeown, CO VF-I, are all deployed to WESTPAC. Finally from Norm Pigeon: "I'd like to mention the Co-Chairmen for the USNA Alumni Association Fund Campaign in '79, as these volunteer's will be canvassing the Class for help. Additionally, the Class intends on using the fund letter mailing to include '61 news—so don't deep-six the letter before opening! My co-chairmen for the fund will be John Forsythe, Joe Allegretti, George Youmans, Jack Pappas, Hank Ochel, Dick Kievit, Rich Drummond, Jack McQuade, and George Glavis.""

Get it done with "61.

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

Congratulations are in order to the following members of the Class of 1962 who have been elected to class office as indicated: president—Wayne Hickam; vice president— Walt Welham; secretary—Howard Pinskey; treasurer—Roger Kisiel.

Board of Directors: Two-year term—Mike Abercrombie and Fred Badger. One-year term—Myron Fleming, Dave Hutchinson and Dave Jones.

The president's message of Wayne Hickam will make interesting reading for everyone: Thank you. Classmates, for electing me president in our first election since graduation. It is with great pride and honor that I accept this responsibility of taking the helm and steering our Class for the next three years. We are a powerful and dynamic Class which has been witnessed by most of us during the last sixteen years and especially the last five years. We have commanding officers in every major class of naval combatant—surface, submarine and air—except carriers and we are soon to have the executive officer of one of those, the CVN-65. We have Marine, Air Force and Army commanding officers. We have naval reserve officers commanding their units. In the civilian and government communities we have presidents, vice presidents comptrollers, project managers and other high officials responsible for their own companies or the companies and organizations by which they are employed.

We may take these achievements lighfly because we are those people or closely associated with those Classmates, but compare us to any other alumni organization class of 1000 people and we have excelled. It is this talent which makes the Class of '62 rich in the efforts which we can apply to the needs of our Alma Mater. Each and every one of us has something which we can offer that will meet the goals of the Class of '62 and the needs of the Naval Academy.

The Directors held the first board meeting Saturday morning, 28 October, and began charting the path which we collectively will present to you for additional suggestions, recommendations and approval. Our first goal is open communications on all matters of concern to any member. The most vital element to any organization is the voice of the Classmates and the actions we take to support that voice whether we are in our home or a member of the Board of Directors. You have charged us, the nine directors of which four are class officers, to act in your behalf. Let us hear your voice and when asked to assist or direct support the request with your actions. Shipmate was chosen as the official line of communications for ten issues a year and direct mailing to all Classmates for elecfions, reunions, fund raising and homecomings as they occur.

The Class was incorporated on 16 June 1976 as The United States Naval Academy Class of 1962 Association Inc. with Kenneth B. MacKenzie as our registered agent under Washington, D . C , law and local address. The Articles of Incorporation and certificate and agent were reconfirmed by the Board. We have an IRS Employer Identification Number as of 1 March 1978. We have the Associations Bylaws dated

1 November 1977 and amended June 1978 to allow five directors vice three in addition to class officers. The 1978 election will be the only time that we have directors serving a one-year term. Henceforth or until such time that the Bylaws are amended there will be an annual election for two-year term directors with three directors being elected in the oddnumbered years and two directors being elected in the even-numbered years with no director or officer succeeding himself except the secretary. The president and vice president serve three year terms and the Secretary and Treasurer serve four year terms. The nominating committee for the 1979 election will be appointed in January 1979 at our second Board meeting. Anyone desiring to serve, please contact me. Anyone desiring to be a candidate for director, contact any of the present directors or officers. Anyone desiring a copy of the Bylaws, please contact Howard Pinskey.

We have made a financial audit of the Treasurer's records and found them to be in good order. We have established our fiscal year to be I July to 30 June with the annual IRS filing to follow the close of our fiscal year. With these accomplished, an application for recognition of exemption and our IRS return were prepared by the treasurer. They have been filed with the Baltimore IRS office as of 13 November 1978. A 1977 Return was filed by the Board of Directors Pro Tempore. The Treasurer's report has been summarized and appears later in this column.

In order that the Association remain an organization with the recognition of exempflon status with the IRS, there must be worthy goals which our current financial assets and any future fund-raising assets may support.

The Association like most alumni associations is classified as a charitable and educational organization, which means that the assets can not be organized or operated for the direct benefit of its members which are controlled, direcfly or indirectly, by the membership. The assets must be permanenfly directed to an exempt purpose such as the promoting of the welfare of the Academy: the funds are subject to the control of the Academy and may be disbursed only as an integral part of the welfare of the Academy. We cannot use class funds for our 20th reunion (which benefits the membership directly), but neither do we have to release our assets to the Academy carte blanche.

The Academy's Memorials and Gifts Advisory Board receives many Academy needs and requirements which would promote the welfare of the Academy as well as advise individuals or class organizations such as ours as to the value of our proposed projects and methods of fund raising and administration.

Since the Board meeting I have meet with Capt. W.S. Busik, the Alumni Association's Execuflve Director, and his staff and discussed both the Academy's needs and our current projects and proposed goals. Many of you have voiced your desires and concems and Capt.

Busik assures me that we are no different than any other Class that has proposals and ideas they want protected. We are the youngest Class to support one of the 19 wardrooms in the Brigade, thanks to Jim Gaul who was a Company Officer at the conception of the wardrooms. It is well equipped and was refurbished in April of this year by a self-help plan which the 15th Company midshipmen initiated, presented to the 1962 directors, received approval, and carried out. They have a re-

90 frigerator, color TV, coffee maker, popcorn popper, paneling, drapes, carpeting, four stuffed sofas and eight stuffed chairs. The walls are covered with ships, and squadrons, plaques representing units commanded by Classmates. If you are a CO and haven't donated to the '62 history file, please send them a plaque. It has not always been in top shape, but was one of the top three as of this past Summer when '78 graduated. The funds donated by '62 this last Spring were $250.00.

A living memorial of some type has been proposed, something that grows, gives life and is a tribute to some ideal not yet determined.

Another suggestion is a scholarship fund for widows and dependents of deceased Classmates. Another was an unnamed fund to support a general area whereby assets would be accummulated in a '62 account with the USNA Alumni Association; the goals are accepted as tax-exempt and yet the defined procurement is to be determined. Another suggestion is to sponsor a lecture series for the midshipmen with worthy topics and speakers which would promote the intellectual welfare of the Academy participators. For example the Class of '39 collected $39 per member to be applied in 1978 on their 39th Reunion. They started collecting the funds 5 or 6 years ago and it earned interest. Finally, last year the Engineering Department said they wanted an atomic clock. The '39 committee approved the project, the USNA Alumni Association approved the project, the '39 fund, which had been administered by the USNA Alumni Association, was collected from each member and so the clock was procured and installed.

Again I request that your voice be heard.

The Class needs your desires and concerns.

What would you recommend for a short-term and a long-term project? What high and low dollar value limit would you put on each of the two projects? What is the time frame for each of the two projects? Send your thoughts to Howie who will collect them and we will publish them for class consideration. Our tentative goal is to have a list of projects with detailed information available for mailing with the 1979 election ballot which you could then prioritize and retum with your ballot.

For my last subject I want to address the 20th Reunion/Retirement Party. There was a lot of talk this year during homecoming which started last year at the 15th Reunion. Do we want to take over the entire Annapolis Hilton, wearing hats, buttons, T-shirts, corsages at the Retirement Ball, buses to and from all events, total week-end package of events on which each Classmate could check off what he wanted and pay according to his choice: game tickets, Friday night Mess Hall Banquet, CNO speech, Sunday Chapel, golf toumament, on the Homecoming week end or an off week end but a football game? Talk to '58. They had 534 people who really enjoyed a carefree week end and took a yearbook home. It was all funded before they arrived and reservations were made 3 years, 2 years and one year ahead, depending on the event. It will take a lot of work by a lot of people. What do you suggest and for what activity do you volunteer?

GOOD DECISIONS ARE BASED ON GOOD INPUT!

On June 7, 1962, the US Naval Academy permanently turned over the Class Fund of USNA '62 to the Treasurer of the Class of 1962. The June 7 balance was $2,568.73. Prior to that time the USNA had complete authority over the account. On May 13, 1963, the USNA closed out the Class of 1962 account with the Academy and deposited an additional $3,605.48 bringing the balance as of that date to $6,206.69. This included interest of $44.88 and one $12.40 withdrawal for the corresponding secretary's materials.

From May 1963 to present date the only income to the Class of 1962 was interest income from banks or savings and loans. Homecoming expenditures have generally offset monies advanced by Classmates for the festivities. Significant expenditures since 1963 include $1,680.00 for our sponsorship of the 15th Company Wardroom (since 1967); approximately $1,021.00 for mailing, printings, and stamps; and $698.00 for flowers for deceased Classmates and some expenses to honor our four POW Classmates at the 1973 Homecoming. All income and expenditures have been documented since 1962 and were presented to the Board of Directors and approved on October 28, 1978.

As of Homecoming 1978 the Class of 1962 balance consisted of $6,156.16 in savings and CD accounts and $1,117.34 in a working checking account. At present Wayne Hickam, Howard Pinskey and Roger Kisiel are authorized to sign checks on behalf of Class of 1962 expenditures.

Paul Galanti and Roger Ramsey have been nominated by the Alumni Association Trastee Board to be candidates for the Board of Directors for a three-year term. Paul is running for his second term and will be stationed at USNA starting the summer of 1979. Roger has been assigned the responsibility of Chairman of June Week West for all Classes to be held in San Diego in 1979. It is a worthy honor for both of these Classmates to be nominated so we must promote them with Alumni from other Classes in order that they both may be voted in. '62 is pushing for you, Paul and Roger.

Also on the national level Joe VVehner is the secretary of the Cleveland, Ohio chapter. Well done, Joe. Do we have Classmates in office in any other USNA alumni organizations? Let me know.

Congratulations are in order for FY79 Line commander selections to Bill Brennan and Dean Hekel. Bill is XO of the Little Rock Recruiting District and Dean is on COMSUBPAC Staff in Peari.

The '78 Homecoming was a big success, but I did not see many flashbulbs popping so I don't know how many pictures I'll get. If you can spare them send them. Black and white glossy prints are the best. How about pictures from the Friday night Banquet/Dance or during the game? I'll take any pictures you want to send, but please identify those in the picture.

This year we thought we had the club to ourselves until Chewbacca and Dorth Zadder came in from a nearby party. There was food left over. We had five bottles of wine for door prizes which were awarded to: Phyllis and Paul Galanti for the newest child—their second boy in three years; Grace DiMotta for mothering seven children (Emil didn't count in this one, Grace got the bottle); Amy Hafner for coming the farthest—San Diego (Bert Huchberger came from Germany but didn't stay late when the prizes were awarded); to the 4th Company for the most Classmates present and to Dave

Tremaine as SOPA—Senior Officer Present Ashore—lieutenant colonel. Medical Corps, USA, 1974. A big round of applause for Nancy and Lex Fleming and Jennifer and Tom Quinn for handling the reservaflons, reception desk, prizes and award ceremonies. We had 134 present this and we need a chairperson for 1979—any volunteers or suggestions?

The Classmates in the DC area had a luncheon on 12 December at the Fort Myer O'Club. There are usually 40-50 Classmates at these quarterly luncheons and they bring back the old stories and "who is that fellow talking to Tom." Everyone is welcome, so if you can boondoggle a trip to DC on the week of 12 February we plan to have a Sweetheart Luncheon—day of the week unknown but the better half will be joining us for the first time.

The next one will be sometime in late May. Our Class owes a big debt of gratitude to Joe WTtite for the transfer and production of our '62 Roster database since July. Joe has stored over 4000 cards of data into a modern computer system which has CRT display units for easy data correction and roster generation. His next goal is to reformat the data into a disk record format which will allow address label printing and Roster printing. Well done, Joe, and thanks for the Rosters at Homecoming.

The Alumni Association now has their own time-sharing CRT Terminal computer system and it is working beautifully. Because of this transfer from leased ADP services to hands-on terminals, the 'iJS^A Alumni Register for 1979 had a correction input cutoff date of August '78 and was printed December '78. Consequently our class roster changes based on your feedback on Homecoming/Election data sheets was not entered in the Alumni database before the cutoff date. Usually the input cutoff date has been December with printing in February. The Alumni Association would like to update their files and would like all Alumni to notify Alumni House of several pieces of data: date of separation from active duty, rank, service; any advanced degrees, date of degrees, field of study and school where degree was earned; any change in permanent home of record.

Many of us still have the address of our parents at graduation time in the file which no longer has any meaning.

My thanks to all who contributed to this arflcle, and there is even a lot left over for next month! If you have the chance, please send this along to someone you know in our Class who does not belong to the Alumni Association. They should join after reading about all of our activities.

Your thoughts for our MIAs and their families are appreciated at the start of this New Year.

63 Pres., Cdr. P. S. Marsden USN Sec'y, Cdr. F. R. Whalen USN 8080 Powderbrook Lane Springfield VA 22153 Percent Members: 50 Mike Shelley ended his last Shipmate column lamenting that he'd "miss being Class Secretary . . . hate to see it end, etc. etc." However, his emotions written could not be correlated with the extremely large toothy grin he subsequently laid on me last week while laboring up my front steps carrying ten tons of secretarial drop-the-sack '63 files. I know those of Shipmate, January-February 1979

91 us who have followed Mike's journalisfic achievements on behalf of the Class over the past few years join me in wishing him, and his faithful helpmate-wife Lou a big "BRAVO ZULU" on a job well done.

Mike left off with Homecoming '78 just around the corner. Well, to those who couldn't make it back for the 15th, you really missed a grand event! At last count, approximately 160 Classmates were in attendance and, including wives and other lovelies, the crowd swelled to some 275. Festivities kicked off with the typical Friday night Homecoming disaster in Dahlgren Hall and the Mess Hall wherein "63 lived up to its coveted reputation by conducting naval shore bombardment of our ex-firsties in "60 with a fusillade of spare rolls, olives, celery, etc. The Navy football team came through on Saturday with an unmerciful pounding of Pitt, keeping spirits in high gear for the rest of the week end. Culminating Homecoming "78 was a spectacular dinner dance at the Sheraton Lanham to round out the merrymaking. Kudos are certainly in order for those who handled the organization of our class activities; specifically, Dick Jones as OinC, Bruce Webb for transportation and tours, Paul Roundy for the dinner dance, newly elected president Phil Marsden for the tent party, Mike Shelley for the reception committee and last, but by no means least, Sue and Ben Cole, who covered the waterfront in engineering reunion activities.

Outgoing president Charlie Minter introduced the new class officers and foundation members—Phil Marsden, president, Tony Womble as VP, Mike Smith as treasurer, Dick Jones and Meredith Musick as new foundation members and yours truly as Sec'y. Earlier on Saturday at the class business meeting, VAdm. and Mrs. Minter and RAdm. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick were elected honorary members of the Class in recognition of their devoted support and guidance shown us during our "formative" years in the Yard.

Future columns will hopefully carry some pics from the week end including documentation of the return to the shells of the '63 crew which, although a bit further down in the water, actually got waterbome without serious casualty. One final note on Homecoming— some 30 spiffy cloth sunvisor caps in Navy blue with " 6 3 " in front are left over and available for purchase. The price of $4 includes postage, so send your order to Jim Ring. 2443 P Street NW, Washington DC. 20007.

Dipping into the ol' mailbag, here's some incoming from '63's 'Salty Sam'—Mike Owen.

"Surprise! I'm sorry I've lost contact with the class activities these past three years, but I've been in Saudi Arabia and have just recenfly resigned my position to form a new company and to work with the Middle East independently.

"Since graduation from the University of Missouri Law School after transferring from u s e after my first year, I worked as house counsel for Cessna Aircraft in Wichita for two years (1973-75) and then accepted a position as an attomey with the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) in Dhahren, Saudi Arabia, in ARAMCO's Contracting Department. I remained with them until June of this year when I resigned. My corporation deals with business/legal problems and investments in the Middle East. I have offices in Zurich and in Damman, Saudi Arabia, and will be opening a U. S. office I November in Kansas City.

"I recently purchased a home in K.C. and Shipmate. January-Febmary 1979

will be moving in shortly. I am still a bachelor but that situation will 'probably' change soon.

I extend a warm invitaflon to any members of the Class who are/will be in the Midwest to come and visit. The door is always open. My address after 15 November will be 20702 Cricket Lane, Shawnee Mission KS 66220, phone 816/471-6850."

So much for now, mates. Here's hoping that the 'dark ages' aren't getfing you and yours down. Please keep the cards, letters and snapshots coming to continue making this space your column.

Quality—'63

64 Pres., LCdr. Thomas J. Swartz, USNR Sec'y, LCdr. James Baumstark, USN 10420 Collingham Dr. Fairfax VA 22032 Corr. Sec'y, Jerold F. (Jerry) Anderson 5173 Dungannon Rd. Fairfax VA 22030 703/278-8277 Percent Members: 48 Before hearing from our correspondents this month, let me give a brief report on Homecoming activifies which, unfortunately for me (who had to play Naval Air Reservist that week end), is coming to you second hand. Joe Stewart, now in the math department at USNA, had a lot to do with the success of the whole affair, and it is from him that I received this report. Somewhere between thirty and forty couples were present to see the BIG win over Pitt. Bob Rinker and Tom Kelley were responsible for the tailgate party set-up and Diane and Bob Cepek helped Strom Evans host the post-game party at Strom's parents' lovely home in Severna Park. Many thanks to all of you for your efforts. The possibility of a more formal reunion to celebrate 15 years of freedom will be discussed at the November Washington area class luncheon to see if we have the manpower and volunteers to stage such an event. Stay tuned for further news. By the way. for those of you outside of the Washington area, the proof that Navy football is back can be found in the pages of the sports section of The Washington Post. Relegated to the back pages these past several years, there have been stories almost daily about the now famous Mids. The win over Pitt was the lead story on page one, and wonder of wonders, the Post covered the Pitt and Notre Dame games with not one but two writers. Of course, as I write this, there are still three games to go and I have no crystal ball but I feel a big win over Army!

This month's column may claim the record for the most far-flung correspondent. Judd Osten's wonderful wife, Betsy, sent a newsy letter from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Judd is senior corporate counsel with the Fluor Corporation.

Presently he is serving as the Middle East corporate attorney and also as secretary of Fluor Arabia Limited, a subsidiary of the parent corporaflon. The Ostens arrived in Saudi Arabia in mid-September after two years in London.

There they lived in Surrey with their two children, Charlie 13 and Susie 5. Charlie stayed behind in England to attend school and Mom says he's quite excited about his new life. The Ostens moved into the Juffali Compound which is in Al Khobar (for you Saudi experts]).

Betsy mentioned that she has found a few re-

strictions on her normal way of life—for example women are not allowed to drive and there are no checking accounts, but from the tone of the letter I think she is up to the challenge and is looking forward to the new experiences life will bring. Judd is quite happy as an attorney, and besides losing a little hair and a "few silver threads among the gold," he is still pretty much the same and still full of Blue and Gold. The Ostens have lost touch with Charlie Moore and Mike Kenslow and would love to hear from both (so would /!) as well as all their friends. The address: J. F. Osten, c/o Fluor Arabia LTD., P. O. Box 360, Dhahran Airport, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Ph. 57132, home phone at Khobar, 43438 ext. 212. Thanks for your letter, Betsy, and best wishes on this new adventure.

Marty Block signed in with his "almost annual" contribution. After six years as a line officer on cruisers and destroyers, Marty left active duty in 1970 and joined Ingersoll Rand as a sales engineer. The Blocks were transferred to Houston in 1973 where Marty eventually went into business as a manufacturer's representative. He and Marsha have two daughters, six and three, who both appeared a year or so ago in Shipmate. The Blocks now claim to be fullfledged Texans and would enjoy hearing from any Classmates visiting Houston.

"Stop the War! We Need a picture for Shipmate'."

Marty enclosed .a photo of Rocky Wirsching (left), himself (center) and Pete Molloy (right) during a recent active duty call-up at Twenty-Nine Palms, California. Rocky was the senior umpire of the live artillery exercise and in real life is an independent businessman in Marathon, Florida. Pete had command of an 8" battery. As a civilian he is Dr. Peter M. Molloy complete with pipe and moustache, and director of the Western Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs. Bill Tinsley was also at the exercise but missed the picture.

Marilyn and Tom Swartz sent their annual San Francisco Christmas card, which as always is a work of art. Tom reports they've just bought a new home in the Twin Peaks area of the city with plenty of room for Classmates visiting the area. As usual also Tom has visited with about half the Class since last writing. It would be criminal for me to parapharase the Swartz-isms, so with the blessing of the editor I give you Tom's 1978-79 capsule comments verbatim. "Jim Ounsworth is now playing fullback for a Philadelphia law firm and was in San Francisco on a case recenfly. Dick Robbins was in town when his LST was visiting. Dick is the XO of SCHENECTADY and lives with his

wife. Shiriey, in San Diego (SCHENECTADY'S home port). Connie and John Gorman moved

92 to Texas as John is sfill trying to take over IBM by himself. Their son and daughter are both into athletics and John Jr. is slated to be the next Staubach.

"Connie and Joe Bodecker had dinner with us at the famous San Francisco Cliff House recenfly. Joe is a market analysis expert with Ray Chem. (Fm not sure what that means, but it sounds great!) They live near San Jose. Brian (Collins) Baumruk is still working on becoming a famous Hollywood star. He has appeared as a cop in a new 'Emergency" series. He is still in many commercials and mns in all the long distance races to keep his modeling body from becoming like mine.

"Bill Spriggs is living in Tiburon as is the new dentist, Tom Stick. Tom plans to open up a practice in San Francisco and wants our teeth! Susan and John Alich seem to be settled in MenIo Park with their beautiful daughters.

John is staying in shape by jogging every day.

"I am staying in shape by hearing about Alich and Baumruk working out. My sophfrosh football team was undefeated. Then we played our first game, so now Til have to brag about my undefeated basketball team which starts in December."

Thanks for the note, Tom. One last note. While at NAS Brunswick, Maine, the day of Homecoming I did visit with John Evans over a cup or two of coffee (since I was flying nothing stronger allowed!) and John brought me up to date on Branswick affairs.

John is presently training officer of VP-44 which has the newest version of the P-3C. Needless to say, he's busy training. Having screened for VP command, John expects to report to another Brunswick squadron (VP-11) in the near future as executive officer. Other Classmates at Branswick are Paul Fletcher (VP-IO), Glen Ritchey (VP-26), Joe Gerard (VP-23) and Lou Newby (staff Com PATWING FIVE).

May all of you have a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

I received two news releases, one on Ken Classmates killed in Vietnam War or accidents Castelano, XO of the USS BRADLEY, an FF on active duty, an accurate class directory by local area, an alumni membership drive, an in- homeported out of San Diego and which recently deployed to WESTPAC. The other convestment portfolio acfively managed, legal aid service by class attorney, monthly luncheons cerned Paul Block who is now attending the Naval War College in Newport. Some (not too in San Diego and Norfolk areas as well as recent) orders I noticed dealt with George Hurthose ongoing in the D. C area, an employment locator service for those leaving active ley going from NAVAIRSYSCOM to HELANTISUBRON SIX, Fred Prickett transduty, and others. Many of these will be spearheaded by the Washington Chapter, and ferred from USS MCCANDLESS to the Defense Communicadons Agency in DC and Paul Thorthe class officers will be working closely with them. Anyone volunteering services or sug- sen transferred from USS MOUNT HOOD to USS CONQUEST. gesfions on these projects or others can write me, Wyman who is XO of DOWNES (FF-1070) Last but by no means least, congratulations in San Diego or Pete Gness at Woods Edge to all the '65ers on the last commander's list. A Drive, Davidsonville MD 21035. (certainly not all-inclusive) list follows: John Bloomer, Doyle Buchers, Anson Burlingame, Denny Neutze wrote a newsy letter, detailing Mike Coyle, Phil Elder, Ed Fickenscher, Fred what he knew of the '65ers in the legal arena.

Denny, who has been married for six years Glaeser, Mike Goodwin, Jack Hawver, Forest Horton, Les Jacobi, Bruce Kenton, Ed Krisnow, and his wife Sunny had their first baby on 22 July 1978. It was a little girl named Dana tensen, Ed Linz, Mike McGaraghan, Skip Moyer, Bill Newlon, Pete O'Connor, Chip Michelle. He's recently finished a tour at BUPERS and is now working his L.L.M. in in- Seymour, Jim Stark, Charlie Stephen, and Ken Viafore. To you and to others that I missed, temaflonal law at GWU. Upon completion well done . . . Keep the cards and letters comnext Summer, he expects orders to OP-61. ing.

He's run into Pete CJness who also attends GWU part time while working for HEW. Denny also reports seeing Cary Van Hoaren who's up to his eyeballs in weapons procurement at NAVSEA having completed a tour at the PG school in Monterey and Ed Burrow, a major, USMC, who recenfly reported to the Navy Council of Personnel Boards. Denny also Pres., LCdr. Scoft Redd USN passed on the following news: Mike Griffin is East Coast Corres.: in the JAG Corps and has orders to NAVSTA, LCdr. Thomas I. Eubanks USN Keflavik, Iceland; Phil Barr is a JAG Officer at 4528 McGregor Drive COMTACWINGSLANT, Oceana and Chuck Virginia Beach VA 23462 Reidel is with Naval Legal Services Office, West Coast Corres.: Mr. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. Subic.

P.O. Box 1011 La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 41

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Pres., LCdr. H. Wyman Howard USN Sec'y LCdr. Dave Anderson USN USS FRESNO (LST-II82) FPO San Francisco CA 96601 Percent Members: 45 Trast ya'll had a great Holiday season. Have lots to report this month. First, I received a letter from Don Flanagan, who reported on the election of new officers for the Class of '65 Washington (D.C.) Alumni Chapter. Pete Gness was elected president, John Bishop, vicepresident, and Pete Peterson, secretarytreasurer. Well done to outgoing President Don Flanagan and I'm sure the D.C. alumni chapter will stay alive and well under the new administration. For those of you in the D.C. area, class luncheons occur various Tuesdays of the month at the Sheraton Naflonal Motor Hotel on Washington Boulevard. Don also enclosed a roster of the Alumni in the D. C Chapter.

Fifty-eight Classmates are acfive in it. Anyone else assigned to or living in the area can probably get a copy of the roster by calling Don at 202/293-1523 or Pete Gness at 202/245-7024.

Got a letter and have also spoken to our Class President, Wyman Howard. He has a number of class projects in mind, a few examples being: a formal class dinner in the San Diego area, a scholarship fund for children of

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At Pax River A letter was also in the mail bag from Don Hallwachs who enclosed this picture. From left to right we see Don, Lloyd Abbot, Fred Calkins and Herb Williams. All were recently on active duty for VP-4549 at Patuxent River, Maryland.

Don, living in Vienna, Virginia, is now a senior systems engineer for Sperry SECOR Simulation Systems and with his wife Deanna, has a boy and a girl, ages 12 and 8 respectively.

Lloyd is assistant project manager for cost and schedule control on the F/A-18 HORNET program at NAVAIRSYSCOM and with his wife and litfle girl Debbie make their home in Annapolis. Frank, his wife Chris and his two (by now, probably three) sons live in Gaithersburg, Maryland where Frank is employed as an aerospace engineer at NAVAIR in ASW systems.

Herbie, his wife Betty and their infant son (bom 30 May 1978) live in Lorton, Virginia, and Herbie's working for NAVAIRSYSCOM as general engineer in charge of all S-3A maintenance trainers. Don also reported running into Denny Wedikind and Dick Harris who are stationed in the Patuxent area in VP-68.

Homecoming, Pitt, and a beautiful week end combined to produce a large turnout of Classmates and assorted wives, mistresses, and girlfriends. The tailgate party met our usual high standards due largely to the efforts of Ace Sarich and R. B. Adams. The post-game party at the Bavarian Room of the North Severn Naval Station was equally enjoyable and the capstone of a perfect week end. Our thanks to all of those who helped with the arrangements.

The most harassed Classmate at homecoming had to be Ed Coffm, who runs the Mid store. He was last seen amongst the ruins left by the hordes of Alumni buying souvenirs.

Carol and Jim Glendinning were over from Bowie. Jim is still with Frito-Lay, and they relocated recently from northern New Jersey to the Washington area. Barbara and Dave Schnibbe were down from New Jersey for their first Homecoming, thoroughly enjoying the week end. Also in from New Jersey were Barbara and Jim Maniscalco. Jim is working in research with Exxon.

Bob Johnson flew in from the coast and will relate his own impressions of the week end, but his escort is worthy of at least one note.

Bob, of course, remains one of our most eligible bachelors. His date, who turned a few heads, turned out to his June Week drag of 12 years ago, and who he hadn't seen since.

Candy and Bill Spadafora drove down from Indiana, Pennsylvania, where Bill now runs an Olds/Cadillac dealership. New at USNA is Jack Jewel, now filling a company officer slot.

The accompanying photos are compliments of Ace Sarich, and are but a sampling of what you missed if you weren't there.

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

93 The Washington Chapter held a Fiscal Year's Eve party at Carl McCullough's. In attendance were 18 Classmates and wives including Catharine and Steve Wieczorek, Joan and Fred Moosally, Peggy and Mike Kelly, Ann and Otis Cole, Bill Schwarz, Linda and Ken Moore, Annette and Jack Jewel, Jeannie and Jim Lopacinski, Jim Long, Sandra and Russ Hale, Jeannie and Jim Grutzius, Phil Norton, Kathy and Jay Prout. Irene and Bill Gaffney, Barbara and Dee Fawkes, Kay and Bob Temme, and Steve Rohrkemper. Mike Kelly was assigned to take photos, but forgot his camera.

Jim Sullivan found himself dealing with Gary Kamp recently while negotiating some shipyard repair work for SURFLANT. Gary left the service in "74 and is now in the Sales and Estimating Division of the Sunship Building Company in Chester, Pennsylvania. Also sighted recently in an airline terminal was Bob Brice. who works for American Greetings Corporation and lives in Washington. North Carolina.

Bob Emery is moving up the Coast from Monterey to San Francisco where he'll be XO on WABASH ( A O R - 5 ) . Bobbi and Al Konetzni

are finally getting some shore duty in Washington, where Al will be working in BUPERS (now known as the Naval Military Personnel Command).

Keep the news coming! See you next month.

Homecoming People Russ Hale appeared at the Armed Forces Staff College as a guest speaker for the second successive class, directing his remarks to "The Role of Congressional Committees and Staffs in Reviewing the Defense Budget." He was well received by the students, and has received a standing invitation from the school to return and address succeeding classes. From his position as national security analyst for the House of Representatives Budget Committee, Russ provides insights into the Congressional process, particularly as it applies to the military, that are unavailable from other than an insider.

While on the subject of the Staff College, it looks as if our class input to the AFSC January class will be Jim Hough and Pat Sheedy. Jim is coming to Norfolk from Commander Amphibious Group One staff in San Diego, and Pat is already in town, completing a tour as com-

67 Pres., LCdr. David A. Materna USN Secy, LCdr. Jay Williams USN Economics Dept., USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 44

It is my sad duty to report to the Class that LCdr. Barton Sheldon Creed USN has been declared Killed in Action, as of 2 October 1978. Bart had been missing since 13 March 1971, when, as an A-7E pilot with VA-113 aboard RANGER, he was shot down over southern Laos. He ejected from his aircraft but sustained multiple injuries in the process. Although in radio contact with friendly forces, severe ground fire prevented a successful rescue. The Class extends its deepest sympathy to Bart's family. munications officer in MT. WHITNEY ( L C C - 2 0 ) .

To the best of my knowledge, Bart was the Congratulations to Hank Strickland and Bob only Classmate who was missing in action in Temme, both of whom "graduated with dis- Southeast Asia.

Dick Farver reports from the Med that he tinction" from the College of Naval Command loves the life at sea and that it even beats weland Staff in Newport this past June.

Word reaches me that Ray Bald is now work- fare. The rude awakening experienced by aviing at the Pax River Naval Aviation Logistics ators when they have their first ship's comCenter as a civilian. John Jackson joined pany tour! Ahhh!! Dick is assistant air boss in Booze-Allen Management Consultants in June, Iwo JiMA, following recruiting duty in Buffalo and bought a new home in Springfield, Vir- and flying H-53s for HM-12 in Norfolk before ginia, in the process. Otis Cole is leaving active that. He and Jean are still working on their duty in February to take a job with Maxwell sizeable spread in Pennsylvania, with babbling Laboratories in San Diego as a program man- brooks, slash pines and lots of cattle. Dick, ager. Otis has been with the Defense Nuclear every time I close my eyes and think of you on Agency in Alexandria since April 1977. Ann the farm, I see American Gothic. The Farvers and he are looking forward to occupying their have two childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Alison (4) and Jeff (2). home in Coronado for the first time on a perServing with Dick is Sid Skjei, who is the manent basis. Jim Long has left the Nuclear first lieutenant. Buddy Walker was chief Regulatory Commission to join West Coast engineer until June, and is now at Norfolk based TERA. and is now managing the installa- Naval Shipyard. Dave Baker is a Marine heio tion of an information retrieval system for pilot with HMM-261 aboard Iwo JIMA, has NRC Bruce Lechner is also with TERA. three children and lives in New River.

I previously reported John Kieffer with a Mike Chapman is reported teaching astrology at the University of Wyoming, and living Marine amphib unit in the Med. He is an A-6 pilot on TAD to the unit as air liaison officer, in the proverbial cabin in the woods.

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

and is also aboard Iwo JIMA. Thanks for the letter, Dick.

1 received a note from Jon Holzapfel. bringing the Class up to date on a few folks in the Virginia Beach area. I'm gonna cheat and quote: "A phone call from Sally and John (the Grape) Grouse saying they were planning on a visit to the area became the catalyst for a '67 get-together in August. John and Sally live in Cincinnati where he has left the 'Ho Ho' tasting business and works for Proctor and Gamble. Unfortunately, we were unable to determine exactly what his job is but he is enjoying it nonetheless. Also flying in was Reb Hester.

Reb is a co-partner in 'Drilling Associates' and lives in Atlanta, although he spends a considerable amount of time on the road. Reb and Debbie are the proud parents of a new baby boy. Jeb Stuart Hester.

"Kathy and Bill Cross have returned to the Beach after a rigorous tour at the Naval War College. Bill is currently going through the F-14 RAG at Oceana.

"Despite two consecutive sea duties, Jacke and Dante Marzetta continue their efforts to ruin zero-population growth. Their latest, twin boys, were born last year bringing the kiddo total to five. Dante just finished a tour as the flag lieutenant with COMCARGRU EIGHT and is currently playing golf as the Armed Forces Staff College until about January when he heads for Hawaii and VP-4.

"Kathy and John Burch also hosted the parties, etc. John is currenfly the COMNAVAIRLANT LSO and has orders to VF-142. Incidentally, John was a runner-up for the Tailhooker of the year awarded at Las Vegas recenfly. He also teamed with VAdm. Kinnear to win the doubles championship tailhooker tennis tournament.

"Joe Burns is aboard NIMITZ, along with Bernie Kozuch heading up the T S C Joe and Linnea celebrated the arrival of a new baby girl to go along with the previous three boys.

"And Sandi and I were not going to be outdone as we welcomed our fourth (and last) boy born 4 April 1978."

Jon sent a picture taken at the get-together, but somebody had their clothes off and Shipmate wouldn't print it. He also reported that Rick Brydges is ops officer for VA-12 aboard EISENHOWER. Good letter, Jon. See you in Jax. Twenty-eight Classmates attended the Washington area luncheon held on 1 November. Lin Wells sent an update on their whereabouts.

Mike Martin, Chris Ott, and Jack Wood are at BuPers. Charlie Armentrout is with the recruiting command. Bud Barnes is at NARDAC, Pat Beamer is at NAVSUP, and Bob Earl is at CIA as assistant national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia. Don Geismar and Steve Woodall are at CNA, and Pat Hanson is TAD to NAVELEX from Monterey. Ted Lewis is in enlisted plans at HQMC, Sid Mohsberg is aide to OP-04, and Lin Wells is at OSD. John Guibert, John Hannon, Phil Polk and Jack Roe are all out of the Navy, working for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Roger Bakkila is a business development manager, and Jim Christensen is president of a health systems consulting firm. Julio Giannotti has his own naval architecture business in Annapolis, and Rusty Guy works with the Strategic Systems Project Office. John Millen is an Episcopalian minister at St. John's in McLean, Virginia, and Adrian Gordon is a lawyer in the office of the Coast Guard's chief counsel. Marcio Gurdian is director of operations for Associated Military Sales and his wife July is pur-

94 suing her M.D. Al Nilsen works for the Service Bureau Company, providing analytical support for various congressional organizations. Al Toppelberg is a lawyer in D. C , and Dave Rost is chief of contract operations for the Health Resources Administration.

The next get-together for Classmates in the D. C area will be held the evening of Saturday, 20 January, in the Koran Room at the Ft. Myer Officers' Club. Wives and dates are welcome. Drinks at 1830, supper at 1930. Alternative menus are available, so get your reservation to Lin Wells before 17 January. His numbers are 703/960-2508 or 202/697-0584.

Homecoming was certainly a memorable one this year. Beautiful weather, a fantastic football game, and a pretty good turnout of Classmates for beer and sea stories before, during and after. I passed a sheet around for folks to sign with current jobs, wives, kids, boats, etc., and to my chagrin, I cannot find the thing. It was so covered with beer stains, footprints, graffifi and, believe it or not, somebody's bacon quiche, that it might have ended up in the dumpster. I'm sfill looking however.

The Fleet Hometown News Center sends word that Greg Marshall recently completed the aviation safety course at Monterey. Robin Larson and Vince Corry are attending the War College. Robin was previously flag lieutenant for Commander, Iceland Defense Force in Keflavik. Curt Dose is in VF-2, and is deployed to Westpac, as is Tom Scheber, who is ops officer for VA-147 in CONSTELLATION. According to Tom's PAO, he is protecdng U. S. cifizens, shipping and interests in the Western Pacific, deterring aggression against our Western Pacific allies, promoting peace and stability in the Western Pacific area, and creating good will for the United States. Funny, that's exactly what I did on my four deployments to Bermuda.

Tom and Joe Perley, (9); Erin and Brian O'Connor, (5) (months, that is) Finally, a letter from Jim Perley reports that he is alive and well, living in Southern California. He works with Security Pacific Bank in downtown LA, responsible for all local corporate banking business. Jim and Penny had twin boys (I mean Penny had them) on Pearl Harbor Day, 1977. Tom and Joe are pictured with Brian and Erin O'Connor (on the right). Tom O'Connor is flying for Flying Tiger. He and wife Robin, Tommy (8), Chrisfie (5), and the twins (born in April 1977) are living in Encinitas. Jim claims that Thirty-Three is the only company with two sets of twin boys in the Class of '00. I do note that he qualified that as twin boys.

John Filose is in a marketing position in Tacoma following a tour with Carnation in Los Angeles. He and his wife Sue have three chil- ^ dren, Katy (9), Angela (3) and Luke (I). Don Lemaster is in ufility management in Woodenville, Washington, after leaving Bechtel in '77.

Thanx for the letter and picture, Jim. You all might be interested to know that of 1291 young men of steel admitted to USNA on 26 June 1963, 783 were commissioned in the Navy, and 320 are still on acfive duty. Have a nice Winter.

68 President, Don Hay Sec'y and Treas., LCdr. Chris Glutting USN Dept. of Leadership and Law, USNA Annapolis MD 21402 or West Coast news to: Lt. Don Hill JAGC USN 13320 Lingre Avenue Poway CA 92064 Percent Members: 30 My predecessor. Bill Stevens, is leaving USNA bound for the Naval Air Training Command and contrary to ramors he's not going back as a student but to be an instructor in VT-22 in Texas. Bill has done a great job here, both with this column and with the Class Treasurer's job. He even managed to leave us solvent after the 10th (no mean task!). I hope I can successfully follow his act (in both departments). Thanks, Bill, and best of luck in Texas.

Well the 10th is now history, and it was a great one! In the course of the week end we had about 265 Classmates here (that's a 10th reunion record by the way). When wives and sweethearts were added we had over 500 for dinner on Saturday night. The entire week end seemed to go well, from the Friday night bash in Dahlgren to the windup Saturday night/ Sunday morning, and much of the credit for that goes to the following Classmates: Terry Glover who was the overall coordinator; Ted Nayden who handled the dinner; Tom Berns who handled the flowers and favors; Ron Berning who handled the tailgate party; Ed Fischer who handled transportation; Larry Givens in public works who coordinated a lot of help; George Breeden, Bob Evans, Dave Steere, John Harty, and Jack Rose who all helped a great deal, and last but not least, Don Hay and Randy Bogle who started the ball rolling last Winter. To all of them and any I may have missed—much thanks from all of us for a job Well Done. The total cost of the 10th reunion was $11,284.25, slighfly above the approximately $10,000 that was anticipated; however, the Class is sfill in the black and none of us went to jail. Now for the 15th. . . .!

For the next few months I'll be running "Notes from the 10th." It will be an update on most of the folks who attended. And away we go . . . Bob Arneson and wife Gail were here.

Bob is now out, working for Bendix and living in the Balfimore area. Joyce and Bob Bowden were here, Bob is another '68 lawyer who is now interested in the FBI (stand by, Elliot Ness). The Bowdens live in Glen Burnie, Maryland. Mike GruUi is an instmctor in an F-14 RAG at Mirimar and so he and Robyn journeyed all the way from San Diego! Bob Hoggins and wife Missy came up from Decatur, Georgia, where Bob is in banking. Beth and Tom Mewhinney joined us from Houston, Texas, where they now live. Barb and Bill Moore came up from Jacksonville where Bill flies A-7s. Mark Treanor is another '68 lawyer and with his wife Sue he came over from Cockeysville, Maryland. Gingie and Terry Glover live in Sevema Park, Maryland. Terry is supposedly teaching here at USNA, but actually his main job for the past six months has been the 10th reunion! Up from Virginia Beach came Garland and Jay Johnson: Jay flies F-14s out of Oceana. Also up from Virginia Beach were Angle and Ray Wallace. Ray is chief engineer in SOUTH CAROLINA. Sue

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Germani came down from New Jersey where Tom now sells nuclear insurance. Kitty and Phil Bassi journeyed up from Norfolk where they are trying to recover from a three-year hardship tour . . . in London'. Sue and Jack Rose are here in Annapolis where Jack is finishing up his tour in teaching and being officer rep for the 150s. Jack is headed for War College next. Stacey and Chip Foulsham came down from New Britain, Connecticut, where Chip is now practicing medicine. Janet and John Sinclair came on from Bradforwoods, Pennsylvania, where John is in the home insulation business. Peggy and Shelby Guilbert came up from Shreveport, Louisiana, where Shell works for an oil company. Louise and Bill Sweatt live here in Annapolis where Bill honchos the YP program. Eileen and Dan Moser came up from Charleston where Dan is aboard a DLG. Up from Norfolk came Sylvia and Chris Slebos. Martha and Mike Lagow also came up from Norfolk where Mike is flying.

Barb and Don Hill came on from San Diego where Don is a JAG type—mmor has it they may be headed for Guam, the land of Hurricanes! Patti and John Harty live here in Annapolis and John is teaching over in English.

Lynne and Rick Bayer came down from Huntington, Pennsylvania, where Rick owns the F. B. Bayer Co. Joyce and Chuck Bambenek came from Minnesota where he works for the Ford Motor Company. Up from Pax River came Amy and Dave Beard; Dave is flying Harriers for the Corps. Sue and Jim Bogert came from Dam Neck where Jim is an instmctor at the guided missile school. Mike Carron travelled down from Williamsburg, Penn., where he is finishing his Ph.D. at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. Cindy and Jim Cookinham came down from the Pittsburgh area where Jim is working for Westinghouse as a site manager for a new nuclear power plant.

Ruth and Pete Diefendorf dropped down from East Hampton, New York, where Pete owns his own real estate firm. Denise and Keener Earle came all the way from Pasco, Washington, where Keener is working for the Public Power Corp. Joe Lee Frank has just come from sea duty on the West Coast and reported to OP-03 in D. C in October. Phil Gallery just completed some reserve time as OINC of the clean up project on Enewetok and he's presenfly hanging around various parts of the country. (Having visited Enewetok, I'm sure he was not sorry to leave!)

Karen and Steve Matheson came down from Hartford, Connecticut, where he is a personnel manager for a major corporation. Closer to home, Mary Louise and Ted Naydan live here in Annapolis and when not arranging dinners for 500-1- people Ted can be found teaching Thermo. (He says it's easier to teach than to take it!) Diana and Vinney Rice came down from New York where Vinney is finishing up law school. Eric Washam checked in from D. C where he is aide over in the NAVMAT COM House. Eric is expecting orders soon but doesn't know where to yet. Priscilla and Larry Givens live here in Annapolis also. Larry is a line to CEC transfer and holds the "godfather" billet here in public works. Larry's come up with a great energy conservation program—he just doesn't turn on any heat! It's great: to get some heat in the classrooms you have to have the Mids do 5 minutes of PT before each class!

But Larry promises heat by Christmas . . . maybe. Sandy and Ron Lennon joined us from Dearborn, Michigan, where Ron is working for the Ford Motor Company. Louise and Eric Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

95 Morgenson came all the way from Omaha, Nebraska, where Eric managed to break loose from the JCS flying command post. Mary and Tom Sulich drove up from Alexandria, Virginia. Tom is stationed at Marine Corps Headquarters. Henri and Mark Splain came up from Springfield where Mark, now civilian line, is working his way thru an MBA. Cathy and John Kennedy came up from Burke, Virginia, where they are settled after a recent transfer. Marsha and Jack Cosgrove came all the way up from San Antonio, Texas, where Jack is enjoying himself in the ranks of the airline pilots. Tom Berns lives here in Annapolis where he is enjoying an execuflve assistant billet in Systems Engineering. Bob Evans also resides here in Crabtown and teaching in the Weapons Dept. Dee Dee and Mike Gaul came on from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

Pat and Jack Hogan. Jan and John Knapp, Linda and Dan Lear and Barbara and Fred Muniz all came up from Norfolk together. Jack is at Armed Forces Staff College and Fred is DCA on a CV out of Norfolk, John and Dan's line of work in unreported but presumed to be legal. Ally son and Bruce Needham drove over from Gambrills; Bruce is working at NOAA in Washington. Randy and John Mayer, who just got married, joined us from Derwood, Maryland. Barbara and Ron Berning live here in Annapolis where Ron has been holding down the fort at the Naval Station; he expects orders to sea duty next summer and he'll be missed, especially at tailgate parties!

Marsha and Rock Gmeiner came up from PAX River where Rock has completed test pilot school and is now flying P-3s there.

Suzanne and Mike McHugh came up from Norfolk where he just completed a tour commissioning USS Los ANGELES; he is now assigned to LANTFLT NPEB out of Norfolk. Shiriey and John Lapicola joined us from Russellville, Arkansas, where they have settled after leaving the Navy. Anita and Tom Oliver came on from Arkansas also. Tom is working for Combusfion Engineering out there. Hank White flew down from New York where he is practicing Admiralty Law (collisions and groundings his specialtyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hopefully no Classmates will require his services!). Hank is sfill single and it's ramored he's the most eligible bachelor in New York City!

Ralph Gemelli wrote from Guam to regret missing the Homecoming but to bring the good news that he will be reporting to Bethesda soon. He will be assigned to the psychiatry staff. He says any Classmates in the area will "be greeted with a big hello." Hopefully, he means socially not professionally! Ralph graduated from Comell Medical School in 1972 and interned and received speciality training at Bethesda and Georgetown before moving on to Guam. Welcome back, Ralph!

Bob Munsey wrote from YoKo where he is stafioned aboard MIDWAY. He is on an 18month unaccompanied tour. He says his wife (Lt. Rosemary Munsey) just finished a tour in VR-I in Norfolk and is now assigned to NAS Norfolk. Rosemary is one of only four designated female maintenance officers (1520) in the Navy! Congratulations, Rosemary! Bob says they have bought a home in Virginia Beach and he's looking forward to a Norfolk tour next.

Well, Folks, that's all for now. Please keep those cards and letters coming. Hopefully we'll have some pictures of the 10th reunion for the next issue. Write soon and always . . . Keep Coolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Salty Sam. Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

69 Pres., Mr. William H. Newton, III Sec'y, Mr. Marshall E. Rachmiel Corr. Sec'y, LCdr. Thomas W. McQueen SC USN Room 4107, Bancroft Hall, USNA AnnapoHs, MD 21412 Percent Members: 35 Happy New Year, Gang, and for all you guys on active duty, congratulafions on the new half-stripe.

Homecoming was a very enjoyable event. A number of Classmates were present to join in the festivities. The Big Blue Team was in top form, and beat Pitt in a great display of team football. I'm going to deviate from my normal lack of style this month and give you the statistical data on all our Classmates who gave me some type of written or verbal (if remembered) information while at Homecoming.

Dawn and Kevin Clancy, living at 5 Bay Path Rd., Branford CT 06405; Kevin is a pilot for Braniff. Mary and Pat Stroop, children: David (3), Kevin (I), living at 1875 St. Julian Dr., Charieston SC 29407. Pat is flag lieutenant to Comine Warcom.

Judy and John Marshall, child: Meghan (2), living at 138 Penn Lear Dr., Monroeville PA 15146; John is working as an engineer for Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Brenda and Bob Rachor, living at 8104 Kane Ct., Alexandria VA 22308. Bob is the assistant Washington placement officer at BuPers, and sfill searching for those cards that were missing from the deck he was issued.

Sue and Jim Boland, child: Carrie Ann (V/i), living at 523 Church Dr., Great Mills, Md. 20634. Jim is the AOINC, Surface Effect Ship Test Facility. Joan and Harold Armet, children: Erika (8), Ingrid (6), living at 3 Halsey Lane, Centerport NY 11721. Harold is a police officer with the Suffolk County police department Charlotte and Roger Roosa, children: Keith (6), Brian (V/i), and Laura (1), living at 1254 Meadow Lake Rd., Virginia Beach VA 23454.

Roger is the engineer on SUBRON 8 staff.

Jane and Dennis Bussey, children: Michele (3'/2), Dawn Marie (I'/a), living at 4785 Maribrough Dr., Virginia Beach VA 23462.

Dennis is now in the CEC and in plans and training at COMCBLANT at Little Creek.

Sarah and Jim Higgins, children: Matthew (3), Marisa (Wi), living at 96 Orchard Court, Rayeisford PA 19648. Jim is a reactor inspector for the NRC. Linda and Tom Cruser, living at 1012 Shirley Ave., Norfolk VA 23507. Tom is currently Ops Officer in USS FORT SNELLING ( L S D - 3 0 ) .

Terry and Steve Ward, children: Matt (6), Bridget (3), and Steve IV (1), living at 72 Post Crossing, Southampton NY 11968. Steve is an agent for New York Life.

Nancy and Jim Stevens, child: Nataline (2), living at 2005 Kenilworth St., Ariington VA 22205. Jim is at BuPers as a Surface Detailer.

Debbie and Joe Chopek, children: Andrea (7), Joey (4), living at 8123 Higham Rd., Newington VA 22123. Joe is the principal broker and president of the Century-21 of Springfield real estate agency.

Baker Smith, living at 1111 Ariington Blvd.

M.506, Ariington VA 22209. Baker is an aftorney with the Center on Nafional Labor Policy.

Eric Utegaard, living at 1129 Little Magothy View, Annapolis MD 21401. Eric is the execuflve assistant to the Commandant of Midshipmen here at the Academy.

Dick Bulger is at Pax River flying with VQ-4.

That's about the best address I could get out of Dick.

Joan and Tom McQueen, children: Leah (5), Megan (3), mailing address at top of this column.

Also present at various weekend acfivifies, but no address available, were John Hilburn, Skip Mclnchok, Glen Reid, Mike Clark, Dave Horton, Greg Hansen, Phil Jamison, "JEEP" Pomroy, and Sarah and Steve Harvey.

Some of the week-end merrymakers volunteered information on the locations of other Classmates, so this dubious data is as follows: Joe Chopek provides these points: Chip Uhlemeyer is out and working as a patent attorney for Anheiser-Busch in St. Louis. Craig Silverthorne lives in Alexandria, Virginia, and works for the Secret Service. (Sorry I blew your cover, Craig.)

Jim Higgins gives the following info: Mike Marrell is an admiral's aide and lives in Virginia Beach with his wife, Carole, and children. Amy, Andrea, and Danny. Bill Coleman works for Cleveland Electric in Columbus, Ohio, with wife, Dee, and sons, Billy and John.

Cris and T. P. Johnson and sons, Patrick and Timmy, live in Cincinafi, Ohio, where T. P. works for General Physics.

Roger Herman is flying for American Airlines, and Ron Reedy is working on his Ph.D. in San Diego. John Marshall provided these updates.

Andy Normand is CO, Marine Det., USS INDEPENDENCE. Grey Mitchell is in Dayton, Ohio. Hugh Batten works for Proctor & Gamble in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. John Adams works for Crown Zellerback Co. someplace in Washington. Chuck Quandel is a consulting Engineer in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

Pat Stroop is responsible for the next bits of position information: Nancy and Gordy Green are in Hawaii. Maureen and Larry Cavaliola are with Patty and John White in Monterey.

Cindy and Dan Johnson are in Newport, Rhode Island.

Now for some other news: Ed Timberlake called to offer his services on the 10th Reunion work. Ed got his MBA at Cornell and now works for Analytical Sciences Corp. Ed, wife Barbette and their two daughters live at 11303 Fullery Court, Oakton VA 22124.

Well, that's about all I have for now, but if the Navy team gets a Bowl bid near you, go out and see them play. They're worth the price of the ticket. You'll be proud of them. Keep those cards and letters trickling in.

70 Pres., Jeff Krstich Corr. Sec,y, Lt. Guy Knieriem, USN, Eighth Company Officer, USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 36 Homecoming proved a success again this year with a lot of support for the game and parties. Our navigation beacon at the tailgate, a "70" balloon proved too hot to handle as it exploded well before the game. There were quite a few pilgrims stranded in the parking lot trying to follow the balloon when it burst. Fred

96 Hall set up the tailgate and Bob Tamburini was the master of ceremonies. Disaster struck Fred as he just discovered he's allergic to beer. Our condolences, Fred!

After the tailgate, the party shifted to our quarters. My wife, Carole, esfimates a hundred in attendance, and the party went well into the night. The beer never ran out, and I'd like to thank Marijo Heyworth, Skid's wife, and Theresa Kimble, Bob's spouse, for helping with the food. Two visitors who weren't recognized were the two streakers who attended but later left their paper bags as calling cards.

I was able to get a few to leave a note before they left. Jill and Chuck Frary live in Annapolis where he works for Bates Shoe Company as a sales rep. He reports we need to get initial plans for our ten-year reunion so we'll need lots of feedback. Plenty of class support will be needed for that project. Terry Martin is going to Amphibious Warfare School in Quantico. He flew OV-lOs and was a flight instructor at Chase Field. He had transitioned from F-4s. Judy and Tim Lafleur are in Washington where Tim is a chief recmiter and the 70 detailer. Donna and Neil Midkiff attended the party, and Neil works for General Physics Corporation in Columbia, Maryland. Jane and Gary Marvin just left the Navy and Gary is looking into the airlines. Bob Hallgren was out from San Diego where he has a home remodeling business.

Delta Airlines has a few more of us flying for them. Jim Kenney is based in Boston with his wife, Mareen Faherty, and their children Kristin Ann, Kathleen Ann, and Erin Elizabeth.

Harold Wallace, Jeff Schott and Phil Eslinger are also in Boston. Phil and his wife Sandra have two sons. Brent R. and Ryan T. Pat Dawson has transferred to the Supply Corps and now in Monticello as a Supply Officer.

Betty Cleghom wrote a letter for Larry who is on cruise from Oak Harbor, Washington, to encourage fellow llth Company guys to write.

Larry flew the C-1 at Cecil Field for 5 years and after jet refresher training in Kingsville, he went to the A-6 RAG in Whidbey Island. He's now with VA-165 embarked in CONSTELLATION. Betty and Larry also found time to have a daughter, Jennifer, in 1974. Betty also had news of Barb and Rick Westcott who are in San Diego with their daughter, Kara, who was bom 10 July 1975. Rick is assigned to a submarine tender in San Diego. Brenda and Dave Larson are also at Whidbey where Dave flies the EA-6 with VAQ-137.

Ann and Pat Maloney are stationed in Norfolk where Pat is OPS in CONYNGHAM. Pat"s on deployment in the Med, and Ann is expecting a new addifion to the family in February.

Well done to those on the recent selection list for lieutenant commander.

72 Pres., Joe Glover Secy, 1st Lt. Frank L. Gibson, USMC Hqs. Co., H & S Batt. MCRD Parris Island SC 29905 Acting Correspondent, Alan R. Kraft 2705 Baldwin Lane, Bowie, MD 20715 Percent Members: 34

73 Pres., Lt. Steve Ingram USN Sec'y, Lt. John F. Kennedy USN Office of the CNO (OP-009L) Navy Department Washington DC 20350 Percent Members: 31 The following letter has been sent by Rick Elliott, class vice president, to all members of the Class of 1973: Over five years have elapsed since the Class of 1973 graduated, and many of us are beginning to wonder what other Classmates are doing. If Shipmate articles are a good indication, communications have been lacking. Interest is high, however, and it is time to get the Class organized. The first step in the process is to hold elections, and a ballot is enclosed for this purpose. Nominations were solicited in a letter mailed to each of you last September, and at a business meeting held at the Academy during Homecoming week end. The ballot also provides for write-ins.

Before voting, you might be interested in a little organizational history of the Class. As you might recall, elections were held for class officers shortly before graduation. When we left the Academy, we took with us a set of officers, a Class Charter, and a treasury. The Charter is essentially idenfical to those of other USNA Classes, and provides an excellent organizational framework. Our treasury is stocked with monies deducted from our midshipman accounts. These funds were held at the Academy until all outstanding class debts were liquidated, and were transferred to our account at Northeastern Bank in 1975. Aside from a good homecoming party at the Academy this year, the Class has been inactive. Until recently, the class officers were not stafioned anywhere near each other, and were consequently out of touch. While Shipmate articles have sometimes been less than timely, the class secretary has not received very many letters.

Our Charter calls for elecfions every five years. After 1984, the vice-president, secretary, and treasurer must reside in the Annapolis-D.C area, but this restriction does not apply to this election. The following list describes the more important tasks confronfing the next group of class officers: 1. Incorporation of the Class. The primary reason for doing this is to obtain a tax-exempt status in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service. To date, our money has not been earning interest because of the legal problems associated with tax returns.

2. Establishing better communications with as many members of the Class as possible.

3. Consider the matters of gifts to the Academy, memorials to deceased Classmates, and such other projects as are suggested to them.

4. Promotion of membership in the Alumni Association.

Please take the time to vote. Ballots must be received by 15 January 1979. Don't forget to sign your ballot, and fill in your address in the space provided. This will make it much easier for the incoming class officers to ensure that you receive future class correspondence.

Our general lack of activity and enthusiasm so far is not unusual. Things are normally chaotic for the first few years after graduation, and then a Class pulls closer together as time goes on. I am convinced from speaking to many of you over the past few months that this will be the case with '73. Let's help get things going by completing and mailing in our ballots.

74 Pres., Lt. (jg) George Yacus USN Sec'y, Lt. (jg) Mike Chaplain USN East Coast Sec'y Lt. (jg) Brent S. James USN 404 Philbate Terrace Virginia Beach VA 23452 Percent Members: 34 Hey guys, whassamattaforyou? The ol' mail bucket has run just about dry of late. Try to crank up the quills and get some news out on the street.

Got a letter this week dated 21 August from Ralph Schindler. Ralph, your letter bounced around and finally caught up with me in Souda Bay, Crete. Some of the info in it is slighfly dated, but old gouge is better than no gouge at all. He wrote that a large group of '74 got together for a big wetting-down party: they were the PG school group. There were about 200 people in attendance, mosfly winos and bums

Whooping It Up (or Down)

71 Pres., Dr. Steve DiAntonio Sec'y, Capt. Charles E. Boyer HI USMC Quarters H-4, Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 35 'Well, do we have news for you! Unfortunately we won't have it this month, because a slight change of station from West to East Coast, the completion of a small thesis, getting squared away at USNAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this has interfered a bit with planned copy. But wait fill next next month! And note the new address.

Shipmate, January-February 1979

97 that came wandering by, but what the heck, a party is a party!! The hosts of this disfinguished group were C W. Chesterman, Cindy and Ralph Schindler, Faith and Dave Stone, Bill Mason, Carol and Rod Sams, Charlie and Ty Aldinger, Bob Santos, Dan Burns, Marybeth and Fritz Petrie, Jim Mohr, Donna and Rod Smith, John Branchfiower, John Tromba. and Randy Stahl. Our picture illustrates, I. to r.: Pat, Jim, Ralph, Kalisa, Randy, Cindy, John B., Dave, Bob, C W., and Branch's girlfriend. (On second thought, these weren't winos and bums—these were our Classmates. Ah well, times are hard everywhere.)

There are also a number of '74ers at Monterey. They include Mike Campbell, Lyn and Jim Hazlet, Tim Gorder, Done and Thom Grote, Betsy and Mick Keville, Debbie and Al Lerchbacker, Shannon and Ryan Wise, Merri and Ron Polkowsky, and Maryellen and John Dunn.

The consensus seems to be that PG School is a nice place to live. The school motto, according to C. W. Chesterman, is: "Get a kid, get a dog, or if all else fails, get married." Sounds like a thrilling place.

Ralph also passed along that Nancy and Greg Gilmore had a son last June. He was their second child. Keep up the good work there, Greg!

Also, Alice and O.D. (Fox) Corpin had a little daughter, Heather, last August. She is a little ball of fun.

As I close this, I have a sad and serious note to report. Randy Mlkal was killed in the crash of his S-3 shortly after takoff from NAS Cubi Point, Phillipines. He was a fine guy and a friend to us all. Our deepest sympathy to Robin.

I hope the Winter is a mild one for us all.

Spring will be here soon. Keep your chins up.

75 Pres., Lt.(jg) Craig R. Quigley USN Sec'y, Lt.Gg) Steve Hubbard USN USS EDWARD MCDONNELL (FF-1043)

FPO New York NY 09501 Percent Members: 49 Hello everybody! And happy '79! You must agree that '78 was quite a year, but as in all things, it's fime to move on. Speaking of moving, a number of you have been or will soon by changing duty stations. Hope everyone gets what he wants. Keep me posted on your new locafions! (As soon as your New Year's hangovers subside, and your sight is restored!)

Our first bit of news comes from Gwenn and Keith Zwingelberg who report the birth of their first child, Robert Jackson (Robbie), born 23 August 1978. Keith is stafioned at Camp Pendleton NRMC where he is interning. Keith always knew how to get a few steps ahead and the medical program was no different. He is a full lieutenant now and given a date of rank new year senior to the rest of us. Just call him "sir" next fime you see him. Keith is in family practice and has been keeping quite busy.

Naturally though, he loves it! The Zwingelberg's address: Lt. and Mrs. K.M. Zwingelberg MC USN, 800 F-4 Mesa Ave., Vista CA 92083.

Another son is bom to a '75er. Helen Claire and Lyn Whitmer are the proud parents of Lynden Duane, Jr. bom 21 September 1978.

Lyn is a pilot with HS-11 out of NAS JAX, and Shipmate, January-Febmary 1979

is currenfly deployed on board JFK in the Med. He was home on leave for Duane's birth.

Bill Daley reports that his vessel, DONALD B .

BEARY (FF-1085), finished REFTRA on fime (almost unheard-of), and for some reason GITMO does not occupy a pleasant spot in his memory. Can't imagine why! 01' Dales has a special girl in Maine now, and 1 will unabashedly predict that he will soon be dropping his bachelor status! We shall see what we shall see! (The lucky lady's name is Chris.) Dales has continued in his love affair with running and competed in the Marine Corps Reserve Marathon in D.C. last November, his fifth marathon competition. He's planning to run another in January at Bethel, North Carolina.

His words on the D. C ran: "I'm not promising to finish in the top 100 or even the top 200 of about 3000-3500 runners, but after I cross the finish line, there will be numerous overeager, burned-out-by-the 15th-mile Marines behind me!" Ah, love that spirit!

Bill sends news of Classmates, too. Chris Mortonson is in the Med aboard JFK as an S-3 pilot. He says Cairo is super. His wife Colleen and "little Pooh" live in Jacksonville. Also in Jacksonville are John Kucinski and his bride Irene, where John is assigned to FORRESTAL (CV-59) as part of the CRIP (Carrier Readiness Improvement Program). That means he is a snipe who has graduated from small boys to flattops. His obvious fondness for the program is reflected in the nickname he has assigned it—CRIPPLE. Hang in there John! Liz and Scott Perkins are on shore duty now in San Diego. Scott is an NGFS instructor at the Marine Amphip School there. Monk Montgomery has "switched sides, and is now a supply duke, somewhere in California." John Ennis is Commo aboard VIRGINIA, and he and Janet live in Virginia Beach. Apparently Charlie Mahon and Steve Cassin are both assigned as ASWO aboard VIRGINIA. Bob Bullock is ASWO aboard SOUTH CAROLINA. Dales himself was ASWO aboard the D. B. BEARY, but has now become Navigator. In conclusion Dales speaks of GITMO. "You know, some of my fondest memories of Cuba are the land crabs. (Not to be confused with sand crabs: one walks sideways, the other just talk sideways'.) While mnning, there would be at least four of them in the process of running across the road and getting run over by a track or me. It's sad—no, not running over the crabs—but the fact that my social life high spot there was periodic encounters with land crabs." Well, Dales, we know it was rough, but I'm sure Chris made up for it all when you returned from sunny GITMO! I was in Norfolk for a few days during October and spent some fime running and carbohydrate loading with Dales. He laid a couple good quotes on me then. One was a memory from the days of LCdr. Bull Taylor, 36th Company Officer, "I don't quesfion that the airdales earn their flight pay, because they certainly do. I just can't see how they earn their base pay!" Bull is obviously a fleet sailor!

Scott Peterson sent a copy of our company newsletter, which he writes (ahem) occasionally. High points include the fact that he, the all-fime confirmed bachelor (ha-ha), was married way back on 30 July 1977. For those who do not already know, her name is Susan and she is a born-and-raised Hawkeye, which of course was the only important prerequisite as far as Pete was concemed. For those who may have known Jack Ryder, a non-grad company-mate, he was married 8 July 1978 in Chicago to Miss Mary Ellen Hines. And non-

grad company-mate Brett Shannon is still in med school in Chicago. Deb and Pat Sloan added a daughter to their brood, Kelly Frances, born 6 July. Bunny and Chris Benigno also have a daughter. Other weddings of note: Marie and John Nawrocki, December 1977, and non-grad company-mate Ward Hill (wife's name unknown), April 1978. And wrapping up on highlights, Jeannine and Rod Repka should be settled in Annapolis by the fime you're reading this, as they have orders to good old USNA. Many Congrats to all new parents and newly weds, and many thanks to Dales and Pete for their contributions!

I'd also like to thank Joe Bertalan once again for his hospitality. While I was in Litfle Creek we bumped into each other at the exchange and he invited me to share a great meal with him and friends at his apartment. Joe is an instructor at NAVPHIBSCOL, Litfle Creek.

I'll be deploying to the Med in January so will need to be sending these columns in eariier than usual. Don't be bashful, drop a line and let everyone know what's happening. Before we know it we will become 0-3s and we'll all be going over four. Doesn't seem like that long ago does it? Ah well, fime flies . . .

A good friend from Maggie's home town (Laurel, Maryland) is engaged to a Classmate's brother. Liz Bulla is engaged to 2nd Lt. Tim Shaw USMC, younger brother of our own Dick Shaw. Looks like our paths may be crossing in the near future, Dick.

Here's hoping that '79 brings happiness for us all and peace to our world, and that we can all reach those personal goals we've set. Hang in there and in this year as in every year . . .

BEAT ARMY!

76 Pres., Ens. M. B. Pearsall USN Sec'y, 1st Lt. Joe Buranosky USMC 404 Gull Court North Palm Beach FL 33408 Percent Members: 63 I had the good fortune this past month to go to Homecoming and see a great football game and a number of Classmates. There should be some pictures coming soon, but for now I'll try to remember everyone I saw at the game— there were a few tailgate parties after the game. Blaine and Debbie Pearsall were there; Blaine has received a few checks for the class fund and has put them in the bank to collect interest. Blaine and Debbie are now in Norfolk and have just bought a new home—he said something about thanking everyone for the house—I wonder if he did put our money in the bank? (just kidding, Blaine). Also there were Jim and Louise Petersen, Bryan Dolan and his wife, Keven McNamara and his wife.

Bill McMinn, Mark Trenor, John Snodgrass, Keith Weaver, Pete Harris, Tom Bakke, Chuck Litz, and Dave Manners. Vic Thombs and William Brown came up from New River with me. It was an enjoyable time and as always it was great to see old friends. Our fiveyear mark is sfill a way off, but we'll have to start thinking about it soon—if anyone has ideas please let Blaine or myself know so that planning can start to get underway.

As far as letters go I have received quite a bit of correspondence this month. Karen wrote she and Grant Sutherland are headed for a two-year tour in Gitmo along with Grant Dean

98 Sutherland III who was bom in April. Grant will be the legal and personnel officer of VC-10 and will be flying A-4s. Joyce and John McClain and son Shawn, bom last January, are at NAS Cecil; they have bought a home in Orange Park. Sam Hauge is an F-4 RIO and is now on his first craise.

I heard from Tom and Sue Pumphrey who are in Northern Japan with the U. S. Naval Security Group. Congratulations to Tom and Sue who are expecting in January. Terri and Doug Humphrey are in San Diego—Doug is currently on a 6-month deployment flying helicopters. Dan Mitchell is still hitting the books at med school in Tampa and is due to graduate in June.

Terry and Bob Peranich wrote from California. They are planning to move to San Diego with USS DAVID RAY. Jim Taplett is also aboard; he's the ASW officer. Ron Clipp is going aboard USS JOHN YOUNG in San Diego and Pete Miller and wife Cindy are in Charleston with their new addition, Katie. Gerry Spraitzar married the former EIke Severson in October—he'll be stationed at Whidbey Island flying EA-6Bs. Andy Yates bought a house in California—he's flying CH-53s in Santa Ana. Mark Hubbard dropped me a line from USS DuPoNT. He's been participating in a combined South American cmise, Unitas XIX. His brother John, Class of '71, is chief engineer on USS BOWEN taking part in the same exercise.

Congratulations are in order again for Mark and Tula—They're expecting their second child in March; little Matthew is pushing a year-and-a-half. Congratulations to Sharon and Fred Johnson; their little girl, Michelle Elizabeth, was born on 23 September. I've heard from Lynn and Milt Mays also—they're doing very well. Milt is into his third year of med school and is getfing into the clinical "people" work.

I've also got some news from the Navy Hometown News Release Program. Several Classmates participated in "Display Determination," a major NATO exercise this past year; Tim Criner, USS ALYWIN; Ron Brunson and John Kelly, USS CHARLES F . ADAMS; Pete Olivieri, USS PATTERSON; and AUie Mysliwy, USS TRIPPE. The following took part in "Bold Guard" and "Northern Wedding" on NATO's northern flank: Jeff Pettit and Mike Freeman,

And here's a note, not from the Sec'y, but from the prez. To Joe Buranowski: Many thanks for a job well done during the past two-and-a-half years in keeping the Class, wives and relatives well informed through your '76 class articles. The Class appreciates your time and dedicafion, and wishes you another successful year in your endeavors. Thanks again, Joe. Incidentally, Morgan is down in Virginia Beach with HC-6 and will be deploying soon.

77 Pres., Ens. Tom Arminio USN Sec'y, 2nd Lt. James R. Rowan USMC 1606 St. Margarets Rd. AnnapoHs MD 21401 Percent Members: 66 As I am writing. Thanksgiving is upon us and everyone's thoughts tum to not the Turkey but the Army-Navy game! I know that the enfire Class wishes the best of luck to the team. Before we get to the news, I have some informafion to pass on once again. When news is sent to me, the time between posting date and when you read it can be three to four months. Also, the reason our class column was naked for awhile is because everyone went on vacation this Summer and news was like gold: no one would give it away.

I think I will start with some notes from the aviators this time. Cor Karaffa, Tom Fry and John Casey earned their wings and are headed for the A-6 RAG. Gar Wright and J.W. Si.uth did the same and are going to San Diego for the S-3 RAG. J. W. was married to the former Phyllis W. Roberts of Jacksonville in October.

Two-Block that Tie! The enclosed picture shows my apartment with the first group of arrivals at Halloween. I was surprised that my old uniform still fit, and how about Steve Scott's legs!!

On to the nukes! I think that all of you have either seen Animal House or you are a bunch of exhibifionists. Of course I knew that Billy "Ricketts" Stulb would wear a shirt under his toga. Congrats go to all in the picture on the complefion of prototype. Shown are Ed Rogers, Jeff Hay '76, John Thorp, Pete Knoetgen, Brian Anderson, John Achenbach, Jim Adams, Jeff Berg, Bill Venohr, Dick Corpus, Rich Hansen, Jerry Demello, Lee Geanuleas, Tom Stenstrom, Bill Stulk, Wayne Johnson, and Jim Liming. The languid character on the table is from Berkeley. The submariners will reach the Fleet in January 1979 after submarine school and the surface nukes in Febraary 1979 after SWOS. After prototype, Ed Rogers and Rich Hansen were married (not to each other!).

Brad McDonald informed me of the late graduates from nuke school. In our picture we have, I. to r., Dick Corpus, Brad McDonald, Pete Ozimek, Ray Lupiccolo (OCS), Dave Gerlits (same), Stu Finlayson, Kurt Rathgaker

Not a Formal Party

USS JULIUS PURER; Jeff Mulliner, USS FORRESTAL; Chuck Cole, USS BARNSTABLE COUNTY; Charles Hudson, USS LUCE; and

Chuck Dirienzo, 2nd Tank Battalion. Dave Deford is aboard USS BUCHANAN. Craig Thomas has reported to Attack Squadron 122 at NAS Lemoore. Mark Anthony is with Patrol Squadron 46 at NAS Moffett. Chip McFarland has reported to MCAS El Toro and Len Mokan is a supply offlcer with MAG-32 at MCAS Cherry Point.

Finally, I must close with an apology. I received some bum gouge from someone and I promised John Therriault that I would set the record straight. Jeff Tomlin, Craig Krauss, and John Therriault received pilots wings and not NFO wings as previously reported. Jeff Tomlin is now in Little Rock, Arkansas, leaming to fly C-130S and will be headed for MCAS El Toro.

Craig Krauss has been retained as an instructor with VT-23 flying "Buckeyes for Peace" in Kingsberg. John Therriault is joining Skip Wood and John Kohler with VQ-1 in Guam to fly EA-3s. Congratulations to John and his wife Claire who are expecfing their first child in late Spring. That's it for now—keep in touch.

Shipmate, January-February 1979

99 Mark Bolin, Roy Bookmiller, Dave Bowers, Tony Cardoza, Jerry Cory, Doug Diehl, Calvin Dixon, Randy Duncan, Jim Felton, Byron Fink, Bob Gillespie, Scotfie Godfrey, Mile Huriey, Jock Maloney, Mark McNair, Dale Mossbarger, Tim Murphy, Steve Nolan, Ted Null, John Page, Curt Perry, Dan Peters, Scott Pihiaja, John Rudzis, Lionel Sanders, Ron Smith, Marty Thamm, Gary Thompson and Gary Withers.

Tom Manobianio and Phil Weicek are heading off to Okinawa for a year of fun in the sun.

Jim Degree, Mike Galpin, Jim Lippard, Bob Destafney, Ray Fritsch, Andy Cuca and Mike White had a tough first six months as football coaches at school.

Why Are These Men in Uniform?

(OCS), and Steve Chapman, NFS instructor.

(Brad, did your razor go on strike or were you attacked by a Brillo pad?)

Larry Lindiviglia and Doug Meister have just retumed home from WestPac where they went to Australia and New Zealand aboard USS GRAY (FF-1054). Pies Bruce missed all of the fun, but he has just reported on board GRAY. Dave Harding contacted me from Camp Pendleton where he works at the Joint Communication Center as a watch officer. He is now married to the former Kim Bosco from Toms River, New Jersey. Jerry Hew and Steve Hanson are at Pendleton as artillery officers.

Are you two getting artillery ears yet? HUH!!

Well, that's all folks! See you next month.

78 Pres., Ens. Ken Waldie USN Sec'y, 2nd Lt. Michael Conklin USMC 641 N. Lincoln St. Ariington VA 22201 Percent Members: 61 Surprise! The word is finally starting to get around as the members of our Class venture off to their first permanent duty stations.

After short delays, all the naval aviators should have reported to Pensacola by now.

Mike Galpin, Jim Lippard, and Andy Cuca were some of the last to report on 15 January.

The following have completed AIC: Matt Duranske, Russell Chang, David Mercer, Richard Wren, David Owen, Mike Sagness, Ron Fabiani, Ken Heffernan, Mare Sherman, Duane Lafont, Carl Abelein, Ray Miskowsky,

Herb Jenien, Mike Warner, Dave Ireland, Bill Dooley, Rich Heil, Glen Woods, Jim Van DerKamp, Bruce Bole, Rich Jesmonth, Frank Behm and Jim Hughes.

Bill Siegel and Greg Long have graduated from the basic Civil Engineer Corps Officer Course.

At SWOS east, Kevin Lynch spent so much time quarterbacking his team to the base championship that he neglected the books and is off to Guam with Al Callas. Grinch was assisted to the championship by John Sturges, Ed Reid, Bill Marton, Dan Holloway, Bill Bonwit, Randy LeBouvier, Peter Quick and Paul Susalla.

The Men in Green are off to a fine start as the USNA Class at TBS graduated on 15 December. Art Athens was president of the Mess Night, which happened to be one Jim Buckley will not remember. Soon to enter the infantry officer course (School for Grunts) are; Rick Reece, Jim Stallings, Chris Breslin, Brad James, Kevin O'Keefe, Colby Smith, Aaron Welsh and Tom Wright. Jerry "Top" Cory will be a special guest student while awaiting flight school.

Rico Blanco, Dave Daily, Bill Davis, Walt Gray, Charlie Pangbum, and Dave Whittlesley are up-and-coming artillery officers.

The following NFO reported early in January: Bruce Akiyama, Miguel Becerrill, Alex Dimitrew, Richard Findley, Keith Haar, John Halley, Dave Heinz, Don Lotts, Curt Maszun, Mark McKinney, Earl Moseley, Gary Rupp, Gary Shaw, Dan Topolewski, Jerry Yoder and Tom Sudbeck.

The following will report to flight school in March: Vince Balderama, Gary Boettcher,

The Bro's at Jimbo's Wedding Tracy and Jim Degree had quite a wedding in June. A big group traveled across country to enjoy the sun of California and watch Jim and Tracy exchange vows. Jim was operated on in November to correct an old football injury.

Art Athens and Tim Murphy were married (not to each other) on 16 December. Shelley and Ted Null and Laura Jo and Wayne Longcoy are racing to see who will be the first parents of our Class. Ted is an early race favorite.

Bill Fell, Dave Barile, Toby Buttle, and Sue and John Wissler were a few who reported to Quantico in October.

Brent Obenour and Duncan McLean are in Washington to prove that Navy Divers do it Deeper. Good luck, since everyone knows Marines do it better.

Jocks wants all of his friends to know he is getting along just fine with Mary Jane. Don't worry Mom, she is an Irish Catholic, but doesn't have red hair.

I think we finally got our operation together.

Linda and 1 will do our part, but you guys have to do your part and get the news to us.

Personal note to Rick Dubberly: Linda wants to know if it happened when you were in the fourth grade.

Pass your old copies of Shipmate to a non-member classmate or friend and urge him to join the Alumni Association.

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Chapter News DEADLINE: For April—12 February; for May—9 March

ANNAPOLIS LCdr. Ronald E. Ruys USN Naval Systems Engineering Dept.

U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402 A large number of the members of the Annapolis Chapter turned out on 8 November to hear RAdm. Wm. P. Lawrence USN '51, Superintendent of the Naval Academy, tell of his six years of imprisonment in Vietnam and give credit to his naval training for the strength with which not only he but the other Academy graduates (four from his own Class) who were captured by the North Vietnamese were able to bear this ordeal. Capt. Tom Ross USN (Ret.) '50, local president, introduced the Superintendent and indicated how fortunate the Class of 1951 had been to have the sterling example and leadership of the Class of 1950 to exemplify the type of officer that the Academy is endeavoring to tum out.

Admiral Lawrence indicated that there were several qualities with which he had been instilled upon which he could call while a prisoner, the first one and the most important being faith, not only as a religious person but in all of its aspects. Personal discipline was important too, requiring the individual to maintain his health as best he could with limited hygiene, little exercise, poor food and lack of social contact, problems that had to be faced by each prisoner. Too, it was necessary to have consideration for fellow prisoners, a good shipmate—traits that had been leamed in Bancroft Hall and in the service. After faith. Admiral Lawrence found that a sense of humor was extremely important. Despite the circumstances in which he found himself, nearly every day in the prison environment there would be some amusing anecdote or event which could be savored or relished. Resourcefulness was so important in this environment because the prisoners, especially the highranking ones, were isolated and had to devise methods to communicate including adaptations of the Morse Code, a "Fox Sked" with a broom when sweeping down the passageways for the entire community to receive a message, and manipulation of the voice for coded communiques. Finally there was mental activity, every man a professor to teach the others some subject with which he was well-acquainted such as history or a foreign language. Admiral Lawrence himself leamed in a clandestine fashion French from a downed South Vietnamese pilot, the lessons from teacher to student being whispered below a door. Also much relished was the recounting of movies and stories, an event looked forward to at the end of the week. The key point that he wished to stress, the admiral indicated, was that Naval Academy training was training for life: he prayed that no Naval Academy alumnus would ever again be made a prisoner, but if he was, his background would stand him in good stead.

Admiral Lawrence closed by thanking the Alumni for the generous support they have given to the Naval Academy in so many ways.

In other business, RAdm. Charles Becker SC USN (Ret.) '44 indicated that there are 224 members in the local Chapter of whom 183 are affiliated with the nafional membership, and the numbers continue to grow. He also made a report on the Spring Tmstees meeting and enumerated the three challenges that VAdm. P. D. Stroop USN (Ret.) '26 had given to the Alumni Associafion: assistance in recruitment for the Naval Academy; counseling for young officers who are considering leaving the service; and financial support for the many projects underway at the Academy which require aid.

He also thanked RAdm. A. F. Richardson USN (Ret.) '31 who had furnished the music for the social hour in the form of the "Set Sail" record album which is available from the Alumni Association and at various post exchanges.

Capt. Ross invited all to the December Christmas party that was to be held at the Alumni House in December and indicated that a most unusual meeting would be held on January 17, 1979, at Chauvenet Hall after the usual luncheon. He also announced that he would be leaving the Annapolis area for Florida and that Cdr. Mike Colley USN '60 would take over the presidency of the Chapter.

BALTIMORE Cdr. R. D. King USN (Ret.) 7003 Stoneleigh Ct. Balfimore MD 21212 Tuesday, 5 December, was the date for the Baltimore Chapter to get together for a preChristmas evening and a chance to celebrate the fine showing of the football team this season.

In earlier meetings during the year the Chapter had had the opportunity to hear RAdm. Judson Smith USNR and later an excellent concert by the Naval Academy Band, arranged

by Don Lynne '54. Further interesting meetings are being planned for the coming year.

BOSTON Cdr. Curtiss O. Wakeman USN (Ret.) 814 Osgood St. N. Andover MA 01845 The Boston Chapter of the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Associafion held its monthly meefing on Tuesday, November 14, 1978, at the Fantasia Restaurant in Cambridge. We were more than pleased that attendance increased to 21 at this meeting and included: Our guest speaker, Larry Quigley '46, Ned Livingstone '44, and his guest Regis E. Bapp, Dan Donovan '53, Dave Carroll '53, Bill Cuzner '27, George Street '37, Bill Daly '47, Ralph Gillette '31, Tom Price '30, Stan Alexander '30, Bob Swanke '52, Nelson McDermoft '46, Dan O'Connell '57, Bill Jeas '61, Hank Brousseau '24, Vem Dander '56, Alex Padis '45, Allan Slaff '45, Bob Wescott '37,

and yours truly, the secretary, Curt Wakeman '52.

Dr. Larry Quigley, a fellow alumnus, was our guest speaker. Larry left the service shortly after graduating in '46 and entered the Tufts School of Dentistry. Currently he has a practice both in the Boston area, as well as Amba in the Caribbean. A fascinating speaker, Larry held our attention with slides and stories about his research ventures into the jungles of South America as an orthodontist, in conjunction with an anthropology grant through Harvard. It was tmly a very interesting and percepfive presentation, and we look forward to hearing from Larry again.

The chapter met again on January 9, 1979, and again at the Fantasia Restaurant. Our guest speaker was Capt. Jake Laboon, Chaplain Corps '44 to discuss the subject of the men and women of today's Navy.

While on the subject of future meetings, we would like to have all Alumni in this area note on their calendar that on Saturday, Febmary 3, 1979, we are planning an evening dinner meeting at the Hanscom Officers' Club for you and your O.A.O. It will be very short on business, but hopefully very long on cocktails, dinner and fun.

One last favor—if you live in the general vicinity (200 mile radius) and have not heard from me about meetings, it is probably because I don't have your address—so just drop me a line or give me a call and I'll get you on the list. We'd really like to have more of you join us.

CHICAGO Mr. James N. D'Orso 260 E. Chestnut St., #2407 Chicago IL606II A big tumout enjoyed the evening 12 October meefing at the Glenview NAS. Attendance included: Frank Maichle '20, Gordon Buchanan '22, Charlie Silsbee '25, Norm Hall '31, Ben Frana '40, George Spaulding '43, Jack Bailey '44, Roy Sandquist '44, Bob McCarthy '45, Tom McCook '46, Mike Berngard '49, John Henning '50, Bob Baxter '51, Jim D'Orso '52, Dick Wise '53, Vince Hart '54, Bob Dunne '54, Mel Klein '56, Gary Lowe '57, George Dempsey '57, Alex Martella '58, Larry Rieger '58, Gerry Franzen '65, Ed Sundberg '68, Jim Gierucki '69, and Tom Connelly '72.

Upcoming events feature the 25 January dinner for prospecfive midshipmen and parents followed by 15 February luncheon at Como Inn with highlights of '78 football season, and 16 March coed dinner meeting at Chicago Yacht Club. Be sure to support this outstanding sked of important meetings planned by the Chapter Officers. For details or new members in area contact Secy. Jirn D'Orso, 642-9288.

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HUNTSVILLE Capt. William P. Watts SC USN (Ret.) 2300 Big Cove Rd., Huntsville AL 35801 The program for the 1978-79 year of the Huntsville Chapter includes a minimum of six meetings.

The following members attended one or both of the September and October luncheon meetings at the Elegant Steak Room: Roy Davis '45, Al Brouner '44, Bob Brown '49, Tom Cogdill '60, Ed Donley '40, Harold Harnly '27, Kim Hovater '56, Ed Jackson '58, Charies Maples '63, Al Morris '50, Mike Stroop '54, Frank Tatom '56, Bill Watts '38, Col. L.R. Anderson USA (Ret.) (honorary member), Cdr. Nathan Porter USNR (Ret.) (honorary member), Capt. Bart Slattery USN (Ret.) (honorary member), and LCdr. Orvis Chitwood USN (honorary member).

The evening preceding the Army-Navy Game found most of us with our ladies at a joint cocktail party with the members of the West Point Society of the Tennessee Valley at the Redstone Arsenal Officers' Club. For the game itself we rallied at the home of Mike Stroop, prepared to cheer for and celebrate a Navy victory.

JACKSONVILLE Mr. James C. Williams 4105 Wesfloop Lane Jacksonville FL 32211 The Club Confinental in Orange Park was the scene of the November 2, 1978, meeting of the Jacksonville Chapter of the Alumni Associafion. Capt. Joseph F. Hall USN (Ret.) was the guest speaker. Capt. Hall is executive director of the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Cancer Society and he gave an excellent discussion, a repeat performance after the fine talk that Col. Howard Dunn USMC (Ret.) had given a month earlier when he spoke on patriofism and Americanism.

The new roster of the Jacksonville Chapter has been compiled and it shows 93 Alumni in the area, 51 of whom are active in the Chapter.

An effort is being made to recmit the non-participating individuals.

The Tallahassee Council of the Navy League very graciously arranged for a pre- and postgame get-together for the Navy/Florida State football game at Tallahassee. A large group was expected to attend from all of the Chapters throughout Florida.

KITTYHAWK (Dayton, Ohio) LCol. Lewis F. Todd USAF 2878 Kant Place Fairbom OH 45324 The Kittyhawk Chapter met with its West Point counterpart on 14 November to hear A. M. "Tony" Ulrich, director of the Football Informafion Bureau, discuss the history of the Army-Navy game. The owner of one of the largest collections of published football material in the world, Mr. Ulrich is considered to be the football historian extraordinary. He was a major contributor to the 1976 Army-Navy Game Football Program commemorating the 50th Anniversary of that game, and has published a book entitled Twenty-Five Memorable College Football Games, one of which is the 1926 Army-Navy game.

The luncheon was a welcome introducfion to the Big Game on 2 December 1978. For the ocShipmate, January-Febraary 1979

casion the Navy invaded enemy territory and visited the DESC Officers' Club where the game and an outstanding buffet made the afternoon a memorable one.

Eariier, on 29 September 1978, VAdm. Paul D. Stroop USN (Ret.) '26, national president of the Naval Academy Alumni Association, spoke to a large gathering of tri-service Academy Alumni. Admiral Stroop shared with the group his observations on systems acquisition. It was a real pleasure and honor to have our national president as a guest speaker for our first meeting.

LOS ANGELES LCdr. Jonathan P. Bromberg USN 14272 Cherrywood Lane Tustin CA 92680 Army-Navy pre-game activifies reached a fever pitch at the stag rally held at El Castillo Real restaurant in Long Beach on 17 November. The Los Angeles and Orange County Chapters of the West Point Society were invited as well, and Ray Malavasi, head coach of the Los Angeles Rams, was to be the main speaker. In addition, a former member of ONI who had worked closely with the Naval Academy Athletic Association in the late Forties and early Fifties was to be called upon to tell all he knew.

On game day, the Orange County group arranged for space in the Anaheim Hyatt Hotel for viewing of the game by alumni of both Academies, while South Bay was arranging for a similar gathering at the Red Onion in Peninsular Center, the Officers' Club at the Naval Support Acfivity in Long Beach would be showing the game, Glendale area residents would gather at the Land Mark, and Brentwood citizens were to meet at the recreation building in that city.

In other activities, the Orange County alumni met to hear Danny Musselman "60 of the city of Costa Mesa staff discuss the role of local government in real estate. This series features a different alumnus at each meeting who describes his business, problems, challenges, etc., providing a wide background of extreme interest to the local residents. In October the alumni from the Naval and Military Academies had met at the Balboa Bay Club where the guest speaker was Congressman Robert E. Badham, member of the House Armed Services Committee.

Martineau, '33 who covered the current state of the Navy, alluded to the Reader's Digest article (AUG '78) "Let's Not Torpedo Our Navy" and other current stories and made recommendations for the membership to counter the critics and support OUR NAVY in these crucial days of intemational stress.

In October the guest speaker was RAdm. Robert G. James, SC, USNR with two members of his reserve organization reporting on the present structure of the reserves, and some examples of the Supply Corps efforts and accomplishments.

In November Cari Ullrich, assistant athlefic director of the Navy Athletic Association, gave a timely report on one of the best teams Annapolis has had in a number of years and made the perennial fearless forecasts on the Classic in Philadelphia when Navy was ready to swamp Army.

As can be seen, the Chapter has outstanding programs and all in the New York area are urged to mark calendars and join their Classmates for luncheon. Customarily there is a no-host bar which opens at 1200 with sit-down and sound off at 1230, followed by a speaker at about 1315, a question and answer period at 1345, and guaranteed secure at 1400 hours.

And a final word from treasurer Joe Armstrong "55—dues are due.

NEWPORT Capt. P. C. Staley USN (Ret.) 2 Kane Ave. Middletown RI 02840 1830—last Tuesday, Sept.-June OClub On 31 October 1978 the Newport Chapter and the Navy League of Newport held a combined dinner at the Officers' Club, Newport, to hear Adm. John S. McCain USN (Ret.) '31 deliver his talk on "The Threat." One hundred and twenty of the faithful gathered to listen to the Admiral's hard-hitfing, outspoken, illustrated talk. The chords were played again on the thesis that must be repeated constantly to drive home to ourselves and our civilian compadres the extreme dangers to the United States posed by the rise of Russian sea power.

We were most fortunate that our gathering occurred at a time when VAdm. P. D. Stroop USN (Ret.) '26 was in town and could attend.

ORLANDO NEW YORK Secy., Capt. Thomas E. Bruyere USN Commanding Officer Navy Recruiting District—New York 1975 Hempstead Turnpike East Meadow, L.I., New York 11554 516/794-9806 The New York Chapter of the Alumni Associafion held its annual Christmas Party at the Commissioned Officers' Mess (Open), USCG Base, Govemor's Island on 7 December. Dinner was served in the beautiful dining room, overlooking the lower bay. Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline. The Chapter ended the Spring '78 Season with Midn. Noreen McQuade, '81 as our luncheon speaker. This was the first fime a female midshipman had addressed the Chapter and Midn. McQuade did a fine job reporting on her Plebe Year.

The Fall '78 Season had been opened in September with an address by RAdm. David L.

Capt. John C. Martin USN (Ret.) 3043 S. Atlanfic Ave., #1006 Daytona Beach Shores FL 32018 1130—2nd Thursday, Sept.-June Naval Training Center Officers' Club Seventy-three members, their ladies and guests, attended the 12 October meeting of the Orlando Chapter of the Alumni Associafion which was highlighted by a new feature insfituted by the chapter president Davy Davenport '36 wherein a 10-15 minute talk by a member relafing humorous or unusual experiences of his military career was started with a talk by Jack Martin '34. Jack spoke of several humorous instances of his submarine command the USS HAMMERHEAD during WWII on its acceptance trials on Lake Michigan, the voyage down the Mississippi River enroute Chicago to New Orleans, and a stopover at Exmouth Gulf in Northern Australia, together with a few perfinent photographs. All present were enthused with the Navy football team's record.

102 At the 9 November meeting with 35 members and guests present, an amusing and interesting talk was given by Jerry Ball '41 on his experiences as COMNAVSTA Guantanamo in the 1961-1962 period. The president announced the resignation of J.E. Flynn '31 as 1st vice president. Jack Martin agreed to move from 2nd vice president to 1st vice president. Davy and Jack, as per the chapter's consent, will perform such additional dufies as necessary due to the vacancy. The usual joint ArmyNavy game meeting will not be held this year due to the USMA Orlando Chapter of the West Point Society nofification that it would not be able to participate. The Navy football team record of 7-1 and No. 1 on defense was enthusiastically commented on by many present. Jack Martin mentioned that at least four 1934 Florida Classmates planned to attend the FSU-Navy game on 18 November.

formative presentation by Lt. Phillip J. Barnett, health benefits officer at the Pensacola Naval Aerospace and Regional Medical Center. The many CHAMPUS and other benefits questions from the audience were a testimony to the value of the program. Our newest Chapter member was Ensign J. D. Oliver USN '78, who had the pleasure of hand delivering (on behalf of his father) our new Alumni Chapter blue and gold banner, for display at the meeting. His father. Captain J.D. Oliver USN "43, who is treasurer and director of Alumni Services at headquarters, thus saved us all the shipping costs from Annapolis!

Those present at 12 October meeting: Walter Taylor '18, Charles Nichelson '19, guest Mrs. James H. Flatley, Jr., widow '29, Mrs. John L. Reynolds, widow '19, David and Lillian Rau '22, Maxwell Wells '22, George and Margaret Robillard '24, Bob and Petey Ashton '25, John Gallaher '26, Bob and Eunice Rice "27, Martin and Toni Stone '27, Swede and Betty Norgaard '28, George and Bea Kohr '29, Knight and Dorothy Pryor '29, Wally and Joann Ebert "30, John and Chloe Howell '30, Joe and Mary Ann Robbins '30, Mrs. Rosemay Livingston, widow of Ward Bronsen '31, Bill and Mary Alice Davis, guest '33, Jack and Jeri Martin '34, Bob and Katie Jackson '35, Bill and Ruth Rossell '35, Oliver and Jane Finnigan '35, Davy and Lucille Davenport '36, Dick and Ruth Lanning '40, Jerry and Betty Ball '41, Jim Conger '42, Frank and Isabel Scarborough '42, Bill and Ann Underwood '42, Bob and Ruth Finley '46, Bill Sims '45, Dave Boyd '50, George F. Darfus '50, guest George H. Darfus, father.

Bob and Bunny Adams '51, Ed and Linda Dillard '56, Bob and Maralynn Smith '56, Jim Amold '59.

Those present at 9 November meeting, if not mentioned above, were: Paul Martin '23, Harmon Bell '25, Horace Trainer '25, Fred Warder '25, Eari Piper '27, Herman Ray '29, Jim Adkins '30, Francis Gambacorta '35, Richard Jack '35, Dick Wallace '36, Jim Marks '38, Jack Beardall '41, Tom Coppedge '42, Tom Utegaard '45, Jack Carlson '47, Lou Branch '49, Bob Coleman '51.

Mr. Glen Edwards, chief executive officer of Manson Construction and Engineering Company, was the speaker at the 2 November 1978 meeting of the Puget Sound Chapter. His organization is a marine-oriented company which has played a prominent part in building and repairing the waterfront and other areas of the region: The company repaired the West Seattle bridge after it was damaged by a freighter some months ago and handled the repairs to the Seattle ferry slips in a similar mishap last year.

The Chapter was happy to have Capt. Wm. S. Busik USN (Ret.) and Mrs. Busik as guests for the October meeting. A discussion of the Alumni Association and some fine Navy football films highlighted the meeting.

Annual elecfion of three trustees whose term expires on 31 December 1978 is being planned.

Pete Ferrall, Alex Hammond and Stan Keck have served three years, and to them many thanks are expressed.

All Alumni in the Seattle area or visiting are urged to join the activities of the Chapter.

Write USNAAA, Puget Sound Chapter, 9010 N.E. 28th St., Bellevue WA 98004 or call 4542872 for information.

PENSACOLA Capt. A. J. Pickert USN (Ret.) 3951 McClellan Drive Pensacola FL 32503 The Pensacola Chapter USNA Alumni Association had its first luncheon meeting of the 1978-79 season at Musfin Officers' Club, NAS Pensacola, on October 27th. Twenty-eight members and guests were present to hear the speaker, Capt. Jack White USN, public affairs officer on the staff of the Chief of Naval Education and Training.

His well-received talk covered a wide range of current events and matters in the Navy as a whole as well as items of specific interest to the Pensacola area. Captain White's bonus event for the occasion was the showing of filmed highlights of the Navy-Boston College football game as originally screened and narrated on a Baltimore television stafion.

The second luncheon meeting of the season was also held at the Musfin O'Club, with twenty-five members present to hear an in-

PUGET SOUND (Seattle) Col. Robert C. Armstead USMC (Ret.) 9010 N.E. 28th St. Bellevue WA 98004

SAN DIEGO/CORONADO Capt. David Nash USN (Ret.) 845 J Avenue Coronado CA 92118 The chapter meetings are becoming ever larger and more eventful. Thursday evening, October 19th, 156 alumni, wives, and guests gathered at the Admiral Kidd Club for camaraderie and to hear Admiral U. S. G. Sharp "27, former CINCPAC, give his evaluation of the state of our national security. But before Admiral Sharp started we had a taste of current life in the United States. Just as dessert was being served there was a bomb threat and everyone was hustled out of the club. After a 30- to 40-minute hiatus the meeting resumed.

Admiral Sharp reviewed the Soviet 2 to I dominance in strategic power, the overwhelming disparity in weapons between the Warsaw Pact forces and Nato forces, and the indicafive Soviet shenanigans in Africa and the Middle East. His summary leads to only one conclusion—we're in deep trouble. And, worse yet, the American public, which should be doing something about it, isn't even aware of our plight, probably because we have not been informed and, to some extent, have been misled. The Admiral challenged the Alumni present to speak out to anyone who will listen, and to express their fears to their Congressmen.

The largest class representations were from '27—Oley Sharp, Walter Price, Ken Keepers, Jimmy Hogg, Meade Kitchen and Harry Hummer—and from '33—Clayton Miller, Henry Rumble, Hank Monroe, Bob MacPherson, John Gamon and Dave Lambert. Once again. Chick Hartman '20 was the senior class alumnus and Ens. John Hueseman '78 stood up for our newest Class. In all, there were alumni present from thirty-six Classes.

The Retenfion Counseling pilot program has shifted into low gear. Gene Farrell '42 is coordinator. He'll be assisted by Fitz Lee, P. D. Stroop and Bob DeWolfe '26, John Kinert '30, Ed Fredericks and Bob MacPherson '33, Mason Freeman and Jack McCormick '35, Walt Phaler and Bob Eriy '37, Hutch Cooper '41, Jim Gammon '48, Frank Curtis '59, George Glavis '61, Dennis McComb '65, and any others who decide to help.

SAN FRANCISCO Capt. Edward E. Kerr USN (Ret.) 34() Hampton Road Piedmont CA 94611 1815—First Wednesday O Club, Treasure Island November's dinner-meeting drew the largest attendance in many years. Eighty-two members and guests were present with representation all the way from Classes '13 to '72. President Joe Pausner '50 congratulated '43 and '48 for their particularly fine tumout.

The speaker was RAdm. John H. ("Red") McQuilkin '35 of the chapter. Red shared with us some of his and Diane's adventures in Saudi Arabia where Red was program manager of the Jubail Project charged with establishing an industrial complex including some 16 major industries, supporting infrastmcture and a new community. This was "the largest construction project by any people in any country at any time" and, among other things, "required moving three times the amount of earth necessary to build the Suez Canal." Red's presentation and his answers to the many questions which followed were exceptionally well received.

By the fime this is published we will be well into the new year with more interesting programs. Be sure to telephone the club at 9825721 for reservafions and then join the crowd.

SANTA BARBARA Capt. H. Hart Kait USN (Ret.) 877 La Milpita Road Santa Barbara CA 93105 The fall dinner-meefing went off great-guns at the Montecito Country Club on Sunday evening, 29 October. In all, sixty-one alumni, wives and guests were there to enjoy the social hour and fabulous dinner for which the club is noted. There is always something very safisfying in seeing Alumni gather from Lompoc, Solvang, Ventura, Mugu, Hueneme, and other points north and south at the meetings in Santa Barbara. Ells Roth '21 ventured to ask a number if they minded coming so far for the dinner-meetings and the uniform response was " N o " ; that they loved to get away once in a while to visit beautiful Santa Barbara.

As a warm-up for the state elecfions, we had our own for chapter officers. But, unlike the statewide frenzy of campaigning, mud-slinging, and money-spending, we conducted our own very tranquil session and came up with a good non-polifical board. For 1979: president—John Shipmate, January-February 1979

103 L. Nielsen '37; vice president—William J. Stewart '63; Secy-treas—H. Hart Kait '34; members—E. Ellsworth Roth '21 and Russell H. Chrisfian '48A. This was followed by a unanimous expression of thanks to Bob Swalley '52 for a fine job as president over the past two years. Bob Garrels '33 was on the original slate but had to bow out because Bob and Jane are selling their lovely home in Montecito and soon will be heading for North Carolina to setfle down and be closer to their daughters and grandchildren.

In September we lost our oldest member, Hans Ertz '12. Roth and Kait attended the services and the chapter sent a memorial gift to the Naval Academy Foundation, Inc. The next meefing will be the winter gettogether in January with the exact date and place to be announced by flyer.

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA Mr. Kenneth Duckworth 5201 SW 163rd Ave. Davie FL 33331 The Southeast Florida Chapter of the Alumni Association joined with the West Point Society at the Surf Club in Miami Beach for THE GAME on 2 December. A crowd worthy of this noteworthy event was expected.

TEXAS GULF COAST Mr. Robert E. Kenyon '48 2204 Shadowdale Dr. Houston TX 77043 The Texas Gulf Coast Chapter convened at the Houston Club on Friday noon, November 3, 1978. The main theme of the meeting was to generate enthusiasm for the Notre Dame game by showing an Athlefic Association film on the '77 football season. Zealous informal reports by those who witnessed the Pitt game

heightened confidence which later proved to be somewhat misguided.

Those in the cheering section were: '20, A. D. Blackledge; '24, Hap Goodall; '25, Bob Foose; '32, Jim Humrichouse; '42, Jim Leipper; '44, Joe Grace and Jack Keller; '45 Jim Cook, Larry Smith, R. J. Dzikowski and John Kirby Ewing; '47, Dick Hollyer, John Swenson and Lou Romatowski; '48, Bob Kenyon and Stretch Rennacker; '52, Tom Stolle; '53, Rip Taylor; '54, Joe Derric; '56, Charies Chavarria and Choppy Chusachs; '57, Jerry McGough; '61, Curt Gibby; '63, Frank Radik; '66, Walt Fritschner; '67, Bill Cray; '69, Tom Wojiechowski; '71, Sam Crimaldi and Vic Linck; Carter Conlin, Blue and Gold Officer.

The nineteen aUendees of the October meeting were: Lauren Ashley '51, Al Harmon '24, Harry England '27, Dick Hayes '38, Ed Fraechfl '40, Bill Geiger '45, Earie Stewart '45, Bob Litke '48, Ralph Vander Naillen '51, Julian Roche '55, Chariie Pinkham '58, Paul Stiller '58, Darrel Gonyea '61, Denny Moore '61, Thane Hawkins '62, Dennis Doherty '63, Dick Lee '64, Jack Planfin '64, John DoUerschell '70.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Cdr. R. S. Day USN (Ret.) P.O. Box 6042, Shiriington Station Ariington VA 22206

The meeting on 18 October was billed as an opportunity to question Paul Warnke on SALT. Although his refirement was announced Mr. John DoUerschell, Secy ./Treas. prior to the meefing, we had not anficipated 8520 West 25th Street that he would be called back to Geneva hours St. Louis Park MN 55426 prior to the luncheon. On short notice, RAdm. The Upper Midwest Chapter held its regular Tom D. Davies, '37 assistant director, monthly meeting on Friday, 13 October 1978, AC&DA, filled in. He developed a jusfification at the Decathalon Club in Bloomington, Min- for SALT before a skeptical audience. While nesota. The first order of business was the not all may have been safisfied with what they business committee's proposal to offer, per our heard, Tom did give everyone plenty to think by-laws, an associate membership to Capt. about. VAdm. Robert Baldwin, Chief of Naval Rod Gmbb USNR, who is the Blue and Gold Personnel, was the guest speaker on 15 officer for the Upper Midwest Chapter area. November. He has been impressed with the The proposal was approved unanimously. professionalism of the officers and men of the A special guest, Lauren Ashby, USMA '51, fleet; but, like all administrators in the people attended the meefing to act as a liaison be- business sees a demographic change in the futween our respective Army-Navy game party ture which will reduce available manpower. committees. The party has become a tradition This points up the necessity of integrating in this area, and is joinfly sponsored each year women into the service. by our two alumni groups. Darrel Gonyea '61 The luncheon meefings, held the third Wedpresented the report of our party committee, nesday at The Army-Navy Club, are open to and a number of items conceming the prepara- any Alumni whether members of the Chapter tions for the party were discussed. Al Harmon or not. The last meeting at the Club will be '24 continued the Upper Midwest Chapter tra- held in May 1979. Beginning in September dition by closing the meeting with his stock 1979, we will meet at the Ft. Myer Officers' market report.

Club.

UPPER MIDWEST

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 ADAMS, DUSTIN STETSON '39, 9 October 1978, Boothbay ME AKINS, CLIFFORD MILLER '25, I November 1978, Wayzata MN BLANTON, WILLIAM DUNN JR '72 (LT USN), 2 November 1978, USS CONSTELLATION

BOWEN, WILLIAM PORTER '10, I November 1978, San Diego CA BOWMAN, MERLE FRANCIS '33 (CAPT USN RET), 27 November 1978, Monterey CA CAFFERATA, WILLIAM FRANCIS '43 (CAPT USN RET), 13 December 1978, Arlington VA CARUTHERS, WILLIAM ROWELL '27 (CAPT USN RET), 30 October 1978, Jupiter FL COLLINS, GEORGE WILLIAM '28 (CDR USNR RET), II December 1978, Washington DC CUNNINGHAM, FREDERICK JOHN '20 (LT USN RET), 24 December 1978, Bethesda MD DALLMAN, DAVID EDWARD '30, 5 No vember 1978. (Tucson AZ) Shipmate, January-February 1979

DYER, JOHN RAYMOND '25, 4 September 1978, Wiscasset ME ENIS, THALBERT WRIGHT '30, 9 November 1978, Ariington VA FINK, CARL KENNETH '19 (RADM USN RET), 4 December 1978, Washington DC GRAHAM, ROY WILLIAM MONTROSE '20 (RADM USN RET), 8 December 1978, North Ft. Myers FL HARRITT, WILLIAM LOWELL '45, Novem her 1978, Sumter SC HUSTVEDT, OLAF MANDT '09 (VADM USN RET), 22 December 1978, Washington DC KING, GEORGE CARLETON '24, 23 October 1978, Sun City AZ MALONEY, JOHN LAURENCE '31 (CAPT USN RET), 22 September 1978, Malverne NY MARTELL, CHARLES BOWLING '30 (VADM USN RET). II November 1978. Augusta GA MCFALL, EDWARD ALSPAUGH '25 (RADM USN RET), 23 November 1978, San Jose CA MCLAUGHLIN, ROBERT ENOCH '29 (LCDR

USNR), 19 November 1978, Blue Hill ME MIKAL, RANDY ANDREW '74 (LT USN), 2 November 1978, USS CONSTELLATION

MONVILLE, LOUIS GILLES '40 (LCOL USMC RET), 3 October 1978 (Hunfington Beach CA) O'MEARA, DONALD JOHN '39 (CAPT USN RET), 20 December 1978, West Palm Beach FL OSGOOD, WENTWORTH HARRINGTON '12 (CAPT USN RET), 22 October 1978, La Jolla CA PEGRAM, ROBERT QUINN JR '46, 7 No vember 1978, (Boerne TX) ROCKWELL, FRANCIS WARREN '08 (VADM USN RET), 2 January 1979, Simons Island GA ROGERS, WILLIS NEWMAN '21 (CAPT USN RET), 17 October 1978, Oriando FL ROSECRANS, ROBERT DARLING '51 (LCOL USMC RET), 14 October 1978 (Virginia Beach VA) ROWLEY, CHARLES STODDARD '54 (LCOL

104 USAF), MIA changed to KIA 3 November 1978: MIA since 22 April 1970, Laos.

SEXTON, HORATIO CLAY '20 (CAPT USN RET), 26 December 1978, Annapolis MD SNEDEKER, JAMES '25 (BGEN USMC RET), 23 November 1978, San Diego CA WALLER, FRANKLIN PRICE '19, March 1978, Easton MD WATERS, JOHN AUGUSTINE JR '21 (RADM USN RET), 28 December 1978, Ariington VA ( ) around place of death indicates home town at time of death if specific location is unknown.

WILLIAM HENRY STILES IV '08 Capt. William Henry Sfiles IV USN (Ret.) died on 19 October 1978 in Bradenton, Florida.

Private services were held in Bradenton with interment in Arlington Nafional Cemetery on 24 October. Capt. Sfiles was the 7th oldest graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Appointed to the Academy from the State of Georgia, his twenty-seven years of active duty embraced both sea and shore station including convoy duty during World War I. He was a member of the Alumni Association and the Sons of the American Revolution.

He is survived by his widow, Eleanor, 5215 14th Ave. W., Bradenton FL 33505; a sister and a brother.

WILLIAM PORTER BOWEN '10 Dr. William Porter Bowen died on 1 November 1978 in San Diego, California.

Memorial services were planned for 7 November at St. James-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church with interment in El Camino Memorial Park.

Dr. Bowen was appointed to the Naval Academy with the Class of 1910 from the State of Tennessee, but he left the Academy at the end of his youngster year and attended the Vanderbilt University Medical School where he received his degree in 1914. He served as a physician on a French ship in 1916, then became a regimental surgeon in the British Medical Corps at the beginning of Worid War I. He later transferred to the U.S. Army Medical Corps and served as a captain unfil 1919. For 26 years he pracficed medicine in Lindsay, California, before entering semi-refirement in La Jolla in 1946, taking full refirement in 1961.

He is survived by his widow, Veronica, and two sons, all of La Jolla.

WENTWORTH HARRINGTON OSGOOD '12 Capt. Wentworth Harrington Osgood USN (Ret.) died on 22 October 1978 in La Jolla, Califomia. Services were held at El Camino Mortuary.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Ohio, he was graduated with the Class of 1912, then proceeded to sea in VIRGINIA. Other sea duty included the yacht EAGLE, batfleship NEVADA and cmiser CHESTER. During World War I he was stationed at Brest, France, then had command of the destroyers REID and BLAKELEY. He later attended postgraduate school and took a master's degree in petroleum engineering at Columbia University.

He also studied at the University of Pittsburgh Petroleum Engineering School and later was assigned as officer-in-charge to the territories of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in the naval petroleum reserves. Other duty was at the Bureau of Ships and aboard TENNESSEE, and while serving on these duties he wrote a twovolume discussion on Increasing the Recovery of Petroleum.

Upon his refirement in 1932 he was employed for a time in the California office of the Oil Umpire, then formed his own business as an oil consulting practifioner. In 1939 he was recalled to active duty, still serving in petroleum matters, then was ordered as Commandant, Naval Base, Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, and later he commanded the V-12 Unit at the California Institute of Technology. He was retumed to the refired list in 1945. One of the most interesting assignments he had had during the naval career that spanned 38 years was duty in Casper, Wyoming, from 1924-28 when he was the naval petroleum representative during the hectic days of the Teapot Dome scandal.

After his second refirement, he received a master of arts degree in Latin American studies from the Claremont Graduate School.

He is survived by his widow, Ruth, 939 Coast Boulevard, LaJolla CA 92037; a daughter and two grandchildren.

CARL KENNETH FINK '19 RAdm. Cari Kenneth Fink USN (Ret.) died on 4 December 1978 in Washington, D.C. Services were held at the Ft. Myer Chapel on 7 December with interment in Arlington Nafional Cemetery.

Bom in the District of Columbia, he was graduated from the Naval Academy with the Class of 1919 on 6 June 1918, the beginning of a career that spanned over 37 years of active duty and included service on board battleships, carriers, destroyers and craisers. During World War I he served in AYLWIN in European waters, joining British forces patrolling out of Portsmouth and Devonport. In World War II he was executive officer of the cmiser ST. Louis at Peari Harbor on 7 December 1941. one of the few large ships that was able to present any resistance to the Japanese attack. ST. Louis was credited with downing three enemy aircraft that day. Later (then) Capt. Fink took command of the cmiser BALTIMORE and was awarded the Legion of Merit twice for intrepid action against the enemy in the Central Pacific and off Okinawa.

Shore stations included the Branch Hydrographic Office in Cleveland, the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps at Northwestem University, and several tours of duty at the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Among the assignments that he had in Washington were: assistant director of training, director of Naval Officer Procurement, and president of the board to transfer reserve officers to the regular Navy.

He later was assistant Chief of Naval Personnel for the Naval Reserve, and his last active duty before final refirement in 1955 was as representative for the Chief of Naval Personnel on the Physical Review Council for the physical retirement of naval personnel.

Always interested in Class and Alumni Activities, he was treasurer of the Class of 1919.

He is survived by his widow, Eloise, 4401 Chesapeake St. N.W., Washington DC 20016; a daughter, two grandchildren, and a brother.

WILLIS NEWMAN ROGERS '21 Capt. Willis Newman Rogers USN (Ret.) died on 17 October 1978 in Orlando, Florida.

Mass of Christian Burial was offered in Blessed Trinity Church in Orlando with interment in Woodiawn Memorial Park.

Appointed to the Naval Academy after taking examinafions while serving as an enlisted man, he was graduated with the Class of 1921

on 3 June 1920. He served on various destroyers and cruisers, then in the Department of the Navy, Washington. From there he was ordered to the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn where he served successively as design superintendent, planning officer, and industrial engineering officer. Following this duty he was assigned to the Eastem Sea Fronfier as officer-in-charge of the mothballing of excess ships of the Fleet.

Upon his retirement in 1951 he joined the Marine Electric Corporation of Brooklyn in charge of internafional sales. He was a life member of the American Legion and past department commander of both the Merchant Marine Industries Post in Manhattan and Hut No. 5 of the Retreads, veterans of World Wars I and II. His decorations included the rank of commander in the Order of Orange-Nassau from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands.

He is survived by his widow, Mary-Jane, of Orlando; two sons, two grandsons, and a sister.

HUBERT GEORGE SCHNEIDER '21 Mr. Hubert George Schneider died on 14 October 1978 in Houston, Texas. Memorial services were held at the Chapel of St. John the Divine in Houston on 17 October.

Hubert George Schneider Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of New York, he was graduated with the Class of 1921 and was ordered to sea in ARIZONA. In 1923 he resigned his commission to join the C. F. Braun Company, an engineering firm in Alhambra, Califomia, retiring from that organizafion in 1963 as a vice president.

He also was the owner and operator of the Over-the-Grass Farm, a thorouglibred breeding farm in The Plains, Virginia, where he raised several stakes winners including a starter in the Kentucky Derby. He also was interested in environmental studies and helped establish successful tree farms in the Rapides and St. Tammany Parishes of Louisiana. He was a life member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association as well as numerous professional and business organizations.

He is survived by his widow Geraldine, 2103 Stonewalk, Houston TX 77056, and several cousins in New York and Wilmington, Delaware.

MAXWELL HOWARD MIZELL '23 LCol. Maxwell Howard Mizell USMC (Ret.) died on 3 October 1978 in Los Angeles, California. He was a member of the Masonic Order. Graveside services were held at Arlington Nafional Cemetery on 11 October.

Graduated with the Class of 1923, he received his commission in the Marine Corps and immediately began a career which included Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

105 service in Haiti. Cuba. Panama. Nicaragua.

Guam. Hawaii, Iceland, China, and at sea. He also attended the U.S. Army Signal School at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and thereafter specialized in telephone, radio, and microwave communication engineering. During World War II he was operations officer with the Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet, then battalion commander, regimental commander, and commanding officer of the Cease Fire Team in China. After being transferred to the retired list in 1947 he joined the General Lexington Company of Santa Monica, Califomia, as a communications engineer. He was a member of the Alumni Association, the Institute of Radio Engineers, and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. While on acfive duty he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the countries of Nationalist China and Nicaragua.

He is survived by his widow Edna, 125 N. Barrington Ave.. Los Angeles CA 90049.

GEORGE CARLETON KING '24 Mr. George Carleton King died on 23 October 1978 in Sun City, Arizona.

State of Minnesota, he left in his youngster year and attended the School of Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 1933 he joined the Marquette Corporation and retired from this organization in 1964 as an executive vice president. He was a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, the Masons, and the Naval Academy and University of Minnesota Alumni Associations.

He is survived by his widow, Agnes, 2545 Dunwoody Avenue, Wayzata MN 55391; two sons, a daughter, seven grandchildren, a brother and a sister.

WILLIAM ROWELL CARUTHERS '27 Capt. William Rowell Caruthers USN (Ret.) died on 30 October 1978 in Jupiter, Florida.

Private funeral services were held on I November.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Arkansas, he was graduated with the Class of 1927 and proceeded to sea in MARYLAND. Later sea duty included PEARY, BARKER, and NEVADA, whereupon he was

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dered to postgraduate school. He later had duty with SubRon FIVE, then joined the Naval Examining Board for two years. Destroyer duty followed in MONSSEN and he later had JOHN RAYMOND DYER '25 command of MACLEISH, serving on coastwise LCdr. John Raymond Dyer USNR (Ret.) died patrol and convoy duty when hostilities broke out in 1941. He later joined the amphibious on 4 September 1978 in Wiscasset, Maine.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the force for the invasion in North Africa and SicState of Missouri, he was a member of the ily, then was assigned to the staff of the Allied Class of 1925 but left prior to graduation. He Naval Commander for the invasion of Norlater studied at Princeton and took a degree in mandy. He was made a commander of the law from Harvard, specializing in aviation. He Order of the British Empire and received his practiced in St. Louis and also worked for first Legion of Merit and the Navy commendaUnited Air Lines in Chicago but in 1942 he was tion Medal with Combat V as well as the called to active duty, first serving with the French Croix de Guerre for this duty.

Following the war he took command of the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, then being transferred to Geraldton, West Australia. Underway Training Unit in Key West, Florida, He later served at the Navy Military Govern- and served in the Korean War. His last active ment School at Princeton and its Army equiva- duty was as commanding officer of the Naval lent at Stanford. After the war he returned to Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was the practice of law, working for a time in New awarded another Legion of Merit and two York City and then returning to St. Louis. He more Navy Commendation Medals prior to later moved to Maine. He was a member of the being transferred to the retired list in 1957.

He is survived by his widow, Marian, P.O. Naval Academy Alumni Associafion.

He is survived by his widow Jean, Box 178, Box 3203, Jupiter FL 33458; two daughters, three brothers, and a grandson.

Wiscasset ME 04578, and a daughter.

CARLETON CROSBY HOFFNER '25

LESLIE ARNOLD MARTIN '27 Mr. Leslie Arnold Martin died on 1 October 1978 in Charleston, West Virginia. Memorial services were held in Charleston on 3 October with interment at Cunningham Cemetery in St. Albans, West Virginia.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of West Virginia, he was graduated with the Class of 1927 but resigned upon graduafion to join the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia. He was retired from this organization in 1967 as vice president, personnel.

He is survived by three sonsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Michael M., 4328 Lake Limestone, Baton Rouge LA 70815, Larry of Houston, Texas, and David of Charieston, and a daugher, Leslie Neal of Roper, North Carolina.

RAdm. Carleton Crosby Hoffner USN (Ret.) died on 30 October 1978 in Ariington, Virginia.

Graveside services were held at Arlington NaAppointed to the Naval Academy from the tional Cemetery on 2 November.

State of Arizona, he was graduated with the A native of Florida, he entered the Naval Class of 1924 and reported for sea in NEW Academy after service as an enlisted man and MEXICO, later transferring to the destroyer was graduated with the Class of 1925. Sea duty MooDV. After three and a half years with the followed, then postgraduate school including Fleet, he resigned his commission and took up Columbia University where he was awarded a ranching at Promontory Point, Utah, but later Master of Science in Electrical Engineering joined the El Paso Electric Company as an degree. Returning to sea, he was serving on engineer. In 1936 he moved to Brockton, Mas- board ARGONNE at Peari Harbor on 7 Decemsachusetts, as sales manager for the Brockton ber 1941. The ship assisted in the repair of vesEdison Company. In 1941 he retumed to active sels damaged in the holocaust, then attempted duty as engineering officer of MONADNOCK, a salvage of the steamer PRESIDENT TAYLOR at minelayer, then became executive officer of Canton Island. He later joined the batfleship SALEM, a ship which he later commanded. He TENNESSEE, followed by command of HAMUL. served in both the Pacific and Atlantic Thea- During World War II he participated in the CHARLES BOWLING MARTELL '30 ters for a 49-month period and was awarded Aleutian campaign and the batfles of Tarawa, VAdm. Charles Bowling Martell USN (Ret.) the Bronze Star Medal while on active duty.

Marshall Islands, the Marianas, Guam, Saipan, died on II November 1978 in Augusta, GeorUpon returning to civilian life he joined the and Tinian. His awards included the Bronze gia. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at Boston Edison Company as general sales man- Star Medal, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Ft. Myer Chapel with interment in Arager, then worked in New York City with the the Navy Unit Commendation. Later duty was lington Nafional Cemetery on 14 November. engineering and consulting firm of Stone and in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Appointed to the Naval Academy from the Webster as vice president. In 1964 he was followed in 1952 by the command of the Little District of Columbia, he was graduated with elected president of the Jamaica Public Service Creek Amphibious Base, then assignment to the Class of 1930. As a midshipman he was a Co. Ltd., and moved to Kingston, Jamaica. He the Office of Naval Material in Washington. member of the varsity wrestling team. Upon refired from this position in 1968 and moved to He was transferred to the retired list in 1955. graduation he was assigned to the heavy Sun City.

After retirement he taught for a time in the cmiser CHESTER, then joined the fitfing-out He is survived by his widow Gerry, 10823 high school system of Arlington and also crew of the destroyer HULL. In 1936 he reMadison Dr., Sun City AZ 85351; a daughter worked as a manufacturer's representative for tumed to Annapolis in the postgraduate school the Arnoit Corporation. He was a member of and confinued his training at Camegie Insfitute and two sons. the National and Virginia Huguenot societies, where he took the degree of Master of Science CLIFFORD MILLER AKINS '25 the Sons of the American Revolution, National in Metallurgy. In 1939 he joined NEW MEXICO Mr. Clifford Miller Akins died on 1 Sojourners Inc., and the George Washington as gunnery officer, then was ordered to the Department of the Navy for a tour of duty at November 1978 in Wayzata, Minnesota. Camp, Heroes of '76.

Memorial services were held on 4 November at He is survived by his widow, Josephine, the headquarters of the Commander in Chief, the Lakewood Cemetery Chapel with inter- 2327 S. Nash St., Ariington VA 22202; and a U.S. Fleet. He was awarded the Legion of ment in the Lakewood Mausoleum. son Carieton Jr. (USNA 1952) of Palo Alto, Merit for service in the readiness division during World War II. Appointed to the Naval Academy from the Califomia.

George Carleton King

Shipmate, January-Febraary 1979

106 Retuming to sea, he had command of the attack cargo ship UNION and the fleet oiler AuCILLA, then returned to Washington as assistant director of the Atomic Energy Division with addifional duties in the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. He later was fleet operations officer on the staff of Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and subsequently commanded MISSISSIPPI during the operational evaluafion of the Terrier missile. Upon detachment from this ship he took command of BOSTON, the world's first guided missile cmiser. He later assumed the duty of deputy director of naval intelligence, then was ordered as Commander Cmiser Division FOUR unfil April 1959 when he was assigned as director of a special planning group for the merger of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Bureau of Ordnance into the Bureau of Weapons. Complefing this historic evolufion, he thereupon became principal execufive to the deputy Chief of Naval Operafions for development. Admiral Martell's wide operational background coupled with an excellent technical education plus a background in the development of atomic energy for naval use and pioneer experience in anti-air warfare missiles made him an excellent choice for this post. He later was assigned as deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering, Administration and Management, in the office of the Secretary of Defense. Prior to being transferred to the retired list he served as director of the anti-submarine warfare programs.

It is interesfing to note that Admiral Martell was the first member of his Class to be nominated for flag rank and he reluctantly relinquished command of BOSTON to accept his new post in Washington. Just prior to his antisubmarine warfare program service, he had commanded the Second Fleet. In November, 1967, after over 37 years of commissioned service, having earned two Legion of Merit awards and the Distinguished Service Medal, Vice Admiral Martell was transferred to the retired list. He first setfled in Santa Barbara, California, and embarked upon an extremely active civilian career as a consultant to industry and government committees and an active member of the National Academy of Science.

He later moved to South Carolina to be closer to his grandchildren.

He is survived by his widow Mary, 239 Midland Drive, Graniteville SC 29829; a daughter, twelve grandchildren, and six greatgrandchildren.

Bom in Troy, New York, he served as an enlisted man in the Navy prior to receiving his appointment to the Naval Academy. Upon graduation with the Class of 1930, his flrst sea

ELLISON and the repair ship DIONYSUS. He was

also commanding officer of the Fleet Training Center at Norfolk and Chief of Staff to ComMineLant. Upon retirement in I960 he was duty was in TRENTON, followed by ARIZONA administrative officer of the New York Naval and then destroyer duty including HOVEY and Shipyard. During his active duty he was MACLEISH. Further assignments included awarded two Legion of Merit awards, three study at the postgraduate school in communi- Bronze Star Medals, three Navy Commendacations, service in IDAHO and NEVADA and the tion Medals, and the Navy Unit CommendaJoint Chiefs of Staff, command of DYSON, and tions. then duty with or command of ComDesDivs 32 After his retirement he became chief inspecand 102. He later was training officer on the staff of commander. Training Force, Pacific, tor for the comptroller of the City of New York then took command of MENARD, followed by and in that capacity was responsible for the induty in Washington. His final active duty was spection of all materials purchased for the city. in Heidelberg, Germany, with the Military Sea He retired from that position in 1973.

He is survived by his widow, Edna Brennan Transport Service, and he was transferred to the retired list in 1958. He was awarded the Maloney, 17 Clinton St., Malverne NY 11565.

Silver Star Medal and Bronze Star Medal with Gold Star and Combat V while on active serv- JACK BELLAMY STAUFFER '31 Mr. Jack Bellamy Stauffer died on 9 ice.

November 1978 in Lutherville, Maryland.

Extremely acfive in civil life, upon refire- Memorial services were held on 11 November ment he attended the Califomia State Univer- at the Central Presbyterian Church in Baltisity at Long Beach and then taught in city more. schools for several years. He was one of the A native of Denver, Mr. Stauffer was founders of the Beach Area Concerned Citi- graduated with the Class of 1931 but did not zens, campaigning for "a lot of trees and clean accept his commission. He taught in the water and a better place to live, not people engineering department of the Polytechnic Inentombed in wall-to-wall high rises." He was a stitute of Baltimore for thirty years prior to remember of the Military and Hospitaller Order tiring in 1968. of St. Lazarus of Jemsalem, the Sfavy League, He is survived by his widow Ervina, 1021 the Alumni Association, and the Concerned Adcock Road, Lutherville MD 21093; two Citizens of Long Beach. sons, two sisters and two granddaughters.

He is survived by his widow, Ann, 3134 E. First St., Long Beach CA 90830; two sons, a FRANCIS DENNIS BOYLE '34 step-daughter, ten grandchildren, three RAdm. Francis Dennis Boyle USN (Ret.) brothers and two sisters. died on 22 October 1978 in the Silas B. Hays Army Hospital. A Mass of Christian Burial JOHN LAURENCE MALONEY '31 was celebrated at the Catholic Chapel of the Capt. John Laurence Maloney USN (Ret.) Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey on 24 died on 22 September 1978 in Malverne, New October with interment in Everett, WashingYork. Interment was at Holy Rood Cemetery ton. in Westbury, New York.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Washington, he was graduated with State of New York, he was graduated with the the Class of 1934 and had his first tour at sea in Class of 1931. He had attended Manhattan Col- MARBLEHEAD prior to volunteering for the lege for a year and a half prior to receiving his submarine service. After having completed appointment to the Academy. During World training in New London, he reported to the War II he put in commission and took com- Asiatic Stafion, serving in China, the Philipmand of the minesweeper STRIVE, sailing in pines and the Dutch East Indies before returnthat ship to North Africa for operations in the ing to the United States in 1940 to help reMediterranean. He participated in the inva- commission submarines just before World War sions of Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Southern II. When hostilities began he was executive ofFrance, first in STRIVE and then as Com- ficer of USS S-33 in Argentia, Newfoundland, MineDiv 17. He later was ordered to the and he continued in submarines, commissioning and taking command of CHARR in 1944. A

LAWRENCE ERNEST RUFF '30 RAdm. Lawrence Ernest Ruff USN (Ret.) died on ,20 October 1978 in Long Beach, California. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St. Matthew Church in Long Beach with interment at the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery on 23 October.

Lawrence Finest Ruff

John Laurence Maloney Pacific where he served on the staff of ComMinePac and later as ComMine Squadron 10, participating in the action off Okinawa and sweeping Tokyo Bay prior to the entrance of MISSOURI. He later was attached to the staff of Commander Seventh Fleet and opened up the port of Shanghai and the Formosa Straits.

After the war he commanded the destroyer

series of daring and courageous acfions followed including the rescue of two fliers off the coast of Indo-China in broad daylight, the sinking of the Japanese cmiser Isuzu after a 4-day chase, destrucfion of a coastal freighter, and service in a wolf pack which sank the Japanese submarine 1-351. He was awarded the Navy Cross for this service.

After the war he taught at the General Line School in Newport, then studied at the Guided Missile School at Fort Bliss, Texas, before spending a year at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where he was a pioneer in the development of the Navy's guided missile program. His next tour at sea was in command of the destroyer BRAD-

FORD, followed by duty at the Armed Forces Staff College, then service as the head of the Guided Missile Research and Development Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. He later had duty as the head of the Guided Missile Evaluation Unit at the Naval Air Stafion, San Diego, and his final active duty was a chief of Shipmate, January-February 1979

107 the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in Norway. He was also awarded the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat V for wartime service.

Active in civic affairs, he had served as historian for the Allen Knight Maritime Museum in Monterey, and he was a member of the American Rocket Society, the Naval Institute, and the Alumni Associafion.

He is survived by his widow Marjorie, 8 Windsor Rise, Monterey CA 39340; two daughters, two grandchildren, two sisters and a brother.

WILLIAM TUNIS SWEETMAN '47 William Tunis Sweetman died on 22 November in St. Joseph Hospital near his home in Westford, MassachuseUs. Funeral services were held at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, on 25 November.

Following graduation on 5 June 1946, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U. S. Marine Corps. He served three years in the Orient and Guam before retuming to the states for duty at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington. In 1950 he was transferred to DUSTIN STETSON ADAMS '39 ADOR and then commanded SPIKEFISH in 1952. Adak, Alaska. Subsequently, he became exMr. Dustin Stetson Adams died on 9 OctoShore duty in the Bureau of Ordnance fol- ecutive officer of the Marine Detachment at ber 1978 in Boothbay, Maine. Private memorial lowed. He attended George Washington Uni- the Hawthome, Nevada Ammunifion Depot. services were scheduled. versity and earned his master's degree in busi- He was awarded the Bronze Star with the Appointed to the Naval Academy from the ness administrafion in 1958. He then served as Combat V for service as commander of a rifle State of Maine, he was graduated with the Comptroller, Headquarters of the Naval company in Korea and later resigned as a CapClass of 1939 but did not accept his commisForces in Japan. He retumed to sea duty as tain USMC while stafioned at Quanfico. sion. From 1939 to 1942 he was employed by executive officer of the RIGEL in 1960. His last After three years on a sixty-acre farm in Remington Arms-Dupont, but was then retour of duty was program manager for fleet Maine where he excelled as a lumberjack and called to active duty and served in minesweepliaison in the Bureau of Naval Weapons. After homesteader, he entered the world of elecing throughout the period of hosfilifies, primarrefirement in 1964, he was with the Planning tronics at IBM, Owego, New York. He then ily in SUSTAIN in the Mediterranean and later Research Corporafion unfil 1969, then was joined Sikorsky followed by Winchester Elecoff the Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific. The ship business manager at Montgomery County tronics before becoming a manufacturer's sales participated in several landings and invasions Community College unfil 1971. After extensive representative. Subsequently he formed his in North Africa and Italy and also rescued 30 travel in Europe, he was involved in invest- own company, B & W Associates (distributors, survivors from the German submarine U-371 ments and real estate. His decorafions include representatives, and nraanufacturer of radio freafter she was sunk while attacking the French the Bronze Star, Navy Unit Commendafion, quency components) in Burlington, Masship SENEGALAIS in the Mediterranean. In 1946 Submarine Combat Insignia, and a Commenda- sachusetts. He was a member of the Board of he retumed to the DuPont organization in tion by Finance Ministry, Govemment of Ja- Tmstees of the U. S. Naval Academy FoundaWilmington, Delaware, and retired from the pan. tion. It has been requested that contributions company in 1974 after having served over to his memory be sent to the Class of 1947 He is survived by his widow, Frances; a son. thirty years with the texfile fiber division.

Jack G. Hudson; a daughter, Bari H. Herbert; Scholarship Fund which he established.

He is survived by his widow, Ruth, 2713 SilHe is survived by his widow, the former and a son, Donald T. Hudson; and five grandverside Road, Wilmington DE 19810; a son and Betty Lucas, and his sister, Mrs. Dorothy children. a daughter, two stepsons and a stepdaughter, a Lloyd of Toms River, New Jersey. brother and a sister and five grandchildren.

JACK GARDNER HUDSON '43 Cdr. Jack Gardner Hudson USN (Ret.) died on 6 October 1978 in McLean, Virginia. Funeral services were held on 10 October with interment in Arlington National Cemetery.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the state of New York, he was graduated with the Class of 1943 on June 19, 1942. Duty followed on the aircraft carriers. RANGER and YORKTOWN. After completing Submarine School, he served in the submarines CUTTLEFISH and SEA OWL. A tour of duty at the Naval Academy followed and in 1951, he returned to submarine duty aboard the VOL-

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