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FORTHOSEWHO IDVE IANDSQ\PE TH/^S SHAPED KfTHETDES: H^STIME For the fisherman, the yachtsman, the seafood gourmet. For the lubber who just likes the sound of water lapping under the docks. For anyone whose spirits lift with a hint of salt air— .it's .time. There's a waterfront condominium community in Annapolis called Severn House. f -. ' And it's ready for you. '" ' •'. "f; There are 1, 2 and 3 bedroom models for you to choose from. , • They're all unusually spacious, witlj walk-in closets, updated kitchens with table space. Big balconies framed in dark timber. ^ T h e coiTUTiunity is green and shady, with grounds curving and sloping to a protected inlet of Back Creek. Tliere are ; A pri\ ate docks with 135 deepwat^r slips. There is a swimming - " * ' " ' pool with its own SLinning plaza and . ^ bathhouse. And everywhere •J.' there are green lawns, 4 I ^ '-clustered shrubs and ^ stands of old trees to ,S catch the breeze.

I You can walk or \ '\ bike to City Dock [ -J- in downtown Anna^ polls to watch the ' j sailboat races. To . '.^ sample oysters at the * , ^. .. . ratfbar and fill your basket with "^' •' •'.'• . fresh'^roduce and* baked goods at the .,>,' " '*. ' • Market House. Stroll the walks and alley-ways of, •*< ..' ; liistoric Ailnapolis. * * . " ' .' Or set sail across the Chesapeake on a fiiie dav, v\ith a crew ctf friends ijrtd pleiity of provisions. With your boat this close to home tbiere's more time * for spiir-of-the nioment cruises.

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^ u don't have to go to sea to learn tolaunch Harpoon Training on the Harpoon, until now, has meant pulling a ship into port. And out of service.

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United States Naval Academy Alumni Association

Shipmate ISSN 0488-6720 (USPS 494-440) Executive Director W. S. BUSIK, '43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

Volume 43, Number 4

May, 1980

FEATURES June Week West '80

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Joint Service Academies Cruise

by Adm. Roy L. Johnson USN (Ret.)

Executive Secretary BARRIE ISLEV-PETERSEN

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A Seapower Partnership

by RAdm. Penrose L. Albright JAGC USNR-R Treasurer and Director of Alumni JAMES D. OLIVER, '43 Captain, U. S. Navy (Retired)

Director of Development 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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Royal Navy/Merchant Navy Coordination

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U.S. Sea Transport

by RAdm. George H. Miller USN (Ret.)

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Oceanic Policy

by Capt. Gilven M. Slonim USN (Ret).

A Change of Life

by Edward S. McLean Initiative

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Editorial Assistant CORDELIA RICHARDS

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Contributors' Biographies REAR ADMIRAL PENROSE L. ALBRIGHT (JAGC) USNR-R Admiral Albright is a 1946 honors graduate of the Merchant Marine Academy, with service as a cadet engineer in a T-2 tanker in 1944. He alternated between sailing as engineering officer in U.S. tankers and attending George Washington Law School, graduating in 1949. From 1950-56 he was on active duty as an engineering and legal officer in USS CORAL SEA and in the office of JAG. In 1957 he entered private practice of law and joined Naval Reserve Law Co. 5-11 in Washington, commanding the unit in 1969-70 and receiving the Legion of Merit in 1971. In 1973 he became counsel of the Navy/MARAD Policy Planning Group and received a CNO commendation for his work in reestablishing the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve Program.

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.

REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE H. MILLER USN (RET.) George Miller '33 served five years as Special Assistant to the Maritime Administrator (Assistant Secretary of Commerce) working in liaison between Commerce and Navy Departments to maximize the Merchant Marine's contribution to U.S. foreign policy and military readiness. Before that he was the first Director of Strategic Offensive and Defense Systems in OpNav. He has written and lectured extensively on military policy, seapower and maritime strategy and is a leading expert in those areas, as well as being a frequent contributor to Shipmate.

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.

CAPTAIN GILVEN M. SLONIM USN (Ret.) Gil Slonim '36, a black shoe, retired in 1965 and became Director of University Relations, Long Island U. In 1967 he was appointed Special Assistant to the President of the Navy League and in 1968 as Executive Secretary to the President's Maritime Advisory Committee. In 1970 he chaired the Wealth and Worid Ocean Symposium in Washington and, with its panel members, organized the Oceanic Educational Foundation, which he has served as President since 1975. He has taught and lectured on oceanic education in colleges around the country since introducing the first "Humanities of the Sea" course at Virginia in 1971.

EDWARD SMITH McLEAN Ed McLean '50, son of Hugh McLean '24, did three years enlisted service in submarines during WW II, finishing in the German XXI boat U-2513. On resignation from the Academy he joined Eastern Air Lines but is presently employed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a contracting officer, handling EPA ship acquisition, overhaul and manning contracts. He was responsible for all phases of the CROCKETT and ANTELOPE scenario, from initial pickup at Inactive Ship Facility, Portsmouth VA, to survey operations. Ed has remained a staunch Navy advocate, a member of the Alumni Association, Athletic Association, Sailing Foundation and the Naval Institute.

THOMAS F. BATES A 1960 graduate of Notre Dame, Tom Bates became Director of Public and Sports Information at Gannon College in Erie, Pa., in 1961, and also was publicity assistant for the Ail-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.

BETH LEADBETTER Beth Leadbetter '80 grew up in Moundsville, W.Va., attended John Marshall High School, and then left her small town to join the first USNA class to admit women. She has enjoyed cheerleading, diving, sailing, singing and tennis since coming to the Academy, and is currently the assistant leader of a Brownie Troop of second and third graders in Annapolis. Beth, an English major, hopes to pursue a career in Public Affairs or Intelligence, receive a Master's Degree in English, and write a book about her Naval Academy experience.

Slonim photograph by David Oestreich, New York

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The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe's new book The Right Stiiff* is a fascinating story about the original Mercury astronauts, the seven who rose to the top over all other Americans because they had the right stuff. In Wolfe's words: As to just what this ineffable quality was . . . well, it obviously involved bravery. But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life . . . Any fool could do that, if that is all that was required, just as any fool could throw his life away in the process. No, the idea here . . . seemed to be that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back in the last yawning moment—and then go up again the next day, and every next day, even if the series should prove infinite—and, ultimately, in its best expression, to do so in a cause that means something to thousands, to a people, a nation, to humanity, to God . . . The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that pyramid that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even . . . one day—that you might be able to join the special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men's eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself. . .

At every level in one's progress up that staggeringly high pyramid, the world was once more divided into those men who had the right stuff to continue the climb and those who had to be left behind . . .

In the Navy . . . the neophyte always had waiting for him, out in the ocean, a certain grim gray slab; namely, the deck of an aircraft carrier; and with it perhaps the most difficult routine in military flying, carrier landings . . . That shape!—It's so damned small! . . . Many young candidates looked like terrific aviators up to that very point— and it was not until they were actually landing on that carrier deck that they first began to wonder if they had the proper stuff after aU. . .

Men and women who have the right stuff never mention it. Wally Schirra, one of the original seven who made orbital flights in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, stated in a recent interview: We're not just guys who lay it on the table. You find your professional veterans, like men who are in the Veterans of Foreign Wars or the American Legion . . . but I think you will find that the real pros aren't there. We don't flaunt it. There's a line, 'When you've got it, flaunt it.' But that's a marketing term. When you're a great pilot, you don't go around telling people.

The phrase 'right stuff is going to be used in a lot of different fields now. People are going to say that Frank Sinatra and Duke Wayne typify the right stuff in their fields.

Well, that's total bull. Those people are not people who put their lives on the line in what they do; they're entertainers, and they risk nothing except a bad performance from time to time.

It's like when we would be talking to the engineers or the planners before a space flight, and we would have a disagreement.

And I would say, 'I like what you're saying, I understand what you mean, and if you're going to strap your tail to that spacecraft, then we'll do it your way. But you're not—I am. And as long as that's true, we'll do it my way!'

The right stuff business is a very small fraternity, and the other people aren't in it, and it's something you can't buy. When it was going on for us . . . did we feel contempt for other people? No, it wasn't contempt. You're not competing with me, so I'm not thinking about you. If you try to come into my jungle, though, then it's going to be different.

It's not the same thing as being a celebrity. Being a celebrity is easy. I've outlawed that magazine, , from my house. I'd rather Yt&\e. Playboy or Penthouse or Hustler in the house than that damn thing. Why? Because it's making a big deal out of people who don't deserve it.

We never had the time to think of the image that was being built up around the astronauts—that Life magazine image. It was something we really didn't understand.

Nor do I really care that the book was written. We don't need that. We always knew what we were.

The U.S. hockey team in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid had the right stuff. Everybody in America thrilled to their stunning defeat of the Soviets, "the best hockey team in the world." Seasoned veterans not tasting defeat in a dozen years played against an inexperienced group of true amateurs—and oh! so young—who hadn't met as a team until six months prior. What they lacked in art, they surely made up in heart.

Much of the credit goes to Coach Herb Brooks for his brilliant and inspirational leadership. If ever an example were needed of the difference between the leader and the manager, this was it. The coach leveled with the team: "You don't have enough talent to win hockey games; only teamwork will do it." Mike Eruzione was chosen as captain; neither the best scorer nor the best skater, he was the

best leader—and he scored the winning goal. On the big day, the coach said to each of them, "You were bom to be a player; you were meant to be here; this day is yours."

Coach Brooks was the vital cog in that superb team effort. Not just in calling the plays, nor for his genius at substitution; throughout he was the thoroughbred. The Czech referee at the crucial moment of the final game against Finland allowed his politics to get in the way of his sportsmanship and called an outrageous foul against the Americans. There was no arm-waving, no abusive language, no showboating from the bench, as we so often see on the basketball floor today..

This would have only excited the team further. By not losing his cool, the team responded to his quiet inspiration. Better, they scored the winning goal while they were still one player short on the ice.

Final victory and the gold medal brought all America to its feet. On hearing the news, crowds at professional basketball games up and down the coast spontaneously burst into the national anthem. A prominent Naval Academy grad took the whole squad to his pad on Pennsylvania Avenue for lunch. Groups everywhere sang "God Bless America;" waves of patriotic emotion swept the country as the cities and villages took the team to their hearts. The coach was right.

It was their day; they had the right stuff. *The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe. N.Y., Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.

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The Mail Boat The Oldest Living Alumnus

The Helping Hand

Shipmate: A few years ago I was checking into the downtown Pan-American terminal in London, wearing uniform. A tall, elderly gentleman approached me and said, "I think I see a United States Navy captain." When I acknowledged the fact, he asked, "Are you by any chance a Naval Academy graduate?" I said " Y e s , " and introduced myself, "Mike Stoffel, Class of '54." In response, accompanied with a hearty handshake, I got, "Vice Admiral Walter Anderson, Class o f ' O i . " At the age of 94 Admiral Anderson, travelling alone, was completing a holiday stay in London. He had fallen and injured his arm, so he reluctantly allowed me to assist him to the departure gate. However, he set a brisk pace for the walk of over a mile. I can recall that he would say to the stewardesses, "you're very kind," and they would melt in his hand.

Two years later I was admitted to Bethesda for knee surgery and my roommate was the same Admiral Anderson, recovering from an accident. He was still his alert and polite self, and I'm glad to hear he has remained in good spirits.

M. J. StofTel '54

Shipmate: The photo appearing in the December \979 Shipmate of a midshipman giving "the helping hand" to an elderly lady surely is worthy of an award of some kind in the photographic field.

W. E. Lankenau '24

A Great Sight Shipmate: Please convey to the officers and men of the American Aircraft Carrier #68 the thrill and pleasure the twelve passengers aboard SS PRESIDENT EISENHOWER had when they sighted her in the Arabian Sea just before sunset on 9 February.

We had departed from the Persian Gulf still apprehensive about affairs in the Middle East and somewhat alarmed to have had an armed guard on the gangway and the radio equipment sealed at Damman in Saudi Arabia. The sight of the carrier and the USN helicopter that flew by caused all of us to run on deck and wave madly to the pilot. I was personally pleased to see and feel the delight of the passenger with the presence of the U.S. Navy.

James H. Elsom '39 Your letter has been forwarded to the Commanding Officer, USS NlMITZ (CVN-68).

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That photograph was taken some years ago by one of the staff of the Academy's Photo Lab. We liked it so much that we have used it twice in Shipmate previously as a full page feature.

Tony Ziroli's League of Nations Shipmate: Although an obituary in Shipmate has eulogized Tony Ziroli '16, it seems that something should be added on a very interesting period of his illustrious career. In 1934 he commanded USS NARWHAL, one of the largest submarines in the world, belonging to SubRon Six and tended by USS HOLLAND in San Diego. That summer the squadron cruised to Alaska via San Francisco and Seattle, and returned via Pearl Harbor.

The people of Seatde were genuinely fond of the Navy. Many visited each of the six submarines and were particularly interested in "Tony Ziroli's League of Nations," so-called because the names of NARWHAL'S officers stemmed from many countries: England, France, Germany, Ireland and Poland as well as the captain's Italy.

The squadron was divided for the trip through the inland passages. The HOLLAND, NAUTILUS, BARRACUDA, BASS and BoNTTA went to Sitka. NARWHAL, DOLPHIN and the rescue vessel ORTOLAN

formed the "Wrangell detachment" under Commander Ziroli with an Alaskan pilot known as "Fairweather" Quinn assisting.

As the navigator, I was pilot in DOLPHIN, her skipper piloted the ORTOLAN. Seymour Narrows had to be negotiated, and that within a half-hour of high slack water because the current then increased rapidly to 14 knots and Ripple Rock was in the middle with only nine feet of water over it at low tide. Since the DOLPHIN drew 17 feet and the ORTOLAN could only make 11 knots, prudence dictated that we anchor when fog prevented a precise arrival.

We joked about the pilot's nicknameâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he seemed to have little influence over the foggy weather, but some days later we passed a cape and a moun-

tain named Fairweather and were convinced that Quinn could take bearings on them in a fog. At Seymour Narrows the column had to make a drastic turn, ending close to where Ripple Rock lurked.

Commander Ziroli later told me that Quinn's seaman's eye estimated that my cross bearings might have shown the DOLPHIN to be right over the rockâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but they didn't.

In the course of visits to Juneau, Cordova, Seward, Kodiak and Dutch Harbor the wardroom officer of NARWHAL composed a parody of "Springtime in the Rockies," called "Summer in Alaska" in English. One hopes that some survivor of that experience will publish a fiill account of "Tony Ziroli's League of Nations."

Robert H. Gibbs '25 Ship Named for Women Shipmate: (See "The Mail Boat" in the September and December 1979 issues).

There have been many ships named for women. The first that comes to mind is USS ISABEL ( P Y - 1 0 ) , a yacht converted to a DD type. I remember seeing her being converted while underway from USS POPE, fleeing Manila after the bombing of Cavite. The crew painted out her white with haze grey while making 15 knots.

A quick search of Roscoe & Freeman's Picture History of the U.S. Navy gave me QUEEN OF FRANCE, a frigate lost in the capture of Charleston in 1780; SYREN, a 16-gun war brig of the War of 1812; CYANE, sloop-of-war in the Mexican War; VDCEN, a Mexican War gunboat; WATERWTTCH, a gunboat in Paraguay in 1859; JEANETTE, lost in the Arctic in 1881; and what about our old station ship, REINA MERCEDES?

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships contains a great many more, even the 1917 minesweeper ANNIE E. GALLUP.

Bill Lowndes '37 Uniform Dress for Midshipmen Shipmate: On pages 16-17 of the Jan-Feb issue are photos of two female midshipmen. I think they are extraordinarily good-looking girls, but I have some questions.

The female form is enough different from the male to justify making some

concessions in the uniform from the neck down. But, from the neck up, what is so different? Why should not female midshipmen be required to have the same " r e g " haircut as the males and wear the same regulation cap? Or, perhaps, since men seem to be wearing long hair even in the Navy, why not require them to wear the Wave type hat as the women do?

How about earrings? Five striper Liz Belzer appears to be wearing them dressed approximately with the ear lobe and the point of the sword. Are male mids not allowed earrings? If not, why not? It was once a seagoing tradition, usually among pirates.

Either way, let the midshipmen get in uniform, as they once were.

Cid WUdman '19

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Information Wanted on VF-4, October 1943 Shipmate: Capt. Knut St0re, Royal Norwegian Air Force, is working on a local history of the area around Bodo, Norway, a history highlighted by the Arctic raid on Axis shipping made by Air Group Four from RANGER in October 1943.

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June Week West '80 The sixth annual June Week West, hosted by the San Diego/Coronado Chapter of the United States Naval Academy Alumni Association, will be held in San Diego on the weekend of 27-29 June 1980. The primary purpose of this event is to provide an opportunity for all Naval Academy alumni and widows of alumni in the Western Area to get together for a reunion. However, all alumni and widows of alumni, wherever located, are cordially invited to attend. Again this year we will meet in the Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center in San Diego's Mission Valley where a block of rooms and other facilities have been reserved for us.

We are offering a full program as shown on the following Tentative Schedule of Events. Nevertheless, we are also providing opportunities for visiting with classmates, former shipmates and old friends; visiting naval facilities and ships; touring changing San Diego and its unmatched tourist attractions; hearing the local Navy and Marine Bands and mariachi music; and, seeing some of the new Navy and Marine Corps as recruits complete their training. Our own Hospitality Center, staffed by members of the San Diego/Coronado Chapter and their wives, will assist you in keeping track of our events, locating local and visiting alumni and on other matters within our capability. Everyone is asked to check in at the Center, which will be centrally located in the Town and Country complex, and join us in a cup of coffee. The Center will function until 2100 on Friday to serve late arrivals, all day Saturday and from 0800-1200 on Sunday.

Reservations are mandatory for the Saturday dinner dance and the Golf and Tennis Tournaments. In the event of oversubscription, reservations will be handled on a first come basis.

Detailed information on June Week West '80 with reservation forms was mailed out in late March to all known alumni in the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California and Hawaii using addresses provided by USNAAA in Annapohs. Advance information for all Chapter Presidents was mailed out on March 10.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California Friday, 27 June 0800-2100 Hospitality Center, Tiki Room 0900 Marine Recruit Graduation in Theater at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) 1030-1130 Marine Weekly Recruit Review, (MCRD) 1200 Noon meal with Marine Recruits, (MCRD) 1415 Recruit Brigade Review, Naval Training Center 1600 Meeting of the Western Area USNAAA Chapter Presidents or designated representatives; Western Area V.P. RAdm. R. B. Erly, presiding 1800 "Early-Birds" Reunion, Tiki Pool Area (Individual class parties as arranged by local class representatives) Saturday, 28 June 0800-1800 Hospitality Center, Tiki Room Tennis Tournament 0800 Golf Tournament and 5,000 Meter Run 0900 Tours of naval facilities and ships and/or San Diego, as desired.

Alumni Assembly, Presidio Room 1530 Wives are welcome to attend "No Host" Welcome Reception 1830 2030 Dinner Dance, Presidio Ballroom, seating by classes. (Advance reservations required) Sunday, 29 June 0800-1200 Hospitality Center, Tiki Room 0800-1200 Continental Breakfast, Tiki Room 0930 Catholic Church Service 1030 Ecumenical Church Service 1200 Farewell and Checkout

For additional information and reservation forms contact: CAPT Edmund H. Ellis, USN RET Chairman, June Week West '80 4904 Mt Hay Drive San Diego, CA92I17 (714) 279-8909

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Joint Service Academies Cruise Admiral Roy L. J o h n s o n USN (Ret.), President, U . S . Naval A c a d e m y Alumni A s s o c i a t i o n

The Second Joint Service Academies Cruise, 17-31 January 1980, in the luxury liner QUEEN ELIZABETH 2 is now history and, aside from a few minor disappointments, the trip must be considered a great success and most enjoyable for all hands.

New York City was the port of embarkation for many of the cruisers, the others being picked up at Port Everglades as the great liner headed for the sunny Caribbean. A total of 146 Service Academy participants were included in the nearly 1,800 passengers on board ship, and there was a ratio of one crew member to every two passengers for the needs of the voyagers. Sixty-three sailors reported on board from the Naval Academy, the Mihtary Academy mustered sixty-six, and the Air Force and Coast Guard Academies furnished the remainder of the group.

Caracas, Venezuela, the capital of the country, was the first port of call and an excellent introduction to our future visitations. Comprising as it doel two distinct cities, the ancient town with its baroque style of architecture and the new city composed of modern suburbs, the city is famous as the birthplace of Simon Bolivar, the great South American liberator. Several took advantage of the guided tours of the city and countryside, with a few breathtaking curves and velocities added gratuitously to the excursions as additional thrills. Shopping in Caracas was only fair, with limited choice and prices on the expensive side. It soon became apparent to all that inflation is world-wide, and the U.S. dollar no longer reigns supreme in the shoppers' market.

From Caracas it was on to Curaﾂｧao, a delightful and interesting place known as the Holland-in-the-Caribbean, for the life

style combines in a blend of the Netherlander and the Creole. Here was the best shopping area found on the cruise, especially for the island's most famous product, the orange-flavored liqueur Curasao.

There are still many vivid reminders of the past era of affluent Dutch colonial plantation life, when this was one of the most active slave-trading centers in the world. Today, in addition to its liqueur, it is noted for its tourism and especially for its tremendous petroleum refinery capacity, although there is not a drop of oil to be found on the island. The atmosphere of the island is a happy one, the people most hospitable and friendly, and all in all it was a pleasant stop.

Next on the itinerary was the transit of the Panama Canal, which brought out more than a bit of nostalgia for many as they recalled enjoyable visits and experiences in happier times, but also served to remind everyone that the whole situation is a rapidly changing one.

The stay in Balboa was short and relatively few passengers went into Panama City to shop. The usual number of East Indian shops were to be found and a large variety of items were for sale, but the prices were surprisingly high. Regrettably, there was less than complete feeling of security in the shopping area, and a rather noticeable anti-American feeling was perceivable. Passengers were advised to return to the ship before sunset, and most of them did.

From the Canal we entered the blue Pacific and headed for the fabulous Mexican resort of Acapulco. This beautiful seaside town is indeed everything that has been written about it, but one is well advised to have a sizable checking account

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The main objective of travel is leisure, enjoyment, and relaxation, but it is also education, even if only to find the extent to which neighboring countries have taken to socialism. On board ship there was more than enough activity: dancing, floor shows, movies, lectures, two swimming pools, even golf lessons.

Strangest of all for the old salt was the inclusion on board ship of the gambling Casino窶馬o guarantee to win, but a favorite haunt for many with blackjack, roulette, and particularly the one-arm bandits taking their toll from the optimist who stubbornly believed that at some point his luck would prevail.

It is an understatement to say that QE2 is big. Although togetherness for our Alumni group was at times difficult, there might have been a different environment on a smaller cruise ship. The four Alumni Associations hosted a delightful cocktail party for the Joint Group which was one of the highlights of the cruise. In addition, the Naval Academy Alumni Association had its own party, a much appreciated opportunity to see old friends and get to know others.

Journey's end for the cruise was from Acapulco to Los Angeles, a chance once again to sail the California coast. Here most of the voyagers, with the exception of those who were about to make the round-the-world cruise, disembarked.

Group Travel International, the travel agent, had done a very good job under conditions that were difficult at times, and, all considered, another worth-while and successful cruise had been completed by the Alumni Association.

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"Where the money goes from dues and contributions received?"

"More about benefits available to me as a member?"

"Why Shipmate doesn't include more articles about today's Navy?"

"How much it costs the Alumni Association to send me so much junk maU?" "Why the Alumni Association doesn't get more involved in lobbying?"

These are just some of the questions received as the result of a questionnaire sent to a group of about 5,000 active duty officers last Fall. In addition, we received many favorable comments and constructive suggestions.

To cover all these topics at one time would take practically this entire issue of Shipmate. So we're going to start a series of articles which we hope will be of interest to all members and keep you better informed. They'll cover one or two subjects in detail and, we hope, will generate more suggestions and comments from you.

The survey identified three major areas of interest: —What specific services are available to association members?

—Can Shipmate be made more interesting to the younger officer?

—What is the Association, and what does it do for the Naval Academy and for me?

Perhaps we should start at the beginning by reviewing what we are. The U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association is a non-profit organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Maryland.

Our mission is: To Serve and Support the United States, the Naval Service and the Naval Academy: —By furthering the highest standards at the Naval Academy: —By seeking out, informing, encouraging and assisting outstanding, qualified candidates to pursue careers as officers in the Navy and Marine Corps through the Naval Academy; and —By initiating and sponsoring activities which will perpetuate the history, traditions, memories and growth of the Naval Academy and bind alumni together in support of the highest ideals of command, citizenship and government.

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We operate in accordance with a set of By-laws approved by the membership.

The Board of Trustees is headed by an elected President and three Area Vice Presidents. Twelve trustees are elected by the membership and one trustee each is elected by the twelve chapters with the largest numbers of members of the National Association. In addition, the Past President, a representative appointed by the Superintendent, the Executive Director and the Treasurer serve on the Board.

The Executive Director is the chief operating officer and conducts association business under the broad policies approved by the Board. The headquarters staff at Alumni House consists of four Cost Centers: National Association; Development; Publications; and House.

The National Association, in addition to the Executive Director and Executive Secretary, includes the Treasurer and a bookkeeper, and the Director of Alumni Services with four assistants for services, alumni merchandise and record keeping.

The Director of Development conducts all fund raising operations with the assistance of two staff members.

The Director of Publications is responsible for publishing ten issues of Shipmate and the Register of Alumni annually. He supervises an assistant editor and an editorial assistant.

The House Cost Center, under the direction of the Executive Director, is headed by a Hostess with two custodians, and maintains facilities for the Staff, receptions and special events.

Future articles in this space will include details of how each cost center functions, with information about new or planned programs. Next month we'll focus on what the Alumni Association does for the Naval Academy and the Brigade of Midshipmen.

Now to answer the first question at the top of this page—"Where does the money go from dues and contributions?"

This question has been treated at length in Shipmate, in annual reports of the Association, in letters to alumni, and in discussions with individual alumni and groups of alumni. Therefore, here we will present only a summary of some of the major points.

The Alumni Association is a private non-profit organization which receives no support from the Academy nor from any

federal, state, or local agency of the government. All costs of publishing and distributing Shipmate, maintenance of records of all alumni, providing a variety of services to alumni, and other expenses related to the fulfillment of the Association's total mission are borne by alumni.

A Board of Trustees, composed of volunteers elected by the membership, continually strives to keep these expenses as low as possible.

Of primary importance to alumni is the support, financial and otherwise, provided to the Naval Academy by the Alumni Association. Some still believe that federal funds cover all the needs of the Academy and the Brigade. This was not true in 1845; is not true now; and probably will never be true. It is to a large degree the support received from alumni and friends of the Academy that have enabled it to maintain the margin of excellence which sets it apart. At the turn of the century Robert Means Thompson '68 used his own funds to commission Ernest Flagg to draw up architectural plans for a modem Naval Academy. Subsequently, buildings have been constructed and renovated using private funds. Virtually every program, academic, athletic, and professional has felt the impact of private support. Over the years, millions of dollars provided by alumni have allowed the Academy to establish new programs and to enhance others. From boats to books to buildings, alumni have provided the wherewithal to ensure that each graduating class is prepared to carry on the tradition of service demonstrated by those who have gone before.

The dedication and generosity of alumni have allowed the Academy to meet a variety of needs. The need continues. In fulfilling present and future needs, alumni are in reality investing in the Navy of tomorrow; an investment which has provided and will continue to provide an impressive return.

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Allocation of Local Trustees, FY 1981 The Alumni Association By-Laws provide for twelve local trustees, to be elected by those chapters having the most members of the national association. On that basis one trustee is allocated for FY 1981 to each of the following chapters (figures in parentheses are the numbers of national members): Washington DC (503), Philadelphia PA (402), Peninsula CA (377), Connecticut (327), SanDiego/Coronado (320), Tidewater VA (307). Los Angeles CA (261), New York (257), Texas Gulf Coast, Houston (217), Southeast Florida (195), Aimapolis MD (196) and North Texas (149).

Nuclear Power—228 men, of whom 76 were non-volunteers.

Special Operations—Three men.

Supply Corps—11 men, five women.

Civil Engineering Corps—nine men, two women.

Engineering Duty—Five men, one woman.

Cryptology—One man.

Intelligence—Five men, one woman.

Geophysics—Two men, four women.

This is the first time that the nuclear power ranks (surface and submarine) have not been filled entirely by voluntary choice. Unfortunately, the need exceeded the number of selected volunteers.

The Late Chaplain Thomas Honored Staff and Marine Corps Selections Two alumni Supply Corps officers have been selected for promotion to the rank of rear admiral: Capt. Scott W. Ebert '53, now commanding the Naval Supply Depot, Subic Bay, and Capt. Niel P. Ferraro '54, now assistant Commander for Contracts, Naval Air Systems Command.

One alumnus CEC officer was also selected for flag rank, Capt. John Paul Jones, Jr. '54, currently stationed in San Francisco.

The Marine Corps Reserve has a new major general, Kenneth W. Weir '52, a test pilot with Lockheed in California and currently Assistant Commander of the 4th Marine Air Wing.

Midshipmen Select Service Specialties Following Service Selection Night in February, here is the breakdown of allocation of the Class of 1980 to the various service communities: Marine Corps—151 men, eight women.

Pilots—204 men, four women.

Naval Flight Officers—116 men, one woman.

Surface Warfare—141 men, five women.

General Line—22 women.

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In appropriate ceremonies on 11 March, the Chapel Walk between the Administration Building and the Superintendent's quarters was dedicated to the memory of RAdm. William N. Thomas ChC USN. Chaplain Thomas had served as senior chaplain of the Naval Academy for nearly 13 years (1933-1945), the longest such tour in Academy history. He then became the 7th Chief of Chaplains in the Navy, the first to hold flag rank, and retired in 1949. He died at his home in North Carolina in April 1971.

While at the Academy Chaplain Thomas was responsible for the addition of the new nave to the Chapel, for the placement therein of the votive ship model, and for replacement of two captured guns by the anchors now in front of the Chapel. During his tenure he performed over 700 baptisms and more than 800 marriages. But most important was the deep love and affection he generated in the hearts of all who knew him—and few graduates of those years did not know him.

It is well that his name be kept alive in the walk fronting the Chapel he loved so much.

Class President Visits White House Mid'n. Robert A. Nemecek '80, of Utica. New York was one of 300 student class presidents attending White House briefings on 15 February. The group met with President Carter and key staff members for discussions of some of the prom-

'80 meets a grad of '47 inent domestic and international issues facing the nation today.

Consisting of briefings by President Carter, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Zbigniew Brzezinski, and Assistant for Domestic Affairs and Policy Stuart Eizenstat, followed by a question and answer period, the meeting allowed the administration to present its policies to the students and to obtain from them a broad cross section of collegiate opinion on issues ranging from Iran to draft registration.

Describing the meeting as the opportunity of a lifetime, Nemecek said, "I think I can safely speak for the entire group in saying that this experience gave us a tremendous insight into the issues affecting young men and women all across the country, particularly since we got our information straight from the source."

Energy Savings at the Academy With a top flight energy conservation program, the Naval Academy has reduced energy use by more than 16%, comparing FY 1979 to the 1975 base year.

The Academy's computerized energy monitoring and control system (EMCS) is credited with saving over $600,000 in energy costs in less than three years. The system monitors energy use and uses computer logic to make decisions and take actions to stop energy waste.

During the last Christmas leave period, a major effort was made to vacate all buildings and to turn heat and lights down to an absolute minimum. Essential 15

functions such as security and medical support were temporarily consolidated into the minimum possible spaces. Employees and military personnel were encouraged to take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy holiday leave.

Freedoms Foundation Awards Two officers on duty at the Academy have been given special recognition by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for their "efforts in pursuit of freedom, patriotism and public service."

Cdr. Paul E. Galanti '62, a battalion officer, was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal for an editorial he wrote in the Richmond News Leader entitied "On Memorial Day: Heroes Living, Heroes Gone." The editorial was written when Cdr. Galanti was stationed in Richmond as Recruiting Officer for Virginia.

Capt. James W. Conte, Senior Chaplain at the Academy, received a George Washington Honor Medal for his sermon on "Me and My Colors, Beautiful and Real."

USNA's Small Craft FaciUty The Small Craft Facility of the Naval Station, Annapolis, employs a staff consisting of 172 enlisted personnel, 64 civilians and 7 officers. The jobs of these persoimel focus on support of midshipmen training onboard motor craft and sail craft. The Facility is dedicated to the operation, maintenance, repair and overhaul of all small craft in use at the U.S. Naval Academy, including the ocean racers.

Small Craft Facility consists of over 20 different technical shops together with sufficient crane and drydocking equipment for lifting and overhauling all of the approximately 200 small craft of the Naval Academy and nearby commands.

The enlisted personnel are assigned to jobs which are compatible with their individual specialties and are provided a tremendous chance for cross-rate training through their work on the Academy's unique and complex fleet. They are also given opportunities to learn about sailing and small boat seamanship, both for their own personal enjoyment as well as to cultivate a better understanding of the rigid requirements and tremendous stresses that are placed on a sailboat'sriggingand small boat equipment that they maintain.

The civilian employees are some of the finest craftsmen that the East Coast boating community has to offer and they are continuously passing on their unique knowledge and skiUs, in this age-old art, to the enlisted personnel who work with them. The enlisted personnel assigned are primarily designated as maintenance and operating personnel. Combining the 16

enlisted personnel with the civilian craftsmen has resulted in an extremely efficient maintenance and repair facility which can accomplish nearly all overhaul work and emergency repairs on a 24-hour basis and provide the younger enlisted personnel with in-rate quality training in the lost art of small c r ^ t quality maintenance and upkeep.

The present Head of the Small Craft Facility is Cdr. Golden H. Johnson, who recently reported from the Ship Repair Department, NavSta Guantanamo Bay, Cuba where he served as the Repair Superintendent and Production Officer.

The Small Craft Facility is a department of the Naval Station commanded by Captain Edwin A. Shuman, III, who is also Commodore of the Naval Academy Sailing Squadron.

First Aegis Cruiser Building The keel was laid for the lead ship of a new class of Aegis-equipped cruisers at the Ingalls Yard in Pascagoula, Miss., on 21 January 1980. Originally designated DDG-47 and long in and out of the Navy's shipbuilding budget, her construction is finally underway. Launching is scheduled for early 1981, when she will be named TICONDEROGA, fourth ship to bear that name, and commissioning should be in early 1983.

Twenty Ships to Retire in 1981 The Navy plans to retire 20 ships in FY 1981; three from the Fleet, three from MSC, and 14 from the Naval Reserve Force.

Two of the ships leaving the fleet are the Polaris submarines THEODORE ROOSEVELT ( S S B N - 6 0 0 ) and ABRAHAM LINCOLN ( S S B N - 6 0 2 ) . That is because the introduction of the first TRIDENT

submarine in 1981 will exceed the maximum number of SLBM launchers allowed under the SALT I treaty. Both subs will have to have their missile tubes removed in compensation when USS OHIO ( S S B N - 7 2 6 ) begins sea trials.

The third fleet ship scheduled for retirement is USS BRYCE CANYON ( A D - 3 6 ) .

The MSC ships are USNS MISPILLION (T-AO-107), ATAKAPA ( T - A T F - 1 4 9 ) and MOSOPELIA ( T - A T F - 1 5 8 ) . The fourteen

Naval Reserve destroyers are USS HENDERSON (DD-785), CORRY ( D D - 8 1 7 ) , JOHNSTON ( D D - 8 2 1 ) , FISKE ( D D - 8 4 2 ) , ROBERT H . MCCARD ( D D - 8 2 2 ) , CARPENTER (DD-825), ROBERT A. OWENS ( D D - 8 2 7 ) , VOGELGESANG ( D D - 8 6 2 ) , DAMATO ( D D - 8 7 1 ) , STEINAKER ( D D - 8 6 3 ) , NEWMAN K . PERRY ( D D - 8 8 3 ) , ROGERS ( D D - 8 7 6 ) , DYESS ( D D - 8 8 0 ) and ORLECK (DD-886).

The two S S B N S were commissioned in 1961, but the average age of the other 18 ships is over 35 years.

The retirement of 14 destroyers from the Naval Reserve Force will leave six WW II FRAM DDs and one FORREST SHERMAN-class in the Force. However, five ships of other types will be transferred from the active fleet to the Reserve: USS PYRO (AE-24), MOBILE

(LKA-115), E L PASO ( L K A - 1 1 7 ) , BOULDER (LST-1190) and RACINE ( L S T - 1 1 9 1 ) .

During FY 1981 the fleet is scheduled to receive 25 new ships: a CG, three DDGs, eight FFGs, two PFs, an SSBN (Trident), five SSNs, an AD, an AO, an AS, and two fleet tugs. That will provide a net increase of five ships in the active fleet during FY 1981, and a considerable saving of maintenance costs for the ancient warriors being retired.

New Ships for the Naval Reserve Artist's drawing of USS TICONDEROGA (CO-47)

Built on a basic SPRUANCE-class hull, the new CG-47 will be fitted with the Aegis Weapons System and other advanced sensor weapons systems that will make her a powerful multi-mission unit capable of conducting anti-air, antisurface and anti-submarine warfare in high threat environments.

The CNO has directed a study of proposed new construction ships for the Naval Reserve to replace the old WW II destroyers now being retired. Although the study report had not been released when this was written, we understand that the new ships would be employed as convoy escorts in wartime, somewhat smaller than the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY-class frigates but helicoptercapable. Under the CNO's concept, these ships would be placed directly in the Shipmate, May 1980

Naval Reserve Force, to be manned, operated, maintained, overhauled and modernized exclusively by and for the Naval Reserve.

Such a program would go a long way towards revitalizing the Naval Reserve, increasing its readiness, and providing the ready escort ships we would need so desperately in time of war.

American seamen have been welltrained in the operation of LNG vessels by the Harry Lundeberg School, a joint union-management school where LNG instruction has been offered for several years.

El Paso has three more LNG ships under construction, all of which will be U.S. registered and manned.

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Ship Reunions Americans Crew Foreign-Flag LNG Ship A novel twist in the manning of foreign flag liquefied natural gas (LNG) ships occurred recently when the El Paso LNG Company replaced the Norwegian crew of its SONOTRACH with Americans.

SONOTRACH is one of three El Pasoowned LNG ships operating under Liberian registry with Norwegian crews.

In 1978 El Paso began transporting LNG from Algeria to the U.S. with three U.S. flag and the three Liberian ships. Although all six made essentially the same voyage from Algeria to the East Coast, the Norwegian-crewed ships spent considerable time in shipyards undergoing repairs. El Paso than decided to shift to American crews in order to have better control over operations and to improve efficiency. SONOTRACH was the first to change, the other two follow.

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USS Hoe (SS-258)—Reunion will be held Friday 22 August 1980, following the "Beer Bust" at the SubVets National Convention in St. Louis. Former crew members are urged to contact Louie Sardo, 1416 Glendale St., Lakeland FL 33803. Phone number is (813) 683-4330.

USS Pittsburgh (CA-72)—Annual reunion will be held in Pittsburgh in July 1980. For full information write to J. C. Ayers, Box 74, Wildwood GA 30757 or phone him at (404) 820-2360 or 1601.

DE Sailors Association—Fifth annual convention to be held at the Marriott Hotel in New Orleans on 13-16 August 1980. For further information, write to DESA, P.O. Box 68, Oviedo FL 32765.

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A Seapower Partnership The Need for Navy-Merchant

Marine Coordination

and

Cooperation

Rear Admiral P e n r o s e L. Albright JAGC USNR-R

Basic concepts of seapower are little different today than when viewed by Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan at the turn of the century. Admiral Mahan saw seapower not merely in the context of Naval tactics and strategy, but in the broader sweep of international relations with emphasis on ocean conmierce and its economic implications.

Principal requisites of seapower according to Mahan are a powerful Navy with operating bases at home and overseas, complemented by a massive Merchant Marine. Seapower entails the affirmative capability of a nation to control and use the oceans and seas of the world and the further ability to deny such control and use to others. Add space over the oceans and seas, and these concepts seem applicable to today's world.

Seapower in the military context is vital to our security and that of the Western Civilization (in which I include Japan). Its impact on commercial aspects of Western society is substantial and increasing.

What would happen in the event of a total embargo of Western civilization's seaborne commerce has not, insofar as I am aware, been accurately assessed. The complex interrelationship may well defy contemporary evaluation. But our experience with the oil embargo several years ago, and more recent experiences with the oil cut-back, suggest disastrous consequences.

The two major components of seapower are the Navy and the Merchant Marine. Others include shipbuilding capacity, fishing fleets, research, off-shore oil and gas wells with their support fleets, ports, and geographic attributes which provide secure land boundaries with access to open water. Also vital is a people with an affinity for the sea and aptitude for commerce, and government policies which actively promote power afloat.

It is U.S. statutory policy that: (1) the American Merchant Marine provide essential shipping for commerce in war and peace; (2) it be capable to serve as naval Shipmate. May 1980

and military auxiliary in war; and (3) the U.S. Navy protect such shipping in war.

These requirements would seem obvious even if not statutory. However, in addition. Congress by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, mandated certain areas of Navy and Merchant Marine cooperation. For example, with the Secretary of the Navy's coordination, the Secretary of Conmierce must aimually survey privately owned shipyards to determine if they are capable of providing an adequate mobilization base for national defense. All plans for merchant vessels which receive construction subsidies must be found suitable by Commerce for national defense or military purposes. Such plans must be examined by the Navy for suggesting modifications to ensure the vessel is suitable for speedy conversion into a naval or military auxiliary or is otherwise suitable for the U.S. Government in time of war or national emergency. We call these modifications "National Defense Features."

Only with the Secretary of the Navy's approval, including National Defense Features he prescribes, can the Secretary of Commerce authorize a constructionsubsidized vessel. Further, no vessel can operate with an operating subsidy unless constructed with plans so certified and all eligible deck and engineering officers on such vessels must, if eligible, be in the Naval Reserve. Other areas requiring Navy-Merchant Marine cooperation exist such as the status and training of Merchant Marine midshipmen and cadets, commissioning them as officers, and ensuring an adequate shipbuilding capacity.

Obviously, the Navy has considerable authority and responsibility over the construction of subsidized vessels and their officers.

How have the Departments of the Navy and Commerce implemented this statutory scheme?

In January, 1972. several other Naval Reservists and I, having both Navy and

Merchant Marine experience, were asked

by Rear Admiral George H. Miller to explore this problem. Admiral Miller, who was (and is) an outstanding Naval strategist, had been detailed by Admiral Zumwalt as Naval Advisor to the Maritime Administration.

Zumwalt had decided to reduce the number of Navy ships by about one-third so more of "Navy Money" could be used to replace the aging portion of the fleet with modem fighting ships. He fully appreciated the security risks entailed and the political imponderables that fiiture Administrations might balk at rebuilding the fleet. Therefore, Zumwalt envisioned that new funding would primarily have to be for fighting ships; he did not desire to dissipate limited Navy appropriations on Service Force functions the Merchant Marine could fulfill more economically and frequentiy as well or better.

To this end and to improve NavyMerchant Marine coordination, Zumwalt detailed Miller to the Maritime Administration, established a Special Assistant to the CNO for Maritime affairs filled by a Captain and, with the Maritime Administrator, established a Joint Navy-Maritime Administration Plaiming Policy Group.

Admiral Miller did not mince words with us. He was shocked at the breach he found between the Navy and Merchant Marine which he considered seriously detrimental to security. "This schism must be bridged," he said.

He asked us to prepare a paper on U.S. Navy-Merchant Marine relations with emphasis on the optimum of cooperation, their present status and anything which may have contributed to the present deterioration. He also wanted to know how the Royal Navy retained its favorable rapport with the Merchant Navy of the United Kingdom.

Our group was joined by a regular Naval Officer, then assigned to the Interagency and Maritime Section of OP-04, Captain William H. Self, a master mariner who had commanded three Navy ships.

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As we soon learned, we were sailing in unchartered waters. No hint was found that the subject had been previously studied. However, by April, we provided Admiral Miller a 148-page report. The conclusion was U.S. Navy-Merchant Marine relations could hardly be worse, whereas those between the British Royal Navy and Merchant Navy were excellent.

The lack of coordination between the American Naval and Merchant Services and inadequacy of the American Merchant Marine to fulfill its statutory functions under sea warfare conditions were undispu table.

It had not always been so. The U.S. Navy was bom from the womb of the pre-Revolution American Merchant Marine. Practically every Naval Officer of the Revolution was an experienced merchant mariner. Fighting ships were primarily merchantmen with guns installed. The first six Frigates of the U.S. Navy authorized by Congress in 1794 were commanded by ex-merchant mariners. Officers and midshipmen of the Navy were encouraged to ship on merchantmen for experience and to improve skills. Until World War II, officers and men trained in the Merchant Marine 20

formed the most important manpower reserve for the Navy.

From the formation of our Constitution in 1789 until 1855, the American Merchant Marine flourished and grew. On the eve of the Civil War, total U.S. commercial tonnage was over 5.5 million tons.

This compared with about 5.9 million tons for the British Empire and 5.8 million tons belonging to all other nations. In 1856 we carried over 75% of our own imports and exports. The remarkable growth in the first half of the 19th Century was achieved in spite of differences in seamen's wages, costs of stores, rigging, and the like on American vessels, all markedly favoring foreign competitors.

But American crews were more efficient.

This reduced costs and navigation risks which, in tum, reduced insurance costs.

Also, we were early in introducing laborsaving devices minimizing needs for manual labor.

Historians agree the decline of the American Merchant Marine conmienced about 1855, due primarily to an earlier introduction and use of iron, steam driven vessels and more efficient shipbuilding facilities in Great Britain. Decay was undoubtedly hastened by Southem raiders in the Civil War which kept many Northern vessels in port and the Northern blockade of Southem ports. Also American investment opportunities and energies tumed inward.

In my judgement, unwise Govemment policies did then and continue to share the major portion of the blame. This could be the subject for an article in itself.

But whatever cause, the American Merchant Marine has been a sick service commencing about the middle of the nineteenth century and has never really recovered.

Except for the Civil War, when the Navy grew from 42 to 670 ships (most of which were disposed of immediately after the War) our Navy was comparatively small until about the tum of the Century.

Since then, however, with some ups and downs, we have had a comparatively strong Navy in both peace and war.

Growth in the American Merchant Marine, in constrast, has been short term phenomena of World Wars I and II. It was a disgrace in the Spanish-American War and soon thereafter our lack of sealift was highlighted by successful logistics of the British in the Boer War and the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War. Our World Wars I and II merchant fleets were constmcted almost solely to meet demands of the Wars and subsequentiy withered away under peacetime conditions.

How do the U.S. Navy and American Merchant Marine compare today?

The Navy has evolved into a force adapted largely to meet challenges since World War II. Basically it is a strong, flexible force geared, however, primarily to (1) situations less than general war and, (2) strategic deterrence. Generally this translates into aircraft carriers, task forces built around aircraft carriers including support vessels, and our strategic submarine force. With the Naval Reserve Force and USNS Fleet (MSC controlled) this totals about 540 ships. The Coast Guard can add about 40 high and medium endurance cutters.

The U.S. Fleet has considerable flexibility—particularly in ASW— nevertheless we have roughly only about one-half of our needs to protect NATO convoys in a NATO-Warsaw Pact War. From an amphibious standpoint we are worse off. In mine warfare, we have at best one-third of our needs.

The U.S. Flag Merchant Marine today is about one-tenth in ship numbers of what it was at the end of World War II. We have around 560 vessels. The biggest fleets are bulk carriers—largely tankers—about 260 vessels, and carriers of containers, containerships, ROROs and barge carriers—about 170 vessels.

Together these high productivity vessels account for about 75-80% of the fleet.

There are still about 130 primarily breakbulk and a handful passenger/cargo vessels for the 20-25% balance. About 240 of the total are in interstate ocean commerce. Uncounted are 165 ships in a Great Lakes trade and about 45 ships in a temporary inactive status.

Our maritime industry has changed dramatically in the last twenty years from a labor to a capital intensive industry.

Ports are highly coordinated and provide rapid transfer between land and sea transportation. Container carriers (as tankers) made quick tumarounds (24-48 hours). Almost all containerships cruise 22 knots or better up to 33 knots for the SL-7 Class.

In addition to the U.S. Flag tanker fleet, there is a foreign flag "effective control fleet" owned by U.S. corporations of about 460 vessels with foreign crews—most of the tonnage being bulk carriers (41 out of 46 million DWT)— primarily supertankers for cmde oil.

We can expect to seize, if a NATOWarsaw Pact War begins without warning, about 20 to 30 modem ocean cargo vessels. If the Soviets occupy nations such as Norway, Greece, West Germany and Sweden, many more may be seized.

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Another 30 vessels should be available within 30 days from the National Defense Reserve Fleet. More later.

Assuming real control is gained of socalled effective control fleet vessels, we will start World War III with roughly over 1,100 of our own vessels. Perhaps another 4,000-6,000 vessels of NATO countries will be used in essential foreign commerce of the NATO Alliance. Currently over 13,000 vessels are used for domestic and foreign commerce by the major allies of the free world which conceivably will be subject to Soviet blockades, attack or capture.

What the Warsaw Pact will provide for interdiction is anyone's guess. Perhaps 1(X) attack submarines is as good as any.

But conceivably it can be about double or less than one-half.

Historically interdiction of the Atiantic has always been much easier than control.

On the whole, German submarines which almost provided a Nazi victory were comparatively weak warships. Their forte was ambush. Otherwise they were slow, vulnerable on the surface (where they were most of the time), and were no match for air power or determined surface warships.

In contrast, the modem submarine armed with modem torpedos and missiles in a one-to-one situation, is probably superior to any surface warship in existence. Its vulnerabilities are less by orders of magnitude vis-a-vis World War II subs.

With continued improvements in target guided missiles, the superiority edge of nuclear powered attack submarines should increase. Nevertheless, it's doubtful this superiority can become so absolute it cannot be overbalanced by sufficient effective air-surface combinations.

Target guided missiles, as Colt revolvers in the early West, may prove great equalizers. One-to-one, the fastest gun wins hands down. In fact, two or three ordinary gun slingers may be no match against a really fast gun, and missilearmed atomic attack subs can be "really fast guns." Control of the seas in World War III will most likely be decided by our ability to eliminate these fast guns, hopefully before, but more probably while and after they kill. One answer is to increase the ratio of gun slingers the fast guns must face. Thus they may get several but those left will get them. An economical proposal for doing this is a system called ARAPAHO, after a warlike tribe of plains Indians excelling at hunting buffalo. Except instead of buffalo, Soviet Subs will be hunted.

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U. S. Department of Comnerce Maritime Administration TWIN SCREW CONTAINERSHIP. One of the five standard ships developed by the Office of Ship Construction for the new Maritime Shipbuilding Program.

Principal characteristics: Design number PO-161; length overall 941'; beam 105"; draft, full load 39'; shaft horsepower 80,000; gross tonnage 33,600; net tonnage 20,300; speed 26.7 knots; number of containers (20' equiv.) 2,294.

A fine candidate for ARAPAHO

What is ARAPAHO? Essentially it is a Congressionally mandated program. As Senator Hart explained, it is "a system for placing Naval Reserve antisubmarine helicopters on merchant marine container ships in wartime. Such a capacity would enable us to increase our antisubmarine defense substantially in an emergency, without the high expense of additional escort ships. It would also permit us to use the Merchant Marine more effectively to support our National defense, and provide a militarily significant new mission for the Naval Reserve."

The Warsaw Pact naval threat to NATO convoys is already awesome and steadily increasing. In a NATO-Warsaw Pact war, losses of NATO shipping will be staggering. An unclassified estimate of merchant shipping loss, attributed to Adm. Isaac C. Kidd, USN, in testimony before the House Merchant and Fisheries Committee, was up to 50 percent in the first 90 days. The loss in life will be tragic beyond anything experienced in World War II. But, even without such terrifying losses, the situation is still "Catch-22."

In a NATO-Warsaw Pact war, with grossly inadequate shipping, it is just a matter of time until our forces and allies in Westem Europe figuratively and in fact "run out of gas." The mere existence of a substantial Soviet Naval threat sufficient to require most allied merchant vessels to travel in convoys will, in itself, dramat-

ically reduce shipping productivity. Eventually, precious NATO Naval assets, needed for other important strategic and tactical purposes, will have to be diverted to eliminate the submarine menace fi-om our vital sea lines of communication, if they can.

Implemented, ARAPAHO will not only substantially minimize this threat, it also has the potential to render the Soviet attack submarine fleet a questionable bargain from the Soviet standpoint.

ARAPAHO, in its simplest form, contemplates placing an ASW force on a containership wherein about 50 prefabricated container-size modules fitted together, provide living and operational support facilities for the ASW force. The force comprises roughly 60 officers and men and four ASW helicopters. About 15 percent of the vessel's cargo space is so occupiedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that remaining being used for ordinary cargo. The ARAPAHO package can be rapidly assembled, disassembled, loaded and unloaded essentially in the same manner as containers carried by the ship. Any merchant vessel mounting an ARAPAHO package is a potential threat to an enemy submarine which, in itself, adversely affects tactical options for submarine attacks and escape.

When not on merchant vessels, ARAPAHO packages are based almost anywhere convenient for drills and maintenance. For war and for realistic training, the modules are shipped by truck.

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train or barge to a nearby port and installed on merchant ships.

Various altemative Naval missions are envisioned: use of VSTOL aircraft, mine countermeasures, harbor defense and riverine warfare, offshore oil facilities defense, Marine air wing auxiliary support bases, remotely piloted vehicles' support bases, forward Medevac bases and troop sealift augmentation facilities.

ARAPAHO also can be designed for altemative duty as a forward helicopter base, supporting helicopters for civil emergencies as well as various types of contingencies, for logistics, and for troop support combat functions.

As a Naval Reserve ASW Mission, the cost of an ARAPAHO package is only a fraction of that for acquiring, maintaining and manning a Navy destroyer or frigate having roughly comparable ASW capabilities.

Another concept, similar to ARAPAHO in that Reserve-manned modules are installed on merchant vessels now under consideration, is the "SKU" plan "Subsidized Keel Up" ship designs wherein merchant vessels are initially designed and constmcted to be armed and converted into Navy combatant vessels within 24 hours. Contemplated are

VSTOL carriers, minesweeping carriers, AAW cmisers, ASW ships. Marine/Army vertical envelopment ships, hospital ships and the like.

Most who have looked closely at ARAPAHO are convinced of the worth of the program. It has been comprehensively staffed. Technological and legal problems voiced by doubters have been researched and found tractable. To date, difficulties encountered by ARAPAHO have been primarily intra-Navy politics. It was initially considered competitive to the Sea Control Ship proposal and for a time its reception in Navy circles was about the same as a bastard of questionable paternity at a family reunion. In 1975, Congress practically ordered a reluctant Navy to test ARAPAHO. A contract was let and modules were in various stages of constmction when money ran out and the project was halted.

In 1978 Congress in effect directed the Navy, "Continue the program," and it appropriated $6.5 million to do so. The Navy is now completing the hardware and expects to test the concept in the Fall of 1980.

In my judgment and in the judgment of others I respect, ARAPAHO makes too much sense both militarily and econom-

ically to be held back. But it can be too little, too late.

The British, West Germans and Dutch are interested in ARAPAHO. The British understand seapower and the vital role of their Merchant Navy. We are slow leamers. From an UNSAT posture some nine years ago, there has been decided improvement in U.S. NavyMerchant Marine cooperation and coordination.

With its budgetary constraints, the Navy cannot afford a large fleet of auxiliaries for our Service Forces. The British, and other nations as well, have demonstrated that merchant shipping can serve the fleet in peace and in war. If we understand this, we will concentrate ship constmction funds on combat vessels instead of Service Force ships.

The best way to avoid World War III is to be continually capable of winning it.

This requires, I think, that we do not underestimate the potential enemy. Both Napoleon and Hitler made the mistake of underestimating seapower. The Soviet Union is not making that mistake; but we do when we underestimate its ability to employ seapower effectively against us.

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Royal Navy/Merchant Navy Coordination The British have always recognized, as we have not, that an island nation, which we now are, depends upon overseas trade for the health of its economy in peace and war. Consequently, there has always been a close working relationship between the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy, to the great benefit of both.

One of the means of enhancing that relationship is the Royal Navy policy of appointing volunteer officers to merchant ships for voyages of varying durations.

As the RN announcement directive said, "The aims of the scheme are threefold: a. To give naval officers experience of the day-to-day work, and point of view, of the Merchant Navy. b. To contribute to the peacetime liaison and to foster good relations between the two services. c. To encourage an interest, amongst MN Masters and officers, in defense matters."

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Volunteers are encouraged, in the ranks of lieutenant commander, lieutenant and sub-lieutenant, to apply for such liaison voyages as an altemative to sea or air passages, provided they are without dependents. They may also volunteer for two-way passages from a U.K. Port, depending on what voyages are available and how much time the officer has free.

All costs are bome by the Navy.

While on board ship the naval officer serves as a supemumerary navigating officer under command of the merchant master, but is given "full opportunity of seeing and understanding the working of the ship and participating as a supernumerary in all duties, in watchkeeping, loading and discharge of cargo, engine room routine, wireless duties, etc."

On completion of the voyage the officer must submit a report, "to include the duties performed, general remarks on the ship, her cargo operations and trade, and

information of general interest concerning Merchant Navy opinion on matters of trade or merchant ship defense, liaison with the RN, navigational mds and methods, etc."

The adoption of a similar policy by the USN might go a long way towards increasing mutual respect and understanding between the Navy and Merchant Marine. At the same time we might give the Merchant Marine greater prestige by renaming it the Merchant Navy, to be in line with its responsibilities as laid down in the Constitution.

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U.S. S e a Transport Too Little, Too Late?

Rear Admiral George H. Miller U S N (Ret.)

Defense Department witnesses admitted before the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee in December, 1979, that the United States does not have enough of the right kinds of ships to support U.S. forces already overseas, or to reinforce them in event of attack. Earlier testimony by Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, former Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic, revealed that U.S. shipping convoys would suffer "staggering . . . horrendous losses . . . as high as 50 percent," from Soviet submarines in the early stages of a NATO war. Admiral Kidd was then the man directiy responsible for protection of U.S. and allied shipping in the North Atlantic.

No one at the hearings discussed the dollar cost or loss to the war effort of the first-line military equipment, the valuable cargo, and the highly trained military people that would go to the bottom with those sinking ships. No one brought out that it was the U.S. Navy's statutory responsibility to protect shipping and that the "staggering . . . horrendous losses" prediction is another way of saying that the U.S. Navy as now constituted cannot perform one of its most fundamental statutory missionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;"protection of shipping."

High-ranking officers, led by former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Thomas E. Moorer, made it clear that airlift can carry only a small percentage of the total tonnage and personnel required in a major overseas effort, and then only if landing fields were still available with fuel and maintenance facilities intact.

Some Defense officials advocate that troops go overseas by air and their equipment by ship; then "marry u p " men with equipment in the European war zone. Practical field soldiers express uneasiness with sending men and equipment overseas separately. For example, how much time will elapse during the "marry-up" process before the units are Shipmate, May 1980

ready for combat? How will this "marrying-up" procedure fare with stockpiles and landing fields under enemy air and missile attack.

Testimony at the December hearings and at similar Senate hearings one month earlier showed that the United States does not have enough merchant ships to support a major land war in Europe or the Middle East.

"Now we don't have enough ships of the right kind at the right place at the right time," stated Vice Admiral Kent Carroll, Director for Logistics (J-4), Joint Chiefs of Staff. It became obvious at the hearings that United States military forces cannot accomplish much of anything overseas in a war involving Soviet opposition unless the U.S. has enough ships to transport them overseas and continue the massive flow of supplies necessary to maintain them in combat.

Witnesses at both the Senate hearings in November and the House in December pointed to the fragmented state of U.S. maritime arms, now scattered among sub-cabinet levels of the govemment.

This is one of the reasons "the United States is shockingly unprepared to meet the maritime demands of an overseas mihtary confrontation." These are the words of the Chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee conducting the hearings on 12 December 1979.

Admiral Moorer, also at the 12 December hearings, stated: " . . . Perhaps we might consider having what I would call a Secretary of Maritime Affairs at the Cabinet level who took in all these groups that are involved in ocean activity, such as the NOAA, Coast Guard, the Military Sea Transport, the Merchant Marine, the Reserve Fleet, and in some way bring them together at the top level, because I believe you will agree with me that what has been going on for the last 15 years is best described as a trip on a treadmill."

"Unification" of the combat U.S. forces mandated by the National Security Act of 1947 provides for coordination of the Armed Forces in land war with littie or no naval opposition. But that is not good enough, as events prove, to provide the total national defense capability our maritime geographical situation requires.

Until the U.S. govemment does reestablish a Cabinet officer responsible for U.S. maritime policy and direction of its maritime agencies, including the U.S. Navy, our Nation has few overseas military options between threats and nuclear war. Previous claims to the contrary notwithstanding, the United States cannot have an effective foreign policy or overseas military strategy without merchant ships, thousands of them, and a Navy capable of protecting them.

Meanwhile, laws do exist now which, if carried out, would provide a substantially greater degree of Navy-Merchant Marine cooperation than we now have. The question is how can the Congress persuade the govemment officials responsible to obey the laws for which they are responsible?

Section 5012 of the National Security Act states that the Navy is responsible for prompt and sustained combat incident to operations at sea. Notice the term "sustained combat." Senior Navy logistics officers, when asked how long they thought the Navy could sustain combat in a major war without the U.S. Merchant Marine, gave answers varying from one to six days.

Section 5012 goes on to state that the Navy is responsible for the preparation of naval forces necessary for the effective prosecution of war, and is generally responsible for protection of shipping. One of the ways, indeed the principal way a navy prepares its ships for the effective prosecution of war, is to exercise them at sea in peacetime. Previous Secretaries of the Navy and Chiefs of Naval Operations have agreed on the need for preparing the Navy and Merchant Marine during 23

peacetime to operate together in war.

Some even tried to bring it about. But formidable bureaucratic resistance has thus far prevented the Navy from operating extensively with the U.S. Merchant Marine in peacetime, as it must in war.

Here are more excerpts from Admiral Moorer's 12 December testimony: " . . . t h e Merchant Marine . . . has to be configured so it contributes heavily to the prosperity and the economic viability of our nation in peacetime and is easily convertible to military operation in wartime. This means someone has to very closely coordinate research and development so that a ship which is subsidized should be a ship which is readily adaptable to military use or to military sealift in time of emergency. . .

"I would think it would be well from time to time to have exercises. . . . we have to have a long-range plan so that . . . the Merchant Marine can participate in both peace and war. I think it is a must for both of them. I have tried to do something about this for some time. . .

"The functions of naval combat forces and functions of the Merchant Marine and what it takes to make both of them viable is the least understood subject in the halls of the Congress and in the Pentagon."

Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, writing in the May 1979 Naval Institute Proceedings, had this to say, "Like others who have served as Chief of Naval Operations, I attempted to obtain some unity of purpose between the U.S. Navy and the Merchant Marine and supported a growth in strength and reliability of our Merchant Marine. I am sorry to report that, just like others, I was fmstrated in the attempt by parochial and bureaucratic govemment agencies."

It simply comes down to this. The U.S. naval servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Navy and Merchant Marine particularlyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;must begin at once to operate together during peacetime on a large scale. This is a fundamental first step in "preparing the naval forces necessary for the successful prosecution of war."

But war readiness also requires more than merely operating ships together at sea. It requires close, efficient operating arrangements between the Navy and management in the shipbuilding and ship operating industries. It requires joint research and development of highperformance ships to reduce vulnerability and enable powerful U.S. forces to reach the fringelands of Europe and Asia before a land invader can establish himself in force. Govemment-funded or subsidized ships should be capable of converting 24

Proposed Surface Effect Ship

quickly, within hours, to carry troops, missiles, aircraft, commercial cargo, or the perform any other mission U.S. interests may require. Modern technology is available to accomplish this.

In a landmark example of cooperation, the Navy and Maritime Administration on 20 June 1966, created the Joint Surface Effect Ship Project Office to develop a high-speed ship capable of crossing the Atlantic in less than two days and reaching the Middle East in less than four.

With the cost of fuel skyrocketing, highspeed ship transportation would provide a lower-cost altemative to air transport for high-value cargo, which doubles in volume in about eight years. Moreover, Surface Effect Ship speeds would restore the comparative speed advantage ships had over submarines in World Wars I and II, and substantially improve their chances of survival in transit. Naval history documents the tactical and strategic penalties of trying to defend slow ships.

Navy-Maritime Administration development of the Surface Effect Ship proceeded under a modest budget until 1971, when the Office of Management and Budget deleted the Maritime Administration contribution from the budget. In 1979, as the Navy prepared to build the 3,000-ton oceangoing prototype, the Administration deleted it from the budget and the Congress later restored it. On II December 1979, the Congress itself deleted the Surface Effect Ship program from the budget.

Opponents of the program questioned Surface Effect Ship "stability," using virtually the same argument sailing masters used against Robert Fulton's steamboat CLERMONT when it vertured out on the Hudson River for the first time in 1807. It

makes little military sense to continue to build ships as our forefathers built them, while we spend billions to develop virtually every other type of national defense capability. The USS BAINBRIDGE (DD-1),

for example, made 29 knots in 1901.

Said John Paul Jones in November, 1778, "I wish to have no connection with a ship that does not go fast, for I intend to go in Harm's way."

The U.S. cannot support friendly nations in the menacing shadow of Soviet aggression until the U.S. Govenmient begins to recognize and act to correct our frightful shortage of modem ships. It is the Congress that has the specific Constitutional responsibility to provide and maintain a Navyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the regular navy, as well as the auxiliary navy, the U.S. Merchant Marine. It is the Congress that is primarily responsible for enacting legislation to bring America's fragmented maritime agencies together under a Cabinet officer responsible for U.S. maritime policy and readiness.

It is the Congress that must reinstate the Surface Effect Ship development program with a very high priority.

It is the Congress that must initiate an emergency shipbuilding program to produce high-performance sea transports capable of reaching overseas crisis areas first with the most, and supported by a Navy capable of making the U.S. presence stick.

But it takes time to revitalize our badly depleted shipbuilding industry. It takes years to build up the capacity the U.S. shipbuilding industry had before World War II began. The question is do we have time? Or are we already producing too littie, too late.

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Oceanic Policy Prelude to

Opportunity

Captain Gilven M. S l o n i m U S N (Ret.)

Policy became a watchword for Americans in the Persian Gulf in 1979. Previously, that area was largely a matter of indifference to the people of the United States and, unfortunately, their leaders alike. With the collapse of the Shah's regime, preservation of peace and stability within the Indian Ocean region gained recognition as cmcial to U.S. security and, at the same time, as an avenue to restoring the credibility of American commitments worldwide.

The Significance of Comprehensive Oceanic Policy The Policy Challenge—If America's third century is to be a global century, then the United States must lead the way to fuller, yet enlightened, oceanic use— for the compelling trend is toward an oceanic frontier of the future. How well the Nation rises to the challenge of a fiiture inextricably tied to the oceanic realm ultimately hinges on the perspective, the determination, and the direction of its policy drive. The cmx reposes in the formulation of far-reaching oceanic poUcy demonstrably in the national interest that illustrates the significance of the role played by the world ocean in the affairs of nations, in human fulfillment and survival, and that outiines the challenges posed and the opportunities to be seized through oceanic enterprise. The policy needed would demonstrate in clear pragmatic terms the human stake in the advancement of knowledge of the sea and optimum, global utilization of the ocean.

Despite congressional initiatives spanning the last quarter of a century, the importance of the untapped potential of the world ocean to sustain human betterment, to strengthen the Nation's economy, and to foster new oceanic solutions to pressing problems failed to permeate the mainstream of American thought. The development of policy at the national level is a process that eludes the Country. Its failure to do so came into clear focus with Shipmate, May 1980

the Iranian crisis and the irresolute conduct of the United States in response thereto.

Turn To The Sea—In America's tum to the sea in the 1960s, the national policy thmst was recognized as central to the realization of the potential of the world ocean. A moment of maritime euphoria was achieved with the passage of the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act in 1966. Conceivably, a consensus about the national scene considered that comprehensive, long-range, national oceanic policy actually had been formulated. But the regrettable fact is that America, to this day, remains without oceanic policy.

With the unanimous passage of Resolution 222 in Febmary 1974, Uie U.S. Senate clearly signaled its concem as to this critical policy deficiency. Sponsored by 60 senators from both sides of the aisle and every geographic area of the Nation, S. Res. 222 called for a complete investigation and study of the elements of, and the eventual establishment of, a longrange, comprehensive oceanic policy.

Beyond this first step, the comprehension and support of the administration, industry, academia, and the public sector would be required to formulate national policy and to guide its implementation.

The Definition of Policy—What, then, is this policy that has remained elusive to the American view through these many years? American citizens must answer this question in moving to chart the future of the Nation. Simply stated, policy may be defined as the process whereby a nation establishes long-term goals and provides incentives to accomplish those aims, seeking what it envisions as longrange potential and moving toward what it perceives as its national objectives fi-amed in the public interest. The formulation and implementation of national oceanic policy entails an orchestrated effort of the executive, congressional, and public sectors of the Nation. This be-

comes the iron triangle which fosters the dynamics of the national policy process.

As a departure point, oceanic policy encompasses a national commitment calling for: " . . . fiiller, comprehensive, and enlightened utilization of the world ocean to reinforce the national economy, encourage investment, stimulate U.S. productivity, and elevate the American standard of life."

The cardinal elements of long-term policy span the full spectrum of oceanic endeavor: Competitive Posture on the Seas Regain a competitive, flag-conscious, trade-carrying posture on the global sea to spearhead a vibrant seafaring industry based in the United States, whose fleets are built and manned by competent, able-bodied American citizens; World Stability and Preservation of Peace Exploit the strategic potential of oceanic space as a matrix toward ensuring optimum national security, gaining international stability, cooperation, and the preservation of world peace through optimum uses of the world ocean; Law of the Sea . . . A New Oceanic Regime Provide leadership and direction within the on-going negotiations at the U.N. Conference on Law of the Sea, based upon the principles provided in the comprehensive policy formulated at the national level; Geoeconomic Potential of the World Ocean Probe the total "geoeconomic" potential of the worid ocean to provide long-term prosperity and the betterment of mankind. Investment in oceanic enterprise affords critically needed stimuli for a viable economy—a 25

stabilized U.S. dollar. Potential economic benefits portended encompass the full range of global oceanic use and resources; Coastal Oceanic Planning Establish, as integral to the policy process, comprehensive coastal oceanic planning guided by the principles and incentives within the national policy. As the springboard to the worid ocean, wise and sound coastal planning and development advance the full-scale negotiation of the oceanic frontier; The Environment . . . Enhancement Encourage enlightened uses of the oceanic enviroimient which provide positive incentives for the protection, preservation and, indeed, enhancement of the world ocean as vital to the survival of mankind;

Oceanic Legislation . . . Gaining the Total Potential of the Global Ocean Examine existing legislation to assess relevance and sufficiency and need for updating and amendment so as to serve the national interest and provide incentives to invest and compete in the arena of oceanic enterprise. Future oceanic legislation should transcend past efforts of resource management and environmental regulation. Such legislation, conceived through a national oceanic policy drive toward total use of the global ocean, serves as the dynamo for orchestration of long-range, comprehensive policy implementation.

Interest mounts within the public sector, as well as Government, concerning the contribution of the world ocean in economic development, human welfare and societal development, and quality of life. Comprehensive knowledge and polResolute Oceanic Research icy provision for fuller use of the global Ensure, through resolute oceanic re- sea afford new oceanic solutions to presssearch, the Nation's capability to ing problems and to the fulfillment of realize effectively the oceanic opportu- mounting human needs: water for human nities afforded for solving crucial nause, energy from sources invulnerable to tional and intemational problems and threats of arbitrary intermption and price engender the knowledge base to gain manipulation, medicines, food, raw matethe full portent of the oceanic frontier rials, living space, and "seacreational" of the future; enjoyment. Dynamic policy can counter a Seacreation . . . Wave of the Future Accentuate the economic and societal significance of the "seacreational" attraction of the oceanic environment, providing new leisure pattems and new, dynamic lifestyles that encourage ever increasing quality of future life, and that stimulate the human endeavor toward realization of individual potential;

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burgeoning adverse balance of trade, mounting welfare rolls, and reinforce a faltering, inflated economy and a downward spiraling dollar.

The concept of an American assumption of oceanic leadership entails first and foremost a public educational imperative; for the sea remains distant to the thinking of most people. Without an established, public educational base to counter the knowledge gap, public policy formulation encouraging comprehensive use of the world ocean as a new frontier is inhibited.

Only a cadre of professional educators, dedicated, confident, knowledgeable, stimulated, and sensitive to the ocean's potential contribution to human betterment in the years aheadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;encompassing not only the scientific dimension but a dimension of the humanities as wellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can engender a strong oceanic educational base of support that derives a solid, "grass roots," oceanic constituency.

The finest American minds, honed through the centuries-long vigil of seafaring experience, must mold this enlightened policyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a policy that enhances the posture, prowess, and prestige of the United States while shaping the future destiny of the Nation, which manifestly remains oceanic.

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A Change of Life Former Patrol Gunboats

Serve U.S. in New

Roles

Edward S. McLean

As a result of the Cuban situation in the early l%Os, a requirement existed for a high-speed, interdictive craft to perform patrol, blockade, surveillance and related Naval support missions. To fulfill this requirement, seventeen ASHEVILLE Class vessels were designed and built between 1963 and 1%9, as Patrol Gunboats (PG), the largest coastal patrol craft built for the Navy since World War II, and the first U.S. Navy ships with gas-turbine propulsion systems.

These all-aluminum hull and aluminum-fiberglass superstmcture gunboats are powered by a combination engineering plant of twin V-12 diesel engines for cmising and a LM-1500 marine gas turbine for high-speed operations. Several of the PG's, equipped with a weapon system which included one 3750 caliber rapid mount forward, a 40 mm. aft, and two twin .50 caliber machine guns, saw action in Vietnam.

The PG's also served with the Sixth Fleet, first in 1970 when the DEFIANCE (PG-95) and the SURPRISE ( P G - 9 7 ) were assigned to the Mediterranean area, and later in 1972 and 1973 when the AN-

EPA Ship ANTELOPE at Annapolis USS ANTELOPE (PG-86) with the Sixth Fleet

TELOPE (PG-86), READY ( P G - 8 7 ) , GRAND RAPIDS ( P G - 9 8 ) and DOUGLAS (PG-100),

all equipped with surface-to-surface missiles, were deployed to the Sixth Fleet.

After transfer of DEFIANCE and SURPRISE to Turkey, in 1973, the other four PG's remained in the Mediterranean area until the summer of 1977. On 1 October 1977, these four PG's, the last of the ASHEVILLE Class, were decommissioned at Littie Creek, Virginia, with Adm. E. R. Zumwalt, Jr. presiding.

Earlier, in 1974, however, the Navy had made the decision to reduce the active force level of PG's. Upon recognizing this as an opportunity, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center (DTNSRDC) set forth to obtain one of these vessels to be used as a high-speed test platform. After several studies and trade-off analyses, the Chief Shipmate, May 1980

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and tiie WELCH (PG-93) were retained, and these to be used for the training of foreign naval forces. Thus, during 1977, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy obtained the ASHEVILLE ( P G TACOMA ( P G - 9 2 )

84), READY and MARATHON (PG-89), DTNSRDC acquired the GRAND RAPIDS and DOUGLAS and the U.S. Environ-

of Naval Operations approved the transfer of the USS CHEHALIS ( P G - 9 4 ) to DTNSRDC in May 1975. CHEHALIS was

subsequentiy decommissioned from active military service in June 1975 and, after a shipyard demilitarization and conversion period, she was dedicated as the Research Vessel ATHENA by the Chief of Naval Research in January 1976. Shortly thereafter, a marine services firm was awarded a contract for the crew opera28

tions, maintenance, repair, overhaul and technical project support of the vessel in her new role. DTNSRDC currentiy operates the vessel out of Panama City, Florida, in support of various Navy projects.

Finally, in 1977, the Navy decided to deactivate the remainder of the ASHEVILLE-Class Gunboats and offer them to any U.S. Government agency or academic institution for use. Only the

mental Protection Agency (EPA) received the CROCKETT (PG-88) and ANTELOPE. The current status and disposition of all the ASHEVILLE-Class PG's is shown in Table I. Presentiy, DTNSRDC has converted GRAND RAPIDS to R/V ATHENA II, which is also contractor operated out of Panama City, Florida, and DOUGLAS remains in reserve in Portsmouth, Virginia.

The new role for the former PG's by EPA is quite different. As a result of an intemational agreement between Canada and the U.S., EPA is required to conduct pollution surveillance, monitoring and limnology studies on each of the Great Lakes. EPA is also required under the Federal Water Pollution Act and the Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act to regulate the dumping and discharge of all polluting materials into Nation's waterways and ocean areas.

In April 1978, the CROCKETT (recentiy renamed the RACHEL CARSON), began her new life on Lake Erie as an EPA research and monitoring vessel under a contract with MAR, Incorporated of Rockville, Maryland, under the command of Captain Gordon MacLane USCG (Ret.). The new mission of the CROCKETT will initially involve a two year study of Lake Erie to determine whether antipollution measures are working and what needs to be done to speed lake clean-up, under EPA's ten year Great Lakes program.

The ANTELOPE has undergone extensive conversion during 1978 and began a survey of U.S. off-shore dump sites in early 1979. Conversion of the ANTELOPE to an Ocean Survey Vessel has been somewhat different than CROCKETT since more at-sea time is required and the nature of the survey is quite unlike the Great Lakes monitoring program being carried out by CROCKETT. Acquisition, conversion and deployment of the CROCKETT and ANTELOPE for EPA was handled by the author, who directed vessel pick'up from the Naval Inactive Ship Facility, Portsmouth, Virginia, activation of the CROCKETT at Naval Operating Base (NOB), Norfolk, and the ANTELOPE at Naval Amphibious Base (NAB), Littie Creek, Virginia.

After activation, the CROCKETT proceeded to DTNSRDC Annapolis for deShipmate, May 1980

militarization and removal of the jet turbine, and then on to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, via the St. Lawrence for final conversion. Upon completion of demilitarization, ANTELOPE proceeded to Jacksonville, Florida, for final conversion to its ocean survey configuration. The author was Contracting Officer for both conversion contracts and both operation and maintenance (O&M) contracts. Botii vessels are operated and maintained by MAR, Incorporated; the CROCKETT out of Cleveland, Ohio, in Lake Erie, and the ANTELOPE out of Annapolis, Maryland, in the Atlantic Ocean, under subcontract to Interstate Electronics Corporation of Anaheim, Califomia, who has the responsibility for the sampUng and environmental assessment. Last August ANTELOPE'S normal operations were intermpted by deployment to the Gulf of Mexico to survey U.S. waters threatened by the Mexican oil spill in the Campeche Gulf.

The seakeeping qualities of both EPA vessels have been considerably enhanced, with nearly 80 percent roll reduction, by addition of a passive anti-roll system. Because EPA does not require the 40 knot speed capability, the LM 1500 gas turbines have been removed from both ships and retumed to the Navy. The spaces

Table 1. Current Status of ASHEVnXE Class Patrol Gunboats Vessel (PG-84)

ASHEVILLE

GALLUP (PG-85) ANTELOPE

(PG-86)

Massachusetts Maritime Academy Environmental Protection Agency

READY (PG-87) CROCKETT

(PG-88)

MARATHON

(PG-89)

CANON (PG-90) TACOMA (PG-92) WELCH (PG-93) CHEHALIS

(PG-94)

DEHANCE (PG-95) BENICA (PG-%) SURPRISE

Owner Massachusetts Maritime Academy U.S. Navy Environmental Protection Agency

(PG-97)

GRAND RAPIDS (PG-98)

BEACON (PG-99) DOUGLAS (PG-100) GREEN BAY (PG-101)

Massachusetts Maritime Academy U.S. Navy U.S. Navy U.S. Navy David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center Turkey South Korea Turkey David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center U.S. Navy David Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center U.S. Navy

used by turbine and fire control apparatus have been converted to laboratory areas where up to ten scientists and technicians can comfortably carry on their monitoring and analysis functions while on-site at their stations at sea.

Thus, having distinguished themselves in every commitment, these Patrol Gunboats were retired from active service

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only to retum to serve the U.S. in new roles. The EPA and DTNSRDC expect many years of useful service from CROCKETT, ANTELOPE, ATHENA I, ATHENA II, and DOUGLAS, and the

country reaps further benefits by the retention of these fine vessels in service by this tmly "sword to plowshare" operation.

These fine instruments are provided by Weems and Plath of Annapolis. They are mounted together with a beautifully finished, brass replica of the Naval Academy insignia on a solid mahogany plaque.

The Hamburg ship's bell clock is famous throughout the world for its precision jeweled movement. The fourinch silvered dial has black etched numerals and a small second hand, a feature not included on many bell clocks.

The bell has an exceptionally clear and melodious tone which announces the time on the hour and half hour in the traditional ship's bell manner. There is an inconspicuous lever at the side of the clock's face which silences the bell when desired.

The precision built, aneroid barometer is graduated in both millibars and inches of mercury. It and the clock are contained in matching, polished brass cases of 5.0 inch diameter at the base, the clock having a hinged cover and screw lock.

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The two instruments are handsomely mounted as shown on the polished mahogany plaque with the solid brass Naval Academy seal at center. A brass plate is also furnished for engraving by the purchaser at a local trophy shop or by an engraver as desired. The ensemble IS a decorative and useful addition to any room in the house or in the cabin or pilot house of your boat. Available only through the Naval Academy Alumni Association, it may be purchased by mail. The price is $275.00 postpaid to any address in the United States.

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Lucky Bag of Books The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe. Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1979. 436 pages, $12.95.

For those of us who have read Tom Wolfe previously The Right S/M#presents a familiar approach: incisive and somewhat overblown writing with judicious exaggeration to pound the thesis into the thickest skull. All of us who were professionals in the killing business will delight in the insights into the often unreasonable physical demands in keeping a disciplined and responsive force up to the mark, whether Air Force, Army, Marines, or Navy. Those who have bought the egalitarian nonsense that somehow "human rights" can exist in outfits whose prime purpose is making the other fellow die for his country will be offended and spout their silly code words, usually starting with "macho," whatever that is.

I was in on the edges of the man-inspace project before Sputnik, and listened to my aviator section head dissolve into unbelieving laughter when I proposed that the Navy recover the orbiting vehicles. I absorbed a very small amount of the atmosphere that Wolfe so skilfully describes. The astronauts were initially cargo, not pilots. The disbelief of my aviator captain that the laws of physics even permitted an orbiting vehicle was translated in the public's mind into awe at the fearsome danger. So here we had passengers exposed to unimaginable risksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in the public mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and garnering a public worship out of all proportion to^ their actual skills. Then Wolfe shows the astronauts garnering more and more control of their vehicles and the program, and eventually turning the NAS projects into adventures more truly dependent on skilful crew members, but still not up to the demands of the less publicized X-15 and NF-104 programs.

The venture into an unknown more vast than man had ever tapped this side of death captured the public's acclaim and the astronauts became examples of the "Right Stuff." Whatever their peccadillos, they showed that guts is not an irrelevant word in a society that heaves uncomfortably when risk of benzene poisoning approaches one in a million, that looks with suspicion at words like "death before dishonor," and accepts with open arms a naval officer who surrenders his ship without a fight.

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With apologetic nods to Amelia Earhart, Queen Elizabeth I, and Golda Meir, I must add that The Right Stuff is a militantly masculine book. Women are appendages. The question that remains to be answered, in some later hour of trial, is, "Are there enough women with the 'right stuff to justify turning the killing business into a coed proposition?" Wolfe doesn't delve into it but feminist readers will probably be offended by the book while other readers, like me, will wonder if the gentle sex can participate in the sometimes pointless risks of the military life with the "right stuff." (I see little reason to classify the desk-bound components of our defense forces as military.

Uniforms do not sailors make, nor polishing the handle of a Pentagon door.)

The "right stufT' means risking death for the hell of it and accepting death, when it comes, without showing any undue disturbance. The supernatural calm of professional aviators in a tight spot provides Wolfe with the tag on which he hangs the proposition this book examines.

He depicts a class of men, the astronauts and test pilots in general, who glory in showing the "right stuff' as an end in itself, above money, honors, and comfort.

The question that the civilian reader is liable to ask, "Is it worth it?", probably teeters us on the brink of either subservience to the rude and crude domination of our totalitarian neighbors or of accepting the hurts and grief and suffering of fighting back.

Those who chose to spend their lives in the fighting forces will see the point and remember the joyful flush of beating a risk, of making a back full landing with a two knot cross current, of patching up a sinking ship enough to ride her home, of the exuberance of aliveness after taking casualties. Those who haven't experienced it will wonder what the fiiss is about, decry the awful risks, and preach "better red than dead."

Gary HaU '40 Capt. USN (Ret.)

The Lion at Sea

by Max Hennessy. Atheneum, New York, 1978. $8.95.

Newspaperman-merchant sailor-historian John Harris, writing under the pseudonym of Max Hennessy, has given us The Lion at Sea. For any professional sailorman it is a thoroughly interesting experience to join the hero through Dartmouth Naval College, being torpedoed as a sublieutenant in the old armored cruiser HMS CRESSY early in World War I, a hairy episode ashore in Belgium rescuing some members of the British Naval Brigade, at Gallipoli in an E-boat into the Sea of Marmora, where his sub is sunk and he is captured by the Turks. The latter caper includes an escape, a short but sweet dalliance with an Arab princess, through whose efforts he meets an obscure, rather diffident young captain who will become Lawrence of Arabia. The final episode leads through the tedious, miserable, interminable months at Scapa Flow in a destroyer, waiting for the "big crunch," the emergence of the German High Seas Fleet. When it finally comes, we have a stirring account of the Battle of Jutiand as seen from a destroyer.

History can be dull stuff. But when entwined with a picture of life on the messdeck, in the wardrooms, frank views on naval leadership and policy, all featuring Royal Navy language, usage and customs, history can be entertaining as well as informative. The author has done his homework well. For the naval reader, this intimate inside look at a sister navy in wartime is a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

Kemp Tolley '29 RAdm. USN (Ret.)

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Shipmate Book Selection

The Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy

By Commander John D. Alden, USN (Ret.)

Until now there has been no single book available that presented a comprehensive analysis of the design, construction, and material developments of the fleet submarine. Commander Alden has remedied this sorely neglected situation with his latest book, a definitive study of one of the most successful types of warships ever built. His text is carefully illustrated with detailed plans, profile line drawings, and many previously unpublished photographs. He traces the metamorphosis of the fleet submarine from the O boat through the R and S boats and the Guppy to the advent of the nuclear sub and the Albacore hull. The Fleet Submarine in the United States Navy is an authoritative reference.

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"^ha may fife when you are ready Gridley" -Commodore George Dewey, U.S. Navy Manila Bay, April 28,1898

He liked excitement, but he disliked wrar. Yet feisty little George Dewey was one of the most diabolical war weapons this country unleashed in the Spanish-American War. On April 24,1898, Commodore Dewey was ordered to sail to the Philippines and "capture or destroy the Spanish fleet." He left Hong Kong for the 600-mile cruise to Manila Bay with 4 light cruisers, 1 gunboat and 3 supply ships.

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Surrender flags flapped limply from the shores of Manila. And George Dewey became an admiral.

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Doctor Bonus Bill Vetoed President Carter has vetoed the bill passed by Congress to increase bonus payments to doctors and other health care professionals in the military services. In his veto message the President said that the bonuses proposed were unduly generous, and that dentists, optometrists, and other practitioners, including Public Health Service physicians, should not be given bonuses.

Though angered by the President's charge that their bill was "a good example of unjustified federal largesse," congressional leaders immediately began shaping compromise legislation. This probably will not include the Public Health Service but the leaders appear unwilling also to drop dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and veterinarians.

Military leaders fear that hundreds of doctors will now leave the services after waiting almost two years for an increase in the present ceiling of $17,000. By Summer's end, approximately 5,600 of the services' 11,600 physicians will be eligible to leave the military through retirements or resignations.

Two opposites in the political spectrum both condemned the President's veto.

Sen. John Tower (R.-Tex.) commented that "This veto of much-needed incentives for our military doctors could well be an indication that, once again, the President is giving only lip service to key issues. He cannot piecemeal the longoverdue revitalization of the military forces by largely cosmetic efforts." Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D.-Colo.) called the veto foolish, saying, "Nothing is more important to the uniformed personnel of this country than signalling that we really care enough about them to pay for good medical care. This signal has been shot down."

Better Pay System Deferred Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant DoD Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics, told the Congress that it is unlikely that any proposals to improve service compensation will be offered by the Department before next year. He said that he would like to see improvements sooner, but that budget Shipmate. May 1980

pressures within the Administration would delay any new proposals until the FY 1982 budget, which will not become effective until October of 1981.

In testimony to Sen. Sam Nunn's manpower subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, Pirie stated that the Administration does not support increases in subsistence allowances, nor a variable housing allowance, both recently passed by the Senate. However, he added that he personally supports both.

Nunn questioned whether the services' retention problems would wait that long for a solution. Nunn and Sen. John Warner sponsored the package passed by the Senate to increase flight pay, sea pay, subsistence and mileage allowances, and set up a new, variable housing allowance.

That bill is expected to receive favorable consideration in the House.

HASC View of the 1981 Defense

Budget The House Armed Services Committee has recommended that the President's proposed FY 1981 defense budget be increased from $161.8 to $175.3 billion. The committee argued that an additional $4.4 billion should be devoted to further procurement of ships and aircraft, and another $4 billion to meet higher fuel costs for the armed services. The committee added that another $ 1 billion could be used to cover the increases in special pay and allowances provided in a bill {see above) passed by the Senate, estimated to cost $786 million in its first year.

The House Budget Committee argues that such increases would far exceed its budgetary program and has withheld approval pending a decision by the House on whether to hold the budget figure or increase it. Considering the antipathy of the liberal bloc in the House to increasing defense expenditures, and the conservative mood for a balanced budget in 1981, it would appear that the chances for a $13.5 billion increase in defense spending are at best somewhat dim.

Merchant Marine Held Back by Budget The President's "prudent and responsible" federal budget for FY 1981 of $616 billion offers very little in real buildup for the U.S. Merchant Marine. It asks for a total Maritime Administration budget authority (appropriations and contract authority liquidation) totalling $567.9 million, with actual outlays proposed at $606.5 million. Because federal budget funds ebb and flow from one year to the next, the Administration's proposal shows a $79.9 million increase in MarAd budget authority, but actual outlays are proposed to drop by $44.2 million during FY 1981.

The Construction-Differential Subsidy (CDS) Program provides funds to help offset differences in U.S. and foreign shipbuilding costs for American ships in foreign commerce. For FY 1981, MarAd does not plan to carry over prior year CDS funds for new projects. The proposed funding level of $135 million, down by $22.1 million from last year, is considered a "planning figure" in that MarAd has no new CDS contracts on file but expects that passage of new legislation to revitalize the dry-bulk fleet, or other bills now pending, may result in building new CDS-assisted dry-bulkers in the 35,000 to 45,000 deadweight ton range.

The Operating-Differential Subsidy Program (ODS) provides funds to assist in offsetting operating cost differences between U.S. and foreign ships engaged in foreign commerce. MarAd proposes a net increase of $4.76 million in ODS outlays for 1981. This will allow $9.2 million for five liners of the Great Lakes Atlantic Steamship Co., a new operator, and an additional ship for Fartell Lines at $2.15 million. For bulk carriers, ODS will support one ship for Equity Carriers, another new operator, at $1.4 million, and annualize operating costs by Suwanee River Group, which expects to begin service late in FY 1980, at $3.1 million.

Research and Development funds show an increase of $2.5 million, and there is an increase of $3.1 million for MarAd Operations, Maritime Education and Training.

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total anticipated expenditure during 1981 for the Ready Reserve and National Defense Reserve Fleets is $12.2 million, to keep those ships in various degrees of readiness for service as naval auxiliaries in time of war or national emergency. The Education and Training funds support the Merchant Marine Academy, state maritime academies, and related activities.

—Planning and design funds for the active forces will total $321.1 million, including $97 million for the Air Force MX program and $12.5 million for Guard and Reserve components.

—A new $106.2 million Defense Intelligence Analysis Center, planned for Boiling AFB in Washington, has been in study, planning and design stages for 18 years. It is intended to consolidate DIA facilities, which are scattered around six different facilities in the Washington area, several dating back to World War II.

three JAGs, said that the court "has carved out legal doctrines not found in the mainstream of federal jurisprudence," something he said should not be permitted without Supreme Court review.

Some of those decisions, he said, "have resulted in severe problems for military commanders and some even threaten operational readiness." Such decisions must be appealable.

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Registration Funding Refused

The DoD 1981 MCON and Housing Program contains almost $5.3 billion in funding requests, up more than $1.3 billion from last year. The increase includes inflation of 9% in anticipated construction costs, a combined deficit of $32.9 billion in planned new construction and improvement projects, and the need to make up for last year's austere budget in this area.

Deputy Ass't. SecDef Perry Fliakas said the $5.3 billion may be broken down into $2.2 billion for construction within the U.S., $1 billion for construction overseas, and $2.1 billion for resources necessary to finance operations, maintenance and leasing of family housing worldwide.

Specific items included: —An increase in family housing funds of $475.3 million, primarily due to the inclusion of 2651 units of new construction and an expanded housing improvement and energy conservation program. The emphasis here is on suitable housing for lower-ranked enlisted personnel.

—Medical facilities will receive $247 million of an incremental package involving $513.5 million in future years. This compares with $66 million requested last year and is intended to upgrade the present functionally and physically inadequate medical facilities. It also includes a new naval hospital complex at San Diego.

—Guard and Reserve components will receive $188 million, twice that for last year but comparable to the eight years before. These funds are primarily for renovation or expansion of existing facilities, but about 40% is for new mission requirements and equipment.

—European construction totals $765 million, including a $300 million contribution to NATO infrastructure. The rest is divided $277 million (Army), $57 million (Navy), $49 million (Air Force) and $82 million (Defense Agencies).

—Continuation of the Energy Conservation Investment Program will devote $219.2 million to reduce energy consumption in existing buildings and utility systems and $47.2 million for refitting family housing to save energy.

—Air and water pollution abatement measures will receive $28.1 and $79.6 million respectively.

Administration plans to register young men for possible emergency service have been halted for the time being when a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee refused to consider funding for that purpose. The same panel also stated that it would bar women from registration in any future proposal. The Personnel subcommittee of the HASC, in a trial vote on registration, was heavily against the inclusion of women. One factor in both actions was a report by the Selective Service System that manpower needs could be met without calling up women.

On the other hand, Rep. Melvin Price (D.-Ill.), Chairman of the HASC, said the country must keep after some form of draft registration for men—but not for women. Under the present system, he said, we are having to make a major monetary effort to overcome personnel shortcomings in areas that have a direct impact on service morale.

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Changes in the Court of Military Appeals Military justice is unsettled, confused and disrupted because of decisions by the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, top service lawyers have told a congressional committee. Chief Judge Albert B. Fletcher, Jr. disagrees with this assessment but he, the Judge Advocates General, a DoD spokesman and the American Bar Association all support legislation to expand the court and allow its decisions to be appealed to the Supreme Court. A bill proposed by DoD last year is expected to be approved by the HASC's personnel sub-committee.

According to its chairman, Rep. Richard White (D.-Tex.), one of the key problems the legislation will solve is the "revolving door" in the court's membership. Since 1968, eight judges have held the three seats and several times, including the present, there have been only two working members. This prevents a decision when the two judges split, and the high turnover has brought regular changes in the court's judicial philosophy.

The legislation White has introduced would: —Increase the court's size to five members, —Offer new judges full 15-year terms instead of having them fill out the terms of judges who retire, resign or die, —Provide the judges a more attractive retirement system, similar to those in federal courts, and —Allow Supreme Court review of the court's decisions.

The CMA has been controversial in the military community for the past several years because of its decisions against the government on issues such as the search of people and the seizure of evidence, the interrogation of suspects, selfincrimination, jurisdiction, and the administrative handling of cases. RAdm. Charles E. McDowell, testifying for the

Dependent Travel Overseas Dependent travel abroad will probably be controlled by ceilings on families, according to Robert B. Pirie, Jr., spokesman for DoD. The services are still struggling with the Congressional order to count the number of family members overseas. As of 30 November, the number was estimated to be 326,725 against the top limit of 325,000 to become effective on 1 October 1980. The only ways to reduce and control the number of dependents overseas are by limiting the number per family, as was done some twenty years ago, or to require family separation for shorter tours. Either way presents problems in matching personnel who want foreign duty to billets and spaces available.

There is also concern about the many dependents of government personnel other than the military. They also require agency support and must be included in emergency evacuation planning, yet their total numbers are not even estimated. ^

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A Few Inches From The Yard Midshipman B e t h Leadbetter '80

Nuclear Power took its toll on the Naval Academy class of 1980. Because of the Nuclear Power draft, all service communities—Aviation, Marine Corps, and Surface Line—as well as the personal lives of many of the first class midshipmen were seriously affected. While the non-volunteers had only their school dates and their TAD assignments to look forward to Service Selection Night, the more fortunate firsties who managed to avoid the draft were able to secure positions in aviation and on some of the finer ships—positions that would have been taken by the non-volunteers, had they been able to select as they had planned. For the lower half of the class, many choice billets were available to them, because of the draft, much to their surprise.

Back in December when the aspiring Marines selected the Marine Corps for their service community, an amazing number of first class tumed out. Because of the Nuclear Power threat to solicit a large number of non-volunteers into Admiral Rickover's program, many previous Naval Aviator types went Marine Air to assure themselves a position in a pilot's seat. A phenomenal number—115 of the 153 Marine billets were filled

by Aviators. Because of the overflow of midshipmen seeking to avoid the draft, forty-four first class who had their hearts set on a Marine Corps billet were tumed away that night. When the Marine Corps quota was filled, they had to discard their future plans, and look for a job elsewhere. Four years of preparation to become Marines would not be put to use. The Nuclear Power draft was felt everywhere.

Likewise, the Aviation community felt the effects of Admiral Rickover's draft. For the first time in years, the aviators did not fill their 205 member quota of billets. Midshipmen in the lower percentile of class rank were pleasantly surprised when their tum to select came up on 13 Febraary. Their visions of being stuck in no man's land on a rusted tin can were dispersed with the news that aviation billets were still available to them. Even though many of them had no prior flight experience (unlike some of the non-volunteers) they were able to secure aviation billets—to the dismay of their classmates forced into the nuclear power program who had come to the Naval Academy in order to become a naval pilot.

The Nuclear Power community had the most productive season in 1980. Of the 193 volunteers interviewed for the program, only 152 were selected. And, of the 154 non-volunteers, 76 were selected. The question, "Why weren't more of the volunteers accepted into the Program?" has been raised many times. Isn't the desire to do the job, and do it well, the most important factor in a successful career? What about the nonvolunteers? Are they going to put forth as much effort, having been forced into the Nuclear Power community, as their classmates who volunteered for it on Service Selection night?

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the Navy, then leave the Service for a civilian job simply because they were channelled into an area that did not interest them? Looking at the long range picture and its effect on manpower in today's Navy—was the Nuclear Power draft such a good idea? In the Navy's present condifion of manpower shortage, five years is a long time to wait for stafistics.

It is certainly understandable for Admiral Rickover to want qualified personnel to mn his naval reactors. The personnel should not only be qualified, however, they should be motivated as well. From the 193 volunteers a greater number of motivated and qualified individuals could have been selected, giving the non-volunteers the freedom to pursue the career patterns they had planned since July of 1976. The disheartened midshipmen who could not choose Aviation, or the Marine Corps, probably would have done a more proficient job in a field suited to their personal interests. Because of the draft, however, and the drastic change it imposed on commissioning plans, the element of desire may be hard to come by in some of 1980's graduates.

Maybe the Nuclear Power draft would not have seemed so bad if the interviews were handled in a different way. But from the famous nuclear interview stories, the selection process seemed random and unstmctured. The candidates for Nuclear Power were not asked their personal opinions about the program. Their personal desires made little difference to those conducting the interviews, once they began. This left the nonvolunteers with an overall poor attitude about the program.

They felt that five years of their lives were being unfairly toyed with, and there was nothing they could do about it. Even though the Nuclear Power selectees were to receive $3,000 when they graduated from Nuclear Power school, a mere monetary sum did not seem to be enough compensation for a job they had litfle motivation to do.

As the shock of the draft and the surprises of the 1980 Service Selection wear off, life at the Academy settles back into a routine. The real effects of the Nuclear Power draft are yet to be seen. They will crop up at a later date, when the men chosen for Nuclear Power are finished school and serving in the operating Navy. Besides the effect it will have on them personally, and on their families, who knows what will happen to the proficiency of the Nuclear forces in our presently undermanned Navy?

^1^ When the initial shock wears off, we are confident that those midshipmen who did not get their desired choice of service will rally around and become capable officers in their assigned duties. It is sometimes hard going, but we all know that the needs of the Navy must take preference over personal desires.

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Seven Navy Athletes Win All-America Recognition in One Weekend There aren't too many universities or colleges in the country who can match the achievement of Naval Academy winter sport athletes over the weekend of March 14-15â&#x20AC;&#x201D;seven of them won All-America recognition while participating in championship events, and three members of this contingent were Plebes.

Gaining this elite honor were plebe John Reich in wrestling; second classman Greg Pace in men's fencing; plebe Leo Williams in indoor track; and first classman Peggy Feldmann, youngsters Terri Riggs and Kris Collins and plebe Cheryl Dolyniuk in women's swimming.

And there is a distinct possibility that Navy may gain more All-America selections in squash, women's fencing, pistol and rifle when those teams are announced later this spring.

Reich earned his spot on the AllAmerica team when he finished fourth at 167 pounds in the NCAA Wrestling championships at Oregon State University. That was the highest placing for a Naval Academy wrestler since John Althans finished fourth at 158 pounds in 1976.

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Reich reached the semi-final round before he was beaten, 8-4, by Matt Reiss of North Carolina State. The two were tied 2-2 at the end of the second period when Reich suffered a leg injury. Reiss went on to win the national title at that weight class. Reich was still able to come back the next day and win his first consolation bout in overtime over Brad Bitterman of Northern Michigan, but then was beaten in the battle for third place by Dave Evans of Wisconsin, 9-5.

Reich was one of three Navy wrestlers, all plebes, who qualified for the NCAA championships as a result of their performances in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships.

Reich won his weight class at the EIWA while classmate Frank Shaffer was second at 150 pounds and George Fears placed third at 190 pounds. Shaffer and Fears both were eliminated in the early rounds of the NCAA event.

Navy as a team finished second in the EIWA with 93Vi points; Lehigh taking the title with 155% points. Other Navy wrestlers who placed in the EIWA were second classman Doug Heimbach, fourth at 126 pounds; youngster Dave Halladay, sixth at 134 pounds; second classman Brian VanBausch, fourth at 158; plebe Mark Phillips, fifth at 177; and second classman Pat Brady, sixth at heavyweight.

Pace earned third place in the epee weapon at the NCAA Fencing championships at Penn State University. He posted a 17-6 record in the championships, and his placing earned him first team All-America stature.

As a team. Navy was eighth in the NCAA championships with 94 points.

The other two Midshipmen entrants were second classman Lou Marquet who was 15th in sabre and firstie Ira Minor who was 18th in the foil.

After posting an 8-1 season's record, the men's fencing team went on to finish third in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association (Easterns). The Mids best showing at the IFA was in foil where they were second and in epee where they were third. Individually, Pace was second in epee with a 14-4 record while Minor was fifth in foil and Marquet was ninth in sabre.

Williams was fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor Track championships in Detroit, making a leap of seven feet, one and a half inches. Navy quartermiler Jeff Colvin, a first classman, just missed qualifying for the championship race in the 6()0-yard run at the NCAA's by three one-hundredths of a second. The 1600meter relay unit of Colvin, Pat Bailey, Mark Banks and Frank Moreman also missed qualifying for the finals.

Leo Williams, Indoor Track

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At the IC4A Indoor Meet, Navy tied for seventh in the team standings with 24 points with Colvin and Williams setting school records during this meet. Colvin won the 500 meters in 1:02.16, not only a Naval Academy record but just one second off the world record at the time. Williams placed second in the high jump while doing seven feet, one and % inches, a school record.

For Feldmann, Riggs and Collins, it was the second consecutive year they have been All-Americas as a result of their performances in the AIAW (Association of Intercollegiate Athletics For Women) Division II Swimming championships.

Among the top finishes at this meet for the Mid women were a second place in the 100-yard butterfly (:59.2) by Collins; a third in the 100-yard individual medley (1:01.52), a fourth in the 200-yard individual medley (2:13.77), a seventh in the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.6) and a ninth in the 50-yard backstroke (:29.22) by Dolyniuk. Also, Collins was sixth in the 200-yard butterfly (2:11.48) and eighth in the 50-yard butterfly (:27.67). The four were members of the Academy 400-yard medley relay team which was seventh in a school record time of 4:10.86.

Other Navy winter athletic teams also have shown well in the postseason competition completed so far.

The men's basketball team reached the finals of the Eastern College Athletic Conference-South Section playoffs, losing in overtime, 62-51, to Old Dominion, which thus earned an NCAA playoff berth. The Mids had advance to the ECAC-South finals with a 51-50 first round win over the University of Baltimore and then a 75-62 triumph over St. Francis of Pennsylvania in the semi-finals.

In the championship game, the Midshipmen stayed even with the highlyfavored Monarchs for the most part, overcoming a nine-point deficit late in the game to pull even at 47 apiece. ODU went ahead with five seconds remaining on a jumper by All-America Ron Valentine. But plebe Dave Brooks fired in a 25-footer at the buzzer to tie the game at the end of regulation, 49-49. Old Dominion then outscored Navy 13-2 in the overtime period.

The Mids ended the season with a 14-13 record with Brooks the leading scorer with a 12.0 average. Behind him was 6-7 second classman John Geshay who had an 11.9 scoring mark and was second in rebounding with a 7.0 average. Second classman Chuck Greene was next in scoring with a 10 point average.

Navy's women's basketball team had a 15-9 final mark after losing in the EAIAW Regional Division II playoffs. 83-67 to St. Peter's of New Jersey. This marked the second consecutive year the three-year

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old varsity women's basketball team has earned a playoff berth.

Youngster Colleen Cassidy completed the season with two scoring recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; most points, 485, and best scoring average, 20.2, surpassing her previous marks of 414 and 17.3 set a year ago. Cassidy now holds six Naval Academy records altogether. Second classman Bemie Boska was second in scoring for the year with a 16.4 average and topped the rebounding area with a 7.5 average.

The women's fencing team, 9-2 in the regular season, successfiilly defended its National Intercollegiate Fencing Association For Women Region Six championship, with second classman Gwendolyn Mines dethroning her teammate, firstie Robin Druce, for the Region individual crown. Mines went 8-1 while Druce was second with a 7-2 mark. Third classman Cathy Calhoun was fourth with a 6-3 mark in the Regional. The Midshipmen women were slated to compete in the women's collegiate nationals in late March.

The gymnastics team (6-5 in dual competition) placed fifth in the Easterns with individual finishes including a fifth in floor exercise by firstie Don Crump, a sixth on high bar by Plebe Peter DiTullio and a seventh on the still rings by Plebe Dale Hailing.

The pistol and rifle teams both fared well in NRA Sectionals and the latter will compete in the NCAA championships coming up.

The squash team tied for fifth place with Yale in the National Intercollegiates and was ranked fifth in the country.

The men's swimming team fiiushed tenth in the Eastern Seaboard Swimming championships.

Quarterback, Defensive Ends Big Problems to Be Resolved in Spring Drills Finding a quarterback was the number one priority for Navy football coach George Welsh and his staff as the Midshipmen began drills for the 1980 season on March 20. Welsh also was concerned about coming up with some help at defensive end where last year's three regulars, Charlie Thornton, Reggie Trass and Bart Nixon all will have graduated.

On the plus side. Welsh greets 28 returning lettermen, including five of the top six running backs from last year's 7-4 squad, an All-America hopeful in offensive guard Frank McCallister, a solid defensive interior line group and excellent linebackers Mike Kronzer and Ted Dumbauld.

The anxiety over the quarterback situation stems from the fact that the Mids netted only 990 yards passing last year and Welsh wants a more balanced offense in

1980 than the ground-oriented attack of 1979.

Among the prospects being looked at this spring for the position are firstie Fred Reitzel, the starting safety the past two years, second classman Mark Fitzgerald, and youngsters Tom Tarquinio, Tony Coloa, Rich Fabian and Jeff Kom. Tarquinio may have a slight edge since he was the number one back-up to Bob Powers late last season. Reitzel was a quarterback when he first arrived at the Academy.

The running back corps is headed by second classman Ed Meyers, firsties Mike Sherlock and Steve Callahan, along with second classman Duane Flowers at tailback and first classman Kevin Tolbert at fullback. Meyers, firsties Mike Sherlock and Steve Callahan, along with second classman Duane Flowers at tailback and first classman Kevin Tolbert at fullback. Meyers, who may be slowed a bit by some injuries suffered during the wrestling season, was the top rusher last year with 651 yards on 106 carries, a 6.1 average. Sheriock had an identical average with the 590 yards on 96 carries he gained in the five games in which he played in 1979â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he missed the final six with an injury. Sherlock and Tolbert both may miss some of the spring drills as neither is fully recovered from their injuries of last fall.

Welsh also had indicated Callahan could be shifted to wide receiver during the spring.

The wide receivers are led by firstie Dave Dent, speedy youngster Troy Mitchell and second classman Greg Papajohn. Dent topped the pass catchers last year with 17 receptions for 269 yards and three TD's. The Midshipmen have a solid tight-end in first classman Curt Gainer, but his back-up, another firstie.

Matt McLaughlin, will forgo the spring drills while coming off shoulder surgery.

Dent also was a last minute holdout when it was decided he needed knee surgery.

Some help for McCallister along the offensive front wall is expected from first class letterman Mike Dolan at center, but firstie Rick Welch, a 6-5, 253-pound tackle who was a starter much of last year, had to have a knee operation as the drills got underway. Among the other prospects for jobs in the offensive line are firstie Bob Murtha, a letterman; firstie Bob Teufel, second classman Keith Boring and youngsters Frank Watt, Dennis Sinnett and Steve Shatynski.

Key figures in the defensive line are first classmen Steve Chambers, a bulky tackle, and Terry Huxel, a stellar middle guard. Two more lettermen working here are firstie Mike Matthes and second classman Chris Gamer at tackle. Youngster letter-winner Mitch Rushing along with second classman Tim Jordan bolster the middle guard slot.

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At defensive end, Welsh most likely will look first to youngster Travis Wallington, second classmen Perry Bingham, Mike Rouser and Brock Amone.

Kronzer, last year's leader in tackles, and Dumbauld, are both first classmen and will be supported by second classman Ken Olson and youngster Kris Hauer.

The defensive secondary has veterans Chris Boblit, a firstie, Jon Ross, a second classman and Elliott Reagans, also a segundo, available. Other prospects there are firstie Ted Wirginis and youngster Jeff Shoemake.

Veteran Lex Lauletta returns to handle the punting while the kicking chores go again to second classman Steve Fehr, last year's leading scorer, and firstie Dave Guin.

Huxel, McCallister to Lead Navy Gridders This Fall Middle guard Terry Huxel of Cincinnati, O., and offensive guard Frank McCallister of Pittsburgh, Pa., will be Navy's 1980 football co-captains.

Huxel is a 6-0, 231-pounder who will be a first classman this fall. He was a regular on defense a year ago and made 72 tackles, including 10 for losses of 29 yards, despite missing some playing time with injuries.

McCallistePs also a firstie in the fall, is 6-2 and weighs 252 pounds. He has been a key performer in the offensive line the past two seasons and ranked second in playing time on offense a year ago with 744 plays.

"It would appear we have continued our tradition of selecting outstanding cocaptains," pointed out Navy coach George Welsh. "Terry Huxel was voted

in from a host of good candidates on the defensive unit. That shows how the team respects him and has confidence in his ability as a leader. Frank McCallister is one of the best offensive linemen I've ever coached. He gave us a good indication of his leadership qualities even as a junior last fall."

Huxel started a trio of games as a sophomore in 1978 before injuries slowed him down. In his first two starts he was selected to the ECAC All-East Weekly teams for outstanding performances. He ended the season with 53 total tackles.

He won ECAC All-East weekly recognition a year ago for his showing against The Citadel in which he had nine tackles, four for losses of 18 yards, caused a fumble and came up with a fumble recovery.

At the season's end. Football News cited him on its "almost All-America squad."

McCallister won ECAC All-East recognition as a youngster in 1978 following the Mids' win over Air Force. And last year he accumulated a host of postseason honors. He was an Associated Press All-America honorable mention and was selected to just about every All-East first team. He is a prime prospect for AllAmerica recognition in 1980.

Spring Sports Underway With Early Showing Solid Some of Navy's spring sports were underway as Shipmate went to press and early results were quite pleasant.

The baseball team, which last year won the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League and earned a berth into the NCAA Playoffs, swept its season-opening doubleheader against Towson State, 3-2, and 10-3.

The lacrosse team won its opener, a 14-7 triumph over Washington College, and the tennis team, coming off an 18-3 record last year, opened with a 9-0 whitewashing of George Washington.

One of the positive aspects to the baseball team's twin wins was the routegoing performance of the two pitchers, firstie Paul Kelleher and youngster Mike Piascik. Kelleher allowed just six singles in the opener while striking out nine batters. Piascik showed marked improvement over a year ago as he too allowed but six singles and posted six strikeouts.

The lacrosse victory underscored the balance to the Midshipmen attack this year. Plebe Rich Wehman dumped in four goals and second classman Syd Abernethy added three, while last year's leading scorer, firstie Mike Buzzell, had four assists with his two goals.

Navy Sports Briefs Rear Admiral Don Whitmire, USN (Ret.), an All-America tackle at the Naval Academy in 1943-1944 and at Alabama in 1942, was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in February. Admiral Whitmire was selected for the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame in 1956.

Captains in four fall sports for 1980 were announced recently by Navy's Director of Athletics, J. O. Coppedge.

Named were Mark Donahue in cross country; Tim Disher and Joe Mucci in lightweight football; Greg Denkler and Mike Wilson in soccer; and Sue Cowan in women's volleyball. All are currently members of the Class of 1981.

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It is with regret that we have been informed of the death on 10 February of Mrs. James O. Gawne, widow of Capt. James Orville Gawne USN (Ret.), in Washington (DC). Capt. Gawne was, it is believed, the last of his Class to die.

With sadness too, we report the death on 10 March 1980 of Louise Van Harlingen Ingersoll, widow of Adm. Royal Eason Ingersoll USN '05, Commander in Chief of the Atlantic Fleet during three years of World War II. Mrs. Ingersoll had traveled extensively with her husband on his assignments, including duty tours in the Far East. She christened the submarine GATO in the early part of World War II, and was

Sec'y, Como. Ralph S. Wentworth, USN (Ret.) 1922 CarroUton Rd., Pendennis Mt. Annapolis, MD 21401 Percent Members: 77

13 Sec'y-Treas. MGen. C. G. Helmick, USA (Ret.) 4784 Old Dominion Dr., Arlington VA 22207 Percent Members: 82

sponsor in 1979 of the INGERSOLL, a

SpRUANCE-class multimission destroyer named for her husband. She was believed to be the oldest president of the Society of Sponsors of the Navy. Her son, Lt. Royal Rodney Ingersoll USN '34, was killed at the Battle of Midway Island, and she is survived by a daughter, Alice Nagle, of the District of Columbia and two grandchildren.

Clyde Russell Robinson Jr. USN (Ret.) '42. Capt. Robinson was extremely interested in world affairs, had made plans for his spring planting, and had an acute memory, recalling his grade school teachers quite readily. He is believed to have been the last known survivor of the Class.

14 Sec'y, RAdm. Donald Royce, USN (Ret.) 65 Meadow Road Riverside CT 06878 203/637-2773 Percent Members: 75

Theodore Weld Sterling, Cdr. USNR, died in the Doylestown, Pennsylvania, hospital on 12 February 1980 after suffering a stroke on January 26. Services were held 14 February and interment was in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. He is survived by his Mrs. Robert H. Hicks, of Delray Beach, wife Marian, a son John, three daughters, Sally Florida, writes that her mother, Paula Siebs Swanson, Janet Murphree and Helen and prior Coman, widow of Capt. Vaughn Kimball Montgomery. His oldest son, Theodore Weld send directly to Shipmate Coman, died 12 December. A memorial service Sterling, Jr., was lost in the Saipan campaign was held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in in the Pacific in '44 flying from the new HORDelray Beach, and graveside services at ArNET. Col. Thomas Murphree, USMC (Ret.), a lington National Cemetery. son-in-law, is of the Class of'48, USNA. FourBom in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Coman teen has lost an esteemed Classmate and exlived in Washington (DC) for many years, folSec'y. and Treas., RAdm. Frank A. Braisted, tends its deep sympathy to the family. lowing Capt. Coman's death in 1954. Mrs. USN (Ret.), 3104 Cleveland Ave., N.W., Cdr. Sterling was known to his Classmates Hicks is her sole survivor.

Washington, DC 20008 and friends, in fact practically to all, as Peter Percent Members: 88 Sterling. He wrote me that the name was pinned on him by Chub Austin of '13: " I was reading a book in the Carvel Hall lobby titled Shown herewith is a picture of Capt. Clyde The Honorable Peter Sterling, and when I was Robinson USN (Ret.) who died in Annapolis on Corr. Secy, Mr. Dorsey O. Thomas intorduced to Chub, he saw the title and 19 February 1980 at the age of 95, the sixth 725 West Blvd., Kokomo IN 46901 pinned it on me." And so the name stuck and oldest graduate of the Academy at the time. Percent Members: 88 even the authorities would become confused.

Capt. Robinson was actually graduated on 12 Carl Bryant, VAdm. USN (Ret.), writes, September 1906 in the first of three sections of "This month we lost our Classmate Peter Sterthe Class. His specialty was ordnance, and ling. I don't suppose many of our Class knew during World War I he served as gunnery offiPeter at all and very few, if any, knew him as cer in GEORGIA and PENNSYLVANIA. He later well as I did. He was a peculiar character— was head of the department of ordnance and Chairman Class Comm., RAdm. G. J. difficult to really get to know—but when you McMiUin, USN (Ret.) gunnery at the Academy, and he also served as did, you had a very close relationship. With me officer in charge of the design section of the 4242 Linden Ave., Long Beach CA 90807 he was one of the newbom ensigns that sailed Percent Members: 100 Bureau of Ordnance. Ships that he commanded in PRAIRIE from Annapolis in July 1914, to join included VESTAL and COLORADO. He was We regret the passing of our fine Classmate, the WYOMING off Vera Cmz. A friendship proud to have been one of the few survivors Loring Batten, on 7 January 1980 which was started lasting some sixty years. After some left to have made the round-the-world cruise announced in the March issue of Shipmate. time, we graduated from the signal bridge with the Great White Fleet, and among numer- His wife Florence died on 13 May 1974. His watch to division officers. Peter had the 3rd ous decorations and awards were the Legion of two sons served the Navy in World War II. Division, Turret 3. The gunnery officer Merit, the Greek Cross of St. George, and the We knew Loring as a kind, considerate, couldn't understand Peter and finally got him Diploma of Commander of the Order of George generous man, a true gentleman for whom we shanghaied to China. I got the 3rd Division.

I, presented by the Greek govemment. have the highest respect. Our deepest sym- Peter had it so well organized that for the next After he retired in 1946, he settled in a lovely pathy to his daughter, two sons and the grand- year or so I rode to glory thru his efforts. He home in Annapolis, living with a cousin, Lucie children. had a nearly new Stutz Bearcat roadster— Foster Adams, wife of Capt. David G. Adams, which was quite the thing in those days— Birthday greetings to Arthur Ford on 3 June.

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which he sold to me at the ridiculous price of $750—"pay for it if and when you can'—and of course 1 did just that. At the same time he bequeathed to me some swank clothing, a Scots tweed overcoat which I wore for years—a cutaway coat and a top hat which I don't remember wearing. Then the war came along. I was in WYOMING—Peter in destroyers in Ireland. Our next meeting was in 1924 when we were ordered to Philadelphia and lived in Langhome, Pennsylvania. We heard that Peter had resigned and was living in Buckingham Valley, some 15 miles away, so one Sunday we left the children and drove over to see him.

(We had not met his wife, Marian.) Up a lane to this big Pennsylvania Dutch house and knocked on the door. A colored man in white coat answered. (Mr. Sterling was at dinner. 1 told him to tell Peter a Classmate was outside.

Peter came bounding out and we went in. They were at dinner and had guests. We had to sit down and have a drink. From then on, we saw a lot of the Sterlings and their children, continuing until we moved out here some ten years ago. When he bought his place in Buckingham it had run down. He brought it back to a show place: main house, nearby guest houses, the big hay bam, the silo, carriage house, etc., etc.

There was a famous tile maker in Doylestown and the walls in the cow shed were all tile with quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, etc.

Quite a place I can tell you. He kept some 6 or 8 cows and used to deliver the milk personally.

He had two boys and three girls, a fine family.

One year after a sudden gain in the stock market he packed up his family, went abroad and chartered a boat for a Mediterranean cruise.

One Summer he brought his two boys to visit us in Searsport, Maine. 1 had to go back to my job in Quincy, Massachusetts, one Sunday P.M. Monday night eating in a restaurant, 1 had a phone call from Peter—he had been arrested on some driving charge in New Hampshire and was being held in jail until he paid a fine. Could 1 wire him $50. Fortunately I could and did. Peter said—"I'm all right. The two boys are being looked out for by the warden's wife and he and I are sitting here chewing the fat until he puts me back in the jug.' Then the second war came. The oldest son, Theodore became a Navy flier. In 1943 or so a man, picked up on a raft in mid-ocean, said that he and Theodore had been there three weeks when Theodore died. 1 went to Annapolis shortly thereafter for the wedding of Peter's oldest daughter Sally. (Peter was on duty there.) After his son's death, he lost some of the interest he had in Lookaway Farm, and certain buildings have fallen into disrepair with the exception of the main building and the guest houses. It is sad to see a fine place deteriorate, but plans are now made for restoration. This is a rather long letter, but it tells of a side of Peter Sterling that many never knew existed. Best wishes—Carl Bryant."

15 Chairman and Class Comm. and Sec'y, Adm. A. D. Struble, USN (Ret.) 4017 Oliver St., Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 95

16 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 JollaCA 92037 Percent Members: 88 We regret to report that Capt. Henry Bryan Broadfoot USN (Ret.) died on 5 March of pneumonia in a nursing home in Beaufort, South Carolina. Mick Carney represented the Class at graveside services March 10 at Arlington. We send our condolences to his widow, Polly, who also lives in the nursing home, and their son Bryan.

Eastern Notes A recent photo of Marion Radford looking proud and happy appeared in the Navy Times of 9 January. It shows Marion sitting comfortably in the "Skipper's Chair" aboard the USS ARTHUR W . RADFORD, a SPRUANCE-class de-

stroyer named after her late beloved husband and our outstanding Classmate. Some 200

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guests had been invited to enjoy a one-day dependent's cruise out of Norfolk into Chesapeake Bay and a bit of the Atlantic, and Peter served in the first Worid War as a lieu- Marion was, naturally, the "Honored Guest."

Most news about the Class has not been tenant, and resigned shortly thereafter to live as a country squire in Bucks County. He re- generally cheerful of late. We have lost two tumed to service in 1940 and served at the more Classmates and a widow since those Naval Academy as commander USNR. He losses reported last month. Leon Fiske died on was bom in France and. as the Lucky Bag 30 January in the San Diego Hospital, and Pep says, had many travel and foreign associations Flood passed away on 8 February in Oak Knoll that broadened his mind and made him at ease Hospital in Oakland, California. Connie in any assemblage. Finally. "If you're ever in a Cooper. Buck's widow, died in her home in Pasadena, Califomia, 7 January. West Coast hole and want help, go to Peter Steriing. Not every one in the Class knows that, but no one news and "Last Call" will have more detailed information conceming these regretted losses has ever gone in vain."

Fourteen deeply regrets the loss of Peter of old friends and shipmates. We all send sincere condolences to their survivors all.

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To complete Chappy's report about Pep Flood, we phoned his son Bruce, Jr. in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Bruce has a Ph.D. in history and is a professor at the University of Wisconsin branch in Whitewater. Bmce was called West when leaming of his father's serious condition and was there when Pep expired. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered at sea in accordance with his wishes. Red Keady helped make the arrangements for these services for our friend and Classmate and saw to it that a class wreath was provided at that time. Red also, in his natural, thoughtful, kind and selfless way, aided Bruce in many of the involved problems which need attention in sad and difficult times like these. Bmce wanted the Class to know how much he appreciated all that Red had done for his family in the name of the Class of 1916. We all, too, salute Red for his fine representation of the Class. Thank you, Red! Bmce's address is: Dr. Bmce P. Flood, Jr., 949 W. Highland St., Whitewater WI 53190.

West Coast News The Annual Valentine Party of the Classes of 1916-17-18, honoring as guests our wives and the widows of our Classmates, was celebrated in the Sky Room, Officers' Club, North Island Naval Air Station (Coronado) Thursday, Febmary 14th. Twenty-nine were present. Ing Kiland handled the colorful arrangements, motif of Valenfine's Day. Amos Root was in charge of the exchequer. There were five tables, three for '16 and one each for '17 and '18. Their West Coast "Scribe" will prepare their Shipmate notes of this gala occasion. All honored guests were greeted and introduced (Ing Kiland for '17 and Ray Nichols for '18). It was a special honor to greet Consuelo Ziroli, coming the furthest from Siena, Italy; however, she may later make Califomia her home. "Red" Keady, south from the San Francisco Bay region, had a cheerful word from that area. In answering the invitations, the following, unable to attend, sent cheerful greetings to all: Winnie Wilkes of Tucson, Arizona; the Julian Wheelers of Menlo Park; Beatrice Dague of San Francisco; Harris Lyie of Fillmore; Martha Fieneman of Long Beach; Loma Kenworthy of Encinitas; and locally, Judy Sauer, Gilda Terhune, Connie Erickson, Ann Webb, the George Prices and Marianne Radford who, after visiting in La Jolla, had to retum East before Valentine Day. Heavy seasonal rain flooded Interstate 5 causing Mary Miles to cancel out after accepting, and as she annually attends, we all missed her.

The Max Coles, who winter in the Carmel area from their New Hampshire home, could not make their annual trek south for the Valentine Party, and indeed were missed. Before joining the tables, a standing minute of Silent Prayer was observed for those who have departed.

Present from 1916 were: Angie Grassie, Marie and Bert Rodgers. Esther and Hook Jenkins, Stevie and Lil Hemdon, Blair and Chappy Chapline, and south from Laguna Hills, Phoebe Nell and George Hussey, as well as those previously mentioned; Consuelo Ziroli, "Red" Keady, Amos Root, Bert Rodgers' sister, Mrs. McGreevy of Pittsburgh, who graced the occasion and drew the lucky names from the hat of the ladies who won and took home the beautiful, colorful table flower arrangements.

Consuelo Ziroli was the honored guest at an elegant luncheon for twenty relatives and friends on Sunday. February 17. at the Officers" Club, Naval Air Station. Miramar. The 45

hosts were her charming sister. Dotty Curry and brother-in-law, Capt. Duncan Curry ('21) of Escondido, with whom she is visiting.

Among the guests were a number of Classmates and other Academy graduates, Marie and Bert Rodgers, Edwina and Benny Decker, and Blair and Chappy Chapline.

It is with a sad heart and deep regret that I report the next four items, all briefed: After a long illness and suffering, Paul Rutledge of Oceana, Oceanside, Califomia, passed away on December 11, 1979. Following retirement he was recalled to active duty in 1940 on the staff of the Naval District Commandant in Honolulu. He and his wife moved to the San Diego area soon after his second retirement in 1946. During these days he was a regular at all class activities. He later moved to Ojai in Ventura County, where he lived for several years before settling in the quiet Oceana development where many service retirees are located.

In recent years he was unable to join our San Diego area class activities. His will specified no publicity or service, but interment in his plot in the San Diego Greenwood Memorial Park, where he now rests. His widow has moved to the Santa Barbara area.

On January 7, 1980, lovely Constance Cooper, the widow of Lowell, suddenly passed away in her Pasadena home. Mary Miles had been in touch with Connie during the holidays and found Connie then cheerful and active.

Constance (a New York City debutante) and Lowell were married after World War I while he was on duty in ARIZONA, based in New York. Some years following retirement after World War II Connie and Lowell settled in Pasadena, Califomia, where we had the opportunity to enjoy seeing her on occasions.

We all lost a most competent'gentleman and close friend when Leon Fiske quietly passed in Coronado where he and Marge lived, January 29, 1980. Their son, Capt. L. S. Fiske, Jr., SC USN (Ret.) of the San Francisco Bay Area, was at the bedside with his mother. After moving to Honolulu in retirement, and living there several years. Marge and Leon retumed to Stateside, later settling in Coronado. Leon was a regular at our lunches until his health restricted his activities, and Marge graced the parties such as our Valentine celebrations and the like. There was no service and Leon's ashes were scattered at sea where he so capably served our Navy during his rise from midshipman to vice admiral.

"Red" Keady brought the sad news to our Valentine gathering that "Pep" Flood had departed unexpectedly on Febmary 6, 1980, in the OaknoU Naval Hospital, Oakland, California, after having been hospitalized off and on for some time. "Red" had been to visit "Pep" shortly before that date. Pep's son. Dr. Bmce P. Flood, Jr., had been summoned from the East, but no final details were available.

"Pep" has been a regular at our annual Valentine parties, generally visiting South for several days. After retirement in 1936 and obtaining his master's degree at Stanford University in 1938, he has been associated with the University of California at Berkeley as a professor, except for active dury during Worid War II. He maintained a home in Berkeley, and continued there since full retirement from the University. " P e p ' s " cheerful attitude will be missed by all who knew him and had the opportunity to be with him.

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17 Acting Sec'y, Capt. Ward P. Davis USN (Ret.) 670 Americana Dr., Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 91 RAdm. E. E. Duvall USN (Ret.) '18 has very generously submitted the following tribute to our departed Classmate, Charles William Weitzel.

The following relate to the obituary of RAdm. Charles W. Weitzel (see Shipmate, Jan./Feb. issue). As reported there, our esteemed Classmate died on I September 1979 in the Mater Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand.

The remains were cremated at the Purewa Chapel, Meadowbank, and his ashes transferred to Arlington National Cemetery. Respecting the wishes of Mrs. C. W. (Viviene) Weitzel of 4 Ventnor Road, Remuera, Auckland 5, N.Z., a modified miHtary service was arranged and the interment solemnized on Friday, 21 December 1979; it was a dignified and impressive ceremony attended by Frank Hanafee, Elmer Duvall '18 (Weitzel's roommate for three years), and a representative of the Chief of Naval Personnel and Commander Naval Military Personnel Command, Capt.

G. J. Van Norden.

In his later years, Weitzel made his home in Auckland, where his principal hobbies were woodworking and lawn bowling. He developed an abiding enthusiasm for the latter sport, and 1965 was elected to the Remuera Bowling Club, with its membership of some 400 retired officers, business and professional men. Here he made many friends and pleasant associations, and was held in the highest regard and respect, which indeed can be said of Weitzel's circle of friends and admirers within the U.S. Naval Service.

Ziggy as CO. of USS WASP

party was Ziggy's sister, Mrs. Dorothea Harvey, who came from Nashville. She was introduced by Mr. William E. Haggett, vice president of the company. RAdm. Dempster M. Jackson ('52), Naval Sea Systems Command, representing the Navy Department, made appropriate remarks. (Adm. Jackson was a member of the victorious Academy crew at the '52 Olympics.) The principal speaker was Congresswoman Beverly B. Byron from Maryland.

(Incidentally, she is the daughter of Navy Captain Harry Butcher, one-time aide to General Dwight D. Eisenhower.)

Others present were: supervisor of shipbuilding, Capt. C. L. Mull ('50); Prospective Commanding Officer of the ship, Cdr. G. M. Musick ('63) from Washington; and Courtney's husband. Dr. Daniel Vaughan (former Navy physician with the Marines in China).

18 Sec'y, Capt. Perry R. Taylor, USNR (Ret.) 1211 South 25th St., Ariington VA 22202 Percent Members: 89 On 16 Febmary at Bath Iron Works, the guided missile frigate, CLIFTON SPRAGUE, was launched. The new vessel was proudly christened by Mrs. Courtney Vaughan, daughter of our own Ziggy Sprague, and her mother Annabel. (Unfortunately the mother was unable to attend the ceremony.) In honor of her father and in the name of the United States, she broke the botfle on her first wallop, and then stood spellbound with a heart full of love and pride as the beautiful hull slid slowly down the ways. (The builders informed Mrs. Vaughan that sponsors are generally given two attempts to break the ceremonial bottle and failing that someone on the vessel, now already moving, does so; but Ziggy's free-swinging daughter performed with dispatch and took no extra swings.)

Upon arriving at her home in Monte Sereno, Califomia, Courtney was good enough to describe this memorable occasion which she considered high adventureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a glorious and rewarding experience; the advent of snow, which she described as pleasant with large soft flakes, failed to mar the ceremony for the Sponsor and her Matron of Honor, her sister, Mrs. Patricia Reneau. The principals, just mentioned, were introduced by Mr. John F. Sullivan, president of Bath Iron Works; another member of the

Courtney The people of Bath Iron Works impressed Courtney with their warmth and kindliness and she praised the organization for its dedication, over the years, in creating the ships of the finest constmction and performance.

Likewise good performance was achieved by the proud Bath Iron Works in building the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY and another frigate

named in honor of Francis X. Mclnemey ('21).

These vessels are designed for 445 feet and 3610 tons displacement. Joining them in the fleet will be their sister-ship, CLIFTON SPRAGUE. Although Ziggy was not separated from his family for long periods after WWII, his daughters were not able to leam much of their father's achievements. Ziggy, of course, had the reputation of being reticent about personal publicity, just as Admiral Spmance was. The sisters had to leam by reading Morison, Herman Wouk, and Navy publications.

From the Navy biography of VAdm. C. A. F. Sprague we have read that he was awarded a Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as commander of Task Unit Taffy 3.

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cataract. He retumed home the 29th able to see again with that one eye: glasses later.

Nell and your scribe have become greatgrandparents; the grandparents, Barbara and Perry, Jr.; the parents, Fran and Peter; the baby. Matthew, bom 8 Febmary, nearly eight pounds.

Birthday greetings are offered to Horace Corbett, 5/3; Red Baldwin, 5/16; Walter Warlick, 5/25; Jerry Wright, 6/4; Ralph Riggs, 6/20; and Bill Taylor, 6/23.

The Christening Those four escort carriers with seven destroyers were engaged in furnishing aerial support to the landing of troops on the shores of Leyte Gulf, 18-25 October 1944. But his ships unexpectedly came under fierce attack by enemy major surface vessels and, during that Battle off Samar Island on 25 October, he continued to direct repeated aerial strikes and torpedo attacks against the hostile fleet made up of four large battleships, six heavy cmisers, and numerous destroyers. By his aggressiveness and courage, he was in large measure responsible for forcing Adm. Kurita's powerful fleet from that area. The crews of those heroic flattops expressed disappointment—in language not suitable for this publication—that the formidable Japanese fleet had withdrawn.

Down the Ways

(Courtesy Balli Iron Works)

In addition to the honor and distinction of having a U.S. Naval vessel named for him, also it should be mentioned that the noted Naval historian—Samuel Eliot Morison— dedicated Volume XII of his History of United States Naval Operations in World V/ar U entitled Leyte to the memory of Clifton Albert Frederick Sprague. Vice Admiral, United States Navy.

In March 1980 faithful Bert Rogers submitted his 34th annual report on class finances. The report was audited by Riggs and Sullivan. It showed an unobligated balance of $4291.32.

Interest of $226.85 was earned in 1979. Expenses amounted to $326.01, covering postal and long distance telephone expenses of the secretary and for flowers or expressions of sympathy in the form of donations to good causes. Any Classmate or widow wanting to see the report, just write to Capt. E. C. Rogers, 3512 Albemarle St.. NW, D. C. 20008.

Riley Dodge went into the Fairfax, Virginia, hospital on 26 Febmary for the removal of one Shipmate, May 1980

19 Sec'y, VAdm. Wm. M. Callaghan, USN (Ret.) 7108 Meadow Lane, Chevy Chase MD 20015 Percent Members: 83 An invitation from the Ingalls Shipbuilding Co. at Pascagoula, Mississippi, to attend the christening of DDG-994 being named for my late brother Dan took your recorder and Sarah south in mid-January. Since the invitation was reasonably related in time to another from friends in Fort Lauderdale, we decided to drive rather than fly. Nothing more serious than rain encountered both ways despite the apprehension and reality of possible winter storms at that time of year. Leaving Pascagoula, stops in Florida included Pensacola, Vero Beach and Fort Lauderdale. Had to be content with phone visits with Cid Wildman and Yen Coney, both of whom indicated they were enjoying good health. Yen made the Binnacle List last Fall for removal of his gall bladder and has completely recovered.

At Fort Lauderdale our host, Cdr. Eugene McCahill USNR (Ret.) and his lovely wife, Louise, are near apartment house neighbors and friends of Rody VonHeimburg. We had the pleasure of reciprocal KT-hour visits and of having Rody with us for dinner following one of them. Rody looks well and sends her best to all class friends. Florida winter weather, at least in the areas we visited, did not live up to the balmy descriptions of the travel brochures.

Not unexpected perhaps in view of the vagaries of winter weather everywhere this year.

A hint for those looking for accommodations at Navy Lodges. Make your reservation well in advance. Was told at the one in which we stayed at NAS Pensacola that space difficult to obtain from late Spring to Fall, when most changes of active duty personnel are taking place.

Midn. C. K. Wildman, coaler, USS MISSOURI, Guantanamo, 1916

Returning home after an absence of five weeks, found a mountain of mail awaiting attention. Among other items a kind note from Red Schoeffel inviting us to take advantage of the guest room at his new address: 4126 Belair Lane, Naples FL 33940, Apt. B8, tel. 813/2631088. Also a note from Cid Wildman regretting our inability to stop by for a visit and enclosing a photo of him (reproduced herewith) in coaling attire during our youngster practice cmise.

What nostalgia! Can remember trying to get rid of black dust framing the eye lashes that seemed invincible against the attacks of soap and water. Cid wonders what the female contingent at the NA (of which he heartily disapproves) would be able to do if coaling ship were still in vogue.

The sad news upon retum was the death of Ross Winckler during our absence. George Dyer, who kindly took over the column for me in the April issue, has already covered the account of Ross's death. George has also forwarded to me for mention herein a note received from Ross's brother Fred, expressing gratitude for the remarks he made at the chapel services for Ross and for the thoughtful friendship he had extended to him throughout his life.

A letter from Mike Williams tells of recovering from a light attack of flu that still enabled him to perform household chores while spouse Jo was laid up with a really severe attack.

Printed enclosures to Mike's letter were passed on at his request to Miles DuVal and covered a range of subjects including Federal usurpation of State's rights, the Federal Reserve System and the payaway of the Panama Canal. Our ever ready and travelling president was off in late Febmary to attend as one of its tmstees the annual meeting in Daytona Beach of Patriotic Education, Inc. Married grandchildren helping Adaline during his absence.

20 Sec'y, Capt. Wm A. P. Martin, USN (Ret.) 2 St. Mary's St., Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 81 Wally Dallman writes, "Dear Wap; It was a big event when the first of our Class celebrated his eightieth birthday. I am the last to do so.

I'll be eighty on 17 March. Incidentally, my father was in the Class of 1880 at the Naval Academy, graduating one hundred years ago.

With affectionate best wishes—Wally." Many thanks to you, Wally, and many happy retums.

The Class is saddened to report the death of Mary Gwynn Crocker on Friday, Febmary 8, at a nursing home near Richmond, Virginia.

She was the widow of Capt. James Ally Crocker. She was buried with graveside services at Arlington National Cemetery on 12 Febmary. A memorial service at St. Albans Church in Washington (DC) followed.

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21 Sec'y, Capt. Heber B. Brumbaugh USN (Ret.), 3722 Manor Road, Apt. 2 Chevy Chase, MD 20015 Sec'y West Coast (SF Bay Area): Mr. Norman C. McKee 19 Blue Ridge Lane, Woodside CA 94062 Sec'y., San Diego Area: RAdm. Logan McKee USN (Ret.) 738 Glorietta Blvd.

Coronado CA 92118 Treas., RAdm. James R. Dudley USN (Ret.) 164 Edwards Ferry Road Leesburg VA 22075 Percent Members: 84 As young Alumni, we were proud to serve in destroyers named in honor of yesteryear naval heroes such as DECATUR, PREBLE, DAHLGREN.

Now, as our ranks thin, we can take pride in new Navy fighting ships such as MCINERNEY, GALLERY and MCKEE, named in honor of our

contemporaries, including Classmates, heroes of World War II: Francis Xavier McInerney '21, Daniel Vincent Gallery '21, his brother Philip Daly Gallery '28, and Andrew Irwin McKee '17.

USS MCINERNEY, built at Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is one of a new breed of destroyers-guided missile/frigates (FFG). Sister ship, USS GALLERY, also building at Bath, is scheduled to be launched 27 December 1980.

445 feet long, displacing 3600 tons, powered by twin gas turbines, they are designed for defense against submarines, surface ships and aircraft. Their weapons system includes surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, a new 76mm rapid-fire gun, and helicopters.

MCINERNEY was delivered to the Navy, according to the builder, "on November 19, 1979—11 weeks ahead of schedule and $5 million below target cost."

USS MCKEE is being built by Lockheed at Seattle. On 15 Febmary 1980 Lucile Kelley (widow of " P r o f Kelley), who is president of The Society of Sponsors, U.S. Navy, attended the launching. She reported that the ceremony was well attended by the McKee family, including Logan McKee, brother of Andrew, for whom the ship is named, and Logan's wife, Elizabeth. Andrew's widow was sponsor, and Andrew's sister, Mrs. Frye, was matron of honor. Incidentally, Andrew's daughter, Mrs. Walter M. Ousey, had sponsored the submarine, USS SCAMP.

From Robert O. Dehlendorf '23, of Menlo Commons D-206, 2140 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park CA 94025, we received an old photo of Roger W. Simpson '21 with a note reading in part as follows: "The enclosed snapshot dates back to my plebe year when Simpson was my instmctor in Roger Simpson

sailing. As what you can see from what appears to be phonograph, he enjoyed his assignment. This photo was taken by me because I admired him as a top-grade upper-classman.

Would you do what you can t o pass this snapshot along to a family member? I see that you are from Missouri. So was I, St. Louis, where I knew Howard Hubbell '21 well. Thanks.

R.O.D." After retiring in 1951, Roger moved with his wife Grace to Spain, and died there in December 1964 as the result of an auto accident near Cadiz. Grace, now Grace Fowler Simpson Smith, lives at 200 Glenwood Circle, #224, Monterey CA 93940. Before sending the picture to her, we think that Bob Dehlendorf would not object if we asked Shipmate to reproduce it in this issue.

The picture is rather faint, and we don't know how well it will print. The boat is closehauled on the starboard tack in a light breeze.

Roger, facing aft, sits just abaft the mast, right arm on the boom, left of the starboard gunwhale, enjoying the warm sunshine and the music from his record player.

The Washington-Annapolis Group Little to report. Flu was prevalent in Febmary, and some of our people were on the binnacle list. No luncheon had been scheduled for the month. Dolly Fitzgerald reported it had been quiet in Annapolis. Fred Boone retumed from Florida on 22 Febmary. He and Polly had had a fine trip. On the drive South they had little trouble finding gas until they reached Florida on the week end. The weather was good; they walked a lot, swam in a heated pool, golfed a little. They enjoyed having as neighbors the Frank Akers '22, Howard Orems '22 and Charles Wellborns '21.

San Diego The San Diego Chapter of the Class of 1921 held its regular monthly meeting at the Marine Corps Recmit Depot on Tuesday, 26 Febmary.

Present were the following: Nick Carter, Abie Cook, Sydney Dodds, Tom Esling, Hod Gorry, Bud Hall, Bob Hickey, Bris McHugh, Logan McKee, George Peet, Stogi Roberts, Don Smith, Leo Stafford, and Bunny Wray.

This was a particularly enjoyable meeting as the distaff members had been invited to join us during Happy Hour, and most of those without prior engagements did so. Those who came were: Marion Bushnell and house guest from Bremerton, Peg Taylor, Mary Brandt, Elsie Carter, Marion Esling, Marty Gorry, Eleanor Gray, Virginia Hickey, Maxine Jones, Ruth McHugh, Elizabeth McKee, Christine Owsley, Sara Percival, Mary Roberts, Louise Schell and Peter Wray.

Don Smith drove the Coronado contingent over in his motor home. Don and Sophie are leaving soon for their home in Mexico, to return in June.

George Pete presented each person present with two avocados.

San Francisco Bay Area News This appears to be a quiet period for 1921 Classmates living in the Bay area. Our Winter has been long and wet, which may account for the lack of parties or social gatherings. Rainfall is above normal, although we are not trying to compete with Southern Califomia where the heavens let loose in a series of gigantic downpours, ripping out trees, rocks, hillsides and even homes.

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Your scribe can at least report on one fine party held on 23rd of Febmary. Hosts and hostesses consisted of Bess and Piggie Schwien, and Susie and Bill Bennett. You will recall Susie was formerly married to Eddie Duncan, '23. Eddie was a long-time friend of members of '21. He prepped with them in Annapolis, finally graduating with '23. After retirement Eddie found himself among many old friend '2lers on the West Coast, was "adopted" and joined us at all of our class luncheons. Eddie passed on a few years ago. Bill Bennett, Susie's new husband, was a sailing companion of Jim Reisinger, Dave Davis, and others.

This special party was held at the Duncans' old San Francisco house. The San Francisco house is now one of three owned by the Bennetts between them. Bill also has a small house in San Mateo and one in the foothills. They are now in the process of buying another one in San Mateo because the two city houses that they now own are either too large or too small.

Eventually they will be living in San Mateo.

Piggie, who has gained considerable fame as an accomplished cook, prepared and cooked all the canapes for the party and took charge generally of the culinary department. Approximately 80 guests were duly impressed.

And now may this scribe sound off on something he feels strongly about? We are now in the midst of a political campaign which we can consider cmcial to the future welfare of this country. Those of our many Classmates who served actively and commendably during wartime well know what proper defense means.

Politics, honest politics, for the rest of 1980, is the name of the game. I firmly believe that each one of us who still has good health should actively enter the political arena. Each one of us can exert influence by joining a phone bank or phoning from home, or writing letters. The size and cost of govemment must be cut, and can be cut. Otherwise, we and succeeding generations will be submerged by increasing size and power of national govemment.

22 Sec'y., Capt. D. H. Johnston USN (Ret.) 3928 N. 36th St., Ariington VA 22207 Corr. Sec'y., RAdm. J. L. Pratt USN (Ret.) 4000 Mass. Ave. NW, Washington DC 20016 Percent Members: 82 At the last class luncheon our statistician, Omer Kneeland, came up with these figures: Of the original 539 graduates of '22, 195 are still living, or about 36.1 per cent. Pretty good for octogenarians. Then: widows listed, 136; widows remarried, 14; widowers, 7; Classmates married twice or more, 14. It therefore seems that there are 136 listed widows and only 7 widowers—interesting actuarial progression.

Frank Akers has received a letter from the Annapolis Holiday Inn to the effect that room deposits for the Sixtieth Reunion will be $35.

(Need not be remitted until March, 1982.)

More later—but start saving.

We reported recently that Ralph Shepard was moving to Texas from Connecticut. Ralph discovered there is only one bed in the new house his daughter and her husband acquired, so Ralph at this writing was endeavoring to coordinate his own arrival with that of the 3000-mile trek of his fumiture. (Fortunately, he was "fore posted."! C/S.) Old Pensacola sailors may not know about Shipmate, May 1980

the city's new look: the restoration of the business and waterfront sections including Seville Square and Zarragossa Street. One of the pleasant things about seeing it all was the guidance of Warren Bemer, who first went to that charming old town some 55 years ago, as did I. The principal industry then was the training of Naval aviators. However, the economic importance of the Naval Air Station is now almost equaled by great nylon and acrylic fiber plants and paper mills up country from the city, to say nothing of an oil strike in the northem part of the county near Jay. Such development could have mined the town but for the Pensacolians determination to preserve its historic character and charm—sparked originally by a young lady, Mary Rule (now deceased), the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. A. O. Rule (USN Class of '19) a descendant of a long line of Pensacolians. The business section, lower Palafox Street, has a completely fresh look.

Seville Square has been restored. History speaks from every corner whether it be Spanish street names or the antique houses of old sea captains; ship chandlers warehouses remodeled into law offices; intriguing and attractive restaurants, fine shops. A swinging night spot, "Rosie O'Grady's," features Dixieland music with free flowing beer, peanut shells on the floor. Zarragossa Street, the site years ago of numerous bordellos, is now presided over by the new Escambia County Judicial Building. The docks are busy with worldwide ocean shipping. Warren and I spent an hour talking to a knowledgeable crewman of a specially constmcted ship taking hot liquid sulphur (256°) into its heated holds, the sulphur a by-product of the oil wells at Jay. If you visit, we recommend Warren Bemer as a guide.

From Hank Paul in Philadelphia: "My activities are hardly newsworthy." (Hank still practices patent law in Philadelphia, Paul and Paul. C/S.) " I have a daughter, Anne Paul Streeter, nicknamed Nan, who has just been reelected for the third time as mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut. The newspapers call her 'Nan of the year.' " Hank also referred to the passing of John Nicholas Brown, a mutual friend. When he was Asst. Sec. Nav. (Air), John was just our age. Harvard '22. He used to say, when he was Secretary, "The only paying job I ever had."

(But he never took his pay. C/S.) We sadly report the loss of Hugh Goodwin in Carmel on Monday, 25 Febmary, Classmate and fine naval officer. Memorial services were held in the postgraduate school chapel. Jess Forsythe phoned us. It was cancer and must have been fairly rapid since we'd had a note from him only six weeks before when he seemed in fine fettle.

Visited Charlie Crisp and Georgia in Americas. Georgia. Drove out to their beautiful plantation. Gray Moss, dating back to the 1830s. One could visualize hoop-skirted young ladies entertaining their swains amid the fragrance of the huge old shmbs, and the magnificent giant live oaks draped with the gray Spanish moss which gave the place its name.

One of Chariie's sons, Henry, a lawyer, with his delightfiji wife and children, lives in another fine old house not far away. His older son, Charles, now president of a branch of his father's bank in Americus, will eventually inherit Gray Moss and keep it beautiful.

A letter from George O'Shea's son. Dr. George J. Jr.. reveals that two of (General) George's grandsons went to the Academy. One Shipmate, May 1980

graduated in '78; the other is a First Classman.

A granddaughter married an Ensign '78, and another is at Trinity in Washington. "Probably looking for another midshipman" says Uncle George.

23 Sec'y, RAdm. Elliott Strauss, USN (Ret.) 2945 Garfield Terrace Washington, DC 20008 East Coast Reporter Lt. Wm. P. Wadbrook USN (Ret.) 620 Americana Drive, Apt. 205 Annapolis MD 21403 West Coast Reporter Capt. H. H. Connelley USN (Ret.) 544 Silvergate Avenue, San Diego CA 92106 Percent Members: 98 The Log of the USS CONNECTICUT

Mid'n Practice Cmise 1920 SEATTLE AND SAN FRANCISCO 20 July—Anchored at Seatfle. Most of us intend to go ashore and get a good square meal. We drew seven dollars. A newspaper reporter wanted to photograph a very black Midshipmen Parade, Seattle, July 1920

First Classmen and Others, Seattle

member of the Black Gang. 1 was easily the blackest. Then went down into the seveninch compartment to sleep on the deck in the comer. At noon the skipper's orderly, who had been looking for me for an hour, awoke me. I reported to Captain Earle wondering what I had done. My clothes were very dirty and 1 did not have on any socks. I was very much surprised to see an old family relative, (Rear Admiral Nathan Twining), now the Commandant there, and he invited me up to dinner. 1 sure am going.

There is a big ball in the armory for us. I wish I could fox trot better.

24 July—Some of us escorted visitors around the ship today. Many seemed to think that CONNECTICUT was much faster than IDAHO,

(which is a new ship, in port here) because the former has three stacks while the latter has only one.

31 July—We anchored 2 days ago off San Francisco and prepared to coal ship from lighters along both sides. Reveille was at 0400 yesterday and "commence firing" was sounded at 0430. Two of us worked many hours in bunker CI2, filling it and the two large bunkers below it. When the coal was within 4 feet of the top of a bunker the operation became very cramped; we worked one at a time using boards for scoops as

there was not room any more for shovels.

The " C h i e f made us fill it to the top and put a nice slope on it. We had to take as much care as if we were arranging a bunch of flowers. Exhausted, I slept on the cold steel deck of the after turret handling room and awoke this morning with a kink in my back.

While in Seatfle I sent some white trousers to be pressed. They came back with the creases athwartships (on the sides) instead of fore and aft.

Note about Admiral Twining, written by Kari in the Fall of 1979: Admiral Twining, who married my aunt, was my second cousin once removed. He was also Merrill Twining's uncle, and a kind, gentle man. As an ordnance expert, he was the father of the three-gun turret. During Worid War I, he was Chief of Staff to Admiral Sims.

Admiral Twining graduated number 4 in the Class of '89 that included Hobson, who was number 1, Admirals Pratt, Nulton, "Black" MacDougall, De Steiguer, Cole, Admiral Mick Carney's father, most of whom 1 served under or "near" at one time or another.

We regret the loss of three of our Classmates in December. John Price died in his sleep at home in Annapolis on the early moming of 14 December 1979. Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Marcelle. Burial was in the Old Pohick Church, in Virginia, on 17 December.

"Gyro" Sperry died suddenly on 18 December, 1979, in Winter Park, Florida. Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Mae. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. on 11 April 1980.

"Skinny" Rader died on 23 December 1979, in Madison, Wisconsin. Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Helgn. He was a civil engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin and widely recognized for his research in highway constmction. Those of us in the old 8th Company will remember him. Please see "Last Call" for April 1980.

Charlie Nager writes: "No news—good or bad—to report at the moment. I do not mn into any of the gang in these parts. They seem to congregate in the halcyon areas. Am gradually taking down the shingle, and hope to escape wintry blasts at the place on Long Boat Key." . . .

From Wells Field: "Nothing to report here—gas cmnch has kept us tied down pretty well. Also saving up for a reunion with our children and grandchildren in Hawaii in Febmary, provided Iran and Russia don't upset the applecart."

The Von Dreeles: "Had a delightful visit to New York during the Season. There still are lots of people there, so getting about was like making five yards through the Redskins' line.

English is spoken in many places and American money is accepted—but only in large amounts. Will leave for Hawaii in a couple of weeks, if we can get rid of the Bronx flu."

Jerry Welker writes: "George is really fairiy well . . . I'm with him from 9-1 thru lunch each day, and we get out (via wheelchair) in the extensive and lovely grounds. In the evening, I bring him up to my room for a treat of a beer or something . . . " From Wink Folk: "A nice note from Roz and Don Kelsey, expressing the hope that my 'starboard running light' is functioning alright again. Happily, it is. Cheers, beers, and no tears. Wink."

McF. Wood to Doc Dietrich: "Saw 'Chief Mee ('22) in Vicksburg last Fall, going strong 50

. . . Stamp collecting is my chief amusement these days. That and bird feeding occupy the winter months . . . " Karl Hensel writes: "Have received favorable comments on pushing BBs by shovelling coal from retired friends in '22 and '21. Grandson David has just left, returning to college after 10 days here. Fished all over the place, lost my two best lures last Saturday when tarpon, 2 miles upriver, decided to argue; had 8 manatees actually swimming under my boat as we quietly drifted; helped me no end in pmning oak trees; left with 2 bushels of citms. What cavernous appetites these youngsters have these days! especially for beef! . . . Caught my 10th possum in a month this morning, after laying off trapping for 2 weeks. They love avocados."

From Margaret Stimson: "Some time ago, either in Shipmate or the buUefin, 1 think I saw a request or suggestion that someone keep track of sea stories as published. I have a long bibliography of many periods beginning in the 18th century—sea yarns—very good escape material. I used them as my escape during the long years of Dick's illness. I would like to share this reading list with anyone who wants to read these good, blood-thirsty, stirring tales from sailing fighters clear up to a real thriller staged on a nuclear sub. If anyone wants it I'll send you the Xerox. Cheers!"

From Jo Johannesen: " I read with interest your news that Bill Sibley lives in Clinton, South Carolina, only 40 or 50 miles from Rock Hill, the present residence of Horace Ridout, whose daughter Genevieve (Mrs. Delmar Long), also lives there, her husband being in the textile business there. A further coincidence is that Horace's son, Sharpe Ridout, lives in Atlanta, and Bill Sibley has a daughter living in Aflanta . . . " Joe Briggs writes: "We enjoyed the Dec. 23-Jan.7 Cmise in the S.S. ROTTERDAM in the Caribbean, including stop in Havana from 0800 to 1800 on Saturday, 5 January. Havana seemed like a ghost town—no young people to be seen, except a few babies in carriages in parks where there were also only a very few old people. The young probably in cane fields and/or in surrogate forces in Africa or training.

Few old-timers, men and women, working on piers, acted like 'zombies' . . . " Walt Browning died on 31 January 1980, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Frances. Frances is the sister of our popular Classmate, Bob Bell.

24 Sec'y and Columnist, Mr. Robert A. Keyer, Box 7234, Richmond VA 23221 E. Coast Sec'y, RAdm. H. B. MiUer USN (Ret.) W. Coast Sec'y, VAdm. C. E. Ekstrom USN (Ret.) Percent Members: 87 Probably the most widely held secret during WW II was the breaking of the Japanese codes. So secret was this cryptographic triumph that immediately after Midway the Chicago Tribune carried banner headlines informing the Worid that CinCPac had been aware of Yamamoto's plans prior to the batfle.

Most of us in and out of Pearl Harbor were aware of a two-story wooden building adjacent to Admiral Nimitz's headquarters and various below deck spaces available only to a few per-

sons. But, three members of 1924 had access to these forbidden areas, and two of them literally slept and ate there. Yet, only in Jasper Holmes' (1922) Double-Edged Secrets has the full story surfaced.

Devoted to their specialty, these Classmates sought only anonymity. They received little recognition for their incredible skills in breaking codes and anticipating enemy intentions. It was tedious, fmstrating, and nerve-racking work for the Japanese frequenfly changed codes about the time FRUPac had begun to make sense out of the previous code. Lunch pails with sandwiches from home, sleeping in their clothes four or five days at a time— intense and mentally exhausting concentration was their lot.

Tom Dyer and Tom Huckins chose their specialized field in the mid-20s and, for the most part, remained there until retirement. Holmes described Dyer and his two assistants as being "the top cryptographic team in the Navy."

Later explaining the haggard Dyer to a visitor.

Holmes said, "Dyer is one of the kingpins of this little band of personnel whose genius and devotion to duty over many years has given us an opportunity to win a victory at last. If he had wasted his time on spit, polish and puncfillo, the war would have been much longer and cost many more lives." Holmes describes Tom Huckins as "one of the best traffic analyzers in the Navy." Tom's specialty lay in selecting which of the many Japanese frequencies should be guarded to obtain maximum information. His detailed knowledge of the organization, types, names and characteristics of the enemy fleet enabled him to select those frequencies which related to ship movements and concentration of enemy forces.

Ed (Bmte) Layton, a longtime student of the Japanese character as well as being a Japanese language student, served as intelligence officer to Admiral Kimmel and later to Fleet Admiral Nimitz. His inherent skill and knowledge of the enemy gave him an uncanny insight in anticipating the Japanese intentions based on the data filtered through Dyer and Huckins.

Fate brought another Classmate into the code-breaking picture in the person of John Cromwell functioning as ComSubDiv 43. Lying in wait for an important convoy, whose position was established by FRUPac, the SCULPIN was brought to the surface by depth charges and then sunk by gunfire. John was wellversed in code-breaking procedures, and rather than risk being forced to disclose them to the Japs as a prisoner he chose to stay aboard the sinking SCULPIN and go down with her. (Credit for the foregoing submission goes to Min Miller, who says you won't go wrong in reading Double-Edged Secrets. An odd coincidence, Min says, was that Dyer, Huckins, Layton and Cromwell all were members of the Second Company, as memory serves Min, during Plebe Summer. With the start of the academic year they were all members of the First Battalion, along with Jasper Holmes.)

Ed Wilkinson writes: " I can't let Bill Cole (Jan.-Feb. Shipmate) get one jump on me.

Even though my travelling was not as far, I journeyed to Pascagoula, Mississippi, for the commissioning of the new O'BANNON (DD-987)

in mid-December. How these destroyers have grown since Bill and I sailed in tandem to join the fracas in the South Pacific! Commissioning of the new O'BANNON was an impressive

ceremony and she is an impressive ship. The occasion was made all the more enjoyable and Shipmate, May 1980

memorable by the presence of a dozen of us old O'Bannonites from all around the country.

The president of the old ship's association presented a plaque to the crew and the new ship."

Ethel Stauffer, long-time friend of Ed Woodyard. late January, was with Ed at lunch with Helen and Hans Baldwin, and were the senior members present at the Connecticut Chapter of the USNA-AA, Graduates Club, Yale, New Haven. Occasion: Navy-Yale Swim Meet. Crowd is getting much younger for these affairs. Viewing the meet was not too satisfac tory from a Navy point of view; maybe, a jin: due to the Yale natatorium. Yale still good, bu not up to the days of Kiphuth.

Hans Baldwin writes of receipt of a letter from Joe Worthington and also Hans' godson, Joe, Jr. Joe Worthington, Jr. is having great success with GE, which is well deserved. He volunteered for the Marines during Vietnam—buck private and lance corporal— and had a rough tour of duty. Joe Sr. has about finished except for some last minute emendations his biography of Admiral Royal Ingersoll, one of those quiet officers who are never appreciated publicly as much as they deserve.

Hans says he has only read the first chapter, but Joe has gotten a handsome letter of praise and thanks from Admiral Kane, the Navy's historian. Noteworthy are the tremendous number of old photos Joe has dug up. Obviously, despite the years, Joe is working as hard now as he did when he hit the books as a midshipman.

The San Diego/Coronado group held its quarterly class luncheon at the Officers' Club, N A S North Island, on 21 Febmary: Fern and Eric Lankenau took care of arrangements.

Twenty-four persons (note the number) attended: Gloria and Bill Bailey, Bill Birmingham, Vema and Chet Carroll, Bill Deuterman, Esther Dickie, Leila Dunn, Betty and Swede Ekstrom, Grace Hoffman, Helen and Collins Landstreet, Fem and Eric Lankenau and guest Delia Seligman, Adeline Magly, Helen Ritchie, Jessie Rutt and guest Helen McLean, Forothea Short, Evelyn and Dutch Schultz and Betty Young. Kay and Evvie Burroughs did not attend as they were in Eleuthera, Bahamas, at the Cotton Bay Club with the wife and brother of Evvie.

The Orlando Alumni meeting on 4 Febmary found Wilkins, Wilkinson and Robillard present for 100% attendance 1924. Wilkins, Ellen and Weary, will be away April and May, going on a trip to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. And 12 July will mark the 50th anniversary of Margaret and George Robillard and it is predicted there will be a gathering of Robillards and allies in Florida.

And here is a fine picture of Whitey Richards, Tom Moore, and Weary Wilkins verifying Tom's new watch, showing, we hope.

cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, appetizer, entree, wine and dessert, with an open bar for one hour before dinner and for one hour afterward.

Family members and friends will be welcome at any and all events provided you sign them up. A letter with full details and an application form will be mailed in July. We look forward to a great get-together and a big turnout. We know that all hands will have a wonderful week end.

55th Reunion, Class of 1925 September 26, 27, 28, 1980 Friday, Sept. 26th.

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"Sir, I am deeply embarrassed and greatly humiliated that, due to unforseen circumstances over which I have no control . . . " GCT. And please note in the background the picture of the light cruiser MANCHESTER, VAdm. Wilkins' command in years gone by.

One of our honored Classmates (secret) as a sailor spent some time in the "brig." There was a time when one was not considered a sailor unless time had been spent in the "brig," you had crossed the Equator and rounded the Horn.

Joe Callaghan has given us this report on the value of our class ring: 18-karat gold, $1,600—14-karat gold, $1,000. It is the opinion of Bailey Banks and Biddle that our rings were of soft gold and therefore of 14-karat, as the higher karat would be too soft.

In our column report on Marylanders in the December issue Shipmate, Joe points out, we overlooked the lad from Easton, Joe Callaghan.

From time to time we have received word of Charles T. Tonkin, the last being that due to circulatory problems he was forced to sacrifice one leg. Unfortunately the operation failed to correct the circulatory problem and Charley had to undergo the amputation of his other leg.

Television has helped Charley with the long days, and another source of joy is that Tonkin's son and his family live only a few houses down the street.

Chairman of the Manhasset, New York, Tri-Centennial Committee is: RAdm. Harold B. MlUer USN (Ret.).

Winnie and Howie Collins, having spent January and Febmary in Sun City, Arizona, are much impressed with this community of retired persons. Streets are beautifully clean, houses (single, duplex and condominiums) and gardens-are immaculate, garages have handoperated door openers, and there are eleven golf courses with seven of them public, while community programs are fantastic.

Naval Academy Alumni Annual Fund drive is now underway! Let us fill this day with kindness and happiness and good will!

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Sec'y, Capt. George F. O'Keefe, USN (Ret.) 2003 Glen Dr., Belle Haven Alexandria VA 22307 Columnist: RAdm. Schuyler Pyne USN (Ret.) 259 Providence Road, Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 87 Arrangements for our 55th Reunion as listed below are now definitely scheduled. There is parking available for all events and walking will be kept to a minimum. The Friday evening reception and dinner, the key events of the week end, will be catered and be complete

1700 Registration, Ricketts Hall.

1800 Dahlgren Hall—Class Picture.

1830 Cocktails and Reception, Admiral & Mrs. Lawrence honored guests.

1930 Dinner, Remarks by Superintendent, Music of the 20s.

Saturday, Sept. 27th.

No luncheon scheduled so that Classmates are free to make own arrangements.

1400 Football Game, William & Mary vs.

Navy.

1830 Cocktails, Officers' Club.

1930 Dinner.

2000 Class meeting. Remarks by Commandant of Midshipman and by Bill Busik, Alumni Association.

Movie—Annapolis First Year 1979.

Sunday, Sept. 28th.

1100 Chapel Service.

1215 Bmnch—Officers' Club.

Our secretary, George O'Keefe, and his bride Beulah made a three-week trip to Florida in late Febmary and early March as a honeymoon in a newly acquired motorhome. Prior to his departure, George had heard from John Laffan that Helen and he would not be able to attend the 55th because his eyesight is too bad due to serious glaucoma. We shall miss them both at the reunion and hope that John's trouble does not intensify but improves.

Who was that lady we saw Bill Gallery with at Great Lakes?

That activist, Bill Gallery, has engineered a special coup out at Great Lakes with Miss Cheryl Prewitt, Miss America 1980, as guest of honor at a Friday recmit graduation review and pre-review luncheon. Bill had her on his right at the luncheon and sent in a picture of the two of them engaged in a tete-a-tete. Pretty nice to be so occupied with a pretty young lady, we think, and apparently Bill does also.

She covered the entire base, cheering up all the young boys, and the old ones too. They all thought the Navy had really become worthwhile, due to our Bill's planning.

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26 Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. W. R. Smedberg HI, USN (Ret.), "Secure," Box 178, Crystal River, FL 32629 Percent Members: 91

A few old, some new, and some temporary Florida hands We have a correction for " J . C." House's address in Sebastian FL 32958 and it should be 905 Fir Street, Barefoot Cove. We wrote up J. C.'s move to Florida in the December issue.

Red Eye Coleman down in Florida in Febmary, persuaded J. C. to attend the monthly Alumni luncheon in Orlando and we present here a picture showing the Twenty-five group there.

They are: a glimpse of Kitty Coleman, Danny Stubbs, Peg Stubbs, Fred Warder, Brownie House, Horace Trainer, J. C. House, Red Eye Coleman, and Tink Bell.

While on the subject of Alumni gatherings in Florida, the 9 Febmary one at North Palm Beach was well attended by our South Florida Classmates, to wit: Hulls, B. B. Loomises, Graubarts, Parkers, and Filers, who brought Dada Taylor from her new home in "Abbey Delray."

Butch Parker has been checking up on our Classmates south of Miami and had a good talk with Red Hourihan, who reports that he has a bit of trouble with his legs, but otherwise he is in pretty good shape and lives with one of his daughters. Butch also called Roger (Nick) Nickerson who said that he is "hanging in there," but that Maggie and he don't go very far away from their Key West home. And Louise and Ham Love are OK, but do not get to many class or Alumni meetings.

Not all Classmates who are moving are going South, as we hear from Jack Champlin that Betty and he have bought a place in Napa in the Califomia "wine country" and plan to move there from their home of 23 years at Altadena near Pasadena. The new address will be 3360 Linda Mesa Way, Napa CA 94588. Jack says that he has had a cataract in his right eye, that he no longer plays golf, and that Betty is doing quite well after her open-heart surgery of several years ago; otherwise, no complaints.

Enclosed in the letter was a nice contribution and a statement that they just might try to make the reunion. Hope so, Jack, and thank you! Incidentally, their son Philip, who lives in Napa, is a Superior Court judge.

A long letter from Henry Brian, from whom we have not heard for some time. He says that all is well with them and that he has a 16year-old grandson who is interested in the Naval Academy, an excellent student and good in basketball and swimming. Apparenfly the young man needs a bit of exposure to the advantages of our school and Henry asked for info on same so we asked the Dean of Admissions to send him such data as may be available Hope the boy makes it. The Bnans celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary of 19 52

June 1979 with a lovely party of old friends and family, two daughters, both married to General Motors executives, and several grandchildren.

Congratulations!

Woolsey Johnson is a busy man in community affairs and has now written an article for a local newspaper in Annapolis in support of legislation to encourage the practice of "Defensive Driving" in Maryland. The bill would extend the state-sponsored courses in this matter and require insurance companies to give discounts to car owners (principal operators) who have taken the course. Apparenfly some insurers are not that pleased with the idea and oppose the bill, but Woolsey hopes that popular support can make its passage possible. As our swimming star, Woolsey is still at it, winning gold medals and certificates in all eight events in the 75 to 79 group at the University of Maryland and AAU Masters' swimming meets.

Anne and Joe Stryker spent a delightful five weeks in Hawaii in January and Febmary, visiting friends and relatives on Maui, Molokai, Hawaii, and Oahu. They saw Ba and Doc Lyons on Maui where Doc was busy mnning the Hawaiian Bird Dog Championship in his capacity as secretary. One of his own dogs won a championship. Joe also talked to Willie Beers and Robby Robertson, who sent their best regards to all.

Charlie Butler died in San Francisco on 30 January. He was buried on 3 Febmary from the Chapel of the Hills in San Anselmo, Califomia, with interment in Cypress Lawns Memorial Park, Everett, Washington. It was just a few months ago that he had moved to San Francisco from Mill Valley, as he had found that after Dorothy died his big house and country place became too much for him alone. Charlie left the Academy in 1923, but kept in touch with the Navy and the Class and was an attending member of the S.F. Alumni Association. He had also been present at some reunions and sent in his biographical notes for Quivers. He was a successful businessman and one of those kinds of persons that everyone likes. To his son and grandchildren, our deepest sympathy.

5 May 1961 Cdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. USN '45 is first American to enter space

Lysle Cease writes from Virginia Beach, where he and Alwyn moved from the San Francisco area in 1972, mainly to be near their older daughter, Jackie, who is the mother of seven of their fourteen grandchildren. The whole family got together for the 50th anniversary, last September in Virginia Beach; son Stephen, a Pan-Am pilot-engineer came from the West Coast, and Diana and her family from Englewood, New Jersey. Lysle keeps his 36foot cabin cmiser along the Lynn-Haven Inlet, enjoying the DIANA II as a hobby and outdoor activity. He and Alwyn have a 'welcome aboard' for any Classmate arriving in that vi-

Lysle W. Cease and DIANA II cinity. If the accompanying photo of the skipper in his boat can be reproduced, it will show how comfortable life at sea can be.

Also from Virginia Beach came a note from Jack Pohl telling of the death of our Dan Sweeney's Julie, on January 26th, after suffering two strokes; later, a letter from Dan expressing his appreciation to those Classmates who were at the funeral Mass in Norfolk. Julie was buried in the family plot in Nashua, New Hampshire. Our deep sympathy goes to Dan. Virginia and Jack Pohl will be at 1209 Rothesay Road, Va. Beach VA 23451, where they are near their children and grandchildren, until some time in June when they will retum to Garmlsch, Germany, for four months.

Also, on January 25th, Bernice Strain, wife of Charlie Strain, died in Alexandria, Virginia.

The Class extends our sympathy to Charlie and their sons.

Then, on January 28th, our Classmate Carl W. Ramsey died in the Duke University hospital, after a three-week illness. The Class extends our sympathy to " C y ' s " wife, Mary Frances, and their children.

Henry Rozendahl writes from Ormond Beach, Florida, that his Katie died on January 30th. "Rosy" has asked me to say that he does not want cards of sympathy, that they had 41 wonderful years before God chose to take her out of her pain from cancer. Our sympathy and understanding goes to Rosy.

On January 24th, Albert S. Oakholt died at his home in Whittier, California, leaving his daughter, Joan Oakholt Blacher of Moorpark, California, as his only relative, to whom the Class extends our sympathy. From the time Al left the Navy in 1928 until 1964, with the exception of the war years when he re-entered Shipmate, May 1980

the Navy as a commander and was port director of Oran, Algeria, and then Eniwetok; he was the chief building engineer for the Pacific Telephone Company in the Los Angeles area at the time of his retirement.

The month of January was a very sad one for 1926. but our sadness continued when, on 19 Febmary Tika Taylor, beloved wife of Ford Taylor, died in Washington, and the next day, on 20 Febmary, Cdr. Samuel Johnson McKee USN (Ret.), also left us. Both "Speed" and Tika had been ill for some time. Both were buried in Arlington. The Class extends deepest sympathy to Ford and their children and to Grace McKee and theirs.

The records of the CS indicate that, with Sam McKee's death, the Class of 1926 has lost exactly one-half its graduating members: 228 have left us, and 228 are still among the living.

A letter from Helen Davis gave a few facts on the death of our Classmate, Earle, which was reported in last month's column. He died in Roanoke, Virginia, after a short illness.

After his retirement in 1952, when he was in command of the Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he taught math at VPI and at the Westem Community College in Roanoke until he retired again, at age 70.

In addition to all these losses, a letter from Helen Hamrick, widow of our Classmate Roy Noble Hamrick, told of his death on December 14, 1963; which as far as I can determine had not been reported to the Class nor to the Alumni Association. Helen offered to send Roy's Class ring if there is any need for it anywhere. Her address is Radcliff House, C248, 1000 Conestoga Road, Rosemont PA 19010. (Just how that affects the 50-50 distribution, my records are not complete enough to verify. Perhaps Roy's death was known at the time the figures were passed to me: CS comment.) Helen Hamrick had heard that there was to be a Class of 1926 History, was directed to Benjamin for her news of Roy's career.

"PD" Stroop sends the accompanying snapshot of three aging but intrepid golfers at the San Diego Country Club; all smiling, because the picture was taken before their round. Kack and Charlie Buchanan had been in Coronado for a visit, on their way to their Febmary hideout on Maui. Max Leslie, of course, plays almost daily in Coronado.

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Gordon 'Hump " CampbeU writes after a long absence from this column, mainly to tell about the passing of our Classmate, Cy Ramsey, who lived just outside Durham, in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and about another Classmate who did not graduate but who is a loyal member of the Alumni Association, John A. Chrisman, who had just been honored in a Resolution from the Board of Tmstees of the Presbyterian Hospital for his 27 years of dedicated service and distinguished leadership to the hospital and the community. "Hump" also commented on the fact that, in reading his father's copy of The Military Order of the Carabao, 1900-1913, he came across flie names of the fathers of Yates Stirling, Fitzhugh Lee, Charles Lyman, and father and grandfather of WR Smedberg.

Quite by happenstance. Carmen and Al Mumma gathered some old Navy friends at their lovely place in Mountain Lake, Lake Wales, Florida, on 23 Febmary. The Smedbergs were visiting the hosts. Phyllis and Jerty Wright ('18), and his sister Mariorie Key, Alice and Dick Phillips ('27) and Tayo and Miles Hubbard ('27) were vacationing at the Colony Club. RAdm. Bart Hogan, who many of us will remember as the Navy's Surgeon General at one time, and his charming Laura completed the dinner party. The Hogans also live in Mountain Lake. The next day we also met George Dufek's ('25) lovely widow, Muriel, who was visiting the Hogans; down from Newport News. One of the enticing enchantments of the tiny enclave of Mountain Lake is its lovely golf course, which draws ardent golfers from far and wide. We had two gorgeous days in the 80 degrees weather in this rather Chilly Florida Febmary, followed by one day of very heavy rain showers and the cold front which dropped the temperature into the mid-thirties our last night there.

27 Sec'y, RAdm. Brooke Schumm USN (Ret.) 680 Americana Dr., #25, Annapolis MD 21403 Percent Members: 89 Gill Richardson reports that as of 7 Febmary he has received 135 replies, 152 attending, and 50 rooms requested at the Hotel Del for our 55th reunion. These replies represent only 26% of the total potential. Since Pat and Gill left on 10 Febmary for Hong Kong to pick up the ROYAL VIKING SEA for their round-the-world

trip, we hope that many more responses will be forthcoming by the time Gill gets home at the end of March.

Nadine Robinson reports for the San Diego group: On Tuesday, Febmary 26, the San Diego Group of the USNA Alumni met for luncheon in the Anchor and Globe Room of the Naval Amphibious Base Officers' Club on the strand in Coronado. Those from San Diego and points north drove across Coronado bridge over blue water and sky to match, except for a brown layer of an unmentionable atmospheric condition along the horizon.

It has been quite a long while since we last met at the Amphibious Base and after making the arrangements Carl (also "Jack" or "Arkie") Dalton had a telephone call from the Commanding Officer, Capt. Allen Smith III, '54, welcoming us to the club and saying the Class of '27 has always been his favorite as his father, RAdm. Allen ("Andy") Smith, Jr., now living in Pensacola, Florida, is a member of the Class of '27.

The highlight of the day was the guest appearance of Bunny and Don Griffin, on their way home to Washington (DC) from a fascinating and adventurous trip. They had flown to New Zealand where they were entertained by friends and were only slightly disappointed that the Antarctic flight for sight-seers is no longer in operation, since the tragic accident a few months ago, as the slide show they saw of previous trips was just as interesting and certainly safer. From New Zealand they took a Royal Viking cmise through the Pacific islands and Hawaii, where they again visited old friends, to San Francisco. Their passage from Hawaii to San Francisco was delayed because a passenger became seriously ill and the ship had to retum to Hawaii to get him into a hospital.

The same series of storms that tried to wash Califomia into the ocean had built enormous waves, but the ship was so well stabilized that Al and Carmen Mumma, Claudia and Bill Smedberg the rough seas were bearable. We're looking The accompanying snap shows how at least forward to seeing them again (the Griffins, not two '26 couples are faring as they are well into the storms) and all of you who can make it at their second fifty years of wedded bliss; the 55th Reunion in Coronado in 1982.

Mummas and Smedbergs.

Members, wives, widows and guests attending the meeting totaled 43 and here they are: Late Flash Jessie Chamberiin, Bobby and Clarence Cof A postcard from Ben Katz, mailed in Panama fin. Cliff Cooper, Olive and Jack Dalton, on Sunday, 17 Febmary, just arrived, on 29 Maybelle and Ziggy Dawson, Sally and Dutch Febmary, telling of the warm reception Bea Deutermann, Dale and Tommy Flynn, Emmie and he had just received from Ward and Judy and Tom Hamilton, Corra Bess Hammitt, LeHardy at Balboa, after transiting the Canal.

Harry Hummer, Mary Jane and Jimmy Hogg, Colonel LeHardy. who is in command of the Ken Keepers, Erika and Meade Kitchen, U.S. Airborne troops in Panama, never has Natalie and George Kneupfer, Alice Manville, forgotten his mother's love for his father's Mims and Mac McKinney, Walter Price, Class of 1926.

Nadine and Robbie Robinson. Pat and Oley Sharp, Anne and Alan Sutheriand. Madalyn One final, and happy note, concerns the and Jimmy Thach. Lucie and Bus Trafton. selection for rear admiral in the Supply Corps, Theresa and Zondo Zondorak. Barbara and U.S. Navy, of Scott W. Ebert, Commanding Officer. Naval Supply Depot. Subic Bay. Our Ray Curtis, West Point '27, and Bunny and Don Griffin.

Hilan must be very proud!

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Nadine also forwarded a picture of Midn. 4th Class Harry R. Hummer, which was on the cover of Mentor magazine in September 1923, our plebe summer. The picture was taken from inside the Rotunda of Bancroft Hall.

Harry Hummer, 1923 Our Harry's comment on the picture was something to this effect: "What's all this stuff about being on the cover of Time? Hell, 1 was on the cover of Mentor in 1923 and everyone knows it's for intellectuals. Everyone, that is, except the Academic Board, who saw fit to graduate me in the bottom third of the Class."

Another of our crack correspondents, Ed Eckelmeyer, reports in from L.A.: "We held our Febmary class luncheon at the O Club, Long Beach, on 29 Febmary. Present were: 'Lefty' Nation, Bill Nation, Red Scoles, Bill Kern, Dutch Woelfel, Joe Hamley, and Ed. Harry Tallman, one of our most faithful attendees was absent. During our recent rains, —and oh boy, how it did rain—the mud on the hill behind Harry's house slid down and inundated his kitchen and dining room. That all occurred on a Saturday two weeks ago. When 1 phoned Harry, having been alerted to his problem by Billy Knight, Levi's widow, he was busy with a crew of men clearing the mess from his house. At the time he had no knowledge of the extent of the damage other than that it would be considerable. When all the clean up is finished, he has the problem and cost of building a retaining wall behind the house to stop any further mud slides. With all the mess in the house, he couldn't keep Paddy there, so she has to be in a nursing home for the time being. Harry has certainly had more than his share of bad luck.

"Bill Nation has been down with various ailments, but was able to drive down from Bakersfield, a three-hour drive. He informed us that Buck Ewing, who also lives in Bakersfield, is having trouble with cataracts.

"I talked to Harry Tallman again this morning, I March, and learned that all the walls in the kitchen and dining room were carried away by the mud which reached the ceiling. Everything in both rooms was damaged or destroyed. Fortunately the corner posts of the rooms remained intact, so stmctural damage was limited to walls, electrical wiring, piping, etc. Harty said some 300 tons of mud had to be taken out. Fortunate was the fact that the mud soil came from the top of the hill. Had the lower part of the hill behind the house moved, it would have canned the house away. Harry 54

had some mud slide insurance with the good old USAA, which will be of some help. Harry's son, John USNA '55, is #2 man at Point Mugu, and is close enough to provide some physical and moral support, but he too, has his own problems at Mugu where several hundred sets of quarters were under five feet of water."

Thanks, Ed, for an interesting report.

From San Francisco, Heinie Armstrong reports that there is a dearth of news and urges the clan to let him know who, what, when, where and why you are doing this, that, and the other thing.

Those still on the binnacle list are: Lou Chappell, Buck Buckley, Earl Patterson, Hank Henry, and Frenchie Goyette.

Ellen and Charlie Tooke drove to Florida in early Febmary and while there attended a meeting of the Southeast Florida Chapter USNA Alumni Association in West Palm Beach. Classmates present were Turk Powell, longtime president and secretary of the organization, who received a rising vote of thanks for his dedicated service to the Chapter; Velma and Kenny Knowles, Ruth and Jack Diamond and Billie We v. Billie has sold her home in Delray Dunes and taken a temporary apartment at Abbey Delray, a retirement community. Her new address is Mrs. Bosquet Neill Wev, 2050 South West 10th Court, Delray Beach FL 33445, tel. 305/243-4129. Velma and Kenny Knowles are sailing their Gulfstar VENTURE OF STUART to the Bahamas in March and April where they expect to meet Barbara and Parker Fairlamb, who will be cmising the Out Islands in NEW SHOREHAM. The Tookes also had a chance to visit with Virginia Brockman while in Delray Beach.

Mimi and Joe Hazen have moved to 1210 Cedar Park Road, Annapolis, MD 21401, tel.

301/267-7428.

28 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Albert O. Monun, USN (Ret.) 121 Glen Oban Dr., Amold MD 21012 Florida Corr., RAdm. R. N. Norgaard, USN (Ret.) 121 N. Phelps Ave., Winter Park FL 32789 WesCoast Corr., RAdm. W. A. Cockell USN (Ret.) 3222 Browning St., San Diego CA 92106 N. Eastem Corr., Capt. R. O. Burzynski USN (Ret.) Box 145, New Casfle NH 03854 Percent Members: 93 In Febmary, we received the sad news of the death of Al Gaden on December 23rd in Greenwich, Connecticut, from liver and kidney failure. Al and Eileen were not at the 50th Reunion, so probably the last time any significant number of '28ers saw Al was at the lovely garden party the Gadens gave at their home in Greenwich for the '28 NUTMEGGERS some years ago. Al said that he never planned to retire, and had been involved in community affairs in Greenwich and New York City, such as political fund-raising and volunteer work for the underprivileged.

Jim Schuber reports that he and Ruth took the Port Everglades to San Pedro cmise of the QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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scribes: "Quite interesting; and to top it off we were overioyed to find Bert and John Kent on board, thus insuring a good voyage! Looking forward to mini-reunion in Coronado."

Back to front, 1. to r.. Earl and Eleanor Pope, Taylor Keith, Bert Kent, Ginny James, John Kent, and Eleanor Keith Here's a pleasant picture of some '28ers smiling happily for the camera. A roll call of those shown will indicate that Jimmy James is not here, so we thank him for the photo.

George Moflett reports that he and Jerry Gerin attended the Academy Brigade Boxing Toumament this Winter. This toumament is for individual intramural boxing championships, for the Spike Webb Trophy. The Chick Renard trophy, on the other hand, is awarded to the winning battalion, rather than to individuals. (CS note: George fought on the Academy team in the featherweight class and Jerry in the welterweight class as intercollegiate champion and captain of the Navy team.)

29 Sec'y, RAdm. Cal Laning USN (Ret.) 6404 Lakeview Dr., Falls Church VA 22041 Corr. Secretaries: So. Cal., Cdr. Bill DarneU USN (Ret.) 2003-224 Bayview Hts. Dr. San Diego CA 92105 No. Cal., RAdm. Dick Ballinger USN (Ret.) 25 Teal Rd., Belvedere CA 94920 Florida, RAdm. Daniel Carlson USN (Ret.) Doral Mobile Homes, Villa No. 17 Clearwater FL 33515 Percent Members: 90 Can you remember who were on our Ring Committee? The guys selected to secure design proposals and negotiate a contractor? Can you even make out the design on your own ring?

We can remember two names on the youngster year committee, Dick Wolf and Herb Nash.

Strangely, neither chose to stay through second class year. Dick left for a GE scholarship at MIT and Herb went to sea as an officer in the merchant marine. Both are long deceased but, like our rings, we keep seeing traces of them. This month we received a pamphlet from the LA Chamber of Commerce, announcing the annual award of the "Herb Nash Memorial Award"—an Alaskan totem pole! Origin unknown, it surfaced in 1963 to be given by Herb's associates in the SoCal Gas Company (how did he get there from the merchant marine?) as a symbol of his public service.

Among other things. Herb organized "the Wrecking Crew," a group of executives from top companies who on request would work out a critique of a community as to its assets and Shipmate, May 1980

liabilities. The annual ceremony has become a tradition, and always invites Melba. Like the class ring, the totem pole lingers on.

Another era of outstanding service has ended! Bill Kabler has declined to serve a sixth term as Class President. Your humble secty has served under four able presidents. Bill has labored most attentively and introduced more fine services for us and our chicks. We remember his accoinplishments with gratitude and accept his retirement with regret, voiced by gatherings in Florida, Califomia, and WBA. To succeed Bill, the nominating committee has persuaded a modest but able gent to take over the burden. Roy Benson, known as "Ensign Benson" even as a plebe, will submit himself to your vote. Roy was the sentimental commentator at the recent filming of the The Midshipman at our Reunion.Without Roy that silent blockbuster would have fallen flat.

Thanks, Bill, and our confidence, Roy! Joey Ray visited Washington in Febmary, but in uncomfortable circumstances. He had a delicate operation on his back—probably caused by his years under his 200,000 mile Mercedes. Starr, Ruthy's and his daughter, was on hand. Bethesda is so big, and they moved Joey so much, that it took a search by Will Dye to locate him.

The largest and most compact concentration of Twenty-niners is that now in San Diego.

There, the Rancho Bernardo area has acquired the most "permanent changes of station."

Your tired reporter (and Micky) recently followed up their investigation of the scattered Florida station with a visit to SD in March and learned these facts: Like us, many Twenty-niners from the East, and even from Central and Northem California, come to S.D. for pleasure as well as for friendships. On anchoring with Lucile and Justin Miller "31, we found that Connie Cone was in town for a DAR bash, from Porterville. She reported continued progress in building housing and conveniences for senior citizens in her community (under her initiation).

Under the headline of "intercourse with whales" we find that Chick Frankel has been active at a monitoring post observing the breeding of transient cetaceans.

The North Half of the South Half of SoCal

On our moming jogging course we paused at Janie Hall's parlour on Juan hill. We use the term advisedly. Ten years ago, when editing the 40 year Muster Notes, we were appalled on opening Janie's biograph submission to read that she had opened a select "massage parlour." It read as good as Art Buchwald, and we were broken when our editorial morals consultant, Micky, said we couldn't print it. It would have been treasured along with Bacher and Pryor's "The Bastard Of Jemsalem" (recorded by Ely). Janie the traveller was recovering from a static traffic accident—opening an electric garage door without power. We learned there what we couldn't learn in Florida, that Manoa Easton is doing great with her new permanent lens.

Warner Rodimon is still earning his keep as a "domestic" while Dosh operates as a successful "realtor." Jo Gray, though confined to the home and acres which she and Allan built up in Rancho Santa Fe, has been persuaded to reopen her herb column, but this time it's about flowers. We have completely lost track of Tiger Wotton—mail retumed—and we think we have important news for her. Jo and Irene Berkley threw a CT for Micky and us in their lovely home at the second tum to the left in Rancho Bemardo. Eloise and Burl Bush, Terry and Chick Frankel, and Whitey Beardsley showed up on a few minutes notice, so close is the '29 community there. By count, scandalous tales on 83 absent Classmates were told. No one can afford to be absent. It is interesting, too, when the first and the third wife get together. We were Joe Berzowski Berkley's first wife. We even discussed all of us being buried in a line, or in a diagram around Joe. We complained that, having been on the road for six weeks, no classmate mail with news has reached us. Chick immediately produced a fascinating paragraph of his latest joumey through Mexico. Having already mentioned his voyerism, we postpone printing most of it, but have to submit his topical poem: A polite girl from far Ensenada Had moved her trade there from Grenada.

When thanked for complying She was fond of replying De nada, de nada, de nada.

30 Cort. Sec'y, Capt. Herbert H. Marable, USN (Ret.) 100 Askewton Rd., Round Bay, Sevema Park MD21146 Percent Members: 88 Having been advised by the staff of Shipmate that this issue should be off the presses and on its way to you by the first week in May you should be completely ready for the USNA CLASS OF 1930—50TH REUNION. However, for those of you who may have been forgotten by the postman, a recap of the schedule of events as planned is set forth below: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday, May 16, 1980 12001700 Registration at Hospitality Room, Hilton Inn. 1800 Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres, balcony, Dahlgren Hall.

1900 Sit-down Buffet Dinner in Drydock, (lower floor of Dahlgren Hall). Open bar until 2100.

Saturday, May 17, 1980 1000 Class meeting, Auditorium, Mitscher Hall. Presentation of Golden Certificates by Capt. W. S. Busik USN (Ret.) '43, Executive Director, Alumni Association.

1130 Class picture, Chapel steps.—Ladies included.

1200 Luncheon at Drydock, Dahlgren Hall.

Open bar.

PM Opportunity to visit new Nimitz Library and Rickover Hall, Escorts arranged.

1900 Cocktails, Hilton Inn Patio.

20002400 Dinner Dance, Hilton Inn Ballroom.

(Black tie encouraged). Cash bar after diimer.

Sunday, May 18, 1980 0900 Catholic Mass, Main Chapel.

1100 Regular Chapel Service, Main Chapel, followed by memorial Service for deceased classmates. Reverend Craighill asked to conduct.

1230 Coffee with RAdm. and Mrs. W. P. Lawrence USN '51 in the Superintendent's Quarters.

1400 Despedida, Alumni House. Open bar.

Every effort has been made by the committee, who took on the task of looking after the myriad of details related to the arrangement of this special event for YOU, and we think that they deserve a special vote of confidence. It is now up to your response and attendance, if possible, and your determination to make it an outstanding REUNION. Bill Nelson has advised that the Superintendent and Mrs. Lawrence and Captain and Mrs. Busik have accepted our invitation to be our guests for cocktails at 1800 Dahlgren Hall on Friday, May 18.

It seems relatively certain that many of you will bring along your cameras, so. in the hope that we may make our column more appealing, sharing any interesting snaps that you may take with your secretary would help attain that goal. So-o-o-o SEE YOU AT THE REUNION ! ! !

The following from TROA "Chapter Highlights" by Captain Clifton B. Cates. Jr.. USN (Ret.). "KEYSTONE CAPITAL CHAPTER—Paying a visit to the chapters Chnst-

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Furiong (NA 1905 widow of RAdm. W. R. Furlong '05), Ruth Gladney, Anne Strackbein, and her husband Strack.

Just received from Dick Hunt: "Dick Hunt has opened his apartment in Florida, for the winter season, phone number 813/746-6193. All Classmates welcome aboard!"

We regret to report that Vera Alderson McCready, widow of George Thomas McCready, was buried in Arlington Cemetery on the 29th of Febmary. No other details of her death were available at this time.

George Kosco surrounded by admirers mas dance at the New Cumberiand Army Depot Officers' Club, Santa Claus is surrounded by an eager group of members' wives. It was noted that Santa bore a slight resemblance to chapter member Capt. George Kosco, USN We thought that you would like to know that; this year's midshipman Glee Club production of Damn Yankees featured, among others, Katherine Engleman, daughter of Nancy and Chris Engleman. Katherine filled one of the leading feminine roles and turned in a splendid performance. Well done, Katherine! The Class of 1930 is proud of you. Similariy, William Glen Kenny, grandson of Glen Galloway Herndon (USNA 1930) and Elise Collins of Washington (now Mrs. Reynolds), is currently a senior at Georgia Tech, School of Mechanical Engineering, and has obtained an appointment to the Naval Nuclear Program. His record at Georgia Tech speaks for itself: Co-op Student—head of drafting department at Hartrampf & Powell Engineering Consultants, Phi Kappa Phi—Senior Honorary, Briearian Society—Co-op Honorary, Pi Tau Sigma— National Mechanical Engineering Honorary, Tau Beta Pi—National Engineering Honorary, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges, National Dean's List, Sigma Phi Epi Epsilon—president, received the Dubach Award (most improved scholar). Inter Fraternity Council Board of Directors, and Georgia Tech Soccer Team. Nice going, William!!

From out Arizona way we hear from Marv Gluntz that Lillian and Waddy Wadsworth have completed their move to Sun City's neighbor.

Sun City West. Then Molly and Mac Williams had a luncheon in their beautifully altered home, and that our roving minstreller (?)

Towser Miller, has again passed through, thereby providing an excuse for another gettogether at a Lakes Club luncheon. On Saturday, 16 Febmary, the Sun City local Naval Academy group had its semi-annual luncheon party, this one with wives and widows for ValOn Friday, 8 Febmary, the USNA CLASS OF 1930-SOUTHWEST AREA got together at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot for lunch; attending, Herb Andrews Fred Beans, Fred Bradman, Lee Boyle, Ed Brumby, Wilhe Coates, Moon Chappie. Bob DeGraff George Heap, Ned Harrell, John Kinert, Rowland McKnight, Roy Newton, Dick Nixon, Eddie Sanders, BiU Sanders, and John Seargeant.

On Friday 14 Febmary, the Washington Area Group Class of 1930, held a Valentine's C l u n c E n at the Ft. Myers Officers' Club; attending, Vola and Carlton Adams St. C air and Bob Craighill, Mullie Foster, C. C, aijd Jim Howard Joe Hindman, Louise and Jack Jones, S T M a r a b l e . Lil and BiU Nelson, Art Owen, 2 e " r n " C A i S and guest, Mrs. W.R.

Fifty for Thirty

by Jack Jones It's fifty for Thirty, lads; We've come a long, long way; And what we pass to others Is not for us to say.

We've served in ships of all kinds; Tin cans and old BB's; And some, oh, please forgive us in Reina Mercedes.

We've come down the line with a bone in our teeth; The big whales out there spraying; The dolphins dancing across our bow And flying fish a-playing.

We've roamed the seas and sky-ways; We've trained on Navy beans; And some, if you'd believe it Have even been Marines.

We've lost a few along the way To foe and stormy weather; But we feel sure come judgment day We'll all be there together.

These things. Lord, we ask for As we reach on home to thee: A sense of mission accomplished.

Fair winds and a following sea.

—30—30—30—

31 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: 88 Sesca and Dick Steere spent most of the month of January in warmer climes. In their words, "We left here (Washington area) the 3rd of January to attend the wedding of the daughter of a cousin in Las Cmces, New Mexico. It was a beautiful ceremony. On the way home we visited for two more weeks in various places, one of them. Port Charlotte, Florida, where Cel and Carl Lucas invited us to their home for drinks and then took us to dinner at the yacht club. We went in their cabin cruiser and it was real fun. The Fabians were present as were Mo and Margaret Archer ('32).

It was hard to leave that 75% sunshine and come back to 20° and the snow."

Ed Day, of Fifty-Year Book fame, and I, the Shipmate man, have been searching for Jake Jacobs. We found him and the picture that you see above is none other than Jake, big as ever and adorned as never before.

Jake says my note requesting information finally found him in Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Acadiana of Longfellow's

Jake Jacobs "Evangeline" fame. Everybody there speaks English, but French is the preferred language.

However, he says, the "French" would cause Papa LaJoye and Monsieur Foumon no end of distress.

Jake landed there two years ago when an illness laughingly called peripheral neuropathy by those who don't have it made it impossible for him to drive. He moved in with his oldest son Bill, until he could get organized. Now he has found a very satisfactory one bedroom apartment and is getting along with good bus service where senior citizens ride for a nickle.

This makes him independent, and that's something that we all want to hang onto.

Faith died in 1976, but Jake says he is not alone. His daughter and five sons, ages 43 to 24, and 14 grandchildren, ranging from 20 to six months, kind of look in on him, and he goes around to see them. Last year he flew about from Lafayette to Maine, Connecitcut, New York and Virginia to visit all 20 of them.

The Greens, Tommy and Mary Lou, and the Guilberts, Eddie and Ida, opened up the New Year with an interesting cruise of South America. Their first lap was a stop with Dora and Ralph Cullinan at Petropolis, Brazil.

Tommy says, "When 1 shook Ralph's hand, with the other hand I gave him a new copy of the 1979 class directory, with some nice remarks about some of the vols who put it out."

The 1979 Directory identifies George Schlegel, says his roommate Ralph, as #451.

This most unusual fellow, #451, left us during Plebe Year. His choice, not that of the Academic Department, put him out of Princeton with the class of 1931. George was the only grandson of a real old-timer. Commodore Robert Pierpont Forshew, who was graduated from USNA in 1881. The old genfleman was a picturesque sort of a character, though somewhat imposing. He had a fixation that his grandson, George, should follow him out of the Naval Academy by just 50 years. This spry, little man of distinguished bearing was extremely positive in every way. Once, during Plebe Year I'm told, George went out to the W.B. and A station to meet his grandfather. George tried to carry the Commodore's heavy suitcase but said the grandfather to the grandson, "Haven't they told you yet that a genfleman in uniform can not carry anything except his sword."

Whereupon the Commodore sprinted all the way to Carvel Hall with George and Ralph streaming out behind. Later that weekend, Commodore Forshew was accosted by the midshipman officer of the deck as he marched up to George's room. "I know, I know, young man," said the Commodore grandpa. "If the OD questions you, please tell him that Commodore Forshue has been up to inspect his grandson's room."

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been successful, Bunky is not very comfortable.

It was a beautiful ceremony and after the reception there was dinner followed by music and dancing. The two pictures show the bride, the groom, Johnny, the ringbearer, and Dr. Holmes on the stairs and then, from the left, Johnny Webster, John Crumpacker, Ted Torgeson, above, Don Wilber, Gov, Jack Miner, Red Ramage and Ed Day.

32 Mae and Doug Gray I'm sorry to bring you sad news about Doug Gray, but I'm happy I can share a few words lovingly written by Mae Gray to all of you.

"After awhile the treatments were successful and Doug began to recover, but he died of chronic pulmonary disease. 1 am now in the process of leaming to live without my dear, close partner." Mae is in Arizona now, visiting grandchildren, and will be home again in Alaska for the Summer. Please see "Last Call" of April 1980.

At the 47'/i reunion in Coronado, Virginia and Johnny Webster introduced "Governor" Ritchie to Gene Davis, widow of Jim Davis.

They had never met before even though both had attended several of the same class reunions. A romance began which culminated in a wedding on January 3rd (reported to you in my March column) at the historic Congressional Club in Washington. (DC). They were married at a candlelight service at 7 pm with Dr. William Holmes officiating. Seven Classmates, John Cmmpacker. Ed Day, Jack Miner, Red Ramage. Ted Torgeson. Johnny Webster and Don Wilber, and Cdr. John Thomas Quinn. '61, assisted as ushers. Young Johnny Quinn. 10 years old was the ringbearer.

At the Clark Ritchie and Gene Davis wedding

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Sec'y. Capt. Terrell A. Nisewaner USN (Ret.) 7121 Helmsdale Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 83 Here and There With '32 On the cold wintry moming of 12 Febmary, we had the sad duty of consigning our wonderful Classmate, Dick Craighill, to a final resting place in a beautiful spot in the small Naval Academy cemetery overlooking the Sevem River. With eight Classmates serving as honorary pallbearers plus many others, wives, friends and former shipmates braving the frigid elements to bid Dick a final adieu, it was a tearful farewell. Dick, who selected this site many years ago when he was Secretary of the Academic Board, must have felt like Frank Nuessle who is buried in the same cemetery on a beautiful slope facing the Academy. Frank always said that he wanted a final resting place with a view. Both he and Dick certainly succeeded.

Virginia, herself fresh out of the hospital but accompanied by her two stalwart sons, courageously made the trip from Atlanta for the occasion. Dick's brother Bob (Class of '30), now an ordained Episcopal minister, rather touchingly officiated at the final services. Virginia confided that for the foreseeable future she will continue to live in their lovely Atlanta home.

We all knew Dick as an ardent and wonderful Classmate . . . he will be missed. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Virginia and her family.

For some reason known only to them, we seem to have a bit of wanderlust in the Class.

Please correct the following addresses: (1) Docteur Omer Lucier, "L'Etoile Vesper," 44 Av. de Lattre de Tassigny 06400, Cannes, France; (Note that Omer has dropped the Cdr. USN and substituted "Docteur,"); (2) Gary Garrison, 2825 So. Circle Dr., Invemess FL 32650; (3) Bill Winter, 970 Almanor Ct., Lafayette CA 94549; (4) Scotty CampbeU, 900 Long Blvd. N525, Lansing Ml 48910; (5) Steve Stevenson, 13226 N. 3rd Place. Phoenix AZ 85018.

Our irrepressible Class Arab, Jack Counihan, checks in to say that he and Frances have established an American home at 9617 Broken Bow, Dallas TX 75238 where she is still recovering from her long bout in the Naval Hospital, Bethesda, almost one year ago. Fortunately one daughter and her family live nearby.

Jack planned to fly back to Morocco along with Gigi, the poodle, about the middle of March, and Frances will follow in early May. No information on the future status of the Dallas home but. perhaps he intends to use it as campaign headquarters when he comes back to mn for Governor. So, just as we thought that Jack was going to give up the good life of a native Bedouin, here he heads back to Morocco again to renew his citizenship. Fortunately, there is no shortage of material for sandtraps in the golf

courses of his chosen home; Jack is an ardent golfer and he will be right in his element.

Jack told a nice story, worth repeating, about cooperating with Willie WUIiamson in working over some U-boats in late 1943-1944.

In the vicinity of the Azores with Willie in command of the screen and Jack the commanding officer of the ASW Squadron in USS CORE, they tracked in a submarine by sonobuoys and the four DDs dropped a 150-foot depth gigantic depth charge pattern. This resulted in a big hole in the ocean but no debris. However, by dint of hard work and good luck, they located her again and let go a Mk 24 acoustic homing torpedo which resulted in a huge underwater explosion and a gigantic diesel oil spill. Later, German U-boat records indicated that a U-600 class boat disappeared in that location on the date of the attack.

Nor, Jack related, was that the only time he appreciated Willie. Later, hunting U-boats up near their natural playground of the Bay of Biscay, their small task force ran into some foul weather, both sea and air, and suddenly found themselves surrounded by 9 U-boats (bogies on the radar screen) in a perfect circle.

By a mighty stroke of luck and fast gun action

by Willie's destroyer, the only one with radarcontrolled gunnery, they blasted a hole in the U-boat defense, hauled out at full speed, rapidly headed for Casablanca and refueled.

It's rather hard to forget cooperation like that.

Occasionally now, and with more regularity than one choses to mention, we have Classmates deciding to give up this worldly existence. In many cases other Classmates have responded by sending a donation to the Naval Academy Foundation for the Class of '32 Honor Scholarship Fund in honor of the departed Classmate. The Class would like to give a blanket thanks to anyone and everyone who has already taken this action. We highly recommend it as a future procedure for anyone else. Keep our Fund over the top.

It is with a great feeling of regret that we report the loss of Dottie, the charming wife of Gary Garrison on 7 Febmary at the Naval Medical Center. Gary brought Dottie up to the hospital a year ago for treatment of a liver ailment to which she eventually responded, but this time the trip up from Florida was futile in an effort to overcome the extensive spread of cancer. In accordance with her wishes, she was cremated and there was no interment.

Stephen (Steve) Garrison, their son (Class of '62), now a successful businessman in Dallas, made the trip up and arrived the day before she died, fortunately finding Dottie conscious, lucid, and almost her old self Gary said that he hasn't gotten around to making any plans, but he is eventually going to sell the Florida home and move somewhere else.

One very wonderful genfleman who became an ex-officio member of the Class when he married Betty Lee Pressey, the likable Samuel D. Berger, died in Washington (DC) on 12 Febmary. We lost our wonderful George, as many might remember, way back in April 1966 of a heart attack while he was on duty in Honolulu.

Samuel, who was small in stature but large in heart, married Betty Lee quite a few years later. Laconic Sam was in the diplomatic service and served among other places as Ambassador to South Korea 1961-62 and as deputy Ambassador to South Vietnam 1968-72. He and Betty Lee made a fine couple and we are sorry to bid a final adieu to a splendid gentleman.

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A '32 Party at Pebble Beach Back last Summer, Erma and Al Slayden made a swing out West and among other places dropped in at Pebble Beach to visit Chariotte and John Spangler. Thanks to Erma, we've just received a picture of a few Classmates rallying around the festive board at the Spanglers on that memorable trip. Can you recognize, in addition to Al Slayden, the four '32 residents of Pebble Beach or its environs . . . John Spangler, George Luker, Jack Roudebush, and John Dewitt?

The Konrads and Sosnoskis in Switzerland Each year Anne and Ed Konrad take a trip, and and 1979 it was abroad to Switzerland and the Continent in general. In Switzerland, by pre-arrangement, they teamed up with Polly and Ski Sosnoski. The picture shown, courtesy of Ski, shows the foursome enjoying a delightful lunch at an inn with a beautiful view. Other details have been lost, thanks to an absentminded Secretary, but all four look in good form.

Two '32ers in Barcelona, 1929 Years ago in Barcelona two stalwart characters from the Youngster Class of '32 stopped long enough for a session with a camera. Now, years later, one is a legal, literary entrepreneur in Jacksonville, our inimitable Wiggie, while the other, our wandering, unpredictable but always enthusiastic Rollins Mayer is self-exiled to Norfolk Island in the South Pacific. How58

ever, don't count on him staying there because his last address on a recent letter was: I Broadway, Flat 10, Glenelg, Adelaide SA, Australia 5045. One never knows just where he will pop up next.

And while we are on the subject of wandering Classmates, who can give us a line on the whereabouts of Tommy Warfield, Eddie Burro wes, Robert Dubois Underwood, Tom Hardie, or Perris Bunce?

A nice letter from Dick Williams which missed our last issue because of space limitations at least brings us up-to-date in a moderate sense on the Aflanta and nearby contingent. At the Navy-Georgia Tech game Josephine and Dick sat in front of Dot and Joe Harwell over from their home in Savannah where Joe is still active in marine surveying, not too far away was Mike Parrish who had driven over from Nashville, and several rows back were Virginia and Dick Craighill. Dick Williams stated that he sees Dick Craighill and Izzy Schwartz about once a month at a luncheon group convened by P. D. Ellis '33. Dick is now retired and a man of leisure (?) while Izzy is still active in real estate in the Atlanta area.

Frank Brumby signed in with notification of a minor change in address. Correct it to: 217 Berwyn Drive, W., Apt. 107, Mobile AL 36608. He added that Mobile still looks awful after the hurricane and that it will be years before all the damage and destmction is restored or replaced.

A few other changes of address are also in order. Talulla Wilson wants his friends to know that his new address is: 316 Fairside Circle, Sun City Center FL 33570. Unfortunately I made a misspelling in Emmy Mjushall's new address and it should be corrected to: 6 Spindrift Way, Annapolis MD 21403; Ph. 301/2683307. Harry Lockwood writes in to inform the Class that he has moved to: 455 Ball Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; "Ponciana," Kissimmee FL 32741 and the ph: 813/427-1014.

Emmy Marshall in a delightful Christmas card informed us that in October she attended the launching of the new nuclear submarine, USS SAN FRANCISCO (SSN-711), which her son, Cdr. James Allen Marshall '62, will command. Needless to say, it was a thrilling moment and Jim would really be proud if he were only here to share in the honors.

Bobby Fulton chimes in from Memphis where, unfortunately, Frances's poor health does not allow them the freedom to travel that they would like. However, he reported that the Griders would be in El Paso for a Christmas with some of the family and Lee Kuhl had gone to Alameda for the holidays and to witness the change in command of WICHITA when her son-in-law takes over.

Another Third Battalion stalwart has joined St. Peter's light blue line. The news was late reaching my desk but in mid-January word was finally received from BUPERS that Harry Hayes had died in his home port of West Chester, Pennsylvania, on 1 September 1979 from gastrointestinal bleeding. It is mmored that the delay in the news was not due to the mails.

Harry, after serving two eventfiil years in the old RICHMOND, became a student in the first class of the Naval Finance and Supply School in Philadelphia when it was convened in the Summer of 1934 and was transferred to the Supply Corps in 1935. After tours in RANGER, NAS Lakehurst, Pearl Harbor, MINNEAPOLIS, Naval Academy, and the NAS Atlantic City, he retired on a medical survey in October 1944. Thereafter, for years, he pur-

sued a career in Industrial Engineering working for several corporations in the Philadelphia area.

In 1957 the Hayes family relocated in the West Chester area, where he spent a year refurbishing a pre-Revolutionary house and then went back to work in the supply field once again where he served respectively with RCA and then the Boeing Aircraft Company's Vertol Division in Morton, Pennsylvania.

For the better part of the last eight years Harry had been completely retired due to the illness that eventually cost him his life. Harry had been too ill to attend any recent Class Reunions, Homecomings or even occasional football games; hence most of us lost touch with him. However, he is survived by his widow Marion, his daughter Beverly Ann, and his son Michael Andrew, and to them go the belated and sincere condolences of the Class.

Brute Dale responded to a question of mine with quite a letter. A year ago last December they moved into a large apartment complex on Stanford University land. . . a lovely setup with five swimming pools, a putting green, health club and a comprehensive social program all combining for great living. To celebrate their move, the first for them in many years, they departed on 30 December 1978 for a cruise in the " L o v e B o a t " (PACIFIC PRINCESS) from Los Angeles through the Panama Canal and assorted Caribbean ports to San Juan. This was followed by a cmise through the Caribbean for the next six weeks.

On October 15, 1979, Lylia and Bmte left on a second trip this time in the M/V BUCCANEER to the Galapagos Islands. The ship was old, accommodations basic and the food uninspiring, but the tour visited ten islands with the landings being both "wet" and "dry," often requiring considerable agility. However, they found the animals and birds to be just as fabulous as depicted in the Jacques Cousteau TV programs, and that made the trip well worthwhile.

Emplaning at Baltra Island on the site of an old WWII Naval Air Base, the Dales flew back to the mainland and then proceeded to Quito, Ecuador, to rest up, but the 9,200 foot altitude prevented that and they quickly shifted their base of operations to Lima, Pem. Next on the schedule was a planned 24-day cmise down the Amazon but, first, came a spectacular flight over the Andes . . . a line of snow-covered peaks up to 20,000 feet elevation with stark desert on the west and the lush jungles of Amazonia to the east. At Iquitos, Pem, some 2,500 miles up the river, they boarded the MS WORLD DISCOVERER for the long trip down river to Belem, then out to Fernando de Noronha and down the coast, stopping at Recife and Bahia.

Dale indicated that, as in the Galapagos, nature in the form of the jungle provided all the adventure they had come to experience; however, this time they enjoyed the luxury of efficient German management, first-class equipment, and a gourmet European cuisine. A side trip from Rio to Brazilia finished off the trip, but here they were disappointed finding that it was a city that could only have been planned by a committee of politicians for their own convenience and pocketbooks. After this long and delightful adventure they were only too happy to return to their new digs . . . 1380 Oak Creek Drive, Apt, 315, Palo Alto CA 94304 . . . and find Califomia green in the spring rains.

Wiggie Wigelius reports in that his new book Shipmate, May 1980

Smuggler Admiral is proceeding at a great pace, and is encouraging new raw recmits with a line of bull to also try the writing game. If interested, write Wiggie for details. His book, which 1 understand isn't quite as sedate as a math text, might get banned in staid New England, but he is looking forward to future good sales.

Our legal literary linguist also reported that his son Spike and Mrs. Wigelius (Mary Evelyn) have gone into the antique business, but work only on Saturdays and Sundays because of Spike's full-time job with the school system.

Their shop is the Art and Artcraft Mart in the Bayard Flea Market and Antique Village, 12561 Phillips Highway. Jacksonville FL 32224. where they sell Japanese books, art and embroidery, needlework. Japanese Samuria swords, and other weaponery. As a senior citizen, Wiggie gets to keep the books. If in the area, he would like anyone to drop in and visit the shop.

On a beautiful Friday. 15 Febmary, in lieu of our normal Febmary get-together, Marion and Mel Young hosted a super splendid Class of '32 Valentine's Day luncheon for all Classmates, wives and widows at the Channel Inn. Fortyseven members, including our two marvelous hosts, graced the Main Deck Room for the delightful occasion, and everyone had a thoroughly delightful time.

Dottie and Buck James, who was sporting a jaunty pair of cmtches but still looking great, delighted everyone by being there, and four Class widows, Helena Lietwiler, our super Jane Moncure, and that superb midshipmen hostess, Emmy Marshall, and the always gracious Erma Slayden were spread around among the tables. Charlie Odend'hal, seemingly recovered from his recent bad bout at the Naval Hospital, along with his charming wife Nancy, were marvelous additions in full stride and one single. Bo Lyons, again put in his appearance.

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the hospital, were there in force. Francis Foley, in a few ad lib comments, and speaking for all of us, expressed to that superb pair, our treasurer, Mel Young, and his charming wife Marion, our heartfelt thanks for a fantastic midwinter luncheon.

One of our Classmates has been closer to the Academy since our graduation than anyone else in '32. Earl Pinkston, after getting a master's degree in physics from Catholic University, retumed to the Academy in 1942 where he has been a faculty member ever since, conducting research in acoustics and underwater sound. He also served eight years as chairman of the Academy's physics department, during which time a curriculum was developed allowing midshipmen for the first time to major in physics. Additionally, he was instmmental in establishing an honor society for physics students at the Naval Academy, the first such society at any of the service academies.

Earl has recently been named recipient of the 1980 Distinguished Service Award by the American Association of Physics Teachers for his exceptional contribution to the teaching of physics. He was recognized for his record of accomplishments and particularly for his skills as a demonstration lecturer.

From Chief Evans, out of the wilds of New Hampshire, comes a nice surprise in the form of a picture of the Class Championship football team in the Fall of 1930. He had sent it to his mother and, cleaning out her effects at a later year, it once again came to light. For those who would like to identify their Classmates we have, left to right, first row: Shinn, Jaap, Burdick, Counihan, Stoner, Frank Parker, Humes, Sargent; second row: Burrowes, Eastwold, Smiley, Stieler, Howe, Roach, Quarles, Toft; third row: Ben Bailey, Evans, Dropp, Billingsley and Caflett.

Easily the "Pittsburgh Steelers" of our Second Class year in the interclass competition, one can readily see what a stalwart group they were in those days. Don't wince . . . it was only 50 years ago. Our thanks to Chief.

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33 Sec'y-Treas., Capt. Archie T. Wright, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4829 Ft. Sumner Dr. Washington, DC 20016 Percent Members: 84 Despite the rains and earthquakes of the winter season, life goes on apace in Southem Califomia, and while we in the East were still shovelling snow in March, our C/Ms in San Diego had already celebrated Spring in Febmary! Their Febmary luncheon had 15 attendees as follows: Ed Miller, Clay Miller, Coye, Rumble, MacPherson, Gibbons, Monroe, Gamon, Bmning, Bird, Hanson, Stuart, Williams, Russell, and Fredericks. Among the news bits garnered from the responses to the Febmary Spring Party in San Diego were the following: the Joseph Baileys (Col. USMC Ret., Orange, Califomia) spent September and October of '79 in England, Ireland, Holland, and Belgium, and are booked for a cmise to South America in May of this year, and, additionally, they're proud grandparents of a new grandson, number 7, by son Bob and his wife Peggy; Pres Belcher (Capt. USN Ret., Sun City, Califomia) regrets they're not very active since Beth broke her back, but she's now coming along nicely; the Glover Fergusons (Capt. USN Ret., Coronado) spent Thanksgiving in Chicago visiting with Glover, Jr. and Glover T. Ill, and Christmas with C/M Doris and Mac Cbambliss in Kenwood, Napa Valley, California; the Henry Foxes (Cdr. USN Ret., Barthesville, Oklahoma) have confined their travels to the South and Central Mid-West, enjoying an unseasonably mild Winter; Laurette Gambling (Norm's widow, Sacramento, Califomia) is busy taking classes at Sacramento City College; the Marty Gibbonses (Capt. USN Ret., Del Mar, California) made a 10-day visit to the Kona Coast of Hawaii in Febmary in celebration of Marty's 70th; and Pickles Heinz (VAdm. USN Ret., Coronado) is entering his 7th year as a Coronado planning commissioner and is currently serving as V.P. of the San Diego Unit of American Cancer Societyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he and Dee do play golf!

Eddie Miller sent us a copy of a letter he had received from his old roommate of Academy days, Joe McGoughran, which contained the sad news of the passing of Joe's wife Jeanne on 19 October 1979. Jeanne was admitted to the hospital for a biopsy, which was found to be benign, but while there she contracted pneumonia and a staph infection which took her life. And, reminiscent of Job, on Thanksgiving Day, Joe was admitted for tests for severe pain in his right wrist and found to be suffering from a brain tumor and cancer of the lung for which irradiation treatments were started at Kaiser Hopsital on January 7 for both areas. Although Joe has lost the use of his writing fingers due to his illness, his address is 4326 Alderwood Way, Sacramento CA 95825.

We had a lovely note from Margaret and Ben Dodson, Honolulu, Hawaii, telling of a visit they had with Carlton Jones who was there visiting his daughter Patti, and during which they first leamed of Corinne's death. They, like those in the Class who knew Corinne well, were heartbroken by the news. The Dodsons made a generous contribution to the Class Fund in Corrinne's honor. We hope to see them when they visit their daughter Connie in the Washington area in May. 59

C/M Howard Duff, Edmonds, Washington, sent us his Scrap Book kept while a Midshipman, and we've enjoyed reliving our youth by turning its pages on the cold winter evenings.

Howard thought it might be of interest at Class Reunions—it weighs about 10 lbs! It deserves a permanent home, but where? Maybe the Alumni House?

The W/A luncheon at the Ft. Myer O'Club in Febmary drew 16 C/Ms as follows: Bowen, Caldwell, Cobb*, Curtis, King*, Lacy, Mandarich, Mayberry, McKibbin, O'Brien*, Odgen, Pratt, Slayton, Thompson, Travis*, and Wright*, and the Washington Chapter of the USNAA luncheon held at the same place a week later drew 9 '33ers to hear our own Adm. Tom Moorer address the group on his favorite topic these days. Salt II and our National Preparedness. Those attending the latter meeting, in addition to those marked * above were: Blouin, Erck, George Miller, and our guest of honor at the '33 table, Margaret O'Brien. Tom, as always, gave an outstanding address which was the subject of much comment in the period after, and he obviously enjoys his status as 'an elder statesman,' but let no one deceive himself that Tom has 'Retired.'

The news bits from the two meetings: we're sorry to hear that Esther Travis was hospitalized for a few days in Febmary, but Charley says she's responding well to treatment and Charley is readying himself for an operation on his right hip to be performed at Walter Reed early this Spring, which he hopes will make walking a little less painful for him. Dale Mayberry has recovered now from his back injury and is leaming to live with his eye problem a little better. Jimmy Odgen is still keeping appointments with doctors at Bethesda, but will admit to nothing. Steve Mandarich, after hearing of Joe Cobb's marathon accomplishments, boasted that he himself was a 'dropout' from the Marine Corps Marathon last Fall.

The Ray Thompsons were leaving for a Caribbean Holiday in late Febmary; and Connie Bowen was leaving for Denver in early March to be with her eldest daughter, Constance Ruth, when she presents the Bowens with a grandchild.

The Committee (?) for the 50th Year Book has had some second thoughts about the mailout as we go to press for this issue. There are some who think it too eariy for biographies to be written and those who feel that some input from the field would be helpful to plan the content of the book, and all want to avoid the expense of additional mailouts. So despite what you read in the April Shipmate, no mail out has gone to the postoffice yet—but there's no end of planning.

A telephone call confirmed that Janet and Smoke Strean survived the hazards of Palm Springs, Califomia, to arrive home in our worst snowstorm of the Winter. After the rains forced an eariy moming evacuation from their hilltop villa, things got back to normal until the earthquake hit; then Smoke was bedded for a few days by a virile strain of flu, forcing them to miss some of their planned social activities.

But Smoke says they enjoyed the sun when it was out, and he's husbanding his sun tan 'till it's golfing weather in Virginia.

Betty and Bal Cheatham sent their condolences after reading about our eariy March blizzard, recalling the one we had in Febmary '61 when they were trying to sell their home here to move to sunny Menlo Park, Califomia.

Bal reports they both have about recovered from a two-week bout with the flu which pro60

vided him with an opportunity to get into General Sir John Hackett's The Third World War, August 1985, which makes his hair stand on end—but good! And he recovered this snap from his scrapbook of C/Ms activities on Youngster Cmise. Recognize any faces?

Jessie and Bob Fairweather, Ruth and Doug Fuller, Mill and Art Gralla, John Green, Lois and George Hoffman, Verna and John Hyde, Betty and Bill Keller, Peggy and Dick Klunk, Lisa and Emie Lawson, Janet and Racehorse MacLeod, Lolly McCormick, Dottie and Fid Murray, Lady and Ray Ours, Paul Savidge, Joyce and Sam Shaw, Les Taylor, Betty and Bob Townsend.

A communication from Dick Latham in Hawaii indicates that he plans to attend the U.S. Submarine Veterans of WW II National Convention in St. Louis 20-23 August this year. Primary reason for his presence his old sub USS TINOSA (SS-283) is holding its first re-

union on 20 August in conjunction with the National Convention. Anyone interested can obtain more information from Milt Brown, 325 Emily St., Phila. PA 19148.

Youngster Cruise Eddie Fredericks sent in a follow-up on the attendees of the Spring Party at the NAS North Island O'Club on 16 Febmary and reported a great time, despite unusually inclement weather, by the following '33ers and guests: Bemiece and Gary Coleman, Betty and Jack Coye*, Maudie and Eddie Fredericks*, Lu Fritter, Laurette Gambling, Helen and John Gamon, Pickles Heinz, Aurore and Ace Ingels, Carl Jones, Ruth and Jim Jordan, Barbara and Charlie Keyser, Gus Kiergan, Virginia and Hayden Leon, Danny and Ken Meneke, Fran and Ed Miller*, Clay Miller with Ms. Sinnie Lang, Karin and Hank Monroe, Jerry Bourland Mullarkey with brother Marc Peppard, '35 USNA, Carol O'Connell, Maggie and Al Pelling, Dorrie and Ralph Pray, Lee and Bob Riddell, Gail and George Boullard, Dora-Le Rowe, Hank Rumble, Baxter Russell, Marion and Al Ryan, Geri and Selby Santmyers, Graysie and Herbie Schwab, Charlotte and Lew Snider, Pauline South, Patricia and Ruben Wagstaff, and Madeleine and Joe Williams (*Committee).

And Eddie reports JUNE WEEK WEST dates have been changed to 27-29 June at the Town and Country Motel and Convention Center in San Diego. Eddie is on the Committee again this year, and will provide info and reservation data to C/Ms who may be traveling to the area from outside of the area West of the Mississippi, which latter group will get the mailout in the near future.

The May luncheon for the W/A Group will be a Joint Co-Ed affair for '33 USNA-USMA held at the Yacht Club in Annapolis on Saturday 10 May; meeting time 11:30—See you there!

34 Sec'y, Cdr. Robert P. Harbold, Jr., USNR (Ret.), 129 Spa View Ave., Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 88 On 28 Febmary the Washington area Classmates were host to the ladies with a KT Luncheon at the Ft. Myer O'Club. Art Gralla organized the party, and it was a great success as evidenced by the turnout, namely: Dorothy and Parks Adams, Anne and Ed Batcheller, Jean and Bob Bengston, Florence and Francis Bradley, George Bullen, Irv Bunevich, Jane and John Condon, Bill Deragon, Eel Dutton,

35 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., Arlington, VA 22207 Percent Members: 83 After 11 years as a teacher in 10 countries for various overseas divisions of the University of Maryland, Harvey Headland retired in August 1979 and retumed to Tacoma, Washington. He has resumed teaching business administration and economic subjects at the University of Puget Sound, the same job he left to go with the U. of Md., except he's carrying half the normal load. This will give him and Maggie more time to pursue their many other interests.

Harvey comments, "Now instead of continuous exposure to living amidst the marvels of classical art, architecture, and history, and the inconveniences of passports, custom regulations, foreign languages and suitcases, we are adjusting to the automobile and television society of the great USA." His overseas teaching assignments had taken them from Taiwan and Korea in the Far East, to Ethiopia in the Mid-East, to Island bases in the Atlantic, to various European countries, but about half the total time was spent in Germany. They have found the same circle of friends in Tacoma they enjoyed before they left, and they find they still speak the local language quite well.

Their new address is 8300 Phillips Rd., Apt. 115, Tacoma WA 98498.

Bob Phillips writes from Highlands, North Carolina, that he sincerely regrets that he and Sally will be unable to make it to our 45th.

They will be in Australia visiting Bob's brother, Walter ('30), who has lived down under for some 20 years. Bob sends his fondest regards to all the Class.

Though the Washington (DC) area winter weather hadn't been that bad, your Corr. Sec'y and spouse decided to seek warmer climes between Shipmate deadlines and took a twoweek drive to Florida in Febmary. The highlights of the trip were the visits with Classmates and friends. On the way south. Bob Black's wife, Margaret, an official tour guide for Charleston, South Carolina, spent a morning showing us the many restored homes, buildings and areas of that city which have benefitted from a well-planned and executed historic preservation program. Bob joined us for lunch, taking us to the Colony Club on the waterfront for some delicious seafood and Shipmate, May 1980

some equally enjoyable reminiscences and exchanges of news. Our next stop was in Jacksonville where we had a couple of pleasurable days with Dutch and Art Decker. We found that Art had been in the hospital over New Year's, but was completely "back-tobattery" and making his regularly scheduled rounds of golf. They have bought some land in northem Georgia, near the North Carolina border, an area more conducive to summer golf. Dutch and Art honored us with a beautiful dinner attended by the Fred Taeusches ('39) and Betty and Stu Steriing ('41), among others.

Dorothy and Dick Jack in Maitland provided accommodations for our next stop and hosted a gathering of '35ers living in the Oriando area.

They included: Jane and Pat Finnigan, Mary and Frank Gambacorta, Katie and Bob Jackson, Eunice Petrie, and Ruth and Bill Rossell. All Classmates appeared in good spirits, and all are reaping the rewards of retired life except for Bob Jackson who is enjoying a busy life as a director of the Flagship Bank at its central office in Sanford. (The wives, of course, are not retired.) On the way north, we stopped in at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and spent a pleasant aftemoon and evening with Carolyn and George Caimes, sightseeing Sea Island and Hilton Head Plantation and catching up on news since we served together on First Fleet Staff in the mid-50's.

Upon arriving home, we found we'd missed no snow and no freezing temperatures, but during our first 4 days at home we had two snow storms, totalling 11 inches and nothing but sub-freezing weather. Such is life, when your timing is controlled by Shipmate deadlines.

One sad note acquired during the trip; when seeking to see Virgie Vestel's widow, Jo, it was found that she had died in Winter Park, on 11 March 1979. She had been almost fully occupied with the mid-Florida Council for Intemational Visitors and was seldom seen by the '35 group in that area. Her obituary was spotted by Jane Finnigan, and she and Pat represented the Class at her funeral services on 15 March 1979. She is survived by three sons from a former marriage to J. Richard Jordan.

Ruth and Mac Wordell from La Mesa, Califomia, also tripped to Florida in Febmary, to see relatives. In Boca Raton, they contacted Rhodam McElroy who invited them to lunch at the Delray Dunes Country Club. Later, Jane joined them after completing her golf game, and they then all retired to the beautiful McElroy home alongside the golf course. Mac and Rhodam had not seen each other since returning together from Casablanca in November 1942. So, some "heavy reminiscing" ensued.

At Pensacola, Ruth and Mac spent two nights at the Navy Lodge, thanks to reservations made for them by Emmett Riera. They talked to Emmett by phone, and he was sorry to say he doubted he would get to our 45th in May because of a Golden Eagles reunion at about the same time. While waiting a flight out of Tampa. Mac phoned Squidge Lee in St. Petersburg and found him in good spirits, enjoying tennis and sunshine, and supporting environmental causes. He reported one daughter in Montana and one in Florida. Relative to the San Diego area. Mac reports that Nick Doukas and Tony Talerico have joined '35's weekly luncheons which are now held on Wednesdays at the Officers' Club at the Marine Corps Recmit Depot. Wally Walseth is the currently acting secretary for the luncheons, and any •35er in or passing through the area wishing to join in should let him know Shipmate. May 1980

in advance. His phone number 714/454-8932.

Average attendance is 12, but it has been as high as 18.

Lamont Johnston, at 101 N. Bragg Ave., Lookout Mountain TN 37350, advises fliat he has spare copies of Lucky Bags for 1932, 1933 and 1934, if anyone would like them.

Spurg Sharrocks spent the latter half of the winter in Califomia. On their way out from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, they stopped on 5 Febmary to see Fran and Slade Cutter in San Antonio. They had a great time talking about years past.

BiU Jackson in Encino, Califomia, advises that Helen had surgery to remove a cataract from her right eye in early Febmary. He comments that during her hospitalization he painfully releamed his degree of dependence on her normally, a nicely phrased compliment, worth repeating by many of us. They still expect to make both 45ths.

The Washington-area monthly luncheon on 5 March attracted a good tumout in spite of, or maybe because of, a rainy day. Discussions, in addition to the exchange of news, hit strongly on: the results of primaries, so far; the galloping inflation and its stifling influence on productivity; high labor costs, interest rates and professional charges; waste in welfare programs; and the golden opportunity which the Soviets missed when they didn't move their troops out of Afghanistan and into Iran to free our hostages before the Olympic deadline.

Numerous solutions were advanced beyond the scope of this column. Those present included: Rod Badger, Jim Baird, Lou Detweiler, Wy Packard, George Powell, Steve Stever, Art Tarantino, Bobo Thompson, and Henry Tipton. It is recommended that other '35ers in or passing through the Washington area on the first Wednesday of each month and wishing to participate in these get-togethers should let Lou Detweiler know a day or so in advance.

Two other changes of address this month, in addition to Harvey Headland's, above: Kirk Kirkpatrick moved a couple of doors to 284C Clemwood Pkwy, Hampton VA 23669; Wally Nelson moved from Florida to 709 San Jacinto Dr., Salinas CA 93901.

36 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: 82 At this writing, things in the WB&A area are back to normal after having just dug ourselves out from under one foot of snow that fell last week end as March was ushered in like the proverbial lion. As a resuh, we guess March will now depart like the lamb and another Spring will be on its way. At any rate, by the time you all are reading this report, another Easter will have come and gone, and Summer will soon be upon us. Enough said! On with some news.

The Valentine Luncheon at Vinson Hall, which came too late for the last Shipmate deadline, was delightful, both socially and dining-wise. as 14 gathered to celebrate the "Sweetheart" day. Present were: Blanche and Jack Baumeister; Nancy and Fred Bennett'

Dick Bradley (Pat was off to her Garden Club); Ede and Bill Ellis; Parker Folsom; Rosa and Frank Law; Lib and "Dixie" Nohrden; "Onion" Phillips (Margot unable to attend because of other commitments); and Paul Bjameson (Dorothy also unable to attend because of other duties). It was especially good to see both Lib and "Dude" Nohrden out of the hospital, recovered, and able to be present. Not much news except to leam that Dorothy and "Mac" Butler were arriving back after their Caribbean cmise and that Nancy and Fred Bennett were leaving the next day by train to board the same ship for their cmise in the "warm water" area. From Frank Law we learned that both 45th Reunion plans well underway, and that as of 16 Febmary Harry Stark reported 44 out of 63 responses indicated attendance at the June '81 San Diego reunion and John Court, 37 out of 56 responses, indicating attendance, not including the 2 "Maybe" responses, at Annapolis. Thus, it looks like both will be well attended. Frank Law also reported that the Thr-rift Inn in West Annapolis—or is it Parole now?—will be the official Headquarters for the Annapolis October '81 reunion. The new "all indoor" Annex has been reserved for '36, and Frank requests that those who may wish other accommodations do so by contacting their choice of hotel or motel direct. The Committee is only handling room requirements for those staying at Thr-rift Inn. In making his request, Frank reminds everyone that NOW is the time to make your individual reservations; most hotels— especially the Hilton—book one year in advance, and it is almost impossible to fmd local hotel/motel space if you wait until the last minute to write for accommodations. SO DON'T DELAY! If you prefer Maryland Inn, the Hilton, or some other hotel, write today!!

A note from Mary Moore Lacey (8 Feb.) reports that she is finishing her graduate study at the University of Maryland and presently living off campus in graduate student housing (7702-1 Adelphi Rd., Hyattsville MD 20783).

However, she requests no change in the '36 ROSTER since she still has her house on 10th St., S.E. Mary sends her regards to all and says she'll see you all at the '81 Annapolis Reunion.

Thanks to John Oseth, we'd like to make a correction to our last report on the note from Eva Gustafson and add a little to the story regarding the last days of the USS PEARY (DD226)—it came out Perry in the January/ Febmary Shipmate. According to John, the PEARY was in the Navy Yard at Cavite when the Japanese attack on the Philippines occurred. Severely damaged, she was temporarily repaired and sent off on logistic supply and patrol duties in the southem Philippines where unfortunately through misidentification she was hit again during an Australian air raid and had her bow blown off. Nevertheless, the ship managed to reach Darwin, Australia, where a new bow was to be installed. John, having been relieved by "Guf Gustafson, was ashore awaiting transportation to his new duty assignment when the Japanese hit again while the PEARY was being defueled and removing ammunition in preparation for the bow repairs.

With this attack, the good old DD-226 was hit again and this time blown to bits, with all hands lost, or at least it was so thought. However, John later ran into his former "Oil King" in PEARY, Chief Boiler Technician Farley, in Mers-el-Kabir in the "Med" area, and from him he leamed he had survived after a flaming 61

swim through burning oil and that aside from Farley, the only other survivors he knew of were Chief Radioman Rooney and the radio gang who were blown out of the radio shack and into the water and also made it to shore. " G u s " Gustafson, as we all know, was not that fortunate. He, like the many others, went down with the ship, another hero in that long and cmel war which took its toll on the Class of '36. Thanks, John, for calling our attention to our error in the ship's name and for bringing us a bit of news on the last days of the USS PEARY (DD-226). We hope we have managed to tell your very interesting story accurately and correcfly.

You may recall that in the January/Febmary Shipmate we reported on Kathleen and Jack Ryder's trip to Portland, Oregon, for Jack's mother's 90th Birthday Reunion. We regret to report that on 10 Febmary, Mrs. Ryder passed away very suddenly. Jack attended the funeral, and when he retumed brought with him the 3 extra copies of the '36 Lucky Bag reported in the PS to the January'80 annual Memo from the Class President. As a result, Kathleen reported in her "Sadie Hawkins Day" note that they had had notes from Hugo Culpepper and Jaquelin Washington requesting copies.

Enclosed, Kathleen sent along the correspondence exchanged. From it we share a bit of the news contained in both. Hugo, now the W.O. Carver Professor of Christian Missions and World Religion at the Southem Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, entered our Class in '32 and roomed with BiU Kaufman and "Daisy" Richardson during plebe summer, the latter also having been his roommate at Marion Military Institute along with the late "Dub" Bayless, another of our '36 WWII casualties. When " A c " Year began, Hugo was transferred to the Italian Language Section in the old 4th Batt where he roomed with "Gordy" Fowler until he resigned to study for the ministry. Subsequently, he graduated, was ordained, and married his wife Ruth, and both were living in Bagio in the Philippines studying Chinese when the Japanese attack came on 28 December 1941.

As a result, Hugo's Lucky Bag, which "Daisy" had sent him on our graduation, was lost along with all their other possessions when Hugo and Ruth were taken prisoners. "Now," says Hugo, "since I have visited the Academy onily twice since I resigned, I have had an evening's pleasure tuming through the pages and meeting old friends again. I shall always be grateful to the Ryders for this most unexpected gift. It will be a pleasure to have through the years to come." . . . Jaquelin Washington left the Academy in the Spring of '33, having roomed with Randy Meade who, as previously reported, located him about a year ago. Since then he has become quite interested in the members of the Class, what has happened to them, etc., since his own career as a clergyman has not left much opportunity until recently to renew this interest. Said Jaquelin: " . . . I appreciate very much the opportunity of having a copy of the Lucky Bag for my own since I have had such litfle contact with the Class—or the Academy—for so long. Even my short-term relationship with '36 has become dearer over the passing years, and I look forward to reading the Lucky Bag to see what happened to my friends and acquaintances after my departure Although my original hometown was Alexandria, Virginia, and I was appointed to the Academy from that district, I rarely have had any chance on my retum visits to do much 62

more than try to catch up with family. Now I'm looking forward to increased contact with the Academy and am most grateful to the Ryders for their generous response to my request for a copy of the Lucky Bag. Thank you both." . . . Our thanks to you, Kathleen, for sharing the correspondence and news with us, and we too express appreciation to you and Jack for bringing some pleasure and a bit of nostalgia to two of our former Classmates.

Randy Meade got his pilot's license on the last day of '79. Audry and he left for England to visit Susan during her "Spring Break" at school. They report that Susan loves her school and her associates and is now majoring in English literature and economics.

Dick Teel made the news back in Febmary when he wrote Frank Reynolds of ABC expressing his thanks for the news program, but suggesting that he no longer refer to the Afghanistan take-over as a "threat to Pakistan or Iran." Instead, Dick suggested that Reynolds refer to the serious situation as a "very grave threat to the national security of the U.S." Dick's feelings are that the President has taken all possible steps to get the U.N. to support him, but that now it is time for the media to take even more appropriate steps by getting the American people to support him. Said Dick: "Americans won't rally unless the U.S. is threatened. They couldn't care less about Pakistan because they forget about the Communist appetite that eats slowly, but never ceases eating . . . You personally (Reynolds) could articulate in a most convincing manner the thoughts I've expressed, if you believe them. You can boost the American will to resist this subtle erosion of our own national security." To Dick we say: "Hear! Hear!"

Tommy King wrote (19 Feb.) that he and "Dixie" were setfled again for a 3-month stay in their place in Coronado after a pleasant cross-country trip with stops in Florida and a visit in New Orleans. ". . . Despite the awful weather, there has been an opportunity or two to squeeze in golf and tennis games, and we already have enjoyed seeing Marion and Ed Hoffman, Joan and BiU Thomas, and Margie Holmshaw again. Hope to see many more of the Class while we're here." In mid-April, "Dixie" and Tom were planning to start their retum trip to McLean, Virginia, driving north up the coast with stops to visit friends and then continuing east on the Canadian side via Lake Louise, Banff, and other historical or scenic places, with later stops in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island.

Not to be outdone by the travelling Kings, Jack Noel reported (6 Feb.) on Mary and his Summer "back home." After leaving their Seattle children and grandchildren, they drove down the coast to Sacramento, San Francisco, and points south. In the Napa Valley they had a reunion with Persian friends who had escaped the terror in Iran and are now making a new life in the U.S. Said Jack: "It is their tragedy and that of Iran that Iran has lost most of its capable and educated professional and business men." Following this moving experience, Mary and Jack did a month's "housesitting" in La Jolla where they had dinner with the Flemings and O'Gradys; made a quick mn to Santa Fe to get the renovation of their adobe house started and to see their son; went to Rolling Hills for a tennis week end; and then stayed with Mildred Mann in Coronado before continuing south through Baja Califomia to Mexico for some game fishing—Mary caught the marlin; Jack mucho dorado, bonito, and

sea bass. Next, they took the car ferry from Mazatlan to La Paz, driving along the coast to Mexico City where again they did "housesitting," this time for Jack's sister while she went to Columbia to have Christmas with her daughter and family . . . After seeing friends in San Miguel Allende, they went on to Houston where they tumed in their Toyota and flew back to Spain. (Boy! What a summer!) This will be Mary and Jack's last Winter in Spain, which they will leave in June by Lykes Freighter bound for Houston. From then on, their new address will be: 1014 West Houghton, Santa Fe NM 87501. Thanks for the news. Jack. Keep us posted when you're settled in the "adobe."

A short note from our Academy roommate, "Pony" Shetenhelm (13 Feb.), reported that he and Georgia had lunch with Hope and "Bon" Amme and Sylvia and Ralph Amdt on Lincoln's birthday while they "reviewed the past and updated the present under the warm sunny skies of the Monterey Peninsula."

Once more we regret having to close our report on a sad note. On 25 Febmary, Mary Louise Fyfe, "Jake's" wife and Katie and Fred Chenault's sister-in-law, passed away suddenly at the Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Virginia, of conjunctive heart failure.

Mary Lou had been quite ill for some years with arthritis of the spine and had been hospitalized due to failing health. Graveside services were held in Arlington National Cemetery on 29 Febmary with family, friends, and Classmates present. Our deepest sympathy is expressed to "Jake," his daughter, Ann Fyfe Walker of Fairfax, Virginia, his son, Cdr. John K. Fyfe, Jr., (SC) USN '65, of Hawaii, and the grandchildren. Classmates and friends may send personal notes of condolence to the home address: 9 Madison Lane, South, Newport News VA 23606.

That's the news for now. Have a pleasant Summer, and remember, as our local "Chopper-Copper" says: "Watch out for that other driver. He may not be looking out for you."

37 Sec'y-Treas., LCdr. J. P. M. Johnston, USN (Ret.) 2118 Bancroft PI., N.W., Washington, DC 20008 Corr. Sec'y, VAdm. Charles S. Minter, Jr. USN (Ret.) 238 Puritan Place, Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 79 The foremnner of what should become a flood of responses to BiU Mack's request for donations to the class fund has arrived and he has given me the news accompanying the checks. Typical of those meaty little items which make the life of your corresponding sec'y such an unmitigated pleasure, I offer these illuminating vignettes (authors names withheld to protect the guilty): "Nothing new to report from here. Hope all goes well with you."

"Tell Charlie that I have nothing to pass along at this time."

"Things have been rather slow around here lately . . . say for the last four or five years."

"Don't see many of the old gang anymore so have nothing to tell you. Lot's of luck."

Shipmate, May 1980

In fairness I should say that they weren't aU like that . . . only the overwhelming majority . . . and that there were a few who made my personal Dean's List for noteworthy contributions. By a strange coincidence, my choice to head the list is Don Dean himself who writes: "Grace and I visited China in June of last year seeing Sian, Loyung, Soochow, Shanghai, and Canton. Emerging big sign boards in Shanghai, foremnner of Free Enterprise. Religious freedom observed including Buddhism, previously banned. Right of habeas corpus, appeal, etc. to be instituted in courts.

"Marxism is taking a back seat to modernization. A slow process, but the mill grinds steadily."

Pat Patriarca chimes in from Pensacola: "We have made our final move (we hope) to Pensacola in March, 1979.

"Weathered Hurricane Frederick in good shape, much better shape than snow and ice up there. {Sec'y note-I think that gratuitous crack was entirely uncalled for.) A guest cottage is available for one and all who would enjoy Pensacola weather."

If conditions don't improve soon in Southem Califomia, Pat may find more guests than he had bargained for. Johnnie Nielsen gives a rather graphic picture of the local situation: "We've been hearing for a long time that our part of California is going to slide into the ocean any day now, but instead it seems to us that we'll probably be washed into the ocean instead. Five hundred and fifty families had to be evacuated from Pt. Mugu when a usually inoffensive little creek tried to make like the Mississippi at flood stage yesterday. Cars are being submerged in mud and water and houses all over the place are sliding down the hill.

Luckily for us, we're still about 150 feet above our own little creek, but the noise of the mshing water is so loud you have to scream to make yourself heard. . . . " Johnnie and Bemie, apparently in an effort to beat the weather game at home, packed up their golf clubs and headed for San Diego for a visit and some golf. The latest report is that it rained the entire time they were in the area.

And they say it never rains on the golf course!

A few final comments on the Califomia scene comes from Saverio FiUippone: "Ruth and I are still enjoying living in Califomia despite the earthquakes and now the floods. We have been among the fortunate who only got shook up a bit. '"We probably will be on the move in late Spring and in the Summer, travelling about to horse shows showing Ruth's Arabian mare, but with the gas situation as it is we may be travelling less than hoped for. Hopefully, we will be able to come East about reunion time."

The binnacle list for this report contains a regrettably long list of names. I had heard that Ralph Cousins had been under the knife, to coin a phrase, but had no particulars so wrote to find out. His reply confirmed the fact that he had had emergency surgery to correct an intestinal blockage, but all systems are now go and his only problem was trying to find an indoor tennis court and some opposition. (His surgeon is a two handicapper which, some people would say, proves that golfers are good for something!)

WiUie Crenshaw, Bush Bringle, and Bones Savage kept the San Diego surgeons busy, Willie with an intestinal operation. Bush with knee surgery, and Bones with a kidney removal. At this time (early March) Bush is the only one still hospitalized, though he is up and around on cmtches. Bones and Willie are recuperating Shipmate, May 1980

at home, and we wish all of them speedy recoveries.

To complete the medical report from the San Diego area (all of which was phoned in to me

by Bunny Shupper along with other local items) Swede Hanson cracked a rib when he fell on (not off. . . on) his roof (/ don't know what he was doing on the roof. A local Classmate said that it seemed a strange place to chill martinis, but what does he know?) In any event, the accident resulted in what is reported to be a substantial if temporary loss of 18th green income for Swede.

On a happier note. Bunny reports that Jean and Skeeter Gardes had left for a few weeks in the Hawaiian area and that Butch Brantley (Bea and Larry's son) and wife had had dinner with the Shuppers while on a business trip to the West Coast.

Since starting this column last week. Bill Mack has given me another batch of letters, many of which are so filled with news that I almost, but not quite, regret the churiish note with which I opened this effort.

Art Grantham: "Evidence continues to mount that I'm coming apart, the most recent being a hernia . . . due to be repaired next week. . . . The worst surf in forty years threatened this Winter to wash away our shack on the beach in Lanikai . . . but we hope we have contained it. . . . Mary is renewing her SCUBA ticket preparatory to going off to the Great Barrier Reef next Winter." Art is the president of the Arts Council of Hawaii and it is reported that he and Ronnie CarroU are an extremely formidable partnership at the bridge table.

Eddie Arentzen and Marcia enjoyed a 34-day round-the-world trip last Spring and then went back for three weeks in Egypt and Greece.

(Are you listening, Janney?) Despite a series of sessions with the medicos, Eddie enjoys his golf at Rancho Sante Fe. Swampy Lajaunie and Jean also did some travelling last year, touring the Orient for two-and-a-half weeks with stops in Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore, and Hong Kong. They could have crossed paths with Helen and Frank Eddy who also toured the Orient, and evidently enjoyed travelling so much that they subsequently made a trip to Spain.

From Mobile comes word from P. B. Moore that he and Mariedora have finally finished repairs to damage from last September's hurricane. They lost 45 pine trees in their yard, with four ending up on the roof. Prior to the storm, they had made a Caribbean cmise followed by a trip to the West Coast where they visited Marcia and Ed Arentzen in Rancho Santa Fe. Among those Classmates still gainfully employed, Dutch Doerflinger and Frank Menefee continue with the Chemical Systems Division of United Technologies out on the San Francisco peninsula, and Jack Obermeyer says he still enjoys his job with Texaco in New York so much that he has no retirement plans at the moment. Not so with Zeke Soucek, who fiiUy retired from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory on 31 December. Shortly before retirement, sons #1 and #2 conspired with Bess and Jack Slaughter to give a surprise dinner party for Zeke and Mary on their 40th wedding anniversary.

Speaking of retirement. Gene Rankin tried to retire from his banking career in San Diego, but wiser heads prevailed and talked him into staying on in a senior consultant capacity.

FU Gilkeson advises that Bob Erly is to re-

lieve him as vice president. Western Region USNA Alumni Association in May. Bob is also involved in community affairs, serving as chairman of the Coronado Branch of the American Cancer Society. Apparenfly unaware of the cost of insuring silver these days. Bob spends his week ends picking up the stuff for the performance of his 30-ft. sloop. WILD TURKEY. (/ always thought he was a Scotch man.)

Mary and Walt Barry, who have been on an extended Florida vacation, report a brief reunion with Dot and Pete Friedrick, who have taken up residence in Belleaire Bluffs, Florida, since Pete retired from his teaching job on Long Island. Al Gerken also reports seeing the Barrys briefly. Al suffered a stroke last year, but seems to be doing well now.

The Robinson family, Jesse and Dode and five sons, clearly are doing their best to hold down the unemployment statistics. Jesse is still a full-time consultant, and among the boys, two are lawyers, one a computer expert, one head of an English department, and one manager of a store.

The Naval Academy Class of '80 which graduates this May sets a precedent. It is the first ever to include young ladies, and in this select group is Ann, daughter of Fran and Walt Stencil. Ann has had a fine record at the Academy, including four years of starring roles in the Masqueraders. She has been named on the Commandant's list for the last term of this year and has advance notice that she will be assigned as an admiral's aide on graduation.

Congratulations to the entire Stencil family!

This is the second graduation that the Stencils will attend as proud parents. Son Craig is an attack pilot in SARATOGA. I regret having to close on a sad note, but word has recently been received that Scoop Vorse passed away in Costa Rica on 27 October last year. Death was due to heart complications. Syd Bottomley has tried to contact any of the Vorse children for additional information, but without success as of this time. If any of you have information conceming their location we would like to know.

38 Sec'y, Capt. Albert T. Church, Jr., USN (Ret.) 319 Kentucky Ave., Alexandria VA 22305 Percent Members: 76 Have you read Twenty-Five Years Since Thirty-Eight lately? Go find it; dust it off; read it. Delightful! But also some sad remembrances. Thanks again, Mike Rindskopf, John Saxten, George Muse, Frank Lynch, Bobbette Gugliotta, Connie Jackson, and all the others who helped put that document together.

Washington Highlights. The monflily wives' luncheon was held at Shiriey Andrews', with Betty Bolam and Muriel Wells co-hostesses.

Forty-three tumed out for the Valentine's Dance at the Army-Navy Country Club. There were some smooth dancers on the floor, but also a few gimpy legs. As of this writing, Washington is fairiy quiet, the snow is falling, and many of the group have fled to Florida or other wanner climes.

However, Connie and Hank Jackson have retumed from the better part of a month in Florida, where they saw Harriet and Hugo Elwood (escaping the Winter in Venice). The Jacksons also got together with Betsy and Harry Mason (cmising soufliem waters in flieu 63

yacht SANDELS), Bobbie and CharUe Norris, Sandra and Steve Mann, and Jane and Walt Miail, all displaced former Washingtonians.

Lonnie and Hank also ran into Jean and Red Coward at luncheon with the Elwoods, and Jo and Carl Fleps currently visiting the Elwoods and otherwise touring Florida. So that's why it IS quiet in Washington.

Good News! John Wicks, after spending a couple of miserable months in Bethesda Hospital receiving repeated blood transfusions, finally underwent a very dangerous operation, which was successful and John's recovery has been dramatic. He is now home in Florida.

The request for inputs from all members of the Class still stands. John BurriU has responded with news of himself and family. Son Michael, now a USAF major, is on duty in Germany, and younger son Richard is a CPA, having scored the second highest score in the State of California. John has retired after eighteen years with the State of Califomia and has entered on a third career as an English teacher. John challenges Snow Arthur to a tennis match.

Other news from Califomia speaks for itself.

The following from Frank Zimanski: "Greetings from the lost battalion in Califomia. All it took was a timely gig by Al Church. Tme, we were never organized nor did we have an appointed fuehrer, so once again acting on his own initiative, Swede Olsen organized a stag luncheon and business meeting which was held yesterday. He served as host and chairman.

For his efforts we gave him a well-deserved hand. "'The results exceeded everyone's expectations. All available Classmates in the San Diego area attended, a total of 22.

"The principal item of business was the 45th reunion in the San Diego/Coronado area. We voted 21-1 in favor of sponsoring this reunion.

The following volunteered to serve on a Steering Committee: Kercheval (Chairman), Suydam, Jensen, Ogle, CaUahan, and Buuas.

"We were very fortunate to have as Muir's guest, Don Thomas '32 who probably has had more experience in convention planning than any USNA Alumnus. He provided us with invaluable guidance as well as the large file he amassed in planning '33's 45th at the Del Coronado.

"As a matter of policy we will have similar stag luncheons every two months. Dan Henry will host the next one. The Harringtons will host the next semi-annual dinner dance on April 19th at Miramar.

"The important matter of Shipmate coverage was discussed at great length. More to follow on this later herein.

"We were reassured that nobody present suffered any damage from the recent storm that hit Southem California.

"We observed a moment of silent prayer in respect to four of our beloved Classmates: Frank Swiderski, Tom Suddath, Bob Rynd, and Zeke Jarman.

"Lee Rogers read a gracious letter from Bob Rynd's wife, Kim, expressing gratitude to the Class for flowers and attendance at his funeral service at NTC here. Bob died in Phoenix.

"Zimanski took the occasion to pay tribute to Tom Suddath in recognition of his distinguished service during WW II, helping rectify the honible submarine torpedo faults.

"1 also reported to the group that 1 had my class ring appraised by our local jeweler last week—$1500!! Incidentally, ever since my Polish landsman, John Paul II, became Pope 64

my ring has come in for some highly unforeseen wear. Everybody wants to kiss it!

"News Briefs—The handsome newlyweds, Barbara and Pat Foley, are cmising on the high seas enroute to Mexico at this moment. Last Summer BiU Finn spent six weeks in Eurpoe.

Dan Henry has been commuting to Europe regularly, visiting Pam and her family. And speaking of Pam Henry, she has recenfly been appointed assistant director and administrator of the Frankfort Opera House. Wanda Henry recently shifted gears from fast to jet and took off for Caracas, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton, and the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. In every port she was feted in the accustomed grand manner by close and nostalgic friends with whom she stayed. She is still bubbling with ecstasy, and I predict it will be several months before she is ready to take off again. Marybeth Collum is about to take off again for London, Paris and other cities on the continent. She is another commuter. The Ramages are planning an extensive tour in April of Ireland, Scotland, Holland, England and France. The Olsens continue to make their annual pilgrimage to their salmon mecca upstate.

Bob Kercheval retired as vice-president, tmst department. Bank of America. Ditto BiU Dimmick from the insurance business. They just bought a charming house in San Clemente.

Foster and BaU are still active teachers. ExNavy nurse Jan Olsen still fully dedicated to work with retarded children after close to twenty years. She served as president of her auxiliary for two years. Our sincere compliments to Jan for this noble and charitable work. While Otis Wesche continues to work in real estate, Mickey does all sorts of volunteer work in church and community. Also, Jane Rogers. Mayor of Coronado, Pat CaUahan, mns for re-election this April. He has done a fine job the past two years and I predict he will be re-elected. The Callahans have established an honorable dynasty in Coronado.

"Our plans concerning Shipmate are ambitious indeed. We intend to establish communications with all of our Classmates in Califomia, some 65, and especially those whom we have practically lost track of. The inimitable John Burrill has responded in his characteristic style and promises to carry the torch in Northem Califomia. This policy conforms with that of Al Church. The consensus among us here is that sooner or later we each take tums drafting a column under our own distinct by-line as I am doing in this issue.

"Commencing with this issue I shall serve indefinitely as managing editor of the California Report. My principal responsibility is to serve as collector of all news of interest to Shipmate. I shall pass such news on to the columnist of the month who shall serve and treat us all with his own unique style and perspective.

"1 hereby enjoin all hands including spouses to get into the act and help us all develop a column unprecedented in style and interest. Do this principally by sending me by phone or rough noted any item of interest to the Class.

The California Report Motto: '38— Communicate Via. Shipmate."

Good work, San Diego area Classmates.

Florida? Tidewater, Virginia? Puget Sound?

New England?

39 Sec'y, Capt. W. J. Ruhe, USN (Ret.) 1310 MacBeth Ave., McLean VA 22I0I Percent Members: 73 Bob Clark found a clipping on Bob Truax's latest rocket project in Le Figaro of Mai 1979.

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La fusee dans la cour de Robert Truax A picture of a huge rocket in Tmax's backyard tells part of the story. As a Spanish student I can only guess at what the French magazine says about what Bob is up to, but it appears he's built the thing for a Frenchman, and amateur astronaut, who wants to take a short trip in space, and then return to earth(!)—at a cost of 2,452,000 francs. Another Evel Knievel?

"Butch" Wells mans the board The word that Harold "Butch" WeUs had died on 22 January 1980, took many days to filter through. Like a great number of friends and Classmates, the Class Secretary as well is much saddened by the news. Having played alongside Butch in football and having optimistically tried to pin Butch in wrestling numerous times, I can attest to his great sporting spirit. His well appreciated good humor and warm friendship have been so important to his more recent community at Principia College, where he has lived for the past seventeen years, that they have initiated a fund in his name for the furtherance of sport at Principia College. His wife Marian, the dean of women there, daughter Sallie and son Stephen have, I'm certain, the deep condolences of all of the Class of 1939, of which he was a very special member.

Shipmate, May 1980

Bob Dexter, Rodge Paine, Hal Lank

Skeet Bemis, Jig Dog Ramage, Chris Mathews

Hap Jolly, Gene Hayward The regular monthly luncheon in San Diego is being held the last Tuesday of each month at the 32nd Street Officer's Club. Any '39er in the area should call Fred Clarke at 286-9575 to be included in the luncheon. The January get together had a few "seldom shows," Ramage, Jarvis and Mathews and a substantial number of "old faithfuls," Clarke, Clark, Dawson, Bemis, Glaes, Bobszynski, Paine, Weatherwax, Dexter, Fargo, JoUy, Barnes and Lank—^just recovered from some serious surgery. Norm Short from Long Island, and Gene Hayward from Syracuse were surprise visitors. Bob Clark announced that JUNE WEEK WEST will be held again in San Diego this year on the weekend of 27 June.

The February '39-Washington Coed luncheon on 6 Febmary had 58 attendees.

Norm Bennett, still head of the Merchandise Mart in Silver Springs, supplied prizes for the '39 couple who've known each other the longest—Ginny and Danny Weitzenfeld, since 1920; the couple married the longest—the Pernas since March 1941; the couple having the oldest child—the Bergs' child was bom in Shipmate, May 1980

March 1942; the Pattersons had the most children—five; the Jim WaUaces had the first grandchild—in June 1963; Peggy and Rhythm Moore had the most grandchildren—7; and BUI Huffman won the grand door prize for having—luck. Danny Weitzenfeld was the MC and used the theme of "love" for this preValentine's Day gathering. Quoting from Lucky Bag writings, he identified "the '39 lovers in 1939." Emie Schreiter, of NA-10 vintage played the piano with George Duncan leading the crowd in "Let Me Call You Sweetheart."

Very schmaltzy and heart-warming!

A note from Selwyn "Selly" Graham finally gives us a good address at which he can be located. He moved from San Rafael, Califomia, to: P.O. Box 597, Centervile MA 02632. Two years ago when he retired we lost track of him, so he's had a non-delivery on the 39-Year Reunion material up to now.

Frank Ralston writes: "I retired from North American Rockwell after twenty years with the company. My wife, Janis, passed away after a lengthy battle with cancer. My present plans are to stay in Laguna Miguel, Califomia (3106 Montesa Dr.), and attempt to improve my golf game."

Trina Weschler has more sad news: "Libby Gray died of cancer last Wednesday (January 30, 1980) and 1 wanted to pass the word along.

Charlie retired in the early 60s and they have lived here ever since. She was a very wonderful person, and her quiet manner was deceptive, for she was a tower of strength—active in politics, town planning, etc. We were all distressed when Gene Hem-y had a stroke at Christmas, (and now the good news); however he's greatly recovered and going back to work soon at the Newport Library. Tom is happy with his Naval Operations Course (he's now called 'Professor Weschler') at the Naval War College. He's chairman of the America's Sail Training Association and involved with the Tall Ships sail from Colombia to Norfolk to Boston. We're flying to Norway, Sweden, and Germany in July to be greeters."

Bob Lawrence sent a card, dated January 16, 1980: "Ginny and 1 are enroute to the Panama

the eaves. Meanwhile, in D.C., Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas the white, fluffy stuff—which had held off during 1979—thrice plastered the landscape in January, in Febmary, and again in March. Norfolk received more snow than New Hampshire! Somebody out there hasn't been saying his prayers. (Reverends Heath and Libbey please note.)

Between snowstorms, the local 2ndWednesday-of-the-Month Lunch Bunch met at Fort Myer O'Club on 13 Febmary wifli George KronmiUer as guest speaker. George more than met the high standards set by previous speakers. His discussion ranged over the field of present day difficulties in our import-export policies through the future potential of underseas exploration. Frankly, George demonstrated a wider grasp of the world political and economic situation than we have observed thus far in our presidential candidates. Other Classmates present included Ace Barton, Jack Bowell, Bill Carpenter, Paul Desmond, Ted Hill, Gene Lamiman, Tad Lothrop, Ed Muhlenfeld, Jack Newbould, Neil Rogers, Bill Scott, Harv Seim, Ed Sledge, Tom Taylor and Winters.

The evening before, Mike Hanley hosted an apres le jeu bar and chile con queso affair at the same Fort Myer O'Club following the 12 Febmary Navy-George Washington basketball batfle. Brass from USNA, Classmates, a score or more midshipmen, and over a hundred other interested friends of the Academy participated in the highly successful Hanley/Class of '40sponsored event. Enthusiasm of this sort, sponsored by Academy Alumni, is a definite boost for the Navy's athletic and recmitment programs. Let us have more of this from our fabulous Forty fellows—and from ALL the other Classes!

Now, what really brightens this old heart in the second half of its century on earth, besides the many good deeds of the likes of Mike Hanley et al, is to pick up a local paper and read a little headline, "Naval Academy Gets New Yacht." And this, my friends, is not just any little old yacht—but the 47.9-feet sloop Miss

Canal (aboard the ROYAL VIKING STAR). We'll

Sparkman and Stephens and built of fiberglass in Finland by Nautor in 1972. And it is a WINNER! I predict CONSTELLATION will win the next Bermuda. She is a sister ship of the yacht INSURGENTS (remember the batfle be-

visit daughter and grandson at Horseshoe Bay, Texas, before returning home (to Lompoc California) exacfly one month from today."

Fred Clarke reports that 16 '39 couples have already signed up for the seven-day '39 cmise out of San Juan in late November— and more than 25 couples are expected: Freddy also hears that 75 people have signed up for the Pajaro Dunes, Monterey, festivities starting 6 June with five '39ers coming from the East Coast.

40 Sec'y, Cdr. Leigh Winters, USN (Ret.) 701 S. 23rd St., Ariington, VA 22202 Percent Members: 77 Washington Report TGIFM! Thank God it's Finally May!—as we are reading this issue of Shipmate. Perhaps it's part of the process of aging, but it did seem as though the pre-Spring part of 1980 dealt mortal blows to the Western and Southeastern parts of these United States. Out in California—the rains came, and came and came . . . and basements were wet even unto

WICK, renamed CONSTELLATION, designed by

tween CONSTELLATION-INSURGENTE off the

West Indies on 9 Febmary 1799?), which is already sailing under Academy colors. And who is the donor? "Miss Wick's" husband, our Classmate Tad Stanwick. Thank you. Tad. Thank you, Wick. Y'know—this is one helluva class!

Thanks to a local mate, John Montgomery, a clipping from the II Febmary A via/(o« Week & Space Technology magazine: "Vernon E. Teig named vice president-product support for McDonnell Aircraft Co., a division of McDonnell Douglas Corp., St. Louis . . . " Congratulations, Vem! The Castine Caper In case it has slipped your schedule . . . it's Castine time again . . . Marguerite and Ted Rodgers continue to extend their annual invitation for the July 4th fortnight to Classmates and friends. This year will be THE TENTH REUNION of the Class of '40 in Castine, Maine! The man to contact is LCdr. Len Tyler, special programs, Maine Maritime Academy.

Castine ME 04421 (tel.: 207/326-4311). And the bare-bones cost for having a lovely room and 65

bath overiooking Penobscot Bay per couple is $20/night; $130/week! The lodging fee entifles each individual to the use of all recreational facilities and small boats, and linens, blankets, towels, and daily maid service are also provided. Children can be accommodated by sharirig a room with their parents at no charge provided they supply their own cots or sleeping bags. Children having an adjoining room and sharing their parents' bath will be charged $4/ day/child. (This applies to grandchWdren, also . . . ) In-house meals: $5.50, $3.50 and $2.25.

Children about half price. Date: 29 June-11 July.

A special note from Ted: " . . . the ship (S.S. MAINE) will be at Bar Harbor the 27th and 28th, and sail for Castine on the 29th. If any Classmates and wives would like a day of sea duty, I'll be pleased to have them as my guests for the 7-hour scheduled cmise from Bar Harbor to Castine on June 29th. They should plan to check in to Casflne on the 28th (Len Tyler will accommodate them) so that they can get over to Bar Harbor by 0800 on the 29th . . . " Now, where else have you had an offer like that! Ted went on to complain ". . . We still (as of 7 Febmary) haven't had a decent snow, and overall the weather has been excellent . . . " Now—will one of you visitors from the Carolinas bring Ted a bucket of snow . . . or perhaps a hogshead of water from Califomia??

Can't pass on without quoting a fund-raising paragraph from the annual "The Admiral's Log" . . . " . . . To date, the foundations, Maine business leaders, alumni, the State, members of the boards of tmstees and visitors, maritime industry and employees of the Academy have pledged or given $1,471,322 or 46% of our $3.2 million dollar goal. Donors of $25,000 or more are being recognized by the naming of a room in the Center for Advanced Maritime Studies. Also, there is still an opportunity for a person capable of making a large gift to have a major facility named in his or her honor . . . " Admiral Ted highlights his 'Log' with the optimistic report; " . . . I am very happy to report that the job ouflook for the Class of 1980 continues to look great with the expectation that we will again have a 100% placement record . . . " News from Here and There Up in Batavia, New York, Sid Sherwin, who heads up an insurance firm founded by his family in 1867, reports on the pleasures of life in the Northeast: " . . . From my office I can walk anywhere in ten minutes—Batavia is a city of 17,000 people—and the Batavia Club is right across the street, as is the YMCA. It is cold in the Winter (How cold, Sidney?), but there is cross-country skiing, and a walk in the countryside is minutes away all year round.

We have a good golf course, and we are forty minutes from Buffalo or Rochester airport, and two hours from Toronto, which is a fascinating city—totally unlike the Toronto you may remember from our '39 cmise. It is modem, upto-date, filled with shopping opportunities, art music and theatre . . . " Jane and Sid will be at the Annapolis Howard Johnson's for Homecoming '80.

From snow-covered Charieston Heights in South Carolina, Stormy Kari writes: "". . .

Betty and I will be at the 40th Reunion (Annapolis Hilton)-the Russ Moons and we will fly to D C. and rent a car for the all-too-short weekend We will have to play hookey from school on Friday (or feign illness) in order to make the Friday nite cocktails and dinner (?) in 66

and again a boarding officer on a Japanese Red Cross ship near the end of WW II. I am heckling him for the story which I would hope to write up for Shipmate . . . We now have five granddaughters, no grandsons, which could be considered a commentary on my sons who both tumed into lawyers . . . WaUy Utiey and Helyn visited us a few weeks ago (January) and we greafly enjoyed their all-too-short stay . . . we are planning to join up with Caroline and BiUy Lewis and try to make Bloody (Tsk, tsk,—it's "Ted" now, Cary . . . ) Rodgers' Castine bash—that is, if he'll have us. Billy is the department store magnate of Ruston, Louisiana (the home town of Grambling, which should locate it for football fans . . . ) . . . " Dick Heath, Sid Sherwin, ??, Goody Keating

The L. Pat Gray Defense Fund Pat is still hanging in there. Trial still being postponed. Funds still needed and prayerfully solicited: P.O. BOX 481, Waterford CT 06385.

Please help as much as you can. Thank you.

The Secretary's Corner BiU Morton writes to the Class following the death of his wife in January: "". . . It was warming to see . . . our Classmates at the service for Willis . . . (She) had radiation and an operation in 1977. We thought we had beaten it. But it came back in the Fall of last year and took her fairly quickly . . . please thank the Class for the beautiful spray of . . . mums

Mary Carpenter, Larry Lockett, Betty Rader, Mary Plummer, Rex Rader, ??

Thanks to D'Arcy and Ned Bent—Here are some of those photos they saved from the 20th reunion. Let us know if you find any errors or omissions in identification. * * * ONLY FORTY IS 4.0! * * *

41 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Victor Delano, USN (Ret.) 7111 Pyle Rd., Bethesda MD 20034 Percent Members: 69

Jake Plummer, Bill Keating, Jess Worley

Jean Montgomery, Jean Harris, Ash Little, Ruth Caspari, Bob Harris the hall. (Russ and I are still teaching at Trident Tech College) . . . " And from Georgia, Gary HaU writes: "". . .

Dorthe and I visited Claudia and Bob White in New Hampshire in October ('79). It's the furthest North I've ever been except while at sea. Enjoyed it tremendously and didn't freeze to death as I expected. (Sec. note: not until Cary retumed to SC!) Bob was the boarding officer on a German ship at the start of WW II,

The Febmary parties in Florida and California seem to have been great successes. Since Dave Armstrong's report reached me first, here it is: ""I'm not absolutely certain that I was^inally and solely designated to do this—there was some slight confusion. There are no superiors among peers! The annual Florida bash celebrating the anniversary of the Class of '41 graduation was held in Clearwater on 9 and 10 Febmary. This affair gets bigger every year.

This year saw a new record of 53 Classmates and wives in attendance. In addition to the Florida contingent, there were five couples from the D.C. area, two from Annapolis, three from Mississippi, and one from Alabama. ""The Saturday night festivities were held at the Clearwater Yacht Club, arrangements made by the Clearwater-Largo group. There were cocktails and a delicious buffet dinner in pleasant surroundings. "'After an untypical cold, rainy Saturday night and Sunday moming, the sun came out just in time for the bmnch at Jane and Frank Price's lovely Clearwater home. Almost everyone who was present for the Saturday night doings made it to the bmnch. Bloody Marys, etc., and a fine buffet (the egg dish was superb) were served up courtesy of the Clearwater-Largo guys and gals. The previous evening's chatter picked up where it left off as we all relaxed on the Prices' flower be-decked pool deck.

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Milt Silverman with Carole Anne, then Chuck Merdinger and Bob Thomas

Charlie Carr and Willie Hunt, then Jack Bennett, Claire and Paul Gray

Rosemary Kelley. Dave Byrd, Dave Benham, then Larry Benham. Jeanne Byrd. Archie Kelley

Anne Cooper and Lyson Hartmann, then Dave Byrd, Bob Thomas and Willie Hunt

Hutch Cooper and Fran Steen's cousin, Sam Preston, then Scotty Dwire, Art Mclntyre, Ken Steen (Jim Lynch in back) "Some of our stalwarts braved the Saturday aftemoon wind to play golf, taking advantage of arrangements made by the host contingent.

There were no official results posted, but I am reliably informed that Enders Huey walked off with most of the money and that Jack BeardaU's score was in three figures.

"Next year's get-together is planned for Jacksonville. The host group will try to publish some information early on the arrangements so that Classmates who would like a short Florida vacation in Febmary can plan to attend. Pete Vail seemed a litfle unhappy when none of us Floridians professed to know where Jax is located. We'll all find out by next Febmary, you can be sure!"

Dave's glowing report has been confirmed by the Dohertys and Tebos, who came from this area just for the event. They thoroughly Shipmate, May 1980

enjoyed the whole week end. Dave and John both said that they saw several cameras in action, including Jack's, so next month there should be some pictures.

Ken Steen sent in a magnificent collection of pictures from California's 39th Anniversary party, and as many as possible will appear with this article. Ken is one of my most reliable picture providers and we all owe him thanks for his excellent job. He wrote that the party took place 9 Febmary at the Admiral Kidd Club in San Diego. He assured me that WiUie DeVenter will give me a complete account. In the meantime, according to Ken, "Veda and Willie, who do a great job keeping track of all our Classmates in the CA/AZ/NM area, were a few minutes tardy because their son Hans (7) had wandered off on his bike at about the time they were going to leave for the party.

Veda DeVenter, Peg Mclntyre, Marge Wilmarth and Gene "Bob Celustka played the piano with some electronic accompaniment. Some of us beseeched him not to blow out our eardmms (those who still have some). He complied and made some beautiful music accompanied by some ardent singers. A ball was had by all and it didn't rain that day! The Lenzes were babysitting their grandchildren in Seattle, and the Rubels were baby-sitting their grandchildren here. The Wolfes were in Mexico, and the Morrisons were scheduled to come but were doing something with a goldmine in Arizona."

Now those tidbits should whet your appetite for Willie's detailed report which I am sure is on the way.

In connection with our sponsorship of the 2nd Company Wardroom at the Naval Academy, Midn. John D. Zimmerman, the wardroom president, wrote our Class the following letter: "Thank you for your generous donation of $500 to your class project, the Second Company Wardroom. The money has been put to good use in its complete renovation. We are still looking for some items to add some 'atmosphere' to the Wardroom and would sincerely appreciate any plaques or mementos that you might have packed away in your attics or garages.

"While looking through the Wardroom inventory 1 came across two Class of 1941 Lucky Bags. I'm sure that in the 38 years since your graduation some of you may have lost your Lucky Bag and would like to replace it. We would like to offer one of our '41 Lucky Bags to you as a token of our appreciation. Anyone interested can contact me at: Midn. 1/c John D. Zimmerman, Second Company Wardroom President, U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis MD 21402.

"On behalf of the entire Second Company. I would again like to thank the Class of '41 for its generous donation, and I'd like to extend an invitation to each and everyone of you to stop in and see their class project anytime you're in the area."

A nice letter indeed, so look in your garages and attics for something that would be appropriate. One suggestion has been to provide a picture of every flag officer in the Class. They all have lots of pictures of themselves, but you all know what a lazy bunch they are, so call a Classmate flag officer you know and make him send a picture to Midshipman Zimmerman. If he's really lazy, or even shy, get the picture yourself and send it in.

Ralph Boyer has been relocated and now works at West Coast Pacific Real Estate, 34118 Coast Highway, Dana Point CA 92629. For your directories, Ginnie and Ralph live at 32511 Seven Seas Drive, Laguna Niquel CA 92677, phone 714/661-3335. Be sure to insert Ginnie's name where it belongs.

Don't forget about the 26 June coed party in Washington at the Flagship, if you can arrange to be in town, and. in the meantime, get a '41 flag officer's picture for the Wardroom!

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42 Sec'y, R. S. Day, CLU P.O. Box 6042 Shirlington Station, Ariington, VA 22206 Percent Members: 79 What's the Dope We find the Washington group between our April 12th Spring Festival and the annual Father's Day piknik at Gunston Hall, courtesy of Jeanne and Walt Price. After some of the freak snowstorms we experienced from Washington down through Tidewater, where the Army and National Guard used tanks to open the roads in parts of Virginia Beach, it is to be hoped that Spring is here to stay. Of course one of the charms of the Gunston Hall estate is the flexibility of the facilities and their ability to make us welcome regardless of the weather.

Handy Cruser wrote to remind us that Ed Hannon, '43, who died in February, had roomed with Handy and Bob Palmer during Plebe Summer. Connie and Handy were among those who crowded the 25-yard line of last year's Oyster Bowl in Norfolk, only to find that all of the scoring was being done at the other end of the field. Fortunately, Mary and BiU Vose collected a goodly cross-section of celebrating Alumni at their home in Virginia Beach, so at least the Cmsers had a chance to hear about the game. Handy also wanted me to know that they were indeed at our '79 Homecoming and will be at the gala this year.

He asked that I mention this in the hope that with enough lead time, Dorris and Horace McNeal and Foo and Hank Fields might make the 40th.

Peggy and Chief Tofalo got away from the snowdrifts of early February to spend a week in Hawaii and to visit with son, Mike, who is pursuing his MBA at UCLA's Graduate School of Management after 7 years as a nuclear submarine officer. Chief visited the Polynesian Cultural Center and was told that his name seems to be Samoan; a language in which TALOFA means the same as ALOHA. Ed Gallagher's letter crossed with the Chiefs, inasmuch as both were involved in celebrating Carmen and Ed's 35th wedding anniversary.

The Tofalos stayed with Millie Halvorson and had a chance to see Barbara and Dick SewaU and AInora and Charlie Bishop. Joe Tofalo is surviving plebe year in great shape and we expect to see the family at the Kent State and Villanova games.

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Ed provided the details of the '42 West Coast Army-Navy frolic at THE GOOD LIFE. That's the San Diego Country Estates Villa put together by Carmen and Ed. AInora Bishop won the pre-game golf tournament and the pre-game tennis match was taken by Ed and Charlie Bishop. The night before a warm-up party included Mary and Bill Arthur, AInora and Charlie Bishop, Millie Halvorson, Dottie Wiggins and the Gallaghers. The game was played out before 37 Classmates and spouses.

Max Munk flew over in his Cessna from Burbank, where Marge remained to mind the real-estate store. Regrets were sent by Wes and Pat Gebert from Hawaii, Doug and Edith Powell from Visalia, and Don and Mary Henning from Wellington, Nevada. Joining the choristers from the night before were Kay and Bob Maynard, Jeannie and Art Burke, Louise and Dick Glaeser, Bill Betzer, Dot and Maino Des Granges, Anne and Gene Farrell, Jo and Bob Hanson, Sue and Bob Mills, Mary Lee and Bill Morgan, Jim Salassi, Barb and Dick Sewall, Vannie and Sturge Sturgis, Gladys and Bud Weldon, Grace and Hank Woessner, and Shirley and Bill Johnson ('48A). Anne and Gene FarreU and Mary and BiU Arthur took a break from "On Navy Blue and Gold" to show off their '42 license plates.

The West Coast Sweetheart Ball, an annual event, was postponed from Valentine's Day in favor of a St. Patrick's Day brouhaha at the Long Beach Navy Club. Seems the Queen of Hearts, Vannie Sturgis, required some hip surgery. The Gallaghers' youngest daughter, Mary, graduates from Marymount College at Tarry town in May, so they may pop up anywhere from Tarrytown to deep North Carolina, where oldest daughter, Pamela, lives.

Mary and Don Henning are at PO Box 73, Wellington NV 89444, a rural agricultural community not too far away from Lake Tahoe, Reno and Carson City. They are building on a

5-acre spread and thoroughly enjoying the change in life-style.

Brief note from Buck Catlin reminding me that he is still holding the fort teaching electronics at Fullerton College, California.

Doesn't feel retirement makes any sense when he can continue working and teaching young men. Many go into the Navy where they move upward quite smartly.

Phil Cole, Jake Glick, Bill Kurtz, and Peggy and Harold Rice, joined me at the Febmary Washington Alumni Chapter luncheon when Tom Moorer spoke to 175 alumni and wives.

His was a vigorous and thought-provoking message covering the '80s, the Decade of Despair. Made one appreciate that we have Hal Shear as CINC SOUTH. Incidentally, Hal is our Bull Submariner who enjoys a friendly advisory role opposite Swabbo Rawson and his Submarine Veterans of WWII.

43 Sec'y, Capt. William T. Peach, III, (SC)USN (Ret.), 647 Kaimalino St., Kaliua, HI 96734 Corr. Sec'y, Cdr. Perry HaU USN (Ret.) 18913 Muncaster Rd., Derwood MD 20855 Percent Members: 68 Barney Rapp reports about a recent impromptu affair at the Rapp house in Virginia Beach which resulted from a visit by Maxine and Bert Thompsom to their daughter and sonin-law's home, Cindy and Bill Lieke (Bill is in aviation at NAS Norfolk). Barney called all the Classmates in the local area and the following gathering was a result; Harry and Dee Clark, Nancy Davis, Bob and Polly Gillock, Gal and Helen Galvani, Larry and Jean Heyworth, Jack Jackson with Betty Youngblood, John Tazewell, Waco and Angela Walker, Dick and Dottie Willis.

Barney and Cathy are looking forward to this Summer in Maine, as has become their schedule, at a lake about 20 miles east of Augusta. They plan to see Lib and Harold SoUenberger who live in Bmnswick.

The annual Sweetheart Luncheon of the Washington contingent was held Febmary 27 in a local Chinese restaurant. The affair was a tremendous success due to the efforts of La Nelle Detweiler. By coincidence, our attendence for the last two years has been 43. This year it was 43, but a last-minute cancellation dropped the number attending to 41. Those enjoying the Chinese gourmet food and celebration of this annual affair were: Jim and Mary Aller, Bob and Jane Beaver, Wes and Goe Burnett, Bud Carter and daughter Wesley, Cliff and Phyllis Cates, Bob and Jean Dampier, Det and La Nelle Detweiler, John and Joan

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Gano, Bob and Hazel Greenwood, Perry and Pat Hall, Hal and Lois Kauffman, Buck and Jane Rawls, George and Millie Ringenberg, Merrill and Kay Sappington, John and Millie Shepard, Dave and Annette Shonerd. Ves and Mary Vesconi, Jacque White, Jim and Mariella Oliver, George and Jean Gikovic, George and Sally Cornelius.

The candid camera managed to record some of the highlights: Dave Shonerd receiving the door prize from LaNelle DeUveiller, Bud Carter with daughter Wesley, Kauffmans with Bud Carter and Merrill Sappington, the Ringenbergs with Bob Greenwood, Jacque White and DetweiUer. A hot flash from Phil Hambsch indicates that he has been selected for the position of logistic support analyst with the newly formed ILS department of Kaiser Electronics in San Jose, Califomia. Kaiser is the designer and sole manufacturer of the pilot cockpit video display which permit him to see for at least twenty miles, regardless of light or weather condifions. The display can be flashed on the windscreen or shown internally, by symbols or with terrain features. It is rapidly being adapted for use in all U. S. fighter aircraft and is already installed in the A-6 and the A-10. and is programmed for the F-18 Homet. the Navy fighter.

Phil's new address is c/o M. E. Field. 1561 Samedra. Sunnyvale CA 94087. tel. 408/7333746. for the moment, future changes to be passed along as available.

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44 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: 69 '44 Memorial Project Report You should have received recenfly a letter from Rojo Adamson, the Chairman of our '44 Memorial Committee, with a descriptive brochure of the '44 Memorial project. By now, we expect the Secretary of the Navy, Edward Hidalgo, will have approved our $60,000 memorial gift project for Lejeune Hall. As of the middle of March, our fund has reached approximately the $17,000 mark. BUI Bennett has joined the committee as assistant to Rojo, Vince Cassani and Randy King are working with the USNA architects and engineers, and Charlie Becker and Ken Smith are keeping track of the continuing contributions received by the Alumni Association. The Annual Alumni Association Fund Campaign is underway now. Please make your check out to the USNA Alumni Association and mark it clearly for the '"44 Memorial Fund." Also, do not forget to ascertain if the company you work for has a "Matching Fund Program." If so, they will match your contribution. Give each year through '83!

Mail Bag Roy Cowdrey reported that after some effort, he has located his old roommate, Warren (Monty) Montgomery. Monty has spent the years since resigning in 1946 in the coal mining machinery business where he worked his way up from the field to the front office. In the process, he designed and developed new mining machinery, and in 1978 founded his own company, Montgomery Mining Machinery Manufacturing Company, Ltd., of Damascus, Virginia. With the new national priorities on coal, Monty's company should do well. Roy further reports that Monty married his wife, Dottie, in 1968, and they live very happily in Emory, Virginia. Monty sends his regards to all hands, which we are happy to pass on to all his old friends, thanks to Roy Cowdrey.

Our Man in State Moves Up Thanks to Dick Bowe for great news conceming Charlie Flowerree, on whom we reported in the March issue this year. The following was a release by the Office of the White House Press Secretary on January 24, 1980: "The President today announced that he will nominate Charies C. Flowerree, of Arlington, Virginia, for the rank of ambassador while he serves as U.S. representative to the Committee on Disarmament, replacing Adrian S. Fisher.

"Flowerree was nominated for this position eariier this year. He was previously chief of the Intemational Relations Division at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA).

"He was bom April 20, 1921, in BalUmore, Maryland. He received a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1943 to 1958.

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1958, and served in Saigon, Kinshasa, London, and at the State Department. From 1974 to 1975 he was deputy director of the Office of Disarmament and Arms Control at the State Department, and from 1975 to 1976 he was director of the Office of Intemational Security Policy.

"From 1976 to 1977 Flowerree was special assistant to the director of the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs at State. From 1977 to 1979 he was chief of the Intemational Relations Division at ACDA. Flowerree was subsequently approved by the Senate for this appointment. Flowerree will also serve as a U.S. Representative to the First Committee (Disarmament and Security Matters) of the U.N. General Assembly and head of the U.S. delegation to the U.S.-Soviet negotiations on chemical weapons."

and wives, and many other friends at the Navy Chapel in Litfle Creek, Virginia. Jake, who had grown so close to Jack during their many private celebrations of faith and hours of conversation, paid the ultimate tribute when he said that Jack lived this life nobly, loving God, his family, the Navy, and his friends.

Mary Jane will be visiting her daughter, Ruth, and grandchildren on the West Coast followed by a visit to Hong Kong with her daughter, Lucy, and grandchildren there. Following her trip, she will be at home in Virginia Beach near the home of her son, John, his wife, and children.

Our Condolences All the many friends of Nancy and Hank Barbour extend their heartfelt sympathy to them for the untimely loss on 11 Febmary of their daughter, Janet Barbour Simons, and grandson, John Peyton Simons, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

We, who know the ways of the sea, extend our sympathy to Dick Slaymaker, whose fisherman son, Richard Slaymaker, Jr., was lost overboard from the fishing trawler, BETTY D, out of Norfolk, Virginia, in heavy weather on 23 January.

45 Bill Flanagan's retirement Late Recognition As you may remember, RAdm. BUI Flanagan retired from active duty in the Summer of 1978. Jake Laboon and your secretary were the only Classmates present when he was relieved as Commander, Naval Forces Caribbean, at Roosevelt Road, P.R. A picture made at the reception following the ceremony never arrived for publication because of a foul-up. Recently, I obtained a print of the picture from Bill and it is herewith published belatedly.

From left to right: Whidden, June Flanagan (Bill's wife). Bill, and Jake Laboon. June and Bill now reside in splendid retirement at Virginia Beach, Virginia.

A Special Tribute The legacy left by Jack Harkins, when he quiefly passed away in the presence of his son, John, at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital on 14 February, is one of great character and substance. Seldom has anyone given so much of himself to his family, friends, and Classmates and lived to receive so much in retum. In the words of Bob Apple, "The tremendous loyalty, devotion, and love of his family and friends gave Jack a degree of comfort and support in his last year that is very rare. But Jack gave, in tum, as much spiritual strength as he received.

During the last year. Father Jake Laboon, our Classmate, came regularly on Sundays to say Mass in Jack's home. Also, there was a constant stream of Classmates and friends dropping by to chat and swap sea stories with Jack and his wife, Mary Jane. They went away uplifted by his great courage, humor, and faith."

Knowing Jack so well, I am certain that he and Mary Jane would want his funeral reported as a reunion with those he lovedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and that is the way it was.

Jake Laboon conducted the funeral Mass in the presence of the family, forty Classmates

Sec'y., Mr. Phil Erickson 6313 Golf Course Square Alexandria VA 22307 (703) 765-0828 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Dutch Schuiz USN (Ret.) 5100 26th St. N., Ariington VA 22207 (703) 536-7156 Percent Members: 59 Are you up to date on the Association of the Class of 1945 activities, plans and programs for the immediate future? Did you receive your copy of the Association's Febmary 1980 newsletter on or about 8 March? If not, better send me a quick card (with some news) and we will have a copy in the mail for you. The reason for the concem is that since the Alumni Association does all our bulk mailing, the envelope containing the Febmary newsletter had an Alumni Association return address. In the past, some Classmates have been known to circular file such envelopes. But your officers are hard at work to obtain a postal permit for the Association, and it is expected that the next newsletter will be properly identified as to originator.

What can we say about the Annual Valentine Party at the Army/Navy Country Club other than it was really super! Ralph SteU and BiU McCulloch made the arrangements, Phil Erickson sent out the publicity, and Dick Fay scooped in the money (and made a profit) . . . all ably assisted by their spouses. One unexpected but welcome member of the group of 91 classmates and wives was Ben Young of Dallas. Other guests were Bee Hodsdon, Joan Holzbauer, Jean Losure and Sarah Midgett.

And, it was indeed a welcome sight to see Joy and Red Colegrove enjoying the general hospitality. Marine Charlie Mize, won the door prize which was presented by Marine McCulloch amid a few pointed remarks. Thanks a bunch to Ed White for the fine black and white fotos of the event.

It is my sad duty to report the death of Classmate Doc Cranney, 58, on 21 Febraary 1980 at Kaiser Hospital in Santa Clara, Shipmate, May 1980

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Califomia, from complications resulting from cancer. Heartfelt condolences from the Class go to Bette and the family at 1191 Janice Drive, Santa Clara CA 95050. It is only fitting that Ben Young should have prepared the obituary to be found in the "Last Call" section of this

Pensacola '79. Army-Navy Game Hank Anson claims a 50% growth in the local Pensacola '45 Chapter this past year with the addition of Rita and BiU McLaughUn and Marjorie and Claude Alexander. His color foto shows Duffy and Hank Anson, Sally Axene and Rita McLaughlin in the first row; Billie Chappell. Lil Johnson. Deane Axene and Bill McLaughlin in the second, with Gerry Johnson and John ChappeU holding up the chairs in the rear.

I've purposely saved the following excerpt from Jeanne and Ace Lewis' Christmas 1979 newsletter until now. "The scene: A pleasant day in the Los Angeles suburb of Hacienda Heights in the beautiful San Gabriel Valley of Southern California. The date: May 7.

1979—Gas lines are the news on TV and in the papers, but WHAT'S THIS? A gasoline transfer just outside a garage in that LA suburb, and—WHOOSH, you're on TV. You've Shipmate, May 1980

guessed it! Middle son, Mark, a Navy-trained expert in fire fighting, somehow manages to charbroil his mother's new Seville and gut the garage. With due respect, it should also be recorded that his Navy training also saved the house. For those of you contemplating a 'fire sale" to get rid of that junk in the garage— forget it!" If you recall a previous column, it was Ace who managed to catch the Legionnaires Disease in sunny Califomia in '78 and to survive, but not without some anxious moments. All's well now.

Christmas '79 in the British Virgins Rita and Cliff Bermann spent Christmas '79 sailing and snorkeling in the perfect waters off the British Virgin Islands with Connie and Bob Connor "42. Bob is currently DepAstSecNav. Next year, you can bet that Rita and Cliff will be sailing their own Pearson-Vangard 33, SENORITA in those waters.

A warm note from Mrs. Thomas C. Lynch thanks the Class for our contribution to the Memorial Fund in Tom's memory. She writes, "1 think that as each year passed. Tom felt a closer tie to the Academy and his Classmates . . . By all means. 1 want to retain contact with the Class through Shipmate and the newsletters . . . " Florence can be reached at 301 Upper Broadway. Decorah IA 52101.

Carl Ferguson reports that they have just bought a 40-acre almond and peach ranch near Modesto. He adds, "Hope to build a house there and retire in four years. We'll keep our Oakland townhouse and split our time. Our two sons and two daughters and families are all setfled in Califomia along with three grandchildren. Guess that means we'll never get back to Missouri."

Perry Ferryman enclosed an editorial from the 13 Febmary Tampa Tribune commending Hugh Culbreath, president of Tampa Electric Company, for his long record of community service culminating in his being named as Tampa's Ciuzen of the Year. Currenfly, Hugh is chairman of the drive to build a performing arts center in Tampa. And from Perry, who didn't make the 35th reunion because he was in the middle of completing his new home. ""After a year as general contractor, carpenter, roofer, insulator, cement finisher, painter, wallpaperer, landscaperer, etc., 1 will rest upon my labors and look forward to our 40th."

From 1108 Hanover Ave., Norfolk VA 23508, George Hecker writes to the Class: ""Your floral expression of sympathy was an extremely welcome and comforting sight when our little band arrived at the site in Ariington.

It meant all the more for our having had to miss the 35th . . . " Rejects from the Tonight Show: "I never kiss, I never neck, I never say Hell, I never say heck, I never flirt. I never gossip or spread the dirt. I have no sex, no funny tricks, but what the Hell, I'm only six." . . . The Green Bowler tips to the substantial scoreboard gifts from Thad Taylor and Jim Kelley, the latter contribution in memory of Tom Lynch . . .

Lila and Ed Conklin have moved to 701 South Main Street, Athens PA 18810, where Ed has accepted a call to be rector of Trinity Episcopal Church and chaplain of Episcopal patients. Packer Memorial Hospital . . . Phil Erickson sent me the label from a bottle of Drambuie which has the inscription, "A link with the '45." Have you ever noticed? . . . A note to our widows: Don't let your ID card lapse! It's like going back to ground zero to get another . . . Jean Losure has been elected president of the National Board of the Medical College of Pennsylvania. The Board is composed of 170 prominent women and men representing 37 states . . . . Bill Traynor is the new president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Naval Academy Alumni Association . . . Ens. Greg Baka '79 (omnes viri) made a contribution to the '45 Gift Fund and added, ""1 tmst it will be as successful as your navigation aide, and hope that our Class can execute a similar project some day." . . . RAdm. Alan B. Shephard, Jr. USN (Ret.) was guest speaker at the 2 April Navy Football banquet in Dahlgren Hall . . . Alice and Breck Kinnear's daughter Susan presented them with their first grandchild, Rachael, on 15 Febmary 1980 . . . Dick Fay's quote of the month, "Let's hope like hell that the Carter 'balanced budget' includes our pensions!!"

46 Sec'y, Mr. C. W. Kennelly II 7911 Sleaford PI., Bethesda, MD 20014 Corr. Sec'y, Capt. C. V. WUhoit Jr, USNR (Ret.) 1103 Santa Rufina Ct. Solana Beach CA 92075 Percent Members: 61 71

47 Sec'y Cdr. H. G. Heininger, Jr. USN (Ret.) 4554 Lawnvale Dr., Gainesville VA 22065 Percent Members: 64 The '47 STEW I doubt that we will ever overtake '34 in the number of flag rank stars, but we keep gaining on them. Hap Deakin '34 wrote in November 1977 that '34 had 92. By the time you read this, '47 will total 82. Unfortunately, unless DoD recalls a lot of '47 to active duty or restores the five star rank, the maximum that we can reach will be 86.

land. Their new address is 1263 Creekford TX 77478. Their good friend John Prehn, our Veep, sent me a clipping about the annual Navy football banquet to be held on 2 April.

Guest speaker at the banquet that will honor the 1979 Navy team will be former astronaut, Alan Shepard '45. Also being honored at the fete will be former All-Americans Don Whitmire and Dick Duden. Don Whitmire told me that he had a ball while being installed in the State of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame along with Hank Aaron, Leroy Jordan, Bobby Bragan, and Swede Kendall. Don stopped to see Bobby Tom Jenkins in Birmingham. He says that Bobby Tom is slighfly over his playing weight, but is fine otherwise. Don is going to play in the Bear Bryant golf toumament in Palm Springs in April. (What a hard life you lead, Don.)

Don Adams, Classmate #2 of the month Bill Crowe, Classmate #1 of the month Our latest promotion and newest star goes to BiU Crowe, who will be promoted to admiral from his present rank of vice admiral when he relieves Adm. Harold E. Shear '42 as Commander in Chief, Allied Forces, Southern Europe. In the last column I reported that Shirley and Bill were headed for London where Bill was to be CINCUSNAVEUR. Instead they are heading for Naples. Congratulations.

Taking Bill's biography up where the 25Yearbook leaves off, Bill was promoted to rear admiral in June 1974 and served as deputy director, strategic plans, policy. Nuclear Systems and National Security Affairs Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. From January 1975 to June 1976, he served as director. East Asia and Pacific Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Intemational Security Affairs). On 30 June 1976, he assumed duties as Commander Middle East Force, a command he held until July 1977. On 23 August 1977, he was promoted to vice admiral and assigned as deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Plans, Policy and Operations). In addition he served as the Senior U.S. Navy Military Representative to the United Nations.

His academic achievements include a Master of Arts in Personnel Administration and Training from Stanford University and, following completion of a dissertation enutled "Polifical Roots of the Modern Royal Navy," a Doctorate in Political Science from Pnnceton University. The Crowes' new address will be APO NY NY 09524.

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The Alumni Association sent me a copy of an article from the 27 December Azusa Herald-Glendora Press-Herald Press about Don Adams. He was honored at groundbreaking ceremonies recently by having the city's newest medical office building named after him. The building was officially designated the Donald F. Adams Pavilion. The committee that was looking for the name decided that it should be named for the individual who had done more than any other person to improve the quality of health care for the citizens of the San Gabriel valley, Don Adams.

Don was appointed administrator of Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in September 1971, while the institution was still in the planning phase. He had previously been a member of the ad hoc planning committee, and after his appointment, supervised the construction phase. He has been credited with exercising a key role in its evolvement as one of the outstanding health care facilities in Southern California. He is well known for his community involvement which has included youth, service club, and health-related activities. He has been immediate past president of the Glendora Rotary Club; current Govemor's representative for Rotary District 530; treasurer/ director for After Stroke Resocialization; director. Sentinel Container Corporation; director, Glendora Chamber of Commerce; and past president, H.A.S.S. Co-Op Laundry. He is also a member of the Legislative Review Committee, Hospital Council of Southern California; Citizens Advisory Committee, Glendora Unified School District; the Hospital Council of Southern California/Los Angeles County Medical Association Liaison Committee; Merchants and Manufacturers Association; the Naval Academy Alumni Association;

and the FPH board of directors. (Congratulations, Don.) The '47 Annapolis-Washington area social calendar continues at an active pace. About 30 of us got together at the Class of I940's invitation to attend the Navy-American University basketball game at the Fort Myer gymnasium on 12 Febmary and the no-host reception at the O'Club after the game. And, now mark your calendars for the annual Summer picnic on 22 June with a rain date of 13 July. Betty and I are inviting the Class to our home for a picnic, swimming, and games. We have reserved starting times for four foursomes at the "lush" Evergreen Country Club in the moming. So, if you can make it to the Washington area that week end, please you'all come.

The 17 March issue of the Washington Post Letters to the Editor has a letter from Bob Peniston rebutting Daniel Greenberg's column entitled "Mothballs Aweigh." Mr. Greenberg belittled the battleship. The December 1979 Naval Institute Proceedings has an article authored by Bob enflfled "The Big Ship in My Life." It includes photos of Frances and Bob taken in NEW JERSEY in 1947 and again when he was skipper in 1969. A third photo shows Bob leaving the battleship for the last time at the end of the decommissioning ceremony.

And now for the sad news which 1 have held off as long as possible. Just as I was leaving for the Valentine luncheon, I received a phone call from the Alumni Associafion. However, I was not able to retum it unfil the next day. They informed me that Howard Shimer Unangst died some time in December. I have written the person who notified the Association for additional information, but I have never received a reply. 1 will continue to try to obtain additional information for this column and the "Last Call."

1 also regret to inform you that Richard Lilly died after a heart attack on 28 Febmary in Stuart, Florida. Bernice and Dick set sail from Annapolis to Florida last October after Dick retired as a systems analyst for the State of Maryland. They stopped to see many friends enroute as they proceeded down the East Coast. They barely missed the Oyster Bowl because of the unexpected snowstorm in October. They watched the Army-Navy game in Marineland, and spent the holidays in Stuart.

Then they proceeded through the St. Lucie Canal, Lake Okeechobee, and Oaloosahatchee to Ft. Myers and then up the West Coast to St. Petersburg before starting their retum trip.

Their son, Richard III, and daughter, Barbara, joined them at separate times during the trip.

The "Last Call" about Dick appears in this issue of Shipmate. Six Classmates served as pallbearers. They were Dick Yeatman, Robbie Brady, Jake Finneran, Chuck Darby, Bob Goldsborough, and Jim Farley. Many other Classmates and wives were at the visitation, funeral, and burial. Bernice told me that the trip was the most enjoyable time of their life, and that it was a love boat. Do you remember when Dick won the 100 freestyle and placed second in the 200 free in the men's 50-55 category back in August 1977 in the D.C. Masters Swim Meet? It was Dick's first stab at competitive racing in over 32 years. Dick was a loyal and very active Classmate. He even named his boats. Ex SCIENTIA TRIDENS. EX

was the dinghy, Scientia the sailboat, and Tridens the powerboat. We extend our deepest sympathy to Bernice, Richard III, and Barbara. Bernice thanks the entire Class for the beautiful floral tribute. Contributions in his Shipmate, May 1980

memory may be made to the Chapel Fund at the Naval Academy.

And now for some good news. Kak and Vem Rose have joined the exalted ranks of grandparents. John Lawrence Gmnning was bom to their daughter. Dee Dee, and her husband on 3 March.

John Prehn informs me that his son, Tom, is one of the American athletes invited to a White House meeting on 21 March to discuss the Carter administration's call for a U.S. boycott of this Summer's Olympic Games in Moscow and plans for altemate games. Tom is a member of the cycling team. His father has already cancelled his planned trip to Moscow. At least the second generation of '47 is getting an invitation to the White House.

Mystery photographs of the month And now—the question for the month. Who is related to whom in the above photographs?

1 have mn out of ingredients for The Stew, so until next time—" '47, Best on the Severn," Bo.

48 Secy. Cdr. Sumner K. Moore, USN (Ret.) 308 Mansion Dr., Alexandria, VA 22302 Percent Members: 61 We have had a strange Winter here around the Nation's Capital. It really seems that Spring is almost at hand as this is written in eariy March, although Jane and 1 stepped out of the surf in Hawaii on Saturday, March 1, into 16 degrees and a snow bank at Dulles Intemational Airport on Sunday, March 2. We went out to visit our son Kitt and his wife. Kitt is a Lt. (SC), USN. at NavSupCenPeari and lives in Kaneohe. While there 1 searched for '48s and found Liz and Dick Scott, who have been living in Kailua since 1975. Since Kailua is next door to Kaneohe, it was easy to hop over and visit the Scotts, who invited all of us over for a snort and some chow. Dick is with the Advanced Research Project Agency of DOD. and is hanging on to the Isles with his fingemails. since his tour of duty was supposed to be up a couple of years ago. They now expect to retum to the D.C. area later this year and resume residence in their Potomac, MaryShipmate. May 1980

land house. Oldest son, Peter, is already working in Washington, having finished college.

Daughter, Polly, is headed for New Bem, North Carolina, and youngest, Tim, is finishing high school while starring in football and soccer. Dick and Liz look great—no aging process in action there, obviously. The climate and pleasant life is hard to beat.

Speaking of snow, 1 am wondering how our many pals in the Norfolk area made out when the same snowstorm which hit us here dumped 18 inches on Tidewater. Some of you down there send me your stories and we'll enlighten everybody.

Dutch Lipschutz and family Dutch Lipschutz is still Bala-Cynwyd's best booster. That town with the interesting name is a burb of Philly, and is the location of the Lipschutz Organization's family business. Famous Artists' Studios, graphic arts, fine printing, mailing services, etc. Anyway, Dutch published his annual family picture along with a calendar for his clients, and sent me a copy, which 1 pass along to you so you can see for yourself that he has, as usual, a solid grip on life. Depicted are Dutch, Anne, son Alan, grandson Jeffrey, and daughter Fem. Howie Kay is president of the Seaport '76 Foundation. Ltd., for the second year. Seaport '76 is the supporting organization for the Continental sloop. PROVIDENCE, which built her and operates her out of Newport. Rhode Island. PROVIDENCE was John Paul Jones's first command, and the present vessel is an admirable seagoing replica of the original. She visited Crabtown at Homecoming last Fall so perhaps you saw her there. Seaport is a non-profit organization with over 1,300 members, many of whom are Navy types. It is an interesting effort and worthy of our attention. They are hustling to pay off the cost of building the ship, although she is operating in the black. You can help by becoming a member by writing Howie and sending at least $25. deductible, to Seaport '76, P.O. Box 76, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.

You will receive some interesting documentation on the project, and a catalogue of related goodies you can buy nowhere else, such as belt buckles, earrings, T-shirts, etc. There remains a lot of work to be done internally, and a project for this year is to fit out the captain's cabin as it was when JPJ was skipper.

The O'Donnell's Outcasts met on March II for lunch to confer on the condition of the World. We were eleven in number, and the consensus of opinion was that Mother World is in some kind of pickle. Plenty of opinions were aired, all authoritative and well-expressed, as you can imagine. A pity we couldn't have transposed the meeting to the Oval Office—we might have done the country a lot of good. The lunchers were: Ahem, Ghormley, Knock. Jack Bell. Lyle, Tony Duncan. Grechanik. Holstein.

Keenan. Dick Adams, and your Scribe.

You are all cordially invited to submit copy freely to this reporter—if you're busy, maybe you could get your wife to write—I'd like that.

49 Sec'y, Col. Eugene O. Speckart, USMC (Ret.) P.O. Box 2741, Ariington VA 22202 Percent Members: 64 General Had a call from Tom Gunning a few days ago. He ran into Dick Gober outside the Navy Federal Credit Union in the hallowed halls of the Navy Material Command in Washington.

Dick is still with Raytheon Services in Alburquerque, and was in Washington on business involving an energy project on which he is working. Tom also had some personal news.

He has left RADCOR and is now with Norden in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he is the manager for test and evaluation on the MX Missile project. Even though he is based in Norwalk, Tom expects that he will still spend considerable time in the Washington area.

Tom Kilcline recently was a guest speaker for the political science department at the Naval Academy. Tom, who is the Navy Department's Chief of Legislative Affairs, spoke on "The Art and Practice of Projecting the Navy's Position to Congress."

One last reminder for the Sunday Bmnch at the Officers' Club at the Naval Academy on May 18. The fliers were sent the end of April.

If you haven't received a flier and wish to attend, drop a line to the class mail box or just show up at the Club.

Washington Area The Dark Ages party came off with a bang.

For a change we did not have to wade through snow to get to the party. Hors d'oeuvres, through the courtesy of Barkley Wood, were excellent. We also had a very good combo, but music and dancing lost out to the television with the Olympic hockey players and the ski and skating events. There were a few times when the rooting made one wonder if we weren't watching a game against the Army. We did take a few minutes out from Olympic games, food, and drink to listen while John Barrow presented Betty and Ted Hammer with a plastic whiskey glass. We too were wondering what was going on until John advised us that the plastic glass was symbolic of the crystal set that was on the way in appreciation for Ted and Betty's many years as class treasurer and wife-in-charge of class treasurer, respectively.

We think we have some very good pictures of the ceremony as well as the evening in general, including a panoramic view of the entire gathering taken from atop the television set by our fearless photographer of the month, Kurt Dorenkamp. Our only problem was that Kurt forgot that film must be developed before it can be printed. Therefore we do not have the prints yet. Hopefully we will have them next month. Those immortalized on film during the course of the evening were the Albers, Balches, J. C. Barrows, J. F. Barrows. Marie Bauman. Beckwiths. Bennetts. Benoits.

Boughtons, Capones, Bob Clarks, Coontzes, Dorenkamps. Grabowskys. Hammers. Haskells. Halls. Horans. Inces. Kneales. Koaches, Kremidases, Larsons. Jim Murphys. Noels, Reids, Riegerts. Shanhouses. Shapiros. Speckarts, Swansons. Tolberts. Venables. Walterses, Wamsley. Ward, and the Woods.

The Febmary luncheon was almost a reunion. The crowd was so large that a few of us 73

almost ended up eating in the hall outside the dining room. Those on hand for this memorable event were Wood, J. C. Barrow, Neely, Vossler, Riegert, Gunning, Palazzolo, John Walker, Capone, Dorenkamp, Somerville, Benoit, Boughton, Bartholomew, Benas, Speckart, Albers, Coontz, Hall, Francis, Henderson, Tolbert, Myers, Beckwith, Thomson, Venable, Bennett, Swanson, Stanhouse, and Ghormley. Bob Coontz mentioned that Ed Messere and Jack Murphy are working with him at TECHPLAN Corp. We hope to see them at future luncheons and festivities.

50 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: 634/421-6756 Percent Members: 63 Dick Powell called from Washington to say that all is still on track for the Class of Fifty gift to USNA on the occasion of our thirtieth reunion. Donations are still being accepted and current research indicates that a most appropriate gift would be a bronze directory and sun dial combination that would be placed at the comer of Halsey Field House and where Thompson Stadium used to be, and right near the gate. This has always been an area where visitors entering the Academy always stopped and wondered where everything was that they were supposed to see, and what they were getting for their taxpaying dollars. The enthusiasm is continuing to grow for the project.

Midn. I/C Stephen G. Meade has written a very interesting and knowledgeable letter from Annapolis to point out that more than eleven years have passed since the 17th Company Wardroom was refurbished. (We sponsor the 17th Company.) Presently it is the smallest wardroom in the Brigade, yet because of the crowded living conditions brought about by the large size of the plebe class, they have not been allowed to enlarge it. However, they are now attempUng to repair or replace as they get the wherewithal. Through self help, they have managed to liberate certain materials from classrooms in Melville Hall which was recenfly closed down. Nevertheless, they still need financial aid to obtain additional seating, carpeting, paneling, furniture, blinds and a refrigerator. Individual checks can be sent direct to Midn. Stephen G. Meade, 17th Co. Wardroom Pres. at USNA, 21402. All 122 members of the 17th Co. will appreciate your consideration.

John Brick checks in from Pensacola and the Pensacola News in Febmary cites John for a recent s^pointment. John is a real-estate associate and has now been named to the board of tmstees of Pensacola Junior college by Florida Gov. Graham. John is active in St. Christopher's Episcopal Church, Retired Officer's Association, and the Council on Aging.

John and Carolyn call 890 Woodbine Dr., Pensacola FL 32503 home.

From Long Beach, John Hobnes calls to check on Homecoming dates. He had had an offer to go down to the Caribbean and skipper a 50-foot yawl for a group of local business men and a two-week paid vacation. As it tumed out, it conflicted with Homecoming and John tumed down that attractive offer. John announces that nothing wiU stop him from 74

Homecoming this year and in Saratoga, Califomia, Boats Condon says, "Yes, we will be there for the 30th, and I miss all your comments on the Coughlins."

News from Washington is somewhat limited for, as Roy Highberg reports, he was wrapped up in watching the Winter Oympics on the tube. There were four participants from Roy's home town (Duluth) on the hockey and skijumping teams. The big news from D.C. was the fine turnout for the Sweetheart Class Luncheon at the Flagship on the first Tuesday in Febmary. Present were: Tom Rogers, Fran and John McNally, Margy and Bob Shultz, Velura and Roy Highberg, Thea and Cec Kempf (spent Xmas and New Year's with daughter in France at the U. of Montpellier), Dick Duggan, Molly and Jerry Coleman, Pat and Tom Mulligan, Liz and Jack Ryan, Jeanne and Jim Kennedy (Jeanne recenfly retumed from the Orient, having toured with the Naval Academy Alumni Group which she highly recommends). Art Pleasants, Martine and Jim Allen, Mary and Bob Oliver, Jane and Bill Taylor, Shelley and John Henderson (was happy to see Bill Hardy with his wife this year), Betty and Gene Morin, Sally and Bill Hardy, Fran and Dick Powell, Ann and Roy Snyder (with daughter Stacy spent the Christmas holidays in Denver with their other daughters, Mari and Lisa. Mari is working as a landman for a private oil company in Denver; Lisa works as a biologist for an environmental consultant company in Laramie; Stacy is now a 5th grader at Marymount Junior school), Pat and Kelly Carr (became grandparents in Febmary), Cynthia and Dave Heerwagen (elected chairman of the 50th Anniversary Committee in the year 2000), Bill Famsworth (first Washington luncheon ever; alive and well in Wellesley, Massachusetts), Mary and Milt Schultz (son Milt III married recenfly and daughter Chris graduates from Kansas State in May with microbiology major), Gayle May (Doreen has taken over all media and entertainment communication accounts at C. & P. Telephone Company in suburban Washington), Mary and John Coughlin, Jo and Lee Minnis, (Phyl and Joe Howard were gracious hosts to Lee at North Island for bmnch in Febmary), Barbara and Bill DeMers (have made their last college tuition payment), and Tina Reich along with Bill Simons (no news; but send dues).

Velura sent the following news conceming the activities of the class wives in the Washington area. Molly Coleman made arrangements

for the '50 wives to tour the Terraset School in Reston, Virginia, in January. It is described as a school within a hill and another step in energy conservation; the heating and cooling system combines heat reclaim, solar energy and electricity. The tour was followed by a luncheon at Lake Ann Inn in Reston. Fifteen wives attended, Molly Coleman, Velura Highberg, Gladys Thorn, Sherri Stemer, Pat Mulligan, Nancy Pullar, Jo Minnis, Pat Carr, Fran McNally, Mary Carter, Mary Coughlin, Roz Forbes, Terri Kivlen, Kathy lessen, and Fran Powell.

San Diego has been very quiet, with a certain reluctance on the part of residents to admit that we had significant flooding as a part of the wettest rain season in history. It has played h with the golf as a number of the finer courses were completely wiped out, and bulldozers had to move in and start constmction all over again. Lee Baggett still shoots near scratch golf, but admits that his job at SurfPac severely cuts into his maintaining proficiency.

With gasoline nearing $1.30 a gallon, folks seem more inclined to stay close to home. In Southem California, dining-out costs as well as housing costs are starting to change life styles.

They should have told us about the dangers of trying to live on a fixed income.

51 Sec'y, Cdr. Bruce I. Meader, USN (Ret.) 5609 South 5th St., Arlington, VA 22204 Percent Members: 70 Shortly after midnight on Friday, 14 March, Peter F. I. Hughes died of cancer in Fairfax Hospital. Since word of Pete's condition had reached only a few Classmates in the Washington Area, his death came as a shock to his many friends. A sizeable group of '51ers, including a good number of his fellow submariners, attended memorial services at Ft. Myer on 18 March. His remains were scheduled to be scattered at sea.

Pete was a fine officer and good friend. The outpouring of sincere grief at his passing reflected the high esteem in which he was held by his Classmates. He is sorely missed.

Pete's wife, Carolyn, their son Mark (who came home from duty with the Marine Corps at our embassy in Bmssels), and daughters Nathalie and Catherine can be reached at their home, 1712 Tyvale Court, Vienna VA 22180. I

1951 Azalea fanciers

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join the Class in extending our deepest sympathy to Carolyn and their children.

The 23rd of Febmary saw the largest assemblage of Classmates and their ladies for a winter dinner-dance in over ten years.

Seventy-seven people signed up, but flie flu took its toll as both Bob Swart and Guy Shaffer had to cancel at the last moment.

Last Spring, Clair and Ward DeGroot hosted a garden party in the midst of their justifiably famous azaleas. The setting was almost eclipsed (but not quite) by the brilliance of the guests which included a number of the Class of '51. Alas, the accompanying photo cannot be reproduced in color. The backdrop of azaleas included every color and hue known to horticulture. And Ward's pink jacket, baby blue slacks and white shoes were pretty dazzling, too!

If you haven't responded to the mailing on the 1981 Class Cmise, please don't delay too long. Space is limited and wiU fiU up soon.

Also, if you have been putting off sending in your contribution for Project Access—the elevator for the handicapped to be instaUed in the Naval Academy chapel—please put it off no longer. If you have lost the materials you were sent about this Class of '51 fund drive, you can simply send your contribution to your secretary at the address shown above this column. Make your check payable to the USNA Alumni Association and elsewhere on the face of the check write "Class of '51 Fund."

52 Sec'y, Capt. WUliam E. Roberts USN 4301 Gifford Pinchot Dr. Annandale VA 22003 Percent Members: 59 Febmary found the "Dark Ages" in full swing at the Officers' Club in Annapolis for a Valentine Sunday Bmnch. In general, you could say it was tmly a Class of '52 family affair. There were sons, daughters and their grandparents, plus friends, that joined together for one of the largest gatherings, in excess of ninety people, in recent years. Those who enjoyed the before-bmnch exchange of gossip and partook of the delicious food included: Hugh Benton, Jim Brickel, Toxey Califf, Ron Hattin. Jim Keane, Walt Locke, Bob Jacob, Demp Jackson, Jim Madigan, Fox Johnson, Tom Norman, Gene Avalone, Joe Wilkinson, John Beecher, Ed Leonard, Mel Meltzer, Bill Zobel, "Hork " Dimon, Todd Blades, Al Kelln, Dick Laulor, Brice Bradshaw, George Lester, Jim Nunulley, Bill Studabacker, Harry Bixby, Bob Denbigh, Biscuit Wev, Bob Bowser, Pete Roane, Bill Rowden, Bob Caulk, Mark Tuzo, Scott Gray, Ray Amor, Tom Thawley, Gamett Bailey and Bill Roberts. The Sorrentino family of six was the largest present, and it was a real pleasure to meet them all. Accompanying most of the old guys were the wonderful wives who continue to support us in our endeavors.

BiU Sayer sent the following letter: "The doldmms are nearly over and I'm coming out of hiding. Please find enclosed the pefltion for the Norfolk Regional Chapter with the proper number of signatures as required by the Constituflon. 1 hope this is satisfactory in meeting the requirements for the Executive Committee.

"We are wondering about what we do next and are looking for some help. I expect that we must hold an organizational meeting to elect officers, select a better name like 'Tidewater Shipmate, May 1980

Virginia Regional Chapter', write by-laws, etc.

If anyone can offer some advice, we would be grateful.

"We were delighted to see that two more of our Classmates were selected for rear admiral during the recent board meeting. Those may be the last, but you never know.

"Also enclosed is a current roster which I would like you to pass on. Vince suggested that I send this letter to Ron Hattin, but I don't have his phone number or address, so off it goes to you. Thanks for looking after us.

BEAT ARMY!" Those included on the roster were: Milt Alepich, Mo Baker, Bernard Coski, Bill Fisher, Dick Hedges, George Hubbard, Curt Karvala, Pete Maloney, Vince Manara, John Mitchell, Tom Moody, Bill Sayer, Bill Sheehan, Si Simons, Fred Smith, Harry Spencer, Ed Stolle and Donn Eisele. ^ The November and January luncheons also brought together many Classmates to exchange news of their activities. Rather than make double entries I will try to include those attending the luncheons who are not mentioned above: Bill Laux, Bill Simotan, Jim Burgin, Sheldon Drews, Jim Troutman, Gus Eggert, Scott Gray, Jim Fisher, George Hefferman, Jerry Zackarias, Al Bress, Howard McCoUum, Ted Lutz, Jerry Malament, George Vahsen, Jim Conover, Jim Wilson, Harry Cawthon, Chuck Pollak, Lennie Conn, " C C " Smith, Jim Sagerholm, P.A. Lindsay, Jake Brown, Frank Wadsworth, Gordon Enquist, Jack Walden, Jerry Thompson, Corky Lenox, John Haaren, Dick Denfeld and Art Thompson. In trying to recognize all of the Classmates who have supported the various activities in the past few months, I have a strange feeling that one or two are not included. For those who I have missed, please accept my apology.

"Project Scoreboard" is in its fifth month.

By now, everyone has or should have received a letter and/or card asking for his support.

Many have sent in their contribution—we thank you. I hope to have a financial summary for the next article. For those who are still waiting, please wait no longer. Your help and support is needed to make this undertaking a major success.

This month, the May 17th Class meeting, is the annual business gathering: if it's like those of the past, all present will enjoy a gala evening. The predetermined Class Officer assignments, financial report, etc., make for an enjoyable and many times humorous break in the action. The momentum shifts in the second half of the evening, and the May meeting once again is a success. Plan to attend and participate in the Spring Break at Ft. Myer.

The Marine Corps did it again. In recogniflon of a superb job, great leadership, and his inspiration to "a few good men," Ken Weir will be flying two stars by the time you read this. We wish you the very best as you and the Corps push on to bigger and better things.

It is with sadness that I report the death of Chuck Furlow's father, RAdm. Charles M. Furlaw. Jr. USN (Ret.), Class of '22. Chuck of ficiated at the services and conUnues his duties as the Chaplain at Port-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina.

53 Sec'y, Mr. C. E. Mumford, GRI 1303 Towlston Rd., Vienna VA 22180 (703)759-3115 Percent Members: 60 Washington Area The Monthly class luncheons were held on the first Tuesday in both Febmary and March with 40 Classmates in attendance at each. This represents an increase over the previous years average attendance of 28-30 Classmates. Plans were completed for a joint USNA/USMA '53 Luncheon in April, and we are looking forward to a good tumout.

In a previous column I menfloned that Jack Davison was playing in South Pacific but did not have the proper organization. This time I have the right information. Jack is associated with the "Blue Ridge Alliance For The Performing Arts"; there are performances both in Leesburg and Sterling, Virginia. As of this writing he is performing in Arsenic and Old Lace.

Sally and Dave Jones recently visited Roy Feage in Montgomery, Alabama. Roy is working for Brown and Root Constmction. Al Higginbotham is now Chief of Staff for ComNavSurfLant. Bob Hoffman has orders from DesRon 25 to C/S ComNavSurfPac. Discussions were held on a possible summer picnic and a possible organization of effort to attend the Navy/Notre Dame football game November 1, 1980, at Meadowlands, New Jersey.

Annual Brunch The Fifth Annual Bmnch was held at the Army-Navy Country Club on Febmary 24, 1980. As you remember, that was the week end everyone played hookey from church to watch the Olympic Hockey Team in its Gold Medal win over Finland. Tom Warren called in with a last-minute cancellation because of the flu but when Tony MiUer called with his last-minute cancellation, a flnkle of ice in a glass and the hockey game was heard in the background.

Regardless, this was the best ever tumout for this event with 118 present. Olivia and Ron Adier got the prize for having the youngest child—18 months, while Mary and John Hyatt qualified as having come the farthest (from Eastem Shore). Both couples were awarded one week on the Baltimore Lightship as a prize. All were reminded that Homecoming will continue at the Elks Club, with dinner and social mixing after tailgating. It will be informal and a continuation of the post-game tailgating.

Last year this theme was followed and it was more popular and successful. The social visiting has taken priority over noisy music and dancing.

AU during the cocktails preceding the bmnch, periodic reports on the hockey game scores were called out for all concerned.

Ticket sales were handled by Missy Hukill with overall coordination again ably conducted

by Lew Sykes, our perpemal local area president.

Among those present were: Olivia and Ron Adler, Jocelyn and Ord Alexander, Joanne and Ed Alves, Dayne and Dick Avritt, Betsy and Charles Baldwin, Margret and Doug Binney, Nidra and Joe Bird, Mary and Art Bivins, Irv Boeskool, Jacklyn and Bruce Borthwick, Helen and Rod Borum. Lillian and Bill Campbell, Rick Collins, Rufli and Jock Craig, 75

Dudie and Leo Cuccias, Ed Chase, Jean and Joe DiGiacomo, Delores and Ed Dixon, Pat and Tony Dowd, Marge and Tom DuMont, Vera and Bob Eddington, Ginny and Don Pagan, Sue and Jack Frost, Pauline and Tyke Furey, Nell and Art Gilmore, Jean and Al Glazier, Suzanne and Ron Gumsey, Audrey and Mike Greeley, Connie and Bob Haydon, Bobbye and Al Hayes, Joanne and Stacer Holcomb, Judy and Gus Hubal, Ginney and Hank Hukill, Mary and Jack Hyatt, Liz and '"Crickett" Johnson, Sally and Dave Jones, Mickey and Bub Kauderer, Dee Kraynak, Betty and Sandy Levey, Nancy and Horace Leavitt, Glenda and Chuck Mumford, Marty and Brad Mooney, Betsy and Jack Morrison, Keith Nelson, Midge and Amie Orr, Judy and Frank Ostronic, Betty and Bill Purdum, Lynne and Scott Purvis, Norma and Bob Raffaele, Nancy and Bill Ritchie, Martha and Hart Sebring, Luree and Logan Sharrah, Thersa and Stuart Sherman, Anne and Bob Sheahan, A. A. Smith, Mary and Lew Sykes, Betty and Al Villaret, Octa and Larry Watson, Ginny and Ed Willwver, and Christina and Chris Zirps.

Gus Hubal retired I March and is entering the life of politics (?). BeUy and BuU Purdum are moving to the New London-Newport area.

Anne and Bob Sheahan are moving to the St. Louis area. Wes Fergusson missed the bmnch because he was off getting married. Dan Rice has retired.

Flag Selectees: Capt. Donald L. Felt, deputy Director of the Aviation Plans and Requirements Division (Op-50B), and Capt. Scott W. Ebert, SC, both selected for promotion to rear admiral.

Pete Carr has orders from USS GUADALCANAL to Stf SACLant. Hal Gross is now general manager/president Air Asia Co. Ltd. Phil Charest reports that as of the March 1, 1980, he shifted his area of operation from the southem part of Florida to the southem part of New York State. His new tifle is: Director of University Computer Services, Fordham University, Bronx NY 10458, tel. 212/933-2233 x 580.

Son Steve will receive his BBA (marketing) in May from UM; Anne is in her junior year at UM in special education (speech pathology); Barbara is working for a year and is expected to enter Fordham in the fall as a math major.

Margie is a sophomore in high school and Mary is in the eighth grade. Betty continues to work as an RN at Baptist Hospital on the oncology ward. They are looking forward to being able to make some of the home games this Fall.

One closing plea from this most 'umble servant: should any of you have a change in your wife's name, please let me know so 1 can correct my records before I print the wrong one.

Same applies to addresses, etc. Thanks for all your support for this column.

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Sec'y Cdr. R. K. Sheehan USN (Ret.) Corr. Sec'y, Capt. Pete Wells USN 8139 Briar Creek Dr. Annandale VA 22003 703/978-3144 Percent Members: 60 Class News This article is being written in Ariington, Texas where I'm on TDY. On my way here, I spent three days in St. Louis where 1 contacted 76

Classmates and was fortunate to arrange a Class of '54 mini-reunion in St. Louis. Don Bowen scheduled for us to gather at the Tower Club on the 12th floor of the Westport Plaza building. Present were Carole and Don Bowen, Erica and Lou Yarger, Wayne Fry, Mary Ann and Jin Kohoutek, Maggie and Dick Padberg.

Also present was an alien in the group— Marine flyer Col. BUI Smith, who was traveling with Pete WeUs. Don Bowen reports: ""Carole and 1 were married on New Year's day 1980. I'm district manager for Sundstrand Corp in St. Louis.

Carole is executive secretary to a McDonnell Douglas VP. The Bowens are into motorcycle touring. Any other '54 people with similar interests?"

From Lou Yarger: "Since my retirement three years ago, I've been busy making electricity at a power plant close to St. Louis.

Erica and 1 keep busy otherwise raising waifs, strays (kids and dogs), love every minute of it.

Our latest acquisition is a Great Dane who unfortunately loves to sleep with us. My favorite expression now is when 1 die I want to come back as one of Erica's dogs!!! Come up and see us anytime."

Wayne Fry: '"One year working for Emerson Electric's electronics and space division as manager of its product support department (300 -I- warm bodies and 18 subsets). Son Jon (Class of '83 USNA) decided after Christmas leave back on the beaches of sunny Califomia that he preferred not to pursue a military career. Result—he's back on the beach!"

Jim Kohoutek reports: "Pete Wells caught me while he was passing through St. Louis and, in a weak moment at the bar of the Ramada Airport Inn, 1 agreed to provide some recent data on me and my family. We came straight to St. Louis and McDonnell Aircraft Company from San Diego in 1964. Have spent the last 15'/i years selling F-4 Phantoms, F-15 Eagles and more recently F-18 Homets. ""We have grown very fond of St. Louis and Missouri. The area certainly has been good to us. Three of our five children have graduated from the University of Missouri and our youngest will start there this Fall. Mary Ann and 1 really enjoyed the 25th Class Reunion.

The only regret was that it didn't last long enough. Too many people we did not get a chance to visit with. '54, give us a call when you pass through St. Louis."

From Dick Padberg: ""After a 20-year stay in New Jersey, Maggie and I retumed to St. Louis in the Spring of '77. We brought all 8 children except the one girl who is graduating from college this June in New Jersey. ""The first Classmate we ran into was Dick Olson. Dick was in St. Louis for an extended period of time while he was setting up a new major business enterprise which he subsequently moved to Lorain, Ohio. He favored us on several occassions with his culinary expertise in the art of Chinese cooking. It was quite a treat. Frankly, we miss his cooking the most!! ""Like most folks attending the 25th, we had a delightful time visiting old friends and reliving old shared experiences. Very few of those experiences had any factual relation to the actual occurrences as they happened at the time."

Walt Kwalskey, who also lives in the St. Louis area, was out of town. 1 was told that he now works for McDonnell Astronautics Co. on the Harpoon Missile Program and that Toni and ""Ski" enjoy St. Louis living and raising

their two teenage sons.

Also, Bob Herres was out of town taking care of his large Command. I talked with his wife, Shirley, on the phone who said they were at the Navy-Illinois game last year—had a great time—missed the 25th reunion because they were in Europe at that time.

W. R. Walker is also in the St. Louis area, but I was unable to get in touch.

All in all we had a super flme. Maggie and Dick very graciously invited us to their house where we finished up in the early hours of the following moming. Maggie fixed sandwiches while Dick did the honors with the libations.

We really hit it big this year! Congratulations to Ed Hogan, Tom Watson, Bob Austin and Ed Martin in their promotion to rear admiral.

Hey gang—if it hadn't been for my trip to St. Louis, I wouldn't have had much input for this article. Your Classmates and their families want to know what is new in your lives. Drop a line—even a short one—about your activities, accomplishments or whatever.

55 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. CUf Shumaker 8800 Old Courthouse Road Vienna VA 22180 Percent Members: 51 I'm not sure which was the bigger event, Paul Sutherland's change of command or last night's class dinner-dance. Both were impressive.

Paul broke his fiag at the Naval Data Automation Command on March 6. The ceremony was most impressive with all the pomp and ceremony of days gone by. It was held in the sail loft at the Washington Naval Shipyard and followed by a reception in the Naval Museum.

Cas Sojka, BiU Lavallee, Paul Grozen, Dick Ruth and I were there to represent the Class.

In all, there were almost 500 people from Navy, govemment and industry in attendance.

In his new job, Paul will be responsible in one way or another for all of the Navy's nontactical computers. When going through the reception line 1 asked if I was supposed to bow and kiss his ring like all the other industry reps. Fortunately, he gave Classmates a dispensation from that.

Last night's class dinner-dance at the Bethesda Officers' Club was a gala and fun event. Jim Greene and Al Dawson did a tmly great job considering we had had to postpone it from its original schedule. 1 counted forty-four Classmates in attendance with their drags.

Judy Stembel did a beautiful job on the center pieces for the tables and Bill Lavallee was the duty photographer; we'll put the pix in the next issue. Al conducted the drawing for the door prizes which he had conned several local restaurants and motels out of; naturally his own Marlene had the first winning ticket. Though Ted Parker was the only one present, we had an opportunity to applaud our nine new admirals. Ted will be frocked when he becomes OP-32 this month. It was originally Ted's idea to have an annual dark ages party, and judging from last night's 'good time by all,' it is now institutionalized. We broke up with the club closing and left Tom Mclsaac and Steve Reszatar to lock up the bar after they got finished with it.

Whereas 1 had heard John Weaver was going to CNM, he is actually going to relieve Corky Shipmate, May 1980

Lenox '52 as F/A-18 program manager. He will find that Mike Mudzo is the project manager of one of his support contractors.

On a recent trip to San Diego, 1 heard that WaUy Olsen has DESRON 15 and that Mick Fladager has enrolled in law school there.

Mick's 3 years of paper shuffling in OP-98 must have gotten him into the paper habit; hence, why not the law.

Pete (W.D.) Peterson writes, "Our oldest daughter, Karen, was married to Ensign Carl Dahmer, '79 on 29 December in Fairfax. He recently completed communications school at Newport and is now in BROWN, homeported in Charleston. Karen is completing her senior year at Mary Washington College. The newlyweds are logging many miles on the week ends. Karen's twin brother. David, graduates from VA Tech this Summer. Our youngest.

Lisa, is a Soph at Radford." Sounds like the Petersons are under the same tuition-induced insolvency that all of us more productive ones are suffering of late. My own outlook of 10 more years of college tuitions is bone-chilling indeed.

Valerie Anders sent me a copy of their very nice Christmas newsletter to help us keep track of their meanderings. In the move to Cazenovia. New York, they had to leave half their brood of six in colleges in Califomia. Bill of course had to have his 2e worth. He contends that my six admirals versus two generals (ref. Dec. '79 column) comments are inaccurate, seems he made brigadier general in the reserves in "78. He then went on to contend that since 25% of the Class went AF (for those fast promotions as I contended), it's natural that only 25% of our Classes' flag officers are AF. Meaning no disrespect, since I don't count reserves, the score is now 15 to 2. How do you feel about 13%. Bill?

1 saw Buz Carter across the SECNAV dining room earlier this month, but we were too busy lobbying our programs to chat. Next week I'm off to Florida to check up on our troops there.

Carl Strang keeps volunteering to fly into Orlando to pick me up for dinner. If 1 can build up my nerve this trip. 1 may take him up on it.

Otherwise. Jim Cowart and I will toast the skies from the 94th Aero Squadron bar.

Norb Kaus wins the prize for identifying George Stott's childhood picture in the March issue. He says anyone could recognize those legs.

56 Secy. Capt. P. C. Peterson USN 13007 Clarion Road Fort Washington MD 20022 Percent Members: 56 After years of going no place except "on station" and seeing the world through a MK 15 scope, word has it that Gordon McGarry is making up for lost time by starting at Australia and working his way back to Virginia. Gordon states that it's strictly a business trip and that he had no choice. He has changed employment and is now with Gould. If this is an orientation trip. I'd like to see where he goes after he's qualified. (Remember. CW in the Southern Hemisphere or is it CCW?) At the risk of influencing the Texas voters, a recent article in the Washington Post Magazine provides news of our legislator Rep. Charlie Wilson. As a follow on to his latest investment in a Texas Ice Cream parlor. Charlie allegedly intends to be photographed with 10 Shipmate, May 1980

happy children licking ice cream cones. With current competitors advertising 28 and 31 flavors, if Chariie wants to be successful he will have to up that number. Charlie recenfly was named to a position on the House Defense Appropriations Committee.

A short article conceming problems with the A-6 aircraft and especially the tragic results at Whidbey Island recenfly crossed my desk.

Mentioned in the article was Wes Byng's role as C O . Whidbey. We hope that the problems have now been resolved. Wes, and that you can get on with the more pleasant duties of your office.

For those non-Navy types who don't have the fortune to read All Hands magazine, a story outlining the 36th birthday of the oldest multi-product replenishment ship in the Navy, USS ASHTABULA, features Brian Woods as C O . and the oldest man on board. Brian left us before graduation, but will always be part of the Class. Those of us who were at NAPS will probably remember him. Seems that "Bula's" 30th deployment to WestPac was successful, but Brian is happy to be back in Pearl for awhile.

This past Fall, the YORKTOWN (CV-IO) Association dedicated a plaque commemorating the deaths of all carrier sailors. The goal of the association is to dedicate plaques for each carrier ever in service in the U. S. Navy. These plaques will be located aboard YORKTOWN at Patriots Point in Charleston, South Carolina.

Dedicating the first plaque was Mrs. James Flatley, Jr.. mother of Jim Flatley, C. O. SARATOGA. Jim has also initiated efforts for a plaque in memory of five men who were killed aboard SARATOGA off Vietnam. For further information write USS YORKTOWN (CV-10) Association. P. O. Box 1021. Mt. Pleasant SC 29464.

The Headquarters contingent was reduced by two recently when Ernie Scheyder and Doug Hayman left NAVSEA and reported as commanding officer. Mare Island Naval Shipyard and Naval Ship Research and Development Center, North Sevem, respectively. Congratulations Emie and Doug. Best Wishes for a successful tour.

57 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: 51

58 Corr. Sec'y. Capt. Frank CaldweU USN 10823 Colton Street. Fairfax VA 22030 Tel.: Hm. 703/591-6728; Of 202/697-1965 Percent Members: 54

59 Sec'y. Capt. John A. Butterfield USN 3 Porter Road. USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 48 HeUo 'S9ers!

News release from USAF reveals Col. "Cec" PoweU assumed command of the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing on January 23.

1980, at ceremonies conducted at Shaw AFB, South Carolina. "At a reception following the ceremonies, local civic leaders and various Shaw unit commanders and staff agency representatives welcomed Colonel and Mrs. Powell to Shaw and Sumter. South Carolina. Col. Powell began his Air Force career in June 1959. He then attended pilot training at Spence Air Base, GA; received his wings at Vance Air Base, OK; attended gunnery school at Luke Air Force Base, AZ; and advance fighter training at Nellis Air Force Base, NV. The 20-year veteran has more than 4,000 flying hours which includes 104 combat missions in Southeast Asia. His awards and decorations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal, Air Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Presidential Unit Citation. He is married to the former Sally Stout of Townsend, Harbor, Massachusetts."

Here is a letter from Jim Poole which appeared in Navy Times 18 Febmary 1980. 1 will test '59 reaction by printing it in our column . . . food for thought??? "Captain Kelly's recent article (AT 17 Dec "79) is certainly relevant to the Navy's impending personnel crisis, but is misleading in one respect. It stated that Judge Sirica "declared the law restricting the service of women at sea to noncombatants to be unconstitutional." However, legal analysis of this judicial opinion (in the case of Owens v.

Brown, Vol. 455 Fed. Supplement, p. 291, D.C. Dist. Ct.. 1978) shows that Judge Sirica held only the then-existing version of 10 U.S.C section 6015. restricting ships available to women to "hospital ships and transports' (of which none were in commission) to be unconstitutional, since it amounted to a total ban on sea duty. By expanding this category to include "ships of a similar classification.' plus TAD in other ships, the court facilitated the assignment of women to selected auxiliaries, plus training assignments to combatants (coincidentally, just what was requested in Navysponsored proposed legislation). Judge Sirica carefully avoided the question of whether women should be permanenfly assigned to combatant ships, declaring that "Nothing in this decision is meant to shape the contours of Navy policy conceming the utilization of female personnel,' since "there remain many unanswered questions about the effects of full sexual integration that may well convince military authorities that women members should be excluded from shipboard combat assignments, or even from permanent assignment to some non-combat positions, or . . . from all shipboard duties until . . . the vessels are properly equipped and crewmembers properly trained to accommodate their female counterparts." Although this was only a District Court holding, not appealed by either govemment or plaintiffs, it appears to me that the Supreme Court would be equally unlikely to extend unrestricted combatant ship duty to women without some definite guidance from Congress. Reports in Navy Times and comments from individual congressmen suggest that much will depend upon how women work out on the selected auxiliaries they are now manning."

This merely emphasizes Captain Kelly's point that we need more warm bodies for the years ahead, male and/or female, to keep our ships operating. Even if women are not assigned to combatants as such, they will be all the more needed in the other ships, so the fleet had best prepare both ships and male crewmen to "accommodate their female counterparts.' Only if these assignments work out weU will Congress 77

be likely to consider legislation to put women on combatant ships, and Congress is cleariy the key. s/James K. Poole, LCdr., USN (Ret.), San Diego, Calif., USNA '59."

Frank Donovan has done a fantastic job this year as division director of Professional Development at USNA, and 1 say that having heard numerous, very favorable comments from midshipmen (taking courses in Professional Development) and sensing much improved morale amongst the officer faculty in professional development. Frank keeps himself fit by not only chasing the kids around the big house, but also "punching the bag" and working out regulariy.

He has been a spirited fan at countless sporting events, but takes special delight in cheering his "old sport," lacrosse, and serving as unofficial "OR" (Officer Rep) for brigade boxing.

Dan Truax did a great job as "OR" for varsity swimming this season. He helped inspire and cheer the midshipmen on to a big end-of season win over Army (Woo Poo had to be heavily favored going in).

Nice note from classmate Sylvester W. McCaU (23rd Co., from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and some time at Penn State before a '59er). "Willy" as the Lucky Bag called him, wants to let us know he's alive 'n well in Charlottesville, Virginia, and hopes to be more in tune and touch with the Alumni Association and our Class. Welcome Back, Bill!! Judging by envelope, Willy may be working with Sperry Marine Systems. Address: 327 Brentwood Road, zip 22901.

Recent orders noted: Capt. Hank Mauz going from OPNAV to be CO, USS ENGLAND . . . super! Capt. Dan Richardson from NAVSURFPAC to CO, USS STERETT . . . attaboy, Dan! Cdr. Vic Krulak (Chaplain Corps and one of the super supporters of the USNA Alumni Association) leaves USS CHICAGO for Det MAG 39 as reported in NT in Feb '80. Vic, please update us on your comings 'n goings.

Jack Nourie, once one of Fitchburg's finest (entry to USNA from that fair city of Massachusetts), comes from duty in "Yoko" to become Nav Dep to Admin NOAA in Rockville, Maryland. Welcome back to the States, Jack, and hope you'll be an active '59er in the D.C.-MD area. Al Castro has orders from Inter-American Defense College to OPNAV. Ron Trossbach moves up from XO to CO, USS CHICAGO . . . way to go, Ron! Tim Marvin is

headed from SURFLANT to the NROTC Unit, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, DUINS . . . what goes, Tim? Sounds like a good deal!

Tidbits from the monthly D.C. area Alumni lunch, held at Fort McNair on Tuesday, II March . . . there was a great tumout for Rick Johnson's Dark Ages Party . . . seems 'twas a good thing the Johnsons had a big house to accommodate all the '59 gang . . . many thanks!!

Sorry I was out of town and had to miss it.

Looks like we may have a bmnch at USNA on Sunday, June 1st, to celebrate our 21st graduation anniversary (close as we can come to 3 June)—hope many can make the Chapel services, bmnch at the O'Club and the chance for us and our kids to get together. Stand by for further word in the mail, the call tree to be activated, or call one of us in the Annapolis area for last minute info.

Steve Snyder does a super job as Class Treasurer, and doing most of the labor in organizing the monthly luncheons—deepest thanks, Steve!! Others at most recent outing include Frank Donovan, Dan Tmax, Norm Bednarek (who told us another '59er made

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Captain, USNR, last list, Jim Regan, now with IBM out of Manassas), Rich Milligan, Fred Naef, Dick Radecki (living in Rockville and working with a beltway bandit), Mickey Garverick, Russ Anderson, Dean Simmons, Dave Green, Ted Alexander, John Sapp, Dan Chapla, Jim Langemo, Walt Wynn, Norm Mayo (working in Sec Nav's office). Bill Richardson, Phil Powers, Angie Rodriguez, Dick Winter, Charlie Houghland, and Sam Sigmund.

Big wedding on Thursday, 13 March. Dick Martin and his new bride were at the Chapel, along with a couple of us '59ers who were there to usher and cheer. Then Dick was off to NorVa area for his ship's christening on Saturday . . . he is PCO of VINSON and his exec is

our own Tom Clift. That ship is in the best of hands!!

This reporter must admit to a great boondoggle (one of the few I've been given I should hasten to add . . . tho' some Classmates may take exception) in late Febmary 1980. I guess it was because of my interest in cross country (e.g., coaching/serving as " O R " Plebe XC team 2 years) and long-distance mnning, 1 was asked to serve as Chief of Mission for the U.S. Armed Forces Cross Country team for the 29th running of the CISM (Conseil Intemational Sports Militaire) championships. It was "arduous" duty escorting the team for a 5-day trip to Paris and Fontainebleau, France. The job was largely one of protocol/administrative in nature . . . but I must admit to you that undemeath my blue service uniform (while watching the U.S. team pass in review before the competition got underway) I had my running shorts on and was ready to jump in and mn for Uncle Sam should a last-minute injury or sickness afflict one of the troops. Everybody was ready to mn, particularly having just witnessed the fantastic success of the U.S. hockey team at Lake Placid, seeing some of the team members in Washington the day we left, and wanting to represent our country and feeling a real spurt of patriotism . . . something I think we and the whole country badly needs!! The U.S. Cross Country team finished about halfway back in the pack amongst the other nations, primarily because this is the peak of the Europe/North Africa XC season, and many of the other military teams are in fact Olympic teams or the equal of it . . . still I was very proud of our U.S. guys who ran their hearts out and were the finest sportsmen. We can be particularly proud of the USNA Alum on the team, and the USN/USMC contingent . . . e.g., LT, USN, Steve Gilmore '74; USMC LT's Mark Fisher '77, Mark Stevenson '79, and Chuck Cvrk '76.

Also, I want to mention the fine "short cross" (3 miles) performance and leadership shown by a fellow Naval Aviator and dear friend, LCdr. Phil Camp—and a fast performance in the "long cross" (6-mile race) by a Navy doctor, Lt. Mike Cassaday who's at Moffett Field, Califomia. With the best of the Army and Air Force mnners, we expect to do an even better job in '81 Go Navy Go USA USA USA USA!!!

31 May 1919 World's first trans-Atlantic flight, made in a Navy NC-4 flying boat, ends in Plymouth, England

60 Sec'y, Raymond T. Burkley Burkley Associates P.O. Box 496, Cupertino CA 95014 Percent Members: 56 20th Reunion If you have not received the big initial mailing regarding the reunion, contact Andy Cotterman at Quarters E, Kinkaid Road, Annapolis, Md. 21402.

Remember that you make your own arrangements for the Alumni Association reception and dinner on Friday, 3 October, by contacting the USNA Alumni Association, Alumni House, Annapolis MD 21402. Similarly, football tickets can be obtained from the Naval Academy Athletic Association, Annapolis.

We expect a big turnout for the Tailgate Party before the game on Saturday and at the Banquet Saturday evening. Get your reservations in early.

SUPER SIXTY! Class Fund Drive The Class Fund Drive has gone down hill at a rapid pace, with only three new contributions in the past month. Jo Ann and Walter Smits, Lynda and Dr. Dusty Craver (Cdr. USN) and Dorothy and John Reilly were the responsible Classmates this month who sent in their contribution to the Class Treasury, to bring the grand total to an embarrassingly low $2,400.

This represents about 13% of the total potential of the Class if everyone made a contribution.

Not much to write home about: in fact not much to write about at all.

Class Officers The five-year cycle for electing Class Officers is upon us once again and the 20th Reunion is an appropriate time for the nomination and election of a new slate.

Class News The Northern California Chapter of the Class of I960, the only active Chapter west of the Potomac River, with half of the retiring class officers represented and with the hardest drinking ladies and the prettiest guys this side of Turlock, had another educational and spiritually rewarding evening at Rev. Roth's house on the 29th day of Febmary. Deacon and Mrs. Dan Affourtit led the brandy lighting services, Mr. and Mrs. Denny Vied hummed the background music, CharUe Fisher gave a low-flying invocation while Mieke was checking with Dr. Denny Davidson, who tells all the girls that he gives the cheapest physicals in town, and the mystery guest of the month was none other than John Bloom who has been hiding out in nearby San Mateo for the past ten years. John flys for Pan American and dabbles in land acquisition, or rather land retention (that is an inside joke—you have to come to the Reunion to get the inside story). Margarete and Dan Roth treated everyone to another excellent evening of good food and outstanding company. As you may have guessed, those in attendance included Alice and Dan Affourtit, Karen and Denny Vied, Mieke and Charles Fisher, John Bloom, Dr. Denny Davidson and Patricia and me. I took pictures and notes, but did not think you would appreciate a closeup of my nose. Should have thrown the notes away also, huh? Harriet and Patrick SuUivan Shipmate, May 1980

were supposed to make it but Patrick could not get a plane out of London in time. (Gosh, wish I could get away with that line like Pat does— the last time 1 tried it, the Mrs. informed me in no uncertain terms that planes do not fly from (Jack) London (Square). Patrick must have a better line, or a better airiine schedule.)

Carol and Tom Anderson wrote from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they have been living with their sons, Chris and Brian, for the past ten years. After graduation Tom joined the Navy and played the field in every port the USS W.M. WOOD (DDR-715) and the USS BIGELOW (DD-942) visited between I960 and 1966. Then in 1966 he broke his leg while chasing a snow bunny down the slopes (it was either an eariy Easter or late winter that year) and this sweet young nurse took pity on him and nursed him back to running strength.

When Tom got up to try his new luck, I mean leg, he found that Carol had attached a ball and chain—oh well, so much for second class summer. Seriously, Carol and Tom spent the next four years in the Navy—USS BAINBRIDGE (DLGN-25), MIT, nuclear power school and his last duty as an instmctor at the Academy (engineering). Tom joined Westinghouse Nuclear Energy Systems in 1970 and has worked his way up to manager of the nuclear safety department. Tom is responsible for the licensing and safety of all Westinghouse commercial nuclear power plants in the U.S.A. In his spare time, which has not been much in the past year, Tom sees Dave Woodward and Jim Phelan (Classmates, in case you did not know) who both work in the nuclear energy systems group at Westinghouse.

Lynda and Dr. Dusty Craver (Cdr. USN) dropped a note and a contribution from their vacation hideaway in Okinawa. Dusty graduated from the University of Texas Medical School, Dallas, in 1970, and then went to submarine medical school and NSDS in Washington. After a tour as diving medical officer at Ballast Point, Pt. Loma, San Diego, he completed a residency in family practice at Camp Pendleton and then a residency in anesthesia at Balboa Hospital, San Diego. Lynda and Dusty requested a Florida assignment and were assigned to Okinawa for 30 months; Dusty is head of the anesthesia department and will be there thm Febmary 1982, and they have an extra bedroom if anyone gets out that way.

(We will send you pictures of the Reunion, Lynda and Dusty.)

61 Corr. Sec'y, Mr. James L. George 17801 Hollingsworth Dr., Derwood MD 20855 Percent Members: 55 If you thought the March and April column's looked a little disjointed, you were right. Paper has gotten terribly expensive, so the Shipmate staff has asked us to keep all columns to five pages or less. In March, as you recall, we started to list the company representatives for the 20th reunion and the column got a little long, and by coincidence, the whole Shipmate was long and something had to be cut. Guess we were not senior enough, so they cut off the last part of March column and promised to add it to the April column. Of course, when they realize that my April column was just as long as the March one, (since 1 listed the second half of the Class), we might be in trouble again.

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Anyway, please bear with me.

This does bring up a point though about submission of material. There is at least a two-month delay in getting anything in the column and in some cases, with the double issues, there is almost a three-month delay. So, if you do not see something right away, please do not worry. 1 will mn everything eventually. Also, if you want to use the column for advance notice on get-togethers, again, keep in mind that 1 should have at least two months notice.

One final item. Shipmate requests that we submit, black and white pictures if possible.

The color photos often do not print well.

Well, we had a great Valentine get-together which, in keeping with some obscure class tradition, was not held on Valentine's Day. According to the party coordinator, there was a good reason for that—he couldn't add. Just kidding, Joe. Those attending were: Joe and Mary Lou Kiel, Andy and Kathleen Salko, Bert and G. G. Cassels, Boyd and Lou Steele, Bill and Chris Mackey, Leo and Kathryn Willetts, Jess and Sue Stewart, Ron and Lauree McKeown, Dave and Miriam Stem, and Mark and Nancy Waggoner. Those who could not find dates (or did not have the nerve to bring their mistresses) were: Jim George, Allen Walker, Joe Kasales, Art Mack, Bob Hoag, Scott Thorell, Norm Pigeon, Bob Wasserman, Art Rowe, Rich DeRose, Chris Robbins, Dick Whitney and Hank Schwirtz.

We have the honor to report what, to the best of my knowledge, is a very important first. Al Goins writes, "1 am exploding with pride over the news that this past December that my son. Rocky, has just received a Presidential appointment to the USNA Class of '84." Congratulations to both you and Rocky.

As Al continues, "It is hard to believe that the '61 children are now entering the Academy," and we could not agree more. Al also writes that he has transferred to the Civil Engineer Corps and currently administers the military constmction contracts for the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard in the National Capitol Region Area. Finally, he mentions that he was in Philadelphia a month ago and ran into Glen Smith who was in town for a PEB. Again, congratulations to Rocky.

Received a letter from Bob Shaw. He is a supply officer at the Naval Oceanographic Office, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He writes that in addition to his "pork chop" duties that he is very busy as the USNA Blue and Gold Officer for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In December he escorted 55 local educators to Annapolis and saw both Jerry Black and Roger Onorati. Bob also sent a list of the '61 Supply Corps list which is updated to 5 Febmary.

Tom Anderson, NAVSUP; Frank Barnes, USS HUNLEY; Wayne Bratschi, USS ENTERPRISE; Lew Bryan, CNMPC; Jack Dell, NSC Charieston; Scott Draper, COMSUBLANT; Doug Falconer, Supply Corps School; Bob Fenick, USS SARATOGA; Kevin Growney, NSYD Philadelphia; Dom Guerriero, NTC Orlando; John Horhutz, Navy Finance Center; Ned Kuhns, NAVSUP; Rusty Lamade, NAVMTO Norfolk; Harry Lara, MOTBA Oakland; Joe Matalavage, NAVAIR; Bmce Maxon, USS CONCORD; Bob McLaughlin, NAVAIR; Ramon Mendez, Ships Parts Control Center; Bev Pankey, CBC Davisville; Gordon Prescott, HSA LANTFLT; Mike Quarles, OPNAV; Tex Savage, FOSAT Norfolk; Bob Shaw, Naval Oceanographic Office; Ed Straw, USS EISENHOWER; Mike Von Radesky, SIMA San Diego; Terry Waller,

NAS Memphis; and Bobby Wingard, Retired.

The column received a change of command invitation from Chuck St. Laurent, being relieved as officer in charge of the FFG-7 Class Ship Fleet Introduction Team at Bath, Maine, but we had to regret. We have since received a letter that Chuck is at PCO school in Newport.

He writes that another '61 is there, Jim D. Henderson who is going to the USS BROMBY (FF-1044) St. remarks that he and Jim were Destroyer School Classmates in NR 6 back in 1963 and now 17 years later are classmates again.

Not too much news for the future. There are still some tentative plans for a picnic at Annapolis this Summer, but nothing firm yet.

There will be both an Executive Board meeting and a Twentieth Reunion committee meeting in a couple of weeks, so next month's column will contain some information about that. Keep in mind that the 20th reunion is only about 18 months from now.

GET IT DONE WITH '61

62 Sec'y, Cdr. Howard Pinskey SC USNR-R 2200 Somerville Rd. Annapolis MD 21401 Percent Members: 55 The modem version of June Week is now called Graduation Week and it occurs at the end of this month. Ah, tradition—the first class to have female Academy graduates—the Class of '80—takes its rightful place in the Fleet and Corps shortly. '62 welcomes the Class of '80 into our great Navy.

News from the business worid Raymond M. Sisk, Jr. has been appointed regional vice president in the individual insurance operations at Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut.

Ray received an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1969.

He began his company career in 1969 with the investment operations and was appointed assistant secretary, bond department, in May 1973. Five months later he was named director of planning in the individual insurance operations, where he was advanced to controller in 1976 and agency secretary in 1977.

Ray is past president and director of the Hartford Council of the Navy League of the United States, and he and his wife Carol have four children and live at 3 Mt. Vemon Dr., East Granby CT 06020.

Around the Fleet Cdr. Dayton W. Ritt has recently retumed from a nine-month deployment in the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean.

He is the commanding officer of Air Antisubmarine Squadron 21, based at the North Island Naval Air Station, San Diego. While deployed, his squadron was embarked aboard the aircraft

carrier USS KITTY HAWK.

KITTY

HAWK'S latest assignment eamed her and the embarked air wing the Navy Expeditionary Medal for continuous operations carried out in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, where they remained at sea for a 74-day period. Although KITTY HAWK was originally scheduled to re-

turn home before Christmas, the unexpected joumey to the Indian Ocean because of the Iranian crisis meant cancellation of holiday plans. She also steamed in waters off Korea upon notification of President Park's assassination. In addition, KITTY HAWK led a task group 79

in a sweep of the South China Sea searching ror refugee "boat people," participated in many fleet readiness exercises and steamed more than 70,000 miles.

Cdr. Rut's squadron conducts antisubmarine warfare missions, plus search and rescue and ocean surveillance patrols.

Four Annapolis residents have been given special recognition by the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge for their "efforts in pursuit of freedom, patriotism and public service."

Cdr. Paul Galanti, a battalion officer at the Naval Academy, was awarded a George Washington Honor Medal for editorial he wrote for the Richmond News Leader entitled "On Memorial Day: Heroes Living, Heroes Gone."

Cdr. Galanti was formerly stationed in Richmond as the Navy recmitment officer for Virginia. He was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than six years.

I spoke with Carl Moritz the other day in Annapolis. He is stationed in Washington with the Oceanographer of the Navy's Office and he just bought a home in Annapolis. A place for his sailboat.

The following letter is a reprint from Navy Times conceming their feature ship series. It was written by Mrs. Kay Graves, the wife of a MULLINNIX crew member. Congratulations to Pete Labyak, the Commanding Officer, for maintaining and preserving the fine traditions of the Navy.

The USS MULLINNIX vibrates an aura of patriotism and proficient endurance. Her long list of accomplishments, spanning 23 years, could parade across a stage to electric applause.

They include impressive tours of active duty in the Western Pacific, Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Numerous unique operations, like the recovery of a two-man Gemini space shot in 1965, warrant a standing ovation. But, with deep gratitude, 1 wish to share the personal impact of the "Mighty Mux" on this new Navy wife. The letter reads: Stepping aboard MULLINNIX for the first time in April 1978 to greet my husband, FTGC Lon L. Graves, filled me with giddy excitement. 1 was awed by the busfling activity, joyous bearhugs, crisp uniforms, and chains bigger than melons. Catching the MULLINNIX fever, my transformation from lethargic American to an active supporter of the armed forces took root. Awareness awoke! The military collage of ships, planes, machines, dedicated men and women, families who wait, sacrifice and cooperation forming a united guard to protect the coveted freedom we so often take for granted.

The spirited MULLINNIX family is at present headed by down-to-earth, innovative Cdr. Peter S. Labyak and his charming wife Gail.

Ironically, Cdr. Labyak's father, Capt. Robert W. Labyak, USN (Ret.), served with the MULLINNIX namesake. Rear Adm. H. M. Mullinnix in 1937. .• . . , Inspired by this great vessel which beckons to the best in all those associated with her, and encouraged by personality-plus enlisted wives club president Sue Lockyer, 1 crafted the MULLINNIX "special occasion" flag. A, perhaps biased, quote from Commander Labyak states that "it is without a doubt the finest flag in the U.S. Navy."

Thank you. Lady Grey, USS MULLINNIX, for adding motivation, color and purpose to my life Tmly you deserve the spoflight.

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D.C. area will be held on Saturday, 21 June, at the home of Carol and Mike Maley in Burke, Virginia. Rain date is Saturday, 28 June. Mark your calendar now, and look for details and directions in the June issue. If you expect to come, please call Stew Lingley (home 759-2751, or office 841-8827) or Mike Maley (home 5697764, office 692-7205) so we can plan for the beer and food.

Your thoughts and concerns for our MIAs and hostages and their families is appreciated.

Until next month . . .

63 Sec'y, Cdr. F. R. Whalen USN 8080 Powderbrook Lane Springfield VA 22153 Percent Members: 57 Unfortunately, the sadness which has pervaded the past few columns due to the untimely deaths of our Classmates continues, as it is with deepest regret that 1 pass to you notice that Carl Kolon succumbed to a long illness in New York on Febmary 12th. A complete biography will be found in "Last Call."

Carl had been most active in Class activities, serving most recently as president of the '63 Naval Academy Foundation. At his death, Carl was a vice president with Citibank, N.A., with responsibility for twenty retail branches in the Borough of Brooklyn. Many Classmates were able to attend Carl's funeral, held in Long Island, including Al Griggs, Jim Ring, Bmce Webb, Bob Harper, Dick Anderson, Fred Storz, Stuart Settle, Sonny Glassner, Jim Richards and others. In a moving eulogy, Carl's life was characterized by three words— "Christian, Concem and Courage," which he had exhibited throughout his Naval Career, his law practice and in battling the illness which finally took his life. A quote from an attending physician in Carl's final days instmcting a nurse to "be kind to him, for he is a special person" summarizes the kind of man that Carl was and our sincerest condolences go out to his widow, Jane, and his son and daughter.

Jane's current address is 1120 Park Ave., New York NY 10028.

Turning to the incoming mail, Carole Newsom forwarded on this snapshot of '63ers turning out for a Beat-Army hooplah at the Newsoms' home in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Carole also relayed that John recently received the Legion of Honor Award at the Chapel of the Four Christians in Philadelphia and is president-elect of the staff at St. Mary Hospital in Langhome, Pennsylvania.

Mike SheUey called to say that Steve Duncan, still out in Denver, is going into partnership with the firm of Morrison and Forster. Mike's also to be congratulated as he's been promoted to chief of the MARC Editorial Division in the Library of Congress and is involved with all library cataloguing to computer format.

Word from Chile places long-lost Luis Adriasola in Santiago, employed with FUNDATION CHILE as a manager in economics analysis. Luis' home address is Martin de Zamora 4211 in Santiago, PH 486825, and he'd be happy to see or talk to any Classmates coming down his way.

Received a Change of Command invite from Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron TWO at North Island, announcing that Vern Von Sydow was relieved as CO on Febraary 22nd and will be heading this way for his next assignment in the Joint Staff Office, JCS, Washington.

Dick Guffey contributed his every-15-years bio update which included that he graduated with an MBA (cum laude) from the University of Dallas' Braniff School of Business and, after working with a national real-estate developer for six years, formed his own company. Industrial Realty Corp., in 1975, specializing in industrial development and brokerage. Dick relayed that he had seen the following '63ers within the past couple of years: Jim ThoreU, with IBM in Memphis; Ray Theep, with a supermarket chain in Califomia; and Paul Jara in Chicago.

Dick would like to hear from any of the of Thirsty Third, prior to making contact with the Class again in 1995 . . . Way to go, Dick!

^ P ^ j ^ ^ ,^^^_

iC-« New York area "Qualities" Finally for the month, this pic, passed along by the USNA Association of New York, purporting to show three great '63 "Qualities" from the New York area, namely Ken Metviner, Joe Carroll, and Jim Richard. It's absolutely amazing how well the passing years are treating us, no!?

So long 'til next month, gang. For those of you who haven't touched base in awhile, please take special note of Dick Guffey's input and follow suit to keep the of column movin'.

Quality—'63!

L. to r.: Pete Optekar, John Conroy, Fred Storz, Dave Shute, Pete Vreeland, John Newsom, John Castro

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64 Sec'y, Cdr. 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: 54 John Dalton recently left his post as national treasurer of the Carter/Mondale Presidential Campaign to become a board member for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. John was nominated by President Carter for this post and confirmed by the Senate. He is filling an unexpired term that rans until June 30, 1982.

from a kind person in New York State who, while attending the U. S. Open in New York last year, found a Naval Academy pin with the date 1964 and the initials G.R.S. If flie mysterious G.R.S. will get in touch wifli Alumni House, we shall try to get him reunited with the pin.

65 Sec'y Cdr. Dave Anderson USN 2460 Cordero Rd. Del Mar CA 92014 Percent Members: 51

66 East Coast Corres.: LCdr. Thomas I. Eubanks USN 4528 McGregor Dr. Virginia Beach VA 23462 West Coast Corres.: Mr. Robert G. Johnson, Jr. P.O. Box 1011 La Jolla CA 92037 Percent Members: 49

This column is being constmcted during what should be my last at sea period as an XO. Even as I write this my relief is waiting on the pier. Those of you that have done the XO tour know my feelings well, and there is no way to explain it to those that haven't. Suffice to say, I'm looking forward to shore duty in Washington, and a chance to attend to my personal life John Dalton again. Perhaps 1 can get back into the routine John has had a varied career in banking and I'd previously established and get my input for politics since leaving active duty in 1%9. After this column to the editor on time each month. receiving his MBA from the Wharton school of The exercise I'm currently participating in, Finance and Commerce he joined the invest- Safepass 80, originated in Mayport, and a ment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs and number of Classmates were sited at the various Company in Dallas, Texas. While in Texas he briefings and functions that were the order of became the state deputy campaign director for the day. Moose Foote, XO in USS STUMP the Carter/Mondale campaign in 1976. In 1977 (DD-978), though quite under the weather from he was appointed by President Carter to be his just completed visit to Mardi Gras in president of the Government National Mobile, had his relief in tow and did manage a Mortgage Association where he served two smile now and then. Tom Blount, XO in USS years.

COMTE DE GRASSE (DD-974), had just leamed John and Margaret now live in Alexandria that his relief was going to be delayed long with their two sons. enough for him to make a portion of a MED A footnote to this story: George Leonard, Cmise. Tom is now slated to become Flag Secnow a Savings and Loan ""heavy" in Phoenix, retary for COMSEVENTHFLT in June. Charcame to Washington to be present for John's lie Votava is alive and well in USS KING swearing-in ceremony. Wayne Amy was also (DDG-41) and was heard on numerous occapresent. Wayne and George got together for sions mumbling disparaging remarks about his lunch afterwards to bemoan the present incred- detailer's decision to overtour him as XO, alible interest rates. John sure knows how to lowing him to make the entire UNITAS XXI pick his jobs! Looks like a case of out of the deployment. Rounding out the "Orange" forces on this particular exercise was Bruce frying pan and into the fire to me!

A recent call to the West Coast found class Wyman, XO in USS KALAMAZOO ( A O R - 6 ) . treasurer Ken Fusch busy as a beaver. Ken is Don CoUey, who reported recently as XO of USS JOSEPH HEWES ( F F - 1 0 7 8 ) from flie West O-in-C of constmction at the Long Beach Naval Station where they are evidenfly going Coast 1200 PSI Mobile Training Team, was full bore on pier and drydock constmction and ably representing the ""Blue" forces. rehabilitation.

Additional news from the Fleet indicates that Wayne Amy disclosed that the Washington Dan Salinas is moving from his job as Flag Secluncheons are still being well-attended, al- retary for Commander Naval Surface Group though more are always welcome. They are MIDPAC to USS REEVES ( C G - 2 4 ) . Rod Rempt scheduled on a permanent basis for the 4th has finished his XO tour in USS DAHLGREN Thursday of every odd-numbered month (DDG-43) and is heading back to Washington (January. March. May, etc.) If you are in the to work in OPNAV. George Klein has finished Washington area or coming soon and not on his XO tour in USS FANNING (FF-1076) and is our phone list, call Wayne at 862-5820. By the moving over to COMDESRON 13 Staff in San Diego. Doug Lynch, reported last month as way, out-of-towners are always welcome and we always have an extra seat, so don't hesitate having moved from the Armed Forces Staff College to XO of USS SAN DIEGO (AFS-6) in to drop in if you're in town.

Alumni House has been in receipt of a letter Norfolk, appeared in the message traffic reShipmate, May 1980

cenfly as our class" first TAR to make commander. Paul Martineau has just completed his tour as MPA on USS CONSTELLATION (CV-64) and is in the pipeline to become XO of USS RoARK (FF-1053), homeported in San Diego.

And finally retuming to the Fleet after a long absence is Carl McCuUough, enroute to the staff of Commander Carrier Air Wing Three after nearly four years in Washington.

Mike DonneUy has finally left Hawaii after five years, and since last August has been XO aboard USS SAMUEL GOMPERS ( A D - 3 7 ) in San

Diego. Ann and Otis Cole have been adjusting to civilian life over the past year, and by all reports are far from suffering from withdrawal.

They're wrapped up in such things as enlarging their Coronado home to accommodate their ever-growing family, which now includes Kelly (7), Scott (3), and Beth (I'/i). Jim PoweU is now XO on USS DUPONT (DD-941), homeported in Norfolk, following his tour as communications officer on COMCRUDESGRU TWO staff in Charleston.

I had the opportunity to see Mary Lou and BiU Leonard during the Christmas holidays.

They were in Tidewater visiting relatives and friends as both are "native" to the area. Bill is the comptroller for the westem region of Con tinental Telephone, and they currenfly reside in Bakersfield, Califomia. Jette and Eton Haslett checked in by Christmas card, and can still be found in Beaverton, Oregon, where Don is practicing law.

That's all the news I've been able to scrape up this month. Your letters, cards, and phone calls help keep it going, and are sincerely appreciated by all your Classmates.

67 Sec'y, LCdr. John C. Lawlor, Jr. USNR (TAR) 871 Five Forks Road Virginia Beach VA 23455 Percent Members: 51 Not much new this month; the ghost of secretaries past is at it again. Since there aren't many words of wisdom on '67ers this time around I'd like to give a little pitch for everyone to consider on Alumni Association Life Membership vice the annual dues bit and all the associated haggle of having to remember to pay on time once every 12 months. A life membership goes for $200 up through I July '80. then it jumps to $270. On the same date annual dues will jump from $12 to $16. At the new annual rate of $16 and the old life rate of $200 payback is I2i/i years. With inflating soaring, the cost of publishing Shipmate will surely climb also. These additional costs will in all probability be made up through higher annual dues. When we graduated, the life rate was $150 and the annual rate was around $10. So protect yourself against inflation and get your 1980 tax deduction to boot with a life membership to the Alumni Association!!

WaUy Leonard reports joining up with Don Rush during a Naval Reserve Cag 20 exercise at NAS Bermuda in eariy March. Having scarcely been ceritified "safe for solo." the two of them set out terrorizing as many of the local citizens as possible on rented mopeds.

Wally said he never knew they could reach 30 MPH. Don left the Navy in September '79 and is flying with Texas Intemational as co-pilot in flieir DC-9s. Rumor has it that Darryl and Wayne WUson are in the Virginia Beach area.

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68 ?^f'y!7'"eas., LCdr. Chris Glutting USN -i/th Co. Officer, Bancroft Hall, USNA Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 52

69 Sec'y, Mr. Steve Brixey 10161 Marshall Pond Rd Burke VA 22015 Percent Members: 45 I should start by correcting the spelling of Dave Hemming's name—the March issue had Henning—sorry Dave!

Joe Chopek and the Alumni House are my two sources of information this month. Joe owns Century 21 of Springfield, Virginia, and recenfly moved into his new West Springfield office—at 8442 Old Keene Mill Road—a building he bought last Fall. Joe writes that Mary and Craig SUverthorne are expecting a child in June. Craig works for the Secret Service and Mary has her own court reporter business.

Chip Uhlemeyer is now a patent attomey with Anheuser-Busch and lives in St. Louis. Dave Vetteo is now married and lives in Houston where he works for a merchant shipping company. Tom Biddle is an attomey with the AEC and also lives in Houston. Emerson Carr visited Joe and Debbie last December. He was recently promoted to a division assistant director for General Motors.

To summarize the Alumni House inputs— Steve Beaulieu and Mike Hough are with VMFA-451 deployed to Iwakuni, Japan; Roger Vehom received his MS from Monterey; Todd Creekman graduated from the Naval War College with distinction; Steve Hanvey completed the Aviation Safety course at Monterey; and Tom Cavanaugh was promoted to consulting actuary at Buck Consultants, Inc. Tom received his MBA from the University of Hartford in 1976 and now lives in Northport, New York.

Sydney and Mike Swanson live in Cobham, Virginia, with their two-year-old daughter Abbie. Mike designs and builds homes in Albemarie County (Sturdy Builder). He suggests that Cobham would be a good spot to hold a reunion for any UVA-Navy games and would like to hold a dinner/beer blast for all comers one of these years.

I ran into Larry Brenner on the Metro between my office and the Pentagon. Larry is the marketing manager for the Tomahawk Cmise Missile for General Dynamics, Convair Division, San Diego.

Jerry Witowski was also here in Washington recenfly. He and Nancy live in Minneapolis, where Jerry is a marketing manager for Rosemount.

Nancy and Cari Tankersley recently left the Washington area enroute to NAS Cecil, where Carl will get back into a cockpit. He has been the A-7 ASPO and F/A-18 ASPO at NAVAIR while here in Washington.

That's it for this month.

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70 Sec'y, LCdr. Royal W. ConneU USN Division of Professional Development USNA, Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 47 This month I want to report that another of the hardcore bachelors has joined the ranks of the happily married. Woody Sutton took the plunge with his Elizabeth on the 1st of March in the Main Chapel here, with a grand reception at the O'Club following. The event had all sorts of representation from the Class, starting with his old roomie, Lt. (DC) BiU King acting as best man. Bill and his wife came down from New London for the event. Others in the ceremony included Hank Prevette (now the performance officer in the Commandant's shop). Bob Kimble (a physics prof) and yours tmly (sometimes a Naviguesstion instmctor); we did our best to keep from cutting Woody's ear off with our swords. It was a beautiful picture though, all of us lined up, the happy couple under the arch, the photographer snapping away, the crowd "ohhing" and "ahhing" and wishing that they would hurry up as the snow came down all around us. Hopefully I'll be able to get a copy for the column in the near future. Woody has orders as PXO in ISSAC KIDD, now being completed down in Pascagoula, and I think Elizabeth has orders to a staff in Norfolk. Our congratulations to them both.

Speaking of orders and Bob Kimble, I noticed in the Navy Times not too long ago that he and Cap Pariier were nominated as Marine Corps candidates to become Mission Specialists for the NASA space program. I even got a love note from my detailer saying that 1 will be detaching from here in July with orders to VAW-I26 in Norfolk. I called him up and thanked him, as that was my first choice of duty and homeport; he acted like he had never had that sort of call concerning a set of orders before . . . I can't understand that. Oh well.

1 got a letter from Joe Buescher yesterday saying that he is going to be married in June near a small lake in southern Utah. He and his future bride Becki sound as if they have quite a production going, and we wish them aJl the best. He does admit to being a nervous wreck with only 15 weeks to go (at the time of his letter).

Another letter came from Heather and Dick CUck, a fortunate bit of timing considering I have been trying to track them down to retum a photo they sent to Shipmate a long time ago.

Anyway, he is now living in New Jersey and has started working for Eastern Airlines. Most of his letter concerns questions on the upcoming reunion from him and Jim LinviUe, Ed Ligon, Stu McFarland, and Paul Borer, all of whom he has seen or contacted recenfly. I answer to the specific questions, let me ask if you received the second mailer I sent out to the Class in March? It should answer all the questions, but just in case, the Class has reservations in the Ramada Inn in Lanham. That's just off the D.C. Beltway and well within striking range of both National and BWI airports. Since it is a far piece from USNA, we are also setting up a shuttle bus to take us back and forth, which should serve the double purpose of a savings in gas costs and keeping the few dranks off the road. If anyone has not gotten their mailings, please write and update your address with the Alumni Association. We are

going to have a Class tailgate party before and after the game and a class dinner-dance that night, so the festivities should be outstanding.

Y'all come now, hear?

But back to Dick's letter. He writes that he spent a couple of months at the Grand Canyon, flying for an airline there. While there, P. J. Fatten and his wife (then five months pregnant) joined them in a rim-to-rim hike of the big ditch. He also is looking for word on George Sauer, as well as from Donna Potter, if any of you can help . . . ?

Another request for assistance comes from Kevin Fitzwater, who is a dentist in Colorado Springs, Co. He's trying to get the 16th Co. together for Homecoming and needs help finding the following: Henry Pyzdrowski, Jeff Schott, Al Bergstrom, Charles Stout, Steve Zavidil, Tom Merril, Bob Slowik, and Edward Shiriey.

My mailbox has mn dry and so I'll stop this rambling, but: Remember '70's 10th in '80!

71 Sec'y, Capt. Charles E. Boyer HI USMC Quarters H-4, Annapolis MD 21402 Percent Members: 47 When I contrived this article, it was 3 March and the worst snowstorm of the season had ended. Being the clever person that I consider myself, I went out at 0630 and shoveled a path down the driveway so I could walk to my ride without getting my feet wet. Do you realize what 25 plus mph winds do to snow and barren driveways? Well at 0730, wearing smooth leather soles on slippery snow I created a most unusual tumbling routine. Despite the foot of snow on my path to cushion my acrobatic antics, I am sitting with a 20 degree list to starboard to ease the throbbing in my left cheek (and I do not mean the cheek adjacent to my nose either). Nevertheless, I will endure this agony and persevere.

The Tidewater, Virginia, Chapter of the Alumni Association has a dynamic program going for itself but lacks the support of active duty graduates. Recent activities have included a Valentine's Party in Febmary; a super dinner dance in March; and next month there is scheduled a meeting at which Roger Staubach will be the guest speaker. From experience, these chapters are fun, exciting, and personally rewarding. Make an effort to participate. Contact Frank Kay ('60) at AVN 690-2617/7998 or at home (804)486-4020, or drop him a line at 612 Downing Crescent, Virginia Beach VA 23452. He is expecting our support.

At 1254, 8 January 1980 Penny and Jon Cichucki were joined by Katie. Penny was well and Jon may or may not be recuperated by now.

Listen, you Navy types. We Marines will not be intimidated by the fact that you all were promoted and we are still back at 0-3s. So, do not expect anything more than "big deal" from us. Besides when we pin on our rank we get paid for it! My house has been swamped with news releases about '71ers being promoted. On behalf of the Marines, a begmdging "congratulations." But do not expect a salute or "Sir" when we see you. Of course, if you desire to invite us to your wetting down parties to placate our feelings, we would gladly accept.

Dave Cradduck finally prevailed upon the former Sue Rudzis and convinced her of the Shipmate, May 1980

worth of a life as his partner in marriage. They were married last October at Carmel Mission.

Dave graduated in December from Monterey in ops research. He starts on the RAG at Jacksonville, then leaves for Halifax for two Acting Correspondent, Alan R. Kraft 2705 Baldwin Lane, Bowie, MD 20715 years.

Percent Members: 43 Jim Bloom left just before Christmas to deploy in the Indian Ocean. He is the weapons

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officer in FANNING.

Bob Loyd and John Hubbard retumed from the Med just in time for Christmas. Bob is the ops officer and John the "unknown" officer in BOWEN out of Charleston.

John BaU is still in San Diego flying H-46s.

Fortunately he retumed from WESTPAC before units deployed to the Indian Ocean. On his retum trip to CONUS he stopped in Hawaii to see Marylee and Pat Doyle. John also passes along some information about familiar people in the San Diego area. Marilyn and Jim LoiseUe are local residents. Jim is in WESTPAC in BRADLEY as a LAMPS pilot, but as luck would have it, he has been selected for AEDO and is so depressed at thought of never going to sea again. Linda and John Long are waiting for John's tum to rotate to WESTPAC as a LAMPS pilot. Currenfly John is the ASO for HSL-33. Glenn Barrowman is also in HSL-33.

Bob Larkin is in HC-11 as is John. John Muncie is in HC-3 at North Island also. Gail and Ted Ruddock have settled into their new home In New Orleans.

Some 26th Company news!!

Sharon and Ed Kaiser are living in Michigan as civilians. Steff and Mike Stephens live in Lynchburg where Mike is a product manager for TMI. Ruth and Randy Wagoner are Charleston residents. Currently on a sub.

Randy is expecting orders for this Summer.

Scott Gessis is an industrial engineer at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard and is working toward an MS in systems management. Jane and Bob Adkins live in Michigan. They were new parents on October 31.

Speaking of babies, Jennifer and Tom O'Brien are expecting their first in a couple of weeks. Tom has made a rather unique deal with his wife. He goes to Lamase Classes if she goes to dog obedience classes with him. At least it is a good step for Tom to leam some obedience. (Listen, this is no lieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tom told me that on the phone just ten minutes ago and just that way. So what would you infer?)

Steve Carro is at Point Mugu and will soon be leaming to fly some of the drones there.

The only other information of credibility comes from Lynn and Al Cohlmeyer. Al left the Navy in '78 and worked at N-Reactor in Richland, Washington, before moving to Oregon and the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant. Mark Cooksey also works with Al. Mark and his wife Sue live on a small farm. Mark and Al are also working on their MBAs. Roger Morin wrote Al that he is attending Wharton School of Business and will graduate next month. Roger and Al Hura are in the same reserve unit up in Philadelphia. BiU Meyers and Al Hutchins are still slugging their way through Monterey.

The last bit of news is that Rich Crouch is with Combustion Engineering back in his hometown of Windsor, Connecticut. Bob Speer is on his way to Hawaii this Spring to take over as engineer in THOMAS JEFFERSON.

My deadline is past, so 1 had best get up and limp out to the Alumni House. The price I pay for this job. Please, no tears.

Shipmate, May 1980

73 Sec'y, Mr. Dirk P. D. Mosis m 709 W. Lang Alvin TX 77511 Percent Members: 41 A banner month with plenty of news, so . . .

1 spent a couple of days with Bev and Don Jefferson in Febmary, and they relay this 5th Company news: Christine and Ray Boyd became proud parents on Febmary 1 with the arrival of Alexis. Ray sent a membership letter to all 5th Co. members stating their membership, whether they so desired or not, in keeping contact with '73ers of 5th Co. Super! Ray saw the following at Homecoming '79: John Harvey and friend, Doug Hertel and friend.

Skip Winter and Pal, Kathy and Bob Martin (Bob w/Ford and Kathy w/commercial real estate), Kathy and Bob Hanson, Debby and Raoul Bonvouloir, and Gilden and Stu Brown.

Additional 5th Co. news: CharUe Senn is exiting the Crops; Karen, Katie and M McDonald should have an addition to the household at this writing; Nina and Wade Kozich are in Columbus, Ohio, where he's a CPA. Other news from DJ: Judy and Matt Rogers are in D.C. where Matt's with Navy Space Projects and Judy's with labor and delivery at a hospital in the area. They have a house in Fairfax. Christy and John Jauregui are in Vista, Califomia, with Matthew. Carol and Steve MacAUister are in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Steve's with Duncan Aviation (charter and sales). Brande and Carly are there also. Bob Carlson is in law school in Orange, Califomia. Don reports that Bob Elflein has had his first ejection, and hopefully his last, from his jet while deployed to WESPAC However, Don reports the ejection took another inch off Elf s neck!! And Don and Bev are doing great as Don nears his MBA. Thanks for all the good news!

BiU Gerken sends the following from Department School Class 63 at SWOS. "There are 13 of us from '73, and we have all received orders to various department head jobs on various ships. Joe Benkhart and Dave Perrich are going to USS KIDD (DDG-993) out of Norfolk.

Joe is going as combat systems officer and Dave as ops boss. John Brynes is going to new constmction in Long Beach as combat sys. in USS SIDES (FFG-14). Chip Cooper, Mona and the two boys Carlos and Erik, are going back to Japan where Chip will be weapons in USS FRANCIS HAMMOND (FF-1067). BUI Evans,

Kyppee, and sons William and Scott, are going to Norfolk with Bill being ops boss in USS RADFORD (DD-968). Tom Gallagher will be Weps on the BAGLEY ( F F - 1 0 6 9 ) out of Long

Beach. Jim Gruber is going to Mayport as combat sys. in USS ESTORIN ( F F - 1 5 ) . Liz and

BiU Gerken and daughter Amy are going back to San Diego where Bill will be ops officer in USS PAUL F . FOSTER ( D D - 9 6 4 ) . Bob MaskeU

will be ops in USS STUMP (DD-978) out of Nor-

folk. Denny O'Meora is going to Mayport as weapons on the USS BIGELOW (DD-942). Ann and George Parish with daughter Jennifer and new son George IV (Jan. '80) will be heading

west to San Diego where George will be ops boss in USS BRADLEY (FF-1041). Don Wilson is going as our only chief engineer out of the '73ers in USS CALLAGHAN (DDG-994) out of San Diego. As you can see, there are a few of us still left in the Navy!" Bill, thanks for the news. Good luck on your orders!

Mike Kane writes from med school in New Jersey where he's finishing up his first year and will begin a government funded project in carcinogenic research for 8-10 weeks this Summer. Then 3 more years. Mike has heard from the Don Cantemas, the Doug Leiands, and the Ken Mayeauxes, and all are doing well.

Mike desires to hear from all 15th Company mates, so please write him at 155 Franklin Ave. # 3 , Belleville NJ 07109. Thanks, 'Moik.'

We received the following from Frank Kay '60: "If you're living in the Tidewater (Norfolk) area, why not see what your local USNA chapter is doing? In May, we hope to have Roger Staubach address the meeting, and have the new '84 Midshipman selectees from the area invited. So why not join in the fun? Call me at work (A/V 690-2617/7998) or at home in the evening 804/486-4020, or drop me a line if that's more convenient. 612 Downing Crescent, Virginia Beach VA 23452."

Some news from Fleet Hometown New Center: Craig Henderson is with Attack Squadron 174 at Jacksonville. Dave Willmann has graduated from Monterey, along with Lonnie Cole and Jim Bristow. Jack Pohlmeyer is with Delta out of Chicago. Also, Pete Dubuisson is now in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

We received an outstanding letter from Brian Rich and Jim Beltz. Much thanks!

Keep those cards and letters coming!!

Here's some tidbits from 7th Co. '73 for Shipmate . . . a collective effort of Brian Rich and Jim Baltz.

"Heidi and Brian Rich, and their three boys, Michael, Darrell, and Craig, left VX-1 and the Navy in July and now live in Poughkeepsie, New York, as Brian is based in New York City with American Airlines on B-727s. At American's Flight Academy in Dallas, Brian bumped into Andy Mechling, who had given up Marine Phantoms to also fly American. Andy is based in Washington, but has set up a bachelor pad in Crabtown. Lynn and Jim Beltz are in Charleston, South Carolina, where Jim works for the govemment in nuclear engineering. According to last reports, their daughter Laurie will have a new playmate in September. Jim's old roomie, John Japuntich, is an engineer now for Goodyear in Akron, and flies for the reserves when not home with Pat and son Chris, although we suspect he was hired as the NFO for the Goodyear blimp. Sallie and Royce Engler are at prototype school in Saratoga Springs, New York, where their son Ryan was bom in November. (Rumor has it that Royce is dying to leave the snow and get back to Texas!) Matt Lechleitner writes that Carole and daughter Janet have joined him in Chester.

Pennsylvania, where Matt is assigned to PORTLAND (LSD-37) which is in drydock. Matt is in the supply corps now, but just can't seem to stay off the boats. Carole is excited about having him home, as they are preparing for an imminent arrival. The word is that Dan Simpson has also given up P-3s for the airlines, and is based somewhere with Republic. Always in the pursuit of higher leaming. Debbie and Jim BriU have joined the civilian community and are in Los Angeles where Jim is working on a master's degree. Matt Minihan, formeriy the fastest of the fast attacks, opted for more educa83

tion and a wife, and was last heard of in Virgiiua with the Baptist ministry in mind. Jim Bridges was also in fast attacks out of Charieston but has either been covering his tracks 1 ^ / « ? ' ' J ' ^ ^ "^^"^^ °n- Terry and Danny McHale have moved on to Burke, Virginia, where Danny is in air-conditioning, and Corine and Rod Brotherton are in Emit Heights, Utah, now, where Rod is an executive recraiter after trying tugboats for awhile.

"We were all saddened when Craig Reynolds was killed in 1978 in a helo accident, but Rhonda wntes from San Diego that she is doing fine and working towards a degree in accounting/marketing at San Diego State. She has also become quite a standout long-distance ranner. Shari and Jim RusseU finally got back stateside after a couple of years in Guam, and Jim is currenfly detailing the airdales out of Bupers in D.C. Another Seadog of 7th Co. has decided to brave the outside worid . . . Steve Dean, with Amy and their two boys, are in Arlington, Texas, where Steve works for the NRC. Keeping the active duty side of '73 busy are Steve Kunkle, flying attack out of Cecil Field in Florida, Tom Gorman in ETHAN ALLEN, Cookie and Chuck Trahan moving to Hampton to be engineer on a Los ANGELESclass sub, and Brad Rath in Tomcats out of Norfolk. Bob Watts was last seen flying CH-46s at NAS Pensacola early last year, and at last report PhU Hoffman is an EDO type at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard after finishing PG school in 1978. Leslie and Mike Demanss are living in Bristol, Rhode Island, and Mike Voripaieff was selling life insurance last time we heard, in Hicksville, Long Island. Len Aube was last sighted flying E-2s out of Norfolk a couple of years back, where he had gotten married and plunged headfirst into family life.

John Kenny recently passed his command qual on a West Coast DD. The two remaining Seadogs, Tom Reid and Les Thorpe, have escaped us completely for parts unknown.

"Jim and Brian are trying to stir up interest in a reunion/party of sorts in Annapolis in the late Spring, and welcome any calls or letters from those who are interested or who just want to B.S. and catch up on the news or the whereabouts of old friends. Brian Rich is at 9 Easy St., Poughkeepsie NY 12603, 914/4520624, and Jim Beltz is at 1647 Sulgrave Rd., Charieston SC 29407, 803/571-4868.

"While at American Airlines I've also mn into Tom St. Denis in Chicago, and Kevin Foskett, Barry Trudeau, and Steve Weise in New York/LaGuardia. With the competition are Neil Beck and John Bedker at TWA and BiU York at Republic.

"Robyn and Chris Meyers are in PG school with orders to the TSC in Lajes with their two boys Matthew and Andrew, and while at VX-1 in Patuxent River we had Mike Bumes, BiU Kordis, Glenn Powers, and myself all together.

Barb and Dave CorneU are at NAS Moffett, where Dave instmcts with VP-31, while Patti and Bob Knight have orders to Norfolk and KENNEDY. They now have three children, Jason Jeneille, and Joanne. Howard France was last' heard of flying C-I30s in the Med for VR-24, and Carolyn and Bob Blake are at BUPERS. We talked to Debbie and Eric Swanson recenfly, and they will be moving from Illinois to Midland, Michigan, soon, with their two children, Courtney and Joel. Once there he will be the resident reactor inspector there ^°Keep^lSe'cards and letters coming!! '73!

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74 Sec'y, Lt. Mike Chaplain USN Corr. Sec'y, Lt. Brent S. James USN 13760 Tres Vistas Ct. San Diego CA 92129 Percent Members: 40

75 Sec'y, Lt. Steve Hubbard USN 719 Garfield Ave. Virginia Beach VA 23452 Percent Members: 45 This Tidewater area is really a crazy place!

Last week end we were experiencing the worst blizzard in over 50 years . . . now the temperature is in the 60s. I realize this probably doesn't strike a real solid note as you read this in May, but I felt the urge to comment nonetheless. Having survived the blizzard though, and a record snowfall four weeks earlier, Maggie, Kyle, Jeff, Florie (dog) and I are all doing well. Needless to say, things can get hectic around our house with Kyle about to see his second birthday and Jeff approaching six months old. As for my work, teaching computer programming is still holding my interest . . . to the point of being exciting at times!

Dam Neck is a great duty station, and even though the weather is strange, Virginia Beach isn't a bad place to live . . . not bad at all! It will be interesting to see what March '81 (PRD) brings our way. Well, enough from this end . . . there is a stack of mail here to report!

First of all, even though you are reading this in May, we thank all who sent us Christmas cards this past December. They're quite nice things to receive, especially since they provide an excuse to jot down a few lines of news.

Through them we learned some inteesting things. Steve Butler is now an instmctor at the Navy Diving School in DC, soon to be moved to Panama City, Florida. He detached from his salvage ship in December while in the Med. Sharon is now working for the govemment too, in the accounting division of Social Security, as well as in a doctor's office on Saturdays.

(Sounds busy!) Heidi is in nursing school in Newport, while Steve Ferguson teaches SWOS Basic. They have another horse now, so Heidi is busy training it as well. Fergie took the Merchant Marine exams around Christmastime but I haven't heard any resuUs yet. Gwenn, Robbie, and Keith Zwingelberg are also at the Navy Diving School in DC where Dr. Keith is teaching undersea medicine. They will also go to Panama City when the school moves in mid-May. Greer Puckett wrote from Taylor, Michigan.

His first tour of duty was aboard BORDELON (DD-881), and he happened to be on the bridge when they collided with the Can Opener (JFK) 14 September '76 in the North Sea. He said, "Eight people were injured, and I knew it was time to think about getting out." When BORDELON was decommissioned in Febmary '77 he went to the CLEVELAND (LPD-7) out of San Diego as second division officer. Greer apparently loved San Diego and had a pretty good tour, with some time in the shipyard followed by some short cmises off the Southem Califomia coast. He got out of the Navy 10 Febraary '78, and the following day won a bunch of money at the race track in Tijuana— "enough to keep me going for a couple of

years." In September '78 he entered the University of Tennessee graduate school, studying history. Becoming bored, he landed a job with Ford Motor Co. in April '79, as a project design engineer at Body Engineering in Dearbom, Michigan. (A far cry from history . . .)

He adds "Over the years my interests have changed some. I collect antique art, vote for liberal elected officials, and scream for losing teams such as Detroit Red Wings, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons." Wondering what Pat Sloan would think of him now, Greer says, "Tell him Tullahoma, Tennesseeans like Detroit," since there is another person in his office from the old hometown. To write to Greer, address 24383 Filmore, Taylor MI 48180, tel.

313/292-3016. Thanks for the news, Greer!

On board NIMITZ

Denis Powers sent a note and the accompanying picture from VF-41 abroad NiMrrz, at that time in the Med and preparing for the lO. He says that he thought it "noteworthy" that the "Fighting 41st" has eight boatschoolers out of 24 pilots/RIOs. Pictured (back row): Skip Zobel '76 (I50's fame), RIO, airframes, corrosion control branch officer; Rick Neidlinger '76, pilot, powerplants, AME&PR branch officer; Dave Venlet '76, RIO, avionics/armament division officer; Larry Muczynski '76 (world renown Blue & Gold placekicker), pilot, LSO, Comm. Officer; Bill McMinn '76, RIO "The Guppy," first lieutenant; (front row): Clay Absher, pilot, ground safety officer. Rack King; Todd Brannon (pole vaulter extraordinaire), RIO, quality assurance division officer; Denis Powers, pilot, aircraft division officer. He closed by saying they keep the club at Bagnoli hopping! Thanks, Denis!

Patti Thumm sent word from Havelock, North Carolina (Cherry Point). Mike left the squadron and is now adjutant on Group Staff.

He also commenced master's work through u s e . Their son Doug is now three years old and was joined by brother Christopher Edward last September 1st. Patti noted that also in the year of the child, Angie and Pat Connally were blessed with Travis Patrick, and Barba and Rich LoweU were blessed with Richard Jr., both born in January. Pam and Steve Simonson had a son, David, in March, as did Karen and Mike Stevens, whose son Marty also arrived in March. May brought another daughter, Lisa, to Kathy and Dayton Warfle who are in Japan with VMAW-332. If anyone is in the Cherry Point area, the Thumms are at 502 Lake Rd., Havelock NC 28532, tel. 919/447-2861. Thanks, Patti!

Mark Van Dyke sent me a copy of the 31 st Company newletter as well as some other tidbits. Debby and Roger StiU are living in Burke, Virginia, and he works in Bupers. Nancy and Bob Hutchins are in San Diego where he is teaching at SWOS. They have a son Matthew.

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Mark saw Tony Cenci and Tom Massicotte in Subic. Tony flies S-3s from CONSTELLATION, while Tom flies A-7s from MIDWAY. He also saw Tom Hirsch who was aboard HENRY B .

WILSON. He saw Dave Penman in Sydney, Australia, in 1976 . . . Dave is recmiting for the Corps now. Lorin Fife left active duty in 1978. Tim Myers is a recmiter in Louisville.

Carol and Enunitt Brewington are in Pensacola where he is going Marine Air. Marc Joseph (aboard CASIMIR

PULASKI),

the

"sworn

bachelor," now has a lovely wife, Dorothy.

Dr. Mick Daum is interning at Postmouth Naval Hospital; BiU King is aboard TRUXTON. Janet and Brent Wham are still in Charleston aboard NATHANAEL GREENE; Pappy Draughon and wife are still in Charleston too, and Jim Jefferson is on a sub somewhere. As for the Van Dykes, they will be heading for DC in June to start Mark's first tour as a I650/PAO. At present they are in New York on recmiting duty, just 40 miles from their hometown. While aboard DECATUR ( D D G - 3 1 ) , Mark qualified as EDOW when he was MPA, then made SWO in ops as EMO and COMMO. Megan was bom two weeks before Mark deployed to the Indian Ocean in November '78, where DECATUR participated in the evacuation of personnel from Iran in Febmary '79. He left DECATUR in May '79 and he, Joan and Megan headed for New York via school in Pensacola. Contact them at 9 Wendy's Path, LoudonviUe NY 12211, tel.

518/783-7172. Thanks, Mark!

Kyle Peterson sent a letter about his life since Summer '73. (If you're reading this, Kyle, I intend to use that self-addressed, stamped envelope soon.) He graduated from the University of Washington last June with a B.A. in Russian Area Studies, and has been doing odd jobs since then. Thanks for the word, Kyle.

Also heard from Brett Shannon who will soon be a Navy doctor. Having graduated from the University of Florida, he'll be graduating from med school in June (which school, I don't know), then interning at NRMC San Diego.

Brett reports that Jack Ryder is married and living in Minneapolis after getting his MBA from Dartmouth. Steve Meyer is married to Anne Bechtel (a girl who came to Army-Navy plebe year) and they live in Grand Junction, Colorado. Brett plans to get married in June to Toni, from Sanford, Florida. Thanks a lot Brett!

Steve HUl claims he has heard some disparaging remarks about Bupers in our column.

Now really, is that tme? He did list our Classmates who are "manning the fort" up there.

He is rating assignment officer for EM, IC and MR ratings. Jack Stewart holds the same job but for the HT, EN and GS ratings. Mark Klett is an officer detailer in YG '76. Craig Solem is an officer detailer—initial assignment. Mark Lamboni is head of surface new constmction shop (detailing, 1 guess). Roger StiU is assistant for response coordination ("he seems to mn around a lot"). Tom NoUie works for NMPC16, the computer people. "You can rest assured that all of us at NMPC are thinking of you guys in the fleet. Don't doubt for a second that we have your best interests at heart. Don't bother calling us, we know what's best for you—just bend over!" Uh, thanks Steve . . . now we know the real skinny on you guys.

Steve talked to Dick Schenk out in Hawaii, where Dick works the type desk at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. He and Sue are doing fine, and have plans for CivLant. Kim KUne is at Great Lakes in the student pipeline section.

Tom "Pops" LIsowski has had his ups and Shipmate, May 1980

downs in Pensacola in NFO pipeline, finally defeating the obstacle course. 'Tom Metz is still aboard CHARLES F . ADAMS ( D D G - 2 ) in ROH at

Philadelphia. He has a broken leg, and has been talking to Everett Kelly Associates.

Jamie Mackenzie is working for GE in DC. He can't tell what he does, but apparenfly has been seen in dark glasses and trench coat.

Steve Dolat passed his engineers exam, was married last July, and is in Bremerton where his boat. SAND LANCE, is undergoing overhaul.

Kirk Donald passed his engineers exam last October. Steve Rogness is at NAS Oceana in the F-14 RAG, and is driving a new car. Rick Kammier came back from the Med to meet his new baby (I have no details) then rejoined INDEPENDENCE to finish the deployment. Apparently nobody has heard from Jim Ochenkoski. Steve says, "he has been put on the endangered species list," and lists his autovon number: 291 5803 . . . Jim, are you out there?

Steve closes with his address: 1400 S. Joyce St., #B-604, Ariington VA 22202, tel. 703/ 920-3228. Thanks for the news, Steve!

Curt Coy dropped a note from the 10, where he was steaming with the KITTY HAWK batfle group. He is aboard FANNING (FF-1076), but reports to Athens, Georgia, for Supply Corps School in June. He and Kathy invite Fourth Company people to drop by their home in San Diego. They have two kids, Jaime 3 and Matt 2, and a swimming pool and ajacuzzi. He says his address is in the phone book. When he wrote, they had been underway for 77 of the last 80 days, looking for four more weeks of the same. (Well, it's a good way to save liberty money . . .) Thanks, Curt!

Helen Claire and Lyn Whitmer have another young man in the home—Daryl Justin, bom 10 January '80, joins brother Duane. Lyn will leave HS-II and report to HS-I in May for shore duty as an instmctor. Congrats to the Whitmers!

A few other tidbits of information came from other than classmate letters. From the news service we leam that the USMC has begun promoting some of our Classmates to captain.

Among them are Deke Able, Tim Bom, and James (Robbie) Robinson. And recipients of the Navy Expeditionary Medal for the KITTY HAWK and her embarked air wing; Steve Demeranville (KITTY HAWK), Jarrett Marquis (VS-21), and Neal Guernsey (VA-94). Congrats to all! Also, Mark Luimy is now at Dahlgren, Virginia, having relieved Eric Johns as military advisor in the Ship Systems Branch (N-34) of the Combat Systems Department. Mark, Linda and son Nicholas live on base in Dahlgren. His previous tour was on board TARAWA (Feb. '77-Dec. '79.)

I've seen Steve Udick around Dam Neck since he now works in the building next door.

He had a party in Febmary, but the snow kept us away. Phil Ray showed up this past week in the TAO course. He's a security group officer (cryptology) and is headed for a sea tour as outboard officer aboard BIDDLE (CG-34). His previous tour was at NSGA Northwest near Chesapeake, Virginia. And for companymates of mine, 1 ran into one of our plebes—Tom O'Brien '78 at Dam Neck one day. He has just reported to the A-6 RAG at NAS Oceana as an NFO. (Make you feel old, guys?)

Marc Siedband (spelled right this time) qualified as a prospective chief engineer of a nuclear-powered ship in January '79 and was sent to NPTU Idaho Falls. He is the leading EOOW for crew " A " at AIW, the prototype for the #3 plant on ENTERPRISE. His wife Deb-

bie and son David, 14 monUis, are there with him as are several Classmates. Stu Richards, Tom Gregory, and Tom Waechter are also at AIW. Jim Shelton was qualifying at S5G, prototype for the sub NARWHAL. Marc says so far it looks like he's the only one who has accepted the 20 grand "nuke bonus." His plans (PRD Mar '81) are to go on to SWOS Department Head Course and apparenfly to a conventional ship department head billet. (/ bet the Nukes won't let him do it. . .) Thanks for the news. Marc!

Finally, another plug for class admin. Give me (or Quigs) a phone call if you want to nominate yourself for a class office. I haven't received any yet (think about it). And remember especially that the class president is not allowed to succeed himself We need all phone nominations by I June. Shortly after that, a letter will go out to everybody with nominees and a self-addressed card (with ballot) to me. We need everybody to participate to the fullest in this thing, so we can get a good representation.

Remember too, that our five-year reunion will be held at Homecoming '80, on 4 October '80, at the Fort Meade Officers' Club. All drinks and hors d'oeuvres are coming out of class money . . . it won't cost you a dime! Phone numbers for nominations: Quigs 227-8051/0982; me 274-4601/4304, all numbers autovon. Let's get on the stick . . . time's a'wastin'!

That's it for this month. Keep that news coming . . . it's great to hear from everybody.

Hang in there and as always, BEAT ARMY!

76 Sec'y, 1st Lt. Joe Buranosky USMC H&MS 12 Supply FPO San Francisco CA 96602 Percent Members: 61 Time is passing quickly here in Iwakuni. The correspondence has been a little slow, but I've got some news to pass on. Don Bringle wrote from aboard USS CONSTELLATION; they were in the midst of their ORE at the time. He had some word to pass on about Air Wing-9. Craig Thomas recenfly joined them with VA-147, flying A-7s. Emery Chenowith and "OB" O'Brien are still flying SH-3s with HS-6. Brian Edington is flying S-3s with VS-38. They are all deploying aboard CONSTELLATION and are due back in October. Mike Dailey left Air Wing-9 and is now flying S-3s with VS-37 at NAS North Island; he's also preparing to deploy soon. Bob Caulk was flying A-7s off MIDWAY in the Indian Ocean. Cindy and Chuck Turpen are in San Diego where Chuck is flying A-4s with VC-7; Chuck and Cindy have a litfle giri.

Some final good news from Don—Sally and Tom Wood are expecting their second child, and Pete Harris is getting married in June to an old sweetheart—Congratulations and best wishes!

Phil Wilhelm sent a letter from USS AINSWORTH (FF-1090) while they were steaming in the Persian Gulf; he was the CIC and intelligence officer. Dennis Franklin was also aboard as the first lieutenant. Phil reports to SWOSCOLCOM in March as an instmctor.

Mike Lefever leaves USS TRUETT (FF-1095) m February for Department Head School in Newport. Mike and Connie had a baby boy.

Brent Christopher, last July: Phil and wife Cynthia were the godparents. Joe Foy is leaving USS PHARRIS to join Mike at Department 85

Head School. John Maciejczyk had orders to instruct at ASW training center in Norfolk.

1 heard from Bob HoUand who is serving as weapons officer aboard USS BARB (SSN-596); »j;nns Joachim is also aboard serving as MPA. there are quite a few Academy grads on board wuh them. Bob got married to the former Ann Mane Sanders of Worcester, Massachusetts, in August 1978. Others Bob has seen in the San IJiego area are Marilyn and Ray Echenrode at the air station; Nick Flacco, USS DRUM; Gary TVcT'x-^^^ GUITTARO; Vicki and Don Keene, USS

ENGLAND; Bob Somers, USS

BATES;

Mary and George Wheeler, Camp Pendleton; Walt Pfandl, MCRD San Diego; and Diane and Jim Gustafson, NAS Miramar.

Just a few final notes—Lou Sposato is the personnel officer for H&S Company, 3rd Bn. 3rd Regt, out of Kanehoe Bay; he sent me a letter from USS CLEVELAND on the way to the Indian Ocean. Life in Iwakuni remains busy for everyone of us here. Dennis DUucente is back from Korea and will soon be on his way back to Hawaii with VMFA-212. Mark Bircher, Ned MueUer, and Keith Champion are getting ready for team spirit over in Korea.

Ned, by the way, has a baby giri now. Mike DaUy is due in soon—he's coming to MAG-12 supply from Cherry Point. Pat Bole is due here sometime in May with VMA-214. Ed Jeter and WiUiam Brown are still working hard at MAG15; William is slated to go back to Quantico when he leaves in September.

1 did receive one more letter this past month—Frank Kay, class of '60, Membership Chairman for the Tidewater, Virginia, chapter of the Alumni Association, asked me to let you know that there are local Alumni Association activities going on in the Norfolk area and that he'd like to generate some more interest and participation. He can be reached at work (A/V 690-2617/7998) or at home in the evening (804/ 486-4020) his address is 612 Downing Crescent, Virginia Beach VA 23452. That's it for now— keep in touch.

1978 Out Idaho way

77 Sec'y, 1st Lt. James R. Rowan USMC 66 Star Lake Dr. Pensacola FL 32507 Percent Members: 98

78 Sec'y, 2nd Lt. Michael ConkUn USMC 4010 Nowlingbury Dr. Pensacola FL 32504 Percent Members: 93 The mail has finally arrived, so here goes.

Matt EUas sends the following news from the 11th Company. The air contingent is widespread and serving in the Fleet now. Paula and Mike Lewis are in Bmnswick, Maine, Mike as a NFO. Jennifer and Phil Winters and Pamela and Terry Woods are still in Corpus, working their way through primary. Holly and Gary Lovegren are in Pensacola as Gary is switching from pilot to NFO. Vince Balderama and Daryl Wood are in primary at Whiting Field. Jim Vanderkamp is in VT-4 at P-cola. Roger Welch and Scott Rogers are in Beeville. Laura and Dean Marzetta are in Norfolk where Dean is flying CH-53s. Steve Brashere was the first member of the Class of '78 to receive his wings. Steve is a navigator for the Air Force in New Hampshire.

All four llth Company Alumni made it through Nuke School, Scott Laser, George Billy, Tom Crowley, and Barth Doroshuk.

John Kurowski is in SARATOGA out of Mayport.

Nancy and Prentice Hall, Lora and Marty Drake and Rusty Cone are all in San Diego.

Rumor control says Rusty is planning a June wedding!! Matt EUas is at Mather AFB in Navigator Training.

From the 20th Company; in the Baby Department Mickey and Dom Berenato have a little boy. And Karen and Mike Hayden have a little girl. (Note to my reporter: did the parents name their Babies???) The following are spending more time under water than on top: Karen and Steve Bacon in DANIEL WEBSTER, Karen

and Mike Hayden in NATHANAEL GREENE. Deb

and John Cooke in OHIO. Caria and Bob Meyers in GEORGE C . MARSHALL. Debbie and Rick

Nielsen in DANIEL BOONE. Mike Shinego in MARIANO G . VALLEJO. For the surface nukes.

Rick SmaU is in SOUTH CAROLINA, John Wallace in MISSISSIPPI, Ed Henkler in VINSON. For

the surface boys, Mickey and Dom Berenato are in WHIPPLE, Dave Cawthra in RATHBURNE,

Tony and Tom McKeon are in JUNEAU. Eric Kalisky is in ST. LOUIS. Hank "Dr K" Kuzma is in MORTON. Steve Anderson is in VF-102 in INDEPENDENCE. Leroy Bramlett is in NITRO. Ann and Dan O'Keefe are in STERRET and

Craig Cowan is in BAGLEY. Al Kolpacke is in a LAMPS sqdn out of Norfolk, Tom Morse is in Kingsville, and Dan Peters and Steve Nolan are still at Whiting. Terry and Doug ReUand and Camille and Jim Felton are at Camp Pendleton.

Joe Carrasco and Bob LaughUn, "Where are You?" Angie and Steve Painter are in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Bob Brauer and fiancee Pictured are Bob Brauer and his fiancee, Marion Coleman. A July wedding is planned in Kansas City, Missouri.

Stu Copeland is the first lieutenant in BARBEY out of San Diego; he should have his surface quals by now. Stu is the proud owner of a Cessna 150, and still dreams of flying into the sky instead of on the ocean.

Deb and John Cooke send along a picture of a little party held to celebrate the completion of prototype in Idaho. Pictured are Dave and Lisa Heintzman, John and Deb Cooke, Bmce and Kathy Crair, Norm and Karen Sue Dellinger, Duane and Kelly Schoon, Charlie and Dana Nickell, Tom and Kathy Bond, Ken and Cheryl Eckman, Art and Jan Yendrey and Greg and Kathy Bell. Special note to John and Deb: Mike Eusebio is getting married.

For all the members of '78 in the Norfolk area: you have been invited to attend the activities of the local USNA Alumni Association.

For details on upcoming activities contact Frank Kay '60 at 804/486-4020. That's all, folks!!!!

79 Sec'y, Ens. Peter A. Husta USN 17 Calvin Road, Wilton CT 06897 Percent Members: 86 86

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Chapter News DEADLINE: For July-August—10 May; for September—11 July Many Alumni have expressed interest in joining local Chapters at regularly scheduled meetings in various areas of the country; accordingly, as accurate a listing as possible of those Chapters which are known to have such meetings will be made monthly. Additions or modifications are requested.

Annapolis USNA Officers' Club 2nd Wed. Sept.-May, noon 301/263-4448 Boston 2nd Tues, noon Sites vary Chicago Como Inn Varies, Sept.-May 312/642-9288 Connecticut Quarterly throughout state 203/449-3515 HuntsviUe Monthly meetings at The Elegant Steak Room 205/881/4173 Indianapolis 18 Jan., 14 Mar. 16 May—1800—Heslar Naval Armory JacksonviUe IstThurs., Sept.-May 904/744-4830 Kittyhawk (Dayton, Ohio) Officers' Club, Wright-Patterson Monthly, dates vary

LouisviUe 1st Fri., noon, Masterson's Restaurant

Sacramento 1st Wed., The Lobby Restaurant

Newport Officers' Club, Naval Base Last Tues., Sept.-June, 1830

San Francisco FAdm. Nimitz Club, Treasure Island 1st Wed., 1815

New York Williams Club 24 E. 39th St., NYC 20 May 1980 (noon) 17 June 1980 (noon)

Santa Barbara Varies, Sept.-May 805/687-7278

Orlando NTC Officers' Club 2nd Fri., Sept.-June, noon

Southeast Florida 11345 S. W. Ct. Miami FL 33176 Dates and sites vary Tidewater Bimonthly Sept. thm May Various locations

Pensacola Monthly, dates and sites vary Peninsula Officers' Club, Moffett Field 1st Wed., noon

Texas Gulf Coast Whitehall Hotel, Houston First Friday of each month

PhUadelphia Officers' Club, Naval Base 3rd Wed., noon

Upper Midwest Decathalon Club, Bloomington MN 2nd Fri., noon

Puget Sound 1st Thurs. (except July and Aug.)

Washington Ft. Myer Officers' Club 3rd Wed., Sept.-May, noon

Richmond 2nd Mon., Engineers Club

Wisconsin University Club, Milwaukee 3rd Thurs., noon

Los Angeles Monthly, dates, sites vary 213/583-3468

ANNAPOLIS LCdr. K. T. Moore USN Applied Science Dept.

U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis MD 21402 Over eighty Alumni and friends were present at the 19 March luncheon of the Annapolis Chapter at the Officers' Club at the Academy to hear VAdm. Gerald E. Miller USN (Ret.) '42 discuss the SALT treaties and the impact of the Indian Ocean operations on the Navy today. Capt. Mike Colley USN '63 opened the meeting by indicating that, impending, there would be an election of Chapter officers in the near future inasmuch as many of the incumbents were to be transferred with the end of the school year, and the Chapter would have a bash in Michelson Hall prior to the end of the scholastic year.

Adm. Miller presented his bonafides to the group by showing his Pentagon press card, the magic instmment which permits him to receive a daily ration of mail and news releases that far outweighs what he received or was privy to while on active duty. Speaking on the SALT Treaties and the Navy in the Indian Ocean, he indicated that no-one has accepted his views, pro or con, but inasmuch as he is one of two Shipmate. May 1980

officers who had been head of the Strategic Air Command Headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, with great responsibility for an overwhelming missile capability, he could understand the consequences of the SALT negotiations, and secondly, having just finished a study on the Indian Ocean for the Islamic Defense Review, this was a subject which was quite close to him.

The failure of SALT I was, in effect, a blessing for the United States, for by not enacting this extremely expensive approach to a settlement of Soviet-American differences, a great deal of money was saved. SALT II was really a useless document from a military viewpoint, although it did have a great deal of political significance. Rejection actually came from the Soviet side when an attempt was made to limit strategic arms. Once again, a good deal of money would have been expended in implementing the treaty. SALT III is still to be considered, but it is concerned with Forward Base System and tactical weapons such as aircraft, missiles, neutron shells, the Poseidon weapon, and the aircraft carrier. The Soviets are against all of these concepts.

As regards the Zone of Peace (ZOP) in the Indian Ocean, the Soviets respect a resolute showing of the flag, but do not want any opera-

tions near their own troops. In the Indian Ocean, only the French have thus far had anything resembling a competent force (in addition to the United States) and it would be helpful to have ships and aircraft from other nations participating. Logistics are a real problem for the United States forces, inasmuch as it is 10,000 miles from CONUS to the operating area, and aside from the base at Diego Garcia, there is no really good port for the Fleet. Despite the difficulties however, a credible and competent number of ships, including attack submarines, can be found patrolling, and the mine-laying capability of the ships is being withheld for whatever future needs require.

Speaking in a more general way, Adm. Miller indicated that money was tight, the retention of lieutenant commanders, especially aviators, was a constant worry, the battleships could very well be brought out of mothballs, as well as the carrier ORISKANY, and a real effort was to be made to beef up the Naval Reserve and have it ready to serve if called upon.

Adm. Miller's interesting and enfliusiastic discussion was well received by the active duty and retired personnel in attendance at the luncheon.

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Mr. James N. D'Orso 260 E. Chestnut St., #2407 «-hicago 1L6061I

Capt. A. G. Wellons Jr. USN (Ret.) 5637 Ft. Sumter Rd. Jacksonville FL 32210

An eariy Spring evening at Monroe Street narbor provided an excellent setting for the Y^"if,^ni u'"^'"'^ ^"""^' gathering at Chicago lacnt Club. The guest speaker was a distinf"'!^^'' "aval officer, Capt. Julia DiLorenzo U5.N, the commanding officer of the recmiting area which covers the entire Midwest. Under ner command are seven separate recmiting distncts. The prime topic of her talk was current recmiting problems in the Midwest, and the way in which she and her command plan to meet them.

The March meeting of the Jacksonville Chapter was held on the 6th at the Officers' Club of the Naval Station, Mayport. Featured speaker was RAdm. Bryan W. Compton USN '51, Commander Carrier Division SIX, his topic, current fleet operations. The evening included a question-and-answer period regarding present-day capabilities and plans during this period of increases world tensions.

An increase in membership has brought total numbers to ninety-nine; only one more for the century mark.

•-^P^- DiLorenzo was accompanied by her PAO, Lt. John Carman '75. Other Alumni present were: Eskilson '26, Denekas '38, Frana '40, Spaulding '43, Bailey '44, Martin '44, Sheahen '45, LaVelle '46, Nankervis '46, Bemgard '49, Angleman '50, D'Orso '52, Falgoust '52, Novak '52, Hart '54, Dempsey '57, Silvert '64, Wass '64, Giemcki '69, and Athow '71.

Coming events are an Imperial Banquet in Chinatown on May 16, and another pool party in the sky on June 20. New arrivals contact Jim D'Orso (642-9288) or Jim Giemcki (389-8600) for details.

COLORADO LCol. GUbert F. Rindahl USAF (Ret.) 2359 South Macon Street Denver CO 80232 After the Army-Navy Game, a new group of officers was elected to office. A spring dinner and summer picnic are being planned. Activities are also developing for the Navy-Air Force Game next Fall at the Air Force Academy. As information becomes available, it will be published.

CONNECTICUT Capt. J. Sneed Schmidt USN (Ret.) RED 2, Box 197 Stonington CT 06378 The winter meeting was a luncheon on January 12th at die Graduate Club in New Haven, followed by the Navy-Yale swim meet in the Payne-Whitney gym. Several members of the Parents' Club also joined us at this meeting.

The combined events were well enjoyed by the many families that attended, but unfortunately Yale was the victor of the swim meet.

The attendees were: Winston Folk '23, Hanson Baldwin '24 (Past President of Alumni Association), Edward Woodyard '24, Clarence Schrefer '25, George Schlegel '31, Sam Quaries '32, Dave Martineau '33, Arthur Jones •33 Jack Seymour '35, Willard Miner '38, George Nolte '41, Grant Palmer '41, John Turnier '47 Robert Brafford '42, Crawford Winner '42 Ed'Williams '49, Steve Melesko '51, Jim Walker '53, Gene Warzecha '53, Tony Marks •59 Alan Donn '61, William Fulton '62, Ron Machens '63, Jay Whiting '63, Charies fiunsbury '64, and Geoffrey Griffiths '73.

The next meeting will be June 4th at the Stamford Yacht Club when VAdm. James F. S ^ r t ' 4 3 (Superintendent 1968-1972) will be guest speaker.

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NEW YORK Secy., Capt. Thomas E. Bruyere USN Commanding Officer Navy Recmiting District—New York 1975 Hemstead Turnpike East Meadow, L.I., New York 11554 516/794-9806 1230—Third Tuesday (except Dec, Apr., July, Aug.) Williams Club On Tuesday, Febmary 18, 1980, the Naval Academy Alumni Association of New York had its monthly luncheon gathering at the Williams Club. The guest speaker at the occasion was Rev. Laurence Thomas Murphy '42.

Father Murphy is the president of Seton Hall University. He shared with us his feelings on the Navy, the Academy, students and sports.

His thoughts proved to be witty, entertaining, and interesting. Father Murphy also sparked some interest for the N.Y.C. Chapter in next Fall's Navy-Notre Dame game at the Meadowlands.

Attending the luncheon were: Royce '14, Hillenkoetta '20, Lestor, Whitaken '22, Flippin, Schanze '26, Maginell, Martineau, Neville '33, and Bridewell '35.

Also present: Libbey, Hemley '40, Easton '42, Logi, Packer, Swenson '45, Maguire, Vladessa, Glickman '49, Ryan '52, Dougherty, Sokol '53, Brayere '56, Missailidis '57, Shapiro '61, Coughlin '62, Baum, Zino '67, Bodine, Cavanaugh '69, Nebons '73, and Barone '77.

Associate members included Clark, Crowell and Sullivan.

We were all looking forward to our March luncheon with Dennis Stanfill '49, CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, as our guest speaker.

All Alumni in the New York City area are invited to join us at these luncheons.

(Submitted by Len Nebons '73.)

PENSACOLA Capt. A. J. Pickert USN (Ret.) 3951 McClellan Dr. Pensacola FL 32503 The Pensacola Chapter held a luncheon meeting with over forty members and guests at the Mustin Officers' Club on Febmary 15th.

The program speaker was another recent setfler in the Pensacola area, RAdm. William H. McLaughlin USN (Ret.) '45 who addressed the group on the subject "Command and Control." His recent experiences with that subject in the office of CNO provided a backdrop for an unusually interesting and informative talk which was well received by all present. Plans were also announced for several future meetings of the local Chapter, which was to include

an April luncheon to be held joinfly with other local military-oriented organizations and featuring VAdm. Jim Stockdale USN (Ret.) '47 as guest speaker.

PHILADELPfflA Mr. John M. Tierney 281 N. Winding Way Merion PA 19006 11:30—Third Wednesday, O Club, Naval Base The regular third Wednesday luncheon on 20 February was attended by a small, but most congenial group. Mixed in with the chit-chat was discussion on current naval items of interest, particularly Philadelphia's involvement in the Carrier Service Life Extension Program.

Announcement of the visit of HMS BULWARK, an ASW and assault carrier, and the RFA RESOURCE, a fleet auxiliary, mid-March and events associated with their arrival was made.

A major subject of discussion was the finalization of plans for the Chapter's traditional annual Dads' Night for dads of grads, dads of midshipmen, scholar athletes, and Naval Academy representatives.

PUGET SOUND (Seattle) Mr. David Haan 822 Laurel Way Edmonds WA 98020 The Puget Sound Chapter met on 5 March 1980 for a program of color slides and commentary, both furnished by Dave Haan, secretary-treasurer of the Chapter, and the end results of three trips to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. Several ships of the Australian and New Zealand Navies were featured.

The 6 Febmary meeting featured Dr. Piro Kramar, a member of the team that was the first to put two American women on the summit on Annapuma I (26,558 feet) on 15 October 1978. Spectacular slides were shown of the expedition, which cost $80,000 portal to portal and involved 250 people, but regrettably was marred by tragedy two days after the summit was reached, when two women making a second attempt died in an accident. Dr. Kramar, who served as the team physician, suffered frostbite on the tip of her index finger, but the problem resolved itself when "it just fell off after a few weeks."

The Puget Sound Chapter has forwarded a check to the Vera Watson and Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz Memorial Fund which will be used by the American Women's Himalayan Expeditions, Inc. Two new associate members have been elected to the Chapter, Charles R. James Jr., son of C. Ricker James '08, senior member of the Chapter, and Irvin A. Potter, Cdr. USNR (Ret.), who lived in Bancroft Hall while completing a reserve program in 1943.

A new policy has been established on a trial basis to make all dinner meetings open to wives and guests of members. All Alumni in the area are also invited to attend. Call Bobbie Hosvang at 522-3445 for further information.

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RICHMOND Mr. Stuart W. Settle P.O. Box 12244 Richmond VA 23241 804/643-6621 The monthly meeting of the Richmond Chapter was held on 10 March, thirty-six Alumni and friends attending to hear football coach George T. Welsh and members of his staff discuss the past and future of the team, a most interesting and worthwhile get-together.

Alumni in the area, whether permanent residents or passing through, are always welcome at the meetings.

SACRAMENTO Mr. John C. BurriU 5840 Wymore Dr. Sacramento CA 95822 The Febraary meeting of the Sacramento Alumni was held on Wednesday, Febraary 6th, a beautifiil spring-like day, at the Lobby Restaurant in mid-town Sacramento. Club president John Burrill '38. who after a period of nearly five years has gone without missing a meeting, was notably missing. He had a valid excuse though in that he was beginning his "third" career, this time as a professor of Business English at Consumnes River College in Sacramento. This he is doing after retiring from the Navy with the rank of captain, then working for the state govemment in Califomia as an accountant in the Department of Transportation. He promised to attend March's meeting and give us a report on his new endeavor.

Ron Beagle '56 made the happy announcement that his daughter Ronda had received notification from Senator Hiyakawa (R-Calif.) that she had gained an appointment to the Naval Academy from him and she is now awaiting confirmation from the Academy.

Mardis Coers '66 brought the \9S0 Register of USNA Alumni which was examined by those present in trying to locate former Classmates.

Those in attendance at the February luncheon were Barry Whittlessey '49, Doug Kinney '54, Joe Drachnik '43 and his wife Cay, Bowen McLeod '30, Ron Beagle '56, M. O. Slater '42, Harrison Holton '38, Dick Bishop '62, Walt Little '68, and Mardis Coers '66.

The Sacramento Chapter enjoyed its usual first Wednesday luncheon at The Lobby restaurant, on 5 March. Welcomed was new member Steve Young, '50, and Maggie Young, and we also were delighted to see Cay Drachnik accompany Joe, '43. Joe is well on his way to becoming a member of the bar and

is already working as a legal assistant to a local law firm. Three of the four chapter officers were present: Mardis Coers '66, secretary; " M o " Slater, '42, treasurer; and John Burrill, '38, president. We missed our Vice-President, Walter J. Litfle III, '68. Harrison H. Holton, '38, announced that he had surveyed (by means of an advertisement in the The Retired Officer) retired officers for people capable of painting portraits of combat ships and received 27 replies with rates varying all over the landscape, up to $900.00 per painting. So, if anyone is looking for such an artist, he should communicate with Harry at 5840 Meghan Way, Sacramento CA 95842.

The senior member, as usual, was Bo McLeod '30. Jimmy Carter's Classmate, Tom Hartigan '47, participated and seemed in fine fetfle. Doug Kinney represented '54. Dick Bishop '62, was in good spirits and continuing to be proud of his twins bom a few months ago.

We hope all Alumni in the area will join us on our regular luncheons on the first Wednesday each month.

ence (Worid War II, Korean, and Vietiiam Veterans) could be so described. He hopes that they feel this way about themselves, and that they continue to grow into a better way of life.

Asked to comment about predictions conceming the "end of the worid as we know it," he said it seemed to him that God had taken too long to put the whole thing together to scrap it now!

Cdr. Jim Nemer, public information officer at Treasure Island, spoke briefly, giving a little of the history of man-made Treasure Island and telling of a current effort directed at saving and relocating a fountain and 16 statues, remains from the 1939-40 World's Fair, for which the Island was constructed. Sponsored by Navy-Marine Corps Museum, the project needs $70,000.00â&#x20AC;&#x201D;$15,000.00 of which has been raised. Constmction work will be accomplished by Seabees, and donations of building supply material are solicited. Lew Johns '21 was senior man present, and three from '72, David Rosenzweig, Craig Cover, and Tom Jones were most junior and tied for attendance with Classes of '35 and '44.

SAN FRANCISCO

UPPER MIDWEST

Capt. LoweU F. Jett USNR (Ret.) 60 Alta Vista Ave. Mill Valley CA 94941

Mr. MuUer Detrick 6829 Oaklawn Avenue Edina MN 55435 Decathalon Club, Bloomington MN 2nd Friday, 11:30

The Reverend Boyce Van Osdel was guest speaker at the 5 March dinner meeting of 27 Alumni and their guests (total 48) at Fleet Admiral Nimitz Club on Treasure Island. A Baptist clergyman for 43 years, nineteen of which were spent at Oakland's First Baptist Church, Van Osdel has also been active in civic affairs, having been president of San Bernardino Board of Education for 8 years, and currently he is on the Board of Tmstees of Redlands University. The approach to his subject, "The Art of Making Friction Behave," was dynamic, humorous, and thought-provoking, and centered around the premise that most of us believe there is a better way of doing things and that we are looking for a better way of doing things, and that we are searching for a better, easier or simpler way to handle our lives. He opined that we are a "feeling oriented people" who are still in a fairly primitive state, as evidenced by our proclivity to make judgments and decisions at an emotional level, rather than on an intellectual one. He claims that when there is a conflict between emotions and intellect, emotions always win. One of his anecdotes dealt with a man whose epitaph indicated him to be the "right guy, at the right time, in the right place, and with the right stuff," and Van Osdel said he thought most of the audi-

In addition to its regular luncheon meeting (on Friday, 8 Febmary), the chapter sponsored a Naval Academy information night on Thursday, 14 Febmary, for prospective midshipman candidates and other interested people. The second annual event was well organized and conducted by Gene Wrobel '56 and Julian Roche '55. The evening consisted of two current films on Academy life along with a question-and-answer session. Over 40 Alumni, candidates and guests were in attendance!

Alumni at the meetings were Al Harmon '24, Harry England '27, Grover Higginbotham '35, Bob Thacher '36, Charles Putnam '37, Dick Hayes '38, Ed Fmechfl '40, Bob Litke '48, Jack Jordan '50, William K. Sharpe '50, Ralph Vander Naillen '51, Bob Moravec '52, Julian Roche '55, Gene Wrobel '56, Paul StUler '58, Dennis Taff '60, Darrel Gonyea '61, Dennis Doherty '63, Miller Detrick '63, Dick Lee '64, and Jim Conn '67.

The Alumni Association records are the only ones anywhere that cover the Academy, service and civilian careers of our alumni. It is therefore important for historical and biographical purposes that they be as complete as possible, and all alumni who have not done so recently are urged to provide an updated biography for our records.

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Last Call 'They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them nor the years condemn; At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them . . . " Tomb of the Scottish Unknown Soldier, Edinburgh ALLISON, ROBERT WARREN '41, 13 Febmary 1980, Atlanta GA BEATTY, CHARLES EDWARD '24 (LTJG SC USN RET), I March 1980, La Jolla CA BELL, LAWRENCE DOUGLAS JR '76 (LTJG USN), 28 November 1979, Pearl City HI BROOKS, NICHOLAS GEORGE '66 (LCDR USN), MIA changed to presumed KIA 29 Febmary 1980; missing in Southeast Asia since 2 January 1970 CALKINS, DELOS SAMUEL JR '58 (CDR USN RET), 22 March 1980, Bethesda MD CARTER, ALBERT SAMUEL '27 (RADM USN RET), 21 March 1980, San Francisco CA CATER, CHARLES JOHN '22 (RADM USN RET), 26 Febmary 1980, Anniston AL DAVIS, DAN ALAN '72 (LT USN), 11 March 1980, NAS Norfli Island, San Diego CA DENNISON, ROBERT LEE '23 (ADM USN RET), 14 March 1980, Bethesda MD DK, RAYMOND EUGENE '45 (LTJG USN RET), 7 April 1980, San Francisco CA

GESEN, CARL GLENN '23 (RADM USNR RET), 23 March 1980, Concord NH GRAY, HUGH DOUGLAS '31, (CDR USNR RET), 12 January 1980, Kirkland WA GRENFELL, ELTON WAITERS '26 (VADM USN RET), 27 March 1980, Alexandria VA GRIFFrrH, PHILIP SIDNEY '27 (LTJG USN RET), 10 Febmary 1980, Mount Vemon MO GRIMSLEY, ERIC MILLER '19 (CAPT USNR RET), 29 January 1980, (Fayette AL) HAERLIN, FRED LOUIS JR '26 (CAPT SC USN RET), 23 March 1980, San Francisco CA HARTMAN, CHARLES CLIFFORD '20 (RADM USN RET), 4 April 1980, San Diego CA HUGHES, PETER FINLEY '51 (CAPT USN RET), 14 March 1980, Fairfax VA MCFADDEN, ARCHIBALD G. '24 (CAPT USN RET), 31 March 1980, Baltimore MD MCMANUS, GEORGE BOLES '31 (CDR USNR RET), 29 March 1980, Boston MA MURRELL, THOMAS GARLAND '21 (CAPT

USNR RET), 5 March 1980, Monterey CA NICHOLSON, MEREDITH WAYNE '49 (LT USNR), January 1980, (Pokomoke City MD) POWELL, LUCIEN CLETUS '39 (CAPT USN RET), 10 March 1980, Alexandria VA HEADMAN, WILLIAM HOWARD '77 (LTJG USN), 26 Febmary 1980, at sea, Whidbey Island W A SCOTT, STEPHEN DENNIS '77 (1/LT USMC), 13 Febraary 1980, Yuma AZ STERLING, THEODORE WELD '14, 12 Febmary 1980, Doylestown PA VOEGELI, CLARENCE EARL '22 (CAPT USN RET), 21 October 1979 (Atlanta GA).

WELLS, MAXWELL WARNOCK '22 (RADM USNR RET), 15 March 1980, Orlando FL WHITMIRE, JAMES EDWARD '20 (DR) 16 March 1980, Coralsville IA

BRUCE PEPPER FLOOD '16 Capt. Bmce Pepper Flood USN (Ret.) died on 9 Febmary 1980 in Oakland, Califomia. At his request, no fimeral services were held.

of the Office of Naval Officer Procurement in San Francisco. He subsequently was assigned as director of discipline. Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco, and in 1945, just before being ordered to inactive duty, he was awarded a Letter of Commendation by the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal.

In civilian life Capt. Flood was a professor of world trade at Armstrong College, Berkeley.

His final retirement was in 1965.

He is survived by his son. Dr. Bmce P. Flood, Jr., University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, Wisconsin, and two grandchildren.

at the Naval Academy, teaching engineering, mathematics, and seamanship.

At the outbreak of World War II he was in command of the fleet tanker SABINE, participating in the first Gilbert, Marshall, and Wake Island raids, and also in the Doolitfle bombing of Tokyo. He later was ordered to take command of the naval station on Guadalcanal, where he remained until after the pacification of that island.

In 1943 he was assigned to the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and in the following year he received orders to Moscow, USSR, as the naval member of a military mission to plan the Russian entry into the war with Japan. 'Two years later he was promoted to rear admiral and reassigned as naval attache to the American Embassy in Moscow. While in this assignment, he attended the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, then returned to the United States in 1947 and was transferred to the retired list in 1948. Among the awards and commendations he received are the Legion of Merit, two Letters of Commendation, the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, and the Yangtze (China) service medal.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mariorie Brewer Maples; a son and a daughter, and three grandchildren.

Bruce Pepper Flood Bom in Kobe, Japan, he was graduated with the Class of 1916 at the Naval Academy and served in the North Atlantic during Worid War I. First sea duty was in the cmiser PITTSBURGH, followed by assignment to the transport BUFFALO as radio officer for special duty in connection with the Root Commission then en route to Russia. Following the war he attended submarine school and had five years of duty and three commands in this branch of the service before being transfertcd to the general line, which included a tour in UTAH. He fliereupon joined the staff of the postgraduate school at Annapolis, then in 1930 was ordered to the Asiatic Station for three years, commanding MONOCACY on the Yangtze River, and later EDSALL, operating on the China Coast In 1936 he was transferted to the retired list for physical disability, and he then entered the Stanford Graduate School of Business Administration, receiving his master's degree in 1938.

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HOUSTON LEDBETTER MAPLES '17 RAdm. Houston Ledbetter Maples USN (Ret.) died on 15 Febmary 1980 in Scottsboro, Alabama. Memorial services were held on 20 Febraary at the Naval Academy Chapel.

Houston Ledbetter Maples Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Alabama, he was graduated with the Class of 1917 and ordered to duty in RHODE ISLAND with the Aflantic Fleet in World War I. Following the war, his duties included three years service in Panama and adjacent Central American waters, three years with the Asiatic Fleet, and two years in American Samoa as an aide to the governor. He also had several tours

( ) around place of death indicates hometown at time of death when specific location is unknown.

ALBERT GALLATIN NOBLE '17 Adm. Albert Gallatin Noble USN (Ret.) died on 22 Febraary 1980 in Washington, D.C. Memorial services were held at the Naval Academy Chapel on 26 Febraary with interment in the Academy Cemetery.

Appointed to the Academy from the State of Oklahoma, he was graduated with the Class of 1917 and joined the batfleship DELAWARE, serving with the British Grand Fleet during World War I. He also served in her during the second Haitian Campaign in 1919-20, and in 1921 he was detached to duty in PENNSYLVANIA, flagship of the Aflantic Fleet. He later retumed to Shipmate, May 1980

After retirement from active duty, Adm. of Ordnance for four years. In 1950 he was Furiow taught mathematics at the Porter Milinamed Chief of Naval Materiel, a post he held tary Academy, the Ashley Hall School, and at until retiring in 1951.

Adm. Noble was the Vitro Corporation's ex- the Air Force Dependents School in Madrid, ecutive vice president from 1955 to 1960 and Spain. He was a member of Grace Episcopal remained on the company's board of directors Church, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Navy League, and the Exchange until retiring a second time in 1971.

He is survived by his widow, Madeline Mar- Club.

He is survived by his widow Helen, 12 tin Noble. 4201 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington DC 20016; a daughter and flu-ee Ashley Ave., Charleston SC 29401; two sons, Cdr. C. M. Furiow, III CHC USNR '52, and grandchildren.

John Marshall Furlow, and two grandchildren.

THOMAS GARLAND MURRELL '21 Albert Gallatin Noble Annapolis for instmction in ordnance engineering, continuing his study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the degree of Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1923, then joined FLORIDA in 1924. He later was ordered to duty as aide on the staff of Commander, Base Force, PROCYON flagship, followed by assignment at the Dahlgren Naval Proving Ground before retuming to sea in PRUITT as executive officer.

After duty as aide and flag secretary on the staff of Commander. Cmiser Division THREE, he received orders to the Bureau of Ordnance as head of the explosives section, then in 1935 took command of DALLAS, flagship of Destroyer Squadron ONE, Scouting Force, before reporting to the navy yard, Philadelphia, to fit out and take command of the destroyer CASSIN.

Later assignments included staff duty as gunnery officer with Commander, Battle Force, U.S. Fleet, and Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, and from January 1940 for three years he again served in the Bureau of Ordnance, including duty as Navy Department representative on the War Department Munitions Assignment Committee in the early war years. He was awarded the Gold Star in lieu of a third Legion of Merit for this duty.

In 1943 he took command of PHOENIX, participating in the forward movement of the allies from Southem New Guinea, and receiving the Gold Star in lieu of a second Legion of Merit award. He thereupon assumed duty as Chief of Staff and Aide to Commander SEVENTH Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, and was awarded the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism for landing operations on Wadke Island in the New Guinea area, his Navy Cross citation reading that Adm. Noble's "daring combat tactics and bold determination, rendered invaluable assistance to his task force commander." He was awarded the Legion of Merit for valor during operations against Japanese forces in Westem New Guinea, the Molucca islands, and in the Philippines from May to November 1944. He also received the Army Distinguished Service Medal for service as commander of the Aitape attack force in New Guinea, and the Distinguished Service Medal for services in joint operations of the Allied Military Forces during the invasion of Balikpapan, Bomeo. At the end of the war he commanded the amphibious task force which landed Army troops on Japan's Honshu Island and supported the occupation force in the Kobe-Osaka-Wakayama-Nagoya areas. In addition to other duties, he conducted the repatriation of 5.5 miUion military and civilian personnel fi-om ports in China, Indo-China, Korea and Japan to their homelands.

He retumed to Washington in 1946, served for a year as assistant Chief of Naval Operations for materiel, then as Chief of the Bureau Shipmate, May 1980

Capt. Thomas Garland MurreU USNR (Ret.) died on 5 March 1980 in Pebble Beach, Califomia. Private cremation was held at the Little Chapel by-the-Sea in Pacific Grove.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Virginia, he was graduated on 3 June 1920 and entered active duty until 1925 when he resigned his commission and entered the assurance business, becoming a partner of MurreU Brothers, Insurance, with offices in Califomia and adjacent states. He was recalled to active duty in 1940 and remained in the service until 1945. At this time he was stationed in Washington at the Bureau of Ships (acquisition and conversion branch), then served at sea in command of GILLETTE and CAMPBELL, then

as commander of a destroyer escort division in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. He was transferred to the retired list in 1950. He was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal while on active duty.

Retuming to Califomia, he retired from his insurance business in 1964. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.

He is survived by his widow Elinor, 2954 Bird Rock Road, Pebble Beach CA 93953; three daughters and six grandchildren; and a sister and a brother.

CHARLES MARVIN FURLOW '22 RAdm. Charles M. Furlow USN (Ret.) died on 29 November 1979 in Charleston, South Carolina. Burial was in the National Cemetery, Beaufort, South Carolina. A memorial celebration of Holy Communion was held following the committal in Grace Episcopal Church, Charleston. The officiant for the services was his son, Cdr. Charles M. Furlow, HI CHC USNR, a member of the Class of 1952, U.S. Naval Academy, and priest associate of Grace Episcopal Church.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from Georgia, Adm. Furlow graduated in the Class of 1922. He served for six years aboard OKLAHOMA, VEGA and NOKOMIS surveying in Cuba.

After completing submarine school in New London, in 1927 he served aboard the USS S-43 and S-25 at which time he qualified to command submarines. The next two years he was an instmctor at the NROTC unit at Georgia Tech in Aflanta. This was followed by sea duty aboard TEXAS and ARGONNE. He then had two tours of shore duty at the Charleston Navy Yard, followed by duty aboard MARKAB. His two commands at sea during World War n were SATURN in the Atlantic theater and GOLDEN CITY in the Pacific theater. He re-

ceived the Bronze Star Medal with Combat V as a result of his ship's performance at the landings at Leyte Gulf and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. He retumed to the Charleston Navy Yard for his third tour in September 1945. and was retired for physical disability on 1 January 1947 with the rank of rear admiral.

HUGH HILTON GOODWIN '22 VAdm. Hugh Hilton Goodwin USN (Ret.) died on 25 Febraary 1980 in Carmel, California. Memorial services were held at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, and, at his request, his ashes were scattered at sea.

His career embraced service from 1917 until 1957, from the date that he enlisted in the Navy until he was transferred to the retired list as a vice admiral. Bom in Louisiana, he served in the batfleship DELAWARE with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea during World War I, then was granted an at-large appointment to the Naval Academy and was graduated with the Class of 1922. Qualified as both a naval aviator and a submarine commander, his service included study at the Naval War College, duty in MEMPHIS, as flag secretary to Commander Aircraft, Scouting Force, assignment in Argentina working for the Argentine Navy Department, command of the carrier GAMBIER BAY, staff duty with Commander Carrier Division SIX and Commander Philippine Sea Frontier, and command of SAN JACINTO. Later duty included orders to the first class of the National War College, followed by service as assistant Chief of Staff for Plans, Aflantic Fleet, and then Chief of Staff for flie Aflantic Fleet. His final command was of Naval Forces, Continental Air Defense Commamd.

While on active duty he was awarded the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal, both with Combat V, the Presidential Unit Citation and the Navy Unit Commendation. He was transferred to the retired list in 1957 and settled on the Monterey Peninsula in Califomia where he was active in civic affairs and taught history at the Robert Louis Stevenson School, where he was known as a strong believer in the important role of youth in influencing flie future of the nation.

He is survived by his widow Eleanor, 82 High Meadow Lane, Carmel CA 93923; a daughter, a granddaughter and a sister, and he was preceded in death by his son. Ens. Hugh H. Goodwin, Jr., USN '48, killed in an aircraft accident at Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1949.

CLARENCE EARL VOEGELI '22 Capt. Clarence Earl VoegeU USN (Ret.) died on 21 October 1979.

Nominated for flie Naval Academy wifli an at-large appointment, he was graduated with the Class of 1922, standing among flie ten highest graduates in flie class. Sea duty followed, and he subsequenfly qualified for submannes.

He also became a specialist in ordnance engineering, and much of his service encompassed duty in fliis field. In 1939 he was flie resident naval inspector of ordnance wifli flie Ford Instmment Company in Long Island City, New York. During Worid War II he spent flie early months at sea in flie Pacific, then served in amphibious training on flie West Coast, becoming commanding officer of the amphibious base at Coronado, and also in Uie 91

promotion of rockets for the use of amphibious cr^t, and at the Bureau of Ordnance. He later had command of the attack transports DANE and HIGHLANDS, followed by command of the cmiser Los ANGELES before becoming the head of the Naval Powder Factory at Indian Head, Maryland. He was transferred to the retired list in 1952.

In civilian life he joined the Liberty Powder Defense Corporation, a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, eventually becoming resident manager of the Badger Ordnance Works in Baraboo, Wisconsin. He was a member of the American Ordnance Association, the Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Elks, the Masons, the Army-Navy Club, and he had been a local director of the Red Cross and the Community Chest.

He is survived by his widow Virginia, 2744 B Shallowford Rd., Aflanta GA 30341; a son and a daughter and four grandchildren.

Chief of Naval Operations for Politico Military Affairs, and he was awarded a second Legion of Merit for outstanding service in this field. In 1947 he returned to sea in command of the battleship MISSOURI, then was ordered as naval aide to President Harry S. Traman, serving for five years at the White House before becoming Commander Cmiser Division FOUR in the Atlantic, then in 1954 retumed to duty at the office of the Chief of Naval Operations. From June 1956 until July 1958 he was in command of the FIRST Fleet, then had duty for a year with the Chief of Naval Operations once again before reporting as Commander in Chief Naval Forces, Eastem Atlantic and Mediterranean, and in 1960 becoming Commander in Chief, Atlantic and U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. During the quarantine of Cuba in November 1962, an operation whose purpose was to prevent the Soviet Union from sending offensive missiles to Cuba, it was Adm. Dennison who enforced it.

ROBERT LEE DENNISON '23 Adm. Robert Lee Dennison USN (Ret.) died on 14 March 1980 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Memorial services were held at the Ft. Myer Chapel on 19 March with private interment.

Upon being transferred to the retired list in 1963, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by President John F. Kennedy.

Other decorations that he received included the Army Distinguished Unit Emblem, the Navy Unit Commendation, the Order of Naval Merit (Commander) from the govemment of Brazil, the Order of the Crown (Cross of Commander) by the government of Belgium, and Honorary Officer in the Order of the British Empire by Great Britain.

Upon retirement he joined the Copley Press and was chairman of the board of the Copley Computer Services for four years before retiring a second time in 1973. He was a director of the Naval Historical Foundation, the ArmyNavy Club, and the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow, the former Mildred Fenton Mooney Neely, 5040 Westpath Terrace, Washington DC 20016; a son, a daughter, and a grandchild.

Robert Lee Dennison Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1923 and proceeded to sea in ARKANSAS. In 1925 he qualified as a submariner and joined the submarine S-8, then in 1930 served in the cmiser CHESTER and later commanded the rescue vessel ORTOLAN, the submarine CUTTLEFISH, and the destroyer JOHN D .

FORD. He also completed the postgraduate course in diesel engineering at the naval postgraduate school, received the degree of Master of Science from Pennsylvania State College, and his doctorate in engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Shore duty included service at the Engineering Experiment Station at Annapolis and assignment to the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut.

Prior to and after the outbreak of World War II he served on the staff of the Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet, and in this assignment took part in the eariy war against the Japanese during the campaigns in the Philippines and East Indies. In late 1942 he became Chief of Staff to Commander Allied Forces, East Australia with similar duty on the staff of Commander Submarines, East Australia, and he later was nominated to be Chief of Staff to Commander Amphibious Force, Pacific Fleet, participating in action in the Aleuuans. He was awarded the Legion of Ment for exceptional conduct in these assignments.

In 1943 he was ordered to Washington and assigned to the Joint War Plans Committee for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also serving as special advisor to the Under Secretary of the Navy.

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SAMUEL JOHNSON McKEE '26 Cdr. Samuel Johnson McKee USN (Ret.) died on 20 Febraary 1980 in Arlington, Virginia.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Ohio, he was graduated with the Class of 1926 and was ordered to duty with the Asiatic Fleet, the Battle Fleet, and the Special Service Squadron, assigned to batfleships, destroyers, and light cmisers. He was serving as communications officer in RALEIGH during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when the ship was severely damaged. The cmiser took such a list to port that it appeared she might capsize, but as she fought to survive, her gunners helped to destroy five enemy planes.

Cdr. McKee later commanded one of the first surface ships to arrive at Nagasaki after that city was practically destroyed in August 1945 by the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare.

Other duty included the Naval Amphibious Base at Little Creek, the communications ship AUBURN, and other naval installations in this country prior to being transferred to the retired list in 1952. He thereupon became a systems analyst for the development of the Polaris nuclear missile and worked as a technical writer for military and govemment agencies and for Washington-area corporations. He retired for a second time in the mid-1960s. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

He is survived by his widow Grace, 6580 N. 29th St., Arlington VA 22213; two daughters, a brother and a sister, and seven grandchildren.

ALBERT SCRIBNER OAKHOLT '26 Cdr. Albert Scribner Oakholt USNR (Ret.) died on 24 January 1980 in Whittier, California.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1926. Sea duty followed in PENNSYLVANIA, but in 1928 he resigned his commission and joined the Pacific Telephone Company, working with this organization until 1964. At the time of his retirement, he was the chief building engineer for the company in the Los Angeles area. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association.

During Worid War II, Cdr. Oakholt was called to active duty as port director of Oran, Algeria, serving in that capacity for some years. He also had service in the South Pacific and was port director of Eniwetok at the end of hostilities.

Preceded in death by his wife Ruth, in 1974, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Joan Oakholt Blacher of Moorpark, Califomia.

HUGH DOUGLAS GRAY '31 Cdr. Hugh Douglas Gray USNR (Ret.) died on 12 January 1980 in Kirkland, Washington.

Memorial services were held on 16 January at the Douglas Community Methodist Church.

Born in Montana, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Arkansas and graduated with the Class of 1931. After resigning upon graduation he taught school in Alaska for a number of years, then joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Aleutian Chain. He was called to active duty during World War II, then helped operate the Juneau Hotel with other members of the family intil it closed in 1967, whereupon he joined the Bureau of Land Management. He served as a member of the Alaska Constitutional Convention in 1955, and also served in the state territorial and first session of the Alaska State Legislature from 1958 until 1962.

He is survived by his widow Mae, Kirkland WA 98033; two sons, a daughter, and five grandchildren.

ASHTON BLAIR JONES, Jr. '31 Capt. Ashton Blair Jones, Jr. USN (Ret.) died on 6 December 1979 in Westbury, New York.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Missouri, he was graduated with the Class of 1931. A specialist in communications engineering, he had received a Master of Science degree from Harvard and was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Society of Naval Engineers. His final active duty was as supervisor of shipbuilding and industrial manager of the Ninth Naval District. In 1960 he was transferred to the retired list and joined the American Bosch Arma Corporation in Garden City, L.I., New York.

During the Vietnam War he operated a ham radio from his home which was in contact with the hospital ship REPOSE, and by making a telephone-radio connection, he was able to link the sick and wounded on board the ship with their homes and friends in the metropolitan area of New York.

He is survived by his widow, Mary Kallas Jones, 37 Rodney Lane, Westbury NY 11590, and two stepdaughters.

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JACOB AUCKER LARK '32 Capt. Jacob Aucker Lark USN (Ret.) died on 5 January 1980 in Merion Station, Pennsylvania. Interment took place in the West Laurel Cemetery on 9 January.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1932 and ordered to sea in WEST VIRGINIA, later joining INDIANAPOLIS. Successive duty was in destroyers of the Scouting Force,

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In 1948 he retumed to sea in the cmiser FRESNO, serving first as executive officer and then taking command, before being nominated to be officer in charge of the Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. Other duty was as a student at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, the office of the Chief of Naval Operations as assistant head of Inter-American and Continental Defense Section, command of the oiler AUCILLA, and further service at the Bureau of Naval Personnel.

On 13 January 1956 he was ordered to sea as Commander Destroyer Squadron 32, then joined the staff of Commander Military Sea Transportation Service, Atlantic Area before retuming to the Bureau of Naval Personnel in the education and training division. He was transferred to the retired list in 1962 and became an administrative assistant to the director of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority.

He is survived by his widow Margaret, 215 Winding Way, Merion Station PA 19066; a son Robert '64, and two daughters.

ALBERT OGDEN VORSE, Jr. '37 RAdm. Albert Ogden Vorse, Jr. USN (Ret.) died on 27 October 1979 in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he was graduated with the Class of 1937 and proceeded to sea in ASTORIA, but later took flight training at Pensacola and was designated naval aviator in 1940. During World War II he served primarily in fighter squadrons flying from aircraft carriers. Late in 1944, (then) LCdr. Vorse was flying a Gramman Hellcat aircraft when he spotted a Japanese destroyer off the southem coast of Taiwan. After diving through heavy antiaircraft fire and dropping a bomb from 200 feet, he felt the plane strack by a terrific explosion and.

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despite his efforts to direct the aircraft, was thrown over on his back. Upon righting the plane he found most of his right wing gone, but he managed to fly back to the carrier formation at 175 miles per hour. Unable to retum aboard his carrier, he landed in the water at a high speed and made a perfect landing, his only injury being a scratch on his knee as he climbed into his life raft. Picked up by a destroyer, he was safely retumed to his ship.

During the war he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Silver Star Medal, the Distinguished Flying Cross with Gold Star, the Air Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal. He was transferred to the retired list in 1959.

ROBERT WARREN ALLISON '41 Mr. Robert Warren Allison died on 13 Febraary 1980 in Atlanta, Georgia. Memorial services were held at the Northwest Presbyterian Church in Aflanta on 15 Febraary.

A member of the Class of 1941, he left the Academy prior to graduation and attended Georgia Tech. Prominent in the electrical contracting field for more than 40 years, he was the head of the Allison Smith firm, formerly the Brooks Allison Company, and his organizations were well known and involved in major projects across the United States. He was a past board member of the Consolidated Equities Corporation, former governor of the National Electrical Contractors Association, and past director of the Atlanta Builders Exchange.

He is survived by his widow Luise, 1005 Buckingham Circle, Atlanta GA 30327; two sons and two daughters; his mother and two sisters.

W. LORON CRANNEY, Jr. '45

vision following graduation from Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland, and he subsequently completed Armed Forces Staff College, and served as Fleet Air Support Officer on the staff of the Commander Fleet Air, Mediterranean. In July 1961, he was ordered to Training Squadron TWENTY-FIVE, serving twenty months as its commanding officer.

He saw duty as Navy Liaison Officer at Edwards Air Force Base, Califomia, where he flew the XC-142, a VSTOL tri-service experimental aircraft. He served the Naval Support Activity, Saigon, as Chief Staff Officer, and, finally as project coordinator and management information systems officer at Naval Air Systems Command Test and Evaluation Coordination staff, Patuxent River.

He was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and The Order of The Talon.

He is survived by his widow Bette, 1191 Janice, Santa Clara CA 95050; by six children, two of whom are Naval Academy graduates; one grandchild, his mother and two sisters.

THOMAS CAMPBELL LYNCH '45 LCdr. Thomas Campbell Lynch, USNR (Ret.) died on 17 December 1979 at his home in Decorah, Iowa. Funeral services were held at the Decorah Lutheran Church on 22 December followed by interment in Phelps Cemetery. The Class of 1945 has made a contribution to the Naval Academy Memorial Fund in his memory.

Cdr. W. Loron (Doc) Cranney, Jr., USN (Ret.) died on 21 Febraary 1980, in Santa Clara, Califomia. Memorial services were held on 25 Febraary 1980, in the Moffett Field Chapel.

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W. Loron Cranney, Jr. Following one year at the University of Wyoming, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State. He was graduated June 1944, with the Class of 1945, and began active duty in the Pacific in USS REMEY ( D D 688). His ship participated in the batfles of Surigao Straits and Leyte Gulf, the invasion of Luzon, and carrier strikes on Ulithi, Iwo Jima, and Tokyo. Following World War II he entered flight training, receiving his wings at Pensacola in June 1947. He saw duty with Patrol Squadron EIGHT, serving as flight officer and patrol plane commander. He served in the Naval Ordnance Test Facility, China Lake, and then in Air Transport Squadrons SEVEN and EIGHT, serving as plane commander of the R7V Constellation.

Later assignments were in the flight test di-

Bom in Decorah, Iowa, he was appointed to the Naval Academy from that State and was graduated in 1944 with the Class of 1945 and a member of the 19th Company. After service in World War II as Commanding Officer of the LCS 80 and LCS 5 and as communications officer of the DD-851, he resigned his commission in 1947 and entered law school. Following his graduation from the University of Iowa Law School in 1949, he entered general law practice in his home town with his father and for thirty years was a motivating force in many civic organizations; city attomey for 17 years and county prosecutor for six years; a member of the Board of Tmstees and the Board of Deacons of the Congregational Church; president of the Jaycees and the Chamber of Commerce; past exalted mler of the Decorah Elks Lodge, the VFW and the American Legion and other positions of responsibility in the community life of Decorah. Recalled to active duty for 18 months during the Korean War, he served as Commanding Officer of the LSM 236.

He is survived by his widow Florence, 301 Upper Broadway, Decorah lA 52101; a son, Larry, of Rubidoux Califomia; a son, Tim, who recently joined his father's law firm; a daughter, Julie (Mrs. Larry Letkewicz) of Lisle, Illinois; and two brothers.

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JOHN MICHAEL WOLFE '46 on^a^'ii"*'" ^'^''^^' ^°lfe USN (Ret.) died AVT^"^.

'980 in Pensacola, Florida.

Nav«? f " / °*''°' "^^ ^^^ appointed to the ZZ. rT^."}y as an at-large candidate and S Q ' ^ 7 ' " ' '^^ Class of 1946 on 6 June „ „ • ^?- ''"^y followed in WISCONSIN and LST

served as president, vice president, and secretary of the Washington Computer Group of the International Electronic and Electrical Engineering Society.

Funeral services were held on 4 March at St. Andrews Chapel at the Naval Academy and burial was at St. Anne's Cemetery, Annapolis.

Surviving are his widow Bernice, 766 Holly Dr. N., Rt. 10, Annapolis MD 21401; a son and a daughter; his father and a brother. Contributions in his memory may be made to the Chapel Fund at the Naval Academy.

1032, whereupon he was ordered to flight trainr ^"'!'l^^jenated naval aviator in 1949. Service with VF-61 and postgraduate were his next assignments, then duty with the staff of Commander Naval Forces, Far East. In 1957 he was named assistant experimental officer for CARL STANLEY KOLON '63 air-to-ground weapons at the Naval Ordnance Mr. Carl Stanley Kolon died in New York lest Station, China Lake, Califomia, for the development, test and evaluation of air City on 12 Febraary 1980. Mass of Christian weapons systems, then returned to a squadron Burial was celebrated at the St. Thomas More assignment as a jet fighter and attack pilot, Church on 15 Febraary. serving as executive officer and in administration and operations billets, followed in 1959 by orders to the Naval War College.

In 1964 he became project manager for the WALLEYE weapons system in the Naval Air Systems Command, also serving as program manager for the BULLPUP missile system for the Bureau of Naval Weapons. He received the Navy Commendation Medal for this assignment. He was transferred to the retired list on I December 1967 and joined the control components division of American Electronics, Inc., of Fullerton, California, later moving to Florida.

He is survived by his widow Lola C , 5573 Carl Stanley Kolon Charbar Dr., Pensacola FL 32506; a daughter, Appointed to the Naval Academy from the his parents and a brother.

State of Michigan, he was graduated with the Class of 1963 and ordered to sea in FORREST RICHARD GLADSTONE LILLY, Jr. '47 Richard Gladstone Lilly, Jr. died on 28 Feb- SHERMAN (DD-931). After attending destroyer school at Newport, he served aboard INmary 1980 at the Martin County Memorial GRAHAM (DD-694) as operations officer and Hospital, Stuart, Florida. was spot promoted to lieutenant one year early and received a C-in-C PacFIt commendation for Vietnam service.

After resigning his commission in 1967, he joined the First National City Bank of New York as a management trainee. Here he held numerous management assignments, eventually becoming a vice president with responsibility for marketing corporate services worldwide. In 1974 he was awarded Master of Business Administration degree by New York University. He was a member of the Naval Academy Alumni Association and the New York Chapter of the Association.

He is survived by his widow Jane, 1120 Park Richard Gladstone Lilly, Jr. Ave., New York NY 10028; a son and daughter; and his parents and three brothers of DeA native of Philadelphia, he graduated with troit. the Class of 1947 from the Naval Academy on 5 June 1946 and served in USS FECHTELER GAYLORD SWAYNE PARRETT, Jr. '65 LCdr. Gaylord Swayne Parrett, Jr. USN (DD-870) and USS VERDIN (AMS-38) before resigning in August 1949. He attended the Uni- died in an aircraft accident while on a training versity of Pennsylvania, Moore School, and mission southeast of San Clemente, Califomia, received his master's degree in electrical on 9 January 1980. Memorial services were engineering. After recall to active duty in 1951, held at the Airman Memorial Chapel, Naval he served with the Bureau of Ships until 1954, Air Station, Miramar, Califomia, on 15 Januand was then employed by Ultrasonics prior to ary.

Appointed to the Naval Academy from the retuming to BUSHIPS as a civilian engineer in 1954 Subsequenfly he held various technical State of Virginia, he was the son of Cdr. and supervisory positions at FAA, ARPA, (USNR Ret. '44) and Mrs. Thomas Markham DCA and the Johns Hopkins Umversity in the Searles, Jr. After graduation with the Class of fields of defense electronic systems, com- 1965, he joined Patrol Squadron SEVEN prior nu ers and command and controL In 1972 he to being ordered to flight school, receiving his became a systems analyst for the State of wings in 1967. After initial A-4 Skyhawk training with VA-125, he reported to VA-93 as adS a n d until his retirement m October 1979 Mr Lilly was a life member of the Naval ministrative and weapons training officer, makAcademy Alumni Association, a member of ing two cmises to Vietnam during this period. thP Academy sailing squadron, and a past His next assignment was at Lemoore, Califormember o f t h e Annapolis Yacht Club. He nia, as an instmctor pilot in the A-7 Corsair, 94

followed by duty in ORISKANY as guided missile officer before being transferred to London on the staff of Commander in Chief, Naval Forces, Europe. In October of 1978 he joined Fleet Composite Squadron SEVEN as administrative officer and later operations officer.

Among numerous decorations, LCdr. Parrett was awarded the Air Medal with 24th Strike Flight Award, five Navy Commendation Medals with Combat V, the Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, and Vietnam Service and campaign ribbons.

He is survived by his widow Rachelle, 9668 Benevente St., San Diego CA 92129, and a son; and his parents of Belleair Bluffs, Florida.

DAN ALAN DAVIS '72 Lt. Dan Alan Davis USN died on 11 March 1980 in San Diego, California, after having been fatally injured in an aircraft accident during a routine training mission off the coast.

Memorial services were held at the North Island Naval Air Station Base Chapel in San Diego on 13 March and at the Naval Chapel, Patuxent River, Maryland, on 14 March.

Interment was in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on 19 March.

Dan Alan Davis Appointed to the Naval Academy from the State of Pennsylvania, he had attended Indiana College in Pennsylvania prior to receiving his appointment, and he was president ofthe Masqueraders during his first class year. Upon graduation with the Class of 1972 he was ordered to flight training in Pensacola and designated naval aviator. He later was a flight instmctor at the Kingsville, Texas, Air Station for three years, and he also eamed a master's degree in business administration at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Prior to reporting to duty in Califomia he was director of the drag and alcohol rehabilitation program at the Naval Air Center in Patuxent, then was assigned to Air Antisubmarine Squadron FORTY-ONE at North Island, with which unit he was serving at the time of his death.

He is survived by his widow Jean, 612 Ridge Rd., Hillsmere Shores, Annapolis MD 21403; a son and a daughter; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Davis, Lewisburg PA 17339, and a brother.

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BIABYLAND I N N A N N A P O L I S . M D 2 1 4 0 1 Outstanding propeiiies in Anne Arundel County Investment—Historic—Waterfront—Condominiums JOAN ADRIAN (301) 268-8365 DC direct (202) 261-2636

For Sevema Park and Annapolis REAL ESTATE, INSURANCE. APPRAISALS Jack specializes in Rentals (ERA Broker) With Individual Service to YOU Bowlin Realty Inc.—Arnold, Md. Home: 647-4232; Office 647-5757 Washington 261-1397

WASfflNGTON AREA Orders To Washington?

[SHOP 301-263-8884 1916 Forest Dr., Annapolis MD 21401 Member Multiple Listing Service

HERITAGE LARRY WnXIAMS USNA '45 Home Phone 267-6356 »mnlete Heal Estate Services for the L r ^ a i i ^ r e u v r n g , selling or Renting ^v complete 9(112 West Street, Annapolis, Md. 21401 ' " o f f i « Telephone (301) 2«^8400

Our 20 ofTices in the Washington area will serve all your real estate needs.

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Member Realtors Multiple Listing Service (widow of George '48) Office: 13013 Lee Jackson Highway Fairfax VA 22030 Home: (703) 378-5115

Why not live in the Annapolis area?

For Professional Service call: Sue & Bob Olsen '54 Libby Brady (Frank '53)

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would like to mail you "WASHINGTON TODAY" —your free brochure with facts on local schools, military facilities, home sales and rentals, financing, taxes, insurance and GI and F H A benefits. Our downtown office is within walking distance of the P E N T A G O N , C R Y S T A L CITY & N A T I O N A L CENTER. 701 South 23rd Street, Arlington VA 22202 Phone: (703) 979-4444 We specialize in SERVICE to Service Families Early Winters '40 Hank Gorman '44 683-3323 759-9099 Anne Johansen (wife of Jo '29) 521-7359

MOVING TO WASHINGTON? FREE . . .

52-page book "Welcome to Washington" Map of Metropolitan area VA information Homes Magazine WRITE: Judy DunderviU (Bob '57) 8241 The Midway, Annandale, Virginia 22003 Diane Alley (Clint '63) CALL coUed: Home: (703) 978-4057 Office: (703) 573-2600

LONG & FOSTER INC., REALTORS®

REAL ESTATE WEST

HAWAIIAN REAL ESTATE LARRY REDDEN REALTY, INC. 305 Uluniu St., Honolulu, Hawaii 96734 (808) 261-6211 (Bus) 235-1958 (Res) LARRY REDDEN '46 • • • •

SALESA-ISTINGS HOMES/CONDOMINIUMS COMMERCIAL INVESTMENTS

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ALL ISLANDS COUNSELING HOME WARRANTIES NATION WIDE REFERRAL SERVICE

COMING TO SAN DIEGO? Call or Write DOYEN KLEIN '35, Broker GRI JANE TAYLOR KLEIN, Realtor Associate Bus.; (714) 459-0601 Home: (714) 481-7665 Whether active duty or retired, we can help you find housing in the San Diego area. Experienced professional service with membership in all major multiple listing services.

Realty Executives, La Jolla Associates 7874 Girard Ave., La Jolla CA 92037

VACATIONS SAIL THE CHESAPEAKE! SCANDIA CHARTERS, LTD. Offers a beautiful 30' Catalina Sloop slipped at Georgetown Yacht Basin on the Sassafras River for two day plus charters to qualified applicants. Discounts to U S N A Alumni and others.

CDR. Al Wattay, USNR-Ret. (USNA '57) (215) 493-5271 Box 118 lU). #1 Newtown, Penna. 18940 FLORIDA HOME, Vacation and Tax Shelter 1. Buy a Morgan 41, 46, or 51 as your next year "winter" home in Florida.

2. Order a Morgan Yacht or J-Boat for delivery in Florida and enjoy your vacation sailing Florida waters when you pick it up, or 3. Let us charter it for you for a monthly return on your investment (plus a tax shelter) which you can enjoy as well.

Contact Dick Tillman '58 Yacht Broker Noel Yacht Sales 2212 South Front St., Melbourne, Fl 32901 (305) 725-0090 TEMPORARY HOUSE TRADES Do you want to live somewhere else for a bit? Write me what you want, and what you offer, typed on one page. I will send a copy to any likely opposite, and you two can work it out. Charge $25 each, due only after a successful trade.

Modoc Sunderland '32 219 Old County Rd., Sevema Park MD 21146

MISCELLANEOUS RING INFORMATION U S N A Graduates whose rings were made by Josten's, may order official and miniature rings, contoured wedding bands, stones, diamonds and repairs. Write—Vemon R. Gatley, 1261 Bookcliff, Grand Junction, CO 81501.

Murray L. Kaplan '50 GIA GRADUATE Fine Diamonds and Diamond Jewelry at Preferred Prices Post Office Box 7192 San Diego, Califomia 92107 Phone: (714) 224-8550

"GENTLEMAN

BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS" Vol. I . . .$20 The true life story of a twentieth century knight-errant by RolUns H. Mayer USNA '32 Read how it all came out Volume II. To be published 1982. Place order now save 50%.

Both c o p i e s for price of one; ie $20 prepublication orders. Receive Vol. 1 now. Vol II in 1982. Order from: Naval Academy Foundation 48 Maryland Ave. Annapolis MD 21401

SAN DIEGO REALTY? For any type help call or write F.W. "BILL" BROWN '38 notary public realtor associate

c/o ART LEITCH REALTY REGISTER 828 Garnet Avenue San Diego CA 92109 Business: (714) 488-7535 Home: (714) 276-0857

INCUNE VILLAGE, LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA Eiyoy the good life at this beautiful year around recreation community. Contact the professionals at: MC CONNELL REALTY INC. P.O. BOX 4534 Incline Village, Nevada 89450

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Jim McConnell, pres. (USNA '60) (702)831-4400

CONDO FOR RENT CORONADO, CALIFORNIA Temporary rental available. Completely furnished 2-bedr. condo, utilities and phone: Contact M. Fleming 6922 Tuckaway, San Diego CA 92119 (714)282-9251

NEW ENGLAND SUB BASE BOUND? NEW LONDON/GROTON, CONN. Call D I A N N E WESTFAHL (wife of Dick Westfahl '59) LEIGHTON REALTY, INC. 1663 Route 12 Gales Ferry CT 06335 Bus: (203) 464-7231 Home: (203) 464-2639

VACATION IN HAW AH Overlooking the Blue Pacific's magnificent sandy Kailua Beach on Oahu, a delightful beach home. Excellent accommodations for the large family, as many as four couples—or the ultimate hideaway for a few special people.

The serenity and privacy of the country but with Waikiki not that far away.

For particulars write or call R.A. RYZOW & ASSOCIATES Ste 900-B, 700 Bishop St., Mono HI 96813 (808) 531-4083 (Bus) (808) 949-2283 (Res) Dick Ryzow '44

MISCELLANEOUS NAVIGATING CAREER CHANGE An Aid for Post-Retirement Planning

by John F. McGrew '51 Helps organize tasks for exploring, evaluating, and shifting to new career fields.

Five dollars (all inclusive) NEW VISTA PRESS Box 736, Sebastopol CA 95472 ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW CHARLOTTE GILDEN KROHN STANLEY WILLIAM KROHN '50 Members Maryland and DC Bars GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW including Divorce and Separation Wills Adoption and Custody Real Estate settlements (MD, DC, VA) 77 Franklin Street Annapolis, Maryland 21401 (301)268-7474 (office) (301)269-1797 (office) (301)268-2352 (home)

The Dolphin Elegant gifts. The epitome of grace, exquisitely hand tooled and polished, 3/4" long. Solid 14k gold.

CHARM, hidden back loop sUde for light or med. chain "S" CHAIN, glittering final touch for charm, 16" TIETACK/SCATTER PIN STICK PIN

$35 $32 $40 $43

Orders sent air insured within 48 hours. Incl. $1 postage and handling. Send check or money order to: KAL KREATIONS of HAWAH P.O. Box 1373 Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744

The Ship Hatch AUTHENTIC WW II HATCHCOVERS Unfinished, with instructions, or finished; tables, bars, desks, benches, etc. Price range $50 and up.

Shipping arranged. Also nautical antiques, ships' clocks, wheels and bells, portholes, decoys, brass items, etc.

3940 Old Lee Highway, Fairfax VA 22030 Call (703) 691-1670 for directions and hours

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Wher} ordering, please specify shape and type of \)am. All prices postpaid. Maryland residents please add 5% sales tax.

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